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The economy is on life support and near death! Who can help us?!? Who I ask you!?! Read today's "Geeks On Caffeine" and find out! NOTE: The author requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you!

What is political astroturf? When a political movement portrays itself to be grass-roots, and later we find out it was actually planned and coordinated by a political party or candidate. This is usually done in support of the cause or candidate behind the astroturf effort. The Republicans are now being attacked by a new type of fake grass: dirty atstroturf. Democratic activists are infiltrating Republican rallys pretending to be Republican grass-roots supporters. The Democratic activist's goal? Discredit Republican grass-roots supporters. Their tactic has been to yell vile statements about Democratic candidates, hoping it would smear Republican grass-roots supporters. So far,...

In yet another instance, a prominent and controversial figure claims that Obama is the messiah. Louis Farrakhan calls Barack Obama The Messiahwhen will people wake up to this? How can this man be ahead in the polls?

After Darth Vader names The Lord Humongous as his VP candidate, the press begins their questioning of the "Warrior of the Wasteland." The first question is an important one: What to do about rising oil prices and the Middle East. The Humongous's response is...NOT a puny one! NOTE: The author of this cartoon requests that readers visit his web site and refrain from pasting the cartoon within this thread. Thank you!

Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party's mantra these days. That slo gan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win. Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers," and its Project Vote - of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, "I started working as the director . . . here in Chicago." ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post's Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter...

Ok. Here are the facts, as they stand right now - it's late, so bear with me. 1) Politico says that something big is coming in the morning, according to the McCain campaign. 2) Someone placed a massive short on Obama on Intrade in the last few hours. People who know more than I do about these matters say that we're talking about an amount of money in the range of $140,000. Those are what Donald Rumsfeld called "known knowns." We know two things - which may or may not be connected. The McCain people say they have news -...

Follow the yellow brick road... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x9VQ5_Iqzk

Why do the weird attacks happen mostly in Europe? Over here, when someone comes unhinged, it's with a high powered rifle and by God they make sure people know they're PO'd. On the Olde Continent, a perpetrator will throw a pie in some government poobah's face or pepper someone with a BB gun, which later gets describes more ominously as a gas-powered ball bearing firearm. Then there's your drunken soccer hooligan mob swarm, 16th century sword attack or butter knife stabbing. The London Daily Mail reports:Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card...when the gunman confronted him and glared...

Okay, I cannot take it any more. I have went off the deep end and have lost sanity. Or perhaps I am more sane than most. I consider myself a modestly intelligent man. What I am about to say will surely cause many of you to label me a "wacko." I don't care, I cannot take it any longer. Days after I warned that I may now be the crazy man standing on the corner, I am convinced that I am not crazy, rather, the rest of the world is. I believe that the United States is on the brink...

When a candidate picks a running mate, usually they share a common political philosophy. So Darth Vader picked.... NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you!

Congratulations to Jonathan Alter, he wins the Lighten Up Francis award for the week: Jonathan Alter: “Unleashing the furies of the dark side of American politics, perhaps risking some peoples lives if things get out of control. All of that is out the window in the service of winning an election.”Tried to embed the video, perhaps someone can do it, video at the link.

For those of us who are starting to be more and more alarmed with Senator Obama, this video of him mocking the Bible does nothing to ease our fears.commonsensicalcat.blogspot.com

If a political candidate finds a need to "take the edge off" his or her image, there's ONE thing that never fails...and Darth Vader is working it to the max in his run for the presidency! NOTE: The author of "Geeks On Caffeine" requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you!

And today, we want to look at the very real possibility that Ayers collaborated with Obama in writing Dreams From My Father. Jack Cashill has done a wonderful three part series of looking at all the similarities of Obama's book and the writings of Bill Ayers. PART I “I picture the street coming alive, awakening from the fury of winter, stirred from the chilly spring night by cold glimmers of sunlight angling through the city.” Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days. “Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the...

Well, here we are, October 6, 2008. Less than a month before the most important election of our lifetime. For months now we've been hearing about, fearing, and even predicting a host of various October surprises. Well, it looks like we couldn't even wait till October. For in the past two weeks we have witnessed the "mortgage meltdown", "the Wall Street bailout", the first-ever deployment of a regular Army unit to respond to civil unrest, and arrogant mocking of the US by Putin, Chavez and Achmadinejad, complete with Russian wargames coming within a few miles of the Alaskan border. Meanwhile...

Your mortgage is all screwed up, and you're forced to search for sources of cash for a re-fi. The banks have none to loan, so where do you turn? And what's worse than going to the government for cash? Read today's "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon and find out! NOTE: The author requests that you visit his website and refrain from pasting a copy of the comic within this thread. Thank you!

OJ Attorney Yale Galanter said it was not a happy day for anybody. BUT HE WAS WRONG!!! While most of you were sleeping, the OJ Simpson jury came back with a GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES verdict against Nicole Brown Simpson’s…last visitor. How Galanter can think that this “isn’t a happy day for anyone” is beyond me. Off the top of my head, I can think of a LOT of people who think that this is a HAP-HAP HAPPY DAY…Ron Brown’s family, Nicole Simpson’s family, ME and every single person that I know for starters. As a matter of fact, I...

Although it might sound like a press release from the paranoid, prison-obsessed Center for Constitutional Rights, the Green Party's under-medicated presidential candidate is accusing the U.S. Department of Defense of executing 5,000 prisoners Chinese-style and dumping their bodies in a Louisiana swamp. FoxNews.com reports: Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, known for her provocative statements when she was a congresswoman from Georgia, accused the Department of Defense this week of using Hurricane Katrina to cover up the slaughter of 5,000 prisoners. At a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, McKinney claimed the Pentagon authorized the execution of the prisoners...

Who's pulling the strings? The very embodiment of evil that's who! The evil emperor Lord...well see for yourself in this "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon. NOTE: Please visit the author's web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you!

Every presidential candidate has someone backing them in their quest for the highest office. Behind Darth Vader, an entity that personifies EVIL! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web sitre and refrain from copying the comic within this thread. Thank you very much!

There are many talented, clever and creative photo manipulators (morphers) within Free Republic. A Special Request and Appeal for a Freeper to create a photo of morphing Sen. Barack Obama as the character, Pinhead from the movie, Hellraisers. Extra credit for creating photos of the cast of character "Cenebites" from the movie. Cast of Characters (CENEBITES) Tony Rezko Rev. Wright, those chattering teeth (mouth) "Chatterbox" Bill Ayers ACORN COMRADE BROTHER "PINHEAD""DEMON TO SOME, ANGEL TO OTHERS" "Pain has a face; allow me to show it to you. I Am Pain" "You solved the box and want "CHANGE", we came, Now...

I'm writing this brief post to put into perspective what it all means when Obama cannot (rather refuses to) release his genuine birth certificate to put all rumors to rest. The time for surprizes has long past. Obama is not going to magically produce it, saying "Gotcha," because that would have been done in response to Berg's suit. You can take this to the bank, that when Obama is forced show his "vault" long-form birth certificate, the whole world will know that the COLB image was a forgery from Day One, as well as the phony FactCheck photos. BUT, now...

A Modest Proposal – for a “NO cost� bailout: ASSUMPTIONS: This proposal is based on the assumption that the following accurately describe the problem we are trying to solve: That banks (some “commercial� banks, and most “investment� banks) are failing and/or will be unable to make loans due to large holdings of “toxic� debt instruments. That these “toxic� instruments are unsaleable because they include, in various proportions, Sub-prime mortgages., Because these instruments are not pure bundles of mortgages, but instead are Derivatives of such mortgage “bundles,� it is difficult, if not impossible, to accurately determine whether the underlying mortgages are...

Rod Dreher, a self described "crunchy con" blogger has, over the last week or so, become a wildly ardent critic of Sarah Palin, actually going on morning tv and Larry King, who used him to demonstrate conservatives think Palin's unfit to serve... Slipped over the edge and revealed his own lack of belief in democracy for anyone but himself as well... He's calling for "an acceptable dictator" apparently be installed and then we leave Afghanistan, on his blog at beliefnet. With friends like this, conservatives don't need enemies. Other wacky statements like "Well, look, I can read the newspaper, and...

This Saturday is Muslim Day at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles. Six Flags spokeswoman Sue Carpenter has said that Six Flags employees were asked not to wear shorts that day out of respect for Islam, although she said it is not mandatory. Two things come to mind here.

The presidential debate is usually a forum for the exchange of ideas for the voting public to make a decision concerning their vote. Now a wild card has been introduced: A candidate who is the very personification of EVIL! Will the voters go for it? Read today's cartoon and see! NOTE: The author of this cartoon requests that you visit his web sitre and refrain from pasting a copy of the cartoon within this thread. Thanks!

I attend the "fine" learning "establishment" known as LHS, Laurel High School (and before anyone says anything, I chose to go to this school because I felt it was my duty as a Catholic Republican to actually be someone who's gonna stand up for what I believe, evangilize, if you will.) I'm in AP Government there along with two honors courses and three regular (one which is a Junior/Senior class, Psychology, while I, myself, am a Sophomore) classes. Our lunch period is known as "Spartan Hour" (our school mascot is the Spartan -which is SO epic, only reason I like...

Darth Vader finds there's an obstacle to his desire to participate in the presidential debates: He lacks 15% or better support in five national polls, and an an employee at the Commission On Presidential Debates aint letting him in! What's an evil guy to do? Find out in today's toon! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the cartoon within the thread. Thanks!

Change is Good

So earlier today we had a most illuminating thread on the travails of bathing one's cat. Now I'd like to hear from cat owners' experiences with brushing their cats' teeth: How often? How easy is it? How best to do it? We have a cute little kitteh or two here whose breath is beginning to represent The Crypt. And I've heard that remedial dental work on cats can be $pendy as all get-out.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stops by "Geeks On Caffeine" for a cup of joe...and gets just that! NOTE: The author of this cartoon requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying and pasting the cartoon within this thread. Thank you very much!

My mother is 66 years old and Italian. She came to this country in 1956, when she was 14 years old. She became a U.S. citizen in 1961. She was an avid Hillary supporter until the end of the primaries thi year. She considered herslef a PUMA, until about a month ago. Nowadays, she calls up my siblings and myself EVERY SINGLE DAY telling us that she basically is leaning towards voting for Barack Obama. She's still undecided, and I believe that between my siblings and their spouses, we will be able to get her over to McCain by the...

HAS *ANYONE* CONSIDERED $700BILLION IN SPENDING CUTS to PAY FOR THIS BAILOUT??? HEY -NOW THERE'S AN IDEA!!!

Darth Vader is a candidate, and he's following a plan that will ensure his election as president of the United States. But the question is WHY? Find out in this new "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying and pasting the cartoon within this thread. Thanx!

Sorry for the vanity, but Bill is showing his populist message once again fails on economics. The bail out run by the same "pinheads" that brought us the crises in the first place is dumb. It reminds me of Sarbane Oxley (SOX) that ended up being enforced by the same pinhead accountants that brough us Enron. That worked well as SOX prevented FANNIE, FREDDIE, Lehman, Merrill, AIG...... Newt is the only guy making sense right now.

Amy Winehouse has committed a fashion crime. Yes, indeed. She borrowed £25,000 worth of designer frocks from London’s Harvey Nichols and returned them with vomit stains. There was even a furry mold growing on the satin and silk gowns that made them unwearable.

The picture is at the link, seriously, this might not be Ayers, but it looks damn close, if it is, would be very damaging, if not it is still funny.

THe democraps are pulling out all stops and steamrolling this 'bailout' through as if it was a republican issue that will win them the election. Why isn't it being called what it is? THE SINGLE BIGGEST SCREWUP IN THE HISTORY OF DEMOCRAT POLITICS Bawney Fwank is the leader of those who stopped this issue from being addressed years ago, when McCain proposed a solution. The mess was STARTED by democraps who insisted banks make loans to unqualified borrowers or risk federal investigation of their 'redlining' practices (otherwise known as EXTORTION) The EVIL BANKS are complicit only in that they knew...

Since I kept forgetting to take my memory pills--or couldn't remember how many I took-- I stopped taking them one week ago tonight (yeah, I remember the night, sounds like a problem doesn't it?). And they weren't so much memory pills as they were sanity pills, but as with most things of this nature, eventually I started to feel weirder on the piills than I did before them, so I quit. Then along comes Fred who reminds me how much I miss them...

Zombies say, "Get hand off my body. Get hand into my stomach! Ahrrgg." Zombies say they're switching from the walking dead to the marching dead as they marshall forces to counter Pro-Life rallies and parades. The half-dead, half-living flesh eaters say pro-life forces are a threat to their individual liberties and Constitutional rights to privacy. Most pro-choice Zombies also believe pro-lifers are bitter moralists, in addition to tasting a little gamey. Aargh Bleeh, semi-attached head of the Zombies for Choice Arghhh, said Zombies want to make their own decisions when it comes to life and death. "Who say when dead,...

Austrian photographer Helge Kirchberger and famous chef Roland Trettl teamed up to launch a Fashion Food project, and the results were amazing. Among the stylish items they cooked up were evening gowns from wild rice, hats from chicken eggs and marzipan, bikinis from seaweed, and many other types of clothing from organic food.

A lemonade from lemons story, and a funny audio.

Tired of Obama? Not really jazzed about McCain? Try THIS candidate! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you.

A fellow freeper emailed the following message to me tonight: Is it possible that you can do me a big favor? I some how got logged out of all my forums the other day. I got back into them all except Free Republic. I have requested my password several times and it has never come. My friend in another state is having the same problem and a friend in another state signed up better never got the confirmation email. We have also email them and gotten no response. Something must be wrong with the site. Would you mind putting up...

Palin will name Tom Selleck for VP

The 'geniuses'(sic) at the Constitution Party debate if it is Biblical for Sarah Palin to be VP- they determine- NO. Here are some snips: Sarah Palin’s selection by John McCain to be his running mate in his bid for the presidency of the United States is not only a surprise political move, it also carries with it implications of historic proportions. If Senator McCain is successful in his candidacy, Mrs. Palin will become the first woman to fill the office of vice president of this country and be in place to assume the presidency, if necessary. She will also be...

C'mon, it's obvious! Barack Obama has all the eloquence of Ronald Reagan when he has a teleprompter in his face, but without one, he's a stuttering gaffe machine that makes Bush look eloquent! Knowing this, the Democrats now have Obama read from a teleprompter wherever he goes. And believe me when I tell you: "WHEREVER he goes!" See for yourself in this "Geeks On Caffeine" cartoon! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and refrain from copying the comic within the thread. Thanks!

Mini skirts are an indecent way of dressing, according to Uganda’s ethics and integrity minister Nsaba Buturo. Wearing a miniskirt should be regarded as “indecent”, which would be punishable under Ugandan law, Mr Buturo said.

Be an Obama Deputy Field Organizer  Want to help the Obama Campaign game the general election like they did the caucuses during the primary season? Attend Camp Obama™ where ACORN professionals experienced in the art of deception will show you how to steal an election.  You too can be an Obama Deputy Field Organizer! Learn how to intimidate little, old ladies and non-English speaking minorities. Master the art of vote stealing. Easily answer inquisitive minds with evasive legal rhetoric. We’ll teach you all these skills and more when you attend Camp Obama.™  But wait! That’s not all! Upon graduating from...