Oldest man on earth found guilty of corruption, plus Palin is 'Diva'

- Finally, the oldest crook on earth, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has been found guilty of corruption, it had seemed for a while that Stevens was gonna avoid a verdict before the election, as one his jurors had been given leave to return home for a family problem. However, the judge drafted in a reserve juror, and had the final deliberations repeated, and then it was curtains for Ted.

In the weeks running up to the verdict, Stevens had managed to BS the good people of Alaska into believing that he may be innocent after all, and his performance in the opinion polls reflected that growing belief, that was until a couple of hours ago when the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict on all charges.

All of this means that Mark Begich Stevens' Democratic opponent in the race for his Senate seat will be sending him some flowers for his new deck, and a very thankful thank you card.

- There are growing reports of a split between the McGrumpy camp and Blunderwoman's handlers, with McGrumpy staffers referring to Blunderwoman as a ‘Diva’, and as having ‘gone rogue’. It's funny all this has happened within a couple of days of McGrumpy coming out and telling the world she’d be giving back all those clothes at the end of the election, maybe she was left wondering what she was gonna wear if they won!

The Vice Presidential debate and Governor Palin's Dairy Queen stand in!

Mmmm….there’s just so much to get up to date with!

Well, first I guess I should give a brief synopsis of that thing they called a debate last night, I understand that the reason the Republican representative didn’t have a clue about what they were talking about was because Governor Palin, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate was still in training yesterday and so was unavailable for the debate last night, that’s why we witnessed Senator Biden debating the manager of the Wassilla Dairy Queen, who had kindly offered to stand in for the Governor.

Anyway, it went like this...

Alaska, Alaska, Mavericky goodness, Alaska, wink, wink, team of mavericks, Alaska, six packs, Maverick, bi-partisan, Alaska, wink, heal click, wink, wink, it’s drill baby drill, Alaska, pipeline, wink, Hockey I mean soccer Mom, two heal clicks, nudge, wink, spending, Alaska, third grade class shout out, Mavericky Alaskan Soccer team, Thank you, thank you.

I mean I know this was supposed to be a political debate, but considering the circumstances and the last minute drop out I think she did really, really well. You have to remember that the stand in didn’t have a clue what they were talking about, and although it was pretty obvious at times, over all I think she handled herself well, she even mentioned one of John McNasty’s policies, which is incredible when you think about it, and she looked just great!

I did feel that Gwen Iffle was a little tough on her, I know the questions had been prepared ages ago and were all on the subject of politics, but it wouldn’t have taken a brain wave person to think up at least one question about making an M&M Smudgy or something.

Sure for most of the time it was obvious she didn‘t have a clue, but who would eh? you can forgive her those repetitive nervous winks at camera, obviously there’s no way the real Governor Palin would wink at the United Nations when addressing them. Credit where credit is due I say, she did Dairy Queen proud last night, and I bet she gets a rousing reception when she gets back to the Wassilla branch, they’ll be throwing back swirls ‘til the early hours.

Well done the stand in.

I am hoping that I’ll suddenly wake from this horribly disturbing dream soon. It’s the only way I’m able to deal with what happened last night, this must be a dream. America has become an Idiocracy, our standards have slipped so far that there were pundits on television last night trying to convince anyone that would listen that she did great, that by definition she is qualified to become President!

The woman gave a ‘shout out’ to some 3rd graders, for God’s sake it was the vice presidential debate, not a fucking game show!

This country happens to be the world’s greatest super-power, and with a crashing economy and not one but two wars going on, it is in an extremely perilous state. The purpose of this debate was to reassure the people of this country and the world at large that both of these candidates, if called upon, were capable of handling the job of President, as one could become the most powerful person on the planet, and Palin is winking, clicking her heals and giving ‘shout outs’.

Frankly, it brought home to me just how dangerous McUnbelievablyShit’s choice was, she is so clearly out of her depth, I almost feel sorry for her, McBollocks is another story all together. It is ridiculous to think that the Republican party have no better candidate for Vice President, what a thoroughly political choice this was.

This choice wasn’t made with the best interests of the American public in mind. I don’t care how Fox News casters claim that she exploded expectations, if that was exploding expectations, WTF were they expecting?

Anyway, in other news McRubbish is continuing to be found out, it seems the people of Michigan have seen through it now and join us lot in California as a state McCrap doesn’t feel is worthy of his message, because we will see through it. He’s effectively shut down operations in Michigan, I am sure with the hope that Barack Obama is stupid enough to follow suit, which he obviously must not, cannot and will not do.

Wednesday brought in a new month and a new shape to the electoral college map, at last I’m feeling some reserved confidence in the US electorate, and beginning to believe that they’re not quite as stupid as the main stream media, and most politicians would like them to be. The last two weeks have been an absolute catastrophe for team McPlain, the economic meltdown has been one aspect and it’s clear with the shenanigans in the lower House and the confusion among the general public that no one really has a fucking clue what’s going on, but the one thing that has stuck is McCrap’s poor handling of the crisis, after all the fundamentals are strong, right?

McAngry read BO’s introspection as somehow being indecisive, but I guess BO feels it’s better being indecisive than being decisively wrong. BO was also accused by team McLosing of taking too long to respond, but then it turns out McCrap responded before he even read the bill, perhaps BO likes to know what he’s voting on. At least he actually bothered to read the fucking bill, Johnny!

It’s good to see all those caring Fiscal Republicans, you know the ones that voted against the bill last time around, because they were so concerned about the cost to the taxpayer, yeah that lot! Well now they’re agreeing to support it, but what changed you ask, did the bill get trimmed down so it was less of a cost to the taxpayer? No, the bill had an extra 100 Billion dollars of pork projects added to it.

Fiscal Republicans my ass, they held off until they got the 100 Billion in corporate tax breaks they needed for their paymasters. I hope there are conditions allowing this bill to be revisited as soon as the Dems are in power. It’s so obvious that these disgusting repugs are fucking the country up as much as they can, just so a Barack Obama presidency has a big pile of shit, but no money to deal with it when he takes office. These people should be in prison.

Meet the three people who could decide the next President...

Now don’t get me wrong I’m trusting in the great American public to provide the world and Barack Obama a landslide win come November 4th, but and it’s an ever-so-tiny but, something scary happened yesterday as I was making my daily visit to CQ's groovy scenario builder, I split the swing states like this:-

Obama; VA, NH, PA, IA, CO, IA, NM, MN, WI

McBombit; FL, MI, OH, NV, MO

I’m never confident about my predictions at the best of times, and I'm definitely iffy about giving McBombit Michigan, as it could easily go to BO, but in the same token Virginia and Colorado would shock no one if they ended up as red states. Of course they're all going to be tight scraps, and a LOT can change between now and Nov 4th, but for the sake of this scenario lets say I got it right.

Well, for the first time I saw that a split decision was a genuine possibility, my scenario came out 269/269. Yes, it was enough to send shivers down my spine, but thanks to a recent article on electoral-vote.com and their dogged pursuit of all things political, I may be able to allay your fears some.

The article, which due to the fact I was too shortsighted to see a split occurring, I initially ignored, perhaps prophetically pointed out that in the event of a split college the House of Representatives take a vote to decide on the winner. But, and it's a big but, with the caveat that each state cast a single vote regardless of population density. Meaning that a state as unpopulated as dear old Alaska receives the same voting power as say California, which is just jam packed full of fantastic Americans, and it is with this caveat that the shenanigans begin.

There are 435 members (representatives) sitting in the House of Representatives and they are proportionally divided between the states, a densely populated state like California receives 53 representatives, and a less populated state such as Virginia receives 11. However, under this ruling with each state receiving one vote, California will bring all its representatives (Republican and Democrat) together and take a vote to decide which candidate will receive California's vote. In California’s case there are a majority of Democrats holding seats so it is most likely that California will cast its vote for Barack Obama. Whereas Texas has 32 representatives, and the majority are Republican, so Texas will probably cast its vote for John McCain and so on.

When the states with a single representative come to place their vote, the representative will either be a Republican or a Democrat, and as such you would’ve thought they'd cast their vote accordingly, but ironically this is where it can get complicated. It is exactly this scenario that the electoral-vote.com article focuses on.

There are seven sparsely populated rural states that receive a single House seat, they are; Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. Three of those states are likely to vote Republican in the general election, but elect Democrats to Congress, they are; North Dakota, South Dakota and of course, Alaska!

Alaska has been looking to throw out the old guard of Alaskan politics. The people of the state have become fed up with the endless corruption associated with their congressional delegation and want a change. Until McCain's inspired choice of running mate, Alaska had even looked like a race the Democrats might've won. Still, although Alaskans are now likely to vote for one of their own on the presidential ticket, they don't have that problem when it comes to the congressional races.

Electoral-vote.com have closely followed the hotly contested Republican primary between Lt. Governor Sean Parnell and veteran Don Young. Don Young has served 18 consecutive terms as Congressman for Alaska, and has been partnering Ted Stevens for 35 years, they are the old guard, both are under investigation, Stevens already having been indicted.

The Democratic Party candidate for Congress is Ethan Berkowitz, who had been running badly in polls against Parnell. The funny thing is that Parnell would’ve almost certainly beaten Berkowitz, but the Republicans, being Republicans, elected Don Young in the primary and Berkowitz is running 15-20 pts ahead of Don young in the same polls. So, it looks like a shoe-in, confused? I was.

Basically, it seems these people are Republicans at heart, they believe they are conservatives, but they are honest conservatives first, or at least the majority are, and as such are not prepared to trade their honesty and dignity for the sake of getting a crook elected. So left to chose between re-electing the criminal Don Young, or breaking ranks and voting Democrat, most prefer the Democrat.

Here’s what Electoral-vote.com had to say...

...As expected, the renomination of Rep. Don Young (R-AK) for Congress may pretty much end the GOP's hopes to hold the seat against Democrat Ethan Berkowitz. This seat is an especially important one because the presidential race is so close that a 269-269 tie is certainly a possibility. In the case of a tie, the new House elects the President with each state getting one vote.

That would mean Berkowitz gets as much say as all of California. Like Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD), he would be in a situation of being a Democrat in a state that went wildly for McCain. Pomeroy has been around for a while and can probably withstand the pressure applied to him to vote as his state did, but Herseth-Sandlin and Berkowitz as relatively newbies will get introduced to power politics real fast. A situation in which Berkowitz, Herseth-Sandlin, and Pomeroy got together for lunch in a smoke-free room to pick the President would be kind of unprecedented.

Electoral-vote.com went on to show what they looked like, and as they could be the three people who end up deciding the fate of the country (and the world) sometime after November 4th, I thought it prudent to show you too, here they are...


Ethan Berkowitz(D-AK) is on the left of Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin(D-ND), and Earl Pomeroy(D-SD) is on Stephanie's right.

Can someone tell me WTF is going on?

So, our revered financial markets seem to take on the look of a global Craps game, with people’s retirement funds and life savings being gambled on a roll of the dice. The only guarantee of our financial markets is that the multi-millionaire bankers and corporate CEOs have their hands wedged far too deeply inside the US tax payer’s pocket in order to lose. Though exactly how much those money grabbing republican reptiles will end up costing the coal miners of Appalachia , or the steel workers of Michigan is anyone‘s guess. Still, one thing’s assured, their descendents are gonna be paying off the Chinese for generations to come.

But, don’t worry as there’s been a whole lot of hot air coming out of the republican ticket, telling anyone that’ll listen how they’ll never let it happen again, and again, and again.

On top of all the republican self-regulated free trade fuck-ups that have been happening, the MSM finally admit that they’ve been aware of the McCain camp’s lying all along. They’re aware that McCain’s been lying to the American electorate for ages now. Lying on just about everything, from what his running mate has, or hasn't done, and things that McCain himself has or has not said, to misrepresenting his opponent's policies and feigning outrage at Barack Obama’s innocuous statements. Yet I click on to my favorite electoral map of the country this morning expecting to see Obama holding a comfortable 350-400 electoral vote lead, only to see that he’s actually lost ground to McCain.

Lost ground!!!

How the fuck does that happen? are we living in some alternate reality? has Spongebob declared that it's opposite day or something? I am just stunned.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the stupidity of the US electorate, after all they did return GW to power four years ago. But, how can they support the aged candidate of a party that’s all but ravaged this country over the past 8 years? how can a sound majority of them prefer more of the same? How can they be convinced that this 100 term Senator and two week Mayor of a village in Alaska are the perfect team bring us the change this country so desperately needs?

Don’t they value their savings? Can’t thay see the damage this regime is doing to this country? I’m English but I care, I worry for my American cousins, honestly I worry. One thing’s for sure there would never be a Christian uprising in blighty, we stopped all that nonsense years ago, something like 8% of the population go to church and that’s on a good week.

But, I’m vested in this country, my son was born here, and sees himself as an American, well an American that’s very aware of his British roots. So this is my adopted country, and I actually care about what happens to it. As I've said before I’ve grown to appreciate and respect your amazing constitution. Though it seems that 'piece of paper' has disappeared of late, perhaps the US government gave it to the British Civil Service and asked them to file it for safe keeping!

The way things are going there will not be an America in a few years. The Chinese and Indians must be laughing all the way to the bank. here you are in a struggle for the world's greatest economy and you're giving it all away, you couldn't make it any easier for them. Please, citizens of my adopted country, please, please, read the policies that these candidates stand on. Don’t just believe to Rush Limbaugh's invented versions, read them yourself. Leave your petty prejudices behind for a while, there‘s far too much at stake. At least wait until the young black dude has managed to secure your life savings and your pensions first.

Americans, get rid of this regime, throw the republican machine out of power, they deserve nothing from you, they’ve done nothing for you, only lined their own pockets while you suffer. Only Obama can rectify this horrific situation we're in, we won’t get a second chance.