http://nowallstreetbailout.com/

All the secrecy within the Senate over the past days is disrespectful to us, the American People, who are footing the bill. Why won’t they let us follow completely what they are doing?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

To put these 24 hours in context, you must remember that McCain not only knows little about the economy but that he has not previously expressed any urgency about its meltdown. It was on Sept. 15 — the day after his former idol Alan Greenspan pronounced the current crisis a “once-in-a-century” catastrophe — that McCain reaffirmed for the umpteenth time that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong.” As recently as Tuesday he had not yet even read the two-and-a-half-page bailout proposal first circulated by Hank Paulson last weekend.

Then came Black Wednesday , when he awoke to discover that Barack Obama had surged ahead by nine percentage points in the Washington Post/ABC News poll. The McCain campaign hastily suited up its own pollster to belittle that finding — only to be drowned out by a fusillade of new polls from Fox News, Marist and CNN/Time, each with numbers closer to Post/ABC than not. Obama was rising most everywhere except the moose strongholds of Alaska and Montana.

That was not the only bad news raining down on McCain. His camp knew what Katie Couric had in the can from her interview with Sarah Palin.

Bigger still was the mounting evidence of the seamless synergy between his campaign and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage monsters at the heart of the housing bust that set off our current calamity. Most of all, it was the fast-moving events on that front that precipitated his panic to roll out his diversionary, over-the-top theatrics on Wednesday.

It’s then that McCain suddenly emerged to bark that our financial distress was “the greatest crisis we’ve faced, clearly, since World War II” — even greater than the Russia-Georgia conflict, which in August he had called the “first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the cold war.”

He may be the first presidential candidate in our history to risk wrecking the country even before being voted into the Oval Office.

You gotta love it. Under any other circumstances a shot-gun wedding would be a total embarrassment. And they want to make it into a wedding to compete with Charles and Di getting married. Suspend the campaign for a week for a shot-gun wedding? Right…
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Look — not even Jenna Bush’s wedding dominated the news cycle in the manner that the GOP would like to see Bristol Palin’s wedding do. And Jenna is the daughter of the sitting President, not a veep wannabe. And she wasn’t even pregnant at the time of the wedding.

Bristol’s wedding — wbenever it happens — will merit some news coverage. But it’s not going to knock anybody off the front page. Not with a presidential election campaign going on. And certainly not with the economy the way it is.

Oops, please disregard my post about the absentee ballot request card. It seems that address is legitimate.

There is a link on http://www.barackobama.com – under find out if you are registered.

If there is fraud going on

http://www.bradblog.com/ wants to know.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/27/mccain-now-not-going-to-capitol-hill-today/

His campaign promised that they would [ and did, see the CNN update ] release a list of the calls that Sen. McCain made in the afternoon.

Considering that he was touting the night before in the debate about his bipartisan credentials, the list is remarkably devoid of any “reaching across the aisle.” The call list is entirely made of Republicans [ I went through each name, just to make sure ] and mostly hard-core conservatives at that. Not a Democrat in sight. So much for his bucking his party and his “maverick” image.

I looked up that zip code on google I got no results.

Zip codes for postal boxes are not the same as for the surrounding area sometimes. The post office that delivers to 32084 here has P.O. Boxes with the zip code 32085. I wonder if the USPS gives a unique zip code to private mail box providers. It would make sense to not spend the time (incur the cost) to presort mail for a private company.

Shady businesses like a real sounding address and using suite numbers in lieu of P.O. Boxes to give an air of legitimacy to themselves.

Actually, no, SP Biloxi – while the financial system imploded he was proclaiming to the world that he would do the same for healthcare.