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I gotta wonder how the campaign ads differ from a McCain dominated state vs an Obama one...ie Arizona (my home state) vs Maryland I am hearing just the opposite in the ads and from what research I have conducted, the Ayers connection is considered an association by circumstances not friendship. Yeah, Ayers may have been having a mid-life crisis wishing he had done more when he was younger, don't we all?...not that what he did was acceptable but name a person who did anything acceptable as a rebellious young adult angry at the machine. He has his ideas as do we all, and we may not agree with them but I certainly don't think he is worth the worry since he chooses not to act on them and instead became a professor. Ok, Now in as much for guilty by association, let's drop the Keating 5 into the mix and McCains association with them. I'll post a link... John McCain's Skeleton Closet Who is Bill Ayers? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Barack Obama How Obama and the radical became news - The Boston Globe Does that make McCain any better than Obama? I don't think association is a crime unless one is committed along with that association. What they are proposing is the picture I am looking at and since McCain is very unstable in his position on the economy which is my biggest concern, I will look at the candidate who talks some sense. btw, it is interesting to say the least that voters will vote for someone for fear of being called a racist..I thought votes were confidential? I don't see the pressure connection. Not a landslide election but, It will be a very interesting race indeed. Rod!~

Wow - this starts today. Wishing you success on your event! Beth

He didn't disqualify himself, but did state in the video that as of 2004 he wasn't ready. Watch it again. Let's not go and misstate things as we have seen so many politicians do to try and manipulate people. Many saw the potentials in him back then and now he has taken the initiative. Who can blame a man for taking on a race when he was encouraged to do so by his peers? Some thing I have noticed here and would like to point out that there is considerably more people launching attacks and posting hysteria about a black man than a white man. Yeah, Palin is a joke and will go down in the anals as well in the same regard. But As far as McCain is concerned, people are posting against his proposals but not trying to diminish him other than point out his health (cancer survivor 3 times now) and his judgement in appointing a running mate who is clearly a deceptive person. Would it be the same if Obama were a white man? No! why? because of the name he bears and the similarities it has to a notorious terrorist 'Osama'. Why else? because of the stigma of association that just because he was on a committee with a known terrorist (long since reformed and now serving for the public good) and he is treated as if he were a rapist or baby killer living down the block. Obama has no criminal record, he is a Harvard Law School Graduate!!! Does anyone realize what kind of educational transcripts are required to even be accepted at such a prestigious School??? He was top of his class and well thought of by his professor who saw in him a promising scholar. And he did this coming from meager beginnings and took advantage of grants and scholarships he earned along with his hard work. Why else do we question him??? oh, his exploration of faith??? Coming from a mixed family where a mother was of one faith and the father of another, he looked into both and became a christian. I think that speaks volumes! Back on topic, McCain did make a big mistake in underestimating Obama's character and resolve to bring a challenge to a presidential race. Obama surrounded himself with people from both parties who were knowledgable and what did McCain do...he grabbed the only woman in the republican party to scrape up the votes left behind for Hillary! What has McCain done? he adopted the socialist position of buying up mortgages (go look it up for yourself) as an answer to the crisis and calls his opponent a socialist. I can see through the bs. If you don't agree with me, that is your perogative. Address the candidates and not my point of view. Rod!~

Well put! :lol: Beth

I hate frost! :lgcold: Beth

Jealous of Palin? Not a chance. I have no dreams of gutting a moose, of filing fraudulent expense reports, etc. My English is fine. I also have decent comprehension skills which allow me to understand the questions asked of me so I may properly answer them. Comprehension keeps us all from failing to correctly answer questions, or from answering them like unrehersed idiots. Beth

Ummmm...if you think BIDEN is a relic, what do you think of MCCAIN? MCCAIN (71) would be the oldest President elected IF he were to make it. He's 71. Biden is 66. I love it when people throw words like RELIC around - especially when their candidate would be even more of a fossil.... :lol: Beth

Sorry, I don't think Palin is anything special - at all. She was plugged in to take women voters from the Dems and to drive them to the Republican ticket. NOT working. Let's see, she has insulted American's with her segregatist comment, she has ethics issues - see troopergate - and then there is a question of 21K in expenses to take her kiddies on the road to events they were not invited to on Alaska's peoples nickle!!!! Oh - and the whole Katie Couric thing - well, we saw the real Palin then. She has flubbed many times. I read an interview transcript yesterday and for crying out loud, I have never seen so many fragmented sentances and incomplete thoughts with no conclusions. It's an enligh teacher's nightmare! As a woman I would LOVE to vote for a female president or vice president, but you know what? ONLY if they are the BEST choice. Sorry - she's not ready for prime time....SNL maybe...prime time - nope. Beth

Obama: Biden Prone to 'Rhetorical Flourishes' | The Trail | washingtonpost.com Here's what I pulled from The Washington Post. It's certainly no worse than some of Palin's remarks, it's going to be hard to top Katie Couric's interview, or any number of Palin's campaign trail comments. Beth

Nah, they will blame someone though..... You can see that coming a mile away.... Beth

You know Jeff, I don't think they get why we have made the choices we have... It is important that highly respected Republican leaders are backing OBAMA and not McCain! It is important that many countries are paying CLOSE attention and cheering Obama on, knowing the ties we used to share with many of them have been strained in recent years. It's is really importan to have as many world allies as you can!!! Go Obama! Beth

I know that will be one beautiful deck when you get finished with it. Can't wait to see the afters! Beth :banana:

General Colin Powell (race aside people) is a fair minded leader who says he likes Obama better for many reasons. Likewise Adelman who has been serving Republican presidents for many years - like decades - is putting his vote in for Obama. These are very serious statements people. There was an article yesterday that said there are 70 SEVENTY countries backing Obama, that's almost 4 to 1 in favor of Obama. Beth PS Britons, French, Germans Solidly Back Obama Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - Why do citizens in 70 countries prefer Obama to McCain? - Blogs from CNN.com World Citizens Prefer Obama to McCain by Nearly 4-to-1

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Jeff she gets some interesting travel reimbursements too, on Alaska's nickle.... Palin charges Alaska for kids' travel - CNN.com Beth

I think General Powell was very articulate and clear about why he selected Senator Obama, so was Mr. Adelman. Got anymore excuses? Beth OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!

Yes, you can start with the one you have but keep in mind that you will need to re-invest in a better unit to help you with your production rates. 3000 psi is fine for low end flatwork but the gpm needs to be higher than 5gpm to be not only effective but faster. It's not just the washing that is a factor but the rinsing and the faster you can do it the better your profit margins will be. More gpm means more water and that means faster rinsing capabilities. Hot water is also a factor which helps get the job done quicker and aids the chemicals you may use to work better without having to use so much of them. ie; you use less chems with hot water. This means more profits and lower job costs. Rod!~

YES he made a mistake. Here's another story.... Beth Palin charges Alaska for kids' travel - CNN.com Palin charges Alaska for kids' travel ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel. In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. She also has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls. Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor's children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business. As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters -- Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 -- by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor's schedule. But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend. Several other organizers said the children merely accompanied their mother and did not participate. The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children. "She said any event she can take her kids to is an event she tries to attend," said Jennifer McCarthy, who helped organize the June 2007 Family Day Celebration picnic in Ketchikan that Piper attended with her parents. State Finance Director Kim Garnero told The Associated Press she has not reviewed the Palins' travel expense forms, so she could not say whether the daughters' travel with their mother would meet the definition of official business. On August 6, three weeks before Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin as his running mate, and after Alaska reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports for her daughters' travel. In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as "First Family attending" and "First Family invited" to explain the girls' attendance. "The governor said, 'I want the purpose and the reason for this travel to be clear,' " said Linda Perez, state director of administrative services. When Palin released her family's tax records as part of her vice presidential campaign, some tax experts questioned why she did not report the children's state travel reimbursements as income. Watch Palin's interview with CNN's Drew Griffin » The Palins released a review by a Washington attorney who said state law allows the children's travel expenses to be reimbursed and not taxed when they conduct official state business. Taylor Griffin, a McCain-Palin campaign spokesman, said Palin followed state policy allowing governors to charge for their children's travel. He said the governor's office has invitations requesting the family to attend some events, but he said he did not have them to provide. In October 2007, Palin brought daughter Bristol along on a trip to New York for a women's leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel, which overlooks Central Park. The event's organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter. Alexis Gelber, who organized Newsweek's Third Annual Women & Leadership Conference, said she does not know how Bristol ended up attending. Gelber said invitees usually attend alone, but some ask if they can bring a relative or friend. Griffin, the campaign spokesman, said he believes someone with the event personally sent an e-mail to Bristol inviting her, but he did not have it to provide. Records show Palin also met with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs representatives and visited the New York Stock Exchange. In January, the governor, Willow and Piper attended the Alaska Symphony of Seafood Buffet, an Anchorage gala to announce winners of an earlier seafood competition. "She was just there," said James Browning, executive director of Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, which runs the event. Griffin said the governor's office received an invitation that was not specifically addressed to anyone. When Palin amended her children's expense reports, she listed a role for the two girls at the function -- "to draw two separate raffle tickets." In the original travel form, Palin listed a number of events that her children attended and said they were there "in official capacity helping." She did not identify any specific roles for the girls. In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show. Expense forms describe the girls' official purpose as "NGA Governor's Youth Programs and family activities." But those programs were activities designed to keep children busy, a service provided by the NGA to accommodate governors and their families, NGA spokeswoman Jodi Omear said. In addition to the commercial flights, the children have traveled dozens of times with Palin on a state plane. For these flights, the total cost of operating the plane, at $971 an hour, was about $55,000, according to state flight logs. The cost of operating the state plane does not increase when the children join their mother. The organizer of an American Heart Association luncheon on February 15 in Fairbanks said Palin asked to bring daughter Piper to the event, and the organizer said she was surprised when Palin showed up with daughters Willow and Bristol as well. The three Palin daughters shared a room separate from their mother at the Princess Lodge in Fairbanks for two nights, at a cost to the state of $129 per night. The luncheon took place before Palin's husband, Todd, finished fourth in the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, also in Fairbanks. The family greeted him at the finish line. When Palin showed up at the luncheon with not just Piper but also Willow and Bristol, organizers had to scramble to make room at the main table, said Janet Bartels, who set up the event. "When it's the governor, you just make it happen," she said. The state is already reviewing nearly $17,000 in per diem payments to Palin for more than 300 nights she slept at her own home, 40 miles from her satellite office in Anchorage. Tony Knowles, a Democratic former governor of Alaska who lost to Palin in a 2006 bid to reclaim the job, said he never charged the state for his three children's commercial flights and did not claim their travel as official state business. Knowles, who was governor from 1994 to 2002, is the only other recent Alaska governor who had school-age children while in office. "There was no valid reason for the children to be along on state business," said Knowles, a supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. "I cannot recall any instance during my eight years as governor where it would have been appropriate to claim they performed state business." Knowles said he brought his children to one NGA event while in office but didn't charge the state for their trip. In February 2007, the three girls flew from Juneau to Anchorage on Alaska Airlines. Palin charged the state for the $519.30 round-trip ticket for each girl, and noted on the expense form that the daughters accompanied her to "open the start of the Iron Dog race." The children and their mother then watched as Todd Palin and other racers started the competition, which Todd won that year. Palin later had the relevant expense forms changed to describe the girls' business as "First Family official starter for the start of the Iron Dog race." The Palins began charging the state for commercial flights after the governor kept a 2006 campaign promise to sell a jet bought by her predecessor. Palin put the jet up for sale on eBay, a move she later trumpeted in her speech at the Republican National Convention, and it was ultimately sold by the state at a loss. That left only one high-performance aircraft deemed safe enough for her to use -- a 1980 twin-engine King Air assigned to the public safety agency but, according to flight logs, out of service for maintenance and repairs about a third of the time Palin has been governor.

I believe the CORRECT title is:Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Amazon.com: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life: Spencer Johnson, Kenneth Blanchard: Books Great little book, and for the record, it is not in the slightest bit political. Beth

That's the way I read it.... personally, I would have a ton of questions based on the info provided. But, I'm not in the market to purchase a company. Beth

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