What did you think of the brownie, kat? Best 45¢ brownie I've ever had. I think I'm going to brew a cup of decaf tea for a cookie now.

I just keep thinking that it's so sad because her family actually does seem to be real hockey fans, and getting to throw out the puck at a pro hockey game should be a real treat and special honor, no matter how batshit a candidate she is.

I love the fact that both the Rangers and the Flyers players look like they want to laugh.

Two thirds of them are Canadian, where the rigid Conservatives are probably left of centrist Democrats here.

ita, I sent another picture email to the pics @

The guy who played Young John Winchester? Seriously Hot.

One of the dudes was Alaskan, actually.

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Oh geez, I'm going to have to feel sorry for Palin now.

The kids yeah, because they so didn't sign up for this. Her? Not in the freakin' slightest. Either she or someone around her should have had some idea that was a possibility. So either they were stupid enough to think the negative reaction wasn't a possibility, or they thought that by having the kids out there, they were protecting her from potential negative reaction.

And has already been mentioned, Philly fans? Oy.

I am, however, quite ashamed to admit that had it been at a Jags game, she probably would've been cheered.

I spent my day, well part of it, hacking away at my hair. I've made a real hash of it too. Then i tried dying it and it turned out two colors.

But, ion is showing The Peacekeeper Wars and I ordered a pizza.

So glad John McCain finally realized the crowd baiting has gone too far. If only he can get Palin to stop now.

Oh geez, I'm going to have to feel sorry for Palin now.

You might not after reading this... an excellent editorial in the NYT: The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama

...At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. They are alarms. Doing nothing is not an option.

All’s fair in politics. John McCain and Sarah Palin have every right to bring up William Ayers, even if his connection to Obama is minor, even if Ayers’s Weather Underground history dates back to Obama’s childhood, even if establishment Republicans and Democrats alike have collaborated with the present-day Ayers in educational reform. But it’s not just the old Joe McCarthyesque guilt-by-association game, however spurious, that’s going on here. Don’t for an instant believe the many mindlessly “even-handed” journalists who keep saying that the McCain campaign’s use of Ayers is the moral or political equivalent of the Obama campaign’s hammering on Charles Keating.

What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.

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No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin’s convention speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America (as opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his anti-Semitism, racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill F.D.R. at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago’s mayor instead in 1933, Pegler wrote that it was “regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong man.” In the ’60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: “Some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow falls.”

But really, the whole thing is good....

This was what made my head nearly explode. From a rally at which Palin spoke today-- from CNN.com

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"A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate that we deserve and that we need on this issue of life," she said. "Obama is a politician who has long since left behind even the middle ground on the issue of life."

ita, it was a very good brownie! Esp. for $0.45. We've already eaten 4 of our cookies. That's a bad sign, huh? Or a very very good one.

Mmm... Diddy Riese, for those who want a really tasty cheap treat.