House defeats $700B financial markets bailout
And, here I thought that the Democrats had a majority in both houses of Congress, and Nancy Pelois and Harry Reid had a mandate to lead — somebody better rework the math on that one. They’re not shameless enough to claim that the REPUBLICANS killed this all by themselves are they?

This demands a parody.

Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son’s Bracelet… Where is Media?

We have a winner!  Branden correctly determined what was on Frank’s mind in the dead of night, when he’s all alone at his computer.   Branden gets a copy of Frank’s book or an IMAO t-shirt!  I’ll e-mail him in the next day as soon as I get Frank to send me my e-mail address info. 

The three words Frank added to his comment filter were . . .

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Over at CNN, which is in HD (the only reason to stay over there), they have a round table where the conservative standard bearer is . . . . David Gergen.  Then they say that their “average viewer” room, off at someone’s house, overwhelmingly thinks Obama will win the debate, and then later it slips out that the majority are probably Obama voters.  That’s fair and balanced for you.

Remember–the first 2004 debate–I wouldn’t say that pompous twit Kerry one, but Bush definitely lost.  He was horrendous, practically sleep-walking and incoherent, then was great the next two, so don’t read too much into any of this.

(AP — Biloxi, Mississippi) Senator Obama spent the day feverishly preparing for the presidential debate this evening.  Unidentified sources say Obama’s greatest concern is that the questions will veer away from foreign policy, the topic he memorized his lines for, to other areas such as the national and global economy.  Obama is a notoriously poor off-the-cuff public speaker.  In unrelated news, an Obama spokesperson indicated that the candidate has suddenly developed an acute astigmatism, and will be wearing glasses tonight.

By PATRICK HEALY
Published: September 26, 2008
Senator John McCain’s campaign said Friday morning that he will attend tonight’s debate with Senator Barack Obama at the University of Mississippi, reversing his earlier call to postpone the debate so he could participate in the Congressional negotiations over the $700 billion bailout plan for financial firms.

Last night I was kind of meandering through the comments, and noticed the language had gotten a little salty.  I e-mailed Frank, with this exchange:

Cadet Happy to Frank — 8:58 PM 
. . . i think you need a profanity filter of some type now — the lanugage appears to be getting WAY out of hand

Frank to Cadet Happy — 9:22 PM
It’s in the settings. I started writing a word blacklist, but it made me feel dirty. I guess I’ll add to it as stuff slips by.

So, I go in there and Frank has put THREE dirty words in the moderation filter.  I’m kind of fascinated by the three that were front and center in his mind.
 

SO, your mission — guess what the three dirty words were that Frank added to the moderation list.  The first person to get all three wins either an IMAO t-shirt, or Frank’s book — whichever you would like.

We will have a winner by Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. CST.  I’ll put some clues in as time goes on if no one is getting it. 

NOTE:  I’ve added about 60 dirty words to the list, so unless you modify the spelling, your guess will get kicked into moderation.  So, you must use & * # % or some other symbol for the vowel in the dirty word, or it won’t show up in the comments.  The winner must show up in the comments section to win.  You could also test the comment system, by guessing — if the dirty word shows up, then it obviously isn’t on the list — I won’t ban you or anything for guessing dirty words, and, actually I encourage you to do it. 

This is a no holds barred comment section — If you don’t like cursewords, stay the heck out.  I might even give a special prize for most creative curse word.  So have at it you st#p1d m0th3r f#ck3r5

UPDATE — You can make as many guesses as you like.

Here’s what the genius who has come up with the plan to save us said last March.  It would be interesting to know what happened in the last 6 months that so drastically changed the situation–in other words, have they all just been fiddling while Rome burned, or is this whole thing a crock.  Why does an emergency massive bailout come out of the blue all of a sudden?  I can’t wait to read a book on this in a couple years–hopefully we won’t be in a depression by the time it comes out.

Articles after the split . . .

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(AP — Chicago) In response to questions concerning Senator John McCain’s announcement that he was suspending his presidential campaign and returning to Washington D.C. to help form legislation to deal with the financial crisis, Senator Barack Obama proclaimed that he would continue campaigning and would appear for the debate on Friday in Mississippi whether Senator McCain showed up or not. He explained, “Look, I have zero practical experience in economics or the national legislative process. My only accomplishment as a U.S. Senator has been to get nominated for a different job. Besides, and more importantly, I’ve already FedEx’d my teleprompter to Biloxi. What am I going to do, stand mute on the floor of the Senate waiting for someone to feed me lines about hope and change? I don’t think so.”