Palin’s speech (June 2008) accompanied the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Masters’ Commission, which the church’s pastor said will allow Alaska to become a refuge for American evangelicals during the coming “end of days” — or Armageddon.
Palin credits electoral success to witchhunter

John McCain, 72, chose this former beauty queen, sportscaster, and mayor of the meth brewing capital of Alaska to be one heartbeat away from possession of the nuclear football. Way to go, sport.

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I haven't seen the traditional finishing flag on top of the Hotel Ludlow yet, but these rebar look shorter than the ones they used for adding a new floor.

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MoveOn.org’s Peter Koechley (formerly editor of the Onion) is the brain behind a new YouTube parody series featuring Billy Merritt, driver of the Straight Talk Express. On Tuesday night, Billy released a new video about John McCain inventing the BlackBerry.”

Via Boingboing

“Top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain’s work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.”

To me this claim that McCain claims the invention the Blackberry is about as substantial as the Republican myth that Al Gore claimed the invention of the Internet. I haven’t researched it but I’m sure that at least Gore knows how to email. And the fact that McCain has publicly called himself “computer illiterate” is certainly is something everyone should know.

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