The Washington Hillbillies!

THE WASHINGTON HILLBILLIES

Come and listen to my story bout a man named Dodd
refied his house but it seemed kinda odd
saved eighty grand but he said he didn`t know
law makers get a break cause they`re friends of Angelo

Mozillo that is , CountryWide , Bad loans

Well the first thing ya know Angelo is in some trouble
he say`s HEY DODD NOW THEY SAY I CAUSED A BUBBLE!
Dodd say`s fine I`ll just sponsor us a bill
tell em that they need it and I`ll sell it on the Hill

Well the moral of the story that you all should know
better vote em out if they`re friends of Angelo
or one day soon we`ll be shootin at our food
Bernankes got us lookin at two hundred dollar crude

Oil that is , black gold , OPEC tea

And now it`s time to say goodbye to you and all your kin
and Dodd would like to thank you all for kindly chippin in
you`re all invited back again to this localitee
to pay another trillion for their bogus LTV

Loan to value, that is

Kick your shoes off
Ya`ll come back now ya hear?!

Thanks to RP, our Hillary Delegate and loyal friend in San Diego!

121 comments ↓

#1 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 1:55 pm

Yee haw !

#2 DancesWithPumas on 09.30.08 at 1:55 pm

How-deeeeeee!

#3 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 1:55 pm

OHHHHHHH GRRRRRRRRR TexasT….

#4 tennaseepuma on 09.30.08 at 1:56 pm

Aint it the truth,like that poem.

#5 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 1:57 pm

I am having issue in the action center with the addresses it keeps telling me to check them (won’t let me send) one or some of addresses are wrong.. does anyone know it’s in the first batch a and b’s. I sent out all the ones I have in my emails but action center has got some I do not have.

#6 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 1:57 pm

Ok , Ok , I’ll go donate now … Worth it though ! :)

#7 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 1:59 pm

Omg I was in such a hurry to get up here I didn’t even look at the post… too funny… and I know that song too so sad…

#8 Bella-Me on 09.30.08 at 1:59 pm

You just out did yourself this time with that Opener.:)

#9 Caracal Carrie on 09.30.08 at 2:00 pm

In case anyone one missed it..

Puma-Facts page on the Bailout

http://puma-facts.com/Bailout.aspx

#10 lilibet on 09.30.08 at 2:00 pm

top 10

#11 HP Boston on 09.30.08 at 2:02 pm

repost
I am very sure and also positive that McCain will win this election. Did you all forget the Palin surprise? Have we not seen how all the (well most) energy has gone into her bloody Crucifixion, can there be any more nails or wood left?
We will see more from the Republicans……they wrote the book the Democrats have been reading.

#12 lilibet on 09.30.08 at 2:02 pm

123 mick on 09.30.08 at 12:38 pm

Oh dear Lord!! :shock:

IT’S NOW OFFICIAL… IT’S A FREAKIN’ CULT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA

Can you say, I-n-d-o-c-t-r-i-n-a-t-i-o-n?

Please, somebody rescue these kids!

#13 tennaseepuma on 09.30.08 at 2:03 pm

CLINTON BACKSTABBERS

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaQFEfhhO4

#14 BillieJo on 09.30.08 at 2:04 pm

Hillary really, truly COULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED in Denver.

I’d call it an American Tragedy, but it’s really an American Outrage.
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************ MURPHY **********************

Could you please put that in your own words on the blog so I can make a flyer out of it to put up on the Action Center and also use in Nevada when some of us PUMAs go there. (?) Please. I can copy and past it right off the blog and add graphics, etc. Thanks.

#15 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:05 pm

@ osaka:

Obama says:

Born in Hawaii.

Shared dual citizenship with Kenya/ USA until 21.

Adopted by Indonesian step-dad.

(Obama has said all that. Why do you think his name was once Barry Soetoro. It’s not a secret.)

The question is:

Did he END his Indonesian citizenship? It does not automatically expire like Kenya.

#16 lilibet on 09.30.08 at 2:05 pm

MAMA PUMA:
Mama, though I am old enough to be your mama, I did appreciate your kind mention of me the other day. I have been a GOOD PUMA today. Not as active as some this morning, but I have contacted all the media addresses that are in my address book 3 times with info that was provided by the wonderful PUMAS. I even sent a 4th message to C. Matthews. If he isn’t already sorry about ever having uttered those words of the tingling up his leg, I think he will soon be regretful.
Have a wonderful day.

#17 kids1627 on 09.30.08 at 2:08 pm

Wow the MSM is on overkill trying to sell the bail out well I’m not buying it no agreement is safe for now when you have all MSM trying to spoon feed us this bail out I don’t trust it.

#18 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:09 pm

Does anyone here remember back in May, when the passports were breached?

At first it was only reported that Obama’s passport was breached at the State Dept. Obama screamed for a “full investigation,” but then it was found out that McCain and Hillary’s passports were ALSO breached. Condi Rice came out to make a public apology. But THEN it was found out that it was an Obama camp employee, an advisor who broke into the system.

And then POOF!

Disappeared from the media.

How many of you remember that? I thought it was weird.

#19 BarbNOBO on 09.30.08 at 2:09 pm

NEEDS CORRECTION….Did Barack Obama Ever Exist?, Grizzly8×14, pdf

Great flyer in the action center but records is spelled reords…Can someone please correct?..I would like to print it and pass out! Thanks!!

#20 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 2:10 pm

Confirmation number: 4*************
Donation amount: $25.00 USD
Total: $25.00 USD
Purpose: to subvert the dominant paradigm
Contributor: **************

#21 HP Boston on 09.30.08 at 2:11 pm

#17
Ya the more they PUSH anything the more I resist!

Mmm think I will send my nincompoop reps some more emails…

#22 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:11 pm

@ #18:

Back in March* not May.

#23 Asian4Hillary on 09.30.08 at 2:13 pm

There’s a solution to this debacle with our financial system, it started in the time of Jimmy Carter when his Democratic lead Congress created Community Reinvestment Act, forcing banks to give loan to people to buy a house even if they’re not capable of paying the monthly mortgage; banks engaged in subprime lending. This got worse during the Clinton Administration, even people with bad credit history can avail a loan to buy a house. This has been done to cater to minorities in this country especially AA; the democrats need their vote during election season. Why should my tax money be use to bailout this big corporations? Enron filed for bankcruptcy, airlines file for bankcruptcy, our economy moves on. Let this big corporations like Fannie and Freddie file for bankcruptcy; this country is moving towards Marxism, you have the Democratic Party to blame from the time of Carter all the way to the present.

Abolish Community Reinvestment Act, that is a cancer for this country; to own a home is NOT a right, that is a privilege.

Bankcrupt companies will have new owners and stockholders. Let the stockholders suffer the brunt of their malfeasance. This country must go back to standard banking procedure or the future generation of USA will never know what is real America where hard work is rewarded, where living on credit should be looked down not praised. People must learn to live within their means.

I’m ready to lose my investment for my retirement for the sake of the future of this county.

#24 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 2:13 pm

#18 kat in your hat I remember that too.

#25 HP Boston on 09.30.08 at 2:15 pm

#18 Kat
How many of you remember that? I thought it was weird.
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Yes I remember, I guess we need not guess why now.
Big fat scrub I guarantee!

#26 LandiPUMA on 09.30.08 at 2:16 pm

I didn’t realize we were upstairs already.
I’ll repost some posts from the bottom of downstairs!

DancesWithPumas… I was busy yesterday… but yes, I’ll send you my latest(s) to the Action Center… after maybe a little more editing.

#27 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 2:17 pm

Kat – makes you wonder who gave Obama the info that Palin has only had a pasport for a year …. The media didn’t seem to think it was a big deal that he spread that information around …

#28 LandiPUMA on 09.30.08 at 2:20 pm

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IDEA FOR REACHING MANY PEOPLE WITH YOUR GOOD POSTS:

One of the strategies to help defeat BO is to blog all over the internet to help spread our case against him so he’s defeated in Nov.

Here’s one idea on how you can do that in a more efficient and effective manner.
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• -Create a file in your computer, such as a Word doc, in which you write and save the good posts that you put extra energy and thought into.

• -Think of your posts as sort of like mini “Letters to the Editor” or Op-ed pieces (though for posts you don’t have to put as much time and energy into formal writing and editing).

• -Write on anything that shows BO would not be good for our country. Talk up McCain, if you like. You can also include good links in your post.

• -Post your post here (in our PUMApac blog) AS WELL AS in various websites and blogs in the internet where you think they’ll do the most good.

Include some PUMA/JSND Websites and the McCain site (to enrich the ammunition of people “campaigning” against BO) and also post in other websites that reach the general public, esp. undecided voters.
These might include news-sites, both local and national (post under any elections-related article) and others… but avoid the pro-BO sites, since their readers are “beyond hope.”

• -A TIP: Gather the links to all the best (or your favorite) Websites that are good to post in so you can quickly go to them and post your post whenever you create a good post.

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>> IN A NUTSHELL: Whenever you write a good post for this blog (one that can help sway voters away from BO), save it and post it in other Websites so you can reach as many people as possible!!!

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#29 Hispanic4Hillary on 09.30.08 at 2:20 pm

I sent 102 letters to congress today…NO BAILOUT…I used my families name and addresses…I had asked them and they said if you think it would help go ahead and use our names. I also asked some neighbors and they also said go for it…so I did…

#30 Hispanic4Hillary on 09.30.08 at 2:21 pm

Pumas…we need to start putting McCain signs on yards. I contacted the McCain office in my area and was able to get signs. I went on my neighbor hood and talked to people and they said YES…please put them out…Then of course I live in a republican area…TEXAS…North of Dallas.. Maybe we can put up pics of the neighbor hoods with McCain signs on the website…just to give us more encouragement..

#31 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:22 pm

Obama is so shady.

#32 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 2:25 pm

#30 Hispanic4Hillary so what do you do call them and they brought it out or you had to go down there. My closest McCain place is downtown Toledo . Nobody on my street has got any signs up BO or McCain) now other streets have signs of both. I want to get a country first sign too, but I think you can only order those online.

#33 LandiPUMA on 09.30.08 at 2:25 pm

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(from downstairs)
#192 emme on 09.30.08 at 1:44 pm WROTE:

#188 LandiPUMA – Thank you SO MUCH for the great suggestions!

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Hi emme!!!

THANK YOU for all the work you’re doing in PA!

I have a dear, close friend in Scranton who voted for Hillary but is now leaning BO… and I’ve been “working on her” so hard! She might be starting to see the light now… so let me know if there’s anything happening around there that might help…. Like if someone like Carly Fiorina is speaking or something.

#34 BillieJo on 09.30.08 at 2:26 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA

Children sing of Change….for das Furer, oops Obama!

This was on Drudge. (Oh is this sounding familar, another repeat of history.)

#35 pumasupporter on 09.30.08 at 2:30 pm

Hey all, McCain has a new commercial out with a clip from Bill Clinton in it, with some of his comments over the weekend. It is so obvious that Clinton is voting for McCain. It’s on the front page of his site. http://www.johnmccain.com

#36 kevink on 09.30.08 at 2:31 pm

Biden gets free pass, whereas Hillary was ridiculed to no end:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/30/unlike-clinton-biden-gets-pass-saying-shot-iraq/

#37 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:33 pm

@ #36 kevink

I know, it’s craziness.

#38 RedStateGuy on 09.30.08 at 2:35 pm

The Youtube thing with the kids singing for Obama. Wow, that is creepy. Reminds me of North Korean kids singing for “Dear Leader”…

#39 tennaseepuma on 09.30.08 at 2:38 pm

My personal opinion is that Hillary wore orange at onc convention to tell us to fight for our country more than for party……..

#40 LandiPUMA on 09.30.08 at 2:38 pm

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The polls are fluid and there’s still time to shift things….

WE NEED TO DO ALL WE CAN
TO TURN THE SWING STATES
FIRMLY IN OUR FAVOR !!!

No matter where you are…

– Make phone calls to people in swing states
– Write to & send good articles, links, etc to the media in swing-states
– Forward good articles, links, You-Tube videos and emails to everyone you know.
– Talk to others, go door-to-door, etc

See more ideas, and use the resources, in the Action Center!
http://www.pumapac.org/prowlstalk.html
(home page: http://www.pumapac.org/action_center.html )

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#41 utahpuma on 09.30.08 at 2:39 pm

This is on today’s ABC news blog and I just love it. Read the blogs below the article. Obama exposed with ACORN! :)

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/obama-pushes-re.html

What a lift!

#42 vadaryl on 09.30.08 at 2:41 pm

Why can’t Obama say the following: Clinton suggested negotiators on the government bailout package should “maybe cool off a little from the emotion and the pressure of the last two weeks and get back to Washington starting tomorrow and do what we have to do to try to stabilize not only our nation but the entire world.”

She is still doing his job for him.

#43 vadaryl on 09.30.08 at 2:41 pm

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/hillary.clinton.senate.2.829183.html

#44 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 2:42 pm

oh man kevink I went nuts when I heard that on morning joe about a week ago, they wouldn’t talk about him “lying’ because they like Joe Biden(really I’m not making it up they said we won’t talk bad about Joe) so anyways i asked people on here no one answered (it was like 7 in the morning) so I researched it on the web and send out letters to the media and that’s it, what f-ing bull sh*t. Hillary was vilified.

#45 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 2:42 pm

Michael Steele wrote me,
“Folks – I wanted to point out two AP stories that deal with a proposal to raise the FDIC limit. The first story says that Sen. Barack Obama supports such a proposal. That is, frankly, shocking, since the idea was actually proposed by House Republican negotiators on Saturday evening, but was strongly rejected by Senate Democrats. Rep. Chris Shays has introduced this proposal as legislation (H.R. 7235). The second AP story mentions the House GOP support for this proposal.

Why is Sen. Obama embracing a proposal his colleagues rejected? Why did Senate Democrats reject the proposal initially? Have they all changed their minds, or is Sen. Obama breaking with his colleagues? Interesting questions … – stee”

#46 Hillgirl on 09.30.08 at 2:42 pm

Dang, this blog is too fast for me. Just posted downstairs and then we moved upstairs. So this is a repost!

Hello PUMAs,
I have been doing a lot of thinking in these past few days about this whole process in our country. First, with regard to the “bailout”, I think that this was the first time in a long time that the people spoke and were heard. Whether the bailout package was worth passing or not is somewhat irrelevant in this process. I think the process of making the Congress and the President listen to us made a huge impact. It made them aware that they weren’t communicating well to the people and that the people would not accept a corrupt or unclear bill. So in effect the process was much more important than the result. Second, I think it is interesting that the market apparently is starting to correct itself. This speaks also to the response of the people– the market, after all, is driven by people. Finally, in thinking about the candidates and the election, I am hoping this process also reflects the fact that the media and the politicians do not fairly represent the people, should not underestimate the democratic process and should not dismiss the determination of the people to make their voices heard. Whenever you want to be heard it appears the most effective way is to hit the pocketbook!

One final thought, in assessing the candidates it finally became clear to me what it is about Obama that I cannot tolerate. It is not his so-called positions, because many of these were stolen from Hillary, but rather it is the lack of substance, conviction and the presence of an overall self-serving hypocrisy. I have decided that even though I do not agree totally with the McCain/Palin ideology, I have more respect for them as honest, well meaning people, than I do for Obama. And it is on that basis that I make my decision. I would rather vote on the character of the individual than well fashioned and meaningless rhetoric.

Anyway, this is nothing new, I just wanted to share my thinking with my fellow PUMAs.

#47 michelle47 on 09.30.08 at 2:44 pm

slyt2

I have McCain signs I would be more than happy to bring you one!

#48 mick on 09.30.08 at 2:46 pm

#38 RedStateGuy,

Now I know were Obama came up with the “hope” part of this slogan. :shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dC2aDHtEqk

#49 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 2:47 pm

I was once again for the umteenth time trying to figure out the “duel citizenship” thing keeps bothering me.

You know it’s like this. If your father was born in Kenya, and you are President of the USA and the USA is having a difficult time, now who will the President be loyal to.
This would apply to Indonesia as well. For Barak that is.
It just brings an unnecessary scenario into things so matter the legality of his birth certificat, dont you thing?

#50 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:47 pm

Thanks Hillgirl

#51 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 2:47 pm

I meant difficult time or dangerous time with Kenya or Indonesia

#52 just.words... on 09.30.08 at 2:48 pm

#46 Hillgirl

I thought your downstairs post was spot on — glad you reposted this worthy entry!

#53 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 2:49 pm

New slogan

No More Bailin/ Vote Palin

I guess the Use YOur Brain/vote McCain is probably old here

#54 Hillgirl on 09.30.08 at 2:50 pm

Thank you lovely PUMAs.

#55 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:50 pm

@ #49
Well, I always wondered about Berg’s lawsuit. It didn’t seem like a strong case, mainly because of the way things were worded and some of his information did not seem 100% accurate.

But, apparently this Berg guy is on a mission to find out the truth, so more power to him.

#56 BillieJo on 09.30.08 at 2:50 pm

#35 pumasupporter

Hey all, McCain has a new commercial out with a clip from Bill Clinton in it, with some of his comments over the weekend. It is so obvious that Clinton is voting for McCain. It’s on the front page of his site. http://www.johnmccain.com

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Sarah was the only clip I saw on this page, could you just send the link to the ad please?

#57 DancesWithPumas on 09.30.08 at 2:51 pm

40 LandiPUMA

The media links to critical/swing states are listed in our boards at the Action Center at:

http://pumapac.org/media.html

Most of these are for smaller venues because they offer us a better chance of being published. Be sure to mention PumaPac.org when and where you can so we can reach out to isolated potential Puma Pac-ers.

Resources, YouTubes, articles, letters (to be used as samples for Puma Pac Pumas), links, daily alerts and actions, Puma Pac Puma initiated Prowls and Actions, suggestions, etc. can be sent to:
actioncenter@pumapac.org.

Thank you in advance for your contributions to our Action Center.

#58 Gogandalf on 09.30.08 at 2:51 pm

MURPHY – dear MURPHY – what have you changed in your threads – I have been in contact with 7 other Pumas who no longer can even lurk – only way I got onto here was that I had put into my favorite file – a thread from July 9th and then went into that – clicked on the Prowl action section – then on the right hand side saw this current thread clicked on it and here I am – something has changed from the Puma Pac Roll and this one – please investigate – we all have old computers with old browsers and can not link here.

Now copying what Murphy said:

To help get the word out in PA, go to the Action Center and click on the media link for letters to the editor in PA as well as contacting other media.

here’s the link:
http://www.pumapac.org/media.html

this resource is really quite amazing

#59 diva2 on 09.30.08 at 2:53 pm

#27 Texas Tigress,

Oddly enough nobo won’t show anyone his passport(s).

#60 NobamaNetwork on 09.30.08 at 2:54 pm

This is happening in America! Watch the video of the Hitler Youth – Heil Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA
Kathy Sawada in Venice CAT is the music teacher leading the students. Her email is:
http://www.scoopthis.org/tag/kathy-sawada/
ksawada1@sbcglobal.net

We cannot sit by and let Obama turn America into Hitler’s Germany!

#61 LandiPUMA on 09.30.08 at 2:54 pm

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*** EASY *** ACTION * PROJECT ***
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:arrow: CREATE YOUR OWN ANTI-BO VIRAL-EMAIL
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• Gather, into a blank email, some good talking points (from the Action Center, etc)… any good, persuasive facts and points (NOT falsehoods/smears).

• Title your email “20 Reasons Why You Should Not Vote For Obama”… OR… “The Obama The Media Does Not Want You To Know About”… OR… ???

• At the bottom, type, “Forward this email to as many people as possible”

• Then Send it off to many people at once!

• If you have received ANTI-Palin/McCain Viral-Emails (mass-forwarded), take advantage of all the addresses grouped in the email’s “From” field.
Just hit “Reply All” (or “Reply to Everyone”) in the email, delete the email’s text, paste the Viral Email you created, and send it off to everyone!

• You can also mass-forward any good articles, posts, links, You-Tube videos, etc.

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► For good talking points to include OR Viral-Email Templates you can use, see the Action Center:
http://www.pumapac.org/prowlstalk.html

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–> If you find anything good in the Web that can be used for a Viral Email or if you create a good Viral Email yourself, please post it on our blogs!

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#62 DancesWithPumas on 09.30.08 at 2:54 pm

26 LandiPUMA
DancesWithPumas… I was busy yesterday… but yes, I’ll send you my latest(s) to the Action Center… after maybe a little more editing.
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LandiPUMA,
No worries, I was busy tying up loose ends, napping, venting, and finishing up a project anyway.
My decks are cleared… bring it on!

actioncenter@pumapac.org

#63 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 2:55 pm

#47 michelle47 Oh thank you that would be great… :)

#64 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 2:56 pm

diva – or his college records , or a vault COLB , or his thesis etc. etc. and the media lets him get by with it !

#65 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:57 pm

Denver Group ad:

WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM THIS MAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etJtGEm8vLY

#66 RedStateGuy on 09.30.08 at 2:57 pm

#48 Mick

I think you’re right!

Somewhere (hell I presume) Karl Marx is laughing at all this…

#67 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 2:58 pm

When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by rival Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign.

But the campaign has been silent about Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, telling his own questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq.

“Let’s start telling the truth,” Biden said during a presidential primary debate sponsored by YouTube last year. “Number one, you take all the troops out – you better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the Green Zone, where I have been seven times and shot at. You better make sure you have protection for them, or let them die.”

But when questioned about the episode afterward by the Hill newspaper, Biden backpedaled from his claim of being “shot at” and instead allowed: “I was near where a shot landed.”

#68 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:58 pm

LandiPUMA:

Ok, I’ll work on it. It’s so hard because…there is SO much.

#69 DancesWithPumas on 09.30.08 at 2:59 pm

58 Gogandalf
Not sure if this helps at all, but I had a blog linkage problem yesterday, all day, until I got home (late model computer with cable internet) and then everything was fine again. Not sure if it was the diff in computers, or if something had been repaired.

#70 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 3:00 pm

ok general hospital on ,,, be back around 4. check in on commercials though

#71 kevink on 09.30.08 at 3:01 pm

From Obama’s own site: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/HopeTacos/gG59KJ

“Sing for Change was a confluence of grassroots work, good will, and shared vision the first of which was the music itself.”

Funny, didn’t ‘Good Will’ also donate thousands of dollars to Obama? He must be a busy man! Too bad ‘Doodad Pro’ just can’t sing…

#72 DeepSouth on 09.30.08 at 3:02 pm

Hi everyone!! I have been making my calls and emailing. Today I’m working on my eBay listings. eBay’s programs SUCKS!!! Taking me forever to do things.

Anyway, have a good day and I’ll be checking in!!

#73 rlp33 on 09.30.08 at 3:03 pm

How does everyone think Palin will do tonight at the debate? It is tonight isn’t it?

#74 Grizzly on 09.30.08 at 3:03 pm

I just sent this out to my e-mail distribution – you might want to sit down before you read it.

Henry Paulson, our illustrious Treasury Secretary pushing a wall street bailout, was appointed to that position by President Bush in May of 2006. Prior to that time, Paulson was Chairman of Goldman Sachs.

The perceptions of Paulson’s allegiance to Wall Street and his lack have started to surface regarding his role in the current economic crisis. While his interests do seem more aligned to Wall Street than to Main Street, his actions may have a much more personal interest.

When Paulson left Goldman Sachs, he beneficially owned over 3.2 million shares of Goldman Stock. His last SEC form 4 filed in April of 2006 outlines his ownership interests.
http://www.secinfo.com/dnFu6.vG3.htm#1stPage

In the initial stages of the economic crisis, there was much hand wringing over which companies were worthy of rescue and which were not. The government decided to allow Lehman brothers to fail and file for bankruptcy, while concluding that the giant insurer, AIG, was too big to fail. An $85 billion rescue package was promptly awarded to AIG to allow them to continue their existence.

But the events leading up to AIG’s rescue are very enlightening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/business/28melt.html?em

“Two weeks ago, the nation’s most powerful regulators and bankers huddled in the Lower Manhattan fortress that is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, desperately trying to stave off disaster.

As the group, led by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., pondered the collapse of one of America’s oldest investment banks, Lehman Brothers, a more dangerous threat emerged: American International Group, the world’s largest insurer, was teetering. A.I.G. needed billions of dollars to right itself and had suddenly begged for help.

One of the Wall Street chief executives participating in the meeting was Lloyd C. Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, Mr. Paulson’s former firm. Mr. Blankfein had particular reason for concern.

Although it was not widely known, Goldman, a Wall Street stalwart that had seemed immune to its rivals’ woes, was A.I.G.’s largest trading partner, according to six people close to the insurer who requested anonymity because of confidentiality agreements. A collapse of the insurer threatened to leave a hole of as much as $20 billion in Goldman’s side, several of these people said.”

So the only private sector attendee at the the AIG deliberations with the New York Federal Reserve just happened to be Paulson’s successor at Goldman Sachs. And, as it turned out, Goldman Sachs stood to lose $20 billion in the event of an AIG failure.

But who else other than Paulson had in interest in insuring Goldman’s interests were protected here? Well, here’s another surprise – the one and only Jim Johnson. Yes that Jim Johnson, the former CEO of Fannie Mae, the former head of Obama’s vice presidential search committee, and the current Obama campaign adviser. That Jim Johnson:

http://www2.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/about-us/leadership/board-of-directors.html#JamesA.Johnson

“Mr. Johnson has been a Vice Chairman of Perseus, L.L.C., a merchant banking and private equity firm, since April 2001. From January 2000 to March 2001, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Capital Partners, a private investment company. From January through December 1999, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Fannie Mae, having previously served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from February 1991 through December 1998 and its Vice Chairman from 1990 through February 1991. Mr. Johnson has been a director of Goldman Sachs since May 1999. Mr. Johnson is on the boards of the following public companies in addition to Goldman Sachs: Forestar Real Estate Group, Inc., KB Home and Target Corporation.”

So, Paulson has a direct financial interest in the AIG bailout by virtue of his stock ownership in Goldman Sachs. The Obama campaign could not suffer another Jim Johnson scandal if Johnson, after running Fannie Mae into the ground, also turned up on the Board of Directors of another threatened financial institution.

My, oh, my!

#75 catsarepumas on 09.30.08 at 3:04 pm

CNN Politics page

(CNN) — Barack Obama may have regained a more solid footing over John McCain in the national polls, but in the key battleground states where the race will likely be decided, the two presidential contenders could hardly be closer

#76 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 3:04 pm

@ # 73:

No, it’s on Thursday.

I don’t know how she’ll do, she needs to study and stop going to stump speeches.

#77 DancesWithPumas on 09.30.08 at 3:05 pm

Compose, click link, paste letter, send.
Click link, paste letter, send.
Click link, paste letter, send.
Click link, paste letter, send.
Click link, paste letter, send.
Click link, paste letter, send.
Click link, paste letter, send.

Call it the No Hopey-Changey Three Step.

#78 Hispanic4Hillary on 09.30.08 at 3:07 pm

#32…Yes…they did deliver…

#79 rlp33 on 09.30.08 at 3:07 pm

76 kat in your hat

I could have sworn it was tonight. Oh well….

I hope she does good.

#80 DancesWithPumas on 09.30.08 at 3:08 pm

If anyone has a schedule of candidate campaign stops, your Action Center would like to post it and give advance notice to Pumas who want to organize actions for the days of those events.
actioncenter@pumapac.org

#81 kids1627 on 09.30.08 at 3:08 pm

All the MSM is selling this bail out a good reason to just say no.Now they are going to teach us what bail out means.

#82 Gogandalf on 09.30.08 at 3:09 pm

Thank you Dances – how do we all repair the problem – I was just lucky that I had saved a past blog to get in – otherwise – I would be out in the dark as well as the others who still are – the first blog this morning I was able to log on and post – but from the last two (including this one) could not hit my favorite to bring it up – just says illegal operation – we all can go into the action file, into the contribute file – now thats a good thing – but can not get the topic du jour to blog –
I am saving this blog into my favorite so that I can get back in again….all of us have rebooted computers – I cleared my cookies and history files – but nothing has worked – still think it has to do with something that Murphy has changed on the last two threads – obviously everyone else here blogging has no problems – but seems like a low amount of posts – maybe there are lots of others that are having the same problem and can’t get on to say anything.

#83 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 3:11 pm

gogandolf – I saved the home page in favs , and it helped ….

#84 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 3:12 pm

gogandolf – if the thread gets big though I can’t get on at all …

#85 rlp33 on 09.30.08 at 3:12 pm

How about this poll?

1) McCain wins
2)Obama wins
3) McCain wins but it won’t be taken lightly…
4)McCain winds by a landslide
5)Obama wins by a landslide

What is your vote?

#86 Gogandalf on 09.30.08 at 3:13 pm

Texas Tigress – I have done the same for the last three months – its just today that it has acted up with these last two posts – and as I said I have received emails from many others reporting it – I was lucky that I had also saved a past post from July that I could get into here by the back door – the rest can not – so its not just my computer. Either Murphy has changed something in her threads or we have been hacked with the older computers.

#87 osaka puma on 09.30.08 at 3:13 pm

you can thank that stupid SOB GW and his neo con pals for giving us president obama..
they really f..ed things up for mccain palin to get elected

#88 Hispanic4Hillary on 09.30.08 at 3:13 pm

#32..I called and they did deliver…it took them about 2 weeks..but they did come thru..

#89 kids1627 on 09.30.08 at 3:16 pm

Jeffrey Miron Harvard econ let the markets fail let them file bankrupt . On fox

#90 michelle47 on 09.30.08 at 3:17 pm

slyt2

email me @ bretzmlw@aol.com
let me know where you live and I will bring you one by the end of the week.

#91 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 3:18 pm

osaka – we will NOT have a P. Obama ( I can’t even spell it out – it makes me ill ) Do not make me ’strap on ‘ !!!! lol

#92 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 3:20 pm

Berg Filed an Answer Sept. 29th, 2008

(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 09/29/08) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he filed his Opposition and Brief to Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] Joint Motion to Dismiss in the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.

Berg feels confident that he has “Standing” and the Court will allow the case to go forward. Our response was due in 14 days, but the Court requested our answer by Monday, September 29, 2008 and we complied.
In our response we set forth sufficient reasons that I have “Standing” to bring this lawsuit. Furthermore, I set forth additional reasons that indicate Obama does not meet the qualifications for President of the United States and Obama should be removed from the ballot and held accountable.

Our website obamacrimes.com has received 17.1 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website – and forward to your local newspapers and radio and TV stations.
Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, “we” the people, are heading to a “Constitutional Crisis” if this case is not resolved forthwith.

#93 slyt2 on 09.30.08 at 3:20 pm

#78 Hispanic4Hillary thank you

#94 mimi1020 on 09.30.08 at 3:20 pm

#91 TexasTigress

ROFLMAO!

#95 rlp33 on 09.30.08 at 3:23 pm

92 sistermoon3

I sure HOPE something comes out of this. This is a CHANGE we can definitely need..

Keep fighting Berg!

#96 thecandypoem on 09.30.08 at 3:26 pm

I wrote to McCain campaign, and told him I was a Hillary supporter, and nobody could convince me to vote for Obama.

I also told him there were other Pumas similarly disgusted by both Obama and the Democratic party as it stands now.

I asked McCain to mention us PUMAs every now and then, and to disregard voices who insist that “Hillary supporters will come around.”

I also thanked him for picking a woman for VP.

McCain’s campaign’s suggestion box: http://www.johnmccain.com/involving/petition3.aspx?guid=3659f2bd-5160-4026-a255-a45358c8393a

#97 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 3:26 pm

94 mimi1020 on 09.30.08 at 3:20 pm #91 TexasTigress

ROFLMAO!
_____________________________
I BET you are , mimi !!! wink wink ;)

#98 jody in florida on 09.30.08 at 3:27 pm

80 DancesWithPumas

Re: scheduled events

You have mail (action center)

#99 just.words... on 09.30.08 at 3:29 pm

#77 DancesWithPumas

I prefer the Hopey Pokey (LOL)!

You put your right-click in
You put your right-click out
You paste your letter in and
Then you send it all about

You do the Hopey Pokey and
You knock the Jackass out

That’s what it’s all about!!

#100 mimi1020 on 09.30.08 at 3:30 pm

#99 just.words…

NICE,

#101 osaka puma on 09.30.08 at 3:32 pm

texas tigress. ..
im chanting a bad spell on obama..
“yama yama yama nobama nobama nobama”
:lol:

#102 FoxyJara on 09.30.08 at 3:33 pm

#206 Kat

Per Indonesian law – A foreign child aged below 21 and unmarried, who is adopted by an Indonesian, will be eligible for Indonesian citizenship if the process does NOT cause dual citizenship …. and

Per Indonesian law – part of the procedure to obtain an Indonesian Passport, you would usually be required to provide evidence that you no longer hold another citizenship.

We know BO had an Indonesian passport, and therefore he could NOT have had dual citizenship. Also look at the daylife photo of BO’s school record which list his citizenship as Indonesian born 8-4-61 in Honolulu

http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D

What makes all this even more suspect is the ensuing cover up. In July 2007, U.S. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, an Obama supporter, went to Indonesia to acquire all Indonesian government records potentially damaging to Barack Obama’s candidacy for the US presidency. See link below to read more about it.

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/obama-is-indonesian/

#103 murphy on 09.30.08 at 3:35 pm

more good times above.

take it upstairs!

oh, and vote in our Poll!

http://blog.pumapac.org/2008/09/30/puma-pac-poll/

#104 TexasTigress on 09.30.08 at 3:35 pm

osaka – Oh no !!! Are we doing magick again ? !!! Last time I went out naked and chased the chickens around the pastures under the full moon during the primaries , and I haven’t seen them since !!!!!

#105 Hillgirl on 09.30.08 at 3:36 pm

#99 Justwords–Hysterical!

#106 sistermoon3 on 09.30.08 at 3:37 pm

Italian groups are set to protest Wednesday at the premiere of Spike Lee’s film “Miracle at St. Anna,” which they say is full of lies and insults the memory of the Italian Resistance during the Second World War.

oooooooooooops spike pissed some italians off

#107 HP Boston on 09.30.08 at 3:42 pm

#74 Grizzly
So who needs terrorists???

Terrorism lives and thrives in the heartbeat of America.
I despair………..

#108 BillieJo on 09.30.08 at 3:43 pm

#65 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 2:57 pm

Denver Group ad:

WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM THIS MAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etJtGEm8vLY
————
I would have liked to see the caucus fraud linked in too instead of just saying he won from a rigged roll call vote.

#109 Nijma on 09.30.08 at 3:47 pm

Murphy
#41 on Spit Take thread

Thank you for your welcome, both here and at the Denver Puma cave.

No I am not an Obama supporter, but I try not to drink anyone’s koolaid. I hope PumaPAC continues after the election to keep our politicians’ feet to the fire on gender issues and to remind politicians they can lose elections if they dismiss us.

I have created another backup blog http://pumapac.wordpress.com/
because (1) google/blogger is rumored to be in the bag for BO and (2) Puma control over branding/domain names and (3) it’s free.

I would prefer someone officially puma either takes this over as sole admin or puts their name on it with mine in case (1) I drop dead and can no longer defend the site from Obots or (2) I get tired of seeing it on my wordpress dashboard and decide to flush it, in which case the domain name would be lost.

Here is how:

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/how-do-i-add-more-authors-users-to-my-blog/

First I invite the author to the blog, or to wordpress if they don’t have an account yet. (This has been sent to the murphy/press address) . The new author is added to the blog as a user by adding their email address. If the blog is to change hands, the new user is then made an administrator. The new admin can then delete the old admin.

If Puma wants this domain name, my contact info is on the pumapac.wordpress.com home page and someone with an email address I will recognize as official can contact me and tell me which email address to add as a user. Otherwise I will use my own judgment in maintaining the site.

¡Viva Puma!

#110 freddiebrown on 09.30.08 at 3:52 pm

What the @#^&* is wrong with the parents of the kids singing about Obama. Are they using cute kids as emotional tug of war for political gains ? This is insane – kids are supposed to be doing kids stuff – to get them involved and muddy their innocence in something as corrupt as Obama’s campaign is reprehensible. They are not old enough to know the details of politico, so why are they singing praise to someone like Obama ?
Why are they singing praise about anyone but the good creator ? When have kids been asked or taught to sing about political figures – in rogue countries like N. Korea, Iran, Iraq, and many other supressive countries ?

This is sick !!! The media should know about it. Can you imagine your kids doing this ? What next ? Compulsory sing song in all schools when Obama gets elected ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA

#111 emme on 09.30.08 at 3:54 pm

#33 LandiPUMA – Will do. I live in ne PA, so let’s keep in touch.

#112 freddiebrown on 09.30.08 at 3:55 pm

#109 Nijma – I went into your site last night. I like how your bloggers comments are quite interesting and full of good discussion. No one is using it like a chat room.

Glad that you’re not an Obot. Happy New Year if you celebrate !!

#113 freddiebrown on 09.30.08 at 3:57 pm

Murphy – comments on the flyer ?

#114 osaka puma on 09.30.08 at 4:00 pm

mccain says one thing,mccain accuses obama..
obama says one thing,obama accuses mccain..
the dumb s..t sheeple out there believe obama because obama is winning the battle of credibility and his stuff is sticking and mccains aint thanks to the idiot GW and his cretins neo cons who have blown any credibility for the GOP candidate in 2008

#115 osaka puma on 09.30.08 at 4:01 pm

thats twice that stupid SOB GW screwed mccain!!!

#116 ipotter on 09.30.08 at 4:09 pm

#74 Grizzly Excellent post.

#117 kat in your hat on 09.30.08 at 4:15 pm

@ BillieJo

I agree! Maybe we should tell them.

#118 freddiebrown on 09.30.08 at 4:36 pm

Emme – I have two books Obamanation and Case against Obama. You know of anyone that is pro Obama that can benefit from this ? I forgot to ask you before I sent the box off to you. I can send it directly. Or you can have it. Your work in PA is inspiring – let me know if I can help from here – you have my email.

#119 Nijma on 09.30.08 at 4:43 pm

#112 freddiebrown-thanks, there are plenty of people doing straight out partisan commentary. I try to do something more thought provoking.

The only time I really got a lot of profanity in the comments that I had to edit out was when I wrote about TUCC a couple years ago, and some of Obama’s fellow church members discovered me.

New Year? Samhain is still a ways away. I will probably celebrate Eid on Oct 1. I’m Christian, but take spiritual vitamins from other traditions. That especially means I celebrate any and all food holidays!

#120 tennaseepuma on 09.30.08 at 4:56 pm

Murphy #109 Check it out………click on name!

#121 pumasupporter on 09.30.08 at 6:15 pm

56 BillieJo, go to http://www.johnmccain.com/tvads/ and click on the ad that is titled “Rein”

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