Sarah Palin on Facebook??

Sarah Palin has a Facebook account? This has been circulating all across the social networking Web site Facebook.com, hilarious.

Bailout Fails

It is a bit more clear today why the $700 billion bailout failed yesterday when the On Monday the House of Representatives failed to pass it.

Both Democrats and Republicans that voted against the bailout defended their stand in a media blitz on Capitol Hill.

Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas said, " I want Wall Street to pay to bail Wall Street out rather than putting the burden on people who had nothing to do with this."

The House of Representative defeated the plan by a 228-205 vote. 165 Republicans and 95 Democrats opposed the plan.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, A Republican from Tennessee said, "[we're] talking about $700 billion, a $250 billion blank check at this point...But then, on top of that, when you read the bill, there was an increase in the federal debt limit to $11.3 trillion. Now, that is all taxpayer cost."

The fail plan not only affected Wall Street but also took a toll on Senator John McCain's campaign.

Senator McCain suspended his campaign last week to return to Washington and find a solution to this financial crisis.

According to the latest CNN poll Senator Barack Obama leads McCain 49 percent to 43 percent. The same poll last week Senator McCain lead Senator Obama 51 percent to 46 percent.

The Senate will vote on the bailout plan tomorrow.

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin for SNL... Hilarious!

Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live as Sarah Palin... she is HILARIOUS. Enjoy!



The scary thing about this skit is- it is identical to the original interview with Katie Couric for CBS.
This is an actual interview conducted by CBS's Katie Couric with Sarah Palin. Enjoy.

Matt Damon = Brilliant

Matt Damon, a brilliant celebrity (with a Harvard education- very hard to find nowadays) talks about what he thinks of Sarah Palin as running mate to Senator John McCain.

The Fabulous Ladies of The View... on Politics!

The View has become extremely political this past season. Jacques Steinberg reports in the New York Times that, “The McCain interview also appears to have been a factor in boosting the show’s ratings since it returned after Labor Day. So far it is drawing some of its largest audiences since Ms. O’Donnell served as the show’s moderator in the 2006-7 television season. With an estimated 4.6 million viewers, the episode featuring Mr. McCain ranks as the fourth-most-watched in the show’s 12-year history, according to an ABC analysis of Nielsen data."

Below is a short clip of Senator John McCain on The View:




President Clinton was on The View last week:





The ladies all have their own perspectives and give great insight to what they know. Barbara Walters is simply amazing. A brilliant reporter who has a bit of spunk. She told Barack Obama on The View that the ladies all agreed that he was "Very sexy."


This morning on The View, the ladies agreed that nobody really stood out from the debate. Barbara Walters took the objective stand point and noted that Obama was very presidential whereas the ladies believed that McCain was portraying a warrior.

Obama V McCain: Round 1

Clearly, nobody came out a winner in the first 2008 Presidential Debate- even the ladies from The View agreed. Since none of the candidates stood out, as a draw- many say that Barack Obama wins by default.

According to the Associated Press, Democrat Barack Obama has an 8-percentage-point lead over Republican John McCain — he has 50 percent to McCain's 42 percent — among registered voters, according to the latest Gallup Poll daily tracking update.”

According to the New York Times, “Mr. McCain’s campaign actually declared victory as early as 10 a.m. Friday, hours before the debate took place and even before he had agreed to take part in it. In what aides said was a mix-up, The Wall Street Journal posted an advertisement on its Web site 12 hours early that showed Mr. McCain proudly looking into the distance. “McCain Wins Debate!” read the text.”

How could a campaign declare victory 8 hours prior to the actual debate? Or far before he even agreed to participate in the debate? Are these papers objective or are they taking sides? People then wonder why the Wall Street Journal is so conservative.

The debate on Friday night was boring and in conclusion; whoever that was voting Republican will still vote Republican and whoever that is voting Democrat will continue to vote Democrat.

Politics is Sexy.

Politics. Many people may tell one to never discuss the topic of politics on a first date. That decision may be the worst decision one can make in their entire life. To get to know a person, their political views will help define them.

According to David Carr who is a columnist for the New York Times finds that, “Over all, according to Nielsen, ratings for television news programming of all kinds doubled among young viewers on the big night of primaries. A politics application that is a mash-up of ABC News and Facebook has been downloaded by 1.25 million users. Debates have brought in YouTube and Facebook as co-sponsors, and record numbers of young people with them. More than one college newspaper has suggested that “politics is the new black” on campus.”
Politics has become one of the most important issues to discuss and the youngsters are becoming more and more in tuned with what’s going on in our nation.

According to David Carr, “During the week of Feb. 5 voting, CNN’s ratings among viewers aged 18 to 34 were up 232 percent over the same week in 2004. Fox was up 78 percent, and MSNBC was up a whopping 400 percent (although from a much smaller base).” Thus concludes that politics is a very hot topic.

How could one that believes that men and women should not get paid equally be a feminist at the same time? How could a woman who is a “feminist” and a republican be okay with the government deciding whether she could have an abortion or not? It just doesn’t make sense. One could quickly detect that this girl isn’t the brightest crayon in the box. Sarah Palin is definitely a politician who is not working towards feminisism, or women's rights. She is actually going backwards. Take it from Steinem:

According to Gloria Steinem’s article in the Los Angeles Times- Wrong Woman, Wrong Message, “Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women — and to many men too — who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the “white-male-only” sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.”

People may always warn you to not discuss politics because you may have an opposing view and can get into heavy arguments. But hey, arguments are sexy. Smart is also sexy! In conclusion, do your homework before taking a girl or a guy out… always remember… read the news and politics is always in style and is getting sexier by day.

Presidential Candidates Support Bailout

Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are expected to back the $700 billion bailout of the financial institutions, according to the Associated Press.

Although the presidential race is in the home stretch the Senators must first serve their states; Arizona and Illinois respectively.

The Democratic nominee said, " reckless speculation and greed on Wall Street and lax oversight from Washington led to a meltdown of our financial markets, but regardless of how we got here, a failure to deal with the current crisis would have devastating consequences for our economy, costing millions of Americans their jobs and retirement security.”

Meanwhile Republican hopeful said, "this is something that all of us will swallow hard and go forward with. The option of doing nothing is simply not an acceptable option."

The financial bailout proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would give $700 billion to the government allowing them to buy defaulted mortgages and other distressed housing-related assets.

A vote is expected as early as Monday.

Associated Students allocated $41,000 to elections, a rise from last years $3,100. A huge increase in an effort to increase student voter turn out. They're idea of getting us to vote is to send us voter pamphlets, that's where a lot of the money is going. Those pamphlets are not going to make us vote the reason we don't care enough vote is because they haven't given us a reason to

According to A.S. 1 out of eighteen students voted in the last election.

It's the rare moment when they actually consider taking on a huge issue, like a year ago when they almost backed the DREAM Act, which they didn't. So far all it seems they do is allocate funds to groups and that's the only times when students actually come in to the meetings. Which we should care about since it's our money, $75 per student.

Anyone can allocate money. When they actually change something on campus for the better or make any significant change trust me students will care and take note. So to spend over $40,000 on elections instead of giving that money to student organizations just seems like a waste of money on their part. But hey lets spend the money this year and maybe, just maybe we'll get 2 out of eighteen students to vote.

Or instead of using money to solve the issue of of student participation A.S. looks that themselves and realizes that their actions, or lack thereof, is the reason students just don't care enough to vote.

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