10. He’s not smart enough to be president.
9. He’s too much educated, speakin’ in full sentences, ya know, like that is in scary weird thing thinking people like me are dumb.
8. He shifts his policies like the wind.
7. He’s a committed Marxist ideologue.
6. He wears a flag pin, but its actually reversible with a verse from the Koran on the other side.
5. He was abducted by aliens and given a secret plan to replace the board of directors of Frito Lay and the Internet with the left-wing extremist executives of the New York Times.
4. He has a tattoo of Mao Zedong on his forehead, but you can’t see it unless you come to my church on Wednesday night.
3. His uncle prepared tax returns for a doctor who treated Manuel Noriega’s hemmoroids while he was doing time for just ’cause.
2. Obama’s real father is Saddam Hussein, and if you don’t believe me, ask Sean Hannity.
1. He’s really popular, like Hitler.

(Read this to the tune of Jim Morrison singing The End)

“Methane Chimneys” Pose Scary New Warming Threat

If the prospect of carbon dioxide rapidly building up in our atmosphere and warming our planet isn’t quite daunting enough for you, get a load of this: Scientists have discovered a brand-new and very frightening global warming phenomenon happening in our seas. Late last month, scientists sailing the length of Russia’s northern coast have found that as the Arctic warms and sea ice retreats, massive deposits of underwater methane gas are bubbling to the surface like greenhouse-gas smokestacks. As you read this, it appears that millions of tons of methane — a gas 20 times worse for global warming than carbon dioxide — are being released into our air from beneath the Arctic seabed. In fact, the amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is estimated to be greater than the total amount of carbon locked up in the whole planet’s coal reserves.

Still not scared? The release of so much methane could accelerate global warming in a massive positive feedback loop in which more atmospheric methane causes more warming, leading to more melting permafrost and yet more methane released. Scientists believe that in the past, the sudden release of underground stores of methane have been behind dramatic climatic changes that have led to the mass extinction of species.

Learn more about it in the Independent.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2008/independent-09-23-2008.html

It shouldn’t go in the ads, but Obama should have this oppo. stuff just in case.

Obama also said he was surprised some of those attacks weren’t brought up by his opponent at the debate Tuesday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

“I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face. But I guess we’ve got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate.”

Given McCain’s tenuous grasp on his self-control, you just got to wonder how explosive he’d be if Obama were to puncture the thin veneer of McCain’s currently dubious honor.

George, that fire is just the alien (think John Hurt) squirming to get out.

I think it was Nate at FiveThirtyEight, or perhaps someone else, who said the best the McCain campaign can do at this point is to limit the spread when he loses. The effort seems to be to minimize the rout that’s surely coming. There are others arguing that McCain’s campaign approach is sinking a deep rift within the Republican party that cannot/will not be healed for a very long time.

You can actually read that in the comments of issues sites like Glenn Greenwald (who is a lot less liberal than right wing bloggers make out). Where do honest conservatives go? I see them rooting for Obama, distressed at having voted for George Bush, and arguing that the GOP deserves an honest thrashing for the way it has betrayed conservative thought.

The ads, like the one above, are not calling the party faithful home. If anything, it has made plain that a rogue group of home-invaders has taken up residence in the GOP, and trashed the place. I don’t see these conservatives returning to the home, until the place is fully fumigated.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/report-mccain-exploded-wi_n_133242.html

(Read this to the tune of Jim Morrison singing The End)

“Methane Chimneys” Pose Scary New Warming Threat

If the prospect of carbon dioxide rapidly building up in our atmosphere and warming our planet isn’t quite daunting enough for you, get a load of this: Scientists have discovered a brand-new and very frightening global warming phenomenon happening in our seas. Late last month, scientists sailing the length of Russia’s northern coast have found that as the Arctic warms and sea ice retreats, massive deposits of underwater methane gas are bubbling to the surface like greenhouse-gas smokestacks. As you read this, it appears that millions of tons of methane — a gas 20 times worse for global warming than carbon dioxide — are being released into our air from beneath the Arctic seabed. In fact, the amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is estimated to be greater than the total amount of carbon locked up in the whole planet’s coal reserves.

Still not scared? The release of so much methane could accelerate global warming in a massive positive feedback loop in which more atmospheric methane causes more warming, leading to more melting permafrost and yet more methane released. Scientists believe that in the past, the sudden release of underground stores of methane have been behind dramatic climatic changes that have led to the mass extinction of species.

Learn more about it in the Independent.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2008/independent-09-23-2008.html