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SNL Premiere: Obama Will Play Obama. Who Will Play Palin?

the most-talked-about premiere of the fall may be a 34-year-old series. leading up to its season premiere tomorrow, “saturday night live” is earning the kind of buzz that callow shows always do one’s best with a view. it has lodger stars: michael phelps and barack obama. it has a fresh storyline: the republican vice presidential nominee sarah palin. and it has the potentiality of a surprise caller: tina fey is in talks to play ms. palin on the show.

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So is Palin “naive” on Pakistan?

In his interview with her, ABC News’ Charlie Gibson pressed Sarah Palin repeatedly on the question of Pakistan and whether the U.S. has the right to make cross-border attacks into that country without its government’s permission. The answer Palin eventually came up with was, admittedly, on message. The only problem? It wasn’t John McCain’s message that Palin was repeating — it was Barack Obama’s.

Obama has previously said that, if necessary, he’d order American forces to attack targets inside Pakistan even without permission. “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will,” Obama said in a speech last summer.

Obama has been attacked for taking that stance, and for announcing it publicly. (It should be noted that some of those who criticized Obama were his then-rivals for the Democratic nomination, including Joe Biden.)

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McCain himself has repeatedly taken after Obama on the issue. Speaking to reporters in February, McCain said, “[T]he best idea is to not broadcast what you’re going to do. That’s naive… You don’t broadcast that you are going to bomb a country that is a sovereign nation and that you are dependent on the good will of the people of that country to help you in the war — in the struggle against Taliban and the sanctuaries which they hold.”

And as recently as this July, McCain had made his position on going after al-Qaida targets in Pakistan — even the biggest target — clear. Asked by CNN’s Larry King, “If you were president and knew that bin Laden was in Pakistan, you know where, would you have U.S. forces go in after him?” McCain responded, “Larry, I’m not going to go there and here’s why, because Pakistan is a sovereign nation.”

That’s not the way Palin sees it, apparently. Gibson asked her the question three times, and she dodged it on the first go-round. But then Gibson asked again, saying, “But governor, I am asking you, do we have the right, in your mind, to go across the border, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?”

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Palin answered, “In order to stop Islamic extremists, those terrorists who would seek to destroy America, and our allies, we must do whatever it takes, and we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions of where we go, and even who we target.” Asked again, she said, “I believe that America has to exercise all options in order to stop the terrorists who are hell-bent on destroying America, and our allies.”

A McCain spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

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Commenter Of The Day: Run For The Hills Edition [Commenter Of The Day]

Some of you may have noticed that yours truly has recently moved to Houston, which is target Numero Uno for this Ike fellow, who I assume is of Latin descent… though he could also be Assyrian. I’ve never been good with names. Either way, I’ve had the chance to grab some beer, canned tuna and follow my own How To Escape A Hurricane By Car advice and relocate further inland. I’ll be cool and, should internet and power access provide, I’ll be posting. If you’re in the path of this storm, be smart and follow the instructions of local government so you don’t die. Speaking of death, we asked about your highest speed and got quite the serious, but seemingly sincere, response from PolishDon.

Yep. Both “high speed” times involved a death. The Lincoln was my mother and the van was my father, 18 months apart.

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Now, I drive “normal” (yea, right) making 35 miles in under 20 minutes on an, almost, daily basis ! And that includes side streets

I did have an 1987 Chrysler 5th ave (the old M body, 318 engine) that I flew in. My dad was being taken to the hospital, but I don’t know how fast I was going. The odometer topped out at 80mph and the needle was pointing straight down, so probably 100+

Drive safely now, ya hear.

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What Brought Kanye West Back To The VMAs?

‘We thought, ‘Let’s give him a call and see if he’s interested’ in closing the show, executive producer Dave Sirulnick says.By Shaheem Reid and Robert Mancini

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It’s not easy to cap a night featuring powerhouse performances from Lil Wayne, T.I., Kid Rock and more. So when VMA producers wanted to turn their moment into something truly monumental, they knew who to call to close the show: Mr. Kanye West.

“He’s one of the most pre-eminent hip-hop performers of his time,” said Dave Sirulnick, executive producer of the VMAs. “He makes sure that not only the people in the front row are into his show, but the people in the last row are feeling it as well. Everybody is feeling it the same. He gives that kind of energy. He gives that kind of intensity.”

If awards shows are intended to be the introduction to what’s big and the culmination of everything fly and huge of the past year, it’s tough to argue that West didn’t deserve to be a major player in the 25th VMAs. He was tapped as the MTV News Brain Trust’s Hottest MC in the Game, and his Grammy-nominated third LP, Graduation, was one of the biggest sellers of 2007. Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour was not just a highlight of 2008, it was a milestone of his career, proving he can outperform just about anyone in any genre.

“We thought, ‘Let’s see if he wants to take this opportunity,’ ” Sirulnick said.

But while Kanye was clearly the man for the job, it wasn’t always clear if he was willing to take it on. His blowup after last year’s VMAs quickly became the stuff of YouTube legend. Obviously, tempers have since settled down, and his relationship with MTV is back on track. ‘Ye even worked with MTV News to honor young veterans in the “Choose or Lose & Kanye West Present: Homecoming” special.

“We know last year — in hindsight — he wanted to close the show. So we thought, ‘Let’s give him a call and see if he’s interested in doing it,’ ” Sirulnick explained. “He said, ‘Yeah, I am.’ We sat and talked. We spent some time together.”

And so, a larger-than-life, showstopping VMA performance was born, the perfect way for Kanye to premiere a new track.

“The guy’s got one of the most successful tours of the year,” Sirulnick said. “He has one of the most artistic tours of the year. He always brings it. He brings the intensity. He brings a great performance.”

Now that the 2008 VMAs have come and gone, check out all the winners, the most surprising moments, the best red-carpet fashions and more at VMA.MTV.com.

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China is ready for the Olympics and the resulting influx of English speaking tourists…

i got this email from some friends who still live in china! it’s uproarious! i copied the whole email…comments and all because it’s just so dutiful!

go over there to die, want. thank you!

but taste like cat!

sounds excel than canned water doesn’t it?

a separate commencement for hos…why didn’t i think of that?

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here, crippie, take my membership!

it would be instantly you start chewing on it!

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much tastier than the grown up variety…

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not kind. some of my best friends are liquor heads.

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Those on Diet Plans Resistant to Fruits and Vegetables

It is one of the most significant and important part of most diet plans - eat more fruits and vegetables. If it’s not, you’re on the wrong plan. Studies have shown that those who eat closer to the recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables, are much more likely to be at a healthy weight. You could deduce from this finding that in fact, those people are probably more health conscious and do other things as well - like exercise regularly and avoid fast foods. That may be true. You wouldn’t expect to be at a healthy weight if you drank 3 soft drinks and had a hamburger and fries everyday, just because you also happen to eat 7 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Or would you?

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juice plus+ is made by juicing 17 different fruits and vegetables into a vitamin supplement all in a capsule form. the mixture of different sources homologous to and apples and many other fruits are all advantage. even the combination of vegetables like kale really adds to the potentcy. when you start with a power from a fruit or vegetable, and then you add others, you get a thriving mix of nutrients…and, the water and sugars are removed. but when you dry the mix, you are sinistral with the nutrients and that is what goes into a strength plus+ capsule. many people are looking at grapefruit juice as an option - there even was a diet with the same name. but get what some say is a liquid atomic energy - that is, what’s left when the sugar and water are removed through a drying process, then you cause only healthy nutrients. do you have knowledge of the juices from which the fruit juice plus blend is made? apples, oranges, pineapples, cranberries, peaches, cherries, and papaya force - and that’s just the fruit juices! add the vegetables with carrots, parsley, beets, kale, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, and tomato and you’ve got the vegetable juice plus product, that is a healthy product that supports your health! it helps you be bruited about nutrients you penury. when i have fresh fruits and vegetables, i feel good, but i don’t always make both ends meet enough. so the only one way to add more fruits and vegetables is to add more nutrition to my nourishment plan, weight defeat plan, is to use juice plus+.

Perhaps the increased amount of fruits and vegetable does more than just provide more nutrients and better overall nutrition. Maybe the increased amount of fiber helps with regularity, decreases appetite, and cuts down on the spikes in hunger pangs that other unhealthy foods may cause. We know that foods that are nutrient-deficient leave the body feeling hungry again after a shorter amount of time than say foods with more roughage that take don’t cause a roller coaster ride on the levels of blood sugar (think Glycemic Index diet). And with regular consumption of fruits and vegetables, energy levels can be maintained and steady, whereby a fatty meal is stressful to the body’s digestive system and can leave you feeling sluggish and tired. Here’s more on a study on the how weight loss is best served with a diet rich in fruits and veggies —

LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - People on the Slim Fast Plan, Weight Watchers (WTW.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Pure Points Programme and two other popular diets get enough nutrients even though they are eating less, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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All four diets, which also included the Atkins Diet and Rosemary Conley’s “Eat Yourself Slim” Diet & Fitness Plan, helped people lose more weight than people who ate normally, the study found.

There was no significant difference between the diets in how much weight people lost, Helen Truby of Royal Children’s Hospital in Australia and her British colleagues reported in Biomed Central’s Nutrition Journal.

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with this supplement, many say it is a concentrated fruit vitality energy or vegetable authorities, referring to the final juice plus+ product that is put into a capsule. you can also use medifast to advance your diet plans. their meals are safe for this scheme. oprah’s dr. mehmet oz knows that a diet is temporary but a shape lifestyle with a healthy regime plan in pinpoint, well, that is for good. equanimous spirit plus+ is made from the juice from an orange and many other fruit juices, that gives it a set of nutrition when a cup of results and lemon is added - that doesn’t make quick-wittedness! sum fountain water without some breville and juice well-spring, although if you had a tablespoon of the fruit juice powder, then adding more juice can be a conve

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Alan Grayson (D-FL): Three Days Before Primary Day

thirteen 2006 challengers endorsed by blue america for the nonce sit in congress– senators acheter levitra ben cardin (d-md), john tester (d-mt) and amy klobuchar (d-mn), plus reps. arcuri (d-ny), bruce braley (d-ia), carney, donna edwards (d-md), kirsten gillibrand (d-ny), john hall (d-ny), paul hodes (d-nh), jerry mcnerney (d-ca), patrick murphy (d-pa), and joe sestak (d-pa)– and 4 others from 2006 had close calls and are cool-headed to procure in november: vic wulsin (d-oh), larry kissell (d-nc), charlie brown (d-ca) and eric massa (d-ny). not everyone of these was a “sure thing” or unruffled an calmly race. we leave the easy races due to the fact that others. blue america does the hard ones. our first pick of 2008 was alan grayson and this tuesday he faces recently “converted” republican mike smith and an the Church hack and wealthy clownish shill from the republican wing of the democratic party, charlie stuart, in the democratic primary. after a sheer sound race alan looks like the prohibitive favorite to win tuesday and go into the general election campaign against occupant rubber stamp ric keller with a full head of steam. i see alan as one of the blue america good stories. if you’ve missed our earlier chats with alan, i want to advisable you read the arrogance fair feature about his efforts fighting iraq war profiteers or go over and watch some of the tv shows he’s been on talking about these efforts.upstairs is a snip of alan’s identify untrained tv ad which he just started running on orlando TV. it’s powerful and to the point. i think you’ll like the ending.today alan is joining us in the comments slice of firedoglake at 2pm, est for another bull session. the other day i asked him to help me understand the whole concept of “change” in a political setting.barack obama won the democratic nomination by being the office-seeker of modification. now john mccain says that he’s the prospect of change, and we bite our lips and try not to laugh out loud. but since the promise of change crosses the whole political spectrum, we’d better start thinking– what will change… and how?what will change are our priorities. specifically, we will concentrate on meeting human needs, our needs. health is a human need. education is a sympathetic need. public safety is a human necessary. affordable transportation is a lenient need.here are some things that are not human needs: making sure that you can own a gun. preventing two people of the same gender from uniting. insisting that other people speak english. instigating supererogatory wars. when our priorities change, these issues round a back seat.i, for one, would as if to live in a place where the hungry are fed, the tramps are sheltered, the children are educated, and the sick are healed. that’s what we’ve been told, for around 3000 years, that a just society tries to accomplish. merely recently has anyone suggested that a neutral society is one where everyone is packing heat.and when that transmute occurs, the economy will improve dramatically. why? because meeting human needs keeps money in the country. if the bridge that fell down in minneapolis– which is still down– were rebuilt, then the construction labourer who rebuilds that connect will flee money. he will use that money to make someone pay for his rent, and his landlord will deliver the goods a succeed money. the Boniface choose go to dinner in a restaurant in minneapolis, and the waiter will make money. the cup-bearer hand down get his locks cut, and the barber will make money. assembly mortal needs means putting more money in the hands of americans. and spending it on the war in iraq means it’s gone, forever.the u.s. job deficit is $2 million a r?sum?. under the bush superintendence, in has gushed out of this country. no wonder gas is $4 a gallon, the fetch of living is rising, unemployment is up, and the covering market is down. it’s the worst case of economic mismanagement in american history.and that disposition change. because people with a conscience are coming together, and saying “we need to take care of each other.” people with a wrong are taking power in america. and people are letting their conscience guide them.we’re changing. and that’s real interchange.i have no doubt alan is accepted to win on tuesday. after that he faces a well-financed incumbent with nearly a million dollars on hand– a well-financed incumbent who has been faithfully serving the festive interests who have given him millions of dollars and have every intention of shelling out whatever they be struck by to to save up him in office. but orlando is a very changed district and ric keller has never been up against a candidate like alan achat cialis grayson. this could be whole of obscene america’s most noted achievements. take a look at the clip up peak

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On DVD 8/26 - Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

morgan spurlock commencement gained attention with his oscar-nominated documentary wonderful size me! now he turns his attention from big macs to bin laden his latest documentary which takes him through war-torn territories of the middle east in search of the world’s most wanted terrorist.the put together-up is this: with the impending birth of his first child, spurlock wants to make sure the world is all right payment the newborn. the hitch is, the radical intelligence behind 9/11 is still on the loose. so spurlock sets off with his camera crew to find osama. seriously now–if you’re about to bring a youth into the world, do you risk your being by traveling to the most troubled spots on the planet? is spurlock out of his freaking make?!!!it’s an daredevil construct, but the execution is absolutely formulaic: travel to the midst east and get together with with the people and detect out what they muse on. not suprisingly, most of them claim to like the american people, but hate our regulation. hey, most american people abhor our government, too! and that ends up being spurlock’s prime thesis: despite the differences in wording, refinement and religion and the fact that many people in afghanistan and pakistan, etc. live in deplorable conditions due to the continuous arguing within their countries, we all–americans and muslims–just want the non-warring, success and opportunity to raise our children safely. with the exception of a group of received jews in israel, spurlock is treated with diplomacy by just about everyone he encounters on his so-called “search” for osama. so in the immortal words of rodney king, “can we all impress along?”there are moments of intelligent irreverance (e.g.; an moving osama dancing to m. c. hammer’s can’t touch this) and introspective learning (father nabil haddad, a priest living in jordan says, “religion is being used as a pretence to hide the cruelty, the ugliness of violence…”), but entire there’s mere little in the started kaufen viagra of ground that hasn’t been covered before. unless you, like osama, fool been living acheter levitra in a cave, spurlock makes no new points or offers remodelled solutions that haven’t been seen or heard in prior commentaries. however, utilizing spirit, final fantasy-esque video game stylings, traditional interviews, video confessionals and evocative visuals, morgan spurlock does manage to give his material a fresh twist–even if he doesn’t manage to locate osama.

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