http://alchemytoday.com By this means you will acquire the glory of the whole world, and so you will drive away all shadows and blindness - Hermes Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:54:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the right answer, although I don't know that this is a particularly large-scale turkey farm or that locally grown turkeys are bled out in a more humane fashion. I'm patiently awaiting the day when "Sarah Palin Makes Ill-Advised Attempt to Advance Career Following Run For Vice President" stops ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/11/22/kill-cone-volume-1/ Just saying. http://alchemytoday.com/2008/10/28/so-palin-was-on-hannity-again-tonight/ Spencer Ackerman worries about the effects of forgetting the definition of "terrorist" , as Palin says Bill Ayers is unquestionably a terrorist while she wouldn't neccesarily go that far when it comes to abortion-clinic bombers or protestors hurling Molotov cocktails at police: The point isn't that one man's terrorist is another's ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/10/24/the-problem-with-palins-answer/ My suggestion (elsewhere) following the Washington Post article about McCain's planned stepped-up character attacks on Obama: Obama should bring up McCain's negative ads in the last debate, assuming they start by then. "John, you've been running ads for the last two weeks that lie about my record on taxes and abortion ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/10/09/right-answer/ To preface, I'm trying to try to honestly post my pre-debate expectations here even though I'm writing this post-debate; I realize that gives me the opportunity to fake clairvoyance which I'll try to avoid. On the moderator, Gwen Ifill: Pregame expectations: Ahead of the debate, Ifill was attacked from the right for ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/10/03/debate-review-gwen-ifill/ From an NPR interview today: On whether he can imagine turning to Governor Sarah Palin for advice on foreign policy: “I’ve turned to her advice many times in the past. I can’t imagine turning to Senator Obama or Senator Biden, because they’ve been wrong. They were wrong about Iraq, they were wrong ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/10/01/breaking-mccain-says-palin-has-never-been-wrong/ From his post tonight at The Politico: Most CBC members bailout bill While President Bush and Sen. McCain -- not to mention House leaders -- couldn't reel in the House Republicans needed to pass the bailout, a key constituency over which Barack Obama has considerable sway also opposed the bill. More members of ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/09/30/jonathan-martins-misinformed-racist-or-both/ So there's some to-do about Obama trying to get ads off the air by the NRA because of distortions of his record or some other legal issue, but I hadn't seen anyone complain about the imagery involved in these ads.  I just saw an ad, Veteran, that includes images of ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/09/29/nra-ad-employs-images-of-plane-crashing-into-wtc-soldiers-graves/ [caption id="attachment_160" align="alignnone" width="300" caption=""The review for 'Shark Sandwich' was merely a two word review which simply read 'Shit Sandwich'.""][/caption] Memo to John McCain, Reps. Boehner, Blunt, Cantor et al: today was not Nancy Pelosi's responsibility.  She delivered the votes she promised and gave you the compromise needed to get your ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/09/29/shit-sandwich/ [caption id="attachment_157" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Depression-era soup line"][/caption] The S&P 500 retreated 106.59 points to 1,106.42, as only one company gained, Campbell Soup Co. The benchmark index for American equities slipped to a four-year low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 777.68, its steepest point drop ever. The MSCI World Index lost ... http://alchemytoday.com/2008/09/29/156/