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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE   AMY GOODMAN IS NOT KNOWN FOR HER FASHION SENSE OR, FOR THAT MATTER, FOR REGULARLY BATHING.  BUT THE STINK OF AMY STARTED HER SHOW THURSDAY SUPPOSEDLY WITH THE NEWS AND THE 2ND ITEM WAS SARAH PALIN'S WARDROBE.   YES, CATTY GIRL AMY GOODMAN FELT THE CLOTHES PALIN'S WEARS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ACTUAL NEWS.   CATTY GIRL AMY GOODMAN WHO INSISTED THAT THE HOMOPHOBIC JEREMIAH WRIGHT WAS NOT NEWS AND WHINED AND MOANED ABOUT HOW REAL ISSUES AND NEWS NEEDED TO BE DISCUSSED, COULDN'T PASS UP THE CHANCE TO SHOW WHAT A CATTY GIRL SHE IS.   REACHED FOR COMMENT, CATTY GIRL AMY GOODMAN EXPLAINED, "HEY I CHOSE TO PUBLISH IN LARRY FLYNT'S HUSTLER.  AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED WOMEN SHOULD BE NAKED AND RAPED.  THAT'S THE KIND OF CATTY BITCH I AM.  I HATE WOMEN.  THAT'S WHY I REFUSED TO INCLUDE ABORTION IN LAST WEEK'S DEBATE.  I'M JUST THE CATTIEST BITCH OF ALL TIME.  AND I'M ALSO PRETTY DAMN UGLY."   THANKS FOR THE CLARIFICATION, AMY GOODMAN.   FROM THE TCI WIRE:   Tuesday's snapshot started with independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader because Ralph getting network attention is news.  Today's snapshot starts with Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee, from a speech she gave Tuesday in Henderson, Nevada.     A couple of people I would like you to meet, a couple of my kids, three of them who are here, we have Willow and Piper and Trig Palin. So glad to have them on the trail with me.  Alright, Nevada.  Now John McCain and I, we take your state motto so seriously: "All for country."  And let's take a moment to honor the Americans in this crowd who have put our country first those of you who have served in the past as veterans or you're serving today, if you could raise your hands, let us honor you guys, we thank you so much.  Thank you.  We do thank you for your service and for your sacrifice.  We owe you.  Thank you, sir.  Thank you.    Okay, so we are here near UNLV's campus.  The home of the Runnin' Rebels.  It's great to be here as part of a team that has a kinship with them.  And John and I, though we don't call ourselves the Runnin' Rebels, we consider ourselves a team of mavericks and we do share that unique spirit though and I hope that we can count on you to put the maverick of the Senate in the White House November 4th.  We need your vote, Nevada. Are you ready to help carry your state to victory?  Are you ready to make John McCain the next president of the United States of America? Are you ready to send us to Washington to shake things up?  Thank you. And today I have another question that is especially for the women in this audience and all across our great country, all you women, yes: "Are you ready to break the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America?"  Now it is such an honor for me today to have up here on stage some very independent, very courageous, very accomplished women and I am so honored to get to introduce you to these women who have broken a few glass ceilings of their own and I ask you gals to stand up here as I introduce you.  First, Prameela Bartholomeusz, a small business owner and a member of the Democratic National Platform Committee.  She's with us today.  Thank you.  It is my honor to have with us also Linda Klinge, the former Oregon president and now vice president of the National Organization of Women.  She's with us here today! And Shelley Mandell, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization of Women, here with us today!  And Lynn Rothschild also.  You may have seen her on television a whole lot lately.  She is a member of the Democratic Platform Committee.  She is with us here today.  And Elaine Lafferty, a former editor in chief of Ms. magazine.  They are here today to endorse the McCain-Palin campaign.  We're honored.  We are proud.  And I thank them for their confidence, for their support, especially for their courage.  Thank you so much.  Thank you, thank you.  Our opponents think that they have the women's vote all locked up which is a little presumptuous.  Little presumptuous since only our side has a woman on the ticket. So.  We won't ignore any of the men in the audience but again this is for the women in the audience here.  When it came time for choosing, somehow Barack Obama just couldn't bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his primary.  And that seems to be too familiar a story, isn't it?  That, uh, how it is for so many American women that the qualifications are there but for some reason the promotion never comes.  There is always some long explanation for why they got passed over or some unseen barrier, some excuse and that's just one of the things that I so admire about John McCain: He is not someone who makes excuses.    You've got to ask yourself why wasn't Senator Hillary Clinton  even vetted by the Obama campaign?  Why did it take 24 years, an entire generation, from the time Geraldine Ferraro made her pioneering bid until the next time that a woman was asked to join a national ticket.  In the long history of our country, 74 people have held the position of president or vice president and why have the major parties given America only two chances to even consider a woman for either office?  88 years after women gained the right to vote and 83 years after Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first woman governor in our great nation and 60 years after Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the Senate this glass ceiling it -- it is still there.  But it's about time that we shattered that glass ceiling once and for all.  See -- see there is a difference, there is a difference between what Barack Obama says and what he does and his primary opponent wasn't the first one to notice this. Out on the stump he talks a good game about equal pay for equal work but, according to the Senate payroll records, women on his own staff get just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get.  That's 9,000 dollars less every year that he pays the guys. And you gotta ask what is with that? Does he think that the women aren't working as hard?  Does he think that they are 17 percent less productive?  And Barack Obama can't say that this is just the way that its always been done around the Capitol because I know one senator who actually does pay women equal wages for equal work: Senator John McCain.  See this is just another reason why American women -- Democrat, Republican, independent -- should not let Barack Obama just take their votes for granted.  And let me give you a few more reasons starting with his plan to, as he puts it, spread the wealth around.  That is how our opponent defended his so-called tax cut to Joe the plumber the other day.  Or Wendy the plumber's daughter, there you go.  Now that spreading the wealth around really is just a scheme for income distribution.  Joe didn't buy it.  Joe the plumber, he would have none of that.  He called him on it.  In fact, he said that he sure thought that sounded like socialism.  Joe the plumber.  And the rest of us shouldn't buy it either -- especially the millions of women in America who own small businesses.  Women start as many new businesses as men start and they are entrepreneurs, trying to make a better life for themselves and for their families.  And trying to make payroll for their employees.  They're women, just like Irma Aguirre is her name.  She owns a restaurant close by.  She dreamed for years of owning her own restaurant and she made it just a year ago.  Irma, she owns the La Madonna Mexican Restaurant, right here in Las Vegas.  She employs 20 people.  And she's exactly the kind of small business owner whose taxes would go way up under the Obama tax plan.  And the health care fines and the mandates that our opponent would impose aren't gonna help her much either.  They're gonna force her to let employees go if they are too high and they could even put her out of business.  And our opponents thinks he's got problems with Joe the plumber?  Well he should talk to Irma the restaurant owner because she's voting for John McCain too.   The working women of this country -- those who work inside the home and outside of the home -- they're overlooked by politicians in Washington and Barack Obama hasn't given us a single reason to believe that he would be any better.  A company's balance sheet tallies up just the same whether it's a man who owns the business or a woman.  And women want the same opportunities as men.  And they're entitled to the same rewards.  See, the point here, the point here is that women would suffer just as much from the massive tax increase that Senator Obama proposes.  And, you know, there are a lot of families in this country with no father present.  And when we make laws in Washington, those laws need to understand that --  they need to serve the mothers who are taking care of their families.  I've been very, very blessed to have a husband who's supported me along the way.  He's a great dad who doesn't disappear at bath time or run from diaper duty and I appreciate that.  But a lot of women have it much, much harder than I've had it.  And they need child care -- which today can cost some families a third of their household budget.  And they need reforms in labor laws that allow greater flexibility in the workplace, including more telecommuting.  And they need a tax code that doesn't penalize working families.  They need health care that the family can take with them when they move or change jobs.  And they need better choices in retirement plans and worker retraining when things get tough.  Women also need equal pay for equal work -- and not just be a 'talking point'. Really, it is that simple.  It's a matter of fundamental fairness -- fairness in this country.  And to make all this happen, working mothers need an advocate and they will have one when this working mother is working for all of you in the White House.   When I was a kid, Congress passed a law that's come to be known as Title IX.  And that law allowed millions of girls to play sports.  And over time -- and over time, that opened more than just the doors to the gymnasium.  Along with other reforms, Title IX helped us to see ourselves and our futures a different way.  Women of my generation were allowed finally to make more of our own choices with education and with career, and I have never forgotten that we owe that opportunity to women, to feminists, who came before us.  We were allowed to be participants instead of just spectators on the achievements of others.  And I was lucky to have a lot of support at home too.  Now among the many things I owe my parents is one simple lesson, and that was this is America and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.  The belief in equal opportunity is not just the cause of feminists, it's the creed of our country: equal opportunity.   And if I'm given the honor of serving you in the White House, I intend to advance that creed in our own nation and beyond because, across the world, there are still places where women are subjugated and persecuted as they were in Afghanistan, places where they're bullied and brutalized and murdered in honor killings, places where women are sold like commodities in the nightmare world of the sex trade, and places where baby girls are unwelcome as a matter of state policy and their mothers are forced to have abortions.  Now no one person, no one leader, can bring an end to all of those ills, to all of the injustices inflicted upon women, but I can promise you this, if I am elected, these women, too, will have an advocate and a defender in the 47th vice president of the United States.    John McCain and I will be strong advocates for women's rights right here in the United States and around the world and we will confront the challenges that our country faces, challenges that concern all Americans.       There are approximately ten more minutes of the speech.  You can click here to view it at The Confluence, here to view it at Reclusive Leftist.    [. . .]     Turning to the US presidential race, Ralph Nader is the independent presidential candidate, Matt Gonzalez is his running mate.  Team Nader notes:   We're less than two weeks out. As of yesterday, Ralph has campaigned in all 50 states. Media exposure is picking up. Crowds are getting bigger at the Nader rallies. Last night, Ralph spoke before a packed crowd of over 1,000 in Boulder, Colorado. Starting Monday, our radio ads will be playing in key states around the country. On Saturday, Ralph will go for the world record for most campaign stops in a day as he motors across Massachusetts, hitting 21 towns and cities. And tonight, Ralph will participate in a Third Party debate that will be shown live on C-Span at 9 p.m. EST. We're firing on all cylinders. And as of this writing, we're just $70,000 shy of meeting our goal of $200,000 by tomorrow night. So, please, donate now whatever you can afford -- $5, $10, $50, $100 -- up to the legal limit of $2,300. Or, if you haven't purchased our Nader '08 Buffalo T-Shirt (men's or women's), please do so now. Let's drive the widget hard today. Yesterday, late at night, the Nader Media Team pulled together a new video featuring National Campaign Coordinator Jason Kafoury. Jason updates you -- our loyal supporters -- on where we stand -- and where we're heading. Take a peek. And then drive up the widget. We haven't missed a deadline yet this year. Let's get it done. Onward to November   And Saturday will be a very hectic campaign day for Team Nader:   Nader to Attempt Guinness World Record on Saturday: Massachusetts Marathon, Most Speeches in 24-Hours This Saturday, Ralph Nader will hold campaign events in 21 cities across Massachusetts in an attempt to set a sanctioned Guinness World Record to give the most speeches in a 24-hour time period. The minimum threshold he must meet is 15. He is scheduled to deliver over 315 minutes of speeches and drive over 365 miles. Each speech will last at least 10 minutes and will tackle a separate issue. Nader/Gonzalez campaign events are scheduled to be held in the following cities: Boston, Cambridge, Belmont, Somerville, Medford, Arlington, Lexington, Concord, Waltham, Watertown, Newton, Worcester, Auburn, Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, Northampton, West Springfield, Westfield, Stockbridge and Sheffield. There is an additional van for intrepid journalists who want to chronicle the adventure from start to finish. For a full itinerary or other related inquires, please contact Ryan Mehta at 408-348-0681, or Rob Socket at 202-471-5833.   Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will appear Saturday October 25 on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. Cynthia's running mate is Rosa Clemente and Cynthia will be in Seattle:   The Washington State Power To The People Campaign has announced that Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney will be visiting Seattle on Sunday, October 26th and Monday, October 27th. Scheduled activities include:  Sunday, October 26, 2008  * 3pm - 7pm "Vote...Then What?  From The Day After The Election Onward: Strategies for Community Organizing, Greening & Reconstruction" Umojafest Peace Center 24th Ave & E Spring St, Seattle The public is invited to attend. Cynthia McKinney will be speaking in support of grassroots and institutional solutions to violence and other issues plaguing urban communities nationwide. This event is hosted by the Umojafest Peace Center and the McKinney/Clemente 2008 Power To The People Campaign. The program will include hip-hop and spoken word performances, speakers from youth and community based organizations, and a showing of the award-winning film, American Blackout. Monday, October 27, 2008 * 11am - 12:30pm "The Power of Student Movements: How to Use Your Campus as a Tool to Change the World!" Broadway Performance Hall Broadway at Pine Street, Seattle The public is invited. Ms. McKinney will address the growing concerns of students, the need for student leadership, and how students can organize on campus to engage in and impact social justice struggles and make meaningful contributions to communities outside school. This event will be hosted by the Black Student Union of Seattle Central Community College.    John McCain is the Republican presidential candidate.  Today McCain-Palin released a new radio ad (click here to listen):   GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST: Hi, this is Governor Charlie Crist. Let me tell you why I support my friend John McCain. He will lower your taxes. He will stop wasteful government spending. And John McCain knows that people don't want to "spread the wealth." He knows that Congress should let you keep more of your money, and not take it away. Thank you very much. ANNCR: Your savings, your job and your financial security are under siege. Congressional liberals will make it worse. Congressional liberals plan nearly a trillion dollars in new government spending. To pay for it, Congressional liberals promise higher taxes on American families making over $42,000 a year. Barack Obama and Congressional liberals call it spreading the wealth around, we call it higher taxes, bigger government. Either way, it will cost you. Stop 'em before they make it worse. Paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee. JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.   Jimmy Orr (Christian Science Monitor) reports Joe Biden, Democratic v.p. nominee, is in media lock-down, "That's probably why the Democratic nominee for vice president isn't talking much.  Because when he does, he's the gift that keeps on giving.  Take the 'Gird your loins - an international crisis is coming' speech.  No matter how the remarks were intended, his prediction that, if elected, 'a generated crisis [would occur] to test the mettle' of Barack Obama has been a hot topic and an unwelcome one for the Obama campaign."     RECOMMENDED: "Iraq snapshot" "Other Items" "Tensions and treaty" "ralph nader, sarah palin, cynthia mckinney" "Senator Biden needs to stop lying" "Nut job" "ACORN" "Ralph and Glo & Ro" "Chuck, Nader, Abeer" "Grown men embarrass themselves" "THIS JUST IN! THE 'REAL' ISSUES?" "The Common Ills"