Is this a joke? Can anyone fathom the concept that McCain is 72, and the average life span of an American male is 68-Sarah Palin leading the country?????

Palin, 44, is less than halfway through her first term as governor. Before her election to that post, she served on a state commission that regulated the energy industry and was mayor of the town of Wasilla, which had an estimated population in 2007 of 9,780, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Our nation is in the most precarious position ever, our financial institutions are failing, our insurance industry the joke of all, the dollar in the toilet, losing both wars, and Bush has left us half a trillion in debt (even though Clinton left him a huge surplus), the largest debt EVER.

Note who came in second for screwing up our nation, Daddy Dearest…

This is no time for jokes, the very prospect of Palin as the President is a nightmare.

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO turned John McCain Victory chair, said Tuesday that Sarah Palin isn’t qualified to run her old company. If John McCain’s top economic advisor doesn’t think she can run a corporation, how on Earth can she run the largest economy in the world in the midst of a financial crisis?”

Even McCain himself said she hasn’t the qualifications, yet he picks Caribou Barbie? Priceless…

During her interview with ABC News’ Charlie Gibson Thursday Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to deflect a question about the fact she has never met a foreign head of state by saying that “many” other vice presidential nominees in history hadn’t met a head of state either.

However Palin was mistaken, at least where recent history is concerned.

Every vice president over the last 30 years had met a foreign head of state before being elected.

“Have you ever met a foreign head of state?” Gibson asked Palin Thursday.

“I have not,” Palin said, “and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you.”

However Palin, who obtained her first passport two years ago, would in fact be the first vice president in 32 years who hadn’t met a foreign head of state, if she were elected.

SHE JUST GOT HER FIRST PASSPORT?????????????? OMG…

Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.
IS THIS A JOKE? Nope, a 4 year degree took her 6-and 5 different colleges..Good God…

The McCain/Palin GOP is already in the process of stealing the Ohio vote, as was done in 2004. Among those at the center of the GOP strategy is Bush Family computer operative Michael Connell, who programmed the key vote counting mechanisms that were used to give George W. Bush his second term.

Except for John Kennedy in 1960, no candidate since 1856 (James Buchanan) has won the White House without carrying the Buckeye State. No Republican has ever done it.

One thing is for sure, no matter who becomes President, they are taking on the worst scenario ever in the US. Economic decision-making in America is now fully in the hands of bureaucrats. And they don’t have the independent power Americans once had.

Bush has destroyed this nation single handed, and we are going to pay the ultimate price this time-and we deserve it. We did nothing against Bush and allowed him to alter the constitution and pillage America’s worth and reputation.

But Sarah Palin? Oh please, that’s like nominating me for VP!

This article, in the NYTimes, is so telling…a must read!

Labor Day weekend and my birthday, so off to the state fair we went. Sacramento was boring, at best, and the state fair was nothing but corn-dogs and goons…that is the last state fair I attend. The weather looked favorable so I drove into SF to see what I missed on the 4th of July.

It really is a nice city, clean and sport friendly. The clear day allowed me to get some great shots of the GG bridge…(to my bone-head friends, you have to click the photo to enlarge you ding-bats).

When I was a kid, I used to watch a series called, “The Streets of San Francisco” where the car would launch down the streets and slam onto the crossroads with no problem. I used to wonder why the frame to the car never cracked? Anyway, after huffing my butt up to the top of hill, I found great thrill in giving this a go on my bike. 35 MPH+ is no problem going downhill, but each crossroad flattened out so you could catch air….

Much to my surprise, a heard a loud bang and thought to myself, “I am going to face plant it, the tire just blew out”….but it wasn’t the tire, so I imagined I shredded numerous spokes, for the bike was wobbling badly as I tried to lock it up prior to eating road. Unbelievable, the frickin’ frame to the bike busted! Cannondale frames are guaranteed for life, but I can’t believe this happened!

A clean break, obviously from the lack of material in that area. Fortunately, I was only 4 blocks from my hotel and for the first time, I walked away only surprised! Cannondale MUST replace the bike, 100%. I am sure that FEM analysis will prove that area to be weak, and they shouldn’t contest this at all, but now I have to wait for a rep. to come out to see the bike :{

At least I lived through this, it was such a loud cracking noise that I was sure I was looking at more broken bones…

I knew I should have went to Tahoe instead! When I looked at hotwire.com, it seemed like Tahoe’s pricing goes down after Labor day, so its next on the list…anyway, I survived, but now have no bike and doing the tourist thing of buses is not for me. Off to Route 1, over to Stinson beach….damn, the California coast line really is beautiful….

Stinson was clean and the waves large, something I had be longing for…but when I got there the sign stated: “Shark sightings, no swimming” ….urggggg….they allowed us to wade in deep enough to get wet though, damn cold water.

There are so many places in California that are nice, but mostly the State Parks and SF….I hope to find the time to drive the whole coast, but that is no small mission.

All the pics can be found here…