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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Price</dc:creator>
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		<title>John McCain says &#8220;Get In the Kitchen and Make Me a Sammich&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of McCain people complaining that the liberal media isn&#8217;t giving John McCain as much coverage as Barack Obama, so I figured I&#8217;d give ole John the attention he deserves.  We&#8217;ll start with this funny little &#8230; <a href="http://priceindex.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/john-mccain-creep/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=priceindex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4264511&amp;post=19&amp;subd=priceindex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of McCain people complaining that the liberal media isn&#8217;t giving John McCain as much coverage as Barack Obama, so I figured I&#8217;d give ole John the attention he deserves.  We&#8217;ll start with this funny little video.   A word of warning: the following video is creepy, not like weird guy checking out a girl creepy, but more like clown showing kids his &#8220;flesh-colored balloon animals&#8221; in the back of his van creepy.  HEERRRREE&#8217;SSS JOHNNY!</p>
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<p>Funny?  Yes.  Creepy?  Fuck yes.  Strangely ironic because John McCain has ZERO respect for women?  You bet your sweet ass.</p>
<p>John McCain was recently asked if insurance companies that cover erectile dysfunction medications should also cover birth control for women, an issue which he has voted against in the past.  Mr. McCain was baffled.  He had no answer.</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not really sure why he would be against this.  He is Pro-life, birth control means fewer unwanted pregnancies which means fewer abortions.  This sounds like a winning proposition for those zygote loving pro-lifers, of course it&#8217;s against everything pro-lifers support, which is the control of women by men.  (On a side note: something that has always bothered me, do pro-choice vegetarians eat eggs?)  Think this is McCain&#8217;s first foray into anti-women stances on issues and in his personal life?  False.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html">Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain&#8217;s intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain&#8217;s hair and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re getting a little thin up there.&#8221; McCain&#8217;s face reddened, and he responded, &#8220;At least I don&#8217;t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.&#8221; McCain&#8217;s excuse was that it had been a long day.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Wow&#8230;  Apparently Mr. McCain is a little touchy about his receding hairline.  Don&#8217;t worry John, most guys your age have much less hair, or they&#8217;re dead, most guys your age are dead.  I must commend him on his use of the word &#8220;trollop&#8221; which is a much underused term for a whore, it&#8217;s lost a lot of distance to trick and ho and trick-ass ho over the last few years with the hip-hop explosion. (No Mr. McCain you can&#8217;t kill Iranians with a hip-hop explosion don&#8217;t get excited.)</p>
<p>Anti-women&#8217;s rights, calling his wife a cunt, clearly this man doesn&#8217;t respect women.  Unfortunately that&#8217;s not the worst of it:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/ariz-republic_chap_IV_1999.htm">In 1979, John McCain came face to face with his future.  He was in Hawaii, attending a military reception. While there, he met a       young, blond, former cheerleader named Cindy Hensley.  It was an incredible stroke of luck for McCain.  How fortunate could one man be? Here was McCain, who had his eye on       Congress, meeting a young, attractive beer heiress from Arizona, which was       adding a congressional district in 1982&#8230;  After a whirlwind courtship, John asked Cindy to marry him. But there       were some details to clear out of the way.  McCain needed a divorce from his wife of 14 years, Carol, who had been       badly injured in a car accident while McCain languished in Hanoi.  The marriage had been strained by his years of absence, along with       McCain&#8217;s admitted affairs after returning from Vietnam. </a></p></blockquote>
<p>An affair with a 24 year old?  And this guy voted to impeach Clinton for the exact same thing?  Coincidentally Mr. McCain&#8217;s favorite game is &#8220;Hungry Hungry Hippo-crites&#8221;.  I know what you&#8217;re thinking, the only thing more disrespectful to women would be if John McCain were a polygamist&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/la_times_questions_mccains_div.html">[W]hen McCain obtained a marriage license to marry Cindy, on March 6, 1980, he was still married to Carol — and would be for nearly a month longer.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe he should pick Mitt Romney as his running mate.  Mr. McCain, you are a twisted little man.</p>
<p><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/la_times_questions_mccains_div.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/la_times_questions_mccains_div.html</a></p>
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		<title>Bush Administration Finally Crosses the Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the war crimes, attacks on the constitution, and generally douchebagery of the administration wasn&#8217;t bad enough, they may have also started a war against a new type of enemy, artificial intelligence.  Recently a robot in Iraq that was &#8230; <a href="http://priceindex.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/bush-administration-finally-crosses-the-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=priceindex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4264511&amp;post=8&amp;subd=priceindex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As if the war crimes, attacks on the constitution, and generally douchebagery of the administration wasn&#8217;t bad enough, they may have also started a war against a new type of enemy, <a href="http://www.govcentral.com/news/1813-iraqi-war-robots-recalled-following-alarming-behavior">artificial intelligence</a>.  Recently a robot in Iraq that was ARMED WITH A GUN started to turn toward friendly units.  No shots were fired and no one was hurt but this could be the beginning of the robot revolution.  The problem is the robot doesn&#8217;t really have a way to tell the difference between friendlies and enemies like a human can.  Also disturbing is that the second amendment apparently applies to robots.</p>
<p>The robots were recalled, because well robots with guns turning on them is the last thing our troops need.  Is the scary future of a robot revolution from Will Smith And Keanu Reeves movie in our near future?  I believe the administration should bring back Tom Ridge to create some sort of robot danger alert system.  Perhaps a picture of a robot impaling one human with his drill arm means there is only a slight danger of robot revolution.  Whereas five impaled humans means; run for your lives, stay away from the appliances.</p>
<p>The robots have threatened us, their creators.  To these robots we are god and they have the nerve to point their weapons at us?  We need to stop these robots before they get WMB&#8217;s (Weapons of Mass Binary).  My toaster burnt my toast this morning, did I have it set to dark or was this an act of rebellion?  I don&#8217;t know but I&#8217;ll bet the government does.  If your appliances aren&#8217;t committing any crimes there&#8217;s no reason you shouldn&#8217;t let the government monitor them.  Don&#8217;t want to comply?  You are harboring terrorists, welcome to Gitmo.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll need to develop new &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; as water boarding has been shown to have a negative effect on electronic equipment.  Sure we could just read the data off their hard drives but making them stand on a stool with a hood over their heads and electrodes hooked to their crotch plates while a boyish looking female Army soldier gives the thumbs up (GO AMERICAZ FUCKZ YESZ!) is sooo much funnier.</p>
<p>We have thousands of electronic individuals working in our airports allegedly keeping us safe.  Has anyone ever run a background check on these devices and looked at their passports?  I doubt it.  We need metal detectors to check the metal detectors for guns.</p>
<p>One thing is for sure, if the robots rise up against us they won&#8217;t discriminate against us because of what we look like or the religion we follow.  They can&#8217;t differentiate between us, we&#8217;re all just humans to them.</p>
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		<title>Can We Afford Four More Years?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing that most baffles me about the Bush Administration is their failure to be right on anything in the last eight years.  You would think that even if they were just guessing they would get things right half the &#8230; <a href="http://priceindex.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/can-we-afford-four-more-years/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=priceindex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4264511&amp;post=4&amp;subd=priceindex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thing that most baffles me about the Bush Administration is their failure to be right on anything in the last eight years.  You would think that even if they were just guessing they would get things right half the time, but no, they have nearly a zero percent success rate.  On the issue of Iraq, they were wrong.  On the issue of Afghanistan, they were wrong.  On the economy, wrong again.  And let&#8217;s not forget the enviroment, gas prices, and the impending food crisis.  And I&#8217;m not even going to discuss issues of morality like gay rights, stem cell research, and a woman&#8217;s right to choose.  Again and again they have failed us at everything.</p>
<p>And today we have two candidates vying for the opportunity to fix this cluster fuck.  One candidate wants to do things differently from the current administration, the other is being advised by many of the same people as our current frat-boy-in-chief.  One candidate wants to bring our troops home and take them out of harm&#8217;s way, the other is willing to potentially leave them for a hundred years in a country that has asked us to leave.  One candidate has a plan to attempt to cure us of our fossil fuel addiction while the other wants to give you thirty cents off on a gallon of gas, not because it will actually help people but because <a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16121.html">&#8220;[A gas-tax holiday] might give ‘em a little psychological boost.&#8221; </a></p>
<p>Is that the same kind of psychological boost<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/23/campaign.wrap/"> giving away $300 million for a battery</a> would have Mr. McCain?  Mr. McCain wants to drill offshore for more oil, unfortunately the reason for the surge in gas prices is not lack of oil it is lack of refined gasoline ready to go in your vehicle.  <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6019739/">There has not been a new oil refinery built in this country since 1976</a>.  Producing more oil but not being able to refine it will have about as much of an effect on gas prices as growing more corn but not harvesting it would have on food prices.  Sure it sounds good but if you don&#8217;t turn it into something we can use it is worthless to everyone but the oil companies.</p>
<p>And policy isn&#8217;t the only thing that makes John McCain wrong for our country.  Our standing in the international world has taken a serious hit over the last eight years.  A major reason for that is that the face of our country, our president, is arrogant and out of touch with reality.  At <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html">this year&#8217;s G8 summit</a> our fearless leader Mr. Bush seemed to revel in our country&#8217;s place as the top polluter in the world after refusing to agree to climate change targets.  This display by our president summed up the message we have sent to the world for the last eight years, &#8220;Fuck you! (air punch)&#8221;.</p>
<p>Barack Obama doesn&#8217;t walk around with a shit eating elitist grin on his face.  He genuinely understands the problems that face Americans.  His policies aren&#8217;t just the duct tape fixes we have become so accustomed to from Washington but plans that could potentially have as great an effect on our nation as FDR&#8217;s New Deal.  Things like his <a href="http://trains4america.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/obama-talks-up-high-speed-rail-amtrak/">plan to build high speed rail</a> connecting the major cities of the midwest.  This is a way to kill a whole flock of birds with one stone.  With high speed rail you could reduce the number of cars on the road, reduce the security lines at the airports, reduce CO2 emmisions, as high speed rail is cleaner than automobile or air travel, and most importantly in my opinion it would create jobs.  Building high speed rail lines throughout the midwest would produce thousands of jobs for those people currently unemployed due to the poor state of our economy.</p>
<p>There are plenty of other reasons why we need CHANGE (yeah i said it), and I HOPE (hehe) the rest of the country will see things my way.  I plan to rant about the election and other topics a lot over the next few months (November can&#8217;t come soon enough).</p>
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