Pakistan is one step away from bankrupt.  Not a company in Pakistan.  The whole damn country.  (We shouldn’t point and snicker, though.  We are halfway home as it is.)

At this point, so long as we bring a bunch of gold bars with us, they will let us invade and take Osama and perhaps even greet us as liberators and shower us with flowers and candies while we’re there.

McCain Addresses Crowd as “My Fellow Prisoners”

Can’t post the video from the computer on this jobsite, but you can click through. I think he’s flashing back to the Hanoi Hilton.

[via Think Progress]

Sun-Times says that Rezko sentencing is in December. Which is to say, not the week before the election.

“We are experiencing a delay, and we regret the inconvenience. We expect to be moving shortly. Yes we can. [DING, DONG] Doors closing.”

NB: Judge on the case is a Whitewater counsel. U.S. Attorney is the yummy Patrick Fitzgerald. So, any claims of FIX! FIX! are kind of, you know, off.

I found this to be a most excellent and timely word of the day, and something I think all of us Stinquers should feel free to incorporate into any intelligent political discussion:

hey rube

MEANING:

noun: 1. A fight between members of a circus and the general public. 2. A call to rally circus members in a fight.

ETYMOLOGY:

The term originated in the 19th century when circuses were rowdy affairs and Hey Rube was the rallying cry to call all circus people to help in a fight with townspeople. It’s not clear whether Rube in this term was someone specific or simply a use of the informal term rube (shortened form of Reuben) for an unsophisticated person from a rural area.

Please discuss proper usage in the comments.

Per Politico, Geezerplex is going to shelve Ayers/NAH NAH NAH attacks, in favor of focusing on the economy — which of course is the Geezer’s strong point.

Of course, this won’t stop 527s from doing having at the Chicago crew. And it’s possible that Talibunny may not get the message. But still — things are getting worse for the old man, if that were even possible.

Note well, however, that there’s probably an ad or twenty already in the can on all of this. And also one about Obama’s drug use. And the whole flag-pin genre. And God knows what else. The endgame here may very well be an ad blitz in the last 72 hours in redneck sectors of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina bringing all of this shit up in a last-ditch effort to take any of those states. It may kill him nationally, but the game is in Appalachia right now for McCain — it’s his only shot.

Keep chanting this to yourselves as a mantra — THIS IS NOT OVER YET.

The Whole World Hates This Crazy Old Fucking Hyperindulged Fuckwit

Just how reviled is the hateful insane, apocalypse baiting John ‘Psychogeezer’ McCain?  Almost no one on earth except for the GOP base, crystal meth-crazed snakehandlers and goat fuckers, would vote for the confused wife-abandoner and organized crime suck-up.

That’s the inescapable conclusion of the Economist’s Global Electorial College project that posits the question, ‘What if the Whole World Could Vote?” The vote thus far shows they’d blow lunch at the prospect of Psychogeezer running for anything more important than public-restroom bathroom attendant. As of this morning, Psychogeezer was trailing with 18 global electorial college votes to Barack Obama’s 8482.

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