As a teacher in one of the local high schools part of my 12th grade economics course included teaching how sublimal persuasion was used to force a customer to buy a certain product by name, like Levi’s, or what color to buy something in.

The same method is used to force voters to vote for a certain candidate. THE SLINGERS YOU RECEIVE AT HOME DO HAVE HIDDEN MESSAGES YOUR EYE SEES AND THEY GO DIRECTLY INTO YOUR MIND.

If you look at the flyers you receive, when you’re relaxed, you will see hidden messages and images which are pleasurable to the mind . The only way to beat this mind control game is to not read the flyers and vote with a clear unclouded mind.

Phd.Carl D..

I must thank all my faithful readers for making this year the best in 6 years.  We have been averaging over 3,100 readers daily.  Not hits but real readers.  It’s been a great ride.  

I have been involved in politics since Frank Sedita was Mayor of Buffalo.  In 1959 he introduce me, a nervous 18 year old boy, to the Senator from Massachusetts who was running for President, JFK.  I was hooked from that moment on.

In one of my earlier articles during this political season I wrote about a strategy refined by Republican strategist Karl Rove called, “I OWN YOU NOW.”

Rove, working with some psychiatrists, developed a method of using color and repetitive fliers sent to voters.  The strategy causes voters to lean toward the candidate they want you to vote  for.  It’s similar to subliminal persuasion.   Now you know why candidates pay a man like Karl Rove, President Bush’s right hand man, unbelievable amounts of money.  Because he wins elections.

1.  It’s my understanding that anyone can loan a candidate money for a personal campaign. So why the stink that Erie County Democratic Commissioner has loaned his wife, Michele Iannello, $8,000 in her race in the 61^st State Senate District race?

Mary M.

2.  I listened to the debate between the three candidates for the 61^st State Senate seat on the Hardball with Hardwick radio show. It was obvious that Mr. Mesi was lost and had no idea what to say to answer most of the questions.

Neither of the other candidates made fun of him like Buffalo News writer Phil ‘Un”Fairbanks reported they did.  He was very biased towards Joe.  Maybe he was one of the dummies Joe knocked out in the ring.  Reporters like Mr. Fairbanks need to be checked out.  Why do they write out and out lies?  It could be their brains are like scrambled eggs.

Tim W.

There are different ways to fill the huge hole in our 2009 budget.  There seems to be one direction our Supervisor is headed.  Thus far Mohan hasn’t had a meeting with any of his department heads to talk about what they need next year and he needs this information.  He can’t make a responsible budget to submit to the Town Board for them work on.

If Mohan is headed in the direction I believe he is, over 70 town workers could be laid off. The highway department would be hit the hardest with as many as 50 workers being let go. Mohan’s plan looks like it would cut workers from every department, including secretaries.

McCain picks Palin as VP

John McCain introduces little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at an Ohio rally.

By LIZ SIDOTI and BETH FOUHY, AP Writers

DAYTON, Ohio - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain said he made his pick after looking for a political partner “who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us.”

McCain said that Palin was “exactly who I need. She’s exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second.”

Palin thus became the first woman named to a spot on a Republican ticket. “I am honored,” she said as she stood by a beaming McCain in her first few seconds in the national spotlight.

In a fast-developing presidential campaign, McCain made his selection six days after his Democratic rival Barack Obama, named Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as his running mate.

The contrast between the two announcements was remarkable — Obama picked an older running mate, and a man whom he said at the outset was qualified to be president.

McCain chose Palin, a generation younger than he is, and a governor less than two years, and made no such claim about her readiness to sit in the Oval Office.

Unlike Biden, who attacked McCain sharply in his debut last week, Palin was indirect in her initial attemps to elevate McCain over Obama.

“There is only one candidate who has truly fought for America and that man is John McCain,” she said as McCain beamed. The Arizona senator was a prisoner of war for more than five years in Vietnam.

Palin has a strong anti-abortion record, and her selection was praised warmly by social conservatives whose support Mccain needs to prevail in the campaign for the White House.

“It’s an absolutely brilliant choice,” said Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University school of Law. “This will absolutely energize Mccain’s campaign and energize conservatives,” he predicted.

With his pick, McCain passed over more prominent contenders like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, as well as others such for former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, whose support for abortion rights might have sparked unrest at the convention that opens Monday in St. Paul, Minn.

The timing of McCain’s selection appeared designed to limit any political gain Obama derives from his own convention, which ended Thursday night with his nominating acceptance speech before an estimated 84,000 in Invesco Field in Colorado.

Public opinion polls show a close race between Obama and McCain, and with scarcely two months remaining until the election, neither contender can allow the other to jump out to a big post-convention lead.

At 44, Palin is a generation younger than two of McCain’s seven children. She also is considerably younger than Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who is Barack Obama’s running mate on the Democratic ticket.

She is three years Obama’s junior, as well — and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama’s relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters.

In its formal announcement, the campaign pointed to her powers as head of the Alaska National Guard and the mother of a soldier herself as evidence that she “understands what it takes to lead our nation…”

McCain has had months to consider his choice, and has made it clear to reporters that one of his overriding goals was to avoid a situation like 1988, when then-Sen. Dan Quayle was thrown into a national campaign with little preparation.

A self-styled hockey mom and political reformer, Pallin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, until she became governor.

Palin flew overnight to an airport in Ohio near Dayton, and even as she awaited her formal introduction, some aides said they had believed she was at home in Alaska.

She is a former mayor of Wasilla who became governor of her state in December, 2006 after ousting a governor of her own party in a primary and then dispatching a former governor in the general election.

More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska’s public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.

Palin has a long history of run-ins with the Alaska GOP hierarchy, giving her genuine maverick status and reformer credentials that could complement McCain’s image.

Two years ago, she ousted the state’s Republican incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski in the primary, despite having little money and little establishment backing.

She has also distanced herself from two senior Republican office-holders, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don young. Both men are under federal corruption investigations.

She had earned stripes — and enmity — after Murkowski made her head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. From that post, she exposed ethical violations by the state GOP chairman, also a fellow commissioner.

Her husband, Todd Palin, is part Yup’ik Eskimo, and is a blue-collar North Slope oil worker who competes in the Iron Dog, a 1,900-mile snowmobile race. The couple lives in Wasilla. They have five children, the youngest of whom was born in April with Down syndrome.McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P.

By LIZ SIDOTI and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers 12 minutes ago

DAYTON, Ohio - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

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At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain said he made his pick after looking for a political partner “who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us.”

McCain said that Palin was “exactly who I need. She’s exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second.”

Palin thus became the first woman named to a spot on a Republican ticket. “I am honored,” she said as she stood by a beaming McCain in her first few seconds in the national spotlight.

In a fast-developing presidential campaign, McCain made his selection six days after his Democratic rival Barack Obama, named Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as his running mate.

The contrast between the two announcements was remarkable — Obama picked an older running mate, and a man whom he said at the outset was qualified to be president.

McCain chose Palin, a generation younger than he is, and a governor less than two years, and made no such claim about her readiness to sit in the Oval Office.

Unlike Biden, who attacked McCain sharply in his debut last week, Palin was indirect in her initial attemps to elevate McCain over Obama.

“There is only one candidate who has truly fought for America and that man is John McCain,” she said as McCain beamed. The Arizona senator was a prisoner of war for more than five years in Vietnam.

Palin has a strong anti-abortion record, and her selection was praised warmly by social conservatives whose support Mccain needs to prevail in the campaign for the White House.

“It’s an absolutely brilliant choice,” said Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University school of Law. “This will absolutely energize Mccain’s campaign and energize conservatives,” he predicted.

With his pick, McCain passed over more prominent contenders like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, as well as others such for former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, whose support for abortion rights might have sparked unrest at the convention that opens Monday in St. Paul, Minn.

The timing of McCain’s selection appeared designed to limit any political gain Obama derives from his own convention, which ended Thursday night with his nominating acceptance speech before an estimated 84,000 in Invesco Field in Colorado.

Public opinion polls show a close race between Obama and McCain, and with scarcely two months remaining until the election, neither contender can allow the other to jump out to a big post-convention lead.

At 44, Palin is a generation younger than two of McCain’s seven children. She also is considerably younger than Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who is Barack Obama’s running mate on the Democratic ticket.

She is three years Obama’s junior, as well — and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama’s relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters.

In its formal announcement, the campaign pointed to her powers as head of the Alaska National Guard and the mother of a soldier herself as evidence that she “understands what it takes to lead our nation…”

McCain has had months to consider his choice, and has made it clear to reporters that one of his overriding goals was to avoid a situation like 1988, when then-Sen. Dan Quayle was thrown into a national campaign with little preparation.

A self-styled hockey mom and political reformer, Pallin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, until she became governor.

Palin flew overnight to an airport in Ohio near Dayton, and even as she awaited her formal introduction, some aides said they had believed she was at home in Alaska.

She is a former mayor of Wasilla who became governor of her state in December, 2006 after ousting a governor of her own party in a primary and then dispatching a former governor in the general election.

More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska’s public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.

Palin has a long history of run-ins with the Alaska GOP hierarchy, giving her genuine maverick status and reformer credentials that could complement McCain’s image.

Two years ago, she ousted the state’s Republican incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski in the primary, despite having little money and little establishment backing.

She has also distanced herself from two senior Republican office-holders, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don young. Both men are under federal corruption investigations.

She had earned stripes — and enmity — after Murkowski made her head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. From that post, she exposed ethical violations by the state GOP chairman, also a fellow commissioner.

Her husband, Todd Palin, is part Yup’ik Eskimo, and is a blue-collar North Slope oil worker who competes in the Iron Dog, a 1,900-mile snowmobile race. The couple lives in Wasilla. They have five children, the youngest of whom was born in April with Down syndrome.

Did McCain one-up Obama? 

McCain has selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his Vice Presidential candidate.  Now you have a real decision to make.  If you are wavering between voting for the first African American or a woman for VP you have some real investigating to do.  What do they mean for you and your family?  What do they stand for?

In the course of a 42-minute speech that ended with a booming display of fireworks and a shower of confetti, Barack Obama offered searing and far-reaching attacks on his presumptive Republican opponent, repeatedly portraying him as the face of the old way of politics and failed Republican policies.

“In cutting language, and to cheers that echoed across the stadium, he linked Mr. McCain to what he described as the “failed presidency of George W. Bush” and — reflecting what has been a central theme of his campaign since he entered the race — “the broken politics in Washington.””

““America, we are better than these last eight years,” he said. “We are a better country than this.””
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Three years ago Katrina visited New Orleans and left nothing but devastation in her wake.  Today residents are preparing to welcome Gustav.  It’s not a hurricane yet but by the time he passes over the warm Caribbean waters he could be a level 3 hurricane.

“The mix of genuine nonchalance and real unease with which people here greet the long-distance threat of a hurricane is hard for outsiders to understand.”

“It is an apparent contradiction that speaks to the Russian-roulette life of New Orleans, difficult to compress into overheated news reports and yet part of this city’s fragile texture. There is no choice: both sentiments must be entertained at once.”
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In one small Texas town going back to school includes FOUR R’s: reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic and ricocheting bullets!  Well, that could be the fourth ‘r’ if any of the teachers allowed to carry a concealed weapon to school makes a wrong decision.

“The school board in this impoverished rural hamlet in North Texas has drawn national attention with its decision to let some teachers carry concealed weapons, a track no other school in the country has followed. The idea is to ward off a massacre along the lines of what happened at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.”

““Our people just don’t want their children to be fish in a bowl,” said David Thweatt, the schools superintendent and driving force behind the policy. “Country people are take-care-of-yourself people. They are not under the illusion that the police are there to protect them.””
more …

The numbers are out.  The economy expanded at a 3.3 percent rate from April through June, far faster than first thought.  The outlook for the remainder of the year remained grim.

“Even as investors celebrated with a rally in the stock market, pushing the Dow up more than 200 points, economists cautioned that consumer spending and foreign demand would probably dry up in the months ahead.”

“With layoffs on the rise, corporate profits falling, and the housing slump still in full swing, the report was seen by many analysts as something of a last gasp.”
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