I have deadlines to meet and people to call and it's really hard to use
a computer when being hummed to and preyed upon.

Clear enough?

I'm an old dog Republican (since 1958!), and I'm overjoyed. Of course, that's
because I'm supporting Obama.

Bob

Böwser wrote:

This says it all realy

http://www.bigpond.com/news/topstories/content/20080903/2353903.asp

Palin picked as last resort after evangelical revolt
By John Shovelan in Washington
September 3, 2008 - 9:00AM
Source: ABC

Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin as his running mate after conservatives threatened a revolt if he went
with his first choice, former Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman.
Senator McCain has defended his choice of Ms Palin to run for vice-president
after news of her 17-year-old pregnant unmarried daughter dominated day one
of the Republican national convention in St Paul, Minnesota.
Now it has emerged that the shock announcement of the unknown Ms Palin was
forced upon Senator McCain after conservatives threatened a revolt at the
convention if he pushed ahead with his preferred vice-presidential pick,
Independent and former Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman.
After weeks of vetting his potential vice-presidential picks, Senator McCain
was set on his old friend and Al Gore's running mate in 2000, Senator
Lieberman.
But 10 days ago Senator McCain was called into a meeting by several of his
most senior and trusted campaign advisers.
He was told if he proceeded to nominate Senator Lieberman, who is pro-choice
on the issue of abortion, the conservative Christian base of the party would
take the issue to the floor of the convention and try to overturn the
selection.
Senator McCain was told that without the base he would certainly lose the
election.
With little choice, he accepted the advice and re-opened the hunt in a
scramble to find another running mate.
Five days later, after one face-to-face meeting with Ms Palin in Arizona,
Senator McCain announced she would be his vice-presidential pick.
Democrat Tom Vilsack says Senator McCain simply caved in to the extreme
right wing of the Republican Party.
"This was the first opportunity for Senator McCain to exercise what would be
a presidential decision, he made a decision in which he felt the necessity
of playing to the extreme right in his party," he said.
The New York Times reports today that the McCain campaign has a team on the
ground now in Alaska to look more thoroughly into Ms Palin's background.
Just yesterday the campaign was shaken with a number of disclosures relating
to Ms Palin and her family, including a statement released by the McCain
campaign itself that Ms Palin's 17-year-old daughter was pregnant.
It was also confirmed that Ms Palin had hired a lawyer to represent her in
an ethics investigation in which she is accused of trying to have a former
brother-in-law sacked after a bitter marriage break-up with her sister.
Senator McCain says he remains content with the vetting process and his
choice.
"The process was completely thorough and I'm grateful for the results."
"Governor Palin is a conservative Christian, who is opposed to abortion,
contraceptives in schools and sex education in the class room."
She advocates abstinence for teenagers.
Her selection by Senator McCain immediately excited the evangelical base and
his campaign received around $US10 million in donations over the weekend.

Böwser wrote:

Palin is blow-ing up in the Reps faces... Kleenex?

They really screwed the pooch with Palin... there goes McCain trying to
be "green" and then he pulls in Palin who doesn't believe in AGW, wants
to drill everywhere yesterday, apparently she sees no need for sex ed
(ironic, eh, Gramma Sarah?).

Some old dog Republicans were caught on hot mics today and the old dogs
are really not happy...

I didn't send anything in to the just-over Shoot-In because I was busy
remodeling a porch early on, and we had this little hurricane - Fay -
here dumping rain on us every day when I had planned to be out
shooting pictures.  I wasn't aware that we could enter photographs
taken before the Shoot-In.  I thought they had to be new pictures
taken just for this.  My mistake.

Also, I'll admit, I was a little intimidated.  After seeing the posted
results, I won't be intimidated next time.  My shots aren't as good as
some (most?), but I wouldn't have been Beetlebaum* in that race.

As for topics...I hope you don't do "Seasons".  We don't have them in
Florida!  I suppose I could submit a shot of a tourist with lobster
red skin and a peeling nose and title it "Tourist Season", but that
changing stuff just doesn't happen down here.

Just some suggestions:  Geometric shapes...circles or triangles or
some shape with an image that incorporates the shape.  New
growth...something emerging like a plant or a butterfly (for the macro
people) or something hatching out of an egg or something that is
passing from one stage of life to another.  Repetition...a series of
things like ducklings following their mother or any scene where there
is no single focus of attention but the repetition of similar objects
makes the image.  

*Anyone but me old enough to remember Spike Jones doing the William
Tell Overture as a description of a horse race?  Did you know in the
original version the name was "Feitlebaum" but so many people heard it
as "Beetlebaum" that this became the "official" version.  

My analogy isn't quite right, though, because the horse ended up
winning.  I still remember the horse always being at the back of the
pack.

Plenty of time since the line before "Creeps in this petty pace..." is
the due date:  "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow".

Also in that scene:  "Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."   Remind you of some of the posts here?

And the viewers that re-size it often introduce artifacts of various
kinds (generalized sampling algorithms that do poorly on contrasty
areas...)  ... Pbase looks best when the photo is presented as the photo
edited it for presentation.