If you’re so inclined, why not spend an hour or two this weekend phone-banking for the McCain-Palin campaign?

Simply log on to the McCain campaign site, fill in some info, and they’ll send you a list of folks to call. Ace of Spades has more:

Get the names and numbers from the McCain/Palin website. Call in between loads of laundry. Call while you’re waiting for dinner to be done. Call after you put the tot down for her afternoon nap. Do what I did and call while you’re blogging. I know you guys spend countless hours just sitting in front of your computer. You could use a little of that time to call voters.

Ace also has a sample script:

Hi, I’m _________, a volunteer from McCain for President campaign. We’re interested in talking to you about your vote and the future of our nation.

[simplify talking points]

John McCain is a proven leader.
He has the experience to keep our nation safe.
He knows that keeping taxes low helps stimulate the economy.
He wants you to keep your own money, not use government to “spread the wealth around”.
Please help put John McCain in the White House on November 4th.
Vote John McCain.
Thank you.

A few tips: you don’t have to stick to script. Personalize it for yourself. No one likes to be read to over the phone. Smile (even stand up) while you talk. People will appreciate the enthusiasm.

Apparently Florida law makes it difficult to get the “dead” removed form the voters rolls.

 wftv.com – Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths.

 ”That is scary,” said Jim Branch.

 Branch’s mother Marjorie died in 2004 but someone voted for her in 2006. Branch had tried to get his mother removed from the voter rolls.

 “It was much easier for me calling Social Security and taking her off not getting any more checks here, than it was that (voter registration),” he said.

“What?  Me worry?”

2002’s Help America Vote act, which made it easier to register to vote, also made it more difficult to remove voters from the rolls. But Orange County Election Supervisor Bill Cowles doesn’t worry.

 ”I think the mechanisms are in place. There’s enough checks and balances in place,” he said.

 However, 90 days before the election, voter rolls can’t be changed and if the state doesn’t tell elections offices a voter has died, that voter can be on the rolls for years.

1,636 registered voters in Central Florida are dead. A death certificate from a family member presented to the election officials is not enough to get a person’s name removed from the rolls.  Apparently the mechanisms don’t work as Mr. Cowles would suggest.

To be fair,  “the dead” voting is not a problem isolated in Florida.  However, one would think that after the embarrassment of the 2000 election debacle Florida would have “locked down” her voter rolls to preclude further problems.  Apparently they have not learned the lessons of the past.

After having to endure this…

… I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed watching this.

This guy is beginning to sound like he’s working from Putin’s playbook:

Journalists from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain have been booted from Barack Obama’s campaign plane for the final leg of the presidential race.

The Washington Times reported Friday that it was notified of the Obama campaign’s decision Thursday evening — even though the paper has covered Obama from the start.

Executive Editor John Solomon told FOXNews.com that the Obama campaign said it didn’t have enough seats on the plane, but “I don’t think the explanation makes sense to us.”

“We’ve been traveling since 2007 with him. … We’re a relevant newspaper — every day we break news,” Solomon said. “And to suddenly be kicked off the plane for people who haven’t covered it as aggressively or thoroughly as we are … it sort of feels unfair.”

He said the newspaper protested but was turned down again by the campaign.

“I can only hope that the candidate who describes himself as wanting to unite the nation doesn’t have some sort of litmus test for who he decides gets to cover the campaign,” Solomon said, noting that the Obama campaign’s decision came just two days after the paper endorsed McCain.

The New York Post and Dallas Morning News also have been kicked off Obama’s plane.

I can’t wait to see what his version of the Fairness Doctrine is.

Looking for a slutty Halloween costume?

Or just hoping to gawk at women wearing slutty Halloween costumes?

Houston’s Leading Pimpformation Source has got you covered.

She’s going to have a lot less to wear if her boy gets elected.

- Hey Ellen, when Halloween is over, Barack has some relatives

that could use that change.

The Beach Boys have always been identified with “Surf Music”. They enjoyed quite a comeback in the ’70s after the release of the greatest hits compilation Endless Summer. While the songs are not as well known they did depart from the surf genre and expand their sound a bit in the late ’60s and early ’70s with songs like Sail On, Sailor, which was one of the last songs written by Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys. I had forgotten about this next song until I heard it on a soundtrack to a TV show last night. It also shows that Carl Wilson could write too:

Here’s an alternate version of Sail On, Sailor in one of the stranger combinations I’ve seen recently. And that led me to one of my Dad’s favorite songs.

At least the view is interesting.

Governor Rick Perry has launched a website to encourage conservatives to motivate other conservatives to go out and vote–and the top ten users of the website get to chow-down on some BBQ with the Governor next spring, during the legislative session.

You know what that means.

1. LST engineers a coordinated attack to game the system
2. Bramanti gets invited to lunch with the Governor
3. Much gonzo-bloggy goodness ensues

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simple–

1. Go to www.perrybbqtour.com
2. Enter a friend’s name and email address
3. Under the “Your Name” category enter “Matt Bramanti”
4. For your email address, enter lsteditors@gmail.com
5. Cackle
6. Repeat

Can we pull this off?

Yes we can.

UPDATED–Now with image to help you visualize the scene.

UPDATED–OK, if this doesn’t freak you out, I don’t know what will. [h/t: Dwane]

Service with a smile.

Heh:

After Shawn Turschak saw two sets of McCain-Palin signs disappear from his yard within hours of being planted, he took steps to protect the latest pair.

On Monday, he ran wires from his house and hooked the signs into a power source for an electric pet fence. Then he mounted a surveillance camera in a nearby tree and wired it to a digital recorder.

Tuesday afternoon, the camera saw this: A neighbor trotting up with an Obama-Biden sign, grabbing a handful of volts as he touched a McCain-Palin sign, then fleeing at top 9-year-old boy speed.

Predictably, the kid’s parents are a pair of moonbats who are unable to form a meaningful sentence:

“I don’t know what his intention was when he ran out, or I would not have allowed him to leave,” Gisladottir said. “I honestly don’t think he had a concrete plan.”

A few milliseconds of juice taught this kid more than he’ll ever learn from his parents.

Especially a reform minded woman in politics.

A new ethics complaint has been filed against Sarah Palin, accusing the Alaska governor of abusing her power by charging the state when her children traveled with her.

Good grief. First, the left complained because Gov. Palin was spending time away from her newborn, Trig. Now, they want the world to know that the Gov. spends too much time with her kids, having the nerve to include them when she travels.

Of course, this explains a lot of it.

The latest complaint was filed by Frank Gwartney, an Anchorage Democrat who supports Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Gwartney, 60, said he is fed up with “all the corruption” among Alaska’s elected officials, including Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was convicted this week on federal corruption charges.

Uh, sure. Takin’ your kids along on trips so that you can actually spend time with your family, while working, is without a doubt the same as allowing contractors to remodel your house in exchange for your vote.

But that doesn’t explain it all. Truth is that Gov. Palin ran against her own party, against the left, against the power establishment. And beat them. That explains the rest.

Now, it is payback time for those petty little minds.

How much you want to bet she is up to the challenge and that she remains a very popular reformist in Alaska?

Redemption.

A machosauceproduction

This is one of those videos you send to all your friends and “enemies”.  Don’t thank me.  Thank Ree-C.

Next Page »