Carrie's Blog

  Joe the Plumber (Joe Wurzelbacher) of Cincinnati, Ohio may be related to one Robert Wurzelbacher of Cincinnati, Ohio, who happens to be Charles Keating's son-in-law.
Nothing confirmed yet that I've found though. I've seen posts about it on CNN, Huffington Post, Daily Koz and a few others when I did a search.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/16/02217/845a>

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/joe-plumber-m
ore-joe-keating-family-

http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/10/1....s-keating
-oops/

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht....751C1A967
958260

October 16, 2008

The Statement

Sen. Barack Obama, discussing his connections to Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, at the Oct. 15 debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, said "the only involvement I've had with ACORN" was representing them in a voter registration case in Illinois.

Get the Facts!

The Facts:
ACORN, a grass-roots community organizing group, faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in several states. Sen. John McCain, reflecting rising Republican concerns about ACORN, said at the debate "we need to know the full extent of Senator Obama's relationship with ACORN." Obama said any fraudulent registration "had nothing to do with us. We were not involved." And members of the Obama campaign have said the campaign has never paid ACORN to register voters.

On its Web site, ACORN confirms Obama's legal work, saying he "was one of the attorneys there who successfully represented a coalition of groups including ACORN in a legal case that won better enforcement of the National Voter Registration Act in Illinois." The case was filed in 1995. While ACORN said Obama "never organized with or worked for ACORN," it does mention other ties. Obama "accepted two invitations to be an unpaid guest speaker at training for volunteer community leaders organized by Chicago ACORN." That was in the early 1990s.

Additionally, the Obama campaign paid a political consulting group called Citizens' Services' Inc. more than $800,000 early this year for vote canvassing, such as knocking on doors and urging people to vote. The group in turn subcontracted a "small amount" of those funds to ACORN "for recruitment and training of canvassers," ACORN said. Obama campaign advisers stressed in an Oct. 14 teleconference that the campaign paid Citizens' Services Inc. for canvassing, but not voter registration.

The Verdict:
FALSE!  Obama's legal work was his only professional tie to the group, but he also spoke at volunteer training sessions and his campaign had a contract with a group that worked with ACORN.

It would be nice if there was a "FACT CHECK" key like we have a "spell check" key so in order to blog it had to be fact based.  ;-)

 

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barack Obama is not a Muslim, and John McCain did not tell the television show "60 Minutes" he was a war criminal who intentionally bombed women and children in Vietnam.

Joe Biden is not planning to step aside in favor of Hillary Clinton as vice president, and Sarah Palin did not order books banned from the library when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

But if you have spent any time browsing the Internet this year, you may have read rumors to the contrary.

All these stories -- and more -- are being e-mailed to friends and family and posted on blogs.

And they are all false.

Heard that Obama was really born in Kenya and thus not eligible to be president? Wrong.

Heard that Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party? Nope, she wasn't.

But these stories are potentially damaging to the presidential campaigns of Obama and McCain, Washington communications expert Ron Bonjean warned, so it is critical to rebut them as firmly as possible.

Fighting rumors on the Internet takes hypervigilance and a lot of caffeine. Left unchecked, these rumors can get out of control, because perception is fact," he said.

Obama and Palin are the subject of the largest number of e-mails, said Rich Buhler, founder of the fact-checking Web site, truthorfiction.com.

Full Story:  http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/15/internet.rumors
/index.html

 

 

Dah......

Is the message boards closed at night?  I'm new coming back here to MyFox and I was on during the day today and all was well tonight it's not letting me in on the message boards.  Just wondering.

Have I missed something important?  I can't recall why we are flying our US Flags at 1/2 Mass. 

My husband usually gets home from work some time before I do in the evening.  Sometimes I have him turn on Fox 4 and let me know of any Traffic issues so I can take an alternate route.  I work 13 miles from home and it took me 1 hour to get home because there was an accident on 169 Highway and Englewood Road. ( never did see the accident because they already had it cleaned up). They had that highway blocked off so we all were at a standstill for many minutes at a time.  There was no mention of this accident on the 5:00 News. (Does Nick go up in the evening or just in the morning?). I did finally hear about it on KUDL but it was too late.  It wouldn't have bothered me had I not had someplace to be but just wanted to vent because you never know what the drive might be and it would be nice if we had some kind of hotline, people could call into the station so they could air the accidents.

I just read about a man who was sleeping in a trash dumpster and the trash truck came and dumped him into the truck and started the compacting cycle.  That gives me the creeps.

My husband is on the road that's having to travel in caution coming Southbound on I-35 from 80 miles North of Kansas City.  We didn't realize it was going to be this bad out.  I have been watching MYFOX and haven't seen anything, so I went to Weather.com and they have issued a "Snow & Blowing Snow Advisory" for our area.  I have copied it here for anyone interested.

Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory

/O.CON.KEAX.SB.Y.0001.070216T2300Z- 070217T1200Z/ ATCHISON KS-MIAMI-LINN KS-DONIPHAN-LEAVENWORTH-WYANDOTTE- JOHNSON KS-ATCHISON MO-NODAWAY-WORTH- GENTRY-HOLT-ANDREW-DE KALB- BUCHANAN- CLINTON-PLATTE-CLAY-RAY-JACKSON- LAFAYETTE-CASS- JOHNSON MO-BATES- HENRY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF... ATCHISON...PAOLA...MOUND CITY... TROY... LEAVENWORTH...KANSAS CITY KS... OVERLAND PARK...OLATHE...TARKIO... ROCKPORT...MARYVILLE...GRANT CITY... ALBANY...STANBERRY...OREGON... SAVANNAH...CAMERON...ST. JOSEPH... PLATTSBURG...PARKVILLE... PLATTE CITY...WESTON...LIBERTY...EXCELSIOR SPRINGS...RICHMOND... KANSAS CITY... INDEPENDENCE...LEXINGTON...CONCORDIA... RAYMORE... HARRISONVILLE...PLEASANT HILL...WARRENSBURG...BUTLER... RICH HILL...CLINTON 407 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2007

...SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST SATURDAY...

A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST SATURDAY.

SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING WITH THE SNOW BRIEFLY HEAVY AT TIMES. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED TO ACCUMULATE BEFORE DIMINISHING AFTER 7 PM. IN ADDITION... STRONG SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW.

ANOTHER BAND OF LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN A HALF INCH. ALTHOUGH ACCUMULATIONS WITH BE LIGHT...STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL CAUSE SUBSTANTIAL BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW...WITH VISIBILITIES REDUCED TO LESS THAN ONE MILE. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO END BY DAYBREAK WITH WINDS GRADUALLY DIMINISHING.

A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY MEANS THAT VISIBILITIES WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO A COMBINATION OF FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS.

 

Does anyone remember when Mark Alford and Sue Mason used to dress in the same colors?  I think when Loren came on she did too for awhile.  I think on Friday they got to dress alone or something because that day was not a matching day.  I liked it when they coordinated, it was cute.  On another note, Mark can get away with wearing yellow and pink as a man too. 

Fox 4 Weather Team,

It's snowing in the Bethany, MO area and I looked up on the Weather Channel's website and I can see a band of snow that stretches from NE into MO.  Do you see this as being a snow threat for those who are in the Bethany area?

Do any of you use the Broadway Bridge?  I think I'm leaving early enough that it's not a problem for me.  I get to the bridge a little before 7:00.  Is the I-35 ramp closings effecting any other routes?  Who's had to change their routes?  And how?

New Words



The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again
asked readers to take any word from the dictionary,
alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one
letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's winners. Read them carefully.
Each is an artificial word with only one letter
altered to form a real word. Some are terrifically
innovative.

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax
refund, which lasts until you realize it was your
money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a
hillbilly.

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid
people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign
of breaking down in the near future.

4. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house,
which renders the subject financially impotent for
an indefinite period.

5. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very
high.

6. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of
sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

7. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when
you are running late.

8. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This
one got extra credit.)

10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is
sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And
then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a
serious bummer.

11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting
through the day consuming only things that are good
for you.

12. Glibido: All talk and no action.

13. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas
to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

14. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance
performed just after you've accidentally walked
through a spider web.

15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a
mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the
morning and cannot be cast out.

16. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after
finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.