Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy

My wife's family fished the sea since before the Turks sacked the village burning the old church in 1477. Thus, the new church was built, they think, in 1478.

Pictured is a fishing stand, as an example, used for centuries by the people on the Adriatic.

Upon visiting with my wife and father-in-law, they were both recognized immediately and we could want for nothing for our entire visit.

Gawker, kos, Wonkette Knowingly Post Fake Palin SAT Docs

Gee, why haven't we heard the outrage from the Democrat Party and their PR firm, the mainstream media, about the constant barrage of lies and forgeries from the Dan Rather School of "Truthiness"?

Nutroots use my SAT scoresheet to forge 'Palin Grades'

These guys win nothing with their constant lies. Any victory is hollow.

They shame themselves, but they don't care. They have no soul.

Damn Global Warming

I blame Bush Gore.

Boise gets earliest snow on record

McCain Tried To Clean Up Democrat Made Fannie/Freddie Crisis

I guess Obama was too busy with ACORN, Rezko, et al for this change. So was Pelosi, Reid, Meeks, Schumer, Dodd, Biden, and the other Democrats that cried racism as the market fell apart.

If It Is A New Day, Andrew Sullivan Must Be Lying As Usual

Maybe Andy's husband ought to stop beating him or whatever he is doing to make her lie pathologically.

"We have been given a clear warning about the vice-presidential nominee for the Republican party. We already know she is a pathological liar. We already know she refuses even basic transparency and accountability, refusing to hold a press conference as veep nominee for the first time in modern American political history and refusing to provide even minimal documentation of her fifth pregnancy. Barely into her first year as governor, as one might expect of such a person, she abused her power as governor of Alaska to persecute a former family member:"

We "know" she is a pathological liar? No we don't. We know you are Andy.

We "know" she is refusing to hold a press conference? No, we don't you don't either. It's not her call since she is part of a campaign.

She is "refusing" documentation on her fifth pregnancy? Maybe, but then you don't release your viral or proctologist's reports either, so I guess that it's a wash, so to speak.

She "persecuted" a former family member? How is he persecuted when he still has his job, his badge and still carries a gun, has threatened to kill family members, appears to be drunk most of the time and just for fun tasered his 10 year old step-son.

I think the bearded Andy is just mesmerized by a uniform and a good looking guy with a long barreled pistola.

ACORN's Obama & Brunner Killing Representative Democracy In Ohio

The basis of a free society is an informed electorate, not voters bought and paid for, not drunks, the insane, the homeless nor students that sheepishly do what their professors tell them to do.

That Obama, his ACORN and their allies in crime like Jennifer Brunner, Ohio SOS, are killing fair voting is the ultimate goal of community organizers. The organizing is not to help, not to improve nor solve a problem, but is organizing to game the system, get what they want - rules and laws be damned - and to take power at the local level, then the state level and so with the federal level.

Key to this organizing is a long term commitment and lying through your teeth every step of the way.

Is ACORN Stealing The Election?
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Election Fraud: A radical group Barack Obama used to work for is committing voter-registration fraud in several states, ahead of the election. What does Obama know about this scam?
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What does all this have to do with Obama, besides the fact that he'd be the beneficiary of most, if not all, of these new votes?

For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for "advance work.")

What's more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN's voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago's South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal "Motor Voter" law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.

Meantime, New Orleans-based ACORN maintains that it has no control over volunteers who are falsifying application forms, that they're like employees who steal from the store.

But the fraud is widespread and not isolated. It also turns out that some ACORN execs allegedly are involved in a $1 million embezzlement cover-up at their headquarters. Representing them in the case is none other than Michelle Obama's old law firm in Chicago.

ACORN's corruption is not just out in the field, as they claim. There's a pattern of corruption from the top down.

McCain would be wise to start preparing a challenge to voter registration rolls should he lose the race in a close contest. He'd be crazy not to contest the results in light of these events.

The media will not explore this problem because they are part of the problem.

Media Try To Complete Democrat Financial Crash

Formula seems to be, Democrats start a crisis, blame Republicans with help of media and deny they had anything to do with it, cry racism and then run around screaming "the sky is falling".

DOW LOSES 18% FOR WEEK...Crisis becomes global crash...
Swagger turns to shudder a year after market high... 'MAY DROP 50% FROM TOP'... World finance chiefs grasp for solutions in firestorm...
FOOD RATIONS IN CUBA AS CRISIS GROWS...
Stocks Drop in Rollercoaster Session; Dow Average Swings 1,000 Points... Bush says anxiety feeding market instability... EUROPE STOCK ROUT...London shares bloodbath... Carter slams Bush on market crisis...WASH POST: The End Of American Capitalism?
BERLUSCONI: LEADERS MAY CLOSE WORLD'S MARKETS...White House dismisses...
Putin gets tiger cub for his birthday...

But, even though Bush caused a world financial crash, the fall of American authority and the death of capitalism, Putin has such a cute little Siberian Tiger cub. Isn't that sweet that a leader we should be so lucky to have has such kindness in his heart for such a cuddly little killer?

Palin's Troopergate Condensed

This is well put and states what the media will not state. Palin didn't abuse anything, the trooper is nuts and should be gone and, even in the face of facts, Democrats will outright lie about this report. Typical.

Branchflower report on Tasergate: Just one guy's opinion that contradicts itself and ignores the relevant facts and law

This report changes absolutely nothing, except that it will be manipulated politically by Obama supporters and Palin haters in an attempt to drive more potential voters into taking sides with Trooper Mike Wooten — a proven child abuser (Tasered his own 10-year-old stepson on a lark) who's been conclusively determined by his own department to have also engaged in drinking and driving in his squad car, and to have used a deadly firearm to violate the very fish-and-game laws he himself was specifically assigned to enforce. "It is nearly certain," wrote Col. Julia Grimes, then then Director of the Alaska State Troopers Division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety, "that a civilian investigated under similar circumstances would have received criminal sanctions." The only real question in Tasergate remains why Trooper Mike Wooten is still not only uncharged for his confessed crimes, but carrying a badge and gun — to the continuing shame of the good and decent people of Alaska.

Obama Supporters: Election Fraud, Terrorists & Caused Financial Crisis

4,000 'dead people' found on voter rolls in Houston... Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration...1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS: ACORN PAID ME IN CASH AND CIGS...

VIDEO: Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'... UPDATE: McCain questions Obama's link to radical Ayers ... Palin: Obama not telling 'total truth'...

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