Sorry to hear that, LW... I had kidney stones a few years back and they gave me sheer hell for weeks, so I know what you're going through and hope the condition is resolved for you really soon.  And I know what you mean about the narcotics, I was on some pretty powerful drugs - Pethadine based, I think - and they did little to ease my distress, so I was like a bear with a sore head until the stones were gone... think they were treated with some kind of dissolving agent so they could be passed natually, and that, as I recall, hurt like a son of a bitch as well.  Mind you, though, I was glad to be rid of them and it beat the surgical option hands down... had one too many of those options over the years, and the only good part is the happy gas.  Even if they don't have to operate, ask for some anyway... it's very relaxing and I recommend it, if only for the giggles.

Anyhow, take care and I hope you're feeling better soon.

I wasn't looking over his shoulder... but I'll be sure to next time.

Never been in Governor Palin's office, neither, so I dunno what she gots stashed in there... but hey, with a bit of common sense and a little imagination, let's see what I can come up with... um, let's see: phones; fax machines; computers; internet; printers, ink and printing paper; postage stamps; the missus' secretaries and the waste basket.... oh, and let's not forget her taxpayer funded personal toilet.

If you want detailed information, I believe Bebi put up a link to the Republican led report in the 'Palin is a Cancer' thread.

Anyhow, gotta go.... wanna google McPalins to see when they're opening downunder.

Palin is nothiong but a future Trivial Pursuit question, however, Troopergate and all this other crap about abusing power, etc, doesn't matter. They all do it on all levels of governement. Power corrupts. Period. No matter who your candidate is, they did the same bullshit. If someone drives their kid to school in a government vehicle they are just as guilty so just let the shit go already......

Now ye be in me cannon sights, poor bloke!

Sweeping accusations, eh?  Yeah, you're right, I need to trade in my weary old broom for a vacuum cleaner... seems I missed a few bits.  Oh well, I still got a couple of weeks before George Dubbya vacates the White House... got a couple of real juicy conspiracy theories about him.

Apparently, Bush has told McCain to deliberately lose thise election... which he's doing very effectively by appearing more senile than he really is in public.  Yup, and there was method in his madness when he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate... he knew that if he was to comply with GWB's wishes and lose the election, she was his best chance to go down in a landslide.  He knew that he needed a token gesture to convince the American public not to vote for him, so he sent out a team of researchers to find  an airhead  (but a good looking airhead... yup, she had to be good looking to take focus off his balding head) who would pretty be capable of single-handedly unfloating his election boat.  They say be careful what you wish for, but John McCain got exactly what he wanted... someone who put her motor-mouth into gear before engaging her brain

Anyhow, that's another story and I digress.  The fact is George Dubbya remembers the mess he inherited from Bill Clinton, particularly in the Oval Office - word has it that cleaners took close to a month to get it ready for him, and then he was still finding condoms and womens underwear in his desk drawers - and he didn't want McCain to inherit the mess he has left behind. While some of this may be out of concern for a fellow Repub, those who are close to GWB believe it's more likely that he doesn't want McCain dishing the dirt on him later on... or not dishing the dirt on him for a price.

The biggest scandal, however, relates to the WMD's  Someone sent him a communique regarding an Iraqi illusionist (like David Cpperfield/David Blain) who was traveling around Iraq performing wonderful acts of mass distraction, and GWB (being he's dyslexic and never finished elementary reading at school) misread the whole thing and thought he was an agent of Saddam Hussein, who was traveling around with weapons of mass destruction.  Well the rest is history, the WMD's were never found and the Iraqi illusionist now works for John McCain as an advisor on escapology.

Truer words have yet to be spoken.

And considering that I'm quite mad... stark raving bonkers, even, you can imagine just how 'nuts' my shrink really is. You think the stuff I come up with is 'out there'??  You ain't seen nuthin 'til you see his ramblings!  I had a great teacher when it comes to making up crap about politicians, and I don't do so bad,  but he is still the master and still the No1 bullshit artist (outside of politicians) in my book... the man is a legend in his own lifetime.

Think of Exedor on Mork & Mindy - you know, the kook who got around biblical type robes - and you get a picture of my shrink.

So is "optical Aleutian" a polite way of saying 'Waste of Space'?  Meaning she is a Woman of Missing Dimension.  We all know that she is a Woman of Mass Distortion, given all her lies about Barack Obama, but I think she's a more Woman of Multiple Diatribes and could talk under water with a mouthful of marbles while Wilfully Menacing Democrats with her acid tongue and Worsening Mercenary Demeanor.

Oh well, after Nov 4 she can go back to Alaska and enjoy a welcomed moose dinner.

She couldn't quote the magazine because she only looks at the pretty pictures and wouldn't have a clue what it was called.  It's called selective reading... she reads what she can (2 and 3 letter words) and forgets the rest.

Word has it that her cue cards and tele-prompters aren't actually words, but are comprised of pretty pictures to jog what little thought she has.  The trouble is, sometimes the pictures have to be hand drawn - and the artist isn't a particularly good one - which is why she get confused and all befuddled during speeches and interviews. 

Like the time when the artist had just washed his hair and had a towel on his head. Palin gave him a funny look, so he drew a picture of a shower head, a bottle of shampoo and himself with the towel on his head to show he had just got out of the shower... Palin took one look at it and went into a frenzied attack on Barack Obama, saying that he was involved with terrorists who were going to poison the water supply.

Another time the artist drew a picture of the Alaskan map, a moose and John McCain to reflect the question "would she be showing McCain around her home State"... Palin angrily snapped: "My sexual preferences are not up for discussion here!" and promptly left the stage.

Nah, any self-respecting skinner would turn down the job and say it's one for Jim Bowie.

Hiding in the pub with their mobiles turned off so they can't be found/take the call.

LOL! Hope ye be better, lil-whip! Stones seriously hurt!

Who told you that? Probably one o' those there politician fellers! They be known fer the truth they arrrrrr!

Hehe, very funny... and not too far from how I imagined it.  The only things missing were the stuffed moose in the corner, the polar bearskin rug and the igloo phone.

I did, however, think the 'bridge to nowhere would have been bigger... and going out of a window as a quick exit for senators and congress-persons who happen to piss her off.

I noticed the in-basket was full of correspondene, but nothing in the out-basket... and absolutely zilch in the 'Policies' basket, though I suspect she would introduce a Bill to import Alaskan weather to Washington so she can build igloos and not feel so homesick.  I suppose that would make for more daylight and longer days in Washington, not that it'd matter much to the nation... she and her cohorts still wouldn't get to achieve much anyhow.

Well the controversy surrounding Sarah Palin never seems to end!  Now she has been caught shoplifting.... well not stealing from Sack's 5th Avenue exactly, but with the virtual blank cheque the Repubs gave her for frocks, shoes and makeup, she decided to uplift the entire store and take it home with her. 

Now while the Repub upper echelon/heirarchy was not at all pleased with this at first, they have since come to the conclusion that much money is there to be made, given that people pay premium prices for 'once-worn' clothing that's cast aside by celebrity figures... and what she doesn't wear/won't fit around her butt can be sold at a 10% markup because of Palin's association with the store and products it sells.

Yup, Sarah Palin has become a one-woman economy and is the new pin-up girl of Wall St while the World heads deeper towards recession.... why there probably isn't a lavatory in the entire NYSE that doesn't have a piccy of Sarah Palin in a low-backed frock with a plunging neckline.  Yup, Sarah Palin has become the heroine of Wall St and now is a cult figure because she knows how to spend other peoples money better than they do.