, <b>The Fools Among Us: August 2008</b>

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Hurricane Gustav: Bend Over!


Turn on your TV, select any news resource ... interspersed between presentations of ACTUAL facts and events will be talking heads and "resident experts" speculating on how far into the stratosphere gasoline prices will rise due to Hurricane Gustav. The glee with which these presenters address their attempts at reporting is once again, beyond the pale.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Obama Cheapshots: More "Guns And Bibles?"

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Arab Traditions: Marry One's Cousin ... Hide The Children?


A Palestinian couple locked their disabled kids in two urine-stained rooms for forty years because they were afraid the children would ruin the marriage prospects of a healthy child, police has revealed.


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The spotlight of the World can show the ugliness of any culture in this 24/7/YouTube newscycle ...

Barack Hussein Obama: Illegitimate and Just Bi-Racial?

This brings up another point about the senator’s father. Please note that the Times ran into a serious problem describing his father's relationship with a woman in Kenya that existed when he married "Barry's" mother in Hawaii. It turns out that Mr. Obama was already married to the Kenyan (who was not African Negro either.). That makes Senator Obama the product of a bigamous marriage. And we all know what that means as far as the legality of the marriage and the legitimacy of the marriage's offspring.


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Is Obama just using his "skin color" as a political device? Is the "Birth Certificate Mystery" valid? Have the important facets and facts been sidetracked by "typical politics as usual?" What do "we" really know about this Democratic Party U.S.A. answer to John McCain, save what their political machine allows to be offered?

Again, so many questions ...

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Typical American Family?

Then on the screen above them appeared the candidate himself, by live link from a home in Kansas City Missouri (the only fumble was when he initially said he was in St Louis) From there, seated in the company of a smiling – and very white – typical American family – he exchanged loving greetings with his wife and his daughters.


It was the image the Obama campaign wanted millions of Americans to remember – the regular father, comfortable with white working class people in the heartland, blowing kisses to his adoring family



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... and "they" talk about McCain not knowing "where he's at?" I'm sure the Obama's feel just like the rest of us ... at least on camera!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

RECREATE'68: Aging Hippies Last Hurrah?

R68 agrees with the proposition, POTESTAS IN POPULO, “all power comes from the people.” What stands between the people and power are the party machines. The parties were devised as a means to represent the people. Today they represent nobody, not even party members, but only party bureaucracy. The people have been left without appropriate institutions for their representation. We intend to create those institutions!



Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained.



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With Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill and Cindy "End the War Now" Sheehan, who can help to pass up such entertainment? All one needs is John "Johnny Four Months©" Kerry to complete the farce! All you "one vote" radicals who live a "normal" life, work for a living and take pride in Country, family and honor ... RAISE YOUR HANDS!

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Tropical Storm Fay: A Unique Path

Tropical Storm Fay continues its trek over the Florida Panhandle, and it now centered over land just north of Apalachicola, after making its record 4th landfall on the state this morning. Radar and satellite loops show no major changes to Fay. The storm still has a large circulation with plenty of rain bands sprawling over much of northern Florida and southern Georgia. The center of Fay should emerge over the Gulf of Mexico just west of Panama City this afternoon, and we can expect a modest increase in strength as it feeds off the warm Gulf waters. Yesterday, Fay intensified from 45 mph to 50 mph when its center emerged over the water for 12 or so hours, and I expect a 5-15 mph increase in the winds by Sunday evening, before the center moves back over land again.


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Obama - Biden: The Other Havaiana Drops?

Joe Biden!

Breaking news: the text message is out and it's official... Barack Obama has selected Joe Biden to be his running mate! Please take a minute to share your story with Joe and welcome him into our movement for change. For those of you who are from Delaware and know Joe best, we'd love to hear your experiences as a constituent of Senator Biden's. We'll make sure to share some of your stories with Senator Biden so he gets a chance to better know the…


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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Howard Dean: Playing Gender And Race?

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party.”


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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Powell Or Rice For Obama: Racial Allegiance?

If Senator Barack Obama receives either or both endorsements from Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice, will it be for racial allegiance? I certainly hope that this is not the "Change" that Obama consistently preaches from his pulpit. Voting strategy using skin pigmentation is pathetic!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

China: A Milli Vanilli Moment?

One little girl had the looks. The other had the voice.

So in a last-minute move demanded by one of China's highest officials, the two were put together for the Olympic opening ceremony, with one lip-synching "Ode to the Motherland" over the other's singing.

The real singer, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, with her chubby face and crooked baby teeth, wasn't good looking enough for the ceremony, its chief music director told state-owned Beijing Radio.



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While ancient cultures usually share a bounty of unique perspectives into the values given to their respect of the individual ... it's interesting to note this exception. China is now striving to be be as PHONEY as the Western decadence it usually reviles?

Monday, August 11, 2008

U. S. Government: $51M Conned-Air?

The flights are intended to break the smuggling cycle and reduce the desert death count. But evidence shows the binational Interior Repatriation Program has not made any substantial difference in border smuggling or desert deaths. And the principal beneficiary is a Mexican airline contracted to operate the twice-daily flights out of Tucson, critics say.


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... and walking these INVADERS to the Southern Border and putting a BOOT to their sorry arses as they meander across is not an option?

Friday, August 8, 2008

iPhone Application: Money For Nothing?

Created by iPhone developer Armin Heinrich, the original blurb for the credit crunch defying download read: “The red icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were able to afford this…It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.”


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A mean spirited person might state that It’s a work of art with no hidden function at allcould apply to a description of Barack Hussein Obama? ... Just sayin'

Monday, August 4, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama: Energy Schemes ... Energy Dreams?










Obama: On Global Warming ...

Now, it is a fact that is melting our glaciers and setting off dangerous weather patterns as we speak.

Obama: On Strategic Petroleum Reserve Sell-Off ...

I do not believe that we should use the strategic oil reserves at this point, Obama said July 7. I have said and, in fact, supported a congressional resolution that said that we should suspend putting more oil into the strategic oil reserve, but the strategic oil reserve, I think, has to be reserved for a genuine emergency. You have a situation, let's say, where there was a major oil facility in Saudi Arabia that was destroyed as a consequence of terrorist acts, and you suddenly had huge amounts of oil taken out of the world market, we wouldn't just be seeing $4-a-gallon oil. We could see a situation where entire sectors of the country had no oil to function at all. And that's what the strategic oil reserve has to be for. (July 7, 2008)

We should sell 70 million barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve for less expensive crude, which in the past has lowered gas prices within two weeks. (August 4, 2008)

If visiting Obama's website won't cause one pain or soil one's keyboard, do go and read the text at its source.


While his speech was in part directed to Michigan Voters, what about the rest of the 57 States? 150 MPG "Plug-in" Hybrid ... Hey, I'm all for it! My problem is that this speech was so political and full of the same bovine excrement that politicians have used since the beginning ... listening to it hurts my head.


Who do YOU believe? Who do YOU trust?

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Nancy Pelosi: Are We There, Yet?

The American people - many Republican and independent voters among them - entrusted Democrats with their hopes and aspirations for themselves, their families, and their future. We are prepared to lead and ready to govern. We will honor that trust, and we will not disappoint.


November 14, 2006


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The vast CHANGES promised by the Democrats in 2006 certainly haven't come to fruition! Speaking well, promising everything and delivering nothing doesn't CHANGE anything.

Obama: "High" Opinion?



While typically political in its structure and message, this McCain advertisement of an "Obama Flaw" does make one think ... given the Democrat's predilection to wax narcissistic?