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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Give her the O-Face
There are a lot of reasons to watch Keith Olbermann. He's intelligent, poignant, and sharp witted. But not often do we see this side of him...the child-like wonder and awe-struck delight on his face at around 4:56 in this video is the essence of the O-Face.
I think I'm gonna puke
I admit it, Michelle Malkin is hot, even if I didn't have yellow fever. But Ann Coulter has a penis.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Fuck you Joe.
Joe Lieberman is a piece of shit. It's bad enough that you went against your party, but even after being forgiven for being a piece of shit and being allowed to keep your post, you're going to lie about what you said during the campaign? Fuck you. At least own up to the fact that you said what you did and now you have to eat your words and get behind your president. Show some humility you gigantic douchebag.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
The art of making shit up
What I've noticed most about the right-wing blog is their penchance for twisting, distorting, and simply fabricating stories in order to have something to say. And that's really all there is to it, the right has nothing to say, since everything in their playbook either comes from a 2000 year old book or a 20-year-gone presidency.
Instead of making a case for their beliefs about what needs to be done in this country, they just make shit up about liberals being a bunch of tree-worshipping welfare mongerers and how any voice of dissonance with the way things are is anti-American and tantamount to treason.
The latest entry of Gateway Pundit to his fear factory of a blog is this piece of tripe about how the praise from NOW of the rise of female voters in this historic election is somehow a snarky celebration of the defeat of one of their own. In fact, not once in NOW's article is Palin even mentioned, let alone referred to...so why did Gateway Pundit need to make it about her? I think they just can't function without some semblance of hate in their lives, whether it be from them towards another group (leftists, liberals, radicals, gays, minorities are always a solid bet) or by one of their detractors towards one of their own, which, of course, is usually highly manufactured. So they make shit up to lead people to believe they have been wronged and elicit some pitiful kind of sympathy, because those conservatives sure are a sensitive bunch.
I read the entire article on NOW's website and I thought it was worthy of posting in it's entirety, plus it feels a little like slapping Gateway Pundit in the face, so here it is.
http://www.now.org/news/note/111908.html
From Hope to Action to Victory
Below the Belt: A Column by NOW PAC Chair Kim Gandy
November 19, 2008
It's only been two weeks since I stood in the drizzling rain and waited on line to cast my vote for hope and change. And the inauguration is still two months away, but already I can feel the shift. On Nov. 4, we the people elected Barack Obama the next president of the United States, and although he's not yet in office, the act of making history and setting our nation on a new course has already been uplifting.
Women played a key role in this victory, voting in greater numbers than men, and casting their votes for Obama in higher percentages than men in nearly every state. Young people, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic voters and LGBT voters added to the margin of victory with disproportionate support for Obama.
Now that we have an Obama-Biden administration to look forward to (honestly, Jan. 20 can't come fast enough), the terrible funk we've been in for the last eight years has become even more apparent. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were the opposite of hope. They were cynicism and fear and greed and destruction. Bush and Cheney wore the people down, sapped their spirit. They (and their "decider effect") are the reason people lack faith in government and the political process.
Overcoming the Decider Effect
The "decider effect" (named after Bush's infamous pronouncement that "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.") is circular in nature and hard to escape. That's because once an unscrupulous administration has convinced a majority of people that they can't make a difference - that their voices and votes don't count -- it becomes harder and harder for the people to find the will to challenge these deciders. And thus it gets easier and easier for the deciders to trample on people's rights, wage unnecessary wars, and make their rich friends and associates even richer -- with less and less danger of being challenged.
When that happens, people who aren't politically inclined in the first place completely check out, and those of us who live and breathe this stuff, well . . . we start to suffocate in such thin air.
Inspiration in the Numbers, Credit for Victory
Being a women's rights activist, or a social justice advocate of any stripe, can be pretty frustrating, even without a Bush or Cheney in office. For several decades, most of our work has been an uphill battle with precious few victories spurring us along. Instead of passing pro-active legislation and policies, we've found ourselves constantly fighting against legislation (and judges) that would restrict our rights rather than expand them.
After years of being constantly on the defense, who could blame us for feeling discouraged, defeated, and just plain tired?
But the possibility of electing a president who would work for the people built voter excitement this year. The ground-breaking candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama generated new interest and engagement, stoking the registration of more than 10 million new voters. That's one inspiring number -- 6.5 million more new voters than were registered in 2004. Importantly, 69 percent of first time voters chose Barack Obama in the general election.
There was a significant gender gap in this election, so women's votes were an important factor in Obama's victory. For example, Obama won 56 percent of women voters, while only 43 percent of women voted for McCain -- a spread of 13 points -- compared to a 51-48 percent women's vote for John Kerry over George Bush in 2004.
Women voters provided the Obama-Biden team with their margin of victory in four key states -- Colorado, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Indiana. It's not a surprise that all four states had strong women running down-ticket, including two winning female U.S. Senate candidates: Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.).
Some other numbers that inspire, courtesy of The New York Times: young people (age 18-29) voted 66 percent for Obama; African Americans voted 95 percent for Obama, Hispanics 67 percent and Asian Americans 62 percent; gay, lesbian and bisexual people voted 70 percent for Obama. Unmarried women were 12 percentage points more likely than unmarried men to vote for Obama, while mothers of young children were nine points more likely than fathers to vote for Obama.
Furthermore, according to an analysis of exit polls by American University political scientist Curtis Gans, African Americans made up 13 percent of all voters, a two point gain over 2004, and the increase may be even greater, once final numbers are available.
The Washington Post reports that Latina/os helped flip several battleground states to Obama. Some 28 percent of Hispanics polled by the Associated Press said they were voting for the first time, compared to 12 percent for all first-time voters. And the new Hispanic voters backed Obama by 76 percent.
Hope Transformed Into Action
But enough with the numbers. Where am I going with all this? Well, that's a lot of people who made a real, concrete difference. And many of them were first time voters. Together we elected the first African American president. Together we elected a president and a vice president who have promised to stand up for women's rights and the rights of so many others who were ignored, exploited or demonized during the Bush years.
With this win under their belts, a whole new generation of voters is even more likely to remain engaged in the political process, helping to steer our country in a positive direction. And those of us who badly needed a refueling are ready to keep fighting the good fight for a while longer.
A day like Nov. 4 sure can make you feel good again, but it's only the beginning. The struggle for human rights, equal opportunity and justice for all is an ongoing, never-ending process. But it just got the infusion it needed in the form of hope transformed into action converted into victory. There will be other challenges ahead, but we can always look back to this powerful moment and remember that we can do it. We can take charge of our lives, and we can decide what our future holds. Finally, we are the deciders.
Friday, November 21, 2008
more empty promises...
Among a slew of new "rules" about when comments will and will not be allowed on their site, comes another empty promise (with no details whatsoever, as usual) about the still-upcoming release of the purported Michelle Obama tapes.
We'll see...I should be on their list so I'll post whatever super-secret info they email to their fans. I'm halfway expecting to need to send in UPC symbols for a decoder ring at this point...Most of our readers registered with us when we were having the Tripod site. The purpose of the registration was to be send a password to the link so as to log in when the tape is being released.
API will enable those who have not registered to do so tomorrow Saturday.
The MBOs that will release the tape will do so simultaniously. API plans to activate a link 30 minutes before the airing of the tape once the release day and time is scheduled by the MBOs in agreement with API.
Meanwhile, refresh your memories with the tape below:
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Itching for a Roundhouse Kick to the Head
The folks over a Whiskey Fire are just begging to have Chuck Norris show up at their mom's house to roundhouse kick their pajamas-wearing blogger asses right out of the basement. Nevertheless, I couldn't help from LOL'ing at the new Chuck Norris Homophobe Facts, so I guess I'm in danger of ol' Red Beard myself.
Chuck Norris hates gays so much, when he saw the Boogeyman in his closet, he called him a fag!
Chuck Norris thinks anyone you love who is gay is going to hell and he's cool with that!
Chuck Norris posters have been masturbated to by many gay men, and he hates all of them!
Chuck Norris is so tough, he will kick the ass of any gay person so gay as to try to assert any gay legal rights when their gay lover is in medical trouble!
Chuck Norris is good at kicking people, and he thinks that any child with gay parents is fucked because of how gay the kid's parents are!
Chuck Norris's religion is so butch, he thinks it gives him the right to impose his own cramped and inhumane morality on people he doesn't know!
Chuck Norris is so strong, he thinks the will of the majority should absolutely prevail over the rights of the minority, even when the minority loses by like a 4 percent margin!
Chuck Norris reads his own press, and apparently also the nonsense on the internet about how cool he is, and this has led him to believe that he is something else besides a halfway intelligent bigoted fucknobble!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Never Underestimate...
...the power of stupidity. I do find it a little unsettling that people still fall for this, although after a few seasons, To Catch a Predator still managed to find enough adult men to want to have sex with underage boys and girls...including some who had seen the show before. So it comes as little surprise that this woman in Oregon lost $400,000 to a classic Nigerian scam.
You read it right. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Here's a quote:
Spears told KATU-TV about the scammers' ability to identify her relative by name was persuasive.
"That's what got me to believe it," She said. "So, why wouldn't you send over $100?"
$100 is one thing, but "she mortgaged the house and took a lien out on the family car, and ran through her husband's retirement account." Because they said her millions were "guaranteed."
Folks, if you learn one thing from this site, it is that people who expect to earn your trust through veiled internet communications and "official" foreign documents are probably full of shit.
Uh-oh, banned again!
What a surprise. Looks like our good friend Chief Editor Korir has been banned again from yet another free site....but the original Wordpress site is back for the moment...of course, no new information. I signed up for their email list also, so we'll see what becomes of that.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Rockin the Vote 11/03/08 D-Boys
Beastie Boys and Tenacious D put on aRock the Vote show in Denver on 11/03/08 at the Fillmore Auditorium to a sold out crowd. One kind soul recorded this monumentous event, and I'm happy to ride his coattails to bring it to you...
nothin special, just zipped up mp3's but it came though pretty clear.
The Wingnut-o-sphere, land of insanity!
Hey, in a paradigm where Man and dinosaurs lived together and the world is only 6000 years old, anything is possible...
....anyway, the point being, this is sufficient background to make a claim that our President-elect wasn't properly vetted. Can anyone explain to me how that connection is made? Should the DNC have consulted every UFO abductee to get their incoherent ramblings before making a selection??
They always have a really great line buried in their articles over at Gateway Pundit, this one is my current fave:
It appears Barack Obama was not properly vetted after all.The link there goes to a story in a UK publication in which a reporter covering the political implications of ethanol discovers a backwards ass hick in ButtFuck, Missouri who repeated a claim he heard through the Rapture grapevine about Obama being the Anti-Christ. Being from Missouri and having traveled through quite a bit of the state, this comes as no surprise to me, but for the British news source I guess this manager of an ethanol plant and his crazytalk holds a great amount of creedence...
API is going to be the next nigerian bank scam!
I don't know if you heard it here first but I'm definitely calling it now. The latest posting says they will only release the information to readers who have been "good to API" and they are requiring your full name, email, address, city, state, zip, and phone number. This is how those scams start out, they get all of your info and then ask for just a little more to verify it is really you...or they have another way to get you to disclose personal info like bank accounts or social security numbers through some form of social engineering. I guarantee that any fool that gives these foreign scheisters their info will have that info harvested into some sort of malicious scheme...whether it be spam, fraud, or otherwise.
I think it's important to look at why he's doing this...requiring personal information in order to establish a list of believers who will be the only receipients of his "evidence" when it is released. It makes absolutely no sense, because once the information is released (it won't be because it doesn't exist, but that's beyond the point, i'm playing devil's advocate here), it will immediately be all over the internet and news. If this were real it's big news, it's not going to stay with the group of "insiders" that subscribe to API's news update...even if only fervent supporters sign up for this "service" I guarantee it will get out to the rest of us within minutes...otherwise what's the point of releasing it at all? So a half dozen lunatics with tin foil hats can pat themselves on the back? That's not why API has made such a big deal out of this, Chief Editor Korir wants worldwide attention. He also states that the subscribers will be the first to know about his new website when it launches. Again, it makes no sense to keep this stuff to supporters, one because it's futile, the info will get out, and two because if any of this were real it's pointless if nobody knows about it.
The goal here is to get the most gullible, stupid and paranoid morons to put their blind faith into this man Korir, who they have never and will never meet, in order to eventually fleece them out of their savings. I predict API will need money for some service they claim they will provide, like starting a website or transporting sensitive documents or something else...and these followers will fall prey to the scam because they need something to believe in to keep their minds off the reality that is their sad and pitiful white trash lives.
Here it comes...
It's all making sense now...first the unbelievable claims, the delays and excuses, gaining unwavering trust from the wingnuttiest folks out there and creating a "civil war" of believers and non-believers, where the believers will take anything you say as infallible truth, then the "oppression" and "infiltration" to "test" the mettle of the defiant and headstrong Korir and at the same time, generating sympathy from your believers...throw in a vague mention of funding (which will fall through), website problems, switch to a new site, keep the faithful close at hand, creating ever stronger minions of allies who will go to any lengths to keep things rolling ahead...start restricting free speech and limiting dissent....your followers offer you any amount of support that is needed...
step 2...information is only given on a subscription basis, we need your email address and phone number or we don't tell you about the tapes...
step 3...?? profit? sounds like the perfect set up for a nigerian bank scam, doesn't it?!
http://africanpress.tripod.com/id27.html
API is not sitting down saddened of any event that led to WordPress taking API down. The owners of WordPress have the right to do what is best for their company.
We sincerely thank them for having let us use their site for over 2 years without question.
We do not blame them for what has happened because we have to respect that they have rules that we may have violated time and again.
We in API will go on with the march until we accomplish our aims on the Obama tape, and the birth certificate issue.
The challenge we have gone through the last weeks has been useful for us in many ways and that usefulness will lead us straight to victory.
Those who wish to know the date and time the tapes will be aired may sign their emails on the site mail register provided on the front page near the guestbook. We will require the correct email and telephone number so as to verify by phone that we are releasing information to the right people.
API will have WWW address ready in a few days from now. A very professional designed site that API will enjoy using and from the launching day which is in a few days, we will be independent and will have no worries of anybody trying to bully us.
Readers with businesses will be able to advertise on our site and onward we will march with you and get the truth about the issues we have so much devoted ourselves to.
We will not be releasing any information to anybody between now and the date of the tape release unless we are very sure the person is not ill motivated. It is therefore no need to ask for any information from us before that day has come and gone.
However, those who give us both email and phone numbers will be exceptionally treated.
For the Chief Editor.
Think of the exceptional treatment you'll get by giving them your bank account and social security numbers! Signed autographs from Chief Editor Korir himself! A birthday card with your name on it every year, ON YOUR BIRTHDAY! And $5,000,000 USD from a Kenyan Prince who tragically died in a car crash and has no next of kin!
Yeah, and I can't wait to see their "professional" website...they've gone from Wordpress to Tripod, what's next, Geocities? AOL? MySpace?!?! I'm giddy with excitement for API 2.0!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Wonders never cease... (more API crap)
Well looky here...I knew it wouldn't be long before they found another home. I'm really quite happy they are so bold as to continue trying to keep this charade up, it provides me with endless amusement.
Here's their new home and the latest rant about how those who try to stop API will fail: http://africanpress.tripod.com/id11.html
Barely any comments from the Editor himself, just posts some emails from people who make vague associations to a scapegoat they blame the original site closing on, without any actual proof it was that blogger who had any involvement (as usual)...
And here are some more excuses why they haven't been able to follow through on promises made to this point...
The Michelle Obama tapes has caused many people to have sleepless nights. Most of them used there time to get adverts in API site which was then hosted by Wordpress.com. The enemies managed to fool wordpress and got their way by wordpress' reaction closing us down. Now that we have passed that stage, we want to assure the readers that the tapes will see the light. It has been a rough road but one that we will not fail to work to the end.
All readers know what happened those days. Due to the developing events caused by those who have managed to infiltrate API and the high tech interference by parties who are working hard to stop the airing of the tape, I had an urgent telephone conference meeting with counsel on the 13th of November who has approved the following text for publishing so that the readers were made aware of the situation in order to understand and appreciate what we were going through.
—————– Here below is the text approved by Counsel .—————
“I spoke with our counsel, who drafted and signed the MBO contract on our behalf, and he advised me that, in his opinion, both parties to the contract are respecting both the intent and the letter of the contract. He reminded me that the terms and conditions of the contract are and will remain confidential and that the name of the MBO will be known only when it announces the airing or airs the cassettes. API will not publish any information on the airing times and details until authorized to do so by the other party to the contract. MBO will be the first to announce the airing of the tapes. The only thing API can say, have said and will say is that it has entered a contract with a MBO.
Counsel is of the opinion that the decision as to the actual date and time of the airing should be left to the MBO, since API’s legal rights are fully protected. This contract was entered in good faith by both parties. Basically, the MBO is the one who will decide, in good faith, the actual broadcasting dates and postpone them, if required, in keeping with the spirit and letter of the contract.”(approved by counsel, name withheld at counsel’s request)
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Due to the circumstances of the day it became necessary to have an additional paragraph to the main contract, whereby API’s Counsel opend for MBO to be able to come with a surprise announcement as concerns the actual date and time of airing of the tape in order to avoid the infiltrators from succeeding in their pressure on the MBO aimed at cancellation of the tape broadcast. The additional paragraph to the contract by API counsel states:
“Basically, the MBO is the one who will decide, in good faith, the actual broadcasting dates and postpone them, if required, in keeping with the spirit and letter of the contract.” (approved by counsel, name withheld at counsel’s request.”
The above change is meant to enable the MBO to decide the date within the framework of the main contract, specifically in accordance with already agreed time schedules. If MBO decides to postpone the airing dates other than follow any specified dates, API must be consulted by Counsel immediately and given the opportunity to agree or reject any proposed postponement by MBO.
We can confirm that the infiltrators have succeeded in getting inside information on the tape and the Imam document, but have not yet succeeded in stopping the airing of the tape as yet.
We hope that the readers will get the point - if supportive of API’s intentions to have the tape out, will understand why this kind of action had to be taken immediately in order to avoid a repeat of what happened between Fox News Network and API’s agreement on the airing of the tape before the Presidential elections on the 4th of November.
Now that the release seems to be around the corner, Counsel will come with an update if required.
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Chief Editor Korir/ African Press International
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The Right has no hope.
I actually enjoy reading America's Right blog, as Jeff Schreiber seems to be one intellectually elegant and focused conservative amongst an impossibly vast array of impulsive, conspiracy driven nutjobs. However, I think he is as downtrodden as the rest of the hardcore conservatives right now and his piece this morning brightens up my day a little just because his seems so dark. I don't make myself out to be his nemesis by any means as I'm sure he's never heard of me, but nonetheless I do take a little pleasure in seeing conservatives so defeated. Granted, I still commend Jeff and think that he could play an important role in the rebranding of the conservative movement as his blog has remained rather steady through this whole process...anyway...
Today's article "Nothing Good Can Come from Obama's Meeting with McCain" explains why Obama's choice to meet with his rival McCain is stupid and pointless because of how bad his rival actually sucked in the first place and meeting with him won't accomplish anything because McCain is too much of a pussy to maintain his opposing points of view. It's a pretty good argument, I'll give that to him. Check it out for yourself.
Is the API scam over and done?
Well, the last week has been pretty volatile for Chief Editor Sammy Korir's blog, African Press International. After a figurative firestorm of supposed "attacks" on his account, as well as a literal fire in the building his email is hosted at and several other technical problems...it looks like API is down for good at this time. Apparently they violated Wordpress' TOS and got taken down, we'll see if it's permanent or not and if they pop up elsewhere, I'll let you know...in the meantime it seems that another wordpress site, Mountain Sage, has exposed many past frauds and inconsistencies on the API site and may have been the "source" of truth-seekers demanding the API either put up or shut up.
Clearly though, if API had something to share, there are many ways to do so other than Wordpress, and that should not stop them if they really have evidence of anything they have claimed. There are countless other blog sites, media publishing sites (YouTube, etc), file sharing sites, and plenty of media outlets who would help them out, at their disposal. All this nonsense about needing vaious legal counsel and contracts for release and endless paperwork is silly. And if he really does have this evidence, and if there is a legitimate reason for him to fear being stopped, and furthermore if there really are people who could stop him or even find him in the first place and get their hands on this evidence if it really exists...well the best thing for him to do is get it out there. what does holding onto it do? unless he's scamming for money, which makes complete and total sense.
Stay tuned for more developments, but as of right now it looks like this whole crapfest might be over and done with...I highly recommend checking out Mountain Sage's blog if you're interested in reading more into this debacle.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
contributing to the delinquency of minors...or just trying to save the planet?
Thanks to Daily Mail and Fark...
'Try something new today...' blundering Sainsbury's gives booklet on sex positions to eight-year-olds
'Try something new today...' blundering Sainsbury's gives booklet on sex positions to eight-year-olds
By Andrew Levy
Last updated at 2:02 AM on 13th November 2008
They probably expected a goody bag of some sorts as a going home gift after the primary school trip to Sainsbury's.
But what the 42 children - not to mention their parents and teachers - did not expect was to be given a book with explicit illustrations of sexual positions.
And the advice under the dozen drawings, which feature in a section about saving water by 'bathing with a friend', reads: 'Save water. Have fun. Just get out before everything becomes wrinkled.'
Other inappropriate suggestions in the £5 book from Sainsbury's - whose advertising slogan is Try Something New Today - include encouraging readers to shave in intimate places, streaking, talking to strangers and handing out your phone number to five people on the street.
Inappropriate: Two of 12 ways that children were shown how to 'have fun in the bath' in the Sainsbury's leaflet
The book, entitled How To Change The World For A Fiver, was mistakenly given to the Year 4 pupils, aged between eight and nine, from Burton End primary, Suffolk, during a visit to the supermarket in Haverhill.
The blunder came to light only when a father heard his daughter giggling with friends as they flicked through the pages.
Engineer Andrew Dodd, 37, whose daughter Laura is eight, said: 'I was furious. It was extremely inappropriate and irresponsible to give to children.
'On the "Having Fun in the Bath" pages there were little drawings of about 12 sexual positions.
Explicit: Readers were encouraged to save water by ‘bathing with a friend’
'But the worst bit was where it encouraged you to go and talk to strangers. It's the opposite message to what you should be giving to kids. I don't think the school realised what was in the book.
'The teachers were as horrified as we were when they saw it.
'Laura thought it was funny but thankfully she didn't really understand it.'
A Sainsbury's spokesman said: 'This was a well-intentioned mistake. It is a very nice book about how to make the world a better place but it is not targeted at children.
'The books were given to store staff by head office because they mentioned the company's positive environmental activities.
Blunder: Sainsbury's said they made a mistake giving children the book, which also encouraged readers to shave intimate places, streak and chat up strangers
'A few spare copies were left over in the store which were given as presents to the visiting children.
'The cover looks like a kid's book. This was a mix-up and we would like to apologise for any distress caused. It certainly won't happen again.'
But Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, criticised Sainsbury's for not making basic checks before handing out the books.
'This would be offensive to some adults, let alone children,' he said. 'This wasn't a mistake. It was an unacceptable failure on Sainsbury's part.
'Young minds are the most malleable and this incident has robbed a large number of children of their innocence. They should be ashamed.'
The book was produced by a company called We Are What We Do, which says its mission is to inspire people to change the world one small action at a time.
It also produces children's version of How To Change The World For £5 which is called Teach Your Granny to Text and has been sent to primary schools across the country.
Sainsbury's is sending Mr Dodd's daughter a £30 voucher to spend in the store.
Adults only: Sainsbury's said of Change the World for a Fiver: 'It is a very nice book about how to make the world a better place, but it is not targeted at children'
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A few key comments:
Are my children safe in this country? Can I ever hope to protect them either from irresponsible adults, or unsuitable literature and education? What about the people who are not shielded and protected from these crass edu-leaflets we keep seeing or hearing about? They pose a real threat to decent people by lowering societiy's morals and expectations. No wonder teenage pregnancies and STDs are on the rise when it's accepted that this behaviour is almost the norm.
Whatever happened to common decency??
- ******, UK, 12/11/2008 18:03
very inapprropriate! why not severly punish those responsible to set a precedent and example to deter others from fragrantly violating the inocence of vunerable and impressionable young children. why can't we protect our children from deviants, molestors and violence?
- ***********, warrenton,virginia usa, 12/11/2008 18:25
and then...
What are the other six positions? Purely for research purposes, you understand...
- *********, UK, 12/11/2008 11:02
ahh...that normalizes things a bit now doesn't it? back to saving the world, thanks :)
...and some more thoughts on API
So you may have noticed I've been a bit quiet here lately. I've been trying to put some of the past few months of tension behind me and get on in my busy life, and ultimately many of the things I'd like to say are already being said by bloggers much more diligent and widely read than myself. That isn't to say I'm just going to leave it alone, but I did want to avoid relying too heavily on repeating commentary and just linking to sources without taking the time to write up my own thoughtful response and/or opinionated pointless rant.
I'm still keeping an eye out for the most egregious displays of desperation and unscrupulous attacks on decency, of course. There have been a few stories lately which have been covered by others in the blogosphere, and be sure that anything truly important I will post here.
I did want to take a moment to recognize API again though, for their truly unique work. Though I have been banned from commenting there (numerous times I might add, with the same name, since they have no understanding of how to run a blog and moderate comments), I continue to stay abreast of their purported developments. The story continues to be drawn out, the release of any evidence to back up their claims continues to be delayed, and new distractions from the original directive pop up daily to provide further excuse why nothing has been produced. Of course, each of these developments elicits the exact same response from the same groups of people...the true believers, the faithful of Chief Editor Korir (who is honest, honorable, and to whom these people are forever grateful) can do no wrong and there is a vast conspiracy of left-wingers, Obama supporters and probably some Illuminati in there too who are out to get him and are infiltrating this incredibly well-researched and crucially important effort to discredit Obama. Then there are those with intelligence levels above Trig Palin who continue to withhold their judgement until there is a shred of proof that could back up even one of Korir's claims.
Remember folks, in America, you are innocent until proven guilty...
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places...
Reading through my blogs this morning I came upon a comment made in reference to Jack Cafferty's question "Who cares about Sarah Palin" and just had to repost it because it is blindingly simple and dead-on accurate. My apologies for not being able to provide due credit to the original commenter:
There are two reasons: 1) She’s attractive. For better or for worse, people listen when pretty girls talk, no matter what nonsense may come out of their mouths. 2) Incompetence, by itself, is not entertaining. However, when the incompetent are supremely self-confident, full of certitude, and absent of insight, it’s absolutely compelling.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Lookout! They're queering right for us!
Oh noes!!1! Militant Homosexuals! lol
A large gang of militant perverts has attacked a church congregation in Lansing, Michigan...
over 30 of them showed up in force [Sunday]. Wearing secret-service style ear pieces and microphones they received the "go" from their ringleader and off they went.
Prayer had just finished when men and women stood up in pockets across the congregation, on the main floor and in the balcony. "Jesus was gay," they shouted among other profanities and blasphemies as they rushed the stage. Some forced their way through rows of women and kids to try to hang a profane banner from the balcony while others began tossing fliers into the air. Two women made their way to the pulpit and began to kiss.
Their other props? I'll let them tell you in their own words… from another of their liberal blogs:
"(A) video camera, a megaphone, noise makers, condoms, glitter by the bucket load, confetti, pink fabric…yeh."The horror...
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
It explains a lot.
So I'm thoroughly addicted at this point to really wing-nutty blogs and conspiracy theories. I can't get my fill. I just read up on the Illuminati and boy, have I been missing out! This stuff is great. Here's how the believers respond to a listing of Obama's credentials to be President (in response to conspiracy theory about Biden's remarks about a "generated crisis")
I think I may have found the jackpot.Posted By: Andre
Date: 2008-10-31 18:14:01Barack Obama is a fucking Illuminati build to destroy the governmnet and implement the New World Order. Barack Obama is a puppet of the devil.
Dont vote at all. Live out your life without the needs of the slavery out of the Illuminati.
Signs of Satan, from Amy Grant to Pat Robertson
Those are probably the last two people I'd think the Jesus freaks would throw under Satan's bus, but I'd be wrong again.
Amy Grant
Above: Believe it or not! Here's Amy Grant, on the Michael W. Smith, In Concert (Reunion Records, 1985) video tape flashing the "Satanic salute." Amy deliberately flashes the "Satanic salute" at least two separate times on the video, displaying it for several seconds. Amy is promoting Satan. There is a definite spirit invoked in rock music, secular or Christian - and it's NOT the Holy Spirit! And many times, people involved in rock music get "caught up in this unholy spirit"!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Future Secessionists, This Way
I can't see this being good for the country. Digging through some of the right wing sludge I came across this call to action:
(this is the gist of it)
We have time but not much time to still force Obama to present the original vault copy and have a team of forensic scientists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensics make scientific tests that are accepted by courts, to insure that the BC was produced on or around 1961 when Obama was born. This would prove to all that Obama was or wasn't a native born American. IMO, all debate, but not all legal action (lawyers want the big bucks involved), should stop by all fair-minded people whether pro or con ObamaSo from there it's a lot of paranoid ramblings about sending every elector a letter and copying 3 other people, sounded kindof like a chain letter really.
"Forward this to 9 of your friends before December 15 2008 or you will be enslaved by a Black Man! Send it to 11 people in 30 minutes and have 7 years of Aweseom (sic) Sex!!1!"
Anyway, like I said, this can't be good for the country. If this gains traction, let's say there's merit to it, gotta humor them, right?...so it has wheels, people get behind it because there's a valid concern President Elect Barack Obama might not be a natural born US citizen....This should be big news...so enough people get behind it and they force Obama to produce the Birth Certificate they say he is hiding.
1. It is real, Obama was born in HI, and the skeptics are enlightened, and admit they were wrong all along.
2. The skeptics cannot confirm the birth certificate. This could be because they maintain (as with the other one) that it is a forgery, or they find another excuse why this isn't an acceptable form of validation, or what if it is simply not produced?
For this to have become such an issue that one of these plays out before Obama takes office, it seems like the nation would be buzzing and very polarized...then what?
1. All the skeptics give it up and are sent back to society feeling ashamed for believing such tabloid nonsense...
2. Those that maintain skepticism and doubt the Presidents legitimacy will revolt. They are (Real) Americans and they won't take it without a fight, right? I've seen talk of secession on wing nut blog comments, amidst the capslock frenzied rants.
I'm saying I think either this is big news or it isn't. There's no scenario where he produces a document that isn't highly publicized, as well as the reaction from skeptics...and if he doesn't, then either the skeptics MUST do something or risk being forgotten as cowards...or it's just a non-issue.
Likely, it will keep to the lunatic fringe. Which I'm no doubt a part of now since I've been trolling their sites for weeks....anyway, this is the fabrication of paranoid conspiracy theorists and just like all the rest it will probably pop up every now and then but "we may never know the truth".
Although I bet if you sign up for Joe the Plumber's special Secret Membership Club for only $14.95/yr you can all go learn how to take back the country:
With your help, we can stop the government and banks from taking peoples' homes away. We can stop our elected officials from selling our children into debt with our enemies. We can help each other far better and faster than the government has ever been able to.
Please join me in taking back our country from the elites in Washington by selecting a registration option to the right
So bitter...
this just saddens me...i'm not suprised but still...one of my friends is a hardcore right-winger, and we trade political emails from time to time. i knew this was probably a rough day so i sent him this email to try and lighten the mood:
We should all be proud today, that in one very heated election, Bacon won out over Fries.Unfortunately, he was so bitter he sent this back:
http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/state-senate/2008/district-14/
This was my reply:It's a sad day for this country. I hate it, but there is abosolutly nothing I can do about it.With a democratice strong hold on Senate, Congress and the Presidency we are in big trouble. We will be a socialist country before you know it!!!!!!I just hope we get our act together before 2012. 8 years of Obama stuff will send us farther in the celler than we can afford!I guess I better get ready to support the lazy more than I already do.
well, i just tried to make a little joke to lighten the air around what i'm sure is a disappointing day for you, but i see you'd rather be a sore loser.
i'm disappointed in you. instead of being proud to be an american, proud to live in a country where racism can be defeated and a black man can be elected president, proud to be part of a democratic process that by all accounts went extraordinarily well, and proud to be a country that the entire world is watching and offers it's support for and admires for our ability to make broad political changes without mass rioting and violence, you have instead decided to be sad for our country, and continue to hold onto pathetic, empty name-calling and baseless attacks. clearly you've missed the point, and you've ignored the hypocrisy from your own party.
i don't think you understand what socialism is, and you clearly have chosen to ignore the social policies that john mccain and sarah palin have themselves supported which also "redistribute" money. it's part of the economy, and if you're so lame you can't possibly bear to have any of your money go to help anyone else, you live in the wrong country. and to say that social programs only benefit the lazy? well, i hope you never get laid off, never get too sick to work, never struggle with paying for healthcare and housing, and can always afford to take care of your children. you better have real good luck if you don't want to fund social programs, [name removed], and you better never need help yourself.
maybe it's easy for me to realize that because my guy won, but think about how we got here. one guy ran a race where he encouraged booing and name calling the entire time, and even when he conceded his supporters could not muster up enough grace to put aside their negative attitudes to congratulate their new president. the other guy ran a race based on hope, courage, and the ability to make a difference, and had 100's of thousands of people showing up to rallies and spread positive messages instead of attacks and fear.
time for a wake up call, we're not talking about handouts and obscure political ideals....this is about doing what's good and right for all the american people, and moving the country to a place where we can all prosper. you might not agree with every plan obama has, but you better agree that he's the president and if you want something done it's going to have to get done through him. he's made a promise to be your president too, will you take him up on that?
Sarah Palin, freeloader. Also.
note: I'm still not 100% convinced these stories about Palin's wardrobe and Joe's abilities to buy a business are totally accurate or even relevant, but it does seem pretty clear to me that enough is true to call them on their hypocrisy, so I'm reposting this with that caveat.
Dansac has already introduced you to today's version of the story, but I feel compelled to revisit an earlier call on this in order to restate a now obvious theme: Sarah Palin is The Chiseler Supreme.
What a really, truly unpleasant experience has been our exposure to the two insta-celebrities created by the McCain campaign. These two grubbers, Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, became the perfect symbol for everything that was wrong with and ingenuine about modern Republicanism.
Joe griped endlessly about taxes even as it turned out he was ducking them, and groused that Obama's "socialism" would mean there was no incentive to work hard and succeed in earning more than $250,000 a year, even as he shopped around for an agent and a Nashville recording contract. (And excuse me -- what?! A recording contract? Based on what, Mr. Hard Work?) Meanwhile, there was Sarah griping about pork and wasteful spending even as she tried to rip off the Feds for the Bridge to Nowhere, rip off the state for her per diem, and rip off the campaign for her clothes (and her husband's, and her family's).
Yes, in the few short weeks we knew her, Sarah Palin turned out to have more hands in more pockets than we could keep track of. She and Joe were the perfect pair. Instantly famous but for no good reason, pushy, greedy, and all the while cheating behind the scenes, and cheating on the very issues about which each of them complained that regular Americans were getting a raw deal from the elite.
Good riddance. I get enough of that crap from Reality TV as it is.
It's like a whole election nearly went down the wrong pipe. Thank God the country coughed them back up.
Epic Fail!
I really couldn't have said it better.
Right-wing blogs- To say they ate their seed corn is to wildly underestimate the damage they have done to their online presence, because if you just ate your seed corn, there would at least be a short-term benefit. More accurately, they chewed up their seed corn, spit it out, stomped on it, defecated on it, then grabbed it and smeared it on their chests to form the words “WHITEY TAPE.” These idiots spent the last six months chasing the whitey tape, questioning his patriotism, calling Obama a Muslim, panty-sniffing for an Obama affair, calling Obama a terrorist and socialist and you name it, and the country shrugged. Any future Republican campaign will need to rely on the “intellectual” arguments of thoroughly discredited propaganda organs like the Weekly Standard and the NRO, and we now have six months worth of their stupidity on file to throw in their faces and discredit them in the future. I am dying for the next time Andy McCarthy or one of these losers is brought on a cable show to advance a Republican position. Just dying. Good luck with the “next right,” folks.
Ayers speaks...
I'm really hoping this sort of clearing the air around these right wing claims will continue, I want everything out in the open and all the questions to be addressed so we really can move forward. I'm sure there will still be fringe groups supporting conspiracy theory, but that has always been the case and I don't expect it to change or go away, but I do think on the whole we can get past this stuff.
Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, said he thought the accusation by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists" was absurd.
"Pal around together? What does that mean? Share a milkshake with two straws?" Ayers said. "I think my relationship with Obama was probably like thousands of others in Chicago. And, like millions and millions of others, I wish I knew him better."
Election is over. Meet your new robotic overlords.
Even robots love Obama
You know you've tapped into a cross section of America when even the robots come out in your support. The $250 ObamaBot stands 6-feet tall and regurgitates stump speeches by the president-elect while presumably cleansing the Earth of any naysayers. ObamaBot's University of Florida creators see the world as so imperfect, that they'd prefer to pal around with robots who would target their own planet. Run little girl, run... change is coming.
[Via The Wired Campus, thanks Egloskerry]
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/05/even-robots-love-obama/
What a great feeling
Waking up today, I felt like a large weight had been lifted...however at the same time there's a realization that there's still a lot of work to do and we've got a lot of broken pieces to pick up and fix...but there's hope.
There's also the satisfying and cleansing feeling you get right after you take a huge dump. I mean a really big smelly gratifying crap. It's like expunging a mass of evil and waste from your bowels. And this one had been building up for so long. I feel like America just squared up on its haunches, sucked in a few big breaths, steadied themselves, and let loose the bowels of democracy in a torrent of ideological and political fecal matter, speckled with nuggets of intolerance and ignorance like so many kernels of corn and peanuts in a turd. Now we must wipe the anus of America, be gentle as she has probably hemmoraged a bit from the strain, collectively pull up our pants, wash our hands, dry them on our shirts and get moving forward on the task ahead of us.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
McCain concedes
That's that! President Barack Obama.
I just watched McCain's concession speech and I have to say it was the most genuine and inspiring moment of his entire campaign as well as a great speech all around.
At the same time the crowd booing at Obama was just classless. Sore losers. McCain handled it well, he was stern about silencing them, and I felt bad for him that his entire campaign was ran this way. I can't imagine being at the center of thousands of people booing for weeks on end...that's got to be frustrating.
But tonight we saw the real McCain. I've always held respect for him and his service to the country, and in true form he conceded with dignity and urged his supporters to work with his new president. I hope they heed his advice. All can be forgiven if we can move past the last several weeks of ugliness and work together, yet all will be lost if we cannot get past the doubt and fear in exchange for hope and trust.
This is an important moment in history. Glad to be a part of it.
If you can't say anything nice...
I just came across this article and really liked it, so here it is:
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (CNN)– At first, many people thought it was a trick question.
“You want me to say something good about who?” said Christine Graham, 43, of Arapahoe County, Colorado.
But it wasn't a trick. It was just a small attempt, in the final days of a presidential campaign that has at times been vicious and brutal-spirited, to, as they say, bring the country together.
“But I’m for John McCain," Christine Graham said.
That’s fine. McCain has your vote.
But, knowing that you’re not going to change your mind, Mrs. Graham, say something good about Barack Obama– something that you truly believe.
She hesitated.
“Well. . . .” she said.
She paused for a few more seconds, and then said:
“He’s a dreamer. I think he probably wants to make life easier for people.”
There. Easy as that.
Joel Michel is an Obama supporter.And you, Joel Michel, 53, of Kansas City.
You say you’re going to vote for Obama?
“Yes.”
Good enough.
Now say something good about John McCain.
“Seriously?”
Yes– something genuine that you like about him.
“He seems like a nice guy,” Michel said. “And his war record, of course. The heroic aspect of him.”
Anything else?
“He seems like his own man, not so much a part of the Beltway,” Michel said. “And I think he really wants to get rid of those nefarious lobbyists.”
We were noticing something as we did this: The people, whether they supported McCain or Obama, seemed to be in a little better mood– in an observably more pleasant frame of mind– after they were urged to say something nice about the other guy. During a campaign year that has consisted of so many raised voices and ugly charges, they seemed to like this.
Jim Keeney is a McCain supporter.Jim Keeney, 57, of Chillicothe, Missouri, strong supporter of John McCain: Say something good about Barack Obama.
“He‘s one of the best speakers I‘ve ever heard,” Keeney said. “He’s got youth going for him. And I think Joe Biden is a good man– I kind of wish Biden was running with McCain. So I can say something good about his vice presidential pick.”
How’d that feel, saying that?
“Good– but you know I’m still voting for McCain, right?”
Of course.
Now, Dave Fiala, 47, of Howells, Nebraska– you say that you’re an Obama voter?
“I am.”
Tell us something you really like about John McCain.
“What that man has been through– his war record in the military– how could anyone not respect that?” Fiala said. “And I think he’s genuine about his feelings. He genuinely believes that what he wants to do for the country is the right thing. But mostly I come back to how he handled terrible adversity– what he has been through, and where he has gotten to. I certainly have never been through anything like that. I’m not going to vote for him, but he’s a man I would enjoy meeting and talking to."
Mikki Huxtable, 46, McCain voter from Liberty, Missouri– say something good about Obama.
“He‘s a really good family man,” she said. “He’s a momma’s boy, and I say that in a good way– he cares about the moms in this country, because he was raised by his mother and his grandmother. He stopped his campaign to go visit his grandmother because she’s sick. I have a son who I wish was as much as a momma’s boy as Obama is. I wish he would depend on me more."
Trisha Brewer is a Canadian citizen…but still has something nice to say.And you, Trisha Brewer, 33– you say you like Obama.
“Yes, but I’m not from the United States– I live in Victoria, British Columbia."
That’s all right. Since you like Obama, and would vote for him if you could, try to think of something nice to say about McCain.
“He’s very American," she said. “It's very obvious to me that McCain really does have America’s best interests at heart."
Mike Cohany, 45, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, John McCain voter– sorry to interrupt your evening, but can you say anything good about Barack Obama?
“He's energetic, he's charismatic, he‘s fresh, and it's clear that he believes things can improve,” Cohany said. “He's very poised in how he carries himself, and there’s no question he’s very intelligent. I’m into sports, and I read about how he likes to hang out with the guys to play basketball. He’s not going to get my vote, but, now that you ask, I think he’s a guy I would enjoy having a conversation with."
Junior Word, 33, of Knoxville, Tennessee– you say that Obama definitely has your vote?
“Yes. No question about it.”
Please say something good about John McCain.
Pause.
“He’s a believer. When he sets out to do something, he does it because he really is convinced it’s the right thing. I don’t agree with his policies, but I know that he is a true American.”
This just might catch on. In these last days of the campaign, this might start something– in city after city, in state after state, people might make themselves feel better by looking for the better side of the man they oppose.
Right.
But admit it– it beats what we’ve been hearing all year, doesn’t it?
Have you voted yet?
Just askin....
I cast my ballot 2 weeks ago, felt great to get it done early. But I'm glad the turnout is strong today! If you haven't voted yet, seriously, WTF? GO VOTE!
Lebanese newspapers might not be the best source of information
Another story of Obama's supposed secret conversations with radicals is appearing all over the right wing blogs, and as usual it's something that's reported by a foreign news agency with no evidence to back it up whatsoever.
When will the Right learn that in order to maintain credibility, it should focus on stories printed in the US with actual evidence rather than relying on every wacky claim made by foreign sources?
And as usual, it is quickly debunked. Funny, the post which breaks this "story" includes a link to the story debunking it, but of course makes no mention of that.
and the story of the denial of these claims:
Monday, November 3, 2008
The 5 Stupidest Things that Happened this Election
http://www.236.com/news/2008/11/03/from_ashley_to_levi_the_five_s_1_10003.php
"Don't touch me." 
From Ashley Todd to Levi Johnston: The five Stupidest things that happened this election
"Don't touch me." This election has been as historic as its candidates and their surrogates have been retarded. The number of milestones crossed is rivaled only by the number of times someone said or did something jaw-droppingly stupid. Herewith is a quick rundown of the five stupidest campaign trail blunders, according to our own dumbass opinions. (Note: For the sake of wanting to leave the office before midnight, we left out the couple hundred asshat misstatements Sarah Palin has made thus far.)
1. Levi agreed to marry Bristol
Knocking up the Governor's daughter is one notch on the belt that any cocksman as skilled as Levi Johnston would be a fool to pass up. When a young man as sexually and sensually alive as Levi manages something like that at the young age of 17, it's clearly the beginning of his career as a playboy, and he's not looking for a chance to settle down.
For the sake of the campaign, though, he was asked to make an honorable woman out of our Bris-Bris, and he was surely bribed with promises of the White House helping him out with his hockey career or his country music novelty song career or whatever the hell a redneck dropout playboy like Levi would want to do with his life. Now that the White House dream is receding though, Mama Palin will surely not let Levi back out of the deal. 2012 is right around the corner, and she's going to make sure he doesn't walk out on her little girl. The future of the far right depends on it.
2. Those two weeks of Democratic pants-shitting after Sarah Palin joined McCain's ticket
Holy crap! Remember when we all thought it was over? Just because someone's Mom got onstage and started shitting on community organizers for 40 minutes? This was more evidence than ever that the Democratic Party has the self-esteem of a battered woman. We know we're going to get our asses kicked, and we just assume that's the way it's supposed to be. Hopefully Obama will win big enough to give the party a little boost in the confidence department.
3. Biden delivered a speech titled, "The End of the World Will Occur Exactly Six Months From January 20th, 2009"
Yes, we all love making fun of Mr. Foot in the Mouth, but what the hell was he even trying to say there? If you just wandered in in the middle you'd assume you were at a book club discussion of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." It's not gaffes or "rhetorical flourishes." In Biden's case, it has to be pain pills. That's the only way to explain it.
4. Obama revealed his closely guarded communist agenda to an unlicensed plumber he happened to bump into in the street
Everyone knows that Democrats are the party of Karl Marx and medical marijuana. But you're not supposed to say it out loud! And to a guy like Joe the Plumber no less? If we saw Joe The Plumber in the street we'd assume he's coming to beat us with a tire iron because we dress queer. We certainly wouldn't stop and tell him that we plan to end capitalism. Smarten up Barack!
5. Ashley Todd scratched a backwards B in her face when a backwards O would have been much more convincing
Of all the stupid things that are wrong with that Ashley Todd scam, this is the one that we just can't get our heads around. Why not an O? It's immediate. It's easy to carve. And you can't do it effing backwards! If it had been an O, we predict that story would have stayed alive through the whole weekend. Instead, they picked it apart within 18 hours. Crazy is one thing, but crazy and stupid? That's just bad politics.
Grasping for straws...
And here comes the flood of every last chance smear attack from the Wing Nut Daily. You can almost feel the spittle flying off their lips as they mash the keyboard typing up this junk. Get it all out, guys...all the associations and questions. I especially love how they try to introduce a point about Obama's voting record and instead of actually making the point they just slip back into more associations and supposed influences.
What you don't know about Barack Obama
Black liberation theology, birthplace, religion still remain question marks
Posted: November 03, 2008
11:18 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
 Obama and top fundraiser Tony Rezko, a business partner and close friend of Auchi |
NEW YORK – Birthplace, religion, black liberation theology, passport, Pakistan, school expenses and records, house deal, friends, mentors and clients.
These are among the questions that despite months of campaigning for the presidency of the United States, thousands of hours in front of reporters and cameras, and hundreds of members of a massive campaign staff, the public still doesn't have fully answered about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Just four years ago, Obama essentially was an unknown state legislator who with the help of the Chicago political system took over a seat in the U.S. Senate. He stated then he was unqualified for national office, but within about two years launched his bid for the White House, knocking off one of the powerhouses of Democratic politics, Sen. Hillary Clinton, in the primaries.
The questions, then, abound as he's proposed giving the United Nations hundreds of billions of dollars, promised 95 percent of Americans a tax cut and pledged to pursue environmental campaigns even if coal companies go bankrupt because of that.
(Story continues below)
He's also stated the U.S. Supreme Court should have stepped beyond the Constitution and ventured into plans for wealth redistribution, he's told a plumber his goal is just to "spread the wealth," and his wife has said people will need to give up their piece of the pie so that others can have more.
All without answers to key questions.
Among those issues remaining to be explained fully are his acquaintances in his Chicago political career, who include:
- Antoin "Tony" Rezko, an associate of Arab-Syrian descent who was a campaign fundraiser for Obama. Obama returned an estimated $225,000 in Rezko-generated campaign contributions since Obama first ran for Illinois state senate in 1995 but Rezko also assisted when Obama bought a $4 million dream property in Hyde Park. Currently Rezko's a convicted federal felon.
- Professor Edward Said, a Muslim professor at the University of Chicago who was strongly pro-Palestinian and pro-Arab. He promoted Barack and Michelle Obama in the Chicago Arab community. He's deceased.
- Rashid Khalidi, a Muslim professor at the University of Chicago and Columbia who was funded by the Woods Fund grants approved by Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. Khalidi founded the Arab-American Action Network and is the author of several strongly pro-Paliestinian, anti-Israel books.
- Ali Abunimah, a Palestian-American Muslim journalist who promoted Obama in his writings and was editor of "The Electronic Intifada" of the Arab American Action Network. He claims Obama has modified his pro-Palestinian position.
- Nadhmi Auchi, a Muslim Iraqi billionaire who is the cousin of Saddam Hussein. He wired more than $3 million as a "loan" to Mrs. Rezko when the Obamas purchased their dream property. He's the largest private shareholder of Bank BPH in Paris and was the reputed bagman for Saddam Huseein in the "oil for fuel" United Nations scandal. He was fined $3 million and given a 15-month prison term in France for his involvement in $100 million in illegal commissions in a scandal involving French oil giant Elf Aquitane.
- Aihm Alsammarae, a Muslim Iraqi who is the former Iraqi minister of electricity. He contributed $2,500 to the Obama 2008 campaign and is a close friend of Rezko. He ran a scheme to corner the Iraqi cellular phone market and was sprung from an Iraqi prison in 2006 by a mysterious group of masked and heavily armed men who broke him out of prison. He fled to Chicago.
- Jabir Herert Huhammad, son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad, now deceased. Federal prosecutors alleged that Huhammad participated with Abdelhamid Chaib and Rezko in a scheme to use money borrowed from Mutual Bank of Harvey for allegedly fraudulent real estate deals. The bank is owned by Amrish Mahajan, an Indian and CEO of the bank, which lent $3.4 million to Rezko.
- Abdelhamid "Ali" Chaib, a Muslim who is a long-time Rezko associate who ran Crucial Concessions Food Business set up by Jabir Muhammad, and allegedly was involved in a $1.32 million partner scheme to securitize loans, in part to assist Jabir Herert Huhammad purchase a pizza franchise that questionably added to the Rezko-Jabir Muhammad food concessions business. Obama returned to Chaib in 2004 a $5,000 campaign contribution made in 2003 to Obama's 2004 U.S. Senate campaign after Chaib's indictment in the alleged Crucial Concessions Food fraud scheme was announced.
- Davis Miner Branhill & Galland. This was the law firm for which Obama worked starting in 1993. While here he represented "Rezmar," a community development firm owned by Tony Rezko and Dan Mahru that bilked low-income community housing projects that borrowed billions for property developments allegedly made fraudently. Eleven of the 30 alleged failed Rezmar properties were in Obama's state senate district.
Then also there are the influences on Obama's career, from the one-time writer of a sex novel, Frank Marshall Davis, to unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, with whom Obama served on boards.
This is significant since voters have only a few years of Obama's U.S. Senate record on which to judge him, and while a state legislator he voted dozens of times "present" in moves that would not reveal support for or opposition to an issue or position.
Among the subjects of those questions are:
- Frank Marshall Davis, a communist poet and journalist from Chicago who moved to Hawaii. He ghost-wrote a pornographic novel titled "Sexual Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet)." He also sold drugs from a Chicago-style hot dog stand while Obama and Obama's grandfather were present, according to allegations made by WND private investigator hired in Hawaii. According to Obama's autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," Davis was a close confident to Obama, influencing Obama's ideas on radical racial relations. He is deceased.
- Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael and Frantz Fanon were three radical, anti-white black rage authors Obama tells readers influenced him as a youth. Black-rage attitudes developed by reading these authors influenced both Obama's decision to become a radical community organizer in Chicago and to join Rev. Jeremiah Wright's black liberation theology Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
- Saul Alinksy. Obama's first job in Chicago was to head the Alinsky-influenced Developing Community Project, Inc. Obama also participated in teaching Alinsky-methods of radical income redistribution in classroom settings. Obama's current policies of "distributing wealth" stem from anti-capitalist attitudes developed in studying Alinsky's radical works, such as his seminal book entitled "Rules for Radicals."
- Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Pastor for 20 years while Obama was a practicing member of black liberation theology at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama heard anti-white, black-rage theology from Wright. First indication Obama was Christian was when he was baptized in his 30s as a member of United Church of Christ. Obama separated from congregation at Trinity United Church of Christ after Rev. Wright came under criticism, although Obama has yet to reject black liberation theology.
- William Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn. Members of the SDS-affiliated radical Weather Underground in the 1960s and 1970s. Obama began his political career at Ayers' home in 1995 when running for the Illinois state senate. Obama served with Ayers on two Chicago foundations, the Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund, giving millions in grants to radicalized programs in Chicago's schools. Obama now claims to disavow Ayers' radical politicals.
- Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. He's a Luo tribesman affiliated with Obama's father when Odinga's communist father was Kenya's first vice president after Kenyan independence and Obama's father was a Harvard-educated economist working in the Jomo Kenyatta government. Obama campaigned openly for Odinga for president in 2006 when Obama was in Kenya on a U.S. Senate "fact-finding" mission. Kenya's president Kibaki asked Obama to stop interfering with Kenyan presidential politics. Obama raised an alleged $1 million for Odinga to run for president in Kenya in Dec. 2007, adding to the $1 million raised for Odinga's 2007 presidential campaign by Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. When Odinga lost the Dec. 2007 presidential election by approximately 233,000 votes, Odinga called for protests which led his Luo tribesmen to murder approximately 1,000 Kikuyu tribesman, displace another 350,000 Kikuyu tribesmen, and destroy 800 churches, while not a single mosque was destroyed. Obama helped negotiate a settlement in which Odinga was appointed co-head-of-state and appointed prime minister to end the violence, even after it became publicly disclosed Odinga signed a letter of understanding with radical Muslims in Kenya in return for their votes.
Finally, these are the top questions about Obama that remain unanswered:
- Why won’t Obama allow the public to see the doctor-generated, hospital releseased birth certificate?
- Was Obama born in Kenya or Hawaii, as his campaign continues to maintain?
- Was Obama officially adopted by his Muslim stepfather when he lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather, from the ages of approximately 6 to 10 years old?
- Did Obama ever renounce his U.S. passport? Has Obama ever traveled internationally on a passport other than a U.S. State Department-issued passport?
- Did Obama travel to Pakistan as a student on a U.S. passport, or on an Indonesian passport? Why did Obama travel to Pakistan, who did he visit there and what was the purpose of the trip?
- How did Obama pay his tuition at the exclusive high school preparatory Punahou Academy he attended in Hawaii, as well as his college tuition at Occidental in California and at Columbia at New York?
- How did Obama pay his tuition at Harvard Law School?
- Why will Obama release none of the school records at any of the schools he attended?
- Obama’s school records in Indonesia show that at both the Catholic and public school he attended there he was registered as a “Muslim” and an “Indonesian Citizen.” Was Obama ever officially instructed in Islam, even in elementary school?
- Why has Obama refused to discuss the clients he served when he worked for the law firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland in Chicago?
- Was Obama ever compensated by Tony Rezko on the millions Rezko borrowed to redevelop the low-income housing projects in Chicago that Rezko evidently defrauded of the improvements contracted by Obama's firm to be made in the low-income projects involved?
- Has Obama’s campaign instituted sufficient fiscal controls to determine if any credit card contributions made to his 2008 presidential campaign have come illegally from foreign sources? Have any such foreign contributions been reported to Federal Election Commission authorities and returned, as required by federal law?
- Has Obama ever renounced Black Liberation Theology as espoused by chief Black Liberation Theologist Dr. James Cone?
- Has Obama ever renounced Islam?
- Why have the detailed minutes and funding activities of the Woods Fund and the Annenberg Challenge documents in which William Ayers and Barack Obama participated never been completely released to the public?
While no campaign probably ever will put to rest every question voters may have, these are significant in that the next occupant of the White House will be making decisions on the security of the nation and the life and death issues of society, decisions that in all likelihood will be influenced by the beliefs and positions of the president.
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