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November 30, 2009 - Monday 

Category: News and Politics



Chris Matthews badgers Bishop Tobin

Ever since his move to the dark side at MSNBC Chris Matthews has demonstrated a near
total disregard for a thing called objectivity. Remember that? It seems almost quaint these
day's anymore that a person professing to practice sound journalism today would once find
objectivity so important. On November 23rd Chris Matthews interviewed the Bishop Thomas
Tobin on the Bishop's position that Rep. Patrick Kennedy avoid Holy Communion because
of Rep. Patrick Kennedy's support for abortion rights. What follows is next is disgraceful,
totally disrespectful, and shows what a partisan bigot Mr. Matthews has become.

Viewing this video one could feel sorry for the Bishop having stumbled into enemy
territory, ambushed then badgered with the full force of a hyper aggressive prosecuting
attorney and having to endure the likes of Matthews to dare preach morality to a Bishop
of all things! One can plainly see Matthews took it too far, for far too long, long after the
point was soundly made. I submit this is just another example of where the secular
Left feels it may impugn at its leisure any religion, and Christians in particular, if merely
for sport. As a final note, as part of my research, I find Matthews is a Catholic, then he
clearly should have known better.
November 11, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: News and Politics
Now to say, just because a story isn't new don't mean it ain't news to me!
I got this story from a new friends blog and I was so ASTONISHED I had not heard of it I
felt I needed to give the whole news story a vital redux if I might be indulged s bit. Here
is the clip that threw me for a loop!



So now we know just why those banks who took bailout monies were clamoring to return it
all ahead of schedule, and why the Administration took them to task for thinking an early re-payment
of taxpayer money might spare them the kind of government intervention that dared to topple
GM's chief executive position! And how on earth did they accomplish that Coup De Gras in the
first place? I sincerely hope none of you participated in the "Cash for Suckers" program.
Like with everything this Administration does there always seems to be a dark greasy hidden agenda
that wants to get it's hooks into you before you really see it coming. And once they do, good luck
trying to get it out! They want you, and now your computer, for GOOD! Watch these snakes
like a hawk at every turn, do not turn your back on them for a second! I hate to say it
but when you turn on the light anymore, those roaches just stand their ground and not run away!
We gotta get some stronger spray!
November 4, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: News and Politics

Critical Thinking: The careful and deliberate determination
of whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment

about a claim.

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I think enough time has passed where I can view this incident in it's proper light. Not as
some would think with my anger placed squarely upon the parents of the male child who
was used as a pawn in a media stunt when the parents called the FAA before contacting
911 emergency services AND the local media alleging that his 6 year old boy must have
stowed away inside a "flying saucer" style helium filled balloon that allegedly broke free
and floated thousands of feet high at times over rural Colorado until it eventually soft
landed in a plowed field and surprise? Emergency services swarmed the scene in or
surrounded by nearly every single emergency and media helicopter in the state only to
find no 6 year on board. Police swiftly then searched the home of the family involved
only to find the male child hiding in a garage loft area. In an interview the child let the
cat out of the bag admitting to going along with a hoax staged mostly by the father
to promote a reality type show he was trying to sell with all the free publicity he could
illegally muster.

My problem here is with the accomplice who got away scott free, no neither parent is
likely to escape prosecution. My beef is with the actions of the media outlets who held
America in effect hostage for the better part of an afternoon on a wild goose chase!
Are these reporters sans two synapses to rub together these days? what ever happened
to critical thinking? That balloon was not nearly large enough to loft a medium sized
rabbit let alone a 6 year old child! Come on! And let's suppose there was a lighter than
air kid on board, the helium on board would have killed him within a couple of minutes
of being inside. Helium is non toxic, but it will displace oxygen enough to suffocate things
that need oxygen to live.

I submit I believe the reporters were making a story where a mediocre one existed. It
was a field day for live news that afternoon across the nation. I have no doubt ratings
spiked that day for that time frame. Few reporters were ever questioned about their
part in a uncoordinated assist in foisting that particular hoax upon us all, those few that
did respond had only that "Everybody did it!" to say for themselves. That lame excuse
wouldn't even fool my old mother I would have got my butt paddled for the blaming
others gig instead of taking responsibility for what I had done.
October 20, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: News and Politics
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....KIDS...BEHAVE!...BECAUSE IF I HAVE TO STOP THIS CAR!....
Can somebody please tell me what the hell is going on within the Obama administration as
of late? If you have not been watching this sad debacle unfold you are either not watching
any news outlets at all to miss this, or just not watching Fox News because there is a WAR
going on! And I am not referring to Iraq or Afghanistan or even the new widening war
about to envelop the border areas of Pakistan, no. This here is a New Civil War waged
right in the United States! The Obama Administration, frankly realizing their well laid plans
for an enforced socialist nanny state within our borders might never come to fruition if the
sole remaining news outlet continuing to report the news, Fox News, continues to reveal
the sorted truth behind the Administrations dark, and formerly hidden agenda. One by
one those pesky Czars, and the Obama inner circle are revealed for what they are and what
they represent, and then are promptly discharged by the White House without adequate or
any truthful explanations as to why the dismissals were deemed necessary. All this from the
administration supposedly embodying a new-found openness and clarity. This steadfast
refusal of Fox to play ball and give Obama the "Perma-Pass" from any and all critical
reporting is apparently a betrayal of sorts felt by the President, not to be tolerated by
the person holding the highest, most powerful position on the planet! The other toadying
and cynical News outlets have already voluntarily surrendered their obligation to you
and America at large, having taken sides well before the election last November. This
revealing of once held secret agendas and the unforgivable piecemeal dismantling of his

Elite Architects of DOOM, RE: those un-vetted Czars, has revealed the irrational, thin
skinned, vindictive and petulant side of Barack Obama.


OK, Let's do this right!
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war!

On Tuesday, October 13th, Anita Dunn, the White House communications director threw
herself into the breach in this new war of censorship incarnate by throwing down the
gauntlet on Fox in this opening salvo. Proclaiming in a press briefing, and with a straight
face mind you:

"The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or
the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it's not ideological, but what I
think is fair to say about Fox, and certainly the way we view it, is that it's really more a
wing of the Republican Party. If you were a Fox News viewer in the fall election, what
you would have seen would have been that the biggest stories and biggest threats
facing America were a guy named Bill Ayers and something called ACORN.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel blurted the official party line to Fox competitor
CNN's "State of the Union" that Obama considers Fox News "not a news organization so
much as it has a perspective."


"And that's a different take," What? Supposedly compared to those other outlets already in
rapturous communion with the High Holy One perhaps?



Obama's number one and closest of his advisers, David Axelrod, towed the party line with
this little gem to ABC's "This Week" that Fox
"is really not news. it's pushing a point of
view."


Are we seeing a pattern here?

Deeming that incendiary diatribe insufficient, the Obama/Acorn gang blackballed Fox
News from any future interviews with the President and has not accepted requests from
Fox for months.



The retaliation from Fox was as swift as it was damaging. Glenn Beck, a meteorically
rising star in the Fox team struck back with embarrassing footage of Anita Dunn in HER
OWN WORDS proclaiming from a podium that her favorite political philosophers were
Mother Teresa, OK, nice safe choice, nobody doesn't like Mother Teresa, and (Drum roll
please!)Mao Tse Tung! Former Chinese leader and revolutionary having laid waste to an
estimated 70 or so MILLION deaths!

In her own words:

"A lot of you have a great deal of ability," Dunn said. "A lot of you work hard. Put them
together and that answers the ‘why not' question. There's usually not a good reason and
then the third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political
philosophers - Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other but
the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is you're
going to make choices. You're going to challenge. You're going to say why not. You're
going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before, but here's the
deal."

It is quite likely Mr. Beck will eventually have Ms. Dunn's head upon a pike as a war
trophy in this war of attrition. The strange thing is why didn't we hear of these odd ball

"Obmanations" when they first permeated the Oval Office and are the first to have the
ears of the President?

Why indeed?

"Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel"
Mark Twain

This is not over, not by a longshot!
October 12, 2009 - Monday 

Category: News and Politics
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OK, I confess, there was no Nobel Peace Prize to be found in
my morning cereal. But what if there was? I hear they are giving those
things away like gangbusters to people who haven't yet done
enough to deserve one, and under those substantially lowered
criteria I would certainly qualify as much as anybody! In fact,
I would presume to give our President a real run for his money
in the whole, "Not having done nearly enough to earn a Nobel
Prize."and I am playing to win here people!

But before I get ahead of myself here people, for the ones who
missed this just godawful tragedy of Nobel Laureate proportions
let me try and fill you in. On Friday the 8th of October the
President of the United States awoke to find out he was the
latest recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize for...umm...peace? No,
that cannot be right, we still have real, persistent conflicts
on two fronts, the Iraq war and a wholesale escalation of
the fighting in Afghanistan PLUS a promise to spread the war to the
Pakistan border regions. That must have been what the Nobel
Committee had in mind handing over the Peace Prize for such a
peace mongering guy as Obama? Let me tell you it gets worse.

The deadline for Peace Prize nominations was Feb.1st, less than
TWO WEEKS after the Obama presidency began! So what on
earth did the Nobel committee base their decision to nominate upon?
The Nobel committee said its decision to honor the president
was motivated by, "Obama's initiatives to reduce nuclear arms,
ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy
and cooperation rather than unilateralism."
All this gleaned a scant two weeks into a presidency? Someone
better tell those Ivory Tower Nobel Committee members the difference
between a campaign pledge made of whole cloth to fool unwary voters,
and a solemn pledge to enact as they say, provisions and laws
made by an honest, forthright and trustworthy candidate.
It is fairly obvious the committee members bought into Obama's
campaign promises hook line and sinker without consideration of
our unique election cycle deception of a candidates intentions
unless the, "less than candid" candidates feet are held firmly
to the fire after his or her winning of the election.

Now some I have heard tell think that the loss of the Olympics
was the impetus behind the lowering of the standards, a consolation prize
of sorts, this is a thought I have trouble wrapping my head
around and would prefer to ignore until better evidence persuades me.


I leave you with a collection of applicable quotable quotes,
...may God have mercy on our souls...

President Obama said Friday he was "most surprised and deeply humbled"
to win the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, adding that he accepts the honor
as "a call to action to confront the common challenges of the 21st century."

"I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many
transformative figures that have been honored by this prize,"
The president also said.

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama
captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a
better future," said Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Committee.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded the change in global mood
wrought by Obama's calls for peace and cooperation, but recognized
initiatives that have yet to bear fruit,in "Reducing the world stock
of nuclear arms, easing American conflicts with Muslim nations
and strengthening the U.S. role in combating climate change."

"So they were had, the Nobel Committee, HAD!" Ira Hays, amateur blogger at large.

"So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far. He is still
at an early stage. He is only beginning to act," said former
Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate.

"This is probably an encouragement for him to act. Let's see if
he perseveres. Let's give him time to act," Walesa said.


Come to think of it, just where is that breakfast cereal carton?
I could be missing out! LMAO!
September 29, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: News and Politics

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE


FROM THOSE ENTRUSTED TO KNOW BETTER


Please let there be a very special place in hell for those

who would propagandize young impressionable school

children. Kids are a captive audience at school, where a

naive and eager to please spirit can be easily channeled by

those we place our trust in to teach without agenda and

never attempt to indoctrinate under the guise of education.

The above clip was recorded at the B. Bernice Young

Elementary School in Burlington, N.J.was released just two

days before the Presidents controversial speech at public

school raised suspicions in some parents that some type of


political manipulation upon children might be attempted.

The first despicable thing the school did upon hearing the

building uproar of outraged parents demanding answers was

to pin the writing of the song upon the children. This is

as ridiculous as it is insulting. To lie is one thing, but

to hide behind grade school kids in your charge is

appalling. Below is a full text of the lyrics and you be

the judge if they seem more the likely product of another

totally obsessed Obama worshiper as teacher, pushing...um

....less than whole truths about the achievements of our

standing President.




Song 1:

Mm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama



He said that all must lend a hand

To make this country strong again

Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama



He said we must be fair today

Equal work means equal pay

Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama



He said that we must take a stand

To make sure everyone gets a chance

Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama



He said red, yellow, black or white

All are equal in his sight

Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama



Yes!

Mmm, mmm, mm

Barack Hussein Obama




Song 2:


Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!

For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"



Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!

The first black American to lead this great nation!



Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans

To make this country's economy number one again!



Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!

And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!



So continue ---- Mr. President we know you'll do the trick

So here's a hearty hip-hooray ----



Hip, hip hooray!

Hip, hip hooray!

Hip, hip hooray!





I did not have access to the video of the second song as

of this posting, if I find a embeddable copy I will place

it here. Back to the lyrics, does not the sounding of Mmmmm

mmmmm, mmm! remind you of some sound someone would make if

eating something utterly delicious? Yeah, me too! That

too adds to the creepy surreal nature of the video clip.


For those of us who are less "lyrically observant" lol, as

my sorry idiot savant ass when it comes to song lyrics,

the above was lifted directly from the spiritual "Jesus

Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced

with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are

equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."

OK, even more creepiness there folks to add to the

rather large "Heap-O-Creep" we have here already


More Heap-O-Creepiness below in list form for brevity's sake.


1. The school refuses to acknowledge that the events on the


tape even occurred.

2. They refuse to admit whether or not information concerning

the activity, and the right of a family or child to opt out of

it, was made available.

3. They refuse to admit whether or not the children were

offered other options, as opposed to being forced to memorize

the words, "Hello, Mr. President, we honor you today! For all

your great accomplishments we all do say "hooray!" Hooray, Mr.

President, you're number one!

4. The spokesperson at B. Bernice Elementary school said the

school was aware of, and considering taking actions against,

the persons "who illegally taped and distributed a video

recording of a private class activity."


All I can say is thank you to You Tube, for allowing

ordinary people to share what the liberal elite media would

rather stuff under the carpet once they took sides in

American Politics since before our last election.

More thanks go out to Fox news for bravely doing what the other

media outlets will not do, present the facts, the truth, in a

fair and balanced way. I don't know if one news channel can

save America from the latest liberal/socialist onslaught,

but at least we might perish in full knowledge of how and why.

Ira
September 21, 2009 - Monday 

Category: Automotive
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    I took a fast drive in a real fast car,

mine,

if you are new to my gig.

A series of bold canyon flights

made there just before light

broke the sky

in an Easterly blaze all of crimson.

With my heart in my ears,

I carved corners, shifting gears,

synchronized to that engine's cacophonous howl.

In what some would call drastic,

I tell you,

I tripped the night fantastic,

a dance of a sort kin only to dreaming.

Then caught in an instant

 drawn out like thousand fold,

 and expanded as if in slow motion,

fluid motion ahead, yet before I had said,

"HOLY CRAP!" there I was,

 all amongst them,

eye to eye with a predators gaze.

The Coyote out here

live a life short on fear

and at six,

to a pack,

well,

 I was mostly outnumbered.

But they broke to the flanks

as I carved through their ranks,

all for an instant,

we shared the same path,

and acknowledged one another,

as if all in a surreal

glorious kind of dream.

 My back of my neck hair bristled,

My fingers slightly trembled,

perched,

 in the cool night's slipstream of air

above the open expanse of the windshield...

Seldom have I felt so very alive...


July 22, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: Blogging

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Yes, it looks innocent enough, it looks like a lot of fun, and it was back then.
Made by that amazing company WHAM-O Toys who brought you the Hula Hoop,
the Frisbee flying disk among many others. You undoubtedly owned something they
made if you weren't raised in a remote cave somewhere outside the Continental
U.S. of A. The toy company was even the real deal manufacturer featured in the
movie, The Hudsucker Proxy, even though the company name was changed in
that movie for obvious reasons. WHAM-O seemed to have it's finger upon the
pulse of American buyers for decades it might seem. Few other toy companies
would dare to charge several dollars for a cheap plastic disk that cost mere
pennies to produce and patterned after the Frisbee Pie bakery's entirely metal
pie tin that college students popularized by throwing them back and forth
between friends as a sport of sorts.

But back to the toy in question, the Water Wriggle, just seven feet of plastic
flexible tubing with a garden hose adapter on one end and an aluminum jet nozzle
attached to a red plastic "head" on the other end, with a comically smiling face
printed upon that vinyl head. When connected to the water supply of your garden
hose it will loft itself upon that jet of water and fly randomly about spraying
anyone close by in a water wetting experience that is a welcome cooling
sensation in the heat of summer. I never thought for one second it might turn 
on me in a violent, almost predatory fashion right in my own front yard!
I fully intended to present this somewhat humorously, if you cannot laugh
at yourself sometimes you become a overly serious stick in the mud, fully
needing to be laughed AT if not with, if you cannot see the humor in your
own follies and foibles!

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July 21, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Automotive
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Ode to a Roadster

Man and machine
work as one it might seem,
when we mesh it's a true revelation.
It's a  joy and my Muse
to this cockpit recluse
and one hell of a driving sensation.

A Dancer on point,
or some venomous Wraith?
Found at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Be she good or a bitch,
she just scratches that itch
I had so very long you can't possibly fathom

Yes that Roadster is small,
a back seat?
Not at all!
Surely just enough car to surround me,
counting only two seats
'tween four sizable meats,
winds an engine confined
under hood, as it were only barely,
Vtek cams 'twill avail
prodigious power prevails
though it wails just as loud as a Banshee!

My girl frets to discover
have I taken a lover?
Competition for all her affections?
For the truth is bizarre
I'm in love with that car,
like a Mistress, on closer reflections.

Might some have it worse than me?
a sub conscience auto erotic adversity?
Are there tombs on this type of addiction?
Mentioned not? I won't care
now I'm singularly self aware
of my mecha-mechano-affliction.

Might I hope to divulge,
lest I over indulge,
on the joy that my Roadster provides me,
Oh, I just feel so alive
on another great drive
for as long as that road's oh so curvy.

To that Roadster and me,
glued together you see.
With nary a gap found between us,
best of both back to back
where there's never a lack
when it's put to the road fully furious,
Is it Honda or me,
I can't actually see
where I start or might end it's so curious.

Man and machine
work as one it might seem,
when we mesh it's a true revelation.
It's a  joy and my Muse
to this cockpit recluse,
you'll find me so complete, in my passion!

June 15, 2009 - Monday 

Current mood:  disgusted
Category: News and Politics

IF I DIDN'T SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYES I WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT!


ACTUALLY, I STILL DON'T BELIEVE IT NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I SEE IT!


  

OBAMA AS GOD?

 



My friends, this is truly one of those moments like in The Wizard of OZ where little Toto
pulls away the green curtain and reveals that The Great and Powerful OZ
was not some all powerful genie, like the green smoke and fire works enshrouded
swell headed bellowing bellicose alter ego OZ that scared the wits out of me as a
child, but merely the deceptive smoke and mirrors obscuring that of an ordinary
con man.

To me, our national media outlets since the last few years have tried to have it both
ways, first, hiding behind the degenerate mantle of objectivity and
professionalism in reporting that might have had some traction years back when
they bothered to practice it, and second, foolishly throwing all that
professionalism and objective standards of reporting away in a headlong desire to
promote and defend and worship, all things OBAMA! Even when it will surely
swiftly cost them their professional reputations in entirety through the process of
playing favorites, parroting without any reserved judgment the myriad anti
conservative polemics directly from the liberal playbook provided them, and
withholding anything even approaching that of critical reporting on any White
House policy.

If you have not seen this for yourself in the traditional media news outlets skewing any
and all reporting to the far left of center in some sort of a surreal synchronized
partisan glee I ask, where the hell have you been?

Even if you voted for the president last election you surely must feel some sense of the
impropriety in the countless unconstitutional over-reaching policies and "not in
any of the enumerated powers" totally unchecked political power grabbing,
codifying the Statist Progressive Political agenda found central in so much of this
young Presidents political bag of tricks.

To prove my point of a sycophant and no less than a blindly worshiping press corps
trying to pass as fair and balanced, I offer this little gem. On the June 5th
broadcast of Chris Matthews' Hardball, Newsweek's Editor Evan Thomas curiously
and conspicuously let his guard down and boldly said what he truly believes about
our current President, and gave us all a brief but telling glimpse of the utterly
corrupt and misguided collective Media mindset found behind the stupendously
high level of unrepentant Media Bias found out there today to attempt swaying
public opinion. This is what transpired on a portion that televised broadcast.

EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that
way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We're seen too
often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was
all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’
We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We
stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country,
above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-

MATTHEWS: Yeah.


THOMAS: He's going to bring all different sides together. It's a very different-

MATTHEWS: Can he – well, here’s Ronald Reagan. Let's take a look, a little Friday night
nostalgia. Here he is speaking about peace and reconciliation at Normandy back
25 years ago. Let's listen.

RONALD REAGAN: But we try always to be prepared for peace, prepared to deter
aggression, prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms, and, yes, prepared to
reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we
would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union so together we
can lessen the risks of war now and forever.

MATTHEWS: Let's talk about the difference. He was talking about the evil empire, trying
to reconcile with the people of Russia and the Soviet Union, but not the country.
Barack Obama the other day was saying, yesterday, that we don't have an
enemy out there per se. We have people who choose extremism, but Islam’s not
our enemy. That's not the evil empire.

THOMAS: But Reagan did it with a very – for the first term it was a clenched fist. I
mean, we ramped up the cold war before we ramped it down. We built up our
military. We – all of this D-day stuff was about war. That was about fighting.

MATTHEWS: Right.

THOMAS: Reconciliation only after the fighting. That's not – Obama’s not doing that.
Obama – we've had our fighting. Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything
down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He's all about let
us reason together. I think he has a much tougher job, frankly, because-

MATTHEWS: What's his shtick? Reagan had the United States arms race, winning the
arms race. And we had the threat of high frontier, we were going to beat the
Soviets at technology.

THOMAS: I don't think he has – his shtick is he's the teacher. He's the teacher. He is
going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he
has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that-

MATTHEWS: If there's a world election between him and Osama Bin Laden, he's running
a good campaign.

THOMAS: Yes, he is.


"I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

Above the country? Above the WORLD? REALLY? One could see how the media could
believe that Obama could be above and beyond the LAW? Above the
Constitution? Clearly beyond the soon to be overturned limitations on a
governments power in that oh-so troublesome "Bill of Rights" that Obama finds so
darned inconvenient these days.

These are the telltale marks of the Progressive Movement, once thought long past into
the dustbin of our collective political history, but the ideals of that movement
were only carefully hidden and obfuscated deep within the Liberal wing of the
modern Democratic Party. This deception is a political necessity of sorts today
because it would be disastrous to the current Democratic Party office holders to
be holding such incredibly radical, anti-American, anti-Constitutional,
pro-
Totalitarian style, all encompassing governmental expansion beyond all
checks and balances, as their true core belief system.

This new huge swing toward the Progressive ideal could only be attempted here and
now if the press abdicates it's longstanding traditional watchdog reporting duties
and chooses sides, unduly and negatively influencing our elections, and playing
political favorites, like it has done in favor of the very "above our country",
"above the entire world", "God like in his unlimited reach and infinite powers,"
worship of the OBAMA PRESIDENCY!
Come on, he is just a man, a deceptive, manipulative, and unrepentantly oblivious to
the solemn oaths he took upon his inauguration to defend the Country and the
Constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic.

OK, RANT OVER! lol

P.S. More of same, to same! "Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do."
? The Oh-So very quotable, Evan Thomas, once again, responding to a question
on whether the medias unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington,
February 2, 2007.

What a difference in attitude on just two President's terms, huh?

And here is the televised video clip of the June 5th Hardball for your viewing enjoyment!

Currently listening:
Black Holes and Revelations
By Muse
Release date: 2006-07-11
May 19, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Life
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I recently had to contemplate just how much a search
engine like Google makes me a more powerful writer,
researcher, and a human being clearly to be reckoned with
for that matter. This augmentation
of a persons ability
to find, learn and apply knowledge from the vast
accumulated reservoir of nearly everything knowable,  made
easily accessible by way of the internet is a vast increase
of an individual's potential scope unprecedented in all
of recorded human history, it is that fundamental of a
change I believe. Now all that information made available
would be of little value if you couldn't find that which
you seek, and drowning in a ocean of information you do not
want is no advantage either.

I mention Google only because I believe they might do this
search engine thing the best currently for a general
purpose search engine. I use it as a fact checker, a spell
checker,(Yes I really do, it is unusually strong in
offering the correct words and any possible alternatives,
even if I am not very close at all to the correct spelling!)
Google's vast and supremely powerful retrieval programs
known as Internet Spiders swiftly and eternally webcrawl
the length and breadth of the vast internet and return
website information to a sizeable repository which you
access whenever you push the send button to start a search.
These Internet Spider webcrawler programs periodically
revisit the same web sights to update any new content and
delete broken links whenever found.
May 8, 2009 - Friday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy
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The above image is a smaller version of the enormous one below, courtesy of NASA and the truly
remarkable Hubble Space Telescope. The orbiting telescope is the namesake of ground
breaking astronomer Edwin Hubble 1889-1953 (aged 63), and one that has quite literally opened
our eyes to the universe. I admire the remarkable achievements accomplished by this visionary
astronomer, it was from his observations at the Hale Telescope at Mt.Wilson Ca. that he
discovered that the universe was populated by other galaxies outside of our own Milky Way.
Boy, was that ever an understatement!
He also found that the universe was expanding outward in all directions, implying that in the past
the universe was much smaller, and leading to the conclusion that there was an origin to all that is now.
 
I really wish he could have lived to enjoy the vast cornucopia of eye popping images the Hubble
Telescope provides, I know he would have got a kick out of it!


It took everything I know to post this remarkable image I downloaded from http://hubblesite.org
The image was compiled from 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 orbits around the
earth for a total time of exposure of 11.3 days! They call this and others the Hubble Ultra Deep
Field ,HUDF series of images and reveal a very narrow, incredibly deep view of  a much younger
universe than the one we see around us. There are nearly 10,000 galaxies in this image, most
unfortunately lost due to the size restraints and the resolution of your monitor.

The smallest reddest galaxies are amongst the oldest and distant things known, these relics,
seen when the entire universe was only some 800 million years old, or a paltry 1.7% of it's current
age. The nearest galaxies, the larger brighter, more detailed ones, shaped in spirals and elliptical
are but a mere billion years in age, to put this in context, our universe is an estimated 14 billion
years of age, so those old red galaxies were some of the first large scale structures coalescing
from the cataclysmic fury of the big bang.

I posted this image not for any one single thing to point to and say, WOW! Rather this is  to be
taken in it's entirety, a mere glimpse of the vastness upon vastness of all that is around us.
This entire view is only about what you might see if peering through a soda straw, one however,
that is eight feet long! An incredibly small patch of sky to hold so much.

So here is the only math, I swear!
1, There are 10,000 galaxies visible, each one harboring anywhere from one hundred billion
to four hundred billion individual stars a piece.
2, Our Milky Way Galaxy is an average one in size of more 100,000 light years across.
Just think of all that is visible when peering through your 8 foot long drinking straw,
and all that sky that a straw could be pointed at
and you get a glimpse of the vast majesty of our incredible universe and your place in it,

yes, and your straw!

All these objects visible are galaxies, not singular stars,
there are vastly more galaxies in a given patch of sky than
singular stars visible even on the best of viewing conditions.

Enjoy, remember this image has to be scrolled up, down, and side to side to see it all.

WOW!

lol
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May 2, 2009 - Saturday 

Category: News and Politics
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     First, lets take the Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano's egregious Intelligence Assessment of
returning veterans as possible terrorists in the proper
context. Sure, it sounds crazy, and by no uncertain terms
it IS crazy when viewed by today's place in history. But,
when viewed under the Obama vision of what he has planned
for you in your future, one could never say what would take
place under that most dystopian of visions he has conjured
for us all.

    No administration, Democrat OR Republican, could function on
the up and up and straight with the American people for
long when the National Mass Media decides to give the
ruling party and the reigning President a complete and
total pass for his administration. Power corrupts, always
has, and this president is edging towards absolute power if
judged by his first 100 extreme power grabbing days in high
office. And where in the enumerated powers of the president
are the ability to oust private industry leadership at
will? Did I have an obsolete copy of the Constitution I
wonder? This completely unchecked expansion of presidential
powers must end before irreparable damage is done to this
country! Democrats, don't you realize you are giving the
same powers to the next sitting Republican president? NPR?
PBS? MSNBC? Didn't think this one through altogether too
well, huh?

   Also missing from our national media outlets were mention of
these "Boston Tea Parties" but for the most disparaging of
remarks that could be afforded by our sycophant and
toadying press outlets. That is OK, I think Thomas Payne
might have been a royal pain to a press corps still loyal
to a foreign King, and these media outlets today have
chosen the wrong side in today's conflict  as well. Never
assume that you do not live in interesting times, my fellow
Americans, for a storm is a brewing not so very far upon
the horizon from where I can see. And it don't look
altogether
too pretty from here.

   All this "crazy" talk is dependent upon whether Obama is ready
and willing to step upon those "Third Rail" issues in
politics that will throw America down a dark and
precipitous road toward ruin, AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, He IS
prepared to go there. The repeal of the second amendment,
for all practical purposes. Funny, although his first
gambit that American gun prohibition might help a utterly
corrupt Mexican government defend itself better against
drug dealers fell flat upon it's laughable face! The
nationalization of the banking and heavy industry. This has
already gone on farther than anybody but the most ardent
Socialist's and Statist's amongst us should have allowed.
That a government, any government that purports to defend a
free people have the indignity to stipulate yours or
anybodies salary.  This is just the beginning folks, and I
dare say, not even close to the end!

   "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed, That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or
abolish it, and to institute new Government,"  Never assume
that you do not live in interesting times, my fellow
Americans, this vision is all but avoidable by the one
person who visited it upon all of us. Go ask Obama! Then
let's talk.
April 28, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: News and Politics
   Anybody watching the testimony of Al Gore on C-Span2
recently had to wince just a bit watching this posturing
blowhard cornered by ranking members of the House Energy
and Commerce Subcommittee and forced to defend his
dangerously misguided policies.  He did not represent
himself well at all. You could see the frustration in
Gore's demeanor having to repeat the same cartoonish
sloganeering  equivocating energy producers in this
country to a Bernie Maydolf,
ripping the country off while making a profit of all things imaginable!
Funny, this seemed to garner less and less traction for
poor Al every single time he repeated it, (there were many)
especially when he used it as a dodge to avoid answering
every single "Inconvenient Truth" he was not prepared to
answer lest his ruse of an "Undeniable Fact" of human
causation of impending ecological disaster be revealed for
what it is. A big fat lie!  I have watched science in this
and other countries convoluted  by the corrupt, corrosive
influences of politics holding the purse strings of grant
monies, sublimating the search of  hard facts and truths
for the codifying of any result the party dispensing the
cash requires. One just has to observe gas guzzeling Al,
jet setting around the globe, burning fossil fuels like it
was going out of style. lol And the extensive Gore Mansion
lit up like the Disneyland Electric Parade while he is
away, selling America out from underneath you all to an
envious and hostile world who would love nothing more than
to have this nation lie down and play dead while they catch
up and hopefully to Al, surpass us. That IS after all what
all this is really about, giving the third world a big leg
up on the first. Especially upon us, in evil America. This
garbage Gore is selling is world wide welfare at work here,
nothing else. Ever check and see who would actually have
been affected by the Kobe Protocols? Maybe you should, then
let's talk.
April 10, 2009 - Friday 

Category: News and Politics





    I never thought it could get this bad so fast. Sure, it has
always been there, lurking busily behind the implied veil
of journalistic integrity, namely, that of MEDIA BIAS!  It
used to do it's work cautiously in the shadows if left
unchallenged, sometimes collectively ignoring entire
news worthy stories if found inconvenient, or coloring
news content to conform to a twisted self loathing world
view widely promoted but not shared by the vast majority
of Americans.

    With the results of our last presidential election it seems 
something fundamental has changed  in the way our
mass media now views its role in politics and with 
America at large. It chose sides! Not only has it chosen
sides in the political debate, in clearly favoring their
candidate in the last election they managed to tilt public
opinion the 15 or more percentage points enough to hand
a victory to a candidate custom made by party handlers
to evade the true nature of  his makeup and currently
unfolding policies. The only way to elect a classic tax and
spend elitist bent on forcing a reluctant America down the
short road to collectivism, now that liberalism has been
identified as a pejorative, is to have a candidate no one
could possibly know anything about. Therein  lies the
genius of the Obama candidacy and now the Obama
Presidency, where his real lack of any political
experience or legislative mojo previously actually proved
a necessary plus on wheeling in this partisan Trojan
Horse on greased rails past a napping and enchanted
American voting public. This could only be accomplished
if the national media suspend their normal role as
watchdog, the only private industry actually codified in
our Constitution for that very roll, and switch to the
corrupt path of DNC party line apparatchiks. They sold
their only currency, that of a reputation, to foist upon us
all someone they wouldn't entertain any real doubts over
despite all the warning signs littering the long road to the
White House by the few media outlets not under lockstep
partisan lock down. Perhaps they didn't think things
through, was there any thoughts,"What then?" of after the
election? I now see this young, utterly in over his head
puppet of a President, in debt to a discredited old guard
deadwood Democratic party leadership, and now in need
of constant media trauma care handling for as far as the
eye can see lest he fail in this misbegotten administration
and the DNC once again fall from power for the
foreseeable future. If you look carefully you can see the
strain from the White House press Secretary, all the way
to the frustrated and increasingly defensive news outlets,
knowing this dog and pony show cannot continue
indefinitely even with all their immense persuasive media
powers engaged, as they already are, full strength.
Straining to keep a keen eye, like those circus performers
who balance many plates spinning upon long dowels, for
the exact moment  this skyscraper high house of cards
starts crumbling under it's own weight like it has to
eventually, and nothing then can stop it.