The Pastor has made his bed and now must lie in it.  He basically, threw down a gauntlet at Obama.  Obama had to react or be haunted by his former pastor thru all the remaining Dem contests.  Ok now everyone in the media can be happy, the candidate has condemned and has distanced himself from the preacher.

My question is--will this story die?  Or will the media want to keep it flowing?  If they do then my prediction that most or in the can for Clinton will move that much closer to being accurate.

Tags: media, obama, rev. wright, speech
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: grumpy

There is a new push in some states to outlaw those fake bull cajones hanging off the backs of 18-wheelers.  The consideration is to make them illegal and a fine would be implied for having them on a truck.

Ok, here we go again--a/holes trying to legislate good taste.  Where will it stop?  Will the outline of well endowed women be outlawed?  Or how about the old reliable, "S*hit happens"?  Or will political sayings that someone finds offensive.  My point is what they find offensive, does not necessarily mean that I find it so.

Where do we draw the line?  Or whose opinion is the right opinion? 

Tags: laws, opinions
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: aggravated

I am sorry but a week of energy saving techniques, shopping tips and all around environmental stories will do nothing but turn their logos of the companies green and waste their time.  Americans are not listening!  Americans will not listen!  They go about their pathetic little lives not knowing that they and their buds overseas are destroying the planet.  They want everybody else to do a part while they continue those little lives.

Every bit of this crap going on now could have been avoided in 1976 or so, when we told the people what was happening and what the outcome was gonna be.  NO ONE LISTENED!  And now they still do not listen.  Oh, they know what is going on with the Ozone and such, but it is not their problem.  It is ALWAYS someone else problem.

Sure we have an Earth Day and the media gives up a week and calls it "Green Week", but what will that accomplish?  NOT A THING!  Everyone will sit around and discuss it for that week and then go out and buy another 4 gallon per mile vehicle, because it is cool.  Pathetic little people.

NOTE:  since the wolf is off the endangered species list--it is somehow ok to use snares on them and poison them.  Why?  Your beef!  Ranchers have been wanting to kill all wolves--even though there are programs for them to be reimbursed for any losses that may have been had by the wolves.  There is your sympathetic population.

Tags: domestic policy, environment, population
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: disappointed

Lots of sound bites have been flying all over the web about Obama and his bitter comment.  But so far my fav has been one made by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.  She said the people have guns and shoot not because they are bitter but because it is who they are and it is part of them.

Thinking.............Thinking......................

I will agree with her on part of her statement--the part that it is who they are----but if we look at the news in places like Colombine and Va. Tech and the rest of such attacks then I have to say that the are ANGRY and bitter or why else would they want to do such a terrible thing.

I know that is semantics, but she made a sweeping statement that was just that a statement that pandered to the gun owners just to get a few more votes.  Yes, it is that important that she get those few more votes and at any cost.

Tags: clinton, guns, speech, voters
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: blues

This election season is a fight all the way to the convention.  Well maybe all the way to Kentucky, anyway.  But let us say the democratic nominee loses the General to McCain.  What will happen to that person?  Look back at past Dem losers, they have not gotten a second chance.  So if Hillary is the nominee loses then she is screwed as far as another run for the Presidency.  There are seldom any second chances.  But Obama, if he does not make the cut in the nomination process, then he is the logical frontrunner in 4 yrs.  But if he is the nominee in the Fall and loses to McCain, then his message of change, hope and optimism will die in the battlefield of the election.

It depends on what you want now.  Do you want to attempt the change thingy, then Obama is your best shot at it.  But let me say that IMO, change will not come overnight, if at all, no matter which of the three you vote into office.  Why?  NO GUTS!

Tags: candidates, elections, presidential politics, voters
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: grumpy
Current Music: nothing

I was reviewing some notes that I took last week and thought I would just comment on some of the stuff.

The Pope--I bet that American Catholics were just thrilled.  But the media turned it into some pomp and ceremony reality show.  Kinda like when the Queen shows up and we have to watch her do everything but take a leak.  But like a friend of mine keeps saying to me, TMI.  OK, the Pope's visit was important, I am not trying to say it was not, but did we need endless streaming video of him?  NO!  If I am not mistaken there are a bunch of pro-religion stations on the cable, let them carry the guys total visit, and keep the news stations open for news and stuff.

Next--the word "BITTER".  This word created a weeks worth of reporting.  I will agree that the use of the word was unfortunate, but not a weeks worth of unfortunate.  Most pundits went on and on and on......all it did was make me think that he was lucky he did niot use the word, "F*CK"!

All this is just silly--nothing is accomplished by this type of stuff.  But then the cable media is never about substance, they is why Britany is such a great topic for them.

Tags: bovine fecal matter, media, news, reporting
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: THe Clash

Tee-hee!  I heard somebody's surrogate, who knows whose, there are so damn many coming at us from every angle, say that the campaigns are not ugly or dirty or negative.  That they were addressing th urgent issues of the season.  And that the in- fighting was bring more light onto the pressing issue of the country.

IMO, pressing issues are education, immigration, health care and war, not utter bullsh*t like Bosnia, or a comment or a bowling score or who shots Crown.  To tell the people that the campaigns are addressing the real issues of the day is just delusional.

Even an ex-president is telling the media to stop looking for dirt and move on to urgent issues.  That is just rich on so many levels.  One, the media does not want to address the issues, they prefer to dwell on the crap.  The candidates also do noit want to address the issues, they prefer to trade punches on personal level.

Neither the media nor the candidates are speaking to the issues that the people are concerned with, only in some small union hall stump speech.  Lots of cheering and applause but nothing of substance.

Tags: campaigns, candidates, elections, issues, voters
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: disappointed

The Bush administration said Monday that releasing the names of White House visitors would jeopardize the president's ability to seek confidential advice.

Tags: president, public information, secrecy, white house
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Current Mood: pessimistic

An interesting question.  Some have already pledged, but the remaining undecided were polled by AP.  But only 117 would actually responded.  Of those that replied the answwers were thusly:

"AP reporters across the nation contacted the undecideds and asked them how they plan to choose. Of those, 117 agreed to discuss the decision-making process.

*About a third said the most important factor will be the candidate who, they believe, has the best chance of beating Republican John McCain in the general election.

*One in 10 said the biggest factor will be the candidate with the most pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses.

*One in 10 said what matters most is who won their state or congressional district in the primary or caucus."

Only 1 in 10 said the pledged delegate count mattered? What happened to the will of the people? And if the pledged delegates from the primaries and caucuses matter so little, weren’t they just a waste of time? Why not do away with primaries and just let the superdelegates decide the nominee. This seems to take the democracy out of the Democratic party.

Will these delegates overturn the will of the people?  If they do, it could lead to a massive defection from the Party and the death of the Party.  Repubs are just foaming at the mouth at the tone the Dems are taking with each other.  If it keeps up, the Dem. nominee will have to drag themselves to the fight for the presidency.  McCain has got to be very pleased at the fighting and the loss of support for the Dems.

Tags: campaigns, candidates, delegates, elections, voters
Current Location: Gulfport, MS
Current Mood: aggravated

Seems that an ultimatum has been issued by al-Sadr

The head of the most powerful Shia militia in Iraq has threatened all-out war in a final ultimatum unless Iraqi and US forces halt operations against his fighters.

The prospect of a showdown with the al-Mahdi Army of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who launched two uprisings against US forces in 2004, comes as fears mount of a renewed campaign of bloodletting by Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda.

An upsurge in violence on these two, key fronts could unravel a raft of security gains made by the US military over the past year, at a time when more than 20,000 US troops are withdrawing from the country.

Hojatoleslam al-Sadr issued his threat to Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, last night as operations against his forces continued in the southern oil-hub of Basra, the Baghdad slum of Sadr City and elsewhere

Things are getting dicey in Iraq and at a time when the War was taking a back burner to the US economy.  This could be disasterous for McCain if it continues and the War becomes a major issue in the Fall.

Tags: al-sadr, elections, iraq, mccain, militias
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Current Music: Blues