Obama Bin Laden - Real Terrorists Support FISA

I'd suggest that if you go by Molly Ivins standard (its funny when you make fun of people with power. its not funny when you make fun of people who don't have power) then Obama is completely fair game for the New Yorker or anyone else that wants to fake being funny on any given day of the week.



Obama has the Daley machine behind him. That may not seem like much on the East or West Coast but it has had substantial impact in Chicago and has screwed up more than one Presidential Election in the past.



Here is Daley the elder's response to Police that were in his opinion taking it too easy on African American rioters in Chicago following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.



"I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting."



That's the founder of the political machine that Obama works for and so its not terribly surprising when a number of Democrats today also get a little worried about the type of change that Barack Obama might bring to the White House. He may not appear to fit the mold, but he's got the deck about as stacked as you can get, he's more old school politician than Bill Clinton ever was by comparison.



The thing about satire and humor is that they usually only work when there is some truth behind them. So when a person looks at the New Yorker, if they see no truth in the image, its just not funny. Its pretty much nothing.



If a person looks at the cover and maybe unscrambles the secret code using a captain crunch decoder overlay, and realizes that this is supposedly about the deployment of fear politics against Obama then it might ring true just a bit and some one might find a little humor in it.



Absent any truth or truistic truism however, its just a little portion of complete fiction and in that its a waste of media.



Now as to the claims that various people make against Obama because of his name, his religion etc.



I personally don't care at all.



The reality is that he has the name that he has, and that name brings with it associations with islam even if Barack Obama himself claims no association.



His parents gave him a muslim name and so people are going to contemplate that implication from here until the cows come home. I find it extremely childish on his part that he tries to hide away from the fact that he has a middle name. He makes some pretty good jokes about his last name, but seems to fear joking about his own middle name.



That seems to highlight a personality flaw to me. Don't get me wrong, everyone is entitled to personality flaws, but in a Presidential candidate having a personality flaw that manifests in a fear of one's own middle name is definitely a weakness that political opponents will exploit.



Its kind of like that grade school bullying technique. If a bully picks on you and you cry, the bully will probably keep picking on you. Well, Obama has shown that when people pick on him about this issue, he will cry over and over again, and that is just going to incite more attacks. Its kind of strange that a person that is so adept in deflecting attack after attack can't seem to rise to the occasion to defend himself over a name that he has probably had to defend his entire life.



Now, to wrap up what is now a long winded reply. . . . ;0



I think the New Yorker magazine cover is far less controversial and far less harmful than Barack Obama's vote for FISA. If anything indicates that Barack Obama is a terrorist, its not his name or the way he looks, or the way he tags his wife in public, but IT the way he through the Constitution under the bus and gave George W Bush the signal to hit the gas is as much of a terrorist act as I've seen from anyone with a name that rhymes with Obama.

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Pelosi Pro Impeachment Finally

I have not yet finished turning all of the original articles of impeachment for George W Bush into audio, but there has been some progress made.



Nancy Pelosi now wants the Judiciary committee to take action on the impeachment of George W Bush. This is one of the most positive flip flops I've heard of in recent times and very welcome change of mind given the abundance of new facts about transgressions made by the Bush Administration.



Here's a quick interview also from Dennis Kucinich who has come out with a refined and more focused single article of impeachment to possibly move Congress past a tipping point of for Impeachment.







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HILL: Why do you think that it may have a chance? I understand you brought 30 articles of impeachment last time — just one this time. What happened to the other 29?

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KUCINICH: Well, this article that — I just came from the Florida House so — where I introduced it. It is very narrowly focused. It's about the communication that the president made to the Congress, a specific message asking for Congress to pass an authorization for the use of force, in which certain representations were made that would induce Congress to vote for the legislation. And categorically, the key representations that were made were false, I stated so, and provided the sources for my article on the floor of the House just moments ago.



HILL: So did you pick the article you thought was the strongest and then just decide to go with that one this time?



KUCINICH: Well, I'll tell you what — yes, let me tell you what the title of it is. It says that Article 1, deceiving Congress with fabricated threats of Iraq's WMDs to fraudulently obtain support for an authorization for the use of military force against Iraq.



So what I said is that all of the talk about weapons of mass destruction — nuclear weapons, biological, chemical weapons — they were false. And the White House had information that indicated that they knew that they were false and they proceeded anyway, so there has to be an accounting. We have to protect our constitution. This country must rely on truth in our communications to the people. And so this process of impeachment will, hopefully, help produce the truth.



HILL: This is one of the times where that the goings on Washington baffle me — many times, they do. But maybe you can help me sort this one out. Last time you brought this up, the Republicans voted to bring it to the floor to actually discuss it. The Democrats voted to basically push it into the closet in a committee. Why?



KUCINICH: I think the Republicans were basically daring the Democrats to move forward with it, sensing that there were some in the Democratic leadership who, at the time, had no stomach for a real debate. But I think that's changed, and I think it's changed because the war grinds on. We have 160,000 troops there. We have — over 4,160 troops have lost their lives. Tens of thousands are injured. The cost of the war go over $3 trillion, and a million innocent Iraqis dead.



I think as people come to accept the enormity of this, they're saying, "Wait a minute, maybe we should find out if that strip was necessary — if, in fact, the war was based on something other than the truth.

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Not a lot of Gridlock for Boudoir Photography Careers

Warning, this is just kind of whacky.  I was working online today doing some research for a client that has a photography business on the East Coast.  I came across a photography site for what appears to be a very good photographer on the West Coast that specializes in Wedding Boudoir photography?

What is that you might ask?

Well, its basically when a lady that is getting married wants to give her fiance something special on their wedding night.  So she has some tasteful pictures taken by a very good photographer of her depicted in some sexy poses.  We're not talking about Playboy type stuff here, just sexy poses of strategically covered bodies.

The concept is that when a woman gets married, odds are she will never be in that good of shape again (it all goes down hill after that point and this is a nice way apparently for women to recognize that even if its not explicit).  So after spending months planning the wedding, dieting and exercising, they get some pictures made for their future husband so that they can remember just how hot they were when they got married.

So anyway, I stumbled upon this niche business and just found it rather humorous.  I doubt you will see many Atlanta jobs posted with this type of career path, despite the international art school located there now (Savannah College of Art and Design 3rd largest art school in the world now).

Now, I've been married for close to 14 years.  Its a bit late in the game for me to consider what I would think if my wife had this made for me, but in retrospect, if she had had something like this made, I think I probably would have liked it.  Many of the site's clients seem to be very happy with the work, and the photographer definitely is very good, which does likely make all the difference in the world.

Bomb in the Back Yard - Common in Japan

Here is an interesting story in perspective.  I woke up this morning and read a headline on CNN via my cell phone about an evacuation in Japan after the discovery of a 1 ton WWII bomb that had not been detonated.  Apparently some constructions workers had unearthed the rusting bomb and had called in the local bomb squad to help.

Now, in the United States we rarely come across a situation where we unearth bombs in our back yards.  We've been fortunate to not have most of our landscape bombed at one time or another unlike many other areas of the world from Europe to Africa to Asia and the Pacific Rim.

A Few Recent Headlines on Unearthed Bombs

WWII US bomb forces evacuation in Japan
The Associated Press - 7 hours ago
An explosives disposal unit from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force safely defused the rusty one-ton bomb in the crowded residential area during a 50-minute ...

WWII US bomb forces evacuation in Japan
KGAN, IA - 5 hours ago
TOKYO (AP) -- More than 5000 people have had to get out of their homes in Osaka, Japan, while army experts disposed of a one-ton bomb believed to have have ...

Mother Nature helps firefighters...Brangelina twins born...WWII ...
KXMC, ND - 7 hours ago
TOKYO (AP) More than 5000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Osaka, Japan, while army experts disposed of an unexploded one-ton bomb. ...

Saturday, July 19
International Herald Tribune, France - Jul 11, 2008
1943 - Allied air force stages first raid on Rome in World War II. 1956 - United States and Britain inform Egypt they cannot participate in financing Aswan ...

Tambun Folks To Evacuate To Allow Police Destroy WWII Bomb
Bernama, Malaysia - Jun 19, 2008
"The bomb cannot be moved as its switch system has been activated," he said, adding that 200 policemen will be on duty to ensure complete evacuation of some ...

Blast from the past: WWII bomb detonated
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Jun 21, 2008
By IVAN LOH IPOH: The World War II bomb found at Sungai Pinji, Tambun, near here had to be detonated twice before it was completely destroyed. ...

Many people in the US this week are worried about glitches with their new IPhones or wondering if their ipods will ever have the touch functionality of the phones, but in many other countries they have slightly more dramatic day to day problems to contend with.

Obama's Must Read - Avoid Picking Sexist Joking Comedians for Dummies

Barack Obama can't seem to get away from controversy. This time he's in trouble after Bernie Mac made jokes about his wife and daughter (Mac's not Obama's) being Ho's willing to take $50k from the mailman to sleep with them. 

It was a joke, and Bernie Mac is a professional comedian, do not try this at home!

That said Barack Obama is taking flak from his over sensitive Democratic Party, especially those that were Hillary supporters and have witnessed a significant amount of sexist remarks and actions by Obama and many in his camp, of which, most are NOT professional comedians.  So when an actual comedian said the following:

Bernie Mac said his "little nephew came to me and he said, 'Uncle, what's the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?' "I said, ‘I don't know,’ but I said, 'I'll tell you what you do. Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd make love to the mailman for $50,000.’"

Mac's wife, in the joke, said she sleep "with anyone" for $50,000, and Mac's daughter said the same.

Explained Mac: "Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000. But realistically speaking we live with two hos."

ABC news Blog

Barack Obama had to step in and step on the comedians act in an attempt to pander to that part of the Democratic Base that feels slighted over his own nomination.

Obama addressed the issue in his remarks, saying, "We can't afford to be divided by race. We can't afford to be divided by religion, or by region or class. Or by gender. That means, by the way, Bernie, you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair. ... I'm just messing with you."

ABC News Blog

Hmm, maybe next time, Obama or his staff will take sometime to vett their comedians before inviting them to a fundraiser.  Its not like anyone that has ever seen Bernie Mac perform didn't know that Bernie Mac jokes about women being Hos from time to every time.  In fact there is probably a Dummies book on Amazon books right now calling Barack Obama, "Avoid Picking Sexist Joking Comedians for Dummies"

Can Obama Be Prevented from FlipFlopping?

I came across an interesting story tonight in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/…2fisa.html ). Obama supporters are protesting Barack Obama's expected flip flop on telecom immunity deals against the 3 of the 4 major telecom companies that gave up personal telephone and email information on their customers illegally to the NSA.



Obama was formerly against this Bush Administration act against the citizens of the United States, but now the Democratic Party has negotiated a compromise and wants to give in to the Telecom industry as well as open up FISA so that more illegal (today but not necessarily tomorrow) wire tapping can proceed.



The interesting thing is that Obama's own website is being used as a staging ground to gather support among supporters to call on Senator Obama to hold firm on his original position and not continue with his expected flip flop during a vote next week on Tuesday.



You can check out or sign up for the group with the information below (last count, over 8,000 people had already joined)



You're invited to join a group on My.BarackObama.com:



http://my.barackobama.com/…gainstFISA

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Drafted in the Navy at 40?

My name is Brett and I am a veteran.  I served in the active duty Army for 4 years and for 4 years in the inactive reserve afterwards.  I joined to earn money for college and left to go to college.  I would have made a career out of the military if I could have become an officer, but that was not an option.

I say all this as a preface, because today I received a letter from the Navy asking if I'd like to re-enlist, this time into the Navy Reserve.

I am 36 years old.  If I had stayed in the Army, I would be looking at retirement in two years.  I know there are lots of very capable people that serve in the military to ripe old ages, but I do not plan to be one of them.  I chose my path, the decision is made and I'm not changing my mind.  The military made their choice years back at the same time, and they chose not to keep me under the terms I required.

So now that they are in a jam and having to send people from the Navy to go reinforce troops on the ground in Iraq as the Army and Marines are stretched thin, I do not have too much sympathy for the actual organization itself. 

For my fellow soldiers, I have a lot of sympathy, but not for the people in the Pentagon and in Washington that made stupid policies back in the 90's that kicked off the depletion of the military, which was flat out buried in the ground by the even worse policies of George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. 

I am not going to go and bail them out for their lack of planning and stupid mistakes.  After I left the military I learned of a term called the 'hero complex'. 

Its the concept that often times when an organization is in trouble, a hero will step up and save the day.  The thing is that when they save the day, the organization might give them a slap on the back, but eventually the organization might also institutionalize the need for a hero to save the day.

When the organization is saved by a hero, and they fail to learn the lessons from what went wrong, what it was that required a hero to save they day, they start to take advantage of that hero and every other hero in the organization.  Today, the US military and politicians of every stripe are raping our heroes in uniform.  They are taking advantage of them backwards, forwards and sideways and they are not learning any of the lessons learned from the organizations failing.

Now, I am definitely not calling for a general strike by our military, but the military leadership is partly to blame here.  Their Can Do attitude and Yes Sir auto response, has served our country poorly and needs to be replaced with a military leadership with a better grasp on reality, one that will stand up and demand the items necessary to bring a successful resolution to a problem.

So I thank the Navy for their kind offer, but I will decline at this time.  Twenty Thousand dollars is not enough to get me off the couch, let alone leave my business and family and go risk my life half way across the planet.  I've been there and done that once already, and its time that the DoD get its act together and stop making their lack of planning my emergency.

All that said, if they don't reach down and find a pair soon, I do suspect we will see the draft reinstated, and in that case, they can call me up when I'm 40.  I'll serve and I'll do a great job at it just like I did before, but in the meantime, they can kiss my ass until they get their act together.  In the meantime, the only travel I'll be doing will happen with the travel deals I find on expedia.

Note. I'm not serving for any organization that condones or practices torture, so they can start their first!

Obama - My Wife is Just a Girl-Leave her Be?

As I listen to Barack Obama try and defend his wife from the political attacks that she suffered after making political mistakes stumping for her husband,



The things that he says, sound sexist to me. He is using her on the one hand to stump for him politically, yet doesn't want anyone to debate with her mistakes and mis-steps.



This feels and seems a lot like the same mistakes that Bill Clinton made in the early 90's that left Hillary's competence in question.

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With Friends Like This John McCain Needs More Enemies

John McCain's inability to enthuse the Republican base which is licking its wounds from a President that has ran them hard and put them away wet keeps running into 'friends' that no mother would wish on her son.

John McCain's latest would be friend is Clayton Williams.  Williams ran for Texas Governor against the late Gov Ann Richards in 1990.  His campaign was foiled by his own poor sense of humor when he joked that women being raped, should 'lie back and enjoy it.'

YouTube - Clayton Williams in His Own Words

So I say, with friends like that John McCain would probably do better with more enemies.  As it stands it would appear that you couldn't keep track of all the bad friends that John McCain has on a brand new memory stick.

Maybe McCain's camp needs a memory stick of John's friends.  That way the next friend like Williams that wants to throw a fundraiser for John, can just be told no right up front before it erupts into a political scandal not to mention a foiled fund raising attempt.

Vote Today-Send Impeachment Articles Forward

1) House members are expected to vote Wednesday (today) on sending articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee. The 35 articles introduced by Dennis J. Kucinich, D-Ohio, on Monday are pressuring the Democratic Party to make good on a promise many of them made before the 2006 elections: to impeach!





2) Calling it "a sworn duty" of Congress to act, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida signed on yesterday to Dennis Kucinich's 35 Articles of Impeachment. "President Bush deliberately created a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people and the charges detailed in this impeachment resolution indicate an unprecedented abuse of executive power," Wexler said in a statement.

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Obama Interview on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me