Aint it the truth????

I can't get my brain around politics, just too much riding on the debate tonight. So I'll do what we used to do before a mission... set around and tell jokes.

This is from Grant M and it really fits in.

The Biker and the Lion

A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage.

Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.

The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.

A New York Times reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter says, 'Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.'

The biker replies, 'Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.'

The reporter says, 'Well, I'm a journalist from the New York Times, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page... So, what do you do for a living and
what political affiliation do you have? '

The biker replies, 'I'm a U.S. Marine and a Republican.'

The following morning the biker buys The New York Times to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:

U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH

Why can't they just shut up?

From UrgentAgenda:

UPDATE AT 7:25 A.M. ET: Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks in Europe and Asia fell for the first time in three days and U.S. index futures tumbled after Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen said the U.S. is already in a recession.

You would think that someone supposedly as smart as Ms Yellen would have had the good sense to avoid the question.

Evidently she does not.

She now joins Bernanke and Paulson in my "Why in the hell can't they shut up?" club.

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The whys of Ayers and Obama

If you don't read Melanie Phillips may I offer you a sample of the clarity of her thought:

The contrast between, on the one hand, the huge amount of material about Obama’s radical associations that has been published in on-line journals and in a few brave newspapers, and on the other the refusal by big media to address it and to vilify those who do, becomes more astounding by the day.

The Obamaniacs are spinning the relationship between Obama and William Ayers, former of Weather Undergound Terrorism Inc, as of no consequence because this was supposedly a chance acquaintance and because the educational project they worked on, the Annenberg Challenge, was a worthy one.

Stanley Kurtz now nails that canard by showing how, through the Annenberg Challenge, Obama and Ayers channelled funds to extremist anti-American Afrocentric ‘educational’ programmes which were a carbon-copy of the world view of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s black racist mentor who, under pressure, Obama was forced to repudiate. These programmes promoted, amongst other radical ideas, the ‘rites of passage’ philosophy which attempted to create a ‘virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world’ in order to ‘counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.’ One such teacher taught that

"The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy."

Kurtz concludes:

"However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright."

No surprise there, since back in June Kurtz pointed to evidence that Obama shared the black racism of the Trinity United Church of Christ. In this article Obama was reported as rejecting ‘integrationist assimilation’ and wanting to channel black rage more effectively into political organisation. Kurtz dug out a chapter in a 1990 book called After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois in which Obama sketched out how radical black churches could be harnessed to help radicalise the black population. As Kurtz wrote:

"So it would appear that Obama’s own writings solve the mystery of why he stayed at Trinity for 20 years. Obama’s long-held and decidedly audacious hope has been to spread Wright’s radical spirit by linking it to a viable, left-leaning political program, with Obama himself at the center. The revolutionizing power of a politically awakened black church is not some side issue, or merely a personal matter, but has been the signature theme of Obama’s grand political strategy."

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Hat tip to Urgent Agenda.

Rose O'Donnell and asses

Rosie has opined the following:

the republicans
have been n power for so long
mccain actually thought
he could take letterman

oh it gets better and better
as america finally wakes
sarah p - harriet miers
with a better ass

Well, who could argue with Rosie about asses??

Thanks to NewsBusters

Whore Houses and Government

I got this from Jimmy M.

Think about this as you go about your affairs today --

In the 1990's the Government seized the Mustang Ranch, a very well-known brothel in Nevada,for tax evasion, kept it open and tried to run it. They failed and it closed in '99.

Think about this: We continue to trust the fractured economy of our country to a bunch of nitwits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling booze.

Really gives me the warm fuzzies all over. How about you?

He has a point you know.

Lefty wing Democrats cause spousal murder

Hat tip to Grant M!

McCain cuts gap to two!

UPDATE AT 8:49 P.M. ET: We reported earlier that the first IBD/Tipp tracking poll for this election has just reported its first results - Obama by two points, 45-43. This is outside the range of all other polls. However, IBD/Tipp had the best record for accuracy in the 2004 election. You can read the internal details of the poll here.

COMMENT: Please note that the poll was taken over a six-day period, rather than the traditional three days for tracking polls. That means it is not as up to date as other trackers, which may account for it being an outlier. Also, accuracy in 2004 is not a guarantee of accuracy this year. I'd be cautious about these results.

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