August 24, 2008

 

 

 

 

"...I am never forget the day my first book is published.

    Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.

    Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory.

    This book was sensational!

 

    Pravda, well Pravda, Pravda said: ' Zhil-bil koro kogda-to,

    pree nyom blokha zhila'  ( It stinks.).

 

    But Izvestia! Izvestia said: 'Ya idoo kuda sam czar idyot peshkom!'

    ( It stinks.).

 

    Metro-Goldwyn-Moskva buys movie rights for six million rubles,

    Changing title to 'The Eternal Triangle',

    With Ingrid Bergman playing the part of hypotenuse.

 

    And who deserves the credit?

    And who deserves the blame?

    Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is his name..."

 

                    - Partial Lyrics from the song "Lobachevsky",

                      by Tom Lehrer, from the album "Tom Lehrer Revisited",

                      1959

 

 

To All,

     From the seriously suspect to the succinctly sublime, certain aspects of the Proposed Presidency of Obama the Callow cause one to reach for the Bushmill's:

 

"...The First Mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a

 nice-looking guy...":

     It seems that Senator Obama can overlook certain things when they become politically expedient. But it is also clear that an Obama nomination is becoming a Party Affair, heralding the iron yoke of Leftist Domination over the Party of Jackson more so than a harbinger of Hootenanny-style change.

 

     For example, Senator Biden comes from a state (Delaware, home to Corporate America) that would allow him to run for both the Vice Presidency and his old "Senator For Life" job at the same time (Downside, what downside?). If Obama wins, Biden becomes President of the Senate. If Obama Loses, Biden stays at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a key position to implement the wishful thinking of the State Department's Bureacracy.).

 

    Likewise the same thing can be said for the true issue of importance in this election, at least as far as how Liberals have held sway across the political landscape. If Obama wins, Biden becomes the "tie-breaker" on any close vote on the nomination of a Ron Kuby or a Leo Terrell for the Supreme Court. If Obama loses, Biden remains in place to harass any candidates in the mold of John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, or Clarence Thomas that a President McCain might feel inclined to send up in nomination.

 

     If anything, given Biden's antipathy towards Scalia, coupled with Biden's support for the full panoply of gun control nostrums introduced since his advent to the Senate, it makes for a further argument that Obama is not "with gun owners" when it comes to the individual right to keep and bear arms concept recently decided in Heller (Scalia was the Justice who wrote Heller for the Majority.).

 

     On a happier note, one can only wonder about what the MoveOn.org harpies, and the denizens over at Huffingtonpost are going to think when opposition researchers start making much over Biden's past record limiting online privacy and getting the FBI access to each person's encryption key data. What is more, Biden's previous introduction in 1995 of the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act lent much language and "mojo" to the 2001 Patriot Act, something that is not universally adored in the Leftosphere (to say the least). One can see Cindy Sheehan screaming her lungs out already....

 

   One has to figure that Team Obama has been vetting Vice Presidential selections since Hillary ran out of dough to fight with. Yet Obama decided to select a Vice Presidential running mate that can alienate large portions of both "ends" of the Political Spectrum (gun owners on the Right, ACLU types on the Left) at the same time. If his idea was to move his "center of gravitas" away from the "Running On Empty" mark on his Existential Gas Gauge, it is likely that he has just done something that will allow one and all to realize that he is actually in thrall to the Left's Party Elders. The Change message, in other words, has just been thrown under the bus, along with Reverend Wright, Obama's Grandmother, and Wesley Clark (Getting kinda crowded down there, isn't it?). If this is the best that Obama can do, when he has literally "all the time in the world", one can only wonder what would happen at 3 AM when a President Obama gets that phone call. Stay tuned.

 

 

Links at:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080823/D92NT5P80.html

 

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/24/america/biden.php

 

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/23/obama-picks-joe-biden-for-veep/

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93914952

 

http://biden.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=587ccca0-e2b7-47f3-acef-9237fee85ce9

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0

 

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/obama-misspea-1.html

 

 

 

Who Would Have Guessed?

     What are the morons over at the American Hunters and Shooters Association going to say when their Poster Babe, Lady Nancy Pelosi, was "appreciative" in the quick way that the Colorado Department of Public Safety arrested a hunter who had the misfortune to check into the same hotel as the Diminutive Dominatrix, who herself is visiting in Denver for the DNC convention?

 

     CDPS personnel apparently noticed one Joseph Calanchini, listed by the Rocky Mountain News as hailing from Pinedale, Wyoming, carrying rifle and gun cases into the hotel as he was preparing to check in for the night. Now, for $ 10 grand, he can get out of jail on bail while certain parties cast dice over his seized-but-constitutionally-guaranteed hunting implements.

 

    Calanchini apparently was in town for business and to have scopes mounted on hunting rifles prior to an upcoming hunt, but fell afoul of law enforcement who apparently do not know what time of the year it is nor understand that the antigun movement is currently trying force, through legislation, that gun owners must personally secure their firearms at all times (or go to the hoose-gow for life).

 

    As of press time, there is no indication that Governor Dave Freudenthal of Wyoming intends to intercede on behalf of his hapless constituent (Given the high likelihood that Freudenthal is also in town, and should be available to translate "hunter's speak" to Denver Police and the US Secret Service). Given his fondness for endorsements from a certain firearms rights group, he perhaps should "shake a leg" before word gets out...

 

 

Link at:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/man-arrested-carrying-weapons-pelosi-hotel/

 

 

Donna Brazile, Call Your Office:

     Hmm, it seems that once again "Count Every Vote" can be said without a smirk over at the DNC.

 

     The AP is reporting, in an article by Stephen Ohlemacher, that on the eve of the convention the Credentials Committee has voted unanimously to allow full voting rights to the delegations from Florida and Michigan.

 

     Previously, these states had been slated for punishment by the DNC for changing their election dates in conflict with other dates noted in Howard Dean's schedule planner. In both cases, Hillary Clinton won the primary votes in each state.

 

    Given that a number of Hillary partisans have been angling for an actual floor vote, with real-life drama scheduled for the Denver Convention for a change, one can only wonder if the Committee Hacks in Charge can truly keep a lid on this rhubarb. Given recent polling trends, Hillary's primary arguments that Obama cannot win a general election seem to have real traction at this time.

 

    As they used to say in college football, "Whooooaaaah, Nelly!!!". Stay tuned.

 

Link at:

http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20080824/48b0dcc0_3ca6_1552620080824-1179853527

 

 

Wait, It Gets Better...."

     Team Hillary OPRES seems to be ramping up more than previously thought, if reports at the American Thinker and News Corp's Telegraph UK turn out to be true.

 

     It seems that the Telegraph is reporting that a "Frank" mentioned in a Barack Obama autobiography, with close ties to Obama's grandfather, was one Frank Marshall Davis.

 

     The Telegraph notes that Davis was a Communist who apparently followed Paul Robeson's advice to move to Hawaii, where there was more tolerance for "mixed race" marriages back in the 1960's.

 

      But Davis had apparently "fessed up" to being the author-by-pseudonym of a book titled "Sex Rebel: Black. Davis, writing as "Bob Greene", confessed to a fondness for certain masochistic sex practices, as well as admitting to having seduced a 13 year old girl into a "menage a trois" with his first wife (For Folks in Rio Linda, that means statutory rape with some "San Quentin Quail", possibly 10 years of sentence with time off for "good" behavior).

 

      The Telegraph story notes that Davis and Stanley Dunham, Obama's maternal grandfather, knew each other through mutual games of Scrabble, drinking, and the inhalation of combusting cannibis fumes. It was apparently in this context that Obama first got to know Dunham, who was to become a mentor to Obama in dealing with race issues in college.

 

      Somewhere out there in Campaign Land, DNC vetters of backround are being roasted over lit bongs for letting this latest slap-shot get into the net. Given that some of the evidence comes from Obama's own hand may, at a very minimum, call attention to how truly radical a clique Obama has received his upbringing and inspiration from. And what is more, this is the kind of radicalism that cannot be sold to Middle America, even if one did somehow convince a relatively poverty-stricken Ed McMahon to take the gig. One can only wonder what El Rushbo is going to say....  Stay tuned.

 

Links at:

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_teenage_mentor_liked_se.html

 

 

 

Respectfully,