WAITING FOR...BARACK

If it weren't so ludicrous it might be funny seeing how the national news media is waiting for the great Messiah, Sen. Barack Obama, to name his running mate. I swear Wolf Blitzers and Katie Courics of the world are ready to pee in their collective drawers in anticipation on an impending announcement.

This whole charade/media frenzy really reminds me of Samuel Beckett's existentialist play, "Waiting For Godot," in which the characters wait for someone named Godot, who never arrives. The characters in the play claim Godot to be an acquaintance, but in fact hardly know him, admitting they wouldn’t recognize him if they saw him. To occupy themselves they eat, sleep, talk, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide—anything “to hold the terrible silence at bay.” You might say this is art imitating life.

That concept leads me to the whole Barack Obama personality cult. Personally, with what is going on in the world I want a LEADER to be president, NOT a rock star -- which is how Barack Obama is being marketed, and believe me, he is being marketed HARD. Talking to some of my friends who are liberal Democrats, I swear they would not have a problem voting for a Stalin/Bin Ladin/Hitler/Pol Pot politician with the simple reason that they would have the label of being a "Democrat." We need to electing the leader for the biggest country in the world, not some crooning American Idol.

What and who is Barack Obama? For the past year all I see it to be is someone's whose mantra, so well depicted by the JibJab satire video doing the rounds on YouTube and Myspace, "Like the change we must change to the change we hold dear, and I really like change, am I clear." Nice words for a rock star, but not good for someone who must deal with Islamic terrorists bent on destroying the U.S. and our way of life and dealing with the paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniac Russians who are bent on taking over the world.

I'm no "lover" of George Bush, but at least he doesn't go around trying to be a flipflopping Messiah of change for change's sake.

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Notwithstanding the journalist's name who authored the story -- Christina HOAG -- this is typical liberal Democrat thinking... You legislate a ban on the construction of fast food outlets in low income areas which is very fine and dandy. It looks sooo nice on paper like so many liberal Democrat legislation (reminds me of the character "Stuart" on MadTV -- "look what I can do!"), but you still have the existing fast food places. And of course, there is Henry Ford's newfangled invention called an "auto-mobeeel" which allows the residents to go to Popeye's Chicken outside of the area to get their trash can chicken.

But dammit, "we did something" and it will look good in print on a campaign flyer.

L.A. blocks new fast-food outlets from poor areas

By CHRISTINA HOAG

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles City Council has approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area of the city.

The moratorium unanimously approved Tuesday is a bid to attract restaurants that offer healthier food choices to residents in a 32-square-mile area of South Los Angeles.

Councilwoman Jan Perry says residents at five public meetings expressed concern with the proliferation of fast-food outlets in the community plagued by above-average rates of obesity.

Nearly three-quarters of the restaurants in South L.A. are fast-food outlets. That's a higher percentage than other parts of the city but the restaurant industry says the moratorium won't help bring in alternatives.

This article just proves my point that right-wing "born again" whacked out Bible thumping Christians are just as whacked out as their whack out right-wing "born again" whacked out Koran thumping camel (and women) slaughtering Muslim brethren.

Yes, religion IS the opiate of the masses.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Two prayer services will be held at St. Louis gas stations to thank God for lower fuel prices and to ask that they continue to drop. Darrell Alexander, Midwest co-chair of the Pray at the Pump movement, says prayer gatherings will be held Monday afternoon and evening at a Mobil station west of downtown St. Louis.

Participants say they plan to buy gas, pray and then sing "We Shall Overcome" with a new verse, "We'll have lower gas prices."

An activist from the Washington D.C. area, Rocky Twyman, started the effort, saying if politicians couldn't lower gas prices, it was time to ask God to intervene.

The group thinks the prayer is helping, saying prices are starting to fall below $4 a gallon.

This is Iraq's new president Nouri Al-Maliki.

For some reason I don't trust this guy AT ALL. I get the impression that he is a real snake who may be positioning himself as the next Saddam Hussein.

I also find it kind of suspect that al-Maliki supports US presidential candidate Barack Obama's plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 months. Interestingly, when asked in and interview when he thinks US troops should leave Iraq, Maliki responded "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." He then continued: "US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."

Methinks he has something up his sleeve.

How refreshing!

CINCINNATI - Democrat Barack Obama insisted Monday that blacks must show greater responsibility for their actions. In remarks prepared for delivery at the annual NAACP convention, the man who could become the first black president said Washington must provide greater education and economic assistance, but that blacks must demand more of themselves.

"If we're serious about reclaiming that dream, we have to do more in our own lives, our own families and our own communities," Obama said. "That starts with providing the guidance our children need, turning off the TV and putting away the video games; attending those parent-teacher conferences, helping our children with their homework and setting a good example."

He added: "I know some say I've been too tough on folks about this responsibility stuff. But I'm not going to stop talking about it. Because I believe that in the end, it doesn't matter how much money we invest in our communities, or how many 10-point plans we propose, or how many government programs we launch — none of it will make any difference if we don't seize more responsibility in our own lives."

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DALLAS — What do "black hole," "angel food cake," and "devil's food cake" have in common?

They're all racist terms, says a Dallas County, Texas, official.

A county commissioners' meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county's collections office was like a certain astronomical phenomenon.

"It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole," Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said during the Monday meeting.

One black official demanded an apology, and Commissioner John Wiley Price, who also is black, said that type of language is unacceptable.

At the meeting, Mayfield said he intended his comments to be taken in the context of the scientific meaning, and became upset that he was being misunderstood.

In astronomy, the term black hole refers to a star that has collapsed upon itself, creating something so dense and small that it does not have any physical properties besides a gravitational force so great that even light cannot escape its pull.

Later, Price told MyFOXdfw.com that he believed it and other terms were racist.

"So if it's 'angel food cake,' it's white. If it's 'devil's food cake,' it's black. If you're the 'black sheep of the family,' then you gotta be bad, you know. 'White sheep,' you're okay. You know?" Price said.

Price said people should watch their words when it comes to stereotypes.

"I think people should always be careful. You know, I'm okay if I'm 'bartering' with you. ... But if I try to 'Jew you down,' Oooooh. Is that racist? I thought it meant the same thing? No, maybe it doesn't."

The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking might have a solution to the problem over perception of the astronomical term. He refers to the phenomenon as "a singularity."

"I do not like your Christians..they are so unlike your Christ."

Mahatma Gandhi

It is interested how Gen. Wesley Clark who failed as a general, failed as a surrogate, he failed as candidate for the Presidency, and he continues to be a loser dares to take on Sen. McCain on whether McCain knows anything about the military and leadership.

Wesley Clark was FIRED from NATO for being incompetent. He was known -- in nicer circles -- as the political general. In not-so-nice circles, he was known for following those with influence too closely. The fact is, nobody pays any attention to him, and his criticizing McCain is like a flea taking on an elephant.

WASHINGTON - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday John McCain's military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief.

Underscoring during a national television appearance a position he has been expressing for several weeks, Clark said performing heroic military service is not a substitute for gaining command experience.

"In the matters of national security policy making, it's a matter of understanding risk," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "It's a matter of gauging your opponents and it's a matter of being held accountable. John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war.

"He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world, but he hasn't held executive responsibility," Clark said. "That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn't a wartime squadron."

This article from the United Press International is just a touch of what Russia/The Soviet Union has in terms of its capabilities to spy and to perform genocide against other countries and cultures. Even though their people are starving, have no medicine, don't have the resources to keep their peoples warm during the brutal Russian winters, they always have money to perform their evil deeds towards an evil endgame. And just to think that in terms of foreign policy Barack Obama would truly be "Jimmy Carter Deux."

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 29 (UPI) -- A Scottish map enthusiast has discovered that the former Soviet Union had extraordinarily detailed maps of Scotland.

The maps showed the width of important roads and the streets and buildings of major cities, along with less obvious choices like Dunfermline, a historic town between Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Scotsman reports.

John Davies told the newspaper he found the maps while he was on a trip to Latvia. He said he believes they showed the Soviet Union was contemplating invasion and occupation.

"You have got to speculate as to how maps of this complexity were put together," Davies said. "A lot of it could have been done through aerial surveillance, either by satellite or high-altitude reconnaissance planes. But the maps also include detail which just could not have been observed from the air. That means that they almost certainly had people on the ground in the U.K. compiling these maps."

The maps even showed whether buildings had been fire-proofed.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

And what is wrong with this, pray tell?

With the U.S. Supreme Court taking a super whacked out view of the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution, seeing how the whacked-out gun-toting Republicans, knowing how things go in our country, it is going to take the senseless killing of a prominent Republican politician that is going to get them all back in line towards sane gun control.

Really, these days, the Democrats make it hard for me to be a full-hearted Democrat (the party of the murderer Sen. Ted Kennedy), and the Republicans make it hard for me to be a full-hearted Republican.

Dear Lord, what is it going to take to get some sanity on this issue, huh?