Don't Worry, Only 100 Million People Saw It

If you're going to go after McCain because he's not sure how many houses his wife owns, at least know what city you're in when you do a video feed to your party's national convention that will be broadcast live on about 50 channels across the country. I know Kansas City and St. Louis are both in Missouri, but they're kind of on opposite ends of the State. I don't think its a major gaffe, He's been campaigning so long, he probably lost track (You've been to one city in Missouri, you've been to them all, right?) but since Barry's campaign has decided to make such an issue out of McCain's age and competence, I think its high time we examined whether or not Barry is senile. He's a socialist after all, that implies he has problems with his higher brain functions.

Democrats Find Wool, Attempt to Pull Over Eyes

The Democrat National Convention opened up last night with. . . prayer! That's right, the godless secularists aren't actually godless at all, why they're just like the typical mid western voter. Blessings will open and close each night, (I can feel Michael Moore wince. Seriously. He caused a small earthquake) plus there will be "panels and parties run by Democratic-leaning religious advocacy groups that didn't even exist in 2004". Hmm, why did these groups spring into existence over the past four years? Why is the Democrat party suddenly embracing faith? (Well other than faith in global warming, socialism, and the infallibility of Jimmy Carter) "Behind the scenes, efforts to attract the religious vote will concentrate largely on Christian 'values voters.'" Oh, so the Democrats want the "values voter" that supposedly pushed Bush over the edge in 2004. So now all of a sudden the Democrat party has found God, and to prove it to voters, they're going to pray. . . in public! Its almost as if they view religion as a means to an end, this magic force that will sooth the fears of Christian America. That can't be right though. That's way too cynical. If that were true, it would mean that the Democrats view religion as a type of "opiate of the masses" or something. "One reason religion is playing such a prominent role at this week's convention is that Obama has made faith outreach prominent in his campaign." That's better, I forgot Obama had such a strong faith. Jeremiah Wright can testify to that, I wonder when he's slotted to speak? I just hope the brutal campaign season hasn't made Obama bitter, because he's becoming clingy. No date yet for his Ohio hunting trip.

Mullahs From Outer Space!!

Iran wants to put a man into space within a decade.

I want to own a BD's Mongolian Barbeque.








Doesn't mean its going to happen.

Is Barry Shaving Points?

Has anyone else noticed that Barry Obama has no idea what he's doing on the campaign trail? The Clinton machine's loss to this guy will go down as one of the biggest blunders in American political history. For a man with a religious following and fawning media coverage, he can't seem to pull away from an uninspiring moderate who is despised by his own base.

As of late, Obama has decided that he needs to hammer McCain on foreign policy and the Iraq war. Smart! Draw attention to the war the media has decided to ignore to your advantage! Obama will lose to McCain on the issue of foreign policy experience every time, because he has none. No matter how Obama paints McCain or spins his own policy positions, in the end all he is doing is drawing attention to McCain's best issues and the successful yet largely ignored war in Iraq. One of Obama's handlers needs to get a hold of him and tell him this is not the Democrats' issue anymore. In 2005, maybe, but not now. That's why the main stream media is ignoring it. I know Obama was crowned a political genius long ago, but he looks like an amateur to me. Also, I don't know who's making decisions on what his staff says in public, but blaming John McCain for the escalation of the Russian invasion of Georgia makes you sound silly. Almost as silly as taking credit for the imaginary cease fire. Someone needs to compile a list modeled on Warmlist that records everything Obama and his supporters have given Barry credit for, or claimed he can do (like lowering the sea level or transforming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into Gordon Brown).

I don't understand how a campaign can be so inept. Barry should thank his lucky stars that the media is covering for him.

Obamaniacs of the World, Unite!

Sorry about the light blogging lately. College Football season is ramping up, and as a die hard Missouri Tigers fan, the fact that they are good for the first time in almost a millenia has lead to most of my free time being devoted to Mizzou.

Here's something I've been meaning to comment on, the Communist Party USA has endorsed Barry Obama. Apparently he's the only one who can end "ultra-right rule" in America (If only Bush was "ultra right") by uniting all the races and classes. Even the commies have embraced hope, unity, and change! Now if only Obama can convince them to admit how old their gymnasts are, we'd really be making progress. No word on when the Fascist Party USA will endorse Barry.

She Wasn't Talking About the New Deal, She Was Talking About Bush

UPDATE

I've researched the possible Atlas Shrugged movie a bit more, well, I typed "Baldwin Entertainment Group" into Google. The Baldwin Entertainment Group according to wikipedia, purchased the rights to the film in 2003. Heres a blurb about the screenplay on their website:

ATLAS SHRUGGED
Written by: Jim V. Hart
Based on the novel ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

ATTACHMENTS Lions Gate Films

LOG LINE: Dagny Taggart, one of the great heroines of modern literature, struggles to fulfill her great-grandfather’s legacy as she steers her family’s railroad conglomerate through the triple threat of government corruption, international terrorism and a mysterious force that is silencing the great thinkers of the day.

SYNOPSIS: Ayn Rand’s groundbreaking novel foresees an American future eerily similar to the future that America faces today. The politics of fear embodied by stringent government regulation and irresponsible foreign policy have driven American society to the brink of collapse. Against this backdrop, Dagny Taggart wrestles her corrupt and dissolute brother for control of their great-grandfather’s railroad conglomerate. Determined to live up to her ancestor’s name, Dagny steers the railroad through a minefield of government sabotage, domestic disintegration, and international terrorism. All the while the destruction of the American way is hastened by a mysterious force that is silencing the great thinkers of the day. Their disappearance inspires a universal sense of fatalistic dread that is summed up by the new popular catchphrase: “Who is John Galt?”

Are there any Rand fans that can tell me what's wrong here? Let's start at the beginning. "International terrorism"? Where was that in the book? Ragnar Danneskjold may have been refered to as a terrorist, but that's it. The book's over 1000 pages long, I don't think we need to add any extra plot points. What's next? How about "the politics of fear". How did a catch phrase of the left make it in here? The "politics of fear" had better refer to Dr. Stadler's "Project X" and not warantless wiretaps of overseas phone calls. The kicker though, the phrase in here that makes me dread this movie's release, is "irresponsible foreign policy". What?! The only "irresponsible foreign policy" that existed in the book was the American governments penchant for sending aid to struggling "people's states" around the world that had enslaved their citizens. If they use this movie to make a f*&%ing commentary on Iraq or the war on terror, they will have succeeded in both completely destroying the point of the book and giving me a noticeable facial tick.

Way to go Hollywood. Just destroy as much as you can. Maybe you can remake "The Fountainhead" and spin it to be a commentary on the heartlessness of the Bush tax cuts. Its only 8:51 am? I already need a drink.

UPDATE:

I'm not sure how I missed this, but right at the beginning in the "Log Line" it says "a mysterious force that is silencing the great thinkers of the day". John Galt was out to stop the "engine of the world". The "great thinkers" of the day in Atlas Shrugged are portrayed as pied piper buffoons, leading the populace into total destruction. It wasn't the thinkers Galt was after, (Unless you count Hugh Akston) it was the men who made the world work, the industrialists, the bankers, the oil magnates, the men the "great thinkers" ridiculed and scorned. There's a reason the book was almost called "The Strike". It's a cautionary tale about what this country and indeed the world would be like if all "big businessmen" went on strike, not the nihilistic intellectuals of the book who suck at the government's teat.

We Were Just Joking, the Cold War's Still On

So, apparently Putin has decided to do his best Leonid Brezhnev impression as he seeks to reassert Russian dominance of her traditional satellite states. "Cease fire? F*$% that. We're Russia. Stop snickering Kazakhstan, you're next." Who knew an ex KGB guy would try and reestablish the Soviet Union? Alas, Russia has too many troubles. She can't recreate the old bipolar order the die hard commies miss so much. The economy is in shambles, Putin's cronies are looting whatever wealth there is, and a billion and a half expansionist Chinese are antsy to prove they are the dominant power in Asia. I wouldn't worry about Taiwan as much as I'd worry about resource rich Siberia. But for now, Russia's going to prove that she's still more powerful than Georgia, and unfortunately for Georgia, there's not much the United States can do short of declaring war on Russia. Putin and his ventriloquist dummy Dmitry Medvedev have smartly moved before Georgia could be admitted to NATO, though in doing so, they have confirmed the need for NATO's continued existence as an anti-Russian alliance.

In the end Georgia will be a bit dismembered and NATO will be a bit spooked by the threat of a resurgent Russia displaying her power, and idiot South Ossetians (South Ossetia is the Georgian province Russian is "liberating") will make rediculous statements like this:

"They want to physically uproot us all. . . What other definition is there for genocide?"

I can think of a couple, but that's just me. It looks to be setting up for a hell of a century, Russia should keep one thing in mind though: