How Many States will Obama Carry if a Pissed Off Hillary is in His Life?

Two quick observations before posting something longer:
NBA Playoffs: the consistently low ratings for the finals has to do with games that feature the totally boring Detroit Pistons who foul on every layup. Boooooorring. We can only hope that Boston kills them, which looks more and more improbable. A San Antonio-Detroit final is a nightmare TV show waiting to happen.

Fox and election night: the disgusting pandering to political correctness demanded by host Brit Hume was disgusting. He continually interrupted the analysts who all dared to say that sexism and Black race bias existed. He actually cut off Bill Krystol three times in succession. Meaning we learned nothing.

Hillary's run: just like it used to be. The Democrats did this to themselves when they demanded that independent local Dems comply with the orders from the DNC. The way these things used to play out, back in the iron age when we had real nominating conventions, was that deals had to be made with other power groups in order to placate opposition delegates. She is forcing Obama's hand exactly like democracy is supposed to work, Democracy: something party leaderships of both parties hate because the "leaderships" want the power to select candidates. I don't think I'd vote for Hillary on a bet but fair is fair and the media is screwing her (like they do Republicans) big time. But those horrible fucking people, meaning you and me, keep giving her their votes.

Like it or not Obama cannot afford a pissed off Hillary.

I think it's now safe to assume that the only part of the Republican Party worth salvaging and sending money to is the Tennessee GOP, this in spite of turncoat Senator Corker condemning his own party for daring, yes actually daring, to take on Obama and his wifeypoo. The GOP leadership is a corpse rotting in the sewer and their stench will be with us for a century.

I loaned my PC to one of my kids and have been more or less off line for a while, but from watching TV I've learned that a few things apart from the campaign are happening.

1. Fake or Manufactured News: nobody manufactures more nothing news than all the ESPN stations. Keep in mind that they hype sports like MSNBC hypes Obama. They are currently conducting another campaign to get us to accept soccer as a major sport---which they will televise and then make billions. This hype move in lock step with women's hoops---AKA Slow Dwarf Basketball---women's softball, competitive fishing (fucking fishing? Fishing?), college la cross, steroids in baseball, and the SCANDAL around the Patriots taping signals---who can't stand on the sidelines and then steal them?---and the story of stories: who is Dallas qb Romo screwing?

2. The campaign: there is nothing happening that can't be told in thirty seconds, tops. These TV assholes want a close race so they can have an audience for the election night returns which can be told in thirty seconds too. Hillary will win Kentucky big and a surprise may be brewing in crazy Oregon, a state that is insulated from all realities other than the condition of the cocaine and marijuana crops.

3. NBA playoffs are terrific and many games other than the Western Conference games are competitive and entertaining til the end. ABC and ESPN are praying for a Boston-Lakers showdown in the belief that the ratings challenged NBA will finally get good ones and justify the sky high prices that advertisers are asked to pay for spots.

KKK Vows to end Social Security

Health Alert: All of us will turn stupid as soon as we hit 63
Every year it seems that some Liberal asshole will stand in the middle of an Alzheimer's ward and announce that the Republicans will destroy Social Security; and every year there are hundreds of thousands of vegetative state Seniors who will vow not to vote Republican. They will be guided to voting places by Democrats who will do everything but actually mark a ballot for them. Obama's appearance early in the day before about 130 people at an assisted living facility to talk the end of Social Security if McCain is elected seemed to wow those few patients who could still hear. This is regarded as a significant attempt to tie the GOP's presidential nominee-in-waiting to an unpopular President Bush on a pocket book issue that motivates seniors - and also concerns younger generations worried about their own future retirement.

Not even the KKK wants to end Social Security.....

The huge Obama rally in Oregon. You have to live out here to understand the extreme leftism alive in that state, particularly in Eugene and Portland. Extreme. Castro and Chavez could sell out the biggest arena in the state. My question regarding the huge crowd has to do with the age of the attendees. College Age, not so good. A big mix, great.

If you ain't seen Hitler singing "Movin' On Up," the Jeffersons theme song, then gather round all you Third Reich groupies and dig it......



There are other Hitler dubs that just ain't funny....
Taken Down, Hitler has a copyright. Go to here as I believe they may be actual creators.....

You Can't Teach a Dead Dog New Tricks

EXACTLY what is wrong with the Republican Party. Hits the nail squarely on the head: a brain dead leadership with no ideas at all.....My take: you can't teach a dead dog new tricks.

For all you sensitive types, this Power Point exhibition of the "100 Best Military Photographs" (Conflict Resolution Photos) will really affect you. Takes about ten minutes for the thing to play through but it's really good and it will affect you too...... Maybe too much......

Left out a trailer that the audience really liked, actually the only trailer the audience liked: Hancock....starring Will Smith. Great premise and the audience was laughing. Will be a monster hit.

More Lies and other lies

Government Inflation Bulletin: Benign, everything is OK. Food and energy are separate. These government bureaucrats will continue to lie to us til they are fired. The two most important things to all of us are: food and energy. But don't count that in the index. Jesus, nobody in Washington gives a fat fuck about anything other than their own turf......

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inflation pressures eased a bit in April despite the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March.

The lower inflation reflected a flat reading for energy, which helped offset a 0.9 percent jump in food costs as prices climbed for many basic items, from bread and milk to coffee and fresh fruits.The unchanged reading for energy reflected a big 4.8 percent jump in natural gas prices, offset by a 2 percent decline(?) in gasoline costs.

These fucking people should be taken out and shot.

Oxymoron of the day: Republican Leadership

Republicans lose a 100% GOP seat in Mississippi and the headline reads that the defeat is a "wakeup call for the party." Wake up call? You cannot wake somebody out of a vegetative state. These guys sold every one of us down the river for "entitlements," bigger budget deficits, bigger government, and outright corruption. The only thing we can do is get rid of all of them and start over, and there is no time like the present. It's the leadership, stupid. Why are they still there? Because the party is completely disconnected from it's so called leadership, a leadership elected by.....the leadership. Hey leadership! Fuck you.......

Late Add: the comments over at Ace's place tell the tale. We are all totally fed up with the Republicans. They are liars......

This is the exact way I feel about McCain. He is what he is, whatever that is. Look, he went through unimaginable torture and came out the other side. Nothing will ever scare him again. He will do whatever it is he wants to do because he has no fear of consequences, personal or political. He already knows what hell is like.

He's probably a centimeter better than Obama. Maybe.

Striped Icebergs off Antarctic

Striped icebergs confirmed as real by Snopes. Taken off of a research ship in Antarctic by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen. Click on each to blow up. Details are here....

I have several comments regarding this post on Public Education wherein I sort of laughed at the problems the rich were having getting accepted to local public schools. The gist of the counter arguments are well taken. Summing them up:

We don't apologize for working our butts off to become successful and while at it, very well off. Whenever I see remarks about the "working man" I scoff because my (our) husband works harder and longer than any miner, factory worker, or college professor and he deserves any and all compensation he can get.

And we pay a ton of property taxes, more than enough to educate six kids and in some cases twenty or thirty. These taxes are supposed to go to education, but they do not. Instead they go for minority group pseudo education, low achiever education, and inflated public school teacher salaries. Yes, I own a (one to two million dollar) home or condo and I pay roughly (between sixty and two hundred thousand dollars) per year in property taxes plus special assessments, I'm also taxed extra for water and so on so that the "poor" can enjoy free services on my dime.

I pay the taxes for education and now I'm denied access to that education. You're dam right I'm going to do what I can to get what I pay for.

New York tax rate on homes is $65 per thousand dollar valuation which means that if you have a $1million home you will pay sixty five thousand dollars plus whatever special assessments are levied. The tax puts home ownership out of the reach of most people.

Obama to Nationalize Business?

I spent Mother's Day with parts of my totally communist family who were mourning the death of fucking Hillary and shaking in their shoes about the prospect of Obama actually being president. Not all my family members are commies but those of us not on the Left side of the divide sat and smiled. All the former Hillary supporters know every negative about Obama, where to look up the gory details, and everybody he knew. I know these people are not "hard left" and are basically middle class with more money than most of it, but they represent a strong demographic in this country and Obama ain't going to crack it. All own stock of some kind and the thing they actually fear most is his declared hatred of capitalism, his determination to tax the successful, and his association with Black Criminals in Chicago (something I knew nothing about).

First, there is no question that the hard left capitalist haters support Obama in his quest and that there is the usual "destroy capitalism" swarm that has massed around him seeking influence in the new administration. Nobody seems to think Congress is involved in legislation. Congress is composed of a lot of stock holder reps, business interests, and actual economists that will never allow this to happen. This is not Europe where "just compensation" is considered one of those horrible American Ideas. Nor are we like England (with no Constitution) where the incoming Prime Minister can do anything he wants, including the overnight imposition of Socialized Medicine. Here, nationalizing just one oil company would cost in the hundred billion dollar class but the peripheral damages to other business make this strategy nearly impossible.

But.....the nationalization possibilities conversation will continue til Obama himself convinces us that he has no such intention.

What many fail to notice is that nationalization can take forms other than government seizure of corporations, and it is these paths we must consider. Over taxing would squeeze the profits and literally destroy retirement plans but would temporarily satisfy the blood lust of the Left; "Rules" would have the same impact--Anwar, off shore drilling, shale drilling-- just to name a few. Environmental rules that would stifle any business expansion, the so-called sin taxes (new sins would be invented daily), and imposing taxes on all kinds of things that now "escape" taxation--internet purchases, patents, intellectual property, utilization of computer programs, etc., etc,--- would just be starters. And make no mistake, national health care that includes every disease under the sun (nympholepsy, pedophilia, cancer of the whatever) with NO disease uncovered will act to bankrupt us until lawyers are kept out.

The possibility is real to this "liberal class" and look for the demographics down the road. BTW the Republicans there all felt that McCain is not quite as bad, which says a bundle.

I suppose this dates me, but tonight I watched one of the best TV Shows ever produced, Frank Sinatra, a Man and his Music Part II, it was just a TV show from 1966 but what a show. There is a book out there called Why Sinatra Matters that is supposed to be some kind of definitive work, but really folks, his singing is what mattered. Part III will be on TCM next Sunday on TCM. Catch it if you can. He did not define an era, he was an era...... No, he was the era.

NBA PLAYOFFS

I'm watching them. Why? I've always been bored to death with the NBA: send a big man down the lane, POST HIM up and when double teamed he passes the ball back to an open man. Not any more. I was talking with a bunch of my buds yesterday late as we were watching the ENTIRE Lakers-Jazz game and all of us admitted we were actually watching the playoffs and the games were good, the playing spectacular at times, and the scores mostly topped the 100 point level. So what is going on? Why is NBA basketball suddenly good? One answer is that there are a lot of dam good and exciting players--many from a lot of foreign countries--- making the strategy of over guarding just a single superstar futile--unless you mention LaBron James and the otherwise untalented Cleveland team---(proven false on Sunday) all of which means that two or three players end up scoring twenty or more points in a game. Then there is the fouling strategy invented by Pat Reilly that simply went "foul on every possession" thus rendering the opposing offense one of free throws and sending the game into a boring foul shooting contest. This strategy has now been thwarted by the "deliberate foul" rule that awards two shots plus the ball to the fouled team. But the big reason by far is the implementation of the three foot circle under the baskets, a rule that prevents a defensive player from just standing under the basket for the sole purpose of drawing a charging foul...a rule which makes 300 pound statues like Shaq useless on defense. Today if somebody is dumb enough to camp out under the basket a driving shooter can just run him over without the risk of incurring a foul. But the shooter will also get free throws because the "camper" is charged with blocking, a call that means that the driving shooter will be awarded a foul shot separate from the "layup" too. This has resulted in spectacular drives to the basket by superlative athletes who have now come to the fore as point guards on many teams. Many have pointed out that "way back when" spectacular point guards were the norm and not the exception.

Anyway, if you ain't watching the playoffs you are missing the best display of pure athleticism on the planet. Really entertaining.