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Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
You can call this a “post-dated” Round-up. I am very likely preoccupied and taking advantage of my conjugal rights, as SSG Dizzy has very likely arrived from Iraq, for RnR, by now. I decided to post today’s Ten Post Round-Up anyway, so you wouldn’t come a-knockin (wink-wink):
1: Retraining our brains and our bellies no thanks to our parents dietary mismanagement in our formative years….
2: Consider it studying for the live-action version…
10 Books You Should Read Before Seeing The Movie–The Best Article Every Day
3: How sad is it that a communist country is pushing this ideal and the so-called “greatest country in the world” seeks to stifle it?…
Cuban Government Backs Calls to Combat Homophobia–CommonDreams.org
4: And the Republicans are considering pushing this guy as VP?…
Mike Huckabee thought McCain’s ‘bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’ song was funny.–Crooks and Liars
5: Old-school racism making a comeback?…
Curious George And The Men In The Pointy White Hats–Firedoglake
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
A little bit of good and a little bit of bad. But, it’s all news in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: The government wants to control every aspect of the internet, including your computer….
Air Force Aims for ‘Full Control’ of ‘Any and All’ Computers–BlackListedNews
2: A little good news from the lost and found department…
3: Another “Muppet” movie heading for the big screen!…
“Fraggle Rock” Getting Revived As Movie Musical–The Huffington Post
4: A lifesaver that really sucks…
5: What if you had a pot to pi@@ in, but you couldn’t flush?…
Huckabee On Stage
Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has signed a contract with one of the largest talent agencies in Hollywood, Creative Artists Agencies (CAA).
McCain Wins; Obama - Clinton Still Mudwrestling - Now What?
Hillary Clinton waddled out of Tuesday’s Primaries with Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island under her arm with the bleeding stopped and ready to answer the bell in Pennsylvania on April 22nd for its 158 delegates in a “closed” primary. (Before that is March 8 in the Wyoming closed primary with 12 delegates and March 11 in Mississippifor 33 delegates). Obama won only Vermont and failed again to strike a knockout blow letting Hillary wobble out of dystopia for the next round although she is still behind on points. Dark clouds are gathering over the Democrat Convention Monday, August 25 through Thursday, August 28. The big bugaboo is the fate of “outlaw” delegates from Floridaand Michigan that Clinton won but the Democrat National Committee said would not be seated or count because both states moved their primaries up knocking its pompous collective nose out of joint.Nothing will be decided in the Democrat race until at least May 6th in North Carolina (115 delegates) and Indiana (72 delegates) and likely not even then.
How much the alarming and damning youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J22vLeOwZk describes Obama’s views and plans to disarm America combined with the “red phone” ads cost him in uncertain. In Ohio Barack Obama’s senior economic policy adviser was caught privately telling Canadian officials to view the debate in Ohio over trade (NAFTA) as “political positioning,” according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. Initially vociferously denied by BO’s crowd an independent Canadians source say it is true. Combined this tipped undecided voters away from Obama.
John McCain trounced Huckabee everywhere and locked up the Republican nomination as Ron Paul continued with his Harold Stassen like non-campaign. Huckabee had the good sense to quit hanging on to third place in the delegate count. Huckabee pledged support to McCain for the future of America. Ralph Nader picked his Vice President thereby ending another political career.
According to the Sunday Times of London, Barack Obama has his sights set on two Republicans Senators for his cabinet – anti-war Chuck Hagel of Nebraska for Secretary of Defense and Richard Lugar of Indiana – the ranking GOP member on Foreign Relations — for Secretary of State. Karl Rove, code name “Turd Blossom” is saying McCain should pick Mitt Romney as his VP. A study shows of TV network news finds 84% of Obama stories favorable and 53% for Clinton but, can NBC and others continue its unremitting fawning over Obama?
MEK SAYS IRAN WORKING ON MUSHROOM CLOUD
Iranian dissidents Mohammad Mohaddessin and Alireza Jafarzadeh of the resistence group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) released a photograph in Brussels and information they say proves Iran is continuing its nuclear weapons program further refuting assertions of what is now almost universally accepted as a flawed U. S. National Intelligence Estimate saying otherwise. Iran it says is working with North Korea to build its bombs.
MEK also gave information to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, which is responsible for verifying that Iran and North Korea comply with their obligations under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). The IAEA has been largely impotent to deal with Iran or for that matter North Korea both of whom routinely thumb their noses at it. Iran has and does defy three United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding it disclose nuclear weapons-related work.
Israel continues to warn that it will not, under any circumstances, allow a nuclear armed Iran. Politics inside the U. S. intelligence community coupled with presidential politics has removed its options to even aid Israel despite the Armageddon sized consequences of a nuclear conflagration in the Middle East amid bellicose threat from Iran it will destroy Israel. Clearly Iran and North Korea are encouraged by the spinelessness of some U. S. political candidates.
Obama and McCain Lead As Fourth Quarter Begins
Obama and McCain trounced their opponents in Wisconsin and both look ever more like their respective parties nominees. Obama continued to attract
what has become his base while doing well in overwhelmingly white Wisconsin. He also won in his native Hawaii. McCain handily won the Washington State primary. Huckabee and Paul took it squarely on their chins and both appear increasingly the fools. November looks like one of rhetoric versus reason. Hillary Clinton is banking everything on Ohio and Texas. Clinton leads Obama narrowly in Texas and by big margins in Ohio.
McCain and Obama Win Wisconsin
Obama and McCain won handily in Wisconsin and both look ever more like the respective nominee of their parties. Huckabee more than ever is the sour puss wannabe spoiler. Clinton looks the tired candidate pandering even more tired ideas.
McCain remained the gentlemen in his victory speech and Obama shilled his ‘future to hope in’ platform plank. The General election campaign appears more and more as a rhetoric versus reason campaign.
Huckabee on “Jihad”
The immediate problem that Huckabee poses for McCain strategists is how to get him out of the presidential race without offending him,” Robert Novak explains. But, Novak says there is absolutely no way Huckabee will be McCain’s Vice-Presidential running mate. Newsmax’s Phil Brennan says Novak failed to mention what may be the McCain camp’s real anxiety over Huckabee’s remaining in the race: fear over a brokered convention, possibly overturning the primary results. Huckabee like Hillary said a few weeks ago at an eevent at support Chuck Norris’ California ranch that it all comes down to Texas where he says the tide will shift. Huckabee goes on to explain his goal of creating a brokered convention, a possibility that could throw the nomination wide open not just to he and McCain, but others.That is perhaps the most telling thing Huckabee has said so far – if he can’t win he wants a brokered convention to throw it open to others. That has alarm bells clanging in Republican smoke-filled backrooms.
Obama Leads Clinton In Tight Wisconsin Primary
Obama has 47% and Clinton 43% in newest Rasmussen Wisconsin poll. Clinton leads by ten points among women but trails by twenty-three points among men. The election is February19th when Hawaiians will also vote. Clinton is expected to win in Hawaii.
Hillary lashed out at bama saying he is afraid to debate her. Why should he risk a gaff when he is ahead in delegates. momentum and money?
Although Huckabee will not yet bow out McCain is a 96.5% favorite to get the Republican nomination so, all attention has turned to the Democrat race that is still very much up in the air
February 14, 2008, Conservatively Speaking
Obama’s size 13s left king-sized footprints all over Hillary in the Potomac Primaries stomping her in Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. That put Obama clearly out front in delegates. Clinton looks more and more like political road kill but, she may just be and fight like a cornered rat and still have enough left to bite. The New York Times reports that the Clinton campaign believes “she has been boxed into a must-win position” in Texas and Ohio on March 4th. If she loses Hillary may be out of the running for the Democrat nomination. So expect an imbroglio of epic proportions with the bullseye squarely and literally on Obama’s chest.
ROMNEY ENDORSING MCCAIN.
MITT ROMNEY endorses JOHN MCCAIN and is asking his delegates to support McCain too. The former Massachusetts Governor was visibility shaken and clearly upset with McCain just a few weeks ago when McCain released his delegates to HUCKABEE taking the win from MITT. This puts another nail in HUCKABEE’S POLITICAL COFFIN.
KAMIKAZE CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION
Last fall a bunch of arch-conservatives met to wreck Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy and is now visiting the idea of a third party as Sen. John McCain closes in on the Republican presidential nomination while moping about Huckabee’s disappearing act. A favorite of the so-called “hard right” is The Constitution Party. The Constitution Party, The Taxpayer’s Party until 1999, says its “completely pro-life, pro-gun, pro-American sovereignty and independence” and operates under several other names in various States. The Constitution Party in all its iterations has secured spots on about 16 state ballots and hopes to exceed 40, its national field director said.
DIAGNOSIS: HYPOCRISY
I have decided to blog here because a blog about hypocrisy will never run out of material. You might think otherwise. You might say, “Well, Snark, I manage to survive without saying one thing and doing the exact opposite, most days, why can’t the politicians?”
Huckabee Wins Anti-McCain Vote in Kansas
Saturday Republican’s caucused in Kansas and as expected a solid majority backed Huckabee in an anti-McCain vote by conservatives. 1242PM PST 9FEB08
Dobson Endorses Huckabee
ALERT: Rev. James Dobson, head of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, is endorsing Mike Huckabee for President – himself a former Baptist minister – in part because McCain uses profanity.
Former sailor and POW McCain’s has a deserved reputation of using salty language and infamously telling fellow senators and others to perform anatomically impossible acts.
Dobson is if nothing else sanctimonious. For Dobson to be critical of McCain for this — after he famously and heroically served his country and suffered intolerable torture for years — while Dobson himself cowered as a draft-dodger and his own kids are on his payroll and who did not serve either is at best hypocrisy. By the way McCain’s son is serving in the Marines in Iraq.
America has had Eisenhower and Reagan Republicans, and Compassionate Conservatives – it is time for COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVES
Tsunami Tuesday Turtorial
Tomorrow is TSUNAMI TUESDAY twenty-four states hold some voting contest on Feb. 5, with 1,681 Democratic delegates and 1,023 Republican delegates to the national presidential nominating conventions on the line. A candidate needs 2,025 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, and 1,191 to win the Republican nomination.
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The problem with the Republican Party is there are too many Republicans in it, a lifelong Democrat insists on repeatedly telling me. Ann Coulter, the willowy wild woman, is saying she will vote for Hillary if McCain is the GOP nominee, and Rush is in a similar rant. They and so-called Obamacans (Republicans threatening to vote for Barack Obama)
CHANGE
Change. It seems to be the most recent political buzz-word. As far as I can tell each and every candidate running for president has talked about and promised change.
Change. Yep, they all claim that America needs change, particularly in Washington, D.C. What makes this amazing is that three of the top four candidates, Clinton (both), Obama and McCain are all current members of the United States Senate. I do agree that if there is any entity in Washington that needs change it is the Senate.
My Actor Can Beat up Your Actor
Upon hearing that actor Sylvester Stallone endorsed him John McCain said he was going to Philadelphia and run up those steps and joked that he’d ask Stallone to beat up Chuck Norris for calling McCain too old to be President.
No information available about the response of the Norris, uh Hucklebee camp except the hint of a new exercise machine will be built to prepare for that fight.
Republicans enjoy nice nice, even a little foot in mouth by Huckabee, no matter
There was a Republican debate Thursday night in Florida. It started like reading the survivors list from the Titanic – a lot shorter than it was originally. Romney, McCain, Giuliani, Paul and Huckabee more or less agreed that the proposed Bush-House economic stimulus package is good but does not go far enough, fast enough or long enough.
Republican Debate Thursday January 24, 2008
Brian Willians asked Rudy Giuliani why his poll numbers were so terrible, half of what they were. The response is there are various polls and what the voters care about is the issues. Rudy has been mentioned negatively by the New York Times, some Republicans believe he should be proud of that.
Huckabee came out strong for the war in Iraq defending that ithe Bush invasion as worthwhile and a big part of our current safety.
Romney addressed the kitchen table issues of the economy, housing and energy costs. He joked, perhaps, that he can not think of any thing worse than having Bill Clinton as R. First Dude, back in the White House with nothing to do. That and using Barack Obama’s own challenges to Hillary gave him the upper hand tonight.
Which Candidate Can Prove The Most CHANGE?
Picture this: The six leading candidates in both parties getting together, pitching their spare change into one of those games where you use a crane controlled from outside the glass enclosure in order to get coins to drop out into a tray. It’s popular at many family restaurants in parts of the country. Dreamy isn’t it. Bipartisan agreement.
McCain CAN and DID
Eight years after George Bush torpedoed the John McCain campaign for president In South Carolina, JohnCan bested the rest of the Republicans, with Huckabee coming in a very close second and Romney placed, while others, maybe showed or not.
Ducan Hunter of California, announced he would drop out of the race. Bets are that he will back McCain.
While McCain bagged, meaning avoided rather than winning, the Nevada caucus probably due to the high number of Mormons in Nevada who would vote for Mitt Romney, he is well positioned for Florida and Super Tuesday.