Video: Welcom to McCain Burger

BTW, I'm Voting McCain-Palin
...And now for a word from McCain Burger
"Can I take your order, please?"





Two thumbs up.

One thumb from RidesAPaleHorse: "Everyone and I mean EVERYONE needs to see this..........hilarious and this kid hits it out of the park."

Two thumb from Mondo: "Best YouTube video I've seen in the last three weeks."

This needs to go viral.




Email it to a few friends.



by Mondo & RidesAPaleHorse

First Presidential Debate: Confusing CNN Graphic Showed Audience Reaction?

CNN's "Thingamajig":
"Live Audience Reaction" Graphic
Flat-lined at the Presidential Debates
StinkyJournalism

Can't CNN Leave Gismos Alone? Every time I looked at the "Audience Reaction" meter during the debate, it was flat-lined. Were these candidates dead men walking? The sciencey look of the graphic, you must admit, has an appealing truthiness.

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The similarity of CNN's "Live Audience Reaction" meter to the vital sign monitors in a hospital is unmistakable. Everyone knows from TV --"Doctor, come quickly. Code blue!"-- that flat lines in wave form graphics spell death for a hospital patients. But what the heck do the same flat lines mean for viewers watching the presidential debates?

The "Audience Reaction" meter – three colored lines at the bottom of the CNN News screen during the debates – combined with the enforced audience silence to provide a surprising effect: I felt slightly anxious and kept looking for signs of life.

Was I watching dying patients in the hospital with the mostly flat-lined and smoothly flowing and colorful wave forms? And what exactly was being measured anyway? My busy CNN television screen did not say.

Even media bloggers had no clue

MyChances.net asked, "Anyone have any idea how the little scrolling ‘Audience Reaction' is measured? CNN has one trend-line for independents, republicans, and democrats, and I'm not sure where they're getting those numbers."

Speculation abounded on the Web. SteveK on Media Bistro agreed that the meter "is fairly difficult to decipher."

At Yahoo! Answers, Austin M said, "CNN has chosen 3 audience members to give their reactions to CNN by giving them through a pulse machine. This is possible by seeing their pulse and looking at how it rises and lowers based on the questions asked. Also, those same people have a handheld device where they press 1 of three buttons meaning plus a little, minus a little, or back to neutral. (Used after each question.) Hope this helps."

Not really, Austin, but thanks.

Dennis left a comment on MyChance.net " with this CNN link which gives a partial answer: ' Voters watch the debate from Columbus, Ohio, and give their reaction to the responses in real-time.' But how this is done is not clear; nor is it stated how they gauge who is republican, democratic, or independent (presumably self-identification)."

Even the Wall Street Journal 's "Numbers Guy" couldn't enumerate--literally. He wrote, "Beneath the candidates, reaction from 32 undecided focus-group members in Ohio was presented graphically rather than numerically...reaction, positive or negative, was displayed as a rising or falling line."



The answer was from Ernanio was the best: "They have a bunch of potential voters from OHIO seated in a room with a dial thingamajig on their hands that when rotated can go from 0 - 100 to show how much they are liking the candidates intervention."

[Photo RIGHT: Some bloggers mistakenly thought the audience reaction meter measured pulse rates of the focus group. Here StinkyJournalism illustrates what a focus group member would look like, had it been true.]

What the heck was the thingamajig? Will CNN keep using it on the next two presidential debates?

So what does CNN News say?

I wrote to Edie Emery, in media relations at CNN, seeking answers. She kindly e-mailed me CNN's press release. It explained (emphasis mine):

Continue reading: CNN's "Thingamajig": "Live Audience Reaction" Graphic Flat-lined at the Presidential Debates


by Rhonda R. Shearer
images: Stinky Journalism
Source: CNN's "Thingamajig": "Live Audience Reaction" Graphic Flat-lined at the Presidential Debates

Joe Biden Quotes: Twenty-Five Joe Biden Quotes

Joe Biden's Twenty-five Greatest Verbal Hits
25 Joe Biden Quotes: What He said Then





Twenty-five Joe Biden quotes to compare and contrast with what the Delaware senator told the nation last night in the vice-presidential debate. Check back often for updates.

Did we miss any reader's favorite Joe Biden verbal moment?

If we did, readers can leave their favorites in the comments at the end of this article.

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“John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who...”
--Biden on The Daily Show - August 2 2005


“I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”
--Biden, New York Observer interview - 2007


"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking."
--Joe Biden, in an address to Indian-Americans

ALSO at DBKP:
DBKP Library of Quotes


"It's a bad idea and should be shut down and dismantled."
--Joe Biden, on the Alaskan pipeline - 1973


"A tragic mistake."
--Joe Biden, on the surge of troops in Iraq - 2006


"Uh, uh, Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about?"
--to wheelchair-bound Missouri state senator, Charles Graham - September 9, 2008



"Folk, let me be straight with you...I have a bad habit of doing that."
--Biden in the Delaware Journal - September 2007


”I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.”
--Joe Biden, on Barack Obama - 2007


“The only guy on the other side who’s qualified is John McCain.”
--Biden, post-debate appearance, MSNBC - October 30 2007


“Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran."
--Joe Biden, to staff three weeks after September 11, 2001




“If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where Bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”
----Joe Biden, addressing the National Guard, Baltimore 9-22-08 about the time his helicopter had to make a landing due to a sudden snowstorm.


“We must be clear with the American people that we are committing to Iraq for the long haul; not just the day after, but the decade after.”
--Biden, October 2002


“I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.”
--Biden,


"A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!"
--Biden, at his first campaign rally with Obama - August 2008


"I think we should divide the country into three regions, just like we did in Bosnia."
--Joe Biden, radio Interview - August 2007



“I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.”
--Biden, Meet the Press - November 27 2005


“My impression is [Obama] thinks that if we leave, somehow the Iraqis are going to have an epiphany” of peaceful coexistence among warring sects. “I’ve seen zero evidence of that.”
--Biden, on Obama’s Iraq plan - September 13 2007


“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
--Biden, New York Observer - 2007


“When this campaign is over, political slogans like ‘experience’ and ‘change’ will mean absolutely nothing. The next president has to act.”
--Biden Iowa campaign ad - December 2007


“We can call it quits and withdraw from Iraq. I think that would be a gigantic mistake. Or we can set a deadline for pulling out, which I fear will only encourage our enemies to wait us out — equally a mistake.”
--Biden at the Brookings Institution - 2005


“Sen. Obama said he would do everything possible to end the war in Iraq and emphasized the need for a political solution yet he failed to show up to vote for Sen. Biden’s critical amendment to provide a political solution in Iraq."
--Luis Navarro, Biden for President Campaign Manager - September 26, 2007


“He’s a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security… “We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”
--Biden about Sadaam Hussein, Meet the Press - December 26, 2002



“Well, the point is, it turned out they didn’t, but everyone in the world thought he had them. The weapons inspectors said he had them. He cataloged — they cataloged them. This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream. This was, in fact, cataloged.”
--Biden, about Sadaam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction, Meet the Press - 2007


“I don’t want him [my son] going there [to Iraq]. But I tell you what, I don’t want my grandson or my granddaughters going back in 15 years and so how we leave makes a big difference. There’s no political point worth my son’s life. There’s no political point worth anybody’s life out there. None.”
--Biden on Iowa Radio about Barack Obama's votes against Iraq funding bills - August 2007


“I don’t think John Edwards knows what the heck he is talking about," [when he calls for immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.] "John Edwards wants you and all the Democrats to think, ‘I want us out of there,’ but when you come back and you say, ‘O.K., John, what about the chaos that will ensue? Do we have any interest, John, left in the region?’ Well, John will have to answer yes or no. If he says yes, what are they? What are those interests, John? How do you protect those interests, John, if you are completely withdrawn? Are you withdrawn from the region, John? Are you withdrawn from Iraq, John? In what period? So all this stuff is like so much Fluffernutter out there."
--Joe Biden, Observer - February 2007


compiled by Mondo
image: CS Monitor
Sources:
* ‘Just Words’ That Joe Biden Would Like To Forget
* Joe Biden Quotes
* Running on Adrenaline
* Joe Biden's Skeleton Closet
* Biden Unbound: Lays Into Clinton, Obama, Edwards
* Joe Biden Quotes
* Joe Biden's Helicopter Ride to the Gates of Snowy Hell
* Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War
* Joe Biden Interview
* Joe Biden: $200 Million for Iran and a Vote Against the Alaskan Pipeline
* Joe Biden to Man in Wheechair: "Stand Up, Chuck. Let 'Em See Ya!"

Bill O'Reilly Calls Barney Frank a "Coward"

Barney Frank Gets a Spanking
Right Bias.com


JUST ONE MORE DOLLAR, PLEASE.
"Send Fannie Mae more money. I promise they'll spend it wisely next time."

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Say what you will about Bill O'Reilly, but he's the only person who finally did what millions of conservatives have yearned to do. On the O'Reilly Factor last night, host Bill O'Reilly gave Rep. Barney Frank a very public spanking for "presiding over the largest financial failure of our time."

With his characteristic bulldog style, times ten, O'Reilly quoted Frank's July, 2008 statement that, despite a few problems, Fannie-Mae had a 'solid' future.' O'Reilly got increasingly agitated as he outlined how thousands of Americans took Frank at his word, only to lose big as Fannie Mae tanked shortly thereafter.

Barney Frank, consummate politician that he is, handled himself quite well, casting himself as having fought for greater regulation and reform of Fannie Mae. Rep. Frank was genuinely perplexed that Americans weren't judging him on his good intentions instead of the disastrous results of his actions, or lack of actions.


Frank held his own, using the proven tactic of attacking the messenger instead of responding to the actual issue. With a straight face, he accused Bill O'Reilly of not listening. "I didn't say Fannie Mae was a good investment," Frank stated. With that, O'Reilly went nuclear.

"Oh, stop the BS. Stop the crap," O'Reilly yelled, emphasizing his irritation with huge finger jabs. 'You're a coward." Living up to the moniker 'No Spin Zone,' O'Reilly went further, stating, "At least Christopher Cox was man enough to admit failure. Come on, be a man. Come on, you coward. You blame everyone else. You're a coward!"

Frank again tried to switch the issue to O'Reilly's lack of manners. On this point, he was somewhat correct. The confrontation indeed turned into a shout-fest, with both sides maneuvering for control of the issue. Bill O'Reilly won. Barney Frank lost.

Though this debate didn't conform to the civilized rules of debate by virtue of finger pointing, shouting and accusations, it nevertheless was long overdue. The point O'Reilly managed to convey was the utter lack of accountability assigned to the very people who were supposed to be in charge of financial oversight. Namely, Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd - the very politicians who now jockey for face time after having appointed themselves the experts in charge of solving this vexing problem. After being directly responsible for causing it.

Hypocrisy is nothing new in politics, but with millions of Americans now paying the price for Barney Frank's decisions, his very public spanking was long overdue. Kudos to Bill O'Reilly and shame on Barney Frank for not 'being a man.'


by Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com
image: reuters

Obama, Bill Ayers: Ayers Awarded Ring Made from Downed US Plane

Obama and Bill Ayers:
What's in a Ring--or a Mentor?
Bill Ayers Awarded Ring from North Vietnam
Made from Metal from Downed American Planes



ALSO at DBKP:
* Bill Ayers, Obama: No Mainstream Media Interest in The Obama Bunch
* Obama, Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: The ‘Tangential’ Bill Ayers
* Obama’s Ties to 1970’s Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: Disassociation and Little Condemnation

McCain and Obama: Something in Common
John McCain's Plane was Shot Down and He Spent Six Years in a North Vietnam prison.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama's Mentor, Bill Ayers, Was Awarded a N. Vietnamese Ring


During the debate last week both candidates showed off bracelets given to them by military mothers. However, was the ring Barack Obama was wearing given to him by his radical, marxist friend Bill Ayers? Bill Ayers and his leftist wife, Bernadine Dohrn were honored by the North Vietnamese government. They were both presented with rings made from downed American planes. So proud of his achievement, Ayers wept.

From the American Thinker, "Obama's Foul Weather Friends":

After returning from Cuba, Dohrn and others met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss antiwar strategy on US campuses. Speaking a few days later at an assembly of revolutionary student movements at Columbia University, Dohrn reported that the Vietnamese communists she met in Budapest were working with US GIs in Saigon, attempting to obtain military information.

As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he "left the room to cry." He said, "I realized...America was an evil... and that I was... living inside the belly of the beast...."

WANT more Crippy and Crippy's World? Try these recent posts: * Obama is bought and paid for by Fannie Mae * HAMAS ENDORSES OBAMA * OBAMA COMMITTING VOTER FRAUD

by Crippy
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Source: Obama wears Bill Ayers' Ring?

Joe Biden: $200 Million for Iran and a Vote Against the Alaskan Pipeline

Joe Biden's Tough on America's Enemies:
Biden One of Only Five Senators
To Vote AGAINST the Alaskan Pipeline in 1973
A $200 Million 'No Strings Attached' Check for Iran
Tomorrow's Headlines Today:
Biden Big Winner in VP Debate

"If I can save just ONE caribou, it will be worth it."

Three Weeks After September 11, Biden Wants to Cut the Iranians a check for $200 Million, "no strings attached"


If a few gas lines in the South--due to the double whammy of Ike and Gustav--make readers nervous, think back to 1973 when the entire nation was one big gas line.

The Arabs, in effect, declared war on the USA for its role in helping Israel defend itself during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. The Arab oil embargo made gas lines the only way motorists could obtain gasoline--when any was available.

What did Joe Biden do?

He voted against the original Alaskan pipeline.

Shockingly, Sen. Joe Biden was one of only five senators to vote against the first Alaskan pipeline bill in 1973. This is like having been a Nazi sympathizer during World War II. If Sarah Palin does nothing else, she has got to tie that idiotic pipeline vote around Biden's neck.

The Senate passed the 1973 Alaskan pipeline bill by an overwhelming 80-5 vote. Only five senators voted against the pipeline on final passage. Sen. Biden is the only one who is still in the Senate -- the other four having been confined to mental institutions long ago.

The stakes were clear: This was in the midst of the first Arab oil embargo. Liberal Democrats, such as senators Robert Byrd, Mike Mansfield, Frank Church and Hubert Humphrey, all voted for the pipeline.

But Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20 percent of this nation's oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers to the nation's enemies by about the same amount.

The only argument against the pipeline was that it would harm the caribou, an argument that was both trivial and wrong. The caribou population near the pipeline increased from 5,000 in the 1970s to 32,000 by 2002.

It would have been bad enough to vote against the pipeline bill even if it had hurt the caribou. A sane person would still say: Our enemies have us in a vice grip. Sorry, caribou, you've got to take one for the team. But when the pipeline goes through and the caribou population sextuples in the next 20 years, you really look like a moron.
Ann Coulter
Biden Secret Service Code Name: 'Assassination Insurance'

Joe Biden is the man that the Mainstream Media will declare the winner in tonight's debate with Sarah Palin. The headline are already written at the New York Times: "Biden Wins Big, Palin Doesn't Know the Square Root of 266443".

Joe Klein wrote his piece for Time sometime shortly after August 30: "Biden Steady; Palin Too Dangerous to Declare Winner".

Kathleen Parker will write a column about wanting nationalized health care because Sarah Palin aggravated Parker's near-terminal "cringe reflex"--oh, and by the way, Kathleen has a pain right here that feels like two billy goats butting their heads together.

Barack Obama picked Joe Biden because of his "experience".

That experience includes his vote against the original Alaskan pipeline. Joe Biden's a stand-up guy: when the Arabs put their foot on America's throat, Joe Biden stood up for the caribou.

Biden's experience also includes wanting to send the Iranians a $200 million "no-strings attached" check shortly after September 11.

“Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.

The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: “I think they’d send it back.” Then another aide speaks up delicately: “The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt.” Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned.
--Michael Crowley, New Republic October 11, 2008
Rhetorical Question

Obama's has taken heat for wanting to negotiate with Iran without pre-conditions. Many think that is not only wrong, but counter-productive. So, maybe Barack Obama made the smart VP pick after all: at least Biden wanted to send the Iranians $200 million first.

The $200 million check to the Iranians shortly after September 11 and the vote against the Alaskan pipeline are all part of Joe Biden's record of achievement in the Senate.

Say what you will: it's a much larger record than that of his running mate, Barack Obama.


by Mondo Frazier

Chicago Cubs, Dodgers:Is this the Year the Cubs Finally Win the World Series?

Chicago Cubs vs. LA Dodgers
Is this the Year the Cubs go all the way?





Could this be the year the Chicago Cubs go all the way and win the World Series?

Could after all these years of blown seasons , choking in August, goat curses, black cats and everything else, could my Cubs actually do it this year? Is this the year when hell freezes over?

I should admit that I'm not a hard-core sports fan. I can't recite player statistics like ERA's and batting averages. I'm not the type of hard core fan that would name his baby son "Lou Piniella Jr." and his baby daughter "Sheffield".

In fact, even right now, I'd be hard-pressed to name 10 Cubs players.

I'm basically a fair weather Cubs fan. If they had blown it earlier this season I would have stopped watching them months ago. But the Cubs are a bit different to me then the other Chicago sports teams. They are my favorite team. I'm a North-sider.

Until a couple years ago, I had lived most of my life within walking distance of Wrigley Field. I have lived most of my life in a area defined by Irving Park Road to the North. Belmont to the South. Lake Shore Drive to the East , and Broadway to the west. I was watching Cubs games a lot earlier then the games of other Chicago teams. Chicago is a 2 team baseball city. But unlike other cities, there is no real rooting for both. You are either a Cubs Fan or a White Sox fan. I have nothing against the south-siders, but I will openly admit: I'm usually rooting for the White Sox to lose.

Sitting at Wrigley Field watching a game in the summer is...something special. It is a unique and wonderful time. Wrigley is one of the most beautiful stadiums in the entire country . Yes, it is getting old and could use some repair work, but it is truly one of the last neighborhood stadiums in the nation. It is neat to have a beer at the place on the corner behind the bleachers, and enjoy the game day atmosphere.


Given the Cubs history of curses and other bad stuff happening to them, I was reluctant to even write this. I honestly thought that writing something about the possibility of the Cubs winning the World series would jinx them (yeah, we Cubs fans are a weird bunch). So, where do we stand? the Cubs finished the regular season with a impressive 97 wins. In terms of won games,They led the Central Division and the National League pretty much all the season. They have played some great baseball this season.

I can't even imagine the earthquake that would happen in this city if the Cubs managed to win it all. It would be incredible if the Cubs could do i this year. Even though I may be a fair-weather Cubs fan, I'm tired of hearing 'maybe next year'. When I worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange there was a co-worker who was a hard-core White Sox fan. When things were slow, and we were both at the desk, we'd start up the trash-talking of each other's team. It was pretty fun and it kept our co-workers entertained. I'd love to go back down there and rub a Cubs World Series win in his face.




A few years ago, I thought the Cubs were going to do it. They did well in the 2003 season. It was the night of 14 October. At the time, I was living in a high-rise that is blocks away from Wrigley Field. In fact, if you have ever watched a Cubs game, when the home plate TV camera does that beautiful shot of the field from home plate to the scoreboard, my high-rise is visible in the background.

On that night, I had the game on and the West facing living room windows open because I wanted to hear the crowd noise from Wrigley. It was chilly, so I was sitting there on the couch with a sweat shirt on. I thought the game was wrapped up.

And then it happened: Steve Bartman.

I don't blame Steve for the loss. I blame the Cubs for losing it. But can you see why us Cubs fans are wanting this? We have had enough things go wrong over the decades, it would be nice if this year is truly 'The Year'. The last time the Cubs were in the World Series was 1945 and the last time they won it it was 1908. It has been long enough.

I think the best way to finish this is with a couple slogans that are pretty popular around here right now:

Next Year Is Now!

Go Cubs Go!!!!!!!!



by ChicagoDudeWhoTrades

[NOTE: Not to dampen CDWT's enthusiasm, the Cubs were undone by the Dodgers in Game One last night, 7-2. But, one game does not a series make.]

Capitalizing on seven walks by Cubs starter Ryan Dempster, they erupted for a 7-2 victory, hitting three home runs and seizing momentum in baseball's lightning round.

images: myteamprints

Bill Ayers and the VP Debate Link

Vice Presidential Debate:
VP Debate Trail Leads to Bill Ayers



In a post earlier today, I connected the dots between the location where the ROTC buildings once stood at Washington University in St. Louis to the St. Louis Athletic Complex, site of Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. In short, I reported that the St. Louis Athletic Complex, the venue for the debate, was constructed upon the same ground where ROTC buildings burned to the ground as anti-Vietnam war sentiment reached a fever pitch.

It’s important for several reasons, though one stands out. At about the same time 38 years ago, according to Discover the Networks, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was busy carrying out similarly detestable activities:

A substantial portion of Ayers’ book Fugitive Days discusses the author’s penchant for building and deploying explosives. Ayers boasts that he “participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.” Of the day he bombed the Pentagon, Ayers says, “Everything was absolutely ideal. … The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”

Will the 3,100-plus members of the news media who’ve received credentials to cover the debate report on this little-known relationship between Barack Obama and Ayers, his longtime friend? Probably not — but the American people will hear about it if Sarah Palin takes my advice.

WANT more Bob McCarty, "The Ultimate Blogging Machine"? Try these recent posts: * Americans Urged to Get Vaccinated Prior to Debate * AP Skews Coverage of McCain’s Life Expectancy * Accuracy of ‘OBSESSION’ Causes CAIR to Squirm

by Bob McCarty
images: Bob McCarty Writes
Source: Vice Presidential Debate Trail Leads to Bill Ayers

Palin Assassinates Bullwinkle!

Another Palin Attack?



Click image to enlarge.


by RidesAPaleHorse

Barack Obama, Bill Ayers: The Obama Bunch

Barack and Friends
Red Planet Cartoons on Obama's Buddies
The Relationship Between the Man Who Bombed the Pentagon
And the Man who Wants to Run it

Click image to enlarge.


“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”
–Obama friend William Ayers


The many questionable associations of Barack Obama is the subject of the latest Red Planet Cartoon.

Front and center among those is Obama's "good friend", Bill Ayers. Ayers went from being a leader of the Weather Underground into writing grants for Barack Obama, community organizer.

This is the first time in American history that a man (Ayers) has parlayed bombing the Pentagon into having a presidential candidate announce from his home.

Millions of voters are unaware of this connection between Obama and Bill Ayers because the Mainstream Media, as usual, is more intent on "protecting" rather than "reporting" the news.

RPC helps correct this situation and starts things rolling with the quote and cartoon above and then follows up with this great quote from Stanley Kurtz, National Review: A Cover-Up in the Making?

The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told The New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place “makes me want to puke.” Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.

Red Planet then adds a McCain video on Ayers and Obama and its fine collection of info links, including one to DBKP's The ‘Tangential’ Bill Ayers. All the links are chocked full of info on the topic, but Bob Owens: The Ayers-Weatherman Terrorist Attack as It Might Have Happened is particularly good.

Will the media investigate the years-long connection between a man who bombed the Pentagon and the man who wants to run it?

Our prediction: Inside the tank for Obama is a hard place to begin an investigation.

Emailing RPC's Barack and Friends to someone you know might be considered an act of public service.


by Mondo
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source: Barack and Friends

Obama, Ahmadinejad, Hitler, Munich: Negotiating with Madmen for Dummies

Obama and Meeting Ahmadinejad without Pre-Conditions
Negotiating with Madmen 101
Can anyone say "Munich"?





Barack Obama wants to negotiate with Iranian nutjob, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad--without pre-conditions. Obama tried to muddy the waters on the subject during the first presidential debate, saying that John McCain "mischaracterized" his position.

But, it's right there on barrackobama.com:

“Obama supports tough, direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions.”

Never mind that the Europeans have been talking to Ahmadinejad for years--predictably, with no results. Obama thinks that, like George Bush, he has the ability to look into the souls of the soul-less.

Negotiating with Iran for Dummies





The title of this video is "ZUCKER TAKES ON THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP AND JAMES BAKER", but it might well be "Negotiating with Madmen 101".

David Zucker produced Airplane!, the Naked Gun movies, Scary Movie 3 & 4 and a new movie, An American Carol.

An American Carol pokes fun at the Left--something rare for a Hollywood movie made after 1962--and it's funny, in the humble opinion of everyone here who's seen the trailers.



An American Carol comes out Friday, October 3. The movie's release raises many questions.

Will it be successful?

If it is successful, will Hollywood make more movies making fun of the Left?

Check back Monday, October 6. That's when the weekend's box office results will be in and DBKP will track the movie's performance.

As for Barack Obama and Ahmadinejad?

One would never lose money betting that Obama won't do what's best for Obama--and that includes waltzing with a guy who wants to nuke Israel and America the first chance he gets.


by Mondo

Trench Reynolds: DBKP This Week in Crime, vol. 30

September 21-27, 2008
Volume 30



I'm Trench Reynolds.

I blog about crime.


This is DBKP's This Week in Crime for September 21-September 27th, 2008.


Yes, I took the week off last week. That's a good thing. When I take the week off that means there wasn't anything earth-shattering to report in my world of crime. This week, unfortunately, is not the case.

As I'm sure most of you know there was a school shooting last week in Finland in which ten people were killed. It's the second school shooting Finland has had in the past year. Most blogs posted the initial crime and posted very little follow up about it. As for me I just can't let go of stories like this.

22-year-old gunman Matti Saari stormed the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality armed with a gun and incendiary devices. Saari attended the school and attacked the room where his classmates were taking a cooking exam. Sarri was supposed to have taken that exam the same day as he was studying to be a chef. Witnesses said that Saari looked like he was having 'fun' while opening fire on the unsuspecting crowd. Saari also actually phoned a friend of his to tell him that he's killed people and called to say goodbye. Saari used his incendiary devices to set fire to the classroom and to the bodies of those he shot. The victims had to be taken to Helsinki to be identified.

Saari did fire on police who did not fire back. They didn't have to. Like most school shooters Saari turned the gun on himself. He initially survived but died later at the hospital.

When the smoke cleared a chilling portrait of the shooter had been cast and as usual in these situations the red flags were many. Now I'm going to offer my sobering dose of reality that go along with many myths of school shooters.

In a note left by Saari he said that he was planning a school shooting for six years. That would mean that he was 16 and in high school when he started plotting. According to some of his high school friends he was bullied and an outcast in high school. A lot of these shooters are nothing more than copycats of the Columbine shooting. A lot of them think that the Columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were bullied. In my opinion they were not. In this day of instant information I have yet to see any proof that they were actually bullied. This Slate article by journalist Dave Cullen lends credence to that theory. Not to mention that is no excuse to kill 10 people that had nothing to do with his alleged bullying.

Saari was bullied while he was in the Finnish Army as well. This should come as no shock considering he was discharged from the army for firing off his weapon when he was not ordered to. That terrified the other recruits.

Saari was also a 'fan' of school shooters including the Columbine killers and Cho Seung Hui, the gunman at Virginia Tech but more on that later. When these bullying claims come out it makes me wonder if the bullying started before they became school shooting fans or after.

Also as someone who was bullied every day for 12 years I know how painful bullying can be but I never thought of taking up arms. For those of you in high school who think that it's all hopeless just bide your time. Once you reach my age you'll realize how insignificant high school was in the grand timeline of your life. Once you graduate more than likely your bullies will either end up in jail or in some dead end life.

The first thing most people did was make the comparison in similarities that happened at the Jokela School 10 moths prior. To say the similarities were eerie is a gross understatement.

Prior to the Jokela shooting gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted videos on YouTube that were in a threatening manner against Jokela High School. Saari posted threatening videos as well except his did not indicate a specific target. Both were fans of other school shootings. Both had bought their guns at the same gun shop in Jokela. As it turned out these were not mere coincidences.

Saari and Auvinen were online buddies both brought together for their admiration of school shooters. Over at TheTrenchcoat Chronicles I refer to these types of people as 'mutants'. Not the X-Men kid of mutants but more like CHUDs. They played online games together. They exchanged YouTube videos of previous school shootings. They boasted about their plans to each other. To extend the six degrees of separation of school shooters even further, before his shooting spree and suicide Auvinen also had contact with Pennsylvania student Dillon Cossey. Cossy was arrested last year for plotting an attack against Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School outside of Philadelphia. While this school shooting 'network' if you will may come as a shock to some it does not come as a shock to me.

These school shooting groupies congregate online in places like LiveJournal, MySpace, and various message boards. If you go back to every shooting that has happened since Columbine I can almost guarantee that most of them, either shooters or would be shooters, were fans of Columbine. It's not just kids and teens either. The really scary part is that there are adults who were even adults when Columbine happened that are fans of the mass murderers.

So when people ask where will the next school shooter come from my answer will always be the same. They come from the darkest corners of the internet.


by Trench Reynolds
image: Trench Network

Trans-Gender Concerns Behind Spread of Unisex Restrooms

Politically Correct Toiletry
Coming Soon to a Public Restroom Near You



The obsession with forcing the public into unisex multiple party public toilets is upon us again. Every few months another public body or school administrator suddenly finds toilets discriminatory because males and females are ah........different. And this difference really pisses them off. The latest is in Britain. Where the issue does not appear to be the apparatus, but rather the signage, when the worldwide toilet door depictions of a stick figure in a skirt signifying 'female' toilet was suddenly determined to be sexist.(duh).

Toilet signs 'too PC'

The traditional sign on the door of the Gents has been temporarily replaced with one that says 'toilets with urinals'.And the sign on the Ladies now simply says 'toilets' in a move to make the lavatories more inclusive for trans-gender students.

Jennie Killip, women's officer at the students' union, put forward the idea of installing the new signs after receiving complaints from trans-gender students about the facilities.She said: "The idea is that trans-gender people feel more comfortable using their student union."

Trans-gender people can face violence and abuse when they go into toilets and we wanted to provide a place where they can feel comfortable."I have had complaints from people who said we didn't have any facilities for them."

Frankly, it is unclear to DBKP why there will be any less violence directed at males knocking on a stall door in the "toilet without urinals". Or in the words of an actual lab rat in the social experiment: "Another student, who did not want to be named, said: "This is ridiculous..."

Norway has tackled this burning issue with a different approach.

Equality Watch: Boys Must Sit Like Girls To Pee In Norway School, Or Else!

It’s an entirely new definition of “Standing Room Only.” Or perhaps a new measure of “equality” has arrived.

Whatever it is, it has sparked a huge political debate at a school in Kristiansand, Norway, according to the Norwegian paper Fædrelandsvennen.

The trigger for the explosion of opinion? A decision in the local district that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating, not stand.

When word leaked out, parents were none too happy. The complete feminizing of Western males appeared to be the goal.

But why let all those urinals go to waste? If males are not allowed to use them, who will?

Ah, the women had some ideas there too.



The Europeans are decidedly constipated compared to their politically correct American counterparts. As the Boston Globe reports:

Emerson makes restrooms gender-neutral
Joins other schools after student pleas

Emerson has changed the signs that used to be aimed at a specific gender on 21 restrooms in campus buildings and one of the college's two dormitories.Emerson's changes, made in preparation for the upcoming school year, mirror moves by Tufts University and the University of Vermont, part of a small but growing number of universities modifying policies and facilities on behalf of transgender students. Several colleges have amended nondiscrimination policies to include gender identity, but student groups recently began pursuing more concrete changes, including gender-neutral housing, locker rooms, and bathrooms.

"This will bring more equal opportunities to the students of Emerson," said Jessica Ganon, a junior at Emerson who campaigned with fellow students to get the school to provide the gender-neutral bathrooms. "I am much happier that this makes life easier for others. I felt sorry for those who felt unsure of where to go."

That is strange. We here at DBKP never gave it a second thought. The idea that 98% of the population should feel uncomfortable because of the concerns of a few challenged individuals never even crossed our minds.




"A harassment experience doesn't have to be physical," said Rik Haber, a 2007 graduate of Emerson identified as gender-queer, a term for those who identity their gender outside of male or female. "It is about feeling comfortable going to the bathroom."

I don't know what reception Riki ( if that really is his name) expected to get when he tried to tinkle in the girls room, but I bet it was unpleasant.

Both for him and the girls. And that puts the lie to this social tink[l]ering. Gays should be wanting to hang near the urinals. Lesbians like being with the girls. Guys fully expect the gays to use the Men's Room, Girls have similar expectations about lesbians. It is only the cross dressers that are at issue, a minority in society so small as to be socially infinitesimal.These are individuals that purposely put themselves on display and their fragile egos are hardly worthy of discomfitting the rest of society.

Speaking of which:

Pass the towels! Plans for coed locker rooms

The governing council in Montgomery County, Md., is considering adopting an "open doors" policy to its public restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities to meet the demands of a transgender "non-discrimination" plan, which would allow men into women's lockers and vice versa, a support group reports.

"In addition to prohibiting discrimination in the areas of employment and housing, Bill 23-07 adds 'public accommodation' to the list, causing many to question the judgment of allowing men who merely claim they feel female to have complete access to women's restrooms, showers and locker rooms in schools, and other places of public accommodation such as health clubs, swimming pools, and store dressing rooms," PFOX said in its statement about the issue.

The Montgomery County Council has voiced callousness and arrogance to the concerns of parents who object. When asked by a mother concerned about her 10-year-old daughter who swims at the Germantown Indoor Pool, where she must undress in front of women since there are no separate changing rooms, if under this law she could be changing next to a person with male genitals,

Council member George Leventhal responded via email: 'I cannot absolutely put to rest your concern that girls might find themselves in a locker room or dressing room in the presence of a person who expresses or asserts herself as a woman but who still has male genitals, but based on my own sense of the prevalence of that condition in the population, I think the likelihood of that occurring is remote'.

Well that makes everyone feel better. What could go wrong? After all, those seeking entry are the sexual oddities of society. But not to worry, I am sure many heterosexual students know exactly whose locker they want to be next to.




And we here at DBKP have noted another oddity: everyone of these proposals affects youth. Sort of like creepy adults vicariously reliving their younger years in a more explicit fashion.

In order to lend a more scientific approach to our topic, DBKP interviewed our resident expert on such matters, the pulchritudinous LBG. Her answer was concise.

"I think UNISEX bathrooms are a bad idea. I imagine if you poll others you'll get the same answer.
Women do not want men in their bathroom, public or private. There are too many weirdos. It also allows pedophiles access to little kids.
So it's a matter of "safety" for me, for women, and for kids."

Yup.

Sort of like males not wanting to have to use the urinal while a lesbian combs her hair at the sink with an Ace #5, making small talk about her date the night before.


by pat
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* http://www.timeout.com
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Sources:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1069339_toilet_signs_too_pc
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=7289
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52189
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58469
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/01/emerson_makes_restrooms_gender_neutral/

Sheila Jacson Lee Praises Obama, Votes No on Bailout

Sheila Jackson Lee:
Obama delivered votes for bailout--except hers, of course...




Here's the transcript of the operable portion of the video:

McCain's coming in and talking about he had the votes and only delivered 65 Republicans. Compared to Obama's steady hand and actually 140 Democrats voted.

First of all, irony alert, Sheila Jackson Lee voted AGAINST the bailout. So here she is bragging about Obama's ability to deliver votes. Meanwhile, he failed to deliver her vote.

Second, Obama did not lift a finger to deliver votes...he didn't even travel back to Washington. This from the New York Times:

Aides to Mr. Obama said he had not directly reached out to try to sway any House Democrats who opposed the measure.

Even if Obama had delivered the votes, she's claiming that the bill failed to address the needs of the American People. What she's really telling us, is that Obama delivered vote's for a sh*tty bill. So much for the steady hand. They must think we're really stupid. [read more]


by rizzuto
Conservative Punk
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Source: Sheila Jackson Lee: Obama delivered votes for bailout...except hers of course...