Bits, Pieces and Other Folks Snatches

First, a wonderfully huge upset in the Superbowl and then today already, Mike Huckabee kicks Romneys Ass in WV.  Now I know its a bit of creative politics with the McCain supporters throwing their support to Huck, but who cares, a symbolic ass kicking is an ass kicking and maybe Romney will pack up his motor homes, throw the dog on the roof and get back to the land of screwed up politicians Massachusetts, a state in which I would have greater respect if they refuse to vote for this phoney.  Great strides were already made when Ted Kennedy endorsed Obama over Hillary.  There is a glimmer of hope!

My guess is that Toni Morrison will think carefully before spouting off garbage like “Bill Clinton is our 1st black president”. It may have been funny and catchy at the time and suited her purposes as well as Bill’s, but those words now show it as a twisted insult to the black community. It sounded like she thought there was no chance there ever being a qualified black candidate in her lifetime to be president so she declared Bill HER first black president.

What the hell is happening with the democrats!? The rats are bailing on the Clinton’s and Ted Kennedy is the first to hit the water (again). Now author Toni Morrison has endorsed Obama. This goes to show the confusing prediciment black voters are experiencing with this years candidates. After South Carolina, my guess is that they are making up their mind and their mind is clear enough to notice that Billary Clinton’s interest in the black voters was for just that, votes. It seems that black’s have never voted a principal other than they are supposed to vote democrat despite the fact that democrats are no more interested in the welfare and well being of our black citizens than the Republicans.

I believe Obama is the best candidate floating to the surface this election year. I don’t care that he’s black. He’s smart, speaks to me at a level I understand, shows signs of hope, and does not appear to be an “Insider”. Insiders have proven they are no better running our country than anyone portrayed in the show “Dirty Jobs”. George Bush wasn’t an “Insider” after being elected the first time. However, after that second win, he was an Insider with 4 years of experience at the highest level and he’s proven he can’t govern either way. As much as I like John McCain, I’m afraid he’s too inside as well and can’t get past the idea that there is something about him that makes me a little nervous.  I am one independent that believes Obama is the candidate for the job. I’m sure Hillary thinks she’s qualified because she’s already had 8 years in the white house. But, as Dick Morris said “it is irrelevant that she was in the White House for eight years. So was the pastry chef”.

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/why-the-democrats-are-backing-hillary-2007-10-10.html As I’ve said before, it’s unlikely the dems will allow Obama to be president. The machine will unfortunately chew him up and spit him out. Hillary represents all the interests of the Left and they know it. The link referenced above sums it up quite nicely. There is some hope however with the endorsement of the drunk Kennedy. He was a Machine Democrat and he managed to sober up enough to reason out his endorsement.

For a bunch of folks propped up by the Arab world as a cause to rally around, there’s not much more use for the Palestinians outside their fences. Egypt is right now spraying them with water cannons to keep them out of their country. You would think that the Arabs would be more open to receiving their repressed Arab brothers and Sisters from Gaza.

Rebates from the government are on their way. We’re saving ours so we won’t be helping invigorate the economy.

A union worker at a Ford plant makes $68,000 a year popping hub caps on new cars floating down an assembly line. Just recently, Ford proposed a buyout for longtime union employees in hopes of replacing that workforce with cheaper non-union workers. Those who refuse to recognize that Union wages have driven up the cost of everything MADE IN AMERICA are in denial or in a union. These people seem to think that the work they do is worth more than what I make after 15 years at the same place, what they forget is that a robot (or an illegal immigrant) has the ability to do their work a lot better and for a lot less.

Japanese whalers have been pestered by those whale hugging Greenpeace types. This time, I say give em hell Greenpeacers. Or in this case the Sea Shepherds of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The Japs have seem to found a nice little loophole that allows them to slaughter thousands of whales for “scientific purposes”. The only science on the whales performed is with soy sauce and white wine.

American Idol is a fraud and if you watch this show with the idea that it is a sincere effort to find America’s undiscovered talent, “your retarded”. Check out one of the best sites on the Internet www.votefortheworst.com for a good time. The folks at VFTW have been pissing on AI’s good times for a few years now and every year they only get better and better. The funniest thing about the site is the hate mail from the AI ‘tards that defend this scam.

Tom Cruise and scientology ought to have a sit down with Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and compare notes on which of their religions is more screwy. Do you think Cruise will ever look back on his days as a scientologist and wonder what the hell he was thinking? No wonder he can’t keep a wife. He starts babbling that shit and they run like hell. Unless Katie is on board the scientology UFO, we can expect to see her running soon as well. The lines for recruits to a new religion based on The Matrix will be forming soon.

Oh dear God, the perfect storm of a worst case scenario is forming in American politics with what looks like a Hillary vs Romney showdown in November. Now I’m nowhere near wanting to find a nice little shack in Saskatchewan but that Icy Hell will be better than the choice we have to make in December.

Although a risky play, the crying game worked.

In our village, we teach our kids that you shouldn’t get what you want by crying. Apparently we now know that isn’t necessarily true. The same way we learned that oral isn’t really sex. I know because the President said so. Hillary was well advised when it was suggested after the planted question at the ladies tea in NH that she should work up a good show of emotion. Although an actual tear never happened, the effort to cry was enough. The angry ladies of NH who claim to have bumped their heads on the glass ceiling have spoken. Hilary’s disingenuous efforts work.

She’d be crazy to fire the adviser who led her to that gem. However, it probably would have better served the Clinton campaign to fire up the emotional play before Super Tuesday. Therefore, she will need to play a different emotion card since crying is now old school. The short list of political ploy cards to be played between now and 2/5: cramps, postpartum depression, sincere appreciation, 1st woman president.

First, the Hillary lovers said (and I’m quoting a real HL here from a last Sunday discussion). “Just wait until she cries. All the people will say that means she’s too weak to be president, (just like Sleepy Edwards did when asked about Hillary’s episode). Others will say if she doesn’t cry, she cold and emotionless”.

I take a 3rd perspective, crying is a genuine show of emotion and because it’s true she has no emotions other than the pre-programmed ones she uses for politicing, this really couldn’t have been considered a cry as we know in the traditional sense. She didn’t actually work up a cry, it was more of a crackly throat with dry puffs of air poofing from her tear ducts. My guess is that her advisers suggested an attempt at emotion to woo in some fringe voters without showing weakness by actually producing real tears. The planted question (which coincidentally was reported to be the final question of the tea) was asked to get the tears rolling.

All of the angry feminists in that little coffee shop bought it and all were moved to dry tears and voice changes as well so the ploy may have helped for the moment.

I watched CNN’s unprecedented coverage of ABC’s debate. No surprises, I didn’t miss anything the first time except:

• Sleepy Edwards showed some balls and raised his voice a little, however this guy is shades of Jimmy Carter and no, not because of the annoying accent.
• I loved the Romney attacks from all the Republicans. They all got in appropriate shots and Huckabee was even praised by George Stephanopoulos for making an appropriate clean jab. Ron Paul was notably absent from the Romney attacks but that was about par because he seemed absent from the whole proceedings.
• The most telling thing about all 13 hours of that debate was the final “feel good-leave the debate on a humor moment” question. ABC’s Charles Gibson asked the candidates if there was one thing they said they could take back what would it be? Right before Hillary answered, I paused the DVR, put in a CD of dance music and began playing both. With one song and danced, she won a whole season of Dancing With The Stars with her answer. Of course she didn’t answer the question, she apparently has nothing to regret except that there is an opposition right wing conspiracy. I have to give credit to Richardson and Sleepy, they in the spirit of the question gave answers that did add a little closing fun. Disappointingly, Barack parroted Hillary and is possibly being set up to take next seasons “Dance With the Stars”.

After a few more appropriate shots in Romney’s direction, hopefully we’ll begin to see the smoke pouring from the engine and the wings beginning to dip slightly in an inevitable death spiral into the ground. I hope he packed his ‘chute.

So I didn’t.  I watched my stored up selection of DVR’ed episodes of the Rockford Files.  They’re not going to answer a question any differently that hasn’t already been asked.  They can throw in a few more adjectives and maybe Mitt won’t have to pause for 8 seconds before answering  since he has his lines down by now.  However, he may take a new stand on the issues that matter we hadn’t heard before.  If it matters the next debate worth watching will be the one among the nominees for both (or all) parties.  Anything else is just the same old same old.

BY THE WAY:  Bill Bradley (Republican) endorses Obama as the candidate that truly appeals to all ancd can unite our country.   I think we’re on to something here.

We knew that anyway but as it was put last night “70% of the people voted against Hillary”. Sleepy McEdwardcocktosen even came in 2nd and Mr. Obama won the whole thing. And I mean the whole thing (Dems and Reps). Not to sound too mushy, but his speech was one of the best and most inspiring I’ve heard. It took him a while to come out but I figure he was watching Hillary’s on TV and took her best line or 2 and incorporated them into his speech. There were no tele-prompters and I don’t think his speech writers had enough time to hammer out something as good as that and he didn’t have enough time to memorize anything. I really think that came from the heart. Mike Huckabee did a good job too. Not just with kicking Mitts ass but his speech was decent as well. He better enjoy last nights limelight because I’m guessing it’s ass-kickings from here on out. I just hope John McCain can keep distracting Romney by leading in the polls causing Romney to stir up a bunch of negative ads and continue to fail at addressing real issues.

I hope and pray the Democrats and the voters give Obama a chance and don’t fall for Hillary’s bull shit. The 2nd place Democrat will be circling the bowl soon so he’s not really an issue. Everyone talks about needing change in the Washington. 4 years of Clintons isn’t it, 4 years of Lilly-white Republican party-liner phony Romney isn’t it and unfortunately I don’t think John McCain is it either. Huckabee is different but he’s up against his own party and will never make it past February 5th.

If the election were today, Obama has my support. However, it’s not today and in the spirit of American Idol, we will probably be voting off a lot of perfectly good political talent between now and November. Besides, Obama has lots of time to screw up by allowing too much influence from Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. We’ll have to see. Biden, Dodd, Kuchinch, who have no talent at all are heading home. Soon Richardson (who?) Rudy and Paul will be gone, then Huckabee and hopefully Romney and Clinton leaving Obama, McCain or Thompson. Fred Thompson is my Sanjaia mostly because his trophy wife will inspire a lot of votes, but he won’t make it to the final Dance off Sing off.

Another Obama line I look forward to hearing at the UN “Give it up for…”

Frederick Herman Jones discovered as Romney son Josh

I typically don’t like to do a lot of name calling and taking cheap shots. Poor Mrs. Huckabee is taking a beating in the “Hottest First Lady” election. But this one I couldn’t leave alone. Yeah it’s cheap and immature but there’s something about Josh.

Watching Larry King is difficult enough but when his grumbling is interspersed with an interview of Mitt Romney’s 6th or 7th son Josh, it’s all I can do not to choke on my own vomit. Because, as Iowa voters have clearly shown no one cares about Romney, CNN chose not to show his concession speech to Huckabee. I figure Larry thought Mitt wouldn’t be interesting enough for his own show either so he invited son Josh to speak on behalf of his father. I realize that we have now discovered what happened to the original Fred from the Scooby Doo cartoons. Mitt and his wife must have adopted Fred after he lost his job with Mystery Inc back in the 70’s or 80’s and renamed him Josh. Why he was not wearing his trademark Ascot during the King interview is unknown to me. He also looks like that preppy prick from Animal House, Doug Neidermeyer which would make a lot of sense.

By the buy, if the Romney family doesn’t perfectly exemplify Lilly white, stuck up, upper class, republican loyalists, I’m not sure what does. Josh’s used motor home cost more than my home. He’s a Harvard business school graduate and a real estate developer. Three other Romney’s , Josh, Tagg and Matt, also graduated from Harvard Business School; one, Ben, is in medical school; and the youngest, 25-year-old Craig, is a music producer in New York City. Where do I see representation from this bunch. If there’s no illegals to do their yard work, they hire people like me. That march with blacks that the Romney’s mistakenly thought his dad was in was instead his dad walking past the help to get to his car.

Mitt says that Mike Huckabee is more interested in California voters because he made an appearance on the Jay Leno Show. That goes to show you that this ass hole is as clueless as Huckabees foreign policy. Leno’s show is seen across America and even in Iowa. I thought it was a good move. I saw it and thought it was a great appearance and I’m a voter living in the middle of nowhere.

ABC news did a cutting edge piece and asked most of the candidates what their secret indulgences were and Mitt said his was gnuetella or some other crazy shit. Isn’t that the file sharing program that people use to illegally share MP3’s or porn? Figures. He says he’s all up for change but has a big problem when anyone strays off party lines and criticizes the Bush administration. That sounds like he’s happy with what’s going on in Washington and probably won’t change a thing if elected. This phony has been critical of other candidates misunderstanding of current events and has been quick to criticize when others screw up. We have to remember that this poser has hired a staff of hundreds to monitor everything going on then prepare him with the right thing to say at the right time. Others, spending 22 hours a day shaking the yokels hands in Iowa, don’t have much time to look at a newspaper or spend hours in front of a news network to have a clear idea of whats going on. Oh yeah, and I wonder how long Romney spends plastering “product” on his phony TV preacher haircut.

While watching the network news yesterday I was excited over the prospect that we could have a president that actually says “Das what I’m talkin’ ’bout’. I can see the speech at the UN panning out now. Obama said his secret indulgence was Occasional Cigarettes. Does Phillip Morris make them?

One Iowa geezer said it was time we elected a woman president because the men haven’t done so well lately. This is also why we shouldn’t put much importance on what Iowa thinks. This old geezer didn’t mention that we’ve never had a black president either. I guess he was referring to Hillary and I noticed his old lady was sitting there next to him with a fork in her hand. Remember the woman is a Clinton and for the last 20 years we have had Bush Sr (4)., Bill for 8 years, Bush 2 for 8 years now we want another Clinton for 4 more years minimum. This isn’t change. Hell, Bill will be eligible for office again after 2 terms of Hillary so in theory, for the next 16 years it’s Clinton’s to 2024. Except for flying cars and off-world colonies, the world portrayed in Blade Runner is looking to be a sure thing.

Hillary’s secret indulgence was a safe choice: no risk chocolate, more specifically dark chocolate. Yeah, fill in the tasteless Obama joke here but actually this is a long time Clinton strategy, safe and what the public wants to hear. They showed her serving coffee to a bunch of reporters. I’d love to see her do it if elected President.

The third place Democrat, Edwardson or Edcocktosen (or whatever) said his indulgence was sleeping in. That explains why he looks like he’s sleep walking all the time. In another piece, he was bragging about his packed house audience he had at one campaign stop. Well, it was actually a packed house, or more specifically a packed dining room with 20 or so Iowans hunching each other.

No surprise here, Chris Dodd liked wine. All we need is another drunk Kennedy in office.

Way to go Mike, not showing your attack ad was classy. That’s the one I saw on all the national news networks about a million times. And for only the cost of production. Hey, we all know Mitt Romney is a ass-hole. He’s as real as his religion. You don’t need to sneak in an ad to tell us that. Tell us more about that consumption tax idea that you never proposed here in Arkansas for the 10 years you were Governor. Yeah yeah foreign policy is important but Mike may be more in line with the American public than one realizes. A week after the Benazir Bhutto assassination, I had a co-worker exclaim “Bhutto was a woman?”. Besides, Hillary thought Pervez was on the same ticket and Bhutto was running against him.

John McCain I think he liked… well I don’t care.

Fred Thompson liked cigars. Illegal Cuban cigars. For the time being, I’m pulling for Fred Thompson because he likes cigars. In reality that’s all I’ve heard from him.

As for our Crackpot from Texas: Ron “Bring Back the Gold Standard” Paul. He’s my Vote For the Worst candidate. In the spirit of Sanjaia Malikar, let’s keep him going in 2008 so we can see what others brilliant ideas and performances he has up his sleeve. Has Dennis Kucinich and his hooker wife been voted out yet?

Although not a complete a waste of money, the FBI has opened this up again. The DB Cooper mystery is one of the greatest of all times. I think the SOB died on the way down or upon “landing” but it’s still a great story and worth millions (or at least thousands) of tax dollars. On the show Journeyman, they explained that the character portraying DB was simply trying to raise funds to help a friend out of Cambodia. After seeing that, I thought that was a worthy cause and all guilt I might have applied to DB was eliminated.

FROM THE NY TIMES

F.B.I. Brings a Fresh Set of Eyes to a ’71 Plane Hijacking Mystery

F.B.I.

Clues from another time: a sketch of D. B. Cooper.

CHICAGO — It is considered one of the great unsolved mysteries of American crime: how a seemingly quiet man in his mid-40s hijacked an airliner somewhere between Seattle and Reno in November 1971, then parachuted in his loafers and trench coat, making off with $200,000 in cash.

F.B.I.

The tie Cooper left behind and money found nine years after the 1971 hijacking.

Who was he? Did he survive? After all these years, federal authorities say they still do not know, and the case lingers and vexes and fascinates as the only unsolved airplane hijacking in United States history. “It’s a mystery, frankly,” agency officials said in a December news release issued periodically to update old cases.

But now, with the advantage of technologies that were not available decades ago and with newfound attention from an agent on the West Coast, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that the cold case is officially hot again — and the search is on for the parachuter who called himself Dan, and sometimes, D. B. Cooper.

And, for the first time, the F.B.I. is providing pictures and information on the Cooper case to the public on its Web site, fbi.gov. The agency hopes that pictures like the one of Mr. Cooper’s black tie, which he removed before jumping, will prompt a memory, or that someone will offer fresh insight into what happened to all that cash, some of which was scattered in the wilderness and found by a young boy in 1980. (Already, a DNA sample taken from the tie has ruled out several men who claimed to be the parachuting hijacker.)

“This case is 36 years old, it’s beyond its expiration date, but I asked for the case because I was intrigued with it,” said Larry Carr, a federal agent based in Seattle who usually investigates bank robberies, and who was 4 when the hijacking occurred. “I remember as a child reading about it and wondering what had happened. It’s surreal that after 36 years here I am, the only investigator left. I wanted to take a shot at solving it.”

Since the case was turned over to him about six months ago, Mr. Carr has come up with a new way of seeing the incident: as a bank robbery that just happened to be on an airplane. The fresh perspective led to new investigating techniques.

“The classic way we solve bank robberies is with the public,” Mr. Carr said. “Everything we know — pictures, descriptions, m.o., everything. We put it all out there.”

Now, with the information made public, he said, “maybe someone will say: My uncle who disappeared in 1971 — he could have been Cooper. I just never thought about it until now.”

Included in the newly released information are several updated insights on Mr. Cooper that the F.B.I. feels are accurate: he was not an expert sky diver, he had no help on the ground, he was about six feet tall and 175 pounds, with brown eyes.

The physical description came from separate accounts given by attendants on the hijacked flight, Northwest Airlines 305, that left Portland, Ore., bound for Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971. After takeoff, Mr. Cooper handed a flight attendant a note saying he had a bomb in his suitcase. He demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills, the F.B.I. says. Upon the plane’s landing in Seattle, Mr. Cooper exchanged all 36 passengers for the ransom, but continued to hold several crew members on the plane with him as, on his orders, it took off again, this time on a flight to Mexico City.

Around 8 that night, Mr. Cooper jumped out of the back of the plane as it was flying somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nev. It later landed safely.

The F.B.I. opened an investigation while the airplane was still in flight, but despite years of work and the consideration of hundreds of suspects, Mr. Cooper seems to have disappeared into the night.

“If he’s alive today, he’d be about 85 years old,” Mr. Carr said. “Maybe one day I’ll be sitting at my desk and I’ll get a call from an old man who says, ‘You’re not going to believe this story.’”