Is it possible that I could have been so wrapped up in wanting Reagan, Bush I, Dole, and Bush II to win that I did not notice them going to Europe to campaign like Obama is doing?

Anyone remember the aforementioned Republican candidates/Presidents doing this as part of their campaign?

And if they did, was there this much media adoration?

 
Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841

Explanation: Some 50 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. This sharp view of the gorgeous island universe shows off a striking yellow nucleus and galactic disk with tightly wound spiral arms. NGC 2841 has a diameter of over 150,000 light-years, even larger than our own Milky Way Galaxy. The galaxy’s dust lanes and turbulent star-forming regions are found along the spiral arms, but X-ray images suggest that resulting winds and stellar explosions create plumes of hot gas extending into a halo around NGC 2841. Of course, the prominent stars with a spiky appearance in the picture are close foreground objects within the Milky Way and not associated with NGC 2841.

Credit & Copyright: Johannes Schedler (Panther Observatory)

Seen where our very own State Department promotes “Mosques in America” calendar?

In celebration of Ramadan, Global Publishing Solutions (GPS) is offering a limited edition of the 2009 Mosques in America Wall Calendar. This 12-month calendar is perfect for Muslim outreach efforts, as well as office and event giveaways.

The wall calendar features a vibrant photograph or photomontage for each month, displaying the beauty of mosques in America.

The upper half of the hanging calendar depicts mosque facades or interiors, and the lower half displays a monthly calendar grid. The 28-page calendar is saddle-stitched and measures 23 x 30 1/2 cm (9 x 12 inches)

This item is on sale until August 1st, 2008 in shrink-wrapped packs of 20 pieces.

In case you’re wondering if these people are actually connected to the government, click here for a screen shot (which had subsequently taken down after being discovered by folks on the ‘net.)

I sure would like to know if they advertise Christian or Hindu calendars. HMMM?!?!?!

The Brits are trying to enact legislation to curb radicalism coming from Islamist radicals.

The government on Monday was to give more details on a range of measures, including funding a panel of some 20 Islamic scholars and theologians to provide guidance on sensitive issues, and providing citizenship education for children at mosque-run schools.

The cabinet minister responsible for communities and local government, Hazel Blears, outlined some of the proposals on Friday, saying there was a need to equip young Muslims in particular with skills that will enable them to stand up to those pushing extremist ideas.

The envisaged expert panel, although state-funded, would be an “independent” body attached to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Its makeup would “reflect the diversity of Islam and Muslim communities in the U.K.,” Blears’ ministry said in a statement.

Its role would be to confront issues faced by Muslims in modern British society, and to help young Muslims to “understand how their faith is compatible with wider shared values,” Blears said.

Guess who’s pissed off at that?

NO! Not the pagans or Methodists.

….many Islamic organizations are deeply suspicious of the motives of a government abhorred by many Muslims for its involvement in the Iraq war.

Critics of the “panel of scholars” proposal said it would fail precisely because it would be seen as a government initiative - an attempt to create a state-sanctioned form of Islam.

“It proves that the whole strategy of the U.K. government is to target not just Muslims but Islam itself,” Ahmed Versi, editor of the British publication Muslim News, told an Iranian news agency.

The Muslim Council of Britain, a mainstream umbrella group, said it had “deep reservations” about the plan, which it said came from “sections of government who have been seeking to marginalize large segments of the British Muslim community.”

The council’s secretary-general, Muhammad Abdul Bari, said no similar arrangement existed for other religions.

Gee, you stupid phuque! There are no programs for other religions because other religions do not advocate the beheading and murder of innocents. Stupid son of a bitch.

 
The Taliban’s most senior commander has surrendered rather than be made into pig-sloppings by the Brits.

In line with his belief that the decrease in violence in Iraq is due to Sunnis rather than the US military surge Barack Obama is expected to credit the Pakistani people for this rather than British troops.

Anyway, here’s the story.

The most senior Taliban commander in Afghanistan’s wartorn Helmand province has given himself up because he feared being killed by British special forces.

The news will be a massive blow to insurgent forces.

Mullah Rahim surrendered to authorities in Pakistan, the Ministry of Defence said last night.

Rahim - thought to be one of the five main Taliban commanders - is reported to have handed himself in to Pakistani police near the border and is being held in the town of Quetta.

The success of a Nato campaign directly targeting the Taliban leadership has led to hopes that a power vacuum at the top has weakened the group. Hours after Rahim turned himself in, British forces killed their third senior Taliban leader in little more than three weeks.

Top British commanders said Rahim’s surrender was a massive breakthrough that would plunge militants in Helmand into disarray.

Forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Robin Matthews said last night: ‘The Taliban’s senior leadership structure has suffered a shattering blow.

‘They remain a dangerous enemy, but they increasingly lack strategic direction and their proposition to the Afghan people-is proving ultimately negativeand self-defeating.’ Gulab Mangal, Governor of Helmand, urged militiamen to join the Government side.

He said: ‘I advise all those Taliban who are engaging with terrorist actions that the fighting has no benefits. Choose a good, bright and honourable way.’

The three Taliban chiefs killed by British troops include Abdul Rasaq, known as Mullah Sheikh, who died in a precision missile strike after Rahim surrendered.

It came eight days after the death of an associate of Rahim called Bishmullah, and 24 days after leading bomb-maker Sadiqullah was killed in a helicopter missile strike.

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Had a republican said it, you would not stop hearing about it for day.

MEDIA: “Oh! The humanity! What racists!

Jesse Jackson and Co.: Us n***ers gotta band together to stop these honkys from disrespecting us! I’m gonna sue! I want reparations!”

H/T:SondraK

New York Times’ profit drops 82 percent.

Maybe if these biased pieces of crap would realize that people don’t buy papers from companies that allow lying reporters on their staff, that favor one party over another, that enable our enemies over the health and well-being of their own country and change their ways then maybe they might be able to make money again.

 
Seen this where Neil Young now considers his “impeach Bush” phase and says it was wrong.

As far as I am concerned this moonbat is setting himself up for when Obama becomes President and steps on his dick so often that even Democrats get pissed off enough to demand Obama’s and Neil Young will then be able to act all high and might and refuse to participate in the effort.

I could not believe what I was reading when I saw this story about how a Rochester School gave their kids an exam with all the answers to study and when the test day came, gave that same exam…..only to see half of them fail!!!

If ever we have a failure of our educational system, this is it. How can we expect to maintain our dominant place in a world where there are no bad consequences for not doing well but where every kid gets a trophy for attendance?

How can kids succeed in a world where they are taught that it is OK to cheat…which is what this was?

How can educators teach kids when the system the NEA has in place mandates that all kids must pass, regardless? Principals then make stupid decisions like this in order to keep the federal money coming in.

Connie Leech, the district’s supervisor for secondary schools, told the Democrat and Chronicle that the study guides were “probably not in the best judgment” but denied any wrongdoing.

“I’m not concerned that it’s a cheat,” Leech said. “What we were doing is giving kids a better sense of the knowledge that they needed for the test. It’s like giving them an open-book test.”

Ed Roeber, the former director of testing and accountability for the Michigan Department of Education, likened the district’s action to something else. “It’s not a whole lot different from teachers going through the tests and erasing answers and marking correct answers,” he told the Democrat and Chronicle. “I’ve got to wonder if the district is doing anything with the state tests that’s not kosher.”

What a typical response from the bureaucrat responsible for making sure kids are taught properly.

So now that the kids have failed, I wonder if the next step might be personal tutors DURING the test whose job it would be to look up the answers for the kids.

I am sure the kids will fail as they will not be able to write properly or fill in the correct blanks.

Then what? Do away with all testing?

If that’s the case, do away with all schools and put these stupid over-educated assholes out of a job.

I hope the parents in that school sue the snot out of that district and demand that all those responsible be fired.

 
Americans are paying the most they ever have for gasoline.

We are told we need to sacrifice and scrimp and save and economize.

Meanwhile, Democrats do not do the same thing.

Especially the Democrats who are getting one hell of a tax break at the Democrat Convention in Denver.

You see, they don’t have to pay gasoline taxes!

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city’s gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.

“There’s something there that just doesn’t seem right to me because, in a sense, you’re saying then that the officials who pass the laws are not willing to live by them, and that concerns me,” Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz said.

…Faatz asked if it was customary to have “fleets for dignitaries” not pay for highway taxes if they’re using government fuel facilities.

(Mayor John) Hickenlooper said it was.

“I believe this is only for elected officials, government dignitaries,” Hickenlooper told Faatz.

“… I do know for a fact that they’re doing the same exact thing in Minneapolis,” which is hosting the Republican National Convention, the mayor said.

…Teresa McFarland, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul host committee, said they’re getting their gas at the pump.

“We’re not getting a tax break on fuel,” she said. “That’s not the set-up at this end.”

And they have no problems lying, either.

Notice how they use the standard comeback, “hey, the Republicans are doing it, too!”

But they are not.

Gee! Now isn’t that wonderful to know that Democrats continue to be the lying sack of shit bastards we’ve always known them to be?

 
Sorry if I sound so negative but I can’t help but wonder if we are not “evolving” into a race of people doomed to die barbaric deaths because we are not capable of adapting or adjusting.

For example, how many times have you either done it yourself or seen it happen where parents try to protect their children form all harm? Won’t let them get dirty. Freak out if their kid puts dirt in their mouth. Won’t let them play certain sports or games for fear they’ll hurt themselves. Won’t let them play or go out if it is too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet, too cloudy, too windy, etc. Won’t let them touch animals. Won’t let them play in the woods.

So the kid is raised inside the air conditioned, air purified, heated house where windows do not open.

They grow into obese children incapable of running or walking long distances. Too weak to do a pull-up. Unable to do sit-ups.

When the kid gets into the real world, he or she is constantly sick. Unable to use common sense. Unable to differentiate between what is really dangerous or not.

And then one day, in the future, in a world of cloistered adults raising cloistered children, the shit hits the fan and modern conveniences are gone.

The species becomes extinct.

Which leads me to this article about how a park in NYC is under fire because their play equipment got too hot and some kids burned themselves on it.

Whatever happened to a natural wariness of one’s environment? These kids never learned that.

I remember growing up in Connecticut and it got just as hot if not hotter than New York. I knew that “metal got hot” because my parents cautioned me about it.

Ever sit on a hot slide and scorch your thighs? I did. I learned quick. My parents did not threaten to sue.

It is because of irresponsible asshats like these parents that many parks no longer have slides or merry-go-rounds or swings.

Which leads me to this blog post attacking Michael Savage for his rant on kids with autism.

I happen to agree with him. Kids cop an attitude and parents rush them to a doctor who says they either have ADD or are autistic.

BULLSHIT!!!!

Why is it that we see so much of this today? Where was it when we were young? And don’t tell me they were kept at home or insitutions. Based on the percentages diagnosed today there would have been no kids in school.

Look around your own family and circle of friends with kids under 12. How many of them have a kid with one of these “illnesses?” If you are over 50, think back to when you were a young parent and try to remember how many children with “exceptional needs” there were. Compare it to when your parents were young and to today.

It’s a bloody racket to keep a bunch of quacks in business and give drug companies someone to sell something to. A self-fulfilling circle of need/want/desire.

And if we truly are having these problematically ill children someone needs to look into the reasons why so many more exist today.

Check out this picture some artist is painting of Barack HUSSEIN Obama in Ramallah.

Note the other pictures already drawn: Che Guevarra, Jesus Christ, and the terrorist Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

And the media wants us to believe they are not also painting him as the “messiah?”

LGF has more.

Meanwhile, Obama’s plane does not even sport an American flag.

And I am supposed to believe he is patriotic and loves this country?

Yeah, it’s just a picture. But it symbolizes this country. People notice stuff like this.

Here they are to compare. Note how McCain’s has a flag.

Yeah, right, how long would it be before you spoke to your mother again if you found out she co-starred in sex-videos alongside her two pet dogs?

The dogs have been taken to a shelter.

I hope that whoever adopts them is told their history.

Can you imagine taking them home, not knowing, and later that evening while engaging in “the beast of two backs” with your wife/husband/mate you find them hopping on your bed wanting to join in the fun?

A nasty thought, I know. But someone had to say it.

You’ve seen the stories about the fawning coverage given to Barack HUSSEIN Obama as he takes his trip to Europe and the Mideast. Hundreds of reporters are out there sucking his ass.

But a couple of places are running stories wondering about the coverage the media is giving him. CBS asks if he is getting too much and lists some numbers about the bias in the reporting.

Since June 9th, when Obama effectively clinched the votes for the nomination, the Project For Excellence In Journalism took a weekly look at 300 political stories in newspapers, magazines and television. In 77 percent of the stories, Obama played an important role, and 51 percent featured McCain.

Even the Associated Press joins in …….but attributes it to McCain’s criticism of Obama’s lack of experience! Yep, the title of the article does not even come close to the fawning adoration given Obama in the piece itself. Mention is given, though, to the fact that ALL THREE TOP ANCHORS were going along, too!

The news media have devoted significantly more attention to the Democrat since Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her campaign and left a two-person contest for the presidency between Obama and Republican John McCain, according to research conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

News executives say there are reasons for the disparity, such as the continuing story about whether Clinton’s and Obama’s supporters can reconcile. They even partly blame McCain. By criticizing Obama for a lack of foreign policy experience, McCain raised the stakes for Obama’s trip, “especially if he winds up going into two war zones,” said Paul Friedman, senior vice president of CBS News.

So, in other words, when his opponent criticizes him it is the DUTY of the MSM to try and prove him wrong, is that it AP?

And you know what’s pathetic about all this? That only 50% of America’s public can not see the media bias for what it is.

Meanwhile, the “147 day Senate wunderkind” is out there saying the surge still is not working. Can someone please hit this mo-fo with a cluebat so that he can get a hint?

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie men.

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.

Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood, and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, auditors, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans.

That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.

This ends today’s lesson in world history: It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more liberals just to tick them off.

Success - Rome did create a great empire by having meetings. They did it by killing off all those who opposed them.

H/T: Darrell

I used to think John Cleese was a funny guy what with all the stuff he did on Monty Python and all.

But when he said it was a bigger honor to have a lemur species named after him than be awarded a knighthood by his Queen, then I knew he embarked on a one-way trip to moonbat land.

The 68-year-old, who declined a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) award in 1996, paid tribute to the exotic creatures as he visited a zoo in Bristol, southwest England, near where he grew up.

“I’ve had a species named after me. A Swiss guy discovered it. He called and asked if I will give him permission to name it after me,” said Cleese, also well known for the Fawlty Towers sitcom.

“I would rather have that than a knighthood or peerage.”

Then again, he DOES live in the land of Californicators.

Seen this one on people soaking their feet and having carp nibble on your feet to get rid of scaly skin?

Just like T. Boone Pickens wants us to develop wind energy and use natural gas in our cars under the guise of “protecting the environment” while really promoting his own businesses from which he stands to profit handsomely, out comes asshole OwlGore saying that drilling for oil is like the invasion of Iraq and also saying:

“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said, comparing the push for offshore oil drilling — which has gained popularity and put environmentalists on the defense — to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.

“The defenders of the status quo are the ones who have dug us into this hole,” he said, commenting that Americans have been “so often fooled into finding a remedy for a problem” that has nothing to do with the problem at hand — pointing to the invasion of Iraq when America was attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan as an example.

“The engines of distraction and the great concentrated power of communication that you’ve seen turned on this issue or that issue is already hard at work,” he says. “They will say we can’t switch away from oil.”
“We have to switch our electricity generation system,” he says, noting that changing transportation fuels will take longer, before reiterating his plan to ensure that “100 percent of our electricity [comes] from renewable sources and carbon-constrained fuels over the next 10 years.”

His reasons? He wants to make millions as we buy the carbon credits his multiple companies are out foisting on the gullible public.

I would not be surprised if these two clowns have co-owned businesses.

Obama….stupid, stupid, stupid.

Barack Obama delivered a speech in West Lafeyette, IN on Wednesday and once again mangled some well known historical facts:

Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor, to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Americans have adapted to the threats posed by an ever-changing world.

“A” bomb? ONE bomb? THE bomb? What the f**k is this moron saying?

Richard Pryor presciently playing Obama before Obama was in high school.

Absolutely SPOT-ON!

MidEast; unemployment; racism; urban terrorists; the “White House”; Islam, etc.

I love the ending!

Moron opens his mouth again to say his presidential term will be 8-10 years.

Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that “the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.

“And it’s important for me to have a relationship with them early, that I start listening to them now, getting a sense of what their interests and concerns are.”

The notion that Obama will be dealing with world leaders for eight-to-ten years, possibly up through July 2018, suggests that either (a) he believes that not only will he be elected and re-elected, but the 22nd amendment will be repealed and he will be elected for a third term, OR (b) he was speaking casually and just meant two terms.

Exactly what school did he attend and did he fail history and civics?

From Barack’s mouth to this page: we have problems with al Qaeda because they have no “empathy.”

The 9-11 attacks were carried out because of a lack of “empathy” for others’ suffering on the part of al-Qaida, whose terrorist ideology “grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair,” Sen. Barack Obama explained in largely unreported comments eight days after the mega-terror attacks that rocked the nation.

Obama went on to imply the September 11th attacks were in part a result of U.S. policy, lecturing the American military to minimize civilian casualties in the Middle East and urging action opposing “bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle-Eastern descent.”

“Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we, as a nation, draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy,” Obama wrote in a piece about 9-11 published on Sept. 19, 2001, in Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald.

The senator continued: “Certain immediate lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to step up security at our airports. We must re-examine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks and we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction,” wrote Obama.

“We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity or suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, it may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics.

Again, the “we just don’t understand them” meme is being trotted out. And so now somehow this is a “social disease?” A”pyschological disorder?”

What are we supposed to do? Send in shrinks to help them deal with it? Maybe we should start with Oprah and Dr. Phil.

H/T: MOONBATTERY

He goes after the Saudis…hard ….and the PC crowd in the UK.

H/T: THE JAWA REPORT

 
Saw this on Drudge…a guy is threatening to jump from the 7th floor of the Senate Building.

Frankly I am tired of these grandstanding weirdos.

Either shit or get off the pot. This business about “threatening” to kill yourself does nothing but waste valuable police resources and interrupt the lives of many people.

If I were police chief and you threatened to kill yourself I would give you five minutes to act on your threat. If you didn’t a sharpshooter would take you out so the rest of us could get on with their lives.

This is nothing more than those stupid bastards who lead 50 police cars in a 20MPH chase because thew driver has a gun pointed to his head.

Shoot the son of a bitch and get it over with.

Then I found this story about a patient at a hospital who held people at bay for 4 hours threatening to jump….and then slipped and fell. He’s in critical condition. Expect the medical bills to exceed a million dollars and the taxpayer will get the tab.

Believe me, taking out one or two of these morons would do a lot towards cutting the suicide threat rate and subsequent lifetime of tax-payer funded psychological therapy sessions.

Does that make me a cold hearted, ruthless, unsympathetic bastard?

Good! As long as we’re clear on that.

Dump the male flight attendants. No one wanted them in the first place.

Replace all the female flight attendants with good-looking strippers!

What the hell — They don’t even serve food anymore, so what’s the loss?

The strippers would at least triple the alcohol sales and get a ‘party atmosphere’ going in the cabin. And, of course, every businessman in this country would start flying again, hoping to see naked women.

Because of the tips, female flight attendants wouldn’t need a salary, thus saving even more money.

I suspect tips would be so good that we could charge the women for working the plane and have them kick back 20% of the tips, including lap dances and ’special services.

Muslims would be afraid to get on the planes for fear of seeing naked women.

Hijackings would come to a screeching halt, and the airline industry would see record revenues.

This is definitely a win- win situation if we handle it right — a golden opportunity to turn a liability into an asset.

Why didn’t Bush think of this? Why do I still have to do everything myself?

Sincerely, Bill Clinton

H/T: Joanny

Arp 272

Explanation: Linking spiral arms, two large colliding galaxies are featured in this Hubble Space Telescope view, part of a series of cosmic snapshots released to celebrate the Hubble’s 18th anniversary. Recorded in astronomer Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 272, the pair is otherwise known as NGC 6050 and IC 1179. They lie some 450 million light-years away in the Hercules Galaxy Cluster. At that estimated distance, the picture spans over 150 thousand light-years. Although this scenario does look peculiar, galaxy collisions and their eventual mergers are now understood to be common, with Arp 272 representing a stage in this inevitable process. In fact, the nearby large spiral Andromeda Galaxy is known to be approaching our own galaxy and Arp 272 may offer a glimpse of the far future collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way.

 
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration, K. Noll (STScI)

 
Bob Barr may have sounded like a reasonable alternative to the two morons currently running but when he came out recently back OwlGore on climate, he signed his own political death warrant.

Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore, who challenged the United States Thursday to run on 100 percent zero-carbon electricity within 10 years.

Barr, a former Republican congressman from Georgia who attended the former vice president’s Washington, D.C., speech Thursday, said Gore’s plan “makes sense.”

“America responds well to challenges, if it is laid out, if it’s in terms that people can understand and relate to, if it makes sense – and what he’s laid out makes sense,” Barr said in an interview with Cybercast News Service after Gore spoke.

In a speech at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall, Gore said the United States should move towards producing all of its electricity from renewable energy and clean carbon-free sources, a strategy Gore said would “re-power America.”

This ranks right up there with that other moron, T. Boone Pickens saying that if Obama wins he should appoint OwlGore as Energy Czar.

In what can only be described as fawning adoration of the Obamessiah, the NY Times rejected an editorial written by John McCain in reposnse to an editorial written by Barack HUSSEIN Obama a week earlier.

The reason?

It didn’t “mirror” Obama’s!!!

NYT REJECTS MCCAIN’S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA
Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET

An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has been rejected by the NEW YORK TIMES — less than a week after the paper published an essay written by Obama, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The paper’s decision to refuse McCain’s direct rebuttal to Obama’s ‘My Plan for Iraq’ has ignited explosive charges of media bias in top Republican circles.

‘It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece,’ NYT Op-Ed editor David Shipley explained in an email late Friday to McCain’s staff. ‘I’m not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written.’

In McCain’s submission to the TIMES, he writes of Obama: ‘I am dismayed that he never talks about winning the war—only of ending it… if we don’t win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.’

NYT’s Shipley advised McCain to try again: ‘I’d be pleased, though, to look at another draft.’

[Shipley served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 1997 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter.]

A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator’s Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not “re-work the draft.”

McCain writes in the rejected essay: ‘Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. ‘I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,’ he said on January 10, 2007. ‘In fact, I think it will do the reverse.’

Shipley, who is on vacation this week, explained his decision not to run the editorial.

‘The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.’

Shipley continues: ‘It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq.’

Talk about being in the tank for this worthless, inexperienced America-hating piece of crap junior Senator!

The sooner this piece of shit paper goes bankrupt, the better.

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