Death Row Prisoner Says He’s Too Fat to Execute

Monday, August 4, 2008

A story in the Canadian press about an Ohio prison inmate states that, “A death row inmate scheduled for execution says he’s too fat to be put to death, claiming executioners would have trouble finding his veins and that his weight could diminish the effectiveness of one of the lethal injection drugs.” The death penalty is no laughing matter, but if death row inmate, Richard Cooey is able to “escape” execution because of his obesity that it opens the possibility that every prisoner sentenced to death by lethal injection will gorge himself or herself to the point that they could make the same plea.

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If Obama Is Moses, McCain Is the Pharaoh

Saturday, August 2, 2008

I would never say or intimate that Obama is Moses, but John McCain did. Imagine that! A McCain attack ad sarcastically calling Obama “the one” and then showing a picture of Charlton Heston splitting the Red Sea. Everyone knows what happened when the Pharaoh refused to let “My people go.” God sent down 10 plagues on the people of Egypt until the Pharaoh relented and let the Israelites go. When will McCain and his followers get the message and let Americans go free. Do they need 10 plagues?   MORE.

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McCain Campaign Announces Appointment of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears

The McCain campaign announced that two special positions were recently created. Paris Hilton has been appointed special director of fund raising for the state of California and Britney Spears has been appointed special director for relations with the evangelical movement. Ms. Hilton’s credentials are impeccable and she is the right person to coordinate contributions from the key state of California according to an unnamed source within the McCain campaign. Britney Spears spiritual contributions to the Republican cause are well known. Her deep religious convictions…..MORE

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McCain Accuses Obama of Everything

Thursday, July 31, 2008

In the absence of a substantive campaign Senator McCain has been playing the accusation game. Each week, or every other day, McCain accuses Obama of something or other. It really doesn’t matter what McCain accuses Obama of; one can almost fill in the blank. Examples of some of the accusations are listed below.

McCain accuses Obama of playing the race card.
McCain accuses Obama of pandering on Iraq.

The main problem with this approach is that it doesn’t tell us what McCain will do for the country if elected president.

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Kermit the Frog Rumored to Be on Obama’s Shortlist

Persistent rumors have begun to circulate that Kermit the Frog is on Obama’s shortlist for vice presidential running mates. No one in the Obama inner circles would confirm these rumors other than to say off the record that the senator is certainly interested in going green. Attempts to locate Kermit have been unsuccessful and he is rumored to be hiding out with Miss Piggy. Efforts to contact Miss Piggy have been futile, and one reporter who allegedly got inside of her house was seen flying out the second-floor window.  MORE

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Fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban with Panties

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

In response to the brutal military regime in Burma, the women of that country launched an unusual counteroffensive. “The Panties for Peace campaign was launched by the women’s organization Lanna Action for Burma on Oct. 16, 2007, in the hopes of bringing an end to the military regime’s rampant abuse of Burma’s population – and the abuse of Burma’s women in particular. The basis of this protest is the superstition of the male led military junta. They believe that contact with women’s garments, particularly those that cover the lower half of the body is emasculating.”

The brutality against the Burmese people and the Burmese women in particular is an extremely serious situation. However, the notion of using women’s panties against violent people has potential for circumstances outside of Burma. What if the American military adopted this idea and, with the help of American women, launched an all-out blitz against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and terrorists wherever they may be found.  MORE

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Obama Goes to the Wall: McCain Attacks Obama

Friday, July 25, 2008

On Thursday, July 24th, Barack Obama gave a speech to a crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin, Germany. The number of people that attended that speech is as noteworthy as anything Obama could have said. My opinion is that he gave a good speech, one consistent with his message of hope. I will leave it to others to debate the historical merits of his speech.

On Thursday July 22, in Rochester, New Hampshire, John McCain said, ” It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.”
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Crude Oil Prices: Crude Oil Baloney

Thursday, July 24, 2008

In an earlier post I suggested that the decline in crude oil prices from $147 a barrel to $127 a barrel couldn’t be completely explained by a sudden drop-off in demand. An article in the Financial Times discusses the bankruptcy of SemGroup which in the process of covering its hedging activities could have caused $10 increases in the prices of crude oil.

McCain Pins Obama to the Wall

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The presidential election was all but decided when Senator McCain uttered the magical Republican incantation. What is this magical incantation? Whenever a Republican presidential candidate wants to assure his victory he states that the Democratic candidate will raise people’s taxes and the Republicans will not. Thus when McCain said that Obama will raise taxes the race became essentially over. It doesn’t matter whether this is true or not, because this accusation sticks like wonder glue to the Democratic candidate.  MORE

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Headache for Laura Bush: Dreams for Maureen Dowd

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

In a column in today’s New York Times, Maureen Dowd attempts to portray what appears to be a potentially very offensive book about the first lady, Laura Bush, as just another book that

anyone might read. With utter unctuousness Ms. Dowd says, “It’s the sort of novel Laura Bush might curl up with in the White House solarium if it were not about Laura Bush. It would be interesting to hear how that lover of fiction feels about being the subject of fiction.” This is an incredible, unsupported assumption on the part of Ms. Dowd. It assumes she knows the reading habits of Laura Bush, particularly with regard to sexually detailed novels. Given what Ms. Dowd says later, it is unlikely she has such information. MORE

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