Monthly Archives: September 2008

McCain says knows how to capture bin Laden, but he's not going to tell anyone how to do it.

Republican candidate John McCain said on Wednesday that if elected president, he will capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

"President Clinton had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. President Bush had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. I know how to do it and I'll do it," he told ABC's "World News" in an interview

So, he's blackmailing us? Vote for me, or you'll never get bin Laden! Never!

No doubt, this is a man who loves his country more than anything else. No doubt.

A Free Thinker is Satan’s Slave

Orchestration

MSNBC:

But the real excitement in the crowd in the Xcel Energy Center came as soon as Palin said of herself, “And I've learned quickly these past few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”

Members of the Tennessee and Illinois delegations stood up and turned around to face the NBC booth a few feet behind them and started jeering and pointing their fingers at NBC’s Tom Brokaw, who genially smiled back.

A spontaneous expression of rage! Wow, that Sarah Palin is one magical pitbull.

The remarkable thing about this is that it exactly re-enacted what happened in 1964 (the year Palin was born) at the Republican convention in San Francisco. (Had some Republicans read the old newspaper clips?)

Exact replay of 1964 convention
At that 1964 convention, GOP nominee Barry Goldwater’s supporters burst into a spontaneous anti-news media demonstration on the convention floor when former President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech urging them to “scorn the divisive efforts of those outside our family — including sensation-seeking columnists and commentators who couldn’t care less about the good of our party.” Goldwater delegates shook their fists in anger at the television anchormen up in the glassed-in booths above the convention floor.

“There was considerable amount of hostility from the media against Barry Goldwater,” recalled California delegate Dr. Tirso Del Junco, 83, who was at that 1964 convention (his first) and has attended every Republican convention since then.

Oh, I see.

Nevertheless, the media will dutifully bow and scrape.

Quiet Storms

While I'm not even slightly religious, and therefore unqualified to say this, I gotta say: Obama makes a far better spokesman for the values Christians like to call their own than any Bible-thumping Republican ever could:

Oh, and he did this without a teleprompter. And nobody wrote his speech for him.

Soap Opera

At work, I like my tea cup to be clean; I thoroughly wash it out every day or so. But, we ran out of dish detergent in the break room, and the office management people never brought in a new bottle. So, a few weeks ago I bought a little bottle of dish detergent on my own, brought it in, and left it on the counter so everyone could use it. No big deal, $1.50 worth of karma.

After a couple of days, it disappeared. Did someone swipe it? Did the office management not want us to have dish detergent (is that why they didn't replace the old bottle)? Questions. But, I found it, up in one of the cabinets above the sink. Someone must want the sink are to stay un-cluttered, I assumed. So, out of courtesy, I started putting it back in the cupboard when I was done.

A week or so later, it wasn't in its usual spot. Did someone take it? Etc.? No, it was on a different shelf, behind a box. Must've just been pushed back there when someone moved the box, I assumed, and put it back where I had been putting it. But, no. The next day, it was back behind the box. And the day after that, and the day after that. Hmm. And then I figured it out: Someone was hiding the dish detergent I brought in for everyone to use!

So, I started leaving it out on the counter next to the sink, where everyone can see it. And then the other person started hiding it in increasingly-inaccessible spots: top shelves, back corners; behind multiple boxes; under the sink; etc..

And now, every time I have to search for it, I chuckle to myself: someone has adopted this little bottle of orange detergent and is trying to hide it from everyone else!

But why? Does this person think he/she bought it and brought it in for their own personal use? Is he/she hoarding it, knowing the office people won't replace it ? (though how could the office people know it's run out, if they can't see the bottle?) What could possibly motivate someone to hide a bottle of dish detergent that they didn't even buy, that they have to assume was provided by the company for everyone else to use ?