Tailgate: Obama, Sarkozy and the lolita?

The red-blooded presidents of the US and France study a matter of international interest yesterday — a 17-year-old junior delegate at the G-8 in Italy.
-NYPost

“Obama sure seems to have his eyes aimed at the wrong rump. Our own President, eyeballing a brazillian lolita, AT THE G8 SUMMIT. Our country is in its worst economic state since the depression from liberal statist/marxist spending, our marches against the statist/marxist commie liberals will be heard! The revolution has begun! Meanwhile, the liberal media is slandering our traditional values and lifestyles and not even covering the President committing Jackson-esque pedophilia!”
-Freerepublic.com (kidding, but partisan attacks hurt!)

Wait.  No.  Please, stop.  You’re stupid, stop typing. 

This is the gist of what is spread all throughout the blogosphere.  It’s an utter disgrace that this actually made “news” and is being discussed whatsoever.

The above pic was first splashed across the frontpage of drudge a day or so ago, and still currently is.  I felt no need to check the video from which the picture was taken because I already knew it some just another candid snapshot being using as another sneaky, implicit, right-wing smear.  But Oh lordy!  This crap is still being talked about.  Whether is FOX and Friends with their usual upbeat, happy go-lucky attitude and snide comments towards anything left of the far right or MSNBC and media matters debating Sarkozy’s intentions through the waay too happy smirk and chuckle.

This is the point we’ve reached.  No sources are checked, no context is given and there is no low the people who report this mess
will
not
go

/sigh

Anyways, here’s the video, tell me if I’m wrong.  Mute the sound unless you really want annoying morning show hosts narrating for you.

 

I’m at my grandparent’s home at the moment, I’ll reconvene on this topic when I’m back home.  I just need to stop writing about this, just talking about this has the chance to spread the cancer further.

EDIT:  I’ll admit I wrote the first few sentences in a matter of seconds trying to imitate the most ignorant right-winger possible, if that offends you, then it offends you.

Seemingly general philosophy of tradition and progression: Plan B > Conservatives

… a Brooklyn federal judge yesterday found that under the Bush administrations, FDA restriction on the morning-after pill had been influenced by conservative ideology and involved “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications,” rather than being grounded in science and “reasoned decisionmaking.”
Source:  Dosomething.org

In his 52-page decision, Korman repeatedly criticized the FDA’s handling of the issue, agreeing with allegations in a lawsuit that the decision was “arbitrary and capricious” and influenced by “political and ideological” considerations imposed by the Bush administration.

“These political considerations, delays and implausible justifications for decision-making are not the only evidence of a lack of good faith and reasoned agency decision-making,” he wrote. “Indeed, the record is clear that the FDA’s course of conduct regarding Plan B departed in significant ways from the agency’s normal procedures regarding similar applications to switch a drug from prescription to non-prescription use.”
Source:  WashPo

Another liberal baby-killing, far-left capitalism destroying, Ché hailing communist win and another conservative principle down for the count.

Strange how this is how it will played off throughout the country.  Whenever the beliefs (in general) of the Democratic party are upheld, or in this case Roe v. Wade, it is simple dismissed as LLLIIBBeral (focus on enunciating the LIB part of the word and quickly finish the rest), Unamerican and by the way did you know in one of President Obama’s HQ’s during campaign season there was a massive Ché Guevara flag, which means your a pinko-commie.

The fun thing is, this is real, and it happened throughout the campaign, and has really has continued.  It seems at least to me, some network pundits”tend” to report the facts but then using some rather sneaky psychology tricks, tend to opine their beliefs and force them upon you.  While I have no problem with ones personal opinion, I despise these little games.  Story A is reported, times are changing is the summary by the pundit, and with a witty, sardonic comment at the end the pundit reminds his audience of how things were better then traditional beliefs were upheld.

Oh how it irks thee!  I feel as if a burning orange poker is being stuck into my side.  Tradition!  How wonderful a thing tradition is to this country!  Slavery, sexism, racism, population transfers!  No need to get into specifics for each of these, as I pray one knows a bit of history.  It seems to me that “tradition” is always relative to the generation and and especially for my generation; technology and science.

My Grandfather’s generation had the invention of the mass-produced latex condom.  (Made from rubber by Goodyear company beforehand)

Followed by my Mom and Dad’s being introduced to the pill which would allow Reagan to describe “the mess” at UNC Berkley.

“advocates of sexual orgies, drug usage, and filthy speech,” who wanted only to “disrupt the academic community” and who therefore must be brought under control immediately.

And now for my generation.  We still have the condom, only quite a few more designs and accessories and the pill will always be around and we’ve made a few more; like Plan B.

My whole point of this entry was not to demonize tradition or conservatives more directly.  But to applaud progression AND tradition.  I stated sarcastically the great things tradition has brought us and by no means believe that is all it has done.  The belief of liberty and freedom are things that will always be conserved in this country and they will always guide progression as well.

The questions I have are how much tradition do we save?  How far forward do we go?  I don’t mean these rhetorically and I’m not implying if we take one step forward we’re going to sprint the rest of the way and break apart all that we have saved.

I don’t know where else to go with this, I’ll finish this up later..    –>Publish

fucking scribefire

I had this nice little random thought blog all nicely done and I clicked publish.
I didn’t.
I don’t feel like rewriting the entire thing so here’s the gist.

I read a lot of junk on politics, current events, political theory, history and philosophy. MY arguments and views on a lot of things have changed throughout this process. But now I am starting to come back to my original ways before I did any of this. Strange this is..

I’m going back to watching the Aqua Teen movie on CN, I’ll have some real blogs this weekend.

Independent thinking – Part 1 of ?

A brief history with the struggle I’ve had with myself.

When I first started getting into politics and current events around the world I found myself directed to the right wing with some liberal views. When the presidential campaign began, I found myself drawn towards Rudy and then eventually Ron Paul (my views had changed a bit you could say). While I then and now disagree with Rudy – not that it matters, I find myself agreeing with Dr. Paul and now still do if the world and people were perfect. If everything was good and just, people were not ignorant of others beliefs, if no one was race/sex/whatever-discrimination-word-you-want-to-use, Ron Paul would be my prime selection for President. But we don’t live in a perfect world. Companies take advantage of people. People kill people over the stupidest more redundant things and are intolerant of opposing views over their own moral high-ground opinion.

I learned a bit more in the last semester of college and found myself with the fundamental liberalism of Obama – views change once again? This political roller-coaster led me even further, while I still support Obama, and don’t think he’s perfect. I’d just like to state why I would like to declare myself an Independent. Moreso updating the Northmore Doctrine or just once again, explaining my current mode of thinking.

Healthcare: Is it something we are all entitled to? Yes, we should all have HealthCare (HC)to enable us to learn, work and live. This should be a fundamental right in our country, as it is in every industrial and information age nation. Now, should private enterprise or the government control it? Both, if that is possible. The VA hospitals stories broke a few years ago, of the abomination of care we were providing our returning vets (more on this later) makes me think the government could never run a system for all the people. But the way HC is operating now, people can lose their financial lives in attempting to pay for it. I have a friend whom at the young age of 21 is in thousands of dollars of debt for a weeks worth of hospital testing, in which they have failed to diagnose his problem, but prescribe and temporary fix. How is he supposed to pay this enormous amount of money, for so little help?
Now, if the government controlled this, he might be forced to see one doctor over his personal choice, he might not, who knows, but something should be done so the American dream can truly prosper, or at least give him the opportunity to do so, without worrying about which test or medication he can afford. I wish their was a middle of the road, but there isn’t at this time.

Current wars: Big topic, I’ll try to go as quickly as I can. The current Iraq/Afghan wars were started to get back at those who attacked us on 9/11 (which by the way was a massive intelligence failure – I don’t play into the conspiracy theories). Saddam had WMD’s, propaganda groups were started to lure us in and every liberal talking point can be inserted in here. So, do we roll with the McCain or Obama course? I don’t know. Even with every single problem we’ve had, every single thing you can bring up against the war – which is easily stated for some AFTER a vote to goto war or AFTER intelligence failures (I guess Saddam, really didn’t have WMD’s), the success of the surge, though not accomplishing its intended goals, is working. Why haven’t there been the number of reports on the war as seen before the first or even second Patreaus/Crocker report in congress? Because things are going well, or least to say, better than they were in 2007. The Sunni-Shia-US forces war is dissipating, Al-Queda is dying off and Iraq’s parliament recently asked for the US to start withdrawing because we have given them some of the required opportunity to govern and protect themselves and are now interfering with their national sovereignty (someone wants permanent bases). Our troops have performed amazingly, though their goals have changed and their strategies have adapted to the problems they face.
I bring you to my problem.
We invaded, destroyed their country, ousted a dictator, replaced him an initial relatively weak government, thousands are worse, some are better, but do we leave? Do we face an obligation to help these people for our actions?
Yes.
Can we sustain this war?
No.
Our falling dollar attributes to this. We’re borrowing money to sustain ourselves overseas (more on money later). Our dollar falls, oil/barrel skyrockets and all goods (transported by truckers) are rising and will go higher. What are we to do? We’ll hopefully get a true preview on January 20th, 2009.

(Not exactly finished with these topics, but I need sleep)

Tomorrow: Finish these up, the Economy & Veterans benefits.

Clinton’s genius, will Obama follow?

Airing tonight and tomorrow Senator Hillary Clinton will match up against FOX New Channel’s Bill O’Reilly at 8pm.  Trying to woo FNC’s republican viewers to her cause over McCain will be a challenge but this maybe a way to lure her own parties delegates, instead.

O’Reilly is one of the my favorites pundits, not many know or believe that he is a independent, we may support the Iraq war and come off a purely right-winger but he’s also pro-choice and for marijuana reform.  He’s known for unflinching questioning of his guests and his “The Spin Stops Here” phrase is deeply upheld, in my belief.  He may not always be “right” in his analysis but I have to give the man respect.

My question is, will Obama follow?  Refusing to go on FNC is a act of cowardness, your going to be president and can’t stand some political/ideological/personal flack (not that he needs anymore), maybe this would get McCain on Olbermann…

Condi for VP + a few other things..

It’s been a rumor since the Presidential nomination contest first took off last year. Condi Rice, an African-American Republican Woman as a Vice Presidential candidate? Could the right not have a better weapon against the left? The Dem’s have Clinton’s “experience” shpeel and Obama’s “change” rhetoric, neither old white men and the right has a black woman that everyone knows?

The lefts nomination is in Obama’s grasp and I haven’t heard much for a VP pick – probably not to be politically presumptuous but does McCain really need to think – politically who would be a better choice than Condi?

I’d like to give our racial/sexual demographics more credit, but sheesh.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/dan-senor-condo.html

On a sad note, the main who starred in the greatest action scene ever in in Ben-Hur’s famous chariot scene, Charelton Heston has died at 84.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080406/D8VSKDDG0.html

On a OMG note, a party down the street from where I was staying last night (Lansing, MI) got a little out of hand at the infamous “Cedar fest”. Rocks and bottles were thrown at the police, they shot back with riot tear gas and riot gear.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080406/D8VSEMG80.html