November 4, 2008
Just a few hours are left before the name of the new president of the world United States is announced. I might be lucky to be in the US during such a decisive moment of it history, although I know that I am unable to see the complete image, being a current resident of Michigan, a state known for it...
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Well, not as such, of course: I strongly believe in elections, and have always voted when it was physically possible for me to do so. But I’m not American, and couldn’t be bothered about whether the Supreme Court would have a more conservative outlook under Mc Cain or whether Obama would repel s...
go to article »November 3, 2008
See what happens when you search www.ElectPalin.com Riehl World View and Doug Ross reported this last night. Then this morning a friend of mine sent me a copy of this article on a body of email without a link, so I did a Google search on the title of the article "Understanding Obama: The Ma...
go to article »November 2, 2008
Yet more allies of Sen. Barack Obama are under investigation: it seems that Chicago Mayor Daley may have been involved in a rather lucrative deal with Tony Rezko and Ald. Richard Mell. Mell’s son-in-law is Rod Blagojevich - a name that should sound familiar to those who know a bit about Obama&...
go to article »October 31, 2008
Here in Cincinnati, the first political ad that came on the TV was an anti-Obama one about gun ownership / control. It was paid for by the National Rifle Association - the organisation headed until recently by Charlton ”you can wrench this gun from me over my cold, dead body” Heston.Â...
go to article »October 29, 2008
October 28, 2008
A remarkable story has been unfolding (or should that be unraveling?) over the last few days in Pennsylvania. It is the story of Ashley Todd, a local McCain campaign volunteer who on Thursday claimed that she had been mugged by a looming African-American who then spotted her McCain bumper sticker an...
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Senator Stevens of Alaska has been found guilty of violating ethics rules in accepting goods and services from friends and failing to report them. A federal jury of eight women and four men from the District of Columbia found that the 84-year-old Republican, who has represented Alaska in the Senate ...
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To commemorate today's court ruling that found Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska guilty on all counts of corruption, I thought we might review Sarah Palin's connections with Sen Stevens. Here are some relevant excerpts from the Jotman's Palin Timeline. I have included a few other, non-Stevens related e...
go to article »October 27, 2008
Sorry to end the night on a downer, but this story has just broken. Two young skinheads in Tennessee have been discovered planning a killing spree of black people, ending with an attempt to assassinate Obama: “Federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominant...
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