There’s a kind of hush … all over the world

During the 2008 Presidential primaries- there was a running skit on Saturday Night Live parodying Democratic candidate’s Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The skit was to which candidate would handle the 3 a.m. phone-call better. The 3 a.m. phone call was a joke… until this week when President Barack Obama actually got the 3 a.m. phone call.

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Lets replace increasingly schizophrenic American behavior with, “Yes We Can!”

We are living in a time of schizophrenic government, a schizophrenic American public. President Barack Obama after his first 100 days in office must be shaking his head in bewilderment during this time of damned if you do-damned if you don’t public opinion.

The truth is- the American government and the American people don’t know what they want. As such, they fall victim to fearmongerers like Rush Limbaugh and war-criminal Dick Cheney.

Not six-months ago when Barack Obama campaigned for the office of the presidency, most of his supporters, all anti-Bush advocates called for the closing of Camp Gitmo, the US base at Guantanamo Bay where the detainees from the two-week Irag war have now been detained for eight-years. Obama as one of his campaign promises, vowed to clopse Gitmo and upon his second day as Commander-in-Chief gave said order.

This week, the American media in an uproar as Obama actually tries to make good on his campaign promise and close Gitmo, is stirring up the American public by broadcasting fears that Obama is going to release what is left of some 200 detaineess into American society. Suddenly, Americans who demanded closure of Gitmo and denounced waterboarding and other means of torture used by the Bush adminsitartion are demanding that Camp Gitmo remain open.

So a young President Obama finds himself in a damned if you do- damned if you don’t position, not only about Camp Gitmo but about every other campaign promise he has made.

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Dawn Of The Dead? Worse- Dawn Of The Moron

Now, I get a kick out of the occasional news story of some idiot who gets himself or herself into trouble. The stories that are about dumb criminals who get themselves into a moronjam are particularly funny, especially when their stupidity must give policemen a laugh when they arrive on the scene. But the stories about elected officials, teachers, policemen, firemen, the very people we look to for leadership, togovern us, to protect us and who do incredibly stupid things are becoming all too frequent in its reporting.
There are two types of people. There are the people who “get it” and those who don’t. Furthermore it’s the people who don’t get it that usually think they do like Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Rod Blagojevich. It seems to me of late that besides the H1 N1 Virus there is another virus infecting America- the “STUCK ON STUPID VIRUS” or the D1 UMB 1 Virus and that more and more of our elected officials, cops, teachers, movie-stars have been infected

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Boldly going where one man has gone before

I am sure the new Star Trek will make millions for director Abrams, lure a new generation of fans who grew up sipping Sunny D but there’s nothing new here, Star Trek, the new movie does not break new ground, it does not boldly go where no man has gone before instead it boldly recreates what has been done before.JJ Abrams is nothing more than a copy cat, no better than the kid in the next row in high school who cheats on his exam buy looking on your paper. Abrams is a cheat and I’ll tell you why.

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“Banning” – a new form of censorship

The British government published a blacklist on Tuesday of people recently banned from the country. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to publish the “name and shame” list — which identifies 16 people banned since last October — for the first time to clarify what behavior Britain will not tolerate.

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