Happy New Year, (or) 'How ignat 'r' ya'

Its here, and for all the blessed and cursed,.. awe shit,.. for all the good and bad in the world, somehow people think a different result will occur from the same old shit,.. called an election by media, knowledge without facts and 'newspeak'

Yeah, that is it,.. my new job is more of the same, pay rate is close though less, and yet I believe I'll achive a different result and increased enjoyment,.. have to think like that cause 'depression hurts'! To quote a co-worker, "How ignat 'r' ya?",.. kind of sums the new year up.

For all the hoopla and election freenzy, same raw deal again. Don't like the result of the election in some cold heartless state up north, heck with the vote, sue the people in the courts and contest the results untill everyone is so fed up with you they "Give you" the office, just to place you in indifference with a federal handout called a paycheck. Yep, sums up the value of the election,.. just another puppet.

I've got to say I'm okay with Obama, no more than that, I'm sure he'll do fine, the powers that picked Bush 1 & 2, Clinton and even Jimmy Carter, picked and placed this puppet and ,... I'm glad he beat my guy,.. cause just thinking of McCain and Palin there in the white house, fightin' with the puppet master like the Kennedy of old,.. gives me the heebie jeebies,.. what was I thinkin'?

I can see it now, McCain would be 'crossing the aisle' with a fully reformist cabinet, a war hero for homie-land security, Clinton for secratary of state,.. oh,.. and then Liberman for some God Fearing post like Chief of Staff,.. or just as kitchen help,.. and then he'd like to see closer ties with Vietnam or some such nonsense.

AND Palin!!! Mercy, imagine the Christmas Holiday,.. the 'New Grandchild',.. or how about that wardrobe,..

..and assisting the poor would revert to "Our Christian Charity", better known as a "Federal Tax Deduction",.. and just like our being a 'Concerned and giving' country, most lie about the size of the "Charity Ammount", just look at the receipts for donated clothing and 'used' furniture.

How much for that 'Obama 08 T shirt'?

Ahhhhhh, one more cup of joe and I think I'll relax and actually watch the television before bed,..

Ethnically ambiguous

I found this interesting that according to this BBC link embedded in my title, the world now see the United States as 'progressive' on one hand in that we elected an African American President,.. and in the other hand state how he is not actually from 'slave' stock. Matts article says way more than that and puts it very well, a perspective I had not considered. Here is a section just about Barack:

Barack Obama's election is indeed an inspiration.

But we should not not forget that America's first black president is also half white.

He was raised by a white mother and white grandparents.

He thrived in the largely white ivory towers of Harvard and Columbia.

He is not the descendant of african slaves but the son of a Kenyan economist, who was educated at American universities.

So if Barack Obama is post-racial it is also because he is ethnically ambiguous enough for most Americans to feel comfortable with him.

In that sense too he is the Tiger Woods or Lewis Hamilton of American politics: cool, concentrated and ethnically mixed.

Remember, the biggest hurdle at the beginning of his campaign was not that he was black but that he was not black enough.

By Matt Frei BBC News, Washington

I think the bottom line should be one that makes you think, I know this one surprised me from the same article above:

The Middle East is lost for words that a man called Barack "Hussein" Obama can be at the helm of the Great Satan.

Quagmire

We have one day left to see the election through, and granted the prognosis is that Obamas got it. MA2, I like your analogy of the 6000 crew and the battleship, fitting for the ship of State.

Let us not lose the wonder for that which is the election, the democracy on tap as it were. I fear as y'all do, that with the double digit win, Obama will win a mandate. This is not necessarily bad, but the 'new' friends of state surely will be an indication as to the direction the new President and congress will take us, as sure as his friends of old indicate the new presidents political leaning, whether he reclaims them after the election or not.

Will that put in peril the balance of power world wide,... already Chavez is requesting a meeting with Obama when he wins. Russia has Georgia nervous on the balance, Israel is plowing down houses on the west bank, Mexican police are being murdered, our borders are still unchecked,....

At this point I wonder, 'is the support for the "New President of the United States" unilateral amongst nations and governments of our Allies, or is here a concern'? How about in our own internal security departments/agencies?

This is exciting, as come January 20th, we will be facing a brave new world, one of just more of the same, where behind closed doors destinies are decided, wealth is accumulated and power is divided,..

..or one where the very fabric of what is 'normal' is ripped, shorn into pieces that will confuse the very astute, confound the insider and without the guidance of a past,.. seek a new pinnacle of balance.....

or just Jimmy Carter all over again.

This ain't OZ

"I don't think we're in Alaska anymore."

Where do we go from here?

This is a different place with a different idea,. on 'where do we go from here?

Wikipedia Re-Write

"Find me an example from an unbiased source. Michelle Malkin is in bed with McCain. She would print any bad thing anyone tells her about Obama; it wouldn't have to be true."

geomapgirl responding that Wikipedia is a better source.

And the Obama faithful have rewritten Wikipedia,.. literally. From the "Community Organizing" page, re-written 200 plus times to purge any prior page showing him not there,(check the re-write date, one after another) nor in the manner they show now. I know this as I was on that page in the beginning of his campaign, he wasn't then (nor is now?) a 'famous' top ten community organiser. Though wiki says he is.

Same with any anti-Obama you-tube video, you cannot find any anymore, but suspect no foul play when all is 'video no longer available'

The liberal mind is an odd thing, as it should be calling foul here, really, have a McCain video removed because of its content and it would make the news.... "What is he Hiding?"

No school records, no old flames nor friends, no history.

just words, just speeches