StormWarning’s Counterterrorism

In the waning moments of the Presidential Election campaign, there is little left but the counting. I don’t know how it will turn out. I’ve voted already (just once). My mind races with things to say about the decision making power of the American electorate. In my rather short life to date (based on the longevity of men in my family, I’ve got a few laps of the track left), the “influencers” and “influences” on these decisions have certainly changed.

There is no wonder why we end up with the poor choices we have. Perhaps we deserve better, perhaps, we get what we deserve.

Alas, I believe that this is the best place for me to “get off the bus.”

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A real life parable on “wealth redistribution.”

Does it work? Experiment!

In a local restaurant my server had on a ‘Obama 08′ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside.

The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

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A sure sign of defeat is when the opposition resorts to desperate measures to discredit…or draws on extraordinary and actually very vague satire to make a point.  With respect to the person who pointed me to this, I will not refer to any post but only to what appears to be a serious paper that infers that Obama uses hypnotic suggestion in his speeches.

I am speechless. If I wasn’t speechless, I’d be…

ROFL

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How many times is someone suddenly foisted onto the staged, only to be revealed as something that he or she is not? Well, Joe Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber” (whose real name is Sam), has found that sometimes if you step into the limelight, you can get slimed.

Seems like Sam W. isn’t a licensed plumber!

It wasn’t long before the Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics revealed that Wurzelbacher was not a licensed member of their trade.

“That means that he has not completed the training program necessary for him to sit for a license test,” said Tony Herrera, market recovery specialist for Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 50 in Toledo, Ohio.

“It’s a shame that this guy has ended up in this situation because it seems like he’s misrepresented himself — and for that matter the plumbing and pipefitting industry.”

“Say it ain’t so, Joe!” (er-r-r-r-r, I mean Sam)

What may even be worse, it seems like Joe owes some back taxes too! But, according to the ever reliable New York Times, the spin is still trying to evade Obama’s comments:

“I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year,” he told Mr. Obama. “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”

That encounter wound up on YouTube and led to appearances on the Fox News Channel, interviews with conservative bloggers and a New York Post editorial, all of whom seized on a small part of Mr. Obama’s long reply. “I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” Mr. Obama had said.

There is no way to parse those words and have them come out saying anything different. “I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody,” Mr. Obama had said.

Despite the chastizing of a commenter on a previous post, Linda “N” who is a real estate agent in Maryland who probably sold houses to people who got those sub-prime mortgages, defaulted and now are crying about losing their houses - houses I might add that they really didn’t have the income to qualify for a mortgage of the required amount to start with - and got rich off of the commissions and fees from the transaction (perhaps even a little skim from the mortgage company???), MY WEALTH IS MY WEALTH AND IT IS HARD EARNED. STAY AWAY FROM IT!

Joe the Plumber

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OK, I saw this on other blogs but it bears repeating. Obama wants to give everyone a chance to succeed and will work to spread the wealth! What ever happened to someone working to become wealthy? WTF!

This is what Obama says: “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too.”

Forget his name! Attack his freakin’ policies. Redistribution of wealth?!!! I’ve worked hard ot get where I’ve gotten and made huge sacrifices. He wants to give other people a chance to achieve, or to simply “get!” Something for nothing??? “F” that shit!

Obama socialism

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We could very well lose this election and see Obama as President. It will be the fault of everyone who failed to focus on the issues: National security, War on Terror and the economy. We could well lose this election because McCain has allowed himself to be backed into the corner and taken the mantle of “Bush-v3.” We could lose this election because McCain never came out and soldified the importance of regulating the credit markets. We could well lose this election because we haven’t emphasized the role that people in Congress who claimed that they saw nothing wrong or insecure with the sub-prime mortgages (including Frank and Shays and others including Maxine Waters) didn’t just lose 20% of their home values because people who were being given a chance to own a home, even when they didn’t have the credit scores to justify their mortgages. We could well lose this election because the move from a “chicken in every pot” to “everyone is entitled to own a home” is pure and simple bullshit! Owning a home is not a right! Owning a home is something that you earn and work hard to afford.

We are running the risk of losing this election and seeing Obama in the White House because the Republican Party lost focus, and didn’t understand that this election is truly the first election to be decided on the Internet. The blogdom that focused on the ridiculous instead of the issues (largely because the blogopsphere is incapable of critical thinking and issues discussions), will have handed this election to Obama (Barry, or Barack, which ever you please).

But we will all most certainly pay the price of having an inexperienced person in the White House in a time when the World is clearly still at war, and with Obama, who truly will strip the military.

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I can easily argue that everyone who spent time and time and time trying to prove that Obama was a Muslim or Michelle Obama said “whitey” or any one of the other byte vacuums, instead of actually studying Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience will be as much to blame for the result if Obama wins, as McCain is (or was) for allowing himself to get painted into the corner to be blamed for the financial mess that is President Bush’s alone (and his Adminstration) or for allowing Obama to make the statement that he made about “invading a country that hadn’t been involved in 9/11.”

The lack of critical thinking instead of school yard name calling and its associated mentality will be responsible if the worst case scenario plays out.

Each and every one you who wasted time worrying about “Barry’s name” will be to blame. The freakin’ illuminati of the conservative far right, deep in their lack of knowledge of world affairs, policy issues, and the like, fell quickly into the trap of focusing on the non-issues long before Obama took the nomination away from Senator Clinton. That too was a result of distracting people unable to think for themselves away from the real issues of leadership and experience. Those people who today bemoan the possibility that Obama will win the election, would have cried loudly had Mrs. Clinton been the Democratic nominee. Then, those who lack the depth of knowledge needed to actually make considered decisions based on critical thinking, would have gone back in the “way back machine” to 1992 and re-characterized Mrs. Clinton’s health care plan. So, we now face the prospect of not only having a President without experience becomes our President for at least the next four years.

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This is borrowed from Debbie Schlussel’s website (why I haven’t been reading this lady’s writing more in the past, I cannot know, but will correct in the future). This piece, a bit off color in some places (its Howard Stern on satellite radio afterall) shows you just how illiterate and ill-informed the electorate is, and why this Nation is at the brink of great troubles, especially re: foreign policy, but also in general (IMO).

Some language is a bit harsh to the ears of some more sensitive readers, and for that, you have my apologies in advance.

If this radio interview represents how even a small segment of the population will make its decision in the next election, we are all doomed. If this radio interview represents how even a small segment of the population will make its decision in the next election, we should seriously consider IQ testing as a pre-qualification for voting. If the people interviewed in this audio are in any way involved in the selection of the next President, G-d Help Us All.

It is also very important (recognizing that this is solely my opinion) that if people had focused more attention on Obama’s lack of experience, what I consider to be his horrible judgment in foreign policy and diplomacy, and a general insensitivity to World issues (including his ridiculous comment in yesterday’s debate in which he made a statement about “invading a country that had nothing to do with Sept. 11th”), instead of worrying about Rev. Wright, and spending “time and time and time” trying to prove that Obama was a Muslim or Michelle Obama said “whitey” or any one of the other byte vacuums…and if John McCain hadn’t allowed himself to get painted into the corner to be blamed for the financial mess that is President Bush’s alone (and his Adminstration), we might not be facing the next four years with a Democrat in the White House, and an ill-prepared semi-Senator as President.

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Of all of the reasons to not vote for the Obama-Biden ticket (*), the one that should mean the least, in fact not even be on the radar screen is the hooey about his birth certificate. For this, I “borrow” from AJ Strata who writes in The Cult Of The COLB Crashes Into Reality:

There will always be some dupes who won’t let go (some people still don’t think we went to the moon). No wonder America has lost respect for bloggers and conservatives and politics ‘as usual’. This is a huge waste of time for anyone who really opposes Obama for President. It is akin to believing their is a hidden magical wand somewhere that will make Obama just disappear, if the right heroine or hero can just find it. Pathetic.

I’ve got very good reasons for my infrequent posting recently. Most of all is that I’ve much more important uses of my time because of business. But the reality, too, is that there are way too many people who simply don’t get it. What is “it?”

The naming of Joe Biden as his running mate does not in any way compensate for Obama’s wet behind the ears approach to foreign policy. Yes, Joe Biden is a long standing Senate expert on foreign policy. But, I would have been alot happier if it was a Biden-Obama ticket (*). Then again, many of the same people who can’t let go of the birth certificate issue (certificate of live birth), will never let go of Biden plagiarism. Do you know who the best candidate not running is? More after someone guesses.

PS: AJ is right…The birth certificate story should be dead. Wanna bet one or more of the “well known” conservative blogs pick up on it again?

certificate of live birth, Obama

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Normally, I don’t quote such a “laudable” news source as the WorldNet Daily, but in this exceptional case, they have admitted that the conspiratorial NAU is a “dead dream.” Now is the time for all of those who sprung into action to stop something that never was, to step up and admit they had chased a demon of a different color.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community.

Whether or not the SPP is dead or not is still in question. Mutual cooperation between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico is a desireable, if not currently advisable goal. However, it is the truth, now, as it has been before, for all of the “heavy lifters” to come to their senses (these are the people who insisted that North American Union was going to happen, that U.S. sovereignty was going to be obliterated by the Council for Foreign Relations, or that the “plan” was designed to enable free transit across our already porous border with Mexico) to own up to the reality that they were wrong!

“The April summit meeting was probably the last hurrah for the SPP,” Pastor wrote, referring to the fourth annual SPP meeting held in April in New Orleans.

According to Pastor, bureaucracy has prevented to attainment of this “dream.”

PULEEZ! The White Paper published by the Council for Foreign Relations was a “think-piece.” It wasn’t a statement of policy, hidden or otherwise. Unfortunately, some people took it as a given (question: did they know what a “think-piece” is?).

Stormwarning - speaking…well, #!@&!^Q(*.

debunking the North American Union

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There are so many reasons to defeat Obama that don’t include the “BOH is a Muslim” or “his father is a Muslim.” The varying degrees of whether we win or lose in Iraq, or whether Afghanistan deserves more attention thatn we’ve given it aside, Obama hasn’t got a clue about foreign policy, and has a losing “strategy” in the overall GWOT.

The future of the Global War on Terror is at stake. Defeat Obama for the reasons of bankrupt policy and extreme total lack of experience…not for any ill-conceived thoughts of his heritage.

defeat Obama, Joe Lieberman

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It is clear (at least to me) that the Presidential election brings out the worst in American commentary, especially since the Internet expanded to the blogosphere where people feel it is OK to flame others, write things that are offensive, and then carry that crude behavior to real life. A Florida “free speecher” may well win the prize. He has put up billboards with the phrase, “Please don’t vote for a Democrat.” Well, that is his right, is it not? He crosses the line of decency and shows the inanity of his thoughts, by having those words next to a picture of the smoldering World Trade Center Towers.

The true essence of this offensive example of our right of expression is that Mike Meehan is actually using this shock value of the billboards to promote his musical CD by directing people to a URL where “The Republican Song” plays. While he asks, “What type of President will we have,” my question is what type of electorate do we have, and have we forevermore fallen from grace and now wallow in the mud of the Internet?

Note also that while I cannot prove it, when I downloaded and posted the picture of the billboard from the CNN website article on this story, my computer was infected by malware, the Antivirus2009

XPOnlineScanner9.com is a fake security web-site that promotes rogue anti-spyware software called Antivirus 2009. The software installs itself, without consent, on the user’s computers and registry.

Unless of course, it is a means of preventing people from downloading pictures from various URLs.

Florida billboard, World Trade Center

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The once respected New Yorker Magazine, known mostly for its arts and entertainment focus (read their headers: “Reporting 7 Essays,” “Arts & Culture,” “Humor,” “Fiction & Poetry,” “The Talk of the Town”), has fallen prey to misdirected humor/satire, and pandered to the lowest common denominator with its cover on its July 21st edition. The editors defend themselves by saying that they were satirizing the use of scare tactics etc. to derail Obama’s candidacy. Unfortunately, there are people, like one whose comment I read, that believe that “its a message from G-d…He is doing what He can to stop Obama…hopefully people will listen.” Indeed! That is the most ridiculous load of poppycock I have read so far…unfortunately (and very sadly), there are people in that lowest common denominator who will accept that as fact…many of those don’t even know what satire is, or wouldn’t recognize it if it hit them in the head!

The Obama campaign, as well as the campaign of Republican rival John McCain, slammed the cover as offensive:

“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement, reported by Politico. “But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

“We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.

From Alternet: The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right’s Dirty Work? This week’s New Yorker cover image of the Obamas is shocking in the racism and gross stereotyping that is built into its supposed satire.

Are we being too sensitive? From Editor and Publisher we have this:

On Howard Kurtz’s CNN media program today, Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune called it “quite within the normal realms of journalism,” adding that “it’s just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there.”

From Fox News we have this: Obama Campaign Calls New Yorker Magazine Cover “Tasteless and Offensive”

The inimitable Power Line blog seems to believe that Obama and McCain are being too sensitive.

Another journalist, Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune defended it as “quite within the normal realms of journalism,” adding that “it’s just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there.”

WAKE UP! The least common denominator in this country does not know what satire is, probably never read Jonathan Swift, and will see this cartoon as validation of their misguided prejudices. In fact, I’d bet that most of the people who comment about the cover of the New Yorker, never opened a copy of it to read any articles, and will not read the article in this edition to understand the satire (if they are capable of understaning), that the cover is a lampoon. I’m simply astounded…or maybe, its just too early in the morning (6:30am). But ask this question. If Joseph Lieberamn was running for President and there had been rumors of his being a money lender or some other stereotype, would it be acceptable to show a steroetypical Jewish man with peyes and a long nose doling out pennies?

No! dear readers. The New Yorker will not be read by the least common denominator of America…certainly not for the newstand price of $4.50. But the supposedly satirical cartoon on its cover depicting the Obamas as Muslims and terrorists will be spoken about in every tavern and other establishment where least common denominators live. And any suggesting that the New Yorker did this in an attempt to get people to blame “racist Republicans” is fodder only for the Rush Limbaugh audiences today and after who will revel in his droolingly derisive slime talk about how its the “Dems” who are racist. At best, this is another example of of the media, in this case, the New Yorker, clearly not understanding the Internet and the blogosphere.

Like it or not, ignorance, bigotry (I know I wrote bogotry but actually meant to coin a word, “blogotry“) and hatred run rampant in this country, and it isn’t Democrats or Liberals, Republicans or Conservatives…its the least common denominator. And that is my opinion, or my name isn’t StormWarning (oh, %#@!^*&&!…its not!). And yes, I am talking down to the least common denominator.

McCain, New Yorker, Obama, pandering, satire

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I read it and thought, “no, it has to be a spoof.” All too often Jack Bauer’s show “24″ has been held by “some” people as proof of the coming American holocaust. Now I read that “President Palmer” (err, I mean Dennis Haysbert) believes that his role in “24″ enabled the candidacy of Barack Obama.

“If anything, my portrayal of David Palmer, I think, may have helped open the eyes of the American people,” said the actor, who has contributed $2,300 to the Illinois Democrat’s presidential campaign.

Two brief comments on this:

1) I think that Haysbert is either desparate for attention or is simply delusional
2) if the American public actually believes this then it is delusional and in need of serious psychological help.

Now, Haysbert was not the first American Black President in movies/television, and I am not the first to say that the concept is a s-t-r-e-t-c-h, at best.

Todd Boyd, an expert in African American cinema and culture at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, said he was skeptical of the influence Hollywood may have on the 2008 election race.

“I’m a bit hesitant to say that because James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman or Dennis Haysbert played a president on a TV show or in a movie, it means Barack Obama can be president,” Boyd told National Public Radio.

“I think that’s a bit of a stretch.”

Barack Obama may be a creation of the media, but he is no Dennis Haysbert (err, I mean David Palmer). Whatever has enabled a Black man to be the candidate of a major American political party is a social phenomena and a sign of the growth and evolution of America to overcome, at least partially, its racial bias. At the same time, substance should be what enables a candidate to become President. My opinion is that David Palmer’s writers (those of the show “24″) provided him a great agenda, and as an actor, he executed his lines flawlessly…as did Morgan Freeman in “Deep Impact.” Life sometimes parallel art. Art influencing life? Its a stretch. And besides, David Palmer was assassinated…the writers saw to that (I suspect so that Haysbert could assume his newest television role in the “Unit”).

Personally, I think that Haysbert is displaying verry self-important behavior and is delusional.

24, Haysbert, Jack Bauer, Obama

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Let us crystallize the issues facing the US as we approach this “election of a lifetime.” Live in peace and remember that at following the attacks of Sept. 11, we were once again united, many people from many walks of life at a moment of great dispair. Now, nearly 7 years later, regardless of whatever you may think of the War in Iraq, or the broader, Global War on Terrorism, our enemies mock us for being divided and for not understanding that their’s is a very long war. Without resolve (by us as a country and a people), there is reason to beware (the enemy does not bicker among themselves). They watch…they plan…they wait.

So what are the issues for this coming Presidential Election? [More later]

GWOT, Presidential election

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