There were 8 million stories in the old “Naked City” television series and it sometimes seems another 8 million hit the newswires daily.  Some few are cringe-worthy, some evoke a chuckles, but most are overblown instances of the need for newspeople to publish or perish, aka, Who Cares Stories.

CRINGE STORIES:

A.  Madonna to buy off Guy Ritchie with a divorce settlement of up to $90 million:  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D953B1Q01&show_article=1. This is cringe-worthy only because Ritchie should have taken the multi-wed slut from Michigan for at least $100 million!

B.  Honest to goodness cringe story:  United States Excluded from Latin America Summit:  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0a8IQrfwSFU&refer=worldwide.  China, Russia, and even Iran are making inroads with our Latin neighbors and making a joke of the nearly  two century old Monroe Doctrine which defined that area as part of our “sphere of influence.”   The handwriting is on history’s wall and it reads, “America’s Day is Over.”  All empires eventually reach a conclusion but the American Empire is going into the dustbin of history with barely a fight.  T.S. Eliot called it in “The Hollow Men:” which ends, “This is the way the [American] world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.”   

On the lighter side,

CHUCKLE STORIES:

A.  The Iraqi shoe-thrower:  http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/15/mideast/shoe.php.  Although I realize throwing one’s shoe at someone is considered a deep insult in the Arab world, as is just exposing the soles of one’s shoes, which is the reason Arabs wash their feet before entering a mosque.  I don’t know or care about the derivation of that tradition but both the shoe-throw-as-insult and the foot washing no doubt find their origins in all that camel dung that Arabs probably step in daily and I imagine camel dung caked on shoes or sandals or between toes isn’t a pretty sight.  President Bush, to his credit, seemed entertained rather than upset as he deftly dodged the missiles and kept smiling.  Personally, I’d hurl my shoes and my dirty jockeys at any leader of the military that humiliated and defeated my country.  Living in a third-rate nation must be a daily downer. 

B.  New York’s Fat Tax:   http://www.timesunion.com/ASPStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=750267.  Over the last few days, our Default Governor David Patterson has demonstrated a unique quality:  On the one hand, he seemed to have no sense of humor as evidenced by his reaction to the tasteless but hilarious depiction of him on last Saturday’s edition of SNL.  (See it here:  http://www.nypost.com/seven/12152008/news/politics/paterson_in_a_blind_rage_over_snl_skit_144292.htm. It seems perfectly acceptable to him for the always-tasteless SNL crew to ridicule every other segment of our society, including religion, and to especially lambaste Republicans at every opportunity but when the satire hits home he gets all uppity.  However, his “fat tax” proposal to raise $404 million to help bail out New York State’s bloated budget seems to attest to his having a sense of humor, after all.  He plans to increase welfare payments, which is no surprise since he understands his political base, and also to tax non-diet soft drinks.  I believe Michael Moore has a place in the NYC and therefore that tax, even if amusing, is discriminatory to Fat Mikey.

Finally, stories that made the wires only to fill up the wires.

WHO CARES STORIES:

A.  Arena Football Cancels 2009 Season:  http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN1550407020081215?feedType=RSS&feedName=mergersNews&rpc=22&sp=true.  Arena what?

B.  Caroline Kennedy to Seek Hillary’s New York Senate Seat:  http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/15/america/16caroline.php.  Methinks Uncle Teddy is behind this.  He wants a Kennedy, even a Kennedy-Schlossberg, to have a presence in the U.S. Senate no matter whether she’s qualified or not.

C.  Bernard Madoff Rips off the Rich:  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2b38a296-cadc-11dd-87d7-000077b07658.html.  Sorry, folks, but any individual or institution that was getting 12% returns even in down markets deserves to lose.  They had to know this was a Ponzi scheme.

Those who haven’t read my two previous articles on the bride’s campaign for equal treatment of Christmas should really read them: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=bride.

It’s not that they’re exceptionally well-written or riveting but the end result of her campaign has proven to be very surprising and could be termed, “One small step for the bride, one giant leap for Christmas.”

To review:  My wife of 40 + years isn’t really radical, in most respects, but certain inequities tend to get her dander up.  One inequity, a blatant offense, actually, is that most private and public institutions this time of year believe that Santa Claus, “holiday trees,” and wreaths are adequate displays in recognition of the Christmas season.

Fair enough, except when those same private institutions such as state and federally chartered banks then honor Hannukah, the Jewish festival of lights which falls the same time of year as Christmas, with representations of the symbol of Hannukah and of Judaism, the menorrah.

That’s fine, too, except for the fact that the menorrah is a religious symbol and Santa, trees, and wreaths are not.  To be accurate and, yes, fair and equitable, a Nativity scene, a creche depicting the birth of the Christ Child, the only reason for the Christmas season, should be accorded at least equal time.

So the radical bride protested last year.  She wrote letters and made calls to the headquarters of Capital One Bank, spoke to a few reps, and was told her complaint “would be considered.”

Well, lo and behold, they were considered and today she saw a Nativity scene at our local branch.  It wasn’t huge and it wasn’t displayed prominently but it was there in relatively full view.

She extended her sincere appreciation to the branch manager who seemed a tad taken aback by the thanks.

True, the bride’s success wasn’t a huge accomplishment and this is hardly the time to have to engage in competition sports with menorrahs but it was a notable small step and should stand as an encouragement to those who feel as we do.  A journey of a thousand miles still begins with that first step, right?

Make your voices heard to banks, et al.  Let the managers and, especially, the powers that be at HQ, that we insist on at least one, small Nativity scene.

Then we can go after public institutions. 

You never know!

Okay, technically the author of 1984 passed to the great beyond in 1950 but Orwellian thought lives and thrives in the persons of Al Gore and his fellow global warmists who employ Orwell’s “Newspeak” whenever necessary, i.e., whenever reality gets in the way of their propaganda.

As the Northeast shivers, as Montana sets a new record low temperature, (-31 degrees), as snow hit semi-tropical New Orleans, never is heard a discouraged word from the Gorewarmists.  They attribute the freeze not to the oncoming winter solstice when things tend to get cold in the Northern Hemisphere but to, what else, global warming:  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081214/D952LKP00.html.

Classic Newspeak or Doublespeak, take your pick, or language and interpretation distorted to serve ideological goals rather than the accepted purpose of language, to communicate.

You can almost feel Gore’s sweat in the increasingly-panicked tone of the rhetoric being spewed from the warmists’ new acolyte, President-elect Barack Obama,  “The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over . . .We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.” 

He is supported by one scientist who warns of a natural Armageddon, “We are out of time . . . Things are going extinct.”   Meanwhile, from Reality Land, this report on thousands of new species of flora and fauna, from plants to mammals, to insects, to frogs, to fish, being discovered in Asia: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/3761269/Spider-as-big-as-a-plate-among-scores-of-new-species-found-in-Greater-Mekong.html 

Mr. Obama, quite the opposite of what the global warmists preach is true, which renders their words and your words as prime examples of Newspeak.  We all don’t believe in the poppycock propaganda and all the scientists have not been telling us that for years now, indeed far from all.

See “Global Warming Fraud,” December 10th, which exposes the truth that 650 international scientists strongly disagree, as opposed to 52 United Nations’ scientist-lackeys who promote the idea.  That article goes on to expose the cockamamie plans of the U.N. mad scientists who would tamper with nature, with the Earth, and with the sun’s rays and expose Earthlings to untold disasters all to serve their misguided theories.

We’re in the midst of what some people say is the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression eighty years ago, but who cares.  The warmists are heartened by election of the Obamassiah who will take office in five weeks.  He will damn the torpedoes from the 650 rational scientists and move full speed ahead to cripple our gasping economy even further by implementing the demands of the United Nations’ zealots. 

Their panic is real, not because of the temperature, but because of fear that more and more people will listen to the truth that Mother Earth is merely going through a normal, cyclical change.

The MyWay.com article concludes with, “Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year . . . Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.”

That makes sense.  In Newspeak.

(http://genelalor.com/.)

It struck me a long time ago that our leaders in America almost blithely go about our business with such little concern for our well-being, most specifically with regard to future attacks by terrorists on our soil.

They’ve put us in a defensive posture with such tactics as airport screenings and patdowns and with all sorts of other defensive measures which are supposed to make us feel secure and to continue travelling, shopping, attending various sporting events and the like but we’re about as secure as we were on September 10th, 2001.

It’s all a charade, a deadly charade, as evidenced by the recent report on the probability of some sort of WMD attack by the year 2013:  http://themoderatevoice.com/24772/report-wmd-bioattack-or-nuclear-attack-likely-on-us-by-2013/. 

Not by 2012 or 2011, mind you, and not in 2009, but by 2013 and not by 2014.

I can’t believe I’m the only person in America who perceives the absurdity of such a report, absurd not because it was written and given to President Bush by the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism but that the United States of America felt the need for such a commission.

We are not India, we are not Pakistan, we are not a banana republic which should be sitting back and saying, as this report does, “Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing:” http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/01/national/main4641534.shtml?source=mostpop_story.   And CBS.com and other media simply post the story as if it were the equivalent of another bloody murder or more news on Governor Blago’s scandals.

CBS asks the question:  Are we ready?  Are we ready for a nuclear or biological or any other mass attack on our nation.

I say that if we have to ask the question, we are not, and the fact that our “margin of safety is shrinking” attests to that.  Of more relevance is the question, Why are we not doing something about it?

Why are we sitting back and in effect saying, Well, we’ve done what we can to insure our national security but we know it’s not enough so just bring it on and let’s see what happens?  Is that not the same defeatist approach that France adopted with its farcical Maginot Line?

An ounce of prevention is said to be worth a pound of cure.  That hackneyed maxim is fine advice for avoiding the flu but has no application when we are discussing our future and, conceivably, the national survival of the United States.  In our current situation as we await another devastating attack or attacks, an ounce of pre-emption is worth a ton of phony, misleading security efforts which that commission admits are useless.

I’m not proposing that we attack all or any of our many enemies, enemy nations or groups within ostensibly friendly nations.  That would enhance our security but would be far beyond the pale of civilized response even to this grave threat.

What I propose is outlined in my book, An Immodest Proposal for Ending and Winning the War on Terror.   In a nutshell, my proposal is to put our enemies, is to put the planet, on notice that America will just not tolerate attacks on our soil.  That’s it, pure and simple.  I obviously flesh out that notice in great detail in the book as well as detailing the repercussions of such attacks.

Is this alarmist?  Is issuing an ultimatum that no enemy had better try to mess with us, to tread on us, to attack us, alarmist?  You’re damned right it is!  Is the book alarmist, again damned right it is, but before condemning that alarm, consider the alternative of waiting patiently and stupidly to be hit and maybe pummeled into the dust of history.

This is not a pitch to sell said book, which is available on Amazon.com. and at other outlets.  In fact, I will be more than happy to provide a complementary copy, at my expense including shipping and handling, to anyone who sincerely wants to read it and who will promise to try to do something about the peril our country faces. 

If I’m wrong, if the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism is wrong, then you get a free book to use to light a fire.

I hope we’re wrong.

(http://genelalor.com/)

It never seems to end.

I’m not referring to the Governor Blago–Chicago–Obama–Rezko affair(s), which won’t end for months and which may be concluded with more resignations and indictments than just Illinois Governor Blagojevich’s. 

I refer to Gays in the News.

First, we have the LGBT set, (that’s the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered set, for those not in the know), which is up in arms over President Bush’s and America’s silence on the U.N.’s statement calling for decriminalization of homosexuality.  

It has not yet been set in stone, but the United States is the only Western nation that has not endorsed the proposal:  http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid68209.asp.

The entire European Union is on board but some 80 or 86 other nations still regard homosexual activities to be illicit and 5 impose the death penalty for such intercourse.  One gay activist stated, “Washington will lose ever more respect and credibility if it fails to endorse this statement of support for LGBT human rights.”

This “gay friendly” website, http://mwcnews.net/content/view/27122&Itemid=1, points out that the only nation in the Middle East that supports a U.N. declaration is Israel.

I say kudos to Bush and our United Nations team.  I think executing gays for acting out sick, gay behavior is extreme and unjust but I also think we shouldn’t endorse such perversity.

Second is this story about the Vatican’s opposition to that same U.N. declaration which, in effect, declares that homosexuality is fine and dandy and which opposition gays consider “grotesque”:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464245,00.html.

With that disapproval, Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican are simply adhering to time-honored and Biblical proscriptions against the “abomination” that is homosexuality. 

Times may change and agitators may agitate but if the Church ever becomes influenced to change its fundamental precepts by changing times and protests it will no longer be the Catholic Church.  It will become the equivalent of Imus’ “First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship.”

In that eventuality, the Catholic Church will not deserve to survive so I therefore accord encouragement, and more kudos, to my Church.  

Finally, some encouraging words for homosexuals.

President-elect Barack Hussein Obama, (who has decided he will include his middle name at his inaugural), has invited a homosexual marching band to participate in that inaugural celebration:  http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14579.

“President-elect Barack Obama and [ostensibly Catholic] Vice President-elect Joe Biden have officially invited the Lesbian and Gay Band Association to march in the Inaugural Parade. One of the association’s web sites reports that the group will also march in September as part of the homosexual “Southern Decadence” festival infamous for its public lewd acts.”

This should be a real blast for the gay community! 

Try to envision half naked homosexuals strutting their stuff down Pennsylvania Avenue, hopefully in snow and sub-freezing temperatures, acting out homosexual acts en route and between numbers! 

United Nations declarations will play second fiddle for at least a day as America and the world look on and wonder what has become of the United States in 2008 A.D.

Those marchers will have succeeded in doing what the Confederates, the Kaiser, and Adolph Hitler failed to do.  They will be demonstrating what the end of America looks like.

No kudos to Obama for that sad exhibition.

I guess I shouldn’t talk since I live in a liberal cesspool, Nueva York, but I’ve at least been blessed not to live in Illinois or, God forbid, in the murder capital of the nation, Chicago.   

I admit that until recently I knew next to jacksquat about the son of the “Reverend” Jesse Jackson.  Mostly I knew he was the son of Jesse Jackson Senior and shares his daddy’s name, which is reason enough to doubt his honesty and integrity.

Whether he truly shares his daddy’s character, Jesse Senior’s penchant for sexual shenanigans, his shakedown skills, his proven hypocrisy, and his facile prevarications, has yet to be determined but nuts usually don’t fall far from the tree.

The elder Jesse is known for many things.  Witness to MLK’s assassination, he cashed on that quirk of history by launching a life as agitator and extortionist to help fund his RainbowPUSH (People United to Save/Serve Humanity) Coalition and he has been very successful at it. 

He made abortive runs for the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and 1988, garnering “impressive . . . surprising” totals of 450 and 1000 delegates, respectively.   However, whether those numbers were truly impressive and surprising is debatable given the racial makeup of the Democrats delegate base.

After frequent denials, he finally fessed up in 1998 to conceiving a “love child” with staffer Karin Stanford in 1996 while serving as Bill Clinton’s “spiritual advisor” in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.  RainbowPUSH paid her off: (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E1DF153CF933A15752C0A9679C8B63)

The irony of Jesse Jackson Senior serving as a spiritual advisor to anyone is beyond precious.

Undeterred, he went into temporary seclusion and returned to his “ministry” some time later.  No word on whether his wife of  46 years, Jacqueline, shared his retreat.

He most recently was seen weeping at Barack Hussein Obama’s post-election festivities in Grant Park, Chicago, tears shed either for his earlier failures to win the presidency, for Obama’s “transformational” election, or for both.

Prior to that, his reference to nuts made in front of an open mic during the campaign justly earned him more notoriety.   His wish to castrate the presidential nominee, articulated in gutter language, (cutting Barack’s nuts off), which was very irreverent for a “reverend,” resulted in no Secret Service investigation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g57ORgDUgYs.

Apparently, the Secret Service cut Jesse Senior some slack since Jesse was just being Jesse and since leaders of the black community, unlike whites, are afforded a governmental dispensation for such threats.

Junior hasn’t been heard speaking as graphically on or off mic.  But who really knows about Jesse Junior?  Perhaps he’s less into neutering his opponents? 

He definitely is into denying responsibility when it comes to preserving his butt:  http://news.aol.com/article/jackson-jr-says-he-isnt-target-of-probe/272316?icid=200100397×1214590553×1200984482

Born in South Carolina, Junior attended LeMans [Military] Academy, an elite Catholic boarding school for boys in Chicago and the college preparatory St. Albans School for boys in D.C.  He received his B.S. degree from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an M.A. from the Chicago Theological Seminary and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.

He has represented Chicago’s 2nd CD in Congress, a 40% white district, since 1995, after replacing convicted child molester and child pornography aficionado, Mel Reynolds.

A busy beaver and a decorous congressman, while in office he has found time to co-author three books, two with Jesse Senior, and is considered an arch liberal on most issues.

Married to the politically-well-connected Sandi Jackson, a native Chicagoan, Junior has been in the news of late because of l’affair Blagojevich concerning the enterprising governor of Illinois who sought to sell Obama’s United States Senate seat to the highest bidder.

All we “know” at this juncture is that Junior was one of five aspirants for that seat, that he denies offering money or any other remuneration to Governor Blago, that said governor and his wife have foul mouths and greedy mitts, that Obama never even spoke to Blago about his successor, and that Illinois politics is as dirty as Chicago stockyards.

We can only wait and see how all this plays out.  With federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in charge of the investigation and Obama confidante and money man Tony Rezko blabbing from prison, Jesse Jackson Junior and Barack Obama may be experiencing severe angina over the next few months.

Maybe Obama should call on his Secretary of State-designate’s hubby to learn how best to deal with Blago alerts as well as Rezko alerts and maybe Junior had better hope Governor Blagojevich and Tony meet the same fate as Jim McDougal of Whitewater fame.

Can anyone say, President Joseph Biden? 

DrudgeReport.com often pairs conflicting stories with the same admirable goal as Fox News’ motto of, “We report, you decide,” and unlike the liberal press approach of, “This is the truth, now shut up and do what you’re told!”  This particular pairing is positively scary.

On the one hand, we have the AP story about global warming, “Thousands Negotiate New Climate Treaty,” http://www.livescience.com/environment/081210-ap-climate-treaty.html, a report on efforts of global warmists to replace the Kyoto Protocol with a new plan that will put bigger and sharper teeth in enforcement.

It begins with a typical, leftist fait accompli:  ”POZNAN, Poland (AP) — Scientists studying the changing nature of the Earth’s climate say they have completed one crucial task — proving beyond a doubt that global warming is real.  Now they have to figure out just what to do about it.”

And do they have solutions to save the planet!   Those “futuristic” solutions include, “imitating the cooling effects of a massive volcanic eruption by spreading sulfur in the atmosphere, or scattering billions [of] tiny refractors high in the air to dim the sun and lower the temperature.”    The warmists do admit that, “such radical solutions involve risks.”Ya think?

Let’s see now.  The scientific gods would like to imitate the effects of Krakatoa, which claimed 36,000 lives, or Mount St. Helens, which caused untold devastation, by poisoning the atmosphere or to play Mother Nature by cooling the Earth with “tiny refractors” to deflect the rays from Father Sun. 

After all, whether it’s bailouts or screwing with the planet, disaster is always imminent and we’re always faced with an emergency the likes of which mankind has never witnessed and we must do something now, preferably yesterday, but certainly no later than tomorrow. 

Sure there are “risks,” such as freezing half the Earth and killing millions but, Hey, what else can we do, says the IPCC, the Intergovernmenal Panel on Climate Change.  The IPCC is a brainchild of the United Nations and was the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, along with Al Gore and his Inconvenient Baloney.

My suggestion is that all those warmists, whose goal isn’t chilling the planet but is politically inspired and motivated by the ultimate United Nations aim, comparable to Obama’s aim, of sharing American/Western European wealth with the so-called “have not” nations of the world, listen to a dissenting opinion.

Fortunately, we have another hand, those who see through the warmists’ lies and manipulated statistics as seen in the next story on Drudge about 650 international scientists who say the warmists are frauds: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6.

Their rebuttal is the subject of a United States Senate Minority (Republican) report to be issued this week to counter the machinations of the United Nations and the IPCC.

There were 400 last year who dissented with the 52 U.N. lackey pseudo-scientists, their number now grown to 650 and which continues to mushroom, and who now can see the light.  That light will be more difficult to see if those “tiny refractors” are put in place in our skies.

Those scientists, many of whom are renegades of the IPCC, contend that the sun, not man, accounts for 50% of global warming, that there is no crisis, that warming is cyclical, that they were deceived by the IPCC, that the whole global warming farce is a lie and a scientific scandal, and that it is a political charade.

Read their comments and excerpts on the above link and then thank God for Matt Drudge and for Senate Republicans.

May you live in interesting times is an ancient Chinese aphorism and, for better or worse, we seem to be living in very interesting times.  Whether our times will be times to remember fondly is another matter entirely.

None of the following stories come close to matching the newsworthiness of the debacle in Illinois where Governor Rod Blagosomething had a rude awakening this morning and was carted off to the hoosegow for being what is traditional for Illinois governors, a crook:  http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40546.

However, they all have to qualify as being interesting for various reasons.

BLACK GOV ON BLACKS 

Governor-By-Scandal David Patterson of New York made a witty, racist remark at the Gridiron Dinner the other night in New York.  During the gag-filled occasion, he said, “Once you go black you can’t go back”: http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/1208/Gov_David_Paterson_at_the_Gridiron_He_said_what_.html?showall.  His quip was a reference to the election of the nation’s first black president and his own ascendance to the governorship by virtue of previous Governor Spitzer’s inability to keep his zipper zipped.  Okay, it was meant in jest, I suppose, but imagine the uproar had a white governor made an equivalent remark.  Think Senator Trent Lott and Rush Limbaugh.  Double standard, anyone?

A DAY WITHOUT A GAY 

Back in the old days, Americans who like to protest would do it actively by sending a letter of complaint or by taking to the streets and marching and chanting and waving placards.  Protesters still do that of course but gay protesters are adding a new wrinkle to demonstrate their objections to the passage of Proposition 8 in California.  They plan to stay home from work on Wednesday:  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081209/D94URMF80.html.  The aim is to show the world, and their employers, how valuable they are to the workplace and to society.  I guess that’s better than assaulting old ladies, which they have done, but I’d still fire them.

MOM TAKES OVER RESTAURANT

A Japanese restaurant in New York City is punishing patrons for not joining the Clean Plate Club.  If they leave food on their plates, they are hit with a 3% surcharge for the privilege:  http://wcbstv.com/seenon/food.waste.charge.2.882636.html.  This is hardly Earth-shaking news but it is another sign of the times, a change from the old customer is always right motto to the customer has no rights.  Personally, I’d just subtract 3% from the tip and never return to the place.  No word on whether they can’t have dessert.

DUMB BROADS

“Reverend” Jeremiah (God Damn America) Wright, now that his boy is President-in-Waiting, was back on the pulpit of Trinity United Church shooting his mouth off and, of all people, he took a potshot at “The View’s” Elisabeth Hasselbeck.  Liz had made some unkind, but accurate, remarks about the good rev and this was his opportunity to refute them.  Instead, he resorted to calling her “a dumb broad:” http://wcbstv.com/seenon/food.waste.charge.2.882636.html.  If anyone is dumb on that show it would be Joyless Joy Behar but she supported Obama so Wright attacked the only McCain/Palin fan on the panel.  No surprise there, really, and it won’t be a surprise when Wright is installed as Obama’s spiritual adviser after January 20th.

BIG BRO IS WATCHING

The Russians are at it again with renewed efforts at mind and thought control.  With former KGB chief Putin still running things with his puppet Medvedev out front it’s no wonder Russian bureaucrats are blaming their economic woes not on their own ineptness and the cost of invading Georgia last summer but on the U.S.A.  On top of that, media commentators must be thinking a gulag is in their futures if they don’t employ approved terminology:  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/12/the_russian_war_on_words.html