Alright – we’re off (very early tomorrow morning) for our summer family tour! We’re heading back to the East Coast for almost two weeks. The main reason to go is for the Beloved’s folks’ 50th wedding anniversary – we’re meeting them at one of their favorite places on the “Northern Neck” of Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay. Should be fun – that’s a part of the Bay I’ve never seen before.
Before that though, we’ve scheduled a brief visit with my brother in NJ and a longer one with my sister in MD (I still haven’t seen her new place that she moved into last Spring, mostly because I didn’t go back for Christmas/New Year’s last year…). And, of course, we’re going to cram in as many visits with friends as we can get. Should be hectic (and a lot of driving…), but we want to make the most of it.
We’ll probably have pretty spotty internet contact, so don’t drop me from your neighborhoods because I’m not commenting or posting, or force-quit our scrabulous games because they’ve gone “inactive”.
See you in a couple of weeks!
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father -- my grandfather -- was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.
I think his opening is quite telling. This has defined him as a leader. On the international stage of nations more concerned with appeasement and United Nations mandates, Sen Obama is at home as a citizen of the world.
Walkscore.com recently ranked America's most walkable neighborhoods and cities. Where does your hometown land in the rankings? And how much do you actually find yourself walking instead of driving?
My hometown of Philadelphia ranks fifth on the list. More importantly, my neighborhood ranks tops in Philadelphia, with a 98 score. Needless to say, I walk all the time. I don't even own a car.
Every day, there seems to be a new example of Barack Obama's Peoples’ Temple-like grip on otherwise (semi) rational people.
What began as a political phenomenon borne of a particularly charismatic figure has turned into a creepy and possibly malignant force. It is the Obama Hypnosis.
Obama is a man of undeniable intelligence and skill, but his hyper-ascent has never been truly explained.
This is a real mystery to me. How could a man with little experience amass huge sums of money and gather all the news outlets to his side for a run for the White House. Something is wrong with this picture. Story developing.
I am a farmer who raise ducks and cows. The animals have a total of 9 heads and 26 feet. How many ducks and cows do I have?
Submitted by The BlueTie.
Eight ducks and one cow you were given from a freind who farms downwind form Chernobyl.
Sen Obama supports continued Affirmative Action programs and said:
The following is an outstanding Affirmative Action article.And race is still a factor in our society. And I think that for universities and other institutions to say, you know, we’re going to take into account the hardships that somebody has experienced because they’re black or Latino or because they’re women --So I still believe in affirmative action as a means of overcoming both historic and potentially current discrimination . . .
It is amazing that European Americans have not protested loudly about this type of discrimination. In my long corporate career, I saw plenty of Affirmative Action management employees. I was a front line supervisor working on a PhD in Industrial Psychology and I was managed by Affirmative Action managers with only a high school education and an entitlement attitude. Wonders never cease.
In the 40 years that affirmative action programs have operated, millions of deserving white and Asian students have been passed over at competitive schools across the country in order to admit black and Hispanic students with significantly lower standardized admission test scores (usually 200-350 points lower on a 1600-point scale) and lower high school grades (typically a half point lower on a 4-point scale).These affirmative action students often struggle to compete in the classroom, and huge numbers of them simply drop out. Instead of helping black and Hispanic students succeed, affirmative action programs mismatch students and institutions.
According to the Tyndall Report, a service that monitors the three network news broadcasts, ABC, NBC, and CBS have spent a total of 114 of their national airtime minutes covering Obama since June. They've spent 48 minutes on his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain.
And then you have the almost embarrassing way the media have gushed over Obama's trip to the Middle East. There were 200 requests for the 40 press seats available on Obama's plane, and all three top network anchors (Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams) made the trip and are broadcasting live from each country Obama visits.
You can't buy that kind of publicity. And neither could McCain.
McCain made a trip to the Middle East in March and didn't have to worry about finding seats for any network anchors, because none of them wanted to go.
Sen Obama has been given the gift of a lifetime. He is a "Rock Star" and the "Darling" of the Media. The MSM is not embarrassed with their biased reporting. In fact, they will probably take their Obama bias all the way to the general election.
