Friday, October 10, 2008

Cartoon Campaign Ads

One from the Republicans in the 50s

One from the Democrats in 1960

Gee, I wish today’s ads were as cheerful as these. I get sick of all the attack ads. 

Over the Top?

Last nights South Park was pretty funny to me, but I’m used to the shock humor they use. They took it pretty far by having Steven Speilberg and George Lucas as a couple of rapists who keep assaulting their characters, especially Indiana Jones. You can see it here.

Obviously Parker and Stone are fans, and they hate what those two directors have done to their work over the years. They did another episode where they had done even more re-editing of their films and ruined them.

Personally, I enjoyed the last Indiana movie, even though it was full of absurd escapes and dubious CGI (first of all, there are no prairie dogs in Nevada). But apparently, a lot of people really hated it and felt betrayed. If I were Lucas I would listen to my fans and try to stop pissing them off. He seems to be rubbing his lameness in their faces. 

Publishing Deal Announcement

Publisher Weekly has an article up today about the new Humanoids deal with Devil’s Due Publishing. My book TRIGS is listed at the bottom of the article. 

70% of CEOs Prefer McCain

Because they think Obama would be disastrous for business. And you know what that would do to job creation and the economy.

Over 70 percent of CEOs fear an Obama presidency will be a disaster
Chief Executive magazine’s most recent polling of 751 CEOs shows that GOP presidential candidate John McCain is the preferred choice for CEOs. According to the poll, which is featured on the cover of Chief Executive’s most recent issue, by a four-to-one margin, CEOs support Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama. Moreover, 74 percent of the executives say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country.
“The stakes for this presidential election are higher than they’ve ever been in recent memory,” said Edward M. Kopko, CEO and Publisher of Chief Executive magazine. “We’ve been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now. There’s no doubt that reviving the job market will be a top priority for the incoming president. And job creating CEOs repeatedly tell us that McCain’s policies are far more conducive to a more positive employment environment than Obama’s.”

$77 a Barrel

Oil is dropping, the dollar is rising.

I predicted we’d see gas in the $2 range sometime this year. It’s happening later than I thought, but it’s looking more likely all the time. My local gas station has it at $3.50 $3.44 a gallon right now. But gas prices always lag oil prices.

When the stock market settles, as it will, we may see the economy rebound sooner than expected. Just not before the election.

UPDATE: It’s already at $2.80 in Tennesee. 

With Friends Like These

Louis Farrakhan says Obama is the Messiah. No wonder Obama has a messianic complex.

Barack Book

Who needs Facebook, when you can have Barackbook?

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Built By Slaves

Dubai is a fascinating city from afar, but like any city, the closer you get, the uglier some aspects can appear. You may wonder about the work force that builds such a place in so little time. Here’s their story.

Library of Envy

If you like books and an old school Harry Potter vibe, this guy’s library will whet your appetite. 

Acorn Scam

Obama used to be a lawyer and community organizer for ACORN. The community organizer group has been charged with voter fraud many times, and this year will be no different.

Acorn offices were raided in Nevada on Monday and false voter registrations were found. Now some people who worked with them are claiming they’re pulling the same stunts in Ohio.

Two Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up.

Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15” times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.

Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN.

“I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register,” Barkley said. “They’d ask me if I was registered. I’d say yes, and they’d ask me to do it [register] again.

“Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it,” he said.

Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic.

The Dems like to accuse Republicans all the time of voter fraud, but the Dems have been doing it since the Civil War.