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. 

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Is Obama a Racist?

His two books seem to indicate that he is a bigot. And the fact that he belonged to a radical black separatist church for 20 years, doesn’t help.

Like I said before, there is no way I could vote for a racist. White or black. Obama acts like he isn’t one, but he leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Like, why is he so quick to accuse others of racism when no one is bringing up his race?

Imagine what would happen if a Republican candidate attended a white separatist church for 20 years, and then claimed he had no idea it was like that. I mean, please. 

The Other Thunderball Theme

A few weeks ago I had a post about the new James Bond theme, which I liked, but some critics called the worst Bond Theme Ever. Reader Brian Swisher said in the comments that he thought Thunderball was the worst. I found this version of the credits with the Alternate theme for Thunderball, Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Dionne Warwick. I like this song, but it would have to sync up better with the credits to work. 

Polls Tightening

Obama’s bump is fading according to two new polls. Zogby and Hotline. So it doesn’t look like Obama has a run away success yet. Far from it. This election will probably be close.

UPDATE: John Zogby says the race too close to call.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

No Depression

I hear people around me talking about how we’re about to enter another great Depression. But I find that fairly absurd. The economic conditions aren’t there yet and this article backs me up.

I definitely think we’re in a recession that may last awhile. Probably a lot longer if Obama gets elected.

I remember when the the 90s rolled around. Comedian Dennis Leary was on MTV saying that the 90s will be like the 60s upside down. Well, the 2000s are reminding me in some ways of the 70s. And I think the decade will close out the way the 70s did, with a stagnant economy and a foolish, inept president who will only serve one term.

Hopefully, I’m wrong. 

Tonight’s Debate Open Thread

What did you think? Who came off the best and the worst. Did Obama fumble around without a teleprompter or did he maintain? Did McCain bring it?

UPDATE: Obama has a lot of explaining to do. Will McCain bring this up on the campaign trail?

29 Days to Hell?

Reeducation camps churning out ideological worshipers. All in a recession with inflation out of control. Shades of the 70s, man. 

Tuesday’s Zen Moment