Friday, February 22, 2019
VENEZUELA WHY?
Thursday, February 21, 2019
First Venezuela, now Nicaragua?
No coincidence there there was no plan. https://www.rt.com/news/452023-john-bolton-nicaragua-ortega-regime-change/
Saturday, February 16, 2019
TRUMP GUN HO DICTATOR THREATS THREATENS US IMPERIALISM?
While Trump and the Republicans were blatantly doing the very much the same thing.
Yes Donald Trump as he took the liberty of declaring a "national emergency" so as to circumvent Congress on the questions of immigration, a border wall, and passing a budget. Yes he was on the fast track towards becoming a full fledged right wing dictator but with 24 hours it seems all establishment fractions have come to some sort of agreement that he was not to be allowed to take that power from him in absence of March on Washington much like Mussolini's march on Rome that brought Mussolini to power.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch (the bitch) McConnell castigating President Obama of the rule of law by a President to circumvent Congress in a democracy (though the US is a bipartisan constitutional dictatorship we we allow that to slide for the moment).
Friday, February 15, 2019
INTERNET IS CLOSING IN ON YOU! Google Plus Abuse
Today Google without consideration perpetuates a long tradition of abuse of in what existed under many companies that no longer exist as they once did (eg Yahoo, Geocities) WHERE ONCE THEY WALK THE EARTH!?
Today the users of Google Plus have been given notice that Google will terminate its Google Plus Services and currently allows their users to down load those posts photos in archive format to their desktops laptops etc. but none the less have not provided for the transfers of all photos and posts to the Google based Blogger acct s. So much for being responsible members of the irresponsible mismanaged Google Corporate team.
I will connect this to my Twitter account https://twitter.com/ularts & Blogspot Blogger acct https://mainstreetexile.blogspot.com
but undoubtedly the American heyday of the internet is over though I was glad to be part of it when it seemingly began in 1988 when I first went online as the geeky libertarian pristine clean waters it was now polluted by the Reactionary Corporate it has become.
As what has become a blessing or a curse.
https://nicolarizzopuntocom.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/the-20-internet-giants-that-rule-the-web-1998-today/
South Carolina Restaurant Refuses To Serve Black Patrons — Denny’s Redux
The firestorm over a restaurant's decision to kick out a group of black patrons because a white woman felt "threatened" brings back memories of the 1990s.
By JOE PATRICE Aug 26, 2013 at 3:16 PM
Late last week, Michael Brown and 24 of his friends and family met at a Charleston, South Carolina restaurant for a farewell party for his cousin. After waiting about two hours for a table, a shift manager at the Wild Wing Cafe told the party to leave. Did I mention these folks were black? Oh, well, they were black. And why weren’t they getting seated?
According to the shift manager, it was because a white patron felt “threatened” by the group, and the manager felt obliged to respect this woman’s delusion by keeping the black diners waiting in the lobby before ultimately kicking them out.
Cue the Chief Justice: “Things have changed in the South.”
Seriously though, so far this ordeal has elicited calls for a boycott, but legal action has been mostly overlooked, which is odd since the story brings back memories of one of the biggest discrimination suits of the last 20 years…
All things considered, the manager was very upfront about the discrimination, which is admirable because pretexts are for the weak:
‘She said there’s a situation where one of our customers feels threatened by your party, so she asked us not to seat you in our section, which totally alarmed all of us because we’re sitting there peaceably for two hours,’ Brown explained to WCSC. ‘Obviously, if we were causing any conflict, we would have been ejected out of the place hours before.’
As Brown and the shift manager were talking, a member of his party began videotaping the conversation, which is when the manager became upset and refused to seat the group.
‘I asked her I want to be clear with you,’ Brown told the station. ‘I said so you’re telling me I have to leave. She said I have a right to deny you service. I said so you’re asking me to leave because you’re upset because he was recording you, after we’ve waited for two hours, and after you’ve already pretty much discriminated on us, and she answered yes.’
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For the record, this is reason no. 378 why libertarianism makes no sense. The manager invoked her free market right to deny service. When confronted with systemic racial animus, libertarians resort to the canard that, barring any legal Jim Crow barrier (as Richard Epstein notes), free markets will not discriminate. But they do. Like here, where someone actually turned down the business of 25 customers to satisfy 1.
A further-going libertarian might suggest that the correct course is to boycott the establishment to force change. That could shake the shift manager’s corporate overlords into action, because no major company would court an economic and public relations nightmare. A boycott is being threatened via social media in this case. How did the company respond?
WCSC-TV reports that a representative at the chain reached out to Brown to apologize and offer a free meal for the group.
The classic TANSTAAFLUYNDAF.[1]
The fact of the matter is that laws need to exist to police discriminatory behavior because the fact that it’s “not rational” fails to solve the problem on its own. Maintaining prejudice is more important to a lot of people than missing out on a few transactions. Enter lawsuits.
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It took a federal civil right action in the 1990s to address a prior spate of behavior like what happened at the Charleston Wild Wing (not to be confused with Buffalo Wild Wings).[2] Stepping into the WABAC machine and returning to the early 1990s, when the Cyrus family was better known for country music than twerking, another restaurant chain — also headquartered in South Carolina — had a pesky discrimination problem of its own:
In one instance, a black Federal judge from Houston and his wife who had been traveling for 18 hours said they were forced to wait at a Denny’s in Yreka, Calif., for almost an hour as white teen-agers taunted them and referred to them as “niggers.”
In another case, six black Secret Service agents assigned to President Clinton’s detail were refused a table at a Denny’s in Annapolis. Md., while their white Secret Service colleagues were seated and served.
For more than three years Denny’s, a subsidiary of Flagstar Companies of Spartanburg, S.C., has been the target of growing complaints that its restaurants segregated blacks or required them to pre-pay or make various payments not required of white patrons.
Deval Patrick, then with the DOJ, spearheaded federal class-action suits and, as a result, Denny’s ended up settling for $54 million. Today, everyone can enjoy a Moon Over My Hammy regardless of race or creed.
Michael Brown may want to reach out to the DOJ, or at least look into getting an attorney of his own. Social media is a powerful tool for organization, but it can’t replace some good ole fashioned litigation when it comes to getting companies to respect the gravity of their obligations to fellow human beings.
Wild Wing Cafe Kicks Out 25 African Americans After White Customer Felt ‘Threatened’: Report [Huffington Post]
25 African-Americans thrown out of South Carolina restaurant after a white woman complained of feeling ‘threatened’ [Daily Mail]
Denny’s Restaurants to Pay $54 Million in Race Bias Suits [New York Times]
[1] There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch unless you’re nakedly discriminated against first.
[2] Speaking of Buffalo Wild Wings, have you ever wondered why they’re called “BW3” even though there’s obviously only two Ws in the name? Well, it used to be Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck, but they dropped the latter delicacy — which was dumb, because Weck is good.
Boycotts, Civil Rights, Denny's, Department of Justice, Deval Patrick, Food, Michael Brown, Minority Issues, Racism, Restaurants, Wild Wing Cafe
https://abovethelaw.com/2013/08/south-carolina-restaurant-refuses-to-serve-black-patrons-dennys-redux
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Syria wants answers from UN over illegal invasions
US Imperialist Wars benefit the Imperialist Powers, Not US NATO ALLIES:
US Allies on the front lines suffer for the sake of wars for oil: War in Vietnam, Wars in the Middle East and Turmoil in Venezuela in what is no benefit to Venezuela, Vietnam, or even Israel:
Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof joins In Question to weigh in on Syria calling for the UN to end US strikes and invasions in the country. Maloof discusses what he expects from Syria’s requests, reports of an Israeli drone firing missiles near a demolished hospital, Syria’s options for retaliation and Trump’s withdrawal plan.
US IMPERIALISM INSTIGATES ANOTHER WAR FOR OIL
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges
Sorry occasionally (often) individuals Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Cornell West as well as RT Democracy Now and NPR and Pacifica Radio make good comments thought NPR has corporate connections via groups like the Ford Foundation and CIA connections through those:
None the less all well and good Chris Hedges from the time he was Middle east Bureau Chief at the NYTimes and attached to NPR and the Christian Science monitor is distinguished as shady.
It is wonderful to have such notable persons Protesting (Protestant???) but most often they detract from what they protest in that their involvement at best is fleeting and opportunist in what they dedicate for the next book publications to be discussed at book signings:
While the causes they support go no where While Mr. Hedges resides in the idyllic Princeton as any middle class suburbanite where all one has to do to grasp Chris Hedges Liberal Bankrupt is to read his books.
That can be summarized with the sarcastic "Capitalism is bad bad bad bad!". To which I respond so then what?
Where most of the comments related to this article are most often written by crypto anti-Marxist right wing douche bags pretending to be what they are not as does most of America USA.
There are pseudo-republicans, pseudo-democrats, pseudo-leftists, pseudo-socialists, pseudo communists, even in a bizarre sense pseudo-capitalists and pseudo-nationalists:
As America wages war, war and more war against the working class, and democratic masses of the world better represented at times by the G-77 than the UN Security Council, the G-8, and G-20. In that the G-77 rebuffed Trump on the US Iranian Atomic Accords by was pointed out by the Iranian representative there noting the US's isolation in the world which reminds me of South African Apartheid more and more. In the International Arena that these US radicals and liberals are exposed for what they are while the western Intelligence uses them as fronts for their foreign intrigues (e.g. Marxist Leninist Party of the Netherlands) where it become difficult to distinguish the left form the real left in western intelligence's psychological war against the people.
The elites “have no credibility left:” An interview with journalist Chris Hedges
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Jeffery Sterling: I WAS LYNCHED BY THE CIA
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Monday, January 05, 2015
Гордость. Pride.
Я не понимаю, по-русски,
Россияне понимают русский,
Китайцы понимают, китайский,
но, возможно, это проще для вас,
говорить, слышать, знать,
Америка, больше денег, чем мозгов,
Америка, больше мозгов, чем слов,
Америка, больше слов, чем кишки,
Америка больше мужества, что право,
Америка больше закон, чем справедливости,
Америка больше справедливости THN гордость,
Америка больше гордости, чем свободы,
Америка больше автомобилей, чем людей,
Америка больше людей, чем жизнь,
Америка больше жизни больше мусора.
но кого это волнует свой бизнес?
как это не мое дело.
Я должен работать, то работа, то работать больше,
когда один день с нетерпением жду мы умираем,
где жизнь находит смысл,
нет гордости, нет суеты, нет надежды,
только вера, мудрость и добрую волю,
Russians understand Russian,
Chinese understand Chinese,
but maybe it is easier for you,
to speak, to hear, to know,
America, more money than brains,
America, more brains than words,
America, more words than guts,
America more guts that law,
America more law than justice,
America more justice thn pride,
America more pride than freedom,
America more cars than people,
America more people than life,
America more life more trash.
but who cares its business?
as it is not my business.
I must work, then, work, then work more,
when one day looking forward we die,
where life finds meaning,
there is no pride, no vanity, no hope,
only faith, wisdom, and good will,
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Say No to Legalizing the Torture of Americans
The truth of the matter is in denying that the United States Central Intelligence Agency its agents as representatives of the United States Government and the American illegally tortured people regardless of those people being terrorist, foreign agents, or non-military combatants, the United States Government has opened every American to the threat of capture, torture and death. *** continued on website
Saturday, February 08, 2014
Feds Cover Up Local Police Abuses
In a very strange story that seems to have been changing as we watched and covered by the prestigious Boston Herald, Fox News, CNN, Moscow Times, ABC, New Zealand Herald, WPXI Pittsburgh, Huffington Post, et al et cetera.
The Centre Daily Times wrote that Vladislav Miftakhov "case was initially in state court" but then again strangely "local prosecutors" in a country known for strict law and order prosecutions "said Thursday those charges will be dropped now that federal authorities have filed charges." ***
Sunday, February 02, 2014
Support the Communist Party Vote for Joseph McCarthy!
Vote for Joseph McCarthy!
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America Move your Dumb Ass
Inspired by Chris Hedges' Columns America’s Disappeared Posted on Aug 12, 2013
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REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE DOOMED
I did not originate the phrase “Civil War”,“when I talk about a civil war”, though I expand the scope of its usages as it applies to all political parties in the United States,when when I hear “talk about a civil war ***
Friday, August 17, 2012
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Bill Maher You Can Be A Jerk Also
Atheists,Bill Maher,Bill Maher politically Incorrect,dogmatic religion,hip religious bias and prejudices,humanists,humorists,modern dogmaticsm,modern religious prejudices,political comedians,Political Satire Comedy,Real Time With Bill Maher,religious bigotry,satirists satire,secular,secular bigotry,secular dogmatism,Secular Humanism,the religious right
Saturday, August 04, 2012
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News Corp Anthem Wiretap Transcripts:
Sunday, February 12, 2012
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Poem: It Is Easy To Hate Me by Andrew Stergiou
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Poem: Gang of One Two Four
There is the door it opens and closes
Joey Ramone was a pill popping Moses,
Dee Dee was a freak,
1,2,7,8,3,
FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK,
Don't try fuckin' me,
I have a blade up my sleeves,
balling in the bath room,
pissing on the walls,
the girls pass out,
gagging on their balls,
drink some more beer, baby,
long hair, short hair, skinned alive,
who the fuck cares!
we all fuckin die,
hanging on a back street,
walking to the store,
bumming change from zombies,
"they don't have to share"
4,5,6,9,
get in line, do your time,
grand ma sucks she always lies,
2,7,5,
we all fucking die,
bleeding fingers sliding on guitars,
reverb mother mothers shaking in the halls
3,6,9,
you're fucking blind, you suck you die,
same fucking shit, 69, 74, 2009,
turn up the volume,
turn lights down low,
Fuck you your sex, your drugs and rock and roll,
Fuck your god and religion too,
Fuck your art your business, your words,
Fuck your EMO, Fucked your baby girl too,
Fucked your grandma, Fucked your aunt,
Fuck myself like none of you can.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
Humanitarian Organizations: Demand Nazi Aid?

Humanitarian Organizations:
Demand Nazi Aid?
by Andrew Stergiou Thursday, January 22, 2009
Aid the Children? Christian Aid? World Aid? Nazi Aid?
The battles are raging, the rockets and cannons are firing, all forces military and civilian have been mobilized and Clara Barton can't wait for the battle to stop for her to rush out onto the battle field to attend to the wounded. These photos depict worlds at war, war that were created by those who fought them but my those who refused to fight them.
During World War Two, America good fight against fascism, and the Russian Peoples Great Patriotic War again invading fascist hordes, during Great Britain's finest hour in the Battle for Britain there were many who were not Nazis who sided with the Nazis in Ireland, Burma and India amongst others for twisted and perverse reasons that one can only determine as founded in hate. As I neither love war nor hate it and attempt to balance my perspectives regarding it I am a realist not an idealist, I principled as well as pragmatic unlike many of my left wing colleagues many of which have been tainted by rightwing and anti-Semitic rhetoric. ***
Friday, January 16, 2009
HAMAS HIDES BEHIND WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
GOP Political Bankruptcy
Carefully listening to speakers at the GOP convention with diligence and insight one is reminded every major scandal that has rocked the United States in the last forty years:
From Nixon, to Ford, to Reagan, Bush, GW Bush and John McCain.
One is reminded of the totally empty bankrupt promises of the Republican party, its demagogy, lies and distortions.
From Rudi Giuliani to McCain, Huckabee, Romney, there are no virtues in what for Republicans is an incestuous inside joke in their hate fest of ignorance and jingoism.
The Republican Party has long lost any proper basis of an American political party as they dictate in a one sided manner what is if it were all too serious nothing more than a joke in a travesty that should shame honest Republicans.
One has to ask that since they have so far succeeded based on lies and distortions then they will continue to do so. In hearing from Republican descriptions of doublespeak referring to a “liberal media” one is unsure as to they speak of the media in general or some specific portion of the media. Surely if the refer to the media in general one should wonder which country they are speaking of certainly not of the United States where the media has more and more consolidated under the umbrellas of giant billion dollar media corporations catering to the rich and a that has become corrupt under their leadership from top to bottom.
American Fascism - Police State Exposed
If one want to find a summary of all the pure lies and distortions the American have to endure in their day to day lives all one has to do is to chronicle Republican Party propaganda.
The Republican Party advertisements do not rise to the level of the Nazis of Hitler, nor those of the fascists and Mussolini but in essence perhaps they surpass them .
Where Barrack Obama stated at the Democratic Party convention that he would reduce taxes for 95% of the American people the Republican party advertisements for John McCain stated the complete opposite.
Where the George W Bush administration had come into office with the benefit of the country’s greatest surplus and without a deficit, and through mismanagement created the greatest deficit and had to borrow money from a long list of countries such as the Arabian States, China, Russia, and Mexico:
The John McCain Republican Party advertisements lie in claiming that the Democrats and Barrack Obama would create deficits and tax and spend policies when it is they the Republicans who they are talking about.
In issue after issue John McCain and the Republican Party must be made accountable for their lies and distortions in that they blame the Democrats, for what in actually the Republicans have done and put the nation at risk.
In the reality of the Republican Party, John McCain, and American Fascism and its police state was exposed not by some small cliché of petty bourgeois leftist intellectuals arguing as to exactly is fascism but by the very specific actions of right wingers truncheon batons, stun guns, tear gas, spies, provocateurs, lies and distortions.
Suppressing the protests of the democratic movement in the United States at the Republican Party Convention 2008 in St Paul Minnesota is merely another milestone in the reactionary history of the United State in repression that exists not by words but by very real action within time and space and reality.
Where the Republican Party is the main political party of reaction in the United States on the other hand they have received the generous assistance of the likes of Democrats like Joe Lieberman, and the lackluster acts of perhaps well meaning people like Al Gore, and John Kerry.
Where many of the leftist cliques that exist and control the left today are nothing more than PAPER TIGERS as Mao Tse Tung labeled them the right wing rules by default. Petty bourgeois intellectuals and their arguments are all well and good if only those were taken out of the physical material reality of time and space and placed solely with the realm of the intellect.
The long time progressive journalist Amy Goodman was thrown to the ground and arrested. Other journalists were arrested, and many people were arrested not for what they did, but preemptively for what they could do.
While the federal intelligence establishment spies online with both live online spies, and by high tech intrusions tapping people electronic online devices, as they like the Chinese security at the 2008 Beijing Olympics turn on devices that their owners shut off so as to tap those devices and more.
In a Tiananmen Square type crack down the St Paul Police
A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN PURPORTED:
“anarchist group known as the RNC Welcoming Committee [supposed] had worked for months on strategies to disrupt the convention. Despite preemptive police searches over the weekend that resulted in six arrests, the group issued a statement Monday saying it was "moving forward with a national call to crash the convention."
But in reality the Republican party delegates and convention were said no to have been effected and such “anarchists” acted merely as provocateurs and dupes of the state.
While for the most Republican Party convention (like the Democratic Party convention) is merely a rubber stamp of an already choreographed script, hopefuls are partying drinking carrying on and yes fornicating within the St Paul, Minneapolis area conventioning while yet another hurricane reminiscent of the GW Bush mismanaged Katrina hurricane disaster threatens the American people and the world is yet in more turmoil.
While purportingly “supporting morality and family values”
“Republican John McCain, whose running mate disclosed that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant”. McCain who “has opposed proposals to spend federal money on teen-pregnancy prevention programs and voted to require poor teen mothers to stay in school or lose their benefits.” Hypocritically McCain supports programs that would of made his running mate an unwed single mother who would also be a high school drop outs on one hand or lacking in their motherly duties and the Republican Party divides and splits hairs on the issues.
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's announcement Monday about her daughter, Bristol, was aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin's youngest son, born in April, was actually her daughter's.”
Sadly the Republican Party does not represent the national interests of the American working class (nor of the American people) but the elite and its minions of dupes who are their slavish servants regardless of the issue, issues or truth of the matter.
Pathetically the Republican Party has acted once again in desperation dishonor and without ethics morality and principle except they jingoistic rhetoric in that they sin as sinners in their immorality 24/7 and then go to church as if supposedly that cleanses them makes them pure and justifies their actions.
They claim to be pro-life and pro-family but supporting the death penalty and policies that are to the detriment of families, working people, single mothers and children alike,
McCAIN McDonalds and ABLE (OBAMA)
John McCain has within hours picked a right wing conservative extremist as his Vice-president running mate one heart beat away from the presidency of the United States. In what is purely a political move to satisfy the Republican party’s very vocal and active right wing he picked the governor of Alaska (one of the most unusual untypical and corrupt states in the United States).
John McCain has made himself the poster boy in an attempt to unite all factions right of center within the Republican Party with all the delusionary pretenses of alleged reformism, his party is heir to the business as usual party as Republicans who have been in control of Washington.
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As Satan himself John McCain has created himself as all things to all people obscured in the rhetoric of Republican Party ads based on distortions of Barack Obama the Democratic Party and certainly the issues.
What the American people need are leadership education and discussion on the issues relating to that alone the Republican party has dismally and sadly failed it is a fast food of form without healthy substance.
For the most part McCain Supporters know relatively little if not nothing about John McCain!
My first windfall related to the 2008 presidential election was when I won $10 from a McCain supporter who wrongly thought McCain had been the governor of Arizona when that was the farthest thing from the truth, and undoubtedly they will say he single handed would of won the pointless war against Vietnam and the Vietnamese if only those weak bleeding heart liberals would of not been communist sympathizers and dupes because of course in their world of propaganda everything is white and black, good and evil.
American politics, religion, and philosophy is shallow for the most part because there is relatively no profit where there is no money and profits to be made.
Many Christians, Catholics, don’t even know their own bibles so as to distinguish good theology from bad, or Protestant biblical verse from Catholic ones.
They can not distinguish “thou shall not kill” from “thou shall not murder” nor actually make sense of it all in the twisted world of an intellect that for the most part stops developing when free public or parochial education ends.
One of my neighborhood postmen insisted that the right to life extended to undeveloped unborn fetuses but not to those fetuses which were born ill prepared for this world and were sentenced to be executed and death by the state.
So he and many say they can not vote for Barack Obama because Obama supports women rights to choose for themselves whether to have an abortion or not, and in that generally the Democratic Party opposes the death penalty.
“The Democratic party platform *** includes one particularly significant change from the platforms adopted by the party conventions of 1992, 1996 and 2000. During the platform-writing process, the drafting committee quietly removed the section of the document that endorsed capital punishment. Thus, for the first time since the 1980s, Democrats will not be campaigning on a pro-death penalty program.” (Published on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 by The Nation No Longer Pushing the Death Penalty
by John Nichols)
Clearly when people can claim to be “Pro-Life” when it regards the narrow religious views of rightist political interests but not when it comes to executions, war, and poverty there is a measure of hypocrisy involved that must be labeled and condemned as such.
McCain (as in Cain and Able) clearly is not a pro-life candidate when he as an Air Force pilot during the US war against Vietnamese people had no qualm at bombing thousands of innocent civilians by the push of a button from his death machine flying at high speed passing the real world at high speed.
What are the main questions related to candidiates?
Am I my brother’s keeper?
Am I providing leadership?
Am I facilitating understanding?
Am I honest?
To all these questions I have to say that John McCain represents the fast food of this year’s 2008 presidential elections of empty calories without substance.
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“He McCain) flew bombing missions as an attack aircraft pilot, but he was not a "fighter pilot." (The error has appeared in numerous other Times articles the past dozen years, most recently on April 9 and on Dec. 15, 2007.)” (Huffington Post, August 12, 2008 10:38 AM, New York Times Revises McCain's Military Record With Correction, Jason Linkins).
“Navy pilot John Sidney McCain III should have never been allowed to graduate from the U.S. Navy flight school. He was a below average student and a lousy pilot. Had his father and grandfather not been famous four star U.S. Navy admirals, McCain III would have never been allowed in the cockpit of a military aircraft.
His father John S. "Junior" McCain was commander of U.S. forces in Europe later becoming commander of American forces in Vietnam while McCain III was being held prisoner of war. McCain III's grandfather John S. McCain, Sr. commanded naval aviation at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
During his relative short stunt on flight status, McCain III lost five U.S. Navy aircraft, four in accidents and one in combat.”
What will he do with the USA as his aircraft?
What sort of Manchurian candidiate is he?
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Little-Known Palin May Be Benefit or Bust for McCain's Campaign
Heidi PrzybylaSat Aug 30, 12:01 AM ET
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's decision to pass up conventional candidates and pick little-known, first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for the Republican ticket may appeal to undecided voters McCain needs to win. It also may blunt McCain's charges that Democrat Barack Obama isn't experienced enough for the White House.
Palin, 44, who wasn't high on conventional-wisdom rankings of potential vice presidential candidates, may soothe social conservatives in her own party and may appeal to some disappointed Hillary Clinton backers. She's younger than Obama, who is 47, and has served less than half of her first term as governor.
``It's either a grand-slam home run or it'll turn out to be a bust,'' said Stu Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report in Washington. The answer will be clear over the next few days, he said.
Palin opposes abortion rights and supports gun ownership, two core Republican issues. She also has no ties to George W. Bush, an advantage as McCain seeks to distance himself from the unpopular president.
Palin, who has a background in energy policy, was elected governor in 2006 by challenging Alaska's Republican leadership and vowing to clean up a government corruption scandal.
``As governor, I've stood up to the old politics as usual, to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the big oil companies, and the good-old-boy network,'' she said at a rally yesterday in Dayton, Ohio, where she was introduced by McCain.
``She's exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics,'' McCain said.
`Off the Table'
Former Senator Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat and leading Obama advocate, said McCain's selection will make it more difficult for the Arizona senator to fault Obama for a lack of experience.
``It takes the whole experience issue off the table,'' Daschle said.
The next few days will be a critical test for Palin as the media and critics dig through her record, said Fordham University political scientist Costas Panagopoulos.
``Palin will face intense scrutiny by the media and by voters who need assurance that she is ready to assume the presidency at a moment's notice, if necessary,'' Panagopoulos said.
McCain's choice was applauded by social conservatives.
``We have a pro-life, pro-family ticket,'' said Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition of America. ``It's going to galvanize conservative evangelicals across the country.''
Skittish About McCain
Abortion foes have been skittish about McCain, who supports stem-cell research and has said he wants to broaden the party's plank on abortion to include exceptions in cases of rape and when the life of the mother is at risk.
Palin is a member of Feminists for Life, a group that works to make health-care and child-care resources available to ``pregnant or parenting students,'' according to the group's Web site.
``All the conservatives are happy, yet she kind of offers a working-class Republican ethos, which we wouldn't have gotten with Mitt Romney,'' said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University in Houston.
McCain's selection of Palin is also aimed at wooing female supporters of Clinton, some of whom have been reluctant to line up behind Obama after a protracted primary battle.
Palin is the second woman to be chosen as a major-party nominee for vice president. The first, then-Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York, was nominated by the Democrats in 1984.
`Glass Ceiling'
``Many Hillary Clinton supporters are desperate to break the glass ceiling for women,'' said Brinkley.
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano said McCain shouldn't assume women will vote Republican just because a female is on the ticket.
``The burden of proof, if anything, is a little bit higher, so I think there is a little miscalculation on that assumption,'' Napolitano said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Conversations with Judy Woodruff.''
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi highlighted Palin's anti-abortion stance.
``She shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies,'' Pelosi said in a statement.
Energy industry groups lauded Palin's selection, saying it reopened the possibility the U.S. could begin allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Record Prices
McCain has said he opposes opening the refuge to drilling, although new emphasis has been placed on domestic oil production as prices reached records this summer. Oil hit a record $147.27 on July 11.
Palin, a former beauty queen, high school basketball star and television sportscaster, began her political career in the 1990s as a city councilwoman and then mayor in her home town of Wasilla. The town's estimated population in 2007 was 9,780, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Considered a rising political star by state Republican leaders, she was appointed in 2003 to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a significant body in the energy-rich state.
Her biggest test may be proving her intellect, said Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at Washington's Brookings Institution.
``Since we all know there's nothing there in terms of national security, does she have the intellectual ability to get up to speed quickly?'' he said. ``We're going to have to get a feel for how smart she is.''
To contact the reporters this story: Heidi Przybyla in Denver at hprzybyla@bloomberg.net .