I have only been by there once in the last few weeks for any amount of time, since the Hillary Bloggers' strike/boycott of the site.

Anyways, I heard that people were cheering that Charlton Heston died, and with little dignity or restraint at the site.

People, grow up. I know that DK has sunk to all-time nadirs as it has been overrun with Obama brownshirt imitators, but that's the kind of thing which gives all blogs and bloggers a bad name.

Charlton Heston marched with Martin Luther King and voted for JFK before he became the 2nd Amendment Moses. Heston also had a long, debilitating bout with Alzheimer's before his death at 84.

Look, I didn't like the guy either. But throwing parties when someone dies makes you look like the Miami refugee community holding parades when they heard that Castro caught a cold.

Have some respect, please. If not for your fellow man, at least for yourselves.

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Here is a post I made over at my brother's site with two videos I shot after seeing Bill Clinton speak in PA about 2.5 weeks ago. The discussion is about Clinton vs Obama. It isn't anything revelatory, but some might enjoy it. I also discuss why I chose the blog name "Universal" (some of you know why) and how that relates to Hillary in the second video:

http://www.villarrealsports.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=349

Hope everyone's having an excellent day.

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet,
8.5 inches.  That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used?  Because that's the way they built them in
England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?  Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then?  Because the people who built the
tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building
wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?  Well, if
they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on
some of the old, long distance roads in England*, because that's the
spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?  Imperial Rome built the first long
distance roads in** Europe (and England) for their legions.  The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?  Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts,
which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon
wheels.  Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.  Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a Specification/Procedure/Process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two warhorses.  (Two horses' asses.)  Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank.  These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's.  The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah.  The engineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.  The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel.  The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

May I suggest that Hillary do a one hour interview on another network? Maybe even with Joe Scarborough who LOVES Hillary and her toughness.:)

She should NEVER agree to do Tweety's show though. Go read Mathews' Monitor.com and you'll see why....or Media Matters has written great pieces about Tweety's misogynist comments about Hillary and many other women he's had on his show.

Politico article

In the days and weeks ahead, the Barack Obama campaign is going to pose a simple question to the undecided voters and undeclared superdelegates who will decide the Democratic nomination for president: If Hillary Clinton can't run a good primary campaign, how is she ever going to run a good campaign against the Republicans?

And while she says she is ready from Day One to be president, she is at something like Day 430 into being a presidential candidate and her campaign seems to be going from bad to worse to train wreck.

Got an email today (from WVa, btw):McCain's story of the Vietnam prisoner who made American flags so his fellow prisoners could say the pledge.  Naturally it was followed by THE picture.  It ended:

Barack Hussein Obama's photo (that's his real name)......the article said he REFUSED TO NOT ONLY PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART DURING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, BUT REFUSED TO SAY THE PLEDGE.....how can a man like this expect to be our next Commander-in-Chief

Obama was at a fundraiser in California the other night and had this to say about his foreign policy experience compared to Clinton and McCain and that he doesn't need a VP with foreign policy experience:

"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-says-no-to-foreign_b_95357.html

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Last night at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Barack Obama took a question on what he's looking for in a running mate. "I would like somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I'm not as expert on," he said, and then he was off and running. "I think a lot of people assume that might be some sort of military thing to make me look more Commander-in-Chief-like. Ironically, this is an area--foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain."

"It's ironic because this is supposedly the place where experience is most needed to be Commander-in-Chief. Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world. This I know. When Senator Clinton brags 'I've met leaders from eighty countries'--I know what those trips are like! I've been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. There's a group of children who do native dance. You meet with the CIA station chief and the embassy and they give you a briefing. You go take a tour of a plant that [with] the assistance of USAID has started something. And then--you go."

"You do that in eighty countries--you don't know those eighty countries. So when I speak about having lived in Indonesia for four years, having family that is impoverished in small villages in Africa--knowing the leaders is not important--what I know is the people. . . ."

"I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college--I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . ."

Link

indy33, mind providing some source for your rambling dissertation? ty

I'm not necessarily a fan of Obama either but do you really think he's out to disenfranchise voters?

the short answer: yes, that's exactly what he's out to do, absent proof to the contrary.

but here's the thing: should sen. obama be the eventual dem. nominee, he will lose in nov. not because clinton supporters won't vote for him, probably most will, as a vote against mccain.

he'll lose because he isn't very good at it, and won't have a fawning media at his back. all of the skeletons in his closet will become perpetually rotating 527 ads, fair or not.

as noted by others, the republican/right-wingnut smear machine could not care less what they are called, it will roll off them like water off a duck's back.

to be blunt, sen. obama has neither the stones or experience to handle it. i've said it before, he'll be a lamb led to slaughter.

should sen. obama be the dem. nominee, the democratic party will have managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of near certain victory.

assuming he IS the nominee and I assume nothing.

Elizabeth Edwards will be joining the Center for American Progress as a senior fellow. "In her new role, Edwards, who has gained a considerable following in the liberal blogosphere thanks to her willingness to vocally oppose conservative politicos from Sen. John McCain to commentator Ann Coulter, will also be contributing to CAP's blog," ThinkProgress.

Once the young girl complained of abuse, the authorities became obligated to investigate.  But taking 400 kids away from their families based on one allegation of abuse?  Sounds kinda nuts doesn't it?

I wouldn't be surprised in the least to learn that alotta bad sh*t is going down in that compound, and to think of kids being mentally/physically/sexually abused on such a scale is downright sickening.  otoh, the state swooping in and breaking up 400 families gives me the creeps too.