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President Obama To Order Pelvic Salute

“I am all about change,” Democratic hopeful Barack Hussein Obama told reporters recently, “and above all, I like to be hip.” Questioned about his well-known disrespect for the flag and repeated failure to place his hand over his heart—as suggested by [i]federal statute–Obama bristled at the suggestion that it was somehow unpatriotic to hold his crotch during the national anthem. “Hey, I don’t need to place no hand over no heart,” he replied. “Frankly, I like to use a modified “Roseanne Barr” method of grabbing the crotch and singing really high during the national anthem…you know, like she did at that baseball game? Anyhow,” he continued, “Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson put their hands over their hearts and look what happened to them…they lost, big time.” People like cool. They don’t even know what I stand for–Hell, neither do I,” he chuckled, “but they think I am cool and that is all that counts these days. Yeah, McCain served his country and was a hero and all that stuff,” he continued, “but he is not cool and that means he is a loser.”

Obama, indicated that, if elected, he would change the law to provide that either placement of the hand over the heart or over the crotch—which he prefers—would be acceptable protocol during the playing of the anthem. “Either I will do it by Executive Order,” he said, “or, since I will be appointing two or three Supreme Court Justices who will interpret the laws any damn way they see fit, voiding that outdated statute should be no problem.”  When asked whether the fact that 80% of all Americans from all walks of life either place their hand over their heart or their hat over their heart during the playing of the national anthem, Obama replied: “Hey, my buddy Billy Ayers stands on the flag, my minister Reverend Jeremiah “Amerikkka” Wright hates the country, my wife ain’t too proud of it either, so what am I supposed to do?  I can’t turn my back on my friends and be someone I am not. I’d look like a damn fool and Farrakhan would call me an Uncle Tom if I saluted the flag. So, I just use the old ‘down low’ salute when the anthem plays. I do not want to look too patriotic or I might lose the Hate America First vote and then where would I be? A loser, like Hillary?  No way, brother!”

          When asked what other changes he might make if elected, Obama indicated that he would favor substituting the words “Under the United Nations” for the words “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, and replacing the traditional handshake between Justices of the Supreme Court at the opening of each session, with “high fives” and head butting.

Question: “What do Jesse Jackson and the Ku Klux Klan have in common?” Answer:

1. They both refer to black men as “n*****s” and 2.  They both want to castrate them. Or, Question: “What is the difference between a Klansman yelling ‘castrate the n****r!’ and Jesse Jackson?”  Answer: The sheet. Recently, the former leader of the civil rights movement–of late a racist charlatan who shakes down corporations for money, fathers illegitimate children and piously buried the “n” word–referred to Barack Obama as a “n****r” and expressed the desire to emasculate Obama by cutting off his testicles.

In so doing, Jesse Jackson has become the philosophical soul brother of that group of knuckle dragging, sheet wearing bigots whose organization had for nearly a hundred years lynched black men–but not before cutting off their private body parts while they screamed in agony–all the while calling them “n*****s.”  The Klan, driven by a fear of the uppity black man, doubts about their own masculinity, and the lofty goal of “preserving the honor of their white women,” [sic] did not just hang black men, but symbolically added insult to injury by cutting off their genitals and distributing them to crowd as souvenirs. So, when Jesse expressed a desire to make Obama sing a few octaves higher, he joined that long, proud tradition of the Klan, which did the same thing for decades.

Jesse must doubt his own masculinity. Or, more likely, he is so mad that his star has descended, so jealous about Obama, and so irrelevant, that–in his despair–he has become the very thing that he used to rail against…a racist bigot.  Racism and hypocrisy, it would seem, know no racial boundaries. And, as in the instant case, they make strange bedfellows.  

I am certain the Klan rejoiced at Jesse’s statements about Obama. Can an honorary membership be in the offing? After all, he talks like them. He might as well join up. Put a sheet on Jesse and you could not tell the difference.

Offshore Drilling–How the Democrats Will Lose the Election

Copyright © 2008 William Kevin Stoos

The Democratic Party is about to shoot itself in the foot and does not even know it.  When it comes to offshore drilling, they are simply on the wrong side of the issue, the wrong side of public sentiment, and the wrong side of history. If they have their way, the price at the pump will continue to climb, our economy will tank and–after President [God help us all] Obama has been in office a year or two and the price at the pump is $6.00 a gallon–even the Democrats will have to concede that we need to pursue all sources of energy–even the oil under our feet which they desperately want us not to tap.  The irrational opposition to tapping our own resources is driven in some measure by the all pervasive Left wing hatred of everything Bush, the uncompromising environmental movement which would have us living in caves and foraging for roots and berries before we tap the bountiful resources off our own shores, and the enemies of this country who just plain want us to fail.

The truth is that we should explore all sources of energy until the time comes that we wean our way off of oil. We cannot afford to go cold turkey–as much as we might like to–until the time comes when we can rely upon renewable sources of energy. Until that day comes we can either: 1. rely on our enemies to supply us with oil and subject ourselves to the whims of countries who may or may not like us, and may or may not continue to supply us; or 2. start relying upon ourselves–as Americans have mostly done for over two centuries now–tap our own resources and shift in time to other means of fueling the economy. That may come some day, but that day has not arrived.

Is offshore drilling a bad thing? Consider this:

1.         Oil rigs can be friendly to the environment and especially wildlife.  Under the “Rigs to Reefs” program, this country has sunk old oil rigs into the ocean for years, providing 2-3 acres of habitat for marine life which does not otherwise exist in the Gulf of Mexico, where there is little structure. Oil rigs both active and retired, provide great cover for marine life and the fishing is better in and around the rigs. This argument will gall the environmentalists to no end, but cannot be refuted.  You will never hear this side of the issue from the Democrats or the intractable environmentalists supporting them.

2.         Oil rigs contribute very little oil pollution–far behind other factors such as, but not limited to: a. Pollution caused by run off from land [i.e., people draining oil down storm sewers, run off from streets, other]; b. pollution from leaking tankers; and c. natural seepage from under the ocean itself.  A report by the National Academies of Science cited in such “conservative”  publications as the New York Times found that pollution from oil rigs accounts for only three percent (3%) of all pollution–far less than other sources. This is a crucial fact that the greenies do not want the public to know and which you will never hear on the news. If you were to listen to the Democrats, you would think that every oil rig leaks oil and that tapping our own resources offshore will unleash millions of tons of oil into otherwise pristine oceans when in fact that is simply untrue. How many oil rigs polluted the Gulf after the meanest storm in history–Katrina?  None.

3.         If we do not drill offshore, our enemies will.  As you may know, that chubby little Fascist Hugo Chavez, Castro, Russia, and China are not our friends. In fact they would love nothing more than to displace us as the world’s remaining superpower since the collapse of the Soviet Union.  They each sit on vast amounts of oil or are cultivating friends and surrogates who do.  They have no qualms about tapping their own resources and they must be amazed that we choose to rely on others to supply the oil that greases our economy and supports our way of life. In fact, they will have no qualms about exploring energy sources anywhere they can.  Indeed, there is nothing to prevent them from drilling off American shores if they chose to do so. Are Americans really prepared allow our enemies to drill off of  our own shores, while we sit around with one hand tied behind our back because Ted Kennedy and company do not want us to tap our own resources? This idea will capture the attention of the American public more than any aspect of this issue. It is more than a theoretical problem and could easily happen given the constraints we are operating under presently. The concept of sending American dollars overseas to pay enemies for our oil (Saudi Arabia being one of our worst enemies and financier of world wide jihad) will hit even closer to home when the public realizes that Chavez, Castro, the Russians and the Chinese [who finance both Chavez and Castro] could easily tap oil reserves off American shores when our own country cannot.  That possibility is and should be unacceptable to the American public.

4.         If we tap our own resources then, in time, the price at the pump will decrease.   There is little chance that drilling off our own shores will produce oil in the short term. It clearly will not. It will take time–assuming we resolve to tap our own resources in the first place–to reap the benefits of exploiting our own resources. However, by doing so, we ensure that we will have future oil supplies (which is anything but certain presently) and we can continue forward with the development of alternative energy sources which everyone–Democrats and Republicans alike–agree on. (Witness Congressman Steve King from Iowa, the resident expert in Washington on alternative sources of energy, and an unapologetic conservative Republican, who is the leader in Congress for the fight to promote and develop all sources of energy in order to preserve our economy and our way of life.) By moving forward with offshore drilling, the mere fact that we are doing so will have an effect on the oil speculators who have driven the cost of oil to record highs and led to the current pain at the pump. After all, they are betting against us; they are predicting the future. They are betting that we will continue to be reliant upon other sources of oil than our own, and they are betting that we will never tap our boundless reserves which lie right under our own shores. If we called their bluff then the future changes and so does the price of oil.

            If we look at this issue in a dispassionate way, then it makes sense to tap our own resources and wean ourselves away from reliance upon foreign countries who are hostile and cannot be counted on to act in our best interests. At the same time, we must continue to pursue every alternative source of energy available to us, just as Congressman Steve King and others are fighting for in Washington.  The answer is not one thing or the other–oil or alternative energy sources. The answer is both. And, the American public wants us to drill. They are not myopic about this issue–as are the Democrats and the rabid environmentalists who value animals and tundra over your family and the welfare of this country.  The American people understand full well that we need to do both things–tap our own oil supplies and pursue every available alternative source of energy.  If we do not, we are doomed as an economy and as a country. That the Democrats do not understand this, endangers our Republic and puts them squarely on the wrong side of this issue.