In My Humble Opinion.....

I like to check out The Drudge Report daily because it seems to do a great job of collecting some of the most important headlines of the day and the links to them. Sometimes it is great entertainment too.

I was looking at last night. I began to notice the tag lines of some of the news stories; such as BBC POLL: WORLD WANTS OBAMA..., Russians like Putin and Obama, polls find..., 80% in France..., etc.

A few facts about me. I'm not a political blogger. I do happen to prefer McCain/Palin, but I'm not going to campaign on the blog. But something struck me when I saw these headlines. Since I think of myself as an America first person and I read that "...the world wants Obama", "Russians like...Obama..., and "80% in France" prefer Obama; wellll......All of that just SCREAMS that we need McCain. After all, I would think if the Russians want Obama, there must be a problem. After all they wanted Georgia and it didn't seem like Mr. Obama was too concerned.

Just a thought on my part. I hope I didn't offend!

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Retro Saturday, April 5, 2008

Wow, how time flies. It's already Saturday again. Why it seems as if yesterday was Friday. Did you ever stop to think what time did before the advent of the airplane? I'll bet that it moseyed.

I was watching the news last night. It seems that most of what I heard about was Hillary has released her tax information and that John McCain doesn't have Secret Service protection.

(Now get ready! You are about to witness a phenomenal leap.)

With all this election stuff in the news I got to thinking about a show I used to watch when I was but a young lad. The name of the show was Slam Bang Theatre, hosted by Icky Twerp. It aired on Channel 11, KTVT, a then independent station in Fort Worth, TX. So I looked it up and found what I wanted. The perfect Icky Twerp skit about politics. I swear that it could have just happened yesterday, or last week or sometime.

I told you that it was going to be a phenomenal leap.

I don't know what this has to do with anything, but another show I watched when I was but a wee thing was Deputy Dawg. Here is an example of what I watched.

If I grew up in Europe, say The Netherlands or Holland or Germany or some other place in the near vicinity, I might have watched Deputy Dawg and he would have sounded like this.

And you wonder why I am like I am. Remember, this is the sort of stuff I grew up on.

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How Many Are There of You???

I found an interesting web-site yesterday It's called How Many of Me. What it does is use statistical and demographic data from the US Census Bureau.

I did some "research" at the site and found some interesting information. There are 5 of me in the US. I have either 14 or 8 wives, depending upon which name you use; the long or the short respectively. No here is the killer; I have 33 children if you search my son's name and my daughter's name. Wow!

More fun info: There is only 1 Hillary Clinton. Thank goodness for small favors. I searched for Barack Obama. Apparently there isn't one. Well then, who's that guy that seems to be the darling of the media and is planning the decor for the White House? And how about John McCain you ask. There are 449. If you don't like the one running for president you've got 448 others to pick from. There might be a good one in there somewhere.Give it a try. I'll bet you have fun with it just like I did. Oh, while I'm thinking about it, there are some pretty cool tools at the Census Bureau site; such as, Frequently Occurring Surnames, full information from the last census, and information about the next census. Go there sometime and give it a look see.

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Super Tuesday II Is Over And Am I Glad? YES!

Yesterday was Super Tuesday II in Texas. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama racked up the frequent flyer miles. John McCain did a bit of traveling too. All of that time in Texas and it is still too close to call. I'm extremely glad it's over now. I really got tired of the political commercials, Democratic and Republican Party alike.
It was pretty nice before the campaign focused on Texas. Not many commercials. Then they hit! It was time to focus on Texas and the commercials started. It may be my imagination, but it seems like Barack Obama outspent Hillary Clinton on advertising here in my part of Texas. (I live near W's backyard[In a figurative sense].) In fact, Garrett Lewis, host of The Morning Ritual on KWTX-AM mentioned that Hillary Clinton bought time on all of Waco's Clear Channel radio stations, except KWTX- AM. Barack Obama bought time there and apparently a lot of it, because I heard his ads quite often. You know, it's really strange to be listening to Sean Hannity go to a commercial break and then have Barack Obama telling why he should be president.
There a a few things about the campaign that bugs me. First, I think they're a waste of money and certainly do not influence my decision on who to vote for. I also think it's silly when the candidates try to sell us on their positions and then tell us at the end of the commercial that they, ".... approve of this message." Well DUHH!!!! And finally, the one thing that bugs me the most. After spending a rough primary season, the former back-stabbing foes who lose will now begin to endorse the winners. At least some will.
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