Republican Debate

I'm so sick of the Reagan Myth. Everyone acts like he was the Republican Messiah or something. He was a terrible president who crippled the economy and kicked dirt in the faces of inner cities.

Ray Smuckles for President!

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The 2008 U.S. Election News coverage in China TV stations

In China, CCTV channel 4 is the major international news channel in mandarin. If you live in China, every night from 7:00 to 7:40, CCTV News will be the only program for every CCTV local news channel in China. They complied the news from different CCTV local station as national news program. The idea is similar to every public station use PBS-news program. Sometimes, I feel happy for the people in China that they don't need to watch a lot of unnecessary information from the news channel. Sometimes, the 24-7 news is just too tiresome.
From the CCTV website, I found out the "The 2008 U.S. Election News" is covered pretty constantly (at least once a week) and reported the major transition of every stage of 2008 presidential election.

Going Green - Recyling the State of the Union Addresses

So...I watched five hours of coverage beginning at 8 and ending around 1am last night and from which I've gathered some various bits of wisdom.

1. Obama's endorsement by John F. Kennedy's daughter (and that senator who seems to be of some importance with a similar last name) completely eclipsed dubya's last SotU and that's a good thing.

My thought: Though I wrote this to some length in a comment to Tim's post...this is a good thing. The crazy dem base loves to see Teddy boy in the spotlight and they blindly follow whatever it is they say...as I said...crazy. Regardless, the primary is all about the base being behind a candidate and this is a a start.

2. Bush's speech was just a big up yours to the dems...over and again looking over at them smiling like a pig in sh*t. His executive order saying to ignore congressional earmarks was lesson making the dems stand and clap to something they hate. Whatever...he's a lame duck...someone put him out of his misery. Please.

3. Dem response was very pre-produced but the use of that Kansas governor was a nice touch. I knew that I'd hear 'veepee' as soon as the speech was over and Chris Mathews (HA) didn't disappoint. She's way more presidential looking that Hillary and I liked that. Still the entire speech was an introduction to the new "American Majority" so I guess we'll have to hear that for the coming weeks and months.

Super Tuesday is next week and I'm so damn afraid that Hill-dog will pull out a win that I almost don't want to watch. South Carolina was fun to watch...and Florida (sans the fact it's worthless) should also be interesting.

Keep you eyes to the news. I'll be at the bars Tuesday night. I'm bringing my 'important election lampshade' to wear after Obama pull off a big win.

Oh the campaign stories...

I have noticed this satirical story has been posted by several of my friends on Facebook.

Ridiculous!!!

For those who are not familiar with The Onion, which titles itself, “America’s Finest News Source” I have pulled their brief bio from Wikipedia: “The Onion is a United States-based parody newspaper published weekly in print and daily online. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 710,000^[1] and says 67 percent of its Web site viewers are between 18 and 44 years old.

The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice.

Here’s the link to this story: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/as_obese_population_rises_more

federal state government election in Germany

Last Sunday there was election day in two federal states of Germany: Hesse and Lower-Saxony.
The results were really interesting:

- the conservative party lost tremendously: 12%points of their votes in Hesse and 5.6%points in Lower-Saxony

- in Hesse "The Left"party is in the federal state government (Landtag) for the first time! Usually the left party has more support in Eastern Germany.
In Hesse they got 5.1% of the votes and in Lower-Saxony even 7.1% (+6.6points!)

- "The Liberals" (FDP) in hesse have their best result since 38 years!


The interesting thing now will be the popular game of "coalition-poker"....which party will pair up with whom?!

In Hesse conservatives and democrats have the same number of seats in the Landtag, so to get the majority in decisions that are up for vote they need the votes of the other parties. This can lead to very funny results like the so called "traffic-light-coalition" (red-green-yellow / dem.-green-lib.) or the famous "Jamaica-coalition" (yellow-black-green / lib.-con.-green).

.....well I am excited about which coalitions will develop, because those "people" are deciding important things like the tuition for students in that particular state...

Is Brian Williams a demon?

Ok, you're obviously going to get my typical post here in a bit while I stew a bit...

But for now, did anyone watch MSNBC's coverage after the Dem rebuttal? After interviewing McCain & Obama they brought on the NBC News Team, Brian Williams and Tim Russert (ha). Brian Williams gets the first pretentious monologue but half way through the TV behind his head starts blinking and goes out...then under the audio track is a strange garbled demon sounding voice. It somewhat sounded like an open mic somewhere but it was very hollow sounding - almost like talking through a guitar petal. My friend claimed it sounded like another language but I'm not sold.

Did anyone hear it? Come across any posts online about it? Link me.

More later I suppose...

Immigration

So the other day Glen Beck was ranting about the talks that were going on about illegal immigrants. Apparently the talks were based on laws that will make stricter penalties towards companies who hire illegal workers (if you haven't heard about this i'll just sum it up short version). I guess the Mexican leaders caught wind of these talks and decided to come speak their minds and try to get us not to pass these laws because Mexico relies on the money that the immigrants send back to their families.

I'm not sure how I really feel about this whole situation. I mean, yeah Mexico might be using us ("leaching" is what Beck called it), but honestly what jobs are illegal immigrants taking away from us? I think one of the best jobs they can aspire to is a dishwasher is some restaurant. From a middle class standpoint, I can't think of any instances where an illegal immigrant has affected jobs that I, and many other's are looking for. About the whole money issue though, yeah that kind of upsets me, but you know what. Most of that money that these immigrants are sending home, ends up coming right back to the US anyways. Big tobacco plays a nice role in this matter

Is an endorsement from Ted Kennedy a good thing?

What candidate should you vote for?

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I had some fun with the quiz. The first time I did it, the results showed that, "Mitt Romney shares a 68% similarity with your beliefs." But so did Huckabee and Ron Paul was at 67%.

Maybe when you narrow down the issues, the choices aren't as clear as you think?

Give it a try and see how your numbers add up!


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