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August 2, 2ôô8
NAVIGATING THE FRINGE STREAM
- LISTING A BIT TO THE LEFT...
"Pierrot's Embrace" by Gillaume Seignac
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BLOGGIN' FOR OBAMA 
RANT, REV - RANT!
The “Celebrity” and “The One” ads from the McCain campaign are fair game in a democratic election process. But I don’t have to like it when these fuckers attack ME. They're mocking the desire of millions of Americans LIKE ME to step up and take ownership of the political process. Beyond the smears and attacks, their candidate has no clear concept of what his presidency would do. Fine. We’ll just have to do better…
Is Obama President? http://isobamapresident.com/
WHAT OBAMA SAID (In Context) Please forward to Media Whore Dana Milbank!
"It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign - that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. This is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”
"My opponent is an honorable man, I admire his service
to our country, but his vision of the future is more of the same.
He's running for George Bush's third term." [Barack Obama]
(Dana Milbank - the Media Whore who half-reported the partial statement without context that was turned against Senator Obama has been BANNED from Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" - where he had been a regularly-featured correspondent.)
Argus Hamilton says: Barack Obama met with economists following his return from Europe, where he met with NATO leaders and helped craft a unified Allied policy for disarming Iran. He's the acting president of the United States. Nature can't stand a void. 
McFAIL: “McCain is the fading celebrity who turned his Vietnam imprisonment into a series of best-selling books, a second marriage to a pretty young beer heiress, a TV bio-pic and a lucrative three-decade career in Congress that led to his current starring role as the GOP nominee for president. So what does his campaign choose as an issue? The popularity of his much younger, more talented political opponent, Barack Obama.”
[AOL Political Machine]
"Three former POWs told me McCain was ordered to turn (his release) down
by his U.S. POW commander and he just followed orders. McCain certainly
doesn't appear to be a war hero by conventional standards, but rather a
tough survivor whose handlers are overplaying the war hero card."'
[the late Col. David Hackworth]
Argus Hamilton reports: John McCain's wife Cindy learned she has a Cuban embargo problem due to the Budweiser takeover by InBev. She owns a Bud distributorship and the Belgian brewery sells in Cuba. Jack Kennedy smoked Cuban cigars in the Oval office despite the trade embargo, but he preferred to think of it as burning their crops to the ground.
John McCain told reporters he supports a proposed Arizona ballot measure that would ban affirmative action policies. That's understandable. He particularly does not like the one saying every forty-fourth U.S. president has to be an African-American. 
Martin Sheen (born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez) (68) is an American actor. He earned recognition for his performances as Captain Willard in the film Apocalypse Now and as President Josiah Bartlet on the long-running television drama series The West Wing.
Ramon was two years ahead of Da Rev @ Chaminade High School in Dayton in the ‘50s. We’ve followed his career from the beginning. I think his baby face let him play teen hoods ‘til he was 40!
Senator Barack Obama is 47. SALUTE!
Ohio Democratic Governor Ted Strickland is 67. SALUTE!
Paul "Moon" Mullins
September 24, 1936 - August 3, 2008
Beloved broadcaster, Paul "Moon" Mullins has passed away at age 71. Da Rev began listening to Moon in '64. I got to "shake & howdy" with him and dropped him a note from time to time. Moon was a true original and true to himself. He had a real ability to draw the listener into his narrative, whether it was a country reminiscence or a sales pitch. I've never seen anyone put the fire into a fiddle like Moon did. He did everything with “gen-yuh-ine” enthusiasm.
The Full Report on Moon
Dr. Fred Bartenstein has collected the "Moonisms" - linguistic anomalies from the master himself
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (89) 1970 Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system. Solzhenitsyn's accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union's slave labor camps riveted his countrymen but earned him 20 years of exile, international renown, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Beginning with the 1962 short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn described the human "meat grinder" that had caught him and millions of other Soviet citizens: arbitrary arrests, often for trifling and absurd reasons, followed by sentences to slave labor camps where cold, starvation, and punishing work crushed inmates physically and spiritually. His Gulag Archipelago trilogy of the '70s shocked readers by describing the savagery of the Soviet state under dictator Josef Stalin but helped to destroy sympathy for the Soviet Union among many leftist intellectuals.
The West offered him shelter and praise, but Solzhenitsyn criticized Western culture for what he considered its weakness and decadence. Despite living in Vermont for 18 years, he returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet regime crumbled. He died of heart failure in Moscow, Russia on August 3, 2008.
Solzhenitzin disliked American consumerism. His strong nationalist views endeared him to President Putin...
Suzanne Tamim (30) Lebanese pop singer and TV actress who rose to fame in the Arab world after winning the top prize on the popular Studio el fan talent show in 1996. After she released two albums and recorded many hit singles, Tamim's career was unexpectedly marred by stories about a troubled private life. She was found stabbed to death, an apparent homicide, in her apartment in Palm Jumeira, Dubai on July 28, 2008.
Jesus is Not My Drug of Choice. [Anon.]
If God Wanted Us All to be Str8, She Wouldn't Have Given us Lesbians. [Anon.] (Variation: "She Wouldn't Have Given Us Ellen.")
"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government." [Lenny Bruce, 1923 - 1966]
“Newton’s 4th Law of Physics: Fat-Bottomed Girls Make The Rockin’ World Go Round.” [Letterman]
“I got ‘er in the short rows now... got it fixed... Hang in there and keep it wrapped up good and warm and don’t worry about it because it ain’t never gonna’ git no better no how…”
[Paul “Moon” Mullins, Appalachian Linguist]
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Welcome to our crib in Metro Fairborn and THE STAND-UP! - It's like the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but with a lot more prancing around.
Here are a few things you should NOT ASK while visiting Beijing this summer.
1. Is this a legit copy of Caddyshack 2?
2. How come I can not find any travel information about the country of Tibet?
3. How come that supermarket has the same Chinese characters as the tatooed name of my boyfriend on my tummy?
4. That was delicious! What was it?
5. Where is the Forbidden City Starbucks?
6. Can I have your political prisoner's liver?
7. Is the Great Mall somewhere around here?
8. Is there a Falun Gong chapter nearby?
9. Is that an egg roll in your state-issued trousers or are you just happy I'm blond?
10. Anything relating to “Chinese Fire Drill” - keep it to yourself…
I think heard this on NPR: a Beijing restaurant owner decided he would put up signage with his restaurant’s name in English. A friend told him of a website where he could just enter the Chinese characters of his restaurant’s name - and the site would provide him the translation in English.
So - if you go to Beijing - during the Olympics - be sure to stop for a meal at the “Translation Generator Server Error”…
Recommended: The Fragrant Pig Organ Soup
The weak U.S. dollar is causing British tourists to flock to Florida. British people have always felt at home in Florida. Mainly because most Florida residents drive on the wrong side of the street.
Toms Lake Humor Co.
According to the Hollywood Reporter: A studio is planning a new version of "The Invisible Man". I've often wondered: When the Invisible Man was a kid - did he have an imaginary friend...??
Hey, when you've seen one invisible man -- you've seen 'em all.
Toms Lake Humor Co.
I’m just wondering - If "Woman's Intuition" works so well - how come there are so many divorces? Toms Lake Humor Co.
I like to participate in polls. I’m a little too OCD to construct a proper poll of my own. There should be 3-4 options available, right? I’m constitutionally unable to establish those kinds of limits on the possible answers. For example:
“When does life begin?”
A: at conception
B: at birth
C: at some stage in the womb
D: I don’t know
E: approximately 4 billion years ago (the cycle of life is unending).
F: after all the kids move out
See what I mean?
TRIVIA QUESTION BartCop Entertainment Page
A non-United States citizen of exceptional merit may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress, or by a proclamation issued by the President pursuant to authorization granted by Congress. As of 2008, how many people have had this honor bestowed upon them?
A: 6
B: 26
C: 56
D: 76
E: 106
Trivia Answer appears below...
STEREOTYPES we find intriguing...
The laws of physics do not apply to the Chinese.
If they wish, Mexicans can return from the dead to form Mariachi bands.
Czech women can reproduce asexually.
The President of Burundi is inflammable.
If you stand perfectly still, Fijians can't see you.
Beninese people turn to gold if you boil them.
TRIVIA ANSWER
A non-United States citizen of exceptional merit may be declared an Honorary Citizen of the United States by an Act of Congress, or by a proclamation issued by the President pursuant to authorization granted by Congress. As of 2008, how many people have had this honor bestowed upon them?
A: 6
B: 26
C: 56
D: 76
E: 106
6 people have had this honor bestowed upon them (only two of them were so honored during their lifetime) -
General Lafayette, a Frenchman who was an officer in the American Revolution, posthumously, (1824, 2002)
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II , (1963)
Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who rescued Jews in the Holocaust, posthumously, (1981)
William Penn, 17th and 18th century proprietor and governor of the American colony of Pennsylvania, posthumously, (1984)
Hannah Callowhill Penn, second wife of William Penn and administrator of Pennsylvania, posthumously, (1984)
Mother Teresa, Albanian Catholic celebrity fundraiser. (1996) 
Paul “Moon” Mullins & Traditional Grass I
Paul “Moon” Mullins & Traditional Grass II
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Wonkette.com says: “Now that the U.S. has worked through the first wave of subprime mortgage defaults, we can all look forward to the inevitable TSUNAMI of prime mortgage defaults.”
From the New York Times
"... While it is difficult to draw precise parallels among various segments of the mortgage market, the arc of the crisis in subprime loans suggests that the problems in the broader market may not peak for another year or two, analysts said.
... Defaults are likely to accelerate because many homeowners’ monthly payments are rising rapidly. The higher bills come as home prices continue to decline and banks tighten their lending standards, making it harder for people to refinance loans or sell their homes. Of particular concern are “alt-A” loans, many of which were made to people with good credit scores without proof of their income or assets.
... 'Subprime was the tip of the iceberg,' said Thomas H. Atteberry, president of First Pacific Advisors, a investment firm in Los Angeles that trades mortgage securities. 'Prime will be far bigger in its impact.' "
Rand Report Utterly Discredits Bush, Leaves McCain Without a Campaign
Comedian Argus Hamilton
NBC's former executive James Walsh admitted that he embezzled one million dollars. The judge ordered him to repay two hundred thousand dollars. Investors were so impressed with the logic that the judge was just named president of Citigroup.
Oliver Stone released a trailer of his new movie about President Bush's wild youth back in the Seventies. The director was meticulous about keeping the movie true to the era and yet fair to the Bush family. The coke dealer is the moral center of the story.
Jake Novak's Humor Blog
AOL Splitoff
TimeWarner is reportedly close to separating AOL's dial-up Internet-access division, from its businesses that don't induce mocking laughter, sadness and nausea.
TimeWarner says it has finished an accounting exercise that will help analysts assign a dollar value to AOL. In a related story, we now understand the concept of "absolute zero."
Olympic Sponsors
Dozens of American businesses, including McDonald's and Coca-Cola, made huge sponsorship deals for the Beijing Olympics. These deals will not only provide funding for the games, but also give anti-Chinese protesters several convient places to demonstrate against the Olympics right here at home.
Liquid on Titan
NASA has confirmed that Saturn's moon Titan has liquid on its surface... Americans don't care unless that liquid is sweet crude.
Olmert Resigning
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced he will step down in about two months. He will resign as soon as his party chooses a successor and the government can figure out a way to trade him to Hizbollah.
Morgan Freeman is recovering from a serious car accident in Mississippi, in which he sustained some broken bones. It’s a good thing he wasn’t Drivin’ Miss Daisy”…
Madonna issued a statement saying her marriage is fine, those rumors about divorce are false. Madonna issued the statement from the locker room of the New York Yankees - where she was showering with the team.
Toms Lake Humor Co.
MORE Jake
Batman Boffo
The Dark Knight is still #1 at the box office and is close to earning $400 million. It's not clear what audiences like best, the action on the screen, or the fact that it's the first Hollywood movie in three years that doesn't lecture them about the environment.
Fast Food Ban
The L.A. city council is expected to ban new fast food restaurants from opening in South Central neighborhoods. It's all part of L.A.'s brilliant, "keep the poor people hungry and unemployed" policy.
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JOANNA KRUPA is SO CUTE!
If cuteness were a magical forest I'd frolic naked inside her with flowers in my hair... just like church camp.
HUNKS FOR THE LADIES
RON JEREMYThree old ladies named Gertrude, Maude, and Tilly were sitting on a park bench having a quiet conversation when a flasher approached from across the park. He came up to the ladies, stood right in front of them, and opened his trench coat. Gertrude immediately had a stroke. Then Maude also had a stroke. But Tilly, being older and more feeble, couldn’t reach that far.
Ma and Pa where rocking on the front porch when Pa turned and slapped Ma. Ma said, "What was that for?" Pa said, "For 40 years of bad sex!" Ma said, "Oh," and continued rocking. Then Ma reached over and slapped Pa. Pa said, "What was that for?" Ma said, "For knowing the difference!"
Mildred was a 93 year-old woman who was particularly despondent over the recent death of her husband, Earl. She decided that she would just kill herself and join him in death. Thinking that it would be best to get it over with quickly, Mildred took out Earl's old Army pistol and made the decision to shoot herself in the heart, since it was so badly broken in the first place. Not wanting to miss the vital organ and become a vegetable and a burden to someone, she called her doctor's office to inquire as to just exactly where the heart was located. "On a woman," the doctor said, "your heart would be just below your left breast." Later that night, Mildred was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to her knee.
Mr. Smith, an old man, resided in a nursing home. One day, he went into the nurses' office and informed Nurse Jones that his penis had died. Nurse Jones, realizing that Mr. Smith was old and somewhat senile, decided to play along with him. "It did? I'm sorry to hear that," she replied. Two days later, Mr. Smith was walking up and down the halls at the nursing home with his penis hanging outside his pants. Nurse Jones saw him and said, "Mr. Smith, I thought you told me your penis died."
"It did," he said. "Today is the viewing."
CINNAMON SKIN - '58 CHEV. IMPALA
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