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!Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi party with Palestinians!

News from the Los Angeles Times that they have a secret tape has tongues wagging in Tinseltown. Amidst much alcohol and rubber chicken toasts were made to celebrate the placing of Khalidi at Columbia University in New York to carry on the work of Edward Said. Said spent his career telling scholars in the West that everything they thought they knew about the Middle East was wrong and gaining accolades for doing so. Khalidi will continue in that tradition.

My Hollywood connection is excited that after five long years the group has accomplished an even bigger task, getting party guest Barack Obama within a Pali-stone's throw to the White House with the help of the 'hoodwinked' New York and Los Angeles Jewish communities. Steven Spielberg has even been tapped to produce the coronation, um…. inaugural.

At least that's what I heard. Los Angeles Times blogger Tony Pierce has been fighting furiously behind the scenes to get the secret tape released to the public but has been shouted down by the man, I mean, the right wing demagogues.

I truly hope we can get verification of this from the Times in order to squash any rumors that might be coming from FOX News.

Posted by petefredbob at 11:45 AM | Permalink

I promised myself many months ago that I would stop writing about politics after watching John Kerry tell the cameras with a straight face that the Vietnamese didn't really suffer in the re-education camps. After looking that monster in the eye I felt I began to understand what it takes to aspire to power, and it unnerved me.

But the promise didn't last and I started yakking again. And now the latest from Obama.

I actually did look up community organizing- there's even a wiki on it- and it simply amounts to where the socialists and communists and assorted anarchists went to practice their trade. Don't take my word for it.

Today I learn that NBC, CBS, the New York Times and virtually every other mainstream media organ has overlooked that Obama was affiliated with The New Party, documented as recently as 1996. I feel I begin to understand what the term 'collusion' means.

I almost feel detached as I watch my country slip down the rabbit hole. It's even more strange as I watch McCain not get it, and think about the time he spent with Kerry on Vietnam and the POW/MIA issue and imagine the ghostly shadow of a Manchurian Candidate.

It's become apparent that the alcohol isn't working as advertised and I'm going to need something stronger.

Posted by petefredbob at 11:34 AM | Permalink

Cynthia McKinney is the candidate for America's Green Party.

"These 5,000 souls also need some justice too."

I Report: You Decide.

Posted by petefredbob at 01:33 PM | Permalink

If you don't try it you'll never know. And if you fail you pick yourself up and try again.

I try to live by these words having tried plenty of stuff from writing (meh, you be the judge) and sculpting to driving a taxi and a forklift to 3D scanning and rapid prototyping to building a clothing/ shoe store and a bar. And I've just scratched the surface.

I've run businesses in three countries, and though I was successful in putting most of those businesses together to my own satisfaction, only one of them is still operating- and I'm not operating it. All of them failed for one reason or another. I'm looking for my next enterprise, but I'm also buying weekly lottery tickets. This is the state of my frustration.

Though my own writing is short of Pulitzer quality I do enjoy reading the good stuff, and some of the better stuff just went away. Yesterday, on September 30, the New York Sun ceased publication. We are the poorer for it and we won't see its like again anytime soon. It was rather exciting watching them launch and make a go of it, and go they did.

It is small salve that I find myself in good company in failure, but I'll take it.

Posted by petefredbob at 01:21 PM | Permalink

Gwen Ifill, an African-American journalist, is going to be moderating the Vice Presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. The commission is a "nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) corporation that has sponsored all the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004."

"This is something that a lot of people have been thinking about that no one had thought to write about."

The Breakthrough: Politics And Race In The Age Of Obama

The above is the title of a new book coming out in January written by the aforementioned Gwen Ifill, the quote is from the linked video of her talking about her book. The subject is that of a new generation of black political leaders in the United States. And Obama, in case you didn't get that from the title.

What "a lot of people have been thinking about" and not writing about? Well, OK, but does singing count? (Please see previous creepy entry.) Autobiographies?

I'm not going to automatically apply base motives to Ms. Ifill's apparent belief that she can objectively moderate the upcoming debate, but in order to do that I have to believe that she is just plain stupid. It's either that or she thinks that you and I are just plain stupid.

I'm beginning to think that it's door number two, and that she's right.

Roll me over lay me down and do it again.

Posted by petefredbob at 11:04 AM | Permalink