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Planning under way for Obama holiday
This appears to be quite serious....
Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

"Yes We Can" planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald's restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama's honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.

At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will be served at the downtown McDonald's,
to be washed down with Obama kool-aid....or else
....and a celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight Jan. 20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, 420 S.E. 6th.
Bob Hope was right, the 'rats really are like friggin' zombies.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 11/09/2008 05:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let them eat cake.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/09/2008 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama Cake: looks like whatever you want it to look like but tastes like a dirt sammich.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/09/2008 6:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Frank, Let's call em...."Bailout Biscuits." Put em in a little green can with black letters, use a P38 to open it. Gotta be dry, very, very dry, no sugar, tasteless.... and crumbly. Very thin, 4-5 per can. Gotta make you want to drink lots and lots of water. Make em so good you can only stand to eat one or two before spreading the wealth passing them around.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/09/2008 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama Cake....any flavor you want it to be, but digesting it will take four long years.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 11/09/2008 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  2037, the Party ordains double bread rations for Obama day.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/09/2008 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Somewhere there's a market for posters with Obama giving everyone the finger.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/09/2008 11:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Let me guess..November 4th. Every Year.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/09/2008 11:57 Comments || Top||

#8  A thought just resurfaced...wasn't Bubba Clinton suppossed to be the "first" black president???
Posted by: WolfDog || 11/09/2008 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  The visuals didn't work.
Posted by: lotp || 11/09/2008 17:38 Comments || Top||

#10  This can't be a serious news article. Tell me it isn't so.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/09/2008 18:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Cult of Personality
Posted by: DMFD || 11/09/2008 20:22 Comments || Top||

#12  WolfDog, Clinton's "racist" now, remember?
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 11/09/2008 22:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
Obama denies Poland missile vow
US President-elect Barack Obama has not given a commitment to go ahead with plans to build part of a US missile defence system in Poland, an aide says.

He was speaking after Polish President Lech Kaczynski's office said a pledge had been made during a phone conversation between the two men.

But Mr Obama's foreign policy adviser, Denis McDonough, denied this. ...
Posted by: ed || 11/09/2008 08:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess he tried to vote present.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/09/2008 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  So much for dithering on ratifying the agreement a couple months back. Actually, there might be a plan that will make some Rantburger's happy, this could be the beginning of the disengagement from NATO. Definite budget saving there.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/09/2008 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  And so it begins.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/09/2008 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Backstabbing an ally that put a TON on the line in order to build a defensive system to rpotect London and Paris.

Way to go dipshits.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/09/2008 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Cripes.

For some reason this Weezer song lyric popped into mind:
If you want to destroy my sweater.
(I don't want to destroy your tank-top.)
Pull this string as I walk away.
(Let's be friends and just walk away.)
Watch me unravel, I'll soon be naked.
(Hate to see you lyin' there in your Superman skivvies.)
Lying on the floor, lying on the floor
I've come undone!.....
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/09/2008 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Why do I see Putin smiling broadly this morning? I fear more "misunderstandings" will be forthcoming.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/09/2008 13:55 Comments || Top||

#7  You know, a present er president-elect should play his cards close to his chest before he is elected. But hey, knock yerself out if you want to. It's not like everybody is watching and listening now, is it?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/09/2008 14:41 Comments || Top||

#8  A misstep with 2 left feet.

And so it begins INDEED.
Posted by: Minister of funny walks || 11/09/2008 15:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Lying sack of $hit.
Posted by: gorb || 11/09/2008 15:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front Economy
Cousin Raila Odinga of Kenya looking forward to bailout.
WASHINGTON – Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga is demanding payback from President-elect Barack Obama for silencing WND staff writer and bestselling author Jerome Corsi, who investigated Obama's links to the authoritarian African official.

Odinga told Kenya's newspaper, The Nation, that he expected Obama's election to provide a windfall of U.S. trade, tourism and investment.

"What we want to see is the expansion of relationships in terms of trade and direct investments," said Odinga. "We want to see more of our products finding markets in the U.S. and expect more direct investments by the Americans in the country."

Odinga made it clear he played a small role in helping Obama win the White House – specifically by detaining Corsi and preventing him from holding a press conference in Kenya to disclose the findings of his investigation.

More of this foolishness at the link.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/09/2008 08:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Get in line behind 6 billion others.
Posted by: ed || 11/09/2008 19:04 Comments || Top||


New York To Toll All East River Bridges
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is swimming in a sea of red ink and sources tell CBS 2 HD drivers in the city might not like the bailout plan.

Nearly half a million cars go back and forth over the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and 59th Street bridges every day for free. Some people think that's not right. "We already have tolls at the Battery Tunnel, Midtown Tunnel, the Triborough Bridge let's put pricing on all of the crossings in between," said Sam Schwartz, one of the leading transportation engineers in the country.

Guess what? State and city officials now seem to agree. Sources tell CBS 2 HD that putting tolls on some or all of the East River bridges is part of the bailout plan being considered for the MTA. "People coming into the city should be paying for some of the service they get," Schwartz said.

Tolling all four bridges may be a heavy lift for Mayor Michael Bloomberg right now, which is why it's possible tolls could be put on just two.

Another option is to have tolls only during morning and evening rush hours.

Sources say putting tolls on all four spans could raise almost $1 billion for mass transit. "That's crazy," said Alex Shaw of the Bronx. "We're taxed enough. They've got to get the money from someplace else. Stop putting it on the motorists."
Posted by: Fred || 11/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The good thing about a plan like this is that many of the people who cross the bridges every day are not residents of NY city. They don't vote for the Mayor or city council. So they can be pissed off as much as they want, and it won't hurt the NYC politicians at all. It's a win-win (for the NYC pols, that is.) Maybe they should raise the tolls until people stop coming into the city. That would ease congestion, pollution and global warming. Of course, that would ruin the economy of NYC, but you can't make an omelet without breaking a few golden eggs.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/09/2008 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Traffic jams? Nah...maybe they can raise money selling pitchforks and torches?
Posted by: Muggsy Glink || 11/09/2008 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I would imagine the more tolls collected the slower the traffic & the longer the backups.
It would be easier to tax commuters for parking in NYC, $5-10 an hour would do.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/09/2008 3:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Let everyone travel free, but Nationalize confiscate the polluting car titles and auction them off in two year intervals until all the polluters are gone. The sell gummit green hybrid "People's Lada Cars" at extreme prices and high gummit interest until everyone uses public trans.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/09/2008 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Quagmire!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/09/2008 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

-- Taxman, The Beatles
Posted by: SteveS || 11/09/2008 10:52 Comments || Top||

#7  I know this may be heresy in some of our more progressive and enlightened enlaves, but how about cutting spending?

Just mandate going back to spending levels of 5 yrs ago, and I bet that deficit clears right up.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/09/2008 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Do not ask for whom the bridge tolls
It tolls for thee.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/09/2008 14:38 Comments || Top||

#9  LOL, AP!! :)
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/09/2008 15:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Asking people to pay for services delivered. What a concept. Next thing you know, the FAA will add a tax on airplane tickets to finance improvements in the air traffic control system. Naaah, that'll never happen.
Posted by: Perfesser || 11/09/2008 16:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Perfesser, you already pay local and federal gas/air travel taxes that should pay for maintenance and upgrades to your transportation systems. I suggest you look into where those funds are diverted to. Hint: not there
Posted by: Frank G || 11/09/2008 16:55 Comments || Top||

#12  "People coming into the city should be paying for some of the service they get,"

This Ass Hat has the typical "Manhattan IS the city" attitude common among the city's elite. New York City is composed of FIVE boroughs (Counties to anyone from the outside). Most users of those bridges are NYC residents to begin with. Putting tolls on those bridges would restrict travel within the city.

In simple geographic terms New York City is an archipelago made up almost entirely of islands. The only portion of the city on the mainland is the Bronx. Everything else is on an island. That is why we have so many bridges, tunnels and ferries. The East River bridges provide links between Manhattan and either Brooklyn or Queens both of which are EQUALLY part of New York City.

Brooklyn itself was once the fourth largest city in the US. It could be so again, particularly if it, Queens and Staten Island split off to form their own city (unlikely though that may be).
Posted by: DanNY || 11/09/2008 22:18 Comments || Top||



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  Boomerette hits emergency room west of Baghdad
Sat 2008-11-08
  Mukhlas, Amrozi and Samudra executed
Fri 2008-11-07
  Pak: 13 dead in dronezap
Thu 2008-11-06
  Iran: We can block off Persian Gulf in blink of an eye
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  America Votes. B.O. wins.
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  IAF strike zaps four Gazooks
Mon 2008-11-03
  Sheikh Sharif returns to Somalia
Sun 2008-11-02
  Gilani will complain about drone strikes to US
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  Dronezap kills 15 in Pakistain
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