FLINTSONES FOR FREE SPEECH

I'm not a smoker.

Except for an occasional cigar, usually with very dark tobacco, or just to exercize free speech after I listen to others who are exercizing their free speech, especially when they speak about limiting our freedoms.

I am willing to pay my $100.00 fine if I get caught. I always light it inside as I walk outside, just to piss off my friends who lean towards being Health Nazi's.

So in honor of free speech I am resurrecting the best of free-market advertising:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttoOOOoRI-U



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcdiT3LQaDQ

HUNH? I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION...

Say that to your wife, husband, or whatever significant other that's acceptable in the 21st century, go ahead, I dare ya.

Anyway, I may not have had anything very clever or really stoopid to say for a few months, but I'm only pretending not to pay attention.

Once again, the Bellingham Seven have decided that discussing sanctuary city status is the most important issue since making Bellingham and it's surrounding waters to be a nuclear free zone. Have they prosecuted the local medical establishments yet for their possession and use of some nuclear materials?
How's that Nuke ban been workin' out for ya guys?

It also seems that roundabout 75 folks have decided to run for local political offices, and wouldn't ya know it... almost every one of 'em has stated that Lake Whatcom or water quality is the main or biggest issue to them.
So much for the local business climate...
Well,... since we get to vote at large for all county council seats and city council seats, I'll be voting only for those who want to bring hydroplane races to Lake Whatcom, and open up goose season on the lake.
Once again we can expect every forum and debate to be a collection of questions asking 20 different ways on how much do you care about Lake Whatcom and what will you say to make the phosphorous go away?
I am contemplating starting a betting pool on how many times that feller who lost the mayoral race to say 'B I A 'as a 4 letter word. Just what does Dan-O have against the Bureau of Indian Affairs, anyway?
It will be the first of many betting pools I may or may not start. I don't want to end up like one of my heroes Pete Rose and get Banned from politics for life for betting...
So, until my next post, I'll be sandbaggin' most of it and maybe post from time to time on some of my allies and opponents blogs, except from the ones who have banned me for life (not for betting on politics, but for being a pen name and not a real person...)

WORLD BASEBALL LEAGUE

All presidents, as they retire from service to our great nation adopt pet projects.
Jimmy Carter Built Houses,
Reagan spread goodwill in Asia and Hollywood.

Bush 41 and Clinton go to hurricane infested regions of the world and play golf and panhandle for relief for those who suffer from the devastating effects of Mother Nature.

Well, Bush 43 has determined that International goodwill can best be spread through baseball.

In response to Men's Baseball and Women's Fastpitch being removed from the Olympic Games,
G.W. declared that his post presidency will be dedicated to spreading goodwill through a professional WBL World Baseball League, of which will later become divisions of the MLB.
He will be the Commissioner of the newly formed league.

Many of his cabinet are declaring that want on board. Even former President Carter has asked to be the GM for the team from Lebanon.

One detractor was Dr. Rice, who said that, "Baseball is a girlie game, and I am already considering the position for president...
...of the San Francisco 49er's franchise."

"With Mike Singletary as Head Coach, we should be able to recruit Mike Holmgren, and we can have the Mike and Mike show," Condoleeza added.
(It is noted that Greeny and Golic are going to sue the 49ers for trademark infringement on their ESPN show name. However Dr. Rice, said that they will be brought in to announce with a good enough salary for the boys.)

Meanwhile at an undisclosed location in Dubai, Dick Cheney is rumored to be the GM of the Dubai Merchants, throwing multi-million dollar contracts at players from the Phillies, and recruiting young ballplayers from all over the world before anybody else can. "If it works most of the time for the Steinbrenners, the same model can work for us in Dubai."

In a major surprise, Barney Frank is retiring from the House of Representatives and will be the GM of France's professional ball club the Snails, and was quoted as saying, "with Bill O'Rielly (who just retired from FOX News) we have a good manager, and our new hitting coach, Larry Craig is showing the new hitters how a wide stance is an effective bunting technique..."

Al Gore, former VP of the US, has been appointed to manage the Greenland Baby Seals and says that his talent pool is very good at playing during extreme weather change, but badmouthed the Dubai Merchants by saying that their team is fit for T-ball but not for serious games.

That's the news from the world of the next post presidency.
Maybe tomorrow I'll infiltrate the planning process of the Obama transition team with President -elect Obama's cabinet appointments.




(All facts in this post are verifyable...yeah, right...)

VOTE!!!

VOTE, PLEASE.

ELECTIONEERING

Since everybody else is still electioneering violating all the homes (polling locations) by beaming in their propaganda, and as Space Ghost pointed out to me in the comments of my last post, my home is no longer a polling location, I'll throw my half-penny thought into the mix.

I'll bet my dear collectivist, spread the wealth WOHLFAHRTSSTAAT Party friends won't be surprised by my picks (that I plagiarised from my intellectually superior friend, gk).

And a special congratulations to my daughter for finally becoming my equal.
Is it that I think she is finally as smart as me?
Is it that she believes she's much smarter than me and I R Stoopid?
What has finally put my daughter on equal footing with me as a citizen of the United States of America?
SHE CAST HER FIRST BALLOT!!!
Now get out and cast yours DAMMIT!!!

VOTERS GUIDE
2008 GENERAL ELECTION

Federal Offices:

· President:
- McCain/Palin

· U.S. Congress Dist. #2:
- Rick Bart

State Offices:

· Governor:
- Dino Rossi

· Lt. Governor:
- Maria McCraw

· Secretary of State:
- Sam Reed

· Treasurer:
- Allan Martin

· Auditor:
- Brian Sonntag

· Atty Gen:
- Rob McKenna

· Public Lands:
- Doug Sutherland

· Supt. Of Public Schools:
- Randy Dorn

· Insurance Commissioner:
- Mike Kriedler
-
Whatcom County Offices/Issues:

· State Rep: 42nd Dist:#1
- Doug Ericksen

· State Rep: 42nd Dist:#2
- Jere Hawn

For South Whatcom County:
State Senator: 40th Dist:
- Steve Van Luven

Charter Amendment No. 1
- Vote REJECTED

Public Utility Dist. 1
Commissioner:
- Jeffrey L McClure

State Measures:

· I-985 - Concerns Transportation
- Vote YES

· I-1000-Physician Assisted Suicide
- Vote NO

· I-1029 - Require Long-Term Care Workers to be Certified-
- Vote NO


VOTE MCCAIN/PALIN!


As for 'spreading the wealth' here's a little thought that was drawn somewhere else:

MY SEASON ENDED

Nothing refreshes a man like time away from the confines of civilization.
Last Wednesday my hunting season ended and I now have a magnificent beast hangin' in my barn. For a 4 point coastal blacktail he is rather large and will provide many meals for my family.

So now it is back to the Land of Mundania (civilization).

So now here is my absurd thought for the day.

If it is illegal to electioneer within so many feet of a polling place, does this mean that anybody regardless of political persuasion cannot blog or express our support or opposition to any candidates or initiatives once ballots have been mailed out, since now all of our homes have become polling locations.

Once ballots have been mailed to all of our polling places, is it electioneering to beam television and radio ads into our polling places (homes)???

What about the news media being sent via cables, airwaves and satellites to our polling places (homes), regardless of their biases or lack of biases?

What about the Political Parties, Unions, and other interested folks calling our homes (polling places) reminding us to vote or mailing suggestions on who to vote for...

Just a passing thought...

...And congrats Seahawks on remembering how to win a football game!!!!!

PREPARE TO STANDBY

PREPARE TO STAND BY...

No, really.
Don't stand by...
just prepare to standby...

I am posting from Zeta Reticuli
as I have just stepped through the stargate,
and am taking care of things in the home system.
I will be back through the stargate soon,
but I can't think of anything too clever,
or too stoopid right now.

...I'll leave that up to the rest of you...

YOU ARE NO RUFUS T. FIREFLY!!!

John McCain's upststart opponent
is no Rufus T. Firefly.
However it appears that his collective 'freedoms'
that he believes in from his socialist treatise, 'the audacity of dope'
may very well have been inspired by Rufus T. Firefly,
in my Favorite WAR movie of all time, DUCK SOUP.

You tell me there are no similarities...
go on I dare ya...

"These are the laws of my administration...
No one's allowed to smoke
Or tell a dirty joke
And whistling is forbidden...
If chewing gum is chewed
The chewer is pursued.
And in the hoosegow hidden...
If any form of pleasure is exhibited
Report to me and it will be prohibited.
I'll put my foot down, so shall it be.
This is the land of the free.

The last man nearly ruined this place
He didn't know what to do with it
If you think this country's bad off now
Just wait 'til I get through with it...
The country's taxes must be fixed
And I know what to do with it
If you think you're paying too much now
Just wait 'til I get through with it...
I will not stand for anything
that's crooked or unfair
I'm strictly on the up and up
So everyone beware
If anyone's caught taking graft
And I don't get my share
We stand 'em up against the wall
And pop goes the weasel.
If any man should come between
her husband and his bride
We find out which one she prefers
By letting her decide
If she prefers the other man
The husband steps outside
We stand 'em up against the wall
And pop goes the weasel."

-Rufus T. Firefly, policy song, Duck Soup.


by the way, did I say yet...

MCCAIN/ PALIN 2008!!!

THE SILENT MAJORITY: PART TWO

Sometimes I am down right horrible, and run my own little unsupervised experiments.
Not sure if I should apologize to Sam Taylor for using his site for my experiment to see if I could control the direction of dialogue or send a bill to the Bellingham Herald for my services. (It’s all about me, don’cha know…)
As you know I wrote about this topic somewhat in part one and wanted to know more about the voters who let the rest of us make decisions, and what motivates them to come out and participate. This part of my exploration was to find out if no matter if it was the opponents or McCain Palin, could the topics be used to talk about my candidates and almost get everyone to ignore the other two. I was amazed at what I found.

Part of the problem and the current solution is negative campaigns.
It interests some and turns off some folks.
Negative campaigning has some effect, but quite often not the effect that one would think.
The effect that I wanted to see was if dialogue changed to my candidates, whether it be for or against was irrelevant as whether it was about them.

It appears that there may be something to it. As the news media began to question Sarah Palin’s credentials and experience, it didn’t matter. KOS attacking her and slandering her didn’t matter. Why?

Because it was and Is currently, ALL SARAH ALL THE TIME. What happened in the polls nationwide and in the State of Washington? John McCain took the lead or climbed solidly in the polls.

If the other side talks about Sarah, even though it’s negative so to speak, that’s a good thing. They are talking about Sarah…oh yeah, and John’s ability to have good judgment or John’s stealing centrist voters… but nothing about the other two guys. You’d almost forget they were running for office. The rest of this I posted on Sam’s Taylor’s blog.

This may be the public process,even though online commenting is still in it's infancy for public dialogue.Once this fella that I seldom agree with, described on-line comments like a town hall meeting, where everyone wears ski masks and carries baseball bats. I think that is a pretty good description of what goes on.

Whoever gets elected has a tough job ahead, and most folks have a hard time separating campaigning from legislating (or managing)I make no bones about it. Campaigning is a sport to me. You win some and lose some. I figure that we are competing with our opponents for the coveted title. And that the other side is playing to win as much as I do.The goal is to win the hearts and minds of those who participate not so much.Where this banter gets us is name recognition of our candidates.

With all the page views on Sam's website, I have no delusions that anyone takes me seriously, but I found that we have discussed McCain and Palin almost exclusively.Is it that more people are interested in them already and tune in, or is it that we have gotten them interested in McCain/ Palin and they are now tuning in?

I think that there are two kinds of public dialogue. Once folks are elected, no matter what party they are from, on how to progress forward and solve problems with doing no further harm to us in the process. However, I think that campaigns, as a sporting event, are an us vs. the other guys endeavor. Both sides engage in debate of issues, smear tactics, rah rah cheering, and yet nothing any of us says will be taken into consideration by the big players.

It's not a matter of if but how the folks who vote maybe once or twice every four years are affected by the viewpoints in any forum. Whether it be 'Ski Mask town halls' like this or the negative attack ads by both sides or a serious civil discussion of the issues and debates between the candidates. Those who pay attention to issues will ignore the banter and probably listen to debates. Otherwise it is all about popularity and name recognition. No matter who the thread has been about, the dialogue has turned to discussing McCain and Palin and not the other two guys. Both here and nationally. Whether it is positive or negative about them. It has been ALL about McCain and Palin.

Never take my ignorant word for anything, but take a look at the threads on Sam's recent posts during and since the two Big conventions and look at the news.
Sure, I'm biased and presume that the Media is left leaning and attacks my folks running, But I have to agree with Tim Eyeman. "All press is good press as long as it's about me."

We may not like it, but for many folks who work 40 to 60 hours a week, it comes down to name recognition and who they identify with. This is the public process, but only a part of it, and it is still in its infancy. We are better than this, but intellectual civil dialogue doesn't get as much name recognition out there.

Remember when George H.W. Bush was asked a question about the national debt by an audience member who had friends out of work? He did a great job of describing the technical differences between the deficit and the debt. Great issue discussion and dialogue. (put everyone to sleep, even though he described it perfectly.)

Clinton then made an incredible move. Didn't address the debt or the deficit, but simply went out and told that audience member, "I feel your pain"

GHW Bush had brilliantly boring dialogue, but folks identified with Bill. "one of us, so to speak."Like it or not, that's the public process....so who have we been talking about for Sam's readership?...McCain and Palin.To quote Rowan Atkinson, "I'm in a race. I am winningk!"

Stay tuned for part 3.
Not bad for a megalomaniac with little or no edumacation, and as ignorant as I choose to be. (Even though I got as long winded as Hamster guy…a second time…)

Now that Sarah looks to be the Vice President for the next 8 years, I am now requesting all my readers, friends and enemies alike to start campaigning for Sarah to pick me, Poindexter for her running mate in 2016... yes I would be the first cyber vice president...thank you very much...

THE SILENT MAJORITY: PART ONE

All seriousness aside, I’ve been giving this some thought, again...

More than half of Whatcom County registered voters have decided to let a minority of us decide who they will get to choose from in the General Election in November represent our County In Olympia. These same folks decided to let the same minority decide who will represent them in their respective parties, or who will be a judge.
http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/purl/elections/results/2008/08/19/html

I’ll bet it is similar or worse across the State.
http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/WEI/Results.htm

Who are these minority scoundrels that decide for the rest of the folks in the county?

My guess is that of the registered voters:
The first two groups of voters are probably active and participate in most elections, Generals, Primaries, Bonds, Levies, Off year local Elections, etc.

The first group represents about 35 to 40% of the registered voters.
(The numbers to the left are closer to what I suspect about this county.)
15 to 20% are Solid Republicans
20 to 15% are solid Democrats
This group as a whole probably votes somewhere between 90 to 100% of the time.

The second group
5 to 10% Independents, Libertarians and Greens
These folks probably vote somewhere between 90 to 100% of the time.

Who are these folks that appear to be content at letting people like me decide for them?

This third group of voters, the other 50 to 60% is probably harder to pin down. These folks probably vote in 70 to 80 % of most general elections, but participation may be almost negligible in primaries and bonds and levies.
Sometimes these folks will vote in off year local cycles, but even then in small numbers…most of the time.

The numbers chosen are only for the purpose of illustration. Go to the Secretary of State Website and the County Auditor website for abstracts and precision numbers. If my premise is flawed, I’m thick skinned, what am I missing, or where is it flawed?

If my premise isn’t flawed, then this gives me a chance to explore a few other questions about the silent majority, who quite often, choose not to vote.
Who are they?
What motivates them to vote?
What has been motivating them not to vote?
Do these folks ever come out in large numbers to vote?
Would the outcome be significantly different if they do vote in large numbers?

(Will they support Poindexter for President, 2016…)

SNAKE WAVING

Originally I had planned to go out on a friend's Reefnet gear today, but it looks like maybe Saturday. Might be the final day for the Test catch. I hope that All the rest of the US fishermen get another opener while the fish are showing up this month. Now I remember why I retired from Commercial Fishing.

But instead, I was inspired by Alan Rhodes of the Cascadia Weekly, a fishwrapper of the second magnitude on page 6 of this Link: http://www.cascadiaweekly.com/pdfs/issues/200833.pdf
(Fishwrappers of first magnitude have more black and white and less color. Makes for a much better wrap for fish without the color pictures...)

I decided to try snake waving, not sure what it was, of course I had to ask the smartest person I knew...my wife. That didn't work out so good. I thought that large amounts of tequila was involved, and so were lots of naked women and some Dionysian kind of thing...maybe it was how I asked the question...you know, steak really does work good for my black eyes...(watch out for left handed ladies...)

I also miss the days where I could force my deckhands to work 20 hour days, force my kids into slave labor processing my fish, but you know, if occasionally they lost a finger into the canned goods, I knew that I wouldn't have my health care dictated to me by any State, or worse yet, being told I need health care when I don't want it, or heaven forbid, that I should have to pay for the doctor to sew up my kids,when I could electrical tape the wound for them all by myself...
"Health Care" is really just a code word for impeding Natural Selection... (My "Campaign for Liberty" buddies will never be near as paranoid as I am...Amatuers...)

Did Alice Cooper and Barry Goldwater really party together...or did someone else make that up before I did...?



(Socialism is the enemy of all free men...)

MY OWN GREED AND SELF INTEREST

Lately there is a new group of folks who claim that I have been stating the party line and am only representing the Opinion of the Whatcom County GOP.

This is not the first time that I have been accused of representing someone that I am not.

On several occasions, I opposed the EMS LEVY, the EMS sales tax and the Jail sales tax.
All for the reason is that I believe that public safety should be the first line item in any governmental budget from city to Federal.
I can't count how many complaints my poor fire chief got from other fire chiefs and folks in public insisting that I be muzzled and that I represent the fire service 24 hours a day and should not be allowed the same right to press and free speech that other citizens enjoy...(This is only a little taste of history for illustrating my point.)

Anyway,

I am not a McCain Spokesman, even though I think he is our best choice for a competent Commander in Chief. I am not a spokesman for the National, State or County GOP. Of course I prefer the Reaganesque way of deliberating policies and ideas amongst Republicans and not the Goldwater vs. Rockefeller fights that some folks would like to see the GOP revert back to.

So to prevent any more misunderstandings, here is my disclaimer:

I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MY OWN GREED AND SELF INTEREST AND BY NO MEANS DO I REPRESENT ANY FIRE DISTRICT, YOUTH OR ADULT SPORTS ORGANIZATION, POLITICAL PARTY, CANDIDATE, OR ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION OR BUSINESS INTEREST THAT I MAY BELONG TO.

(Did I leave anything out?...)

PREPARE TO STAND BY...

TODAY'S COLUMN IS ONLY A TEST

IF THIS WAS A REAL COLUMN IT

MIGHT MAKE SENSE...

THEN AGAIN,

IT MIGHT NOT.

<<http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pUtK98dll2QCjdZa5yjHpJA/>>

By the way... How 'bout the Kid?
Ken Griffey Jr. hitting the 600 mark yesterday!
Anyone else remember him here in Bellingham with the Mariners Farm Team?

YES, I'M SUPERDELEGATE, THANKS FOR ASKING...

Superdelegates, they seem to be the great equalizer of the Democrat Party in their fight to maintain their confederacy of fools.

(First off, it appears that both presidential candidates for the Democratics are collectivists who feel that the nanny state should give us the subjects permission to have freedoms instead of understanding that elected officials only have our temporary consent to legislate.)

That being said, I predict that Obama will still have a solid lead going into the Democrat National Convention. But the superfriends like Al, Space Ghost, and Howard (screaming man) Dean will show the party the light and right that which is not what they expected and give their votes to the very "human" Billary. (No, really. She isn't an alien, she is human. Really. She has even had a shot of whiskey, That proves it. Not like Pelosi and Colmes from Fox News, who are aliens...No, Really...)

I still don't get how the party claiming to be the grassroots populist party would have delegates with special voting privileges, wielding the final voice over their rank and file members. As I was told by my schoolmarms growing up, I would have believed that the GOP would have such a system, but it does not. In the GOP, all delegates are created equally and none have superpowers, like the democrat party seems to act like it does.

As the Greek gods were finally overthrown by the mortals, I wonder when the mortals in the Democratic party will step up and overthrow their Democrat deities.

To all my Democrat friends, remember, it's all about Individual Liberty and not collective permissions; it's about one human, one vote, not common human one vote, SUPERDELEGATE, SUPERVOTE! The folks at the GOP are a big tent party, and you are most welcome to attend. Especially you "bitter, church going" democrats. Unless you really believe that Billary's Grampa whittled his own .22 and cabin from George Washington's cherry tree, or however she's telling the stories this week...

(Might as well laugh at yourselves, everyone else is...)

p.s. to all you young Ron Paul supporters, it has been a pleasure to make your acquaintance, we may disagree 20% of the time but if we agree 80% of the time, that's good enough for me.

I'M BAAACK!

So, In Pennsylvania, perennial gunbanner wannabe, Mr. Obama, is now pretending to be a pro hunter and pro personal handgun ownership dude.
I'm not buying it.
This is the same typical Illinois politician type who has called for an all out ban on personal possession, ownership and carry of sidearms for law-abiding citizens.

If he actually gets elected president, will he ban sidearms everywhere in the Union, except Pennsylvania?
Both he and Billary have spoken about being opposed to personal ownership of sidearms for law abiding citizens many times in their own states, but now as they climb out of their Liberal Compounds and into mainstream America, they find that many of us are insulted by such a notion.

When will these guys figure out that more Armed Law Abiding Citizens means fewer recidivistic scum will try to bully the perceived weak, and fewer armed citizens means that these same scum have free reign to bully, terrorize and destroy our peaceable way of life. They do get it... when they campaign and try to pretend that they are one of us. Remember John (that dog don't hunt) Kerry? We didn't buy it then, and we sure won't buy it from a Chicago Daleyite Wannabe president or a Arkansasian Yankees pretend fan either...

The Left has continually accused W of stomping on our Liberties, but I have not experienced it.
And yet at the same time, they want to shred the second Amendment and consider it the only collective government permission right of the Bill of Rights.
Yet our founding fathers considered all 10 Articles Individual Liberties, further restricting the powers of those who legislate with our consent.

So, anybody for Liberty?
Remember, friends: Collectivism is the Enemy of ALL free Men (and Ladies, too!)

NICE TO MEET YOU, FINALLY!!!

What a weekend!
I put a bunch of miles on the bike, met with lots of folks, and had a great weekend.
Saturday I put most of my miles on the bike, but even though Sunday was cloudy, it was still nice. The only rain I got hit with was on my way home Friday evening from Chihuahua's in Ferndale. But so what. Rain is good!

Guess what? I met with Sam Taylor and his wife, and my wife came along for the ride!
That was a pleasant evening. It was nice to actually meet with Sam eyeball to eyeball. His wife is a very nice and classy lady. And of course, the food at Chihuahua's was excellent as always.
I love my good food, beer, and Tequila poppers!

Anyway, Sam has a pretty good sense of humor and we talked about mostly non political non blogging fun stuff, but we did talk about the blogs and politics a little. It's good to meet folks who are involved in politics or report on politics, but who understand that there is so much more to life than politics.

Sam, meeting you and your gracious wife was a great way to start the weekend!
We'll have to do it again sometime!

By the Way, Councilman Conductor Buchanan, Sam knows who I R now...

MY BAD

Hi folks,
I posted what I thought was a great Story before checking out the facts.
K-9 Brutus was a hoax that I should have checked out the facts first.
Not my first Mistake, and I'm sure it won't be my last mistake -Dexter

POLITICAL GRAFFITI

After reading a diatribe by somebody who has taken offense that one of my writers was born with the initials gk, I couldn't believe it. Is this guy serious? It seems so.

I had no idea, that only one person in the entire world wide web is allowed to use his own initials.
Amazing, I learn something new every day. I have had comments to columns written by gk on my site that have emphatically stated that there can only be one gk and the gk who writes for me better find new initials to sign with.

For those of you who may be confused, there are no collectivists who write for me. If you are looking for anti- property rights columns, then you are most definately at the wrong site. This site is not going to appeal to your sensibilities.

If it were not for several e-mails that I recieved about this column on another site, ( A very good one, if I might add; I don't agree with all of their columns, but I do like the idea of the government doing the public's business in public or some such. ) I wouldn't address this topic.
But here goes, No one chooses their birth initials, so if you meet someone who may have your initials, don't be too dissapointed. I would suspect that this is very common.

But I gotta admit, this other fella gave me an inspirational concept: Political Graffiti. Poly-Tagging, I like it!
I think that I shall run with it. My new subheading for my group may very well become:

POLITICAL GRAFFITI

SUPERDELEGATES!!! AWAY!!!!

As Citizen Steve commented on Luke Esser arbitrarily picking delegates, which is untrue, (we use black and white marbles...) I thought that I would muddy the waters a little and ask a question from a point of ignorance.

One of my intellectual Democrat buddies was trying to explain to me that at the Democrat National Committee, there are 795 Super Delegates. My question was what is the difference between a rank and file delegate and a Super Delegate, because all Republican Delegates are created equally?

She told me that these are people in the Democrat party who have been around for a long time and know the ins and outs of how the process works better than the average delegate.I asked if they have Superpowers and that is how they are SUPERDELEGATES!!!?

She called me a smart-ass and explained again how these folks have an intricate knowledge into how the nomination process works, because they have been around in the Democrat(ic) party for a long time. She also scolded me and said to stop calling them the Democrat Party as she finds it offensive. The are the DemocratIC Party.

So I'm hoping to understand this correctly.
If, say for instance, that Obama leads by 794 Delegates at the Democrat(ic) National Convention, then these elite Super Delegates can bring all to their senses with their experience and wisdom and nominate Clinton instead?

Educate me, please. Is this what it means to be a Democrat(ic)?

MORE PREDICTIONS

(Guest Writer: gk)

What a wonderfully interesting election season!

A week or so, I commented about a Ron Paul editorial and Dexter was kind enough to post it to his website - (See: http://parkenfarkergroup.blogspot.com/ subj: February 5th primaries)

I predicted that the Florida Primary and perhaps the 5th Feb. 20 plus state primaries were really going to sort the presidential primary races out. Course that's not such big news, everyone is saying that. But I made some specific predictions - back a week ago when all the polls were pointing to Billary and McCain wins in Florida.

Today, Monday, has been an exciting day in Presidential Primaries. Where to start? There have been so many surprising events on this day when the S. Carolina Primary results have been announced - Obama trounced Billary 55.4% to Billary's 26.5% Edward's trailed at 17% ! And McCain won handily with 33.3%, Huckabee, 29.9, Thompson, 15.7 and Romney 15.1% and the rest in single digits including Ron Paul with 3.7%. Sorry Ron Paul folks, those figures are going to continue in Florida and elsewhere! I think Giuliani is going to be a one primary candidate too.

Owing to the fact that Bill Klinton angered most of the Blacks and apparently a lot of other folks with his criticism's of Obama - there was a lot of speculation as to how the demographics of those voting for Obama and Billary would break out. As expected, a lot of the blacks supported Obama, but quite a large number of especially white men voted for Obama. But I guess he soundly defeated Billary, two to one - and with all the various commentator's criticism's Billary is getting about their "tag team's" bringing race into the discussion - I think this might be the end of Billary's presidential bid/campaign. The big Mo (momentum) might have just swung- in South Carolina, and now the liberal D's are coming out of the woodwork that are endorsing Obama all over the place! Caroline Kennedy - who till now, has stayed out of the spotlight and hasn't ever endorsed anyone! And then Ted Kennedy coming on board and endorsing Obama on cable TV this morning. And now I hear that the Democrat Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius who gave the forgettable and poorly given response to Pres. Bush's State of the Union speech, plans to endorse Obama tomorrow! And rumor has it that former Pres. Carter and maybe even Algore are coming on board (the band wagon) and endorsing Obama!

I'll bet Billary and Bill's jaws are stiffer then a woodpecker's lips! And they are seeing their ship of state sinking in front of their incredulous eyes! What to do now? I have long predicted that sooner or later, one of them was going to do something that the MSM couldn't ignore, but I never dreamed it would come this soon, or the form it would take. I expected it was going to be Bill's philandering or Billary's illegal campaign contributions. But for Bill to go out in one or two speeches and with a few ill-chosen racial remarks undoing years of Billary's positioning herself with the black voters? Who are an essential constituency for her to win the presidency. Some of the black voters are even saying now, that if Billary wins the Democratic Primary over Barack Obama, they will vote for whoever the Republican candidate is, rather then vote for her! That's some powerful stuff! You gotta love it! Whoo eee!

Tonite, Obama and Ted Kennedy were sitting side by side, during the State of the Union speech and talking together so intently when the TV camera's were on them, I expected them to kiss and hold hands! And whenever the TV panned over to Billary, she had a prune faced look on her face that would have frozen water! You gotta love it. One smart aleck announcer said he thought Obama and Kennedy came into the House Chamber holding hands! Not true, but trying to make a point!

One of those mixed D & R panels that trace the speeches with sqwiggly lines, were informally polled and asked - in view of the severe media and black commentator's reaction to Bill Klinton's comments about Obama being a one dimensional candidate who only appeals to black voters, and therefore couldn't win the presidential election, while Billary could, -- what the Billary/Bill tag team ought to do now? Most of the panelists (both party's) said, Bill ought to take a long vacation! Al Sharpton was even more blunt - saying Bill ought to shut up! That he has really damaged Billary's campaign playing the race card. So, with only 8 days to go till 5 Feb, if Obama manages to win tomorrows meaningless Florida primary (the Dem's have said they aren't going to honor the Florida Democratic Primary results - because they moved their primary election up without the DNC's permission), he may even add to his momentum going into the big 5 Feb nation-wide 20 states primaries. And Billary is frantically trying to come up with a strategy to regain her momentum, with only 8 days to do something.

Some are predicting she will now play the Hispanic card - trying to appeal to the Hispanic voters - perhaps in Calif? to replace those black voters she expects to lose to Obama. We'll see.

So, it's late and I have to go to bed, but before I do, I will further add to my previous prediction where I stated I thought Romney was going to win Florida in a squeaker. (Now Johnny come lately - Newt on TV tonite also said the same thing - I predicted that last week, when McCain still had a big polling lead).

I am further predicting, whomever wins Florida tomorrow on both sides of the isle, has a very good chance of being the Republican & Democrat Candidates for President - and again, giving you-all even more reason to mock me, if I'm wrong! So I guess I am far enough out on a limb and I will go bed.

One final remark - Dick Morris was on Hannity and Colmes tonite, and was being teased cuz he too, now thinks that Obama has a very serious chance of knocking Billary out of the race. I forget which Hannity or Colmes reminded him that he has for the past year, not only predicted that Billary would win the Presidential nomination, but also the presidency. It's the first time I can recall Morris ever admitting in public that one of his "chiseled-in-granite" predictions seems to be -becoming unchiseled! He is always so sure of every word that comes out of his mouth - it was delicious to watch!

There were other things that happened today with the State of the Union speech, where Pres Bush rubbed the D's nose in the fact that one year ago, all the D's were predicting doom and gloom and failure in Iraq, and the surge won't work, and now apparently it has! Gotta love that too, Pres. Bush couldn't hardly keep his famous smirk off his face when he was saying that! but I'll quit with this - goodnite Irene!

(Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families— Of all the gifts you can give them, PRAYER is the best!) gk