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The Night of Obama

Random notes from the big night at Invesco Field: -- Climate Crisis? What happened to Global Warming? I guess with the coolest August in many years, they had to 're-brand' the term. -- End a woman's right to choose? Time for a change! -- Younger voters ALWAYS vote liberal. Grownups vote conservative. Adult liberals just haven't grown up, yet. -- 100 years ago, Al Gore would probably have taken the place of P.T. Barnum. The parallel is astounding. Step right up! -- Hitler and Mussolini thought they were right, didn't they? Talk about moral authority! -- When does John Edwards speak? -- Take our county back? Take it back, or get it back? Back from what? Ever see a child have a visitor come over and the little visitor picks up a toy? Then the child whines and grabs the toy away from the visiting child, then puts it back down because she really didn't want it? She just didn't want the other kid to have it? That is what I think when I see the Dems go on and on a...

Democrats and the "new way of thinking"

No, this isn't about hope or change. In fact, it proves that change is soooooo easy to say, yet so difficult to cause to happen. Today Barak Obama won the Louisana primary, the Virgin Islands caucus and several other states. He is also expected to win the "Chesapeake" primaries of Virginia, Maryland and DC on Tuesday. Why is he expected to win these primaries and most of the South? Because the South has a lot of African-Americans (aka black people.) Hillary is expected to pick up Puerto Rico's primary because she is strong in the 'Latino community'. If I proposed any sort of tendancy toward any 'community', be it African-American, Latino, Gay, TG, Muslim, etc., I would certainly be branded a racist, or at a minimum, a bigot, because I would be putting forth a stereotypical view of a group of people that have one specific item in common. But, here, no one even gives a second thought about everybody in the media lumping 'these people' together. A...