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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.</feedburner:browserFriendly><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-8834961911109250383</id><published>2008-07-11T22:31:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-11T22:41:41.906-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Iran" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Islamic terrorists" /><title type="text">Iranian missile Photoshop fun!</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/07/attack-of-the-p.html"&gt;Everyone is having a laugh&lt;/a&gt; at Iran's terrorist government trying to cover up their missile launch mistakes with some inept Photoshopping. &lt;a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2043210/posts?page=125#125"&gt;The best one so far&lt;/a&gt; is from is from Free Republic:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SHgZcKWhpSI/AAAAAAAAAM0/8lmNjax6hn0/s1600-h/Iran-missile-launch-with-coyote.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SHgZcKWhpSI/AAAAAAAAAM0/8lmNjax6hn0/s400/Iran-missile-launch-with-coyote.jpg" alt="Iran missile launch with coyote" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221951739541955874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More laughs at both links.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/07/iranian-missile-photoshop-fun.html" title="Iranian missile Photoshop fun!" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/8834961911109250383" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/8834961911109250383" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-3405399409897747895</id><published>2008-07-10T21:26:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T22:06:21.934-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Political Correctness" /><title type="text">Black holes detected in Dallas!</title><content type="html">I guess you really can't make this stuff up. From the &lt;a href="http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html"&gt;Dallas City Hall Blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.&lt;/blockquote&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Wait for it, although the "who is white" should give you a hint:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.&lt;/p&gt;  Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term.&lt;/blockquote&gt;I guess Commissioner Price and Judge Jones have been too busy playing the race card to broaden their rather limited horizons. Speaking of which, all this is from the &lt;a href="http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2008/07/is_black_hole_a.html"&gt;Houston Chronicle's SciGuy Eric Berger&lt;/a&gt; who observes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Judge Jones should be very glad that the central collections office has not become a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole"&gt;white hole&lt;/a&gt;, a theoretical object that ejects matter from beyond its event horizon, rather than sucking it in.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Kind of like Al Gore, I guess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SHa6MQ20NWI/AAAAAAAAAMs/moJm-PMtYCM/s1600-h/gore-white-hole.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SHa6MQ20NWI/AAAAAAAAAMs/moJm-PMtYCM/s400/gore-white-hole.jpg" alt="Al Gore the White Hole" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221565537828746594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update - Sheesh, &lt;a href="http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/07/political_correctness_followup.php"&gt;there's a video of these two geniuses&lt;/a&gt; and one keeps digging with the eructation 'that terms like "devil's food cake" and "black sheep of the family," are also racially insensitive.'</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/07/black-holes-detected-in-dallas.html" title="Black holes detected in Dallas!" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/3405399409897747895" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/3405399409897747895" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-2664582064856538663</id><published>2008-07-04T09:08:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T09:36:45.052-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Patriotism" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="4th of July" /><title type="text">The glorious 4th of July</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SG4hG-FxHKI/AAAAAAAAAMk/-fgkTBk4Bm8/s1600-h/spirit-of-76.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SG4hG-FxHKI/AAAAAAAAAMk/-fgkTBk4Bm8/s400/spirit-of-76.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219145421799103650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;God, please bless the  USA and save its citizens from those who would sell the birthright that the Founding Fathers struggled so hard to win for the favor of foreign despots and the vaporous nostrums of alien ideologies.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/07/glorious-4th-of-july.html" title="The glorious 4th of July" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/2664582064856538663" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/2664582064856538663" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-1850420932833959036</id><published>2008-07-01T01:41:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T01:50:21.758-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ecoweenies" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Harry Reid" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Global Warming" /><title type="text">Harry Reid does Chicken Little</title><content type="html">Check out Harry Reid's entry for the Global Warming "Sky is Falling" contest:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SqR0Ui0g3wI&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SqR0Ui0g3wI&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, &lt;a href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2006/10/must-read-guaranteed-income-generating.html"&gt;ole crooked Harry and his larcenous progeny aren't ecoweenies when it comes to land development deals&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/07/harry-reid-does-chicken-little.html" title="Harry Reid does Chicken Little" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1850420932833959036" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1850420932833959036" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-1279213817420716809</id><published>2008-07-01T01:04:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T01:40:28.040-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hillary Clinton" /><title type="text">Hillary supporters are going to get crankier</title><content type="html">Unconvinced Hillary supporters made their displeasure with the Obamessiah clear at &lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/28/video-three-weeks-later-still-no-unity-in-unity/"&gt;the goofy Obama-Hillary unity fest in Unity, NH&lt;/a&gt; (how cheesy can you get?) and what's more they have taken their quest to the Internet - see &lt;a href="http://justsaynodeal.com/"&gt;Just Say No Deal&lt;/a&gt; and my faves at &lt;a href="http://www.hillaryis44.org/"&gt;Hillaryis44&lt;/a&gt;. In that regard they are &lt;a href="http://bloggasm.com/whos-responsible-for-shutting-down-a-number-of-anti-obama-blogspot-accounts"&gt;accusing Obama supporters of getting Google to flag their comrades' Blogger blogs as spam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, I guess they aren't going to be pleased when they see the new lawn jockey that the Obamas just installed at their Chicago mansion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SGm-7R5GS-I/AAAAAAAAAMc/pF8S9nLSI9c/s1600-h/Hillary-lawn-jockey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SGm-7R5GS-I/AAAAAAAAAMc/pF8S9nLSI9c/s400/Hillary-lawn-jockey.jpg" alt="Obamas Hillary lawn jockey" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217911568909880290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it a rather fetching likeness myself. Maybe Barack will tell us where to buy one?</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/07/hillary-supporters-are-going-to-get.html" title="Hillary supporters are going to get crankier" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1279213817420716809" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1279213817420716809" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-8308167892165018668</id><published>2008-06-30T08:25:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-30T13:08:52.181-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2nd Amendment" /><title type="text">I'm a bitter gun owner and I vote</title><content type="html">As is traditional in recent national election years, it's time for the Democrats to start lying to the American people who would be horrified to know what they are up to when the citizens aren't watching. As &lt;a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=245"&gt;Ann Coulter observed&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It's going to take a lot of "framing" for Democrats to recast Obama's explanation to San Francisco cafe society that gun ownership and a belief in God are the byproducts of a psychological disorder brought on by economic hardship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is an article of faith with the Democrats that they must fool Americans by simulating agreement with normal people. The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American. &lt;/blockquote&gt;While marginally better than Her Thighness, Barack Obama really hasn't done too well in the impersonation department despite his "speechifying skills" (in the presence of a teleprompter, at least), but it is early days yet. As evidence that he is going to give it the old Harvard lawyer try, check out &lt;a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/bang-bang-bambi-gunned-down-on-youtube.html"&gt;his newly revised stand on 2nd Amendment rights&lt;/a&gt; where all of a sudden Barack is all for folks owning handguns for protecting themselves and their families after opposing it for years. Next thing you know he'll be getting shooting lessons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SGg42HPJXZI/AAAAAAAAAMM/fTPOlxT6Nqc/s1600-h/Kerry-shooting-lesson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SGg42HPJXZI/AAAAAAAAAMM/fTPOlxT6Nqc/s400/Kerry-shooting-lesson.jpg" alt="Kerry gives Obama a shooting lesson" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217482670615387538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, gun owners aren't going to believe this new Obama any more than they believed the "new" John Kerry in 2004. Here's a snip from &lt;a href="http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3991"&gt;an NRA assessment of Obama's record&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;On the Second Amendment, Don’t Believe Obama!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The presidential primary season is finally over, and it is now time for gun owners to take a careful look at just where apparent nominee Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment. During the primaries, Obama tried to hide behind vague statements of support for “sportsmen” or unfounded claims of general support for the right to keep and bear arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But his real record, based on votes taken, political associations, and long standing positions, shows that Barack Obama is a serious threat to Second Amendment liberties. Don’t listen to his campaign rhetoric! Look instead to what he has said and done during his entire political career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FACT: Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Click through for more and for the citations. Then head on over to the &lt;a href="http://www.nrailasigns.org/"&gt;NRA-ILA&lt;/a&gt; to get your yard signs and/or to make a contribution:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SGg66wHThRI/AAAAAAAAAMU/3bdoEzTqPaE/s1600-h/bitter-gun-owner.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SGg66wHThRI/AAAAAAAAAMU/3bdoEzTqPaE/s400/bitter-gun-owner.jpg" alt="I am a bitter gun owner and I vote" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217484949331084562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/im-bitter-gun-owner-and-i-vote.html" title="I'm a bitter gun owner and I vote" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/8308167892165018668" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/8308167892165018668" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-576293793999899774</id><published>2008-06-29T19:55:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T20:40:48.382-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wesley Clark" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">Gosh, Weasley Clark is back and Barack Obama has him!</title><content type="html">&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/images/clarkstrangelove.gif" alt="General Wesley Clark" border="0" height="285" width="325" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since he isn't running for President this time around, we haven't seen too much of former &lt;a href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2003/06/bubba-boosts-buttboy-james-jefferson.html"&gt;General Wesley "Weasley" Clark, probably the worst general in modern American history&lt;/a&gt;. I've kind of missed &lt;a href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2004/01/bozo-from-burpelson-over-at-slate.html"&gt;Wesley's delusional rantings&lt;/a&gt; like "President Bush was warned ahead of time about 9/11" and "does not want to find Osama bin Laden," not to mention &lt;a href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2004/01/vast-republican-conspiracy-alert.html"&gt;the Vast Republican Conspiracy against him&lt;/a&gt;, but I'd assumed he was comfortably tucked away in some sinecure by folks who wanted the prestige of employing a former general and weren't too particular about hiring someone who got fired as NATO commander and was a few fries short of a Happy Meal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrong!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It turns out that Weasley is being employed by none other than Barack Obama as a "military affairs" surrogate since Obama can't tell his rifle from his gun and apparently endorses Wesley's bizarre views. Clark appeared in that role this morning on &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Face the Nation&lt;/span&gt;, where &lt;a href="http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/06/wesley_clark_demeans_mccains_m.php"&gt;he mostly demeaned John McCain's military service&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't clear how that improved the Obamessiah's non-existent credentials, but then as John Hawkins observes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="dropcap"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="dropcap"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;f all the "ex-generals" floating around out there,  perhaps the most odious is Wesley Clark. &lt;/blockquote&gt;I wonder if Barack has a cabinet position all lined up for this wingnut?</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/gosh-weasley-clark-is-back-and-barack.html" title="Gosh, Weasley Clark is back and Barack Obama has him!" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/576293793999899774" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/576293793999899774" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-6701605441825477043</id><published>2008-06-28T23:18:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-28T23:28:47.820-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Humor" /><title type="text">Who says the Germans are dull and boring?</title><content type="html">From Berlin, Germany comes &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372782,00.html"&gt;'Manure-Bomb' Thieves Fall Into Dung, Flee Crime Scene Naked&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;strong _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;A woman trying to make "manure bombs" using stockings, slipped into a slurry  tank and fled the scene naked, German police said on Friday.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;Two women entered a farm in the northern  village of Eberholzen on Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings  with manure.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;"One of them slipped into the manure tank,  right into the cow muck," said a spokesman for local police. "The other one  helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off  completely naked, the other in her underwear."&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;Police said it was unclear what the women  had intended to do with the "manure bombs," but added the incident could be  linked to victory celebrations surrounding the Euro 2008 semi-finals on  Wednesday evening, when Germany beat Turkey 3-2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p _extended="true" itxtvisited="1"&gt;I'm a tad puzzled as to why one would fill stockings with manure since I would think they would leak all over the place and I sure wouldn't try to fill them without a ladle. I am similarly bemused by exactly what one does with a "manure bomb" at a victory celebration, but I can think of a few possibilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/who-says-germans-are-dull-and-boring.html" title="Who says the Germans are dull and boring?" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/6701605441825477043" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/6701605441825477043" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-4413120761788028062</id><published>2008-06-16T12:23:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T12:38:57.087-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="James Burge" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Che Guevara" /><title type="text">Friends of Barack Obama: Judge James Burge</title><content type="html">Lorain County (Ohio) Common Pleas &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-10-ohio-lethal-injection_N.htm?csp=34"&gt;Judge James Burge is in the news&lt;/a&gt; for declaring that state's method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in the lethal injection process can cause pain. The judge's whine is breaking my heart, particularly considering who he has on his office wall:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFaUgi8BwPI/AAAAAAAAAME/MBNfpnBlFjY/s1600-h/che-obama-burge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFaUgi8BwPI/AAAAAAAAAME/MBNfpnBlFjY/s400/che-obama-burge.jpg" alt="Judge James Burge supports Obama and Che Guevara" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212516905583231218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess the "revolutionary justice" that Che Guevara dispensed to those who would not toe the Communist line did not cause pain. Of course, it's nice to see more proof from the loon in judge's robes that there is overlap between Che Guevara and Barack Obama supporters. They do have a lot in common.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Via &lt;a href="http://boortz.com/nuze/200806/06162008.html#pictures"&gt;Neal Boortz&lt;/a&gt;)</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/friends-of-barack-obama-judge-james.html" title="Friends of Barack Obama: Judge James Burge" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/4413120761788028062" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/4413120761788028062" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-1048744411669869281</id><published>2008-06-15T11:28:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-15T11:41:36.556-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">Debunking more of those pesky Obama rumors</title><content type="html">(Via &lt;a href="http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/"&gt;Rodger&lt;/a&gt;) Doug Ross does his little bit to help Barack Obama debunk those pesky rumors in &lt;a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-10-barack-obama-smears-you-may-not.html" title="permanent link"&gt;Top 10 Barack Obama smears you might not have heard before.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="1269498563804182788"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Here is #2:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial black,impact;font-size:14;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial black,impact;font-size:14;"  &gt;SMEAR&lt;/span&gt; #2&lt;/b&gt;. Barack Obama still believes in Eliot Spitzer's innocence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(100, 100, 228);font-family:arial black,impact;font-size:14;"  &gt;&lt;b&gt;TRUTH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: Obama simply does not believe engaging a prostitute is cheating so long as "you don't look her in the eye."&lt;/blockquote&gt;There are 9 more of which #1 is my favorite, although I do wonder about who Barry and Father Pfleger saw after drinking shots of Windex (#7).</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/debunking-more-of-those-pesky-obama.html" title="Debunking more of those pesky Obama rumors" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1048744411669869281" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1048744411669869281" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-5549988884447078937</id><published>2008-06-15T10:04:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-15T11:10:24.581-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Raila Odinga" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Islamic terrorists" /><title type="text">Brother says Obama will be a good president for Jews despite his Muslim background</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFUqH6XJVHI/AAAAAAAAALs/U83yAgIPEAE/s1600-h/malik-obama-holds-photo-of-brother-barack.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFUqH6XJVHI/AAAAAAAAALs/U83yAgIPEAE/s400/malik-obama-holds-photo-of-brother-barack.jpg" alt="Malik Obama holds photo of brother Barack" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212118459165004914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barack Obama better get his cleanup squad over to Kenya where &lt;a href="http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm"&gt;his half brother Malik is spoiling his "I never was a Muslim" effort&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt -- contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Jerusalem Post &lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659716936&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull%22" target="_blank"&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt;, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;In a remarkable denial issued last November that &lt;a href="http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/11/12/obama_has_never_been_a_muslim_1.php#obama-not-muslim%22" target="_blank"&gt;still stands&lt;/a&gt; on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For some reason Barry's handlers have been going to great lengths to deny the &lt;a href="http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12917.htm"&gt;extensive and ubiquitous evidence that Barack Hussein was born and raised a Muslim&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="darkgreytext"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Obama was enrolled at his primary schools in Indonesia as a Muslim; he attended the mosque during that period; his friends from that time testify that he was a devout Muslim boy. A former teacher at one of these schools, Tine Hahiyary, remembers a young Obama who was quite religious and actively took part in "mengaji" classes which teach how to read the Koran in Arabic.&lt;/blockquote&gt;One has to wonder why this is such a big deal for Barry - I mean it's very little compared with the antisemites he used to schmooze with down at Trinity United Church where he was picking up the "audacity of hope" hustle. One reason may well be the example of his cousin, the thuggish Raila Odinga:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFUrsVI3F1I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Hse7_EwP1hs/s1600-h/barack+obama+with+raila+odinga.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFUrsVI3F1I/AAAAAAAAAL0/Hse7_EwP1hs/s400/barack+obama+with+raila+odinga.jpg" alt="Barack Obama campaigns for Raila Odinga" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212120184339765074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="darkgreytext"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there is also Obama's troubling support for the Kenyan opposition leader -- and his cousin -- Raila Odinga, the leader of the violent uprising a few months ago against the newly elected Kenyan government and who signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenyan Muslims to turn Kenya into an Islamic state governed by sharia law. At the time, the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya released a statement in which church leaders said Odinga&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;comes across as a presumptive Muslim president bent on forcing Islamic law, religion and culture down the throats of the Kenyan people in total disregard of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of freedom of worship and equal protection of the law for all Kenyans.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the &lt;a class="external" target="_blank" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obama-islam-and.html%20"&gt;Atlas Shrugs&lt;/a&gt; site reported, Obama actually went to Kenya in 2006 and spoke at rallies in support of Odinga, causing the Kenyan government to denounce him as "Raila's stooge". Why was Obama supporting such a person? Why has no-one bothered to find out?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let's see, &lt;a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/97058"&gt;Raila Odinga is East German educated, named his first son after Fidel Castro&lt;/a&gt;, and while he isn't a Muslim either, when his left wing party couldn't gain power in Kenya on its own &lt;a href="http://eakenya.org/newsevents/article.htm?id=8"&gt;he signed the deal with Muslim extremists&lt;/a&gt;. When he still didn't win, Odinga's followers went on a ethnic cleansing rein of terror until he was granted a role in the government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFUtTkZG81I/AAAAAAAAAL8/oKgkDVmY2Zk/s1600-h/murderous-odinga-supporters.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SFUtTkZG81I/AAAAAAAAAL8/oKgkDVmY2Zk/s400/murderous-odinga-supporters.jpg" alt="Murderous odinga supporters" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212121957960971090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gee, I wonder why Barry doesn't want to talk about that? Expect old Malik to be thrown under the bus shortly and I wonder when we'll see Raila over here to campaign for the Obamessiah and give him a few tips?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/brother-says-obama-will-be-good.html" title="Brother says Obama will be a good president for Jews despite his Muslim background" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/5549988884447078937" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/5549988884447078937" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-2353951761930207185</id><published>2008-06-05T14:17:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T14:36:27.874-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="United Nations" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ecoweenies" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Global Warming" /><title type="text">The UN says to use wind-up alarm clocks to reduce global warming</title><content type="html">From the &lt;a href="http://www.globalwarmingnewssite.com/"&gt;Global Warming News Site&lt;/a&gt; comes proof that American taxpayers sure get &lt;a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&amp;amp;sid=aKgeZ3VrFTpE&amp;amp;refer=africa"&gt;full value from all the money we send to the UN&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;People can help slow global warming with minor lifestyle changes such as using wind-up alarm clocks, taking direct flights and replacing aged appliances, a United Nations study found.             &lt;p&gt;Using a spring-driven clock instead of an electric prevents 48 grams (1.7 ounces) of carbon-dioxide emissions daily, while air-drying clothes saves 2.3 kilograms (5.1 pounds) daily, the Nairobi-based &lt;a href="http://www.unep.org/" target="_blank" onmouseover="return escape( popwOpenWebSite( this ))"&gt;UN Environment Program&lt;/a&gt; said today in an e-mailed statement. Jogging in the park rather than on a treadmill at a gym can cut 1 kilogram of carbon dioxide, or CO2, the main pollutant blamed for global warming.     &lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p&gt;People living in wealthy countries emit more than 10 metric tons (11 tons) of CO2 each per year, a figure that must drop to 2 metric tons by 2050 to slow the rate of temperature increases, according to the &lt;a href="http://www.bmu.de/" target="_blank" onmouseover="return escape( popwOpenWebSite( this ))"&gt;German environment ministry&lt;/a&gt;. About half of an individual's carbon output can be eliminated with ``little or no change in comfort,'' the UNEP said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I see there's no word on battery powered dildos which are so vital to the UN lifestyle. Personally, I've got my own plan to do my part on &lt;a href="http://www.carbonbelchday.com/109/pledge.asp"&gt;Carbon Belch Day&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;On June 12, we’re calling on people around the globe to do their part to save the planet by unleashing a healthy Carbon Belch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There’s so much you can do to increase your carbon footprint on Carbon Belch Day -- mow your lawn, go for a drive, gather neighbors for a barbecue (&lt;a href="http://www.carbonbelchday.com/calculator.asp?RID=&amp;amp;PID="&gt;calculate your carbon belch here&lt;/a&gt;). In fact, there’s something for everyone. It’s never been so easy to do your part.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/06/un-says-to-use-wind-up-alarm-clocks-to.html" title="The UN says to use wind-up alarm clocks to reduce global warming" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/2353951761930207185" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/2353951761930207185" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-8645538602545283995</id><published>2008-05-31T23:40:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-01T00:13:31.128-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michelle Obama" /><title type="text">Obama throws his whole church under the bus!</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SEIaeFQbiXI/AAAAAAAAALk/O3q2Lzizk78/s1600-h/barack-tells-michelle-she-is-next.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SEIaeFQbiXI/AAAAAAAAALk/O3q2Lzizk78/s400/barack-tells-michelle-she-is-next.jpg" alt="Barack tells Michele that she is next under the bus" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206753223303203186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama finally decided that his membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ was too much of a political liability and today &lt;a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10724.html"&gt;he tossed them under the bus&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;At a news conference in Aberdeen, S.D., after the news emerged on the blog of a black journalist in Chicago, Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, had notified the church in a letter Friday that they “were withdrawing as members of Trinity,” in part because of “a cultural and a stylistic gap.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That's Obama speak for "they're spoiling my con job by letting everyone see that they're freaking nuts." Actually we only have evidence that &lt;a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/30/greatest-hits-all-of-barack-obamas-men-of-bad-faith/"&gt;the leaders of Trinity United are racist loons&lt;/a&gt;, but if the congregation doesn't share the lunacy, they still sat there and listened to it Sunday after Sunday. Kind of like Barack Obama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, if Barack is cleaning house of moonbat associates who can't keep their mouths shut, how long before Michelle goes under the bus?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-throws-his-whole-church-under-bus.html" title="Obama throws his whole church under the bus!" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/8645538602545283995" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/8645538602545283995" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-387228023864986229</id><published>2008-05-29T20:15:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-29T20:29:58.222-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michael Pfleger" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">Friends of Barack Obama: Michael Pfleger</title><content type="html">Gosh, it's funny how all of Barack Obama's old chums are more than a few fries short of a happy meal. Take &lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0716/p01s01-uspo.htm"&gt;Father Michael Pfleger who has been Barack's pal since the lad first moved to Chicago&lt;/a&gt;, and who until recently had his endorsement of the Obamessiah prominently featured on the Obama campaign web site. &lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/29/pfleger-at-trinity-hillary-cried-after-iowa-because-of-white-entitlement/"&gt;That endorsement just disappeared&lt;/a&gt; and a likely reason is this performance at Obama's own Trinity United Church on May 25, 2008.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_H11x6bMu4Y&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_H11x6bMu4Y&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it's something in the water at Trinity United - everybody there is nuts except for Obama who was asleep and now claims to be "surprised." Sure, we believe ya Barry!</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/friends-of-barack-obama-michael-pfleger.html" title="Friends of Barack Obama: Michael Pfleger" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/387228023864986229" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/387228023864986229" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-7709782742037730426</id><published>2008-05-26T16:29:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T22:20:36.173-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="United Nations" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Global Warming" /><title type="text">Rule No. 1: Never let the United Nations handle money</title><content type="html">Rule No. 2: There are no other rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's case in point - &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/26/climatechange.greenpolitics"&gt;Billions wasted on UN climate programme&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Billions of pounds are being wasted in paying industries in developing countries to reduce climate change emissions, according to two analyses of the UN's carbon offsetting programme.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leading academics and watchdog groups allege that the UN's main offset fund is being routinely abused by chemical, wind, gas and hydro companies who are claiming emission reduction credits for projects that should not qualify. The result is that no genuine pollution cuts are being made, undermining assurances by the UK government and others that carbon markets are dramatically reducing greenhouse gases, the researchers say.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The criticism centres on the UN's clean development mechanism (CDM), an international system established by the Kyoto process that allows rich countries to meet emissions targets by funding clean energy projects in developing nations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually it's kind of funny. The "rich" countries get scammed twice: once by the global warming foolishness and again by UN-sponsored grifters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;A working paper from two senior Stanford University academics examined more than 3,000 projects applying for or already granted up to $10bn of credits from the UN's CDM funds over the next four years, and concluded that the majority should not be considered for assistance. "They would be built anyway," says David Victor, law professor at the Californian university. "It looks like between one and two thirds of all the total CDM offsets do not represent actual emission cuts."&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;"Traders are finding ways of gaining credits that they would never have had before. You will never know accurately, but rich countries are clearly overpaying by a massive amount," said Victor.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;A separate study published this week by US watchdog group International Rivers argues that nearly three quarters of all registered CDM projects were complete at the time of approval, suggesting that CDM money was not needed to finance them.&lt;/blockquote&gt;The UN says they are carefully checking every CDM project and there sure are heap big emissions cuts. Of course, they checked every deal in the Iraq Oil-for-Food program and what they mostly checked was how much money they could stash in their personal bank accounts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of which reminds me of the sole piece of serious legislation that Barack Obama has sponsored in the US Senate - &lt;a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/"&gt;the so-called Global Poverty Act&lt;/a&gt;. Now this isn't the usual goofy plan that just sends more cash directly to the Third World Dictator Lifestyle Enhancement Fund. The Global Poverty Act would require the USA to comply with the United Nations Millennium Declaration and give 0.7% of our GDP from 2002 through 2015 to the UN to supposedly reduce global poverty.  This is all part of the UN's Millennium Project run by former Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs who reckons that the way to screw the required '$845 billion "over and above what the U.S. already spends"' out of the taxpayers is to put a UN  tax on carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Then after the UN handles the cash and subtracts their overhead, they in turn put the remaining loot in the Third World Dictator Lifestyle Enhancement Fund.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturally since it's the UN we're talking about, it's interesting to speculate how much of the loot will actually get sidetracked to the UN Kleptocrats Lifestyle Enhancement Fund. After the UN got burned badly over the Iraq Oil for Food scandal they started requiring public financial disclosure from top bureaucrats so maybe now it's all OK? Bwahahaha - &lt;a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/and_now_for_some_light_comic_r/"&gt;it's a canonical UN farce&lt;/a&gt;: (emphasis mine)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Translation: public disclosure at the UN can consist of signing a statement in which the only information imparted to the public is that you refuse to disclose anything except… your refusal to disclose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;For more detail, Matthew Russell Lee of Inner-City Press has been combing through and among many intriguing discoveries makes the &lt;a href="http://www.innercitypress.com/un2findisclosed012908.html"&gt;excellent observation &lt;/a&gt;that &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;among the 190 UN senior officials urged by Ban to fling themselves under the 10-watt glare of public disclosure described above, less than half were even as forthcoming as, say, Iqbal Riza. They wouldn’t even put their names on the site — or, as Matthew neatly put it, they have “not even consented to disclose their decision to maintain confidentiality.” This group includes — to name just a sampling — &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;UN poverty guru and Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Sachs&lt;/span&gt;; Ban’s special envoy for Burma, Ibrahim Gambari; and UN Controller Warren Sach.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Lest we forget, the purpose of this disclosure exercise, as Ban’s spokesperson &lt;a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/sgsm11387.doc.htm"&gt;announced last week&lt;/a&gt;, is to show that UN staff members “understand the importance” of assuring the rest of us “that in the discharge of their official duties and responsibilities, UN staff members will not be influenced by any consideration associated with his/her private interests.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sure - we believe ya!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's lot's more wrong with the UN Millenium Declaration including banning "small arms and light weapons" and ratifying the International Criminal Court Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty) among others and thereby giving them the force of law in the USA, but the biggest problem has to be that it violates Rule No. 1: Never let the United Nations handle money. However, there actually may now be room for another rule: Never let Barack Obama decide the foreign policy of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/rule-no-1-never-let-united-nations.html" title="Rule No. 1: Never let the United Nations handle money" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/7709782742037730426" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/7709782742037730426" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-6495176612816027488</id><published>2008-05-26T12:52:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T14:15:15.832-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Treason" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="US Military" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Memorial Day" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="James Yee" /><title type="text">Memorial Day Thanks</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SDrr61QbiWI/AAAAAAAAALc/jmBdjM44k5s/s1600-h/US-Military-Stabbed-In-The-Back.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SDrr61QbiWI/AAAAAAAAALc/jmBdjM44k5s/s400/US-Military-Stabbed-In-The-Back.jpg" alt="US Military stabbed in the back by Congress and the Democrat party" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204731715340962146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the incomparable &lt;a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/cartoons.aspx"&gt;Michael Ramirez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today at the Country Store we offer our thanks to all the men and women in the military who have and continue to give their lives defending this country despite the increasing number of traitors stabbing them in the back. The wonder of it is that this nation continues to find such heroes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think, I'm too harsh? Consider &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121138015871010703.html?mod=Best+of+the+Web+Today"&gt;Barack Obama Democrat convention delegate, former Muslim Army James Yee:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="times"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;What kind of man supports Barack Obama? The kind of man who goes  on TV in an Arab country ruled by a hostile authoritarian regime and  participates in propaganda that seems designed to inflame anti-American  sentiment.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="times"&gt;And in particular by accusing his army comrades of crimes he never witnessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/memorial-day-thanks.html" title="Memorial Day Thanks" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/6495176612816027488" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/6495176612816027488" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-1373398967061595486</id><published>2008-05-22T13:28:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T15:29:24.302-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">Polygamist knocks up 17-year old girl!</title><content type="html">No, it's not some goofy religious sect member in Texas, it's &lt;a href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/05/barack-obamas-mom-was-17-when-barack-sr.html"&gt;Barack Obama Sr. who knocked up Barack Obama Jr.'s hippie chick mom before she turned 18&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm being a little unfair since Big Daddy Obama had only one wife at the time he knocked her up and it's never been proved that he actually married Stanley Ann Dunham, so legally polygamy (or at least bigamy) may have had to await his marriage to his third "wife." The Obamessiah's reticence about releasing his birth certificate despite the way it impedes &lt;a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/464/"&gt;attempted debunkings of the rumors that his real name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama&lt;/a&gt; lends credence to the suspicion that it was less a marriage than a shacking up. Or maybe Muhammed actually is one of Barry's middle names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the wackiest thing is that Momma Obama filled little Barry's head with the nobility of the "dreams of his father" and was the ghost writer for his tome on the subject when all evidence indicates that about the only noble thing Big Daddy ever did was leave her his name after the five minutes he spent with her.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/polygamist-knocks-up-17-year-old-girl.html" title="Polygamist knocks up 17-year old girl!" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1373398967061595486" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1373398967061595486" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-3027579565068684034</id><published>2008-05-15T17:35:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T17:46:16.272-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="George W. Bush" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Appeasement" /><title type="text">If it talks like a chicken and squawks like a chicken, maybe it is a chicken</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SCyu_q9fQ8I/AAAAAAAAALU/C59b0vfksh4/s1600-h/Obama-appeaser.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SCyu_q9fQ8I/AAAAAAAAALU/C59b0vfksh4/s400/Obama-appeaser.jpg" alt="Barack Obama the terrorist appeaser" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200724078593262530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDkwODhkY2Q5NzZhYWYwY2I1NDAzN2VjMzMyZTMwMDE="&gt;George Bush spanks appeasers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along . . . We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.&lt;/blockquote&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016507/posts"&gt;Barack Obama gets all huffy&lt;/a&gt;. One of the commenters at the latter link provided the picture  and another observes that maybe Barack will sue for "definition of character".</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/if-it-talks-like-chicken-and-squawks.html" title="If it talks like a chicken and squawks like a chicken, maybe it is a chicken" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/3027579565068684034" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/3027579565068684034" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-4149403439269256952</id><published>2008-05-02T12:56:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-02T13:01:00.309-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jeremiah Wright" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">Obama is Wright</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBtIcF9HlkI/AAAAAAAAALM/PRhQ1uswVs8/s1600-h/Obam+is+Wright.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBtIcF9HlkI/AAAAAAAAALM/PRhQ1uswVs8/s400/Obam+is+Wright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195826242574063170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com/2008/05/political-poster.html"&gt;Are We Lumberjacks&lt;/a&gt; assists Barack Obama in his ongoing process of self definition. Stop by there for a supersized version and more japery.</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-is-wright.html" title="Obama is Wright" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/4149403439269256952" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/4149403439269256952" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-6341397093803495032</id><published>2008-05-01T13:47:00.011-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T14:17:58.929-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jeremiah Wright" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="William Ayers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tony Rezko" /><title type="text">Obama says we should just move on</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBoCeV9HljI/AAAAAAAAALE/S7NvyLDeXEI/s1600-h/ididnothave128539672651093750.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBoCeV9HljI/AAAAAAAAALE/S7NvyLDeXEI/s400/ididnothave128539672651093750.jpg" alt="Obama says he did not have sects with Wright" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195467840438113842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reminiscent of another Democrat pol caught with his pants down, Barack Obama and his chief Marxist dialectician, Michelle, think that us little people &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_el_pr/obama"&gt;should now ignore Barry's long time association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and just move on&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"We hear time and time again voters are tired of this," Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC's "Today" show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"They don't want to hear about this division, they want to know what are we going to do to move beyond these issues," she said. "And what made me feel proud of Barack in this situation is that he is trying to move us as a nation beyond these conversations that divide."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;"I think that this is about all I'm going to say on this issue, and I think we're going to close this chapter and move into the next phase of this election. With that, I'm hoping that we'll talk about something else."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Here's the problem, Barry. If we believe you, you spent twenty years swapping spit with Jeremiah Wright and never noticed  he was a wacko which makes you seem rather less than perceptive, if you know what I mean. On the other hand, if you are lying, then you are a more than few fries short of a Happy Meal too and that makes you damn dangerous. So faced with the question as to whether you are a dullard or a moonbat, us little people are very interested in your ole pal Jeremiah and all your other old chums like William Ayers and Tony Rezko.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'mon Barry, tell us some more about old times. We love to hear about it!</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/05/obama-says-we-should-just-move-on.html" title="Obama says we should just move on" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/6341397093803495032" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/6341397093803495032" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-3105511458522800515</id><published>2008-04-30T12:52:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-30T13:22:44.073-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jeremiah Wright" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">Hey Barack, payback's a bitch</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBiqIl9HliI/AAAAAAAAAK8/aqe579QKl0s/s1600-h/136041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBiqIl9HliI/AAAAAAAAAK8/aqe579QKl0s/s400/136041.jpg" alt="When the Obamas loved Jeremiah Wright" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195089234776004130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;center style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Click to supersize&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302008/news/nationalnews/rev_enge_is_sweet_for_betrayed_pastor_108791.htm"&gt;Rev-enge is sweet for 'betrayed' pastor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"After 20 years of loving Barack like he was a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn't know about Jeremiah's views during those years, that he wasn't familiar with what Jeremiah had said, that he may have missed church on this day or that and didn't hear what Jeremiah said, this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal," said the source, who has deep roots in Wright's Chicago community and is familiar with his thinking on the matter.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Golly, who would have thought the Obamessiah would tell a lie?</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/04/hey-barack-paybacks-bitch.html" title="Hey Barack, payback's a bitch" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/3105511458522800515" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/3105511458522800515" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-5748980969024058906</id><published>2008-04-24T12:32:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T12:43:12.601-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hillary Clinton" /><title type="text">Today's Hoot: The Poverty Twins and Pumpkin Butt</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;For some obscure reason I find this PhotoShop of the Obamessiah and Her Thighness incredibly moving. Maybe it was dress down Friday for multimillionaires? The only thing missing is a pint-sized, ragged, and barefoot John Edwards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBC2nF9HlgI/AAAAAAAAAKs/ORkigih4zWY/s1600-h/Obama+Hillary+Poor+and+Stupid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBC2nF9HlgI/AAAAAAAAAKs/ORkigih4zWY/s400/Obama+Hillary+Poor+and+Stupid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192851153087862274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above was stolen from the &lt;a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2006223/posts"&gt;Great Pumpkin thread on FR&lt;/a&gt; - can you guess the owner of this ample, even opulent derriere?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBC2yF9HlhI/AAAAAAAAAK0/5AKzfK39FRY/s1600-h/Hillary+Pumpkin+Butt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_m6BE08s5Fkc/SBC2yF9HlhI/AAAAAAAAAK0/5AKzfK39FRY/s400/Hillary+Pumpkin+Butt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192851342066423314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/04/todays-hoot-poverty-twins-and-pumpkin.html" title="Today's Hoot: The Poverty Twins and Pumpkin Butt" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/5748980969024058906" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/5748980969024058906" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-249421893642756275</id><published>2008-04-23T22:43:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T22:52:19.554-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><title type="text">The truth about those pesky Obama rumors!</title><content type="html">I've heard them and you've heard them and they are rife on the Web. That's right, it's those pesky rumors about Barack Obama! Well, worry no more - &lt;a href="http://www.imao.us/archives/009966.html"&gt;Frank J. has performed a public service by digging into them and providing the truth&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RUMOR:&lt;/strong&gt; Obama is a Muslim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STATUS:&lt;/strong&gt; False&lt;br /&gt;Obama is not currently a Muslim. He's a Christian of some sort in the "hate Whitey" sect.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RUMOR:&lt;/strong&gt; Obama is an enlightened space alien sent to save humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STATUS:&lt;/strong&gt; False&lt;br /&gt;All evidence points towards Obama being a below average man who his wife stopped asking to do chores around the house because he was always getting his head stuck in the mop bucket.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RUMOR:&lt;/strong&gt; Obama tried to bomb the Pentagon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STATUS:&lt;/strong&gt; False&lt;br /&gt;That was his friend.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RUMOR:&lt;/strong&gt; Obama felt we got what we deserved on 9/11.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STATUS:&lt;/strong&gt; False&lt;br /&gt;That was his other friend.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RUMOR:&lt;/strong&gt; Obama was once a hired goon for the Aquaman villain Black Manta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STATUS:&lt;/strong&gt; False&lt;br /&gt;While Obama has served on a number of committees and attended a fundraiser hosted by Black Manta, Obama has never worked for him. His campaign has on numerous occasions called it out of bounds to draw connections between Obama and the terrorists, hatemongers, and supervillians he happens to hang around with in his spare time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More debunking by following the link.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/04/truth-about-those-pesky-obama-rumors.html" title="The truth about those pesky Obama rumors!" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/249421893642756275" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/249421893642756275" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-1825847883743805392</id><published>2008-04-23T13:08:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T13:16:59.317-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michelle Obama" /><title type="text">Friends of Michelle Obama: Hatem El-Hady</title><content type="html">When Michelle Obama isn't &lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=517824&amp;amp;in_page_id=1879"&gt;filling her jewelry box with diamonds or her closet with Jimmy Choo shoes&lt;/a&gt;, she takes time out to &lt;a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29709_Terrorist_Fundraisers_for_Obama"&gt;pal around with terrorist sympathizers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another big Barack Obama supporter: Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the  Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts, &lt;a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/19302_Kind_Hearts_for_Charitable_Human_Development_=_Hamas"&gt;closed  by the US government in 2006&lt;/a&gt; for terrorist fundraising: &lt;a title="FrontPage Magazine" href="http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6203178D-C782-42E2-8D56-765A3D7EDCD7" target="_blank"&gt;Terrorist Fundraisers for Obama&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;El-Hady has now devoted himself to raising money for Barack Obama; &lt;a title="Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Hatem Elhady" href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGN9pM" target="_blank"&gt;he  has a page at the official Obama campaign web site&lt;/a&gt;, with three “friends”  listed on it: “Rick,” “Fatima from Toledo, Ohio,” and ... &lt;strong&gt;Michelle  Obama&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Note: when someone is listed as a “friend,” it means &lt;em&gt;they specifically  chose it&lt;/em&gt;. In other words, Michelle Obama’s name isn’t there because El-Hady  put it there — it’s there because she chose to be listed as his friend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something tells me that the public part of this friendship won't last. Back to the harem, Michelle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/04/friends-of-michelle-obama-hatem-el-hady.html" title="Friends of Michelle Obama: Hatem El-Hady" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1825847883743805392" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/1825847883743805392" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3551546.post-4944492488011150463</id><published>2008-04-22T11:44:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-22T11:52:56.159-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barack Obama" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bill Clinton" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hillary Clinton" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Michelle Obama" /><title type="text">The Obama Clinton Smackdown we would all like to see</title><content type="html">Break out the popcorn and watch "Hillary Clinton" and "Barack Obama" get what they deserve from the "Samoan Bulldozer." "Bill Clinton" unfortunately escapes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n7YYzLr87Bw&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n7YYzLr87Bw&amp;amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005195/posts"&gt;FR&lt;/a&gt;, where the thread also has this beauty:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On one side, you have a bitch who is a lawyer, married to a lawyer, and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Is there a contest here?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-clinton-smackdown-we-would-all.html" title="The Obama Clinton Smackdown we would all like to see" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/4944492488011150463" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3551546/posts/default/4944492488011150463" /><author><name>Cracker Barrel Philosopher</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07957502943426870919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry></feed>
