On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:50:17 -0700, "William Noble"
wrote:


"SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas wrote in message
...
I ****ing give up on the press in the United States.

gigantic rant about all sorts of stuff snipped

you cannot honestly turn the lack of knowlege of the press on a particular
subject into a politcal statement like you did. You can point out they are
wrong, and you can have your political opinions, but you have to recognize
that reporters do not know everything, and with the cutbacks, they know less
and less and can spend very little time in research. Almost anyone who
knows a lot about some subject will find errors in reporting on that
subject - that is not a political thing, that is what we get with the
monopilzation of our press and the loss of critical thinking skills by
having our schools pander to the lowest common denominator.

there are lots of smart folks on this NG, with a wide variety of opinions -
how about showing neural activity not just glandular reactions


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I think Steve hit one of WIlliams nerves..really really hard.

Icepick to the brain stem hard.

It appears that the Obamassiah may NOT be a shoe in....


He ventured forth to bring light to the world

The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action
- and
a blessing to all his faithful followers
Gerard Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush
the
Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to
the
shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared
in the
wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple
family,
offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person
and an
African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of
righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a
little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City
of
Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the
Prophet
Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they
heard
and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens
our
hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving
Hillary,
wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes
of
Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of
the
appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to
bring the
light unto all the world.

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue
that
consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He
ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the

Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining
terror
on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the
Caveats
that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued
the
forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the

Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows
and
the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the
great
ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen
Month
Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to
destroy
it.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great
Surge of
Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a
waste
of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's
very
presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the
light.

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to
speak
with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the
mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat
their
uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered
through
the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had
followed
him from afar cheered “Hosanna” and waved great palm fronds and
strewed them
at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the
Hebrews
and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the
lion
lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their
long
enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works,
peoples
from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons
and
McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of
the
Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to
decline, and
the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was
the
anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one
generations had been waiting for.

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the
Wall,
spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and
rates
on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the
almond
tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow
again.

Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per
barrel. In
hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were
uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears
witness to
the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for
he saw
it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped
onto the
shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel,
vast
multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at
length.

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was
hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited
for
him.

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they
had was
five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the
frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the
multitudes.
And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess
Carla
of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love
with
the Child, but he was tempted not.

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the
ancient
land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the
once
great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his
successor,
David the Golden One.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the
whole host
of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising
God and
singing: “Yes, We Can.”
"Confiscating wealth from those who have earned it, inherited it,
or got lucky is never going to help 'the poor.' Poverty isn't
caused by some people having more money than others, just as obesity
isn't caused by McDonald's serving super-sized orders of French fries
Poverty, like obesity, is caused by the life choices that dictate
results." - John Tucci,