SWIFT BOATS IS A-COMIN’ (mind the smearschaum)

Swift boats is a-comin’
Assails are in sight
Swift boats is a-comin’
There’s slanderin’ tonight

to the tuna Shrimp boats by Jo Stafford (1951)

HIATUS

On May 13 2008 PITSOL celebrates a year online and barring the mental collapse of its CEO back in early Nov 2007 and her subsequent destruction of the blog it has succeeded in pushing without really trying a completely biased and uninformed view of things generally which may or may not have been the goal not set out for it back at its inception.

It’s time for a break.

As always,
Naan-essential

Moses Complex

this is from my feb 11 08 blog.

“Demo side, Obama has taken on a messianic quality. At least for me he has. The circumstances of his birth are interesting. Born of a white American mother with a Kenyan father & free from the heavy baggage of slavery that all American blacks must carry with them all the time, he reminds me a bit of Moses in that he was brought up far away from the ‘black reality’ of his birth-country, sorta like being raised by Pharaoh’s daughter (not Mia) & her family. But can he rid u.s. of the Burning Bush, lead ‘all’ of the people out of oil bondage & save the World? Or is that too tall an order for a mere human? what am I saying? Isn’t he divine?”

If James Dean (not Howard) were alive today (he grew up in Fairmount IN) who would he vote for? Pity there were no photo-ops of either candidate at his gravesite. Wonder if that would have garnered any votes with the living? (what about Dead Souls, it’s an open primary isn’t it?) The Wright Bros. (not Rev. Jeremiah) were also from Indiana but flew that contraption the Kitty Hawk on a beach in North Carolina.

Let’s hope they both get a lot of lift today. There’s a good wind here.

Naan

Clothes and the candidates.

Legends of Classic Soul, the offer advertised on CNN….If Obama gets the nod what happens to this stuff? The old soul music, the outrageous outfits. Will it mean that purple suits and white wide-brimmed fedoras will be a thing of the distant past? (oh..they already are a thing of the past, right.) What about today’s hip-hoppers and their fondness for p-impish attire? (pimp & circumstance) Verboten? Will the soberly-dressed Obama get the abandoned old mills in America’s hollers back up and running to power looms to weave a new homespun? Will tweed and twill (and swill) be de rigueur? and lamé and sequins rigueur mortis? On the subject of clothes, is that yellow jacket Hill is often seen wearing (her stinging outfit?) supposed to make the less than glamourous teletubbies aka Reagan democrats feel better about themselves?

Arianna gets grilled.

Charlie Rose & the Big Oak Table of Serious Business sure gave Arianna a grilling last night. Good thing she’s Greek and used to being around hot grills. Over the years Charlie’s had some really nasty people on his show that he’s let off the hook (his bait was too small) for whatever reasons (cause he’s afraid to ask the really hard questions?) I found him to be uneccessarily tough on her and very obstructive because he wouldn’t let her defend her claims in her latest book ‘Right is Wrong.’ I guess he and whomever he answers to are wary that people will hear what she’s saying and it’s hard not to agree with her. But Arianna H. is after all only a girl and foreign-born at that so it’ll be easy to brand her as unpatriotic. It must really irk a lot of MSM types like Charlie that she’s so wildly successful in rallying the disenfranchised. She may be an opportunist (no more so than he is) but she’s hit a nerve and he hasn’t. To continue with the dental analogy, she’s getting at the abscess while he’s only administering painkillers. He usually puts me to sleep.

Stimulation of the U.S. economy. (does foreplay work on a corpse?)

There was much to-do today on NPR about the measly pay-outs from Bush Inc. to it’s low & mid income taxpayers in the hopes that these already financially-strapped people would go crazy and somehow manage to stimulate the economy. My my, some people will be getting upwards of 500 US. Lordy, lord! His generosity is boundless! OK.. stimulate now! Let’s buy a slushie and see what happens..nothin? Wha..why can’t I find the G-spot? Because the economy is a morbidly obese overdosed slut with her head stuck down a toilet. Stimulate that! How come the excessively rich who’ve made billions in hedge funds betting against folks (mainly blacks & hispanics lured by amoral lenders) not being able to pay off their mortgages or those engaged in buying & selling oil futures which is the real reason for the exhorbitant price of oil..how come they* aren’t being asked to stimulate the economy. That would be some stimulation (watch out for Lou Dobbs!) George, let all of your people come. They’ve been fu.ked long enough.

*busy elsewhere stimulating younger leaner economies.

What’s this? Paul wasn’t the walrus. I was the walrus.

Ayman Al-Zawahiri sounding off about how Iran has spread false rumours vis-a-vis 9/ll thereby discrediting Al-Qaeda and all Sunni Muslims.

Al-Zawahiri said “The purpose of this lie is clear - [to suggest] that there are no heroes among the Sunnis who can hurt America as no-one else did in history.”

I find that reassuring.

I was the walrus.

Is CNN racist? (against Blacks and blue-collar Catholics) updated since last night.

I watched CNN this evening (though only after 8 p.m.) and I can report that if we are to believe CNN party hostess Campbell Browne, windbag James Carville, ex-Bush flackcatcher Ari Fleischer, word-panelling Gloria Bolger etc. the reason Barack Obama did not win in Pennsylvania and probably won’t win in Indiana (& why he lost Ohio) or other decaying industrial states, is because the blue-collar Catholics won’t vote for Obama, a black man. They did not come right out and say that blue-collar Catholics (I was wearing a blue shirt) were racist but it was heavily implied and it would seem to me, a paranoid lapsed dogan, that these guys are being disingenuous and that blue-collar Catholics are being used as proxies by these hypocritical pundits (We love black folk, we just don’t think Barack has the experience to fill the top job in the land like George Bush does) who themselves favour status quo candidates Hillary Clinton or John McCain and greatly fear an Obama win and all that would entail. Other euphemism for these fat-tattooed Catholic slobs is Reagan Democrats. I’m not sure Nancy Reagan would have spent so much on her wardrobe if she knew that’s the kind of people she was dressing up for.

If I were an American blue-collar Catholic I would hate to be blamed down the road for standing in the way of real change in the U.S. And I would stop watching CNN. And ABC after the hatchet job they did on Obama the other night. The U.S. is in a mess not because of anything Obama did but because of the economic & foreign policies of both the Bush and Clinton empires.

Bill Richardson (on Larry King vs. James Carville) a former ambassador under Clinton and himself a candidate for the Democratic leadership before bowing out and supporting Obama showed himself to be a very wise man. A half-caste himself, he believes Obama is the best candidate to bring people together. Maybe that’s naive after hearing some of the vitriol spewing from the pundits.

Larry K. closed his show with Laura and Jenna Bush who are pushing some children’s book they’ve written. The main character is a red-headed boy (Irish catholic?) called Tyrone (Northern County in Ireland.) When you see a Bush reading a kid’s book run for cover cause something horrible is about to happen. The two women were also very effusive about the Pope offering that two of George’s siblings are Catholic. This must have given some cold comfort to the blue-collar-fat-tattooed-reagan-democrat-slobs who were watching.

Where’s Libby?

Just returned from grocery store where there was a small poster at the cash with a picture of a deer eating grass and the caption Where’s Libby? It goes on to explain that last June 2007 these people found a little foal curled-up in a ditch beside her dead mother. They took her home, bottle-fed her and she’s been the family pet ever since. They also keep horses and cows and Libby who ran free would go to the barn several times a day and visit with the other animals. She was also known to take strolls alone down the concession road calling on neighbours but always returning home in the evening. By all accounts Libby was a charming and friendly doe, maybe too friendly. She disappeared last week and witnesses say they saw a man in a silver SUV with a Montreal Canadiens’ penant (they’re in the playoffs) pick her up and throw her into the backseat. I know you’re thinking ’she’s in his freezer’ but as it was a Canadiens’ fan and she was an attractive leggy animal with big eyes… Maybe she’s living in Laval.

READ the latest on conduct of some Canadiens’ fans.
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