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taqiyya Barack Hussein Obama:
On this fundamental issue [of "choice"] I will not yield… It is time to turn the page. We want a new day here in America. We are tired of arguing about the same old stuff… The first thing I would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act [a measure [...]

Taqiyya: An Islamic principle, mostly among the Shi’a, that allows a believer to hide one’s true beliefs in certain circumstances from non-believers.
Hmm, makes one think about those rumours floating about certain candidate.

On my mobile I subscribe to a third-party application from California called youmail.com to answer my calls when I can’t. They will send the voice-message of the caller and a transcription of the caller’s message to my e-mail. The transcription is always goofy I presume because the caller doesn’t speak clearly for the computer. My [...]

Sorry, Burkean Mama, for my AWOL this past weekend. I was tweeting and texting in here, but that isn’t the same as a post. Friday I saw the movie, An American Carol, with my local Town Hall gathering group which is located in Madtown, WI. Most of the weekend I was fixing up my Blackberry [...]

The Madison Conservatives of the local Town Hall shall be meeting at Friday, October 3, 17:00 Texas Outhouse then together go to the Eastgate Cinema for their seeing An American Carol for the 19:00 showing. If you’re not in the Madison area tomorrow night, do find a cinema near you.
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Jeffrey Sachs is a development economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University wrote in the Financal Times:
We have arrived in a multi-polar world. As German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck put it in Berlin yesterday, “The US will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system.” Yet a multi-polar world [...]

Please read the document linked in the sidebar to the right called US Constitution 2.27
I had included the articles of amendment within the American basic law, instead listing them separately as if they were equal to the original seven articles. Twenty-seven times the US Constitution has been amended or, better put, some of the original [...]

In what should have been a out-partys' year historically, the Financial Times reported congressional Democratics fear Obama may screw up their chances to gain seats and perhaps to retain the '06 electoral gains. After all, the Obama ticket is warmed-over '72 McGovernism. Although McGovern promised $1k to every man, woman, and child causing actor [...]

Congratulations, Governor Sarah Palin. Thank you, Senator John McCain for uniting our party. Onward to victory.

Tonight we travel to the mythical land of Obamapolis. I think I go swimming instead.

The dog-days of August come to a close wit the quadrennial whine-fest of how-bad-Amerika is to themselves without federal managing of their (and by default) our lives. I shall be watching and puking. I hope my rum and Coca-Cola holds out for four days.