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November 27, 2008
While the events are still unfolding all I can say is let's hope for the best.
Here are photos I took of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel and the nearby Gateway of India in more gentle times - may peace return soon.
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November 12, 2008
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MCCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
SARAH PALIN: You betcha he crossed the road, but let's not talk about that, let's talk about energy policy, and how gosh darn hard it is for a middle-class hockey mom to manage the budget of the only state in America with a massive surplus, especially while surrounded by countless Russian and Canadian chickens we have to keep an eye on.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure - right from Day One! -that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken...What is your definition of crossing?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain... alone.
JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.
GRANDPA: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?
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November 7, 2008
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that America is like a promissory note. Well, as far as I am concerned for the last 30-40 years we have been making payments on that note via things such as affirmative action. It is now time for the payments to stop because with the election of Obama to the White House that promissory note has now been cashed.
I find it interesting that no one, and I mean no one, in the main-stream media has even questioned why most black Americans voted for Obama for any reason other than skin color. This is simply ignorance. If white folk had voted for someone because of skin color (and certainly that has happened in the past) then it would correctly be called wrong. Yet, the news media has had nothing but an Obama-love fest orgy for the last couple of days. Can anyone say double standards? Racism is racism, no matter what the race.
While I find it is a good thing that Americans can elect a black person to be our president, I find it troubling that many Americans will elect ANY black person just to prove to themselves and others that they are not against the idea of a black person as president. This is a form of racism.
With such a radical thinker in the White House I fear that the US is going to be in a situation very much like the rock called the butterball shown in this picture, all we need is for someone to come along to give it a big push and it will go rolling right down that hill. God help us all!
As so many Democrats and others have said for the last 8 years - dissent is the greatest form of patriotism. Well, I plan to be a great patriot for the next four years!
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