Mars, Austin, Whining and Idiotic Freepers

Workout notes 4 miles with Barbara and Olivia on the (torn up in some places) Hike and Bike trail. I still didn’t sweat enough.

Political Whining It is really sad that the Big Dog (aka Bill Clinton) has come down to this:

I’ll respectfully remind him of three things:

1. Obama does lead McCain in the national poll and in enough states to win the election.

2. Obama is heavily favored in the political futures market and

3. Though I’d like to take comfort in points 1 and 2, there was a certain presidential candidate who was polling very poorly in 1992:

Gallup June 1992 General Election
* Ross Perot 34%
* George Bush 32%
* Bill Clinton 24%

Idiotic Freepers. In blog jargon, a “Freeper” is someone who belongs to the right wing site “Free Republic”. In general, this is where the less intellectual conservatives (the Ann Coulter/Sean Hannity/Rush Limbaugh types) post; the more intellectual ones tend to hang out at sites like Redstate.com.

The “freepers” are a constant source of entertainment for us.

Let’s not say that the Freepers were idle on this holiday weekend. In fact, freeper kdun came up with a sure-win campaign ad for McCain. Here it is:

Ad Idea for the general election, but don’t really know how to pass on the idea.

Have a picture of Hussain Obama on one side wearing the turbine(the turbine picture) and to the right of that have a picture of John Mccain as a younger man in his uniform or after he was freed. Have the pictures side by side and on top either of the following

1. “What part of this don’t you understand” or

2. “The choice is clear”

A great ad idea that goes right to the core of peoples fears. How do I get this idea to the powers to be or can you just do it for me?

Yes, they said “turbine”. So Red Pen at the Daily Kos was happy to oblige:

So, there are two different kind of “turbines”; I wonder which kind that they meant?

Ok, I know this is the photo that they meant, which is, to me, a positive photo.

But it isn’t to idiots such as those who hang out at places like the Free Republic (knowing or even caring about another culture is seen as being a weakness with those morons).

Or these morons:

The Daily Show did a nice satire on this. Note that Obama may well survive this “problem”.

Science: On the other side of the intellectual scale, check out the Mars Photos:

This is the lander heading toward the Martian surface.

This is the surface; many more here.