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. . . So, the bride went into our local Capital One branch in December last year and noticed a Christmas tree, a Santa, and a menorah. That’s not an intro to a salacious joke but rather the ending of Part One of this series which continued, The latter is a nine branched candelabrum displayed at Hannukah by those of the Jewish faith and defined by Webster’s as a symbol of that faith. Hannukah, purely coincidentally, is celebrated at roughly the same time as the Christian festival of Christmas. Neither the bride nor I have any personal grudge against Capital...

Shortly after posting the previous article asking the rhetorical question of what have we wrought in this country with regard to teen sexuality, the reaction and reactions were almost as startling as the reactions to Tyra Banks’ report on the subject. They ranged from those who thought it a marvy idea to procreate young, dbz77 : “It is clear that we were designed/evolved to have kids in our teens…Were we designed defectively?” to shock at the very thought, waxer1 : “Just yesterday my co-worker told me her 14 year old daughter is pregnant. 14!! …Then the boyfriend called my co-worker...

In our “enlightened” age, perhaps no statement better reflects our dearth of enlightenment than, “Well, ya know, times change,” and variations thereof such as “This is the way things are today,” “It’s a different world, man,” etc. While it is an obvious truism that times do change as do "things" in our world, certain verities are eternal and universal. That statement, of course, would not compute with so-called “relativists” who refuse to concede that there could be a black and a white since they see shades of grey in virtually everything. To a relativist, there are no absolutes, no clear...

TOBY KEITH ON TEEN SEX AND GOD I’m not sure what to make of Toby Keith’s “God Loves Her” song and video. AOL’s intro to the song/video reads, “Made Her Momma Cry, Tune About Teenage Love Might Make Parents Cringe:” http://music.aol.com/video/god-love-her/toby-keith/2317104?icid=200100397×1213196124x1200817317. The video begins in an all but empty church, a large cross prominent on the altar, with a sweet teen girl reading her Bible, and blowing a bubble. A scruffy biker arrives on the scene. Sweet teen drops her Bible and runs off with scruffy biker, apparently does the nasty with him in the woods. Sweet teen returns home...

You say potato and I say potahto,/ you say tomato and I say tomahto/ Let’s call the whole thing off… That Gershwin song from another era tells the sad tale of a collapsing romance. Today, I say recession and you say depression, both of which deal with a distressed economy but the differences are far greater than differing word pronunciations and, regrettably, we can’t just call the whole thing off. An old distinction between recession and depression went: When your neighbor is out of a job, that’s a recession, when you are out of work, that’s a depression. That gross...

(Please see previous articles on teen sex, “What Have We Wrought?” and “What We Have Wrought,” posted on November 19, 2008.) We now have in America a vast number of indisputable sexualized-before-their-time millions of teenage girls who don’t just fantasize about sex as in times past. Okay, so enough of “wroughting.” What’s done is done, the die is cast, and all that. If they would ever admit it, their grandmas and great grandmas probably had similar if not as graphic fantasies about sexual encounters (or, more discreetly, love relationships), with Rudolph Valentino, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, or Paul...

Do violent video games incite teens to commit violence? That’s like asking whether a child who witnesses violence in his home or is the victim of domestic violence would be more prone to act out violently in schools and elsewhere. Of course, video games as well as movies and television shows incite violence. Isn’t that why we have the MPAA movie ratings and, until recently, largely self-imposed network restrictions on violent, and sexual, content during the early hours of prime time programming? Likewise with the effect of movies and television and top twenty lyrics on a child’s budding sexuality. Seeing...

As promised, the following represents a very slightly edited selection of comments on the four preceding installments on the teen sex revolution in America. They include some previously posted comments for those who may have missed them. My responses are in italics: mefistofelerevised “The one year my daughter went to public school was enough. The teacher was a left wing jerk (woman). Of course she just won a award from her peers. In an interview with the local paper she said she got into teaching ‘to mold their views.’ I was the only parent, supposedly, who wouldn’t let my kid...

“The View’s” views are so skewed to the left that the show should be re-named “The Leftist View” and none of its panelists is more liberal, ignorant, hateful, and bigoted than Joy Behar. Sometimes, however, Behar outdoes herself in the stupid department such as when she recently said of kids who are taught at home, “A lot of them are demented when they’re homeschooled.” Feel free to watch the clip here and notice that Behar’s outrageous put down of homeschooling gets barely a blip of a reaction from the other women on “The View:” http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/19/demented-joy-behar-disses-homeschool-students/. Even the only conservative voice...

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christ-mas…. Well, not really, except maybe in the northeast where the frigid temps are once again proving that Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truths are very convenient lies. Stores have been ramping up for Christmas since Halloween, excuse me, for the “Holiday Season.” God forbid they give any recognition to the true reason for the season, the birth of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, but that’s an issue I’ll get to in a few weeks. Right now, most of us are prepping for the quintissential American holiday, Thanksgiving, quintissentially ours even if Canadians borrowed...

LET US GIVE THANKS FOR OUR BLESSINGS Content: THANKSGIVING EXPOSED PART TWO–GIVING THANKS It’s easy for conservative Americans to feel deep in the dumps this November considering what happened on the fourth day of this month. We still have a great deal for which to be thankful this Thanksgiving. All is far from lost, even if McCain/Palin did. One thing we should keep in mind is that John McCain was no conservative, except for his pro-life position. Obama’s victory therefore did not represent a victory over conservative principles but rather over a wishy-washy Republican moderate, and we can take heart...

GUEST EDITORIAL BY TOM ADKINS Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I’m virtually euphoric. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not thrilled with America ’s flirtation with neo-socialism. But there’s a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barak Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly proclaim to America: The Era of White Guilt is over. This seemingly impossible event occurred because the vast majority of white Americans didn’t give a fluff about skin color, and enthusiastically pulled...

CHRISTMAS PART ONE: THE RADICAL CHRISTMAS BRIDE As of today, November 25th, 2008, Christmas is precisely one month away and in recognition of that holiday, this is the first of a series of articles on Christmas. My bride of 40+ years and I are “Christmas Radicals,” she moreso than I, although I can almost surpass her with this Christmas series. We’re radicals in the sense that we are traditionalists when it comes to Christmas as well as to secular national holidays. Such celebrations and we traditionalists seem to be on the way out along with other national traditions but the...

Rumors of the passing of the United States of America into the annals of history are flying all over the globe but may be a tad premature and overstated. Those rumors, innuendos, and outright declarations that the American Century is over have been the fodder of America-haters both here and abroad in the past and have always been shown to be the fabricated wishful thinking of our domestic and foreign enemies and empire wannabes. They were circulated after Watergate and the failure of the Viet Nam War, during the debacle that was the Jimmy Carter Years of Malaise, and they...

Back on October 12th, I posted an article commemorating the tenth anniversary of the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the 21 year old gay University of Wyoming student who was killed, not because he was gay but because he had a few bucks in his pocket that two reprobates wanted. (See http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=556.) I felt it was a fair and even-handed account of the crime and I purposefully avoided any recriminations against Shepard and posited no suggestions as to whether he was in any way responsible for his murder, as in soliciting homosexual sex or in any other way inciting an...

DIRKHISING AND SHEPHARD VERSUS SHEPARD: WHAT CONSTITUTES NEWS? Jesse Dirkhising BORN: May 24, 1986 AD DIED: September 26, 1999 AD Jesse Dirkhising would have been 22 in 2008 had he survived his torture at the hands of two perverted homosexuals, Joshua Brown, then 22, and his live-in “partner/lover” David Don Carpenter, 38. Instead, the Prairie Grove, Arkansas boy never lived as long as Brown. He died a slow, painful, awful death at the tender age of thirteen, bound, gagged, after being repeatedly and viciously assaulted. Should anyone care to read the lurid details of the attacks on Jesse, please refer...

THE WICHITA MASSACRE,ANOTHER INSTANCE OF A MEDIA BLACKOUT Not surprisingly since I had made reference to it in a previous article on news blackouts on homosexual crimes, there exists another group which is accorded preferential treatment by the mass media: Black murderers of White victims. Being a news nut, I should recall the “Wichita Massacre” but I can’t honestly say that I do. It’s not ancient history, having occurred a scant eight years back. It was another grisly tale which rivals and even surpasses in some respects the grisliness of the homosexual murders of Jesse Dirkhising and Jason Shephard and...

GAYS JUST NEVER SEEM TO LEARN Gays are often celebrated as exceptionally intelligent, creative, and artistically endowed. If so, those attributes may be an example of genetic re-distribution of traits and skills meant by nature to compensate by a lack of normality. Gays are also known to depart from their pacifistic nature. Case in point is the verbal uproar, physical violence, and other vile actions by our nation’s LGBT community in protest over the rejection of the absurd proposal to legalize gay “marriages” in California. Gays are predominantly liberals and leftists, which designation usually implies a deep-seated feeling for “liberality,”...

HILLARY: Speculation is flying every whichway on whether Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will be offered the juicy plum of Secretary of State, a position her spokesperson has indicated she would gladly accept. If offered, it could be a sweet consolation prize and would placate Hillary supporters who believe she should have been the nominee and the next president in the first place. The other horse in the race is Governor William Blaine Richardson III of New Mexico, who corrected a Reuters interviewer during his primary campaign for president by asserting his Hispanic heritage: “I am saying … [my name] is...

“WALTZING ON THE TITANIC” OR, DANCING THE TARANTELLA "The Leaden-Eyed” Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor are oxlike, limp and leaded-eyed. Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly; Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap; Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve; Not that they die, but that they die like sheep. That poem by Vachel Lindsey captures the sorry plight that is socialistic Western Europe today, a plight we here...

PREAMBLE to the journalist’s code of conduct, ethics, and responsibility as set forth by the SPJ, the Society of Professional Journalists: “Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media and specialties strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist’s credibility. Members of the Society share a dedication to ethical...

In Part One of this series on homosexuality in America, “We Want Your Children!” (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=homosexuality), I made reference to the designs homosexuals have on America’s children. Aside from my comments on Paul Cameron, Ph.D., nothing evoked more disdain and ridicule from gays than suggesting they were after our kids, which was expected since nothing they are in process of doing–and accomplishing–is more repugnant and hence their defensiveness is understandable. They deny the allegation vociferously but facts are facts. Homosexuals by definition can’t procreate and therefore their only source of new converts, victims, is through recruiting and what better group to...

BILL AYERS–STILL UNREPENTANT, STILL A LIAR, STILL A DIRTBAG Okay, for those lucky people who missed it, here’s the “Good Morning America” interview of Bill Ayers: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/11/14/bill-ayers-on-gma. For those blissfully unaware of who William Charles Ayers is, please refer to Wikipedia or to some other “authoritative” source since I can’t be bothered trying to educate those who prefer living in cocoons of ignorance when it comes to the dangers our great nation faces and the scum who live here, milk it dry, and yet hate America as much as any of our foreign enemies. Prime case in point is Mr....

MAY ALLAH BESTOW HIS BLESSINGS ON YOU! (Overheard in an al-Qaeda cave somewhere deep in the mountainous bowels of Pakistan and transcribed by a New York Times reporterette known only as Sister X who was dressed head to toe in a black abaya; taping was prohibited but there was no electricity available to re-charge her batteries, anyway.) “Well, Omar, when do we attack–before, during, or after Obama becomes their leader?” “Ahmed, again I say, why do we attack, at all? Do we not have an ally now in the belly of the beast? Do we want to anger Obama, one...

"SEX WORKERS"--JUST ANOTHER JOB I’m happy to say that I never had to engage the services of a “sex worker,” as “lemondrop” characterizes the white/black/yellow sex slave trade, http://www.lemondrop.com/2008/11/12/prostitution-empowering-or-victimizing/?icid=200100397×1213532886x1200820697. It used to be termed prostitution but that lemondrop article prefers to call the purveyors of sex for sale “sex workers” and asks the eternal question on the minds of all Americans, “Is it all that bad?” I guess that depends on one’s perspective. There’s the point of view of the johns who pay for the pleasure, the pimps who pocket most of the profits, and the “sex worker” herself who...

Air travel has never been such an adventure as it is today. I’m not referring to the thrill some people feel about travelling to exotic locales or to the jollies some people get from sitting in a closed compartment and watching and feeling that multi-ton behemoth defy gravity and nature by taking off from the ground, soaring tens of thousands of feet in the air, and then settling back onto a different ground hundreds or thousands of miles away from the original ground. Personally, none of that is thrilling to this unwilling traveller who has flown in those behemoths more...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Those stirring words, stirring and inspirational at least to me and excerpted from our Declaration of Independence, still give chills to most patriotic Americans and the full Declaration is still worth a close look, especially in our turbulent era: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm. Hopefully, most Americans still deeply believe in the principles of that timeless document because it represents the philosophical foundations of our great country. It has...

Please see the article, “Rampaging Gays,” posted here on November 12th. The Lansing, MI rampage by self-styled homosexual anarchists appears to have been more atrocious than previously reported and included chants of “Jesus was a homo,” according to this Breitbart video: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=219303&widget=1. It seems that article vastly understated the nationwide gay uproar provoked by passage of Proposition 8 in California. That proposition, effectively banning gay marriages, passed as did similar measures in Florida and Arizona. Those states and virtually every other state in the union have now been targeted by homosexuals bent on intimidation, coercion, and violence. Since little effort...

Late breaking news: Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States on November 4th, 2008. Okay, that’s a tad late for late breaking news but I’ve been in political recovery in a conservative rehab facility since that sorry day and night. Okay, again, that’s not exactly true either but I haven’t focused on what has to be the single most significant factor in his election since then. No, it wasn’t Oprah, nor Michael Moore, nor Hollywood stars and starlets, nor the LGBT coalition, nor any other mind-numbed robots of the Left. They were all considered for the numero...

RAMPAGING GAYS Lest anyone believe that “Nick’s” account of a gay attack on his Lansing, MI church was exaggerated or incorrect in a previously posted article, (http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/), this report today in the Lansing State Journal, (LSJ), more than substantiates it: “Protesters who entered the Creyts Road church along with worshippers surprised the congregation when they stood up during the service, threw fliers at churchgoers and shouted slogans such as “It’s OK to be gay,” and “Jesus was a homo,” according to David Williams, communications director at the church. His father, Dave Williams, is the church’s longtime pastor. He was not...

HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA PART FIVE–GAY VIOLENCE In days of old when knights were bold/ And “gay” was not invented,/ They went along their hidden way/ And seemed to be contented. That bit of doggerel is simplistic, of course, but it did seem that forty years ago homosexuals seemed happier in the closet. That may not have been altogether true but prior to misappropriating the word “gay,” they definitely seemed gayer, as in happier, than they seem today. Perhaps gays were seething underneath, and it’s true that some may have been bullied and ridiculed, but they didn’t seem violent before the...

A FABULOUS NEW HOLIDAY SONG, JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! Forget Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” and “God Rest Thee Merry Gentlemen” this year! For everyone’s listening pleasure, here’s a new holiday song, soon to be available at your favorite music store, at Amazon.com, and a church near you: http://www.ship-of-fools.com/fruittube/pages/010.html It celebrates the birth of the messiah, explains the purpose of his presence on Earth, and includes these stirring lyrics sung in the style of old Negro spirituals: “someone had to tell the truth…now is the time…someone had to reach across the water…someone had to make the message plain…” It will...

HOMOSEXUALS IN AMERICA PART FOUR: REACTIONS TO “WHAT DO GAYS WANT?” The following is a sampling of opinions as previously posted on FreeRepublic.com on Part Three of this series: “What Do Gays Want?” Happy Rain to Gene Lalor Actually,homosexuals want heterosexuals and by pushing the acceptance of their counterevolutionary lifestyle,they hope to make the seduction of heterosexuals easier. Think about it—real men want women and real women want men-reproduction being the supreme biological endeavor. To have intimate relations with someone who is attracted to the same sex as you are is a cheat. The true homosexual (note,I avoid the word...

CONSPIRATORS, THY NAMES ARE RAHM AND OBAMA The left, the liberals, the Democratic Party like to dismiss us conservatives as paranoiacs who used to see a Commie under every bed and who now see some kind of whacko conspirator under every futan. As usual, they happen to be wrong and not only because there’s no room under a futan for conspirators to hide and conspire. There certainly are whacko conspirators out there but there’s no need for them to hide anywhere anymore. As of November 4th, 2008, they’ve been packing their bags for D.C. where they will soon ensconce themselves...

SAUDI-WAHHABI-ISLAMIC HYPOCRISY “Saudi King Promoting Faith Dialogue Should Look Closer to Home, Critics Say,” reads a headline on CNS: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=39122. The article goes on to say that “critics of the Saudi regime say King Abdullah should be challenged on religious repression at home,” but gives few particulars on that oppression aside from mentioning that “public practice of non-Muslim religion is outlawed, and Jews and Christians are regularly vilified in sermons by state-funded imams,” and that ”Apostasy – the act of leaving Islam for another faith – carries the death penalty.” That is not to say that the CNS piece, which...

HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA PART THREE–WHAT DO GAYS WANT? Sigmund Freud famously asked the question, obviously in frustration, “What do women want?” He never did an answer to his query although I would suggest that most women would respond with either, “You have to ask?” or, “It’s none of your business!” or, “We want you to stop asking stupid questions, that’s what!” Personally, I wouldn’t dare to even ask such a loaded question. Making an educated guess in answer to the question, “What do gays want?” I would say, first and foremost, to be accepted. Whether that response involves acceptance as...

THE END OF THE WAR TO END ALL WARS AND THE BEGINNING OF A COMMEMORATION It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the ”War to End All Wars,” “the Great War,” ended in 1918 with the declaration of an armistice. The fighting was over between the Allies and Germany, the bloodletting was finished, even though the politicians took another seven months to declare an official end to what would become known as World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp Ironically, the punitive and shortsighted nature of that treaty...

HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA, PART TWO: THE JEWISH PERSPECTIVE People don’t usually associate Judeo-Christianity with sexual revolutions but Dennis Prager does in this article: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/PragerHomosexuality.shtml. It’s fairly, and needlessly, graphic but very relevant to this series on homosexuality in America. Essentially, Prager, an ardent Jewish writer and commentator, contends that Judaism and Christianity served to tame the male libido, chanelling it into monogamous marriage and thereby making the rise of Western Civilization possible. The Freudian Id could no longer run amuck and its force was re-directed toward advancement and accomplishment via marital stability. As Prager writes, “This revolution consisted of forcing...

SONGS CELEBRATING OUR VETERANS SONGS OF THOSE WHO SERVED, OUR VETERANS Ever wonder who wrote the “Marine’s Hymn” or “Anchors Away” and who designated them as the “official” songs of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy, respectively? As we honor the millions of men and women who have served our nation in war and peace over the generations, it’s worth a few moments to read the brief histories of those songs as well as the songs of the United States Army, “The Army Goes Rolling Along,” our Air Force, “The U.S. Air Force,” and the Coast...

With all his talk about utilizing executive orders starting eleven weeks from now to reverse Bush policies, Obama hasn’t mentioned slavery reparations. Now, it’s true that there is no Bush policy on reparations, which is not to say the issue is not on Obama’s mind, and on the minds of such people as Rep. John Conyers (D. MI) and Rev. Louis Farrakhan, as well as on the minds of millions of disenfranchised blacks who voted for Obama. (See Parts One and Two of this series.) Reparations can be considered as a prime goal in Washington but a goal that won’t...

HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA: PART ONE (This is the first of a series of previously-published articles on the subject of homosexuality in America, which series was voluntarily cut short on request of a political candidate who felt they could damage his campaign. Now that the election is over, my muzzle has been removed and I feel free to resume the series, after re-posting the original articles with minor edits reflecting the changes that may be in store for both gay Americans and straight Americans under an Obama presidency.) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… Free speech and the protections of the First Amendment be damned, there...

AMERICA’S RACIAL POLITICS We’ve all heard the old saw that people should never discuss politics or religion because either topic evokes passionate responses and the discussion will end up in a donnybrook. Unfortunately, they just happen to be two of the most interesting topics to debate. There’s another topic on America’s plate nowadays which qualifies for the same warning even though it, like politics and religion, is uppermost in the minds of millions of people, is equally capable of stirring up passion, and is equally volatile. That topic is race and racial politics. Many of us claim to be oblivious...

MEXICANS IN AMERICA–PART TRES (See “Mexicans in America–Parts One and Part Dos”: http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=482) Mexicans, Salvadorans, Gutemalans, any Hispanics and, indeed, most people of any nationality are fundamentally good people. At least, that’s what I firmly believe. I’ve also said that if I were in their positions of poverty and deprivation and I had the opportunity to sneak into another country which happened to be rich by their standards, I probably would do it. If that were the only way I could provide for my family, as illegal as it may be, I’d give it a shot and risk arrest, deportation,...

Please see previous article, “The Stealth Issue that Will Fleece (Some) Americans (Part One).” …………………………………………………………………………………… What do we want? Money! Money! When do we want it? Now! Now! The “Reparations Generation” hasn’t, yet, resorted to so crass a chant but give it time. Then, again, if Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, has his way, individual reparations paid to America’s blacks will never happen. Quoting an ancient proverb, he inadvertently slurred his own people when he said that, “We cannot accept a cash payment, because a fool and his money will soon be parted.” Instead, since, (he strongly implies), blacks...

TESTING OBAMA That test of Obama, or the first of many tests, that Vice President-elect Joe Biden mentioned a few weeks ago seems to have come sooner rather than later. For those who have already forgotten that Biden blip, here it is again: “We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember, I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said: Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” Granted, loose-lips, Joe “Gaffe” Biden is a disaster in progress and...

THE STEALTH ISSUE THAT WILL FLEECE (SOME) AMERICANS (PART ONE) There are any number of proposals that the new Barack Obama administration will introduce over the next four years and all of them will cost taxpayers money, loads of money. Obama’s reference to “sacrifice” in his Grant Park speech on election night was no mere slip of the lip like his “57 state” gaffe. It was a less than subtle hint and he was foresadowing our tax future. We will all have to cough up more to the IRS to implement his schemes, although his plan to “share the wealth”...

THAT IS SOOOO GAY! Whatever are we going to do with our gay brethren? I think it’s pretty well accepted that gays, homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people subscribe to the liberal end, (if you will pardon that expression), of the political spectrum. Notwithstanding the existence of Log Cabin Republicans since status as a “Republican” is nothing more than a party affiliation and not a philosophical elective nowadays, their very lifestyle places them in the liberal realm light years away from conservatism. For the doubters, please see the LCR website, http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/home.html, and this post-election letter to the gay faithful: http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=10358368. Based...

McCAIN/PALIN VS. OBAMA/BIDEN, A SAD EXERCISE IN FUTILITY AND HUMOR What else is there to say? We lost. They won. End of story. Well, not quite but by this time the professional, erudite pundits have spoken and written their insightful analyses of the presidential race so what else is there to say that hasn’t been said over and over? I prefer to cite Jay Leno’s monologue last night rather than the usual sources since it reveals far more about this seemingly endless race than do the usual, “objective” experts. I didn’t catch Letterman except for a very brief clip in...

KIERAN LALOR'S RACE AGAINST JOHN HALL IN THE 19TH CD, NY (Part 1 of 3 articles) Content: (Please see archived blogs under KIERAN LALOR FOR CONGRESS 19th CD NY at http://genelalor.com/) This is the first of a brief series covering the last few days of Kieran’s quest to unseat one-term incumbent and usurper, John Hall, former rock semi-star of Orleans semi-fame, who now holds the congressional seat in New York’s 19th. To be totally honest, I have no idea what Kieran’s life was like today. I was a late arrival on his campaign scene and Kieran was as busy as...

THE “JUST IN CASE ESCAPE PLAN” FOR DISENCHANTED LIBERALS: OH, CANADA! One never know, do one? What if voters have been fibbing to the pollsters? What if, when they go into that booth on Tuesday, they furtively look around to make sure Big Brother isn’t lurking nearby, and pull that lever or press that Diebold button for McCain/Palin and not for Obama/Biden? Of course, newly, multiply-registered ACORN voters and virtually all of Chicago voters will have many opportunities to cast their ballots so they could actually split their votes, maybe cast three for Obama and two for McCain, or maybe...