Obama in Thueringen

President Obama visited Buchenwald death camp as seen by the first photo. The other picture is one taken by Jesschen when I visited with her family a few years back. As we await the results of the Euro elections, it remains important that we NEVER FORGET.

If Clarkson is Obnoxious..........

I'm watching Liverpool v Atletico and in training for staying up late for what will hopefully be an historic victory for Obama.

Came across the rational site of Donal Blaney (ex of the 18 Doughty Street parish of Iain Dale) who seems to support Liverpool (bloody Irish comin' over here....) and has some witty, biting and incisive comments on the Clarkson matter.

• While driving a truck, Clarkson made a comment that truckers' union bosses (leftists) have decried as implying that truck drivers murder prostitutes. Two did - Suffolk Strangler Steven Wright and Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe. It is not known if they were members of the United Road Transport Union.

• What kind of country are we living in when a spokesman for whores is even asked for her views by a family newspaper? Where does she think we live? Holland?

Oh such biting satire. Oh such a limelight-seeking shit. I used to know someone like this at uni. You know the type, he'd have a blue poppy, blue red-nose day nose, and think being deliberately obnoxious would make him stand out. He was usually ignored. and so it should be. Unfortunately, this grinning blurt is in the top 100 blogs ever (according to Iain Dale).

Anyway, onwards and upwards.

The Owasso Reporter in Oklahoma now has a brand new website (possibly due to the 200 billion people who linked to it after the Islamic Doll/Traffic Lights story.

As the original article's writer, Amanda Morgan-Scott (aka Mandybabe) points out - in response to my fraternal greetings from the 51st State (literally),

• I am so glad to know that you are an Obama supporter. I very proudly cast my ballot for John McCain. Knowing that we think differently about who should run the United States helps me feel even better about my choice. But still, it's nice to have you back giving us your opinion from the UK.
  
  By the way, your interest in our newspaper helped us reach 500,000 page views for the month of October - a great accomplishment for our paper. Even though you read our news only to make fun of us and criticize, at least you're reading.
  
  Oh, and, for what it's worth, I don't think any Americans really care what people in other countries think of us, so we're really not that worried about it.
  
  Amanda Scott, a.k.a. "MandyBabe" "

I think the last paragraph tells us why we need a certain result in a few hours time. The american people have a chance to show this country that, despite existing racial divisions and the fallacy of the American Dream, they are ahead of this country in choosing the best candidate regardless of race.

It may be a false dawn, but the sun must rise if we are to carpe diem.*


*Not a time for soundbites or more Latin but could not resist!

Yeh But No But Yeh But You Betcha

As Little Britain in the USA airs on TV, the Republican Party's own Hockey mom has taken a knock to the ankles. Troopergate - complete with compulsory suffix - may be the final KO blow to this strawweight's attempt to win a heavyweight crown. Still, the pre-fight claims and counter-claims continue:

• After the mixed-verdict report was issued, Mrs Palin’s spokesman Bill McAllister said it vindicated her for acting "within her constitutional authority" to remove executive employees such as Mr Monegan who served at her pleasure.

Vindicated? Is this really what Investigator Blanchflower was saying?

• And in a complicated 263-page ruling, Mr Blanchflower concluded that Mrs Palin was in violation of a state ethics law prohibiting public officials from using their office for personal gain – in this case, pursuing her family’s grudge against Trooper Wooten during his messy divorce with her sister.

We'll just have to wait until the fireworks and await the November 4th results. I was up for Portillo, up for the Florida chads, and I'll be there - glass in hand - for McCain's telephone call to Obama.

Caveat: if this is read post-election and I counted too many chickens, my spokesman will point out that I feel vindicated in any case.