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Biden Being Biden

8/23/08, 4:28 pm EST

Biden earned his keep in that speech. The line about John McCain having to worry about which of his seven kitchen tables to sit at and sort out the bills is what Biden does brilliantly — mordant soundbites that can carry a news cycle.

The delivery otherwise was good not great. We also saw a man who’s a bit of a shouter on the stump — he’s much better on the town-hall or TV studio stage, where he doesn’t have to work so hard to sell his engagement with the issues.

One note of concern: I’m not sure how easy it will be to rebrand a polished politician with a penchant for senatorial stemwinders into the straight-talkin’ scrapper from Scranton (nickname “Champ”). Although you had to love it when he introduced his wife to America as “drop-dead gorgeous.”

Overall though you see why this buddy-cop casting might work out really well. The seen-it-all stalwart Biden tells you a lot about what kind of Change the young-gun Obama is really selling. It’s a return to pragmatic, level headed foreign policy. And an economic agenda that’s looking out for cops and firemen.

The McCain camp is now going to have to stretch much harder to paint Obama as some terrorist loving, pointy-headed, anti-Christ celebrity arugula muncher with no capacity for leadership.

Tim Dickinson

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Anonymous | 8/27/2008, 7:52 pm EST

Jed Clampett

SITM
Much was obfuscated by the church when it was overrun by the forces of xenu. When you can read intent, you can tell which are true teachings, and which have been inserted after the fact for convenience and control. Much is lost in the translation from the way the ancients spoke to what we would understand now. And as for walking on water, all it takes is the electrical charge, and for a chaman such as the nazarene, it probably would have been a piece of cake. He used the light to heal others because he could see their tormentors. Learn the pick out the truth between the BS, this is the key. Earth loves prosperity and happiness, look at ‘monsters inc’ for clues as to why.
Get yourlseves working my friends, she needs us badly. She can change it back quickly and still keep all the technology we’ve gained, merely adapt it like I’ve been telling you. The earth is ours, take it back with Light Of Various Extremes.

Peace

Anonymous | 8/27/2008, 7:39 pm EST

Jed Clampett

LITeS. I too was in your predicament, and was touched by the livewire of earthshine recently, quickened.
This is what the organ of the brain is tuned to work with. And the imagination is the key. Play with the light, move it through your body, let it flow and energize you like it should.
Left to right, around in a circle the way earth rotates. let it charge up and build in your brain, then send it down your brainstem and feel it surge through your nerve endings. to me…
All Fired UP
i’m Alive,
I’m Electric,
Inspired,
Naturall y wired.

Takes a bit of time to get it down, but you’ll be glad you made the effort.
It’s all about the light. the teachings of the Nazarene about being kind to each other. politeness, empathy, dedication and to respect all, no one is above any other, are the key. just recognize that something not normal to the process is at work changing the way we had been for millenia.

Peace

Anonymous | 8/27/2008, 7:21 pm EST

Jed Clampett

Let me tell you a story about a man named…. Let’s call him ‘Lucky Skinwalker’. Lucky was driving through the Sam Houston national forest, where he’s met the caretaker of this forest. Driving past a spot where he’s had a spirit walk, he almost fell asleep and decided to stop at the entrance to the trail there. Somehow he was no longer sleepy so he headed up the trail at night with a small flashlight. After a few minutes of walking he saw headlights up ahead on a road that is supposed to be traversed only by bicicles, hikers and horsback riders. Mr. Skinwalker turned arount to clear the path since his SilverThorn PU was in the way.
Very surprised was he to be passed by a Schlumberger oilfield services truck with a ‘radioactive’ placard on it and no license plate. After moving his truck, and while one of the truck operators tried to open the locked gate, he approached the Schlumberger employee with a video camera to find out what was going on. He was told that there is an oil well 2 to 3 miles into the forest, when asked why radioctive material, he was told it was injected into the well to bring up the oil. Now, with all the time living and working around oilfields in SE texas, Lucky had never heard of radioactive material being used in oil drilling. Also of concern was a large truck of radioactive material, unescorted by more than two employees in a PU, he became curious and followed them for a while and documented some more with video camera.
After a while he allowed them to continue on their way and stayed back because he could feel the radioactivity interacting with his illness, cancers. A while later he stoped to get refreshments at a convenience store and the PU was there. Being an intelligent person, Lucky prepared his audio recorder and went into the store, got his drinks and when the schlumberger employee came out, he questioned again what they were doing in a restricted trail, in the middle of the night, in a national forest, unescorted by police or other security, with a truck full of radioactive material. He was rebuffed, but understood that soon the elements of repression would be called in.

Sure enough, as he walked out of the store he was approached by a Tyler County Sheriff who rudely asked for his ID and refused to give him a reason for the request… ‘because the police asked’ (a violation of civil rights).
Lucky complied, understanding the concern for national security on a radioctive transport being cased by potential terrorists. But still expressed his concern for why such a large truck full of radioactive material would be unescorted in a national forest. To lucky, myself, the caretaker of the forest and mother earth, it seems obvious they are using the forest to dump radioactive waste. The documentation will be posted online soon, if lucky dosn’t wind up having to appologise soon for getting in the way of someones shotgun pellets.

This is proof of what I’ve been telling you guys, they have no respect for religion, tradition, each other, or the planet in which they live. Let’s hope lucky can post his video and audio after editing the material for brevity. If anyone knows the right authorities to contact to get these guys ASAP, please post here.

NO MORE NUT JOB DEPOLMIACY | 8/27/2008, 6:53 pm EST

BIDENS LITTLE JOUNT TO GEORGA DIDNT IMPRESS ME!

AMERICA NEEDS RUSSIA AS AN ALLIE IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. ENERGY SECURITY FOR OUR ALLIES CONTAINING IRAN EXCT.

FOR 7 1/2 WE HAVE INDURRED NUT JOB DEPLOMACY PLEASE FOR THE GRACE OF GOD PLEASE STOP THE NUT JOB COLD WAR RANTING!