The Occasional Observer

http://youtu.be/bsvZLiwkMv8

This is a must read for all OccObsers.  The only thing I would add to the analysis is the Emperor's and Darth Vader's over-reliance on their ability to foresee the future using the force led to over confidence.

This story gave me a feeling roughly akin to the passengers in Airplane 2 after being told they'd run out of coffee:

Colbert made my sides hurt.  Particularly around the 6:10 mark.  "See how they love it?"

As part of OccObs' ongoing "Annex Canada" series, I'm excited to bring you some web links I've recently discovered.  One makes a comprehensive case for our pending land grab:

InvadeCanada

The next link shows that our government has already planned the attack.  It's sitting in the archives somewhere right next to the Ark of the Covenant:

Invasion Plans

Which just leaves me with one question:  How much do we need to give each citizen of Canada to get the Canadians to surrender their meek past and embrace their new calling as Americans.  I'm thinking $10K to each man, woman and child.  For a measly $350B (only 1/3 of our typical annual budget deficit, funded--of course--by T-bonds purchased by the Federal Reserve), we will have successfully "integrated" Canadian resources into our sovereign territory.  It will go down in history as a better deal than the Alaska purchase.

I love it.  This Canadian blogger wrote a lengthy post with some analysis titled "In a Mass Knife Fight to the Death Between Every American President, Who Would Win and Why?"

Awesome.  It reminds me of something we'd come up with in the hunting cabin.  I agree with his conclusion that T.R. has a good chance of winning.  Though, I'm not sure I'd put Lincoln in the top 3.  He had the reach, but I'm not so sure about the killer instinct and the fighting skills.  I'd probably give some of the other civil war vets a better shot.

New Allen West ad. In the words of Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith, "Controversial. Very controverisal.

There are no words...

The following is a video of what took place on the floor of the Dem Convention when the platform committee tried to re-insert the two "controversial" phrases they had stripped from the '08 platform:

1) that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel

2) that we have "God-given ability" (apparently the notion that God exists and/or gives us anything is objectionable)

But most of all, it's fun to watch the party of "vote early, vote often", er.... vote often.



In essence, Dem leadership figured out they screwed up in removing the language, and then tried to reinsert it, but the rank-and-file delegates apparently agreed with original version (e.g., that God and support for Israel have no place in the Dem platform).