Here's an interesting article about young evangelicals who are thinking of voting for Obama in the upcoming elections. The war in Iraq has become a major issue with them and even tho they are against abortion and gay rights and all that, the war and the economy may be a huge deciding factor for young Christians. McCain has been unclear on his stance of gay rights and is for govt. funded embryonic stem cell research but he is also for the war to continue, but Obama wants to pull out. So, either way gays may get the rights they want, and stem cells will be researched anyway but at least with Obama the war will end and we can begin to heal our own economy. Here's the link, it's not like all Christians are leaving the GOP but if the Dems can get at least 40% to jump to the other side things will look good.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004406277_evangvote11m.html

I have a special blog today dedicated to some mothers from history....

First a salute to Klara Pölzl, the mother of Adolf Hitler. What a job it must have been raising the future dictator, and a good job she did.

Lina Ruz González- the mother of Fidel Castro. Another dictator who terrorized the United States with threats of attacks and destroyed the spirit of the people of Cuba.

Rosa Mussolini- Obviously the mother of the Italian dictator who was dragged through the streets of Italy after WWII

Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat- Mother of Sadam Hussein, now trying saying her name three times fast.

Hamida al-Attas- You guessed it the mother of Osama Bin Laden, the man who was behind the brutal 9/11 attacks on USA

I couldn't find the name of Pol Pot's mother but I'm sure she was an asshole too.

and the mother of all mothers (I know you all saw this coming)

Barbara Bush- The mother of the dictator of the United States Georgie W. Bush. The man who took over after losing an election, entered into war that wasn't approved by anyone but him and single handedly destroyed the economy and the spirit of the American people. Oh with of course a special thanks to Marjorie Lorraine Cheney, who without we wouldn't have Dick. Congrats to both of these mothers today, and to all the mother's listed above, who without these women we wouldn't know true failure!!

Mr. Barack Obama is now less than 200 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination for President. Here's the note put out by Obama's myspace page editors


News broke this morning that Senator Clinton made three separate loans to her campaign in the past 30 days -- including one as recently as Monday.These loans total more than $6.4 million, which combined with her previous personal loans, add up to at least $11.4 million she's loaned her campaign since February.A spokesman said she may continue to "loan the campaign additional money out of her jointly-held assets" -- which include more than $100 million in income since her husband left the White House.Meanwhile, by winning a double-digit victory in North Carolina and closing the gap in Indiana, Barack won another 100 delegates.Barack Obama is now just 172 delegates away from winning the Democratic nomination. It's within sight.This is a decisive moment in this race.Barack has already won more votes, more delegates, and more than twice as many states as Senator Clinton, whose path to the nomination has grown extremely narrow. But these loans show that her campaign will continue to contest the remaining primaries vigorously.We need to show that the voices of more than 1.5 million ordinary people donating whatever they can afford are more powerful than one person giving more than $11 million to their own campaign.


There are only six contests remaining on the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7% of the pledged delegates remain on the table. There are 253 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of 470 delegates left to be awarded.With North Carolina and Indiana complete, Barack Obama only needs 170 total delegates to capture the Democratic nomination. This is only 36% of the total remaining delegates.Conversely, Senator Clinton needs 326 delegates to reach the Democratic nomination, which represents a startling 69% of the remaining delegates.

Today is my fathers 53rd birthday, here's a few other things that happened in 1955

January 28 - The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China.

February 12 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.

March 17 - The Richard Riot occurs in Montreal.

April 5 -Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 15 - Ray Kroc opens a McDonald's fast food restaurant; it is the company's ninth since it was founded in 1940, but Kroc would later take over the company and oversee its worldwide expansion.

May 5 - West Germany becomes a sovereign state.

June 16 - Lady and the Tramp, Walt Disney's fifteenth animated feature film, debuts in U.S. movie theaters

August 19 - Hurricane Diane hits the northeast United States, killing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage.

September 30 - Actor James Dean is killed when his Porsche 550 Spyder collides with another automobile near Cholame, California.

December 1 - Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, and the national civil rights movement begins.

December 14 -Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic.

World population: 2,755,823,000

Also born in 1955

Kevin Costner 1/18 Actor best know for 'Field of Dreams'

Eddie Van Halen 1/26 Guitarist for Van Halen

John Grisham 2/8 Author

Kelsey Grammer 2/20 Actor best known as Frasier Crane from 'Cheers' and 'Frasier'

Steve Jobs 2/24 Genius at Apple

Dee Snider 3/15 Singer from 80's hair band Twisted Sister

Earl Campbell 3/29 Hall of Fame running back from the Houston Oilers

Chris Berman 5/10 ESPN anchorman known as the Swami

Mark David Chapman 5/10 Murderer, killed John Lennon

Dana Carvey 6/2 Comedian best known as Garth Algar from 'SNL'

Fred Norris 10/9 Radio personality has worked exclusively for over 20 years for the Howard Stern Show

Bill Gates 10/28 Microsoft genius

Howie Mandel 11/29 Comedian and host of "Deal or No Deal"

Ray Liotta 12/18 Actor best known as Henry Hill in "The Goodfellas"

There were tons more but I wasn't putting all of them, so all kinds of people born in 1955 actors, singers, murderers and my father...what a group.

Happy Birthday Pops

A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students "human beings are the only animals that stutter", she says A little girl raises her hand. " I had a kitty-cat who stuttered", she volunteered. The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident. "well, she began, "I was in the back yard with my kitty and the Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard!" "That must've been scary", said the teacher. "it sure was", said the little girl "My kitty raised his back, went "Fffff, Fffff, Fffff"...And Before he could say 'Fuck", the Rottweiler ate him!"

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Saying that "America must take a preemptive approach to the War on Bird Flu," President Bush launched a nuclear attack on Turkey today. He said the Canary Islands are next...

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A British doctor, a German doctor and an American doctor were chatting. The British doctor said, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man put it in another and have him looking for work in six weeks." Then the German doctor bragged, "That''s nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another and have him looking for work in four weeks." The American doctor, not to be outdone, says, "You guys are way behind. We took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House, and almost immediately afterwards half the country was looking for work." --

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