“When you think of John McCain - think of me, George W. Bush” - The god awful truth!
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This post was written by Bryce on October 24, 2008
Ashland resident warns would-be yard sign vandals
Poor, Old Stupid Lady.
Lena Long doesn’t pull any punches. And it’s not punches she has in mind for the thieves - college students, she thinks - who stole the McCain/Palin campaign signs from her Ashland yard last week a few hours before sun-up.
“They’re going to be in for a surprise if they don’t stop it,” Long said in a phone message Thursday morning to the Tribune. “They might find electric shock, and it might shock some sense into their heads.”
Around noon, when Long picked up her phone to answer a return call, she was closer to making good on that threat.
“I found me an electric fence, and they told me, ‘You’re going to have to have that pole in the ground 6 foot,’ ” she said. “I told them if I had to stand out in the yard and peck all night, I’ll do it.”
At 5-foot-1, Long is hardly the picture of brute force, but the 66-year-old is determined to catch - or zap - the perpetrators. Her husband, Carl, a former city alderman, apparently has his own plans: “My husband is very upset. They might have a little BB stinging them in their rear,” Lena said.
Ashland Police Chief Scott Robbins thinks the culprits are local high school kids “just out messing around.” Although he doubts there are political motives behind the tomfoolery, Long begs to differ.
“They’re getting on the wrong nerve now,” she said. “I think it’s terrible that something like this is going on. They don’t bother the Obama signs. They want to keep a clean campaign, but this is terrible.”
She’s sure there is more than one sign bandit. All four McCain/Palin signs on her lawn, in three different locations at Cottonwood Street and Route M, were heisted.
Long refers to the spot as “campaign corner” where signs touting the candidacies of Ed Robb, Peter Kinder, Kenny Hulshof, Kurt Schaefer and other Republicans were untouched.
But, from one end of the street to the other, “they hit us, and they took everything that had McCain’s name on it - McCain and Sarah’s. That’s the reason I think it’s students.”
Long isn’t a come-lately supporter of the Republican ticket. “I was born and bred as a Republican,” she said. “I go way back to my great-grandpa.”
Robbins said Obama signs have been targeted in Ashland, too.
“It’s been constant for the last couple of weeks,” Robbins said. “I will be so glad when the political process is over.”
If the theft of political signs is a problem in Columbia, local police apparently aren’t hearing about it. Police Sgt. Dan Beckman said it’s possible such thefts have occurred but haven’t been reported.
“I don’t know of anything major,” Beckman said.
In Ashland, Long said she heard cars around 4 a.m. Thursday. The next morning, her husband noticed the signs missing, reported the thefts to police, then went to Columbia to pick up more signs.
Robbins said the local police force doesn’t condone stealing political signs, “but we’re not going to be on yard-sign patrol. It’s really not hard to outsmart one cop in a patrol car in the middle of the night.”
In the meantime, Lena Long will be watching.
“We’re gonna catch them,” she said, recalling a neighbor who once chased someone stealing a Halloween sign at 5:30 one morning in her nightgown. “We have a tendency to do that.”
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This post was written by Bryce on October 21, 2008
Bush Sucks! Iraq War Sucks! McCain/Palin Sucks!
Anyone who is interested in voting for McCain/Palin, please let me know. I will glady slap the hell out of you!
According to Palin, the Iraq war is a task from God. Well, not my God, Bitch! In case you are wondering, 4,168 Americans have died in Iraq. And what the hell do we have to show for it?
If you voted for Bush, why don’t you take some time off and watch the video below. It is a collection of pictures showing 3,480 of these fallen American soldiers. Take some time - get to know them a little better. After all, it was your vote that sent them off to die.
Voted Bush? Voting for McCain/Palin? If so, please apologize to your parents for wasting the sperm used to create you.
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This post was written by Bryce on September 20, 2008
World wants Obama as president
Source: ABC News
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said.
All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.
In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.
More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.
The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 percent in India to 82 percent in Kenya, while an average of 49 percent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 percent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.
“Large numbers of people around the world clearly like what Barack Obama represents,” GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller said.
“Given how negative America’s international image is at present, it is quite striking that only one in five think a McCain presidency would improve on the Bush administration’s relations with the world.”
In the United States, three polls taken since the Republican party convention ended on Thursday (local time) show Senator McCain with a lead of 1 to 4 percentage points - within the margin of error - and two others show the two neck-and-neck.
The countries most optimistic that an Obama presidency would improve relations were America’s NATO allies, including Australia (62 percent).
A similar BBC/Globescan poll conducted ahead of the 2004 U.S presidential election found that, of 35 countries polled, 30 would have preferred to see Democratic nominee John Kerry, rather than the incumbent George Bush, who was elected.
A total of 23,531 people in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, Britain and the United States were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone in July and August 2008 for the poll.
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This post was written by Bryce on September 11, 2008
