Presidential Election | Lets Go Girl

May 12, 2008 by Kingston

Oh Apathy—you are hunting so instruction .

It seems the Libertarian Party haw opt to go mains

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Oh Apathy—you are looking so sweet .

It seems the Libertarian Party may choose to go mainstream --- flush principle down the crapper, and nominate one of the biggest douche bags on the D List Politco circuit--committed racist, homophobe and public boob licker Bob Barr—which means I burn my LP card.

And John McCain—sorry old pasty face. You are truly a hero and a decent guy, but the tag McBush is not really inappropriate, except, if the past is any indication, the maverick stew will be spiced with a few harebrained (most likely unconstitutional) liberal-lite tid bits.

If only I could join the in-crowd and just be an Obamite. All the cool kids are doing it. Red-State-Blue State, Black-White, Rich-Poor,Conservative-Liberal,Male-Female, Queer-Breeder----none of it matters anymore—its a transcendent moment and a new age in America—skeptics like me are just old cranky bats, soon to be left in the dust heap of history by the Age of Obama.

I sure hope I am not becoming one of those people who gets a kick out of stepping on other people's dreams. But to me, Barack Obama just seems an ordinary liberal, albeit refreshingly intelligent, successfully dished up to a competence-hungry nation by the leftist royalty of Chicago, where the weather is always fine since Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn reign supreme.

However, I am not sure anyone really cares about the thoughts of Obama—the adoration of the adorable, but vacuous headed, Amber Lee Ettinger , is really not atypical. The dude is the thinking person's Dubya—he's just one heck of a good guy.

I ask my friends why they like Barack—and there is a gleam of orgasm in their eye. I get it-- we all know that mixed race people are by far the hottest. At least , unlike the last two general elections, the personal attraction is not accompanied by rebel yells, jubilant demonstrations of our second amendment rights and numerous toasts of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Of course, I have to admit the inner Trailer Park Tramp in me likes all that stuff— but we should have leaned by now that the best-guy(gal)- to-pal-around-with is not a good way to pick the Leader of the Free World. Besides, with politicians, it's always a falsie, which our personality-obsessed culture is all too eager to swallow.

Sonny turned out to be a preppie drug store cowboy in the worst way, and an actor that makes John Wayne look good.

And Hillary—she is not going to lose the nomination as a result of sexism, but those who deny the sexism and say:" its not all women, just THAT WOMAN"—just don't get it. As I discussed a while back, the sexism she endured was glaringly apparent to almost all women.

Even though I don't like Hillary Clinton as a person, or her politics, I admire the fight she put up against insidious misogyny. And because she kept fighting against the sexism, her gender is NOT the reason she is going to be denied the nomination. For that she is hero to me, and to a whole lot of women.

It's just like Obama is a hero to almost all blacks, regardless of whether they are Democrats, Republicans, libertarians or apathetic (yes, just like lesbians--- African-Americans are far from being some homogeneous group that necessarily supports all aspects of the “black agenda” and can be perpetually taken for granted by the Democratic Party).

I know most of my lesbian pals are disappointed. But even in the recent Rambo-chick days, before the campaign steamed full speed ahead into the state of denial, I still could not picture Hill comfortably outfitted in a rainbow chocker, bullet proof corset and pleated khaki shorts.

However, the whole Clinton thing is now sadder and more disturbing than the Lewinsky humiliation.

Maybe if the pant suit doll had smartened up and strategically kicked Bill in the nuts, I could choke back some Hillary Honey tears. There was certainly ample reason to finally put an end to the dysfunction . The final straw should have been the pathetic bombastic attempt, as an offensive ward captain, to make up for a lifetime addiction to chubby interns and horesy faced hussies.

Those two have successfully surpassed the TomKats as the creepiest couple on the planet.

Now if Chelsea would only try on that corset...

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THE DUMMIES GUIDE TO INTRADE AND PREDICTION MARKET MARGINS

May 11, 2008 by Kingston

I’ve definite on a Mother’s Day present—all my InTrade shares on Hillary Clinton. And because I’m much a beatific daughter, I’ll intercommunicate in Ron Paul too.

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I've decided on a Mother's Day present—all my InTrade shares on Hillary Clinton. And because I'm such a good daughter, I'll throw in Ron Paul too.

InTrade is the online prediction market . They have even surpassed Vegas in the types of things which can be wagered—whether OJ Simpson will be acquitted, first Hurricane of the season, whether Britney will go back to rehab this year, etc.

Actually, in many cases the forecasting has been astonishingly accurate. This is due to the law of mob wisdom. If large groups of people, from diverse backgrounds, with various abilities and information, are actually putting something of value behind their opinion, the consensus line is a pretty good soothsayer. Economists, who did not get their degree from the University of Moscow, have always known this.

But, just like the commodity futures market does not necessarily reflect the actual value of pork bellies, the role of the laws of Stupidity, Enthusiasm, Greed and Texas Hold em, must be considered.

For example, at one point InTrade investors gave Ron Paul a 10% chance of being elected president. The only place such a probability ever really existed, was in the minds of some of his more deluded supporters, and in the land of wistful, wishful thinking which many of us inhabited in the heady days before the first primary.

Most of the money on Ron Paul, came from saps like myself who got caught up in the heady possibility that America just might, maybe, hopefully be ready for the truth, and a return to the principles and ideas that initially made the American Experiment so attractive and promising.

But, there were also those who coldly watched and purchased Ron Paul shares, as throngs of people threw off apathy and opened their pocketbooks in pursuit of a dream made possible only by the human capacity for faith—just as many tithe ten percent of their income to a particular church, with unshakable conviction that their brand of religion alone has a monopoly on universal truth and personal salvation.

And all those objective investors , if they did not cash out before Iowa, certainly did so before the New Hampshire primary. These individuals were simply taking advantage of a corollary of the Laws of Greed and Stupidity—a fool and his money are soon parted.

At this point no one should place a bet on Obama. He is overvalued because a large portion of the country is drunk on an exhilarating elixir of Obamarma. There is a feeling, except in the mind of Barack, who is a shrewd politician, that a wave of change has overtaken America, and all the voting patterns that have elected American presidents for the past sixty years are out the window.

Hillary Clinton is vilified for pointing out that Obama can't get the support of the “bitter people”—white blue collar workers. Well, that is the essential swing vote in presidential elections—and it is ignorantly lame to call it the old politics of race and class, and pretend it no longer exists. Almost all of us wish that was the case—but it is not, and it will not be any different in November. However, if you are convinced that the golden tongue of Barack can sway the bubbas of the not-so-deep southern states—place your bets.

But, with all the mob intoxication over Obama, it would be an excellent time to purchase some shares of John McCain , who was going at 38 this morning. And I would hold on to them, until some good polls were indicating that Honest John was headed for a defeat in either Ohio or Pennsylvania—or if you are super cautious, best unload them the day after the Republican convention.

You can see how some of us, who were well trained in the art of bookmaking by our fathers, will play the margins. And we will also be a factor in artificially inflating the odds of something happening, and bail out when it looks like safe or optimal profits have been acheived.

That is what is happening with oil right now. All the people who ruined the economy playing the securitized mortgage game are now investing in oil. Only an idiot, or a paid libertarian lobbyist, thinks that supply and demand has caused a 30% increase in the value of oil since Christmas.

This time, rather than Residential Housing Ponzi, a game of poker is going on. There are a lot of devalued dollars fleeing Wall Street and running after barrels of oil. The players are trying to determine that opportune moment right before the other guy winks, and they should fold and take their chips to the cash out window.

The oil companies know this. In a recent survey the majority of oil execs predicted a barrel of oil would be going for $100 by the end of the year. So in the end , after this most recent bubble of greed pops, the market will reflect the true value of oil, which has increased due to demand, but just not to the extent that we are all now suffering through.

Overall, markets are accurate—just like the InTrade wagering will be. They are just not good predictors at any particular moment.

In making InTrade investments the effect of Vegas, and the organizations your local bookie represents, must be taken into account.

Prediction markets, especially sports, but increasingly everything under the sun, are invariably bound by the large sums of money that are thrown at bookies . If the Vegas line is trading at an InTrade equivalent price spread , then anytime the InTrade price goes outside of that range there is an arbitrage profit-- smart gamblers will go long with the bookies and short on InTrade.

In sports, the bookies set the line,and InTrade follows. However, all that may change as the paradigm of gambling and prognostication investment morphs with the growth and popularity of InTrade and similar markets—especially if the market is ever unleashed by eliminating federal wire fraud prohibitions which dampen participation.

Yes, you should be aware, unless you are placing your bets directly in Vegas, the stock exchanges, or commodity markets, all of this is illegal in a country that would greatly benefit if the water supply was spiked with Zyprexa. In America, it is preferred that you throw your money away on state lotteries or senselessly drive up the price of household staples.

I am sure that somewhere along the line some zealous officials from the Justice Department will start busting InTrade investors and civilly forfeiting profits.

I'm so sure, I think I'll go online and put my money where my mouth is.

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BILL AYERS AND MARXIST EDUCATIONAL THEORY

April 28, 2008 by Kingston

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I don't really think people should be judged by their friends. I know if I was to run for president, I would constantly be apologizing for my associations with queer feminist trotskyites, animal rights extremists, eco terrorists, smack addicts, D list Hollywood tarts, lap dancers, as well as bat ass crazy militiamen bunkered down in the Idaho panhandle.

So I don't really care if Bill Ayers is one of Barack Obama's honky bros. And I don't really care if, in his youth, under the influence of way too much Marx and copious quantities of hallucinogens, Ayers became a pimply-ass suburban version of Che Guevara. That sort of nuttery was the kind of thing dorky college students, who should have been worrying about why they weren't getting laid, contemplated during the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius.

But what I am concerned about is that a President Obama might appoint Dr. Ayers, or one of the many education professors just like him, to head the Department of Education.

The unrepentant former Weatherman Underground bomb tosser, is now a respected education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also responsible for some of the most outrageous political claptrap being foisted on America's teachers-in-training.

Of course, with the United States ranking near the bottom in educational achievement in the industrialized world, the teaching colleges should be solely concerned about producing teachers who can somehow teach Jane and Johnny to read, not politics of any kind.

But with a public education system rapidly going down the crapper, the mission of Dr. Ayers is to make sure America's teachers are thoroughly indoctrinated in Marxist theory.

Bill Ayers is a leader in the “critical pedagogy” academic educational school of thought,which sees elementary school students as vessels through which the revolution can be realized. Rather than blowing up ROTC offices, Bill Ayers is now attempting to plant bombs in the minds of the nation's school children.

His Handbook of Social Justice in Education is required reading in many of the nation's Schools of Education.

Ayers' “critical pedagogy” theory is based upon Paolo Freie's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed , which is also must reading in academic educational circles.

Freie's bible of progressive education explains why traditional teaching methods are just tools of capitalist oppression and imperialism.

Dr. Ayers, and his fellow latte sipping Marxists, browbeat young teaching students, until they accept the thoroughly discredited economic and social theories of dialectic materialism, much as the victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution did.

Bill Ayers is just a nerdy misguided college freshman, who never grew up, and can not stop playing revolution.

Unfortunately, there are way too many people, including perhaps Barack Obama, who take him seriously.

At the very least, the presidential aspirant needs to tell us that his pal is full of shit.

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SQUEEZING CHELSEA CLINTON’S ASS

April 22, 2008 by Kingston

While Mama Clinton was moving backwards boilermakers with the bitter people, Chelsea was doing the gay taphouse crawl through the City of Bro Love.

While Mama Clinton was tossing back boilermakers with the bitter people, Chelsea was doing the gay pub crawl through the City of Bro Love.

She was escorted by Pennsylvania's Governor, Fast Eddie Rendell, who apparently does this pander every time an election rolls around.

The Governor commented "the gay community has great feelings toward the former president and Hillary and they happen to love Chelsea.”

Since Bill Clinton was instrumental in implementing the few things that can be done, at the federal level, to institutionalize discrimination against gays and lesbians, the love is a little curious, except I guess it feels better than Sonny's active gay baiting, though Bill did advise John Kerry to throw the gays under the bus.

But a lot of gay girls are quite fond of Hillary:

She has promised to partially undo the work of her husband, and that's good. But I wouldn't hold my breath—the bitter people don't really like that sort of thing.

Chelsea has really blossomed since her gangly days in the White House. Looking hot in a worn jacket and pants, all the lesbians and bi girls at Sisters readily gave her their attention. She had no trouble answering the softball questions they lobbed. And I can see why one Philly Dyke was so excited she was able to cop a piece of the girl's quite squeezable ass.

I'm sure when the crawl got to Woody's, some of the well oiled boyz were more taken with the hot guys that accompanied her, but alas they were secret service agents. However, they had all kinds of compliments about her hair, and wanted to know what Hillary and Chelsea would be wearing to the Inauguration Ball.

Isn't it strange that Hillary is stronger with the bitter people, Catholics and gays, then is Obama?

It is a bit of political magic reminiscent of the great Democratic coalition forged by FDR, which included Dixiecrats and communists, all under the same tent.

I know Obamaiacs don't care since they believe the days of Red State/Blue State,and strategies of making inroads into the bitter people, and picking off a couple of states that are not-so-deep-south, are over. They are certain that Obama's kitschy, yuppie, post-political movement will transform the Republic, and change traditional voting patterns from sea to shining sea.

On a smaller scale, the even more enthusiastic Ron Paul supporters thought much the same thing, and that didn't work out too well.

But anyway, whatever the politics, it was nice Chelsea stopped by, and some girls were able to make some mano-a-booty contact with her.

More than anything, I hope she had a good time.

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