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Corsi’s take on Baby Barry

Posted on August 4, 2008 | Comments Off on Corsi’s take on Baby Barry

It’s the battle of the reviews, at Amazon, as usual with a political book. None moreso, perhaps, than when Baby Barry is involved. Author Jerome R. Corsi, whose Unfit for Command, helped the Swiftboaters torpedo and sink John Kerry, is at it again with The Obama Nation. With BB, Corsi has, if possible, even richer, more obnoxious material to work with. Thus the Amazon battle between the five star reviews and the one star reviews for the book–not to mention the angry comments. Who will win? Only the review race is in doubt. So I’ll wait for the paperback.

UPDATE:  In just twelve hours, the number of reviews jumped from sixty-four to seventy-eight, and likewise the level of acrimony rose appreciably. Who knows how high it will go by November? 

MORE: By Tuesday, the total had been trimmed by four reviews. Interesting. I’ve heard complaints that Amazon sometimes mickeys with the reviews, but this is the first time I’ve seen an indication of that. Nevertheless, the BB haters seem to be winning, leaving sometimes nasty comments on the one-star reviews.

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The Dems save the planet

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Posted on August 2, 2008 in Scribbles

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What’s up with Explorer 7?

Posted on August 2, 2008 | Comments Off on What’s up with Explorer 7?

First it was FireFox freezing all the time. So I switched to IE7. Now it’s refusing to load some pages, including my own here, throwing up "abort" messages. LGF says it’s somehow related to Sitemeter. Swell. Well, there’s always Safari, I guess. Or Opera, if push comes to shove. Could we please go back to Web 1.0? At least it worked, most of the time.

UPDATE:  Seems to be fixed. Except for visits to Sitemeter, itself.

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Save the caribou!

Posted on August 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Save the caribou!

Isn’t she precious? Crazy Nancy is "trying to save the planet." The rest of us will just have to get used to top-dollar gas and the foreign poor to oil spills in their neighborhoods. Not to mention that the Saudis will keep raking in our bucks to spend as they please, for terrorism if they choose.

Wouldn’t want those idealistic DemocRATS to soil their soft hands drilling for American oil offshore or in Alaska. Whatever happened to the party of the little guy? Somehow it became the party of the elite environmental snobs, not to mention anti-soldier Code Pink. Lucky for us, oil is down $23 a barrel since July 11. No thanks to Nancy. But, hey, Baby Barry says we can all save money by keeping a close eye on tire inflation. So helpful. Really makes you want to vote for him, right?

UPDATE:  While BB wants you to eat four-fifty gas, he’s living it up. Party of the little guy? Uh, uh.

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He is the one he’s been waiting for

Posted on July 31, 2008 | Comments Off on He is the one he’s been waiting for

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Much is being made of the livery of Baby Barry’s campaign plane, in an email forwarding making the rounds of BB haters–particularly the small American flag (unseen here behind the wingtip) on the rear of the fuselage. Snopes has pix of the planes of Dole, Bush, and Kerry, showing they preferred lots of flags and big ones. But, like it says up there, change is the name of BB’s game. Just not too much change: He keeps interjecting racial remarks into the campaign, sounding a lot more like a race hustler than a race healer.

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Tupperware Unsealed

Posted on July 31, 2008 | Comments Off on Tupperware Unsealed

This looks and sounds like a heckuva book. I did a feature story years ago on a Tupperware sales "party" in West Palm Beach. I had heard about them for a while, even knew some of the mechanics involved in the sales program, but had never seen the products. I was amazed to discover that they were "just" various sizes of colorful plastic bowls with tight lids. I think about that sometimes now when I put some of our own collection in the dishwasher.

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Friends of Barack

Posted on July 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Friends of Barack

Remember Friends of Bill? The GOP has a launched a new campaign parody, a Facebook-like site on the Friends of Barack. Just so you don’t forget who Baby Barry’s "friends" really are.

Via Power Line. 

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