Scoop’s Views

Over the past few weeks, at least once a day, but more often three-to-five times a day, I have been receiving harassing calls from none other than Barry O. — good ol’ Barack Obama. While none are personal calls from the candidate himself, they are his recorded voice, and in a few of the calls, someone else.

To get elected as President of the United States of America, however, Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party, overall, seems to have no issue with stepping into less-than-honorable, dishonest tactics to get calls to people’s homes. In fact, if you’re fortunate enough to use a voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) provider, such as I do, you may have the option to block almost any number from calling your phone number. Therein lies the problem: you cannot block the number Barack Obama’s campaign is using to make calls now, in the final days of the campaign.

Tags: 2008 Presidential election, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama's campaign, blocked numbers, campaign ethics, campaigning, deceptive tactics, deceptive tricks, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party, Do Not Call legislation, FCC, FCC election hotline, FCC inquiry hotline, FCC political candidate hotline, Federal Communications Commission, harassing phone calls, harassment, Hollywood screenwriters, Pennsylvania Democratic Party, phone banks, phone harassment, phone service, politicians, spoofed caller I.D., spoofing caller I.D., telemarketers, unethical actions, voice over Internet protocol, VoIP

Congress has approved a $300 billion funding measure to help people who are at risk of losing their homes due to foreclosure, and now, it seems, almost every media outlet in the country is busy touting the ways to stake claim to your chunk of change from that bailout.

To be in foreclosure means you haven’t paid your mortgage. Wow! What a concept. Most of the people in the current mortgage crisis are people who managed to get mortgages from lenders who offered sub-prime loans. The loans were given to people with a variety of options, but many people who never would have managed to get a mortgage from traditional lenders managed to buy a home. Great. Until the taxpayer-funded bailout.

Tags: afford, approved, bills, Congress, crisis, dream homes, emergency bailout, financial woes, fiscally-responsible, foreclosure rates, foreclosure risk, foreclosures, home affordability, homeowners, in foreclosure, lenders, lending institutions, loans, mortgage bailout, mortgage crisis, mortgage lenders, political correctness, politically correct, politicians, sub-prime, sub-prime mortgages, subprime, subprime mortgages, taxpayer bailout, taxpayer money, taxpayers, traditional mortgages

Here’s a non-partisan joke going around in email. It’s hilarious, can be enjoyed by both parties, and it may be politically correct. If it isn’t, don’t complain to me because I don’t care.

While walking down the street one day a U.S. senator is hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter who’s standing at the Pearly Gates.

Tags: barren lands, Beezlebub, campaigning, Campaigns, caviar, champagne, clouds, clubhouse, contended souls, dancing, dead, death, devil, diablo, dine, dinners, dressed in rags, formal evening attire, Friends, garbage, golf course, golfing, green golf course, harps, Heaven, heaven-and-hell, Hell, joking, lame-duck-senator, lobster, parties, party, Pearly Gates, picking up trash, politicians, Politics, Prince of Darkness, Satan, Senator, senator-in-limbo, singing, St. Peter, trash falling from above, voted, votes, voting, waste

While Hillary Clinton focuses on staying in the 2008 presidential race as long as possible, meaning as long as she and former president and husband Bill Clinton, can afford to make loans to her campaign, Barack Obama is busy personally answering calls from concerned voters in Kentucky, Florida, and Michigan.

Although votes were counted in Kentucky last night without issue, many people there still have questions about Barack Obama and his intentions, especially as they relate to the Blue Grass state.

Tags: American public, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama, Blue Grass state, campaigning, Campaigns, Democratic Party, Elections, electorate, Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, November 2008, Obama, phone calls, politicians, Politics, presidential election, voters, votes, White House

Reparationism is alive and well in some parts of the U.S., it seems, and in New Jersey, it seems the states current batch of politicos are getting ready to bow down to the cause célèbre that many seem to near and dear these days.

Back in 2002, if you recall, a black college student, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, said she discovered evidence linking U.S. corporations to slave trade. As a result of her “discovery,” she filed a federal lawsuit that could potentially be worth billions of dollars in reparations for the descendants of slaves in America.

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Aetna, Africa, African slave holders, African slave owners, African slave ships, Bank of America, black reparations, blackmail, blacks, Confederate States of America, CSA, CSX, Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, descendents, Emancipation Proclamation, FleetBoston, FleetBoston Financial, History, lawsuits, Missouri, NARA, New Jersey, politicians, politicos, reparations, Richard A. Epstein, Robert Westley, slavery, slaves, Tennessee, the South, Trenton, U.S. Supreme Court

It seems chemical sludge really does drain all the brains. Elected slimeballs that sit in New Jersey’s statehouse, located in Trenton, are living proof of this. There are no need for control studies, just read the latest news from Trenton.

Tags: brainless, mindless, New Jersey, NJ, politicians, senseless