This entry was posted by Dave Jackson (Scoop0901) on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 10:12 am (UTC), and is filed under Campaigns, Elections, Ethics, Government, Health, History, Immigration, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Legal, Muslims, Politics, Politics As Usual, Religion, and Society.
Barack Obama has one of those names that just doesn’t roll off my tongue. No amount of practice will make that happen, it seems. In an effort to try to make his name one of those “one the tip of my tongue” names, I even tried using the tune from Louie Louie, a classic rock ‘n’ roll song, written in ’55 by Chuck Berry, singing, “Obama, Obama,” but what happened next, most likely predictable, especially in this day and age, things changed.
As I sang the self-created lyrics in an effort to get Obama’s name a familiar roll on my tongue, the words, “Obama, Obama … yeah, Obama, Obama” became, eerily enough, “Obama, Obama … Osama, Obama.” <add Family Feud buzzer tone now>
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This entry was posted by Dave Jackson (Scoop0901) on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 6:06 pm (UTC), and is filed under Crime, Government, Legal, News, People, Politics, Politics As Usual, Sex, and Society.
Idaho has a problem that is becoming a problem for the rest of the country: Senator Larry Craig, the guy who tried to solicit an undercover cop to engage in homosexual sex in a bathroom in the Minneapolis airport.
As a result of Larry Craig’s lying after signing a statement of guilt, new walls are being erected in the men’s room at the airport. While it will stop, what’s described as a "sexual invitations," from users of the latrine, it may now make a more private sex room for those actually engaging in sex in the bathroom, not just trying to hit up the cop in the next stall.
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