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(10/28/08 2:39am)
What if the United States elects an anti-Zionist president?
That’s exactly what Rev. Jesse Jackson suggested when he said Barack
Obama would rid the United States of “Zionist” control if elected.
In response to these falsities, Obama spokesperson Wendy Morigi said,
“Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is not an advisor to the Obama campaign and is
therefore in no position to interpret or share Barack Obama’s views on
Israel and foreign policy.” She went on to stress Obama’s loyalty to
Israel. Obama quickly threw Jackson under the bus, just like he did to
his pastor of more than 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
(10/13/08 10:39pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>America is under attack again. Not by terrorists or a foreign nation, but by pedantic Swedish intellectuals.On Oct. 9, after the Swedish Academy awarded the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, they confirmed the end of their credibility. Although Le Clézio is a renowned author who deserved to be a candidate for the prize, the real controversy is about who did not win.In the weeks leading up to the conferral of the prize, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, proclaimed that American authors are “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture,” and “insular and ignorant.”Obviously whenever someone makes such a sweeping generalization, one should discount the speaker and whatever he or she said. Also, both the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Prize should be discounted.First of all, should the Nobel Prize be a big deal in the first place? No.The Swedish Academy, which decides the laureate, is financed by Nobel’s will. In 1895, Alfred Nobel’s last will donated a large sum of his wealth to the Swedish Academy to establish the Nobel Prize.Where did Nobel get all of his wealth? Nobel was known as a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist. In actuality, he was a war profiteer who effectively traded lives for money.Nobel primarily gained his wealth from his dynamite patent. He spent many years experimenting with nitroglycerine before he finally created dynamite. While carrying out trials, Nobel accidentally killed his brother and many others. These tragic deaths taint the Nobel Prize, which is awarded for excellence, with a history of blood money. The military’s and mining industry’s use of dynamite is responsible for an unknown number of deaths. It is becoming clear that Nobel was racked by guilt by the time he established the prize.The Nobel Prize, which consists of a medal, personal diploma and a cash award, is not worth the number of deaths caused by Nobel’s hellish dynamite. It’s a sick joke.Second of all, if one ignores the Nobel Prize’s bloody beginnings, it’s obvious the Swedish Academy overlooked superlative writers who affected the entire literary world.Some of the unrecognized greats include James Joyce, Henrik Ibsen, Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabakov. Although each of these authors deserved the award, Joyce’s denial is unforgivable. Joyce’s writing helped shape and influence subsequent Nobel Prize laureates like Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott and J.M. Coetzee.It seems like the Swedish Academy knows they made a mistake and are trying to make up for their catastrophic failure.The Swedish Academy is nothing more than a cabal of bickering eggheads pontificating from their ivory towers. They have trouble agreeing in the first place. One member of the Swedish Academy, Knut Ahnlund, forsook all of his duties to the Academy after a storm of controversy surrounded the award given to Elfriede Jelinik. Ahnlund described Jelnik’s work as chaotic and pornographic. So it seems like the Nobel Prize is more like the pornographic AVN Adult Movie Awards rather than an award that should be taken seriously. Both are shallow and vulgar.
(09/30/08 2:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is one lucky guy.Out of the blue, Barack Obama picked Biden to be his running mate in the upcoming presidential election.Then, Sen. John McCain of Arizona chose an inarticulate fool as his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.Palin is quite possibly the only U.S. politician who is more glib and pedantic than Biden.In addition to all this good luck, the biased liberal media is having a field day highlighting Palin’s inane and unintelligible interviews. While all of this is going on, no one chose to look through Biden’s murky campaign finances. Well, I did.One of the most prominent and controversial pieces of legislation Biden passed is the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, also know as the “New Bankruptcy Law.” This act surreptitiously tries to make it more difficult for consumers to file for and discharge debt under Chapter 7.Critics of the “New Bankruptcy Law” said the act unfairly rewrites established bankruptcy laws to favor the credit card industry rather than the consumer, even though a Harvard University study found that more than 50 percent of bankruptcies are attributable to medical bills. Another common criticism is that the credit card industry spent more than $100 million lobbying for this act.Guess who benefited from all of this blood money? Biden.Biden is a relatively poor politician. Because of this, he needs all the money he can get from lobbyists (incidentally, his son is a registered lobbyist) to maintain his death grip on Washington.Biden has been covered in political malfeasance for a long time, so it was no surprise when Biden spurned his constituents in favor of the corporations and firms that financed his campaigns.Below is a description of two of Biden’s top donors in his political career.1. MBNA Corp. Contribution: $214,050 - MBNA Corporation was once a bank holding company and parent company to MBNA America Bank, which was headquartered in Wilmington, Del. Then, in 2005, Bank of America acquired it. At the time, MBNA was the world’s largest independent credit card issuer, specializing in affinity cards.MBNA was one of the main companies lobbying for the passage of the “New Bankruptcy Law,” which was finally passed with the support of 15 Democrats and their Republican colleagues. Among them was Biden.This act has been widely criticized as being highly beneficial to creditors while being detrimental to individual financial solvency.2. Pachulskitang Stang Ziehl Young & Jones. Contribution: $195,375 - Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young & Jones is the nation’s largest bankruptcy firm, representing some very prominent companies around the world. PSZY&J directly benefits from the aforementioned bankruptcy act. Their clients include Fruit of the Loom, Loews Cineplex Entertainment, Xerox Corporation, and Sega Gameworks.It’s clear that Biden is looking out for the big law firms and credit card companies, rather than American public. However, Biden need not worry, considering his opponent is a pit bull with lipstick.