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If we try to kill the Obama presidency before he’s even inaugurated and fail, are we obligated to then try and save that presidency or can we just leave it alone to die?

Frank J.

If you\’re not getting the joke, the quote is in reference to a piece of legislation that Obama opposed several times that would require health care providers to care for babies that survived an attempted abortion, rather than just leave them to die.

Ok while I was out of town deer hunting, I was under an self-imposed embargo of any sort of news of the world that did not involve:

• The weather, particularly wind direction and speed, sunrise and sunset times, and temperature
• Wild game scores
• Viking games scores

In retrospect, I probably should have skipped that last one too.  But now I\’m back in town and I\’m trying to catch up with the world.  It\’s been a little daunting.  Lots of little tidbits I\’ve picked up, few interesting story lines to follow.  However, I\’m already recovering from vacation, and my day at work has consisted of trying to figure out why a to remain undisclosed radar at a definitely undisclosed location is reporting an undisclosed number of aircraft who don\’t actually exist, well you get a linky post!!

Economist announce we\’ve been in a recession since April and it\’ll last a total of 14 months….unless Obama does something….like how FDR extended the Great Depression with his New Deal.

Yes I realize I criticized the ability of President-Elect Messiah, therefore I am racist.  I\’ve come to terms with that.

Murdoch confirms what bloggers have pretty much been saying for years now….the old media is completely farked and the one chance they have at survival they aren\’t likely to take.

Hmmmm, third parties have never looked so good and further proof that US politics could easily be more interesting.  Australia now has the \”Sex Party\”.  [Insert lame jokes about how it\'s a party you could get behind or whatever here.]

Dear Coleman campaign,

If you\’re going to claim that Franken prepping for his potential role as Senator is presumptuous because the recount isn\’t done, it is probably a good idea if you haven\’t already declared yourself the winner before the recount is done.  Something about hypocrites with black cooking utensils comes to mind.

Love,

Common Sense

According to Roseanne Barr, if you don\’t agree with her, you deserve to be locked up in a Soviet gulag.  On the plus side, according to Sen Durbin\’s 2005 comments, those gulags are probably run by US soldiers so how bad could they be??

Well the Obama administration will be delivering change for sure.  They will be the first administration, that I\’m aware of, whose White House counsel has previously representing thugs, presidential assassins and terrorists.  Then again there are some that might argue that this isn\’t much of a change in his clientele.

More Change™ from the Messiah…previous administrations were content with just taking money and gifts from lobbyists.  Obama will instead hire them to run his administration…..well it is change.  He never said it would be GOOD change did he??

The.  Most. F-ed. Up. Relationship. EVER……and you\’re gonna need to take notes to keep the names and insanity straight.  In my opinion everyone mentioned in this article needs to be sterilized….immediatly.

CSI : JFK

Awhile back I read the book Freakonomics, which if nothing else taught me that people ALWAYS respond to incentives, even if they are doing it unconsciously and even on the most unlikely of tasks…such as naming their child.

So it should be viewed with quite a bit of alarm when we see that the government is slowly taking away every incentive there is to actually pay your mortgage.  As a responsible homeowner who is fully up to date on his mortgage I\’m starting to think I might be the dumbass sucker in this whole deal.

Someone want to tell my why a bailout for automakers makes any sense or has any likelihood that it will work??  Seems to me they have an overabundance of expenses due to shitty deals they made with their unions.  Unless they can dump those they are doomed to failure regardless.  Seems like the best thing that could happen is let them go into Chapter 11 and restructure some of those agreements.

Arrogance defined

After an exhaustive review of research literature, here\’s the final word on nutrition and health:

1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

3. Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

4. Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us

5. Germans drink beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you. But don\’t worry, your Government is trying to correct this problem.

Days Hunted : 6

Deer Seen : 2

Deer \”Shootable\”* : 0

Shots fired : 0

Deer shot : 0

Deer seen on the drive home : 3

Deer almost hit on the drive home : 2

Amount of corn still in the field : 120%

Number of times \”fucking corn\” was uttered : 730,320,5646,294,622

Number of times \”God damn ethanol\” was uttered 7,503,029,673

Statistically likely number of deer in a given cornfield : 24

Number of farmers doing a fucking thing about any of the above : 0

Number of rooster pheasants seen : 16

Number of pheasants I would have seen if I was armed with bird shot instead of deer slugs : 0

Average windspeed (in mph) : 86

Average time before wind shifted direction : 42 minutes

Looking forward to next year.

* Shootable is defined as : Shooting at the deer does not violate any of the Laws of Physics and/or taking that shot could be done safely and responsibly.

If you\’re reading this your DNS server has now started pointing at the new home of EckerNet.Com.

While I was happy with my hosting company I was not happy with the server my site was hosted on.  Slow, overloaded, constant 404 errors, and more than a minor amount of downtime.

So I moved it to one of their brand new servers…it\’s still got that new server smell!  Already I\’m liking it.  Anyway I\’ve pointed the EckerNet.Com domain to point to the new server now but it takes time to propogate across the internet.  You\’ve finally made it….poor you.

On Saturday deerhunting season begins and lasts until next Sunday.  Beginning as it does directly after the election, I figure this is an excellent opportunity to relax, clear my head and decompress.  Sitting in the woods on opening morning and watching the sun come up has always been one of my favorites times of the year.  I\’m looking forward to a full week of that.

And the hunting will be excellent as well.

Cya in a week.

John Miller relates an email from a friend of his regarding the shrinking Coleman lead over Franken.

My friend Mike Long emails:

Let us hope these 300 are as strong as the 300 at Sparta.

This… is… MINNESOTAAAHHH!

Well…..technically this is change…and there probably is a lot of hoping going on.

Ok so Obama has been elected President, so according to the behavior of virtually every lefty for the last eight years I am now entitled to:

• Declare that he\’s not my president
• Insist every single problem from Global Warming to foot fungus is the sole problem of Obama
• Call Obama Hitler at every opportunity and even especially in situations that don\’t call for it
• Argue intelligently how Obama was selected not elected
• Bash my country and insist it\’s the worst thing to ever soil the planet
• Insult voters and harp about whatever the black equivalent of \”Jesusland\” is.
• Intentionally sabotage efforts on behalf of this country\’s wellbeing just so it can make Obama look bad
• Act like a intemperate two year old with the longest temper tantrum in recorded history
• Call any Obama supporter a facist
• Violence, property damage and generally any irrational behavior that comes to mind
• Insist Obama is a imbecilic moron while simultaneously declaring his actions the work of an evil mastermind
• Photoshop pictures of Obama as a monkey (funny how it was okay when it was Bush, but now it\’s racist huh?)
• Hang effigies of Obama (funny how it was okay when it was Bush, but now it\’s racist huh?)
• Obsessively point out his lack of military service any time he so much as blinks in the direction of our military
• Make death threats on a whim

Thanks but no thanks.  I don\’t see how acting like a petulant child for the next four years helps anyone and doesn\’t annoy the piss out of everyone.

Besides there are lots of silver linings here….

• Conservatives don\’t have to pretend to support a RINO as president.  Let\’s face it, slamming my head into the wall every time Bush came up with something was causing my medical bills to get out of control.

• Obama actually has to deliver on all his promises.  Which by last calculations, the lost continent of Hopenchange should be rising from the ocean sea bed by Christmas and the gumdrop trees should be in full bloom by spring.

• Democrats finally have to discover that an agenda isn\’t just blaming Republicans.  Now that they control all branches, they are actually gonna have to do…..well, something….anything.  Or else look like the impotent asshats they are.

• Voters have to occasionally be reminded what exactly Democrats do when given the reins of power.  It\’s been a generation since Carter….time to refresh the tree of knowledge.

• Oh John McCain won\’t be President….yeah, I\’m still a little bitter about being called a racist because I believe in enforcing immigration law.

• Talk show hosts, bloggers and conservative political pundits will have four straight years of an avalanche of topics to write/rant/talk/etc about.

• By that same token Daily Kos and the other nutroots have nothing to talk about.  They have to defend those same brownshirts they called fascists until just recently.

• The Republican party had three straight election cycles of getting it\’s RINO tendencies out of it\’s system, perhaps they\’re willing to return to their roots now??

It\’s all in how you look at it.

And if we learned one thing from the Carter administration, it\’s that this country is strong enough to withstand a bad President.

God Bless America

The election is over, it\’s time for you to get back to things that are important. And we\’re here to help with that…