I’m back with another week’s worth of my take on the stories that have caught my eye. Prepare for full broadsides followed by my boarding parties! Well, there’s some funny stuff in there, too.

The Obama for Dear Leader campaign raised ungawdly amounts of money over the past 2 years, and people on both sides of the aisle have noted that all of the controls to prevent illegal donations were conveniently turned off for most of that time. Money poured in from overseas, and the citizenship of the donors was never questioned. Now the Federal Election Commission has stated that Dear leader’s campaign will NOT BE AUDITED, while the McCain campaign, which took in less than 1/5 of the $$ that Obama did, will be strictly audited over the next couple of years, with each and every outlay and bit of income scrutinized. Playing by the rules is mandatory, but only if you’re a Republican.

As a former high school sports referee in football, soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, and fast pitch softball, The Crawfish knows that the thickest and hardest to understand rulebooks in sports are those of football. That being said, there are some rules that all players know, especially once the player makes it to the professional level. Well…….not all players. This weekend, the Filthadelphia Illegals and Cincinnati Bungles played to a tie. Philly’s quarterback, 10 year veteran Donovan McNabb, didn’t know until just before the last play of overtime that an NFL regular season game can end in a tie! He’s paid millions of $$ per year and knows less about the rules than the average beer swilling, cheesesteak munching, high school educated, obese, obnoxious Eagles fan.

What would be the best way for President-elect Obama to get all of the world’s diplomats to start laughing at the USA? Making The Prophet Algoracle Secretary of State would be a good starting point….

Word is that the Obama Administration will have a new position, CLIMATE CZAR! The Prophet Algoracle says he is not interested, presumably because it would involve a massive paycut and would cause his lucrative carbon credits scam to come under scrutiny. Is that position going to have control of THE SUN or is it just going to be for socialist propaganda and the ruin of our economy?

An filmmaking couple in Ireland has made a film that they claim will do to Algoracle and his Glo-Bull Warming ilk what “Fahrenheit 9/11” did to W. I’m looking forward to this film!

Disrespecting religion and religious services with protests is something conservatives would NEVER do, but it is perfectly acceptable for liberals and homosexuals to do, as evidenced by THIS STORY out of Michigan. What in the world does a church in Michigan have to do with the will of the voters in California? I think this should be prosecuted as a hate crime!

The liberals support of childishness, thugocracy, and terrorism continues. Now there are reports of Mormon temples receiving letters with white powder resembling anthrax inside. The supporters of homomarriage also attacked an elderly woman because she is Christian and dares to support the Word of God. The homosupporters are throwing a temper tantrum worthy of a bunch of third graders. Are these the future members of Obama’s Civilian National Security Force or union card-check goons? They are even going after the businesses of those who had the audacity to donate money to the Prop 8 campaign. When is Krystalnacht going to be scheduled?

If you’re in need of a good laugh, The Crawfish is willing to supply one with this story. In an op-ed piece in USAToday, two members of the DC Board of Education are calling for Dear leader to send his kids to DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Don’t they know that rich liberals support public schools and teachers unions, but only for other people’s kids? Do they really think the Obama girls are going to be allowed to associate with the riff-raff at the local public schools? Just think of how many background checks the Secret Service would have to do, and how many kids would therefore be forced to go to a different school than the little Obamas.

Now here’s some good news. Some pirates off the coast of Africa were confronted by small boat parties from the cruiser HMS CUMBERLAND. The pirates opened fire and three of them were promptly sent to find their 72 virgin camels! The rest of ‘em quickly got brown and yellow pants and surrendered.

We’ve got another plentiful energy source in Alaska! One of my fellow bloggers, an electrical engineer called Gray Ghost, brought forth a story about frozen methane crystals called hydrates, and there’s a large deposit under Alaska. There is even an actual newspaper report from the Miami Herald on it! Of course, the no-drill, no-way crowd that is about to take over all of DC will forever prevent us from doing anything about this source, while bleating that we need to end our dependence on arab oil. For access to the whole report, click HERE!

The Crawfish isn’t one to believe in coincidences. When my family transferred away from Florida, three of the Starbucks locations along my wife’s path to work ended up on the closures list. Now she doesn’t go to Starbucks for about a month and Starbucks reports profits down 97%.

Earlier this year, when the Soviet Union invaded Georgia, Barack Obama urged Georgia to show restraint and blamed them for the invasion. Now reports are surfacing that Vlad “The Invader” Putin was threatening to depose and kill Georgia’s President (actually an obscene threat), but was talked out of it by France’s President Sarkozy. Of course, Putin is the guy that W looked into the eyes of and saw a respectable leader. Sarkozy also managed to insult Bush and use that as part of the reasoning why Vlad should back off. It was an interesting conversation.

Hat tip to Michelle (**sigh**) Malkin for this story about a brave high school girl in Chicage and her very telling experiment in inclusiveness and tolerance.

If you ever had any doubts about the sanity of unions, this story (hat tip to Neal Boortz) will quell those doubts. A union bus driver has hit 3 people over the past 8 years, killing one, and the union is fighting his termination as unjust. So, you are so incompetent at your job that you kill one person and send two others to the hospital, but your job should be safe.

Still on the union battle, the UAW now says that the union will NOT make any concessions to the Big 3 automakers, in spite of the fact that they are about to go under. The union thugs claim it is all because the rest of the economy is teetering, conveniently ignoring the fact that the Big 3 have been losing huge sums of money for years because of their bloated labor costs. Here is the story with the union’s viewpoints. Blogger davecatbone (aka Dave in Cincinnati) shows us how the unions are lying (imagine that) and that labor costs are the reason for the disparity between the health of the Big 3 and their foreign-owned counterparts.

How in the world can I get a gig like this? The top 7 execs at Goldman Sachs are going to forego their bonus checks this year because of the current economic situation. They will live on a measly $600,000 annual salary. Of those 7 top execs, the top 4 last year all got bonuses of $65-68.5 MILLION. The other 3 got over $57.5 MILLION. That’s a YEARLY BONUS??!! Goldman Sachs’ stock is down 69% this year, and they are laying people off, so why did the company think it was right to give the execs any kind of bonus in the first place, much less that kind of extravagant one?

The Crawfish’s home state done screwed up this time. Harris County is the home of Houston. The Harris County jail seems to have a large number of criminals who are admittedly illegal aliens, but they go right back to the streets (and back to jail many times) when released. The Houston Chronicle did a study on the situation, and the results are appalling. Why is it so hard to deport illegals in this country? It gets even worse if you go to The Crawfish’s birthplace. In Dallas, the gummint schools are GIVING FAKE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS to illegals in order to hire them AS TEACHERS!! And to think that I wondered why my parents would spend that much money to send me to a private school.

Now why doesn’t THIS STORY surprise me at all? Porn and Las Vegas. Seems to me that they go together like liberals and Hollyweird.

Three hundred and eighteen thousand tons of Saudi-owned supertanker has been seized by the Somali pirates. This is the biggest ship seized to date, and the sucker is fully loaded and now in the harbor that the pirates use as their base. Why that harbor isn’t one big smoking hole or now property of the 1st Marine Division is beyond me.

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Lots of stuff goin’ on in the past week…

Considering that he outspent McCain by about a 5-1 margin, I find it surprising that The Chosen One could only get 52%. What does that say about the actual effectiveness of his message and his fiscal responsibility? Over half a billion $$ spent for a job that only pays $250K a year?

The Swamp’s philosophy regarding The Chosen One will be this, until further notice. As the President-elect, and come January 20th President, I will give him the respect due to a President. Just like any officer or Chief that I’ve served under, but loathed, I respect the positional authority and the rank. I did so under Clinton, and will do so under Obama. I will pray for him and our nation, and hope for the best. When he does something that I approve of, I will give him credit. When he steps in it, makes our nation look bad, or goes off lefty, which I imagine will be the vast majority of the time; I will criticize him to the best of my ability. I will not blame him for the doings of the other Democrats, unless he approves/supports/goes along with them. Then I will blame him. In other words…don’t expect things to change much ’round here!

On Saturday, I saw a television clip of The Chosen One saying something that I agree with 100%. He said that the time has come for college football to go to a playoff system to decide their championship. Since every other NCAA sport, including football in all but the top division, uses playoffs to decide the champions, it only makes sense. Lord knows anything is better than the BS that is the BCS.

Down in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez just came out and said that he was going to nationalize industries. That worked for him. That approach won’t work in the US, so Red Nanny and her minions are now saying that the auto industry needs a bailout, too. That means, in effect, that it is the government that will run the auto industry and that the unions will now officially become government supported. Of course, if the auto industry could dump their unions and hire people at reasonable wages, with reasonable benefits, and with reasonable work rules, they would probably turn a profit! Of course, the odds of this happening are now nill, as Obama supports the unions and their efforts to strongarm American workers into being union lackees.

More evidence of how Dear Leader and his team see their “mandate”??? Obama Transition Team spokesbabe Valerie Jarret appeared on “Meet The Press” and stepped in it, big time. Jarret told Brokaw that “given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.” So they want to RULE?!?!?!

Oh Lordy. Somebody woke up The Prophet Algoracle. The Idiot speaketh, “One of the reasons we were all thrilled Tuesday night is it was pretty obvious this was a collectively intelligent decision.” Ah, a COLLECTIVE makes a decision. Is he Soviet or Borg? Anyway, he goes on to say that the internet can help us END GLO-BULL WARMING. Hasn’t that Goron figured out yet that the earth is in a COOLING period again, and that the climate is driven much more by THE SUN than by man? And on Monday, he had an Op-Ed column in the Noo Yawk Slimes saying that we need an “emergency rescue of human civilization” from Glo-Bull Warming. Of course, he claims that “The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is ‘unequivocal.’ He’s trying to regain relevance again. He must be getting desperate.
a) Who in the #@*@^% is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
b) The evidence is overwhelming that Gore and his minions are CHARLATANS! Climate change is NOT MAN MADE! Try asking real climatologists and meteorologists, instead of political hacks with socialist agendas.

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y’all need to sit down and get comfy, ‘cause what I’m about to report might cause you to faint. The WASHINGTON POST is now admitting that their reporting in the past year was heavily BIASED IN FAVOR OF OBAMA. Now of course the only thing shocking about this is that they actually ADMITTED IT!

One of the great things about our nation is that we can disagree on the issues, but once the elections are done, we accept the results and move on….well everybody except liberals. They continued to protest the 2000 elections until…yesterday, I think (see the Gore article above). Now the leftists in Californication are making massive protests against the fact that the majority of their state voted against gay marriage. They can’t stand the fact that they lost. They are demanding that the Mormon Church lose its tax-exempt status, because they had the unmitigated gall to stand up for the Word of God. Of course, this being Californication, they state courts are going to get involved and will probably rule that the Constitutional Amendment that the People passed is unConstitutional and is null and void. The only law that matters in California is whatever the far left wants it to be.
UPDATE: Governor Ah-nald is supporting the protesters and wants the California courts to overturn the legally binding Constitutional vote of THE PEOPLE! Once again, Ah-nald is demonstrating that he is not now, nor has he ever been, a real Republican. An Austrian supporting mob violence by a small minority against the expressed will of the majority… Didn’t we see that combination in 1923? I don’t think we liked the results then, either!

I’m sorry, but I didn’t think that striking Al Qaeda required any kind of Secret Order.

A year or so ago, one of the big topics in the nation was amnesty for illegals. We’ll get a good clue as to how The Chosen One stands on supporting THE LAW when he takes office. His favorite aunt is an illegal alien, and was ordered to be deported in 2004. Why she was still here 2 days after that order, I don’t know, but she has fled her FREE GOVERNMENT HOUSING in Boston to live with relatives in Cleveland. She is fighting her deportation again. Of course, all she has to do is hang on until January 20th. “President-elect Obama does not know the details of Ms. Onyango’s legal situation, but as stated previously, he expects that all outstanding issues would be resolved through the appropriate legal process,” Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said Friday. That legal process will obviously be a pardon and an Executive Order to naturalize her. The actual LAW still means nothing to Democrats.

Back to the subject of fiscal responsibility and accountability, President –elect O has chosen Rahm Emmanuel to be his chief of staff. Back in the day, Bill Clinton appointed Emmanuel to the board of Freddie Mac. During his tenure, there was much irregularity in the book keeping (fraud in the billions of $$) and the board took no action to correct it, even though they were aware of it. In the SEC complaint, the entire board (including Emanuel) was accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of “failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention.” (hat tip to Neal Boortz at www.boortz.com)

The name now surfacing as his possible Attorney General also has ties to Freddie and Fannie! The Noo Yawk Slimes is reporting that Jamie Gorelick is the possible nominee. Where have we heard that name before? Well, she was vice chair at Fannie Mae during the fraud and corruption years, making over $5 million per year…and is currently being investigated by the Jusice Department, which would of course drop that investigation if she gets named to head the Department. Convenient. She was the #2 at Justice during the reign of one Janet Reno, Conqueror of Waco. Gorelick also devised and implemented the walls of seperation between the intelligence communities that made it illegal for CIA to inform FBI that the possible terrorists who eventually became the 9-11 hijackers had entered the country and needed to be watched. Of course, she blamed the intel communities for failing us when she testified at the 9-11 Commission, but left out the fact that it was HER RULES that caused the intel failures. Sounds like a perfect choice for Attorney General to me! (No Crawfish, we don’t believe that last statement. -ed.

A Democrat City Councilman in Noo Joisey shows what his Party really thinks of the peeple! Monday’s papers say that he is now going to swear off alcohol. Ya THINK?

More of the worship of Dear Leader by his cult of personality… There is a movement to make a NATIONAL HOLIDAY in his honor! Pardon me while I yack.

Those of you who have been payin’ tension know that The Crawfish did not support John McCain, with the exception of preferring him over Barry Obama. I supported the Constitutional Party candidate, Chuck Baldwin, and the Libertarian Party candidate, Bob Barr. I knew that I was fighting a battle that would not win, but I could not, in good conscience, support a candidate who opposed the First Amendment (McCain-Feingold), the Tenth Amendment (McCain-Leiberman), and our national sovereignty and security (McCain-Kennedy). I joined with a group of fellow-minded bloggers on another site to form a group known as the St Crispin’s Day Society. We few, we band of brothers, who fought with honor on that day against the odds. While many conservatives either held their noses and voted for McCain or simply did not vote, Baldwin and Barr did manage to get a number of votes. Will it be enough to send a message to the Rockefeller-blue blood-country club elite wing of the GOP (the ones who love big government and reaching out to the left)? We can only hope. How did we do on election day? Nationally, Chuck Baldwin received 180,864 votes, or 0.1%, which was disappointing in the least. Bob Barr’s results of 500,045 (0.4%) was equally disappointing. I was hoping for at least 1% for Baldwin and 4 or 5% for Barr. My home state of Texas gave Baldwin 3418 (0.04%) and Barr 56,398 (0.70%), as opposed to McCain’s 4,467,748 (55.47%). Going down to the county level, Tarrant County had a 65.57% registered voter turnout, with 6321 ballots having no vote at all for President! Baldwin scored 492 (0.08%) and Barr 4208 (0.67%) vice McCain’s 347,983 (55.46%). Down to the precinct level, my precinct had a 72.83% turnout, Baldwin getting 6 votes (I know where 2 of them came from!!!)(0.33%) and Barr 11 (0.61%), with McCain getting 1130 (62.53%), Obama 644 (35.64%), and no vote for 16 (0.89%). None of the other candidates got even a single vote in my precinct. At least we don’t have any Nader or McKinney loons in my neighborhood.

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This week’s edition of The Weekly Claw is being published about 12 hours early, so that the readers of VAJoe can digest it properly before Election Day. Lord knows all real Americans will have severe indigestion come Wednesday if the marxist/socialist wins.

Seventy five years ago, a man of questionable citizenship and zero experience came to power in a nation that was dissatisfied with their current government. He was known as a great orator. He was a community organizer. He used a combination of misleading propaganda and his personal charisma to drive the crowds wild, while stroking his planet-sized ego. He promised great sweeping change. The change that he was really planning, but would not admit in his speeches was clear to see through his own writings and previous statements and deeds. He had as his associates many unsavory and shady characters, including some definite lawbreakers. Those who opposed him were attacked by his minions. He pitted the poor against an evil rich portion of the citizenry, and made boogeymen of that portion of society. We know that this story ended with his nation in ruins, but what will happen to us if we allow history to repeat itself? This comparison even comes with the current version calling for a civilian military force within the nation, similar to what was referred to 75 years ago as The Brown Shirts, or the SA. What is the Civilian National Security Force? And why has the media covered it up?

The Big O, not Oprah…Obama, really does take care of his relatives well, doesn’t he. First was his half-brother living on just a few dollars a month in Kenya. Now, the aunt that he so affectionately describes in one of his books, along with a supposedly long lost uncle, have been located. They live in crrappy public housing in Boston. Of course, the American media refuses to bring forth a story such as this about The Chosen One, so we go to a British paper for the info. The Obamedia also glosses over the fact that she is in this nation ILLEGALLY! Yeah, we can really expect Obama to do something about illegal immigration, can’t we.

Is it just me, or are the rest of you noticing how every issue on which The Chosen One has blatantly stepped in it (2001 radio interview, “spread the wealth”, support for PLO-types, obvious Marxism/socialism…) is labeled as a “phony controversy” by the Obama camp. How can all of this be PHONY if it is all the TRUTH and his own words? Just remember…socialism is NOT really socialism

Of course, Obama has admitted many times that he does indeed have socialist/Marxist leanings. He has carefully cultivated them over the years, and even wrote about them in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” Until his race for the White House, everyone he surrounded himself with was from the Marxist/socialist/anarchist school of thought. Bill Sammon must be a racist and perpetrator of phony controversy, because he wrote about it.

Another story out of London, and all The Crawfish can do is LAUGH! The Prophet Algoracle’s minions, The Gorons, were trying to get a Glo-Bull Warming bill pushed through Parliament, when London got hit with their first October snowstorm since 1922. How’s THAT for WARMING, you idjuts?!?! Then there is record October snows in Switzerland and record cold in Florida, and all of this is just in time for Algoracle to go to Florida for the final campaign rallies! Folks, this is better than any television comedy writer could come up with, but it is all true!

Here in the Filthadelphia area, the folks are celebrating the World Series victory by the Phillies. Hey, what’s a celebration in Philly without lots of vandalism and other crime. You stay classy, Philly!

Annenberg. Remember that story? Obama and his good friend, who is just an acquaintance, Terrorist Bill Ayres, had millions of dollars to spend on the Chicago public schools. Most of it got spent on Marxist/socialist “revolutionary” indoctrination. This is part of being a “community organizer.” Well, now, if you have any doubts about Terrorist Bill Ayres and his ideals for education, read this speech from two years ago at the World Education Forum, hosted by that God of Capitalism, Hugo Chavez.

80s sex/style/music “icon” Grace Jones says she “can’t stand” Sarah Palin. My question is….who gives a *#$^%#@ what Grace Jones thinks?

Does anyone believe that an Obama Administration will actually allow freedom of speech to continue if it is of a conservative or pro-military nature? The Democrats have already started to shut it down.

This is rather puzzling. American Jews in America will vote for Obama by about a 3-1 or 4-1 margin, while American Jews in Israel will vote for McCain by a 3-1 margin. I guess folks in Israel don’t want Israel to get sold out to the terrorists, but Jews in America don’t care about Israel.

On the subject of Israel, HERE is the LA Times story about Obama and terrorist spokesperson (and now, of course, a college professor) Rashid Khalidi.

Energy. That issue kinda went away in the middle of this election, didn’t it? For many in America, the prospect of clean coal usage shows great promise for our future. Those folks are assed out in this election since Obama is on the record as saying he will BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY! Needless to say, the folks in West Virginia are NOT pleased.

From the two-faced politician files….we find (prepare for a shock) Barack Obama! He says he opposes gay marriage, but also opposes California’s Prop 8, which would make gay marriage illegal. Will you make up your mind and quit voting PRESENT?!

A-TEN-HUT!
All of you are hereby ordered to get out there and vote. Remember that all of you vets swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so that means you can’t vote for Obama and the rest of his Party.
May God have mercy on us all.
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Today’s column is still under construction. It will be ready by 1800 Eastern.

Okay, so the majority of my material is on my home computer, and I’m not on leave this week. My brain didn’t kick into Joe gear in time to send that file to work this morning. I was too preoccupied with the thought of doing my semi-annual physical fitness test this morning, and knowing that the temperature of the pool was a whopping 72 degrees. My voice should return to normal by the Saturday Supplemental Edition.

UPDATE: Here we go!

Okay, now that I’ve fought my way through a FRIGGIN’ SNOWSTORM to get home….Yes, It started snowing on base at 0700, got heavy about 0900, got extremely heavy by 1000, then started sticking about 1145. By 1300 there was over 5” on the ground in Warrington, PA, and I was slipping and sliding while trying to drive. Where’s Algore so I can punch him in his Glo-Bull Warming face?

We start the column with an exercise in wealth redistribution:
Redistribution of wealth…

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.”

I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

The arrogance of The Chosen One is beyond compare! Now he is demanding that news organizations pay his campaign lots of $$$ for the privilege of covering his election night party. This is simply nuts!

The Obama campaign claims that most of the bad stuff we hear from the eeeeevillll right wing talk radio and the eeeevilllll right wing bloggers about The Chosen One is a pack of lies. They even have a website to “fact check” the “lies.” Too bad that the fact checking website parses its words and spins in circles so much that all it really does is shovel loads of “fertilizer” on the “lies” to cover them up. A website investigates Obama’s fact-checks.

John “Purple Heart from a shaving nick” Kerry has jumped into the fray. He states that Obama finally got asked the tough question from the Clinton campaigns, boxers or briefs. He says that McCain’s answer would be Depends. Real class from the junior gold-digger from Taxachussetts.

Obama and Terrorist Bill Ayres spent millions of $$ on the Chicago public schools while running the Annenburg Project, which was a socialist indoctrination program for the kiddos, but he sent his own kids to private schools. Oh, and he opposed school vouchers that would let other parents send THEIR kids to private schools, where the education is good and the indoctrination into socialism is non-existent. Hypocrisy? Meanwhile, he claims his family was poor, but he went to the most expensive private school in Hawaii and then to Harvard. Where’d THAT money come from?

Speaking of Terrorist Bill Ayres, he openly declared, on video, that he was a Marxist just before an event with The Chosen One. Watch and learn, my young Padawans.

Too bad Terrorist Bill Ayres wasn’t convicted and sentenced in Texas. The Crawfish’s home state knows what to do with violent criminals

I’ve gone this far without mentioning ACORN??? Shame on me. Here’s their organizations “People’s Platform”, updated in the 90s, just before He started training their people but he was never part of them, right?

For the Greenies out there, and the rest of us who are interested in alternative sources of energy, here’s one that shows real promise, and could produce fuel for aircraft, heavy equipment, ships, trucks, and cars! This is going on in Gila Bend, south of Phoenix. Be sure to listen to the final sentence. This is not a hoax or a joke. American scientists solving problems!

If any of you still believe academia isn’t extremely biased, here’s a story for ya. Over 3200 people, mostly in academia, have signed a statement in support of Terrorist Bill Ayres, saying his terroristic past is “just history.” Well, gee willikers, Osama Bin Laden’s terroristic actions are also just history, aren’t they?

Now I’m not gonna say that the Obama campaign has been active in accepting unlawful donations, but….Newsmax will! And so does Michelle Malkin, and American Thinker, and…

A TV station DARED to ask some actual pointed questions about the Obama-Biden campaign to Senator Biden. They DARED to ask questions that aren’t on the approved list. The result? That TV station is banned from contact with the campaign. Shades of Pravda and Isvestia

I can’t believe that the Noo Yawk Slimes actually printed this article. His disdain of small town America is already well-known, those darned bitter Americans who cling to guns and religion, but now…”In a rare slip, he told The Associated Press: “I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”” I’m SHOCKED!

And now the winner of the BOVINE EXCREMENT STATEMENT OF THE YEAR, we go to our illustrious Speaker of the House, Red Nanny P-Lousy, who said “But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan” and she actually expected us to BELIEVE IT!

More news coming out about what Obama and that guy he hardly knew (Terrorist Bill Ayres) did together. Here’s how they spent millions of dollars when they were on the board of the Annenburg Project and the Woods Foundation. Ayres is just a neighbor and Obama’s really NOT a marxist socialist

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Once again, I started to write this column a week ahead of my usual Tuesday posting. When I told the management that my next post might be as crazy-long as the last one, and maybe even longer, they gave me permission to use Saturdays for Special Supplemental Editions of The Weekly Claw. Now y’all can get double doses… and is that a bad thing?

My fellow vets are really gonna love this one. HUNDREDS of absentee ballots from service members overseas are being thrown out in Virginia. There is a spot on the federally issued ballot (a single line) that calls for “signature and address of witness (as required)”, but it does not state that this is a requirement in Virginia. This is not the state ballot, but rather one that is available to military personnel if they don’t get their state ballot in time to send out. How someone is supposed to put a signature and address on a very small line is beyond me anyway. So, hundreds of ballots, which according to Military Times would be about 80% for McCain and other Republican candidates, are tossed in what the experts say is a toss-up state. Democrats have no problem with this, because their motto (which they started in Florida 2000) is “Every vote counts (especially if it is fraudulent), unless it is from the US military.”
from NBC12
from the Virginian Pilot
from dailypress.com
from earned media

We start out in wonderful Than Franthithco…again. Of course, real religion is to be mocked there, as it provides rules for what is acceptable living and what is an abomination unto God. The denizens of that Den of Iniquity have a new Patron SAINT! When are we going to see a convent for the followers of Mother Pelosi?

The nation’s only EX-Marine, John Murtha, is at it again. Last week, he called the people in the part of the state that he represents “racists.” He apologized for that, but then said that the same people are a bunch of REDNECKS! Of course, he uses that term in a pejorative manner, as opposed to an endearing manner like us real rednecks do. With rampant stooooopidity like that flowing from his yap, is there any wonder why he cancelled his debate against Bill Russell?

Here’s one from the STOOOPID UNION STOOGE file. A city Councilman in Albany, NY, wants to force all NON-UNION employees who make over $55K per year to take 10 days UNPAID leave per year so he can give raises to those who make less. Has he lost his mind? Well, he’s a Democrat, so it is doubtful that he ever had more than 3 functioning brain cells. Union loving moron

From the tin-foil-hat ranks comes this wonderful story. Cindy She-Hag is running for Congress against Red Nanny P-Lousy. Cindy thinks Nanny is too much of a right winger (cue the AFLAC duck saying “Huh?” here!), and claims that her campaign is being sabotaged!

I really don’t understand our prison systems. How are drugs constantly smuggled in for inmates? How do inmates run gangs, both inside and outside the walls, from their cells? How in the heck does a Death Row inmate get a CELL PHONE and make a bunch of threatening calls to State officials, and have his fellow Death Row inmates do the same? Don’t the guards check all packages for contraband? It ain’t that tough!

Neal Boortz has a great essay for all of the undecided voters out there. It is a bit long, so many of you government-educated folks will have a hard time with it, and it does use language that is occasionally above 4th grade level, so union stooges might need a translation, but here it is!

Recently, I told my readers of the head of one of the Vatican’s courts blasting Nanny Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden, et al, for promoting themselves as Catholics when they are supporters of abortion on demand at any point in a pregnancy. Well, now an American Archbishop is taking on Barack Obama for being the “most committed abortion rights” candidate of a major party since Roe v. Wade, and his Democratic Party Catholic group allies for doing a “disservice to the Church.” I’m glad to see that the Church is finally getting backbone on this subject, because it is impossible to be pro-abortion and a real Catholic. Bravo Archbishop Chaput!

I don’t doubt THIS STORY at all. I went to my county GOP headquarters to get a yard sign on Tuesday and they were all out, because so many have been stolen from people’s yards or torn to shreds in their yards. Liberals just can’t fathom that someone has the gall to oppose their Savior and Messiah.

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DISCLAIMER: The Crawfish usually writes his weekly column in snippets throughout the week. Occasionally, there are updates which cause some stories to be dropped or expounded upon. Sometimes the updates just make me wanna SCREAM! Today’s post is a bit on the long side….deal with it!

Last week, in regards to the Ohio Secretary of State’s refusal to uphold the law, and her backing by two federal judges (appointed by Clinton and LBJ), I asked, “which is more important, preventing a fraudulent election or keeping the work schedule of a liberal to less than 40 hours in a week?” On Tuesday, a full panel from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case. Nine of the sixteen judges agreed with the original judge in the case. The Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, must stop assisting liberal voter fraud and uphold the law.

Who SUPPORTED voter fraud?
Karen Nelson Moore (appointed by Clinton)
Boyce F Martin (Carter)
Martha Craig Daughtrey (Clinton)
R Guy Cole (Clinton)
Eric L Clay (Clinton)
Helene N White (W)
John M Rogers (W)

Who OPPOSED voter fraud?
Jeffrey S Sutton (W)
Danny J Boggs (Reagan)
Alice M Batchelder (GHW Bush)
Ronald Lee Gilman (Clinton)
Julia Smith Gibbons (W)
Deborah L Cook (W)
David W McKeague (W)
Richard Allen Griffin (W)
Raymond M Kethledge (W)

Source: 6th Circuit Court website UPDATE: Brunner has admitted that there are over 200,000 registrations that need to be verified. That might cause her to miss a manicure appointment, so she’s taking the case to the Supreme Court.

UPDATE: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Supreme Court refused to hear the merits of the case and said that the OHIO GOP has no right to sue under the Help America Vote Act of 2002. In other words, the law is on the books, but is completely unenforceable. There is no way to ensure a fair election. ACORN and OBAMA win by fraud! This decision is almost as horrendous as Roe v Wade or Dred Scot.

ACORN is not the only group that is organized in hopes of perpetrating massive voter fraud in Ohio. Some of the folks who were driving the homeless around to do early voting have been working at even more SERIOUS vote fraud and they’ve already received absentee ballots! UPDATE: They are being investigated by the Franklin County Prosecutor’s office.

ACORN isn’t even the only Democratic group helping perpetrate voter fraud. In Noo Yawk, you can register to vote when you get a driver’s license, and there are 23,000 foreigners who have those licenses, thanx to former Governor Elliott “Call Girl Scandal” Spitzer

Do y’all remember the flap over Obama not wearing the flag pin on his lapel, and then the flap about his standing with his hands on his….. instead of over his heart while the national anthem was being played? They have done it again. At a campaign event, the singing of the national anthem was removed from the schedule of events. You have to go halfway down the page but it is in this story. Why does he hate what America stands for?

With the Mexican drug cartels making cross border raids to attack Americans, you would think that the American response would be to spend money building the fence and backing it up with Border Patrol and military personnel with orders to shoot to kill any foreign invaders. Not our wonderful liberal President! He’s going to give the MEXICAN government millions to fight the problem on their side of the border. With all of the corruption down there, most of that money will probably end up in the hands of the drug lords themselves! Hey Bush, bullets are CHEAP!

Another Democrat sex scandal, but this time Red Nanny Pelosi is calling for an investigation (kinda like the investigation into Cold Cash Jefferson? How’s that one going?). There’s talk of a second one with the same guy, but I don’t have that story yet. This guy ran in 2006 against Mark Foley, whose sex scandals brought him down, on a platform of bringing family values back to DC. Must be a safe Democrat seat

Once again, Than Franthithco values raises its head. Let’s indoctrinate the school children that homomarriage is something to be celebrated and promoted. Ceremony performed by the MAYOR! We wonder what Pelosi thinks of this one.

It is amazing how nobody ever brings up Obama’s campaign in 2006…..on behalf of a Muslim extremist in Kenya. This guy and his thugs were behind a lot of violence, especially against Christians. So, which side will Obama be on in OUR war against Islam?

Well, now. Some folks have done a bit of investigating into Obama’s career as a lawyer. We have proof that OBAMA SUED CITIBANK TO FORCE THEM TO MAKE BAD LOANS! Check out the court case HERE!

Here’s more of that wonderful union goodness. The teachers union in Noo Yawk City is suing to be able to wear campaign buttons in the classroom. Since the union is overwhelmingly Democrat, who’s buttons would be seen as part of the indoctrination of the children? Indoctrinate the chiiiiilllldrennnnnnn

Obama isn’t even hiding it now. Without his teleprompter, he was asked by a plumber what his plan was. He said it was to “spread the wealth around!” Pure and simple INCOME REDISTRIBUTION

More of the nutjob Democrats playing the race card. Since the McCain-Palin is opposing what Obama stands for, these Congresscritters are saying it is all RACIST!

From the “I’m shocked, I say” department…along comes Jesse-be-the-Jackson and his anti-Semitism. He’s saying that Obama will stop the Zionist influence on US foreign policy. What can we expect from a known terrorist sympathizer and Israel hater, or Jesse? If a Republican said this??? Why in the world does the American Jewish vote always tilt heavily to the party that wants to sell out Israel to the terrorists called “Palestinians”?

It’s not just ACORN and Obama. Now there’s voter registration fraud popping up in Louisiana, to the benefit of Mary Landrieu. Fraud, Creole style

I can’t help but laugh at The Prophet Algoracle and his followers, the Gorons. Every bit of climate-related news is showing us in a time of global cooling instead of Glo-Bull Warming. Of course, there are still plenty of idiots who are making him rich with his carbon credit scheme. PT Barnum was right on that one.
Record early frost in areas of California
Record cold in Oregon
Alaskan glaciers GREW this year due to cold!
Yes, it is global COOLING!
Here’s a long post that completely debunks Glo-Bull Warming. A Viscount speaks

Jack Murtha, the only EX-Marine in existence, actually came out and said his constituents are RACISTS, and that’s why some won’t vote for Obama. It couldn’t have anything to do with Obama’s Marxist and extremist views. Play that race card!

Madonna and her husband are divorcing, but who really gives a damn? (besides the celebrity worshipping folks who have “SPACE FOR RENT” signs between their ears) On stage, she blasts her ex as “emotionally retarded.” Pot, meet kettle.

Here we go again. Without a shred of evidence, the Chicago Sun-Times is declaring Sarah Palin to be RACIST!!!!!! What a load of poo

Are you ready to be outraged? (okay, I know I’ve probably already got you to that point, but this next one is gonna make you really miffed!) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is about to celebrate their 100th anniversary. Their celebration is next month. The keynote speaker’s speech is titled “We are each other’s keepers.” The speaker is none other than BILL AYRES THE TERRORIST!
UPDATE: After the whole state protested the invite through radio talk, e-mails, letters to the newspapers, and elected officials (including Lincoln’s mayor and the Governor) calling it a horrid decision, the university cancelled the terrorist’s visit, citing some mythical “safety concerns.” Safety or embarrassment over getting caught?

A new Yahoo!/AP poll on the Presidential race shows Obama with a 2% lead. That’s very interesting, considering the breakdown of voters actually polled:
Interview dates: October 3, 2008 – October 13, 2008
Interviews: 1,769 adults; 1,528 registered voters
873 Democrats; 650 Republicans
The poll was conducted by Knowledge Networks, of California, Knowledge Networks, and was noted on The Drudge Report on Friday. They tilted their pool of respondents that heavily to the Democrats, and yet only a 2% win for Obama (44% to 42%)?

The Obama-Biden campaign has been trying to slam Sarah Palin for saying that she loves to visit the parts of the country that are Pro-America. Biden said, “We are all patriotic, we all love this country.” Well, obviously liberals DO NOT!

Is there really any wondering about why the Democrats try to suppress the vote of the military and military retirees? Army Times (which also publishes Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, and Air Force Times) did a poll and released the results in their October 8th issue. Here’s the chart of how the respondents chose, broken down by overall, by service, by officer/enlisted, by retirees, and by race. You’ll notice that the ONLY group that favors Obama is the black personnel. That couldn’t be about race, could it? But the Obama campaign keeps trying to say that race doesn’t matter in this campaign.

Biden The Brilliant Strikes Again! Not a good week for ol’ Joe Biden. First, he says that the word JOBS is a three letter word, then he tells the people in Seattle that if Obama is elected, he will face a major test within 6 months. So if an Obama win means we will get attacked within 6 months, isn’t that a good reason to vote for McCain? Sounds like it to me!

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Welcome to another week of The Crawfish’s ranting and raving. We start with an observation. Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel here in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country to a pack of nit-wits who couldn’t make money running a whore house and selling booze?

Do you support the Constitution, specifically the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms? If so, you need to know something ELSE about the background of Barack Obama. Something about the JOYCE Foundation. Barack the Gun Banner!

Supremes say ohhellno to a new trial for Mumia. The Crawfish still says Mumia should have assumed room temperature 20 years ago and the federal government has no reason to be involved, including the federal courts! FRY MUMIA!

Madonna says Palin can’t come to her show, as if…
Does anybody care about Madonna anymore?

The Crawfish has gotten some heat lately for calling Obama “The Chosen One”, but Calypso Louie calls him “The Messiah”!!!!!
Back to the Mothership, Louie!

Solar wind is blowing at 50 year low, which might just have something to do with the global cooling cycle we are currently experiencing. Why are we getting colder?
That leads to another actual SCIENTIST debunking the Glo-Bull Warming alarmists and followers of The Prophet Algoracle. But The Goracle is always ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght!

When all else fails, pull the race card, especially when you are a homo with a history that you want kept under the covers. What are you trying to hide, Barney?
And on the topic of Freddie and Fannie…in 2006, 20 Senators signed a letter demanding action concerning the problems at Freddie and Fannie. All 20 were Republicans, and McCain was one of them. Why were the Democrats shielding the fraud that bit us this fall? Republicans tried to prevent this meltdown

McCain finally says Obama and the Democrats are to blame for the financial mess we are now in. Too little, too late? Probably

The Wall Street Journal says the rich will pay MORE of the burden under McCain’s tax plans, not less. Of course, the rest of the media will ignore THIS and continue to promote Obama’s lies.

Homeless driven to vote for Obama, but we know it is all on the up-and-up don’t we?
But Obama’s friends at ACORN, who he now says he never worked for, are neck deep in voter fraud like THIS and are caught promoting Obama in spite of their “non-partisan” taxpayer supported status. Non-partisan my tail section!
Ohio’s Secretary of State helps ACORN in their fraud, but gets slapped down by a federal judge who says the she must do her job! DO YOUR JOB OR RESIGN!
But then the 6th Circuit Court sided with the Ohio SecState because the poor baby doesn’t have enough time to do the job she is legally REQUIRED to do. poor baby The decision came from a 3 judge panel, with the following judges supporting voter fraud: Karen Nelson Moore (appointed by Bill Clinton) and Myron H Bright (on temporary duty from the 8th circuit, appointed by LBJ). Imagine that. Two judges appointed by Democrats who skirted the law quite often and were partisan beyond partisan both support voter fraud in favor of Democrats.
The Crawfish asks…which is more important, preventing a fraudulent election or keeping the work schedule of a liberal to less than 40 hours in a week? Will this go to The Supremes?

This problem is NOT limited to Ohio. There’s ACORN-organized fraud all over the US, with investigations in at least 11 states. Of course, it isn’t just ACORN that is giving us illegal voters. Here’s a story of convicted FELONS who are ineligible to vote, but 30,000 of them are registered to vote in Florida. Most of ‘em probably voted for Gore in 2000

Then there’s a slight problem of dead people who are still active voters. We are used to this being the norm in Chicago, but another heavily Democrat city is joining the trend of dead voters supporting Democrats. Houston, we have a problem

Obama keeps trying to distance himself from ACORN, but now we know that this “non-partisan” group that gets YOUR taxpayer money from our government, was paid over $800,000 to do “polling, advance work and staging events”. Sounds completely non-partisan to me! Hired by Obama, but you still pay!

Just when you thought it was safe to listen to middle schoolers. Take a look at this group of “Obama Youth” but we thought all of the Nazi references were supposed to be against Republicans

Obama’s friend and advisor cashes in on his fraud from when he ran Fannie Mae! Nice house, Franklin Raines!

Speaking of Obama’s friends…..you ain’t gonna believe THIS story! KINGPIN!

Back in March, Obama’s website had an endorsement listed…but it became a political liability. I wonder why. oops, that’s gotta go!

This is the kind of criminal-friendly judge the liberals keep trying to put into place here: English judge off the deep end

Don’t worry, this isn’t just an Anti-Obama Zone. John McCain has done plenty to hack off The Crawfish, starting with saying that we have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency. Really, you can trust him!
So, we have nothing to fear from an extreme leftist, who wants to overturn just about every part of the Constitution and who thinks Ginsburg is THE model for a Supreme Court Justice? Methinks he really bumped his head hard on that last ejection.

There are also a bunch of stories about the crowds at McCain rallies. They are booing him for being soft on Obama, Ayres, Pelosi, Wright, Reid, Dodd, Fwank, etc. He still believes that the conservative base of the GOP will turn out and vote for him, no matter how much he panders to the center and center-left voters. I have a feeling there’s gonna be a bunch of votes for Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin this year!

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Capitalizing on last week’s well-received column (hey, it got more than 2 comments, so it was a success!), The Crawfish will mix in a bit more of the absurd and weird along with the political outrage in today’s column.

This financial crisis is not the fault of the W Administration, no matter how much the Obamites try to portray it as such. Even the Noo Yawk Slimes noted these problems coming along…back in 99, when Hillary was in her 2nd term as President. Note how the story turns starting in the 7th paragraph. Long Time Coming

What does homosexuality have to do with the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Well, when the Assistant Director of Fannie Mae, one of the guys who developed the subprime mortgage initiatives that are the cornerstones of this crisis, happened to be the boyfriend of the Congresscritter who was in charge of the banking committee that oversaw Fannie Mae, well…. Pillow Talk and Financial Crisis, is Fannie Mae HIV positive?

A Macy’s store in Minnesota wanted their employees to actually speak ENGLISH on the job. Who would have a problem with that? Of course, none other than CAIR, the pro-terrorist, pro-Sharia Law, anti-American group that claims to be made up of patriotic Americans. Oh, really?

A high schooler can’t run a ¼ mile??? Yep, your public schools, run by the Democrats and their teacher unions, at work! Have another donut and listen to our propaganda instead of exercising you lard butt kid

One of Barack Obama’s major “experience” points is that he was a “community organizer” in Chicago. The group he worked for was the radical left wing group ACORN. Well, that is now a problem for him, as ACORN’s agenda and rampant voter fraud activities are becoming well-known. So now, he’s doing a 180 and saying he never worked for ACORN. I worked for them before you were against them

The University of Surrey, in Jolly Olde England, has come out with a study that will blow your mind. In order to combat Glo-Bull Warming, which we all know is a myth anyway, we must all limit ourselves to a maximum of 4 servings of meat per week. Methinks I’ll go out and buy some steak for tonight and some burgers to prep for my lunch tomorrow. Vegetarian…Alaskan word for crrrappy hunter!

What classy people they’ve got in Chicago, home of Obama’s political career. A bar owner painted a picture depicting Sarah Palin nude and severely stereotyped. It now hangs above his bar. To make matters worse, he used his own daughter as the nude body model! Real Nice. Can we give Chicago to Canada?

This piracy thing off the African coast is getting outta hand. Of course, they are becoming victims themselves and helping us to uncover illegal activity by Iran in the meantime. Don’t believe me? Well, they seized an Iranian ship and opened the cargo. They promptly started getting sick and some died. Radiation poisoning or chemical poisoning anyone?
But Iran says they are innocent

Florida man robbed by braless thieves. The only question is…is he going back next week? Look at these while we take your wallet

The wealthy Pelosi family uses PAC money for personal use, even though she wants that to be illegal. This from the woman who said she was going to clean up Washington and make things completely bi-partisan. Nanny The Red strikes again

Our media would never take a story that was good news for America and actually portray it as terrible news, would they? Of Course They Would

President Bush has come out and stated that he would not support the conservative alternate plan to the massive financial bailout plan. The alternate plan was submitted by conservative Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling. Of course, conservatives never expected W to ever support something that would look good for Texas or actually be conservative. W, the liberal President

It’s about time! The Prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, the highest court of the Catholic Church, has called out the Democrats and their leading Catholics (Pelosi and Biden) for becoming “the party of death” and for claiming to be good Catholics while intentionally misrepresenting the Church’s position on abortion. Now, will The Church have the intestinal fortitude to excommunicate these “Catholics” who support abortion on demand? Pelosi, Biden, Kerry…all BAD Catholics

Senator Reid has taken a page out of Chuckie Schumer’s playbook. Schumer talked down an industry in the press and caused it to tank. Now Reid says that some big insurance company is about to tank. This immediately causes the stocks on many large insurance companies to go down the toilet, generating more of an economic crisis that can be blamed on the W Administration. Deliberate?

Then there is Keith Olbermann, who was such a joke as a sportscaster that ESPN let him go. He was picked up by MSNBC, but now they’ve tossed him into the trash bin because he was beyond stooopid in his partisanship while trying to be a newscaster. He’s back on NBC as a football commentator on the Sunday night pre-game and halftime show. When presenting the highlights of Sunday’s Buffalo Bills game, as they show the hit that gives Bills QB Trent Edwards a concussion, Olbermann blurts out “he can see Russia from there!” Is that political idiocy really necessary during NFL highlights? I wasn’t the only one who saw this example of Palin Derangement Syndrome. Olbermann is STILL an idiot

I called this one months ago. Any attack on Obama, no matter how valid and true, are to be considered RACIST! Over the weekend, Governor Palin started talking about Obama’s association with terrorist Bill Ayres. Somehow, the AP (which is changing their formal name from ASSOCIATED PRESS to AGAINST PALIN) has decided that this was all abou