20. May 2008 by admin.

Oregon and Kentucky are holding primaries today. Obama will win one and Clinton the other. While it’s expected that Barack will secure the minimum necessary delegates to ‘clinch’ the nomination, he’s not going to declare victory, because that might look like was trying to ‘push’ Hillary out of the race. Why the Hell not?

I understand the desire to maintain the appearance of being a gentleman, and the need to avoid fracturing the Democratic Party by forceful infighting, but what does this say about Barack and confrontations? I agree with him that we should be willing to talk to just about anyone (I was disappointed the Obama campaign didn’t counter Bush’s “tanks rolling into Poland” speech with the Churchill [who knew something about Nazi tanks] quote “Jaw, Jaw is better than War, War.”) But the time comes when the gentlemanly demeanor needs to be dropped and a leader needs to push and shove. Barack’s unwillingness to do that has me concerned about how he’s going to handle foreign leaders in a crisis. He needs to show he knows when, and how, to stop talking and take decisive action.

Also interesting is that the Obama and McCain campaigns have started ignoring the Clinton campaign. The only group still giving Hillary’s campaign any attention is the MSM, and then only to ask when she’s going to quit. This marginalization shows just how over the Democratic primary is. The New York Times even ran a postmortem article on what went wrong. It seems everyone got the death certificate except the deceased.

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17. May 2008 by admin.

First off, an apology.  I check the stats on unique hits, pageviews, etc. for Ontheblob.net, Paperbagninja.com & Greenpunk.org regularly, ’cause I know people are utilizing those sites.  But tonight I checked the stats for the blog, and holy cheese, people are reading this too!  Now that I know this, I’ll post much more regularly, to give you a reason to do so.

Of course, it wouldn’t hurt for you to respond back with comments; this is Web 2.0 you know.

So, a random thought for 4:30 am: what can I do to make the websites better?  I like Scott Adams new functionality of allowing his readers to insert their own punchlines into his old strips.  Would people be interested in doing the same with PBN?  What about LOLNinjas?  I can’t accept storyline suggestions for It Ain’t Easy Being Green or other fiction for legal reasons, but what kind of interactivity can I give Ontheblob?  How about Greenpunk?  Shoot me an email, or better yet, post your ideas in the comment section?

So, totally jacking Scott Adam’s idea, what if I were to publish a text free version of the comic for people to caption themselves, and I would post them and allow voting?  The winner would be enshrined on a Mash Up page, and maybe win a PBN handpuppet or something (yes, a brown lunch bag with a hand drawn PBN face on it.  But hey, I’ll sign it for you.)

Let me know.

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7. May 2008 by admin.

So, a politician begins a massive project, suffers setback after setback, refuses to acknowledge a failing strategy and vows to fight to the bitter end.

President Bush and Iraq? No, Hillary and the Democratic nomination.

She can’t win. The elections in FL & MI were bollocks, and it would be more undemocratic to include those results than to exclude them. There aren’t enough delegates left in play to catch up to Obama, and the superdelegates can follow the money trail well enough to see the Clinton campaign is a sunk ship. Enough of them are deserting like rats to prove that.

Hillary fought a good fight, but needs to realize this isn’t her year, pack up the bus, and try again in ‘12 or maybe ‘16 if Obama wins the general election. McCain has shown this is a viable strategy.

As an aside, many have noted the symmetry between the Clinton campaign and Hillary’s pick for the Kentucky Derby.

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6. May 2008 by admin.

Crap, I need to get on here more often.

I could offer lame excuses: I’ve been dedicating my time to updating the PBN website so it doesn’t look so slapdash, and I’m trying to keep ahead of the Being Green story, and this just fell right through the cracks.

In reality it’s because religion, politics and geek has gotten boringgg!

Even Gary Trudeau has taken a sabbatical from writing Doonsbury, politics have gotten so predictable.  McCain is keeping his head down while Obama and Clinton damage the Democrats chance to win the White House for personal ego.

I mean it was fun to watch a couple of primaries ago, but now it’s just predictable.  Even with Indiana and whatever Carolina is voting today, we know what’s going to happen.

I do kind of hope for a contested primary.  That could be fun.

D&D’s 4th edition is coming out in a couple of months, but even that’s boring, because from the previews it looks like they are continuing the trend of making characters even more munchkin with extra powers and abilities than they were before.  It’s essentially WoW the RPG.

The pope came to visit, and said nice things, and even met with some victims of the sex abuse scandal.  I don’t know that it actually will result in any changes, but it was a nice touch, and at least the papal pr guy gets my respect for have Pope Bennie do it, especially in such an understated way.

So, gentle readers, we while away our time until the summer, when things should pick up.

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