Tom Hanks endorsing Obama, and rewriting history at the same time.

In endorsing Obama, Uncle Tom is quoted accusing the United States and a country who once counted blacks as “three fifths of a human being”.

While it’s true that the three fifths compromise only counted the slaves as 3/5th of their actual population, the motive behind it was to retain the anti-slavery majority in congress and ensure an end to slavery. 

On a carefully orchestrated sham for the media, the Monks show up to set the record straight for the world.

It’s just as you suspected - this has been the snowiest winter ever in the Ann Arbor area, or at least since 1880 when record-keeping started. And it’s not over yet. That was enough to send this winter into the record books and shove the 2004-05 winter aside.

In 2004-05, 83.9 inches of snow fell. This year, we’re sitting at 85 inches.

That’s a lot of Earth fever.

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Opinion polls in Iraq and Afghanistan showed that more than 90 per cent of those populations have unfavorable views of al Qaeda and of Osama himself. Pakistan is also among the Muslim countries where al Qaeda has greatly lost its popularity — from above 75 per cent five years ago to 34 per cent now. Pravda.Ru has interviewed several major experts in the field of terrorism to explain this information.

“There are a number of possible explanations. Let me highlight two. First, attacks attributed to al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted primarily in the deaths of Muslims, not outsiders. So most citizens of these countries are beginning to recognize al Qaeda leaders as criminals, not saviors. Second, most Muslims do not agree with the repressive vision of Islam propagated by the likes of bin Laden. They do not want to go back to the 7th century. They want to remain faithful to Islam, but live in the 21st century,” believes Philip Crowley, Senior Fellow and Director of Homeland Security at the Center for American Progress.

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March 21st in Northwest Ohio, grass seed planted, waiting on the rain and 60 degree days.

March 22nd, ground covered in about 2 inches of snow.

A low level staffer on the McCain campaign posts a video featuring Obama clips separated by innocent questions, and McCain kicks him to the curb.

The Clinton myth

One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.
In other words: The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe.

The real question is why so many people are playing. The answer has more to do with media psychology than with practical politics.

Journalists, for instance, have become partners with the Clinton campaign in pretending that the contest is closer than it really is. Most coverage breathlessly portrays the race as a down-to-the-wire sprint between two well-matched candidates, one only slightly better situated than the other to win in August at the national convention in Denver.

One reason is fear of embarrassment. In its zeal to avoid predictive reporting of the sort that embarrassed journalists in New Hampshire, the media — including Politico — have tended to avoid zeroing in on the tough math Clinton faces.

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Chinese signs - translated into english, for convenience at your humble welcome.