As I type this, Obama is either speaking to the graduating class at ASU or he just finished. Of course, his presence caused great traffic snarls, but I suppose that would be the situation for any president appearing at ASU.  No one was allowed to bring containers of any kind inside the stadium. However, when they got inside, everyone found out that bottles of water cost 5.50 EACH! Considering they started arriving around 1 pm in the hot Arizona sun, I sure hope everyone stayed well-hydrated and safe.

I confess that I didn’t watch the television coverage of Obama’s visit. I would hope he would encourage the grads to start on a path of self-reliance, and to accept responsibility for their prior actions. Then again, the Democrats aren’t accepting any responsiblity for the financial problems that started two years ago when they took control of the Legislature. I mean, how can Obama tell the seniors that they are responsible for their futures when he and Pelosi refuse to accept any responsiblity for their past actions?

However, the Selective Service  Registration requirement was terminated by  Proclamation 4360 which eliminated  the registration requirement for all 18-25 year old male citizens. This proclamation was signed by President Gerald R. Ford on March 29, 1975.  According to Wikipedia, it was reestablished by Jimmy Carter in 1980, after Obama graduated:

On March 25, 1975, Pres. Gerald Ford signed Proclamation 4360, Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act, eliminating the registration requirement for all 18-25 year old male citizens. Then on July 2, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18-26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration.^[2] The first registrations after Proclamation 4771 took place on Monday, July 21, 1980, for those men born in January, February and March 1960 at U.S. Post Offices. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays were reserved for men born in the later quarters of the year, and registration for men born in 1961 began the following week ^[3].

I know many people are probably focusing on Obama’s “My Muslim Faith” comment during the same interview, but I think this is just as important. Why in the world would he lie about something like this? Everyone at the time knew that young men were no longer required to register.

Even if Obama didn’t know that Ford had signed the proclamation, how could he be remembering being required to sign up, when there was no requirement at all?

“I just don’t think he’s got yet the proven substance or experience to be the president.”

This was said less than 2 years ago, when Carter was appearing on “The Charlie Rose Show”, Nov. 30, 2006.

Can someone please tell me what has changed in Obama’s substance or experience in the past 20 odd months or so?

She makes great points about what a political convention should be and it makes me wonder if Obama is trying to unify the country, why is he trying to silence those that don’t agree with him? Shouldn’t Obama listen to everyone’s concerns, not just those that agree with him?

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And hopefully both are about to use up their 15 minutes of fame.

*Credit for this line goes to Dave Barry. Make sure to read his complete coverage of the DNC convention.

Here’s a playlist on YouTube with various videos of the House Republican Energy Revolt, and this video is House GOP Energy Revolt Press Conference, Part 1

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I am considering offering advertising on this blog. I did pretty good with some of the stuff I had on here before, but I think I am going to try something a bit different for August.

I am thinking of starting a series: Blogs I like. Don’t worry, it will be a rather short series because I think most blogs are just vacuous potholes on the information super highway, including mine. However, there’s a few I do like and I’ll probably be writing about them in the next few days/weeks/months/years/whenever I can.

One of my cousins keeps sending me inaccurate political information. I wish everyone would understand that Barack Obama probably isn’t affiliated with terrorists. They need to stop focusing on that and look at the more important issues, like the fact that his birth certificate is probably a forgery and he may not even be a U.S. citizen. I started reading about it on Glenn Beck‘s site, and there’s some pretty convincing evidence online, if you take the time to read it all. It would be so easy for Obama to dispel all this and stop the rumors. He could just send someone in to the State of Hawaii Vital Records with a few bucks and get a fresh certified copy for all the world to see. Yet, he hasn’t for some reason. I’d love to write more about this, but as always, gotta run!

Later Taters

If you do research the topic, do NOT believe all the anecdotal posts on the footnotes of blogs and forums. Go to reputable medical sites, like webmd, or mayo clinic. I know wikipedia isn’t totally reliable, but there’s nothing there either. The only thing you’ll find online is stinking garbage in posts on blogs that say something like:

“We’ve learned the best way to avoid skin cancer is to avoid black people. Reportedly their African American Incidental (UV) Transference (AAIT) is the leading cause of our melanomas. After the loss of my wife, by the AAIT, people in my community started taking it VERY seriously. We are fortunate and don’t live around a lot of blacks. My wife, however, worked with them. We’ve got our children in a private school with no black children. We hate to raise them in this kind of environment, but this is the world we live in today.”

Even if you don’t believe in traditional medicine, go find some alternative therapy, especially sites that talk about the Budwig diet, and you’ll find that no one in their right mind believes that one person is physically capable of storing and transmitting UV rays. If I weren’t so sleepy, I could go into the physics of the whole thing and talk about angstroms and light waves and stuff like that. But I can barely see the screen, so if you don’t believe that AAIT is a pile of garbage, make sure you take the time to do your research and use reputable sources.

For everyone else, there is no such thing as AAIT. It is scientifically impossible for one person to store UV rays and then transmit them to another. Anyone with a brain stem would know that. But maybe that explains the jerks that think their comments matter to me, because if they are capable of reading anything beyond third grade science, they would know that they are wrong.

Somehow, I don’t think science matters to them. I don’t think anything matters to them except their hatred. I could go on and on about how sickening these kind of people are, but I can sum them up in just one word:

Bastards