Obama's Oscar opuscule...

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Another Inconvenient Truth: Obama started trying to get re-elected 3 years ago and certainly hasn't done much else this year; now the real grind begins and - very amusingly - it is documentary director Davis Guggenheim who will produce a short film for his campaign (again) ...Guggenheim is 'the man Obama hired was the director behind Al Gore’s fairytale, “An Inconvenient Truth.”'. Story from Bloomberg via Politico and Weasel Zippers. Click on image for another inconvenient truth, i.e. how...

"On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama's limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States. For many of these Americans, the explanation was rather simple... the news media, completely enamored with Obama, simply refused to do their job."

Oeillading opening...

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The news of the world is that the sun always sets but then rises...everyday. Today The Sun on Sunday rises from behind clouds (although "questions continue to be asked about alleged criminality and corruption at other News International titles"). The first edition of The Sun on Sunday rose today: it will be "fearless, outspoken, mischievous and fun" but also with a pledge of trust and "decency". Let's hope so but let's also hope that all the hypocritical shits in the rest of the media stop pretending that Murdoch's press were the only ones with suspect methods of revealing news in 'the public interest'. Some - including one A. Campbell - are clearly underwhelmed with the "subdued" launch front-page, however, the News of The World was by far the biggest selling Sunday national newspaper...any bets the Sun on Sunday won't be before too long?

Oscar outrage...

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...but bloody funny. "I am outraged at being banned from the Oscars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Zionists" says Supreme Leader Shabazz Aladeen (tragic childhood etc): "While I applaud the Academy for taking away my right to free speech, I warn you that if you do not lift your sanctions and give me my tickets back by 12:00 pm on Sunday, you will face unimaginable consequences!"..."Where are the nominations for such classic [Wadiyan] films as 'When Harry kidnapped Sally, 'You've got Mailbomb,' or 'Planet of the Rapes'?" This is spoof but no doubt some - the usual suspects - will be really outraged. According to the scrolling news update at the Republic of Wadiya website the Academy has surrendered and sent over two tickets and a parking pass.

Obstinately oppugnant over ogre...

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I see the traitor* Gordon Brown has been making a lot of money (albeit dwarfed by that "earned" by arch-vampire Blair: "The former Prime Minister's secretive business empire declared a £12million turnover, up from £8.5million the year before"): Brown has received 1.4 million since leaving the job he should never have been allowed to take. I make that 66,666 quid a month (an appropriate number for such an evil shit). However, no word of whether this includes the £173,633.35 (click on image) by the British taxpayer**; I suspect it doesn't include it; is he even doing his job as an MP?

* I am not sure whether it is warped Scottish nationalism, hidden Soviet sympathies, gross dumbfuckery or merely blinkered, lefty-twat incompetence but whichever it is he is in my top five (along with Blair) of those responsible for the ruination of the UK.
** Annualised 2010-2011 tax year only, from IPSA.

Oxyopia or oligophrenia...

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Jumping ahead a few weeks to March 23rd. An intersting date: in 1919 on March 23rd the original 'Third Way' emerged: Mussolini 'founded' Fascism. In 1933 on 23rd March, in order to 'Remedy the Distress of People and Reich', the (legal) rise of Hitler was "Enabled". And on March 23rd, 2012...the Slog highlights another 'cure': amputate and cauterise: "Were I Greek, Portuguese or Irish, I’d be a worried man this morning." (edit: with update HERE).

Odd obnubilation...

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"Independent journalism requires honest and open internal debate free from external pressures. This ruling enables us to continue to do that”...the BBC's statement on how honest and open debate is being stifled by the BBC (re the Beeb's refusal to disclose findings of the 2004 Balen Report under the Freedom of Information Act being upheld). Odd, what could they possibly want to hide?