i will make the Sweeping Assumption -- from the Tone of this afternoon's postings -- as well as the preponderance of Typos & Misspellinges --- that most in today's Salon -- are either Hungover -- or -- are sitting with a Heiney in one hand -- and gazing beyond between postings -- at the line of empties straddling the keyboard...

But whatever the cause of the rat-a-tat-tatings of the present discourse ... i call attenttion to an ammendmending ....

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"... Some Active Recruit who spent yesterday thinking about how his 'Brother' was beaten to death last year in a Shia POW cell voting for an 'Uncle' who after hanging by his pre-busted arms REFUSED to allow his captors to release him BEFORE ANY OF HIS POW BROTHERS who'd preceded his arrival at the Hanoi Hilton had been sent home"

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For these past months I've been reading an inordinate number of posters who dismissed McCain's QUALIFICATION to Lead by focusing on his simply being shot down ... 'no heroism in that'

I would only offer this .... when the Joe Schmoes of America listen to such "Noise" being emoted from Air America, Salon, et cetera .... they become rather hardened against 'the Cause' for the Idiocy of the Left ... then hop off the fence and scramble for the Voting Booth's Republican Leaver.

Most unemotional thinkers will keep a 10-yard distance from McCain's war service ...

... while the Less-Than-Sterling Ponderers ... now, what's that More-Than-Useful-Word ?? ... oh yeah ... "Whine" ... about How the Rovians creamed Lt. Kerry's heroism.

... it simply won't work in this election cycle ...

... the voters have to klear a snapshot of the present day Kerry Windsurfing with his MegaFilthyRichWifey at some resort beach ...

... which is readily paralled with the broken cripple who didn't stoop to help the clerk pick up the applesauce cans with his withered wing & dislocated shoulder that tells far more about a "Man" ... then the Less-Than-Stellar passages from a Claim of Audacity that pales in comparison to McCain's audacity to face more torture & brutal beatings & solitary & weevil-infested rice rations ... than allow one of his 'Brothers' be traded before him in a prison exchange.

People .... just stay away from addressing or dismissing the guy's actions ...

You're 'Noise' has a way of echoing out into the electorate in ways your namby-pamby life stories simply cannot ever possibly relate to.

JOHN ANDERSON: "Cow Head - I don't take orders from the cow head...only from my Lord God Obama"

SENOR SOPA: "Fine, ... then I Orders Thee to take an order from Lord Obama. -- He'll have the Jumbo McFries with Mayonaise .. no salt. I'll have the Dead Cow Sandwich with lots of Pickles .. and no sand."

SIR KLYTUS: "Cow Head Soup .. The only "Heiney" I have in hand is your wife's left buttock."

SENOR SOPA: "Don't know what's in your hand. But my wife died in 1994."

SENIOR SOPA: "Hey Heiney !!! .... How abouts that Honey ?? ... err, Heiney, Honey ?? .... Joanie ? ... You-hoo ?? .... Hey Pickles ... ??

[Senor Sopa rises from his Keyboard toward towards the backroom where a single fluttering light emanates from the telly as his sponsor snores through a rerun of Mystery Science 3000}

SENIOR SOPA: "Joanie? -- Joanie ?"

[Senor Sopa stops in his tracks as his Jaws drops]

SENIOR SOPA: "Joan !! What in Blazes happened to your Left Buttock."

JOANIE: (squinting, yawning) "Oh, .... oh that. Some creepy little midget with a Big Bag of Buttered Butts broke in last night and wiped it ... i mean ... swiped it. Go get it back for me, will ya Shugar ?"

SENIOR SOPA: (winces) "I'll call 911"

THING ONE:

"Ya heerd Bruther ? ... They'sa just abouts'ta pick one of dem city-slickers to serves as our fweeshure Nice Pareaseedent"

THING TWO: (blowing a silvery-blue ring at the sun)

"Naaah --- G'won --- the campainings jes beguun"

THING ONE:

"Welp ... i'za g'wonna puts two finbacks down on'a Joe-Bob Biden ... caus'a he kinda remahnd's me ah my cuzin Joe-Bob ... wit all dat nice hairs he'sa gots."

THING TWO:

"But Bruther ... Biden's won of dem damn Papists ... wonts has a chance-in-hell in Hootersville."

THING ONE:

"Mebee sos ... yet it'll all be offset by that other Critter .... he'sa True-Blue Jeezus Luver --- praisebe de lord !!"

THING TWO:

"Naaaah ... Biden's a Weerd-o ... They'sa jus gotsta pick won of us Guud-Ol-Bhoys .... Whell, Like Bubba ... he wuz'a Man's Man --- know'd hows ta treats da Ladies like Wymen's"

THING ONE:

"Dat's so Bruther, Dats's so ... But whenna dey pick'd Al .... he went down smokin"

THING TWO: "Dat'sa cause dat, courts or not, dat Cracker wuz just too plumb Goofy"

THING ONE:

"Yup .... well one things Mr O's got goin fer him"

THING TWO:

"and what mights dat be ?"

THING ONE:

"Nobody heerd of him a year's back ... ain't got no record to critamasize"

THING TWO:

"ain't it da trooth, Bruther, ain't it da trooth"

"STRAINED BY WAR , U.S. CONGRESS PROMOTES UNQUALIFIED POLITICIANS"

CONGRESS HITS 9% APPROVAL RATING .... AND SINKING FAST !!

that is all ....

"STRAINED BY WAR , U.S. CONGRESS PROMOTES UNQUALIFIED POLITICIANS" .... STOP

CONGRESS 9% APPROVAL RATING SOARS TO 11% .... STOP

THERE IS STILL "HOPE" .... STOP

YES HE CAN !! .... STOP .... YES HE CAN !! .... STOP .... YES HE CAN !! .... STOP ....

IN AN UNRELATED MATTER ....

A NEWLY INDUCTED CONGRESS MOVED TODAY TO LEGALIZE CANNYBUS SALAIVA .... STOP .... RIFF-RAFF & SOCIAL DEVIANTS & N'ARE-DO-WELLS & LOOZERS IN AMSTERDAM ARE REPORTEDLY GOING LOONEY-TOONS .... STOP .... AMERICAN EMBASSYS ROUND-THE-GLOBE ARE SUDDENLY SWAMPED .... STOP .... STATE DEPARTMENT DEMANDS GAO BEGIN A SURGE IN PRINTING UP NEW CITIZENSHIP APPLICATIONS .... STOP .... DRUGLORDS IN MEJICO, OAKLAND PIMPS & THE DAR ARE REPORTEDLY "CONCERNED" .... STOP ....

IN ANOTHER UNRELATED MATTER ....

FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH DURING HER SATURDAY MORNING CHERRIOS BREAKFAST WITH MEDIA INTELLIGENTSIA, MIZZ MALKIN & MIZZ COULTER WAS OVERHEARD BY THE 'HELP' ...

.... TO HAVE QUERRIED; "DONT'CHA THINK THAT CUTE LITTLE BARNY FRANK REMINDS YA OF BARNY RUBBLE ?? WELL THEY EVEN TALK ALIKE ...

... THE UNIDENTIFIED 'HELP' DECLARED THAT THE LINCOLN BEDROOM HADN'T BEEN FILLED WITH SUCH AN UPROAR OF GIGGLINGS ...

... SINCE THE HEARTY AGE OF BUBBA CLINTON.

.... that is all ....