MooPig Exit Poll Department: Prez-Dental Debate

UPDATE: Deepening Debate and Press Converges on the Crisis that is [or is not] Joe the Plumber... let's see the latest:

Oooops: MooPig yellow journalists made a mistake !! They interviewed the wrong Joe the Plumber. Here is the real Joe the Plumber -- or is it? Maybe we should change that to Karen Carpenter...

The Final Word on Joe the Plumber, by 3BlueDudes.com

Why the final word? Because he is a fraud. The media must really feel like morons. They took, hook, line, and sinker from the McCain campaign.

Mr. Wurzelbacher told reporters Thursday morning that he worked for Newell Plumbing & Heating Co., a small local firm whose business addresses flow back to several residential homes, including one on Talmadge Road in Ottawa Hills.

According to Lucas County Building Inspection records, A. W. Newell Corp. does maintain a state plumbing license, and one with the City of Toledo, but would not be allowed to work in Lucas County outside of Toledo without a county license.

Mr. Joseph said Mr. Wurzelbacher could only legally work in the townships, but not in any municipality in Lucas County or elsewhere in the country.

“This individual has got no schooling, no licenses, he’s never been to a training program, union or non-union, in the United States of America,” Mr. Joseph said.

So he isn’t a plumber. He doesn’t pay his taxes — he has a lien on his property for not paying taxes. And he does plumbing work without a license.

Anyone get the feeling that Joe isn’t going to wish soon he had this publicity?

Oh, and by the way …

Local 50 of the United Association of Plumbers, Steamfitters, and Service Mechanics - the plumbers union in Toledo, Ohio where Joe is from, ummm, they have endorsed Barack Obama.

Turns out as well, Joe isn’t even a REP or DEM, he is a member of the Natural Law Party.

Enough said. (3BlueDudes; 10/16/2008)

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Enough Said? uhh, don't think so -- "We've only just begun !! (Karen Carpenter)"

"Lucy Says:Do we know that he is not related to Robert Wurzelbacher, son-in-law of Charles Keating, who went to jail after the savings-and-loan debacle? They are from the same area, and it doesn’t seem that there are very many folks with this last name. Robert Wurzelbacher is now a fairly substantial Republican donor to candidates around the country. Could this be his son? He would be in the right age bracket?

"Spence Says:Joe the Plumber IS a relative of Charles Keating, the corrupt S&L kingpin who drew John McCain into his web of sin.

"karin Says: if you look at yahoo news you will see that an Az tv station shows he lived in Arizona in 2 different cities and has had run ins with the law. They have a video the the newscast. It is channel 3 in Phoenix. I wonder if he was a non vetted plant. (Comments; October 16th, 2008 at 5:59 pm. the final word on joe the plumber)"

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Urban Dictionary Word for October 16: Joe the Plumber

1: a fictional person representing the whole of the people; mostly the lower to middle class.

2: a political strategy where one side asks the other what he would do for the above mentioned.

man1: did you hear what's happening to Joe the Plumber?
man2: yea, they're increasing his taxes.

man1: so if you became president, what would you do for Joe the Plumber?
man2: well, i would give him a big taxbreak.

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MooPig Canvass Partners went out to find Joe the Plumber, and prove he is not fictional, and found him:

Space Pancakes & Flying Saucers Land in North Woods!
Space Cakes!! Meet Joe Simonton, the Plumber

Joe Simonton meets space aliens, flying saucers in Eagle River Wisconsin

"It’s a famous UFO encounter and it happened in Eagle River, Wisconsin, more than forty years ago, April 18, 1961. Joe Simonton, a chicken farmer, plumber, and part time Santa, got up from breakfast and reported hearing a sound, “like knobby tires on a wet pavement.” Simonton went outside and saw, hovering in the backyard a silver spaceship, he said “as bright as chrome and like one soup bowl turned upside down on another.” Then the craft landed, and a hatch went up…"
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This may describe why Obama wears this hat, and why he keeps mentioning such a good mensch as Joe the Plumber!

"We think the story from 1961 describes an event when a space ship was discharging its latrines before heading back to Zima Prime Krappa; and Joe, the Plumber, was on the job... come night, day, or inclement weather, as usual !!"

"Plumbers have all the clout, when drains are stopped!!"

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This story originally appeared in the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S.News & World Report. It was posted online on January 28, 2008. [SOURCE]


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Sarah Palin's Future
Alaska's most valuable resource.
by Fred Barnes [SOURCE]
10/27/2008, Volume 014, Issue 07
"...Her conservatism is more instinctive. Her Republican heroes, besides McCain, come to a grand total of two, Reagan and Lincoln. And for now, she's a neophyte in national politics, having been picked by McCain less than two months ago..."
"...But her best performance by far came when she actually delivered the speech before more than 20,000 people at the convention and a national television audience of roughly 37 million. "It was like she'd been doing this all her life,... "
"...Another Republican (a Palin admirer) told me that in a room of 20 women, you'd never pick out Palin as the one who's the elected governor. "She doesn't stand out in a group the way Reagan did," the Republican said. "But when she goes into these places [for campaign rallies], it's different. She's got this extra thing... (Barnes, Fred; 10.27.2008. IBID.)"

When you VOTE for him you get one of these at no cost... the ass kicking Alaskans and their mountains...

Check out the game face on the littlest one!


Turn about is still fair play!

Empowered to do something about National Pork

Since we are keeping it real... or surreal... I have a big question for the Presidential Debates this coming week.

For Barack Obama: "Do you eat pork?"

For John McCain: "Do you use and endorse Viagra?"

That's all I want to know; really. I wonder if ever anyone will ever actually look at the spirit of the debate this year. What I see is that the candidates keep going around thinking they are conducting business as usual. What is different?

Pressure on these candidates; does it come from political ranks? NO.. pressure is coming from MySpace, FaceBook, WordPress, and all the GoogleMegaPlex Tools. Yep, that's right!

My thirteen year old is putting pressure on Executive / Judicial / Legislature. The beginning of a voice of the people is finally arrived over two hundred years after it was written into our cherished balance of power documents of USA.

Poor, tired, rudderless politicians; I can see it in their faces at every new dawn, at each turn of a page. Hiding all his papers from his past, Obama is certainly on a trail of self-destruction. A savvy eighth grader can find voids in the path to his candidacy for Prez.

McCain, you have been so long in the saddle -- you don't even know that cover-up, and scratch my back I'll scratch yours politics are not part of the bylaws of the US government. In the near future your busy schedule could be put on hold all day by one call about a 3 minute YouTube v-log article.

You two can run, or jog, but you will not be able to hide anymore. You are very, very brave -- or total socio-paths -- to run for Prez in this decade...

Fellows, you are either extremely advanced or extremely ignorant. Hannity's America, check it out... Campaign Connections.

MooPig Wisdom: Positve and Negative of Oil Painting

MooPig Wisdom: Positve and Negative of Oil Painting

This is why I'm voting for McCain, he knows art!

Did Kenny Rogers Endorse McCain? -- Good Question

What Would a Maverick Do? -- Good Question, by Pat Darnell

Wink and a smile?

Certainly that is part of the ruse. However, it makes a perfect bluff face in any poker game.

And a Gun?

That would enforce the Mavericks, for sure.


I'm pretty sure Maverick would never wear a Burkha... you think? Maybe so.


Let's go to the song boards:

Gambler/ Kenny Rogers
On a warm summers evenin on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin' out the window at the darkness
til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, son, Ive made a life out of reading peoples faces,
And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey Ill give you some advice.

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if youre gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

Now every gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
cause ev'ry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

So when he'd finished speakin', he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

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Resumes

"Don't look at the flash: keep your heads down between your knees, children!!"

Election 2008 for President: what if you are twenty something and you campaign for B. Obama, and he wins. When you are fifty something later, you wake up one day and you realize you are in the same boat as when you were twenty something... making about fifty cents an hour more than back then, and working 110 hours a week instead of 32?

Well then:
"MooPig Advice Department Suggests you look with a hairy eye at the various resumes of the Candidates...
don't delay, check them out today.

If you vote for this guy -- OBAMA
You are voting for an inflated Resume
Okay -- I get it he is a Moslem Sympathizer



















If you are voting for this guy: McCAIN
You have too much resume to consider
Okay, he is a VaudeVille Act from long ago... like Obi Juan Kanobi, but it is not necessary to put his stage acting on his resume...





















If you are voting for this guy: PALIN
He isn't a guy, but is a Maverick... with a poker face to boot















If you are voting for this guy: BIDEN
You just might be on track with a veritable definition of Civil Servant

Prez-dental De Bats, SurveyUSA and You

UFC: Ultimate Flagellating Campaigns, by Pat Darnell

The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS' WBBM-TV. See the picture in MooPig Header this week. That debate is well documented everywhere.

Had there been a reliable instant survey system in 1960 like there is today it would have been like this map: of course one has to reverse the colors for Party control. JFK was an overnight rock star...
Winning this debate has its drawbacks; MooPig will take you through the reason for not winning this talkie.

[Note: Debate on Sep 26, 1960 plus November 22, 1963: That's only 35 months before JFK was assassinated in Machiavellian context.]

This is what SurveyUSA says abou titself:
"...an independent, non-partisan, full-service opinion research firm that conducts scientific research for media, government, and private-sector clients. By many measures, SurveyUSA is the nation’s largest public opinion polling firm. As of 2002, 19 of the nation’s then 25 largest media companies had contracted with SurveyUSA to conduct opinion research.

SurveyUSA wrote software from 1990 to 1992 to make it possible for local TV news stations and others to order true random-sample research, of any geography, on a topic of local, national or international interest, at a moment’s notice, and, when methodologically appropriate, get back results the same day, in time for that night’s news deadline.

Prior to SurveyUSA, opinion research was slow and expensive, and only TV networks and the largest newspapers could afford to undertake them. SurveyUSA reduced the turnaround time and cost by an order of magnitude, without a sacrifice in quality.

SurveyUSA has published this map afterwards and now we have the Oedipus Effect...


A question comes to the frontal lobe of MooPig Editors: "Why again do we have a two party system government?"

This last map looks like a "good water versus bad water" map of the USA.

MooPig ran its own "fifty states" qualitative survey [not really] and came up with a more "descriptive" survey map of the whole world.

We then slyly included this little agrarian area of Italy, and they said: "Obama -- that's the Dego in Charge?"

So they all voted for McCain.









After all this exhaustive Surveying, MooPig has a final conclusive statement: "Whoever wins the Televised Prez-dental DeBate will die in an obvious Mobster-like Hit within 36 months after the debate.."

Sarah Palin has it Goin' On... No Pant Suits Here!!!

I likeee, You likeeee, Dubya likeeee... Johneeeee likeeee !!

"This is me, ya'll, Dubya on EVA from Space. That is Extra Vehicular AMbulatory, and I say Yow-za for Sarah. Laura's gonna twitter my nose but Double YEEEEEhaw and a few woohoo's. Now we're sure to get a chance to invade Iran."



PROTOCOL Ya'll, -- do I give her Sugar or not?

State of the Union

DEMONCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION | AUGUST 25 -- 28, 2008 | DENVER

Consider this cross section of the United States right now: Thursday August 14, 2008; Jim Geraghty

"We may be on the verge of winning in Iraq, but Afghanistan is getting tougher. Pakistan is still an unstable cauldron of extremism where America has limited options. Iran is seeking nukes and the Israelis have an itchy trigger finger.

The Russian bear is in the woods again, stomping on Georgia. China is rising and showcasing authoritarian capitalism as an alternative to Western-style democracy. If the FBI is right, one guy with no state or group backing managed to terrorize Americans in fall 2001 by slipping poisons in envelopes.

Gas prices are dropping, but Americans won't quickly forget $4 a gallon prices, nor the recognition that faraway pipelines and Nigerian political stability can suddenly affect them at the pump.

Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac ran aground, the housing bubble burst, the border's not secure..."

Maybe 1992, and perhaps 2000 were good cycles to run "young/fresh face" against "trusted and tested." But this isn't 1992 or 2000.

According to HERE: It's a Tough Cycle to Run Young/Fresh Face' Against 'Trusted and Tested.' (Thursday August 14, 2008; Jim Geraghty, the campaign spot)

Steven Stark, cogitating over at RealClearPolitics has said:

"History shows that the Democrats are up against an experienced, steady Republican candidate [McCain] who is unlikely to make major mistakes. And their nominee, after a brilliant start in January and February to launch his candidacy and cement his base, hasn't had a terrific six months. Obama continues to show few signs of extending his support to the demographics that are likely to decide the election — principally the working-class voters concentrated in industrial states such as Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania." (Stark, S; August 14, 2008)

It is a flummoxed, potentially unsteady Democratic Party again; or is it?

What happens if the love affair WITH Barack Obama is over by DNC08 closing gavel?

Don't you just hate to wait and see -- let's fast forward to November?

Brain, Drain, McCain: MooPig's Brain Industries Section

Related in Slate (Retrieved HERE for critical review today)

Science editor Daniel Engber chatted with readers on washingtonpost.com about the special issue on the brain. Meghan O'Rourke finds out if you can stop your mind from aging. Max Linsky works out at the brain gym. Alison Gopnik tackles the myth about mirror neurons. Sue Halpern shops for memory-enhancing products.

Related on the Web

Watch Slate contributors John Horgan and George Johnson discuss the "Brains!" special issue at Bloggingheads.tv.

MooPig is on the trail of Brain Industries world wide as more and more Quacks come out of the closets to tell us how the Brain works or doesn't... based on "latest studies."

Bonus Explainer: So what exactly does aging do to the brain? The connections between cells start to break down. You don't have to worry about losing whole neurons, since most brain cells stick around, and the ones that die don't have much of an effect. But researchers have found that we lose synapses as we get older. Advancing age also causes a deterioration of each cell's insulating layer, called the myelin sheath. With age, the myelin loosens, which slows down the electrical transmission of nerve impulses from one cell to the next.

Got a question about today's news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks Amy Arnsten of Yale University and John Morley of Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

SLATE

How much can you expect from a septuagenarian brain?

By Michelle Tsai

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 6:47 PM ET

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Sen. John McCain announced his intent to run for president in 2008 on Wednesday. If elected, he would take office at age 72, the oldest first-time president ever to do so. "I'm not the youngest candidate. But I am the most experienced," he said during a speech in Portsmouth, N.H. Just how much can you expect from a typical septuagenarian brain? Click HERE to read the whole article...

Polygamy in March/April, standard fare... Seems a Spring Thing

Polygamy is a human rights issue -- it violates the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) -- which 182 countries of the world have signed -- including the United States of America.

MooPig asks the hard questions: who gets hurt when things get fouled up? Who remains behind as the scheduled incursions get delayed, strung out and re-scheduled? You know the answer is women and children: life interrupted. Advertise polygamy, and the Senate will pass the buck. It is a story that crops up every Spring... a trend.

This story ran in March 2007, one year ago. Is there any change in the efforts to stamp out polygamy?

"Don’t-ask-don’t-know policies prevail in many agencies that deal with immigrant families in New York, perhaps because there is no framework for addressing polygamy in a city that prides itself on tolerance of religious, cultural and sexual differences — and on support for human rights and equality." says one report. (Published: March 23, 2007; In Secret, Polygamy Follows Africans to N.Y. ) “I know a lady who lives with her husband and another woman in one room, a two-bedroom, with 11 kids,” she said. “I tell her, she has to move — it’s not a life.” And her own husband? His second wife is 23 now, with three children. And recently, Ms. Kante said, he married a third.


Yikes!!

Is this guy just looking around malls shopping for his co-wife?


Previous to that one, is March 2006:
Real Polygamists Look At HBO Polygamists; In Utah, Hollywood Seems Oversexed (March 28, 2006, paraphrased)

...''In reality, there's not a woman out there who's going to share a man without religion being a factor,'' Ms. Prunty said. ''That's what's missing in the show. This seems like some male fantasy, some alternative marriage that is Hollywood.''

<-----Photo left: POSTER CHILD FOR POLYGAMY

While each episode, after discussions between HBO and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, includes a disclaimer that the Mormons long ago renounced polygamy, thousands of polygamists who call themselves Mormon fundamentalists say they are following the church's original teachings on marriage, called ''the principle.'' Some live in religious communities, others live independently."

Friday, 26 May 2006, 3:22 pm Opinion: Suzan Mazur

Senator John McCain Passes The Buck On Polygamy

"Finding any other comment on polygamy from either of the two US senators from Arizona - both Republicans: John McCain and John Kyl - is an exhausting exercise.

It appears to be a game of "don't ask, don't tell" and "pass the buck".

McCain did just that in a response to Jay Beswick, a tireless child advocate and former resident of Utah, with more files on US polygamy than the FBI it seems. Beswick wrote a letter to McCain about polygamy on his graffiti action organization's stationery when he was living with his family in Hurricane, Utah on the outskirts of the FLDS twin towns of Hildale-Colorado City.

Here's the letter McCain sent back, mysteriously addressed to "Liz Best" (Beswick has no idea who Liz Best is). In the letter McCain redirects "Liz" to Senator Bob Bennett (R--UT) for answers (see Most Wanted In Polygamy Coverup for Bennett profile):

Beswick claims the hands-off policy is a continuation of what was going on during Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt's time and cites a 1986 Associated Press article in which Babbitt said FLDS residents are "hardworking, God-fearing" people. Hildale attorney Ron Thompson and Babbitt were personal friends at the time, according to Beswick.

Beswick also comments that neither McCain nor Kyl has helped Arizona anti-polygamy activists rescue women in their jurisdictions from the polygamy cult. He cites Flora Jessop pressing the Arizona Attorney General's office and Arizona's US Congressmen J.D. Hayworth and John Shadegg, as well as Senator McCain, to help free Jessop's 13-year old sister from the FLDS after the girl had been raped.

Jessop said she got no assistance.

Mohave County Supervisor Buster Johnson suggests that if federal and state officials are really serious about dismantling FLDS polygamy, they could request Colorado City residents to provide birth certificates for their children and DNA samples to determine who the parents actually are.

But there is no defense for the inaction of McCain, Kyl, J.D. Hayworth and other Arizona leaders regarding the polygamy issue, since there is only one side to the story:

Polygamy is a human rights issue -- it violates the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) -- which 182 countries of the world have signed -- including the United States of America.