A St. Patrick\u2019s Day tidbit you may not know:<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the case anymore, but for quite some time, David Letterman\u2019s personal assistant was a Latter-day Saint. And right around every St. Patrick\u2019s Day, word would go out around the congregations in Manhattan that Letterman tickets were available for the March 17th taping. It seems that Dave prefers an all-Mormon audience on St. Patrick\u2019s Day to ensure that nobody in the house is drunk. <\/p>\n
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Barack Obama\u2019s pastor is starting to generate mainstream media attention, and what\u2019s startling is that his incendiary statements have been ignored until now. He\u2019s essentially a Christian Farrakhan who, on the Sunday after 9\/11, preached a sermon calling for God to damn America instead of bless it. He has repeatedly claimed that the government created the AIDS virus, pushed crack cocaine to destroy the black community, and essentially engages in surreptitious genocide against African-Americans. <\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s response has been tepid. <\/p>\n
While he does repudiate the specific statements that are brought to his attention, he insists he was not present when any of them were made. He calls the pastor \u201ca crazy uncle\u201d and tries to pretend that he\u2019s peripheral to his life. And until the Rush Limbaughs of the world beat the drums on this, most of the media was more than willing to give him a pass. <\/p>\n
Folks, after the spiritual evisceration of Mitt Romney, this just isn\u2019t going to fly with me. <\/p>\n
Romney, as you recall, was forced to answer for any kind of lunacy that any Mormon in history might have perpetuated. He had to essentially apologize for polygamy and the Church\u2019s history on race repeatedly, and his magnificent \u201cFaith in America\u201d speech was dissected from every possible angle to ensure that Mitt\u2019s faith was palatable enough for mainstream Americans. <\/p>\n
Contrast that with Obama, who has made Reverend Jeremiah Wright the center of his spiritual life for over twenty years. Mitt, you recall, had to apologize for statements made by people in the 19th Century. Obama\u2019s relationship with this guy is personal; it\u2019s voluntary, and it\u2019s extensive. For him to say he didn\u2019t know the extent of his America hatred means he\u2019s either disingenuous or stupid. Neither is an attractive trait in a president. My love affair with Obama is coming to an end. <\/p>\n
I still can\u2019t vote for McCain, though. Perhaps it\u2019s time to flush my vote down the turlet and give it to the Libertarians. <\/p>\n
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The divorce is final, and Heather Mills just carved about $50 million dollars out of Paul McCartney\u2019s flesh. Yet she\u2019s whining on the steps of the courthouse that it\u2019s not enough. Paul is worth over a billion dollars, after all, and what\u2019s going to become of their poor little girl, with only $70,000 a month on which to survive?<\/p>\n
Gross. <\/p>\n
Rich old dudes need to remember that they\u2019re still old dudes, and young fillies wouldn\u2019t love them if they were broke. As Paul consoles himself with his hundreds of millions, he should find somebody his own age \u2013 and make her sign a prenuptial agreement. <\/p>\n
As for me, I think I\u2019ll stay married, thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASt. Patrick\u2019s Day tidbit you may not know: I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the case anymore, but for quite some time, David Letterman\u2019s personal assistant was a Latter-day Saint. And right around every St. Patrick\u2019s Day, word would go out around the congregations in Manhattan that Letterman tickets were available for the March 17th taping. ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4906,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/4906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}