Oh, John MCain. For shame, McCain. For shame. Did you really think that Americans were unintelligent rubes? Did you really believe that you could repeat your hateful, twisted, fear-mongering propoganda regarding Senator Obama day after day, night after night, until we, the people, just believed it as truth? Is this why you decided to run for the presidency of the United States of America, so that you could use your position as a public figure, role model to some, and representative to attempt the systematic tearing down of a man's character? This is why you think the majority of Americans should vote for you--because you can drag a man's reputation through the mud better than your opponent can? Because you can fill your adoring supporters' heads with xenophobic ideas, play upon their existing fears of Islam, muslims, and the Middle East in general, and turn them from ardent supporters of your proposals and "conservative ideals" to a fervent Lynch mob? This is why you're running. Your actions, sir, are reprehensible. Your lame and late attempts to "correct" the supporters calling Senator Obama an Arab, and expressing their fears of an Obama Presidency, their fears of Obama himself, at your rallies are pitiful to behold. And for inciting this reaction in people, for dredging these horrid, dark places in the hearts of your supporters and making them fertile grounds for the seeds you've planted, you, Senator McCain, are pitiful.

For you not only taint people's opinions of Senator Obama by inciting these personal character attacks--you taint their opinions of every brown skinned man and woman with aspirations to run for public office at whatever level they choose. You are singlehandedly reversing race relations in this country in a way that overtly racist hate groups have attempted for years. But you should have known better. And that's what makes you so wrong. For shame, McCain. For shame.

How the three major parties plan to use the next 31 days to win the Election

Democrats

As October progresses, the Obama campaign continues its "stand-back-and-let-the-McCain-campaign-strangle-itself" policy by campaigning in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan releasing television spots using clips from McCain interviews and archival Palin footage that are mistaken as...SNL skits. Which hit youtube and go viral within minutes.

Republicans

The McCain campaign tries to capitalize on their Vice Presidential candidate's extraodinary surge from startled, cluelessness to absolute mediocrity by secreting her away in Dick Cheney's bunker and hermetically sealing her in a crypt until election day. They then release poorly doctored audio of Barack Obama saying things like "Salaam Alaikum" and even more poorly doctored video of Obama wearing a t-shirt with the slogan "I honk for higher taxes" in an effort to shore up their support with the fundamentals of the American economy, namely Mr. and Mrs. Joe Six-pack. Unfortunately for them, the viral Obama campaign ads, mistakenly identified as SNL skits hold the attention of the media, with the exception of FOX, for the duration of the campaign season.


Libertarians

The Barr campaign (I know, right? Who?) makes a crucial decision--they take out an advertisement! That seems to get the ball rolling, as soon after, candidate Barr has a debate with Ralph Nader on a local Ohio cable access channel. Both viewers are split in polling.

Wayward the Whale and other stories...

First off, just a kind thought and a word of hope for family of the miners trapped in West Virginia. My thoughts go out to you all...

Okay. Down to business.

Over on FoxNews.com and CNN.com the leading story isn't Pakistan's President Musharraf telling a U.S. official that we've used up our Violate Pakistan's Sovereignty Free card, and that we're not allowed to do it again (although he assured another U.S. government official that his country still pledges unwavering support for our wars on terrorism (read: our wars on other nations that really, really, annoy us beacause they're not us and since they're weaker than us can't stop us anyway and if Pakistan doesn't pledge support they're next...).

It isn't that 200 hundred people were arrested in pro-Democracy protests in Nepal (it's a wonder that we haven't yet invaded Nepal to spread the jelly of democracy over the dry bread of this small southasian country. I said yet, right?). It isn't even that the President of another nation passed away today (Kosovo's President Rugova died today at 61 years of age). The leading story on both sites today is...

A whale.

A wayward whale. (CNN.com's choice of headline, sadly enough, not mine. I however will name the whale Wayward. So there.)

Yes, this sad behemoth of the sea stole the front page from mad cows, trapped miners, and dead presidents. Sure, I think its sad that the whale is lost and injured, and even sadder that in some way its probably our fault that it got lost in the first place. Doctors in England have run blood tests on Wayward to determine whether the northern bottlenose whale should be euthanized or released into the artic waters.

The homeless guy living beneath the Hamilton bridge in the Bronx should be so lucky.

Hello World!

Hi. Kid Caramel here, just signing on for the first time. A little about me: I'm a teacher, writer (as yet unpublished), and all around nice guy. I wish we lived in a country shaped like a donut so we could avoid the issue of landlocked states that have no contact with diversity and different cultures, and recieve all of their news and information from FOX News Channel. If I had my way actors, athletes, and lawyers wouldn't have the highest salaries on the planet, politicians would be paid teacher's salaries, and teachers would be glorified as the guardians and shapers of the future that they are.

Anyway, that's enough of a rant for now. Like I said earlier, I'm a writer. I write fantasy stories long and short, and (like everyone else seems to be doing these days) I'm working on a novel. I'm about halfway through and running downhill towards the finish line. What have I learned? Well for starters, writing isn't as simple as stringing words together. It's really hard work! The other thing I learned is that just because you read a crappy book and think you can do better than whoever wrote it, it doesn't mean that you actually can. Even pieces of crap take work.

The same thing goes for almost anything in life. Like radio shows, for example. David Lee Roth (DLR) is now doing radio, trying to fill the void created by Howard Stern's departure from Planet Earth Radio and into Satellite Radio. DLR is horrible. Absolutely horrible. Listening to his "show" is like forcing yourself to listen to Rita Cosby's voice. And what's up with that? Somebody get her a lozenge. Or a new throat. Yeah, a throat transplant, like that French lady who got the face transplant and is now using her new mouth to smoke cigarettes! Mon dieu! Idiot! Its a real slap in the face for the brain dead donor who provided the nose cheeks and mouth for that moron.

Is anyone else bugged by the constant media coverage of Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Anjelina Jolie? Who cares what they're doing? So what if she's pregnant? Isn't there anything more important that could be aired on a television than "Branjelina" coverage? And Aniston's not even that good an actress. I'd actually rather listen to Rita Cosby rasp on for an hour than hear anything more about those three. Without the lozenge. Yes, that's how serious I am.

Until the next time.