Published September 17, 2008 on OpEdNews.com using the pseudonym Cinderfella 20 reasons why I feel I’m uniquely qualified to be VP or have any other job based on Sarah Barracuda’s logic:

1. I’ve dated beauty queens, therefore I’m an authority on intelligence and natural selection.
2. I have even surfed big waves. I’m sure to qualify as a hydrologist or dam (sic) engineer.
3. I could even be a dictator. At least as good as our current Dick Tator, aka Mr. Potato Head, Richard Cheney. (If it weren’t for his pacemaker he’d be a vegetable too.)
4. I can turn on a light switch. I have confidence to be an authority on power plays.
5. I’ve killed and eaten rattlesnakes. Dealing with Vladimir Putin would be cake. He don’t even have fangs.
6. I can brush my teeth and even go to the bathroom by myself. Being a bioweapons expert would be microbial in comparison.
7. I’ve been very unsuccessful at business. As a top executive I could run the country even further into the ground than our current CEO. It’s a no brainer job. Having one is evidently a disqualification.
8. I am very good at reading between the lines. With all that experience in dealing with space, I think I’m more than qualified to be an astronaut.
9. I’ve shot guns of all calibers. Heck, I can press a button and shoot off a missile just as easily as shooting off my mouth or pulling a nuclear trigger.
10. I’m an authority on money, credit, and cash flow because I have wallet. Managing the economy of a country is just a matter of deception. 11. I have a lot of friends no one else can see or hear. Therefore, I’m more than qualified at foreign correspondence.
12. The glasses I wear help me with vision. I can even see into the future. Not to mention being an expert at surveillance. 1
3. You can fool me once, you can fool me, uh… with that kinda background I can be a world class fool.
14. I’ve had square offices and round ones. I can run an oval office just as easy. It’s just plane geometry after all.
15. I know how to pop blisters and put on bandaids. Surgical strikes are just bigger blowups and coverups.
16. I can tie my shoes, tie one on, or even find Taiwan on a map. It’s over there between Takrete and Thailand.
17. I understand computer technology because I have a chip on my shoulder. I can bite or byte. I’d be good at vp because I can take it either way. I’m good at h(omon)yms because I go to church too.
18. It’s true I’m bipolar. But so is the earth. We’ve got a lot in common. I understand geography as well as psychology. That’s what makes me a great leader. I can catch fish others only dream about.
19. I’ve studied math and have learned how to measure things. I could even be a great ruler because of my experience.
20. Best of all I’m a darn good liar. That more than qualifies me to be a competent politician.

Bio: Independent scholar, researcher, inventor, designer, musician, philosopher, and writer who just happens to live on one of the world’s largest active volcanos. Needless to say, he is volatile. Politically he is a conservative who wishes to retain the liberal traditions of the founding fathers in a radical way. Philosophically he maintains life is short, so get on with it. “Whatever one believes to be true, either is true, or becomes true… within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be expanded.” And existentially, he thinks like Bucky Fuller – reality is 99% invisible.

Just what we need for prez, a female GW Bush.

No kidding!

A female GW Bush, with PMS to boot!

To T… both zinn and chomsky sold out their souls. I was a big fan of zinn (all the way back to the early 70s), but his silence on 911 told me either one of two things… he’s a chicken shit, or someone put a gun to his head and told him to shut up or he’d get wellstoned. We no longer have a democracy, but a totalitarian police state. The airport body scanners were on order before ulmar fizzlepants struck a match. For me, I’ll let them strip search me before I go thru one of those things. Everyone should demand a strip search or better yet – walk in naked. Or simply, don’t even fly. All those jokers in congress who write these laws fly on private airlines. That’s why they don’t give one flying fuck about the public. That’s a fact.

That’s a possibility. It’s only a possibility but I think whether that grassroots movement inside the Democratic Party develops or not what is most important is the development of a mass movement outside of the party system. That is, yes, the streets. The kind of movement that in the years of the civil rights movement against racial segregation or in the years of the movement against the Vietnam. A movement that is outside of the orthodox political institutions but which creates an atmosphere in the country and enlists enough people in its cause and frightens the establishment sufficiently so that something is changed.

The first part of the coup d’état was on November 22, 1963 when JFK got his brains splattered on a Dallas street.
The final coup de grâce was on 9/11.

Can we take back our country using the democratic process or will we keep getting conned by Obama’s?

I’m not holding my breath. Many are already swooning over ‘Crazy Sarah’ from Alaska, and Evangelical Christian who is venal, inept, clueless about world affairs, financed by shadowy money men and is more than willing to send more of our kids off to die fighting wars for Apartheid Israel.

Just what we need for prez, a female GW Bush.

Since Sunday. Sibel, hurry back!

is it just my PC?

No other BFP since Monday?

He’s always been a corporate shill. People are too lazy to even google; instead they diddle, dawdle, ogle, and giggle.

My two bytes

Obama says that both he and the Democrats think that the Supreme Court ruling re: unlimited contributions is terrible. Oh really? Then why did you take millions from the anti-single layer lobby?

Bloomberg and Palin have both started their 2012 campaigns (despite the spin saying otherwise). In Bloomberg’s case, 1 person could literally buy the election. No campaign fundraising at all. Imagine how streamlined his camp would be vs. the others. Have you heard 1 person in the MSM say essentially, this is ****** up? This means that campaign finance reform really is dead now.

In the latest “health care reform” bill, pre-existing conditions are still in place for millions. We’ll use little kids as the usual election political football. But screw everyone else.

A proposal for an independent in 2012: Bernie Sanders. Imagine if he did run. Here in the States, the “socialist” word would be banned for him. But in the rest of the world where they’re mature enough to handle multiple parties, how would they see this? Also, has anyone ever found any dirt on this guy? I haven’t.

Are we up to $1 trillion yet for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

If the Democrats lose in the mid-terms, how will it look if literally none of Obama’s policies are passed? How is a spin doctor going to save him in that situation?

Other independents in 2012? Paul doesn’t have a chance. What’s one of the biggest things hurting him (IMO)? The fact that he refuses to run as a Libertarian (which is what he really is). To me, that’s like Liebermann being an “independent” or Spector conveniently becoming a Democrat.

Time for dinner.

On a side note,I wish there was more podcasts. I love them ! I just cant get enough of them and find myself getting antsy waiting for the next one. Whats up with the new video section ? I hope it’s up and running soon.

BTW: I love the intro song on the podcast, please keep it.

Thank You for all your tireless work folks

The tea parties do have some valid points, but by having Sarah Palin involved really detracts from any real serious consideration. And with corporations sponsoring them, it is hard to find any sense of authenticity in their efforts.

I am grateful for this site and the topics discussed here.

A while back (http://bgflanagan.wordpress.com ) I got to thinking how stuff like this article addresses was once spoken of here in the states as “unspeakable”. Is it not, or was it not one time not so long ago simply unspeakable to think, to even consider the possibility that our assets, our own American tradecraft – would be turned AGAINST us??? No doubt the pissed off German people had had just about enough of it when they burned down the Reichstag in 1933… (q.v. this article et al. in website). I do not equate 911 with the burning of the Reichstag, however there are gathering points / moments in history and certainly the two events could be perhaps safely considered as such.

We all need to consider what do we do now (yes, it was Lenin who asked this first, historically and famously – , “Chto togda Nam teper’ dyelat’?). What do we now do then? Sibel spoke of it also – it brought a chortle as I listened – she said the talk shows are all “Yap yap yap” (source = recent podcast) from left to right. What do we do now then?

I enjoy a lot of websites like everyone I suppose from democracy now to antiwar to American Conservative and Atimes… and many others but hey who is doing ANYthing about it nowadays? Gotta start somewhere and perhaps BFpost is it.

Last thing – sorry but one critique here. Love all the podcasts, Mr. Collins is EXcellent… dig it all. O yes. BUT… the lead in song – puhlease. Lose it. “Everybody knows… yadda yadda yudddduh…” Sounds like some idiot on ludes singing from down a drainpipe somewhere. Does NO dignity to your site. Incongrous to the max. Please do get something more upbeat perhaps? Sorry to criticize but – I have to fast forward when I listen and punch out when the interview is over so as not to listen to it. OK.

Thanks again for the site. I remain a fan. Nuff said.