Blatant Reality

According to Gateway Pundit, close to 11,000 McCain/Palin supporters will be attending a rally being held in St. Louis University’s new arena. This rally will include a live showing of the debate along with a rumored appearance of Sarah Palin after its over. Oh, if only had decided to attend school in St. Louis.

In some somewhat reassuring news, it seems that Sarah Palin has not drunk the “anthropological global warming is real” Kool-Aid just yet. This is good news considering that the GOP platform basically gives in to the environmentalist and admits that it’s real.

So I stumbled upon Analytic News’ website today and found this interesting prediction:

Yep you are reading that correctly, it’s predicting that in November, McCain has a 79.8% chance of winning. However, I don’t know how much faith you should put into this because I wasn’t able to find out how they came up with this number.

Anyways, just thought that was interesting so please don’t think I’m vouching for its accuracy.

Looks like the landslide victories that Congressional Democrats were predicting just a couple of months ago have gotten a little tighter. Plus, the Dems are now looking at Obama as a possible liability with McCain’s resent resurgence in the polls.

Poor, Poor Obama.

H/T Drudge

Now, I don’t know about you, but it seemed to me that the camera men (aka the media) had it out for the Republicans at this convention by airing some unflattering shots from the crowd. I mean, you had this shot, which could be misconstrued as a comparison of Obama to terrorists and then you had this:

(Hint: There should be an ‘e’ after the ‘v’)

Obviously the cameramen were focusing on these people in particular and weren’t just panning the crowd. The only logical reason for them focusing on these individuals was for their interesting signs. With Palin’s teleprompter “malfunction” last night, I wouldn’t put it past whoever is running the video feed from purposely focusing on these less than shining examples of the Republican Party.

Exit Question: What is the likelihood that these two incidences could have been plants or protesters in disguise? I mean, they did have one war protester and one code pink member disrupt McCain’s speech so it’s not completely far fetched.

Some pics of a convention crasher that interrupted McCain’s speech (the camera’s panned to him three times).

Exit Question: Why in the world was the guy next to the protester just sitting there?

This is probably the most interesting photo of the day from the RNC.

I’ll just let you decide the actual meaning of this.

Here is an article that lists several energy stocks that you may want to buy if McCain wins in November. As you could have guessed, they consist of Oil, Coal, and Nuclear Companies.

On a McCain win, oil service stocks like Cameron (CAM), Transocean (RIG), Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO) and Halliburton (HAL) will be huge, huge beneficiaries of more liberal domestic drilling rules. Nuclear stocks such as Cameco (CCJ) and nuclear ETF Market Vectors Nuclear Energy (NLR) could experience massive upside moves.

 

At some point, the stigma attached to the nuclear industry will fall away under the unrelenting pressure of high oil prices. A quick look at oil prices clearly shows that the commodity is undergoing a consolidation phase. These periods can last quite a long time, even a year or more.

 

We would be engaging in the worst form of wishful thinking however if we were to believe that the oil run was over. Moderating oil prices will continue to buoy stock prices, but that will only last until oil gets ready to run again. When it does, we could finally have the necessary impetus to get serious about nuclear energy as a viable solution to our domestic energy needs.

 

The idea of nuclear stocks and coal stocks being growth industries again will strike many investors as odd. But over the summer, we saw coal stocks acting like internet stocks of yesteryear, witnessing massive runs in once staid companies like James River Coal (JRCC) - up almost 150% over the last six months - and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) - up almost the same amount.

This was very disheartening news to hear. It seems that the GOP is considering adding a ‘global warming is real’ section to our party’s platform.

The National Republican Party for the first time is expected to acknowledge global warming in its 2008 GOP Platform, according to a draft of the document.

 

“Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the earth,” the document said. “While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today.”

 

Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, is a strong proponent of tackling global warming and has co-authored legislation to address the issue.

 

In the GOP’s 2004 platform, the term “global warming” was completely absent.

Luckily, the party platform will have to be voted on at the RNC but even if this section doesn’t pass, McCain will still be the ‘maverick’ he is and push some crazy ‘cap and trade’ scheme on his own. Luckily, we conservatives have Palin to hinge all our hopes of sanity prevailing in the White House. All I can say is that  I sure hope she will be up for the task.

On a side note, the author of the article I quote above is none other than Jackie Kucinich, the daughter of Dennis Kucinich. Now I don’t know if she is as far out there (aka crazy) as her father but if she is, we might be able to right this storyoff as some wishful thinking.

Well I ended up watching the forum and the Olympics and I got to see Phelps make history (eight gold medals in one olympics is no small thing). While Phelps was impressive in the pool, McCain sure impressed me at the forum.
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To put this into perspective, after hearing rumors that McCain may choose a pro-choice running mate, I was to the point of not voting for any presidential candidate. This forum sure gave him some brownie points.
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The main thing he impressed me with is that he answered the questions head on and didn’t do the typical political doubletalk. Most questions he would answer in a single sentence or with a simple yes or no.
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These answers are what people really want. They want an answer that they can peg the candidates true beliefs on. With answers like these the talking heads really can’t spin their meaning. Obama keeps whining about people taking his comments out of context but when you never succinctly answer anything, you leave the media to decipher what you truly meant.
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Another thing that got McCain some more points in my book is that his short answers allowed Pastor Warren to ask more questions. I don’t know about you but I appreciate it when politicians keep their remarks short so more topics/issues can be covered. Sure Obama is a great speaker but last nights forum showed him more as a long winded person who dances around the question or plain gives convoluted answers.
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Anyways, those are just some of my thoughts. Feel free to leave comments below.