As IF Times

link Mass. Senate candidate looks for boost from ‘rock star’ Bill Clinton – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe

Widely seen as a referendum on the current administration, the incumbent Democrats are bringing in the “big guns” to try to rally any waffling democratic voters in the state by-election. The vote should not even be that close given that the Massachusetts seat is as much a Kennedy heirloom as a Democratic stronghold.

Somehow, the natives appear to be a bit restless and the unthinkable has a possibility of happening. They may lose this iconic seat to the Republicans. This is akin to news that Warren Beatty was now sleeping with men. Well, you win some, you lose some I guess, but the strategy of the incumbent party is amusing as well as perplexing.

Because the race is so close, the rock star Bill Clinton and Obama himself are popping in to sway the hesitant. The Barrack and Rock tour will lend badly needed support for the Democrat Coakley. I’m unsure of the logic here. President Clinton is a great humanitarian and still commands audiences everywhere he goes. However, his ignominious exit from office had a lot to do with being a little less than forthright in his versions of events. President Obama is arguably the reason why the electoral race is as close as it is, so another serving of him would not seem to be of help to Coakley. These guys are as useful as body hair at a porn shoot. If we’re just bringing people with recognition to the race, why not bring in Rod Blagojevich?

Politics is a pretty rough contact sport and Bill’s willingness to stump with someone who recently put the knife into his wife’s back as a Presidential contender last year is that hardball game on full display. Winning is the only objective and loyalties are often confused at best, twisted at worst, but always about expedience. It’s just business. But if you have to bring in the “big guns” to a tight race which historically has been a stronghold for your party, MAYBE SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH YOUR POLICIES.

Meanwhile the challenger, Scott Brown, has Rudy Giuliani stumping for him. Isn’t Rudy the guy that once wore a ballgown, wig and full makeup smooching Donald Trump at a roast? If this election is lost to the incumbents it’ll be to a team with a guy who once wore a dress in public! And they say republicans are no fun.

link Scientists Push “Doomsday Clock” Back a Minute – ABC News

As if. These guys are scientists or closet politicians? This august body which includes 19 Nobel laureates have calculated that the threat of nuclear war is lessened because of the election of Barack Obama. There appears to be a bit of nepotism involved here because they just made Obama a fellow club member, but that’s a coincidence.

It appears that solely because of Obama’s residency in the White House, this group decides that an aggressive U.S. implementation of nuclear war is less likely. Oddly, after long google searches, there is the sum total of, zero, that is none, nada and zip instance of the U.S. ever threatening to embark upon nuclear annihilation of another country. Compare this to recent events where the statesman at Iran’s helm threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and coincidentally is ramping up their nuclear program for ‘peaceful’ purposes. Taking these two facts into consideration, the Nobel gang thinks nuclear war is less likely.

I suppose if Iran began firing off nukes, it would not lead to nuclear warfare worldwide because in the west, tsk tsking is the preferred defence strategy. Fully armed with strong words of condemnation and columns of legal soldiers ready to fight the rhetorical war, the west has refined their methods of engagement. Any conflict would be much more civilized and instead of needless bloodshed by atomic bombs, the worst that could happen are paper cuts on a large scale by the legal protagonists. In which case, vinegar could be the scariest weapon. Judged by this standard, the U.S. is still the most powerful nation on earth based on lawyer count.

Nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy at news conference held at the National Academy of Sciences overlooking the World Trade Center site, said there had been “a shift in world opinion” recognizing that nuclear weapons are “no longer useful to fight wars and are not effective as deterrence.”

If that’s the case, why does the world care whether or not Iran is enriching uranium? Why threaten sanctions against their economy if nukes aren’t effective? If this is a case of them using bullets, while we have ray guns, let ’em have the bullets. Someone should tell North Korea too because I think they’re still playing with radioactive stuff over there.

BAS board member Lowell Sachnoff added, “Global warming is more of a threat than nuclear war.”

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Ok, now we’re suspicious. He had us going until he went there.