A warm greeting to all you LUELinks members!

Don't think I haven't noticed your influx of traffic to my Democrat Standards post from a forum topic of yours. I can only imagine what you're saying behind your locked doors, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say you probably disagree with what I said... I mean, hey! I've long ago come to realize that my views, however accurate, are usually looked down upon, but I've also come to realize that even "bad" publicity is good publicity! I think it's absolutely incredible how my tiny part of the Internet manages to get listed at places like 4chan and Fundies Say the Darndest Things and LUELinks. But this is the second time you've linked to one of my posts, and you were the first large community to link to me. You hold a special place in my heart as being the first major group of people I ticked off! (Unless, of course, you agree with me, but if that were the case, I would think that some of you would have commented here, too... Obviously I'm not a member, so I can look for myself.)

By the way, I don't remember which post of mine it was that you linked to, but I do have the link to the forum topic on your site... If someone could check out the link and see if it's still there, I'd much appreciate a comment telling me which post it talks about. It's mostly out of curiosity and so I can make a note of it for future reference, but I don't imagine I'll ever get an answer, so I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

What I can never get over is the amount of random people who visit my site and then go spread their lies to their own circle of influence. Now, I'm not saying that's the case here... It's just an observation I've made since I started making controversial posts. People rarely make themselves known here, and when they do, they almost never use any form of unique identification... They sign their comments as "Anonymous" with bogus and sometimes humorously insulting email addresses and website addresses. I mean, I've got myself a pretty unified method of identification. Heck, I even link to my profiles on the other sites that I use regularly. It's not like I'm hiding behind the name "Mister Anonymous"... Although I could be construed as being anonymous because I use the ambiguous nickname GermanShepherd, but that was purely out of habit since when I made this site, my sole form of online identification rested in the Myst community and everyone knew my name.

Which brings up a new page I was planning to add to this site! Since I'm pretty much an outcast from the Myst community for a variety of reasons, I think I need to establish a more specific Internet persona. Naturally, I don't want to get too specific, but I might go for an About Me page that gives some basic information about myself. Something to take the "this is some random weirdo" idea out of the picture. (Yeah, from "random weirdo" to just "weirdo.") But at any rate, the fact remains that I sign my name (or as close to it as you'll get) to these posts and nobody else seems to want to go on record. I dunno... I've just always thought that was interesting for some reason, and I always get reminded of it when I noticed a burst of traffic incoming from somewhere I can't see. What ARE they saying about me... Am I doing my Christian duty by being light to the world and making people upset by my radical conservative thoughts, or are these people who might actually agree with me? Either way, they seem to be too timid to make themselves known here... Hiding in the dark recesses of the Internet, looking out from behind barred gates.

Anyway! I just wanted to say this: I really don't mind what you're saying behind my back. If you need to do that to get your kicks, then feel free, but I just want to make it clear that you can say whatever you want to my cyber-face and I'll just laugh it off. (I know I'm right, after all!) I like reading about you people... It's like trying to understand an alien culture. Why DO you do the things you do? Why do you think the things you think? How in all heck do you come to the conclusions that you do? It's a mystery, indeed!

You all know the conservatives have pegged Obama as a socialist at least as far as his ideas go... Never quite been able to actually say "Obama IS a Socialist" with a capital S, but he is a "socialist" as far as his plans for the government goes. We haven't been able to call him a Socialist... Until today. Thanks to good ol' New Media and all the regular people out there with time on their hands to dig for this kind of stuff, archives have been unearthed that declare Obama a member of what's called the "New Party". I link you to Wikipedia only as a measure to educate you as to what the New Party is, but also to bring up the point that once this information hit the Internet, the entry was modified to include Obama's name, but it has since been scrubbed because although Wikipedia claims to be unbiased, they chose to ignore the sources and said Obama was only supported by the party and not actually a member, which is a lie and one of many reason why I still think Wikipedia is a washout for vital information.

I first heard of the story when it hit NewsBusters, but I didn't really give it much thought. I really only scan headlines for things of interest to me and when I saw that, I shrugged my shoulders and said "it figures", but then Peter Heck took off with the story and really went to town on it, so I'm going to help spread the word. Since Peter has a weird site that doesn't archive posts likes to clean his main page from time to time, I decided to mirror his piece:

BOMB: Obama's Membership in Socialist Party

Remember the ‘outrage’ expressed by the media at Governor Palin’s husband Todd Palin’s former membership in Alaska’s Independent Party? Remember how they viewed this as almost a disqualifying factor since AIP has supported the idea of secession from the Union? It has now been proven and verified in multiple printed documents…including one with Obama’s own signature…that he was a member of Chicago’s New Party. They are socialists. Suspicions confirmed.

hear Peter expose the truth
proof
see party roster
archived list

Those links are the originals, but in case they get taken down, which is an extreme possibility when it comes to the Democrats covering up their lies and deceit, I have mirrored the audio and pages on my own site. Let it be known that, however, the "Proof" link goes to Archive.org, which is incredibly amazing, because NewParty.org scrubbed their site and removed all mentions of Barack Obama. Thanks to the wonders of private organizations, however, they were unable to clean it all up! Anyway, here are the mirrors in case the first links don't work anymore, because this is too important for liberal morons to cover their tracks:

Hear Peter Expose the Truth - MIRROR

Go get Adobe Flash Player!

Proof - MIRROR
See Party Roster - MIRROR
Archived List - MIRROR

To save some of you lazy folks who are apt to pop in and make some outlandish claim that proves you didn't refer to the links I've provided, I'll quote a few key points here, but I urge you to read all the articles yourself, or at least listen to Peter's segment. For all you folks who think Obama was only "supported by" the New Party and not a member of it? This quote, from the third link Peter provided, is for you:

The NP's political strategy is to support progressive candidates in elections only if they have a concrete chance to "win". This has resulted in a winning ratio of 77 of 110 elections. Candidates must be approved via a NP political committee. Once approved, candidates must sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.

The political entourage included Alderman Michael Chandler, William Delgado, chief of staff for State Rep Miguel del Valle, and spokespersons for State Sen. Alice Palmer, Sonya Sanchez, chief of staff for State Sen. Jesse Garcia, who is running for State Rep in Garcia's District; and Barack Obama, chief of staff for State Sen. Alice Palmer. Obama is running for Palmer's vacant seat.

Bold is, of course, my addition. Candidates must sign a contract with the New Party, eh? I'm sure Obama was no exception, and he was mentioned quite prominently in the other two links provided. In the first link Peter provided:

Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).

Second link Peter provided:

The Chicago New Party is increasely becoming a viable political organization that can make a different in Chicago politics. It is crucial for a political organization to have a solid infrastructure and visible results in its political program. The New Party has continued to solidify this base. ... Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.

What's even more weird? ACORN, the brilliant community agitator organizer group that is being hit with charges of voter fraud all over the country as we speak, is mentioned throughout these pages. They're all connected. The New Party may be "defunct" according to Wikipedia, but there's no doubt that the people supported by the New Party were required to sign contracts and become members if they were to be supported, and they would only be supported if they were in a clear position to win.

Yes, folks, Barack Obama IS a Socialist. He belonged to the socialist party of the United States and was a member when he became a Senator from Chicago. He practices clearly socialist ideas and he promises clearly socialist ideas if he gets into the White House. Socialism is pretty much the definition of anti-American... It goes against the whole idea of our Founding Fathers who were running from a government that had grown too powerful and was asserting its power where it had no right to. America was built in the idea that government should be SMALL and should NEVER interfere with personal lives. Obama is diametrically opposed to this... He even called health care a Right in his second debate with McCain. I'm sorry, but Rights are what are spelled out in the United States Constitution, Mister. We have the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to the pursuit of happiness... We don't have the right to HAVE happiness, but we can sure do our darnest to pursue it. We don't have the right to health care or food or housing or anything! We have the PRIVILEGE of having them due to our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This country has always been the greatest country on this planet because the government was restricted and let people buy what they could afford, lose money if they made poor decisions, and generally butted out of everyday life. This is slowly changing and if Obama becomes president, you can kiss the greatest country on this planet good-bye forever. Once you start down the road of Socialism? Well... Take a look at Russia.

But don't bother to look for any of this in the "unbiased" mainstream media...

I've found video proof that the Republicans, back in 2004, tried to get Fannie/Freddie regulated (despite Obama saying Republicans want to deregulate out the wazoo) and that Democrats said it was all perfectly fine and what wasn't broken didn't need fixed. You'll see some names that look familiar... Barney Frank, for instance, was a major roadblock and kept insisting that Fannie/Freddie would not fail. This video has been floating around YouTube, but has repeatedly been removed for whatever reason... I really don't know, because I wasn't paying attention, but it's kind of scary, because this video is made entirely with C-SPAN clips. Should those be in the public domain anyway? They document events in Congress... Either way, I managed to find a clip and downloaded the .FLV file and I rigged my blog to be able to run those files without relying on Gutless YouTube.

Behold, the video that proves, beyond a doubt, that the Democrats are resposible for today's crisis:

While we're at it, here's the video done by Saturday Night Live that also made fun of the Democrats for causing this crisis. Nancy Pelosi gets up to talk and pretty much drags President Bush across the coals by blaming him and his party for the crisis, and then he goes "Waitaminute...Wasn't it my party who sounded the alarm and tried to fix it?" And Pelosi goes "Don't be silly, of course it wasn't." And Barney Frank, who has been standing beside her the entire time, leans in ans whispers "Uhmmm...Actually, this time, he's kinda right!" But Pelosi shushes him before Bush can hear him. It goes on and is pretty funny, but also pretty sad at the same time, because it's not only a parody, it's what actually happened, just SNL style. (As opposed to the awful Sarah Palin impersonations that clearly never happened.) Speaking of that, ignore the last bit of the video where they announce what's coming up next... They mention Sarah Palin saying something embarrasing. Yeah, they wish, right? They're just upset that Palin isn't as ditzy as their caricature. But without further ado, the NBC-censored now-lost SNL skit blaming the Democrats for the crisis:

If the videos reset themselves, just refresh and keep trying... The server these are hosted on is having connection problems. If it gets bad enough, I'll move them to a more stable connection. (By the way, yes, Barney Frank does sound like that... The first time I heard him speak was on Rush Limbaugh, and I seriously thought it was Rush changing his voice to make him sound stupid. But, uhm... No, that's what he really sounds like, heheh. It's pretty crazy!)

This week in "Democrat Standards", we take a look at the effects of the Democrat Party on the country for the last week... We direct you to a post that was written earlier this year that discussed the purpose behind Voter IDs and fact that Democrats were, of course, against the idea because it would "hinder" people from voting, despite the fact that you need more identification for things like renting DVDs and buying alcoholic beverages than you do for the single most vital thing you can do in this country. Nothing comes close to the sheer importance of voting... NOTHING. But the Democrats didn't want identification like this to cut down on voter fraud. Why? Because it would hinder their fraudulent activities!

Democrats in good ol' Indiana managed to register 105% of the eligible voter population. That's right. 105% of the population. According to statistics, there are 644,197 eligible voters in Marion County (aka Indianapolis, since the city fills the entire county) and Democrats claim that 677,401 are registered to vote. Yes, I can see why the Democrats didn't want Voter ID laws to restrict voting activity to legal voters. To make it all better, you can rest assured that the mainstream media is all over this story. Oh wait! It's not.

Democrats in Kansas City, Missouri are reported to have registered a group of people in which officials "identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don't exist, people who have driver's license numbers that won't verify or Social Security numbers that won't verify. Some have no address at all." The best part? The fraud is being committed by everyone's favorite Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. That's right! ACORN. That wonderful "community organizer" cult group that Democrat Candidate Barack H. Obama belonged to for so long and even proclaimed to everyone as being relevant experience to being the President. The best part is, this is not nearly the first time ACORN has been caught. Is there anyone out there beside me (and Peter Heck) who think if someone gets caught in voter fraud, they should be seriously, seriously punished? Yes, I can see why the Democrats didn't want Voter ID laws to restrict voting activity to legal voters. To make it all better, you can rest assured that the mainstream media is all over this story. Oh wait! It's not.

Please take a glance at Cleveland, Ohio! Here we have a Democrat voter who was actually given money and cigarettes to register as a Democrat. This is a federal offense and should bring down the courts faster than you can say "You're under arrest!" Not only was this man bribed to register as a Democrat, but he registered 72 times. Do you know who was behind this atrocious act of fraud? Oh, just a little community organizer cult group called ACORN, that Democrat Candidate Barack H. Obama belonged to for so long. Yes, I can see why the Democrats didn't want Voter ID laws to restrict voting activity to legal voters. To make it all better, you can rest assured that the mainstream media is all over this story. Oh wait! It's not.

Please direct your attention to Harris County, Texas, where we have a local news service that is taking the initiative to expose the fact that "auditors identified 49,049 registered voters state-wide who may have been ineligible to vote. Approximately 23,576 may have been deceased and another 23,114 were possible felons. And they found more than 2,359 duplicate records." Shockingly, ACORN has not been identified as a key player in this fraudulent voting, but I'll bet they know whoever's in charge is doing a well enough job and decided they didn't need to chance getting caught there, too. Yes, I can see why the Democrats didn't want Voter ID laws to restrict voting activity to legal voters. To make it all better, you can rest assured that the mainstream media is all over this story. Oh wait! It's not.

There are many more voter fraud stories around there in the local news sites if you take the time to look them up. The great thing is, they're all concentrated in battleground states... States that are just on the tipping point of voting Democrat. Coincidence? Please. Don't demean yourself. Remember, folks, President Bush won his first term by a mere 500 votes. Enough to determine a winner, but also enough to make 20,000 fraudulent votes to change the entire outcome. Why is it that Democrats are the ones always caught in voter fraud? You NEVER hear Republicans committing fraud nearly this much, if even at all. What does this mean?

1. Democrats have no standards. They hold Republicans to standards because the Republicans say they have standards, but since the Democrats don't seem to believe in holding themselves to a set of morals, they don't seem to be too broken up when their own party is caught seriously breaking the law. You know darned well the outcry from Democrats and the mainstream media if Republicans were trying to illegally tip the votes in battleground states in order to get McCain/Palin elected.
2. The race isn't nearly as in favor of Obama/Biden as the mainstream media would like you to believe. We all know that polls are utterly useless in predicting the outcome of elections (as evidence, I provide the last two presidential elections we've had). If they have to resort to illegally registering voters in an effort to increase Obama's lead, then there's something seriously wrong with their voter base.
3. ACORN, a key part of Obama's past, is directly involved in several of these incidents. For anyone to think Obama doesn't support this activity needs their head examined. If he worked there, he knows darned well what they do and since he paraded his "community organizer days" so prominently, he thought it was a good thing to be a part of. Then again, he IS "the messiah", so I guess they all assume that they're doing the will of God in cheating to get Obama elected.

Anyone involved with incidents of voter fraud need to be seriously punished. They need to have their own privilege to vote temporarily revoked for the election in question and I would even suggest prison time until Election Day. This would guarantee that they're not out there influencing people. A fine, definitely... It's $250,000 for lots of things, and I think that's be a nice fee to charge for voter fraud. This is, after all, an infraction against the single most important function of our country and government. To treat it so lightly is nothing short of treason. The death sentence, however, is something to be debated. Seriously, I'm not going to come out and say "no death sentence for voter fraud". If it IS treason, then we need an appropriate punishment. If you think severe punishment is too much for voter fraud, then you need to re-prioritize things in this country. Nothing is more important than voting.

By the way, the mainstream media itself is insinuating that if Obama doesn't win the election, then things are going to get, and I quote: "Very, very, very dramatic out there." What, riots? The media didn't actually come out and say that word, exactly, but it has been mentioned in other places and I've heard it from conservative folks I've seen emails from. The Democrats are threatening to riot if the majority of the United States doesn't vote their candidate? How petty. I know someone who protested the election of George W. Bush. I don't understand stand how or why someone would protest an election... What are you protesting? The fact that the man you didn't want in got voted in despite all your fraud? You're protesting and rioting against the idea of free election? How utterly anti-American! There's no other way to see it, people. To protest and riot means you're speaking against the actions of something or someone... The only thing to riot against in the case of an election is the ELECTION PROCESS, which is the single greatest process in the entire world. For shame. Then again, these are Democrats we're talking about... If their man doesn't get it, then the system is "broken", so they try to get in there and "fix" the system by fraudulent voting. Amazing.

In one final note of the standards of Democrats, let me bring up, once again, the Wall Street Bailout! You remember that thing, right? The thing the Democrat-controlled Congress decided to wait to vote on until they had some Republicans onboard so they could share the blame once it does pass. Why did they want to share blame, you ask? Remember, voters were 7 to 1 against the bailout and they flooded Congress with telephone calls and emails... So much, in fact, that the email system crashed and callers to Rush Limbaugh were reporting bust signals all day long. People did NOT want this bailout because they realize that this is strictly a Democrat problem of greed and that everyone involved should pay for their arrogance. Of course, Democrats, thinking they know far better than the voters, went ahead and passed it with a second attempt that stuck in a bunch of earmarks to entice people. They sugar-coated the poison pill and your Representatives fell for it despite your repeated calls to stop it from passing. They ignored you and need to be voted out, period, end of story.

So how did that bailout work, huh? The Dow Jones closed at about 10,325 points the day the bill passed, after free-falling the hour after it actually passed. From that day until now, the Dow Jones has not once closed higher than before. Remember when the bill failed the first time? The Dow Jones REBOUNDED to levels before the bill failed. The stock market liked it! Remember, folks, the stock market is determined mostly by expecation and anticipation. How did the stock market anticipate the bill passing? It closed at 10,325 points the day the bill passed, and it's currently 8,149 points and STILL FALLING as we speak... See?

The Democrats and the economically-inept President Bush are trying to cover their butts by saying that their financial injection plan won't take effect for a while. While I do completely believe that's the case, what I don't believe is that it'll help anyone. Why? The stock market IS determined mostly by anticipation. If people thought the bailout would work, people would keep their stocks and continue making money! People with their head screwed on straight realize that nationalizing and socializing the financial sector is an absolutely terrible idea... Wall Street knows this. They're not stupid, despite everything Congress tells you.

But there you go, people! You go vote for Barack Obama because he promises hope and change... Hope and change even though he's DIRECTLY involved with the organization practicing all this voter fraud and is DIRECTLY involved with the mortgage crisis. He's a Democrat! He's never voted outside his party lines EVER. How is this "hope and change"? It's awesome how his voters wander around in circles in a stupor and when you ask them why they're voting for Obama, they go into zombie mode and mindless repeat: "HOPE AND CHANGE... HOPE AND CHANGE... HOPE AND CHANGE..." If you press them on what Obama said he would change and give hope with and their mind will be forced to turn on and, having been inactive for so long, immediately incinerates itself and they give you a blank stare. But the one thing they say beyond "HOPE AND CHANGE" is "PALIN IS A POOR CHOICE" even though she has not once lied or gaffed and the mainstream media has poured all their time and money into trying to dig up something nasty about her and they've not been able to find ONE SINGLE THING. All this time, though, good ol' Joe "Gaffe Machine" Biden lies, gaffes and double-speaks every time he opens his mouth.

I am beginning to lose respect for anyone who support the Obama/Biden ticket. I've got great friends who support that ticket, but I'm sorry... Anyone who supports that ticket is willingly ignorant of events going on around them. Open your eyes, people.

Behold, at 6 minutes until Thursday, I give you the belated, though highly anticipated inaugural Video of the Week! Credit must go to TW for showing this to me late one night and I literally laughed my head off. (Yeah, literally! I had to fumble around in the dark for my head after it rolled under the bed.)

It's from a group of folks who call themselves Mega64... They basically go out into public locations and see what would happen if real world folks encountered characters or events from video games of all sorts. This one: Just how viable is Goomba's big green shoe (otherwise known as Kuribo's Shoe) from Super Mario 3 in the real world?

Not very...

EDIT: Yeah, wouldn't you know it, the plugin I use to embed YouTube videos decided to take this one day to work not a single bit and FeedBurner decided to take this one day to instantly send this out to all your RSS readers. It took me a grand total of 5 seconds to fix the video, but the damage was already done. Ah well, better luck next week?

I think I've decided to forgo creating a different site for my political commentary. I read a few blogs that I initially subscribed to because they were political, but they were also personal blogs where the authors posted random everyday stuff about themselves. To me, that just made it seem... Different, somehow. I like seeing major rants about something new that's unfolded in our government, and then going to the next post and seeing them do a piece on the biggest onion in their garden. Just makes it all seem more personal to me... So, for now, I've settled on keeping this single site and loading it up with all kinds of goodies! If you don't like something, skip over it. I do that all the time on other sites! The fact is, everything here is what I wrote in my spare time and it's not a job or anything. Primarily political, sure... That's because it's my hobby, which also includes gaming and building PCs, which I also rant about at length. I may, in the future, decide to split it into another site, but this site gets a nice bundle of traffic for whatever reason, and I don't think I want to mess with that right now!

So! Without further ado: The reason behind the title of this post! I've decided to try something new here. Every Wednesday, I will try to post a random video. I figured maybe it would give me something to do besides write about the latest lies put out by American's inept news media services, or the latest Democrat scandal that's being covered up and/or being blamed on the Republicans, or the latest opinion I have on what seems to be the most controversial topics I can find. (Oops, there I go again!)

What I would like to happen eventually is to have people send me links to videos they think are funny. That's pretty much the only requirement. Make them humorous! I don't want some heavy expose on something or a long, boring documentary on the intricacies of the stages of life of the common earthworm. Unless, you know, it happens to be so boring, it's funny. It has to be funny and it MUST BE CLEAN. No foul language, no creepy innuendos, you know what I mean by "keep it clean". I forever strive to keep this site family-friendly and I don't intend to stop any time soon. Everyone has my contact information, or, if you don't, you can find them by clicking the button at the top of this page (or by clicking here if you're lazy). I would also appreciate it if the videos you send to me can be embedded here. This thing is as much for me as anyone else, and I don't want to have to leave my site to see a video when I'm just randomly browsing... Yeah, that sounds lazy, too, but this is the Internet. It's a fact that if you cater to lazy, things are more apt to be seen. But that also means that this post is already waaaaaay too long for the lazy people out there and they've moved on to something else. This is the introductory post... I don't plan on going on about stuff like this on the actual VotW posts.

So! To cut to the chase:

Rivenwolf.net's Video of the Week will air here every Wednesday, hopefully without fail, in an attempt to liven things up around here. The videos will be clean and humorous, but I make no promises that they won't be political in nature. The videos will, in fact, be approved by myself and if I don't find something funny, then I'm not going to post it, but I encourage people to contact me to show me videos in hopes that they'll get credit for the post! You won't get any prizes, so I'm gonna burst that bubble right now, but you WILL be immortalized on this blog for years to come and when I become President of the United States a respected political commentator a professional writer an all-star bum who gets posted on Digg and Slashdot every day, you'll go down in history along with me! Or... That's the plan? Yeah... Plan.

At the end of the day, what did the Dow Jones think of the bail out?

Not very highly!