Barrel Strength

So Stéphane Dion’s reaction to rising gas prices is essentially no different than the old borscht belt joke,

Patient: It hurts when I do this.

Doctor: Then stop doing that.

[...] because humanity is asking for more and more oil

Oh, the humanity, indeed!

The Democrats have released an ad mocking John McCain as unfit to be President because he does not use a computer. Now if only the Obamessiah or his cultists had bothered to use Google, they would have learned why:

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

So, Democrats, is this truly the cruel, effete, spineless poser that you have been waiting for?!

UPDATE — The One’s Googlers somehow miss evidence to the contrary:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

This is beginning to resemble more a costume re-enactment of the 1993 Kim Campbell campaigns than a bid for the White House.

Hey, Canadian Cynic readers, welcome to the strange new realm of fact-checking! And good news, it’s not only fun, it’s ethical too!

While fans of “The Matrix” will see parallels between the coming of Barack Hussein Obama and Morpheus’ search for The One, “Dune” aficionados will recognize something even more mystical – the elusive Kwisatz Haderach – a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time. Also known as “the one who can be many places at once” or a male capable of absolute powers of prescience, able to predict all possible futures and to cause select threads of time to be realized through manipulation.

Wikipedia suggests the origin of Kwisatz Haderach is most likely the Hebrew expression Kefizat Haderech, which literally means “jumping of the path/road/way”, and translates to “the great breakthrough” or “the big advancement”.

With the Democratic campaign in panic mode as nuclear fallout from Palinmania rains down on their candidate, the question must be asked – has BHO ‘jumped the shark’ ?