Something heard for that “Market Watch” news feature that KPOJ programs during The Rachel Maddow at 6:50, in a description of the situation of people who moved into various planned community housing developments and due to the slumping economy and housing slump find that no one’s moving in next to them:

The phrase: “Post Apocalyptic” was used.

That’s a little strong, don’t you think?  Post-Apocalyptic?

Evergreen candidate Gordon Allen Pross apparently has something of a permanent campaign website up, via google, complete with a historical review of his voter’s pamphlet statements dating back to 1998.  I do not know what to note from this.  It does appear he has crafted his platform down to his tithing system — described with a description of Lincoln copperhead pennies, further making a historical connection to the political legacy of Abraham Lincoln.  I suspect Pross thinks of himself in the manner of Huey Long, who proclaimed himself of the party of BOTH Jefferson AND Lincoln — beyond party, having travelled a trail from Democrat to Republic to “GOP” — initials he grants two different meanings.

Axe your tax, and oh boy!  Watch out Doc!  Gordon Allen Pross has returned to his old stomping grounds, after flirting with his Senate bids, and is taking YOU ON!

I don’t know what Mccranium refers to here regarding media coverage.  Even a fringe figure of the stature of Pross warrants a trickle of media coverage, and unless I am missing out on 15 minute stories on the KNDO and KNDU Local news at 5 coverage, a trickle is what Pross has here.  And Pross and Ron Paul aren’t really comprable either, as I can point to and flush out real live Ron Paul supporters — Hell!  Forget that some supporters flew a blimp.  Some have decided to form a Ron Paul Commune! — It’s definitely a niche following, but it’s enough to — for instance, disrupt a Republican website’s call for platform policies.  Pross gets you nothing.  Not even a bumper sticker to be found.  Good lord, a google search for “Gordon Allen Pross” pops up my page at #1 — last I checked.

I’m not entirely sure what Gordon Allen Pross thinks he is doing.  It’s hard for me to imagine he thinks he is on the cusp of any type of victory.  To ascertain whether or not that is the case takes a more careful reading of his words than I am compelled to try. 

This is as opposed to the case of Montana’s Bob Kelleher, the perenial candidate whose frequent campaigns garnered him enough name recognition to bolt him to the Republican Senate nomination, who has more or less stated he never expected to win a danged thing.  Kelleher’s campaign hobby can be thought of as something of a Tribune to a Lost Cause, or a host of lost causes.  Pross?  I gots nothing.

Apparently some liberal intelligentsia Obama supporter somewhere or other commented that McCain’s “Britney Spears — Paris Hilton — Barack Obama” packed multiple punches by subliminally suggesting race with the blonde woman — black man side by side, and then aslo conjured up Adolf Hitler with “Triumph of the Will” style images of Obama in Germany.

Amusing conjecture, that.  Female celebrities tend to be blondes.  And there’s a reason that Leni Riefenstahl’s camera techniques were so compelling — which brings us to that problem with the campaign ad, suggested by someone else.  The ad fails the “Volume off” test which has it that you can judge an ad by how the ad spot looks if there is no volume… and what you have here is gloriful footage of Barack Obama.

My problem with the ad is the suggestion that Paris Hilton and Britney Spears might be the biggest female celebrities on the planet.  Even in terms of the Tabloid Celebrities they have been as of late — Paris always a “Tabloid Celebrity” and famous for being famous and a person I’ve always been insulted I know the name and Spears being one sometime after no one could care about her stage performances — I think we may be in a between time where their star has died out.  As the Los Angeles Police chief put it,

“If you notice, since Britney [Spears] started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris [Hilton] is out of town not bothering anybody anymore — thank God — and evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don’t seem to have much of an issue.”

But the problem with the ad is that Obama can pack a crowd and those two other people mentioned cannot — as far back as 2003 the Rose Garden had to cut off large numbers of seats to fill the stadium for a Britney Spears concert, a problem which would not greet Obama.  (Yes, further problem is that much of McCain’s “Maverick” appeal he’s crafted over this past decade has been based off of celebrityhood ventures, but forget that for a moment.)

It appears that the search for the culprit for the Anthrax Attacks has reached its culprit, a Scientist suspected of sending out Anthrax as first part of a plan to test his Anthrax Cure and killed himself as the Investigation neared him.

Maybe.

This was one of those cases which falls back into the recesses of our National psyche, forgotten about and not mentioned, and you have to insert it awkwardly with the reference to “No Terrorist Attack on American soil since 9/11”.  But what always fascinated me about it was the partisan – flushed conspiracy theories of the thing, never stated but always intimated.  Bush Administration supposedly sent the Anthrax to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy — the Democratic Senate Majority Leader of the time and the Democratic head of the Judicial Committee — “anthrax”ing them to keep them compliant in passing through the Patriot Act — which, as we all know, is/was analogious to the Enabling Acts of Nazi Germany.  This never quite made any sense to me — the Patriot Act was going to be flying right through in tact in our post-9/11 “watch out for low flying planes” America.  (And, frankly, in our omnipresent multitentacled Leviathan system of Government.)

Other objects of the attack — the tabloid paper under the umbrella “American Media” as well as the office of Tom Brokaw — seemed to suggest an attack on the, quote-in-quote “Liberal Media” (couple it with those two Senators), which had alwys been my amorphous and vague profile — based solely on those elements, understand.

What fed into the partisan, and further into over-all Governmental Conspiracy theories was the seeming inaction in itsinvestigative process, to the point where it was a handful of months ago reportedly shelved into the “Cold Case File”.  But, as it is, if the Culprit has been found and has now killed himself, I guess you can say that he will never be able to test his cure.