Salon On Annie Oakley Palin

A bizarre phenomenon, Sarah, Yikes, are we not dumb enough now, must we seek the mental ooze of an Alaska Hockey Mom, opportunist with no education, intellect or studied background. Yes the infinite final bright wisdom politicians are always prattling about, the American people..at the bottom of it all intelligent. Hello have you watched this woman.

She's scrappy, she's folksy, and she won't take any of your bullcrap. Like it or not, Sarah Palin is here to staySee Salon on Oakley Palin.

John Stewart's Interview With Lou Dobbs

Extended Interview. clickety-click-click

The Palin Effect

Beware this woman al yea of rational minds, because you are dealing with the irrational, the upside down, the very strange. With Sarah you journey into the foul bowels of Christianity, curtesy the wack jobs of the Christian Right. Danger Danger, Alert, Alert. Deeply knows you wish to laugh, but don't. Sarah is no joke, even though she seems one.



CLICK HERE TO Read the article by Max Blumenthal from the Nation magazine.

Michigan vs Ohio State

Deeply grew up in the Town of Two Ann's, the little city on the Huron, the home of the Pretzel Bell, Fritz Chrysler and so much football history. As a child he watched the games and looked at the giants, those men he now knows were young from the perspective of Deeply's fifty nine year old eyes. But as a child these student athletes were giants. They could have been from the Norse or Roman Pantheon with their winged helmets, their pads, their maze and blue. Yes Deeply remembers and the little he cares for football rests, still in Ann Arbor, with those memories.

Memories which also include riding his bike across Ann Arbor at ten years old, six miles with out a helmet, by himself, and no one concerned for his safety. Children were much freer in the fifties than they are today.

But to the point. Tomorrow is the Big Game, or what should have been a big game if the Michigan Football program had not been sold down the river by Bill Martin, sold By Bill to a cracker illiterate of a coach named Rodriguez of all things. Well at least we have the melting pot working here. But Michigan deserves a coach with a brain. Schembeckler was bad enough, but at least he won, and Loyd Car seemed a man of principle and dignity. The new Michigan coach should be sent away on a rail with tar dribbling from his testicles. Ahem..did he say that?

Any way here is some past verse from past Michigan Ohio State Games to entertain. You. And have a gander at last year's satire, and parody Rodriguez and his team By clicking here on THE HAUNTED WOLVERINE.THE VERSE- This first one is based on Henry V and the St. Crispians Day Speech. The rest well it just is, and on that note it is a question of what is is?

Think Henry V

AND WOE TO ALL YE SIMPLE MEN
WHO MISS THE SUN'S BRIGHT RAY
FOR IT SHALL EVER MORE BE SAID
THAT OUR BAND OF BLUE
OUR HAPPY FEW
CRUSHED OHIO STATE TODAY

AND TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD FOR THE BIG GAME, MICHIGAN-OHIO STATE



IT IS A RUGGED BUNCH
OF VALIANT MEN
WHO WILL DEFEAT THE BUCKS
YET ONCE AGAIN

THE BLUE WILL STEAL
THEIR HOPES FOR SURE
BECAUSE THE FOUL BUCKEYES
THEY ARE-IMPURE

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REMEMBER SON

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
FOR A WOLVERINE
TO LOSE A CONTEST
WITH A BEAN

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THE MIGHTY BLUE

WILL WIN THE DAY
AND BURST THE BUCKEYE BUBBLE
STRAIGHT AWAY



FOR THEY ARE EVIL
SHALLOW MEN
RED AND GRAY
NO FASHIONS FRIEND



THEY PLAY LIKE WOMEN
AND ARE THUGS TO BOOT
THEIR CLAIM NUMBER ONE
A DISHONEST HOOT

THEIR COACH IS THUGGISH
BUT YOU KNOW THAT
BUT DID YOU KNOW?
THAT THEY SMOKE CRACK!

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THE GAME APPROACHES
THE CAULDRON BOILS
THE STEW GROWS HOT
THE BUCKEYE SOILS

SOILS HIS SHORTS
IN TERROR IT SEEMS
THAT MIGHTY MICHIGAN
WILL END HIS DREAMS

AND ONCE AGAIN
LEAVE HIM A SLAVE
A CHURLISH CUR
UNRIGHTEOUS KNAVE

copywrite j. matson heininger. should anyone care.

Michigan the Canary

Here are three posts from the past. It is too bad Deeply was prescient.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Quick Beauty- Plodding Despair

In Northern Michigan spring is a long time coming. But, when it arrives, it happens in an instant. Of all the places Deeply has lived, here, north of the 44th parallel on Blue View lane, the buds of the new leaves appear suddenly in early May, growing visibly hour by hour. A slight cast in the morning, by noon greater green, and by evening, well cowabunga, the tree outside the window has small leaves.

Yes, beauty erupting even as Michigan continues to collapse, reaching that dismal statistic, the worst economy in the nation with an unemployment rate of 12.6 percent. So, when you hear of those green shoots, those subtle indications that things are getting better, out there, buried in the statistics, cast a wondering eye before yea, chortle a large ahem, or hell, just spit. Michigan has been the canary for a while now, and canary it is likely to remain. Hello states with unemployment at six percent or seven, at eight percent or nine, you ain't seen nothing yet.

So campers, take those profits you just made back out of the market. Hunker down, and wait. Eat rice, grow vegetables. The Dow will jump and move some more, down, down, down, as credit card defaults hit the nation, and foreclosures continue, as neighborhoods go silent and as garbage blows about the streets. As city's, town's, and township's budgets are crippled with despair, be glad it's spring and beautiful. Sure, you may hang your hat on hope. Things may turn about before the snow.. but don't count on it, Santa is growing thinner by the day. Donner and Blitzen are developing mange. That new red paint Santa put on the sleigh. It came from China, full of lead.

Information:Deeply heard an interesting statistic today when he inquired if the new natural gas well scheduled for drilling next door was going in. Nope. Last year the gas boys banged and clanged and waved their patriotic banners, flags and shiny trucks, and 170 new wells. This year, the price of natural gas down by seventy percent, they will drill perhaps thirty. And old glory, that banner's stained, put away for the future. America symbol's have turned a tarnished green. No longer love it or leave it, we're so dam great. Today, it's food stamps and unemployment.. forclosures and trucks repossesed. The roustabouts are unemployed. Deeply knew the future last year, they understand it now.

Oops Hope they don't decide they need someone to hate... because who knows who they might wish to attack..?
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Problem of The Future

It may be time to read David Halberstam's The Best And The Brightest once again. These were the men Kennedy surrounded himself with. McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk and many more. Obama seems to be following this mold, loading up his administration with the brightest most talented minds (excluding Hilary who is all about politics) for his cabinet heads.

The hope, the obvious need, people capable of understanding, and solving, the immense problems George W Bush has left our nation.

Will this work? Is anyone this bright? Is Obama this bright? The answer will be perhaps, but only with a lot of luck. Because, after eight years of cronyism, self interest, greed, and self indulgent idiots (See Brownie and W) our nation has tossed its cards to hope and intelligence.

This should be good, it should be great. Now imagine the brightest leaders of world history and load them up with our nation's problems, two wars, an unstable geopolitical situation, a coming (and started) world wide depression, then add the need to preserve our Bill of Rights and our Constitution, while keeping a chicken in every pot. The task is daunting. It may be impossible without incredible pain for 30 to 50 percent of the population.

We will see, brains seem the answer, and this answer may be way too obvious! But what else is there? Hubris

Now, read this article on the how the medium size banks in Michigan (the canary) are not Spending Their Tarp Dollars Wisely for the people.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Paul Krugman agrees with Deeply

In his opinion piece in this morning's New York Times.. Paul Krugman speaks of the University of Michigan's confidence rating at its lowest level in fifty years. Even the most foolish of economic students, even our Bush, must surely know when expectations become bad the self full filling prophecy ensues. What did the Doofus say last August, with his what me worry Alfred E Newman chuckle and blink? "There's Lot's of liquidity out there"...right! With jawboning like that how can you miss?

Dam I'm hearing that Ricky Nelson song again... "fire up that jet..Laura did you take your pills? There must be a few more countries we can go to. I'm a travlin"

In Northern Michigan we don't have a jet. It has been clear for over a year and longer that things are not good. People speak of well paying jobs with sad jokes, or looks that say "you must be crazy".

The roads were plowed infrequently last winter, and even the police are driving older automobiles. I sense concern and quiet latent fear in the flat hollow eyes of the people, the closed up shops, the empty parking spaces in the streets. The churches and the bars are active, but exuberance is not around this corner.

The 44th parallel, just south and down the road from here, is normally a line where the harsh winter's departure brings out people raking lawns and students wearing shorts when the temperatures climb to forty-five and fifty. It is a location where even the slightest expectation that summer is out there... somewhere... brings brighter eyes, and happy chatter. This year, I see little of this. The small towns nearby are ghostly in an eerie, quiet, half active fashion... Uncertainty is on the wind... and this cannot be good. Because I have been saying for some time now... look out America, see us here. We are the nation's "mine's canary".

Deeply Returns and Says Watch House

Noxious verbiage will return tomorrow, except Deeply recently received this warning after he tried to apply for a job at the Gibberish Institute. Take note and beware the future.

"First you must apply and then after a rigorous vetting we may approve you, but beware, approvals are capricious and sometimes held up for months, occasionally applicants will suffer slander, severe ego damage and outright rejection. You will not know why you are rejected if you are. Career damage is a possible part and parcel of your decision. There is no recourse if you end up beggared and living under bridge nineteen."

Obama President of Despair

Deeply loves words, and he likes and liked President Obummer, largely because he could use them so well. However and sadly, another tower of Deeply's castle of thoughts has toppled with this President. This is language. Who could image that we could have a President who could speak so well, and be so ineffective, so unable to act. The disconnect is overwhelming.

We, the Deeply We, never imagined we would say it, but our nation would have been be better off had we had kept the Doofus or elected John McCain along with our democratic congress. Our congress would have acted more forcibly and the democrats would not need to keep pretending that their President was worthwhile.

Obummer is, no doubt, a good man, perhaps a principled man, but he is no doer. Instead he is a ditherer extraordinaire. And this ditherer is going to ruin America much more than the Doofus ever could because to paraphrase Louis the XIV. Apres Obummer the deluge.

Nothing will change from Obummer's four years and after his one term presidency, you can kiss our nation good bye. We will rapidly grow more stratified and more crazy. We will grow nuts on every tree, and fullfill our destiny which as the final super power with nothing left but bombs and weapon systems, is to destroy the world in a cataclysmic, me, me, me, self stroking, World War III sold to the mooks of America as a way to restore our greatness. Elmer Gantry is coming, America, and this time in the form of a charismatic leader who will not dither but instead spread disaster on a wave of populism. Yikes perhaps the end of timers are right.

Happy Days Ain't Here Again, and they are not coming back!

New Technology- sixth sense

ABOUT
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch.

The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build.

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Fat Youth Equals Headaches and Opportunity For the Army

The size of the all American teenager is squashing the army's get up and go and making it difficult to recruit that fighting machine the American Soldier. Even General John Shalkashvili, the former joint chief of staff is concerned

"We've never had this problem of young people being obese like we have today,"
"We should be concerned about how this will impact this overstretched Army and its ability to recruit."

Not too mention all that extra fatigue cloth we will be needing, which by the way
America, will create jobs, jobs, jobs, if we require the fatigue cloth to be made in the good old USA. Yes a fat soldier needs a bigger uniform and this means jobs for all you resurrected textile workers out there.

Happy days are here again Americans, keep eating soldier, keep gobbling, just don't get so big you cannot reach your joy stick... marine.

'Shalikashvili is among dozens of retired generals, admirals and civilian Pentagon officials who have banded together as Mission Readiness: Military Leaders for Kids. The group, which includes former NATO commander and presidential candidate Wesley Clark, will appear with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the National Press Club on Thursday to urge immediate action to reduce dropout rates and improve the physical and moral fitness of the nation's youth.

They will cite research that shows quality early childhood education raises graduation rates by up to 44 percent and reduces the odds of being arrested for a violent crime by age 18.

Douglas Smith of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command said 2008 data shows about three in 10 youths have an initial "barrier to enlistment."

Most aren't insurmountable. "If you're overweight, we tell you to come back when you've lost the weight. If you don't score well on the armed forces aptitude test, we suggest you study and take it again," he said.

Between 2004 and 2008, the Army more than doubled the number of "conduct" waivers it granted to would-be soldiers with criminal or misdemeanor records. The loosened standards proved necessary in a time of war and amid a booming economy that forced military recruiters to work overtime to fill the ranks.

The new warnings about a generation of couch potatoes comes just weeks after the Pentagon announced its best recruiting year since the all-volunteer force began in 1974. The economic meltdown and rising unemployment, combined with bigger military bonuses and benefits, enticed hundreds of thousands to enlist despite the inevitability most would be sent to war.'

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

Insights into Sarah Palin

THE OVERPOWERING SMELL OF cheeseburgers and French fries saturated the candidate's suite at the Philadelphia Westin Hotel. About a dozen staffers shuffled around the table set up in the middle of the room where hundreds upon hundreds of five-by-seven-inch note cards were spread out in two-foot-high stacks. Palin had been locked in there for hours, cramming for her debate against Joe Biden. The biggest test of the campaign was less than a week away.

On the heels of the first round of Katie Couric interviews, her margin for error was nonexistent. Joe Lieberman, a veteran of a previous vice presidential debate, had been brought in to give Palin an idea of what to expect. The stifling air shortened everyone's patience, and tensions were running especially high between debate prep coordinator Mark Wallace and foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann. It was the note cards that had first led to the longstanding feud between Wallace and Scheunemann a couple of weeks earlier. One of the aides wanted Palin to memorize them, while the other thought it better for her to learn conceptually. The spat made it all the way up the chain to Steve Schmidt, who told Scheunemann in no uncertain terms that he did not have the time for bickering between staffers and that they needed to sort it out. But the two men were still fuming at one another, and negative vibes permeated the room along with the smell of greasy food.

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Read Garrison Keillor

"I grew up with the Kellogg's Variety Pack in a family of eight and so I know about unfairness. Some mornings your beloved Raisin Bran with its crunchy chewiness is snatched away by swifter hands and you sit staring into a bowl of soggy Rice Krispies or the wretched Sugar Pops and feel resentful, cheated, abused. Some days Mother embraces socialism and cooks a pot of Cream of Wheat, take it or leave it, but you look forward to the day when you take your place in the great emporium of adult life and can enjoy Raisin Bran whenever you like."

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The Incredible Shrinking Public Option

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Sick of Xenephobia

What a disgusting country some Americans make us....Those who seem to forget what we are about in the first place.

America...Bring us your poor, your starving, your disenfranchised, your huddled masses..To paraphrase Emma Lazurus.

We are a nation of the melting pot. A nation of diversity, a nation of immigrants... but try to convince the white oaf Republicans of America this is the case, the poor Xenephobes or the rich hypocrites like Lou Dobbs of the Spanish wife and the affluent horsey daughters.

These descendants of those who stole the land from the Indians who now complain of illegal immigrants, many of these 'illegals' of Indian heritage, of DNA that once owned America. The West, the East, The South, The North, no land in our nation could possibly belong more to some Oaf of German or Irish or English decent than from Mayan, Anasazi, Apache, Navaho, Zunni, Iroqouis, Huron or any other indigenous DNA.

These same clowns of relatively recent heritage ( only a few hundred years at best) now are blogging and disparaging, in protest, the American of Kenyan decent, Meb-Mebrahtom Keflezighi, an American of twenty two years and a citizen who just won the New York City Marathon, complaining that he is not a real American. Well give us a break. Look at this magnificent American



And if you don't think it is not going to get worse in our nation of the expanding economicaly disenfranchised then you are fooling yourself. On every street corner and in every little village there will be more and more of these uneducated Embarrassments to our nation... The Xenophobic white man, protesting his lost standard of living and needing some one to hate.

Led by individuals like this Typical Rich Xenophobe Oaf





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Going Rouge- The Movie

Obummer Solves Afghanistan Problem

Today President Obama revealed a secret government program and announced he is prepared to spring the program on Afghanistan, bringing the troops home and letting our new team of cats take charge. The decision was held up for weeks because of worries how PETA might respond, but today the President announced,

"We have met the challenge of our age, no longer will our hero's die on foreign shores. These creatures will devour the Taliban. We worried, we studied and now we act! And rest assured citizens the homeland will be safe. Cats hate water, they will never swim home to trouble us once we release them."

The giant kittens are being prepared for transport aboard the George Bush, our newest navy zoo and cargo ship.

And take note investors in the Military Industrial Complex, there is sure to be a demand surge for Kitty Litter... so Deeply recommends... invest, get in on the ground floor... to quote Commander Fullbright Jones... "At Sea, odor control is paramount..."