DaytonaFrank's Blog

I have predicted it from the start. There will be a new Perot in any contest that a Clinton is involved in.

You see, I sincerely believe Ross Perot was a plant by the Clintons to steal enough conservative votes to get Bill in office.

Moreso, because he did it twice. It was totally bogus, and something I will obviously never forget, even though everyone else has.

Yesterday, former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government.

His candidacy throws a wild card into the White House race that many believe could peel away votes from Republican Sen. John McCain given the candidates similar positions on fiscal policy.

Barr, who has hired Ross Perot's former campaign manager, acknowledged that some Republicans have tried to discourage him from running.

But he said he's getting into the race to win, not to play spoiler or to make a point.

"I've heard from Americans from all walks of life... they want a choice," he said at a news conference in Washington. "They believe that America has more and better to offer than what the current political situation is serving up to us."

This has been my recurring nightmare all along. A new Ross.

Barr is  getting into the race to "win".  So was Ross Perot. His candidate won twice.

I think Barr's candidate will win too.

The Obama/Clinton ticket! 

History repeats itself.

Thoughts on this?

Did you ever have a sense you have already read something, or been somewhere before?

This eerie experience was dubbed deja vu by scholars who obviously thought the English "already seen" lacked cachet. According to an article by Alan S. Brown in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, new medical tools and imaging systems, plus an evolving grasp of the human brain are enabling researchers to zero in on deja vu and its causes.

Researchers now know deja vu is an illusion, a vivid mental trick played by the mind on itself. Only we are too dim to get the joke.

Have you ever walked into a room for the first time, and could swear you have been there before?

Have you ever been in a place that you know in your heart you have seen in the past, even though you haven't? Doing the same thing you are doing? 

What is really happening is your brain is processing the experience along several neural pathways simultaneously. They all meet in the brain's higher processing centers and get filed into memory as one incident.

But sometimes one copy of the message takes a shortcut and zips into the memory first. When the other identical messages arrive, the processor announces, accurately, that they are exact repeats.

To the brain, this means you have been there before.

Two of every three people report having had the experience. 

Wait a minute.  Didn't I write this blog before?  LOL!

Have you ever had this experience?

Blog it here!

Two men have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Hawaii over what they perceive to be a doomsday machine.

They believe a giant particle accelerator will produce a black hole that will grow to swallow the earth.

Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho say that  the European Center for Nuclear Research have trivialized the chances that the collider could produce a small black hole that could eventually consume the earth. 

The Large Hardon Collider, (no kidding, that is what it is called!) will fire up protons to energies of 7 trillion electron volts before banging them together.

This is boggling to the mind. 

While it is no real biggy in the atmosphere, as it happens thousands of times there, this is different.. It is being done in a laboratory environment far below the atmosphere.

Who gets to say yes or no to take this risk? Scientists?

Do you think this experiment should be allowed to proceed?

Do you think they should stop it, before it is too late?

What if they are wrong?

 John McCain disclosed Wednesday he is in the "embryonic stages" of selecting a vice presidential running mate and hopes to unveil his choice before the Republican National Convention to avoid the type of problems that plagued Dan Quayle's debut two decades ago.

"It's every name imaginable", he said of his list-in-the-making, about 20 in all.

He disclosed none of them and declined even to identify the individuals he has approached to supervise the vetting that will inevitably winnow the field.

Early speculation on a running mate has focused on his formal rivals for the nomination, particularly former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, as well as sitting Republican governors, Charlie Crist of Florida and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota among them. 

--Associated Press

Anyone care to speculate?

To hear Hillary bragging now, one would think she had alot more influence as the first lady than she let on at that time. 

She is now taking credit for things she NEVER did! 

NORTHERN IRELAND: Hillary said: "I helped bring peace to Northern Ireland." 

She was not involved in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement.

KOSOVO: Hillary said: I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo."

Robert Gelbard, who was presidential envoy to the Balkans at the time, said:

"I cannot recall any involvement by Senator Clinton in this issue."

- Associated Press

The bull train rambles on.

Read over the "news" FRONT PAGE here on the blogs, and give me an honest opinion of how many are "news", and how many should have been posted under other categories.

This goes for Fox people, as well as my fellow bloggers. The news category moves the fastest, but it is because every Fox person that is blogging, posts under "news" !

Regardless of whether it belongs there or not. 

Fox claims this blog would not be possible without bloggers, but it is getting painfully obvious they do not care about bloggers input other than commenting on thier blogs.

I always go to "see all " , and NEVER click on a front page blog. This is because I know the real blogs, from real bloggers, are there and not on the front page.

I have seen many blogs ignored, that SHOULD have made front page of news, and so many that made front page that should NOT have been there!

Recipes, and baby names, is not news! But if you are a Fox personality, you get put up! 

Am I alone on this? Is this some wacky conspiracy theory I dreamed up?

See for yourself, then let me know. (if I have not disappeared)