This is serious stuff folks

Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry.

Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office in 65 days.

But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.

So, when you see Obama having twitches and a strange repeating pattern of reaching for some invisible thing on his belt, now you will know why.

And Crackberry addiction is real. It can make you nuts not having it. Someone made the mistake of hooking theirs up to the PC at work Wed. night, after I had already blown town, and changed the pin by mistake, meaning I got no corporate email since. Personal, yes, but, even on PTO, I like to keep abreast, and wack non-necessary email. Just got home and hooked it up, checked corporate. Shaking has stopped.

Oh, and have fun, Barry!

Apparently, Barry is looking to hire Glinda The Good

Want a top job in the Obama administration? Only pack rats need apply, preferably those not packing controversy.

A seven-page questionnaire being sent by the office of President-elect Barack Obama to those seeking cabinet and other high-ranking posts may be the most extensive — some say invasive — application ever.

The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some covering applicants’ spouses and grown children as well, that are forcing job-seekers to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document both their achievements and missteps.

Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.

Some of the questions include

• Have you ever hung with an unreformed domestic terrorist?
• Have you ever earmarked $1 million for the hospital your wife works at, then seen her get a massive raise?
• Have you ever had your peeps sue to silence your critics?
• Have you ever worked against the security and/or foreign policy interests of the United States?

Interestingly, much of the real substance in the questionnaire are focused on the question “will you be an embarrassment to Obama?” Two of the names thrown around for the Barry administration are John Kerry and Jamie Gorelick. Let’s see: John Kerry came back from Vietnam and not only consistently smeared his fellow soldiers, but went to Paris on at least one occasion to speak with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Jamie Gorelick was the one who put in The Wall between law enforcement and intelligence, which certainly helped lead to not being able to stop 9/11.

Of course, to Liberals, those are embarrasments, but a sourse of pride. Especially since the first question asks for all resumes for the past 10 years, to avoid resume falsehoods. I wonder if he asked Joe Biden for one.

I’m kinda suprised not many are bothering to cover this bit of humor from the Iranians, with their dupes at UPI helping out

The Iranian military Wednesday test-fired surface-to-air missiles designed for defensive purposes, the country’s state-sanctioned media reported.

The test-firing involved the next-generation missile called the Sejil and used solid-fuel propellants, the government’s English-language Press TV said on its Web site. Reports on Press TV and state television provided no details about the missile’s range.

Looks good!!!

Interesting advice

THE threat of recession could disappear if we all put a smile on our face, the Government’s top money man said today.

After two months of persistent bad economic news, Treasury secretary Ken Henry said the worst could be avoided if Australians simply cheered up.

“Fundamentally what is driving weaker economic outcomes globally at the moment is fractured confidence,” Dr Henry said.

“We can talk ourselves into worse outcomes; of course we can. People do; it wouldn’t be the first time. But we don’t have to,” he said during a speech at the National Press Club.

On one hand, he is correct. It is a loss in confidence. And, consider that the Democrats, who have railed about a “bad economy” since Bush took office, saw their whining become reality. Being positive will certainly help.

On the other hand…well, there is no other hand. It may sound silly coming from the Aussie’s top money man, but, if leaders push doom and gloom, you get doom and gloom. If they push positives, yeah, may not always work, but, it sure doesn’t hurt.

Anyhow, can a nice smile be worse then the Crap Sandwich 2.0 that Congress has fed us? It sure doesn’t have the capability for abuse that all that money has, eh? Dr. Henry also stated that Australia’s tax system was too complicated, and should be simplified.

Now that the election is over, and it is a few months for Senator Neophyte starts really screwing things up as president (”say, ah, um, er, folks, I initiated this 3am conference call to see what I should do about the Iranians announcing they just exploded a nuclear weapon. Any ideas?”), we can take some time to discuss other fun issues

My dad’s not a monster and I’m not a pole-dancer, says firebrand preacher Omar Bakri’s daughter

When the daughter of firebrand Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed was revealed to be a topless pole dancer, the conflict between their two lifestyles could hardly have been more stark.

Bakri, exiled from Britain in 2005 for inciting hatred, is infamous for his radical interpretation of Islam, which includes denouncing Western ‘depravity’ and claiming the British people brought the 7/7 outrages on themselves.

In allegedly choosing to lead a secret double life stripping for money in seedy London bars and nightclubs, Yasmin Fostok appeared to have rejected her father’s views in the most extreme way possible.

Yet while ‘friends’ described her passion for flaunting her cosmetically enhanced figure in front of men, and her colourful love life, to the Press in September, Yasmin was overwhelmed by the sudden onslaught of publicity and terrified by a slew of messages on the internet from extremists angered by her lifestyle and threatening to harm her.

The story goes on to say that Yasmon claims she was never a stripping pole dancer.

Yet although Yasmin’s upbringing was undoubtedly strict, and characterised by many of the tensions common to children growing up torn between two cultures, when she speaks of her father, it is not of the fanatical ‘Tottenham Ayatollah’ vilified for ranting about the destruction of Western values and praising the ‘magnificent’ September 11 bombers.

Instead, she describes him as a warm, kind and funny man who simply tried to protect his children from negative influences, like any other caring parent.

‘As a child I was aware that my dad was important to the Muslim community, but I didn’t know what he did,’ says Yasmin.

‘He was very keen not to bring work home with him and he would never discuss it with us. The phone rang constantly for him but he would take the calls in private.

Why does that remind me of the way Mafia figures are always portrayed as acting in movies and non-fiction books?

Anyhow, she went on to learn about the London clubs, loved dancing, and eventually, she was employed dancing, and the agency she worked for also employed escorts. And did I mention this mother of 2 started wearing tighter, more revealing clothes, and then got breast surgery to go to a DD?

Because the day is going to be tense enough as it is, particularly if you have moonbats at your place of work who haven’t decided to take the day off. From Jolly Old England

Coastguards have been banned from using flares in rescue missions after they were ruled to be a risk to health and safety.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency says the devices, which are used to illuminate large areas of land and sea during night-time searches, could cause ‘considerable injury’.

Rescue teams have been told to use ’safer’ alternatives such as torches and night-vision goggles during land-based cliff and beach rescues.

One crewman said: ‘This is the most stupid, ignorant thing I’ve heard of. Flares light up the entire sky and aid rescue missions - something that obviously can’t be done with a hand-held torch.

Wait, hasn’t anyone told the agency that they are supposed to use Climate Change as a reason to ban the flares?

The Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday on whether the seemingly benign, generally rhetorical question “What’s up?” becomes unlawful interrogation when said by a police officer to a handcuffed suspect just outside a house where illegal narcotics were found.

That falls in to the category of WTF? humor, because they are serious. How soon till ye olde ACLU weigh in?

For the men and the ladies

Good thing ACORN illegally registered them early, eh? OCTOBER SURPRISE: ALIEN ENDORSES MCCAIN!

In a shocking reversal, the Alien has switched his endorsement from Barack Obama to John McCain.

With major implications for the U.S. presidential election, political kingmaker the Alien has changed his endorsement amid furor. Both political camps are buzzing about the implications, as the Alien has correctly predicted the winning president in every election for the past 28 years.

Ongoing investigation points to Cindy McCain as being the cause for this historic shift in allegiances.

Uncovered photos suggest that in a last ditch effort to help her husband’s failing campaign, Cindy McCain seduced and then blackmailed the Alien for his endorsement.

Now, if our soon to be alien overlords endorse McCain, shouldn’t you? I know, I know, it’s not the same as getting the all important Hamas and Hugo Chavez endorsements, but, the invasion fleet will be here soon.

In case there is no debate Friday, here is the kinds of stuff you will miss

Sunday afternoon humor: Why Arab/Muslim Americans should not vote for Obama (page doesn’t work in Firefox, IE only)

Arab and Muslim voters thought, in Obama that they were witnessing a candidate with a shot of wining, that he was not part of the pro-Israeli establishment that fills the halls of power in Washington who usually go out of their way, sometimes slavishly, to support Israel at expense of Arab and Palestinian rights.

But Arab and Muslims voters did not have wait for too long for their disappointment to arrive when they felt that Obama had increasingly started treating them like a plague avoiding them at all costs so as not to upset the racists and bigots in this country.

In Detroit, last June, Obama’s staff made sure to remove two Muslim American women from the seats behind Obama so as not to “ offend” American voters, as if Muslims voters are not “fully” Americans.

This insult to Muslims is too deep to let it go so easily, it also speaks volumes about the hatred and racism in the American society where Arab and Muslim Americans are usually at the receiving end of its repeated blows, and with no end in sight.

Gee, just because a good chunk of the Religion of Peace has declared war on America, and the so called moderates are barely visible, no, no reason to be worried about Muslims here in America.

Looks like Barry’s voter blocks are slimming down, eh? He can’t really count on the Hillary voters, he can’t count on the youth vote, he can’t count on Obama Girl showing up, he can’t count on the senior citizen vote, and, now, he can’t count on the Jihadi block vote.

John McCain has picked his running mate and we here at McCain Blogs are anxious to find out just who it will be. Read more below.

John McCain

The top picks at this point are Sarah Palin (my personal favorite), Carly Fiorina, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty. Here are bios of Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney and Tim Pawlenty’s wife Mary Pawlenty.

Other potential vice-presidential candidates have taken themselves out of the running. Kay Bailey Hutchinson has stated she’s not been asked and doesn’t want the job. Bobby Jindal took himself out of the running a while back stating he wants to keep the job he has.

The names of Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge have both been floated out, but both are thought to have issues that wouldn’t go over well with the conservative base. They are not likely picks.

Of course, there’s always the chance that our favorite maverick could do something totally unexpected and pick someone no one sees coming. I almost hope he does. He does have the freedom at this point to pick a bit of a risky running mate.

There have been rumors that Romney has been assigned a secret service detail - but that’s just a rumor. Pawlenty has canceled appointments for today and tomorrow. So anticipation is growing.

McCain will make his announcement in Ohio tomorrow (if it doesn’t leak out just in time to compete for news coverage with the Obama speech). Several of the potential picks are now making their way, with their families, to Ohio.

We’re keeping an eye on it and will let you know just as soon as we know.