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I stole this fair and square from Erin who stole it from Jon Stewart!

Because it's fucking funny!

Goodbye...for now

Hi, peoples. As many of you regular Cheese readers know I haven't been blogging much recently. Actually, this year has been a very minimal one for blogging period.

Apart from new responsibilities at work, I've been preparing for a new stage in my life, that of motherhood. I'm now at that stage where I thought I had better sign off the blog officially before I just disappear off to the labour room and you hear nothing from me for months.

So, sayonara my good peoples. Sorry I wasn't able to fulfill that promise of the updates from China; my source got caught up in some other dramas and she could do with her own blog talk about 'em.

Take care and God willing I'll have the energy in the near future to resume blogging.

Peace to all.

Can you smell the desperation?

We knew it was gonna happen. Now that Barack Obama is in the final leg of his race to the White House, almost every day his campaign is being besieged by some rumour or silly statement.

Just last week Rev. Jesse Jackson made his offensive comments about Obama, now the presidential hopeful and his wife Michelle are the subjects of a satirical cartoon on the cover of this week’s The New Yorker and it’s stirring up controversy. Michelle is depicted with an afro and AK 47 (playing on the “un-American” and revolutionary controversy she has been subjected to) and Barack is depicted as a Muslim with the American flag burning in the fireplace (playing on the Muslim rumors he has admonished since Day 1).

According to Ybf.com, here are the different statements taken from Politico.com from both sides regarding this cover. The New Yorker says about its cover:

“On the cover of the July 21, 2008, issue of the The New Yorker, in ‘The Politics of Fear,’ artist Barry Blitt satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.”


And the rep from Obama’s campaign says:

“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”


And what the cartoonist himself has to say:

I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous. It seemed to me that depicting the concept would show it as the fear-mongering ridiculousness that it is.

Some people are really scared Obama is going to be the 43rd President of the United States...

Oh Evander...

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Well, by now the whole world must have heard about four-time World Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield's financial woes. Apart from foreclosing on his 109-room, 54,000 square foot Atlanta home, he apparently owes $5000,000 in landscaping fees and child support to one of the mothers of his nine children. To read the full story, click here.

Dayum. It's sad when a man can have a lucrative 24-year career, including earning $34,000,000 in one fight alone, then to come to this. Wanna bet paying for his house did him in? The pool alone looks expensive to maintain....


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Should Obama make Clinton his running mate?

Now that Barack Obama has been given the nod by his party, the next question on everyone's lips is who will be his running mate?

Obama has chosen a team to help choose his potential Vice President and word is that his opponent in the primary, Hillary Clinton, wants the second spot. Some of her supporters appear to think it's her right and out of respect Obama should offer her the spot.

Well, who knows what Obama's going to do, but what do you think? Should he bring Hillary Clinton, who had taken a few pot shots at him during the campaign, on to his slate?

Vote in the side bar, peoples.

Let the Games begin...

At last. After 17 months of campaigning, debating and in some cases mud-slinging, Senator Barack Obama has created history by being the first black candidate nominated by a major party in USA to run for presidential office.

You can read the story here. It will be interesting to see if he chooses Hillary Clinton as his running mate...

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