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With all of the empty accusations being directed at Sarah Palin, for the benefit of younger visitors to the site, I thought I would provide some historical context to introduce you to some things that Joe Biden would much prefer you did not know.

Some will remember that Joe Biden ended his first campaign for the White House in September of 1987, after accusations of plagiarism surfaced :

What might be called the Glib Crib Crisis began when the New York Times revealed that Biden had been guilty of rhetorical shoplifting.

Once could be easily explained as a minor oversight, but twice :

To make matters worse, Biden repeated the offense in a tape he made three days later for the National Education Association.

Soon afterwards, a review of earlier speeches given by Senator Biden began to establish a pattern of serial behaviour :

Once textual fidelity became an issue, reporters found earlier cases in which Biden had failed to give proper citation to Humphrey and Robert Kennedy.

During his first months at Syracuse University Law School, in 1965, Biden failed a course because he wrote a paper that used five pages from a published law-review article without quotation marks or a proper footnote.

Each of the infractions, taken individually, could be “much ado about nothing” as Biden describes them, but a series of events predicated upon very poor judgement, is much more than what Biden describes. This is Joe Biden, Obama’s choice for Vice President of the United States. Given how poorly he performed in his home state, during the recent primaries, the Democratic voters of Delaware may very well view him as he was described in 1987 :

A Pre-Existing Subtext. “The basic rap against Biden,” explains Democratic Pollster Geoff Garin, “is that he’s a candidate of style, not substance.”

An Awkward Revelation. The Kinnock kleptomania was particularly damaging to Biden since it underscored the prior concerns that he was a shallow vessel for other people’s ideas.

A Maladroit Response. Top Aide Tom Donilon claimed that Biden failed to credit Kinnock because “he didn’t know what he was saying. He was on autopilot.”

Imagine, a Vice President who “didn’t know what he was saying. He was on autopilot”. This man wants to represent us in dealings with foreign leaders ? Potentially dangerous stuff. These incidents would indicate a pattern of questionable judgement out on his own, away from the shelter of the U.S Senate.

Even worse, is Obama’s decision to put him into the West Wing. This is the kind of decision making that we do not need, not even as a community organizer. Given the description “he’s a candidate of style, not substance”, it could be as simple as birds of a feather..

Biden’s Familiar Quotations-TIME

I am only going to give you this heads-up one time.  For those of us with ADD, ADHD and Altzeimers-too bad.  Staple a post-it to your forehead and look in the mirror often!  What?  Can’t read backwards either?  I have no other suggestions for you.

It seems that decisions made elsewhere and from middle-managment are about to give us a complete scenerio of how to kill a satellite; from beginning to end.  The interviews are still being made as I type this.  The program should include those people that made the decision, those people that implemented the decision, and those people that revamped everything to make it workable.  If we get really lucky (and I believe we will), there will be nose camera footage of the missle to target up to the last few seconds before impact.  Some things just have to remain classified as it should be.  Oh, stop crying and whinning.  If you want to see what missle impacts look like, google footage for the first Gulf War.

All this should come about around mid-June timeframe.  It is developed and brought to you by the Discovery Channel BUT will air on the Military Channel.  Get those VCR’s (or TiVO’s) ready.  Ought to be a good time!

…or at 86.  The WaPo article says 83, the photo caption says 86.

 In any event, he was a great actor, and a fine representative of the NRA.

Since the question has come up in recent discussions: What was the true history of Mexico? …. I will endeavor in the coming weeks to provide some useful links for the benefit of our readers.

First up is Brian Hamnett’s “A Concise History of Mexico” which - as luck would have it - Google seems to have online. I am not sure exactly how the Google guys made this happen copyright-wise, but there it is.

I recommend all of our readers delve into Mr. Hamnett’s book because it is one of the most useful on my bookshelf and it’s appearance in digital form absolves me of the need to rekey it for you all here.

UPDATE: The way they seem to make this work is by printing a long excerpt and maybe charging for full access? Not sure what the deal is but it looks promising. (I’d recommend everyone just go out and buy this book though - it is well worth owning).