McCain Golf Pack Reviews – Page 1

Are these balls soft or hard? June 11, 2008
Reviewer: John McCain from Washington, DC United States
Will they spin off the short irons and hold the White House or will they overshoot the dream and land in a bunker for 100 years?

Will I turn to my (lobbyist) caddy, who carries my bag around for me and chew him out, or will we light up another cigar and plot our next big land giveaway? They were there for me when I was last on the money list in New Hampshire, don't you think I will be there for them if I win.


Balls? June 11, 2008
Reviewer: john mccain from washington, DC United States
Balls? Balls? What am I going to do with these pasty old balls? Pancakes I said! I WANT PANCAKES!!!! pancakes.


This is so sweeeeet! June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Barry O'Bama from Washington, DC United States
My friends, this is the best gift ever to send to the troops in Iraq! I'm sure they would love to be playing out of the bunkers with these goodies. It would probably make up for the fact they won't be home for Father's Day or for the 4000+ of them who are already home but won't be playing golf this weekend.
Fore!


Thrill of a lifetime June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Hotto Trot from Washington
I can't believe I got my hands on John McCain's balls! only a few hundred skanks, heiresses and hot female lobbyists could say the same. Until now. Me love you long time, Johnny!


It is sooo beautiful June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Brigham Oldfukker from Arcata, CA United States
Your ballbag is just what I have been looking for, not too fuzzy. Only problem, how do I get the wrinkles out?


Fantastic balls Johnny June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Jack Meehoff from your town, AE United States
I was so surprised to see your balls here. I thought the President kept them for you. I have a question though.
If you think torture is a good way to gather important information, what was the important info you gave up while you were being tortured. Did it help the enemy at the time ? Love ya...see ya on the links Johnny cakes


Mccain you call this WMD June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Kim Jong il from Pyongyang, North Korea
Your balls are tiny compared to my huge North Korean balls ! I have a huge missile. Suck it hard suck it hard you puny Americans. If you don't obey I will tickle you or give you Chinese water torture!


Ample balls for my bag... June 11, 2008
Reviewer: John Waters from Baltimore, MD United States
I enjoy using the balls for teabagging when a partner isn't available. they are great for use in 'fore' play to helicoptering your partner into a frenzied state on the 19th hole!


where are these made? June 11, 2008
Reviewer: True American Patriot for McCain from detroit, MI United States
Taiwan, Vietnam or China? I'm curious if anybody knows because I couldn't find it on the website.


Cannot recommend this product June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Cathy fromEncino from Encino, CA United States
Our President is refusing to play golf so he can Support Our Troops. By selling a golf kit, John McCain is Betraying Our Commander In Chief.

I am so disappointed.

Vinyl Getting Another Spin

I'm always interested in any news having to do with records. And here's one at CNN today. No quotes, I'll just mention what I remember.

That consumers are getting into vinyl again. Not just nostalgia, but because they like the sound, the feel, the sense of it. Flipping the record, looking at the covers, liner notes, all that.

I haven't bought a new record in ages. But once in a while I get some old, used ones, and even that, not very often. They're harder to find in good shape, or in good selection. Plus, my turntable needs a new needle -- and I guess I need to look online for one. I get a lot of skips and I don't remember that being such a problem in years gone by. The sound is OK when it's playing OK, but -- for instance, I just tried listening to a 45 and, yep, a skip!

I'd like to get a brand new everything, turntable, the works. And play some of my albums, not for recording off but just for playing. I still have quite a few albums. Maybe not the greatest selection of albums, but varied. And a bunch of 45s -- again, a haphazard collection.

Even when vinyl was the thing, I had a hard time playing them. Because of wear and tear, and because I was into the collecting of them, their value as collectibles, all that. Must handle carefully. And you lose a lot of the enjoyment when everything's like that.

It says in the CNN article that Abbey Road is the number one vinyl bestseller currently. I'm sure I have a copy of that. Mine, just going by memory is a later edition, the purple label, and it seems like it has more surface wear than you'd expect from that vintage.

That's something else about record collecting. We used to worry so much about which label it was, and collectors probably still think about that a lot. When it comes to CDs you really don't hear much of that. Any old copy is good enough. But with Beatle records, the Capitol ones, you had the black/rainbow, the green, the red, the purple, the apple, the apple with the Capitol logo, the apple without, etc. And 45s, the orange/yellow swirl, the target, red, purple, Starline green, several variations.

Maybe that will be my next stop in life. Upgrade my turntable! And try to enjoy records again.

CDs are definitely handier. It's hard to use a turntable in the car. They take up less room and they're easier to find. But, unlike records, it's hard to really care about them. They are a lot more disposable, more of a commodity. And especially when transferred over to an MP3 player, it can be like they're just in the way.

Cool Stuff, Bunches of It

This one needs further exploration, Synchropocalypse.

Lots of graphics, lots of scientific looking stuff. It might have something you're looking for.

Coffee Prices

It's time to start pinching pennies, I'm afraid. I needed new coffee and the price went suddenly from $3.64 (approx.) to $4.12, just like that.

Add that to everything else that's sure to go up. And there's going to be trouble along the way for lots of people.

Crazy times.

Kundalini Splendor

How could I not link to a blog called Kundalini Splendor? That would be an impossibility. It is good to see it!

This one looks nice, poems and reflections on the spiritual journey by Dorothy Walters. I don't know her but she looks nice. (That's not her, with the beard, but that's Sri Aurobindo.)

She seems to have some perceptive abilities concerning people's auras, lights, etc. From a post today:

"Although I have often seen lights move around others (always some shade of violet or purplish/blue), these were a bit different in appearance. In an earlier workshop with Tamara, I had not seen lights, but rather had observed her features seeming to change into different faces--including several Middle Eastern males and at least one Middle Eastern female. This time it was the lights themselves which caught my attention, and, as always, I found this phenomenon both surprising and delightful. It is as though a spiritual portal is opened, and one is allowed a brief peek into the wonders of other dimensional perception."

Grandma Slump Today

I'm highlighting my own Grandma Slump blog today. It has, I think, exactly one reader besides me, and that's the Google Index Spider. I think the whole story about John McCain being a serial adulterer with animate and inanimate objects, men, women, and probably alien lifeforms, is worth thinking about. Can we really afford to be hosing down the Oval Office that often?

Grandma doesn't know a thing about it, and that's the way it must stay. But other voters should think long and hard -- if you'll pardon the expression -- before choosing McCain as president.

John McCain's Adultery Comes Out

There's a great story up today, at the Daily Mail, concerning John McCain's first wife, and the way he callously dumped her to run around with Cindy. In fact, he didn't wait to dump her, but was having an adulterous fling with Cindy more than six months before.

The first wife isn't saying much against him now, because he has paid her medical bills over the years. But others have some choice comments concerning John McCain, and one of them is an interesting word: deceit.

Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.

‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.

‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’

Even Ross Perot is in the mix, because as someone who supported prisoners of war, Perot helped with the bills for Mrs. McCain's surgery.

Perot says:

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.'

Good Blog to Check Out: Flippism

Link.

Flippism is the Key. By Professor Batty.

With archives going back into 2004. Lots of cool graphics, things to do with music and culture. Must be a record collector because I see some posts on albums found, albums possessed. Just being there a few minutes, I can see, Beatles, Shaggs, Wilson Pickett, the Theremin professor guy, whose name escapes me, Chuck Berry, Donald Fagen, Sam Cooke; Bo Diddley.

Lots of stuff that is worth looking at.

The Secret Sun

From this site, "The Secret Sun is primarily inspired by the teachings of Carl Gustav Jung."

The blog's purpose: "to study the use and mechanics of symbolism and semiotics in pop culture and to chart the phenomenon of Synchronicity in everyday life."

"The goal of this study is to free the mind of the individual, to open up greater possibilities of reality, and to discover ways to use this knowledge to improve one's life experience."

It appears that Jung's work on Synchronicity is important here, with 45 posts tagged with it. But you get a huge sense of the blog's direction with some of its other big tags, UFOs, Occult, Mysteries, Sun Worship, Rock and Roll, Out Gods Wear Spandex, Mythology, Egypt, Ancient Astronauts. Some of the cultural things important here: Comics, X-Files, Jack Kirby.

I haven't watched those shows, I don't read comics, I don't care much about ancient astronauts, sun worship, or UFOs. And Egypt is borderline. But I like the idea of a blog "primarily inspired" by Jung.

Plan 9 From Outer Space

I re-watched Plan 9 the other day, and I forgot to pay close attention to one little issue I have, which is what their plan is supposed to accomplish. The reanimation of the dead. Maybe it's to make the earth people pay more attention to them, a demonstration of their power, or just cheap labor for carrying around fainted ladies.

The aliens are in the space ship, and the ruler asks which plan they'll be using. All the plans appear to have the goal of getting the earth people to wake up and recognize that aliens are not only here but they have a message for us.

Ultimately, it's a message that we must be stopped, so that we don't explode the particles of sunlight, thereby exploding the sun, thereby exploding everything in the universe that the sun's light touches. And that's pretty good logic from their point of view, and ours too, if only we weren't so "stupid, stupid, stupid" and could grasp it.

I like this movie, and I've seen it enough that it's an old comfortable shoe by now. I see there's a colorized version for sale, which would be fun to see. The supposed "bad" things about it, are of course now seen as good, or at least fun. All the day for night. And the weird continuity with Bela Lugosi and the stand-in to fill out his part. The footage of Bela in the country, holding up his cape, and all that, is pretty good footage. But it's very clear he's not exactly in character for the scene at hand. I like it quite a lot.

The rest: There's many great scenes. Inspector Clay, before he gets killed. Inspector Clay, after he's risen from the dead. Vampira with her big fingers and death stare. She certainly had a thin midsection. The cops trying to figure it all out.

The big climactic confrontation between Eros/Tanna and the pilot/colonel/cop drags a little. Eros probably needed a way of disarming them or neutralizing their guns. To just let them in and assume everything would work out for the best didn't seem so smart, for someone so many centuries ahead of us in intelligence. But I like the whole thing how Eros is describing the solarbonite, with interesting hand gestures. And of course saying, "Stupid, stupid, stupid." The pilot can't take much more of this! He needs to stick up for the intelligence of earth people everywhere by shooting randomly!

A couple other things to mention. I think the whole scene between the officers -- the general and the colonel -- is very good. How the general feels the colonel out, whether he believes in flying saucers, then tells him he might be court-martialed. But the colonel has a great comeback, basically, 'How could I hope to keep my command if I didn't believe in the things I was shooting at?' Real good point! One very funny thing about this scene is how, when they're playing the tape from the aliens, they're making all these facial reactions, like they're really insulted, like the pilot later on, that the aliens think so little of us. Don't take it so personally...

Fun movie to watch.

Larry Craig's Writing A Book

McCain Wants Hot Water for Dehydrated Babies

To Protect Glory

Here's an interesting religious posting, "Do We Take Heresy Seriously?"

The upshot is that heresy should be taken seriously. The writer, Steven Douglas, presents this as "a musing" on the subject. He makes the case for executing people for heresy.

First, he gives a definition of heresy, "the denial of substantiated doctrines of the church, even after attempted correction." Then the penalty, excommunication from the body of believers and the loss of communion with Christ. Is this a loving response? Yes, he says, for several reasons: 1) protects the honor of Christ; 2) protects the church from error; 3) does as the Bible directs.

He distinguishes between heretics, those who simply believe false doctrines, then those who actively spread heresies. These last ones, because they are "recruiters," they will be leading possibly millions to hell. Examples: Arianism, Sabellianism, Gnosticism and Open-Theism. "If we believe that hell is real, then we must see these proponents of heresy as mass-murderers, far more deadly than Hitler or Stalin ever were. To have executed them might have staunched the flow of their ideas."

Was Calvin wrong for executing Servetus? Maybe not. Because, "The reality is that God and much of the world take ideas seriously. Heresy is serious and deserves serious consequences. This may include, in some cases, execution. Execution is never glorious in itself, but I would say that it may sometimes be necessary to protect glory."

Now that's a extreme point of view! But I don't know where to begin. There might not be any good place to begin, since it's so removed from our normal thinking. It's almost heretical to the values we've had over centuries now. We might start with the Bible, because that seems to be a point of contact that hasn't been lost. Perhaps Jesus saying let the wheat and tares grow together till the end. The disciples' wanting to call down fire from heaven on the Samaritans, but Jesus forbidding it. Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, I will repay. The suffering of the martyrs in Revelation, without them counseled to fight back. The example of Jesus going to the Cross for the world. Saying take up your cross and follow me.

And if the Bible examples aren't good enough, try common sense.

Or maybe do some comparative religious study. Do you endorse other religions' right to execute people -- including you -- for not believing what they say is true? Is this ability to execute based on the truth as you see it limited to a particular faith? I can see all kinds of difficulties. What if the rest of us don't want to be executed? Since there's a conflict, and we don't want to be executed, couldn't we turn and execute our opponents as well? That would have to be OK, because it's the principle that counts!

Of course I know it's all hypothetical. No church is going to get very far by executing people. Basically a ticket to extinction for themselves.

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