Good end to the week.

It seems the week isn't a complete bust electorally as New Zealand voters have kicked out the Labour party in favour of a probable National Party lead coalition.

Unsurprisingly this has been relegated to a minor story on the BBC website where they are still engaged in a collective orgasm over the one.

Cowards and Sleazeballs.

I have no objection with people criticising those they disagree with. I frequently do it myself. I have always believed however in standing behind my comments so that those who I criticise can, should they wish to, take issue with my criticisms and attempt to refute them.

It seems that elements within the McCain campaign do not take the same view. The criticisms of Sarah Palin emanating from former staffers, no doubt trying to make sure that the buck stops somewhere other than themselves, are being made anonymously.

Anonymous smears are a shameful tactic, and demonstrate these people to be cowards and sleazeballs of the worst kind.

Well it's over.

Congratulations to Barack Obama.

I didn't want him to win, I am disappointed that he has won, and I sincerely hope that he goes down to a 1984 scale landslide in 2012. I also however hope that the next 4 years are prosperous and safe for the american people.

Serves him right.

There was a story on the local new the other night (Memphis not Brum) about a chap who had got fed up with his McCain Palin sign being removed so he wired it up to an electric fence. He had also set up a camera, and this had caught a child (carrying obama posters) come up, attempt to pull the sign down, get a shock and beat a retreat.

The little brat's mother claimed that her child knew better and wouldn't have done it, despite the photographic evidence to the contrary.

Two things struck me about this story.

Firstly, the disreputable lengths the left will go to, using children to engage in criminal acts.

Secondly, the chap's neighbours all seemed (much to the reporter's irritation) to be supporting him. It is pretty much a forgone conclusion that in britain he would be being criticised (and most likely prosecuted) for hurting the little bastard.

underwear soilingly funny

made me laugh anyway.

Sleaze journalism.

CNN have a delightful piece on entitled McCain revealed, and they have just trailed a segment about Cindy McCain's prescription drug problem from some years ago.

Voters need to know if there is something in a candidate's past which would disqualify them from office, but Cindy McCain is not running for office. The issue is out in the open, so there is not security risk, and dragging it up now in a blatant attempt to hit McCain's campaign is squalid journalism of the worst kind.

No doubt they will balance it by exclusively revealing that Michelle Obama once returned a library book a couple of days late.

They're afraid of something.

Observing the US election at close hand, it is noticeable that the tightening polls have got the democrats worried about whether Obama canclose the deal.

Far from the sort of humble confidence typically affected by politicians this close to an election, the democrats speaking on many of the news programs are expressing their concern that there will be a bailey effect. One has to wonder whether they are getting their excuses in early.

(For those unfamiliar with the term, the Bailey effect (named after a California Democrat) is where a black candidate performs worse in the election than in the polls. Depending on your way of looking at things, this could be either because everyone is racist and tell the pollsters they will vote for the candidate they agree with, while having no intention of voting for someone who isn't white, or it could be because they don't like the candidate but are afraid to tell pollsters that they will vote for someone else lest it spark accusations of racism.)