Off topic..

After all, those who spout things like “federal tryanny” “Agenda 21″ and other such nonsence are pretty wedded to their beliefs...

You're swallowing the "bitter clingers" meme typical to people in cities, then? In any event, ironically you seem to be wedded to your own media matrix.

 Outside of all that, imagine if "9/12" people sponsored academic conferences about taking or redistributing all of Ted Turner's land holdings to the poor or discussed in a "purely" academic way among themselves putting sterilization agents in water coolers in the offices of federal agents or bureaucrats. Imagine, wouldn't they be framed as the Muslim "terrists" they hate pretty quickly?

One can only imagine CNN... "Militants are everywhere! Secret reports from their meetings and more news at 9, emergency at 11 and the end of the world at 12!!! Our latest report: When will Obama Inc. decide to assassinate American citizens in a coolly calculated way based on their information matrix, already??? In other news: Look, he's saving Big Bird by having Elmo assassinate Oscar the Grouch while he's at it too!! Yay for puppets!!" Etc. Don't blame me that satire has to be extreme these days. The funny thing about information matrices or "the media," they can be manipulated for profits based on inputs if the media itself is not observant. If it's not, then it's just a process of garbage in, garbage out. So maybe Obama Inc. should see to it that Oscar the Grouch demonstrates the concept of garbage in and garbage out on Sesame Street sometime if they're re-elected. If we are to have a nation of wide eyed and childish journalists who love their favorite political theatrics and simplistic patterns, then why not? There again, he's probably not going to be re-elected. Too many people seeing red and tipping the political calculus in immeasurable ways*, that's my bet at this point.

Here's to hoping that it ends quickly, either way... because if it doesn't then the only people who will profit are lawyers debating hanging chads or voting machines. And we probably can't really afford that anymore.

*With respect to pollsters, I doubt that they can keep up the way that some seem to think that they can. It would be enormously profitable in so far as investments go if they could.  So one would figure that if they could, they would.  Yet why don't they invest more in techniques to gather more accurate information and less in "full faith and credit" in their reputations among journalists? Same old story, probably... trying to make a quick profit (land line polls with the same old employees?) instead of investing on a long time line (figuring out a way to systematically poll Facebook or establishing a database of cell phones or investing in text polling, etc... but anything would take new investments).

A lack of investment on a long timeline, this is usually why people are wrong about things. And they're probably wrong this time, much to the chagrin of "blue state" journalists who like to frame themselves as objective, probably. At least we will get to enjoy the entertainment of them shifting to blame Obama Inc. for their abysmal failure to do their jobs if he loses. Not to mention that they'll be inspired to do their jobs with in a more "red state" of passion under Romney Inc. (if for no other reason than their trendy and lemming like conditioning).

On the other hand, the only silver lining to an Obama victory is that the neocons won't be able to run wild... supposedly. So choose your best silver lining... or maybe just buy silver?  We may need some silver slippers either way, Toto... as it seems that we're not in Kansas anymore.