James Robert Kelley

(Update May 9, 2008: Looks like CNN felt the heavy weight of my post, and updated their site.  Ok, maybe they don’t even know I exist, whatever).

I probably sound like a broken record, harping about the evil deeds the media does to Ron Paul this election cycle. Today I discovered another evil deed, and it definitely show a strong desire to keep the viewing sheeple calm and under control.

Indiana and North Carolina recently held their primaries, which led me to CNN’s website to see the delegate counts. I was interested in knowing if Ron Paul was able to pick up any delegates, now that he is the only guy running against McCain. Here is a screen shot from the CNN “Election Center 2008″ page:

This screen shot was taken early on Thursday May 8, 2008. CNN posted the Democrat delegate counts as they came in, but after more than a day passed I started to wonder if they were even awarding delegates on the Republican side. Then the aweful truth set in, Ron Paul must have won some delegates and the establishment does not want anyone to know!

Why would they care? The establishment, whoever they are, want us all to be calm little sheeple. If the presumptive nominiee is not mopping up all of the delegate, it means there is dissention in the party ranks. We cannot have any dissent! This set me on a fact finding mission, to see if Ron Paul had in fact picked up any delegates. I didn’t know if he would have, since he only scored 8% of the vote, but I had to know if my suspicion was correct.

My next stop was the Republican Party of Indiana’s website. There was ZERO information on their site that I could find. It seems like this primary was a total snoozer in Indiana. So I stopped by the North Carolina Republican Party website and could not find any useful information. I did find something that further increased my suspicions on on North Carolina Republican Party Candidates webpage:

Notice anything missing? They have on the page, in more detail than I’ve shown in this snip, a full list of candidates for the various offices in North Carolina. We can see that Senator Elizabeth Dole was facing competition from Pete DiLauro, etc. This missing part should be in the list of candidates running for President. It ONLY lists John McCain! Unbelievable! Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul were both on the ballot in North Carolina. Ron Paul is still officially in the race, yet his name is not on the list.

Basically, the NC GOP is telling us to not look behind the curtain and be loyal party sheeple, don’t question, just vote for the guy we ordained.

So, after that little journey, I still did not have my question answered. Did Ron Paul win any delegates? Is CNN and the Republican Party trying to hide the truth from us? A couple searches on Google turned up a result from an AOL webpage detailing North Carolina primary results, surely maintained by someone who has a lust for numbers and technology with little regard for politics:

There, My Friends, is the proof. AOL somehow let this one slip. Ron Paul won 5 delegates. So much for party sheeple, we still have a few people out there willing to think for themselves. Maybe, if the media will just report and not decide, the rest of America can wake up and break free from their TVs.

I’ve been thinking about Yahoo! turning down an offer from Microsoft, and could not understand why they would refuse an offer that was probably overpriced. The only thing I could come up with was pride, they didn’t want to sell out to Microsoft.

Now I have another theory: stupidity. Google has been running the world of Search, largely due to their team of Ph. D.’s and unusually strong thinking. You never see anything dumb coming out of Google. Yahoo! on the other hand shows a lack of engineering understand in a graphic that is supposed to show the workings of their new strategy:

Do you see the problem with this graphic, located on the Yahoo! Developer Network Home? Spin an internal gear the the whole thing comes apart! How can you expect a company with such lousy engineers to know a good deal when they see one?