For the last 7 days, the entire world has been pulling together to help.  The United States and many other countries have not only asked their citizens to donate but have also allocated funding, medical staff, firefighters, equipment and transportation to help.

An interesting thing happened that I have not observed in previous disasters like 9/11 or Katrina.  It seems that many people found it more interesting to bicker about who was the “best helper” for the people of Hati.  I even saw @ev, CEO of Twitter, wonder this aloud:

Now I normally don’t reply to “Internet Famous” people I haven’t met but I replied back telling him I’d donated $25.  I made this donation directly through the Yele website.

After I shared this, I got some static offline about my choice.  This was due to an article about the Yele foundation, put out by the smoking gun about discrepancies with the organization’s tax and financial reporting.  One person in particular felt that due to the content of the article, I should not be giving any money to Yele.  I was very tempted to ask if they had made a donation of any kind besides an opinion.

Yele was founded by Wyclef Jean, a native a Haiti.  He is best known as a member of the Fugees and later for becoming a successful artist in his own right and being outspoken on his views on politics and freedom.  Many of his songs have to do with things he loves about his history, the pain he has endured and his hope for a better future.

Now, I wasn’t aware of the #haiti earthquake for a few hours.  I then began seeing people in my Twitter network hashtag it then send up tweets about donating to Yele.  I checked out the site and told one of them it was having problems loading up.  I attributed the “Digg effect” and proceeded with my donation.

Then, I began hearing the drama questioning Wyclef and Yele.  My first thought was, “Really?”.

There’s 3 parts here:

1. Why we help people like ourselves
2. No one likes shady nonprofits
3. Is Yele the wrong organization to give to for the #haiti relief effort?

Part 1

This may seem harsh if you’re reading this and you’re White –

I am initially more willing to support the efforts of an organization founded by a Brown person than I am that of an organization founded by people who are White.

This isn’t rocket science.  We give to our church when a member is ill.  We borrow money to friends and extended family.  I feel that right off the bat, I have a common connection with other Brown people.

Why in the world would I say this about people I’ve never met before?  Because of how I’ve been treated by people who don’t look like me, because of the first person accounts by people who are Brown, because of the books I’ve read and movies I’ve seen.  I can immediately empathize with people who are Brown like me.  Now, I still go about qualifying businesses and services just like I would do a piece of hardware.

I hoped by being honest about things this person (who was White) they would “get it” and have an “ah ha” moment.

Part 2

If you’ve read my previous posts on nonprofits and my volunteering efforts, I think there is a huge issue in this sector when it comes to providing value.  If you work at a nonprofit, you get paid whether you help anyone or not.  You can collect money and not help a single person.  I’ve worked for and with nonprofits that had obvious productivity issues.  I tried to address them but these organizations had politics just like an office.

That said, I don’t like seeing dollars wasted.

The book, “Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All” looks like a good read to figure out what is going wrong in our nonprofit industry as a whole:

You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don’t your efforts seem to make a difference?

Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn’t there an efficient way to solve the problem?

Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.’s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business.

Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out.

I think one of the most important things to do when we see wrong occurring is to speak up.  Period.

Part 3

So after hearing about the article at the Smoking Gun, I decided to see what companies did mention Yele as a viable donation choice.  The short list included SXSW and Google.

Google recommended a number of organizations including Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, UNICEF , Direct Relief, Yele Haiti, Partners in Health, Red Cross, World Food Program, Mercy Corps, Save the Children, Lambi Fund, Doctors Without Borders, The International Rescue Committee, Care, William J. Clinton Foundation, Meds & Food For Kids, Feed the Children, Habitat for Humanity, Mayor’s Fund for NYC.

This made me think why the Smoking Gun would bring this up and why Google would still name them.  I mean, doesn’t Google have the dirt on the entire internet under their fingernails?

Below, @BlackCanseco points out, via series of tweets, many of my thoughts about this focus on Yele vs the much larger problem of actually taking action on this world event and taking a step back to consider why the focus is being put here.  Throughout our recent history and with magic, our attention is often diverted from the truly important to a sideshow.

It turns out there were many, many, many, many people with opinions about how the money should be collected, what they thought of the organizations and the situation in Haiti.  Is our culture becoming a bunch of couch potato sideline commentators?

Bill Clinton and George Bush uniting for Haiti?

Now I had heard everything!  Maybe everyone wasn’t bickering.  It seems that just days into this disaster,  a Clinton Bush Haiti Fund was created!

Actually, it turns out Clinton and Bush also created a Katrina fund as well.  Interesting!

UK Firefighters Rescue Toddler

Lastly, remember that our “world view” in America is actually considered quite narrow by many others.  In recent years, I’ve been paying more attention to the BBC and UK shows for what I feel is more “balanced” coverage.

There has been a lot of footage on the television of what’s going on in Haiti.

I don’t want something that makes me feel bad for the people.

I want something inspiring.

I found this video clip to be well done and comprehensive of the situation including opportunities to help

If you made it this far, I hope that you will consider giving to an organization you feel comfortable with for the Haiti disaster.

Thank you and happy MLK day.

Of course, everyone celebrates in a different way and the same goes for birthday congrats.

Alisha on Twitter (@alishajuarez) probably is the first person to ask a president to get crunk

#happybirthdayjohno Ooooooooooooh! @johnmaine #HappyBirthdayAmyJo !!! & #HAPPYBIRTHDAYBARACKOBAMA !!! WOOO!!! get crunkk!

I created the Norm Coleman blog post to answer the questions I began to receive the night this all happened. I started ButYoureAGirl.com to help people understand technology.

I like to document things (my Inner Nerd at work). You can see a similar example regarding Avira antivirus.

What happened next regarding Wikileaks and going on national television never crossed my mind as a possible outcome of following my geeky curiosity and documenting screenshots.

Photo Credit: Daveybot

Summary

Political Views
What I didn’t know at the time was how this issue was snowballing between the Democrats and Republicans. I don’t own a television and don’t follow politics. I sold my TV on Craigslist in 2006 as a part of “the great experiment” I was reading about on Steve Palina’s blog. I never really was a big fan of commercials anyway. I use David Allen’s Getting Things done (GTD) method of productivity to turn my dreams into reality. Every reporter asked me if I was “partisan”. I actually had to ask the what that was but figured it had to do with being strongly associated to a political party. Now don’t get me wrong, I have beliefs on things like education, the environment, the death penalty, the legal system, oil dependency, health care and taxes. It’s just that none of that had to do with this.

The Media
I started to see traffic spikes on my humble blog March 10th, 2009. By March 11th, more than 1,000 people had stopped by! My average number of daily visitors before then was about 40. Then the calls started. Reporters were calling and asking me to tell them what happened. Being a techie, I thought I was helping them; I now realize many were looking to sensationalize the story and twist my words to make things sound more exciting. I’m now wiser about the media and their “angles”. For those of you who work in technology, you know it can be a challenge to keep someone’s attention as you explain the benefits of data backups that utilize incremental, off-site and image based options. We find it fascinating but non technical people start to “glaze over”.

Where Do We Go From Here?
I want to share that I’m working on something exciting! I’ve been meeting and talking with security consultants around the US. I’ve also talked with people in the data privacy field. I’m working to put together a resource that will bring security and business people together in a way that makes sense. I myself am not a security consultant; rather an IT consultant who values security. I would like to utilize this event to help people connect on this issue and access accurate information on what they need to do to secure their data, networks and websites.

Thank You For Your Support
I appreciate all the words of encouragement, support, suggestions, personal stories from people on the list, research efforts and most importantly, technical folks speaking up to this. The first question I received from a reporter was, “Do you want to go the record about this?”. That reminded me that many people working in the IT field would have not feel comfortable talking about something like this for fear of the backlash. As an independent consultant, I understand I have more flexibility that those working full-time for someone. I also understand that what I do outside of my work does reflect on my work. My clients have been supportive about this issue and I thank them as well; Democrat and Republicans alike. After appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show, I really saw an increase in mentions about me across the Internet (I use Google Alerts to track this). My Technorati rank for this blog doubled. Some blogs were even referring to me as “Dr. Adria Richards”! Doh! I stopped by many sites and left comments to help answer people’s questions and to indicate I did not hold a doctorate degree.

The Haters
There have been people who voiced their opinions on what I did, how I did it, why I did it and so on. I can’t change what I did (looking into the Coleman fake website crash, taking screenshots, writing a blog post about it). I am a person who takes action. Some people are just angry people looking for targets. Some people feel they know what other people should do with their lives. I decided that I wasn’t going to feed the trolls.

How You Can Help
That said, if you are interested in helping with this upcoming project to bridge the gap between unsafe data storage in the business world and best practice data security audits, training and education, contact me.

Stay tuned…

Click here to view the embedded video.

This is tied to my original post about Norm Coleman’s website being insecure.

Thank you to EVERYONE who has given words of encouragement and support. I know a lot of people would not have done what I did. I am angry of seeing families dealing with identity theft. I’m upset that companies are put at risk by other companies that don’t follow guidelines on security.

Norm Coleman Website Crash Exposes Database and Email Lists

So far, we’ve got the Mayo Foundation, Hennepin County, First Bank, Wells Fargo, Best Buy…

Are these companies where people who donated to Norm Coleman and checking the site from work?

Are they needing to cut up their credit cards?

I will be adding it throughout the day

University of Alabama
College of St. Catherine
Minnesota Public Radio (You never know)
National Institute of Health
American Medical Response
US Department of State
City of New York
Ecolab
West Publishing Corporation
American Medical Response
National Institute of Health
University of Alabama
Massachusetts Institute of Art (very awesome MIT would stop by)
University of California
University of Illinois
University of Minnesota
St. Olaf College
Datacard Corporation
U.S. Senate Sergent At
Medical College of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Fingerhut Direct Marketing (Why are you stopping by my blog?)
Western Illinois University
Faegre & Benson LLP (Lawyers? uh oh)
Dorsey & Whitney (Why is it so popular with lawyers to name law firms like this?)
Cargill
Valley Office Partners
Marvin Windows and Doors
TCF Financial Corporation
Research Triangle Institute (Interesting)
Target Corporation
U.S. House of Representatives
Knight Ridder <- Media company (Thanks redwing!)
IBM
Star Tribune Newspaper
Harland Financial
Academy of Art University
Renolds and Renolds
Mc Miller Company
American Civil Liberties Union (sweet! Hello there!)
General Mills
Amazon.com
Trw Space and Defense
De Castro, West, Chodorow (lawyers again?)
Edina Reality

These website visitor traffic stats are being collected with Clicky.
It's like Google Analytics but you don't have to wait 24 hours.

First off, I would like to thank to everyone.

I’ve decided to write a summary to give you my perspective two months after putting up this blog post. I have continued to add to it in hopes of making the big picture more clear for people who want to understand what happened.

I talk about why I put up the post, the political power struggle I didn’t want to be a part of, how the media took what I said and turned it into what they wanted and what I’m working on to bring about actual change so personal and financial data will be safer in the future.

Continue reading the summary

Did interview with PJTV, conservative focused online media site (PajamasTV)

Article at ChannelWeb, Serious Security Flaw Discovered In Less Than 2 Minutes On U.S. Senator’s Web Site

Excerpt from resume of website developer who created Colemanforsenate.com website:

ColemanForSenate.com
* Developed a custom content management system from the ground up in PHP

New Video is up! Live: Coleman Question and Answer after The Rachel Maddow Show 3/14/2009 12:45am CST

Interview with Rachel Maddow Friday evening 3/13/2009 MSNBC

Click here to view the embedded video.

Interview with MPR Coleman warns donors after data breach (audio of me from the radio)

Blog Post MN Independent Coleman donors express ‘extreme anger,’ fear, worry after breach

YouTube video: How I Found Norm Coleman’s Website Database in 2 Minutes

Best quote to me on the phone: “I just hung on the secret service to talk to you” — unnamed reporter

Lifestream video : I explain what went wrong and answer questions about the Norm Coleman’s website

Interview with MN Independent Coleman’s site wasn’t ‘hacked,’ says IT pro who discovered donor breach

Blog Post at MN Independent Breaking: Coleman’s unsecured donor database revealed on Wikileaks

Blog Post Here Who is Searching Google for Norm Coleman’s Database?

So, it sounds like Wikileaks.org is putting Norm Coleman’s business out on the Internet.

What’s worse than losing a Minnesota Senate race?

Losing your website’s entire database, that’s what.  As if claiming your website was brought down by too much traffic wasn’t bad enough, Norm Coleman’s website received a second round of criticism when I found a database file sitting in a directory that anyone could download…

I first picked up this story from @Chuckumentary on Twitter about Norm Coleman’s office saying their website had been “inundated by tens of thousands of hits today – temporarily crashing the website.” Of course that got me curious as an IT consultant and I went to check it out.  Aaron Landry broke this story because previous website traffic reports and the location of the domain name didn’t match up.  Paul Schmelzer at the Minnesota Independent picked up the story which is where I first saw it.

Norm Coleman’s website crash revealing a database full of supporters is now known as Crashgate.

Curious, I wanted to see where the domain was currently pointing.  I used OpenDNS.com’s cache check to identify the current ip address of 208.42.168.251 and then loaded that address into my web browser.

I had to see what all the fuss was about.  Was there really an attempt to bring down the website due to political unrest with these ballots in my state?  Were the allegations of a poorly coded website true?

What I got instead was a plain text listing of directories…

The Database of Norm Coleman

Wowza.  As I was tooling around in the directories, I saw a database file.  I thought, “That’s not right.”  I began taking screenshots and uploading them to Flickr.  I didn’t know what the database contained but hoped there wasn’t financial information in that database.  I figured it was a list of email addresses for Norm Coleman supporters and staff but I did not download it find out.  Did you download the database?

Click here to view the embedded video.

There is a term known as “Google Hacking” where you can actually search for files that people have on sites and ftp areas that have names like “passwords.txt”, “backup.tar.gz”.  Eeek!  Backups should be stored above the “root” folder that is shared out to the internet.  This is showing up because the server located at http://208.42.168.251 was not told to restrict directories from the web.

All photos are licensed under Creative Commons.
Norm Coleman database photos on Flickr

I began posting links to the photos on the blogs of the Minnesota Independent and Minpublius to bring awareness to what I had found.  Would I have done the same if this were a democrat?  Probably.  For me, it’s about computer security and data privacy, not about political affliation.

You can become Norm Coleman’s Website Admin

I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume I was only able to get here because the website is not functioning.  Below you can see that I could enter an email address, name and password and if this site was working, it would create an administrator in the database.  I found similar files to edit and delete records as well.  Being able to write to the database like this from a form should require an authenticated and active session but I can’t see the code so I don’t know.

Indexing of directories is turned on

This is a security risk.  I would hope they have .htaccess files in place to restrict access to the admin directory and that index listings are turned off for the current site.

Website errors show you configuration file locations

You see errors like this a lot on Joomla websites when there is a problem connecting to the database, there is a permissions issue on a file or when files are missing.

Missing log files

This directory is empty.  It doesn’t mean there are no log files (deleted?)

Site is down again

So, the site is being reported by OpenDNS.com as down again and I am getting the same info at DNSStuff.com too.

The moral of the story is that you should hire computer and website professionals who understand technology.  You should plan and develop a strategy for downtime and problems.  Don’t put all your eggs into one basket with one website programmer.  If he or she is hit by a truck (or something goes wrong on the website and they have no recourse to help you.

Resources to protect your data

Minnesota Law on Data Security Breach Notification, Statute 325E.61 – This describes what needs to be lost for a company to notify you and how they must go about doing it. Unfortunately, it seems a company can lose your full name, address, income, number of children and previous purchases BUT not be required to tell you. (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer)

Data Security Breaches in the US 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 – Check to see if a school you attended, a doctor you saw, an employer, your local Veterans office, your bank, your utility company, your library or even a hotel you stayed at is listed here.

Resources for website security

The Importance of Web Application Scanning – Acunetix makes an application that can scan websites for vulnerabilities.  There is a free version that will check for XSS (Think back to when Barack Obama’s website redirected to Hillary Clinton’s).

3 Common Website Security Problems – This article from Georgetown University  summarizes how issues on Norm Coleman’s site could have been addressed before “Crashgate”, especially this one on unsecured files and databases:

Unsecured files and databases

When setting up your web site or application, make sure that any files that contain data that is not intended to be public (such as information about people) are not located in public web folders. Do not place such files in folders with the belief that because you are not linking to them, a user cannot find them.

• Files (such as Access databases) that are datasources for your application must be located in a non-web-accessible folder (the web_datasources folder in your hosting account).
• Other files that contain data used by the application should also be located in a non-web-accessible folder.
• Other files that contain non-public information should be placed in a folder that is access restricted using a .htaccess file or other web server access restriction.

Update 12:12am 1/29/2009

Folks, the directory listing for colemanforsenator.com has been replaced with a login box.  But…we know what’s behind the curtain now.

Update 5:40pm 1/29/2009

Stay tuned for video posting from the 1/29/2009 lifestream:

“Norm Coleman’s Database”

• why the database was available
• what it contained
• how website developers and companies can work to prevent this from happening
• and take questions from viewers

Update 11:11pm 1/29/2009

Number of hits to the post 54

Photo stats for the post
I wonder how much user information is in this database at colemanforsenate.com? 1,458 views
You can become Norm Coleman’s Website Administrator at colemanforsenate.com 290 views

Current rumors
The database contains social security numbers
The database contains credit card information (POST data)

Update 6:54pm 1/30/2009

Number of hits to the post 610
In-Progress Video of “Norm Coleman’s Database: What Happened and Why”

Post picked up on:
Politics in Minnesota – Epic recount website fail: One Dot One Dot One Dot One

Thanks to Ben for picking out the incorrect use of “then” when I should have used “than” in the header “What’s worse than losing a Minnesota Sentate race?”

FYI: If you enter a fake looking email address with your comment, I will probably not approve it. If you want to share something with me offline, use the contact page. Thanks!

Question from Dennis
What does “Awaiting Moderation Mean? Where’s my comment?

Answer
I did not publish your comment because there was NOTHING technical in it. I have published comments that:

* indicate how they feel about the info being released
* indicate how they feel about what I did as an IT person doing this
* ask questions related to the technology aspect of the Norm Coleman database
* share personal stories on how this affected them
* thank me for my efforts
* support me for taking initiative
* judge, criticize and blame me for making the wrong choice

If you just want to harp on Democrats vs Republicans and Norm Coleman vs Al Franken, you should go to a political blog and do that.

I am grateful to be alive for this historic event.  I missed the civil rights movement, The March on Washington and Woodstock since I wasn’t born until 1978.

The great thing about Barack Obama is he has vision, hope and faith.  Besides being in Washington for the Inauguration tomorrow, you can still participate by volunteering.  The President-elect has setup a website called Renew America Together.

Please enjoy these videos and I wish you a happy Martin Luther King day!

Martin Luther King “I have a dream”

Click here to view the embedded video.

Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’ March 18th, 2008

Click here to view the embedded video.

Did you know?

Although it was signed into law in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, it wasn’t observed by all 50 states until 2000.

Although I’ve voted in every past election, this time was completely different because Barack was different. I could identify with him on many levels. Once I heard him speak, I knew I had to step up and do my part to spread the message.

How I got Involved

• I registered at http://my.barackobama.com earlier this year to help
• I made several donations online starting sometime in February when they had the “Match a donation”
• I attended my local caucus and saw my neighbors who were equally interested in this presidential outcome
• I began documenting and researching information I found on the internet
• I had candid discussions with my friends about Barack being/not being a Muslim
• I listened when people told me why they wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama
• I prayed, A LOT!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Twitter on Election Day

• my neighbor is voting for McCain because he is against socialism #
• Dang, Barack Obama is blowing up my cell phone with text messages! #
• Yes. We. Can #
• Women who reached for the ballot (1920) #
• Question: If you’re in jail but haven’t been convicted of a felony yet can you submit an absentee ballot? #
• How to cast your absentee ballot in Minnesota http://tinyurl.com/6bsdtc #
• Obama and McCain – Dance Off! http://tinyurl.com/59rvzj #
• RT @xenijardin – Everything you wanted to ask about who will win! Peter Norvig (Google)’s 08 ELECTION FAQ http://tinyurl.com/46tth4 #
• Today was a good day #
• This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine #
• @MyronMcDaniel Because it’s election day! My neighbor just called me and they wouldn’t let him vote. I’m going down to vouch for him!!! in reply to MyronMcDaniel #
• Waiting in line to vote on Election Day is much better than Tickle Me Elmo lines during the holidays #



• I voted for Barack Obama November 4th, 2008 – http://snaptweet.com/3db91 #



• My dog voted today http://tinyurl.com/6fq4pn #



• I used this guide to help me pick the judges and vote on the school referendum http://theballot.org/2008/twincities #
• I’m heading out for a 4 hours shift for GOTV (Get Out The Vote) for supporters of Barack Obama http://mn.barackobama.com #
• Just got back from canvessing in South Minneapolis. I am going to put my feet up and reward myself! #
• One voter said she couldn’t tell the difference between the two candidates (roll eyes). I gave her my 3 reasons for choosing Obama #
• 1) My reproductive rights 2) My civil rights 3) My rights as a woman and person of color –> Why I voted for Barack Obama #
• Does your state allow for paid time off on election days? Check here http://tinyurl.com/5lea56 #
• CNN.com streaming video has improved since 2 years ago #
• 4 minutes left in CST time to get in line at your local polling place. #
• “political media ecology” — cnn.com interview in reference to blogs, youtube.com #
• oh my god! I just woke up from a nap and Barack is president! Hooray! #
• He’s biracial just like me #
• Way to go America!!!! #
• Yes. We. Did! #



• “Yes we can heal this nation” #
• “millions of voices calling for change” #
• “but in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope” #
• @IanGun nice “The nightmare is finally over” in reply to IanGun #



• RT @Ohdoctah Cartoon depiction of our 44 US Presidents http://tinyurl.com/5rt8jb #
• I am so grateful to have come of age for this historic event. I made a promise to contribute and I did. Technology + Hope = 2008 Election #
• US Minnesota Senate Race – Al Franken trailing by 16,000 votes – http://snaptweet.com/640e1 #



• Minnesota Presidential and Senate Election Results http://tinyurl.com/5bvnuv #
• Al Franken still trailing by 6,000 votes for MN US Senator http://tinyurl.com/5bvnuv #
• MN US Senate numbers with 98.57% precints reporting – Norm Coleman 1,192,409 vs Al Franken 1,186,530 http://tinyurl.com/5bvnuv #
• Minnesota US Senate race: Al Franken loses by 1186 votes http://tinyurl.com/5bvnuv #
• @anjuan amen to that. Please allow him to not get pulled into petty drama. As a lawyer, I would think he can spot “baiting” a mile away in reply to anjuan #
• Will Barack Obama be the first President to have a blog? Will we get nation updates by text message? #
• Election day weather was so beautiful! Today is cold and rainy, blech! #

Interesting Facts

Minnesota’s current estimated Voting Eligible Population is 3,741,514.

“McCain Be Old” – Jelly Doughnut

Jelly first caught my eye with his freestyle in a doughnut suit on Youtube. I saw it around the same time as SNL’s Lazy Sunday and thought he was more entertaining so I share his new video on John McCain.

Update 3: Entire lyrics for “McCain Be Old” song

Yo, this milk is really old,
The Dead Sea Scrolls are pretty old man,
Well, you guys want to know what’s really old?

McCain be old

He witnessed the Big Bang, Oh, he’s old,
He still uses an abacus, how’d he get so old,
He breastfed Strom Thurman, McCain’s old,
He’s a hunter gatherer,

Yo, O-L-D, that’s what McCain be,
Older than the dude with the Grail at the end of Indiana Jones 3, (what)
Everything he touches turns into an antique,
He looks like Skeletor with hella more cheeks, (heh)
He’s older than bacon, (what)
He’s older than Satan, (what)
He’s older than the dude who wrote “The Road Not Taken”, Robert Frost?
Yeah, he’s also older than actual frost,
McCain fought in the coliseum and he lost,

He’s old, he helped build Stonehenge,
Oh My God, He’s old,
He uses the barter system,
He’s so old, he dreams in sepia,
That man is old, he was at Moses’ Briss, (snip, snip)
(old)
He farts dust, that’s really gross and he’s old,
Fire confuses him, because he’s old,
He remembers the Alamo,
He smells, he’s old,
He was around when all the continents were part of one huge land mass commonly referred to as Pangaea,

Obama be a blog, McCain be hieroglyphics,
Obama be a Segway™, McCain be rickets,
Obama be Dippin’ Dots™, McCain be yak milk,
Obama be Jet Blue, McCain be pterodactyl,
Obama be a gold grill, McCain be dentures,
Obama be Facebook, McCain be Friendster,
Obama be (Mac startup sound), McCain be (dial up modem sound),

…Obama be…actually an intelligent, viable, presidential candidate

McCain be old, He makes makes offerings to Zeus,
Yo, he’s old, glow-in-the-dark stuff scares him,
Knock Knock, Who’s there?
(old)
He gave me a Werther’s Original™!
Ring, Who is it?
(old)
He’s two years older than himself, he’s old,
He doesn’t remember you,
He can’t hear you, He’s old,
That bible story is actually McCain and Abel,
He’s Satanic,
He’s friends with dirt,
(old)
He started wearing Depends™ when Obama started wearing Huggies™ (Cheering, Laughing)

Jelly Doughnut –> Hey, whether you’re voting for Obama or Skeletor,
you’ve got to be registered to do it,
it’s easy (http://voteforchange.com)
Do it online by October 6th and then vote November 4th

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