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Hot Air is reporting on Barack Obama’s plan to deliver his acceptance speech in front of a fake Greek temple.

Ed Morrissey writes, “if American voters wondered about the cult of personality that Obama has inspired, this settles the question and explicitly makes Obama the cult leader.”

Just who is Barack Obama? Maitreya? The Solar Logos? Is it possible that he is the fulfillment of New Age hopes and dreams?

Barack Obama is getting really scary and this just weirds me out.

AP reports that Russia is vowing a “military” response to the missile shield in Europe.

Reuters is reporting that the US is scrapping a planned port call in Poti to deliver humanitarian aid. Tensions between the United States and Russia may be getting out-of-control. Scrapping the port call may be an effort by the US to defuse tension.

Navy Times is still reporting that the Navy will deliver aid at Poti.

In a Free Republic posting, Patriots Pride takes notice of six words not mentioned by Michelle Obama last night. Those six words? “Thank You Mom, I Love You.”

Intriguing.

Is Barack Obama destined to be the next Herbert Hoover? At Barron’s, Jim McTague writes:

“The problem would only be compounded by Obama’s stand on capital-gains and dividends taxes — he’d hike them both. He also would institute a more onerous estate tax than McCain would.

“It’s almost as if Obama wants to repeat the mistakes of Herbert Hoover. During the Great Depression, Hoover raised the top marginal rate to 63% from 25% and hiked corporate taxes, too, says Michael Aronstein, chief investment strategist at Oscar Gruss & Son in New York. The moves siphoned needed investment capital out of the markets and into the hands of bureaucrats, delaying the turnaround.”

Russia says NATO’s Black Sea buildup is worsening tensions in the region.

Navy Times says that a “top Russian general suggested that the presence of U.S. and other NATO ships in the Black Sea would worsen tensions already at a post-Cold War low.”

The Navy says USS McFaul is anchored at the port of Batumi, offloading humanitarian supplies.

Russia says it has information that Georgia is planning to attack Abkhazia, an autonomous republic of Georgia.

Yes Lord! There is Good News to proclaim!

From the AP: 25 Things you may not know about McCain.

My favorite?

#5 His favorite book is “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” by Ernest Hemingway. The Bell just may be tolling for Barack Obama.

Number 1 kind of weirded me out.

Watch this video as Marvin Williams describes how he used Capoeira to defeat a carjacker: