President-Elect Barack Obama won in New Mexico, a state which made an Obama-hole in the Midwest, which was solid for McCain except for Colorado and New Mexico. Here Obama's cloud cover image is stalking away with a booted foot in New Mexico, where he stomped out with a victory. Instead of a Lincolnesque stove pipe hat, he is shown wearing a tall sombrero, probably to indicate is a "smart guy". Here he seems to be on his way to an East Coast appointment with his favorite soul. Note that Colorado seems to have teeth in it and to be a mouth smiling on Obama. Press for Wikipedia/US Presidential Election 2008. Note that President-Elect Obama's image in the cloud cover as a man in boots and a tall sombrero might influence his portrayal in political cartoons in the future.
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See also the Map of the USA.
Music: Walking in Memphis by Marc Cohn.
See also Bruce Springsteen Sings for Obama on Youtube, and
Barack Obama on YouTube with election Glassbooth/Explore videos.

Well, I guess that might be what this means. However, I don't know about the identity of the Republican being crowned here with a cowboy hat in view of an East Coast elephant. Either way, perhaps this is the season to wear a hat at the bank.
Music: Jokerman by Bob Dylan, Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum, Another You by the Seekers, Loves Me Like a Rock by Paul Simon.

Crowd Control: From Black Barricades to Black Humor

Stephen Ministry Logo with Crack on Black

I'm afraid First Presbyterian has equipped me with black humor since it decided to install a heavy black metallic slammer in front of the gleaming grand old church with a stiff pike for every unpopular head in "April" of 2008. The intent was to keep bums from the charity dinner across the street from defecating on its flower beds and signpost and from building campfires in its main stone doorway. Toilets were vetoed and the charity dinner billed for the barricade. Now I belong to Outer Space, because Forbidden Presbyterian is unnerving. We use such fences to warn kids away from the railroad. It began to resemble The First Presbyterian Church of Skull Island with King Kong in my imagination, looking like a prison yard with armed guards after 5:00 PM, like a scene from Forbidden Planet. To be associated with a hostile reception may trouble us, although churches sometimes equipped themselves with gates since ancient times. I suggested painting it in mother-of-perl to match its stain glass windows, but crackling satanic black got the nod. Still no barbed wire, however, and the group has not painted the crown of the church black to cultivate a black hat look. Neither have they mounted the sculpture blown off the front of Reichstag in Berlin at the conclusion of WW II to the fence.
Music: Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles, At the Zoo by Simon & Garfunkel, & Mrs Robinson.
Laugh about it, shout about it, when you've got to choose: anyway you look at it you lose..."

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This image is in the category I refer to as an "ominous" sign. The story had enough sitcom news impact to modify the cloud cover while it was being written. Incidentally, my parents were married at First Presbyterian, and I was baptized there as a child. My father was an Eagle Scout there back in the days when the congregation supported the Boy Scouts. I was attending services there in April when a strange shark cage went up over the front entrance and I decided to withdraw. Somehow, the odd cage seems connected with the Stephen Ministry Logo, as if the church had decided to implement a "crack on black" program of installing black barricades to keep unwelcome asses off the property. It certainly looks more like something you'd prefer to escape from these days. The motives behind the evidence in question may not be fully understood by me. I note that the Scots demonstrate annually on Heritage Day at the church, and at the last one I attended I imagined I could hear them whispering over their bagpipes to "go home", as in "Martians, Go Home", a science fiction novel by Frederick Brown.

Gringos, Go Home!

You can see Alien [Wikipedia, Images] in profile in the scene now, from the movie serial starring Sigourney Weaver. This may be a signal concerning the composition of the group, which might be described as congregational, or international speaking American English, although the First Presbyterian Church is ostensibly a Scotch Presbyterian Church. As a single fellow, I may be somewhat more worrisome to married defenders of "the Union" (represented in the scene [56e] by the gorilla and his mate) than married people are. The cage around the church yard reminds me somewhat of the black metal cage around a bar downtown featuring a large red mermaid mounted on a colossal anchor just above its front door, a few shops West of the Hell Bomb Tatoo Parlor at 1115 East Douglas. I wonder if isn't "Cagey Bee, Cagey Bee, Cagey Bee" KGB humor about caged "GB" maids. I note that jail and prison doors in Kansas no longer feature cage-like vertical bars, as Kansans decided this amounted to inflicting depressing psychological cruelty on prisoners. Perhaps the grounds committee should have made a similar decision regarding the new fence, since it makes First Presbyterian look more like a depressing lock-up.

The pointy-eared alien head of the sphinx in profile to the right of Wichita, Kansas has evidently appeared as a response to the inclusion of the pointy-eared Martian on the cover of Martians, Go Home!, the cloudy apparition appearing immediately after the photo art was added to the web page. "I see you, do you see me?" cloud cover signals responding to the construction of web page imagery may also appear days later, as soon as one takes up one's seat at one's Internet terminal. Paying attention to it and taking note of it seems to stimulate more response from the cloud cover imaging system, as if it were a pal that appreciates attention.
Music: Magical Mystery Tour