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Jun 04 2008
NEW “New Math” Square Miles, Guess who wins?
Popular Vote and Electoral Vote Metrics Do Not Apply
Big States and Small States Do Not Matter
We are ONE COUNTRY, so…..
Here’s the true measure of the 2008 Democratic Primary.
Square Miles per candidate.
| Total Square Miles USA | Obama Square Miles | Clinton Square Miles |
| 3,537,441 | 2,326,894 | 1,459,990 |
OBAMA +866,904 Square Miles
It’s over, Hillary. Pack it in.
Tie Breaker in case of a tie…
Puerto Rico 52 sq mi
May 30 2008
Test Drive: Firefox BETA 3
So far so good except that FF3 does not yet support the Proxy AddOn Gladder that I use for The Great Fire wall. So, I have to run a separate Firefox 2 browser for that which requires jumping thru all kinds of fiery hoops since FF only allows one. (It can be done)
The Good News. It’s way faster. I went to CNN.com on both and FF3 won by 20 seconds. (CNN is very slow here)
The Bestest News: FF3 allows me to use the DKos BB Codes for html formatting
Woo Hoo! Now, I don’t have to write an essay at DKos and then copy and paste it in over here.
Mozilla says you can easily downsize back to the previous version but I found that bookmarks can get lost doing this and other things, so back up your bookmarks before jumping in the pool.
May 28 2008
The Hardest Workin’ Men in SnowBiz, Bush & McBush
So the bottom line is that of a total of approximately 2,535 days as president, most of them during a time of war, Bush spent all or a part or 908 days, an incredible 36 percent of his time, on vacation or at retreat places. Hard to believe, but true. Nine hundred and eight days is two and a half years of Bush’s presidency. Two and a half years of the less than seven years of his presidency in which his main goal was to kick back and have fun.
.A great read from Vincent Bugliosi at HuffPo
Most of us agree that he should spend even more time on vacation; be it in Crawford, Paraguay or Leavenworth, but when many American’s have sacrificed their lives, family members and large sums of tax dollars to fund this fool’s fantasy, he has been working on “clearing my mind”. I would include beautiful as an adjective but then it wouldn’t be a direct quote, but I’m sure astute readers here will make the genetic connection.
The brush clearin’, bike ridin’, segway fallin’, perch fishin’ golfin’, joggin’ CIC (Clown-in-Chief) needs to “clear his mind”.
In fact, he himself admitted to the magazine Runners World (August 23, 2002) that after the Afghanistan war began: “I have been running with a little more intensity . . . It helps me to clear my mind.”
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“It’s interesting that my times have become faster . . . For me, the psychological benefit [in running] is enormous. You tend to forget everything that’s going on in your mind and just concentrate on the time and distance.”
May 22 2008
China: The Recovery Begins
It has been 10 long days since the devastating 8.0 Sichuan earthquake and although there have been several recent rescues of people that have been trapped for 9 days, the mission has moved into the recovery stage.
According to China Daily Online, there are 5 million homeless in the region and 32,666 still missing. There are 25,681 still in hospital.
Many children have been orphaned but all have been adopted.
May 18 2008
Bush Quits Golf, Starts Golo
May 06 2008
Lie to me and tell me everything is all right
Lie to me and tell me everything is all right
Lie to me and tell me that you’ll stay here tonight
Tell me that you’ll never leave,
oh and I’ll just try to make believe
that everything, everything you’re telling me is true
Lie to me.
-Johnny Lang
The Lie That Launched the 21st Century
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
-George W. Bush’s 2001 Inaugural Address
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
-Carl Sagan
Bamboozled, Bamboozled, Bamboozled, Bam Boo Zel Duh. A strange and funny sounding word, almost innocent sounding actually. Kinda knocks the stink off of the word “lie”.
Come on Baby lie to me….
tell me everything is alright.
Apr 30 2008
My Spiritual Mentor, The Chink
I sneezed 13 times in rapid succession this morning. Not just your little golf sneezes into closed hands mind you, but body wracking man-sneezes that sprayed spit and sputum hither, thither and even yon. Tears not only ran down my face, tears broad-jumped from my spasmodic chin onto my chest and flowed south, eventually pooling in my navel. It was the triathlon of tears.
I contemplated this and concluded that this sneezing was indeed very mysterious, and since we are taught God works in mysterious ways, it must be divine.
Blinded by the tsunami of tears that now formed a salt-water sea in my bellybutton where millions of my DNA molecules frolicked ecstatically like Spring Breakers high on PNA (Peptide Nucleic Acid), I reached for my handy-dandy Bible.
With closed eyes, I opened the book to a random page and with my finger, blindly selected a passage for spiritual guidance. As I waited for my eyes to clear, I wondered if this is how God selects where a lightning bolt will strike during a thunderstorm, or if he intends that an occasional church steeple gets zapped along with a few unfortunate parishioners.
As my eyes cleared, I struggled to read these words…
Apr 26 2008
What if 6 turned out to be 9?
Apr 09 2008
On Tibet and Propaganda
Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living, dead
Bullet strikes the helmet’s head
Jim Morrison,The Unknown Soldier
PROPAGANDA- ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause
The propaganda war is on.