Can things get any dumber? Don’t answer that question.
 “There are millions of people around this world praying to their God – whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that [McCain’s] opponent wins for a variety of reasons,” Pastor Arnold Conrad said. “And, Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to […]

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With the world markets doing what they’re doing at the moment, it’s no wonder that past crashes and bubbles are being discussed a lot on the Intarwebz. The Tulip Bubble in particular has been getting a lot of attention, maybe because it just seems so nuts now that we’re used to seeing financial madness mostly […]

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As a US expat I have the delightful opportunity to vote by mail in national and state elections (for expats they use your last state of residence, which for me is California), and I cast my vote last week. There’s a strange satisfaction about being able to walk down to the mailbox in our local village, slide in […]

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Oh dear. Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned London-based brokers who indulged in short selling as “bank robbers and asset strippers” and accused them of “generating unimaginable wealth … by equally unimaginable levels of fiction”.
But now it turns out that the Church of England has been quite willing to sell short and hedge […]

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Thank you, Aaron.

OBAMA
I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.
BARTLET
Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.
OBAMA
Which was?
BARTLET
A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.
OBAMA
And?
BARTLET
I was.
OBAMA
I mean, how did you overcome that?
BARTLET
I won’t lie to you, […]

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(sigh) It’s hard to ignore the political noise right now, but as it gets noisier and each side spins the other one (or itself) as hard as it can, I prefer to go back to the earliest available sources to start understanding candidates’ behavior with an eye to projecting how they might possibly behave in the future. I […]

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(If you can’t see the YouTube video embedded below, go here.)

(courtesy of Mark Evanier’s news from me)
Tags: presidential, candidate, if+only, palin

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This came up the other day. Now I see that Mark Evanier has had an email about it too.
But then Mark does one of the things he does best and asks the next question.   
Tags: Mark+Evanier, religion, humor, Barack+Obama, antichrist, end+times, noncanonical, election, 2008

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Michael Moore begs Barack Obama to denounce him.
 
Tags: Michael+Moore, Barack+Obama, denunciation

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When those images of the big Berlin gathering at which Obama spoke started turning up on the Net, I said to myself, “Hmm, this is going to provoke certain kinds of language here and there…”  And when the word “demagoguery” started turning up here and there in conjunction with his name, I thought, “Hmm. It’s only […]

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Or, rather, without the flimsy semi-transparent bag with handles that cut into your hands like cheesewire if you put something in the bag that weighs more than a pound? Here in Ireland, it’s been a pleasure.
I see the concept of dumping the bag — by one mechanism or another — is being introduced in Los Angeles County […]

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This is fascinating stuff. Apparently Radovan Karadzic decided that to successfully elude capture, he needed to ditch his armed entourage. Having done so, he then disguised himself as a very full-bearded white-haired guy with glasses and settled down in Belgrade, renting a suburban flat under a false name, passing himself off as a practitioner of alternative medicine, even […]

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