Begin Anywhere

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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"On April 18, 2006, Palin and I sat together in a hotel coffee shop comparing campaign trail notes. As we talked about the debates, Palin made a comment that highlights the phenomenon that Biden is up against.

"Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' " Palin said"

That about says it all. No, it does not matter. People are idiots, and it does not matter. It sucks, but it's true.

Is It True?!

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"Turns out that Palin is right -- you can see Russia from Little Diomede Island"

Just What is Wrong With People?

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"You know, there's nothing like being able to create low expectations, and that's certainly being done for her," Romney said during an interview on NBC's "Today Show."

Romney, a former GOP presidential candidate, characterized the match up as something of a mismatch. He called Biden "a veritable wall of words," while noting that Palin is "not the master of words that Joe Biden is."

This whole thing is rediculous.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Gifts

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"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows."

Dive

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I'm not making any assumptions at this point. However, it looks like we're taking the world with us, starting with Canada.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=akF53JjwZYbg&refer=canada

"The Bank of Canada tripled the size of an agreement with the Federal Reserve to access U.S. dollars if needed, to $30 billion, in a coordinated effort to shore up turbulent credit markets. The Bank of Canada tripled the size of an agreement with the Federal Reserve to access U.S. dollars if needed, to $30 billion, in a coordinated effort to shore up turbulent credit markets."

It's Not Working

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"The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression.

"Stocks around the world plunged the most since 1997 today and credit markets deteriorated further as authorities scrambled to save more financial institutions from collapse."

Meanwhile...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122270285663785991.html

"The White House and congressional leaders agreed on a deal to authorize the biggest banking rescue in U.S. history.

"The $700 billion program would effectively nationalize an array of mortgages and securities backed by them -- instruments whose deteriorating value has clogged the nation's financial system."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/sarah-palin-has-the-same_b_130102.html

"When Sarah Palin started babbling to Katie Couric about the "good guys" and "bad guys" in the Middle East, I had one immediate terrifying thought — she has the exact same worldview as my 7 year-old son, Sasha. He too in his childish mind, sees the world starkly divided into the two camps.

"He also believes in superheroes with superpowers and monsters under the bed at night.

...

"Now there is one way that my 7 year-old does have an edge on Sarah Palin. He knows for a fact that dinosaurs walked the earth millions of years ago. He also knows that human beings were not around at the same time.

"But then my son isn't a creationist like our potential Vice President."

This election has me depressed. Yes, Obama is doing well, particularly when the electoral count is gauged, but that's not the point. The point is that the McCain campaign is embarrassing. How are people able to take these people seriously? There is not even an issue-based debate going on. If you can find a McCain supporter, you'll find them completely misinformed. If half of what they thought was true were indeed the case, I'd be a McCain supporter too. But their belief, and more stunningly, much of what McCain's been saying (on taxes and health care for example) don't even pass the laugh test.

The other day I was telling someone how I just can't understand what is happening to this country. He said the reason was simple, the median IQ is 100. It other words, it's not our imaginations that people are stupid, they really and truly are in fact deeply and shockingly stupid. And they deserve what they get.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Train Wreck

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Conservative columnists Kathleen Parker, a former Palin supporter, says the vice presidential nominee should step aside. Kathryn Jean Lopez, writing on the conservative National Review, says "that's not a crazy suggestion" and that "something's gotta change."

This is the strangest election cycle I think I have ever seen. McCain seems to be completely winging it, trying anything, just hoping something will catch on.

Now, there are a huge number of really, really stupid voters in America. Put them together with the racists and it's definitely not a settled matter. But no matter what happens between now and the election, I think that if the election where held right this minute the results would be the
same.

I'm sure Sarah Palin is a very nice person. But she's a religious kook and a political lightweight, to be generous. McCain's selection of her as his running mate is just one of many frankly bizarre twists in this story that make me seriously wonder if the Senator could maybe use a little
more sleep, and some advisors he'll listen to. No maybe just a long vacation.

The fact that McCain isn't sub-10% in the polls right now, after all this, is depressing. The US is letting too many mentally handicapped people vote, clearly.

And I'm not entirely kidding about that.

Debate Drinking Game

Image by NewsHour via FlickrThe debate is on!

http://wonkette.com/403075/coward-mccain-will-maybe-show-up-tonight-so-heres-your-debate-drinking-game

When McCain says anything about his family:

Angrily drink half a beer or half a glass of wine and call your host a cunt.

Search

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"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company may be the only one with a chance to rival Google in search over the long term, but acknowledged that it will take several more years and a whole lot of money.

"It's going to take us a while," he said, during a speech at the Churchill Club. "We've got a lot to do."

MSFT will bankrupt itself trying to displace Google. Fine with me... Many years from now people will blame MSFT's decline on this.