Big Ol' Smitty

It was just the shadows. /mole

They're trying to get all the votes counted in a recount. I can guarantee you Norm Coleman's campaign is doing the exact same shit. Any candidate in a recount does that stuff. Nothing in that op-ed is damning, it's just a bunch of innuendo shat out to try to make mundane recount related political behavior seem nefarious. The Wall Street Journal traditionally does great hard news, but it's op-ed page is basically a print version of FreeRepublic.

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Page=fail

We have a health care plan on the table.

Yeah, but on the other hand, I've done well on standardized tests and I'm awesome.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122636621096215941.html

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showuser=6181

This would be my response to snuffbox's line about "true conservatism": http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fir...directions.html

Slayer!

Didn't take long: http://news.aol.com/elections/article/repu...atorship/243817

This guy's story is simply amazing. Too long to post in its entirety, but here's an excerpt. Read the whole thing, as they say. http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/11/acevedo.pow/index.html

I'm okay with Gates. He seems competent, qualified and pretty much, as far as I can tell, amenable to Obama's stances on Iraq & Afghanistan. Nuclear proliferation is another issue...but I think Obama can bring Gates in line. I'm also cool with not punishing Lieberman. Although I think he's a complete tool, I think the symbolism of Obama pardoning him (I'm thinking of the scene with the bad guy from Schindler's List...) is more powerful and ultimately more politically savvy than stripping him of his chairmanship and shunning him. I also think that Lieberman's such a narcissist that he can be brought in line by stroking his ego.

I'm almost dead-sure that you're wrong, and that it's the other way around, like hybrids. I don't think that's something that a person like you would forget. I think NoCal is probably thinking about the "light truck exception", which allows SUV manufacturers to produce vehicles with lower CAFE standards and thus really crappy emissions levels.

Yeah, I think I'm with you Dobbs. It seems like the Big 3 are basically dinosaurs and are going to fail before too long anyway. A bailout just kind of seems like delaying the inevitable. I would be more interested in helping retrain and help the workers displaced by the failures than preserving their jobs by propping up the companies. I guess if we are going to bail them out, though, it's good to require better fuel efficiency and such. I've heard that Ford, I think, has started going back toward the big gas guzzlers with the advent of lower gas prices.

When you're pointing your finger at KANERULESFAN, three more fingers are pointing back at you. Who's the real gimmick here?

Two other random comments about this election: 1) The polls were pretty much dead on. Only exception was Alaska (President, Senate, & Congress all seemed to have been off there for some reason). 2) Obama actually won the rich vote (over $200K/yr.).

One of my older brother's black friends used to come over to our house quite a bit. I was really little at the time, and apparently I would just sit and rub his head for long periods of time since I'd never seen such hair.

Explains much.

My knowledge of Kwanzaa is pretty much limited to jokes about it on TV, like this guy.

Also,

I'm getting suited up again. I'm thinking of shooting reindeer from a helicopter a la Palin this year. Or maybe just breaking into homes and shitting in children's stockings. Ya know, gotta fight the good secular fight.

EFA Seriously. The question of what's going to happen with the Republican Party came up in my National Security Policy class Wednesday. My take was that, while I would prefer to see the Republican Party become a socially moderate to liberal, fiscally conservative libertarian type party (since I loathe social conservatism, but am at least sympathetic to fiscal conservatism), I simply don't think that's going to happen. The party is becoming increasingly Southern and increasingly hard right. The only region of the country that McCain won was the South--Obama easily won the Northeast obviously, but also pretty handily won the West and Midwest--and the South is not the place where a libertarian message is going to be successful. Furthermore, most GOP moderates in Congress have been picked off by Democrats in the last two elections. So I see the party moving further to a more Mike Huckabee-esque direction as I don't think there's much of a market for fiscal conservatism. People may like the idea of low government spending in the abstract, but when you talk about actually cutting entitlements or the military budget, the two biggest components of federal spending, you're generally not going to get very far.

Like the English missed the Bubonic Plague.

Speed of a baboon and strength of a warthog, eh? That's some killer imagery.