Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (081108, Morning, Round 3)
But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- Guess which possible Veep being considered by the presidential candidate I refer to as JW3M3 (John Sidney the Mad Maverick McCain III) is heavily invested in Russian oil companies, both personally and through partnerships at his old firm — oil companies that were implicated in the Oil For Food scandal? Given the Russia-Georgia hostilities, I would humbly suggest that this is proof that Mitt Romney’s investments should have been a relevant issue long, long ago. The fact that he did not become the GOP’s presidential nominee is a big bullet dodged — at least as big as the one the Dems might have faced with John Edwards. Certainly now that Russia’s renewed militarism has our attention, the selection of Objectively Unfit Mitt as Veep would be the “Bain” of McCain’s existence. Romney should do everyone a favor and voluntarily withdraw himself from consideration. Now.
- John Fineman at Newsweek tries to criticize McCain and Obama equally over energy — The only problem is that McCain DOES want to “do everything,” just as Fineman’s newly anointed “energy expert” Paris Hilton suggests.
- This is disgraceful (”Plans to release a novel about Prophet Muhammad’s child bride A’isha have been scrapped by US publishers Random House over fears it could spark violence”; HT Powerline). So is the lack of reaction.
- Taxman links to TaxProf who lays out the 10 highest and lowest state tax burdens. There is a definite red-state low, blue-state high tendency.
- Students can’t spell well — So a British criminology lecturer at Bucks New University in England wants to surrender and say spelling errors are okay. Not that I’m perfect on this score, but they’ll have to pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands before I give in to that.
- There are rumblings of a Dem convention revolt and Hillary Clinton stealing the nomination. She’s not exactly acting like it’s inconceivable. Given that Obama is a virtual non-stop gaffe machine who has made Dan Quayle look like Einstein, you can never rule it out. I still doubt it will happen, even given the fact that superdelegates, and even many “pledged” delegates, can change their minds.
A Dem floor fight for the nomination is an automatic win for McCain. If Sen. Clinton wins a large part of the most reliable Dem voting block (blacks) will stay home in November. If Obama wins at an ugly convention the veneer will come off his shiny package on a large stage. If a candidate is just an empty suit what happens when the suit gets dirty? I’d love to see it, but it ain’t going to happen. Then again, I bought extra popcorn just in case. :-)
Why learn to spell when the computer will fix it for you? Years ago I ran offices and upset my junior folks by disabling the spellcheck function of WordPerfect. I told them to self edit and if they are not a hundred percent sure a word is spelled correctly we have a dictionary right there on the bookshelf.
Comment by largebill — August 11, 2008 @ 10:49 am
#1, Now they don’t even have to go find a book; there’s dictionary.com, and absolutely no excuses.
Comment by TBlumer — August 11, 2008 @ 11:59 am
Never say never with the Clintons, but I would not expect a floor fight of any sort.
Comment by Ben Keeler — August 11, 2008 @ 2:19 pm