My daughter who works for Babble sent me this video. Take the time to watch. Its really cute. Oh and by the way I voted yesterday. Anyone who reads this...make sure you vote. If you have to wait in line for a long time make sure you vote. Don't give up...make sure you vote!!! Here's the video
enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMiAeUG0IM
Go here to read Cory Doctorow's,The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Awaya timely, well-crafted and entertaining tale about a disasterous future that we still have a chance at avoiding. It's good for you. I know it was for me.
“The story is getting to be like that movie Groundhog Day,” said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. He pointed to the still-frozen credit markets, and Libor, the bank-to-bank lending rate that remains stubbornly high despite the Fed’s recent rate cut...Until that starts coming down, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone getting excited about stocks,” Hogan said. “Everything we’re seeing is historic. The problem is historic, the solutions are historic, and unfortunately, the sell-off is historic. It’s not the kind of history you want to be making.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street
As a friend of mine noted (edited for his use of f-bawms): So, you know, lower the rate already then, fellahs... No one's putting a gun to anyone's head to force this kind of inane self-destruction. If they know the problem is with the stupid interest rates being high, then stop making the damned interest rates so high.
I say: bring on the Nu New Deal Planned Economy.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers have begun reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor. (story here)
SWORN TO SECRECY? BY WHO?
If this isn't a call for absolutely transparent government, I don't know what is.
The NRA is endorsing McCain based upon his voting record concerning the right ot bear arms. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has said:"He's cast more than 60 votes in the Senate in support of the Second Amendment".
Located here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_el_pr/nra_mccain
How many of us choose our political candidates based solely on one issue? This sort of filtration is hazardous. Failing to take in the bigger picture of a candidate's agenda can lead to harsh consequences in the future. What good is it to be able to buy an automatic if you can't afford the bullets?
There is a counter ticking away to November 4th available here.
Might be useful for putting tasks in perspective.
Well, any doubts I may have held about Biden have been quashed. I'm sure that Palin will get the obligatory "Oh, didn't she do swell considering" nod, but I think it's pretty clear which candidate is better suited for the VP.
"Ultimate Bridge to Nowhere!" "Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history." "The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us."
Blammo. Biden's been the best debater so far.
1%, or 1 vote out of 100There have been 12 Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the entire election would have been different. More than half were decided by less than a 2% margin.
In 2004, 57,787 votes would have given us President Kerry.In 2000, 269 votes would have given us President GoreIn 1996, 575,515 votes would have given us President Dole.
From ABC News:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/09/squeakers.html
=========="Squeakers"Ned PotterABC NewsSeptember 29, 2008How close have Presidential elections been? Closer, perhaps, than we ever guessed. Mike Sheppard, a grad student in statistics at Michigan State, has done a mathematical exercise that shows it.He ran a computer program to answer this question: "What is the smallest number of total votes that need to be switched from one candidate to another, and from which states, to affect the outcome of the election?"The answer: in some years, very, very few. Take a look at his analysis HERE. It shows the powerful interaction between the popular vote and the electoral college.[...]==========
Full article here:http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/09/squeakers.html
Detailed analysis here, including colored maps:https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html-Mike Sheppard
