Come On, Let’s Stop the Campaigning Now!
The 2008 election results are in:
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Via Allan.
Yearly Archives: 2008
Roads That Would Make My Grandma Squeal
When I was younger the roads into many of Oregon’s high mountain lakes were not paved. In fact they were often little more than a skinny single lane hanging over the edge of a cliff.
Grandma always went on our fishing trips to these lakes and, led by Grandpa, we gauged the danger of the road by the frequency and length of Grandma’s squeals.
Dark Roasted Blend has a fascinating series on the World’s Most Dangerous Roads.
This, for example, would have definitely rated a 10 on the squeal-o-meter:
Check out the rest of the series. There are “better” ones than the above!
Is It Going To Be dear leader obama?
It appears that some dems are thinking that is the way it should be:
3. What Obama Meant. Any review of Obama statements or past votes is subject to an explanation by Obama of what he REALLY meant. Any criticism of Obama’s statements which do not take into account Obama’s clarifications and explanations of what he REALLY meant are unfair personal attacks and the attacker is a “liar” who will say and do anything to get elected.
4. Obama’s attacks are always fair and merited. Any suggestion otherwise is, at the least, vaguely racist.
As an independent I’m looking forward to new blood, most likely obama but perhaps mccain, to pick on from time to time when they become, as Garrison would say, the current occupant.
There is no excuse for not engaging in this exercise when they are pretenders to the throne as well.
So, You Want to Fly A Big Plane do You?
Check out the Airbus A380’s cockpit:
Click on the image to go to a full 360 degree view.
The folks who created this have more interesting stuff in their portfolio. Never mind that the descriptions are in French; just check’m out!
Via haha.nu which also has a link to the Airbus Corporate Jet.
All You Need is Change
Change, we are going to change things! This idea has been the recent mantra of the 2008 election.
Mark Morford nails the truth of this:
No, not the bland politicalspeak Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton brand of broad sloganeering bumper-sticker change, the kind where part of your naive perky innocent unicorns-in-the-sky self really wants to believe it’s all going to be hopeful and good and radically different, but yet you kind of know, deep down, when you peel back the masks and the rhetoric and the spin, that when all is said and done, pretty much the exact same jackals and demons and CEOs will run the bleak global circus, same as it ever was.
The only change we will get from clinton, obama or mccain is in the details of how the voters are bribed.
None of them will do anything to change the fundamental system of privilege and corporate welfare that creates the conditions for massive income disparity and corporate rapaciousness in the first place.
Don’t get me wrong. There will always be income disparity in a healthy economy but in a healthy economy it will truly be the result of individual capabilities, effort and creativity not earmarks, subsidies or direct and indirect wealth transfers.