Politics
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Lost sleep and mixed blessings
So, my week continues to suffer, as I’ve been going on less than two hours a day of sleep for since Sunday. Work however goes very well. On the political front, both Guiliani and Edwards have dropped out of the race, and I got my first robocall from the Ron Paul campaign.
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Quick New Hampshire predictions
They’re not very earth shattering, but…
Democrats
- Obama
- Clinton (a close second)
- Edwards (a distant third)
Republicans
- McCain
- Huckabee
- Romney
- Paul (somewhere over ten percent, but not much)
- Thompson
- Giuliani (happily low in the standings)
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Who would have thought it?
Unmentioned by the commentariat thus far is that the primaries (so far anyway) concern only domestic politics. Who would have predicted that four years, or even four months ago? This is the best proof of the the surge being seen as working I suppose.
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Wyoming
Here’s a little known fact, Wyoming is holding it’s caucus on Saturday.
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Iowa picks based on gut feeling
Democrats –
- Clinton
- Obama
- Edwards
Republican –
- Huckabee (by a margin that will surprise everyone)
- Romney
- Paul – maybe wishful thinking, but all of this money and energy has to translate into something.
Clinton and Huckabee are hardly my preferred choices, but neither of them are Edwards or Giuliani, who (I think) would do America irreparable damage.
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Tuesday links
- Iraq vets take lemons and make…. something.
- Delphine LaLurie – very creepy
- Time management
- I do believe I’ll be building these bookshelves
- Ron Paul – comic book president
- Putting Bush on Mt Rushmore – be sure to read this one from Scott Adams
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The next Reagan
Via Yglesias, comes this Mike Huckabee ad
I think I’m the first to point out that he’s the first candidate to good natured and likable on the stump, which is quite a bit of a change from the rest of the crowd. Clever ad too.
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A good example of why liberals scare me
Check out this diavlog with Paul Krugman and Mario Cuomo; it’s a detailed explanation of how the government should run your life, from health care to your job, and most things in between.
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Four changes if I were king of America
I’ve made them non-political, strictly symbolic. They are
- The national anthem shall be changed to America the Beautiful; an accessible song with a solid melody and natural meter; and the Star Spangled Banner will be consigned to history, where it will be of much interest to our eventual tone-deaf robot overlords
- Daylight Savings Time shall be abolished. Trying to fool the sun sets a bad example for children and weakens our moral fiber
- Calvin Coolidge shall be worked into Presidents Day somehow. We’re long overdue for rewarding people who do their job quietly, with no drama
- We shall come up with a simple way to properly fold the US Flag that does not require two people
What would y’all do?
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Three interesting things
- There are more World of Warcraft players than there are farmers (from Paul Krugman via MR)
- The reason the average car produces X many tons of CO2 (a figure I always found fishy) is due to the fact that the carbon bonds with oxygen already existing in the air, which never occurred to me until I read this article. The majority of the actual mass (the O2) comes mostly from the existing air.
- John Edwards, still not popular! It says good things about America, and the Democratic party that he’s doing well. I suppose the Republican alternative to him is Tom Tancredo.
- From this BloggingHeads.tv – “John Kerry was a Democrat’s idea of what the Republicans like”. The Republicans seem to be making the same desperate mistake with Giuliani right now.