Hope it's better than expected. Luck to all who need it.
I think I have a copy around somewhere. Was just going to ask if Palin was being published by Bluejay.
Sh*t. Just saw him Saturday in the bar Saturday; he looked pale but was friendly and alert.
Wondering if "peacefully in his sleep on the way home" means "on the plane"?
Hey, if it keeps Ted Stevens's wife Cat from buying a gun, I'm all for it.
But she'll probably just go to a gun show and pay cash.
False reasoning: there have been maybe two dozen terrorist attacks in the U.S. in the past almost-eight years (counting Anthrax as one, not multiple). So unless there are fewer than two dozen people who intend to be terrorists in the United States--which would defy the odds, though it wouldn't be surprising--those 865 may just be biding their time.
(Collateral argument: a good investigation of them might get those 865--or at least 860 of them--OFF the list. In fact, it would be good to check out those 865 to get a decent baseline estimate of how screwed up the list is. Calling all sociologists...)
You forgot the Duck Fat, Jim. How can you present a set of heart attack steak fries if there's no duck fat.
(Yes, I ate there last night. Yes, I am having chest pains. Why do you ask?)
# Siege of Waco, 19 April 1993
# Oklahoma City Bombing, 19 April 1995
Correlation is not causation when causation is causation.
# Columbine School Shootings, 20 April 1999.
'Dolf's Birthday, don'cha know?
Actually, Simon doesn't "freeze in place"; remember, he's an A&R man in real life.
Look at his eyes when Boyle hits those first notes: it's the pose of a man who knows he's hearing the Real Thing, and also realises that he's going to have to pay for, so it's best if he doesn't give everything away to the contestant.
Iirc, he did the same thing when Fantasia first sang on _AI_. (Still the only ep of that one I've seen in toto.)
Most of the time, he's acting as if it's his money on the line; in those few cases, he's in the adult version of "Which one is Pink?".
That's right; blame Canada for everything...
(Side note: is Mr. MacDonald the "Jim from New Hampshire" who TDS said is calling the White House at 3:00a.m. saying "I need a jump"? Am I the only one who immediately assumed he was?)
Ouch! Though painfully accurate.
Doesn't this fall into the grand tradition of Susan Calvin having been born on Susan Calvin's birthday, which failed to impress Asimov.
Otoh, that she went into labour five days early did produce an interesting version of "Render unto Caesar..."
"Detroit auto companies, awful though they are..."
That just Is Not True. Detroit auto companies have been making real progress over the past ca. 15 years in efficiency, safety, and production. They basically caught Toyota last year, and have shown steady improvement since about the mid-1990s.
You want to solve the auto industry problem? The first step should be to break the stranglehold the dealers have on the firms. Only place in the chain--including the often-dubious management--that has done absolutely nothing to try and improve the industry in the past decade.
Great. We had ten locals over (all right, nine locals and an Ottawan) for an "American-style Thanksgiving" and have been seeing and speaking with people all weekend and today, and I have to find out about this not from our NDP-Rabble Rousing neighbor, but from a dude in Brooklyn.
Cool, I think. And there really was a large ABC (Anyone But Conservatives) rallying point in last month's elections, so it makes sense.
If not Ignatieff (or Bob Rae), then possibly another name very familiar to some Americans--Ken Dryden.
I admit having been trying to figure out for several years why people take Chait seriously, as a Voice of the Liberals.
But he's got national syndication and television appearances, and we have blogs, so he must be doing something right. Right?
True, Katherine, but those Bob Barr votes have a MUCH higher probability, in a two-person race, to have gone to McCain than the Nader votes do of having gone to Obama. (See Indiana.)
While (Nader - Barr) (ca. 6,400) is larger than (McCain - Obama) (ca. 5,900), I wouldn't give odds that Obama wins a two-person race there. You probably have to assume that fewer than 25/640 (ca. 4%) of the Nader voters would have gone for McCain.
That's a Leap of Faith that Steve Martin and Indiana Jones together wouldn't try, even with pre-Snake River Evel K. helping.
County Seat of Fayette.
If all goes well, on 20 January 2009, for the first time since that date in 1985, all the States in which I lived will have voted for the current President.
Hoping the similarities end there.
Earlham (Quaker college) is one of the reasons for hope. The break in Fayette and Union are others.
But mostly, the lead is now nearly 15,000 with 3% to go.
#245 - Wayne County is primarily Richmond; right on the border of OH, solidly working class. But relatively urban for the area.
Those of us who grew up a couple counties away always considered them relatively liberal. Since we went 52-46 for Caribou Barbie, it's perfectly reasonable to figure Wayne will break 50-49 the other way, with Barr picking up the "we only vote for Republicans" vote.
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