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Well, at least you get something for a change. Wasilla is a shithole (yes, I've been there several times) suburb of Anchorage with 6000 residents. Basically a string of cheap plywood strip malls, matchbox housing, and storage units along the Anchorage/Talkeetna corridor. It makes Lynnwood look like New York City. If George, Washington is your idea of the average American town, well, then so is Wasilla. Alaska has the smallest population of all 50 states; less than 700K. That means about 300 million Americans had never even heard of Palin until the convention. There was a small town in Colorado that elected a cat for mayor as I recall. The cat turned out to be really popular. Great arguments Bill, as usual.

Never knew it was a war song.

Damn. And I was just in Nevada, too.

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin' I still see her dark eyes glowin' She was 21 when I left Galveston Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing While I watch the cannons flashing I clean my gun and dream of Galveston I still see her standing by the water Standing there lookin' out to sea And is she waiting there for me? On the beach where we used to run Galveston, oh Galveston, I am so afraid of dying Before I dry the tears she's crying Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun At Galveston, at Galveston

She's the most popular governor in America. Did you guys get that? Want me to repeat it?

Theatre of the Absurd.

Oh, and by the way, while I appreciate the sentiment behind all of you out there who are now praying for me, I'd prefer it if you prayed to me. Thank you.

The Christian God is basically a Macy's Day Parade version of a human father, but one who uses parenting techniques from 2000 years ago. Like a modern father, he wants the best for his kids, but, in the end, they do what they want. Modern fathers don't fill the basement with gasoline, light it on fire, and throw the kid down there if the kid doesn't wind up loving him in the end, however. in other words, he's your basic psychopath, although 2000 years ago, if you read the Old Testemant, it seems like that was standard operating procedure

Jebus, you're like the guy whose house is carpeted with receipts. "That Chinese dinner from Aug 3, 1975? Why, here it is, next to this 7 foot stack of Popular Mechanics".

Take a chainsaw and cut into your abdomen. You're still pretty much a pile of goo.

My take away from all of this? I think you probably just need to die from testicular cancer.

The American conservative's love affair with hanging onto a failed idea explains 8 years of Bush. In their view, it's better to appear right, to exude confidence in your wrongness, rather than to change course. Look at The Incubator; their new mascot. She's stridently, confidently and aggressively ignorant on just about every issue of national importance. The woman couldn't change course if she wanted to; she doesn't even realize she's on a ship. Does she even know what a ship is, for that matter?

Great refutation. I'm totally destroyed over here.

That's not being unclear. That's just reasonably recognizing the reality of a changing situation, and the fact that, um, he's not president yet, so he's not able to make an exact plan. Could you?

1) He changed his mind; His view are very similar to McCain's now 2) Defeat AlQueda? Why didn't we think of that? 3) Stabilize Afghanistan. Now were talking. How. No, his plans are very different; McCain plans to stay in Iraq forever, if necessary. That would preclude doing a proper job in Afghanistan; we just don't have enough stuff for both places. That's a huge, fundamental difference between today's ongoing and expensive failure and possible success if we change course. THis isn't rocket science; both candidates have been very clear about what they intend to do. Also, all candidates from both sides have vowed to defeat Al Qaeda since 9/11, so you're making shit up there.

Obama speaks very clearly and plainly about his foreign policy plans: pull out of Iraq, defeat Al Quaeda and stabilize Afghanistan for starters. Repair international friendships as a second course. That doesn't make a lick of sense at all to me.

Tvash for president.

59% people. You can pretty much ignore the rest of the pie and spend all your effort chewing down this one piece. Yet do we even talk about it? Nope.

Personally, I believe in states rights within the framework of the constitution, a hugely slashed military budget, and federal taxes designed to balance the budget someday, say, within the next 10,000 years or so. This includes an end to schedule federal farm subsidies, BTW; a move that would greatly benefit smaller, local farms as well as diversified farms that practice organic (style) agricultures; a constituency that is less competitive due to subsidies because they, by and large, are not eligible for them. It would temporarily hurt huge factory farms largely owned by East coast investment firms. Gee...that breaks my heart.

I kept on wondering when Charlie the Tuna or Charlie the Unicorn was gonna appear from backstage. The debates here seem to focus on the minutae; exactly if she said this or that, but does anyone here actually think the woman is anything but fucking ignorant trailer trash? Anyone not in a coma could assess after listening to her for about 10 seconds. She not only doesn't answer questions (sound bite, please!); she doesn't even comprehend them. Jesus, I thought Bush was bad, but at least he walked around an ivy league campus for a while pretending to be a student. Is The Jerry Springer Show the best the GOP can do? MY GOD (and, I guess, that's what this all boils down to...see my Finally: God Defined thread).

That's precisely why there are no Republican male porn stars.

I can dig that. Plus, you've got lots of baby action at home, right? That's tough on everyone. OK, here's what we'll do. I'll raise your children for a year, turn them into atheist commies, while you and your wife take a break and go have fun. Then, after the year is out, you hand over your eternal life. We can sign the papers at rope up.

TTK junior? You're a mini-moron, Josh. I think Josh is actually taller than I am. Also, I think most porn stars know what the Bush Doctrine is.

Why do dems have nothing better to do in the early AM than start a liberal circle jerk with their buddies?Do you find it ironic that the fact that the Dems take the opposing sides of many of the issues above would imply that they seem to have a similar inconsistency of platform? Probably not....why don't you go back to your algorithm Yngnant Um, isn't your hand part of this early morning circle jerk? Why so grumpy lately?

By the way, while we're all enjoying a bowl of Alphabets; a more apropos thought experiment would be to consider how the alphabet (and language) came to be in the first place. Answer: It evolved in an iterative fashion over a long period of time. Thanks for the example, Marc.