I have tried very hard to avoid arguing about the merits of the various presidential candidates. Now that the short list of Obama's VP choices has become quite visible, nearly every one looks to have significant downsides, for a multitude of reasons. Looking at the list tonight, it occurs to me that Clark will be the only one who will be looking relatively good by November.

Sent: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:57:11 -0400

Dear Timothy Alexander,

Regarding your Rense story "The Perfect Storm From Hell"

Could I get permission to post this in some of the political blogs I am on? If you respond, could I also post your e-mail (sans the address)?

I have been in electronics for longer than I want to remember, all kinds. But I am pretty much up to date on the biological world. I basically agree that the world of the ordinary citizen is just not aware of the nature of the vast glass house we are living in.

Twice, I have posted my (relatively) "best case" scenario on an Iran war under stories at Raw Story. The stories drift away very quickly. My comment (such as it is, just the estimate of an unknown techy) was:
________

There is no substitute for the greatest!

What else could be said? This guy was the greatest. He stood up.

R.I.P. George Carlin.

Sure, the propaganda media organs have tried to make this Jeremiah Wright thing into a monster. Most people I know just are not concerned about this absurdly overblown Jeremiah Wright frenzy. Most people do not even have much faith in the propaganda media organs anymore. Then there is this:

Doom.

Okay, Let's Vote! Vote For Your Life!

Time for real democracy! You can give just one vote to any reasonably qualified possible presidential candidate you want! Regardless of party. You can give just one vote to each of up to ten candidates in a comment on this entry. The votes will be added up, and the six candidates who get the most votes will go to a runoff entry (in a following diary entry, after (give-or-take) ten responses come in).

In case of a tie, we will wait for another vote, or, if we must, toss a coin, as there is no other solution in such a scenario.

Then, you can give just one vote to any of the six remaining candidates you find acceptable (who will be listed in a second diary entry, after ten (give-or-take) responses come in).

The two of the six who get the most votes will go to a third runoff, in which the one who gets the most votes wins (in a third diary entry, after ten (give-or-take) responses come in). Please give your list of acceptable candidates last-name-first, as in "Dodd, Chris".

Start voting!

I am certainly no Ron Paul supporter (I want Kucinich, or maybe Edwards). This is just raw information from the web. You decide what to make of it.

I want to just let the data reported here speak for itself. I got these links from comments on BradBlog. I have global HTML copies of these pages archived, just in case...

Here are the pages' URLs:

http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=DE MOCRATS

http://ronrox.com/paulstats.php?party=RE PUBLICANS

Well, that's all folks.

By PAUL KRASSNER

Inspired ironically enough by a right-wing comic strip, Prickly City--a talking dog complains to publisher Arianna Huffington, "Let me get this straight. Advertisers pay you for Huffington Post, but you don't give any of us bloggers a single penny?"--the newly formed Bloggers Ego Guild (BEG) have called for a strike.

"You Don't Bring Me Scab Goons Anymore"

Sick of it? Had enough?

Come to my little blog. And go on strike!!!

Daily Trough