Thursday, October 23, 2008
BBC on McCain
'As the Republican pollster Frank Luntz put it in an interview recently (less charitably than me): "Stevie Wonder reads the teleprompter better than John McCain." - BBC News
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Green in America?
"The nature of the North American political reality is that everybody wants to drive a car and everybody wants their neighbor to conserve." -- Rick Rule
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Obama Bio from theOnion.com
Key Senate Achievement:
Being elected to Senate after Iraq War already started
Favorite Way To Mollify Supporters:
Nodding solemnly while gripping podium
Political Experience:
(2005–) Junior Senator from Illinois. Working directly under Senior Senator Richard Durbin himself, duties included fact-checking and copyediting the 2006 highway appropriations amendment bill. Member, Illinois State Senate (1997-2004)
Odds Of Pop-Locking During Inauguration:
1 in 12
Personal Best For Getting Digits:
32 seconds
Difficulty Catching A Cab:
Moderate
Issues:
Pro-hopes, also supports dreams
People Who Have Influenced Him Most:
Handsome devil who greets him in the mirror every morning
link
Being elected to Senate after Iraq War already started
Favorite Way To Mollify Supporters:
Nodding solemnly while gripping podium
Political Experience:
(2005–) Junior Senator from Illinois. Working directly under Senior Senator Richard Durbin himself, duties included fact-checking and copyediting the 2006 highway appropriations amendment bill. Member, Illinois State Senate (1997-2004)
Odds Of Pop-Locking During Inauguration:
1 in 12
Personal Best For Getting Digits:
32 seconds
Difficulty Catching A Cab:
Moderate
Issues:
Pro-hopes, also supports dreams
People Who Have Influenced Him Most:
Handsome devil who greets him in the mirror every morning
link
On the Typical Investor (Including Moi)
“The typical investor in public markets has no idea what he is doing.
Putting his money into a stock or a mutual fund brings him a temporary happiness. He sees himself as Kirk Kerkorian making a bid for General Motors or Warren Buffet shrewdly moving on an insurance company.
‘I bought Google,’ he tells his wife. His chest expands. He feels a crown of authority on his head and imagines his most private part growing.
For he has mastered the most sacred and all-powerful rite of our time; with a single gesture he has joined the Knights Templar, the Freemasons, and the local country club.
He is in. He is with it. He gets it. He is one with all the other swells who make up this wondrous modern economy. He has gone to Wall Street like Sir Galahad to Camelot.
He does not realize the misery awaiting him.
Only later, much later, does he discover that he is not a hero, but just a chump--- an insignificant speck of dust on Wall Street’s white shoes.”
-- Empire of Debt P. 309
Putting his money into a stock or a mutual fund brings him a temporary happiness. He sees himself as Kirk Kerkorian making a bid for General Motors or Warren Buffet shrewdly moving on an insurance company.
‘I bought Google,’ he tells his wife. His chest expands. He feels a crown of authority on his head and imagines his most private part growing.
For he has mastered the most sacred and all-powerful rite of our time; with a single gesture he has joined the Knights Templar, the Freemasons, and the local country club.
He is in. He is with it. He gets it. He is one with all the other swells who make up this wondrous modern economy. He has gone to Wall Street like Sir Galahad to Camelot.
He does not realize the misery awaiting him.
Only later, much later, does he discover that he is not a hero, but just a chump--- an insignificant speck of dust on Wall Street’s white shoes.”
-- Empire of Debt P. 309
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