I guess it's too much to expect a balanced ticket. Like when they saddled Reagan with Bush. 

Just saw the movie again. In the defense of all of the participants, Loki is clearly influencing the room through his spear, which lies on a table behind the speakers. I expect stupid knee jerk weapon lines from Tony, but not from serious, sane characters.

I'm leaning toward the M1911, myself.

My only issue is with your acceptance of WikiLeaks as a credible source. They have done enough that stood up to scrutiny to lend an air of credibility, but these are classical the-ends-justify-the-means activists. I put them very firmly in the "requires strong verification" category.

Also, I have mentioned True the Vote here before and I do it again now. The keys to protecting the franchise are citizen participation (all y'all look in the mirror, I'm not talking about anyone else here) and physical artifacts (pure electronic voting is a guarantee of easy, undetectable fraud). I have architected critical systems for the federal government, when the reward for fraud is high enough, fraud will occur on the electronic side.

McCain disgraced himself when he suspended his campaign to return to Washington to "solve" the financial crisis. It covered for the fact that he had no answers and no strategy to address the issue. The fact that he covered for the fraud rather than dragging it up by its hooves into the light of day is another disgrace. Claiming to hold the issue for political advantage is cheap criminality. 

The real protection against "airbrushing" is quotation. From Reuters:

Florida election authorities are examining about 180,000 people who they say may not be U.S. citizens but are registered to vote in the state, an official said on Friday.

State officials are updating Florida's voter rolls ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November. Florida is home to a large Latino population and is expected to be a critical swing state in the contest between Democratic President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Florida's Division of Elections said it is checking the citizenship of voters by comparing its databases with those of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which keeps track of whether a licensed driver is also a U.S. citizen.

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Obviously, any impeachment vote faces a failure to convict in the shamelessly debauched Senate of Harry Reid, and is therefore, at best, a symbolic act. On the plus side, it is a symbolic act that is writ large enough it cannot be smoothed over or ignored by the usual suspects in the Leftist media. Raising money to change the composition and leadership of that Senate is a worthwhile endeavor. As is raising money to educate the public on the Fast and Furious scandal over the silence of the criminal Leftist media. 

This kind of thing might be taken as a tip to a line of investigation, but just throwing it out there is the equivalent of a classified ad: Achieve fame and renown! Come forward with bogus slanders of George Zimmerman and help the NYT lynch a man in the court of public opinion!

As for the Fay Lady, stick a fork in her. She's done.

"Games Without Frontiers" was a novel, innovative, and whimsical song without the sentimental element of "Solsbury Hill", but I am not in the camp that thinks that sentimentality is bad in and of itself. To my mind it gives "Solsbury Hill" a poignancy and lyric power that I don't find in "Games".

"Biko" is the song I use to teach my kids Government 101. Our 20 somethings have not learned the hard lessons of even the 20th Century, and that is unacceptable in a Sisyphus. Decertifying the NEA would be a good start in correcting the madness.

But it is Sunday, and I am in lolling weekend recovery nourish the soul mode not chest thumping hair shirt mode. I'll come back to what's in Eric Holder's drawers another day.

That's just because they haven't drilled down on who this illuminati council is that wants to nuke Manhattan so bad.

Ended up seeing the 3-D version due to schedule constraints and full houses. The 3-D was very effective in spots and completely shoddy in others. At one point, Hawkeye, standing in the lower left corner of the screen with his back to the audience, flickered and a bright yellow bar showed through his ostensibly solid body. Premium prices for subpar production work on a 3-D process that produces eye strain and headaches is not the coming thing. Reminds me of the scene in Star Trek I where the camera pulls back to show Kirk leaving Enterprise in a space suit, revealing the scaffolding holding up the set. I noticed that at the theater we went to the ratio between 3-D and 2-D showings of Avengers has gone from 3:1 to 1:2.

And, yes, there is politics. The Avengers get all huffy with Fury because SHIELD has developed new weapons as a deterrent to interstellar war, the Avengers falling in lock step to the unilateral disarmament brings peace nonsense of the Left.

"In Your Eyes", which made a lot of people's top love songs of the 20th C. lists. Ran across his video for it last year, and was stunned. I had always taken it as a love song. Anyone who has been the object of full bore adolescent adoration has wondered at their partner's view of them. And taking strength from and trying to live up to that view is the key to why love is a lot more than just sexploitation. That was what I got out of the song. In the video, it is a relationship between a mom and a toddler on the screen, presented in 8mm home movie format. Still very much caritas, but a very different vision.

Kristol is being cagey here. He knows Biden is the strength of the ticket. Who would vote against four more years of Biden's boners?

Impeachment. When empty words and contempt of Congress citations no longer sufficiently convey the message, when high crimes and misdemeanors demand redress, there is only one honorable response.

What an incredible blow to the use of Birther as a dismissive pejorative. So, if Obama is a Birther as well, all that is left is impeachment and conviction.

Not so much singled out as the one remembered on the fly from a long ago debate on this very topic. The defense of Oz then was that they could speak as they liked in pubs. (Okay.) And as a fellow English speaking, Common Law country, it has always struck me as something alien and authoritarian, outrageous, really, in the mix. But Americans have suffered some outrages themselves.

Cheers.

And yet, it is the law in Australia.

For Audrey I have to go with Sabrina, with Bogie.