McCain Cribs is just strange. Why is there a plan drawing of a meeting room, and why is half of McCain's wife's head perched on his shoulder?

At least there's no golfing gear. But you can buy this:

- A genuine GOP pink elephant.

"Democrats are not going to be lectured to on security by the mayor who failed to learn the lessons of the 1993 attacks, refused to prepare his own city's first responders for the next attack, urged President Bush to put his corrupt crony in charge of our homeland security, and was too busy lobbying for his foreign clients to join the Iraq Study Group."

Finally, finally, finally, somebody fucking said it.

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

Huddle under a small coffee table with a blanket and micro-sized heating element!  

Wear long underwear and woolen socks in the comfort of your own home!

Shiver under the blankets at night, warmed by an electric pad underneath your futon!  

BTW, the BBC is so professional they don't even give the date of the coup (2004).

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

If you show a guy a curve and say, this is how much oil we've used, this is how much is left, is that too hard.

I'll vote for 'yes.'

Because the graph will obviously be faked by evil scientists working for Al Gore, and it's all the fault of the Democrats for not allowing drilling in Alaska.

Also, taxes should be lower.

Etc.

So, I've been teaching them how to read graphs and draw maps.  As few scary English words as possible.  Oddly, they really like it!  Give them a table of climate averages sorted by year, or fish catches by country over the past twenty years, and ask them to prove a particular point, and they're as happy as can be.  For a while, they were asking me at the beginning of class every day, "Sensei, graphu? Graphu?"

I hope to keep this up, and present them with relevant data to graph as much as possible through the term.  Sadly, finding the tables to produce the raw data for graphs on the net has been challenging, and I don't have access to a reference library or any books.  Most net sources try to hide the tables, or present as little data as possible, feeling it to be dry or frightening, and I never had to do this kind of research in college, so I've been flailing around a bit.

Any suggestions?  

You're just itching for another Civil War, aren't you?  

BTW, that you would even bring up Keyes as a better alternative to McCain speaks volumes about both Obama's viability and our national willingness to confront actual issues.

"This is nothing compared to how Putin rigged Eurovision."

Even after John McCain won the necessary 1,191 delegates to the Republican National Convention, Keyes did not withdraw, even though he was no longer campaigning for the Republican nomination.[79] On March 27, 2008, Keyes' campaign website began displaying the Constitution party's logo, along with a parody of the trademarked GOP logo in the form of a dead elephant.[81] This appeared to be an indication of Keyes' intentions to quit the Republican party and to begin officially seeking the Constitution Party's presidential nomination.

1. Having sense perception; conscious: "The living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" T.E. Lawrence.2. Experiencing sensation or feeling.

There is an amazing book out, whose title and author have totally escaped me, that lists in great detail how an entire range of emotions can be ascribed to animals, from mice to monkeys. Yet another argument against the uniqueness of man.

The very inclusion of this sentence could have spelled the beginning of the end of bio-industry. Makes me wonder why the Dutch Party for the Animals voted against the Lisbon Treaty... Guess: probably because they wanted a national referendum instead.