I can see mangos working with beer, but you'd have to get the right mangos and given the propensity in many parts of "The West" to assume all mangos are the same, I'd not be optimistic.

actually i think he pitched it perfect this time.

i continue to be struck by the difference between his face in repose (fussy, mega-bothered internally), and his smile, which manages to be radiant as his rhetoric, without being brittle and inauthentic, like hillary's.

the fact that he doesn't try to look permanently like a madame tussaud's wax museum piece, by over-controlling his expression, i find oddly reassuring!

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

McCain's (Rove's?) strategy seems to be clear: run to the Right, grab the Bush vote, pick-up enough Independents and Latinos, and hope 70% of the US doesn't notice.  The only way this makes sense is if they are so worried about the Enthusiasm (lack of) in the base that they are going full bore Conservative/Christian Right.  

In a way, it's a repeat of Rove's '04/'06 strategy.  Intimating Rove ("I've got the arithmetic") is so enamored of his previous successes he can't view the situation dispassionately, objectively.  

No one could have predicted

Two from column A and three from column B.

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Of course, no problem voting for him.  Will be interesting watching him navigate his first year against a stacked deck.

Skennah Kowa

I suspect the choice of Palin adds to the possibility of martial law before the election, since there's no way she would be allowed to be anything other than a marionette, if that, should anything happen to the aged POW.  But i do think it's kind of brilliant picking a non-entity for the second highest post in the land, not counting coca-cola CEO.  Could mean they know there's not a chance in hell, unless something perverse were to happen.

Skennah Kowa

But what really disgusted me was the wholesale destruction of aboriginal life. Removed from their dignified struggle to steward their environment, alcoholism had taken its place, and dignity had vanished. The symbol of intrusive idiocy was the Hickel Highway - a road driven across the permafrost tundra that in a few years, naturally, became a canal.

You can't be me, I'm taken

support for the bridge to nowhere,

hehe. fox is already in gear claiming she is some kinda ethics-in-gvt whistleblower, against the bridge to nowhere!

best part: she was out with snowmobile international champ hubby hunting caribou at 4-30 am, when she got the phone call from her son, telling her she was on the ticket.

parody collapses in defeat before surreality

...again!

pro-life, pro-guns.. i love how they put those together all the time. sorta like the eco-insecticide i buy here, called ' bio-kill'!

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do." Jim Hightower

Oh, MaMa.

I love the smell of roast chicken in the morning!

Bueller.  Bueller.

I love the smell of roast chicken in the morning!

An example was that: if every family in Finland bought a Plasma TV it would require the electrical energy of one more nuclear reactor. On the other hand, if all Finnish homes were equipped with CFL lamps, we'd save a reactor's worth.

The series is based on the simple Scandinavian behavioural trait (and I don't know if it would work elsewhere) that what your neighbours do, defines what you do. When most believe that happiness is produced by possessing the biggest SUV you can afford, to keep up with the neighbours, it is hard to promote a message of sustainability. If however, you can make sustainability cool, then the neighbourhood trend leaders will establish a new measure of happiness. Behaviour is group driven - led by what Nokia might demograph as 'mature attractors'.

And providing you can show that it is just common sense, it becomes very much harder for the wasters to justify their idiocy. As I said - this is a peculiarly Scandinavian phenomenon.

The other thing about the cooperative Scandinavians is that the old 'my word is my bond' ethos still holds. Thus if you can extract promises from people about future behaviour, you are well on the way to change. The format of the series is built on the promises that competing families will make to reduce their lifestyle burden on resources. Thus totally wasteful families could win the competition because they can promise more. But having promised - for all to witness - they could be 'outcast' if they fail to live up to those promises.

You can't be me, I'm taken

But when Yle-TV deadlines close, they close for another year. And I'm getting too old for these endless re-runs. The last series took 4 years to put in place, and the other series I'm proposing has been around for 5 - when we made the first pilot, during the setting up of  a new movie magazine.

And in the B2B world there can be NO procrastination ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

am only on temporarily tonight as I'm borrowing a relatives internet connection

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.