Two games, absolutely no entertainment value. They need to add Barbara Gordon as a Librarian.
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game1/game1.swf
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game2/game2.swf
Corrected so as not to destroy your sanity with that damn music.
When you read, “Moron Arrested After Driving Truck Into House“, normally, you would think that the editor who chose the hed is a pretty awful guy to ridicule someone that way.
But he didn’t….His parents did.
A 20-year-old Burleson man was arrested Friday night after police say he drove a pickup truck into a home while intoxicated.
Bryan Scott Moron was taken into custody after he lost control of a white Chevrolet truck and struck a mailbox on Parkridge Blvd., then continued ahead and drove into a home.
Ummm…Name change dude…
An then, hopefully, a few dozen trials at The Hague.
First and foremost, Mitt Romney, who already had over half the total delegates selected, has further extended his delegate lead, by winning more convincingly in a larger state.
Second, I agree with Atrios:
I think McCain is easy to beat as a candidate, but I don’t think my mental health will survive the press fluffing of him for all these months.
I would also add that I will be missing the Freddie Thompson clown show. That stuff wrote itself.
On the Democratic side, I think that this was a significant victory for Clinton in a number of ways:
Obviously, we have South Carolina, where Obama is favored, but I think that these, and the generally superior organization of Clinton, will mean that she seals the deal on February 5.
Of cours, my predictive powers only marginally exceed Alan Keyes sanity, so don’t put any money down on my predictions.
Beating Huckabee by about 33% to 30%.
It appears that Republican turnout is significantly down from 2000.
Would that this would happen.
Some reporters should drop out of the campaign
By Martin Schram –
Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, January 13, 2008The verdicts of Iowa and New Hampshire prompted a handful of the 2008 political players to depart from the presidential campaign trail.
But far too many remain for our own good.
Along with the handful of presidential candidates who dropped out so far, voters might be better served if a hundred or so of my political-reporter and pundit colleagues dropped out as well – and were replaced by journalists whose beats are about national security, economics, environment and health care.
For our coverage has not been serving the public interest by providing the sort of information voters really need to know – especially in the last weeks when many voters make their decisions.
I would add something more significant. That among top tier political reporters, not only is there a lack of understanding about the political issues of the day, there is actually an active disdain for knowing these issues.
It’s all about the game, not what it means to win or lose.
The coverage is cynical and juvenile.
Honestly, I would not trust him as my pastry chef, but the statements by former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and the former prime minister Edouard Balladur thatTony Blair is unfit to be the next EU president is rather refreshing.
One of their arguments is technical, they feel that the First EU president (the treaty is going the rounds) should go to a country that is a part of the Euro zone, but the other is that, “Both men [d’Estang and Balladur] say Europe’s first president must come from a country which is fully committed to all EU policies, including the euro. Mr Balladur – breaking publicly with President Sarkozy – also says Mr Blair is too close to the United States to be chosen as a “fitting spokesman for Europe”. Their views are echoed, off the record, by senior officials in Belgium and Italy.”
In other words, for this high profile, if largely ceremonial position, he’s simply Bush’s Poodle, and nothing can fix that.
Let’s be clear. This was not tough questioning. It was heckling.
Of course, wankers like Ana Marie Cox approve of this behavior and see it as laudable.
Mitt Romney has volunteers who are lobbiests, but they are not paid staff, like a number of other candidates, including McCain.
In fact, McCain got stenography when he said that tathat tax cuts always raise revenues (not true since Kennedy lowered the max marginal rate from over 90% to 70%), but The New Republic, that bastion of fabulists from Glass to Shalit to Siegel, has to call out the New York Times on its stenography.
It will be very interesting to see what will happen if Hillary and Mitt win, how on earth will the kule kidz make up their minds when they hate both candidates?
Maybe they’ll all become cheerleaders for Mr. Bloomberg.
Romney was won on the Republican side, getting an absolute majority of the Republican votes. It looks like Ron Paul may get second, though it’s close.
On the Democratic side Clinton has beaten Obama:
(numbers reflect delegates to state convention, not total votes)
It’s pretty much, “put a fork in Edwards, he’s done”, which if you look at the polls, benefits Clinton (Edwards voters, as strange as it sounds go to Hillary with him out of the race).
It appears that there have been problems with electronic voting machines, and that paper ones are unavailable, and as a result, McCain is considering asking a court to extend the voting hours, though they are only “considering” at this time.
Here’s a question: I make about 10-15 posts a day, how far back should I go on the front page of the blog?
Right now, I’m at 4 days, or about 60 posts.
I could set it at a number of posts, or a number of days, but at what point does it get unwieldy for you guys.
Please, when giving your comments, give your bandwidth at least. (Browser, OS, and Machine speed, memory, etc, would be useful too)
I’m off till Saturday evening, consider this an open thread.
Don’t think about the white bear.
The balloon has gone up. Fitch cuts Ambac rating to AA from AAA
Last night Olbermann brought on Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss issues with regard to Nevada, and the Obama’s whole “I loveReagan” crap.
What he was unaware of was the fact that Lawrence O’Donnell wrote a truly stupid article on HuffPo a few days earlier titled “John Edwards is a Loser.
His thesis was that John Edwards should get out of the race, because he was in Obama’s way, and because Obama was black, it was borderline racist for him to run against him and strengthen Hillary.
The article was stupid for the following reasons:
Well, a number of folks (not me) took the time to drop a line (hopefully a polite one) on Olbermann, and he responded on Daily Kos about 18 hours later.
He did the unthinkable, he apologized, and he says that he will be addressing it tonight.
Lawrence O’Donnell Hotlist
by Keith Olbermann [Subscribe]
Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 02:00:01 PM ESTForgive the fairly minor focus here but I spot at least three diaries on his appearance on Countdown last night to discuss Obama, Reagan, and Edwards.
Those of you complaining about it are right.
His HuffPo piece was news to me.
Shouldn’t have been, obviously, but it was.
I don’t read every blog, nor everything written by my guests. I often don’t know until an hour beforehand who will be a guest on a given show (if it matters to you, these scheduling nightmares tend to come in waves for some reason, and last night was a Nor’easter). Also, to announce, on-air, each guest’s preferences, prejudices, shillings and shiv jobs, would reduce the rest of the show to “Good Evening. Call Me Ishmael. My Boat Sank. The End. Good Night.” And Lawrence O’Donnell’s insight is almost always perceptive, relevant, and enlightened.
But even with these caveats, the point about this appearance, especially in the wake of such a freshly-written piece, is well-taken and I’m very sorry.
It will be addressed tonight on the show.
Thanks.
We’ve just had £2 billion ($4 b) fund in the UK suspend trading because of a panic, but “Aegon UK added that it believes the “underlying fundamentals of the asset class remain healthy”.
Nope, there is an increasing understanding that the last one leaving the room won’t only be without clothes, but that the price of exit will involve selling an organ.
Standard and Poors is now assessing the risk of bond insurer giants MBIA and Ambac in excess of 70% over the next 5 years. If they unwind, a lot more unwinds too.
Sprint is laying off 4000, and closing 125 stores.
Bond insurer ACA is asking for more time to unwind its contracts, basically because it’s out of case. If they go under, “Banks and brokers could suffer billions of dollars of losses from credit protection they bought from ACA.”
Because his suggestion for actions to spur the sputtering economy makes no mention of permanent tax cuts.
Hell, when he choked on those pretzels, he thought that it justified making his asinine tax cuts permanent.
We are looking at somewhere around 100 dead after clashes in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
There appears to be artillery in use by the army, and militants have apparently seized a border fortress.
This is getting worse, not better.
It appears increasingly as if Pakistan, a nuclear armed nation, may be on the verge of descending into anarchy.
Good, I hope that these folks pay for their bullying of folks like Tanya Andersen.
In related news, the Anderson suit was dismissed WITHOUT prejudice, so that she could file a class action suit on the same facts.
It appears that the four magic letters RICO are involved too.
Happy dance!!!
This is a big surprise. One of Greenspan’s first acts when he joined the fed was to vote against Volker and to relax, eventually to the point of near meaninglessness, the Glass-Steagall to the point of near meaninglessness.
Now he is saying that the Fed (by which he means Alan “bubbles” Greenspan) is responsible for the bubbles.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker thinks the U.S. central bank is to blame for allowing bubbles to inflate asset markets, and says that current Fed chief Ben Bernanke is in a tough spot.
“I think Bernanke is in a very difficult situation,” Volcker told the New York Times Magazine for a story it will run on Sunday. The Times made the text available to the media in advance of publication.
“Too many bubbles have been going on for too long … The Fed is not really in control of the situation,” the Times quoted Volcker as saying, in clear criticism of both Bernanke and his predecessor Alan Greenspan.
No, it really means just bubbles.
Alan Greenspan never found an MBA written scam that he would not allow, or a bad stupid investment that he would not bail out.
The theory has been that the DGA contract would form the basis of pattern bargaining (uniform terms across the industry), bringing an end to the writers guild strike.
However, the DGA is also known as being a soft touch, and the contract has not be approved by the members, many of whom are also in the WGA, and so the quality of the contract and its meaning to the writers is unclear.
More pros and cons at the Group News Blog.
Hmmm, it looks like the Clinton campaign is hitting Obama on his anti-gambling stance in Nevada.
Barack Obama has warned about the dangers of gambling — that it carries a “moral and social cost” that could “devastate” poor communities. As a state senator in Illinois, he at times opposed plans to expand gambling, worrying that it could be especially harmful to low-income people.
sanctimony, and anti-gambling self-righteousness won’t go over well in Nevada.
That being said, the fact that it’s taken Clinton’s campaign so long to find this indicates that just perhaps, she is surrounded by a bunch of drooling idiots as political advisers *cough* Mark Penn *cough*
Obama, an avid poker player, developed a reputation in Illinois as a critic of gambling. He voted against a 1999 measure to extend riverboat gambling to include boats stationed at dockside.
But Obama was not dogmatic. In submitting campaign questionnaires in 1998 and 2002 for the anti-gambling group Illinois Churches in Action, he left himself room to back the industry, answering “undecided” on whether he favored adding riverboat and land-based casinos. On a 2002 questionnaire bearing his signature, the words “not sure” were penciled in as answers to questions about several forms of expansion, such as moving casinos from rivers to land and raising the gambling age to 21.
Asked about Obama’s stance on gambling, his presidential campaign sent a list of quotations from the candidate in which he distinguished between Illinois and Nevada when talking about the industry.
In the comments cited by the campaign, Obama cast the industry’s effect on Nevada in a positive light. For example, he told the Associated Press last month that gambling could be a “successful economic model” as long as it was “properly regulated.”
Sanctimony, and hypocrisy.
Sorry, when someone serves up a softball like this, you need to hit it out of the park.