I actually hope Palin gets to be president. Not because I think she'd do well; not because I particularly agree with her politically; Because I'm sick of presidents who have nothing in common with the people they lead. Obama is young and black, but he's still a typical politician -- rich, Ivy League, etc.
Palin is the next best thing to a 3rd party candidate.
Stew - got any data to back that up? 'cause the NOAA begs to differ
Sunspots work in 11-year cycles, but temperatures have been trending upward for a century (as far as we can tell). Now, I'm not saying this couldn't be part of another natural cycle. This site has some nice graphs indicating temperature fluctuations over decades, centuries, and millenia.
James Schend - China and India aspire to join the "first world". If the US doesn't make a commitment to lower emissions, why should they?
Oh yeah, the video. What a terrible waste of great animation.
Adam, don't you know the difference between ska and sub-post-modern caribbean psycho punk-core? Clearly this was not ska! ;)
Also, I'd like to throw in my hat with the likes of avital and blessedblogger: Sure, I can laugh at myself (or anyone else for that matter) accidentally falling, but when someone does it to someone else on purpose it's just plain mean.
And since you asked: yes Monty Python, but also Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The failblog, Engrish.com, Dave Barry, XKCD, The Chaser's War On Everything (although they occasionally cross the same line as Gaillard did here), Whose Line Is It Anyway, A Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Off the Mark, The Onion... I think you get the point: I see humor in a lot of things. Just not meanness.
Typical of a mainstream media application... only featuring 2 candidates, using sound bytes instead of actual issues, avoiding concrete issues, aiming to entertain more than inform.
Try this one instead (from Minnesota Public Radio... MN residents can even use it for the Senate race).
It'll still probably give you McCain or Obama, since the other candidates have a few questions for which they provided no response, but it does give you the option to weight the importance of each issue.
OK, I can buy that the land tide exists, but why would it have anything to do with the full moon? Shouldn't the tides fluctuate twice daily, like the ocean tides? Unless you are saying that the maximum high tide would be at full moon.
haha, Johzephine, I didn't think of that. There's probably some contract the winner has to sign saying that he has until X date to, uh, fulfill the bargain; after which she is free to fulfill whomever she wants.
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Palin is the next best thing to a 3rd party candidate.
Stew - got any data to back that up? 'cause the NOAA begs to differ
Sunspots work in 11-year cycles, but temperatures have been trending upward for a century (as far as we can tell). Now, I'm not saying this couldn't be part of another natural cycle. This site has some nice graphs indicating temperature fluctuations over decades, centuries, and millenia.
James Schend - China and India aspire to join the "first world". If the US doesn't make a commitment to lower emissions, why should they?
Oh yeah, the video. What a terrible waste of great animation.
Also, I'd like to throw in my hat with the likes of avital and blessedblogger: Sure, I can laugh at myself (or anyone else for that matter) accidentally falling, but when someone does it to someone else on purpose it's just plain mean.
And since you asked: yes Monty Python, but also Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The failblog, Engrish.com, Dave Barry, XKCD, The Chaser's War On Everything (although they occasionally cross the same line as Gaillard did here), Whose Line Is It Anyway, A Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Off the Mark, The Onion... I think you get the point: I see humor in a lot of things. Just not meanness.
...so internet porn will be even more prevalent with this interface...
You're implying that you let the candidate dictate your views rather than vice versa, and that scares me.
Try this one instead (from Minnesota Public Radio... MN residents can even use it for the Senate race).
It'll still probably give you McCain or Obama, since the other candidates have a few questions for which they provided no response, but it does give you the option to weight the importance of each issue.