Posts by giovanni tiso
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And Clark knew back in February.
I'm fetching the canvassing from the bottom of the wardrobe.
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They're voting now on the convention floor, and I must say it's the most exciting spectacle I've seen since that 2-hour Xerox documentary on the right way to replace a toner.
They're dragging this thing on (California passed) in order to get more air time? I'm picking every second spent is a vote lost.
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For some reason I can accept very small dogs in strange little outfits far more easily than medium-sized or large dog
To me, it's a wonder we accept very small dogs at all. Is that what we did to the noble wolf? Shit. Might as well stick some clothes on them I guess, they've been stripped of their dignity a loooong time ago.
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I am resolved to set an extra bad example to nephews and nieces to make up for my own deprivation. Anyone want to send their kids over so I can practice?
<seizes upon chance to get rid of middle child>
She'll be on the first plane.
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But can we trust the polls? I fear The Bradley Effect.
And I am quietly confident about the Yeldarb effect.
Kos had a table with all the polls done in the primaries and proved that the vast majority of them underestimated Obama's actual vote on election day, but I'm buggered if I can find the link. There is a study linked to by Poblano here which also suggests a reverse Bradley effect.
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and a pretty doggy husband
doggy?
seven houses
I believe the latest count is ten houses on eight properties.
I bet that if he traded them in for two hotels he'd get a lot less grief. -
Because, frankly, I don't think the USN's actions in the skies of North Vietnam in 1967 were especially honourable.
I'm with you there, and of course on April 25th my country doesn't honour its fallen in the regular army, only those who fought fascism (although attempts have been made to broaden the change that). I was referring strictly to his behaviour has a POW, though, which seems honourable to me, especially the part where he refused to go home. And Americans are electing the commander in chief of the largest army in the world, let's not forget that. A military CV can't hurt.
Let's not also forget that the DNC convention of four years ago was all about Kerry and his frigging service in Vietnam.
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I think there is a gulf between recognising sacrifice which that does and service.
Are you saying he'd be a hero only if he had died? I was under the impression that we honoured the veterans too.
Whether that in any way qualifies him to lead a nation like the US is another question.
Well, he has spent the last quarter century in the house and senate, so it's not as if his only qualification is having served in the army. But I suppose he'll have to go to that well more and more often, since on policies and politics alone he's likely to get creamed from the left and the right.
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aren't later mealtimes (9pm+) common in Mediterranean countries? That's probably something to do with siesta.
Quite. The people of Naples and Sicily could hardly be called moneyed but they have dinner very very late. Blame the climate.
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Because, honestly, what is so heroic about being shot down and captured? I just don't get it.
He didn't talk under torture, spent two years in solitary confinement, and when offered repatriation he refused unless the other prisoners would be allowed to go with him. I'm a pacifist and was a conscientious objector back home, but I call that character. When seeking the best leader, in that weird race for roman Emperorship that is the presidential race in the US, I don't find it especially weird that such a quality should be deemed desirable.
There's also something else, and that is the service to the country. We recognise it in our fallen soldiers when Anzac day rolls by, even in pacifist ol' New Zealand.