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From the Telegraph: "I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely "the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets" during elections. "She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was...

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I’m not sure I can do it

If the race came down to McCain v. Clinton could I pull the (metaphorical--in Oregon anyway) lever for Hillary? She repeatedly lies through her teeth, another example being here, where she tries to pad her scant to nonexistent foreign policy experience. My thinking right now is that Obama's got my vote in the general election whether he's the Democratic...

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News item: Samantha Power

Samantha Power, one of Barak Obama's foreign policy advisors and a Pulitzer Prize winner at Harvard University resigns after saying In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win. She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything. Now ordinary I'd...

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Delegates

Numbers may fluctuate a bit, this is more or less it from what I'm reading: Ohio: Clinton 73-68 Rhode Island: Clinton 12-8 Vermont: Obama 9-6 Texas: Obama 99-94 End result: No substantive delegate count change. Clinton's delegate math remains daunting unless she somehow convinces the DNC to seat all the Florida and Michigan delegates, and even then it's...

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Three good things

1. Vermont 2. Texas is close enough that Obama may lose the popular vote and win the most delegates 3. If you do the delegate math, there is virtually no way for Clinton to top Obama. Those of us hoping for a knock-out blow to the negative Clinton campaign will have to wait awhile longer. Ohio and Rhode Island went for her decisively. Even though her...

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Education

We visited Queen of Peace School earlier today in an opening effort to judge whether or not it's worth spending rough $4200 to send Jonah there for kindergarten next year. (True education cost is $6500; we'd get a break as a parish family, though there'd be plenty of fundraising during the course of the year.) Undeniably, it has its merits: • Class...

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Political thought of the day

Eight years has not changed my opinion that Ralph Nader was a good consumer advocate who'd make a horrible president. I hope we see him in exactly zero of the presidential debates, and no, I haven't forgiven him for Florida 2000 either. Bonus thought: Oh, heck with it. Just read what Andrew Sullivan has to say. I agree with him.

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It’s sad, really (part 2)

Will voters embrace the mad Hillary? Apparently we get to find out. The Obama mailers that have Clinton in a twist contain two charges: One mailing says her health care proposal would force everyone to buy health insurance, regardless of ability to pay, a charge Clinton vehemently denied. "Sen. Obama knows it is not true that my plan forces people to buy...

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Quicken 7 Deluxe: Cashflow is King

Another typical, haphazard review of questionable quality. Written after one hour's use of the product. Random mutterings by a confused man. Basing a buying decision on this is like trusting O.J. Simpson at cutlery convention: not for the faint of heart. Virtually No New Ideas... What's different this time around for users of Intuit's popular Quicken personal finance software? Not much, and God knows you can only carry this charade so far. Once you have the basic Quicken...

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Medical Mary Jane

Everybody must get stoned: Glaucoma never looked so good. Wedge issue in the drug war, or feel-good hit of the summer? Feds argue one side, I make the case that feds are idiots. Not sure I succeed, but close enough for government work. Incisive analysis with a third less calories than our regular beer. A Toke A Day Keeps the Doctor Away... Grass, pot, dope, mary jane...call it what you will, it's still rock 'n' roll to me. The very entertaining Reefer Madness not...

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Windows: Why I Hate Microsoft

General slogging of Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Three reasons why Bill Gates is Darth Vader personified. Features gross distortions and defamatory accusations to the extent allowed by current U.S. libel law. Not intended for use by children under the age of 12. In the Beginning... I'm sure I'm goring someone's sacred cow when I say that Microsoft has made more money by creating a problem (aka MS-DOS) and solving it (aka Windows) than any corporation in the history...

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The 1996 Presidential Election

Never have so many owed so little to so few. The great American political machine, now bereft of ideas and with waning interest and will, totters on the brink of voting for an unaffordably massive tax cut before tumbling into the abyss of four more years of morally bankrupt leadership. Character assassination with panache. Film at 11.... A question for those of you who voted in the last U.S. presidential election: How in God's green earth did you decide between a man who's...

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