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Posted by wdpankow at 02:16 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Gail & Barbara, we'll have your prizes at DL next Tuesday.

NAME D-R-TOTAL (possible 20-15-35)
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Gail 14-13-27
Barbara 14-10-24
Joan 11-11-22
John N. 12-10-22
Dave L. 11-10-21
Hartley 11-10-21
Thmar 12-9-21
Shawn 12-8-20
DeeDee 11-8-19
Steven 13-5-18
Tamara 11-7-18
Charles 10-8-18
Jason 14-4-18
Dave C. 10-8-18
Damian 9-8-17
Len 9-8-17
Gus 8-9-17
Erica 11-5-16
Alex 7-9-16
Robby 8-5-13
Jerimee 4-6-10

NO RECOUNT!

Posted by wdpankow at 12:20 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

We'll be playing the Super Fat Bead Game at DL this Tuesday. Here is a copy of the sheet in case you want to get an early start on your predictions:

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Posted by wdpankow at 09:21 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

I really cannot stand the extended, 2-year Presidential campaign, so I was generally ignoring the goings-on in each race during 2007. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'm ready to jump in. First place to look, each campaign's web site. Let's see where they stand on the issues, since I don't want to pay attention to the media's "horserace" drumbeat. Here are some links (I know, you can Google them yourself...):

Hillary Clinton
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson

Posted by wdpankow at 01:53 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

An interesting take on the way messages from each of the (top 3) Democratic campaigns are presented.

Declaration - Request - Promise: Lead - Lobby - Legislate

Future - Present - Past::Obama - Edwards - Clinton.

Future is to Present is to Past as
Leadership is to Lobbying is to Legislating.

DECLARATIONS

Leaders create the future. They bring it forth. They declare it. They speak, and in the moment of their speaking, the future is.

John F. Kennedy and we SHALL put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

In that moment, we "shall it," all of us, the entire country. Kennedy declared our future. He brought it forth. He languaged it. And as one, we moved forward to meet the challenge, more or less, together.

If you were alive July 20, 1969, and of a certain age and in the western world, you watched as Jack Kennedy's declaration unfolded. I was ten years old and I remember everything.

That's leadership in action. Leaders make DECLARATIONS.

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Posted by wdpankow at 01:38 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

As if you need me to tell you...

Democrats:

Obama 940 38% 16
Edwards 744 30% 14
Clinton 737 29% 15
Richardson 53 2% 0
Biden 23 1% 0
Uncommitted 3 0% 0
Dodd 1 0% 0
Gravel 0 0% 0
Kucinich 0 0% 0

Republicans:

Huckabee 39,814 34% 17
Romney 29,405 25% 12
Thompson 15,521 13% 3
McCain 15,248 13% 3
Paul 11,598 10% 2
Giuliani 4,013 4% 0
Hunter 515 1%

Posted by wdpankow at 10:06 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

CNN will be covering the events all day: Iowa caucuses 101: Arcane rules have huge impact on outcome

Keep an eye on the local boy...

Posted by wdpankow at 09:08 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

2008 already off to a good start...

Michigan 41, Florida 35 - Capital One Bowl, Orlando, FL

Posted by wdpankow at 06:34 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tom Tomorrow via The Village Voice. Funny stuff!

Posted by wdpankow at 10:25 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

I have been saying for years that the whole Iraq misadventure is, in the eyes of the Bush administration, a total success. The goal was huge profits for oil companies, et.al., so no matter the outcome - military victory followed by flowering democracy or complete and utter chaos - the mission has succeeded.

Iraq 4-eva!

Chaos was the plan; oil is the prize, just like Henry Kissinger said. Jim Holt in the London Review of Books does the math:

Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be ‘stuck’ precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is no ‘exit strategy’.

Iraq has 115 billion barrels of known oil reserves. That is more than five times the total in the United States. And, because of its long isolation, it is the least explored of the world’s oil-rich nations. A mere two thousand wells have been drilled across the entire country; in Texas alone there are a million. It has been estimated, by the Council on Foreign Relations, that Iraq may have a further 220 billion barrels of undiscovered oil; another study puts the figure at 300 billion. If these estimates are anywhere close to the mark, US forces are now sitting on one quarter of the world’s oil resources. The value of Iraqi oil, largely light crude with low production costs, would be of the order of $30 trillion at today’s prices. For purposes of comparison, the projected total cost of the US invasion/occupation is around $1 trillion.

Well, if all this is true, it’s going to be the first business venture that George W. Bush has ever succeeded in.

And, er, if the Iraqis want their oil back?

And about those Cheney Energy Task Force records….

NOTE Via No War blog.

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