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. "It's almost like what you've seen with Che Guevara or Eva Peron, when a political leader has this coolness factor," Amy Maniatis, the vice president of marketing for CafePress,"

Ricardo Montalban.

RIP

Two biggies for me today.

RIP Patrick McGoohan.

Be Seeing You.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/14/patrick-mcgoohan-prisoner-actor-dies

People living in poverty
2000 31 million
2008 37 million

Poverty has decreased in the United States.

Population in 2000 281 Million
Population in 2008 308 Million

Anyone want to place money on the press only reporting the increase in numbers of the former with out mentioning the growth in the latter?

They would not do that, surely.

It seems to me that the classiest Member of the DNC is the President Elect.

The rest seem to be petty little children.

Pax,
A.

Addendum: Add the not to be Commerce Secretary to the class list.

A bit of precognition from Mr. Clarkson

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5374360.ece

...it's not just for Christian fundies any more.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientific-illiteracy-all-the-rage-among-the-glitterati-1212406.html

I was reading the Monroe paper this morning and it struck me that the tone and phrasing of letters to the editor from fundies sound exactly like news releases from the KCNA (North Korean news).

Here are some pictures of my new lair.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003841&l=9a46a&id=1083349304