Ever heard of Julie Couillard? Didn't think so, but she might have just brought down the Canadian government. More after the fold.

"She's going to wave her magic wand and the Superdelegate will give her the nominaion" isn't a strategy.

"Once upon a time there were to brothers. One went off to sea and the other became Vice President of the US, and neither  were heard of again.—Vice President Thomas R. Marshall.

Why Hillary Clinton shouldn't WANT to get the second spot on the ticket

It actually hasn't counted since 1960.

We countinue the series...

The list goes on...

Recently, Jane's Magazine, the official chronicle of military hardware, has issued a list of what it thinks are the fifty most stable "entities" Let's figure out why they're where they are.

The complete incompetence of the Bush administration has been demonstrated once again. This time in an unexpected place. The Five Dollar bill.

I know all about the agita the polls are giving everyone here. But no matter what happens there is one thing for certain, Things are going to be uglier and uglier over the next six weeks.

We are all in need of a short vacation. So let's think about where to take it, shall we?

Consider Grand Bahama.

the "Monster" thing and the reaction to it is something different. The Clinton campaign is trying to get the pity vote.

How pathetic.

Some asshole terrorists blew up the Army recruiting station in Times Square.

I had a conversation about it with a woman at my local coffee shop, she didn't  think they were actually terrorists. IF not, then what were they?

A few weeks back, I diaried what might be happening right now. In it I said that it was probable that no one would be able to get the delgates needed to win the nomination and the two candidates might be so damaged by the time we get to Denver in August, the Superdelegates might bolt and throw the convention to a second ballot, clearing the way for the nomination of "The Man behind door number three".

It might indeed go that way.

While everyone here is concentrating on the primaries, (and understandably so), by the warm Caribbean waters south of Aruba, the drums of war are getting louder and louder...

I know all about the agita the polls are giving everyone here. But no matter what happens there is one thing for certain, Obama's going to win Next week's contests in Wyoming and Mississippi, and after that, there's nothing for five weeks.

We are all in need of a short vacation. So let's think about where to take it, shall we?

Consider Bermuda.

The leader of the despicable organization known as the FARC has been killed in battle. I posted the news on an open thread, and nobody seemed to care very much. However, Hugo Chavez is moblizing his army and sending it to the Colombian border. War looms.

All this michigas about John McCain being born in the Canal Zone has broght up an interesting question.

If a the Canal Zone was US territory (and it was) how could the US congress deny citizenship to people born there?

Sometimes politicians have one too.

IN a different diary, It was suggested that it's possible that Denver will be like Chicago forty years ago. It won't, what's scaring me is that it might be like Miami four years later.