Can McCain Win? - YES!

Polls show McCain beats Clinton but looses to Obama, but all within the statistical margin of error. So the popular vote is evenly split right now.

However, Electoral College analysis show McCain has a good chance at winning in November.

Getting to 270 - WSJ.com [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Olympic Gag Order

The British have to sign this, All I can say is that I'm glad the US did not force our athletes to sign something like this. If China wants to play on the world's stage, it needs to either defend or change it actions. And we all know CHANGE is what is needed.

Britain kow tows to China as athletes are forced to sign no criticism contracts | the Daily Mail [This Post Continues after the jump...]

America, the land of racism?

A Nobel Laureate, Doris Lessing,has claimed that Obama would be assassinated if he became president. Of course, it would be because he is an African-American and Americans are bigots (that's the way in which I read it). I think that this statement is absolutely ridiculous and is just more garbage from another America-hater.

I'd like to direct you all now to a phenomenal blog with a write-up about this ridiculous statement: America, the land of racism? [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain for President. Or we're really screwed.

I like this just for the bumbersticker slogan..

Confederate Yankee: Biting the Bullet: "McCain for President. Or we're really screwed." [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Mitt to Quit

Romney to Quit Race During CPAC Speech - You Decide 08!

Well, the 2nd place person is quiting, but the 3rd place person isn't? That's odd.

There is a lot of animosity between Romney and Huckabee, so I wonder what Romney will try and do with his delegates. They will more naturally support Huckabee, but Romney might not be willing to officially give him support. But if he officially supports McCain, the delegates might not follow his lead.

This is certainly interesting... [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Police collecting DNA samples During Traffic Stops

I'm not sure I like this. Just because you are being pulled over for a traffic violation, doesn't mean you should be forced to give a DNA sample. It just seems too open for abuse. Police can claim to have seen you roll through a stop sign when you really didn't. I trust the vast majority of police officers and will take there word for it for a $30 or even $300 fine. But there has to be a limit for what a police officer and do just on his word.

If we want to give police the right to collect DNA from anyone, then give them that power. Don't tie to to some observation of some minor violation. That puts too much pressure on police to make up a violation to collect information. They should not be put in that position.

I trust police at their mere word for a LOT of things. But there has to be a limit. And DNA collection goes past that limit in my mind.

Police Swabbing Mouths During Traffic Stops In Serial Killer Hunt - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando

*** UPDATE ***

Daytona Cops to take DNA in all Arrests

This Orlando Sentinel story says DNA is collected in all ARRESTS which is much different from just a traffic stop. It doesn't make it clear that is is ONLY for arrests, but that is implied. This is better and not that much different from finger printing that also happens when a person is officially arrested.

My only concern with DNA use (which is an entirely different issue) is how the common man (myself included) cannot see or examine DNA. Fingerprint match is an art and a science too, but at least I could see both fingerprints and see the similarities and the patterns. I might still be fooled by someone claiming two prints match, but only if they are close to matching. If they were grossly different, then that would be spotted. With DNA you simply have to take the expert's word. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

American Jailed in Saudi Arabia for Sitting With Man at Starbucks

FOXNews.com - American Woman Jailed in Saudi Arabia for Sitting With Man at Starbucks - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Why would any American go to Saudi Arabia? With laws like this, I would be afraid to even be near this country. Maybe the laws are clearly explained to everyone and this woman should have "known better" but I doubt it.

When will Saudi Arabia learn that you can't be reasonable AND enforce laws like these. I'm sure it is a "grave sin" and the woman was "imperiling her soul" (or something like that) by merely sitting with a man in public, but what harm was she doing to others? Why does this need to be a law and enforced? Who are they protecting? If people believe in the religious code, they will follow it naturally, if not, police enforcement just leads to suppression and false appearance of conformity.

I feel sorry for the suppressed people of Saudi Arabia and I question our country's support for a government that allows this. Heck, they don't just "allow it" they purposely have a police force for violations like this. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

McCain's Team America

How McCain Beats the Dem Nominee: The Team America Strategy - Townhall.com - Scott Ott

Here's TEAM AMERICA that can win in November (at least according to Scott Ott, whoever he is..)

• John McCain - President and "Commander in Chief"
• Fred Thompson - Vice President and "Constitutional conscience of the administration"
• Mitt Romney - Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Rudy Giuliani - Director of the Department of Homeland Security
• Mike Huckabee - Senate Chaplain (obviously a joke, he must not like the guy...) Personally I think Huckabee would be a good choice for IRS Director...

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What Does 'Conservative' mean anymore?

What does it mean to be "Conservative" anyways? I mean, we throw this word around, but I don't know what it really means anymore, and I don't think it means the same thing to any of us.

The dictionary definition of the word "Conservative" means things like

• marked by moderation or caution
• marked by ...traditional norms of taste, elegance, style, or manners [or values, morals, ethics etc]
• tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions [ie opposed to change ]

This is a Relative definition. Conservatives like the way things ARE and don't want drastic or "radical" change. Conservatives are cautious about doing anything. A conservative estimate of cost of schedule will add in extra time or money to cover unforeseen things, but that doesn't describe how we went into Iraq, or how the President keeps underestimating the cost and having to get more funding all the time.

I don't see how any of this applies to how people use the word today.

• Romney wants to "Change" Washington (so he's not supportive of existing political thoughts or philosophy]. And it sounds a lot like the entire democratic platform of "change". Especially Obama's.
• Huckabee wants to eliminate the IRS (so he's not wanting to maintain existing institutions).

As Far as MY positions.

• If I don't want to change the existing income tax system with a radical sales tax idea.. How is that NOT conservative.
• If I don’t want to change the existing presence of millions of illegal immigrants too quickly or too harshly, and have it have lots of unforeseen consequences, how is that NOT conservative? Going slow and step by step and starting at securing the boarder seems MORE conservative to me.
• If I don't want to cut taxes in time of WAR because I know we wars always cost more than we estimate, how is that NOT conservative?

The word has become MEANINGLESS !!

And you can't just say it's the OPPOSITE of "Liberal". On a world-wide political scale, ALL American politics are very liberal. And I'm proud of it.

• Freedom of speech and press
• Freedom of religion
• Rule of law
• Separation of powers/checks and balances/Independent Judiciary (which sometimes goes too far)
• The Right and Freedom to vote in fair elections.
• A History of smooth transitions of power.
• Some sort of separation between religious and secular powers and authority. (although we argue the degree)

Compared to the Taliban, ALL major US political parties have liberal streaks miles wide... [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Super Tuesday Results

A Running Tally of Super Tuesday Results.

Huckabee show early strenght
Huckabee Wins West Virginia GOP Contest in Second Round, With Help From McCain
and a possible McCain alliance..

Stocks Plunge on Election Day
Not directly related, but does show that this election is "about the Economy, Stupid"

Obama claims delegate lead
But the Media shill paints it as a Clinton victory.

McCain Didn’t Close the Deal (but still can)
McCain speaks at CPAC Thursday and must do well.

Five reasons Hillary should be worried
I still think I'm more worried about her WINNING than she is about LOOSING. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Florida Lawmaker: Evolution should be ‘theory’

Sounds good to me...

The only thing constant about evolution is that the theory itself keeps evolving. No matter what the data shows, no matter what new information is found, the theory of evolution changes so that it is always "true to the best of our knowledge" at any given time.

This makes it impossible to ever disprove, thus it is kind of pointless as a scientific theory. If they had to rename the theory every time it changed, we would see just how volatile it is, but they don't.

Evolution is NOT a specific scientific theory. It is a broad IDEA that all life today is related to common ancestors of the past, all the way back to one common ancestor (typically some sort of goo). This idea should be taught, but other ideas should also be presented.

Lawmaker: Evolution should be ‘theory’ | floridatoday.com | Serving Brevard County and Florida’s Space Coast [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Real ID could mean real travel headaches

Real ID could mean real travel headaches | CNET News.com

The really ODD thing is that there is no published law requiring a person to show ANY ID to fly from state to state. So why is there not a requirement to show a certain TYPE of ID.

The constitution requires that "full faith and credit" be given to documents of states by "every other state". Shouldn't this apply to the federal government too? Especially since the federal government doesn't issue ID cards it self. One would think it would be required to give full faith and credit to the ID cards issued by each state. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

$3 Trillion Budget

3 Trillion!! This is UNBELIEVABLE !!

7 years of republican control (many of which when they controlled Congress too) has lead to a hugh federal government. I think Clinton's last budget, loaded with election year pork, was only 1.8 trillion.

Democrats will be worse in this and other areas, but Republicans don't DESERVE to run anything (Congress or the Whitehouse) anymore. Politics has indeed become the lesser of two very bad evils....

oh.. and $400billion of this is borrowed!!

FOXNews.com - Bush Sends Congress $3 Trillion Budget With Big Increases for Defense - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Dilbert Explains my Blog

Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website by Scott Adams - Dilbert, Dogbert and Coworkers! [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Spiders on Mercury

First there were "humanoid" bigfoot like animals on mars, now SPIDERS! on Mercury (I hate spiders..)


Messenger's Pictures From Mercury Surprise Scientists - washingtonpost.com [This Post Continues after the jump...]