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Here’s On The Fritz on the Santa Ana winds. He’s wrong, but I thought you would like another opinion.

Scrappleface got one of those little icon dohickeys. Keen.

It takes 98 tons of dead plants to make a gallon of gas. So what? The plants are long dead. What else are you going to use them for?

via Slashdot

Slashdot on comment spam on weblogs. There’s some helpful information in there. If I were to be important enough to get spam I would definitely use some of it.

This is cool. For short periods of time.

via The Corner

Death threats against the gay bishop-elect.

Bishop-elect Gene Robinson, who will be consecrated bishop of New Hampshire next Sunday, told a conference for homosexual priests in Manchester this weekend that there were grave concerns for his safety.

The threats are being taken seriously in America because of the growing militancy of religious extremists.

I happen to think the guy is dead wrong to be in any sort of leadership while openly walking in what the Bible clearly calls sin, but death threats aren’t the answer. Telling people the truth is the answer.

And hilarious. Disclaimer: not for the squeamish. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Brazil leads in cyber-crime (evil reg.req.) You have to be good at something

Interesting, but there’s major fires in SoCal almost every year. And while there has been signifigant loss of property and even a few lives, this isn’t the most inspiring of terrorist acts. If you live in a dry, brushy area with hot winds and large populations you really have to expect them to go up once in a while.

UPDATE: But if I was still in high school I could have gotten out of school today. Darn. And when did Valley Center get a high school?

Someone shut him up.

Keeps for years, usable with any blood type. How cool is that.

EULA (End User License Agreement, like what you agree to when you use software) on woodworking tools. I’m still looking for the punchline.

I gotta new hard drive! I gotta new hard drive!

If you don’t hear from me for a long time you’ll know I messed my computer up bad putting it in.

Norway fans waiting for tickets outside, in the cold. Here in America we buy the tickets off of Ebay.

via Fark

Wrigley’s is going to hike gum prices for the first time in 16 years. Maybe Congress does need that pay raise.

via Fark

The Department of Defense wants to put RFIDs on all it stuff. Seems logical.

“RFID policy and the corresponding RFID tagging/labeling of DoD materiel are applicable to all items except bulk commodities such as sand, gravel or liquids,” the DoD said in a statement.

Gravel suppliers rejoice.

Today at lunch we discussed corporate stooges (Barq’s has bite), the staff becoming sermon illustrations, and nasty food, mostly British, but also Swedish. Lutefisk, it’s fun to say.

From Sony. It’ll be interesting to see if they catch on.

EMI releasing a majority of its catalog online. A step in the right direction I think.

This is the best line in the article though:

Consumers can burn the songs onto CDs, transfer them to portable music players supporting Windows Media Audio or store them on a computer. Customers keep the music even after their subscription ends, Myers added.

Ohhh, thank you!

How odd. But that’s not important right now. What I want to discuss is the Santa Ana winds. I love those. As soon as you wake up you can smell them in the air. And the air has a whole different feel to it. Then you go outside and get knocked down by the wind. Yeah, those were the days.

At lunch yesterday we were discussing Terri Schiavo in our usual fashion, everyone talking at the same time. We were surprised that the ACLU hadn’t jumped in the fight yet, and lo and behold, here they are.

This is disturbing:

“We are afraid of lawyers all the time,” said Dr. Lofty L. Basta, a retired Clearwater cardiologist and founder of Project Grace, a non-profit group devoted to educating people about end-of-life planning. “We practice defensive medicine. We do things that we know are wrong to protect our behinds. So this ruling from the legislators makes us very leery to carry out any order for dying patients.”

Americans and the afterlife:

Belief in life after death, like the existence of God, is widely embraced: 8 out of 10 Americans (81%) believe in an afterlife of some sort. Another 9% said life after death may exist, but they were not certain. Just one out of every ten adults (10%) contend that there is no form of life after one dies on earth.

Moreover, a large majority of Americans (79%) agreed with the statement “every person has a soul that will live forever, either in God’s presence or absence.”

This is good though:

Most Americans do not expect to experience Hell first-hand: just one-half of 1% expect to go to Hell upon their death. Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) believe they will go to Heaven. One in 20 adults (5%) claim they will come back as another life form, while the same proportion (5%) contend they will simply cease to exist.

Of course no one (and by no one I mean 99.5%) thinks they personally are going to hell. It’s for those bad people out there.

Read, as they say, the whole thing.

via Drudge Report

I’m listening to the Classical music station on Musicmatch and I just noticed if John Williams had gotten any closer to Wagner’s The Valkyries with his Imperial March he could have been sued. Except it’s public domain and all that.

I’m sure this is well known to all the sci-fi loving classical music listeners, but it was news to me.

Searchable books over at Amazon.com. The article is long and full of unimportant details. Here’s the gist:

An ingenious attempt to illuminate the dark region of books is under way at Amazon.com. Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon’s multimillion-title catalog. The entire collection, which went live Oct. 23, is searchable, and every page is viewable.

This wins the coveted “SUPERRAD” award.

Yes, I did just make that up. Work’s a little slow today.

There ought to be a law against them voting pay raises for themselves. Can’t the president veto it? And $154,000. That’s a freaking lot of money. And they don’t even work all year.

A comparison.

Jack Elam died. He was great in all those westerns.

Flu victims and people with flulike symptoms are flooding local hospital emergency rooms, health experts said Wednesday, straining an already taxed system with cases better served with Tylenol and bed rest.

If everything from Ebola to SARS to a common cold didn’t have flu-like symptoms, maybe this wouldn’t be a problem.

I don’t know about this, it is from Lindows, but I do know I won’t be getting Office 2003 any time soon.

via Instapundit

UPDATE: Here’s Slashdot on it.

Frank isn’t doing so bad today either.

There is now a Centrist Coalition blog. I hate moderates… much more than even liberals. I bet Satan is a moderate; the best way to get evil accepted is to package it with some good. That’s what moderates do; they’re always like, “Oh! I’m so special because I don’t take a firm stance on issues, and I see value in everyone’s viewpoints.” I bet right now a moderate is reading this and partially agreeing with it.

Lileks is on his game today.

Starbucks’ regular coffee tastes like old donkey hooves soaked in burnt crankcase oil.

He also discusses the Rumsfeld memo which is apparently HUGELY IMPORTANT, but I don’t know why.

I got betta. This is interesting too. And I don’t think it has all the ethical baggage that cloning parts comes with. But I haven’t thought about it much either.

Looks like someone noticed what real piracy is.

via the quaintly named ArsTechnica. It’s all Greek to me.

Lord of the Rings Musical!

I shocked, shocked at the fact that ALL of the child-porn suspects were (A) white and (B) male. Clearly some profiling or something is going on. Get Jesse Jackson on the phone, it’s another Selma. And Pat Ireland, she’s available now. Equal rights and all that.

I guess there is one born every minute. I can’t believe people fall for the Nigerian scams, but they do. To the tune of $1.5 BILLION dollars a year.

I heard that!

Next on the piracy hit parade: the FCC plans to do something, somehow, that keeps you from downloading digital TV shows on the internet.

The Federal Communications Commission will likely adopt rules that will allow programmers to attach a code to digital broadcasts that will in most cases bar consumers from sending copies of popular shows around the world, said the officials, who declined further identification.

So you have until 2006 to watch those analog Enterprise episodes.

via Slashdot

We can’t evolve fast enough to keep up with our innovations. Maybe fast food killed the dinosaurs too. Darn rodents.

TV executives don’t understand why they are losing viewers.

“Frankly what we’re seeing strains credulity,” said Alan Wurtzel, the president of research for NBC.

I believe he and the viewers have reached a concensus.

Which is worse, that she got through with the knife, or that she didn’t know better than to take a knife on a plane. I, for one, am paranoid about taking the smallest blade through security. Those Leatherman Micra’s are twenty bucks. I don’t want it confiscated.

The alleged sniper changes his mind and decides to get a lawyer. He’s just working on his insanity defense.

An acquintance gave me his set of Robotech DVDs. Very cool. Sure, cheesy soundtrack and awkward dialogue, but great story.

I’m Back!

Here’s the roundup for today:

Microsoft mad at Apple because of their monopolist practices.

The “Jew Remarks” taken out of context, says Mahathir.

Free taco and Pepsi at Taco Bell if a World Series home run hits the target.

iPod for the rest of us, via Creative Labs.

And since I’m going to Thailand soon, this happy news about the mentally ill bomb expert that’s gone missing.

PDA’s are dead. Say smart-phone makers.

via Slashdot

No need to worry about the red wire/blue wire dilemma. Just let the dog play with the bomb.

Octupi:

“Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be the characteristics of this creature,” the Roman natural historian Claudius Aelianus wrote at the turn of the third century A.D. Today’s divers marvel at the elaborate trails the eight-leggers follow along the seafloor, and at their irrepressible curiosity: Instead of fleeing, some octopuses examine divers the way Steve checked me out, tugging at their masks and air regulators. Researchers and aquarium attendants tell tales of octopuses that have tormented and outwitted them. Some captive octopuses lie in ambush and spit in their keepers’ faces. Others dismantle pumps and block drains, causing costly floods, or flex their arms in order to pop locked lids. Some have been caught sneaking from their tanks at night into other exhibits, gobbling up fish, then sneaking back to their tanks, damp trails along walls and floors giving them away.

Ugh. Smart octupi make me nervous.

John Muhammad defending himself in court. Wasn’t he going to plead insanity? Hmm.

Here is an awesome entry in IMAO’s comments:

James,

You ask a profound question. What do conservatives like me want? Well take it from a guy who has traveled to every continent except Antarctica, I sure don’t want what the Third World has.

There is this depressing similarity among Third World nations, be it Morocco, El Salvador, Vietnam or Saudi Arabia. It’s the trash, dirt streets, emaciated animals, poor construction techniques, corrupt cops, prevalent violence, undrinkable water, racism, hatred, bigotry and depression. It’s being stopped by four cops with machine guns in Cambodia and being “asked” to pay the “road toll.” It’s meeting a missionary couple and their three small kids at a hotel in Colombia, then finding out a week later that Marxist guerillas kidnapped and killed them. It’s walking through the market in Marrakech and getting nauseated by the unrefrigerated meat covered with flies. It’s driving down roads in Angola and seeing all the bloated corpses by the side of the road. It’s having a prostitute in Thailand tell you that she has a great job – it pays so much more than any other job she could get. It’s getting so violently sick in Calcutta that you think you’re going to die because the bartender put ice in your drink. It’s driving through Saudi Arabia and seeing piles of discarded tires, abandoned cars and trash to make an American Indian cry along the highway.

Then it’s returning to the land of heaven, better known as the United States. The land of paved streets and lawns, and houses with paint on them, and water you can drink, and low crime and good paying jobs for women and responsive government and, well and just about everything else from free emergency medical care to clean air to people who stop at red lights and use the on ramps to get on and the off ramps to get off the highway. It’s not seeing adolescent girls selling themselves openly without comment by the locals.

James, I don’t want to live anywhere other than the United States of America, despite having an enjoyable visit to Australia. But I know for a fact that millions of men, women and children in the Third World watch television and movies and see what we have here and they crave it. They crave it because they live a life of pain and s–t.

So James I find your comments depressing and ironic. You and Michael Moore advocate a hatred of the system of government and economics which has created a virtual heaven on earth. You asked “Do you want western culture to conquer all the minority groups it can?” And I answer, “YES.” And all the billions of your so-called minorities in the world scream “YES.” You asked “Do you want corporations to be more rich and powerful?” And I say, “Yes, I want corporations which produce the medicines which cure the poor of the world, I want the corporations which feed the world, I want the corporations which produce washing machines and cars and airplanes and cell phones and computers to be more rich and powerful.”

Then James you asked a most interesting question, “Do you want to live in gated communities where you don’t have to mingle with the poor?” How odd. In order to conquer the world, we would need to leave our gated communities. And you implied, by the way you phrased your questions, that you don’t want us to leave our gated communities to conquer the world’s minorities. So I would answer this last question with “No I don’t want to live in a gated community, blocked off from the poor. I want to bring the benefits of my culture and wealth and beauty to the sick, poor and downtrodden everywhere.” You, James, oppose that. In other words, you want me to remain in my gated community so that the poor remain poor. Because as long as the poor remain that way, you have meaning to your life. You care nothing and do nothing for them. You use them as a crutch for your self-righteous evil.

And James, that is why I despise you and Michael Moore and all those who profit from hating and loathing the very thing which brings hope to the poor of this world.

Today I discovered I spend to much time using my computer. I had picked up the print edition of the Nickel’s Worth at the grocery store. I was rather irritated that I couldn’t Ctrl-F to find what I was looking for. I had to read, or at least scan, every ad. How annoying.

Speaking of annoying, some idiot is driving around the block honking his horn. This is going to stop soon.

Waaay overpriced on Ebay. I was going to go, but since I’d like to keep my job, I can’t make it. Think of the money I’m saving.

Got a question? Ask the Magic 8-Ball. Remember though, if it gets one wrong you have to stone it (Deuteronomy 13).

While we’re at it here’s J.I. Packer’s take on the Cubbies curse.

Apparently the Muslim’s were taking that Malaysian dude at his word, because the reason my host went down last night was a Denial Of Service attack originating (unofficially, so far) from a bunch of Islamic sites against this site [Internet Haganah]. Here is the official word. Discussion about this is here on LGF. And the Instapundit word.

I had McDonald’s for lunch today. (Disclaimer: This is unusual, I don’t normally eat there.) And I swear the Coke tasted like their “apple pie”. How on the earth does that happen? It is sorta worrying me. On the plus side, I got a Best Buy buck. That’ll come in handy when I get that $4000 plasma TV.

Why didn’t someone tell me?

It’s a little poignant.

Making a little money off the enemy (let’s just admit China is our enemy, shall we? Sooner or later something will have to be done with them if they don’t collapse under their own communist weight).

Washington (the state, for those of you east of the Mississippi) company to print Communist paper for China. Or maybe they’re just so liberal they love that communist stuff in Washington. Or maybe it’s nasty conservatives thinking of nothing but the bottom line. Hard to say, it reaches across so many political denominations.

Jewish-run countries force Muslim to apologize for saying Jews run the world.

Please forget about anti-Semitism,” Syed Hamid told reporters.

He added that Mahathir’s “message is to stop violence, which is not the answer for us to succeed in our struggle. People may not be very happy but this is the reality: the Jews are very powerful.”

Stop the violence by killing off all the Jews.

Mahathir said the world’s “1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews,” but suggested the use of political and economic tactics, not violence, to achieve a “final victory.”

And what is “final victory”, praytell? That might not be the solution the rest of the world is looking for.

A Christian general in the US military. Someone shut him up, quick.

In January, he told Baptists in Florida about a victory over a Muslim warlord in Somalia, who had boasted that Allah would protect him from American capture. “I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real god and his was an idol,” Gen Boykin said.

Also:

Few outside the Pentagon noticed when Gen Boykin, a 13-year member of Delta Force, the top-secret commando unit modelled on the SAS, was promoted this summer, with responsibility for speeding the flow of top-secret intelligence to commandos hunting bin Laden and other high-value targets.

Now, if they start promoting or not promoting based on religion, which clearly they haven’t in this case, wouldn’t that be illegal?

Taikonaut also a spy!!!! China isn’t our best friend? What?

Finally it’s here. I’d try it to see if it works, but our wireless is down and I’m not downloading nothing on this lousy dial-up connection. Try it and let me know what happens.

Interesting, but pointless I think, discussion on whether Asimov’s rules for robots are moral or not.

via Instapundit

Apparently it isn’t grace, we are saved by staying out of the government computers.

George Bothwell told a packed press conference in Toronto on Wednesday that the Book of Revelations warns that any such use of an individual’s image automatically aligns him with Satan.

Gold, Jerry, that’s gold.

Averting his eyes from a bank of cameras throughout today’s press conference, Mr. Bothwell anticipated the question on every reporter’s lips.

“I feel a little uncomfortable with the technology presently in this room, because I assume you are using digital cameras and recorders,” he said. “But that technology is not the danger.”

The problem arises not when photographs are taken, but when they are stored and potentially used for unknown purposes.

“The danger is when the central authority captures digital identifiers from people and stores them in a central data base for any authority with the right technology to access,” he said.

Hoist on his own petard, methinks.

via Juan Gato

I had no idea.

For your convienence. Monsanto pulling out of European cereal business.

Monsanto’s announcement that it wants to sell its cereal development stations at Cambridge and in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, follows hardening resistance to GM crops throughout Europe.

I don’t want to hear any complaining in the future from them when their crops are wiped out by some disease or they just can’t produce enough.

UPDATE: This from Juan Gato

I’m not convinced you should be saying stuff like this aloud:

“Our military forces … depend very, very heavily on space capabilities, and so that is a statement of the obvious to our potential threat, whoever that may be,” he said.

The rest of the article is interesting too.

via DrudgeReport

More critical patches available for immediate download. Get them now before the next worm strikes.

The taikonaut, Yang Liwei, has landed safely.

This is interesting.

It could happen.

Art, my eye. If this is the state of painting these days, how can anyone take it seriously. Of course, I think they should have quit after Baroque period. It’s been downhill since then.

Well I just downloaded Opera 7.21. Seems to be running fine. Not that I had a problem with 7.1. I recommend it.

His feet are going to drag on the ground. I saw him play live once. It wasn’t pretty.

Well, good news for me and my tax burden:

In other words, with or without the trust fund, when the expenses of Social Security and Medicare exceed the value of our contributions, our budget is suddenly going to have more holes than a warehouse full of Jarlsberg. And when does this happen? According to the Social Security trustees, Medicare’s expenses start to exceed benefits in 2013, less than ten years from now. Social Security follows suit in 2017. 2040 isn’t the date when we need to start worrying; it’s the date when we finally give up pretending that Social Security is anything other than a gigantic Ponzi scheme, and the suckers revolt.

via Instapundit

Stupid line of the Article:

Many MTA passengers are the working poor whose income averages around $15,000 a year, making cars and parking difficult to afford. Some are illegal immigrants who have not been able to obtain drivers licenses.

They’re i-l-l-e-g-a-l immigrants. they shouldn’t be able to obtain driver’s licenses. If they want a driver’s license, the will have to go back to Mexico or become legal. Why is this so hard to grasp?

This was my first question:

Another unresolved question: Will VTV air reruns of V, the 1980’s sci-fi series about rodent-eating aliens who take over the earth? They should! That is, if their deal with Universal isn’t Vaporized.

China says they have launched their taikonauts. Enjoy that green tea guys.

Okay, I have to add this:

China invented gunpowder and legend holds that a Ming dynasty (1368-1644) official named Wan Hu attempted the world’s first space launch. He strapped himself to a chair with kites in each hand as 47 servants lit 47 gunpowder-packed bamboo tubes tied to the seat.

When the smoke had cleared, Wan was found to have been obliterated. But the dream was not.

Keep those dreams alive.

What the heck was that???

For sale on Ebay. Hold on to those mutant snacks, kids.

None of the restrictions would apply in time of war.

Good.

Too lazy to eat right.

Steve Martin will be the next Inspector Clouseau. End of Civilization as we know it?

The Register, never a fan of blogs, has this to say about Trackbacks and Google.

Fiji villagers apologize for eating missionaries. Because, manners matter.

Indigenous Fijians are today avid Christians, although mostly of the rival Methodist sect.

Methodists? They’re Methodists?

Dissed by AOL. But who cares about Boise? No one.

China launch broadcast tape-delayed.

Fear of public disappointment and criticism if the mission fails could be the reason behind the decision, analysts say

No! Man, can I be an analyst? I bet they make more money than I do, and all they have to do is say obvious stuff.

I think this is what they mean when they talk about US culture taking over the world.

Advice from the Financial Times.

via Volokh Conspiracy

Israel now has sub-based nuclear missles.

I would like to say hi to all those whose search for “i hate oklahoma” has led them here. Who knew how many there were out there. Oklahoma, as you know, is OK. Also, it is the home of the Sooners. And, Oklahoma is where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. Well, that’s the depth of my Oklahoma knowledge. I hope you’ve enjoyed this glimpse of Oklahoma.

A great reason to only point guns at things you want to hit.

I NEEEED one of these. And anyone that has had to drive through Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls will agree with me. I don’t know who the idiots are that designed the light-changing schedule, but clearly they never actually drive anywhere.

If you live in Miami.

Now ignoring the fact that it’s not even Halloween, much less Thanksgiving, here’s what the tykes will be getting. I’m worried for the future.

Foot? Looks more like a mountain lion to me.

Arr, matey!

Interesting article on Slate about misperceptions of the Religious Right.

via The Corner, who is taking Columbus Day off. Like that’s a holiday. Geez.

Having trouble fighting the rising tide of spam. And blogging. Slashdot’s article here.

This takes skill. Or nursing is more common sense than anyone wants to admit.

via Fark

By men, for men

“Publishing is sexist. Brad and I are not terrible old sexists, but we are happy to get back to a healthy antagonism between the genders.”

Lawsuit in 5…4…3…2…1…

Somebody likes us. Here’s a good guy, Wes.

And speaking of Muslim persecution of Christians here’s a symposium.

via LGF

Three days after a Princeton graduate student posted a paper on his Web site detailing how to defeat the copy-protection software on a new music CD by pressing a single computer key, the maker of the software said on Thursday it would sue him.

Microsoft will be next for allowing people to disable Autorun at all.

UPDATE: Or not. (reg.req.)

VDH

My thoughts on this are, “Ehhww.”

The far left are the only ones wise enough to lead us, apparently. Heh. That’s the way to win a majority vote…

Some level-headed advice on the wisdom of suing your customers.

via Slashdot

Possibly.

The definitive checklist.

Whacked out liberal if…

You should go make sure these don’t apply to you.

via Inoperable Terran

Er, about religion.

The paper quoted noted Nobel-watcher Stein Tonnesson as saying: “2003 was the year of the war in Iraq. The biggest world personality who immediately came out against the war without doubt was the pontiff. His opposition prevented the war being transformed into a new Christian Crusade against Islam.”

Geez. Surely, you can’t be serious.

Unrelatedly, I am convinced “surely” should be spelled “shurely”. Stupid microphone makers.

It could just be the flu. Or SARS, or Ebola, or Anthrax, or Dengue Fever or West Nile Virus, or gosh, anything.

“Whether the virus comes back this winter or not, we will be dealing with SARS,” said Dr. James Hughes, director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “When people start showing up with respiratory diseases, physicians will be thinking of SARS.”

They will? Why? SARS hasn’t crossed my mind in ages. What are they talking about? Has there been an unreported outbreak or something?

via Drudge Report

New, contradictory, naturally, news on the Chinese launch.

“Complicated things can be unsafe,” he said.

This is probably available for download by now. But here’s a photo-journalism tip. Take off the lens cap next time you’re being mauled by a bear.

AT&T bug on FTC Do Not Call website.

For spoofing email addresses. What does murder get you these days? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as against spam as the next person, but, uh, perspective here people.

via Slashdot

For launch. Their taikonauts are due to orbit Earth once and land.

“They’ll be able to eat shredded pork with garlic sauce and kungpao chicken,” China.com said. “It will be more tasty than Western food. After the meal, green tea will be available to increase the astronaut’s spirits.”

Please, it’s a 90 minute flight. What do they have to be worried about? Except, possibly, reentry.

From the Telegraph (reg. req.):

A team from Cancer Research UK claims today that the reason why children are particularly wary of meat, fruit and green vegetables is because, for early man, meat carried a high risk of food poisoning and toxins in plants made eating fruit and vegetables potentially dangerous.

What’s left?

I hope it’s not a secret (reg. req)

Up to 2,500 fighters are in Baluchistan province preparing to cross the border on motorcycles and attack United States and Afghan government forces, according to Western and Afghan intelligence officials.

That’s easy, string a wire across the road. I learned that from Great Escape.

“We have the American forces and the puppet regime of [President Hamid] Karzai on the run. They will collapse soon” said a Taliban mullah in Pushtunabad bazaar.

Uh-huh.

Itz Talk Like Ahnuld Day, apparently. That’s all you’re getting from me.

But not sickly enough.

Israeli officials say the Palestinian president’s health is not a factor as the government considers whether or not to carry out its threat to exile, or even kill, Mr Arafat. “It would be very convenient if nature were to take its course,” said an Israeli foreign ministry official, Jonathan Peled. “But Mr Arafat is a cat with nine lives and we do not believe he has used all of them yet.”

I hope he’s right, sort of. As long as we don’t turn into one of those countries that has 15 parties and are always worried about “coalition” government and “no confidence” votes.

via Instapundit