Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who would have been a potential big superdelegate for Hillary! in the event of an insurrection, has reportedly died from an aneurysm. Condolences to friends and family.
There Goes One Of Hillary!’s Votes
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who would have been a potential big superdelegate for Hillary! in the event of an insurrection, has reportedly died from an aneurysm. Condolences to friends and family.
Bring It On
Converging non-food biomass directly into high-octane gasoline. Let’s hope they’re right.
Cover Up
What is the University of Illinois trying to hide?
Has there ever been a presidential candidate with such a sparse paper trail? And as usual, the media assists in the cover up.
[Update in the afternoon]
Here’s a lot more.
[Late afternoon update]
Fishier and fishier. To repeat: what are they hiding? What are they afraid of?
More On Oscillation Mitigation
NASASpaceFlight has technical details of yesterday’s briefing. It still looks nuts to me.
Good Advice For McCain
From George Will. I’m kind of intrigued by the idea of capping the pay of fascist CEOs (Lee Iacocca comes to mind as a poster boy).
A Milestone For New Space
XCOR has attracted the funding of an institutional investor. It’s not just angels any more.
Burning Food
Food is a fuel, of course, though we don’t think of it that way. But now that transportation is competing for it, it’s having dire effects on everyone, but particularly the poor, largely as a result of idiotic government policies. This should be a good issue for John McCain, if he only understood economics.
Why Obama’s Polls Are Cratering
He’s a flake:
I’m using the term in its generally accepted sense. A flake is not only a screwup, but someone who truly excels in making bizarre errors and creating incredibly convoluted disasters. A flake is a “fool with energy”, as the Russian proverb puts it. (“A fool is a terrible thing to have around, but a fool with energy is a nightmare”.)
I’ve long been on record as believing that Obama cannot win (nor, at this point, could Hillary). Nothing has happened to cause me to alter that view.
[Update late morning]
Here’s the latest tea leaf that the vice-president pick will be Evan Bayh. If they were smart, they’d put him at the top of the ticket–it would give them a lot better shot.
[Another update a few minutes later]
Some folks over at DU are starting to get worried: “What is Obama doing wrong?”
Nothing, of course. It’s our fault, because we’re racists. It couldn’t have anything to do with his left-wing politics, inexperience and flakiness.
A lot of the commenters are whistling past the graveyard.
[Update a few minutes later]
A leftist sees the future:
All that Obama audacity of arrogance from the smiling, glib politician finally died the death it so richly deserved. Too many pundits will blame his loss on his blackness and racist voters. But the larger truth is that sufficient voters saw through the many lies and deceptions. Obama always had a hard time giving a simple, short straight answer to tough questions. He was always mentally calculating exactly how to game his answers so that he would achieve all the benefits he had his eyes on. He was simply too damn presumptuous and too smart for his own good. In the end, Americans do not want the smartest person in the presidency or endless nuancing. They want someone they can easily understand and trust, despite their skepticism. There were many reasons not to trust the calculating Obama to do anything he promised to do or, for some people, to fear he might.
As Lincoln said, some of the people, some of the time, but not all of them all of the time.
[Update just before noon]
How low do the polls have to go before the superdelegates have second thoughts? Keep the popcorn handy for next week, when Hillary!’s name is put in nomination, and the demonstrations begin.
Storm Update
This is one of the weirdest storms in recorded history. Jeff Masters has been calling it “the Joker” for several days because of its unpredictability, but the latest turn–an intensification over land–has him amazed:
It does happen sometimes that the increased friction over land can briefly act to intensify a hurricane vortex, but this effect is short-lived, once the storm is cut off from its oceanic moisture source. To have a storm intensify over land and maintain that increased intensity while over land for 12 hours is hard to explain. The only thing I can think is that recent rains in Florida have formed large areas of standing water that the storm is feeding off of. Fay is also probably pulling moisture from Lake Okeechobee. Anyone want to write a Ph.D. thesis on this case?
We haven’t seen rain for several hours, though the winds continue (though not tropical force). We may still get some more rain out of it before it’s gone; the feeder bands are over the water now, but as it moves farther away they may come back ashore in south Florida. Anyway, we got plenty of rain–enough that I won’t bother to water tomorrow, which the local commissars say is our watering day.