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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 5:42 AM PDT

2008/10/21 · 05:42

How bad has it gotten that investors on Intrade have to take into account voting machine fraud in order to place a bet on an election in the USA? They are worried that the polls are right but the election will be rigged by voting machine manipulation. Why can't we just use paper ballots and purple ink?

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Monday June 09, 2008 · 5:01 PM PDT

2008/06/09 · 17:01

I saw Brian Williams's interview John McCain tonight. McCain's left eyelid was drooping. He was also blinking very often.

This brought to mind how he was presented in his political video last week "Safe".

http://www.youtube.com/...

Only the right side of his face is shown in this video. The left side is in a very dark shadow.

These facial changes are obivious. Also obivious is the attempt to obscure the left side of his face. How can this keep from being noticed?

What would a "major figure" do?

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Thursday December 29, 2005 · 10:51 AM PST

2005/12/29 · 10:51

I ran across this letter http://www.jfk-info.com/... written by Jackie Kennedy a few days after her husband's death. It was sent to Khrushchev. In the letter she urges him to continue with the spirit of restraint that he and her husband had during their struggles together.

She refers to her husband as "a major figure" and contrasts his judgement with that of "a minor figure". She suggests that major figures use restraint rather than pride or fear when confronted with decisions that could lead to war.

We are quite lucky that we had "major figures" as leaders during the cold war. I'm not sure our leaders today would have taken us down the patient path that avoided major power war. Perhaps we have "minor figures" today.

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McCain's face

What would a "major figure" do?