BABELFISH

Yahoo cannot keep their grubby hands off anything!

I went to altavista.com to access Babelfish (an online translator), clicked the link, and was redirected to Yahoo! Babelfish (http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=avbbf-us). The address was formerly as follows --> babelfish.altavista.com. Guess I'll just have to use Google Translator.

*sigh*

Ze Baron

EXPERIENCE

I think this cartoon basically illustrates why you should vote for who.

-Ze Baron

OPERATION CHAOS

What an election this is turning out to be. Hillary and Obama have both managed to hold on this long, constantly bickering back and forth. The media is counting Hillary out. TIME magazine, to which I subscribe, is counting Hillary out. Ann Coulter, my bemusing conservative compatriot, is counting Hillary out. But I'm not!

Right now it is 1588 to 1462, Obama's lead. She's only 162 delegates behind! From my understanding, there are about 250 superdelegates floating around either neutral or undecided. There's also about 174 delegates from states yet. Now, granted, the Democrats' system where the winner doesn't take all will sustain Hillary but will make it hard for her to beat Obama. On top of that, the superdelegates are awfully greasy. It's hard to get your hands on one and it is even harder to hold on to it, as Ms. Clinton has been noticing as of late.

The good news for Hitlery is that a Rasmussen poll puts her at 56% over Obama's 27% in West Virginia, the next state to vote with 28 delegates. A SurveyUSA poll puts Hillary over Obama 62% to 28% in Kentucky that has 51 delegates for grabs, up after WV. Oregon, the largest prize left, has 52 delegates available with Obama 51% Hillary 39%.

The way that is explained is that Hillary has a big lead in each a medium and large state, while Obama has a small lead over Hillary in the biggest state. Buckle that with the fact that Hillary has two states but a deficit and you've got a hell of a race. That doesn't even make mention of South Dakota and Montana with admittedly small amounts of vital candidates.

A Gallup poll puts Obama at 48% and Hillary at 46% nationally for the nomination. That hardly discounts this as a blowout race in which Hillary should drop out! I'm shocked at the axe job she's gotten in the media recently. It's not even a sizable lead at all, especially when Gallup cites a ±3 percentage points margin of error! Theoretically it could be Hillary 49% Obama 45%.

Even though I love Rush Limbaugh's idea of Republicans voting for Hillary (for which this post is entitled, which apparently paid off for her in Indiana), and I love the idea of splintering the Democratic party, this race needs to be fought to the convention unless there is a clear leader. I'm really interested to see how it turns out if it is indeed fought to the convention, though.

Last time the Democrats were in such a fuzzle it was 1968, and you see how that election went for them with Richard Nixon winning the presidency. This bodes amazingly well for John McCain, who doesn't have much support from hard-right conservatives and thereby doesn't have a secure holding on the GOP voter bloc, not to mention that it would have been unimaginable for a Republican to have a flying chance in 2008 looking at the race from 2005, 2006, or even most of 2007.

This gives him time to let the public get sick of a Democratic candidate, whichever wins the nomination, by having another Democrat rip him apart, saving McCain time, money, face, and attacks on his own character. He's just happily watching from the sidelines, raising funds and whatnot.

Even if a lot of Republicans don't like John McCain, well, gosh darn it, I like him! I'd rather have a war hero Senator in the White House with a pretty wife than a lawyer with a scandalous hubby or a lawyer with an unpatriotic wife. That, and he's a Republican! Look, God handed this race to the GOP on a silver platter with the divided party, the Republican candidate Democrats can vote for, and an early sealed nomination, even in spite of a very rough-looking political situation that GW left us.

So eat, drink, and be merry... the forecast looks good in November.

-Ze Baron

S.H.I.T.

A man is having morning coffee when his wife comes running down the stairs.

She says, "T-G-I-F!"

He replies, "S-H-I-T!"

"What does that mean?"

"Sorry Honey, It's Thursday."



*sigh* I want it to be Friday.

-Ze Baron