Posts from — August 2008

From McCain’s lips yesterday:

“You know it just wouldn’t be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster.”

Of course, where were you 3 years ago on the day Katrina was devastating New Orleans? Ohh right… now I remember. No, seriously. You can’t make this stuff up.

McCain’s 69th Birthday Celebration.
The same day Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans.

[Via DailyKos]

Could this be any more transparent, pathetic, or desperate? She has a year and a half of political experience as governor and she’s running for VP? You’re going to gamble the COUNTRY with her as the VP so you can still have a shot? Ohh my god…

Updated
At least one of the ‘Analysts’ at CNN is thinking clearly:

I think John McCain probably shook up the race a lot today, only I think the way he shook it up is he almost made Joe Biden and Barack Obama a safer pick, you know a more known pick and that’s not what he intended to do but I think it is what they ended up doing today.

Look at the speeches. She directly invited a comparison with Hillary Clinton, I think that’s a mistake. The reason women liked Hillary Clinton was because they had the first qualified woman ever to be a presidential candidate. I don’t think you can just change skirts and put it on another woman and have it be an acceptable thing. In some respects it’s almost dismissive of women to suggest that it’s just about gender and she’s going to have to answer that and she’s invited that comparison herself.

Hillary Clinton

Bill Clinton

Joe Biden

Word size is driven by the number of times it was said in each of their above speeches this week at the Democratic National Convention.

As seen on Daily Kos.

6 months down and 1 to go. The Marathon is 28 days out and I have one more week of serious training left followed by a 3 week taper. I’ve been absolutely beat lately so taper is going to be a treat!

Cumulative distance run over the last 6 months versus time

In the last month I’ve added on 145 miles, nearly 24 hours, and 21,450 calories burned.

Current totals after 6 months:

• Number of runs: 90
• Total distance: 494 miles
• Total time: 78 hours 14 minutes
• Longest run: 20 miles @ 9:57min/mi
• Calories burned: 78,800

As requested Scott… Jen and I celebrated your 1 year anniversary today by enjoying your homebrew and it was mighty fine. This beer has traveled with us 4,000 miles to the UK so it was extra special to finally savor it. Hope you two had a great day!

Some pics:

And a look back at your reception: