I am ready for this election to be over. I'm sure McCain and Palin want to be put out of their misery as well. Or maybe it's just the majority of voters who want them out of our lives? Whatever. 12 days to Obama-Jama.
There's an editorial in today's NY Times that mentions an email going around saying that Obama isn't going to Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother. No, the email claims, he's going to destroy evidence that he wasn't born in the US. This is stupid on so many levels that I'm not even going to argue why it's so stupid. Besides, McCain is the one who wasn't born in the US (naval base in Panama). (For the record, I was born in Fort Madison, Iowa.)
Palin's $150,000 wardrobe (to be donated for charitable use just as soon as they lose) is quite the little story. Personally, I don't care if she buys designer clothes. I get that being a candidate requires appropriate clothing, and that it takes more outfits and dollars for women. My problem with this is twofold:
1) $150,000!!!! In less than 2 months!!!
2) The RNC paid the bills. Using money donated, presumably, for promoting Repub candidates and the conservative agenda.
Think about what you could buy with that much money. Heck, I bet you could buy Canada. I'm not sure what this "Poutine" is that my Canadian friend mentions, but I bet you could buy a lot of it with $150K.
Anyway, the last thing McCain-Palin needed was for the spending spree to be the big story of the day. Or maybe the last thing they needed were the reports coming out about dissension within the campaign. The NY Times will have a story in this weekend's Magazine that, I have to tell you, is a must-read. It's like they are trying to lose. How on earth could anybody think the whole "suspend the campaign" idea was a good one?
Then there's the latest joint McCain-Palin interview, this one for NBC. They don't seem to like each other much these days, and Palin's announcement that, sure, she'll release her medical records was a surprise to the campaign staff. Oh, how I wish that had been caught on camera! Maybe next time. And, make no mistake, there will be a next time.
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Poutine
Average cost per serving in patriotic American dollars: $10
Average number of calories per serving: 695
Average number of calories to make one pound of fat: 1,000
If the Independent monkey party were to provide you with $150,000 and you decided rather than spend it on clothing you would spend it on the deliciousness (gag) that is cheese curds, gravy, and french fries (poutine), you would:
Eat 15,000 portions of poutine, which means you’d have to eat 245.9 portions per day in a two-month period. This is 170,850.5 calories a day. You’d gain 170 plus pounds a day, unless you ran at a moderate speed for 24 hours in a day 7 days a week, which would mean you’d only gain around 166 pounds a day. Either way, you’d be going through outfits at an unprecedented rate.
That’s an impressive amount of math.
Also, since sock monkey kits average out at $10 per kit, you could make 15,000 sock monkeys as minions to help you get out the vote.
And at 3 hours per sock monkey, that's 45,000 hours. that translates to approximately 5 years, 4 months, 3 days, 7 hours.
Great math, But the answer is wrong because the calory count is wrong - try 1600 calories (thats 2100 calories in Canadian).
I cannot affirm or deny the monkey math.
Kandemonkey is going to be HUGE. As in sumo wrestler monkey huge.
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