Google now has patents online with page images. I think the USPTO still has better searching.
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Quite a few candidates have filed with the FEC, formed exploratory committees, or expressed serious interest in being the next president of the United States. Early polls show Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani leading their respective parties.
Of interest, both are commonly known by their first names. Is it a sign of these informal times? Or could Hillary be distancing herself from the Clinton name and the troubling memories of her husband? Is Rudy simply the easier name for those of us who seem to have problems spelling (or even pronouncing) “Giuliani”? Or, like Madonna, Cher, and Britney, have Hillary and Rudy as larger-than-life celebrities transcended the need for more than a single name?
I think all of these are at least partially correct. I also think it bodes well for the election that name recognition is a given and the voters can focus on more substantive issues. That is, assuming that Mike Gravel and Michael Smith don’t win in the primaries.
I want to get a Nintendo Wii for my son (actually, me). Looks like I should get one for my dad, too.
Is it safe to point out that toolspear-wielding killer chimpanzees are largely female? Via ACW.
Lieberman says leaving the Democratic Party is a “very remote possibility.” But even that slight ambiguity — and all his cross-aisle flirtation — has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate’s one-man tipping point. (Source)
And the issue that could tip Lieberman to the Republican side? According to The Politico: defunding the war. I wonder how remote that vote is.
I bet HR 1022 causes another surge in firearm purchases.
Would you vote for a presidential candidate who attends a church that publishes the following?
Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the White Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These White Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Whites are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:
- Commitment to God
- Commitment to the White Community
- Commitment to the White Family
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
- Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
- Adherence to the White Work Ethic
- Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
- Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
- Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
- Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
- Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
- Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Outrageous, isn’t it! Does it make any difference that the candidate is Barack Obama and Black should be substituted every time White is used above? (Source)
Is the church Obama attends a fair campaign issue? I believe so. Obama makes specific mention of Trinity United Church of Christ on his presidential campaign web site. (Source) Ben Wallace-Wells, in the Rolling Stone article “Destiny’s Child” writes,
Obama wasn’t born into Wright’s world. His parents were atheists, an African bureaucrat and a white grad student, Jerry Falwell’s nightmare vision of secular liberals come to life. Obama could have picked any church — the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and “felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams.” (Source)
Read the entire article. Including the sentence, “What Obama stands for, if anything, is not yet clear.” (Source)
Just doing some research… 
Update:
Another link:
I’d like to think the immediate withdrawal contingent have better reasoning than Retired General William Odom.
I’ve made spud guns, but they can’t be fired in my hometown, at least not legally. These can.
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