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Something I was just thinking about.

All this talk about Sarah Palin raising a child with special needs. Umm, he's not even one yet. I highly doubt she's done anything different for Trig than she had to do for her other kids when they were that age. That's not to diminish the work it's going to take as he gets older, but I'm pretty sure the special needs bit hasn't exactly factored into his raising thus far. So though I understand we've got to make it sound like she's got experience at doing something besides cutting funding for rape victims (btw, paper I wrote about that? 100%, baby!), I think we can stop talking about it like she's got all this experience in taking care of special needs kids.

Another random thought. What's with the Denver Broncos sending people to the Houston Texans? First Kubiak, who was Elway's backup QB until 1991 and then offensive coordinator for the Broncos later, goes off and becomes the Texans' head coach. And then what does Kubiak do? Hire the DB head coach (who was first his coach and then his old boss) Mike Shanahan's son as his offensive coordinator. And here I was wondering how the Texans managed to beat us in the preseason.

Back to politics. During the debate--

McCain: During the Depression era, we had a thing called the home ownership loan corporation.

Did anyone else's mind jump to his use of the word "we" there and immediately use it as confirmation of the fact that McCain is, in fact, incapable of dying? I have a feeling Colbert's going to pick up on that one as good for a few dozen dinosaur jokes.

And--
SCHIEFFER: The question was, what are you going to cut?
MCCAIN: Energy -- well, first -- second of all, energy independence.
Umm, what?

Edit: and to connect the two a little bit more, here's politics + football.

MCCAIN: Well, if you'll turn on the television, as I -- I watched the Arizona Cardinals defeat the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
OBAMA: Congratulations.



And hooray for fall break being this weekend, as I'm going to go hear Obama speak again on Saturday and possibly Jill Biden on Friday (depending on where she's talking, as the schedule hasn't been released yet). I really wish McCain and/or Palin would swing by, though; I'm an equal opportunity political speech listener, and I'd like to hear what the other side's got to say.

I've been crazy tired since probably 9 or so, so I'm not sure why I'm still awake. Probably going to try to go up to the election office and vote tomorrow (or Friday), so I've got to actually be coherent enough to, you know, read names and issues (because there are quite a few of the latter on the ballot this time around; I've got a list but I've yet to go through and look at them and decide what I like and what I don't) and such.

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Hoorah for reliving the debates through transcripts.

McCain: Now, 95 percent of the people in America will receive more money under my plan because they will receive not only their present benefits, which may be taxed, which will be taxed, but then you add $5,000 onto it, except for those people who have the gold-plated Cadillac insurance policies that have to do with cosmetic surgery and transplants and all of those kinds of things.

Because man, those transplants. Not like they're medically necessary or anything. Jeeze. You don't really need a liver, the name's just to throw you off.

McCain again: I think that decisions should rest in the hands of the states. I'm a federalist.

I'm sorry, what? Now, I know I only got a 92% on that political science test, but I'm pretty sure I didn't miss this one.

Oh and both of you? Thanks a lot. The day after I have to write a paper evaluating arguments on education in the debates, you go and actually talk about education in the debates.