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» http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/01/how_presidents_should_treat_generals

This photo fascinates me no end. Particularly the guy in the upper-left. Big ups to The Oregonian’s Shawn Levy for helping me with names.

» Jaime Herrera considers Congress

Herrera is a Beltway Republican apparatchik who is steeped in the ways of DeLay’s bareknuckle Washington. The national party would love to see her win this seat. The question is can she navigate a 3rd district primary which promises to be chock full of Tea Party voters? Will she be able to convince them she’s one of them when, in fact, she’s the polar opposite? More interestingly, will the Tea Partiers go back on their “principles” in order to win this seat?

I hope she runs, if only to make both the Clark County GOP and the Victoria Taft-led Tea Partiers show their true colors. None of this is about principle. It’s about Power. Herrera is their girl.

» You're already a cyborg, deal with it.

When I was your age, the garbage can was a rusted out barrel made of galvanized steel. Our family would fill it to the top and it would usually weigh over a hundred pounds! Every week starting when I was six, I’d have to pick that thing up and carry (not drag…carry) it around to the front of the house. And the rust? My fault.

Now the GARBAGE company delivers these new things with ROLLERS! They’ll be in the garage where I can just wheel them ten feet. You kids have it way too easy.

Punks.

» Binion's is closing its hotel

I believe Binion’s has closed its hotel a time or two in the past. This was before they were completely shut down prior to being taken over by Harrah’s. Some of my fondest Vegas memories took place in and around the Horseshoe. It’s sad to see it once again on hard times. This doesn’t bode well at all for the future of downtown.

We’re being trained by the very serious people to fear the Chinese economy. Meanwhile they’re busy doing stuff like this, which simply cannot continue. What does it mean for the long term? Couldn’t tell you. Just like I couldn’t tell you what it means that Al Jazeera, of all organizations, put this report together.

It’s a big, big, big, big world out there and there are tons of things happening which will eventually “catch us by surprise”. Why? Because it’s more important to us to find out what happened to Tiger than it is for us to understand what’s happening in China.

It’s 5:45 pm but the parking robot says 2:35. I bought a 15 minute ticket, but it expired three hours ago. Whee!

» Sully goes silent

What an interesting development. The guy is doing the one thing the rest if the media for some reason cannot.

Government and its associated politics are both incredibly important to this republic. Unfortunately one if our two major parties has abdicated their responsibility to both, preferring to turn both into entertainment and marketing vehicles designed to separate their followers from their cash. That’s all Fox News is. It’s all talk radio is. It’s all Sarah Palin is. Unfortunately any actual media in this country is too frightened to call people out on this and will instead let these folks continue their charade. Oprah rolled over for Palin. Others are clamoring to follow.

So we await Sullivan’s conclusions and wonder whether any if them will omose into the mainstream. I’m not holding my breath.

» Time to start going through the couch cushions

“Last month, India purchased 200 tons of gold at $1,045 an ounce, before the price topped $1,108 on Monday.”

200 tons? Wow. And apparently the Chinese aren’t far behind. Yipes!