Hillary Is Buying Lots of Google Adwords

Looks like Hillary Clinton is spending lots of $$$ to place ads in people's content. Aside from what she pays to place the ads, each click on one of her ads costs her a few pennies.... Think about it.

The World's Crappiest Website

OK, there's so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin. Works best with Internet Explorer 5.0? That was never OK. Does not support Netscape or Firefox? WTF? Somehow their promise to update the site to support Netscape and Firefox in the near future does not seem credible, considering their site works best with IE 5, and IE 7 has already been out for quite some time.
I also wonder about their tag line that promises fast delivery...if you need toilet paper delivered fast, could they really be fast enough?

PS: I usually don't visit toilet paper-themed websites (not that there's anything wrong with that), but it was referenced in this article and well, curiosity got the best of me.

Ironic Capcha

This capha has to be intentional, right?

I've Caucused!

OK. So I attended my first Iowa Caucus (my first Caucus anywhere, in fact) and was stricken by a few things:

1. Hillary Clinton didn't even have enough supporters to pass the first count. This absolutely shocked me, as I expected her to be the front runner.
2. Upon walking in to the gymnasium (the room where the caucus was held), it was clear from the beginning that Obama would carry the day in this precinct.
3. The supporters for Kucinich are nice folk.
4. Supporters for Gravel (all for of them) are stubborn in their support. I have to respect that. Plus, they brought cookies!
5. An Edwards supporter actually tried to convince me not to go to Obama because, "He is black....and I hate to bring this up, but I have some black friends and especially in the south, I don't think he's going to win there." OMFG.
   
6. The Clinton stump speech her group gave to try to convince attendees to move over to her camp was essentially this:

"Look, she's the only female candidate running. Do you really want to go down on record as a precinct that didn't even give a female candidate one delegate?" Basically they used guilt over platform to try to convince caucus-goers to move to their camp.

That about sums up the stricken things. Having reviewed the numbers upon returning home, I am struck by a few more things when looking at Iowa as a whole:

1. Kucinich didn't even get any delegates. None. Zilch. Nada. I had hoped he would have carried at least one!
2. Obama is absolutely infectious. His victory speech had passion and soul.
   
3. Clinton's speech (3rd place) sounded dull and apologetic.
4. In the great state of Iowa, over two times the amount of people came out to caucus for democrats (218,000) than did caucus for republicans (108,000). If this trend holds for the general election, it bodes well for lefties. (Numbers taken from Daily Kos. I don't know who else reports these.)