Standard Mischief

If course, it’s not really kimchi, because it doesn’t have any active cultures. Real kimchi is near and dear to my heart, at least until it’s a few months old. Reading deep into the article, I see that they kill it with radiation. So they pack a tuna can with kimchi, seal it, and then irradiate it. They also did something to tone down the smell a bit. All this, it seems, cost them millions of dollars in R&D if we are to believe the press.

It’s odd that the can has both Korean and English writing on it but no Russian. Ko San, who is South Korea’s first astronaut, is hitching a ride on a Soyuz on his way to the International Space Station.

Ralph Nader is in. There’s been one every national Presidential race since 1992, and this one is no exception. I just figured it would be someone else besides Ralph.

Meanwhile, after bitch-slapping gunowners with an amicus curiae in the D.C. v. Heller case, along with 7 years of neutral or negative support of the right to keep and bear arms, the Bush administration seems to be considering restoring the right to carry in National Parks (assuming, of course, that the state that the park is located in actually also honors that right too.)

Is there any chance at all this is in response to of a lot of angry reactions to “Mr. wrong party” McCain as the likely GOP presidential candidate choice? I mean this is still talk, but it seems to be even more talk than when the elephant lost it’s majority in congress and Sen. George Allen [R-VA] introduced S. 4057 (which had zero cosponsors and never went anywhere.)

Yep, George Allen, after having over five years of service in the Senate, suddenly wanted to keep his promise to his RKBA supporters when he found himself as a lame duck.

So, I’ve been hearing on the news lately about those so-called “super delegates”, and how they are not pledged to any one candidate, and how this year’s Democratic contender may be picked by them at the convention. Something about this disturbs be greatly. If it was their own private club, I’d be inclined to just let them have any silly rules they wanted, but the (D)s and the (R)s are pretty much quasi-goverment agencies that state governments run elections for. Wikipedia says that these people get their super voting powers on virtue of them being “current or former elected officeholders and party officials.” Wow, that’s almost like royalty.

Henceforth, I hereby declare that anyone supporting anyone with a (D) after their name is forbidden to whine that their gal/guy ought to have won the election based on the popular vote. I also expect this little miscarriage of democratic principles to be corrected sometime before the next convention.

You can, you know, also have salt and sand trucks ready beforehand, just in case the weatherman is wrong and the freezing rain comes early. Doubly so because today is election day.

So today is the Potowmack Primary, and for a perfectly logical reason I’m a registered Democrat. You see, Maryland has thrown its delegates to the Democratic Presidential candidate for as long as I’ve been old enough to vote. It’s a safe Democrat state (and curiously enough, there’s rarely any proposal to split our delegates evenly as the popular vote goes.) That means in the Federal election, it doesn’t matter if I vote Republican or independent or stay home in protest over lousy choices in candidates. Because of that, I figured if I ever had to request any favors from my elected critters, it might just look better if I was the same party as them. So on a whim, I changed my affiliation.

Usually the major candidates are chosen long before we get around to casting our votes in the local primary, but not this year. So now I have an opportunity to chose the next Democratic candidate, and as a white male, I have a choice. Should I vote my gender, or my race?

And someone remind me again why I’m doing this. Is it because I’ve rather have some prick who’s soft on the First Amendment, soft on the Second amendment, Is willing to compromise on torture, and would nominate supremes that would render such great cases as Kelo or Raich?