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McCain addressed about a half dozen Ohio small business owners in the historic village.

"I'd love to give a speech in Germany," McCain said. "But I'd much prefer to do it as President."

In front of the restaurant stands a cardboard cutout of a Bavarian man in lederhosen and Bavarian woman in a dirndl. The faces are cutout, so tourists can pop in their heads for photos.

Seeing the McCain campaign try to counter Obama's Berlin event with a stop in German Village where McCain ate some sausage is so pathetic it probably causes most political observers who aren't fervent Republicans to laugh, and like us, think, "nah, this has to be a joke.  They're not that bad...are they?"

It wasn't a joke.  And it's got me worried.

You probably know the concept of peaking too soon.  I'm afraid the McCain campaign may be bottoming out too soon.

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The Galloway Chronicles, an occult blog which tags itself as an “occult resource of extremely limited appeal”, is running a (fairly informal, from what I can see) contest for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead).

The contest, billed as “the most important beauty contest since the judgement of Paris”, is described as follows:

This annual contest, normally held exclusively on the astral plane, has been moved to the blogosphere per orders of Dr. Dee, who is trying to make room on his back lawn for events of what he calls “greater occult significance.”

Plutonica.net officially nominates Kara Rae Garland, better known to occultists as Soror Ceilede, for the newly coveted title of Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead).

Kara’s sexy (just look at her! way hotter than Manly P Hall) and brilliant (check out her essay “Love is the Law: Philios, True Will and the Great Work“) and an occultist (bibliophilic second gen chaote) - need I say more?

Beauty, brains and brawn: she’s got it all.  Clearly she should win.

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Nomination for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead)

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Alex lately has been so much of a live wire, I find myself now brooding over ways to harness his energy and keep him contained. Naturally, for me there was one obvious solution: start his martial arts training. the general rule is to wait until they are 5 or 6, but I have heard of people doing it as early as 3. Alex will be 4 this Falland may be at a point where he can follow directions and follow along if I show him that I'm doing it also. He always takes an interest in what I'm doing when I go into the Dojo, and when I used to be in school 3 years ago after he was born he watched and mimiced me after he could walk. H used to do breakfalls, front kicks and boxing punches, and still does these on the bags from time to time.

I wasn't in a hurry to start this, believing as others do that they need to be around 6 to really get some benefit out of it. In the case of Alex, I really need to do something to get him focused and keep him out of trouble because he is so wound up during the day he just flies from one area to the next tearing to pieces and giggling maniacally. better for baby and better for Dad too, I'm thinking it's time to start him out here at home with some basic stuff and help him burn off that energy while he channels into self development.. Forms are the best for this at this stage. He can get a workout, learn structured thought, memory and concentration, as well as spatial awareness. So I think I'm going to be hunting for a series of Tae Kwon Do and Karate Forms

I was once at loss for knowing how best to start out with this kinda thing for him and wasn't sure really how to approach teaching a toddler or young child, but I think my time with him has given me some insight into this. We can get out our lightsabers, and have a duel with them and have fun, then I've got a rapport with him and I have been able to show him basic moves and he would mimic them once or twice until he got so proud of himself his excitement exploded into delirius laughter and made flailing. That's ok, it goes with the territory at his age and I understand they do that to relieve the stress they feel when learning something. Yes, they need their bizaar mad fits at intervals to stay happpy. So maybe I can start hi with some basic Yoga, do some kind of game, then do a basic kata. I may even break up some of these katas into smaller peieces of 1-2 movements and show him how to put them together. I could then move from that to building blcks and coloring or something since his brain will be stimulated from the circulation and his excess energy will be burned off...then reward him with praise, merits or treats.

At any rate, yes, I've been actually working pretty hard just to get him to talk tand to keep him from killing himself and demolishing our home in the process, but maybe now he's reaching the point where I canbegin grooming him in little ways. He's almost at the point where he'll sit down with me and act out little events and encounters with toys, and this too has been what I've been waiting for, so I can get down in the floor and play with him. this is actually the primary way in which they learn, through modeling what they see in a microcosmic world of their own. His memory and reasoning skills are already very good, so maybe I can finally start to trim off the excesses and shape the negative space to give form to a little bonsai of my own. :-D

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Yes. Congrats indeed. Wish I could be there for it.

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Congratulations, John! It’s clear you’ve found your calling.

maxomai

BUSH: It is uncertain, there’s no question about it.

Wall Street got drunk, it got drunk, (it’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off your tv cameras.) It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up, and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments.

And now we got a housing issue, not in Houston, and evidently, not in Dallas, because Laura was over there trying to buy a house today.

(Audience laughs. One person shouts out, "Crawford!")

I like Crawford, unfortunately after eight years of asking her to sacrifice, I’m now no longer the decision maker. She’ll be deciding, thanks for the suggestion! I suggest you don’t yell it out when she’s here.

maxomai

WASHINGTON -- The military judge overseeing the first war crimes trial against a terrorism suspect at Guantanamo Bay agreed Monday to bar some evidence against Osama bin Laden's former driver because it was obtained in "highly coercive environments and conditions."

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Congratulations!

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Have you published this paper anywhere? Will it be available after the conference?

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Congratulations!