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"Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I'm amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, 'Does any of this really matter?' " Palin said.

from this article,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1001/p09s01-coop.html

So this rant was spurred by this article on the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/socialism-for-the-rich-na...

There are strong echoes here of Lewis’ previous post on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, although he didn’t finger the Keating Five specifically.

I'm a Mac, no wait, I'm a PC too. What, you can use both?! You sure can and I'm completely comfortable with that. If I could afford it and could justify the need, I would own both. I guess that makes me some sort of crazy computer-bi-sexual freak. Deal with it. That aside, I know for sure that it makes me is completely annoyed by the add campaigns of both companies.

First, Apple.
Shut the F*** up about how you're so much better than PC's because in many ways you are not.

I want everyone to take a big breathe, get a glass of water, and go to the USA Today Poll Tracker on the internets, or at least one of them.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/poll-tracker.htm

This page is a conglomeration of popular Presidential polls and they've even provided a very nice trend line for today’s lesson. This lesson is about outliers and their effect on the strength of statistical averages in linear regression, which is what a trend line represents. It’s also more commonly referred to as the line of best fit.

Here are the links to an interesting article and the university research web page.

http://www.healthsalon.org/94/scientists-m...ek-more-on-dca/

http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/

Worth a look at least.