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Strangely, one of McCain’s advisor is stating that McCain was responsible for the creation of the Blackberry. Or maybe he meant that the commerce committee allowed for the prevalence of mobile communications devices, such as the Blackberry.

Pressed to provide an example of what McCain had accomplished on that committee, Holtz-Eakin said the senator did not have jurisdiction over financial markets, then he held up his Blackberry, telling reporters: “He did this.”

“Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create,” Holtz-Eakin said. “And that’s what he did. He both regulated and deregulated the industry.”

I have to point out that RIM, although listed on a US exchange, is actually a Canadian company.

This article in the IHT compares governing Alaska to governing Nigeria.

With vast distances, large numbers of indigenous peoples and a narrowly based extraction economy — with a handful of giant multinational oil corporations dominating the game — some economists say a country like Nigeria might be an apter comparison.

The oil companies are putting a lot of money back into the economy as a result of an Alaskan windfall tax. Consequently, Alaskan residents are getting $1,200 bonus checks. No wonder Sarah Palin’s approval record is over 80%!

I saw that McCain is going to pick Sarah Palin as a VP. I thought I’d check out http://vpilf.com/ on GoDaddy and see if I could register it. You do the math.

ANYWAYS, I realized that the domain name was taken. And it was taken recently. And it is anonymously registered to a company in Arizona. It’s probably irrelevant, but I just figured I’d share my conspiracy theory with you.

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
(http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: VPILF.COM
Created on: 04-Aug-08
Expires on: 04-Aug-09
Last Updated on: 04-Aug-08

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration VPILF.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599
Fax — (480) 624-2598

Domain servers in listed order:
NS47.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS48.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

There seems to be a huge backlash against Obama’s vote on the FISA bill. Although I don’t understand the legal implications behind the vote, I read an opinion article that is pretty interesting.

But the anti-intellectualism of his opponents — people who think George W. Bush’s C-average is a good thing — makes it politically dangerous to explain complex issues in complex ways. And the conventions of political reporting in this country — which emphasize the horse race instead of the substance of campaigns — make it almost impossible to get this level of detail across to the public.

I wonder if the people criticizing the vote would feel differently had they gone through three years of law school and studied up on warrant law. Besides the knee-gut reaction to the bill, I have yet to see some good legal arguments. My problem is that even if I read a good dissection of the argument, I don’t think I’d understand it.