Wahrheit brought up an important point…what’s the best way to set up the games? It’s not like we’ll all be on FICS at the same time. And not everyone is comfortable giving out e-mail, which is understandable.
I’ve set up a forum at forum.liquideggproduct.com. I’m not really sure how helpful it will be, or whether it’s really any better than leaving information in comments. It might help that all the information is in one place instead of split among blog entries of rapidly-fading “now” status.
For the time being, I’ve made the forum so that you don’t have to register to make entries; it’s less of a pain that way. But if there are problems (with bots and such), I’ll have to change that.
Pairings will be up sometime tomorrow.
February 10th, 2008
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Posted by Donnie
Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers
Do you remember in 2000 how virulent the battle was between Bush and McCain for the GOP nomination? Well, Bush STILL harbors bitterness over that fight.
You see, Bush has giving a ringing endorsement of McCain, calling him “a true conservative”. McCain probably spit out his Cheerios and snorted milk out of his nose when reading that headline. Who wants an endorsement from someone who has a 35% approval rating? And the true conservative label would really have helped during the primaries, not before they were practically decided. It’s not like being labeled a conservative is going to help capture the center in the general election.
(By the way, are you someone who generally approves of the current president? Please let me know why! I promise not to make fun of you, but I can’t say the same for Blunderprone.)
Oh, and by the way…we just got out of 8 years of a conservative regime that didn’t exactly make the top ten. And there are people telling me they want ANOTHER conservative in office? (Hi, Mr. Hannity.) Not to be crude, but when I want to be bent over again, I’ll let you know.
Fortunately, Bush is talking out of his behind when he says John McCain is a “true conservative”, and even if McCain is elected, it will be an improvement.
February 10th, 2008
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Posted by Donnie
Filed under In the News
“Winning” is not the exact term…but he now has 861 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 855. I don’t know how the other states are expected to fare, so it may be one or the other has a bigger advantage in reality.
It may have been Robert Novak who noted this, but the Clinton campaign would have preferred to have things wrapped up by Super Tuesday–not only to have time to work on the GOP, but Obama will get stronger as time goes on. There’s more time for people to get to know his name and be infected by his charm.
Side note: There’s an interactive map on MSN of the primary results, which ironically worked for me in Firefox, but not IE7. This is unexpected because it’s Flash, but I’m curious if anyone has similar results.
On the GOP side, Huckabee did well, but it’s not going to matter.
February 10th, 2008
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Posted by Donnie
Filed under In the News
