the eye of Nova's mind

I was skimming the Health section of Google News & happened to glimpse a headline about fried chicken candles. I initially parsed this as fried chicken candies. Thinking more on this, I am surprised no one has made anything resembling fried chicken candy. I think such a product would be embraced by the American public. You know, like those red-wrapped cinnamon discs but infused with that unmistakable flavor.

This idea could go places.

I wonder, if President Obama agreed to serve only one term, as Polk did, whether Congress would finally stop being so obstructionist.

Not that this would ever happen.

Eisenhower, it all comes back to Eisenhower.

Truman had done a lot that conservatives disliked. The country had been Democratic for so long, citizens didn't know what the nation would be like without it. They had to have hungered for something new. So that's Eisenhower, whose most enduring legacy (the highway system) is contributing to global warming.

Americans were free before 1950. After that, the Pentagon, the CIA and all of their brothers were invented.

So, going along with my ongoing argument/conjecture:

If the opposite of love is not hate, but fear--

then the opposite of hate is not love, but confidence.

Laughter teaches the body syncopation.

Part of me is convinced that Ms. Clinton has Karl Rove on retainer.

Another part sees Mr. Rove's 2008 strategy working: frame the Democratic opposition as solely being about Ms. Clinton, thus creating an echo chamber and a self-fulfilling prophecy where the media focuses solely on Ms. Clinton and fails to even mention her competition by name.

I still maintain that John Edwards has a fantastic chance of turning "conventional wisdom" on its head in Iowa. (I haven't been following New Hampshire, so I can't speak to that arena.)

So what does it mean that this observed supernova skipped a stage of star death?

Can the Presidency be abdicated?

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Edit: Silly me, I should have read the 25th Amendment. Still, I do think that by resigning, the act itself confers the concept of the Presidency with the sense of being "the supreme office of state," which would elevate it above the Senate, even though they are supposedly co-equal branches of government.

Next year, I predict, will be a dark year for our country.

Newspapers have been reporting that Bush and Rove are upbeat about the upcoming elections, not even planning for if they lose.

The polls, as they stand now, indicate that the House is lost for Republicans and the Senate, while a stretch, could be taken. Imagine this scenario: On November 7, the exit polls all indicate a sweep for Democrats, but the official results have Republicans still in power.

Those who contest the results may be designated unlawful enemy combatants and whisked away to the prisons the government has been building in the West that now stand empty but can house up to 300,000 people (last I heard).

What happens then?

This is all a figment of my imagination. We still have three weeks before the midterm elections. But the President now has the power--the legal authority--to designate anyone as an "unlawful enemy combatant" and set up tribunals of his own making for the trials. Habeas corpus is eliminated for these people.

What happens then?

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Consider that the remake of The Omen premiered on 6-6-06.

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