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Here's how I keep them straight in my head.

• I start with Iran by remembering the phrase, "She is from Iran." Iran is Shi'ite.
• I recall the mistake McCain made saying that Iran was training al Qaeda. That is incorrect because al Qaeda is the opposite, Sunni.
• Osama Bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia, which makes the country Sunni.
• Most in the world are Muslims are the same as Saudi Arabia, Sunni.
• Iraq is between Iran and Saudi Arabia, so they're approximately half Shi'ite and half Sunni, but they're politically closer to Iran, so a slight majority of Iraqis are Shi'ite.

How does that work for you?

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Somebody better get fired over this. In happened in of all places, Dallas.

Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., an order came down to allow the people in without being checked.

Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event.

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I can't understand why McCain and Hillary are leading in national polls. McCain thinks invading Iraq was the right thing to do, it's going well and we should stay there for the next 100 years? I hardly ever hear anyone agree with that, but then again I don't watch Fox News. Who's supporting him and why? You know what, I wouldn't invite him to dinner because the entire night I'd keep glancing at my watch hoping it would be time for him to go home.

I don't understand what democrats see in Hillary. I see someone who will say and do anything to get elected. I don't see her as trustworthy candidate who can win the primary election, or as a president who will unite the country.

And while we're on the topic of not understanding America, when exactly did celebrity meltdowns cross over from the tabloids into daily mainstream news? Chris Crocker was right. Leave her alone already. Every time I see Britney's name in the headlines, I feel like screaming/crying enough to make my mascara run too. What's the attraction? She's mentally ill and needs help, preferably on some remote island in the Pacific. End of story. Whatever hole Michael Jackson crawled into, I hope there's room in there for one more person.

In other news, it snowed all yesterday and it was cold enough to stick on the ground. Very rare. This morning school openings were delayed and I rode my bicycle to the station though treacherous frozen slush. It's days like this I wish my carbon footprint wasn't so small.

The other news is that Tony is one of the lucky few who was able to snag a copy of Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii and played it almost nonstop all weekend. I played it too but found it to be rather monotonous and unchalleging. Other than the hodgepodge of characters available, it's not offering much new or groundbreaking. It's just another sidescroller; Mario Brothers et. al. revamped and repackaged. I'd rather see Tony reading manga than wasting his youth on that game, but unfortunately bashing bad guys gives little boys a much stronger dopamine rush than learning new kanji. On the bright side, at least he's not shooting heroin.

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"The money simply hasn't come in at the rate that we expected," says the aide. "Florida is a $7 million commitment that we can't meet, and if we did, that leaves us exposed for Super Tuesday, where we have a lot of states and a lot media buys. We had to make tough decisions."

Anybody who advocates federally sanctioned discrimination against homosexuals, the continuation of the war in Iraq, a ban on embryonic stem cell research, and a federal sales tax, and on top of all that believes the world was created in six days despite any scientific evidence to the contrary, seems to me wouldn't make a too good of a president.

Nice guy though. I'd gladly invite him to dinner any day of the week.

Update: This blog's SEO is unbelievable. It's been only 3-4 hours since I wrote this post and I'm #2 in Google for "Huckabee is broke." That just blows my mind.

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Here's where you learn why I'm not on the 6:00 news as a political analyst. My expertise in politics is pretty shallow.

I think the mainstream media is trying its best to ignore Ron Paul, but he and his "fans" as the MSM has decided to call his supporters, aren't making it easy. It looks to me like anyone who thinks the media is impartial to presidential candidates is on more drugs than the principal in the last post. It's interesting how Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Hillary or Obama have "supporters" but Ron only has "fans." Fans are amateur, irrational, and rabid. Supporters are professional, knowledgeable and rational. If any other candidate raised $4 million+ in one day, it would be big political news, not a human interest story, as USA Today put it. On Anderson Cooper's news report yesterday it was only worthy of less than 10 seconds of airtime. Again his backers were referred to only as "fans," and it ended on the note that they didn't completely believe his campaign's claims about the truth of how much he really raised. I'd bet that no other candidate would have been doubted like that.

The only way I'd vote for a Republican candidate in the primary election would be if it's Hillary vs. Ron. If any other Republican gets the nomination, I'll vote for Hillary just keep whoever is running against her out of the White House. (I'm going to vote for Obama in the primaries, but I don't think he'll win the Democratic nomination.)

Frankly, I think Ron Paul is just as full of crap as the rest of them, only his smells a bit better, and he doesn't have that aura of bizarre alter reality that seems to surround the other Republicans. He'd never be able to reshape America according to his vision because Congress would never let it happen. He speaks the truth that so many want to hear, but many more so badly want to not hear that they'd rather belittle him than take off their blinders and accept the harsh reality.

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