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Foreign Relations, National Security Experience thru Border Patrol

Snubbed Also-rans Cite Qualifications

By now, you've heard Fox News' and Cindy McCain's intelligent analysis on Sarah Palin's foreign relations and national security experience. According to them, Palin sits eminently qualified to conduct international negotiations due to the fact that the state she has governed for two years sits close to Russia.

This has raised the ire of several other Republican governors, who feel slighted, even though they possess an equal or even greater amount of international experience, according to this new metric.

Butch Otter, for example, is the recently elected Governor of Idaho. He's a great match for McCain; both have married and divorced for money and power, and both are now married to beauty queens nearly twenty years their junior. He also brings his vast expertise in national security and foreign relations, due to the border that Idaho shares with our northern neighbor, Canada. "What has Palin got, that I haven't got," the snubbed Otter might say?

Florida Governor Charlie Crist feels the same way. He's right up there with the rest of them in divorcing his first wife and planning to marry a younger Sugar Mama, he's a newly-elected governor, and his state lies extremely close to Cuba, the Bahamas, and other Caribbean nations. Crist would say, "If you include the Miccosukee and Seminole Native American nations located within Florida, I'd say I've got the edge in multinational experience."



Is it possible that there were other "qualifications" that McCain considered in picking his running mate?

I wonder where a good headshot fell into the evaluation criteria...

Lost TV Show is based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest"

I actually thought I had discovered this first



While browsing through a local bookstore, I came upon a rack of scholarly essentials; classic books that are used in academics. Several plays by Shakespeare were included. Even though, over the years, I have gamely attempted to read several of them, I am really only familiar with "Romeo & Juliet." So, in pursuit of further personal enrichment, I picked up a copy of "The Tempest" and skimmed the summary/intro section.

Apparently, the play is a surreal tale involving betrayal, magic and manipulation. A king is banished to a mysterious island, meets some magical friends there, and plots to bring others to his island, to manipulate their experiences, friendships, and repentance.




I'm not a big Lost fan, but even in the few short sentences I read, there seemed to be a striking parallel to that TV show. Having never heard of this particular explanation for the show's plot, I was rather proud of myself. I might have just solved one of the bigger popular entertainment mysteries of today. I wanted to get this idea out on my blog, to demonstrate when I had discovered it, because, no doubt, others would quickly see the light and claim the idea as their own.

So, just prior to beginning this entry, I thought it wise to first check if anyone else had happened to make this discovery prior to me. A quick Google search of "Lost Tempest comparison" showed me that, indeed, others had conceptualized, debated, analyzed, etc. this idea for several years.

So this discovery will have to go down as one of those things I've invented/discovered/theorized "on my own".

Another one is the bounce pass in basketball.