All hail the powerful and starchy vegetable!

Meat.  It does a body good.

Don't schedule a speech for military folks on the first day of a four day holiday weekend.  That precious campaign photo-op means less time active duty troops can have with their loved ones.

No wonder the troops were less than enthusiastic.

Can vegans get cancer?  Minger gives us the answers:

"Bif Naked—award-winning musician and actress—was a raw vegan for 10 years before getting diagnosed with breast cancer.

Ross Horne, famous Natural Hygienist and author of a book called “Cancer-Proof Your Body,” died of prostate cancer in 2004—after 22 years of eating a high-fruit, raw vegan diet in the tropics. (Although the previous link says he died “well into his 80s,” his actual age at death was plain ol’ 80.)

Harvey Milstein—leader of the raw vegan “natural hygiene” movement in Houston, Texas—died of colon cancer in his 60s after 23 years as a fruit-based raw vegan.

Vihara Youkta, dancer and wife of famous raw foodist Viktoras Kulvinskas, died of bowel cancer after being raw vegan for 30 years.

More recently, Robin Gibb of Bee Gees fame died of colon cancer at the age of 62, after being a drug-and-alcohol-abstaining vegan for decades (cooked, not raw).

T.C. Fry—fruitarian and early raw vegan pioneer—died of a coronary embolism when he was about 70, and his autopsy revealed additional blood clots in his legs. (Joel Fuhrman notes that Fry’s B-12 levels were extremely low before his death, so he probably had high homocysteine, which makes blood more prone to clotting.)

And on the cooked side of things, we’ve got H. Jay Dinshah—the founder and former president of the American Vegan Society—who died at age 66 of a heart attack. He was a vegetarian from birth and vegan for his final 43 years of life. (Here’s an excellent write-up about the implications of his death by Michael Klaper.)"

For +Hannibal Tabu, jedi master of comic lore.

James Carville is spot on :)

"The Initiative may collaborate with the White House Initiatives on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, Educational Excellence for Hispanics, Asian-American and Pacific Islanders"

So essentially, if you've got magic blood, you get a white house initiative.  If you happen to be some generic white girl, living in a trailer park, fighting generations of substance abuse, child molestation and incarceration in your family, you're on your own.

Wake up people, we need Education Excellence for all Americans, not just some arbitrary divisions of race.

Saw the exhibit in Los Angeles, and yeah, it's pretty hamfisted about trying to polish up the image of Islam.

The real problem here is the entire idea of trying to credit the triumphs of humanity to any specific group.  Calling an invention "Muslim" or "Christian" or "Jewish" or "Hindu" or "African" or any other qualifier is simply a gloss over the eternal truth – all of these inventions are human.

So maybe we should talk about taking guns away from cops?

Fun follow up to http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf

tl;dr – CO2 is not the magical gas they thought it was.

Money line: "the president meant business owners didn’t build roads and schools."

But of course, their tax dollars did :)

Super cereal!

Congratulations General Smith!

The next vice president ripping the next ex-president a new one.