It's that time of the year again: Our annual birthday bash is coming up.
Mark your calendars; Saturday January 17th is the date.
Following up on last years success we will use the same format this year: We'll start with a go-cart race for the interested (let us know in the comments), and take it from there. We'll provide food and drinks.
That is the word being thrown around these days. It seems to me that every day brings with it some further increase in how seriously screwed we are. First it was the stock markets, then the car makers. I have alot of questions that nobody can answer as it turns out. Questions like what will happen next and whether or not I should stock up on canned goods. I found this graph that pushed me even further towards the canned goods side of things, and would like to hear what you think about the graph, the crisis in general, and what the future holds in store for us:
The US presidential election is now 2 days away. It has already become the most expensive election in history, including the primaries more then $1000000000 has been spent trying to win this office.
With 2 days to go Obama leads McCain 50.4 to 43.9 on pollster.com's composite tracking, and it looks like we're two days away from a historic victory. The other meta-polling site, fivethirtyeight.com, has weighed the different polls to come up with a 52.2% to 46.6% lead in Obama's favor.
Since the US election is decided state by state, and with Obama leading in several key states, they rate his odds of winning this thing at 96.2% - talk about hubris (or Truman v Dewey for those of you who are political junkies).
One big caveat in all of this. The polling models used to get these numbers all assume a huge Democratic turnout. The Democrats have registered millions of new votes this election cycle, and if those new 18-35 year old votes actually show up Obama has won... BUT if the turnout is similar to past elections then McCain is actually to favored win this thing.
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