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America…moving towards the metric system one inch at a time…
(as told to me by a cuban that lives in Canada…wish I could take credit for that one…)

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So it’s pres campaign season in the states – as even the Europeans know (Stop caring who the president of the US is…it shouldn’t affect you).

As is typical we hear about the lies, campaign promises, flip flops, complaints about media treatment etc. The issues change, but the pattern does not…

It’s time for a new method to elect a president. Instead of listening to campaign promises and deciding who to vote for based on whatever words happen to be coming out of the candidates mouths at whatever moment you were paying attention to them why not vote based on psychological profile of a particular candidate?

Do a profile of every candidate to test things  that might be important qualities to have in a president like: lying ability, paranoia, trustworthiness, scepticism, optimism, compassion, hunger, bullying ability, pragmatism, nationalism, empathy, competitiveness, artistic ability, moral ambiguity, persuasiveness, salesmanship, sense of humour, etc
…and certain facts could be taken into account…Grades, birth order, achievements.
Of course someone will have to decide which of those qualities are actually important in a president…(any ideas people what are those qualities? Send me an email…).

it’ll give the pundits something new to talk about….all previous presidents could have this same sort of analysis/profile done and that could be used to compare current candidates with previous presidential qualities…
Pundit: “well Chuck, we haven’t seen a president with a paranoia level this low since Lincoln…if only HE’D been a little more paranoid…”
or
Pundit: : “well Chuck, we haven’t seen a president this hungry since Taft”.

(that line is sort of assuming that “Chuck Russert” reaches his potential)

Question 1: Do you see the hypocrisy of one nation having a weapon, using that weapon and then telling other countries it’s wrong for them to have that type of weapon because they might actually use it?

Let the primaries go on as normal, so the mindless/stupid people could just blindly vote for their parties choice, but after a few election cycles there would be patterns emerging…A republican who has great lying ability, is high in compassion…well you get the idea…
There would even be no need to campaign anymore…the people that wanted to be educated could read their voter pamphlets…and the ones that didn’t want to be educated could just do whatever they’re told…

…OR another option would be the “choose your own adventure” method…give the candidates the same choose your own adventure book and see how each of them would do in a certain scenario…yeah that’s a good one too…

Best result of this test would be that “americas best and brightest” might actually run for president…As it is now the people that run for president are politicians…lying, cheating, diving bastards…

This  might be the greatest idea for a thesis I’ve ever had…or possible I might just call ‘bullshit’ on myself…

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Ok for the people in the states, if you have a chance check this guy out. Pretty amazing and touring over there at the moment….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Szkj_TCeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PqrvD4wnZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8p9viwp4hA&feature=related
http://xavierrudd.com/

shows in Eugene, Portland and seattle next month.

I went to Ikea yesterday…bought everything I needed “and then some”…evil bad ikea!!!

red: “the way you describe your mom makes me think of joni mitchell”.
my ma…a big hearted 60′s icon….erm…not sure (hi mom )

someone: My first impression of you is that you have a big heart, but are kind of lost in this world…
me: oh that’s goin on my blog…
someone: you have such an ego!
there you have it…big ego, big heart, lost…

I was listening to cracker again this week…some of the best, most cynical, hilarious, obnoxious lyrics ever written…samples from different songs…
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how can I live without you if it means I gotta get a job?
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Here I am the game warden of love,
’til someone took away my gin and tonic…
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cuz what the world needs now are some true words of wisdom,
like la la la la la la la lala
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St. Patrick led the sailor into the wasteland
A herd of swine surrounded them one day
It was the answer to their prayers, a sure sign that God, he cared
But McCarthy disagreed: it’s not that simple
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If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn,
I could arm a town the size of Abilene…
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really valuable trivia…
The swan is the only bird with a penis…
a whales penis is called a dork…

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