raising the bar doesn't really help Senator Clinton.

Certainly it requires Senator Obama to gain more super delegates, but he is still required to win far less of their support than she is.

Neither Florida nor Michigan were winner take all, so Senator Clinton doesn't walk away with a significant lead even if we seat the delegations. I belive recent assessments of possible seating options still leaves her more than a hundred delegates behind Senator Obama.

I guess there is the possibility that she, at this point, is just trying to poison the well. The more super delegates Senator Obama needs the more she can argue that the smoke filled back room stole her win.

Thus she can rally her supporters to support her in her choice to deride the nomininee in the general election.

There comes a time when you just have to ask is this really about Senator Clinton winning any more, and if it's just about making sure that a rival she has come to loath loses.

In that situation unfortunatly there is little we can do except hope that Senator Clinton's downward spiral simply reveals her true self to her supporters, and hope that they abandon ship before November.

The real question is whether or not Senator Clinton wishes to remain a Senator after this, or if her own delusions are such that she doesn't realized the damage she's doing to herself in this whole mess.

Yeah, so I just heard the Quote by Terry McCaulaugh (sp?) stating that Senator Clinton drank Senator McCain under the table in the Ukraine.

Actually he said they had a "shot contest" and she won (how elitist that he doesn't even know the proper name for a drinking contest or how won wins).

Now maybe this is a joke, sort of like the "joke" Senator Clinton's campaign released after Senator Obama's poor bowling stating that Senator Clinton was an avid bowler who owns her own shoes ball and bag. Any one who saw her performance on the ellen show should realize that this was just one more tall tale.

But let's say it's not ment in jest. Let's say it's true. What do we take away? That Senator McCain and Senator Clinton are both drunks?

Again I have to come back to the idea that it's just not about winning anymore for Senator Clinton.

From the inevitable Hillary Clinton Defeat against McCain if she wins the nomination.

Statements about electability are theory and conjecture. Here's a crazy notion, how about we judge electability based on oh I don't know elections?

Barak Obama has won a few of those, more than Senator Cliton, so I guess...that makes him more electable don't you think?

Or maybe he's just won wrong, or you don't want to count certain votes in certain ways, or maybe his voters aren't important enough voters.

I really don't know how this electability argument works when it discounts the person who is winning the election.

Michigan and Florida will be sat, that much is understood.

As to Primaries and Caucuses, people like what they like. Now maybe a national one day primary that favors the person with the highest bank book and name recognition might be a good idea. But I'm sure a number of people will feel they are given short shrift by this notion.

We'll all have to see how this plays out.

Now, truth be told, If Senator Obama wins the general election, we may have to throw up our hands and say this system actually worked well as it gave the whole nation a say in the primary, and allowed a popular unknown to rise against a beltway favorite.

It's annoying that Senator Clinton is lost in delusion, but by and large this could all be very helpful for the Party that Barak has in grass roots campaign mode for longer than he otherwise might have been.

Yes, I believe it was Ed Wood who first postulated the concept of Desiel powered interstellar travel.

I would think that by the time a space civilization got around to intestellar travel, they'd be using nucular energy by then, and solar for most of their domestic needs.

The reason we don't find radio transmissions from interstellar beings is because local broadcast radio waves disipate rather rapidly once you get outside of your solar system. A directed radio communication to a specific star might reach its destination but then you have to hope you pick the right star.

I believe we send our messages to Alpha Proxima (which is a few scant light years away) which is fine if it has a habitable planet around it...which of course it might not. Likewise other aliens may be sending their messages to the next closest star only to have it again fall on deaf ears.

The Collapse of civilization due to peak oil seems unlikely...perhaps the rise of military dictator ships, but utter collapse, unlikely.

Empires collapse, civilization just gets a little more brutal, then sorts itself out and builds again.

People will die if we ever suddenly run out of oil...but mostly just the elderly, who can no longer be rushed to the hospital by ambulance.

The rest of us will eat potatos and dandilion greens and squirell and dog meat until such time as society stabelizes and we move on from there.

We have the knowledge to keep life and society going without oil, we just need a kick in the pants to start doing it.