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What Will it Take for Hillary to Win?

This chart from cnn.com shows how Hillary Clinton must get at more than 75% of the vote Tuesday in Kentucky or it will be mathematically impossible to pass Barack Obama in the pledged delegate count.  Hillary has yet to win any contest at 75%.  After sliding all of the rest of the contests to 100%. (meaning if she got a nearly impossible 100% of the rest of the delagates) she still wouldn't have enough delegates to pass up Barack Obama.  Keep in mind, they still have superdelegates, but as of lately, Obama's been getting more than double the backers than Clinton.

 

So what does this mean?  There is no way Hillary Clinton can pass Barack Obama.  If you go play with CNN's Delegate Calculator you will see that she must get at least 85% of the rest of the pledged delegates to pass Obama. In her own home state of Arkansas, she won with 70% of the vote.  She's had only two other states, Oklahoma and West Virginia, where she won with more than 20% of the vote, compared to Obama's 22 states won with over 20%.

 

 

On another note, I highly reccomend going to cnn.com and playing with the delegate counter.  It really puts Hillary's impending defeat into perspective.

 

Mike Gravel - All Kinds of Presidential Crazy

This is Mike Gravel, he's running for president.  No really, he was even at the Democratic debates. As you might assume, he got less than 1% of the popular vote.  This is his most recent video as of May 8, 2008. He's trying to steal Obama Girl!  {how dare he?}  If you don't know who Obama Girl is, the #2 video is the original. And just because Gravel is so awesome/crazy I've include some of my favorites by him.

 

 

 

Obama Girl:

Other Crazy Videos from Gravel:

Shibam: Manhattan of the Desert

From Wikipedia:

Shibam (Arabic: شبام) is a town in Hadramawt, Yemen with about 7,000 inhabitants. It has been the capital of the Hadramawt Kingdom for several periods of time. (There is also a town by the same name outside Yemen's capital of Sana'a. To avoid confusion, the town of this article is therefore often referred to as Shibam Hadhramaut.)

Shibam owes its fame to its distinct architecture, which now is on UNESCOs programme to safeguard the human cultural heritage. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud bricks, but about 500 of them are tower houses, which rise 5 to 9 stories high. This technique of building was implemented in order to protect residents from Bedouin attacks. While Shibam has existed for around 2,000 years, most of the city's houses come mainly from the 16th century. However, many were rebuilt over and over again during the last few centuries.

Shibam is often called "the oldest skyscraper-city in the world", or "Manhattan of the desert."

 

 

 

Do you recognize Pvt. LaBonte?

I love watching old tv shows, and one of my most favorite things is seeing people who started with small bit parts and went on to do much bigger things.

Watch this clip from the oh-so-corny "Major Dad." do you recognize Pvt. LaBonte? Scroll down for the answer.

 

 

 

 

 

If you guessed MC Bat Commander, from The Aquabats, you guessed it right!