The media who ride on the bus with McCain love him. The Senators who work with him -- Republican Senators -- don't. They know "the darker aspects":
Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, who is also officially neutral, predicts that McCain would at least act less rebellious in dealing with members of his own party. “When you’re president, it’s a different thing,” said Roberts. “You’re not Crusader Rabbit. You’re the president.”
And John Cornyn , the other Texas senator, laughed and offered only this: “It’ll be interesting, won’t it?” He knows that much from experience. During last year’s debate over an immigration policy overhaul, which McCain was pushing and Cornyn opposed, the two got into a heated argument in which McCain shouted obscenities at him. The incident encapsulates the well-known darker aspects of McCain’s style that — as much as his maverick streak on policy — have distanced him from so many in the normally collegial Senate. Many of his colleagues find him self-righteous, dogmatic, unpredictable and hot-tempered — especially when he’s crossed, and even with the Republicans who are usually his allies.
Can McCain keep his cool when the pressure is really on? McCain's own colleagues, again his GOP colleagues, make him sound unbalanced. And, they know him and his temper.
While the US debates the issue of creationism, the UK is right up there having an important debate about the monarchy and who should ascend to the throne. Good grief, is this 1507 or 2007? Why would anyone even want a monarchy today in a modern democracy? They're the most useless bunch out there.
More than half of 1,000 people polled said they would prefer the second-in-line to be the next to take the throne. More people who actually like royalty, including talk of a "commoner" after the jump.
Prince William's popularity is greatest among the younger generation, with 70 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds favouring him as the next king, compared to just 47 percent of 55- to 64-year-olds.
The groundswell of support appears to have been helped by his rekindled romance with commoner Kate Middleton.
Thank goodness reaching out to a "commoner" is relevant.
It's the weekend, so it's time for the wackadoo news -- a bestiality post of the week. A novel defense from a man in Tacoma, Washington. Apparently some animals there need to be very, very afraid.
A man accused of having sex with a goat is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday on a animal cruelty charge. Charging papers say a witness saw 63-year-old Arthur Lawton having sex with a goat May 8th in a barn at Eatonville's Pioneer Farm Museum where he worked.
Lawton said he was trying to milk the goat.
...He's the second person charged in the county since the Legislature made bestiality a crime in response to the fatal injury to a man having sex with a horse in Enumclaw.
I really don't want to know how this man would milk a cow.
I just get the feeling that all this talk about gays -- and bestiality, in particular -- is a smokescreen by these fundies, masking an unhealthy obsession with f*cking barnyard animals. Witness the all-too-true tales of our fellow citizens with a BIG problem:
* A man in Bainbridge, GA jumps a fence at a stockyard and porks a hog * A Mesa, AZ fire battalion chief caught with his pants down in a barn assaulting a lamb * A St. Gabriel, Louisiana seventeen-year-old was caught on tape committing unnatural acts with a horse.
