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Stu, can I just be honest? I don't have a clue (not only about that but about how many licks to the center of a tootsie roll pop. I have tried many times to find the answer but I don't have the patience for that either). I really don't know. TY and I have been so busy making a mockup for the new site that we haven't discussed it. Do you have a suggestion? Sorry, it took a while to answer. I have been busy with a new guy in my life. He drains me of almost every ounce of energy.

I have been using a new program which I am in love with. It is called The Brain. www.thebrain.com Mirroring the way a human thinks is a tough job for software, but PersonalBrain 4.5, a powerful brainstorming and knowledge management tool, falls just shy of artificial intelligence. PersonalBrain expresses individual topics as nodes in a mind map, a 3-D representation of the relationships between topics. This mind map is referred to as a Brain. Topics in PersonalBrain parlance are called thoughts. Main thoughts (called Parent thoughts) can have Child thoughts (thoughts related to the main or parent thought), Siblings (thoughts related to the child thoughts), and Jumps (links to different thoughts). To create a Brain, you start by entering a single thought and begin connecting it together with other thoughts. A thought can represent any type of information: it could be as simple as a person's name or as rich as a photograph of that person. The result, if done carefully, can be a useful means of visually mapping the naturally interconnected thoughts swirling around in your (physical) brain. Any thought can be related to any other thought and to as many thoughts as necessary. That means that you can take different paths to the same thought, depending on context, which is not unlike the way people really think. Thoughts can include styled notes, attached files, Web pages, and even applications, turning the Brain into a centralized hub for all of your activities. Folders can even be imported en masse, with each file and subfolder automatically becoming an individual thought. Images can be previewed from within a Brain. Wrapping your own brain around PersonalBrain may take some doing. Although it can be used for many of the same things as a traditional outliner, it works entirely differently. Anything can be linked to anything else, a free-form approach that may leave you wondering where to begin. The payoff is much greater flexibility in how you organize information. Click on a thought and it becomes the main thought (showing up in the center of the software's main window) with all of its related thoughts surrounding it. It's like looking at a map of the solar system, except that instead of planets, each node represents an individual thought. The idea behind PersonalBrain is that by connecting thoughts within a dynamic visual interface that can be reorganized with a single click, people will be able to better understand relationships among their information. Usage scenarios are as varied as the individuals who use it: to do lists, presentations, genealogy, and general research are but a few examples. Brains can be created around specific interests, projects, or events. Or you can get really ambitious and try to map everything in your life into a single monster Brain. Although this is the first version of PersonalBrain for the Mac, the program has been around for years. So it's not surprising that the mind maps PersonalBrain produces can become quite complex and difficult to navigate. To ease navigation, PersonalBrain provides Pins that act as bookmarks, along with a breadcrumb display and a capable search function. For the rest of the article: http://www.macworld.com/article/134792/200...nalbrain45.html

I hope Kevin has better tastes than that!

I thought her speech was BORING. Not impressive at all!

You are totally incorrect. I fuck because I want to have a baby. I am still trying to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the first set of male/male to reproduce.

SAO PAULO, Brazil--Drive through the Morumbi neighborhood and you'll see luxury homes and one of the city's best hospitals. But head just two blocks further and you will find yourself in Paraisopolis, one of the city's many slums. No wonder that tech executives see the Brazilian market in equally divergent terms. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest PC market and is part of the influential BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) that always gets talked about. Yet for all its strengths, it does not have the cash influx of either India or China, nor does it have those countries' strong education systems, cheap labor forces or access to capital. "We always joke that the BRIC is really IC," said Claudia Fan Munce, an IBM executive who grew up in Brazil and focuses on IBM's venture efforts in emerging markets. From where Intel Brazil general manager Oscar Clarke sits, Brazil is doing just fine. "Besides China, Brazil is the beautiful lady in the party when we talk about emerging markets," Clarke said. As a PC sales market, Brazil is unquestionably strong--having passed countries like Germany to become the fifth-largest computer market in the world. It's also a hub for banking technology and open-source software. At the same time, it is a place where abject poverty abounds, meaning that there are millions whose needs are much more basic than a new PC. On the consumer PC front, Brazil owes much of its recent growth to broader availability of financing. Indeed, at many middle-class department stores, the PC price advertised is the monthly price with financing as opposed to the total price being paid over two to three years. In some cases the interest rates are still high, but in many other cases rates are as low as 5 percent or 6 percent per year. That's compared with just a few years ago, when credit was scant and could be more like 5 percent a month, says Intel's Clarke. A big part of this has been a government-backed "PC for all" program that subsidizes the interest rate for some models, though only those with Linux qualify. "They do not accept Microsoft," Clarke said. That said, some estimates show as many as 18 or 19 out of every 20 machines sold with Linux ultimately are converted to some form of Windows. "There was a retailer in one of the countries that sold their systems with Linux," said Gartner analyst Luis Anavitarte. "They made a survey of clients within the first 30 days; 95 percent were already on Windows." You will find global PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell, though the country also has some homegrown brands, most notably Positivo. Among the less well-known brands is Itautec, actually an offshoot of a leading Brazilian bank. According to Wikipedia, it was Itautec that was the first PC maker in Brazil to sell Windows 3.1 preinstalled and localized in Portuguese. Brazil is also a key spot for Google, being a stronghold for the company's search and Gmail businesses as well as one of the only places where its Orkut social-networking service is a leader. For a variety of cultural and economic reasons, Brazil will probably never rival India or China or even places like Vietnam as a place for labor arbitrage. However, it has made gains in other areas, such as access to capital. "Venture capital is something quite recent in Brazil," said Augusto Cesar Godelha, secretary general of Brazil's ministry of science and technology. He noted that it is not a notion that is well-established in Brazilian culture and has been a stumbling block. "It was very difficult to find venture capital to use it to develop new companies. This has been changing," Godelha said. "Venture capitalists are starting to come, not only from outside Brazil to Brazil, but even inside Brazil, there have been groups forming," he said. One of the largest efforts is FIR Capital, a Brazilian firm that started in 1999 to invest in emerging technology companies. Last year, U.S.-based VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson took a shareholder interest in FIR. Striving to improve education Another key issue, along with capital, is Brazil's educational system. While strides have been made, both those in the system and outside it say it still has a long way to go. The first step, Godelha says, was making sure that every child is being encouraged to go to school. Now, he says, the country is working on improving the quality of education. It is still the case, for example, that most students go to school for just four hours a day. "It is not only the universality," Godelha said. "It has to be good quality." Brazil is also a country with a huge gap between rich and poor, with favelas (slums) located throughout the country's largest cities. "Brazil is a beautiful country," says Internet cafe owner Fernando McCray. "But you have some problems--some economic problems." Unemployment is a huge issue, accentuated by the huge number of young people who enter the working-age population each year. "We need to open every year 2 million jobs," McCray said. But even with where Brazil's education and venture capital are today, large multinational companies are finding big opportunities. IBM, for example, has 11,000 workers in Brazil. Chip design software company Cadence has been working to help develop a microelectronics industry in Brazil. In May, the company had a summit that included hundreds of government and technology leaders, including Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Advanced Micro Devices' Hector Ruiz. Cadence also has worked to develop a one-year post-graduate program in commercial chip design aimed at training 1,500 designers over the next several years. Wendy Reeves Dunn, who is Cadence's vice president of worldwide alternate channels, said Brazil has seen much value coming into the country in semiconductors made elsewhere and is eager to get in on the act. While chip manufacturing plants are expensive, Dunn said the country has eagerly embraced the idea of designing more chips in Brazil, even if they are made elsewhere. Some of Brazil's most successful efforts, Dunn said, have focused on chips unique to the Brazilian market. One example is an RFID (radio frequency identification) chip that caters to the country's huge agribusiness economy. "They are actually designing chips for cows' ears," Dunn said. "They are new for Brazil and they are designed in Brazil." That's already a large market, given that Brazil has more cows than any other country. But it's just the start, Dunn said, adding that Brazil has a mandate that automobiles also get tracking chips. "Those same RFIDs, those will go into cars." Click here to read all of the blogs in The Borders of Computing series. http://news.cnet.com/Brazil-An-emerging-ma...5&subj=news

(LifeWire) -- While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a tour that would take her past the forest's edge. So, when a college-aged busboy at a resort she was visiting began flirting with her, she asked him if he thought a tourist could survive alone in the jungle. "He laughed and told me I was nuts," says Gerson, 27, who works part-time in online marketing for a chocolate company in San Francisco. Then he told her that he'd grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Although she wasn't attracted to the guy, Gerson flirted right back in the hopes that he would be her jungle tour guide. It worked. The busboy wormed his way out of work, and the two headed into the rain forest. "It was amazing," Gerson says of her adventure in 2000. "We built our homes out of palm leaves, I saw animals I'd never seen before, he taught me the medicinal properties of all the plants, we picked fruit off the trees, we swam with and ate piranhas. And, of course, we had sex ... for almost two weeks." Body currency system Gerson never felt sleazy or uncomfortable with her unspoken arrangement with the busboy. "It was a good barter both ways," she says. "I got to stay in the jungle, and he got to have sex with a cute, young American girl." Such trades aren't so unusual. Throughout history, humans have used their bodies to get what they want -- from ancient Egyptian ruler Cleopatra, who cemented her power through liaisons with Roman rulers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, to the man and woman who were arrested at a Fort Wright, Kentucky, motel in late June for allegedly swapping sex for gasoline. Regardless of our motivation, scientists say we're hardwired to use our bodies as a bargaining chip. A recent study of 475 University of Michigan undergraduates ages 17 to 26 found that 27 percent of the men and 14 percent of the women who weren't in a committed relationship had offered someone favors or gifts -- help prepping for a test, laundry washing, tickets to a college football game -- in exchange for sex. On the flip side, 5 percent of the men surveyed and 9 percent of the women said they'd attempted to trade sex for such freebies. And although they weren't hard up for resources, the students surveyed "recognized the value of this socioeconomic currency system," says Daniel Kruger, research scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, who published his findings in the April issue of "Evolutionary Psychology." "It's more about getting what you want than getting what you need," he says. "Unless you think everyone needs a $200 Louis Vuitton bag." The handyman hookup But unattached coeds aren't the only ones who barter with their bodies. Some professionals will attest that their skills are, well, sexy. "Women are turned on just by the simple idea of their guy getting off his ass and doing something for them," says Rocky Fino, author of "Will Cook for Sex: A Guy's Guide to Cooking." It works both ways, he adds. "Give it to me first thing in the morning, and I'll play [handyman] all day," says Fino, a 39-year-old father of two and part-time construction worker. Ben Corbett, a 39-year-old contractor from Boulder, Colorado, credits his tool belt with prompting the barrage of come-ons he fields from female clients -- most of them married -- on a regular basis. "It starts with the flirting, and it just progresses," says Corbett, who has run a construction and remodeling business for 20 years. "They'll touch my hand, and there's all this physical contact. Or they'll run around in their pajamas." "Once," he says, "I was painting the hallway right outside a client's bedroom, and she was lying on her bed like a girl at a slumber party with her legs up and her arms crossed and her head resting on them, asking me if I had a girlfriend. "It's all about the fantasy of being taken by the rough-hewn construction guy," muses Corbett, who, despite the temptation, has avoided getting sexually involved with his clientele for fear of jeopardizing his business. It's the biology, stupid Call it crass, sexist or gender stereotyping all you want, but there are thousands of years of biological programming at work here, says Dr. Chris Fariello, director of the Institute for Sex Therapy at the Council for Relationships, a nonprofit relationship-counseling group based in Philadelphia. Plain and simple, a partner who provides more resources -- wealth, shelter, home repairs -- is seen as more attractive and stands to reap more sexual rewards. Or, as Fariello puts it, "I don't get anybody in my office who says, 'My husband sits on the couch all day and eats bonbons, and I want to have sex with him all the time.'" http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/persona...tuff/index.html

Lucky, I do wonder if I knew you from the old Gaiety days. I was quite a regular.

I like to believe I know the agendas of the parties but I don't. At least I don't see them put into action too often. The Democratic led Congress has failed miserably at doing its job in furthering its agenda. I don't think they have had any balls to stand up to Bush. And while I had great hopes for Nancy being the leader, she has also failed. I do think that Dennis Kucinich is about the only one of them that has any balls left. The rest are dickless.

I could not agree more. But, did you see the Sports Illustrated cover? It is not flattering to him IMHO.

As my distinguished colleague said, I too welcome your presence. Four Aces, as always good to hear from you. What mid-western city are you referring to? I am more of a Vegas man myself. Do you know more about this poster than we do? Do tell. I agree Lucky. We need new blood. But, old blood is often pure and just as tasty. It is when you mix the two that a perfect martini is made. Don't go using big words I can't understand. I don't feel sorry for anyone in the South of France in August. It must be lovely and delightful. Paris is one of my favorite cities.

I always check the website to make sure the times for the movie we want to see. It is easy to use and has always been very accurate. http://www.movieseer.com/showtimes.asp?Channel=2

Go to My Controls, Options and e-mail settings. By default it is set to Daily Digest but you can change to Immediately if you desire.

How about this for the openly gay Australian diver? Hot ey?

The dirty mind was earned the hard way. A clean board took longer.

I am just at a total loss for words. What a fucking idiot this man is. The obvious choice was Hillary but he didn't have the balls enough to put her on the ticket. For the first time in my adult life, I don't think I'll have the balls enough to vote for a Republican but refuse to vote for Obama, so I am now at a loss as to what to do other than have great sex the day I am suppose to vote and sit my fat ass at home and watch the tele.

I have moved those postings into the Buffet and they are still there. All Craig's List topics about escorts can be discussed in the Buffet. I also removed the Leisure Class forum as there were no postings in it. Just trying to clean up the board a bit.

Not to my knowledge but I will check it out.

No, my school did not make me gay. But, the football team most certainly helped speed things along.

Gary Glitter was in prison in Vietnam for 3 years for child molestation. He was released and flew to Thailand on a flight that was to connect him to UK. He refused to board the flight. Thailand refused him entry. He flew to Hong Kong. Hong Kong refused him entry. He flew back to Thailand and was again refused entry. He is now back in UK. The saga lasted many days and was major news in Asia. Here are a few stories about this. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...t-standoff.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...cqui-Smith.html

Having spent a great amount of time in Thailand, I can tell you that the people here have no idea how rich this man is. They all think he is poor and just is here to help the people. He is beloved by all in the country. They see him as almost Godly. You cannot speak ill of him in the country without arrest. Just an FYI NEW YORK (AFP) - With a fortune estimated at 35 billion dollars, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's richest royal sovereign, and oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi is far back at No. 2, Forbes magazine reported Thursday. King Bhumibol, 80 and, at 62 years on the throne the world's longest-serving head of state, pushed to the top of the richest royals list by virtue a greater transparency surrounding his fortune, Forbes said. It said that the Crown Property Bureau, which manages most of his family's wealth, "granted unprecedented access this year, revealing vast landholdings, including 3,493 acres in Bangkok." Forbes called it a good year for monarchies, investment-wise. "As a group, the world's 15 richest royals have increased their total wealth to 131 billion dollars, up from 95 billion last year," Forbes said on its website. With oil prices soaring, the monarchs of the petro-kingdoms of the Middle East and Asia dominate the list. Sheik Khalifa, 60, the current president of the United Arab Emirates, was estimated to be worth 23 billion dollars, on the back of Abu Dhabi's huge petroleum reserves. In third was the sovereign of the world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, 84, who inherited the Al-Saud family throne in 2005, came in with a fortune of 21 billion dollars. The previous king of kings, wealth-wise, 62 year old Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of tiny, oil-endowed Brunei on the Southeast Asia island of Borneo, fell to fourth place with 20 billion dollars. "The sultan, who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty, has had to cut back on his country's oil production because of depleting reserves," Forbes explained of his dwindling fortune. Fifth was Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, 58, of another Emirate, Dubai, with a net worth of 18 billion dollars. One of two Europeans on the list, Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, 63, ranked six on the list with 5 billion dollars in wealth. However the bank that is a key source of his family's wealth, LGT, is under investigation by the United States for helping wealthy people evade taxes. Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, 56, came in at seventh, worth two billion dollar; eighth was King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 46, his 1.5 billion dollar fortune based on phosphate mining, agriculture and other investments. Number nine was Prince Albert II of Monaco, 50, his diverse fortune in the southern European principality put at 1.4 billion dollars. Tenth on the list was Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, 67, worth 1.1 billion dollars. Rounding out the top 15 were: The Aga Khan Prince Karim Al Hussein, 71 (1.0 billion); Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, 82, 650 million dollars; Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, 500 million dollars; Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, 70, 300 million dollars; and King Mswati III of Swaziland, 40, with 200 million dollars. Forbes noted that because many of the royals inherited their wealth, share it with extended families, and often control it "in trust for their nation or territory," none of those on its list would qualify for the magazine's famous annual world billionaires ranking. "Because of technical and idiosyncratic oddities in the exact relationship between individual and state wealth, these estimates are perforce a blend of art and science," it added. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/en_af...lthpeopleroyals

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete... Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. If you don't send this to at least 8 people....Who cares? George Carlin

A lazy drive home from a weekend auto show turned into a stomach-churning experience at the Canada-US border for an Ottawa couple. It was a sunny Monday afternoon, Jun 16. Rick Frenette and his partner Shawn were returning from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, snaking through the Eastern US to the border at the Thousand Islands, near Kingston. Both avid car buffs, they were towing their latest project, a vintage Bricklin, home. But a problem with the car's paperwork led Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) officers to pull the pair in for an extra inspection. "We didn't think there would be anything other than the normal questions, but there was," Rick says. "They went through our entire truck. They did not go through our toiletries, which we were surprised about, but they opened up the laptop, and I guess one of the icons said 'porn' on it." While the gay men watched, a CBSA agent sat in their truck and poked through the contents of the laptop. When he ran into locked material, he got the passwords from them. Rick and Shawn say that, in retrospect, it was a slapdash search. The laptop was combed, but not their cell phones, Shawn's Blackberry, or the loose burned CDs in the truck's glove compartment. The CBSA officers went into their office. Time ticked by as Rick and Shawn pondered what to do next. About an hour later, a CBSA officer came back with bad news. "He came back and said 'We're going to have to confiscate the laptop.' I asked why. He said it had 'questionable material,'" says Rick. The "questionable material" was gay porn. In particular, the CBSA officer pointed to a video that showed light watersports. The pair's video collection wasn't any more racy than the videos you can buy at porn shops in Canada, they say. Among the movies on their laptop were home videos of the couple having sex. According to those close to the CBSA, it not an uncommon story. And as the Supreme Court of Canada has pointed out in the Little Sister's bookstore case, porn that would be perfectly legal to make, sell and possess in Canada is often stopped at the border. Academic papers, fictions, letters and correspondence, bootlicking pictures, family photos — it can all get you in trouble. Joe Arvay, the lead lawyer in the Little Sister's case, said in 2006 that up to 70 percent of porn seized by the CBSA is gay or lesbian material. A trip to the US is normal weekend fare for Rick and Shawn, and they say they've never had trouble with the border guards before. But now they want to spread the word to other gays and lesbians to leave their laptops at home when they're travelling. "Mostly, we want to let people know they shouldn't have any pornographic material, period," says Rick. "It's just a pissoff. People aren't aware of it." Jim Deva thinks that it's more than just a pissoff. He spent 20 years before the courts fighting for Little Sister's Bookstore to be able to import gay and lesbian erotica. "How is that going to protect us or keep us safe? What a waste of manpower! What a waste of the security state! Shouldn't they be looking for knives and guns? Wouldn't that be a better use of their time?" says Deva. Deva and the other staff at Little Sister's have become lightning rods for anecdotal complaints about the CBSA. He says most people don't fight the seizures because they're afraid of the consequences, often abandoning their computers with agency staff. "You don't want your name flagged when you cross the border. It is a major inconvenience. It's not just that you'd lose your laptop, it's that you can't fly into or connect in any American airports without a lot of hassle and so people ask themselves if it's worth it," he says. He says that Rick and Shawn's case is a typical example of overreach. Pornography isn't illegal to buy, own or make in Canada, and importing the material isn't illegal either. Historically, the CBSA has taken issue with both watersports and fisting, but both are theoretically okay. "They have no legal right to keep either of those," says Deva. "There is nothing wrong with watersports, it's not an obscene activity. It's something that lots of gay couples participate in. And fisting — our court case 10 years ago proved that fisting is not an obscene activity." "The whole thing is insane. So as long as the border services agency can keep it quiet, they can keep doing it." http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?A...B_TEMPLATE_ID=9

Sen. Barack Obama's choice for running mate will be announced to supporters in a text message Saturday morning, senior Obama campaign officials told CNN Friday night. Obama called some people on his short list for the vice presidential slot Thursday night to tell them he had not selected them as a running mate, a highly placed Democratic Party source said. Sources close to Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said he has been informed he was not selected. One source told CNN that Obama personally made the call to Kaine. Another source said Kaine has flown to Denver, Colorado, for the Democratic National Convention. It is not known who else may have gotten calls. However, late Friday two Democratic sources confirmed that Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is also out of the running. Rep. Chet Edwards said Friday that the campaign had vetted him but that he hasn't talked to Obama. Edwards, 56, is a nine-term congressman representing the Central Texas district that includes President Bush's ranch near Crawford. This month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touted Edwards as a dark horse contender for the No. 2 spot on the ticket. The presumptive Democratic nominee was working Friday in Chicago, Illinois, on his address for the convention. He will launch a string of rallies with his running mate on Saturday in Springfield, Illinois. Obama said Thursday that he had made his decision but declined to give further details. Obama has told some other potential running mates over the past few weeks that he would not be choosing them, the Democratic source said. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22...a.vp/index.html

Hey, I like Danny DeVito!