The American Academy of Actuaries is younger than John McCain.
Founded in the heady, acid-filled days of 1965, The American Academy of Actuaries is dedicated to anarchy, free love, and (according to their website):
- Providing independent and objective actuarial information, analysis, and education for the formation of sound public policy.
- Proactively addressing issues on behalf of the public in matters where actuarial science provides a unique understanding.
- Providing for the establishment, maintenance, and enforcement of high professional standards of actuarial qualification, practice, and conduct.
Maniacs. Every last one of them.
Seems that they also put out a magazine called “Contingencies” (think of it as an actuarial “High Times”). I was reading my latest issue and – lo and behold – I discovered this gem of a quote from John McCain:
“Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.”
In other words, McCain is saying that his plan for health care is to handle it the way “we” (he and his fellow Republicans) have handled banking over the last 10 years. But wait – I thought he was now against deregulation?
Me so confused.
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posted by admin at 9:38 pm
The first Gallup poll on Presidential performance is younger than John McCain.
When John McCain was two, “Spanky” Gallup (I made that up) started taking polls of Presidential performance. Whoulda thunk that, a mere 70 years later, a guy by the name of George Bush would manage to top the disapproval charts at a whopping 68% (two points higher than the guy who quit)?
If Obama – and the rest of us – can keep making the case that McCain = Bush (and it’s an easy case to make… given the whole “voting with him 95% of the time” thing), we got this won.
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The CIA is younger than John McCain.
Want to have hours – or days – of fun? Read the “Family Jewels”, a 702 page collection of CIA misdeeds that was released last June (as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request filed 15 years earlier).
Some highlights include a document discussing tracking John Lennon on allegations of funding anti-war activists, a request by Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt for a lock picker, and the plan to poison the leader of the Congo. (The country. The dance is spelled with an “a”.)
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posted by admin at 3:37 pm
Mensa International is younger than John McCain.
To become a member of Mensa, the international association of smarty-pants’, one must score “at the 98th percentile or higher of a standardized, supervised intelligence test”.
Presumably, people who achieve such a score know how to use a computer.
Or know the difference between Sunni and Shia.
Or have a strong working knowledge of economics.
Tell me again, McCain supporters, how a McCain presidency won’t be like a third term of Bush? I seem to have forgotten.
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posted by admin at 10:55 am
The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are younger than John McCain.
In 1938, Bill W. (no genetic relationship to George W.) was chosen by about 100 of his fellow alcoholics to publish a book that promoted their program and included a list of suggested activities (or “steps”) for spiritual growth and deliverance from the grip that alcohol held on their lives.
(Thanks to Jesse for the tip!)
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