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KING: You’re president of the United States, you’re flying over the Pacific between nowhere and nowhere. There’s an attack on the United States. How much confidence do you have in Vice President Palin?

(he gestures a flying plane with his hand while he does this)

After McCain goes through his talking points on how awesome Palin would be. He says this:

MCCAIN: By the way, I don’t like this comment about me being dying. You don’t want to —

KING: I didn’t say dying. I said you’re over Pacific.

MCCAIN: Oh, excuse me. I didn’t hear —

10:06

Are you depressed yet?

3:00

Wonders of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens (2)

“Just after 5 o’clock on the morning of 11 November, 1918, British, French and German officials gathered in a railway carriage to the north of Paris and signed a document which would in effect bring to an end World War I.

Within minutes, news of the Armistice - the cease fire - had been flashed around the world that the war, which was meant to “end all wars”, was finally over.

And yet it wasn’t, because the cease-fire would not come into effect for a further six hours… so troops on the frontline would be sure of getting the news that the fighting had stopped. That day many hundreds died, and thousands more injured.

What is worse is that hundreds of these soldiers would lose their lives thrown into action by generals who knew that the Armistice had already been signed.”