my morning dose of politics

from my friend JRC:

BS about Obama's supposed "Jewish problem" (a problem invented by the Clinton campaign)

Clinton's strongest supporters? Republicans

fact-checking Sen. Clinton with her own speeches: note the beginning of the fifth paragraph.

too funny

There's a pretty regular mistake that people who don't speak German make when writing about historical German military units. For whatever reason, they refer to sovereigns' bodyguards as "lieb guard" units.

"Lieb" of course means "love"; what they really mean are "leib guard" (bodyguard) units. But it happens all the time, along with people who think "Peninsular" is a noun and have trouble with French words like "chausseur" and "voltigeur".

But what I saw just now was priceless. One person in a thread referred to the "Lieb Guard" and I thought, "Oh, here we go..." And then someone replied, correctly referring to the "Leib...


....Gaurd". Aiiiieeeee!

:-)

(Of course, almost no one goes so far as to correctly refer to such units as "Leib Garde". Now that would just be crazy...

*is worried*

I went running yesterday, and I did about two miles on the flat, but if I actually *ran* more than about a third of it, I'll be surprised. I was quite exhausted, thought not in a "completely blown, need to lie on the ground for a while" way.

Today I went out cycling in the morning, did about the same distance (slightly more) plus a lot more up and down. Enjoyable, and out of breath on a few of the hills, but in no way as exhausted.

Only thing is, I have two matches I've agreed to AR on Sunday. I'm dreading it. I am much more out of shape than I realised. Yikes!