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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:34 PM
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Besides the blackberry, what else did John McCain invent?
1. Corn Pads
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orestes Donating Member (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:36 PM
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1. The use of bronze tools
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featherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:36 PM
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2. All of Wi-Fi technology, in his OWN words
Edited on Tue Sep-16-08 08:40 PM by featherman
"Under my guiding hand, Congress developed a wireless spectrum policy that spurred the rapid rise of mobile phones and Wi-Fi technology that enables Americans to surf the web while sitting at a coffee shop, airport lounge, or public park."

http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=44
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sailor65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:36 PM
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3. Those things
on the end of your shoelaces.....

:-)
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:37 PM
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4. strawberries too, I think
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:37 PM
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5. Will Palin claim he did it in 6 days?
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PresidentObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:38 PM
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6. He invented himself several times between 2001 and now. That count?
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:38 PM
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7. Time.
BC or BMcC, there was no time.
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livvy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:38 PM
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Fire and the wheel. n/t
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:38 PM
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8. Sarah Palin, his honor, and reality (judging from his campaign)
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pdxmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:39 PM
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9. My husband says he probably invented it while he was a POW. N/T
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:39 PM
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10. Rocks.
:P

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ogneopasno Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:39 PM
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11. Lipstick?
nt
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:40 PM
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12. tube socks!
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clydefrand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:40 PM
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13. Lies about his time as a POW.
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:40 PM
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14. The club. He had to in order to konk out the ladies and drag them
off to his cave.
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Bigleaf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:41 PM
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15. The ejection seat? Or was "Crash" McCain just the biggest benefactor of this great invention.
Edited on Tue Sep-16-08 08:55 PM by Bigleaf
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:15 PM
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28. Actually, all those plane crashes were to test his other great invention: Gravity (nt)
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:42 PM
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16. Sarah Palin
A nobody from nowhere became an instant "celebrity" thanks to McCain.
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spindrifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:42 PM
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17. Campaign lies
He might as well take the credit at this point.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:43 PM
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18. On-site aircraft carrier demolition?
Just asking. :shrug:
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margotb822 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:36 PM
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35. So funny
but so bad.
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:44 PM
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19. Looking like ET........
No wait that is not an invention.
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dancingme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:45 PM
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20. friends!
specifically "my friends"
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volstork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:45 PM
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21. Wax lips n/t
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sentelle Donating Member (659 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:50 PM
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22. cave paintings
As well as the paint used. But only invented brown paint. He sad, the inspiration came straight out of his butt.

Anyway, the only reason he wasn't given credit is because he was a POW at the time, and his captors took his invention of fire to look at his cave art, full of war, and bank deregulation and jet aircraft 'wet starts' (which was difficult, because it would be thousands of years before banks or planes would be invented) but there it is.

They buried it because it was too smelly, too 'scatological'
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:51 PM
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23. dirt n/t
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darius15 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:52 PM
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24. Wonder bread
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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:52 PM
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25. Wooden teeth.
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ITsec Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:59 PM
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26. The entire oil industry
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 08:59 PM
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27. The dingleberry
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cottonseed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:16 PM
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29. What the Commerce Committee is responsible for.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/mccain-commerce-committee/

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) argued in a series of interviews today that his experience on the Senate Commerce Committee meant he knew “how to fix this economy.” “I understand the economy. I was chairman of the Commerce Committee that oversights every part of our economy,” McCain told CNBC’s Squawk Box.

In fact, it is the Senate Banking Committee that has oversight of “banks, banking and financial institutions; control of prices of commodities, rents and services; federal monetary policy, including the Federal Reserve System; financial aid to commerce and industry and money and credit, including currency and coinage.”

According to its Web site, the Commerce Committee oversees 13 areas, beginning with the Coast Guard, and continuing through “regulation of consumer products and services … except for credit, financial services, and housing” — the very areas now in crisis.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:17 PM
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30. the Cotton Gin?
or was that Strom Thurmond?
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WindRiverMan Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:26 PM
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31. Clovis points
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:34 PM
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32. Poverty apparently
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Frank Booth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:35 PM
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33. Life Alert
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:36 PM
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34. Toe Jam
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:37 PM
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36. The wheel.
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:40 PM
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37. The stone axe n/t
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 09:42 PM
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38. the art of the coup de grace
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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 10:12 PM
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39. He invented the telegraph
He's responsible for the entire communications industry.


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matt819 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 10:36 PM
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40. Try these
Moveable type
Papyrus
The steam engine
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 10:38 PM
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41. Not sure what he invented, but he did
write the Book of Love.....

dg
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ShadowLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 10:46 PM
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42. Email, then he forgot how to use it
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Raine1967 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 10:47 PM
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43. Disposable Diapers...
Edited on Tue Sep-16-08 10:48 PM by Raine1967
So he can quickly get of all his crap.
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ContinentalOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-08 10:49 PM
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44. The cross in the sand?
Oh wait, no he stole that.
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