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These little moments where people in politics actually do the classy thing are like little bites of ice cream to me. You know those little Dove miniature thingies, with the dark chocolate? Goddamn, those are good. And I’ve actually been pretty good about keeping myself down to two per day…hang on, I’m going to go get a little Dove minature thingy.
*Gets, eats little Dove miniature thingy*
That was great. Anyway. It turns out that suspiciously young Republican veep nominee Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter Bristol is pregnant. The instant I found this out, I rolled my eyes and braced for the wave of gotchas and recrimination. I could already hear it in my mind’s ear from both the Left — “Huh, Republicans and their family values!” — and the Right — “Thank god she didn’t have an abortion!”
There are little Dove bars of sanity, however. Sen. Obama personally told reporters that “people’s [...]
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The best behind the scenes coverage of the campaign that you can get is at the McCain Blogette. It’s by John McCain’s daughter and it shows you what life is like day to day on the campaign.
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Okay, I know this is a bit of jumping on the bandwagon, but it has to be said. Anyone who hasn’t already seen this really should check it out. It’s just plain funny. I mean, all political games aside, how on earth do you forget how many houses you own? And, if you don’t know, but you see the opposing party trying to paint you as insanely wealthy and out of touch, wouldn’t you think it would be smart to go find out so that you can answer the question when it comes?
Sometimes, American politics disgusts me. Other times, it just makes me laugh.
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British Olympian Craig Pickering (clearly a big boy) laments that he ‘let the country down’ with a bad run at the games 1 while a Florida community let down an adorable lesbian high school student by standing behind the fundamentalist principal who shamed her, told her to stay away from children, and outed her to her family. 2
The king, and absolute monarch, of Swaziland, one of the world’s poorest countries where 40% of the population are HIV+ and can’t afford treatment or food, sent 9 of his 13 wives (check this out) on a shopping spree across Europe and the Middle East. Nice. 3
Native Americans accepted gay marriage 4, while the Knights of Columbus, upped the ante to revoke our right. 5 Why don’t they just hand out smallpox blankets?
You have to hand it to the John McCain campaign for one thing and one thing alone: knowing and playing to [...]
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Gordon Brown’s in Afghasnistan, and he gave a speech saying British soldiers are “exactly the same” as athletes. He’s right of course, as Justin McKeating points out:
Our troops are just like our Olympians. They’re underfunded and spend most of their time abroad. They perform obscure activities that we only pay attention to once in a blue moon before turning over to watch the X-Factor. And politicians love their reflected glory unless they’re losing in which case they get barely a mention.
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Paul Craig Roberts new column has some similar thoughts to mine yesterday:
What does the Caucasus have to do with the North Atlantic? Why is NATO, which was created to keep the Soviet Army out of Western Europe, still around almost two decades after the disappearance of the Soviet Union? Why has its membership doubled, and why is it being extended to the Black Sea? Is Mongolia next? The US strategic objective – to ring Russia with bases and puppet states in order to exercise hegemony over Russia – will lead to war, the destruction of liberty and perhaps life on earth. This gratuitously insane neoconservative foreign policy is one that will lead to nuclear war.
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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON - Wholesale inflation surged in July, leaving prices for the past year rising at the fastest pace in 27 years, according to government data released Tuesday.
The Labor Department reported that wholesale prices shot up 1.2 percent in July, pushed higher by rising costs for energy, motor vehicles and other products. The increase was more than twice the 0.5 percent gain that economists expected.
Core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.7 percent. That increase was the biggest since November 2006 and more than triple the 0.2 percent rise in core prices that had been expected.
In other economic news, the Commerce Department reported that housing construction fell in July to the lowest pace in more than 17 years. Builders broke ground on 965,000 housing units at a seasonally adjusted annual rate last month — the weakest showing since March 1991 — as the housing [...]
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Barack Obama, asked by Rick Warren to say which Supreme Court Justices he would not have nominated, answered “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas.” He started to say that Justice Thomas didn’t have enough experience at the time—a remarkable charge, given Obama’s lack of experience and qualifications for the Presidency. But he thought better of it. “I don’t think that he, I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation.” He continued by saying that he wouldn’t have nominated Justice Scalia because he disagrees with him, but also that Scalia was qualified. Pressed, he said something similar about Chief Justice Roberts.
The Wall Street Journal this morning points out that Clarence Thomas’s resume was far more impressive then than Barack Obama’s is now: attorney in the Office of the Attorney General of Missouri, Assistant Secretary of Education, Chair of the [...]
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Commentary and exposition on Mark Twain’s thoughts on politics, religion and our rationalization of happiness.
Mark Twain is always good, and in these quotes are very thought provoking.
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Oh yeah, I see this going over well. Meet a gal and give her the Obama salute with a double pump for extra gusto.
Making friends all over the world.
His world.
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