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“I know at the end of the day putting this in God’s hands, the right thing for America will be done, at the end of the day on Nov. 4.”
- Sarah Palin
Amen.
Link

http://www.thingspalincanname.com/
Examples:
Causes of Global Warming

God
Polar Bears
Fire

Nicknames I’ve Had

Sarah Barracuda

Sarah Failin’

VPILF

Bush in a Dress

Caribou Barbie

Footnote of History

Pitbull with Lipstick

Moose Momma

Moosilini

Tina Fey’s Sister

Barack’s Bane

Pig

An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year! Sound familiar?

Interesting insight into the results of Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” on Wil Shipley’s blog…
Microsoft took a bunch of “regular folks” XP users who were afraid of Vista, and told them Microsoft was going to show them a secret new operating system — which was actually Vista.
UNSURPRISINGLY, these people mostly said they liked Vista.
I hate bad science. [...]

Wow.
“And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second. We have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don’t forget, the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is my right to be kept alive, and that’s what we’re going to have to do.”
[...]

This is ridiculous…

This sort of thing is why I stopped watching TV news years ago.
P.S. Go Ron!

From CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — At a town hall meeting in South Carolina Wednesday, Arizona Sen. John McCain was asked if there is a plan to attack Iran. McCain began his answer by changing the words to a classic Beach Boys’ song.
“You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran?” the Republican presidential candidate said. Then, [...]

Excellent Economist article on why the war in Iraq failed:
What went wrong? The most popular answer of the American neoconservatives who argued loudest for the war is that it was a good idea badly executed. Kenneth Adelman, he of the “cakewalk”, has since called the Bush national-security team “among the most incompetent” of the post-war [...]