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Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes – NYTimes.com The NYT brings some interesting stuff to light. This article engendered 1000 comments, and notes that Alaska legislators were so annoyed at Palin’s frequent absences from the state capitol that they took to wearing “Where’s Sarah” buttons.

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The story on this image: David and I were doing something we rarely do – watching TV more or less “live”, and even more unusually, we were watching a network show and not bothering to zip through the commercials. This one came on for a product called Botox Cosmetic — with the tagline “it’s all [...]

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TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Campaign: McCain “Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose An Election” TPM notes that Obama’s campaign hit McCain where he lives.. on the “honor and integrity” meme that’s part of his maverick-hero image. This is after his appearance on The View, where Joy Behar told McCain [...]

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One Utah » Blog Archive » McCain Caught Lying Again, Today. Yep, it turns out there are no official estimates of the size of the crowds he’s attracting to his rallies. His campaign staff cites fire marshals and Secret Service personnel, but actual fire marshals and Secret Service spokespersons contacted by reporters deny supplying the [...]

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ginny on September 13th, 2008

First, NPR did an audio story direct from a pig farm in Virginia. Yes, they put Ruby Red lipstick on a black-and-white pig. It was a piece that left much to the imagination, and perhaps it’s better that way. Because apparently now it’s a trend: news organizations are falling all over themselves putting lipstick on [...]

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ginny on September 13th, 2008

Finally started uploading photos from my very large backlog of photos to Flickr. Via: Flickr> Title: By: Originally uploaded: 13 Sep ’08, 1.27pm CDT PST Washington Memorials: Photos from a morning walk around the memorials in Washington

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ginny on September 13th, 2008

Oh yes, it’s time to draft the Wild Party (Python Ltd.) candidate…

YouTube – Michael Palin for President

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ginny on September 13th, 2008

Incidents :: Chicago :: Traffic.com Flooding I-190 O’Hare Access Exwy – Outbound At US-12/US-45/Mannheim Rd (#2) – flooding – Troopers planning to shut down I-190 to OHare Airport. Flood CHICAGOLAND TOLLWAYS Flood – The Illinois Tollway Authority and Illinois State Police are reporting numerous flooded roadways and underpasses on the area tollways. The flooding is [...]

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ginny on September 13th, 2008

Yes, this is exactly how I felt yesterday morning at work; my second call of the day was from a client flying on Continental Airlines, who had let a ticketing deadline expire. I had to call the airline to get a waiver code, and although I was confident I’d be given the okay to issue [...]

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