Here’s more about the initiative to restore and preserve the boyhood home of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. I can see the point of getting ordinary people to contribute, and I’m glad there are famous names associated with this project, including Stephen Colbert and David Letterman, but why doesn’t Warners take care of it? They own Superman.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
The real Sarah Palin
This video has been around, most notably on the Huffington Post. This is Sarah Palin three short months ago.
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Sorry if I’m doing so many political posts, but after the latest financial upheavals I’m getting very nervous about November. Today McCain flip-flopped from saying the economy is fundamentally strong to saying it’s in crisis. In a matter of hours he suddenly realized that things aren’t good. Bright boy.
Denro says…
Mr. D.F. Rogers writes,
Okay, so the Republicans have branded Obama as a “celebrity” and have mocked him as another Britney or Paris. So, now we have Palin, who has turned into – a celebrity! With about as much real political expertise as Paris has acting skills.
An end to confusion
At The Guardian in the UK, Michael Tomasky explains our confusion here in the US with how the GOP characterizes the McCain and Obama tickets:
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers — a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track — you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend five different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
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The Sarah and Hillary Show
I think the opening skit on SNL lacked something in the writing, perhaps because I don’t buy the underlying premise, but Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin is truly remarkable.
Calling 911
It’s been seven years since that awful day. We were having our kitchen remodeled, and on 9/11 the wall tile was being installed. When we got home we saw one of the new cabinet doors had been destroyed. Very weird. I don’t know what happened, but it caused a significant delay, because we had to wait for a replacement to be delivered from Canada. The tile contractor had to cover the extra cost, of course.
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The History Channel had a very dramatic special about the World Trade Center, made up of raw footage, and I’ve spliced together a few minutes from it.
George W. Bush promised he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice, but he didn’t. He failed utterly. Instead, Bush got Saddam Hussein, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the attack on America on 9/11/2001.
If McCain is elected in November there will be no investigation into what really happened to lead us to invade and occupy Iraq. We must find out with absolute certainty, and putting the Obama/Biden ticket in office is the only hope we have of doing that.