Biden refuses to cross picket line

Maybe there’s stories of Bushies crossing lines — or maybe not — either way, this is good on Biden and Obama:

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/06/08/biden-refuses-to-cross-fire-fighters-picket-line/

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SAUDI BEAUTY CONTEST « Graney and The Pig’s Blog

Interesting post over at Graney and the Pig.

I’m sure the Saudi contest will be a scorcher  =)

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John McCain left on campaign bus overnight

Oh my. Poor Johnny Mac.

Link to video news item

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pol vs. pol

Tami at work asked me the other day, “What don’t you like about McCain?”  A succinct answer eluded me.  There’s not really an easy way to summarize these campaigners; no two-word answer — well, I did attempt one, jokingly, but it was lame.

The rich are not patriotic

In the wake of WaMu’s collapse and subsequent sale to JP Morgan, 10% of employees may lose their jobs and some back pay too, but at least the former CEOs of WaMu, Kerry Killinger and Alan Fishman will probably have enough money to struggle along until their next “job.”  Killinger received 98 million before he was fired three weeks ago, and Fishman, on the job less than three weeks got nearly 20 million.

The Bush Doctrine vs Pakistan

Sarah Palin wasn’t sure what the Bush Doctrine was, so she couldn’t agree or disagree with it, and then when she did expand on her answer, she didn’t agree with McCain. Republicans and McCain himself will surely claim that she did understand the policy in question, and that we’re all misreading her evasiveness incorrectly. Maybe she was just running the standard politician scam of running circles around the question in order to avoid it completely.

“Sarah Palin” talks

In this “internal” Vlog “Sarah Palin” talks about various things, including her kids.

Sara’s blog
Sara’s You Tube Channel

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I don’t hate Palin

Pakistan protests ‘coalition air attack’

Pakistan appears more and more to be harboring Osama Bin Laden.  They don’t want us looking for him in the mountains, and they won’t let us launch offensives inside their borders.  Now they’re protesting our attacking terrorists because we may have stepped over the border by who-knows-how-little:

I can’t believe it’s not Butters

I’m really, really suprised by McCain’s pick for Vice-President, as is everyone else in the world — even the people who were running the grass-roots movement to get her selected.  Sarah Palin.  Hockey-mom.  Mayor of a 7000 person town until elected Governor or Alaska less than two years ago.  Wow.

Western Hypocrites

South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia during civil wars in the 1990s. Russia strengthened ties with them after the U.S. and much of Europe recognized the independence of the Serbian province of Kosovo earlier this year, a move that Moscow had warned against.

Russia condemned for recognizing rebel regions – CNN.com.

And now the US and EU and UN are all mad that Russia has recognized S.Ossetia