November 2008 Archives

The LA Times reports:

Cameron, the Fox beat reporter for the Republican presidential ticket, said he had been told by unnamed sources -- and on the condition he not report the details during the campaign -- that Palin could not name all of the countries that are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He did not mention which one (or ones) she whiffed on, but there are only three: Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Nor, according to Cameron, was Palin aware that Africa is a continent. (Perhaps she was hamstrung by the fact that no part of that land mass can be viewed from her homestate.)

(Emphasis added. Via Cynical-C.)

Update: Apparently, she doesn't even know what a real moose looks like either:

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Categorized: National News | Photo Album

See also: 2008 Election | Geography | Sarah Palin | Schadenfreude

We took the boys to see this animated fairytale, like a missing story from the 1001 Nights. Absolutely beautiful, a wonderful story, and Ben and Zach loved it. Four stars.

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Categorized: Conspicuous Consumption | Screen

See also: Animation

More here. Via Cynical-C.

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Categorized: Recently Clicked

See also: Cars | Harry Potter

And there was much rejoicing.

When I was dropping the kids off at school today, there was an elderly black lady standing in the lobby. A stream of children, some gleefully shouting "Obama is President!", parted around her and ran off to class. She was silently holding two photographs: one of Frederick Douglass and one of Booker T. Washington.

I got the feeling that she wasn't showing the photographs to the children. She was showing Washington and Douglass what this day, this morning, finally looks like.

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Categorized: National News | Photo Album

See also: 2008 Election | Barack Obama

Well, after a loooooong hiatus -- caused first by spambots that brought down our server, and then by my busy busyess, and then some technical issues, and then the arrival of the alien invasion, which totally threw me off, and then more technical issues, and then my having to recode all these templates -- which I am not finished with, but the main index and the post pages seem to be working OK now -- because I upgraded to Movable Type 4, and a bunch of things are different, a lot of it better so I don't have to hack my tags any more, and it's all modular, etc., so I'll have to redo the indicies later, but for now this seems to be mostly functional. Let me know if there's anything broken.

Thanks again to Trip for helping get Ish back online.

Excelsior!

(Oh, and while the blog was down -- apparently there's some sort of election happening today. Go vote if you haven't yet. I'm taking cookies to the PTA Bake Sale.)

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Categorized: Site News

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