~ in further hillary clinton news, we can think of one thing disappointing about this headline:

Clinton faces Pakistani anger at Predator attacks

~ hillary must reckon that pakistani students have the memory span of an average u.s. citizen:

[Hillary] Clinton told the students “there is a huge difference” between the Obama administration’s approach and that of former President George W. Bush.

“I spent my entire eight years in the Senate opposing him,” she said to a burst of applause from the audience of several hundred students.

who was the ‘him’ she was ‘opposing’ when voting to invade iraq and voting for the patriot act twice? what a card!

~ someone is smart:

New home sales expected to rise 2.6 pct
AP – 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

New home sales fall 3.6 percent
AP – 23 mins ago

~ you probably don’t know that it is ‘columbus day’, because you are at work, flipping through wall treatment catalogues or tracing handrails in acad, and google didn’t put up a cute image of an ‘italian’ driving his sword into a caribbean beach, but there is some nobody in alaska who wants to make sure you forget(?):

“We have a very large Alaska native population, so just the whole Columbus being the founder of the United States, doesn’t sit well with a lot of people, myself included,” said Paul Prussing, deputy director of Alaska’s Division of Teaching and Learning Support.

..or with anyone who has read a history book that makes clear that columbus died more than 280 years before the united states was (were?) founded.

~ nobel peace prize quote:

if pretty words alone could provide leadership, then why not just give the presidency and the Peace Prize to a Hemingway novel?”
-Todd Harris, a Republican strategist.

it sounds to us like ‘Todd Harris’ has never read a ‘Hemingway novel’