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mmm-sections 08

~ 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 do not know that today is ‘columbus day’, because you don’t have the day off from work and are busy flipping through wall treatment catalogues or tracing handrails in autocad, and google didn’t put up a cute doodle of an ‘italian’ driving his sword into a caribbean beach. however, 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’