Dana Milbank
"Slowly, we're beginning to understand what hope and change were all about. Translation: Sure hope this change works." - Kathleen Parker
If you think of leaving, you can go...
The only reason I can think of for Sarah Palin's book coming out so soon is that the publisher wants to place it at the beginning of Christmas shopping season. Normally, the editing process takes longer than the time spent writing, but in this case the ghost writer may be given the bare minimum. Since nobody has ever heard of the woman who wrote the book before, the gamble is that it could be so badly written that reading it is literally painful, causing sales to slump quickly. Or not.
According to the New York Post, another reason for the book's quick release is because nobody wants to book her on the national lecture circuit: "Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot."
Many big lecture venues are subscription series, "and they don't want to tick people off," said our source. "Palin is polarizing, and some subscribers might cancel if she's on the lineup." Other lecture buyers are universities, which have a leftist slant, and corporations, which dislike controversy.
"Palin is so uninteresting to so many groups -- unless they are interested in moose hunting," said our insider. "What does she have to say? She can't even describe what she reads." On the other hand, she sure is doing her best to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame before the next round of elections come up...
Every time I visit Rush Limbaugh's web site, I'm amazed by the size of his ego. It really is all about him. To his credit, he's lost a lot of weight lately, and you might be glad to know that the color and fashion challenged El Rushbo recently jogged one fifth of a mile! Can you tell that I'm having a hard time focusing on world events this morning, and m trying to find a way to include the picture of Rush in his horrible golf shorts? Also, Bruce from, where else but South Carolina, thinks Rush should be a judge in the Miss America Pageant because: "me and my friends already refer to you as the "Hugh Hefner of the Airwaves" because of the all the raving females that often openly flirt with you on the air so I think you fit right in." I'm thinking the poor man should stick to his angry rants against Obama, it makes more sense than this crap. Also, many of his listeners think that he is a real man's man, a rush to judgement for someone who convinced his local draft board to rule him unfit for combat because he had a gigantic boil on his butt at the time, probably self induced... My new bumper sticker:
Real Men Can't Sit Down!
Which reminds me of a raunchy joke that Nikita Krushchev once said of Germany's Konrad Adenauer: "If Adenauer pulls down his pants and you look at him from behind, you can see Germany is divided. If you look at him from the front, you can see Germany will not stand." Congratulations to Angela Merkel on her re-election...
funding you local terrorists...
In a report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office reported that charities based in Saudi Arabia are still finding ways to circumvent the law and send funds to terrorist organizations, proving that the bin Laden family can't fund them all by themselves: "Since 2003, the Saudis have barred charities from transferring money outside the kingdom, but the GAO said that this hadn't prevented Saudi-based charities with branches abroad from serving as funding sources for terrorist groups. Some of the money is being smuggled out of the country in cash through the use of couriers, it said...
... Further, experts we spoke with agreed that there is no indication that the Saudi government is providing funding for terrorism," it says." I wonder if George HW Bush has donated lately, since he's had real close ties to the Saudi's, even having business offices there. Of course, he may not have known whom he was sending money to, since he's coming down with Alzheimer's, or now known as Lou Dobbs Disease...
Other charities include China and Russia, who are Iran's two largest trading partners and the reason why increased sanction don't mean spit to the Iranians, many who are out protesting against their government again...
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