Palin clothing ... Bling Bling or grifter?

To grift (U.S.): : to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game)
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grifter)

It seems Mrs Sarah Palin has spent $ 150,000 (a hundred and fifty thousand dollars)
ON CLOTHES...
Listen to Jon Stewart, the anchor to my favourite fake news show: "THE DAILY SHOW" making fun of it and asking a simple question:

"How does someone who's just spent more on clothing in six weeks than most Americans make in two years show that she can still relate to the common folk?"

PINK GLOW OVER LONDON

WOW ! I wish I had been in London to see THAT beautiful pink light!



From thisislondon.co.uk:
Londoners were left baffled today when a strange pink light appeared over the capital.
Read the article here:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23575796-details/U.F.Glow:+Mysterious+pink+light+over+London/article.do

Do you remember anthrax?

COLIN POWELL said he would vote for Obama.
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003727

You need to register to vote...

Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSAs include: Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.

A former astronaut who walked on the moon says aliens exist.

Watch and listen to the interview and post a comment, even anonymous, to say what you make of that? And if you want to know more about

Obama is wearing his sunday best at Al SMith

M. B.H.Obama has a witty sense of humour.
It's 13 minutes long but quite frankly, 13 minutes of laughter as M. J.S.McCain had announced seconds earlier in his own less funny but not utterly dull speech at the same traditional event: The "Al Smith's dinner".

McCain

Obama

NEW YORK CITY

Many thanks to Leena G. for her beautiful pictures.

Safe cycling

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4&NR=1

In an op-ed, (what is an op-ed? It is an opinion-editorial),Columnist,(journalist, editorialist) Eugene Robinson writes the following pun (a play on words) which is quite to the point. Don't you think?

If we in the media really believe what we say about serving the public interest, we have a duty to avoid being turned into instruments of mass distraction.

You can read the whole op-ed here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602637.html

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