Key reason Palin gave for quitting may be false

Palin asserted that the reason for her departure was that her presence forced the state to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend her from frivolous ethics complaints, instead of devoting the much-needed resources to cops, teachers and roads.

But as it turns out, the money for Palin’s lawyers would have been allocated anyway, and that the lawyers would have been paid even if they hadn’t been defending Palin. The information was disclosed to Plum Line’s Amanda Erickson by Palin spokesperson David Murrow.

A shocker, dontcha' know...

Pick to Lead Health Agency Draws Praise and Some Concern

There are two basic objections to Dr. Collins. The first is his very public embrace of religion. He wrote a book called “The Language of God,” and he has given many talks and interviews in which he described his conversion to Christianity as a 27-year-old medical student. Religion and genetic research have long had a fraught relationship, and some in the field complain about what they see as Dr. Collins’s evangelism.

I don't like this...

Franken's First Move: Co-Sponsoring The Employee Free Choice Act

At an AFL-CIO reception moments ago, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) got the crowd all worked up--not by lampooning politics, but by participating in them. "I just became a cosponsor of my first bill in the Senate, the Employee Free Choice Act."

He's off to a great start!

Palin: "Department Of Law" Protects The President

Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House the "department of law" would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.


"I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out," she

Good lord!

Alec Baldwin: I'd like to run for Congress

As speculation continues to swirl over Sarah Palin’s presidential ambitions, the equally colourful and controversial co-star from her Saturday Night Live appearance has announced he too may seek public office – from the other side of the political spectrum.

Alec Baldwin, the outspoken and famously ultra-liberal Hollywood star mercilessly sent in the puppet satire Team America, has been rehabilitated from the showbiz dead by his scene-stealing role in US television show 30 Rock and has now put word out that he is seeking a seat to run for Congress in 2012.

Cool!

Palin won’t seek re-election, resigning in weeks

Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic at the end of the month.

Interesting!

Supreme Court: Franken wins Senate case

The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Republican Norm Coleman's appeal of a lower court's ruling that put his rival, Democrat Al Franken, ahead by 312 votes.

This means Franken is now one step closer to becoming Minnesota's next Senator--unless Coleman decides to petition the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which may or may not take the case.

The court issued its highly-anticipated order Thursday, after 30 days of deliberation and more than seven months since Minnesotans cast their ballots at the polls.

About freakin' time!

Memorable quotes from the ball diamond

Pity, because ballplayers, in my experience, can be rip-roaringly funny, and they don't have joke writers to provide their material. Of course, often they're not even trying; it just comes out that way.

Fortunately, I've kept a file. To wit, baseball wit:

Some of these were hilarious! Enjoy.

'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?

The patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia
says he will announce to the world Friday the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the world's most prized archaeological and spiritual artifact, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.

Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries."

The announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D'Acosta.

Interesting...

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I think I am in shock!