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Today is Havana’s half-birthday. She’s 1.5 years old.

Rush Limbaugh “explains”:http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102208/content/01125113.guest.html why some conservatives don’t like Sarah Palin: bq. These are the people who are embarrassed by Sarah Palin ’cause she’s not an intellectual and she didn’t go to Harvard or have a college degree from approved universities and she drops her g’s from words like morning and says mornin’. She’s embarrassing. Rush [...]

This is shocking, in a good way. Greenspan “testified to Congress”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin that deregulation and a free-market don’t always work and it caused the recent bank failures: bq. “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders [...]

Uh oh, now Sarah Palin is trying to pander to Steelers fans. As a Steeler fan, I can say it doesn’t work when you can’t pronounce the name of their quarterback. Also, the Steelers owner is an Obama supporter. You betcha! http://admin.brightcove.com/viewer/federated_f8.swf?flashId=flashObj0&servicesURL=http%3A%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https%3A%2F%2Fconsole.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Famfgateway&cdnURL=http%3A%2F%2Fadmin.brightcove.com&videoId=1859746651&autoStart=false&preloadBackColor=%23FFFFFF&wmode=transparent&width=486&height=412&playerId=1443726225&externalAds=false&sendReports=false&buildNumber=348&ranNum=968223

Sarah Palin _still_ doesn’t know what the Vice President does. She was asked before she was picked by McCain and admitted she doesn’t know what the VP does. You’d think after that embarrassment, she’d go ask someone or, yikes, read something so she’d finally know. Nope, it’s clearly not important to her. Yesterday, two weeks [...]