Archive for September 18th, 2008
WASHINGTON – Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a “stretch” to say she’s qualified to be president.
“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”
Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not?
“I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,” Hagel said.
McCain and other Republicans have defended Palin’s qualifications, citing Alaska’s proximity to Russia. Palin told ABC News, “They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
Hagel took issue with that argument. “I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,’” he said. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”
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September 18th, 2008
Skills like memory are the first to go when we’re tired.
This test assesses your ability to remember how long ago something happened – your ‘temporal’ memory. If you’re tired you won’t be as good at remembering when you saw or did something.
The test is in three parts and we suggest you take a five minute break in between each part.
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September 18th, 2008
HANNITY: One last question that I didn’t ask you: Did you watch Tina Fey on “Saturday Night Live”?
PALIN: I watched with the volume all the way down and I thought it was hilarious, she was spot on.
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September 18th, 2008
Sarah Palin has picked out an All-American set of names for her children. There’s Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow, and Piper.
Ever wonder, What would your name would be if Sarah Palin was your mother? Well now you can find out!
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And my result . . .
September 18th, 2008
Designer Francesca Lanzavecchia’s functional neck braces:
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September 18th, 2008
Google has taken the war over exclusive web content into space. Not directly, of course—the satellite that was recently launched into space on a rocket bearing the Google logo was the result of a joint venture between a commercial satellite imaging provider and the department of defense. In return for undisclosed terms, Google got two considerations: its logo on the side of the launch vehicle, and exclusive use of the mapping images that the satellite produces.
Then the article goes into some detail, but here’s some other interesting stuff.
As a comparison provided by Geoeye reveals, the new space-going hardware is a significant improvement over previous generations. Its camera drops the resolution of images down from a meter to half that figure—apparently, the hardware goes down to 0.41m, but the DoD won’t let that resolution onto the market. Images will go deeper into the blue end of the spectrum, and the camera can provide color images at a bit over a meter and a half resolution.
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September 18th, 2008
September 18th, 2008
Showgirl and men’s magazine model Raffella Fico, 20, told an Italian magazine: “I can’t wait to see who’s going to pull out the money to have me.”
Miss Fico, who appeared in the Italian version of Big Brother earlier this year, said she would use the cash to buy a house in Rome and pay for acting classes.
“I don’t know what it’s like to have sex,” she told the magazine, Chi, adding that if the man who bought her virginity was ugly then she would quickly get over it.
“If I don’t like him I’ll just have a glass of wine and forget about it,” said the aspiring actress from Naples – hometown of screen siren Sophia Loren.
Her family insisted that despite her good looks and sexy image, she remained a virgin.
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September 18th, 2008
GALVESTON — Texas authorities busy trying to clean up after Hurricane Ike have a new problem on their hands: There’s a tiger loose.
A county official said today that the animal somehow left its enclosure at an exotic pets center in Crystal Beach. Animal experts are coming in to try and catch the tiger.
Galveston County Judge Jim Yarbrough put it this way: “Turns out there’s a tiger, and I understand he’s hungry … so we’re staying away from him.”
Crystal Beach is on the Bolivar Peninsula. The area is one of the hardest-hit by Ike.
The news follows reports of a lion holed up in a Baptist church with its owner on Bolivar Peninsula as well as livestock and other animals roaming amid Hurricane Ike’s wreckage.
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September 18th, 2008
NEENAH, Wis. – If two-ply toilet paper is good, then three-ply tissue must be better. At least that’s what toilet-paper researchers in northeastern Wisconsin hope.
Yes, there is such a thing as a toilet-paper researcher. And a team of them at Georgia Pacific’s Innovation Institute in Neenah has come up with a three-ply version of its Quilted Northern product.
The new product will be launched Monday. The company touts the toilet tissue as “ultra-soft” and says it plans to market the product to women 45 and older who view their bathroom as a “sanctuary for quality time.”
Industry analyst Bill Schmitz is skeptical. He said extra layers make toilet paper stronger, not softer, although he said Georgia Pacific may have added extra fibers for softness.
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I remember a guy at work that was so cheap he use to seperate the two-ply toilet paper to save money.
September 18th, 2008
- There’s a Wal-Mart Super Center across the street from the new Dallas Cowboys stadium. I wonder how they are going to control that parking lot on game days.
- I like the new improvements at the Cotton Bowl, $57 million worth, but too little too late as that should be home to the Cowboys. Since a lot of the seats have been replaced, I’m going to miss the old blue and white color scheme. I’m also a little surprised that it is now the ninth largest stadium in the country, of course, with out luxury suites.
- I don’t think Tony Dorsett ages.
- Great idea . . . an anti-theft lunch bag.
- In retrospect, I think the ESPN Monday Night Football crew should have showed some most memorable high lights of past MNF performances at Texas Stadium.
- I think if you want to be an informed voter, it’s important to check out FactCheck.org from time to time.
- You know times are tough when the Fed chariman says, “We lost control.”
- I wonder if some churches will now be offended if a Ray Boltz song is used in any church related activity. I can certainly imagine someone making a tribute video to honor someone in church with his song “Thank You” being played.
- Dakota Fanning is growing up.
- What did Cookie Monster ever do to her?
- I found out that another Southwest blog-o-spondent contestant got the same deal as I did, but she will be filming things from a mother’s perspective. I all of a sudden don’t feel as special.
- I read in a few articles that Sarah Palin has dressed up like Tina Few for Halloween before. I understand how someone can dress up like Palin and do a characterize of her, but I dont see how someone can dress up like Tina Fey. If it’s just a matter of wearing glasses nad having brown hair, then WifeGeeding is doing a good job.
- Looks like the U2 album won’t drop until next year, per this article from the band’s website. That’s why I didn’t get my hopes up when I heard about the Nov 18th drop date from non-confirmed sources.
- That article also mentioned that a lot of the new album is recorded outdoors:Â
He [Bono] also mentions that the recording in Morocco was the first time the band have worked in a studio open to the sky: ‘On that track you can hear the sound of a swallows nest close to the building – it’s beautiful.’
- Random question at work the other day, what is the earliest social event you remember. That is, something news worthy or that the nation as a whole took part in. Mine was either Reagan being shot or watching Popeye.
- I don’t know why Hummers getting keyed in Southlake makes the news. Although I did find it interesting that the high schooler’s hummer and his parent’s Hummer were keyed.
- Tool libraries are a great idea.
- I remember one time during PE in the fourth grade I was picked as soccer captain to select memebers of my team. I had the very first choice, and rather than pick the fastest or most athletic classmate, I picked the fattest person among us who happened to be a girl to be our goalie. At the time, I thought it was a pretty stategic move, and I remember her grumbling saying that I only picked her because she was fat and me trying to say that I didn’t even though that was the truth.  I chuckle at that moment now, but I also realize how hard it must have been for her. I wish I could apologize.
- If you need a timewaster, just try Unnecessary Knowledge and keep hitting your refresh button.
- When we are watching TV in the livingroom, OtherDogGeeding will go to the laundry room where his food is located, grab a mouthful, walk back to the livingroom and empty his mouth. He will then eat in front of the TV. He repeats this process about three to four times.
September 18th, 2008
