I had a good chuckle reading Sarah Palin compare herself to Shakespeare ~

Sooz

So, we had "Bushisms". Can this be called a "Palin-drome"?

LMAO, roseanne ~  excellent word play ~

Sooz

John Aravosis at AmericaBlog uncovers visual evidence that BP photoshopped a fake picture of the crisis command center on the main page of its website. “I guess if you're doing fake crisis response, you might as well fake a photo of the crisis response center,â€

The Wikileaks disclosure of thousands of pages of military documents reveals “how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents.â€

Outgoing BP chief executive Tony Hayward's severance package, which will pay him approximately $1 million annually, is receiving criticism from lawmakers. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) is demanding that BP delay Hayward's severance until the company has paid off all its claims from the oil spill. Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA) has launched a new petition demanding that the money go to Gulf Coast recovery instead.

Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Ron Johnson, an avid drilling proponent, has received scrutiny for retaining over $100,000 in BP stock. Two weeks after he told reporters that he would get rid of the stock, Johnson backtracked yesterday, saying that he hasn't yet decided what to do.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) is working hard “behind the scenesâ€

The House voted 308-114 yesterday to approve “a major war-funding increase of $33 billion to pay for his surge in Afghanistan.â€

The House Republican leadership is urging its members to vote against a bill that would aid 9/11 responders suffering from health problems. The GOP policy statement complains that the aid program, which will be paid for by closing “a tax loophole on foreign companies with U.S. subsidiaries,â€

The Financial Times' Ed Luce documents the “crisis of middle-class America.â€

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) is seeking to [b]grant state police officers “powers similar to those Arizona's lawâ€

[b]Missouri voters “overwhelminglyâ€

After a federal judge struck down California's ban on same-sex- marriage yesterday, the White House issued a statement explaining that President Obama “has spoken out in opposition to Proposition 8 because it is divisive and discriminatoryâ€

The Labor Department's employment report released this morning indicates the U.S. economy lost 131,000 jobs last month. Much of the decrease was due to the completion of work performed by temporary Census workers. Private-sector employment edged up by 71,000. June's employment figures were revised downward from 125,000 jobs lost to 221,000.

The Obama administration [b]named 14 U.S.-based individuals who were accused of being part of a “deadly pipelineâ€

The current death toll in Pakistan's ongoing flooding is estimated at 1,600 people. As of Sunday, the impact is reported to have affected more than 15 million people. The U.N. said Monday that the number affected could exceed that of the 2004 Tsunami, 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and 2010 Haiti earthquake combined.

“A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland,â€

“The Taliban's increasing use of homemade bombs and political assassinations has been responsible for a 31% increase in the number of civilians who have been killed or injured in fighting in Afghanistan this year,â€

Sen. Michael Bennet beat Andrew Romanoff in Colorado's Democratic U.S. Senate primary yesterday, yielding “good news for President Obamaâ€

According to a new WSJ poll, “Just 24% express positive feelings about the Republican Party.â€

ThinkFast: August 13, 2010 » ~ By Think Progress at 9:00 am

Earlier this week, social conservative radio host [b]Dr. Laura Schlessinger “launched into a racially charged rant,â€

The United Nations warned Monday that up to 3.5 million children in Pakistan were at risk from water-borne diseases due to the ravaging floods. The World Health Organization said it is preparing to deal with tens of thousands of potential cholera cases. UN chief Ban Ki-Moon called the disaster the worst he has ever witnessed.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) suggested yesterday that the GOP will try to make an election issue of the debate surrounding the new Islamic Center in lower Manhattan. In Florida, Democrats are criticizing the project. Alex Sink, the candidate for governor, said 9/11 families “are opposed to this project and I share their view.â€

According to its July 15 filing with the IRS, Gov. Haley Barbour's (R-MS) Republican Governors Association received a $1 million contribution from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. While the company's media outlets, including Fox News and the New York Post, “play politics more openly than most,â€

Last night in an interview with CNN's Larry King, radio personality Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced that she will be ending her show at the end of the year. Schlessinger steps down amidst intensive criticism over her racially-charged rant last week, initially documented by Media Matters. She said she will not be renewing her contract in order to [url=http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008170071]“regainâ€