Former Second Runner up to Miss Alaska Sarah Palin talking about energy policy at a town hall in 2008, and

And Former Miss South Carolina answering question in 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant

Astronaut Edgar Martin says “I Want to Believe”:

Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up

FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’

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“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,” Dr Mitchell said.

“It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.

“I’ve been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it’s been happening quite a bit.”

Have pledged to fillibuster the telecom immunity billl (via HuffPo):

This is a deeply flawed bill, which does nothing more than offer retroactive immunity by another name. We strongly urge our colleagues to reject this so-called ‘compromise’ legislation and oppose any efforts to consider this bill in its current form. We will oppose efforts to end debate on this bill as long as it provides retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies that may have participated in the President’s warrantless wiretapping program, and as long as it fails to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans.

“If the Senate does proceed to this legislation, our immediate response will be to offer an amendment that strips the retroactive immunity provision out of the bill. We hope our colleagues will join us in supporting Americans’ civil liberties by opposing retroactive immunity and rejecting this so-called ‘compromise’ legislation.

There’s a word to describe these kind of people.

. . . but it might be time to go to rehab, after all.

LONDON (Reuters) - Soul singer Amy Winehouse has developed the lung condition emphysema and has been warned by doctors that she will die if she continues smoking drugs, her father said in an interview on Sunday.

Mitch Winehouse said the incurable illness, which leaves sufferers struggling for breath, was diagnosed when his daughter had series of health checks in hospital.

“The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won’t just ruin her voice, it will kill her,” he was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. “The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid — she wouldn’t have been able to breathe.”

He added: “She’s got emphysema. It’s in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.

“With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She’s got 70 percent lung capacity.”

And it’s worse, even, than Larry Johnson’s diseased imagination:

Okay, so it’s at a VFW hall, not Trinity Church. And maybe that isn’t Michelle Obama — but it’s close enough!

The latest Barack Obama controversy, after Bitter-gate. Fingergate.

During a speech, Obama scratched his cheek with his finger. His middle finger. So obviously, say some, he is giving Hillary Clinton the finger.

Except he isn’t pointing the finger forward, doesn’t appear to be curling his other fingers to make a fist with his hand, and doesn’t even curl his index finger down (look at the photo below from the LATimes link) so therefore appears to be giving Hillary a couple of fingers, whatever that means.

All I can conclude is that if, as the batshit crazy, or pro-Hillary camps believe, Obama is giving Hillary the finger, he has a lot to learn about proper presentation. This may be the one area in which our current President has excelled. Here is a much better example of the firm, unambiguous flipping of the bird:

MORE: John Cole also notices something problematic with the “OMG, Obama gave Hillary the finger!” hysteria, and a photograph taken from the side which rather conclusively debunks the single finger from the grassy knoll theory.

And MyDD has a comment with a frame-by-frame breakdown showing Obama raising two fingers, not one.

We all remember the classic song, “Ken Lee,” right?

Really