In today's Morning News, we still can't shake our Daily Palin habit. A good thing too, because things got real funny with her/"her" this weekend! However, Cindy McCain wasn't laughing after a Friday appearance on The View. In fact, she's mad and using some pretty gruesome language. This brings us to ridding the world of fat, one back roll at a time. Plus, lead in kids toys, Ike, gas spikes, bank busts ... and more.
First, a little late-night TV first thing in the morning!
The LA Times reports Palin and her people, who watched the Saturday Night Live segment aboard a flight from Nevada to Colorado, were not amused. Really? Palin's hero Hillary laughed at herself on SNL all the time! Palin also took a beating over the weekend as reporters dug deeper into her background. The NY Times reported [here via MSNBC] she hired her high school classmate to run the agriculture department. Qualifications? BFF Franci's love of cows! (Awwww.)
The real Cindy McCain says the women of The View, who interviewed her husband and, later, the couple, on Friday's show, "picked our bones clean." She was venting at a weekend GOP fundraiser in Michigan and you can hear her comments here. Funny, the big bone-picking question was from Barbara Walters: she wanted to know how many houses the couple has. Cindy! You've had time to prepare for that question! American wants to know, too!
By the way, this guy thinks McCain's campaign has stretched the truth a tad too much in their ads, which is pretty rich coming from him.
The other candidate -- remember him? -- raised a record $66 million in August and a half million new donors. Fresh week, fresh money, could fresh ads be far behind?
So those foreclosures you keep seeing on your street? Yeah, well, they're nothing compared to what Lehman Brothers is going through. They couldn't find a buyer either and are now heading toward liquidation and who knows what it all means. Oh, and Merrill Lynch? Soon to be acquired by Bank of America. Would a little regulation in the mortgage markets have been so bad after all?
Hurricane Ike has rendered Galveston uninhabitable and gas prices for the rest of the nation are once again likely to hit a peak.
Rules are tightening on lead content in kids toys. The new lead safety standards take effect in February (AFTER to holidays -- ahem!) but apply to all toys regardless of when they're made. Companies have until after the first of the year to sell off their inventories including to overseas markets. Does that seem like a tighter lead standard to you?
Lets end on a lighter note -- or, if not lighter, firmer and better looking in body-hugging clothing. Plastic surgeons have come up with a new procedure to rid the world of sad, sagging backs. It's the upper-back lift! They even manage to hide the scar along your bra line.
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