Oh lord. Maybe before pretending you are qualified to decide the reproductive rights of all the women in the U.S., you should talk to your own daughter about teen sex and how to avoid pregnancy.
I can't imagine what this is going to do to the conservative vote now.

Quoted: Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, is pregnant and will keep the baby and marry the father, a senior aide to Sen. John McCain confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
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Republican presidential candidate McCain was aware of Bristol Palin's pregnancy before he chose her mother for his running mate, the aide said.
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"Senator McCain knew this and felt in no way did it disqualify her from being vice president," said the aide. "Families have difficulties sometimes, and lucky for her she has a supportive family."

A little bit of fun for Friday again!

Quoted: Tasmania is being warned it is at threat from the spread of a hazardous algae called Rock Snot.

I don't really see this as a contradiction. He is supporting one writer's work of fiction while fighting a libel case. They really aren't related.

Quoted: Sir Salman Rushdie has accused his publisher of censorship at the same time as trying to prevent the release of a book that criticises him. The novelist, who spent nearly a decade under a fatwa from the Iranian government after the publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988, attacked Random House for pulping a historical novel about the Prophet Mohamed for fear of offending Muslims.

Some of these numbers are ridiculous. The USDA forecasts a 14 percent price increase for eggs? Who wants to go in together on buying a chicken?

Quoted: U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.

Interesting ... this seems to be working for most govt. employees so far in Utah.

Quoted: Gov. Chris Gregoire is considering a proposal from state employees to move state government to a four-day workweek to save money on energy.
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Gregoire sent an e-mail to state workers Friday, saying the most popular suggestion from state employees for savings since she started a hiring freeze Aug. 4 has been to move to a shorter workweek with longer days.

Wow ... this is fascinating.

Quoted: Famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world.
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They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt.

Sad news ...

Quoted: One of the oldest orcas in Puget Sound pods is missing and presumed dead.
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Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research at Friday Harbor says a whale known as K-7 or Lummi has not been seen since the K pod returned in June. As the oldest female it was the leader of the 20 whales in the group.

Argh. If you know me, you know that spelling is one of my pet peeves. I don't think we should ever allow misspellings or mispronunciations (nuclear is not pronounced NEW-kew-lar) to be excused. We need to fix education systems so that they are able to, well, educate again.

Quoted: A university lecturer, fed up with having to correct his undergraduates' flood of basic spelling mistakes, is calling for a spelling amnesty on the most common slips.
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Jack Bovill, chairman of the Spelling Society, said its national survey had shown up to 54 per cent of people couldn't spell words such as 'embarrassed', 'separate', 'accommodation', 'millennium' and 'friend'.
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But he said the society did not advocate changing the spellings.

FYI for those of you who travel to Canada regularly ...

Quoted: It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter if the worst thing you've ever done is jaywalked.
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Border agents can now take your laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location indefinitely and share its contents with other agencies.
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The policy includes hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers video and audio tapes. Books, pamphlets and other written materials can also be seized.