Around the web on August 20th
Beach Volleyball: Unfair, I say! Russia to cut military ties with NATO Haircuts for the homeless Sex Dog saves kittens Another Obama VP possibility RNC Convention program (with Rudy and Lieberman and many more!) (0)

Sarah Palin for Vice President
I’m endorsing Sarah Palin for McCain’s VP choice.  90% approval rating in her home state of Alaska makes her the most popular Governor in the United States.  She’s young, but not too young, and smart.  And pretty solidly conservative. E.D. (2)

Non-news from Kos
The Daily Kos is publishing more not-newsworthy crap about military donors to the candidates campaigns.

If you add up all the pro-withdrawal candidates, you see the disparity getting huger: Obama + Clinton + Paul + DNC: $751,870 from 1,825 contributors The rest of the Republicans: $616,808 from 1,166 contributors

A few things about this that are silly: First, that’s a total of 2991 contributions.  Not a very good sample.  Second, if you do the numbers, GOP donors are generally donating more per contribution than Democratic donors are, by about $118 per contribution. Also funny:

Note that this only includes donations over $200. Smaller donations don’t need to be itemized by the campaigns. And given that enlisted personnel make less than $2,000 per month before taxes, we can assume that they’re not sending the bigger dollar contributions. As such, for Obama to score such a huge advantage among officers, which have always skewed more Republican is pretty startling.

So what Kos is assuming is that officers are more conservative than enlisted men.  Why he assumes this is beyond me.  Oh, and enlisted men can make a great deal more than $2000 a month as they move up the ranks…. In any case, it’s non-news.  It’s just Kos being an idiot. (1)

Search results...
Here’s a funny one–not sure how this lead here…those crazy search engines! “obama thug’s pull books off shelves” (0)

Theme work
I’m still working on new theme ideas.  You may have noticed, not much has changed.  Perhaps not much will… (0)

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I’m going to be playing around with various themes for a while.  Feedback is appreciated! (0)