Nightly Ramble: Love Child; Economically Illiterate;Kidnapping; More

• I find it interesting that the press is so busy bashing Sarah Palin’s 17 year old kid for a pregnancy, when it spent over two years hiding from sight the story of John Edwards ‘love child’, don’t you?
• The left

ABC’s Jake Tapper is reporting this morning another Democrat Point has been exposed as a lie:

Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that regardless of the impression given to members of the Alaskan Independence

This one’s been making the rounds.

EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1, 2008

NEW OFFICE POLICY

Dress Code:
1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to your salary.
2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci

I questioned the timing of the way things ramped up on the Palin thing in Alaska, a couple days ago. Turns out, I was right, again… the guy supposedly investigating her is Hollis French, who is listed on the Obama

Don LaFontaine, the man whose resonant voice read the trailers of thousands of movies over the past three decades, died

• Rumor has it that Amy Winehouse is dain bramaged after a 36 hours pot marathon. Of course that was the rumor BEFORE that, too. And look, I know, OK, so don’t start with me. But when someone is that determined

CMT is reporting sad news:

Jerry Reed, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor whose No. 1 country hits include “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot,” “Lord, Mr. Ford” and “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft),” died Tuesday (Sept. 2).

It’s true… it must be, I saw it on the web.

The vast majority of Americans do not know that it is rumored that Sen. Joe Biden is able to keep his hair thicker than it would otherwise be thanks

I note McQ jabing at Sullivan again… and rightly:

Check out this Sullivan post entitled “The Press is asking questions”:

In other words: doing their job. And the McCain camp is appalled:

A senior McCain campaign official said the McCain

NY436 outside Nundea, NY, facing west at sundown on the last day of summer ’08

As usual, drill the pic tice for the huge version.. which really looks better. Apparently, one of the problems with this new system I’m using

• The U.S. military has handed over security control of the western province of Anbar to Iraqi forces. BBCT: McQ Well, at least the leftist nutjobs aren’t saying anything about it, being too busy trying to Derail Palin.  Apparently there’s not

Bruce at Q&O dives into the swamp known as Gustav in relation to the RNC. It’s a worthy article, but one point of disagreement:

Frankly, keeping Bush out of the convention limelight is a positive. How to do that without

Decided to make a run to Dansville, NY… about an hour’s drive south of Rochester, to catch the annual Balloon Festival. This is usually a two day event. Actually, we’d planned to camp down there for the weekend, but (Shrug)

I’ll state this up front; I have no idea who Rogers Cadenhead is, nor do I much care, frankly.  But knowing something of the history of Alan Colmes, I can’t say I’m much surprised to find him in agreement with

At this point, I realize I’m belaboring the point. “Sarah Palin is an awful choice for a running mate,” I can hear you saying, “We get it.”

No, Benen, that’s us, for the 20th time and more, tagging you as