Repeating my 27 that Tony Powell gave a super commentary on Imus this morning about ending the infotainment and giving us real information about the issues so voters can make informed choices.

Telling to me that was on. The demand for issues-based reporting is growing stronger and stronger.

Either that or he’s a congenital liar.

Stuart told PolitiFact that in a conversation with Emmons after his article ran, she listed three titles. He said he could recall only two, and initially said they were I Told My Parents I’m Gay and I Asked My Sister. We looked for these titles; they don’t appear to exist. . .
Virtually every book store in Wasilla refused to sell it.

(The author) Bess said he gave two copies to the Wasilla Library, but they quickly disappeared. So he donated more copies.

The controversy over the book was part of the context of that time period, he said. “Knowing Sarah’s religious connections and the people involved, I would be surprised if my book was not one of those at issue,” Bess said. “But I don’t know that for a fact

was doing a little surfing to check on CalPERS (lg and influential CA public employees retirement entity)

they have posted losses of $30B since June – a 5% loss. They have a little shy of $250B in assets, but I don’t know whether to believe their “we’re gonna be fine” patter

but what really struck me – Sacramento has 7.3% Unemployment. 1.3% above the posted Nat’l average – wha ? Even outside the State/Fed Govt. sector, Sacramento had diverse and usually healthy employment- weathering storms in the past, always higher than Nat’l figures –

getting that canary in the coal mine feeling here

Journalists and bloggers scrutinizing Sarah Palin’s record of public service have made national news out of a 1996 library incident in Wasilla, Alaska. . .

Yes, and why is that so uncomfortable for you?

June Pinnell-Stephens, chair of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Alaska Library Association, was quoted in the September 4 Daily News as saying she had no record of any books being censored in the Wasilla library nor any conversations about the issue with Emmons, who was president of the association at the time. But she did recall that Palin “essentially forced Mary Ellen out. She all but fired her.” Other librarians began criticizing Palin on the “Librarians Against Palin” blog, which was formed after the 1996 story resurfaced. Discussion also erupted on the electronic discussion list of the American Library Association’s governing Council and quickly turned into the kind of political debate that ALA’s 501(c)3 tax-exempt status prohibits. After the ALA executive office cried foul, the discussion was moved to the electronic list of the ALA–Allied Professional Association, whose 501(c)6 tax status permits arguing for or against a candidate for elective office.

But it wasn’t really about a candidate, was it? It is something that is the central to librianship, e.g. freedom of information.
Honestly the ALA pains me with its timid crap. It’s not as if they haven’t joined forces with the ACLU before. Right wingers may call that “partisan” too.