The exchange between the Grayson campaign and Sarah Palin is downright humorous ...

From the Grayson campaign site:

PALIN: "I got to meet quite a few candidates who are lining up in a contested primary who want to take out Alan Grayson. And I think Alan Grayson -- what can you say about Alan Grayson? Piper is with me tonight, so I won't say anything about Alan Grayson that can't be said around children.

-SNIP-

Palin, the former half-term Governor, current-nothing and future-even-less, charmed the all-Republican audience with her folksy folksiness and her homespun homespunnery. 

Very entertaining ...

eMail from Senator Leahy ... Just something to keep an eye on.

Time again for quarterly software updates. The site will be unavailable starting at 11PM Eastern Time and will be back just as soon as we apply the updates. Thank you for your patience. (sorry for the short notice).

Happy 2010 to the Community.  

As usual, the tech team will be playing around with the site(s).  Cleaning up the design is at the top of the list for 2010, so you will need to prepare yourself for change.  Maybe a little, maybe a lot.  

Just wondering .... Grab a screencap and share your greeting in the comments.

OH ...

Happy Ho-Ho-Holidays to all of ya.

Ran across this on YouTube (via another forum) and thought I would put it out there for discussion.

Are body bags an appropriate item for government health officials to send to communities as part of a PPP (Pandemic Preparedness Plan)?

Maintenance completed

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The site will be down for routine maintenance tonite at 9PM Eastern time.

The down time should be short, so don't panic, just check back.

Since the move and the upgrade we have been having some problems with embedding You Tubes. Thanks to the great folks at Drupal (who always seem to be one step ahead of me) we have a new module that adds embedding features for YouTube.

You will notice a new field on the form when you create a new commentary. All you have to do is paste the YouTube embed code in the box provided and your video will display at the end beginning of your post.

Things are slowly coming back to life. Tho, it appears we may have lost the "user pictures in posts" that are uploaded into your profile. [apologies to ya'll for that]. We have added several new features ... if anybody is having problems with posting please leave a comment.

The community is all a-"twitter" about new ways to promote commentaries. With the help of the Drupal community we are in the midst of integrating Twitter Tools for you to use.

You can set up your Twitter profile in your member account. After you click on edit, you will see the Twitter and Tweeting options.

Please provide feedback.  We have done minor testing and it all seems to be working but would appreciate some feedback from the community.

For those of you that watch Heroes, you will recognize the gentleman above as Syler (the ultimate evil).

Got this from a friend in the NW and thought it was just too good not to share.

Bill is standing on his back deck which is about two feet off the ground.

He is about six one and 250 lbs so she is a
fair-sized critter.

Originally posted 2009-04-07 20:00:13 -0500. Bumped and promoted by carol.

A little update on the goings on with AFRICOM ... It appears that the "mission goals" for AFRICOM are also being questioned by the GAO.

I found this article in the Stars and Stripes:

U.S. Africa Command needs to do a better job of conveying its mission and focus, if it is to overcome lingering concerns that the Defense Department is trying to militarize U.S. foreign policy in Africa, according to a government report issued last week. [emphasis mine]

Combating those misperceptions about its role on the African continent is one of three hurdles to the ultimate success of the Pentagon’s newest combatant command, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

END UPDATED REPORT

Bumped by susie dow. Rebumped - CM1

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