6:50pm, Edmond Santa Fe High School auditorium
Karla and Ashley wait for the start of Sarah’s induction ceremony for DECA.
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7:15pm, Edmond Santa Fe High School auditorium
Sarah (fourth from the right) takes the officer’s oath during the induction ceremony for DECA. In her first year in DECA, the membership voted her to be Reporter for the club. The club’s adviser speaks very highly of Sarah and believes she has a promising future in the organization.
(Yes, yes, I know… the photo is horrible. Someone… cough, cough… was too lazy to bring his real camera to the event and take decent photos. What kind of a father would do that?)
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“The fate of empires is very often sealed by the interaction of war and debt. That was true of the British Empire, whose finances deteriorated from the First World War onwards, and of the Soviet Union. Defeat in Afghanistan and the economic burden of trying to respond to Reagan’s technically flawed but politically extremely effective Star Wars program were vital factors in triggering the Soviet collapse. Despite its insistent exceptionalism, America is no different.”
MSNBC.com has a story about a man who dived into a Florida marina to save his dog from the jaws of a 5-foot shark. Read the story here. (I’d reprint an excerpt of the story here, but the AP has become militant about “copyright infringement” of its stories, even if it’s just the first paragraph.)
11:58am, Park Avenue at Robinson Avenue, Downtown Oklahoma City
Downtown bustles during the noon hour as people venture out to enjoy the beautiful day over their lunch break. Today is absolutely gorgeous and the perfect temperature!
TPM Election Central takes note of the GOP nominees latest “do as I say, not as I do” moment…
In public remarks a little while ago, John McCain professed his disappointment with the “lack of bipartisan good will” in dealing with the financial crisis, and called for everyone to “come together in a bipartisan way” in order to chart the way forward.
At around the same time, his campaign released a new ad directly attacking Democrats and Obama and blaming them for the meltdown.
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McCain made his remarks calling for bipartisanship at around 11:10 this morning. The McCain campaign sent out the ad attacking Dems and Obama at 11:26.
So it only took 16 minutes for the McCain campaign to drop its principal’s bipartisan pretenses. Which is actually an improvement over yesterday, when McCain managed to attack Obama over the crisis and then call for no finger-pointing in the space of only two sentences.
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Announcer: “Last week, another bank went under — but its CEO could walk away with $19 million. John McCain’s advisor, Carly Fiorina: The fired CEO who left with $42 million.”
Obama: “You’ve got corporate executives who are giving themselves million dollar golden parachutes and leaving workers high and dry. That’s wrong, it’s an outrage.” *
It is indeed an outrage. This has been a problem for a long time… and it’s contributed to the current financial crisis because these people haven’t had meaningful consequences to their poor decisions and bad management. Firing people who do a poor job running your company by giving them multi-million dollar “golden parachutes” is not accountability… it’s a reward! If only I could be fired with such a severance package, I wouldn’t worry about screwing up either!
A reader of The Daily Dish writes about the possibility of a Sarah Palin vice presidency sinking in:
It dawned on me this morning just how bad a pick Sarah Palin is. Driving to work, I realized that I understand the pertinent issues of the day far more than she does. I realized that I would be a better pick for VP. In that moment: fear.
Who knew that John McCain’s VP pick could do so much to improve the standing of the current occupant of the White House in the competency department?
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