Needlenose

Some pinhead pol in S. Carolina wants to create his own gold-based state currency.  He’s joined by some other Wingnuts in Virginia, Georgia & Utah that not only want to print their own money, but mint it as well. What do these states have in common?  They all take in more money from the Feds then they pay in taxes!  They aren’t going far enough with this currency idea, they should just frickin’ secede if they have a beef with our currency.

Tip of the ‘Nose to Film Critic Buddy

The 2,000-plus miles of the Appalachian Trail might be considered a brisk stroll in comparison to the long verbal road South Carolina governor Mark Sanford took in today’s press conference, before finally admitting that his mysterious 7-day disappearance from the state was related to an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina.

He didn’t have much choice.  Once he was surprised by a local reporter at the Atlanta airport (where he’d hoped to evade notice), there was no way to keep the media from dissecting clues about where he’d been, and no plausible cover story he could tell to end the speculation (especially since the real story was already leaking out).

It’s amusing, though, that Sanford implied in the press conference that he was down in Buenos Aires putting an end to the affair.  Seven days seems like an awfully long time to spend breaking up, y’know?

“They’ve tried to suppress black voting, they’ve ran on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina. And from top to bottom, the Republicans supported it. So I don’t see what they’re jumping on Trent Lott about… that’s the Republican policy. How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?”

(Full text of Clinton’s comments here)