THE IOWA REPUBLICAN EXCLUSIVE:  PALIN TO FLY TO NEW HAMPSHIRE FOLLOWING IOWA APPEARANCE…
(TIR)…High level Iowa Republicans tell TheIowaRepublican.com that Sarah Palin will fly to New Hampshire following her September 3^rd appearance in central Iowa.
Speculation has been swirling about whether or not Palin will use her Iowa appearance in Iowa over Labor Day weekend to join the field of Republican candidates.  The news that Palin is New Hampshire bound after her Iowa speech will only add to the speculation that she may be entering the Republican presidential field.
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Oh No!  Looks like the police are acting “stupidly” again.  Would it be appropriate to have a “beer summit” under these circumstances?
(Dailymail)…Barack Obama’s ‘Uncle Omar’ is being held on suspicion of being in the U.S. illegally after he was allegedly being caught driving drunk.  Onyango Obama, 67, narrowly avoided crashing his 4×4 into a police car while over the legal limit, prosecutors claimed.  He is a long-lost relative of the President and had moved to America in the 1960s, The Times revealed.  After he appeared on the drunk-driving charge, a judge ordered that Mr Obama must be remanded in custody because there is an outstanding warrant for his arrest as he is an illegal immigrant.  The whereabouts of the Kenyan was unknown – although it had been thought he was living in Massachusetts where he was arrested.  The President wrote in his book Dreams from My Father in 1995 that Onyango Obama was “the uncle who left for America 25 years ago and had never come back”.  (more…)

(Space.com)…The International Space Station may have to start operating without a crew in November if Russian engineers don’t figure out soon what caused a recent rocket failure, NASA officials announced today (Aug. 29).  The unmanned Russian cargo ship Progress 44 crashed just after its Aug. 24 launch to deliver 2.9 tons of supplies to the orbiting lab. The failure was caused by a problem with the Progress’ Soyuz rocket, which is similar to the one Russia uses to launch its crew-carrying vehicle — also called Soyuz — to the station. (more…)

The date was August 29, 1988 when Todd Palin and Sarah Louise Heath decided to forgo the big wedding, and instead eloped to the tiny courthouse in Palmer, Alaska.  Todd said, “We had a bad fishing year that year, so we didn’t have any money.  So we decided to spend thirty-five bucks and go down to the courthouse.” Sarah and Todd had dated since high school, and reportedly used two residents of a nearby nursing home as witnesses to their nuptials.  Palin said that her earrings were a gift from her husband’s Yup’ik Eskimo mother, and the $35 wedding ring from Hawaii she bought herself. “Because with my ring, I always thought, it’s not what it’s made of, it’s what it represents.”  (more…)

Karl Rove understands the magnitude of Sarah Palin’s political potential.  He knows the effect her declaration of candidacy would have on the GOP lineup.  That’s why he’s desperately trying to get her to make a declaration of candidacy on HIS terms and not hers.  Last night, on Greta Van Susteren’s ‘On The Record’, he advised Palin to…”Grow  thicker skin.”

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Washington Monument cracks indicate earthquake damage (Photos)

(WashingtonPost)…More damage found inside the Washington Monument Wednesday, including a four-foot-long fissure in the pyramid-shaped cap at the top, indicates that the earthquake did not leave the capital region unscathed.
A one-inch wide, four-foot long crack was spotted Wednesday in the Washington Monument’s pyramidion, near the very top of the 555-foot obelisk. It looks like they are going to need grout mixing advice. (U.S. Park Police Aviation) (more…)

Tired of having your chain yanked once too often with those phony ‘feel good’ commercials?  Yeah…..me too!  The folks at People’s Cube show us what ads would look like if there really was truth in advertising.  You know….keepin’ it real. 

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Dick Cheney urged George W Bush to bomb Syria…

(TheTelegraph)…Dick Cheney urged President George W. Bush to bomb Syria in 2007, the new autobiography of the then United States vice-president reveals.

Last Friday the funeral for Petty Officer Jon Tumilson, 35, was held in his hometown of Rockford, Iowa at the Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Community School.  Tumilson was one of the thirty-eight elite Navy SEALS that died in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan earlier this month.  He was, as they say, the tip of the spear…the first to go in and the leading edge.  Throughout the entire funeral, Tumilson’s devoted Labrador retriever, “Hawkeye”, guarded the coffin refusing to leave his master’s side. 
As the saying goes…may all of us strive to be as good as our dogs believe we are.  (more…)

The tech community tonight experienced its version of an earthquake.
(CNNMoney)…Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive officer of Apple (AAPL). The company has promoted chief operating officer Tim Cook to the position of CEO and said that Cook will join the company’s board of directors. Jobs will become Apple’s chairman.
Here is a copy of Jobs’ resignation letter:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: (more…)