Denial ain't just a river in Egypt

Welcome to Palin for President 2012!

A blog by people who want to see Palin elected president in 2012.

Here's part of what they say about Palin: "A candidate like Governor Sarah Palin emerges once in a lifetime."

So true. And fortunate too.

Sarah Palin: Bizarre!

Leave it to Sarah Palin to knock the Michael Jackson death coverage off the cable news shows.

But she is the gift that keeps on giving.

Brad Woodhouse, communications director of the Democratic National Committee said that Palin's "decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today."

(Former Miami Herald political editor Tom Fiedler wonders if Palin has any plans to travel to Argentina.)

Whatever develops over the next few days we'll always have those fond memories of some of Palin's other bizarre moments.

Miami photographer in Afghanistan

A U.S. Marine from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. yells to his fellow Marines as they take enemy fire during the start of Operation Khanjari on July 2, 2009 in Main Poshteh, Afghanistan. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Miami resident and Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle is in the thick of the of the fighting in Afghanistan.

Today one of Joe's images from the fighting landed on the front page of both the New York Times and the Miami Herald.




The New York Times photo blog, Lens, featured more of Joe's images in a slideshow yesterday.

(The Denver Post's photo blog has also posted dozens of Joe's images here.)

This is not the first time that Joe, a former Sun-Sentinel photographer and so-so UM baseball player, has risked his life to cover a conflict.

As the post on Lens points out, Joe was wounded covering a battle in March of 2003 in Nasiriyah, Iraq.

Joe "was hit twice in the back by flying shrapnel from an exploding mortar shell. Spared serious injury by his flak jacket, he kept on taking and transmitting pictures. He recalled young Marines crawling up to him while the firefight raged to say: 'What are you doing out here? We have to be here. You don’t.' "

Could this be the end of the paparazzi?

As if the paparazzi didn't already have enough problems, now some smart-ass NYU graduate student has invented a device that will let the celebs turn the tables on the pesky photographers.

[The student,] "Adam Harvey recently invented a smart alternative for camera-shy celebrities, one that won’t tarnish their public image or end in an assault charge. His “anti-paparazzi device,” which is built into a clutch purse, uses a photo cell that picks up a photographer’s flash and communicates with a circuitboard, which then fires LED lights that flash back at paparazzi, ruining their photos."

Way to go Adam! Now all those paps will have to get real jobs! And when that happens; the terrorists have won!

Random Pixels 'feel-good' story of the day

Not the rescued puppy, but I like the picture!
St. Petersburg firefighters rescue puppy trapped in drainage pipe

Republican party continues to implode

You remember the Republicans, don't you?

The party that wants to take back the White House in 2012?

But all of their 2012 hopefuls are self-destructing.

And those who aren't imploding are forming up in circular firing squads.

And now comes this: Vanity Fair Article Starts Heated Debate Between High Profile Republicans

A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket - tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that paralyzed the campaign in its final days.

Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin, usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes. Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting.

William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard and at times an informal adviser to Sen. John McCain, touched off the latest back-and-forth Tuesday morning with a post on his magazine’s blog criticizing the Todd Purdum-authored Palin story and pointing a finger at Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign manager.