Publisher Simon & Schuster said Wednesday Hillary Clinton's will release a new book on
June 10 about her time flying around the world pretending to be Secretary of State, with candid reflections about key moments (?) during her time in office. Clinton's book has been widely anticipated by her supporters.
The former first lady and New York senator is already a best-selling author: Her 2003 memoir, "Living History," ( another book she didn't write) sold more than 1 million copies.
The book will address the "rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world" and 21st century challenges from "Crimea to climate change" and to help keep her name in the news as she teases the public while pretending to contemplate a second run for the White House. The volume is said to contain "vivid personal anecdotes" about her relationship with Barack Obama and her behind-the-scenes interactions with world leaders (I especially can't wait for the part about being falling down drunk and knocking herself out boarding her flight).
As of now, no title has been chosen,(attention Big Fur Hat) but the title "112 Countries and It’s Still All About My Hair” has been floated as a working title. The book is still unfinished, some embellishments still to be made.
For those interested in the thoughts and machinations of someone with no major accomplishments in 5 years can visit
Simon & Schuster's
'Hillary Clinton Memoir Website' to be met with a scary (I've been warned) oversize mugshot of Hillary and pre-order the book HERE.
Not to be outdone, Clinton's chief rival for the democrat nomination in 2016, Vice President Joe Biden, is working on his own massive tome of his time as Senator and VP entitled "Smokin' Joe: The man Who Could Spell Potato"
Defy the Narrative
If you were thinking I made that up, I didn’t. The story, complete with strap-on gas tanks for cows is here.
“A White House climate initiative has boosted a quixotic search for the “cow of the future”, a next-generation creature whose greenhouse gas emissions would be cut by anti-methane pills, burp scanners and gas backpacks.
Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is the primary man-made gas warming the planet, but methane is far more potent and the US’s biggest source of it is its 88m cattle, which produce more than landfill sites, natural gas leaks or hydraulic fracturing.
The Obama administration’s launch last month of a plan to curb methane emissions has given fresh relevance to climate-friendly technologies for cattle that range from dietary supplements and DNA gut tests to strap-on gas tanks.....”
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For many years now, conservatives have secretly feared the day when science would identify us as aberrant. Sadly, that time has come. Found in in the pages of the liberal-leaning Mother Jones Magazine is and a story about yet another attempt by scientists to chronicle the pathology of conservatism.
by John Kass
"Thanks to learned scientists, I’ve discovered that I suffer from the mental problem afflicting millions of Americans. It’s not really a disease. It’s more like a peculiarity, one that irritates polite society yet may be corrected with surgery to the frontal lobe.
According to research from professor John Hibbing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conservatives and liberals react differently to certain stimuli. Hibbing and his team have determined that conservatives dwell on negatives and have a stronger “disgust sensitivity” than do liberals.
This problem, researchers believe, could be genetic.
“So, if you have a negativity bias, and you focus more on the aversive and disgusting, then the world seems more threatening to you,” says the Mother Jones piece. “And thus, policies like supporting a stronger military, or being tougher on immigration, might feel very natural.”
Conservatives, perhaps foolishly, are the glass-is-half-empty people, always worrying about the Russians and China and what will happen to the Republic when the money runs out. As if.
And conservatives are anxious about the craziest things. For example, conservatives worry about Americans who use loud and chirpy voices to insist that they “have nothing to hide” and really don’t mind the National Security Agency snooping on every aspect of their lives.
Liberals focus on happy thoughts. One day it’s ballerinas, another day it could be the prospect of Congress doubling the federal income tax, or President Barack Obama being sworn in for a fifth term.
In 2002, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley (no bias there), studied the “psychology of conservatism.” According to a university press release, they found “the core” of conservatism is a “resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality.”
Does that mean conservatives are drooling racists? Or does it mean that they support the quaint American notion of meritocracy, which by definition leads to unequal outcomes?
Does it even matter anymore? "
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Victory Girls
Minnesota may be getting tired of joke politicians like Al Franken and Jesse Ventura. When Al Franken’s was elected five years ago, he started his political career with a lot of negative attention. He then decided to stop being such a flaming imbecile, and has kept an extremely low profile since then.
But even keeping a low profile couldn’t save him from Obamacare — his poll numbers have been steadily dropping. They aren’t low enough to make his seat easy pickings, but they’re enough to make him nervous. And when Sarah Palin came on the scene to endorse the leading candidate in the Republican primary, Julianne Ortman, Franken just about wet his pants… and scrambled to send out a pathetic warning to his supporters about her influence.
On Monday, Senator Franken sent out a dire email warning of Palin’s influence on the election. He also could not resist attacking the Koch brothers as well.
“Sarah Palin is now involved in the race — she just endorsed the Republican who, according to the Koch-affiliated poll, is only three points down. The Koch-backed attack group running ads against me just put out a new poll showing two of my Republican opponents within single digits — and, regardless of whether you trust their numbers, it’s sure to egg on more right-wing attacks.”
Franken no doubt is remembering his narrow — and contested — win over Norm Coleman in 2008, with just 312 votes giving him the victory out of over 3 million. He won after a recount, which was riddled with accusations of voter fraud. If the Koch poll he mentions is true, then Franken may indeed have cause to worry. And if he feels the need to send out e-mail warnings about Sarah Palin in order to gin up money, then he’s clearly feeling threatened. No one can say that’s a bad thing.
Red Alert
"The Democratic National Committee announced that it will reawaken the @JoeBiden Twitter handle, which had been dormant since the Obama administration began its second term last year. The account will be used to help promote Democratic candidates in the 2014 midterm elections.
“@JoeBiden will be another way for the Vice President to engage our supporters, spread the Democratic message and support our candidates heading into the midterm elections,” a DNC spokesperson said, according to TIME.
The VP — not to be confused with the @VP, his official administration Twitter handle — kicked off the new season of campaign tweeting with a message Monday morning, signed informally “-Joe.”
Will be waitin', Joe. Let er rip!
"A lengthy investigation by The Smoking Gun has uncovered remarkable details about Sharpton’s past work as an informant for a joint organized crime task force comprised of FBI agents and NYPD detectives, as well as his dealings with an assortment of wiseguys.
Beginning in the mid-1980s and spanning several years, Sharpton’s cooperation was fraught with danger since the FBI’s principal targets were leaders of the Genovese crime family, the country’s largest and most feared Mafia outfit.
