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BREAKING NEWS : Mark Penn Quits Clinton Campaign

Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist has resigned from the Clinton campaign amid allegations of conflict of interest and ethical improprieties.

Penn had worked full time for the Clinton campaign even though he had not taken a sabbatical from his position as CEO of the international communications and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller. What that meant was clear : Penn was taking meetings with political, corporate and consular clients while managing the campaign of a potential future president of the United States.

One of those clients was the government of Colombia, which had hired the firm in order to market in Capitol Hill a bilateral free-trade agreement with the United States as well as their anti-drug trafficking initiatives.

Penn vigorously defended the meeting saying he was there as CEO of Burson-Marsteller, not as campaign manager of the Senator. Yet he later retracted after it was revealed that Clinton was opposed to the trade agreement as well as her supporters with the labor movement.

Kick a Migrant

Presented without comment, although I find it interesting that Australians use the term 'migrant' and not 'immigrant'.

This from the website :

Before you begin:

The following game is not real - it is a "Mock-Ad".

It is a 'what if' response to a challenge issued by Adnews to Amnesia.

The brief : How to change the 'negative' public perception of Migrants in Australia.

Amnesia's response is a 'part viral, part digital media campaign'

It is designed to hit at the heart of the matter and challenge perceptions in an interactive manner - we are using tested viral techniques and a game mechanic. "Mini-games' as a delivery format crosses all ages and genders and also has a suprisingly large percentage of female and older players making it perfect to carry a message.

The game is designed to appear tasteless (at first sight) in order to provoke a response by any person who has strong feelings either way - but the result of 'kicking a migrant' delivers the "real" concequnces both to our Economy and the social impact. Try it and see...

Go to the game.

Goes to show that good diplomacy has nothing to do with good PR

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/karen_hughes

Karen Hughes, the second most powerful woman in Bush's cabinet, bids adieu. She started out as Dubya's communications director back in the day in Texas. His narcissism led him to believe she could talk pretty around the world about him and earn back the political capital he squandered while fiddling over Iraq. Here's a hint about her departure is so full of FAIL : Bush and Rice had picked Hughes two years ago to retool the way the United States sells its policies, ideals and views overseas. WTF?!? She was there to selldiplomacy? Geezus.

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The most mysogynist Mother's Day related press release ...ever!

What better way to say mom, "I Love You", than to tell her she is a fat and ugly troll that needs to be nipped and tucked if she ever wants her kids to not walk in shame next to her or for her husband to bang the teenage bagger at the Stop 'N Shop.

What: The hot gift this Mother's Day is not a Macy's gift, but gift certificates for enhancements and/or procedures at a plastic surgeon's office.

Daughters and sons want their mothers to recapture the Fountain of Youth and to look like the hot models and actresses that grace magazine covers. In addition to breast augmentations and enhancements, families are vying for their mothers to get microdermabrasions, facial peels, Botox injections and cellulite reductions.

Who: Dr. Stephen Greenberg, one of the leading doctors in the NYC area, is selling a record number of gift certificates to husbands and children for their loved one. Next month, he will be one of the first doctors in the region to offer the new miracle treatment PERLANE (R) that effectively reduces facial fold and wrinkles in a non-invasive procedure. Dr. Greenberg is available for interviews and can also demonstrate the procedures that mothers want in time for their big day. CONTACT: BRUCE LYNN (516) 827-7773

Source: Dr. Stephen Greenberg

Un-effing-believable.

This guy is out in Long Island so that may explain some of the shameless cheerleading of body dysmorphia.

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Spammers know this and that's why this blog has been under attack from them for years. What they don't know is that we have instituted a site-wide NOFOLLOW rule for all of our comments. What does it mean?

We get about 2000 comment spams a day. On a slow day. Many unethical SEO companies try to embed links in our blogs so they can poach and use for their splogs our reputation and high-ranking in search engines like Google.

So, I have taken the drastic measure to block all search engine traffic from our comments section. ALL OF IT. This means you will not get any search engine benefits from links in our comments, but you will get whatever traffic is generated when someone clicks on a link to your organization or blog.

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Yah.

We are the thinking woman's (and man's) blog. Welcome to the thinkidrome.

Heh.

I owe the blogs hard thinkitude to my sluttish attraction to good writing. I have always made it a point to drag into this here blog the bloggers I love to read elsewhere.

Call it blogmiscuity, but it works.

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Click on "My Account" to go to your profile page.

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