Fair and Balanced stories.

I went to see Fair Game the other week, and in truth it wasn’t half bad. Starting Naomi Watts and Sean Penn the movie is about the life of Valerie Plame, a former CIA agent, and her husband Joe Wilson, a former ambassador.

It’s a true story that occurred in 2002 when George Bush decided to go to war on the basis they had obtained uranium from Niger. As part of the intelligence to find out about Iraq’s possible weapons of mass destruction Joe Wilson is sent by the CIA to Niger in order to investigate the suspicion of ‘yellow cake’ being moved to Iraq.

He found no evidence whatsoever, so when Bush announces it as a reason for going to war, he publicly speaks out. Of course the government dislike this and retaliate by revealing the identity of his wife, Valerie. Yes folks, that’s illegal.

Bear Rhetoric.

Sarah Palin has the same effect on me as she does with many people. She makes me excruciatingly angry. A woman so mixed up in her own self-importance that she fails so catastrophically when it comes to simply acting like a normal human being.

Earlier this month, a man opened fire on a public meeting in Arizona killing six people including a nine year old girl and wounding 13 others. One of the 13 wounded was Democratic representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head at close range. Fortunately she survived the attack, and is recovering in hospital.