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As I've said before, it's almost like President Obama is one by one tackling every campaign promise and really every political opinion I've ever had since day one. Admittedly, it took this pretty easy to fix one a while before it was addressed - but late is better than never. Homeland Security Ditching "Color Threat System" Or even better, here's the CNN blog of " Why the Color System never made any sense in the first place ." I have personally on at least one occasion written to Secretary Napolitano asking the Department of Homeland Security remove the system, back in 2009. Lol, I occasionally get the urge to write to people or things like that. A few weeks ago I wrote to PayPal telling them I support their efforts to distance themselves from WikiLeaks, even if it got their website attacked a few times. Picture of the Day: A news article called this the next product of "the Cult of Sarah Palin." A comic book called "Steampunk Pa...

So as I have mentioned, I occasionally follow several blogs devoted to following the career of Hillary Clinton (such as All Things Hillary , Secretary Clinton , etc.) And occasionally they post a "pic-spam" which is just bunches and bunches of pics from an event or dinner or something, often with a bunch of pics of Hillary. Well, I like to occasionally post pic spams of random things I find lying around my computer when I'm trying to clean it (metaphorically speaking of course.) ROFL! Points to Patsy for sending this to me, but I get a kick out of the fact that the first thing Mike thought of when he saw this was me too. Here we have someone's Post Secret card from the popular book series and website , that's updated daily ala` FML: ----------------------------------- ^Bonus features of my TV show: another look at the Birmingham trip, 2009. See what didn't make Facebook. Here's the Africa room of the Birmingham Art Museum. ^Here's an interesting wee bi...

In politics today, President-elect Barack Obama has announced a whole bunch of positions (officially) at once today - his special hoosy-whatsit team. Top of this team? Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State! n.n This means she'll be in charge of representing America abroad - ala current Condoleezza Rice, and former Colin Powell. This also means on the Presidential order of succession, she's fifth to be president in a horrible crisis. (President, VP, Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, and Secretary of State.) Other nominations today, names you probably won't know: Eric Holder as Attorney General, Janet Napolitano as Sec. of Homeland Security, Susan Rice (no relation to Condoleeza) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and two Republicans. Yes, Barack Obama is having Republicans on his cabinet, mr. uniter himself. Gates (Bush's current Sec of Defense) will stay on, and Jim Johns or Jones (haha, no relation here either) another republican will be National Se...