HILLARY WHO??? JUST KIDDING -- WE LUV YA OLD GIRL!

Hillary Clinton was my preferred choice for President of Unite States. Unfortunately, a few misteps by her -- not to mention the awesomeness of Barack Obama -- has made Obama the choice candidate for the US presidency.

Anyway, we love ya Hillary. Great speech at the Democratic National Convention.

As for Obama, he is making all the right moves. It will be interesting to see him become the president of the United States. Obama's choice of Joe Biden as vice president is positively and infinitely more inspired than Sarah Palin by Obama's rival for the US presidency, John McCain. (McCain, in case you have not read my earlier blog entry, is Paris Hilton's arch nemesis.)

Anyway, here are some nice photos:

1. Hillary Clinton picture from UK's most excellent Telegraph UK website
2. Barack Obama portrait shot by the incomparable Martin Schoeller

HURRICANE GUSTAV FIZZLES... AS DOES SARAH PALIN

Sometimes one never knows if the media are making things up for the sake of scoring big on the ratings games or they are just stupid. The way CNN was going on and on about Hurricane Gustav, with the visuals of menacing red swirls approaching New Orleans in its weather reports, I was on the edge of my seat, almost fainting from the coverage-fatigue. "Ooo, that red swirl of the storm that CNN keeps showing must mean Hollywood-special-effects-grade kind of destruction for New Orleans!" I'd thought.

No, I am not evil and do not wish such a thing on the inhabitants of New Orleans. And I was happiest when the leaders there instructed people to evacuate parts that were in the path of Hurricane Gustav. My grouse is the emotional fatigue everyone went through because the American media spinning the web and trying to outdo one another in the doom-and-gloom-weather-forecast stakes.

From Category 3 storm, Gustav was downgraded to Category 2. And the quality of news coverage fizzled as did the storm. Thankfully!!!!! Amen! Now we can also focus our undivided attention on Sarah Palin and how unsuitable she is as a candidate for VP. Boy, does McCain suck in his choice of VP as far as the world audience is concerned! And CNN's Jonathan Mann and that other old guy (as Paris Hilton would have put it!) who're covering the Republican convention are so very lame as Republican apologists as far as Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter is concerned.

Anyway, back to Hurricane Gustav, it was a serious enough storm -- as these pictures from New York Times show.

(The weather maps are from CNN -- the red-yellow-green swirly one -- as well as from the US National Hurricane Center at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml)

PARIS HILTON BITCH-SLAPS JOHN MCCAIN -- IN HER OWN GENTLE WAY, OF COURSE

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Paris Hilton is possibly the most famous person on this planet who is famous for being famous -- does that make sense at all? Anyway, in the beginning Hilton was famous for no apparent reason at all, other than having a famous surname -- but the girl has developed a delightfully dizzy sense of humour over the years and has even managed to poise herself as a valid fashionista.

Recently the smug-faced US Presidential candidate John McCain took a swipe at the trinity of Barack Obama- Britney Spears-Paris Hilton in McCain's anti-Obama ad campaign. He'd wanted to tar them with the same brush -- but he's the one who's clucking with the feathers now.

This is because, if you take a swipe at Mizz Hilton, be very prepared: IF SHE SEES AN OPPORTUNITY TO MILK WHATEVER SHE CAN FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH -- expect her to zip out her platinum credit cards and swipe the card readers like crazy till they sizzle and smoke and she is able to cash in on the occasion -- and then we all get to see Mizz Hilton run away with the publicity borne out of it, tittering all the way to the bank.

In this case, all I can say is that McCain deserves the skewering he gets (for being so condescending and pop culture averse) and the best thing is that Paris Hilton still comes across as the vacuously pretty gal that she is. Hurrah.

NEWS TIDBITS

NEWS TIDBITS...

1. According to an AFP report carried in The Sun today (Friday, Sept 28), apparently there is a stress relief milk on sale in Japan costing US$43 for a 900ml bottle. Good heavens the price itself is cause for stress, don't you think!?
It was reported that the milk is extracted from cows on a weekly basis at the crack of dawn -- supposedly at a time when there is a lot of melatonin in the milk. Melatonin, the report explains, has stress-busting capabilities. The milk goes on sale next month, apparently.

2. The same paper has a report on famous-for-being-famous Paris Hilton. Apparently, Little Missy Hilton wants to go to Rwanda in Africa to devote her time to worthy causes. Is she going to pull a Simple Life stance at the Rwandan? I bet the rascally lass will! Paris would do anything for a spot of media publicity and I don't think she is genuine about anything in life. So there!