It appears that Sarah Palin, freshly embarked upon her new career autographing manuscripts for profit, has decided to invest some of her earnings into the Wasilla economy:

As was reported first by our friend Gryphen from Immoral Minority, the Palins are currently constructing a new chateau-type building on a property right next to their house in Wasilla. As Gryphen found out, the ground on which this new building is being erected was apparently bought by the Palins on July 14, 2009 — two weeks after she resigned.

Well, that’s mildly interesting, in a slow-Monday sort of way. But not nearly as interesting as the shocking discoveries! accompanying the exclusive photos!

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…for screwing up the West Coast premiere of Venture Bros. Everyone in the wrong time zone saw the first fifteen minutes. Twice.

Growing mob of angry fanboys [Adult Swim forum]

The Balloon Boy Hoax is now official!

The episode that transfixed the nation last week — a spaceship-like balloon floating through the Colorado skies with a 6-year-old boy named Falcon believed to be inside — was declared “a hoax” by the Larimer County sheriff’s office on Sunday.

“It has been determined that this is a hoax, that it was a publicity stunt,” the Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said at a news conference in Fort Collins, Colo., one day after re-interviewing members of the now-famous Heene family about the case. “We have evidence to indicate it was a publicity stunt done with the hope of marketing themselves to a realty television show sometime in the future.”

Falcon’s parents are in deep shit for the stunt — three felonies are being considered, incluing “conspiracy between the husband and the wife to commit a crime, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and an attempt to influence a public servant, the last of which carries a prison term of six years.”

We of course were hesitant to call the play based on what seemed an uncertain response by Falcon to Wolf Blitzer’s question, and we regret missing the opportunity to join early in the vituperation. But everyone must admit it was a damn good show, start to (now) finish.

Sheriff Calls Balloon Chase a Hoax [NYT]

Which PayPal link would Jesus click?

Go ahead – send BlueGal some love.

It’s the first Sunday of The Great NFL Fan Strike, so let’s check in with the Dittoheads who are giving up America’s Corporate Pasttime in solidarity with their Oxy-addled leader who cared too much:

• Margarita: “First the commies took the auto industry then they’re working on national health care scam…but the NFL????”
• Mary: “Frankly, this is even worse than the entire steroid scandal.”
• Glenn: “The NFL…yet another bunch of liberal mind controlled by Obama creeps.”
• Bobby: “An attack on Rush like this is an attack on all of us. People said that I was paranoid when I told them that my car had been vandalized just because I had conservative bumper stickers on it.”

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Bono’s totally OK with Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize:

“We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”

They’re not my words, they’re your president’s. If they’re not familiar, it’s because they didn’t make many headlines. But for me, these 36 words are why I believe Mr. Obama could well be a force for peace and prosperity — if the words signal action.

So chill, everybody. It’s cool.

(p.s. don’t delay your planned post on account of this, NOJO.)

Title: “America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty”

Author: Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.

Rank: 31

Blurb: “As policy-makers manipulate the economic panic of our times to advance a globalist agenda that threatens American sovereignty, we must protect our independent and self-governing nation and preserve the decades of economic power and military strength we have enjoyed since the end of World War II.”

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