"We'll soon attach info on decision to not seek re-election ... this is in Alaska's best interest, my family's happy ... it is good. Stay tuned" (source)

Happy 4th!

This is how we do in Florida...water spout next to you and business as usual...

Update (Thanks c) - Video of the Day:

"I used to joke around with John McCain during the campaign about coming jogging with me. And once I asked him what his favorite exercise was, and he said, 'I go wading.' Wading. He lives on a creek in Arizona, so he goes wading. That cracked me up."  (source)

From NY Daily News:

Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people’s minds off his own cheating scandal.  Former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Young’s book proposal.

New rule: The counter resets to the date of the story for the scandal.  There's just too much effort.  In this case we'd be asking the question, when was the tape made?  Another rule: Additional information doesn't reset the counter.  If the first news was of the tape of the affair, we'd reset the counter.  The point isn't to follow the lurid details as much as resetting the counter once per person.  Possibly in extreme cases if a person were to be re-elected and again sexual misconduct was found, someone might be able to score the infamous two re-setter.

And now here it is, your quote of the day: "According to our source, Hunter confided to Young that she and Edwards talked about getting married should the candidate’s cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, pass away, even discussing what music they’d play at their wedding."