Thursday, February 07, 2008

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hei Fat Choi! It's the year of the rat and hopefully it means a good year for me. :) How am I going to celebrate? I've taken the day off of work and will sit back and relax. Hope everyone has a good new year!

Monday, February 04, 2008

Politics and Smear Campaigns

I don't keep up with politics very much. It isn't one of those topics which keeps my interest for every long. What did catch my attention, however, was in 2000 there was a smear campaign that occurred against John McCain.

He adopted a child from Bangladesh and she was crippled. She was also very dark skinned. It turns out that while in SC in 2000, there was a smear campaign against him that insinuated he had fathered an illegitimate black child. O.o More details are here

I'm glad that this is all behind him now because that's a terrible story to have to live through and combat