View A: Sarah Palin is female, which will attract many of the Hillary supporters who are irrationally cheesed off with Obama for beating their woman in the primaries. She is a former beauty show contestant, so she is photogenic. She is anti-abortion and so attracts the far right Christian nutjobs. She is relatively young to balance against McCain’s extreme old age. She’ll look good on TV and will score highly with those who vote based on image and soundbites. And so she is a good choice for the Republicans.

View B: Sarah Palin has no foreign policy experience, no national experience. She has served half a term as governor of her state. Her major political experience comes from being mayor of a town of 9,000 people and 72 year old McCain wants to put her one heartbeat away from the presidency. She has used the power of her office to have her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired because he is divorced from her sister and in the midst of a nasty court battle over custody and visitation of their children. She is anti-abortion and pro-drilling for oil in protected areas of Alaska. And so she is a good choice for Democrats.

In other news,

The BBC reports:

A man who chose “Lloyds is pants” as his telephone banking password said he found it had been changed by a member of staff to “no it’s not”.

Steve Jetley, from Shrewsbury, said he chose the password after falling out with Lloyds TSB over insurance that came free with an account.

He said he was then banned from changing it back or to another password of “Barclays is better”.

I think it’s time to change my HSBC password.

Interesting article from The Independent (London) carried on Content Agenda about potential strategy shifts at iTunes:

Here’s the fundamental question: what is the point of the iTunes store if music is free?

Rumors are circulating that China Mobile will be the one selling the iPhone in China after all.

Protests in Thailand against the Prime Minister seem to be intensifying. Protesters are still occupying the PM’s compound and for awhile managed block airport entrances in Phuket, Krabi and Hat Yai, causing cancellations of some flights. Employees of the train system and Thai air are talking about going on strike.

A. L. Nanik writes in a letter to the SCMP that “there are thousands of foreign domestic helpers who come here with bad intentions.” Mr. or Ms. Nanik offers no proof of that assertion. Why does the SCMP continually allow this kind of nonsense to dirty up its pages?

Hongkie Town
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