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A Day In The Life Of Sarah Palin

Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced David Brickner, director of Jews for Jesus, on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on Sarah Palin's church’s website.

Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God's "judgment of unbelief" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.

"Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can't miss it."

MAKE MONEY AT HOME!

Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home

Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel

By James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick, Washington Post

ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.

She wrote some form of "Lodging -- own residence" or "Lodging -- Wasilla residence" more than 30 times at the same time she took a per diem, according to the reports. In two dozen undated amendments to the reports, the governor deleted the reference to staying in her home but still charged the per diem.

Palin: Iraq War and Pipeline -- God's Will

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."

In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."

Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.

"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."

A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God's Web site before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet.

Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.

And she can do all this while speaking in tongues.

Spitzer Resigns Over 4,000 Iraq War Dead

New York Governor Elliot Spitzer took full responsibility for the more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and announced he would resign.

Spitzer barely held back tears as he told reporters, "By lying about weapons of mass destruction that don't exist, I have violated any sense of right or wrong."

The man elected by a 69% landslide in 2006 said no one could, in good conscience, continue to hold office after causing "so many needless deaths and diverting half a trillion dollars of our national treasure."

Spitzer said he would spend the rest of his life making his transgressions up to his family and the voters who placed their trust in him. He added that he also hoped to clear brush as a pennance.

$3 Trillion Iraq War

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has written "The Three Trillion Dollar War," a book with chilling details of how we've spent our treasure on an unprovoked war now longer-running than our involvement in World War II.

Stiglitz, who served for four years on Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and another three as chief economist at the World Bank, puts the cost of the Iraq war in context by detailing what one of these three trillions could have paid for:

• 8 million housing units or
• 15 million public school teachers or
• healthcare for 530 million children for a year or
• scholarships to university for 43 million students

Three trillion could have fixed America's social security problem for half a century. America, says Stiglitz, is currently spending $5bn a year in Africa, and worrying about being outflanked by China there: "Five billion is roughly 10 days' fighting, so you get a new metric of thinking about everything."

$16bn The amount the US spends on the monthly running costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - on top of regular defense spending

$138 The amount paid by every US household every month towards the current operating costs of the war

$19.3bn The amount Halliburton has received in single-source contracts for work in Iraq