Jeff Pelline's Sierra Foothills Report

There’s an interesting feature on some local blogs called “blog topics” — a feature that lets you create a list about a topic of your choice.

On this one, the “winners” (and I use that term loosely) include Greg Diaz, Doug LaMalfa and myself. Oh, and Tom McClintock. Look at all the important people we “outrank,” too. Even Ronald Reagan. And Martin Luther King Jr. Weird.

Greg, Doug and me should have a beer and discuss our fame.

Aanestad (7)
Bosetti (2)
Boxer (2)
Brown (2)
CABPRO (1)
Congress (15)
CRP (1)
Dahle (3)
Einstein Project (1)
Fiorina (1)
Gingrich (8)
Global Warming (1)
Green Power (1)
Gregory Diaz (15)
Herger (7)
Jeff Pelline (10)
LaMalfa (18)
Logue (10)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1)
McClintock (14)
McGuire (2)
NCCFD (1)
NCDCC (1)
NCRCC (5)
Nevada County (25)
Nevada County Elections (8)
Non-profits (5)
Obama (8)
Prop 23 (7)
Prop 25 (1)
Reagan (1)
Redistricting (2)
Rick Perry (3)
Rotary (4)
Russia (4)
Tea Party (4)
Whitman (1)

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I watched this commercial during the Giants-Cubs game on Saturday and — for some reason — it reminded me of many of our local political races over the years. Learning to “let it go” is a hard lesson to learn.

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“Looking for that special something to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee? In the past, you might have had to settle for a mug or tea towel but now retailers are coming up with more inventive, and tacky, souvenirs to mark the historic occasion,” the London Mail is reporting.

“From the ‘ice Queen scoop’ to the mug that mixes up its monarchs, here’s our pick of the strangest souvenirs on the market…

The rest of the article is here.

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“An Egyptian judge convicted former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule and sentenced him on Saturday to life in prison,” according to a Reuters report in the Christian Science Monitor.

“It was the first time a deposed Arab leader had faced an ordinary court in person since a wave of uprisings shook the Arab world last year, sweeping away four entrenched rulers.

“The ruling came at a politically fraught time for Egypt, two weeks before a runoff in its first free presidential election that will pit the Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned under Mubarak, against the deposed autocrat’s last prime minister.

“Mr. Mubarak, propped up on a hospital stretcher and wearing dark sunglasses, heard the verdict with a stony expression. He had been wheeled into the cage used in Egyptian courtrooms, while the other defendants stood.”

The rest of the article is here.

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