Starting the day by tying up some Sarah Palin loose ends.

Dan Mirvish, writing for the Huffington Post, reiterates that Palin's confusion about Africa being a country instead of a continent, is a FACT not fiction:

A Fox News spokeswoman tells me that the channel stands by Cameron's report that people associated with the McCain campaign told Fox News that Palin didn't know Africa was a continent. Cameron never said his source was the hoaxer in the Times story, she said. A journalist colleague has also told me he overheard Cameron say during the campaign that McCain campaign insiders were telling him that Palin wasn't as knowledgeable as one might expect, to put it politely. So, in other words, the hoax in question was on MSNBC, not Fox.

And like I also said in a recent post, Frank Bailey confirms that Palin did NOT know that Africa was a continent, and did not know a hell of a lot of others things you would expect a Vice Presidential candidate to know as well.

Switching gears it looks like the story that Palin might be getting ready to relocate her family to Arizona, something that has been discussed to death here at IM, seems to have gained increased credibility according to Politico:

The prospect of Sarah Palin running for president is, increasingly, dismissed by a political class that sees her facing weak poll numbers -- especially in key early states -- and doing nothing to correct them or to build the infrastructure for a run.

But I'm told Palin's camp is, at least, holding preliminary talks about how a campaign would look if she decides to run. One early decision, a source says: It would be based in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Bristol Palin recently bought a house in nearby Maricopa.

This, by the way, lends a little more credibility to the idea, most recently reported by the National Enquirer, that the Palin marriage is essentially over, because from what I have been told repeatedly Todd has absolutely no intention of leaving Alaska. If Palin does go, she will leave without her designated handbag carrier.

So does this mean for certain that Palin IS running in 2012? 

Well in Palin-land determining what is going to happen next is anyone's guess, especially since Palin seems completely uninterested in following the usual pathway toward a GOP nomination. Which includes scheduling a speech on the same day that the Republicans are to hold their first debate. However in my opinion the fact that she is skipping this debate does not mean she is not running, but it does indicate that she realizes that having an actual debate with the rest of the Republican hopefuls would trip her up right out of the gate.

No if Palin is going to run, she is going to stay far away from any opportunity for the American people to compare her side by side with her competition. And if she does throw her hat into the ring, and I am still not sure she still will, it will only be for the briefest of times, while she will tries to find some way to take herself out of contention BEFORE the opposition research already done by her GOP competition can be used against her.

And afterward she will simply write another book, rejoin the Fox News stable of airheads, and go back to being the celebrity that she always wanted to be in the first place.

And speaking of celebrity, the big news on the showbiz front is that the lovely and talented Julianne Moore will be playing Klondike Kardashian in the HBO version of the book "Game Change."

As those of you who read the book know, Palin was eviscerated by sources within the McCain campaign who revealed that she had wild mood swings, would not study for either her television interviews or even her VP debate, and overall was a nightmare to work with.

Add to that Moore's aggressive support for left wing political agenda items, and you have a combination that is sure to have little Palin-bot heads exploding all over the country.

In other words, to borrow from Martha Stewart, "It's a good thing."

If I have any real disagreement with this casting it is that other than the fact that both of them having two X chromosomes, what is it about Julianne Moore that conjures up the idea she would make a good Sarah Palin?

Because I just don't see it.

I mean seriously!