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  • Nov. 28th, 2009 at 12:46 AM
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New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012



Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha


Wait... that wasn't a joke? Oh, dear.

Sarah.

  • Nov. 18th, 2009 at 1:08 AM
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Why? Why do I find this woman fascinating?

I loathed her hate-mongering jingoism. I hated her apparent embrace of her own ignorance about international affairs and her, somehow, embracing the meme that this is a good thing. I dislike her socially conservative views and how that might have impacted policy if she were in the White House. But, I also thought that she was being pretty hideously treated by cowardly staff who lost an election and needed a fallguy to cover for their own incompetence.

I'm glad that the GOP lost the election of 2008. And, more, I'm glad that the brainless conservatives of the party weren't able to twist the electorate's views into believing that Sarah was ready for such a responsibility as being the #2 in the country with direct access to the Big Chair if God-forbid, something had happened to John.

It does break my heart that the current-Right still has such a strong voice all over the media. It also confuses and confounds me - that so many people are willing to cut off their own noses to spite the 'other side' continues to baffle me. And, Sarah remains a part of the crowd who utterly refuses to see that 'their side' has not exactly done wonders for the life of Americans in their years of power.

And yet, I'm not ready to see Sarah completely vanish from public life. It's possible that I just plain don't like how she's been mocked and used and gossiped about and belittled savagely on national television. It's possible, dear God help me, that I might actually sort-of, kind-of ... like her....

Maybe it's the fact that even if I emphatically disagree with her (and hate that she says hateful things about the President), at least she isn't phony. I don't feel like she's saying things because "the base" wants to hear it but because she actually believes them when she talks about reforming government and limiting its reach into our lives and budget self-discipline ... and maybe I'm just crazy.

I'm not going to buy her book. I don't want to see her in a position of policy-making within the government where her views could have a real impact on my life. But, I want her to keep speaking out about what she believes the government should or shouldn't be doing. Even if I think that some of it doesn't make much sense. Even if I will stand up and say that "this is crazy!", I want her voice to be heard.

Why?

Why do I give her a pass in a way that I wouldn't give one to Bachmann or Bounds or Hannity or whichever other Wingnut is saying something outrageous that week.


What is it about this woman that I find fascinating? I truly find my own reactions toward Sarah puzzling and bizarre....

Try OrlyNuts... they're delicious!

  • Sep. 16th, 2009 at 11:54 PM
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I've written before about the psycho lawyer/dentist who falls for just about every fake Kenyan birth certificate she can find online to "prove" that our President isn't really our President because he isn't a Conservative President, and surely real Americans wouldn't have voted him into office.


Well, Ms. Nutso-Cuckoo has once again had a suit dismissed challenging our elected President's eligibility to be elected in the first place. And wonderfully, the judge wasn't shy about telling her to stop wasting everyone's time:


“Finally, in a remarkable shifting of the traditional legal burden of proof, plaintiff unashamedly alleges that defendant has the burden to prove his ‘natural born’ status,” Land states. “Any middle school civics student would readily recognize the irony of abandoning fundamental principles upon which our country was founded in order to purportedly ‘protect and preserve’ those very principles.

“Unlike in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ simply saying something is so does not make it so,” Land says.


But, here's the best part -
Land ordered that the defendants — who include Obama, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Col. Thomas MacDonald, Fort Benning garrison commander — will recover any costs from the complaint from Rhodes.


Now, that's justice. Now, Captain Rhodes should be drummed out of the military with a dishonorable discharge... or sent immediately to southern Afghanistan since that is what she is obviously trying to avoid with this foolishness.

EDIT: Read the judge's dismissal order at "Below the Beltway".
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Orly Taitz
Philip J. Berg
"Ron Polarik"
Gary Kreep
Jerome Corsi
Michael Patrick Leahy



Birthers, all.


We're not laughing with you, Dears. We're definitely laughing at you... at least when we're not wondering how many more times you can repeat the same bogus, fact-free claims in public without being charged with defamation, anyway.


UPDATE: Oh, duh! Of course Taitz, et al, aren't pulling a fraud because they're die-never conservatives who are enslaved to Rush's version of the GOP... it's all of that Obama's fault, she's making a fool of herself and the Right in general!

How could I have not seen it sooner?


Belated exit question: Does anyone not think the Kenyan birth certificate was cooked up and leaked by Obama supporters, precisely because they knew Birthers would seize on it and make fools of themselves?


The answer is, "Yes, those of us not blindly partisan shills for the GOP do not think this was a brilliant plant by the President. And, Allahpundit is a giant ass."


Update (08/08/09) - See my August 8th post where I, damn it, have to apologize publically to Allahpundit.
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(Michelle Malkin on those unemployed parasites)

 

"If you put enough government cheese in front of people, they are just going to keep eating it and you're just kicking the can down the road. And just to hammer this point about the unemployment benefits extension again, it was Larry Katz, who's a chief labor economist for the Clinton labor department, who came out with a study -- and there are a lot of these smart economists who say this -- that if you keep extending these 'temporary' unemployment benefits you're just going to extend joblessness even more."




But, oops... Malkin's source, who she cited repeatedly, seems to think Malkin's wrong.


Because, we all know that folks on unemployment are there because they don't want the jobs that don't exist right now. They want that free government cheese... that wonderful, government cheese! Why work so you can, oh, not sleep on the streets or keep your utilities on, or buy steak once in a while when you can keep collecting a substandard cheesy-check from the government.


Thank god that Malkin is there to point out these truths to us - using sources who publically disagree with her. I mean, it's just SO obvious that the unemployed are what is causing unemployment! If we would just get them to stop collecting their benefits, by cutting them off, then - uh - apparently, jobs will just suddenly spring into existence? I'm sorry, are workers the creator of jobs - 'cause I totally did not know this.


I think I'll call on the underemployed honey to whip up a $250,000 job ... of course, maybe its only the folks who are collecting their unemployment benefit who have this magical power over the economy....

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Columbia student Barack Obama wrote for a campus newspaper. The article shows that Obama dreaded American "militarism" and its "military-industrial interests," while effusing enthusiasm for the dangerously delusional nuclear-freeze movement. 



Yep, folks! This is the smoking gun that the Right Wing has been looking for! The little tid-bit that would have made ALL the difference in the world and gotten McCain elected if ONLY the MSM had done their damned jobs, instead of kissing Obama's ass...


When he was 22 he didn't like Nuclear Weapons.  ANTI-AMERICAN RADICAL!!!!!!11111!!


Yes, that's right, because 1) a person's opinions never deviate one iota from the time they're shielded as a student in college to the time when they have to deal with the real world 2) anyone who doesn't think America needs enough Nuclear Weaponry to destroy all life single-handedly on the planet just wants our nation to be victims 3) the military, apparently, should have no controls on its spending - ever - for our own good, which apparently Obama didn't believe when he was a 22 year old student and 4) the fact that he's in Russia right now trying to come up with a new Nuclear Arms Control Treaty just proves that he hates America and wants to make us weak before the awesome might of Iran and North Korea. Because, you know, having a thousand warheads still is no where near enough to blast those two into the stone age if we really, really needed to - no, we need to have enough to actually eradicate the land masses they occupy as well.

Seriously - as far as I can tell, this is the whole point of this post - if we had only known that Obama wasn't a pro-nukes sort, we would have put Sarah in the White House! Pox on you media for not having dug this up before now...!




Or, as Steve Benen puts it....


Just as the line between the GOP establishment and the unhinged GOP base has become blurred in recent decades, so too has the line between the analysis offered by "serious" and "respectable" conservative voices and the unbalanced tirades put forward by the nutty conservative fringe.

Words to use with Caution

  • Jun. 15th, 2008 at 8:59 PM
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Have you ever been reading along to a fic that you are really into, and then suddenly get pulled out of the story because the author has used a word they think means something it doesn't?

In fact, have you ever had a misplaced word pointed out in your own fics?

Well, here are 
 "9 Words that Don't Mean What You Think" courtesy of the new site I've found that is loads of entertainment.


Have Fun,

Rob

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