looking forward to it. NOT!

storms are brewin' in your head!

Saraaaaahahahahahahaha!

happy 4th of July, Republicans

something fishy in Alaska - hey, its your former Party savior.

the Republican plane still in a tailspin

decon jon

from The Daily Show/Comedy Central

and now a final word from the backstabbing Republicans

is Antarctica a country?

would they avoid difficult questions?

yo mama for Gen-O

a book would be out in no time ...

and so it begins ...

who's next? the aliens in Independence Day?

wow, they're so desperate!

ve arr sinking, capten!!

WTF is this bitch doing?

... one would like to ask her whether, like some of her co-religionists, she is a "premillenial dispensationalist"—in other words, someone who believes that there is no point in protecting and preserving the natural world, since the end of days will soon be upon us.

Holy Shit!!! why bother to live, Sarah?? in fact, let's all bring about Armageddon right now. start World War III and save God the trouble.

Jesus freakin C. He must be laughing at us. Laughing hard.

state of rogue

Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says [CNN]

what, you mean she's like this now?

i loves the smell of money

hey, i could have used that 150K! i'm Joe (Not) SixPack, but i actually pay taxes, dammit!!! Alaska residents get an annual check of $2,400 because of their gas/oil and they don't pay state income tax. try living in New York, i dares ya.

sarah night live

the Palin appearance on SNL was a little less than i expected ... i actually thought she was hosting the whole thing (which i believe she would have done a better job than Michael "You Can Use My Abs for Washboarding" Phelps).

since NBC didn't allow embedding this time (or maybe its too early on a Sunday morning), here's the Alec Baldwin segment. the Josh Brolin skits were much better than the Amy Poehler rap, although my wife was laughing about the mock moose shootings.

awesome!

Palin as President

six inch nails

guess who's waiting to click on the "download torrent" button.

fear of change

you should be more afraid of people doing the same shit over and over again.



at least some are.

alaskan assholes

well, well, well! who's Palin (sic) around with terrorists now?

they're on a roll

i don't think any group of people was happier with the emergence of Sarah Palin than the SNL writers.

clueless

just watched Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke, a perfect slam on Bush presidency on the way out, and reading Bob Herbert's latest op-ed, i can't help reprinting it here. goddamn it, it makes me angry. and i don't even have a vote.

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Palin’s Alternate Universe

Sarah Palin is the perfect exclamation point to the Bush years.

We’ve lived through nearly two terms of an administration that believed it could create its own reality:

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe. For Ms. Palin, such things as context, syntax and the proximity of answers to questions have no meaning.

In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan. He had warned that if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”

What Ms. Palin didn’t say was that the menace to freedom that Reagan was talking about was Medicare. As the historian Robert Dallek has pointed out, Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism, which would ‘invade every area of freedom in this country.’ ”

Does Ms. Palin agree with that Looney Tunes notion? Or was this just another case of the aw-shucks, darn-right, I’m-just-a-hockey-mom governor of Alaska mouthing something completely devoid of meaning?

Here’s Ms. Palin during the debate: “Say it ain’t so, Joe! There you go pointing backwards again ... Now, doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education, and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and God bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right?”

If Governor Palin didn’t like a question, or didn’t know the answer, she responded as though some other question had been asked. She made no bones about this, saying early in the debate: “I may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you want to hear.”

The problem with Ms. Palin’s candidacy is that John McCain might actually win this election, and then if something terrible happened, the country could be left with little more than an exclamation point as president.

After Ms. Palin had woven one of her particularly impenetrable linguistic webs, Joe Biden turned to the debate’s moderator, Gwen Ifill, and said: “Gwen, I don’t know where to start.”

Of course he didn’t know where to start because Ms. Palin’s words don’t mean anything. She’s all punctuation.

This is such a serious moment in American history that it’s hard to believe that someone with Ms. Palin’s limited skills could possibly be playing a leadership role. On the day before the debate, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, made an urgent appeal for more troops, saying the additional “boots on the ground,” as well as more helicopters and other vital equipment, were “needed as quickly as possible.”

The morning after the debate, the Labor Department announced that the employment situation in the U.S. had deteriorated even more than experts had expected. The nation lost nearly 160,000 jobs in September, more than double the monthly losses in July and August.

Conditions are probably worse than even those numbers indicate because the government’s statistics do not yet reflect the response of employers to the credit crisis that has taken such a hold in the last few weeks.

Where is the evidence that Governor Palin even understands these complex and enormously challenging problems? During the debate she twice referred to General McKiernan as “McClellan.” Neither Ms. Ifill nor Senator Biden corrected her.

But after Senator Biden suggested that John McCain’s answer to the nation’s energy problems was to “drill, drill, drill,” Ms. Palin promptly pointed out, as if scoring a point, that “the chant is ‘Drill, baby, drill!’ ”

How’s that for perspective? The credit markets are frozen. Our top general in Afghanistan is dialing 911. Americans are losing jobs by the scores of thousands. And Sarah Palin is making sure we know that the chant is “drill, baby, drill!” not “drill, drill, drill.”

John McCain has spent most of his adult life speaking of his love for his country. Maybe he sees something in Sarah Palin that most Americans do not. Maybe he is aware of qualities that lead him to believe she’d be as steady as Franklin Roosevelt in guiding the U.S. through a prolonged economic downturn. Maybe she’d be as wise and prudent in a national emergency as John Kennedy was during the Cuban missile crisis.

Maybe Senator McCain has reason to believe that it would not be the most colossal of errors to put Ms. Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency.

He’s got just four weeks to share that insight with the rest of us.