The End Of The World

she is a living cliche

Palin quits before finishing the 5K Turkey Trot race.
On Wednesday, Sarah Palin excitedly announced on Twitter that she was going to be running a 5K Turkey Trot charity race in Washington state on Thanksgiving day. Large crowds of people turned out to catch Palin at the race, hoping to get the chance to meet the former Alaska governor. Palin, however, quit the race early to avoid many of her fans:

Palin had announced on Twitter that she would be running the 5k race organized by the Benton-Franklin Chapter of the Red Cross.

She didn’t finish the race, opting to leave the course early to avoid more crowds at the end. About 40 minutes into the run, word started trickling out to people gathered at the finish line that she was gone.

Wonkette also points out that Palin said she wasn’t going to be making a turkey dinner for Thanksgiving because it was “too much work.”

(Think Progress)

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Is she just a comedian in disguise? Cuz she's writing her own material all the time!

Obama working on climate pact

Richard Wolffe: Obama's Secret Climate Pact
(Huffington Post)

Obama cleaning up

Obama Pushes Lobbyists Off Federal Advisory Boards
(Huffington Post)
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Gotta admit - that sounds like real change.

that is an unhealthy combination of crazy there

Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann To Unite For Tea Party-Palooza
(Huffington Post)
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Jeez, I think any spectator would overdose on the insanity!

what a bizarre world these people live in

Scarborough and Halperin Claim Obama's Poll Numbers Are Down Because He's Too Polarizing
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From Morning Joe, Nov. 24, 2009, Joe Scarborough and Mark Halperin think Obama's poll numbers have dropped because he's too polarizing. Of course by "polarizing" they mean pretending that he's governed from the left, which he hasn't. They go on to compare him to Palin and say he's only playing to his base like she is. What's up is down and down is up...and round and round we go with these two. Obama's numbers are down because he's ignoring his base and not following through on his campaign promises, not because he’s run too far to the left.

(Crooks and Liars)
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I don't know how anyone can say that Obama has been too liberal in his governing, but then I guess reality matters to me...

bush still affecting our lives

How the recession is affecting Thanksgiving.
(Think Progress)
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Thanks, bush recession!

as if he would know...

Dick ‘Five Deferments’ Cheney Talks About War From The ‘Perspective’ Of U.S. Troops

In a new interview with right-wing radio host Scott Hennen, Vice President Cheney again criticizes President Obama’s national security policies, harping on his belief that Obama is “dithering” on Afghanistan and endangering U.S. troops. To make his point, Cheney talked about the “perspective” of men and women serving on the front lines:
I worry that there’s a lack of understanding there of what this means from the perspective of the troops. You know, if you’re out there on the line day in and day out and putting your life at risk on a volunteer basis for the nation, and you see the Commander in Chief unable, to or appearing to be unable, to make a decision about the way forward here — you know that raises serious doubts. Nobody wants to think of volunteering to be participate in that kind of operation. [...]
It may in part be inexperience on Obama’s part. It may be that there’s confusion on the staff. But I’m not encouraged by it.
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Cheney really doesn’t have any more authority on this subject than Obama does. He neither served in the military, nor has he been Commander-in-Chief. As the New York Times noted in 2004:
Eventually, like 16 million other young men of that era, Mr. Cheney sought deferments. By the time he turned 26 in January 1967 and was no longer eligible for the draft, he had asked for and received five deferments, four because he was a student and one for being a new father.
Bush administration officials also seemed to think that they were soldiers in the military, with former White House press secretary Tony Snow saying that President Bush was on the “front lines” and “in the war every day.” In April 2007, First Lady Laura Bush said that “no one suffers more than their President and I do” during wartime, and Bush would speak on behalf of U.S. servicemembers to bolster his policy ideas. “The [military] families gathered here understand that our troops want to finish the job,” Bush said in 2007 during a speech opposing Iraq redeployment.

(Think Progress)

Palin supporters

Tbogg shows us just how uninformed Palin supporters are...

I laughed out loud

Tucker Carlson: Palin More Experienced Than Obama and Smarter Than Al Gore
(Crooks and Liars)
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C'mon - even her fans don't believe this - and that's why they like her. They want a dumb broad who doesn't know any more than they do so that she'll do the same dumb-ass things that they would do, rather than making rational, intelligent decisions.

Dems not trying for real change will be a problem for them in 2010

Howard Dean: Democrats Are Going to Rue the Day They Didn't Go To Budget Reconciliation to Pass This Bill

Dean: Senate health bill 'watered down':

Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that Senate Democrats' healthcare legislation is so diluted it threatens the party's 2010 chances.
Appearing on MSNBC, the former Vermont governor and outspoken proponent of healthcare reform charged Democrats were "playing with dynamite in terms of dividing the party.”
"The big problem is the policy. This thing has been pretty watered down," Dean said during the interview, noting the House bill was "better" than the "decent" Senate bill. "Right now, it's about as watered down as it can get and still be a real bill. For example, there's really no insurance reform in this bill, already."

(Crooks and Liars)
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The voters expected the Dems to actually do something substantial and if it doesn't happen, they are gonna be screwed next election. Hardly brain surgery!

something many conservatives seems to have conveniently "forgotten"

Conason Reminds Scarborough That The Iraq War and Tax Cuts Ballooned the Deficit
(Crooks and Liars)

life imitating SNL skits

Andrea Mitchell Reminds Michael Steele Palin Quit After He Calls Her a "Successful Governor"
(Crooks and Liars)
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How can anyone take Steele seriously? I swear he is a walking, talking, live-action SNL skit...

Sanford is in big trouble

Panel Finds: Governor Sanford Broke The Law 37 Times
(Crooks and Liars)

kind of obvious, but some people tend to ignore reality

Pelosi warns of history repeating itself ‘if we pull our punch’ on job creation.
(Think Progress)

because blatant lies are all they have

Barrasso politicizes breast cancer: The Preventive Services Task Force would pull the plug on my wife.
(Think Progress)

not the brightest bulbs on TV

Fox’s Fuzzy Math: 193 Percent Of The Public Support Palin, Huckabee, And Romney
(Think Progress)

callous repugs

Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance.
(Think Progress)

is this the good twin?

That is frightening! There are two of them!!

how do they come up with this nonsense?

Gun Lobby Mobilizes Against Health Reform By Claiming Obama Administration Will Issue ‘No Guns’ Decree
(Think Progress)
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So now besides being socialism, communism and whatever other ridiculous claims repugs have made, now health care reform is gun control?
WTF?
All that much more amazing since Obama has never made any allusions to any type of policy that would control gun ownership - it's just not on his radar at all. He has more important things to worry about right now, but fear-mongering sells guns, apparently...

and yet there are still deniers

Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
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increase in bigoted violence

More anti-gay, religious-motivated crimes reported
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well, they kinda have to

Schumer: Dems ready to go-it-alone on health care
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It's not like the repugs are planning on helping in any way, so the Dems don't really have a choice...

surprised they haven't already done this

Legislative committee to consider Sanford impeachment
(Daily Kos)

I wonder how offended the millions on Medicare and Medicaid are at the repugs

Sen. Lamar Alexander Repeatedly Calls Medicaid A ‘Medical Ghetto’
(Think Progress)

shouldn't have had to even think twice about this

Cafe Press Bans All ‘Pray For Obama: Psalm 109:8′ Merchandise
(Think Progress)

more insanity

New Birther Billboard In Colorado Features Picture Of Obama And Asks ‘President Or Jihad?’
(Think Progress)
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How quickly would this nonsense have died out if Obama was a republican? Oh, that's right, it would never have gained any traction in the first place, because Democrats aren't insane!

another hurdle passed

Senate advances historic health bill
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yep, done deal...

Mission accomplished, dude: Glenn Beck 'perfectly fine' being remembered as 'a complete nutjob'
(Crooks and Liars)

funny reactions to the most famous quitter in the country

Angry supporters boo Palin for leaving in the middle of her book signing: ‘Quittin’ on the job!’
(Think Progress)

another violent, un-American asshole

New Missouri billboard tells Americans to ‘prepare for war’ against the government.
(Think Progress)
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Amazing that when bush was truly taking away this country ideals and beliefs, no one spouted anything this incendiary, but conservatives love their violence and anti-American attitudes...

Freudian slip or does he really not know what he is saying?

Utah lawmaker claims he doesn’t ‘mind’ gays, but ‘I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time.’
(Think Progress)
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Only a repug would be this bigoted and clueless...

more Fox lies and craziness

Carlson: ‘You Don’t Hear As Much About The Scrutiny’ Of Pelosi Because Conservative Women ‘Get More Attacks’
(Think Progress)

proving they understand reality

Bush Justice officials support trying terror suspects in civilian court.
(Think Progress)

but he's a repug, he doesn't need to do as he says

‘Read the stimulus’ advocate Dick Armey slammed for not bothering to read the stimulus.
(Think Progress)
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But, not reading it or knowing what it says won't stop him from arguing about it for hours on end...
Typical repug...

more sick, right-wing violent rhetoric

New Right-Wing Craze Prays That Obama’s ‘Days Be Few’
(Think Progress)
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Rachel Maddow talked about this the other night.
These people are so sick and twisted that they must be insane...

WTF?!

Senate health bill restores abstinence-only education funding.
(Think Progress)
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How are we getting more and more conservative with a supposedly "liberal" (yeah right) president and Congress?
WTF is wrong with these assholes who are cow-towing to the extreme, extreme right instead of doing things to actually help this country?

this made me laugh

316,000 Bongs, Disguised As Christmas Ornaments, Seized By Customs Agents In LA
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WATCH: Kids Reenact The First Thanksgiving With Smallpox Blankets And Whiskey
(Huffington Post)

ok, that's pretty f'k'd up

Diocese: Pedophile priests should get benefits
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The End Of The World

Saturday, November 28, 2009