Get Sarah Palin a Whaaaaaambulance STAT!

What a total utterly sniveling crybaby!

First she releases a 4th of July message in which she tries to be patriotic, but fails…stupendously. Her note includes this little gem:

The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”. How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.

Whaaaaaa! Her feewings got hurt…awww, does she need a band aid? And… is she a bit jealous at Obama? Note her attempted dig, a failed pot shot at the president. “And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term…” Is she really trying to take a dig at Obama? Who didn’t resign his position as Senator of Illinois until AFTER the results were official and he was elected president? What a jealous bitch. Note also the “martyr complex.” She thinks she is held to a different standard. Classic martyr complex. “Please, media, please crucify me, I’ll score all sorts of points with my constituents.”

Then her lawyer thinks he’s getting nasty with those dastardly bloggers…

To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. http://ltgov.state.ak.us/… These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable.

Thomas Van Flein, for
Governor Sarah Palin

Whaaaa! Whaaaaa! WHAAAAAAA!

What the hell is wrong with the Republicans and America’s conservatives? What the hell is wrong with you guys? Why the hell do you revere a person as stupid as Sarah Palin? She is literally more stupid than a totem pole. Why the hell do you guys give her any, and I mean ANY credibility, or influence among your group? Do you guys not realize how utterly ridiculous she makes you guys look? The more she opens her mouth and speaks for you guys, the worse she makes you guys look. Do you not see this?

If Republicans and conservatives want to be taken seriously and not be derided, made fun of, ridiculed from here on out, they must purge the Sarah Palins from their communities.

PS: Paul Begala does a fine job noting uh… how poorly Sarah Palin wrote her resignation speech:

It was an almost impossible mission, but in resigning from office with 17 months to go in her first term, Sarah Palin has made herself the bull goose loony of the GOP.

Let’s stipulate that if there is some heretofore unknown personal, medical or family crisis, this was the right move. But Gov. Palin didn’t say anything like that. Her statement was incoherent, bizarre and juvenile. The text, as posted on Gov. Palin’s official website (here), uses 2,549 words and 18 exclamation points. Lincoln freed the slaves with 719 words and nary an exclamation; Mr. Jefferson declared our independence in 1,322 words and, again, no exclamation points. Nixon resigned the presidency in 1,796 words — still no exclamation points. Gov. Palin capitalized words at random – whole words, like “TO,” “HELP,” and “AND,” and the first letter of “Troops.”

Gov. Palin’s official announcement that she is resigning as chief executive of the great state of Alaska had all the depth and gravitas of a 13-year-old’s review of the Jonas Brothers’ album on Facebook.

Well said Mr. Begala. It’s really ironic because it is the conservative movement that decries the supposedly horrid conditions in our educational system, yet it is generally among the conservative movement that you find the worst and most egregious examples of not just misspellings but of grammar and sentence structure. Guess they should have spent more time learning than deriding their learning…

Want Good Health Insurance? Go Work For The Government

so says Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who is leading the charge AGAINST government based health insurance

See, Senator Grassley gets a phat deal as a Federal employee. One has to wonder why all Americans can’t get what Senators and Congressmen get…

Palin to Alaskans: Screw You

That’s essentially what it means that she quits her job before even finishing her first term.

If truly she is quitting her job as Alaskan governor so that she can better prepare for 2012, then she basically says to Alaskans, screw you. What kind of president do you think that would make her? If she gets tired of her job 30 months into the presidency, what is she gonna do? Quit? “Sorry America, I don’t like this job anymore, I’m gonna hand over the reins to my VP. Hasta La Vista.”

The real reasons may be that she really is not ready for the pressure of the national spotlight. What I mean by this, she’s just not educated enough, she’s not been trained enough on how to manage her persona, she’s too erratic, when she really needs to display strong consistency. She may also truly hate how her family is attacked in the press. Having a rather eclectic family, and also a daughter who rather awkwardly goes against the grain and gets pregnant with her boyfriend, makes it very hard to keep the family out of the spotlight, particularly when your party runs on “family values.” I’m sure that really wore her and her family down over time.

She is also probably about to be hit with a very damning and politically destroying scandal related to how terribly she’s been running Alaska and wants out on her terms.

Either way, she’s telling Alaskans, screw you.

Mitt Romney’s Convoluted Foreign Policy

Please, let not this man become president…

There are four competing nations or groups of nations, representing four different ways of ways of life, that are vying to lead the world before the end of this century.

One is the world’s democracies, led by America. Our strategy is based on two principles: free enterprise and individual liberty. These have led us to become the most powerful nation in the history of the world.

China represents a different strategy. Theirs is also based on two principles: free enterprise is one of them. They witnessed the bankruptcy of communism first hand, and have adopted free enterprise like it was their own. As a result, hundreds of millions of their poor have been lifted from poverty. But their second strategic dimension is not freedom, it is authoritarianism.

Another competitor is Russia. Like China, their strategy is also based on authoritarianism. But unlike China, their economic might is derived not from industry, but from energy. They seek to control the energy of the world, filling their treasury and emptying everyone else’s as we pay for what they have in abundance.

The fourth strategy is that of the Jihadists. By means of escalating violence, they intend to cause the collapse of the other three competing visions, dragging the entire world back into a medieval dictatorship ruled by Mullahs and Ayatollahs.

Of these four competing strategies, notice that only one includes freedom. Only if America succeeds will freedom endure. Do not imagine for a single moment that China, Russia and the Jihadists have no intention of surpassing America and leading the world. Each is entirely convinced that it can do so….

…Freedom is threatened not just by those who aspire to world leadership, but also by the rogue and malevolent. North Korea has made it abundantly clear that they are not only intent on perfecting nuclear weapons, but they are contemptuous of the concerns of the United States and the world at large. It was no accident that they launched their missile while the President was addressing nuclear non-proliferation, and executed their nuclear test to coincide with Memorial Day.

Or as the good folks at the New Republic show us in Powerpoint form:

Goodness, this man does not know foreign policy.

So Much For Democracy in Honduras

It’s really sad, but the Honduran Congress just revoked numerous Constitutional rights:

1. The right to protest.
2. Freedom in one’s home from unwarranted search, seizure and arrest.
3. Freedom of association.
4. Guarantees of rights of due process while under arrest.
5. Freedom of transit in the country.

one wonders why the very same people who attack Obama for not speaking out more for the plight of Iranian protesters are at the very same time attacking Obama for denouncing the military coup in Honduras…

Amnesty International Calls Israel’s War on Gaza Full of War Crimes

stating that Israel was reckless with its disregard for civilian casualties. I hate to state the obvious, but it’s quite clear that Israel disregards Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. In Israel’s eyes, the entire Gaza Strip is Hamas. Killing a civilian in Gaza Strip is killing a member of Hamas in their eyes. Or else they wouldn’t have done it. Killing 1400 Palestinians in three weeks is killing 1400 members of Hamas in Israel’s eyes. Or else they would not have done it.

Glenn Beck Wishes Bin Laden Attacked The United States Again

The man is a fucking insane lunatic.

He and Michael Scheuer think America needs Osama Bin Laden to detonate a major device in America, thus triggering an uprising of Americans to force American leadership to “change.” Glenn Beck wants Osama Bin Laden to attack America, so that he can use that as the excuse to cause a regime change in America, kick Obama and the Democrats out of office because they don’t agree with his ways. The man is fucking insane. He is treasonous.

As Gawker notes: Happy Fourth of July everybody.

PS: Glenn Beck thinks America bought Alaska in the 1950s.

What a stupid idiot. As Think Progress correctly notes, Alaska was bought in 1867, in what was known as “Seward’s Folly” for wasting so much money on such a desolate, hard to get to, land.

Beautiful Tehran

Some beautiful pictures. It looks like a really nice town and generally good people, much like anywhere else in the world.

Conservatives Are Stupid…Yes, They’re Still At It

Via Yglesias

“Perhaps people who are busy gushing over the Obama cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under sharia law.”

CIA Off the Mark on Iran’s Election

Really? The CIA? Off the mark? Not getting it right? No freaking way. Not America’s intelligence agency. No way they would get it wrong…

President Obama’s cautious response to election results in Iran may be partly explained by the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies were off the mark in assessments they gave the White House and lawmakers. Five officials familiar with intel reporting and analysis, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive material, say most experts at the CIA and other intel agencies initially believed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won reelection solidly—and that if there was fraud, it was at the margins.

The agencies were caught off guard by the Iranian authorities’ maladroit handling of election results (an overwhelming Ahmadinejad victory was announced only hours after the polls closed) and by what came next. “Lots of people were surprised by the outbreak of protests,” says one of the officials. Even after the street erupted, some U.S. experts still maintained that Ahmadinejad won big and that the protests would run their course more quickly than they did. “We were slow on the uptake,” Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee, tells NEWSWEEK. “I think we’re still behind the curve.” Still, one U.S. intel official insists: “The speed with which the Iranians announced the results, and the margin they gave Ahmadinejad, were signs there would be trouble. They weren’t missed.”

Maybe I need to go work for the CIA because I’m sure I could do a far better job at explaining what’s going on in Iran from my comfortable seat here at home than these analysts the CIA employ. I mean, com’on guys, don’t you guys read up the literature on nationalism and revolutions? It’s right there. It’s been analyzed before. It’s not surprising at all.

Deficit Spending in Times of Economic Trouble

Andrew Sullivan links to a graph which shows the level of debt over the decades:

The point he is trying to make is that we should look out for the debt we are incurring. A couple of things stand out.

1. The debt created during the Great Depression wasn’t so large when you look at debt in this fashion, and if we needed a stimulus injection as big as World War II’s mobilization, then we’re fairly on track right now with the debt we are incurring to create a stimulus, or to maintain economic output.

2. A lot of debt during the 80s and 90s wasn’t really necessary, at least not on the level they were.

3. I’d love to see a graph showing a comparison of debt to the level of taxation to the level of expenses. See, tax levels in the 1950s were generally quite high. And interestingly, business thrived, debt was paid down, and our country did well. Right now we’re complaining about taxation that is quite low in comparison, particularly for the filthy rich. And we’re drowning in debt. Something is not right.

The Unhinged Stupidity of Conservatives

It will only deepen further and further

US to Get Involved in Somalia…Again

Anyone think this will end up better than our previous endeavors in Somalia?

Glenn Beck Plays With Barbie Dolls

He’s insane

Mark Sanford Went To Argentina

Who the hell goes to Argentina without telling anyone? What governor leaves the country without telling his state? What was he doing in Argentina? Why Argentina and not Morocco or Aruba or South Africa? Why Argentina?

Why would you go to Argentina WITHOUT your family on FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND!!!

What Could Have Been – McCain Jokes About Killing Iranians

Thank God he was not elected last November.

Romanians Flee Northern Ireland

What the hell is going on in Northern Ireland that Romanians who come to work there have to flee violence? What, did they get tired of being at peace with each other and have to go around picking fights with others?

Another Example of Where Private Insurance on its own is Insufficient

Yet another example. An elderly woman is rejected by private insurance because she has diabetes.

Conservatives Continue To Wallow In Utter Stupidity

Be forewarned before you read this, you might lose some brain cells.

Republicans Are Destroying California

They prefer to get into more debt instead of raising taxes to fix their budget woes. Meanwhile, California’s credit rating will soon be rated junk status. This is the legacy of Ronald Reagan.