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Great summation, cjwk, pulling all those threads together to show the broader tapestry of fear and loathing.

The Guardian UK has checkboxes you can select to judge the Gov. Palin emails.

Multiple-choice: Politically significant, About environment/oil, About money, Personal, Just funny,

Pick one: Nothing of interest, Not very interesting, A bit fishy, Highly suspicious, and Palingate.

Strange. No place for "positive," "praiseworthy" or "good job"?
Just an oversight, I'm sure. :-^

Looking at the object on Mars, the odd “notched” shapes along one side, I realized where I had seen it before. In the age before spy-in-the-sky satellite required it to be removed to mars, it used to be at the North Pole. (Aawww… sorry.)

I've been thinking of doing this for some time now.

Mass Media Meets the Arctic Fox
Available in two flavors, censored for language and uncensored. Freely offered.

I was inspired to act in honor of the Washington Post and NY Times and all the wolves stalking Caribou Barbie, and before the Bilderbergers manage to shut down internet bloggers and cancel artistic license. This graphic remix of the long-ago cartoon by R. Crumb, "Mr. Natural Meets the Kid" from Zap Comix #7, 1974, replaces the Kid with Sarah Palin.

Irony alert: Crumb's original six-page cartoon seemed to be favoring Prem Rawat, a.k.a. Maharaji, as "God." No comparison is intended between the huckster guru and Sarah "the real deal" Palin -- Crumb's work was just a great page for this purpose.

"Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate’s wife since 2000.... The last straw for the campaign staff was Gingrich’s decision to go on a two-week cruise in the Mediterranean...." Weekly Standard

h/t to headline sidebar on sistertoldjah

Thanks, 'In DC Troll,' for keeping an eye on the (as Mark Levin says) Washington Compost... so I don't have to. I tried to post a msg the other day that got glitched or moderated away, but basically said, I will have a hard time holding my nose and voting for the lesser of two weevils again! Well, not really. Living in the reddest state in the nation, it's about as sure a thing as there can be in voting that our electors will be Republican anyway, and it's really tough to get a 3rd party on the ballot here, but if it's Mittens (R?), or Jon (R???), or even Newt (R?), I... I... guess I'll hold my nose and vote against O'Bama again, but if that's the case, it'll all too likely hand the Dems a victory, so, OW!

We face a well-financed, well-organized, ruthless, immoral, anti-American enemy, a large problem with a semi-literate, ill-informed, public-school-ejjimicated, mass-media-misled electorate, and as Jim Yardley points out (thanks to you for the link), we need not only a true Constitutionalist Republican candidate, but a solid change in the Senate and hard work to keep the House, just to begin to repair the damage done. Uphill battle ahead. Don't you just love a challenge! :)

"I just view it with great surprise and dismay. That's all I can say." That is so funny! As others have said, Teeny Weiner, the gift that keeps on giving.

Thanks for the link, reshas1.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)... His concern: press accounts suggest that National Park Service resources were made available to an extent beyond that which an average American family would receive....

David Barna, a Park Service spokesman, told ABC News that with the exception of the Statue of Liberty visit, it was business as usual at all the sites Palin saw....

Emphasis added. Note that it's not just the idiot Reprehensible Representative, but ABC News and its blogger Sheila Marikar who are responsible for this insane propaganda. Part of the "spew anything" anti-Palin campaign. Note that it's the idiot Rep's confused "concern" that make the headline and the lede, and the truth-telling park spokesman who gets buried in paragraph 5. Alternative headlines come to mind, but, well, why bother. It's as easy as ABC.

Boy, President-to-be Palin sure is doing a great job of scaring the pants off lefties. Although, I haven't seen her blamed yet for scaring the pants off of the Weiner. ;)

While I sympathize with spouses married to cheating cads (e.g. a certain top-name golfer's wife, apparently), I don't have any sympathy for the spouses who know about the affairs and either don't care or don't do anything about it. for their own purposes, which is what I've heard about, uh, I can't find the supporting links, so I'll just say one VP candidate's wife. :P

Did Weiner's wife know or even care? Who knows with some of these political marriages! It's like the Weiner himself; did he really
regret cheating, and lying to the world for over a week, or did he only regret getting CAUGHT?

And of course he won't resign. He didn't “break any House rules.” So we can trust the lying, cheating snake now, right?

Funny to run into this, as I had just been thinking of, well, some kind of a poll, I suppose. What's the real measure of the public's thinking?

Say we had a three-way race, O'Bama the Democrat vs. Palin as an Independent Party candidate vs the Republican nominee. Put in different RINOs, and see what poll results you get when you run it past the Tea Party folks (not their "leaders" whoever they may be), solid conservatives, military families, and just plain long-suffering heartland Americans. Romney? Really? Gingrich? OMG! One of the other Democrat-preferred McCainish sure-to-lose boys?

Some states have essentially legislated two-party-ism, unless you've got Perot's power to throw the election. Oklahoma's heavy rules for getting on the ticket booted the Libertarians (party of the L on forehead) long ago.

Then there's the way so many folks still get their views (not just their news) from the mass media brainwashing machine and would not even know the truth about a 3rd party candidate (witness the recent NY race split). Back in the '70s when I first heard of the party of principle, I used to hope the Libertarians had a chance -- I even "wasted" some votes on the LP candidates when I was permitted to do so (and when the election was a foregone conclusion, like Reagan), but the LP still is doggedly running 4th in a 3-way race, more determined to lose than the RINO establishment.

You don't have to be tin-hat cynical to acknowledge the way those two married-to-each-other mobs control the elections in major areas. (I forget -- was it Stalin or Lenin who said, it's not the people who vote who decide the elections, it's the people who count the votes?).

Include the sheer inertia of the whole two-party system. Most of my relatives plan to pull the straight-party lever; aside from a couple of collij-ejjimicated Obamabots, the majority are life-long straight-ticket Republicans.

These factors added up surely mean that a strong conservative third party would in all probability split the right and independent vote and give us four more years of this worst administration ever. In this critical emergency election, it's just horse sense, realism, to accept "any Republican over Obama!" I'm all about getting O'Bama out, too, you betcha! Like an old National Lampoon skit once said of Nixon, anybody but O'Bama -- an Edsel -- a toaster -- anything!

BUT.. BUT... BUT.... But when I reflect upon this awful seeming truth, I CRINGE! Did you hold your nose in voting for McCain? Did you hold your nose voting for the neocon Bush (twice)? And before that, and before that, and before that? Ach-eee-double hockey-sticks, I even have problems with Reagan. How long are we going to be forced to choose the lesser of two weevils? to choose increasingly INO R's, just to stop the latest D'crazy? HOW LONG, O LORD?

I'm FED UP with this. You?

HillBuzz really helps educate about eeyorism or concern trolling. Does this conclusion, "any Republican," differ in spirit?

Pictures of Obama and Palin on their not-really-campaigning trails which, oh, I don't know, struck me as somehow saying something about each.

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Oh, I loved this one. Emphases added.

"Sarah Palin’s bus is plastered with a mock-up of the U.S. Constitution. But her entourage — both the three-vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller, two-SUV version she uses for smaller events — hasn’t been very respectful of traffic laws." Which, of course, is unConstitutional?

"They speed. They run red lights and stop signs. They make last-second lane changes to get off the highway, sometimes without signaling.

"So do the reporters following them."

And who says so, I wonder? "Journalists in the caravan trailing her...." Hmmm. Now, if you can't believe them, who can you believe?... And even worse... the Palins "just missed driving through a tornado on the road into Boston." Gasp! Just missed a tornado! (??)

And just look at what she's forcing those poor reporters to do...

"The reporters who are speeding, tailgating, cutting off other cars, blasting through roundabouts and passing on the right in an effort to keep up, say they have no other choice..."

NO OTHER CHOICE! JUST LIKE THOSE POOR MUSLIMS WHO HAVE TO MURDER PEOPLE BECAUSE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE BURNED A BOOK!

"'It’s like paparazzi,' said one reporter" and it's all Palin's fault, just like Gabby Gifford!

Hey, kids! Can you spell BS? I know you can!

Clear and present danger

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka... said he’d like to see the U.S. become more like a European nation that provides pensions and health care for all its citizens. He said he is accustomed to criticism and doesn’t mind if conservatives call that socialism.

“Being called a socialist is a step up for me....”

Bloomberg

I found a comment at SisterToldjah that I wonder about. Makes a good point but also has a whiff of concern troll meme? Maybe some of both? Something to watch out for, in any case.

"The only way to defeat Obama is to make sure the next election is all about Obama. If it’s focused on him and his record, he loses. Sarah is brilliant. But if she runs, Obama and the media will ensure the election is about her."

Thanks for the link. Iowahawk does great parody. Alas... well, here's (slightly re-written) what I just commented at that site:

Without being a Facebook, Twitter, or y.frog user myself, but a long-time techie, I have to concur with a commenter on Iowahawk that some of the tech questions seem misunderstood and Weiner could be right. (I have not made an in-depth investigation of the details.)

There is no trick to "regaining" control of your accounts if the password was hacked but not changed, for example. Also, if like many idiots he uses the same password on various accounts, you only need find out one. If it's a low-power password, all the easier. And if you're using your cell to access those accounts, as the other commenter said, you might only have to hack that cell.

Not making a case for or against Weiner's being hacked or careless. While Occam's Razor may cut toward careless, it's not that fine a line toward hacked, either. Just depends on which way Weiner was stupid. :)

Meanwhile, back at the economy, endless wars, and undermining of Israel&hellip.

I really enjoy Iowahawk. I forwarded a link to the article American Pride is Back to a cousin, who replied, when I grow up (he's an adult) I want to write like Iowahawk. :)

Alas, without being a Facebook, Twitter, or y.frog user myself, but a long-time techie, I have to concur with a previous commenter that some of the tech questions are misunderstood and Weiner could be right. There is no trick to "regaining" control of your accounts if the password was hacked but not changed, for example. Also, if like many idiots he uses the same password on various accounts, you only need find out one. And if you're using your cell to access those accounts, as the previous commenter said, you might only have to hack that cell.

Not making a case for or against Weiner's being hacked or careless. While Occam's Razor may cut toward careless, it's not that fine a line toward hacked, either. Just depends on which way Weiner was stupid. :)

Anti-Palin Propaganda Watch

A very liberal (somewhat famous) friend once chided Mrs Webworker, all you have to do to stay current is read the headlines! Let's see...

"Palin a no-show for fans wanting Gettysburg view" -Reuters

"Palin bus tour stops in Gettysburg" -WHTM (ABC)

"Palin's mysterious bus tour a no-show in Phila." -S Jersey Courier-Post

What's going on? Well, Sarah's family's tour itinerary is not fixed or public. No reason it should be. Meeja speculation gets people thinking she's heading somewhere, and then they report she's disappointing her fans. From the Courier-Post article, for example:

Her political action committee, SarahPAC, did not release an itinerary, instead telling reporters to check its website. But the site only updated Palin's stops after her entourage had moved on….

Contrary to widespread speculation, Palin did not visit the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia Memorial Day. Media reports were initially based on the fact her tour bus features a large illustration of the cracked bell.

The Washington Post reported Palin would stop by Civil War battlefields Gettysburg and Antietam Monday and "likely" swing through Philadelphia Tuesday.

"Today should be about honoring the service of our veterans, not celebrating the political ambitions of Sarah Palin," New Jersey Democratic Committee Chairman John Wisniewski said Monday….

Reporters weren't the only interested parties kept in the dark. The National Park Service, which has jurisdiction over the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, said it received no courtesy heads-up from Palin.

Need I parse the preposterous presumption in the above quotes? Just the last one: Palin is chided for not telling the park service that a private family wasn't coming by? Wow, she is mean! :P

And wasn't it cute how they got that critical Dem quote in there, appropo of nothing? (Take out "Palin" and see how it rings when you put in the duffer-in-chief — who of course is not a Muslim, a socialist, or gay — "not that there's anything wrong with" the last. h/t Seinfeld).

Reuters reported that "Several hundred people gathered at the Civil War site on a hot, sunny day for a glimpse…. Some of those assembled there were puzzled by goal of the tour, which seemed designed to attract public attention despite a lack of information…." The article quoted the confusion of "a baker who drove for three hours from Berwick, Pennsylvania, with two friends to see Palin." Why did folks think she would visit the battlefield? "A photo on her website late on Sunday showed the closing words of the Gettysburg Address delivered by President Abraham Lincoln after the 1863 battle. That was taken as a hint."

WHMT just reported straight-up that the family "made a pit-stop in the midstate Monday night… [and] spoke with supporters and signed autographs in Gettysburg…."

My favorite quote from that article: "Palin was asked if she plans to run for president in 2012. 'Oh, I don't know.'"

Heh heh heh.

Siiigh! Can't predict when entities will post right or not, even if they show up right in the preview. Checking the raw HTML, I see that HB's software is (sometimes) replacing the entities' lead ampersands with the entity for the amperand itself, which defeats the intent. If that's incomprehensible jargon, just pass it along to whomever is in charge of your tech. I'll just quit using them here, though. :(

In the article to which the article to which you linked linked (uhh… yeah) is the “pertinent” charge:

During the meeting on 31 March 2009 … one of the seven to be tried said there were no grounds for thinking that a major quake was imminent, even though the area around the town had been experiencing a series of smaller tremors in the previous months.

A scientist can speak of “no grounds” for thinking there’s a quake, and be scientifically accurate, but the common idiot needs to hear it very clearly in simple lay terms: “Hey, rubes! Science has no clue one way or another! NO CLUE, GOT THAT? MIGHT! MIGHT NOT! DON’T KNOW! CAN’T TELL!” Then the social scientists :) can say, “PREPARE FOR THE WORST YOU IDIOTS! QUAKES HAPPEN, ESPECIALLY HERE!”

It would be more reasonable to try the news reporters, not the scientists. The way some science news is reported is practically a crime!

Hereabouts, the Big One would mean Madrid, which could trash the country from Wisconsin to Texas.

Remarkably, some respectful preparation has been going on. On the other hand, maybe Madrid won’t really go off in the next 50 years or so at all. It might be thousands of years.

Should preparations cease, then? Sure, why not? We hardly even build to withstand tornadoes which we have every year, like clockwork. (And aren’t there a lot of people who would like to hang the weatherman when their picnic gets rained out!)

Arlo's lucky. All he gets is that south-end view. :D

We live in an area where people (loosely defined) decide, "this is far enough out of town to dump our unwanted pet." If they survive the road, most seem to find their way to us. Currently, we feed nine cats and two dogs, out of dozens adopted over the years, almost all dumpees.

There's a black feral male cat ("Max") who, since the -28F day last winter, has showed up for morning & evening feedings most days. Several weeks back, Max showed up with a small yellow male companion, "Charlie." Full name "Charles R. Underfoot," and the "R" stands for "Rascal," due to overturned trash cans and such. Can't decide whether Max was bringing the poor kitten to us out of kindness ("Hey, kid, I know some folks who will take care of you") or trying to figure out how to scrape off his little friend ("Hey, kid, I run solo"). Anyway, Charlie moved right inside with us like he'd always been here. (We have a strict rule on the few inside cats — they must respect the litter box.) Charlie's the most playful, friendly, amazing kitty we've ever had! Gotta wonder at the folks who would "lose" such a great animal!

Short story long, as usual; sorry. Charlie quickly figured out my 5:45am alarm, and is respectful of my need for Z's until the moment the alarm goes off, then he's on the bed, chewing my fingers or hair or my toes (through the covers) until I get up and feed the crowd. Mrs Webworker gets to sleep a bit later, sometimes. I don't.

A local story, for everyone everywhere. (We could not attend the ceremony at White Rose today, unfortunately.)

For more than two decades, a local Boy Scout troop has dedicated countless hours decorating the graves of military veterans at two community cemeteries in honor of Memorial Day.

Bartlesville Boy Scout Troop 6 placed hundreds of American flags at the White Rose Cemetery and Memorial Park Cemetery earlier this week as a tribute to the men and women who have sacrificed for the country’s freedom.

“The Scouts look forward to this project every year,” said Charles Lewis, Troop 6 scoutmaster. “In a way, it feels like we know the veterans themselves when we read the grave markings.” …

Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise