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Mediahohoho
11/30/09

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It's okay. She actually knows how to make fossil fuels.
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ParahSalin
11/30/09

@Mediahohoho: She also knows how to solve the world's most vexing economic problem. How do we pay for the deficit? Easy! We cut the taxes on the small business owners who are creating the wealth, who should keep the wealth that they created, because that's their wealth, and if they could keep it we could pay the debts and create the jobs and the people could work, because they are the ones that create the jobs that America and the Troops and Jesus think we deserve because we're the best country ever. Damn, it's so simple it's brilliant. When she's right, she's right. If only Republicans had thought to cut taxes for the past 30 years! Geez, they must feel like real simpletons now that she's pinpointed the problem and the solution in such an informed and incisive manner. I think I may vote for her in 2012. Cutting taxes to reduce the deficit! Who'd a thunk it?
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Mediahohoho
11/30/09

@ParahSalin: Funny thing about Republicans. Neither my taxes nor spending ever go down when they're in office. Things just get shitty and mean. She's perfect for that party.
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ParahSalin
12/01/09

@Mediahohoho: My taxes do go down when Republicans are in office, but mainly because I never can find a job when they're in control. It's fairly hard to tax me when I have no income. In your face Republicans! I'm broke, nothing left for you to take. Wow, that doesn't really feel as good as I thought it would.
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TheBusinessGuy
11/30/09

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Presumably the only thing that can shake her followers' faith in her would be proof that she fathered a black child.
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ParahSalin
11/30/09

@TheBusinessGuy: In the old days a divorce would have done her in. The Christians used to shun the divorced, but after stoning Anita Bryant in the 1980's they realized that most of their fellow travelers were divorcing in droves. Then they switched to blaming working mothers for society's ills in the 1990s. Then they realized their base consisted of a lot of working women. Now they're down to having nobody to hate but the race traitors (like McCain and his biracial illegitimate child), fetus killers and the homos. I guess if she declared her love for another woman or admitted she'd had an abortion in high school, that might also disillusion a few of them.
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belltolls
11/30/09

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When was she in Orlando?
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SanFranLefty
11/30/09

@belltolls: Tiger wouldn't sink that low.
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Trai_Dep
11/30/09

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I guess Sarah doesn't trust her daughters enough to let them ride in the bus while she Gulfstreams about.
...Why does she hate having more grandchildren so much?
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twoeightnine
11/30/09

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Here's the plane: [flightaware.com]
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The Real JR
11/30/09

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My only warm thoughts is that this will go the way of many in the music industry who are so completely ignorant of how the payment structure works that they blow their monies on gold chains and music videos not knowing that everything they rack up is absolutely being taken out of their check.

C'mon, who else was taught Music Industry Finance from Left Eye on the TLC Behind the Music?

In short, she's blowing her money on tricked out buses and planes on standby for $4K/hour. She probably doesn't know that all of this isn't gratis, she has to end up paying for it out of her royalities. She's going to end up in the hole after all this and then start crying sexism or something because she didn't understand how money and contracts work.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
11/30/09

@The Real JR: But at least she has a Go To Colleges for Free clause.
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Lysergic Asset
11/30/09

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No disrespect to Mr. Mc Ginnis, but the Crooks & Liars blog had this well-covered on Friday: [videocafe.crooksandliars.com]
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Island of Misfit Toys
11/30/09

@Lysergic Asset: Did they post it under the Crook or Liar section?
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Lysergic Asset
11/30/09

@Island of Misfit Toys: Ha! - Pretty much the whole blog covers both: the terms have become interchangeable.
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OHymenMyHymen
11/30/09

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The reason I can tolerate Sarah Palin, instead of fearing her, is because she is dumber than a bag of retarded hammers. While this doesn't preclude 35% of the country from voting for her, it should be enough to keep her out of office, making this prime entertainment material.

(Please, God, please.)
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gawkimo
11/30/09

@OHymenMyHymen: How's this sound: Romney/Palin 2012 ticket during a campaign run with 9% unemployment and a protracted conflict in Afghanistan.

In that case she would become Veep.
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twoeightnine
11/30/09

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I'm surprised that this hasn't been reported already. I noticed it last week when she was coming to Rochester. A newspaper article said that they had chosen a Borders specifically because it was close to the airport.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
11/30/09

@twoeightnine: It's a MSM coverup, ldo
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Atilla the Bun
11/30/09

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Palin is her own worst enemy. None of the stuff her naysayers could say about her can trump the lies and P.R. gaffs that Palin herself makes.
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Sonar Jose
11/30/09

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What's the opposite of jumping the shark? Because I think she just did that for me. I have always hated/been infuriated by/ been scared of her ever since she emerged and yet, all of a sudden, I think I'm starting to just love the fact that she exists.

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather dive down a waterslide lined with up-turned cheese-graters into a pool of rubbing alcohol than to ever actually read her book or have her be elected to anything, but in a weird way I think I'm starting to love this woman.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
11/30/09

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FlightAware is your friend! All you need is a tail number.

[flightaware.com]
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blix
11/30/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Servicey, thanks!
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twoeightnine
11/30/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: [flightaware.com]
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/30/09

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Didn't John Sidney McCain III do that, too?

Oh, no, wait, that was Fred Thompson
with his fake little red pickup truck that he pretended to drive

[www.washingtonmonthly.com]

Not only was the truck rented, but Thompson didn't even deign to drive the thing himself. . . . Basically, he just drove the thing the final few hundred feet before each campaign event, and then ditched it for something nicer as soon as he was out of sight of the yokels. Quite a man of the people, no?
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7states
11/30/09

@If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Fred Thompson was amazing. I knew he would only be in the primary for 10 minutes, and I enjoyed every one of them.
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Qubert
11/30/09

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Sarah Palin is like VD: the more you try to ignore it, the worse it gets.
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TiNK
11/23/09

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Do you think she wears a Bump-It?
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