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    Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"

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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11:46 AM

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"

    Compare this skull to Palin's profile. The Maya elite practised changing the shape of their offspr.... I now fear that predictions about 2012 will indeed come true, and Sarah Palin will end us all.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11:32 AM

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    What chills my dark soul to its core is the fact that the above picture of the Palin duo, above, probably launched 1,000 masturbatory fantasies involving Straight-Shootin', Calls 'Em As I See "em, Wolf-Slaying... Twins.
    Naked twins.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    08:34 AM

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    During "The Gates" Jean Claude and Christo were signing copies of New York Magazine (which had a Christo painting of the project) in Central Park. The signing was eventually ended due to lateness, but there were about 100 people who had stood in line going home without having their mags signed. When Jean Claude found out, she demanded that the magazine publicist who had set up the event put everything in place so that everyone who waited could get their magazine signed.

    That's how people with class handle a situation. And something I thought about Friday as I watched the SP footage.
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    Edited by Mediahohoho at 11/22/09 8:35 AM Mediahohoho was starred Mediahohoho was unstarred
    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    12:01 PM

    @Mediahohoho: There are enough differences between the Christo's and Palin's to write a dissertation.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    08:08 AM

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Glenn Beck would never be stupid enough to run for office for these reasons:

    1) The hemmorhoid surgery meltdown, the substance abuse problems, all that stuff will get dragged out ad nauseum once he steps into the real public arena of a political race. He will get dragged so far through the mud he'll never recover.

    2) If he actually gets elected he'd have to deliver on some of the crazy shit he pretends to believe in.

    3) There's no money in being an elected official.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    07:52 AM

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Muffley: How long would you have to stay down there?

    Strangelove: Well let's see now ah, cobalt thorium, aa... nn... Radioactive halflife of uh,... hmm.. I would think that uh... possibly uh... one hundred years.

    Muffley: You mean, people could actually stay down there for a hundred years?

    Strangelove: It would not be difficult mein Fuhrer!

    [mineshaftgap.net]
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    Image of Poop Cooper Poop Cooper
    06:21 AM

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    I don't see why everyone is being so skeptical here about Glenn Beck seeing through his 100-year-plan. Obviously, part of Beck's plan is to not die. It's not like he's a charlatan slowly realizing his brand is in need of a new way of monetizing itself due to a lack of advertisers or something.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    02:31 AM

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    Good news, everyone! With my 100-year plan, I'll never have to actually deliver on any of my schemes! It'll be your children that have to sort through the detritus of the failed Beck prophecies, and I'll be long dead by then--also, buried beneath a gigantic golden sculpture of my own pudgy face!
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    Image of Volsciana Volsciana
    10:58 AM


    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Mini Glenn! oh the horror...
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Martha has already served a stint in the big house. She ain't scared of no Wasilla Hillbilly!
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    In reply to Glenn Beck's Scary Blueprint for World Domination in 2010, Unveiled: "The Plan"
    @Foster Kamer: Tremendous takedown.

    This should be the answer to pretty much anything a GOP politician says: "We call those cults"
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/21/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: i second this heartily. Excellent piece, Foster.
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Martha kind of sounded like she might have been nipping at some of her own Christmas Champagne Punch (TM):

    1 bottle of champagne
    2 cups vodka
    juice of 3 lemons

    (serves 2)
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @ms_priestypants: filler up, then. Martha strikes me as someone who has been waiting to unload for years...
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Oh yes- I didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. There is nothing I would enjoy more than an afternoon on Martha's exquisitely decorated sun porch with three or four pitchers of martinis. You know she is cuttingly clever about everyone.
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    11/21/09

    @ms_priestypants: I was exaggerating but then I googled the actual recipe for the lemondrop Champagne punch, and that basically is it, just add some simple syrup.

    The woman really does out WASP the WASPs.
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    11/21/09

    @ms_priestypants: I kind of love her. I also think she's been hitting the punch for years.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Oh what a rogue she is!
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @Tart of Darkness: I thought she was a mavrick, (as her fans like to spell it).
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    12:23 AM

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: okay. How about a rogue mavrick? A mavrick rogue? All I know is that she's out there.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Yup, you betcha' I'm going to get Sarah to sign my book and I'll buy two and she'll sign both and one I'll keep and one I'll sell on eBay, and Sarah will love me and make it all better and make the sadz into happy

    Oh, hey Sarah, what? You're not gonna' sign either of the books I paid for after standing in the rain all day and leaving my kids alone at home with nothing but the TV and a frozen pizza? Well, go to hell, Sarah, just go to hell. I'll find someone else, you'll see.
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    Image of tommix3 tommix3
    11/21/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Glenn Beck will take you!
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/21/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I hear Michelle Bachman is real servicey.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Do tell

    #tips
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/21/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Well, she manages to bring her invisible straight jacket and padded room with her everywhere she goes. How's that for a flexible?

    #tips
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    Image of MrHaroHaro MrHaroHaro
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Someone in the video says "Quittin' on the job". They say that as if they should be surprised.
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    Claire Buoyant promoted this comment MrHaroHaro was starred MrHaroHaro was unstarred
    Image of badasscat badasscat
    12:20 PM

    @MrHaroHaro: They also say it as if it's opposed to quittin' off the job. You know, just so there's no confusion.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Well, she is quite the quitter, isn't she? Maybe some of the people who didn't get their books signed will post their feelings on Palin's Facebook and ignite a war with her remaining die-hard (because they don't know any better) supporters. That should be fun.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/21/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Nope, already happened, and that ain't what they're saying. The wingnutters are apologizing for Palin, it's not her fault you see. She's got a lot of little towns to get to and they have her on a strict schedule which she has no control over. So bless her 'merica-lovin' heart, everyone ought to just pray to Jeezus that her bus makes it to podunk safely.
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    Image of OrneryBabe OrneryBabe
    11/21/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Oh no, Palin didn't quit! See, there's a better way to provide a voice for Alaskans than serving out her full term as governor. And she'll get started on that right away, as soon as she figures it out. Really. That'll coincide with when OJ finds the real killers.

    Shit like this serves as Exhibit 85 as to just how unhinged Palin is. It makes no sense to alienate your nutjob base of future supporters. But they were lined up to see her and got what they deserved, so I can't feel too sorry for them. Tomorrow they'll all defend her and blame the lib-rul media for the negative coverage surrounding her ditching of her fans. The whole thing makes my head hurt.

    Thanks, John McCain! You created this fuckwit. Why anyone takes him seriously anymore truly baffles me.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/21/09

    @misslinda: Jesus. Wow. I guess you can fool some people all of the time.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @OrneryBabe: here's a little Palin Orange Alert, Ornery: I saw her on Bill O'Reilly last night and she's stringing actual words together to form sentences. She's got a sliver of Reagan Worship 101 down anyway--that's the easy shit that all the dummies can do, you know. But still...[This is a public service announcement. ]
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    Image of OrneryBabe OrneryBabe
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Wait a minute. You were watching Bill O'Reilly? ;) Kidding! I wonder if her publisher is paying to coach her on the fine art of sentence structure. As in, it has to contain a beginning, middle, subject and verb need to agree, . . .

    But yes, Reagan is an excellent analogy. Everyone laughed at him, too. Supposedly Carter and his team celebrated when they learned he won the GOP nomination. And look how that whole thing worked out.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @OrneryBabe: It was like watching a slow motion car crash for 8 years as the Religious Right came to power under Reagan.

    P.S. my boyfriend hates when I watch O'Reilly, but I must!
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    Image of OrneryBabe OrneryBabe
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: I can certainly understand the value of getting the wingnut agenda straight from the horse's mouth.
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    01:07 AM

    @OrneryBabe: Who will get her feuding nouns and verbs to finally come to some sort of an agreement?
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    Image of ngonzogo ngonzogo
    09:38 AM

    @OrneryBabe: The thing about Reagan was that he was a lot more intelligent than people understood. And he was knowledgeable and well-read, not broadly over a whole range of issues but on those few he cared about, yes.

    Palin? There's nothing there.
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    adiam7 promoted this comment ngonzogo was starred ngonzogo was unstarred
    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    12:12 PM

    @ngonzogo: Reagan is the beneficiary of a successful effort by Republicans to beatify him and name whatever they can after him. I remember the Republicans arguing that Washington National should be named after a president, not a city. When it was pointe out that it was named after a president, George Washington, they still insisted on renaming Reagan. I refuse to call it Reagan National. Reagan is the same man that counted ketchup as a vegetable in defense of school lunches. He was big on the astrologist. He did fuck this country up royally. There is Iran/Contra, Star Wars, deficit, AIDS, I can go on. I almost forgot, the Iran hostage crisis. Yikes.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    In reply to Sarah Palin Now Pissing Off Everyone: Fans Boo Her, Martha Stewart Calls Her "Dangerous"
    Wow, Martha's delightfully frank there. Prison hardens a person, and she knows Palin's never had to carve her own shiv out of a toothbrush. Pish.

    (Also, it'd be nice if a CNN reporter would shut up with the gushing about Palin's book being a "best-seller"- of course it is, they're selling it for $4.99 at Wal-mart, and giving it away free at right-wing sites like NewsMax. It will be #1 on the NYT chart next week, but look for that little dagger indicating bulk sales. A scandal I am dying for someone to report on- ALL right wing books have this dagger on NYT charts. Pump and dump, right-wing "think-tanks" always artificially inflate the rankings of right-wing books. )
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: I believe Martha has sold a few books
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/21/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: But surprisingly not one demonstrating how to make a shiv out of a toothbrush.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: "bestseller" rankings are usually based on orders from bookstore chains or other chain stores like Target, Costco, Wal-Mart, etc. If they order 4 million books then that is what is reported as "sales". If 3 million of the 4 million go back to the publisher, then the book was still a best-seller.

    Of course selling them for $4.99 is a good way to assure that you won't get stuck with them and an excellent loss-leader.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    @misslinda: Let's suggest it to her and go halfsies.

    #tips
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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    01:06 AM

    @Baroness: .The book will be airdropped wherever patriotic Americans live and those books will count towards her sales. Fuck Oprah and her book club, Sarah has Jesus, tea-baggers, and a shotgun.
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