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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system.
"We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada," Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"
Yes ma'am it is! I can hear Alanis Morisette now. When talk shit about universal healthcare for everyone else, but you loves some for yourself, yes it's ironic.
How can this woman be a voice of the conservative movement on socialism or healthcare when she broke the law to get a piece of socialism for herself? It is illegal for Americans to go over and poach the Canadian system isn't it?
Is this a double whammy for her conservative credentials? She can't talk now about healthcare reform or socialism. And her closed borders wing can't be too happy about finding out that she crashed the border to take advantage of another country's social safety net.
Many in attendance said seeing Palin was like catching a glimpse of a celebrity.
Stephanie Hansen, 18, who wore a pin with Palin's face, could barely contain her excitement. She gushed that she felt out of place among the much older audience.
"I love it, I'm really glad that I came. It was really enlightening."
She admitted she didn't know a lot about Palin's politics, but said she loves her nonetheless.
"I admire how she can have a family and still be able to work as much as she does and everything she does."
Ugh.
She was asked by Senator Pamela Wallin to show her palms after the speech and referenced a passage in the bible that says people's names are engraved on God's hands, saying "if it was good enough for God, it's good enough for me."
What a bizarre passage that is. Did God also have the directions to a Canadian clinic on his hand?
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It seems the snow has shifted south and now Atlanta is getting hit. I guess this means we can completely stop all efforts to cap carbon emissions, or something.
Meanwhile, the Winter Olympics kick off tonight. Too bad there's no snow in Vancouver. Anyway, good luck to Robel Teklemariam, Ethiopia's best (okay, only) hope for a medal in skiing. I wonder if they are getting snow in Addis Ababa. In sad news, thoughts and prayers to the family of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luger who died today.
Some of the Hill news that's fit to blog is over the fold...
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On a programming note, this entry is going to be a bit thin and probably rather bitter. The Federal Government is closed for the second day in a row, costing $100 million in lost productivity. Tomorrow's not looking very good, either. Now I'm from Pennsylvania but this is getting ridiculous. And it really isn't helping that a quarter of the district's snowplows are out of order.
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Today's Most Important News of the Day™ features -- who else? -- Sarah Palin. Also be sure to read MoT's story below about Russ Feingold.
Mark it down folks, for the history books. January 20th, 2009. The day the Republican Party officially lost its damn mind in full. As Bill Maher said, "Who knew that electing a black man with a weird name would drive so many white, rural people over the edge". One way ticket to Crazy Town bought, paid in full, non-refundable, riding the rails on a Crazy Train. As someone new to the political scene, I find it disturbing to see a group of people lose touch with reality as much as they have this past year, frankly it scares the living shit out of me. My god, has there ever been a crazier year then 2009, and not just the year in general, but just an overall feeling of Bat Shit fucking crazy, running the streets, sitting beside you on a bus, sitting near you at work, eyeballs burning holes into the back of your skull? Seriously, there were days I thought the only way of survival out there was to wear a Haz-Mat suit in hopes of repelling the ignorance and fuck-tarded-ness. I have had to have serious discussions about Cow Farts, President Obama and Pepsi Co. being in cahoots, and lets not forget the whole Health Care debacle. Health Care alone made me want to burn the planet down and just fucking start over. HOW THE FUCK DID PEOPLE GET THIS FUCKING INSANE? Was it a Twitter contest? Did Ed McMahon send out a flyer before his death?
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from my friend and fellow PE member - Mykle T
Are you game to face off with Palin one more time and win?
Sarah Palin's book went on sale November 17 and predictably, it's selling like crazy. Fiction or not, it'll be tough to topple. But for just one day, Tuesday, December 8, let's try to make the sales of David Plouffe's The Audacity to Win -- the candid, riveting account of President Obama's historic victory -- overtake Palin's Going Rogue.
If you haven't bought Plouffe's book yet, save the date -- and be ready to purchase your copy on Tuesday, December 8. If you have, spread the word to everyone you know -- and consider buying your family and friends copies as holiday gifts!
Please use our link if you are going to purchase the book from Amazon -
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Sarah Palin's publishers have been talking up the bus tour that their client has been taking across the United States. There's only one problem with that. See if you can figure it out from this picture inside her bus.
That's right. The Sarah Palin bus tour of America is conducted mostly by her staffers while Sarah jet sets in this Gulfstream II from tour stop to hotel room. She only uses the bus for short delivery to tour stops so that it looks like she's on the great America book tour. But really she's just another elitist jet aficionado fleecing the masses with her faux populist rhetoric.
As Cenk Uygar from the Young Turks would put it, "Ooopsie Doopsie!"
Beck wants the top of the ticket for himself.
From ThinkProgress
Transcript from Huffington Post BECK: I don't think things are hoots. I don't. I don't think it's a hoot. I would never use the word hoot, and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she would stop using the word 'hoot.' [...]
No, no I'm just saying -- Beck-Palin, I'll consider. But Palin-Beck -- can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on! She'd be yapping or something, and I'd say, "I'm sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I'm not in the kitchen."
We're having a lot of fun on Twitter this morning with Sarah Palin movie titles.
2012: A Spaced Oddity @HughMcBride
Apocalypstick Now @Friggmagazine
Something Vapid This Way Comes @66Betty
Honey, I Shrunk The Feds! @padmethedog
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest And Shot It @nihiofkdi
Footmoose @wivkjimmy
The Lion, The Bitch and the Wardrobe @HonestMeat
Pirates of the Caribouan @LizzWinstead
Raging Bullshit @lmlTN
Malice in Wonderland @WeeGeorge
Endless Bummer @Lggoldenstar
Sophie Doesn't Have A Damn Choice @WTMW83
These are mine Drillion Dollar Baby
Grizzly Woman
Missedher Deeds
Happy Shrillmore
Good Whale Hunting
Americon Beauty
West Snide Story
Kramer vs Blamer
Coy Story
To Buffoon And Beyond
Driving Miss Crazy
The Reader
When Handguns Met Sarah
Armageddon
Love, Not Factually
Smear and Loathing In Alaska
First off, if your reading this over at ProgressiveElectorate.com, thanks for bringing me in and letting me do my thing here as well. Not sure if I ever introduced myself, but I am Jeff, sometimes better known as Fish. I don't write, I rant and usually, in some way shape or form, I try to make my thoughts funny if it all possible, which sometimes is incredibly hard to do, but luckily for me, the Republicans and Conservative movement make it easier then it needs to be. I don't really proofread or check for typo's, so if you see any of those, as I tell everyone else, KEEP THAT SHIT TO YOURSELF, lol. I'm here to get a few chuckles, not win a Pulitzer. I am pretty simple, hardworking dude from Missouri that has recently got into politics (maybe a little to much), I bleed blue, I try to work as hard as I can for the causes I believe it, and I stand firm against the ones I do not believe in. I am an America loving individual who wants every person to have a fair crack at the American Dream. I partied out of college where I majored in Journalism, and to this day, I have no fucking idea what the hell I was doing in college or studying Journalism to begin with. I may not always have my facts 100% accurate, but I speak from the heart, and that's the important thing. So, with that, I will begin ranting and I hope you enjoy.
He would be disappointed that his unprecedented efforts to renew the constitutional separation of church and state - in a country, as he said, in which "no Catholic prelate" would tell an elected official how to decide what was in the best interest of all Americans - had still not dissuaded the current Roman Catholic hierarchy from trying to punish a good Catholic congressman like JFK's nephew Patrick for voting his conscience on the question of free reproductive choice for American women...
He would be disappointed, even astounded, that, despite his assassination and the crushing blows that followed - the assassinations of his brother Robert and his friend Dr. King, as well as the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan - this country is still awash in handguns easily available to terrorists, the criminally inclined, and the mentally impaired.
Jeremy Scahill The Nation
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering intelligence and help run a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus.
War is a racket, now more than ever. When did it become OK to get filthy rich off of war?
Tonights MNF games is the Tennessee Titans against the Houston Texans. I've got Steve Slaton on my fantasy team and the guy I'm playing has Andre Johnson, both are on the Texans. I need Slaton to get 9.5 pts more than Johnson to win my matchup. How's your fantasy matchup doing? Any thoughts on tonight's game?
BRUSSELS - For 23 torturous years, Rom Houben says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
The car-crash victim had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state but appears to have been conscious the whole time. An expert using a specialized type of brain scan that was not available in the 1980s finally realized it, and unlocked Houben's mind again.
The 46-year-old Houben is now communicating with one finger and a special touchscreen on his wheelchair.
"Powerlessness. Utter powerlessness. At first I was angry, then I learned to live with it," he said
2. Huffington Post Lifesize Lincoln. This piece looks at Lincoln's face in some rare photographs, comparing the left to the right.
I went, I tried, I failed - I was not able to secure a wristband for the Sarah Palin book signing in Birmingham . So no ambush interviews tomorrow. I did stick around to meet Mike Huckabee.
One thousand people from Alabama and other southeastern states got pink wristbands from a Colonial Brookwood Village bookstore today so they can get former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to sign copies of her book "Going Rogue" for them on Monday.
Hundreds of others were turned away or left after realizing they wouldn't get one of the limited number of wristbands at the Books-A-Million store. Homewood police estimated about 1,800 people lined up for wristbands.
Palin, who was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, will begin signing copies of her book at 4:30 p.m. Monday. Some people had camped outside the bookstore since early Saturday evening to guarantee a place in line.
2. Officially Iron Bowl week in the State of Alabama - You must pick sides - You are either for Alabama or you are for Auburn - Of course if you have been reading this blog you know of my allegiance to the University of Alabama. This year the game will be held on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Alabama has already secured a birth in the SEC Championship Game against the defending champions The Florida Gators. The battle could also decide the Heisman Trophy as Mark Ingram from Alabama and Tim Tebow from Florida are mentioned as high on everyone's ballot.
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