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I think that in the USA Marg would be a bit too obviously fictitious.

Here we'd probably say 'who's that crazy newf' or 'wait a second...is she from Cape Breton' if it's out West or maybe in downtown T'ronno.

that was great last night. I'm so glad that show still feels relevant...as relevant as political commentary can I suppose.

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The Canadian Press ...

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Lots of people want to talk about Palin. Just listen to these humans with brains ...

Wow. Drill Baby Drill! We've got to get those polar bears off the endangered list so we can drill.

when we were in cinci for the phish shows, the senate was voting on a health care reform bill. there were a handful of otherwise regular, uppper-middle class, white folks camped out for the whole day at a main intersection near our hotel. they had lawnchairs, deli sandwich platters for themselves and were waving handmade signs that read "hands off our healthcare", "government out of healthcare" and the like. as tempting as it was to venture into discussion with these people much like this reporter (brilliantly) did, i figured it just wasnt worth it. once their minds are made up, it seems they cannot be changed.

the sad irony was the three or four homeless men begging for change mere yards away. i hope they were given a couple of those yummy looking sandwiches.

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the sad irony was the three or four homeless men begging for change mere yards away. i hope they were given a couple of those yummy looking sandwiches.

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What? Give them some food? For free? Perish the thought man! That's fuckin' socialism/marxism/leninism/fascism/communism/idon'tknowwhatthefuckism/etc.

Hands Off Our Homeless ... let 'em suffer. It's what or forefathers built into the Constitution and we'll die for their rights to not receive any help. It's the American Way. God Bless America.

Now where's that buffet? I gotta drive across the street to get to it.

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If Palin runs in 2012, there could very likely be one interesting side effect.

If Palin runs again, I'm going to run on a Republican ticket. What I know about Middle Eastern policy could fit on a thumbnail, but I still know more than she does. You have to ask, how could a nation nearly vote in somebody who isn't qualified for the job?

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/amos-makes-palin-promise_1126456

Aloha,

Brad

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Cheech & Chong want to blaze with Palin :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/cheech-chong-palin_n_424563.html

Politico caught up with Cheech and Chong at the Marijuana Policy Project's 15th Anniversary Gala and asked the duo which politician they'd most like to smoke pot with. Sarah Palin they answered. Why? Apparently, Cheech Marin thinks she grows it herself back in Alaska, while Tommy Chong noted that she "answers a lot of questions like a stoner." The pair went on to discuss her recent debut as a Fox News Analyst and her history in pageants.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html

EXCLUSIVE (Update): Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes

Closer inspection of a photo of Sarah Palin, during a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible.

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Ahh sweet Earl Grey Revolution! Sarah Palin knew that speech like the back of her hand. The Q&A answers, however, were on the front of her hand.

Or so it appeared.

During the Q&A following her speech at the Tea Party Convention, Ms. Palin appeared to read from her hand in answering.

The following image was caught by some sharp-eyed Twitter users, notably @jryanlaw

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->Tweet Photo link

UPDATE #2: A high-quality video on youtube seems to prove that something was indeed on the palm of Palin's hand. The question is what.

Close-Up:

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UPDATE #1: And, via ThinkProgress, the Video:

Crib Notes? This potential presidential candidate and "movement" leader was using crib notes to answer basic questions?

This would mean:

A) That she knew the questions beforehand and the whole thing was a farce. (Likely.)

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B) That she still couldn't answer the previously agreed-upon questions without a little extra help.

If true, this is supremely rich coming immediately after a speech in which Palin took a shot at President Obama for using a teleprompter to read his prepared speeches.

You can bet that the President wasn't reading scribbles off his extremities while he sparred with Republicans and Democrats in an unscripted format in his recent Q&As.

Palin, on the other hand, seems to need a cheat-sheet just to get through a contrived lovefest with a smitten interviewer and an adoring audience.

I'm no fan of the Tea Party movement - if it can be called such - but if this is their leader I actually sympathize with them.

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Question: Can anyone get a blown-up image of this from a different angle to confirm or disprove it?

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One of Sarah's Alaskan friends who condones aerial wolf hunting and why the bible says it's ok :P

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)-- The newest member of the Alaska Board of Game is facing some opposition because of an online video of him skinning a wolf and citing the Bible to explain the relationship between humans and animals.

The Legislature is expected to vote Friday on whether 44-year-old Al Barrette should be confirmed to the board that regulates Alaska's vast wildlife resources.

Critics say his decisions consistently favor one group -- hunters -- regardless of scientific data and public sentiment. And they say religious talk has no place in the scientific management of Alaska's game animals.

Supporters say Barrette will bring his knowledge about trapping to the board. He owns a tannery business in Fairbanks.

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Yup, this is the woman that could have become the leader of the USA! Scary:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palins-homer-moment_b_675198.html

I'm really proud of my home town. When I say, "I'm just a girl from Homer" on my blog, radio or television show, I like to think it's not so much self-deprecation as it is a friendly warning. When Palin signed off on her Facebook blog bashing Obama on Friday with "Sarah Palin in Homer, Alaska", I laughed. Lady, if you think I give you a hard time, hang on.

Palin posted:

And here I am, thousands of miles away from DC out on a commercial fishing boat, working my butt off for my own business, merely asking the Democrat politicos and their liberal friends in the media: "What's the plan, man?", and they seem to feel threatened by my question. So, I'll go back to setting my hooks and watching the halibut take the bait, and when I come back into the boat's cabin in a few hours...

Strange. The Palin's fishing business doesn't include IFQ's (Individual Fishing Quotas) necessary for commercially harvesting halibut. Her baiting hooks and keeping a manicure is laughable. Halibut are on the bottom of the ocean, hard to watch them "take the bait". I hope she's got a crew license. (Shrug).

Sarah Palin & company spent several days in Homer filming her "Sarah Palin's Uh-laska" show. (Eyes rolled).

On the public dock, private security patted down private citizens. The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure from their government. Private security searching private citizens in a public place, doesn't fall under that category. It's a bit more hinky.

Whether it was TLC or the Palins who contracted security, under what authority did they operate in a public location? Were they looking for weapons? Well, now there's a Second Amendment issue.

This is Alaska, we carry guns. You can open-carry or acquire a concealed weapons permit from the state. If you are a law abiding citizen, you don't even need a permit. Sarah Palin recently endorsed Alaska Tea Party Candidate Joe Miller for US Senate. His supporters carried assault rifles in last month's Golden Days Parade in Fairbanks. If weapons are good enough for a public parade, weapons should be fine at a public dock.

Maybe it wasn't about guns. Maybe it was about cameras. In that case, it's a First Amendment issue. Whether Palin had a problem with the First Amendment, the Second Amendment or the Fourth Amendment, she contradicted her entourage's actions at the Homer dock.

Risking accusations of being all "Wee-Wee'd Up", one Homer woman made a sign in her shed. She then took the 30-foot-by-3-foot banner out to the boat harbor. It said "WORST GOVERNOR EVER". Kathleen Gustafson is a teacher married to a local commercial fisherman. She felt like Sarah Palin had let the state down by becoming a dollar-chasing celebrity and ignoring the oath of office she'd sworn on a Bible.

Kathleen was motivated by the fact Palin was using the very place where her family makes a living to fortify the Palin personality cult -- pretending to do the very thing they worked so hard to sustain. Initially, Kathleen just wanted to waste a little of the camera crew's time, since Palin wasted so much of her time purporting to represent Alaska's interests.

She didn't imagine Palin would be so easy to draw out.

Saturday morning, Billy Sullivan helped Kathleen tape the banner up on his place of business at the top of the boat ramp. Then here she came. Sarah.

She couldn't just walk by. Only a few fishermen and tourists would have seen the banner, but Sarah had to stop and protest. I spoke with Kathleen. She said she wanted Palin to know how she felt, but never dreamed she'd get the chance to say to her face, "You're not a leader, you're a climber!" Early in the conversation, Sarah actually winked at Kathleen in what seemed to be a case of eyelid Tourette's Syndrome.

At one point, a Palin daughter chanted, "You're just jealous". Kathleen told Sarah she was disappointed that she dropped her responsibility to the state to became a celebrity. Palin said incredulously, "I'm honored. No, she thinks I'm a celebrity!" Really? So the camera crew wasn't an indicator? How many times do you have to be on magazine covers to gain celebrity status? Something about camping with Kate Plus Eight in rain slickers seems, well, a little celebrity.

Billy Sullivan caught much of the interchange on his cell phone camera. The back of her security guard's head and Todd Palin attempted to block Billy's view, continually rotating like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. What were they afraid of? I guess that's what happens when you're filming a "celebrity". He was even told by one of the Palin daughters, "You're an A-hole". Charming family values.

I asked both Billy and Kathleen which Palin daughter said what. Neither knew. They don't have televisions and aren't interested in Palin's personal life and dramas.

In what has become typical tragic irony, Sarah initially claimed to support Kathleen's First Amendment Rights. But as soon as Billy Sullivan walked toward the dock, one of Palin's entourage tore down the sign to great applause from her group.

Todd Palin approached Billy (who owns a business called Dockside Fish and buys halibut on that dock) and asked him to get out of the Discovery crew's shot. "You just can't get enough of her, can you?" he asked. An Alaska State Trooper told Billy he should call the Homer Police Department and report the trespassing and destruction of property.

What the Palin folks don't seem to understand is simple; if Fred Phelps gets to hold his hateful signs up at military funerals, Billy should be able to put Kathleen's "WORST GOVERNOR EVER" banner on his building and not have a Palin goon tear it down.

The First Amendment only matters when you say or write something someone else doesn't like.

For someone who doesn't hold elected office and denies being a celebrity, Sarah Palin may want to get a "Constitutional Handler".

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from salon.com:

We all know that Sarah Palin's videotaped argument with a woman who hoisted a sign calling her the "Worst Governor Ever" is just a Rorschach test in which her supporters will see the usual aggrieved victim of liberal intolerance and the vast majority of Americans will just wonder why this unpleasant woman is still on TV all the time. But let us at least attempt to get some basic facts right, before the simple act of writing and repeating untruths muddles the issue.

Here, for example, is the centerpiece of Palin's three-paragraph Facebook note on the confrontation:

The LSM has now decided to use this brief encounter for another one of their spin operations. They claim I – wait for it – “appear to roll my eyes†when the lady tells me she’s a teacher. Yes, it’s come to this: the media is now trying to turn my eyebrow movements into story lines. (Maybe that’s why Botox is all the rage – if you can’t move your eyebrows, your “eye rolling†can’t be misinterpreted!) If they had checked their facts first, they would have known that I come from a family of teachers; my grandparents were teachers, my father was a teacher, my brother is a teacher, my sister works in Special Needs classrooms, my aunt is a school nurse, my mom worked as a school secretary for much of her professional life, we all volunteer in classrooms, etc., etc., etc. Given that family history, how likely is it that I would “roll my eyes†at someone telling me that they too work in that honorable profession? Stay classy, LSM.

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Given her background, it is, indeed, extremely unlikely that Sarah Palin would "roll her eyes" at someone telling her that they, too, work in that honorable profession. But there it is, in the video. Right at the 1:08 mark. It is actually a fairly exaggerated, cartoonish eye-roll -- not the subtle kind that only your mom picks up on, but one obvious enough to be apparent on a grainy YouTube video.

Not to try to turn eyebrow movements into story lines or anything, but Ms. Palin's the one who devoted an entire Facebook note to debunking one true sentence about her own actions, which were videotaped.

But that is not anywhere near as entertaining as the attempt, by pro-Palin bloggers, to prove that the woman Palin was arguing with is a liar.

Here is the headline from Gateway Pundit:

THAT WAS NO TEACHER… Unhinged Leftist Who Confronted Palin Is a Singer in a Drag Queen Band (Photo)

His source for that claim is some other blogger, who had no reason to believe that Kathleen Gustafson was not a teacher, except that she was somehow affiliated with a local community radio station. Of course, simple searches revealed that she is a licensed teacher who does theater tech. Gateway Pundit's update: "The Palin-haters now claim that “theater tech†is the name of some class they teach in Alaska. Sure it is…"

The best part is that the "Singer in Drag Queen Band" actually means that Ms. Gustafson directed a production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" starring, as a Gateway Pundit commenter notes, Jewell's brother. (I like this lady!)

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