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He joins other notable self-whoring losers such as Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne, Bret Michaels, and Darryl Strawberry for the upcoming ‘Celebrity Apprentice’.

Ha ha.

Alaska
________autumn bouquet of, 1
________robin’s egg sky of, 2
________superiority to Lower 48 of, 1-413
Baldwin, Alec
________preference for Stephen over, 314
Biden, Joe
________gaffes of, 278
________pre-debate stretching regimen of, 296
________accidental reference to as “Sen. O’Biden,” 289
blinking, not, 198
Blitzer, Wolf
________approval of mother of, 351
________implicit disapproval of, 351
Builder, Tito the, 305
Bono, nondescript conversation with, 301
books and magazines, references to
________A Conflict of Vision, 385
________Animal Farm, 27
________Buck, Pearl S., 180
________Bible, the, 15
________cookbooks, 15
________Lewis, C.S., 27
________Nash, Ogden, 15
________National Geographic, 27
________Pearl, The, 27
________Ranger Rick, 27
________Reader’s Digest, 15
________Seagull, Jonathan Livingston, 27
________Service, Robert, 15
________Sports Illustrated, 27
________Wonderful World of Oz, The, 16
cap and trade
________brilliant suggested renaming of as “Cap and Tax,” 390
________characterization of as “environmentalist Ponzi scheme,” 391
capital letters, unorthodox use of
________"Patriots,” dedication page
Clinton, Hillary
________invitation to coffee with, 287
________whining of, 287
Community organizing, actual responsibility lackingness of, 65, 242
Couric, Katie
________"repetitive, biased questions” of, 271
________unfair editing of interview with, 273
________condescension of, 276
________things I could/should have said to, 274-5
________things I could have done instead of talking to, 279
crowds
________unexpected size of, 266
________insistence on lingering with, despite objections from campaign staffers, 268
debate, vice presidential
________poorness of preparation for, 281-85
________answers they made me give during, 281
________answers I wanted to give during, 282
________wink during, N/A
“Democrat,” usage of as adjective, 155, 227
dialogue, implausibly recreated, 2, 53, 74, 151, 161, 179, 188, 217, 235, 318, 358, 375
diet
________forced by Steve Schmidt to go on, 284
________Steve Schmidt needs to go on, 285
eBay
________attempted selling of jet on, 147
________fudging of original claim that I did sell jet on, 147

e-mail, hacking of, 263-65
exclamation point, usage of, 4, 26, 120, 121, 122, 138, 150, 199, 207, 222, 223, 225, 233, 239, 241, 276, 302, 307
evolution
________skeptical views of, 217
________________use of word “Neanderthal” despite, 30, 172
“experts,” wrongness of, 254, 289, 336, 375, 392
Facebook
________citation of as example of laudable free-market enterprise, 400
________utility of for calling out haters, 400

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Many in the US corporate media have hailed “progressive” the choice of Sarah Palin by John McCain as his vice presidential running mate. Women workers are being told that they “finally have someone to vote for!” But even the most cursory glance at Palin[] is enough to show that she [is a monkey smuggler], and is [really a man].

NB: Brackets indicate paraphrases.

Yes. Here at SAB the front page analysis proceeds as follows:
First, survey the pro-hate rightwing websites for new two to four words memes such as “rent seeker”, “death panel”, “oba-mao”, etc.  Then, In your feedreader, assign the newly-procured memes to stories which loosely fall under these categories. If the story is about sick birds, for example, it contains portents of Obama’s coming, omnious DEATH PANELS.  If the article is about an Asian country, mention of OBA-MAO must be made.  If the story is about a new apartment complex, you know new apartment complexes are creeping with RENT[al] SEEKERS.  And so on and so forth. 

In a bit of a nutshell, this is the primary propaganda tactic of many of the right’s media outlets (and the left’s for that matter).

At any rate, since arguments, facts, rationality, and all of that confusing sh*t is out the window at this point, the onus is on us to begin phasing back in meaningful use of the English language before rightwing propgit gurus reduce our descriptive abilities to the point where phenomena fall into three classes which are all portents of communism among the left. This phasing process will have to be done slowly and gently, so that no serious meme-withrawal effects occur. To this end, I would like to begin by introducing a new meme which only applies to one person and makes use of a metaphor which involves two entities which share more than a few salient properties (as opposed to e.g. loose topical relevance).

Sarah Palin shall henceforth be dubbed “the political Paris Hilton”. This campaign is proudly supported by SAB commentator ‘Bat One’, as evidenced by his enthusiasm.

An example use of the new meme proceeds as follows. When your favorite Marxist news source craps out a new story, take all or most of it out of context and then exaggerate it to make your headline. The above linked story has the headline “Sarah Palin: A Choice For Women?” Armed with our new meme, we can rephrase this as “Monkey-smuggler Political Paris Hilton Not Really a Woman”.

With these rules in hand, even you could host the Glenn Beck show.

12 BILLION IN CASH, LOST IN THE DESERT

Yea. Look at those pallets of $100 bills. Wow. I bet that money was free. It happened during Bush so it couldn’t have been taxpayer money.

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. “The numbers are so large that it doesn’t seem possible that they’re true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?”

So… did we loose this money? You could argue that we paid for a temporary peace for PR reasons, in order to account for SOME of the cash, but then it’d cut against your ‘freedom and democracy’ narrative about Iraq. Decisions decisions…

Also, I think a ‘tonne’ is two ‘tons’. Anyone know the deal with the British ‘tonnes’?

What? A joke right? Nope.

A 33-year-old Jackson man accused of growing marijuana in his apartment could get up to life in prison if convicted.

In the case of Ronald Christopher Sekul, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics intends to ask prosecutors to apply a law called the “kingpin” statute, MBN Director Marshall Fisher said.

The statute can be applied to Sekul’s case because he allegedly had a drug operation for longer than 12 consecutive months and had more than 10 pounds of marijuana, Fisher said.

Sekul was arrested Wednesday for allegedly growing 4-foot marijuana plants in the back bedroom of the fourplex he lives in at 1510 Myrtle St., according to MBN.

He is out of jail on $50,000 bond.

“It was a pretty sophisticated operation,” Fisher said.

And I thought I had cool neighbors! WOah.

Wow.

We don’t?

Should we?

What should we make it?

Esperanto?

Researchers say a medicated tampon could reduce period pain.

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

So we had a horrific shooting the other week in Texas. A dozen Army guys got shot up by another Army guy who went nuts from a combination of asinine, archaic religion; a looming deployment to greater Asia to fight all of the sect-based wars we are involved in over there; a steady parade of mentally and physically (severely) injured soldiers who he was ‘counselor’ for, psychoanalyzing, etc; and probably a few other reasons, including but not limited to sexual repression, genetic causes, brain tumors, general stupidity, and/or his extremely conservative ideology.

In the immediate aftermath of this tragic event, nearly all the partisan commentators and public figures wasted no time making themselves seem like sniveling f**king idiots.

On the one hand we had to hear about how it was ultimately the Democrats fault for their “politically correct” social policies which include, putatively, promoting minorities with less skill and qualification ahead of white males with more skill and/or qualification. On the other hand, we had to hear about how this was a mental problem related to the lack of oversight and control in the military and the negative effects that time in the military has on mental health.

Wow. We’re dealing with a bunch of disrespectful 12-year-olds here, on both sides of the aisle. While clearly no political party in the US is responsible, even a little, for the shooting, all possible efforts have been made to blame political parties, policies, terrorist groups, and generally any groups that one has become accustomed to blaming nowadays.

The line from the right is that each person is rational and, moreover, they make free and rational choices for themselves. This is the model that our government is built on more-or-less; at least its atomic parts. So why, when blaming is tangentially politically precipitous, do all politicians seek to strip the agency of individuals in order to blame their actions on each others policies? The road that this begins to take us down doesn’t end with the same nice model of the free individual, needless to say.

When does this conduct, as a widespread and prevalent mode-de-l’emploi, become severely problematic?

Did this begin with all of the refusals, on both sides, to take responsibility for anything bad? Despite the lack of responsibility of anyone but the shooter in the Ft Hood shooting, the shooting has been blamed on countless groups. These arguments only go through if one is using unfree, unrational individuals in their models, in their ascriptions of responsibility, and so forth. How can we support the death penalty for this shooter if we actually blame a political party or faction for his actions?

From the nytimes…

The Army has added to their ranks in recent years, as the number of soldiers with the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder has climbed to 34,000. But the [Ft Hood] shooting has raised a pressing question: Who counsels the counselors? Dr. Moore and other therapists who have worked in the military or for Veterans Affairs said that mental health evaluations of therapists themselves were virtually nonexistent.

“I have worked with the Army, the Navy, the V.A., and I’m not aware of any formal, systematic process to evaluate professionals,” said Dr. Andy Morgan, a psychiatrist at the National Center for P.T.S.D.

At Walter Reed, where Major Hasan was in training until recently, Lt. Col. Brett Schneider, a psychiatrist, described a complicated system of checks and balances, including a training committee with superiors and civilians who evaluate residents and mental health staff members.

“There is a lot more built into the processes to keep tabs on each other,” said Colonel Schneider, who spoke on the condition that he not be asked any questions about Major Hasan. “If somebody is starting to get to the point where these things are a problem, there are a number of ways we can intervene.”

Generally, though, the military, like many large civilian employers, relies on self-evaluation and voluntary employee-assistance programs.

“Once training is over, you’re basically on your own,” Dr. Paulus said.

A couple days ago I accused Boehner of lying about GOP inclusiveness. Quoting from here, I found this:

The Republican National Committee and its campaign arm, the National Republican Congressional Committee, switched quickly to endorse Hoffman on Saturday after previously being strongly behind Scozzafava. And on Sunday, Minority Leader John A. Boehner , R-Ohio, and Minority Whip Eric Cantor , R-Va., pledged to help Hoffman secure a seat on the Armed Services Committee, on which McHugh had been the ranking member.

“Doug Hoffman has our full support for the next available seat on the House Armed Services Committee so he can best serve the interests of Fort Drum and the troops and military families of New York’s 23rd Congressional District,” the two leaders said in a statement.

The race has emerged as a major skirmish in the “battle for the soul of the Republican Party,” between pragmatists who say the party’s setbacks in 2006 and 2008 recommend recruiting more moderate candidates in regions, such as the Northeast, that have turned strongly Democratic, and conservatives who argue that the party’s path of recovery is via strict adherence to the Republicans’ conservative national platform.

Boehner acknowledged Sunday that the situation in New York’s 23rd District race is “pretty unusual,” but said the message remains that Republicans accept “moderates in our party.”

I think Boehner is licking the boot of the moderates, these socialist-lights. You better bounce the guy from your cherished movement as he is clearly trotting on the slippery slope to fatigue-wearing Maoism.

Check the headlines. It affected my morning commute, but luckily I was only 15 min late. I have a lot to say about this, but am in a work-heavy period, so it will have to wait.

These SEPTA folks make $60k/year. That’s a lot in Philly. They want more, so the thugs are holding the city hostage.

I say let em keep striking. Forever.

How many people who make less than that, who get no benefits, will loose their jobs because they rely on this train service? The east-west line in Philly is the busiest subway in the world. The economy sucks, we are all making sacrifices. Why are the SEPTA employees being so selfish?

Get out the firehoses.