Sarah Palin, crazy like a foxy MILF

Y'know I just wish this dumb bitch would just go away. But I don't think she will.

In spite of the announcement yesterday, July 3, 2009, that she was resigning her post as governor of Alaska later this month, speculation is running rampant on her motives, from

Sarah Palin Indictment - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin reportedly resigned because of a federal indictment pending in an embezzlement scandal that allegedly involves her receiving huge financial favors from Spenard Building Supplies.
Jim Brogan, PostChronicle.com

to, one of the wing nuttier theories

But it keeps coming back to Trig.

From the moment Palin was nominated for V.P., the attacks on Trig began. First there were the rumors, spread by Andrew Sullivan and others, that Sarah Palin was not Trig’s mother, that there was a grand conspiracy of hundreds if not thousands of people to cover up that Bristol Palin was Trig’s real mother.
LegalInsurrection.blogspot.com*

to not being able to take the heat of Republican in-fighting

The 2008 vice presidential nominee was seen as a likely presidential contender in 2012 and had proved formidable among the party's base. But the last week brought a highly critical piece in Vanity Fair magazine, with unnamed campaign aides questioning if Palin was ever really prepared for the presidency.
Rachel D'Oro, AP.com

And of course there are those who aver the MILF From Wasilla has just committed political hari-kari

CBS) If Sarah Palin thinks quitting the Alaskan statehouse is going to help a 2012 presidential campaign some pundits speculate she's mulling, she's mistaken, according to longtime Republican strategist Ed Rollins.

Rollins contended that, "She diminished the job of governor. I think, at the end of the day, I've never -- I've been in the business four decades, I've never seen a governor ever walk away from the job at mid-term, and I think, at the end of the day, that's what's gonna affect her."
CBSNews.com

O' dear, my pretties, I do think we all misunderestimate Caribou Barbie. I mean here it is the Fourth of July, 2009 and the Internet, the TeeVee and whatever accounts for a daily printed news media is yet chattering about the soon-to-be erstwhile former beauty queen governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Any way you look at it, Palin's rambling, often incoherent resignation speech on the Friday before the holiday is a brilliant piece of political theater.

In some aspects it was rather reminiscent of the late Richard Milhouse Nixon's petulant statement upon losing the 1962 California gubernatorial contest to liberal Democrat Edmund "Pat" Brown:"You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more. Because gentlemen, this is my last press conference." But we all know that like the mythical phoenix Nixon arose from the ashes of that campaign to take the presidency from a divided Democratic Party in 1968 and, proceeded to alter the trajectory of U.S. history from Free World powerhouse to Third World shitholedom.

So I don't think we have seen or heard the last of Sarah Palin. Nor do I think this is the end of her political ambitions. There is a certain segment of the American right that...well logic and critical thinking do no apply. Acting tough, reacting strongly to perceived slights and insults, hyper-patriotism, hyper-religiosity, hyper-materialism and hyper-love of family characterize the personality types to whom Sarah Palin appeals. I am sure my Republican union steward, who manfully told me, "I'll hunt for my family's food," when I asked him what he would do if George H.W. Bush privatized the Postal Service and fired all us union workers, is the kind of guy who idolizes le jeune femme Palin. And remember with this crowd looks account for a lot and, like it or not feminists, Sarah's got a right purdy ass.

*the blogger is one William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY (Kinda scary ain't it.)

Pity the poor physician

I was just wondering what the average yearly income is for...say... your average physician is in the good ol' USA and I Googled upon a cool little Web site with that very information, StudentDoctor.com. Here's what I learned:

Family practice, $204,000

Internist, $176000

Neurology, $228000

Cardiology, $403000

General Surgery, $291000

Cardiovascular Surgery, $558719

Plastic Surgery, $412000

There's no reason to go on, for as you can see, doctors in the United States are well remunerated for their education and expertise. And if you're interested in the average yearly incomes of other medical specialties click the SutdentDoctor.com link above.

Now why I bring this up is that it is clear to me that the primary and unstated reason the American Medical Association is so vehemently opposed to any "publicly" financed health care insurance scheme. They are worried their income will fall. Oh, fuck, what a catastrophe that would be. But, please, don't cry for the doctors for if this country ever went the way of the United Kingdom they would yet be among the richest guys in town. Our American physicians, should we wise up a go with a single-payer health care system, would still be members in good standing of the coordinator class.

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Hey, Public Library of Des Moines, thanks for making a little girl cry

I just sent this email to the PLDM:

I just returned from the North Side Branch Library.

Until just that minuet when I walked up and the automatic doors did not open did I have any idea that the branch would not open until 1 P.M. For me that is no big deal

However at the same time that I arrived at the North Side Branch another fellow and what appeared to be his grand daughter approached. When the little girl learned the library was not open it broke her heart.

I am sure the change in opening times is due in part to summer vacation schedules for library employees. I am also equally certain that the change in library opening times is due to budgetary constraints. Of course the library and all other city departments would have adequate funds if we in the neighborhoods were not forced into subsidizing all the tax credited, tax forgiven and tax increment funded development projects in downtown for the well-heeled and well-connected.

I understand this. But a little girl does not.

Thank you, Public Library of Des Moines, the city council, Polk County, the State of Iowa and the United States government for our skewed, regressive tax system that is ruining an economy and making a little girl cry.

Presenting Her Highness the Princess Meresamun

Getting By On Her Looks

The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes. Her mummified remains, sealed 2,800 years ago in a skintight coffin of cartonnage (layers of linen and plaster), were examined by researchers at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute in September 2008 using the latest in CT scanning technology, a "256-slice" machine that produced startlingly vivid images. For months, she has since been the immensely popular subject of the Oriental Institute Museum's exhibition, The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt.

Josh Harker, a forensic artist who lives in Chicago and was originally trained as a sculptor, worked digitally, leveraging the latest software and imaging technology.

Ancient Egyptian records talk about the ideal sense of womanly beauty. "A lot of the descriptions are about breasts and hips and coal-black hair," says [Egyptologist at the Oriental Institute Museum, Emily] Teeter [...curator of the Meresamun exhibition.] "But they do talk about sweet lips for kissing--and Meresamun's got very sweet lips!"

George W. Ahmadinejad

Now that the Iranian election is in the books and the protesters have taken to the streets one must ask the musical question: Why did the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his puppet master, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, fix the results in such a ham-handed fashion?

I mean, really now, if Ahmadinejad and his party had let the vote count go on in a normal manner the sawed-off mouthpiece for the heirs of cross-dressing reactionary political and religious leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, most likely would have won.

Yet many observers, especially here in the West, question the results based on the speed with which the hand-marked paper ballots were counted. In this country when we had ink-marked ballots counted by hand, the results were known on the same day or at least very late at night, after all Abraham Lincoln was declared the winner of the 1860 presidential race late that November 6 Tuesday night. In the case of Iran, however, Ahmadinejad's "landslide" was announced mere minutes after the polls closed. And that was the other think that raised Western as well as the bushy eyebrows of opponent Mirhossein Mousavi.

But without the guiding hand of a Karl Rove-like figure the good ayatollahs of the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council obviously did not have enough confidence in the urban and rural poor of Iran who are Ahmadinejad's most fervent and loyal supporters to deliver the vote. Had Ahmadinejad's handlers used a lighter more subtle touch-- like throwing out a few absentee ballots, losing a box of ballots somewhere on the way to the county courthouse or challenging ever ballot with the first name Muhammad in the signature--they might have gotten away with it. Sure there would have been some protests for sure, but people would have accepted the result and gone on with their pathetic lives, it was a three-way race after all.

But the ayatollahs pushed their luck and fixed the election, declaring their boy, Ahmadineja, the winner with a 63% plurality. Now they've stepped in it. But the reason they did so remains why?

Observes Stephen Zunes at Alternet.org

The only people happier than the Iranian elites over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparently stolen election win Friday, were the neoconservatives and other hawks eager to block any efforts by the Obama administration to moderate U.S. policy toward the Islamic republic.

By now it is ancient and arcane American history that advisers to then-candidate Ronald Reagan had secret talks with members of the Iranian revolution during the 1980 U.S. presidential election. Those of us old enough to remember recall how the American hostages held by the Iranian revolutionaries at the U.S. embassy in Tehran were released just as the divine Reagan was giving his first inaugural address.

Which leads me to speculate that elements of America's reactionary right may have had contact with elements of Iran's SCRC. Perhaps clandestine promises were made to surreptitiously aid Iran's faltering economy, perhaps secretly buy some oil for Israel or supply the Iranian air forcer with spare parts. We'll never find out the truth.

From an American NeoCon/reactionary Republican perspective keeping the runty bogeyman Ahmadinejad on television scaring the shit out of the dull witted American electorate, is right where they want him.

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