13 Ways of Looking at Sarah Palin (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)

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Thursday May 20, 2010 · 8:43 AM PDT

2010/05/20 · 08:43

I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird
Until Sarah shot it.

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there is Sarah.

III
Sarah whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime
but it paid well.

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 7:19 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 19:19

Sarah Palin issued "a proclamation in support of "Jurors' Rights" day, an event sponsored by the Fully Informed Jury Association, which encourages the doctrine of jury nullification," according to Reason Online. http://www.reason.com/... A copy of that proclamation is here: http://volokh.com/...

Why is that news? Because "jury nullification" is often an important issue to far-right extremists, and this proclamation could be yet one more sign of her association with such groups.

What is "jury nullification"? In sum, it is the idea that an individual juror or jurors may refuse to enforce laws they believe to be in conflict with the laws of God or their own sense of right and wrong.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 6:16 PM PST

2006/11/02 · 18:16

Appetizers, then dinner.

First course is the bio from the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) web site of their president, a pastor from Colorado who just resigned, surprise surprise, for having sex with a gay prostitute. Dig the last line about his political power.

"Pastor Ted Haggard is the president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the largest evangelical group in America. He is also founder and senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He formed and serves as the president of both the Association of Life-Giving Churches, a network of local churches, and worldprayerteam.org, the only real-time global prayer network.

Pastor Ted has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, and more. Time included Pastor Ted in their list of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America. Harper's says, "No pastor in America holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalism than does Pastor Ted." Read More

Does Michael Steele "Love" Puppies TOO MUCH?

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 8:37 AM PDT

2006/10/26 · 08:37

Open AD:

Ominous music. Grainy photo of Maryland Republican candidate Michael Steele handling a puppy, from his television ad, "Puppies".

Voice: "Michael Steele is always talking about how much he loves puppies.

Now some people are wondering - does he "love" dogs a LITTLE TOO MUCH?

After 4 years as Maryland Lt. Governor, Michael Steele has gone out of his way NEVER TO CONDEMN MAN-ON-DOG SEX.

And he's NEVER ONCE supported a bill to make sex with dogs a federal crime. Now, some Marylanders are starting to ask why.

On November 7, you have a choice. Will you support someone who may LITERALLY BE SCREWING THE POOCH? Is that what Maryland needs for its kids, Senator Humps-a-Dog? On November 7, you'll get to tell Lt. Gov. Rover what you think of his "dog-loving". So don't forget to vote."

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Signs that the Religious Right is Starting to Implode? (w/ poll)

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Wednesday October 18, 2006 · 6:53 AM PDT

2006/10/18 · 06:53

Many promiment liberal bloggers have been expressing the view that nothing will change the level of political engagement of the Christian Right. I disagree with this point of view - if you start to look, there are plenty of signs the movement - as a political force - is starting to fracture. It's a philosophically incoherent movement, and while the appearance of internal contradictions doesn't necessarily cause movements to implode immediately, when you combine contradictions with rapidly shifting political winds and the needs and temptations of power politics, changes are inevitable. It seems that we're starting to see some signs of these changes now. Examples under the fold: Read More

If Ned Wins, Let's Start Giving Webb some love (w/ Poll)

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Tuesday August 08, 2006 · 4:29 PM PDT

2006/08/08 · 16:29

If Ned Lamont wins tonight, it'll feel really good. For about 5 minutes - and then the media will start spinning it according to the narrative they're setting up for this election season. "Radical" Democrats who happen to represent about 60% of the country, including obviously the middle, against "conservative" Republicans.

Notwithstanding that a majority of the country is strongly with Lamont and the Dems on the war(s). Read More

How The Wingnuts Destroyed My Best Friend

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 1:12 PM PST

2006/02/09 · 13:12

Dan and I first became friends back in Indian Guides (a non-PC version of the Cub Scouts for first and second graders) back in 1975 when I we were 6 years old or thereabouts. We remained friends after that for more than 25 years. Because of our friendship, Dan's family and my family also became good friends, and I attended countless family events for not only Dan but for his sisters and other family members. I attended his and his sisters' graduation parties from high school and college, and vice versa. I went to his grandmother's funeral, he he came to those for my grandmothers. One college summer, Dan got me a job working in an office where he worked, where we had fun making fun of our managers and blowing off steam with our co-workers at the local pub after work. When I got married in 1998, Dan was my best man; when he got married in 2001, I was his.
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The Flunky 5 Who Voted Yea: Dems For Gonzales

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Monday February 06, 2006 · 12:19 PM PST

2006/02/06 · 12:19

Americans should be shocked by the testimony of Alberto Gonzales today. If they aren't wearing Fox News glasses, they can see an Attorney General of the United States (a nonentity courtier of the regent) waving the bloody shirt of 9/11, having his lapdog Republican pals excuse him from having to testify under oath, and refusing to answer whether a President has the Constitutional authority to break a Congressionally-mandated law. Essentially, a man who puts his loyalty to his don above his loyalty to the Constitution. And this is the chief law-enforcement officer of the land.

But who could not have seen this coming? Why did Dems keep their powder dry on this guy, and then on Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owens, and then Roberts, and then Alito ? See what you get? . . . . This.
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Freep this Impeachment Poll

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 8:34 AM PST

2005/12/22 · 08:34

It's here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/... Read More

Sea Change Is Here - Comcast News Page Criticizes Bush!

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Wednesday September 21, 2005 · 4:29 PM PDT

2005/09/21 · 16:29

My internet access goes straight into a Comcast News page. I know that I can easily change it, but I kind of like seeing what the tapioca news is like first off.

Today - a criticism of Bush - if tepid on the summary page, but much more direct if you click on the story - and this is the No. 1 story for them: Read More

(Poll) Is Kos's writing the reason you visit this site?

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Thursday September 15, 2005 · 2:22 PM PDT

2005/09/15 · 14:22

I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm just curious.

Kos seems to have pissed off a number of his readers in the past few months with battles over feminism, pacifism, abortion-rights, and now Garrison Keillor (!?!) Read More

"Things your father could never have imagined"

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 8:11 AM PDT

2005/09/09 · 08:11

From a book about Germany's descent into Nazism. Please read it and see if it doesn't ring a familiar bell, especially after the break. The forms remain the same, but the world is slowly transformed by ideology - chilling.

"What no one seemed to notice...was the ever widening gap...between the government and the people...And it became always wider...the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway... Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about...and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated... by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us..." Read More

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13 Ways of Looking at Sarah Palin (with apologies to Wallace Stevens)

Palin, "Jury Nullification" and Far-Right Ideology

What are you doing election day/night? (w/poll)

Does Michael Steele "Love" Puppies TOO MUCH?

Signs that the Religious Right is Starting to Implode? (w/ poll)

If Ned Wins, Let's Start Giving Webb some love (w/ Poll)

How The Wingnuts Destroyed My Best Friend

The Flunky 5 Who Voted Yea: Dems For Gonzales

Freep this Impeachment Poll

Sea Change Is Here - Comcast News Page Criticizes Bush!

(Poll) Is Kos's writing the reason you visit this site?

"Things your father could never have imagined"