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RedditWhen former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, comes out on November 17th, it won't go unanswered. Two of The Nation's top editors, Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, are co-editors of Going Rouge: An American Nightmare, published by OR Books for release the same day.
The cover may be tongue in cheek, but the anthology is no parody. Featuring essays from some of The Nation's standout writers (Katha Pollitt, Max Blumenthal, John Nichols, Chris Hayes, Naomi Klein, Pat Williams, Gary Younge and JoAnn Wypijewski) and from some of the leading thinkers on the left (Matt Taibbi, Jessica Valenti, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Dahlia Lithwick, Frank Rich and others), Going Rouge is a serious look at former Governor Palin's record, her politics and her rise to power. (Disclosure: I have a piece in the book as well.) Going Rogue also includes commentary from Alaskan journalists and bloggers who have covered Palin first-hand.
In Going Rogue, Palin is expected to launch a broadside on progressive policy and values. In a year where a Facebook post by the former Governor parroting discredited myths about healthcare is treated by the mainstream media as something to be debated, not completely called out as a lie, we felt it was important to give readers a choice. Governor Palin will have her moment and present her case, but Going Rouge offers a smart, lively counterpoint, and a look at how "Palinism" is impacting the current political debate.
To see the cover, here's a clip from Thursday night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
It's available only online - not in stores - so in reality it won't confuse any shoppers eager to buy Going Rogue. We'll be excerpting some of the introduction in our November 11th print edition of The Nation, and featuring some new pieces from the book as we get closer to book release. You can pre-order Going Rouge here.
A few other items of note this week: - Speaking of the healthcare debate, few elected officials on the left have been as bold and outspoken as Arizona Congressman and Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Raul Grijalva in demanding a robust public option, and holding the White House to its promises. We're proud to have a comment running this weekend from Rep. Grijalva, calling for a united front on healthcare in the House of Representatives. In his op-ed, Grijalva corrects some of the myths about the political fortunes of the public option, and argues for the strongest possible public option in the house bill, "Medicare-plus-five." A must read.
- With the November 7th run-off in Afghanistan, President Obama's decision on Afghanistan may take a little longer. That means more time to pressure The White House for a responsible withdrawl. Here's how.
- Two appearances I'll be making early this week. On Monday I'm at J-Street's "Driving Change, Securing Peace" conference moderating a panel, "American Progressives and Israel: Friends, Enemies, or 'It's Complicated'?" with Michelle Goldberg, J.J. Goldberg and Ezra Klein. If you're in DC I hope you can make it.
- On Tuesday I'm part of an interesting debate series, "Intelligence Squared," at New York University. The style is decidedly "old-school:" A moderator; a motion; then an Oxford-style debate about the issue at hand. Our topic: "Good Riddance to Mainstream Media." Oddly enough I'm arguing against the motion, with David Carr of the New York Times and former San Francisco Chronicle Publisher Phil Bronstein. We're debating NPR's John Hockenberry, Politico's Jim VanderHei, and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff. If you're in New York come check it out. If not, the debate will air on NPR and Bloomberg Television, and at the Intelligence Squared website. I'll post the schedule next week.
As always, thanks for reading. Comments are welcome below. I'm on Twitter at Twitter.com/KatrinaNation.
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And to think, there are loonies, one particularly here on this blog, who lie to themselves that Palin is insignificant....yet, almost just like Rush Limbaugh, so many Lefty eyes are on her, so much is written about her.....cause she scares the Left like no other Conservative.
As a bonus, she's a woman.....and we know how delicious it is to watch the all-tolerant `Progressives' go after high-achieving women, even Hillary, who don't toe the Progressives' version of the plantation!
Posted by Happy at 10/25/2009 @ 5:00pm
As a bonus, she's a woman.....and we know how delicious it is to watch the all-tolerant `Progressives' go after high-achieving women, even Hillary, who don't toe the Progressives' version of the plantation!
Posted by Happy at 10/25/2009 @ 5:00pm | ignore this person | warn this person
i would say she's not entirely insignificant either. representing maybe 30% of the electorate is not insignificant. maybe 30%...
but to allow a lying idiot like that, prepackaged and coached by the aynrando spinmasters and presented as their standard bearer, to run about spewing silly lies and not oppose is tantamount to sending a check to whoever the heck is funding her.
our side is not so naive as it was as to allow a weapon to go unopposed these days. good! well funded propaganda attacks are met with counter attacks...
the difference is that our side really really really does not have to expend as much effort manufacturing half to whole lies and recreating reality to fit in an ideological framework. that's gotta be getting harder and harder these days...
all we gotta do is report the facts and connect the dots...
so sorry we are no longer impotent and shackled by silly notions of decency to those who are attempting to destroy us.
i'm happy!!!
Posted by dexter666 at 10/25/2009 @ 5:17pm
Posted by Happy at 10/25/2009 @ 5:00pm | ignore this person | warn this person
One can only hope that you cleaned off your keyboard after that emission.
Posted by ficheye at 10/25/2009 @ 8:26pm
Posted by Happy at 10/25/2009 @ 5:00pm
Hilarious. Who knew Happy was a feminist?
You want a strong female Republican candidate? Try someone like Olympia Snowe. I wouldn't vote for her, but she's still a quality candidate - unlike Palin.
Posted by srjenkins at 10/25/2009 @ 11:36pm
Hilarious. Who knew Happy was a feminist?
You want a strong female Republican candidate? Try someone like Olympia Snowe. I wouldn't vote for her, but she's still a quality candidate - unlike Palin.
Posted by srjenkins at 10/25/2009 @ 11:36pm
That's a joke right? I'd like to see Olympia Snowe removed from the Republican party.
I want a woman candidate who will get in the face of this nation's left and call them what they are, dreamers of implementing European style socialism.
I want women like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter who have the courage to go face to face with the leftist totalitarians and not back off. I'd like to see a 100 like them fight for conservativism.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/25/2009 @ 11:46pm
It is amazing the FEAR that Palin generates at nation, kos, and huff. I would expect Happys "Black House" will scurry about their propoganda website to attempt debunking of everything she writes.
What kind of whining fear laden President outside of a banana republic wages war against the ONLY media representatives like Fox and talk radio that does not spend all its time licking his boots?
If you wanted to make the leftist and the Obamanation Administration look more foolish you could not do it!
Posted by BigPasture at 10/26/2009 @ 12:09am
The title "Going Rouge" is hectically, delightfully multivalent: It is an obvious spoof of Palin's own title, a clever play on the concept of the "red state," a reference to makeup that summarizes the mauvais genre personal style of Palin herself and legions of lower-middle-brow professional women across the continent, and arguably either deliberately sexist or a send-up of old male prejudices against women, the kind one could have overheard in the smoking car on a train or in the second-class smoking lounge on a liner. How to expand the list? Is there a hinted comparison to bloody ideological barbarism à la the Khmer Rouge? What of Ford's legendary River Rouge Complex or the very different institution known as the Moulin Rouge--Palin as an incarnation of blue-collar Rosie the Riveter or of a naughty lumpenproletariat can-can girl (both perhaps being compelling figures in some way but both also manifestly unqualified for political office)? So many possibilities….
Posted by feinfein at 10/26/2009 @ 03:46am
Ms. Vanden Heuvel Not instructing; wanting to help...
I (old ex-academic) discovered and have elsewhere formally elaborated the notion of "squaring" applied to sign use (S*), and commend the NYU debate series framers for a. having intuitively arrived at it, as a powerful psychosemiotic tool ('double focusing' its content, pictured by (S* of S*)); and b. to gain proper effect (conjoined w/ 'intelligence', so applied!)
Such "doubling squared", however (Ex.: "Around the Nation" for magazine and country) runs a unique and peculiar risk of predicating on "Squared contradiction".
I even devised a schema for this: (~S/S*)^ (read: "not-S asterisk squared", showing a sign whose text contradicts its token, e.g., as in "Word is not a word" type paradoxes; cf LOGICMICS, starring Bertrand Russell!) And this can be a considerable danger.
- Say, if you, as 'leftist'loonies :-), avoided actually engaging in old-style, I would say euro-pol, debate -- exposing, but not articulating and SAVING THE RESULT of discussion of principle, so that alignments can be determined ...
The effect would be to further bury what is at issue by "intelligently squaring falsehoods." Sign-use that is not square (does not jibe) with its subject matter, which requires things to be called by their right names, splits texts from tokens, recombining in variant forms, as adumbrated recombinant virus germs infect the DNA.
It seems to me someone from this venue really SHOULD address the JESUS H1N1 VAX HYSTERIA SQUARED perpetrated on The Nation's psyche.
Carry on. I live away or would try to come. The greatest thing would be to get an upcoming assistant professor in NYU's Medieval Studies dep't over to hear you and perhaps chat afterward. She knows, too.
-regards
Posted by jones at 10/26/2009 @ 07:15am
"I want women like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter....."----Posted by antisocialist at 10/25/2009 @ 11:46pm
Interesting choices, Larry.
One, Malkin, whose parents would have been kept from coming into this country by the Pat Buchanan wing of the GOP....and who makes false claims, i.e. "ABC News reporting two million protestors at the DC Tea Party".
The other, Coulter, who dated the son of a pornographer, Bob Guiccione, Jr.
Posted by Mask at 10/26/2009 @ 08:16am
Posted by Mask at 10/26/2009 @ 08:16am
Welcome back.
I said it on Nichols' thread before it got axed.
Posted by Benchrest at 10/26/2009 @ 08:34am
Posted by Benchrest at 10/26/2009 @ 08:34am
Thanks....actually particularly enamored of the "Malkin" analogy.
Technically?...Michelle is an "anchor baby" as her parents the Magalalangs were not yet citizens when she was born.
Wonder what our anti-immigration Right, who also like her, would say about that?
Not to Larry of course...who's a "liberal" on immigration, s'why I threw in Malkin's deliberate falsehood about that "ABC News report" that she cited the weekend of the DC Tea Party.
Posted by Mask at 10/26/2009 @ 09:24am
I want a woman candidate who will get in the face of this nation's left and call them what they are, dreamers of implementing European style socialism. I want women like Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter who have the courage to go face to face with the leftist totalitarians and not back off. I'd like to see a 100 like them fight for conservativism. Posted by antisocialist at 10/25/2009 @ 11:46pm | ignore this person | warn this person
--what's a matter? jesus didn't give you the power to run for office and do it yourself?
--conservatism that's for nation building outside our borders, right?
Posted by urmygyro at 10/26/2009 @ 09:50am
--what's a matter? jesus didn't give you the power to run for office and do it yourself?
--conservatism that's for nation building outside our borders, right?
Posted by urmygyro at 10/26/2009 @ 09:50am
I did consider running for Congress back in the late 70's. I was even approached by some liberal Jewish friends who said that even though they disagreed with my views, they would help fund a run for Congress because they believed I would do what is right according to the Constitution and would protect the rights of people of faith.
I chose not to.
I happen to believe that if you are called to ministry, you shouldn't then say G-d was wrong and pursue a political career which would be in conflict with a ministry career.
Nation building because of the the changes in our world over the past 20-30 years is now consistent with national security. So I find nation building to be in the best interests of the security of the American people.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 10:19am
I did consider running for Congress back in the late 70's. I was even approached by some liberal Jewish friends who said that even though they disagreed with my views, they would help fund a run for Congress because they believed I would do what is right according to the Constitution and would protect the rights of people of faith.
I chose not to.
I happen to believe that if you are called to ministry, you shouldn't then say G-d was wrong and pursue a political career which would be in conflict with a ministry career.
--so why not run on your beliefs?
Nation building because of the the changes in our world over the past 20-30 years is now consistent with national security. So I find nation building to be in the best interests of the security of the American people.
--what changes? and it's not at all conservative to build nations elsewhere. that's american tax money being spent to prop up other countries.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 10:19am | ignore this person | warn this person
Posted by urmygyro at 10/26/2009 @ 10:22am
Posted by urmygyro at 10/26/2009 @ 10:22am
I believe as Pat Robertson did that you must resign from the ministry in order to run for office. I do not believe I'm supposed to leave the ministry.
You speak of nation building as "propping up countries". I refer to nation building is removing global threats under totalitarian govts and introducing democratic choices.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 10:36am
I believe as Pat Robertson did that you must resign from the ministry in order to run for office. I do not believe I'm supposed to leave the ministry.
--I believe that's a cop out.
You speak of nation building as "propping up countries". I refer to nation building is removing global threats under totalitarian govts and introducing democratic choices.
--tomato/tomahto. american taxpayer money is still being spent on troops, bombs, guns, etc....the word "pretext" comes to mind.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 10:36am | ignore this person | warn this person
Posted by urmygyro at 10/26/2009 @ 10:47am
--tomato/tomahto. american taxpayer money is still being spent on troops, bombs, guns, etc....the word "pretext" comes to mind.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 10:36am | ignore this person | warn this person
Posted by urmygyro at 10/26/2009 @ 10:47am
That's odd, staying alive comes to my mind.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 11:12am
Very funny.
I cannot wait for antisocialist's explanation about how Malkin and her support for Japanese style internment camps for people of Middle East descent is Constitutional and the standard cut and paste jobs showing that James Madison thought they were a great idea too.
I must say antisocialist's support for the likes of Malkin or Coulter is the very best example of his hypocrisy and lack of integrity I've seen.
On one thread, when called the enemy, he postulates a Stalin like government coming to kick in his door - and how the "left" hates dissenting voices. On the next thread, he declares his support for Malkin. She, in turn, supports internment camps and racial profiling - not much of a stretch from the government kicking down doors scenario he was protesting. I guess it's all kosher, so long as it isn't anti's door being kicked in. Where is your much flouted concern for Constitutionality anti? It's conveniently left the building?
Adding to the richness is how having a hundred Malkins would effectively destroy the Republican Party. It's fine to have a few crazed loons to push the conversation right-ward, but if you make it too many, it will make the average person think Republican are all loonies - which is probably not far from the truth these days.
You're not only the enemy of America. You're the enemy of your own party and ideology - and you don't even know it.
Go on. Support the Palins, the Malkins, the Coulters, and the other loons - and you'll find yourself in the desert as Snowe, Rell, and others start rethinking their allegiances.
Posted by srjenkins at 10/26/2009 @ 12:15pm
(Sarcasm alert)
Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Glen Beck, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Billie Cunningham, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, Michele Bachmann, Michael Savage...
So many people with so many answers. The bad dream team?
Why couldn't they have just focused around a candidate and won the election? It seems like they have all the answers. Americans like answers!
What should we look forward to? Palin/Voldemort in 2012?
I wonder what kind of wardrobe old Voldemort will favor? Are they printing t-shirts now?
Maybe a picture of Putin rearing his head?
..........................
With all of their talk and opinions, with all of their certainty about which way America should be going... these folks should have been able to rally Americans around a common goal and WON the election. Now, why was that not so? It is with deep chagrin that conservatives now have to bear that cross.
Show me what you've got!
Nothin'.
Posted by ficheye at 10/26/2009 @ 1:32pm
Posted by ficheye at 10/26/2009 @ 1:32pm
Beck, Palin, Hannity, et al. as the new crop of "conservative intellectuals"?
That whirrling sound you hear near Stamford, CT....
is William F. Buckley Jr. spinning in his grave!
Posted by Mask at 10/26/2009 @ 2:56pm
This is pretty impressive! After Palin's endorsement,.....sample size a bit small but hey, we can Hopey and changey too!
October 26, 2009
CFG Poll: Hoffman Leading in NY-23
Washington - A poll released today by the Club for Growth shows Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the special election in New York's 23rd congressional district to replace John McHugh, the former congressman who recently became Secretary of the Army.
The poll of 300 likely voters, conducted October 24-25, 2009, shows Conservative Doug Hoffman at 31.3%, Democrat Bill Owens at 27.0%, Republican Dede Scozzafava at 19.7%, and 22% undecided. The poll's margin of error is +/- 5.66%. No information was provided about any of the candidates prior to the ballot question.
This is the third poll done for the Club for Growth in the NY-23 special election, and Doug Hoffman is the only candidate to show an increase in his support levels in each successive poll. The momentum in the race is clearly with Hoffman.
"Hoffman now has a wide lead among both Republicans and Independents, while Owens has a wide lead among Democrats. Dede Scozzafava's support continues to collapse, making this essentially a two-candidate race between Hoffman and Owens in the final week," concluded Basswood Research's pollster Jon Lerner, who conducted the poll for the Club.....
Posted by Happy at 10/26/2009 @ 5:17pm
I cannot wait for antisocialist's explanation about how Malkin and her support for Japanese style internment camps for people of Middle East descent is Constitutional and the standard cut and paste jobs showing that James Madison thought they were a great idea too.
You're not only the enemy of America. You're the enemy of your own party and ideology - and you don't even know it.
Go on. Support the Palins, the Malkins, the Coulters, and the other loons - and you'll find yourself in the desert as Snowe, Rell, and others start rethinking their allegiances.
Posted by srjenkins at 10/26/2009 @ 12:15pm
SRJ,
Your responses are becoming almost comical.
1. I didn't say that I agree with any or all of Malkin's or Coulter's views. I said that I want women "like that", meaning in their assertive personalities and strong convictions. but your shallow thinking led you to the stereotypical response that answers without actually understanding what was written.
2. It's not my party. I'm a libertarian, not a Rebublican. When they run a candidate I can vote for, I do; but I mostly vote 3rd party.
3. I'd like to see the Republicans get rid of Snowe and all the other RINOS. Maybe they'd then have a party worth supporting.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 5:32pm
Santi-Your allusion to 21st century nation building is disheartening. Don't waste my time with comments about the ministry after that blast of hot air. Pat Robertson's a businessman who says he's in the ministry.Olympia Snowe talks to people in her state that have been hurt by the high cost of insurance.You aren't going to tell a story about being there are you ? Acknowledge the fact that she listened to the people she represents. The Catholic Church was the largest land owner in Latin America for many years. Did they help the common people in this regard? No,it was a great source of economic power for their organization. Sarah Palin looked at as a source of concern? For what might I ask? Because she is a good looking 40 year old? So is Michelle Bachmann and she is another version of the loony squad. There was a reason Farrah Fawcett was a poster girl and not a Senator. When are we going to send armies to the Russian And Chinese controlled parts of the world? We don't really believe they have a plethora of democratic choices there do you? Or is Chinese T.V. giving you a left leaning perspective.
Posted by whatozz at 10/26/2009 @ 8:44pm
You speak of nation building as "propping up countries". I refer to nation building is removing global threats under totalitarian govts and introducing democratic choices.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 10:36am
And THEN, propping up the latter with unending American presence in the form of bases, "advisors" and lotsa, lotsa $$$$$$$$$$$, pallets of cash for "elders" and such.
Those kind of "choices."
Posted by schnellerheinz at 10/26/2009 @ 9:29pm
As to Coulter, she really needs to look into that whole Adam's Apple thing she's got going on--well, that and the fact she looks like a raccoon with the wrong eye make-up.
Posted by schnellerheinz at 10/26/2009 @ 9:31pm
Olympia Snowe talks to people in her state that have been hurt by the high cost of insurance.You aren't going to tell a story about being there are you ? Acknowledge the fact that she listened to the people she represents. The Catholic Church was the largest land owner in Latin America for many years. Did they help the common people in this regard? No,it was a great source of economic power for their organization. Sarah Palin looked at as a source of concern? For what might I ask? Because she is a good looking 40 year old? So is Michelle Bachmann and she is another version of the loony squad. There was a reason Farrah Fawcett was a poster girl and not a Senator. When are we going to send armies to the Russian And Chinese controlled parts of the world? We don't really believe they have a plethora of democratic choices there do you? Or is Chinese T.V. giving you a left leaning perspective.
Posted by whatozz at 10/26/2009 @ 8:44pm
As I've said before, if you don't like the insurance prices, don't buy it.
And yes, I do believe that we don't need to play G-d trying to extend our lives longer than naturally occurs. If our time is short, that is just life. Some live long, some short. This life is just a tiny blip over eternity.
And you won't find me praising the wealth and power of the Catholic church or any other church or denomination that has great wealth.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 9:32pm
Hey, KvH, Nichols, Hayes & Pollitt are all being bashed, by the Reclusive Leftist, a Progressive woman:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2009/10 /22/exciting-new-growth-sector-in-feminism- bashing-women/
Exciting new growth sector in feminism: bashing women
By Violet · Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 ·
Oh, this is wonderful. Just wonderful.
A start-up publishing house called O/R is planning a kind of semi-spoof of Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir. The title of Palin's book is Going Rogue: An American Life. The spoofy thing -- actually a collection of essays about Palin -- will be called Going Rouge: An American Nightmare. Rouge -- get it? Makeup. Lady stuff! Stuff that bitches wear! Heh. Take that, rougey bitch with lady parts!
The book will drop on November 17, the same day as Palin's, and the cover is designed to be almost identical:
Here's the list of contributors to Going Rouge, as per the publisher:
With contributions by: Max Blumenthal, Joe Conason, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Jim Hightower, Linda Hirshman, Naomi Klein, Dahlia Lithwick, Amanda Marcotte, Shannyn Moore, John Nichols, Katha Pollitt, Hanna Rosin, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tomasky, Rebecca Traister, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jessica Valenti, Patricia Williams, JoAnn Wypijewski and Gary Younge.
Are there any surprises in that list? No, there are not, Bob. Just about every feminist there is one of The Embarrassing Ones -- the women who became so infatuated with Obama and so punch-drunk on their own latent misogyny (towards Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, or both) that 2008 will live in infamy as the Year of Feminist Shame.
Which is not to say that there isn't a place for criticism of Sarah Palin's politics; there is......
Posted by Happy at 10/26/2009 @ 10:52pm
My god, happy is getting through to me. With what, not sure.
I want to square up* a few points pursuant to the post above, to give Katrina VH an edge on all. ("Squaring" => matching text and token; calling things what they are; the post-modern meaning of 'truth*).
The collective psychic state today (10.17.09)is dominated by Mass Epidemic Hysteria (MEH), centering on the unconscious group-fantasy* of H1N1 blood poisoning.
A particular kind of psychic seizure is underway, psychodynamically identical with Nazi Germany's obsession with Jews poisoning pure Ayran blood, and culture.
H1N1 objectifies the fantasy of 'global pandemic blood infection'. Multitudes of Mothers Demanding the JESUS VAX to arouse defenses against BLOOD POISON, and save the children! (hear that, antisocialist? - but stay tuned: these purveyors of the pseudo-religion you align with are poison tokens of anything Christian, and a part of you knows that, if you can understand the injection of artificial stimulus/vaccine into the blood is sacralige, if this fluid is holy, and if it isn't, nothing is, and you are an utter fool). This blindness to their shared common delusion of 'left' and 'right', so-called,is THE dominant BLACK FORCE in the psyche (Nibiru).
The poison blood fantasy associates through the unconscious with: "the unborn". Use of this by anti-aborts--most offensively, by Catholic Churchilltards, texts the fantasy that "we"' are siblings in THEIR womb-surround; "we" need help to cleanse OUR blood. The "unborns" are delusional crypto killers and should be treated as such, like H1NI.
Second, The Left's attack on the metaphysics of marriage as a sacred institution, by seeking to gain it's legal use as a secular metaphor, does not square "sexual equality". It poisons.
Posted by jones at 10/27/2009 @ 03:10am
Which is not to say that there isn't a place for criticism of Sarah Palin's politics; there is......-----Posted by Happy at 10/26/2009 @ 10:52pm
I noticed you cut it off at that point....LOL
Posted by Mask at 10/27/2009 @ 07:44am
Katrina,
Instead of gathering a group of your lefty buddies to "offer readers a choice" (lefty speak for bashing)why dont you write a book all by yourself "launching a broadside" on how we conservatives are so misguided???? Does ANYONE here think it would be #1 seller before it comes out??? I think not . Katrina, jealousy is so unbecoming of you .
Posted by limoman at 10/27/2009 @ 09:40am
That's odd, staying alive comes to my mind.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 11:12am | ignore this person | warn this person
--bush had 7 years to find bin laden.
--our troops will stay alive here.
Posted by urmygyro at 10/27/2009 @ 11:27am
And yes, I do believe that we don't need to play G-d trying to extend our lives longer than naturally occurs.
--so don't drink water or eat food.
If our time is short, that is just life. Some live long, some short.
--make it even shorter. hold your breath.
This life is just a tiny blip over eternity.
--true. but the part that's not necessarily true is you believe you will consciously inhabit eternity.
And you won't find me praising the wealth and power of the Catholic church or any other church or denomination that has great wealth.
--what's that non-sequitor for? you have a lot of bigotry toward religions besides your own.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 9:32pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Posted by urmygyro at 10/27/2009 @ 11:32am
Palin Discloses $1.25M Payment From HarperCollins For Book-Report Last Update: 10/27/2009 2:49:14 PM DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
<Alaska financial disclosures show that Sarah Palin received $1.25 million from News Corp. (NWS) unit HarperCollins as a "retainer" for her upcoming book, The Anchorage Daily News reports Tuesday. The disclosure covers money Palin received during her LAST SEVEN MONTHS AS GOVERNOR, from Jan. 1 to July 26.
Palin also reported taking out a home loan - she didn't give the amount - from Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) for "legal fees to fight false allegations while governor.">
False allegations my ass...she's just too f'ing dumb to realize she broke the law.
And why the "home loan" if she was flush with two-commas worth of payola from Rupert?
Posted by snowball777 at 10/27/2009 @ 2:01pm
Posted by snowball777 at 10/27/2009 @ 2:01pm
If no one else...
Mitt Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich, etc. will have private detectives on this ASAP...."just in case". With a "leaked memo" standing by at the Iowa Caucus.
Posted by Mask at 10/27/2009 @ 2:43pm
Which is not to say that there isn't a place for criticism of Sarah Palin's politics; there is......-----Posted by Happy at 10/26/2009 @ 10:52pm
I noticed you cut it off at that point....LOL
Posted by Mask at 10/27/2009 @ 07:44am
Fair and Balanced!
Posted by Happy at 10/27/2009 @ 7:00pm
Let's see...
Lil' ol' Sarah Palin against Katha Pollitt, Max Blumenthal, John Nichols, Chris Hayes, Naomi Klein, Pat Williams, Gary Younge, JoAnn Wypijewski, Matt Taibbi, Jessica Valenti, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Dahlia Lithwick, Frank Rich and others.
Nope, it hardly seems fair. First clue is which 'book' could find a publisher. LOL!
The left should be afraid of Palin. Good to see it is.
Posted by freiheit1 at 10/27/2009 @ 7:24pm
And you won't find me praising the wealth and power of the Catholic church or any other church or denomination that has great wealth.
--what's that non-sequitor for? you have a lot of bigotry toward religions besides your own.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/26/2009 @ 9:32pm | ignore this person | warn this person
Posted by urmygyro at 10/27/2009 @ 11:32am
I was responding to a statement that seemed like an accusation towards me from Whatozz-see below
<The Catholic Church was the largest land owner in Latin America for many years. Did they help the common people in this regard? No,it was a great source of economic power for their organization.
Posted by whatozz at 10/26/2009 @ 8:44pm>
Posted by antisocialist at 10/27/2009 @ 9:47pm
False allegations my ass...she's just too f'ing dumb to realize she broke the law.
And why the "home loan" if she was flush with two-commas worth of payola from Rupert?
Posted by snowball777 at 10/27/2009 @ 2:01pm
Did the real snowball die a while back. You have become just another comic book radical leftist who hates everyone who isn't a leftist.
Posted by antisocialist at 10/27/2009 @ 10:04pm
They should've called that book "Going Rube."
Posted by koroviev at 10/29/2009 @ 03:28am
Did the real snowball die a while back. You have become just another comic book radical leftist who hates everyone who isn't a leftist. Posted by antisocialist at 10/27/2009 @ 10:04pm |
I guess my visa to stay in "Real America" expired.
I only have despise for the dumb ones...like Palin...and people who can't come up with anything relevant to say and so end up spewing lame personal gibberish.
Posted by snowball777 at 10/29/2009 @ 1:27pm