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Quote of the Day "She's like Reagan in heels. We need her    to get conservatism going again."        -- Chris Bradford, got his book signed by Palin,   Link     Reagan was a clueless dolt, so maybe he's right.

In Today's Tequila Treehouse... Palin - Irrefutably Stupid  Obama the Mortal  "Suicides" at Gitmo  You Gotta Love Glenn Beck  Tomatoes Thrown at Palin  Tiger beats Mother-in-law  Mysteries of Pearl Harbor  Kristen Kreuk on Chuck

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"Sarah is the single most self absorbed, self-centered, divisive individual I have ever known. 
  Evangelical Americans don’t get it. They don’t understand that she is a compulsive liar. 
  Sarah demands worship. She is not to be questioned – not her message or her motives. 
  She is to be worshipped. Period. If one does not worship her – then she and her small but 
  bizarrely devoted band of followers label them haters (for men) or jealous (if one is a woman). 
  They don’t get that she is manipulative and stunningly vindictive." 
     -- Afraid to use my name, who knew her and her family, and supported her run for AK Lt. Gov in 2002,    Link
 

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Palin - Irrefutably Stupid

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 Excerpt:
From time to time, I'll get into a debate with a right-winger about whether Sarah Palin is actually stupid 
or if liberals are just hopelessly biased against her. They claim this bias comes from the fact that liberals 
are scared of her electability, her charm, her looks, her femininity, her Christianity, her ability connect to 
the common man and her overall wonderfulness. So, the theory is that we have all collectively decided 
that she is the best Republican candidate in some secret liberal meeting and are conspiring against her 
because we are afraid of how brilliant and electable she really is.

Now, there are a couple of problems with this theory. There are no opinion leaders on the left with 
Pigboy-like authority who can command all other progressives to think the same thing and use the same 
arguments against one person. In other words, we all think she is stupid because she is in fact stupid, 
not because some liberal cabal told us to think that.

How come we don't call Newt Gingrich stupid? Or Dick Cheney or Kay Bailey Hutchinson? 
We don't make those charges against those people because we know that they are not dullards. 
They're all clever in their own way. Mitt Romney is greasy, Michael Steele is a clown and Tom DeLay 
is dirty, but we don't go after their mental acuity like we do with Sarah Palin because they're not as 
dumb as her (not even Michael Steele).

ha ha

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Quotes

"The problem is that Paline is ignorant about major national political issues, and has made no apparent 
  effort to remedy that ignorance...There is always the outside chance that Palin is deliberately pretending 
  to be much more ignorant than she actually is, as Ike did when he was president; perhaps for the purpose 
  of getting her political enemies to underestimate her (which was one of Eisenhower’s motives). However, 
  there are many obvious differences between Palin’s situation and Ike’s, such as the fact that only one of 
  them had already proven his competence..."
       -- Ilya Somin, of the conservative Volokh Conspiracy blog,    Link
 

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 Subject: yesterday's 'Come off it'

Bart,

I love when people like Mark G spout naive nonsense that suggests that, if only we could completely overhaul our entire political system
and human nature overnight, we could live in a utopia. I'd have a  better chance of my major bank mortgage holder deciding to clear the
negatives on my credit history. It just ain't gonna happen.

The fact is, this is a messy, complicated world that often presents us with problems that have no good answer. I had an arguement with my 18
year old niece on Turkey Day, as an example. Having become an "expert" on communism (I think she read a book and the Wikipedia page on it),
she has decided to make a documentary on how we should switch over to a communist system. Never mind that she kept confusing politics with
economics, the fact is that communism can only work in small groups where every individual feels accountable for his actions. Once you get
to big groups, you get a large number of people trying to game the system and screwing it up for everyone else. It's just the way people  work.

That's how complex laws evolve. A system is put in place, people learn  how to exploit it, then there is an attempt to fill the holes,
then people find new once, lather, rinse, repeat.

In the end, you've got to work with the system you've got and try to make what improvements you can on a smaller scale
so they can be  evaluated and tweaked to work as well as can be expected. Cynical, but realistic.
 Eric from Boston
 

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"I have come to the conclusion that the real reason this gifted communicator has become so bad at 
communicating is that he doesn't really believe a word that he is saying. He couldn't convey that 
health-care reform would be somehow cost-free because he knows it won't be. And he can't adequately 
convey either the imperatives or the military strategy of the war in Afghanistan because he doesn't 
really believe in it either. He feels colonized by mistakes of the past. He feels trapped by the hand 
that has been dealt him."
   -- Tina Brown,   Link
 
 

"Obama, at a most inopportune time, with a new war-strategy rollout and the health-care debate at 
a critical juncture, is managing to turn off each segment of the electorate. The Tina Brown liberal 
sophisticates are convinced he's faking it. The moderates and independents think they are victims of 
a bait and switch. And conservatives are crowing that they were right all along about Obama -- he's the 
worst of Jimmy Carter and George McGovern. It is, from a political perspective, a mess. But it is, after all, 
what is naturally expected to flow from a candidate who let everyone form their own impression of who he is 
and what he stands for. It is what comes from delegating major decisions and legislative draftsmanship to others."
    --  Jennifer Rubin,    Link
 
 

"We're seeing some things we've not seen before. The president gave a war speech, and the next day 
the nation didn't seem to rally around him. This is not the way it's gone in the past.  LBJ, Nixon, Bush
-- when they addressed the nation about the wars they led, they received immediate support." 
    --  Piggy Noonan,    Link
 

 Can Obama get himself out of these multiple messes?
 One thing's for sure - he'll need to come to work to solve them.
 

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"Palin has not grown in the year since the election. Those of us who hoped that Palin had been “hidden” 
  by the campaign know the truth now. She still is what she was. She is smart, but not book-smart. She has 
  common sense, but not practical wisdom. These are not fatal flaws, but she shows no signs of changing or 
  recognizing them.  Palin lacks the intellectual skills needed to be an effective President. Most important, 
  she does not seem to recognize this and shows no sign of getting them." 
     -- John Mark Reynolds, of the conservative First Things blog,    Link
 

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Obama the Mortal

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 Excerpt:
Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered last week that their spiritual leader is a false prophet...

It was bound to happen eventually. Obama had become to his youthful supporters a vessel for all of their liberal hopes. 
They saw him as a transformational figure who would end war, save the Earth from global warming, restore the economy
-- and still be home for dinner. They lashed out at anybody who dared to suggest that Obama was just another politician, 
subject to calculation, expediency and vanity like all the rest.

Certainly, Obama gets some blame for encouraging the messianic cult as he stumped for change and hope. 
"I am asking you to stop settling for what the cynics say we have to accept," he would say in speeches. 
"Let us reach for what we know is possible: A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again."...

But at least as much blame for the disillusionment goes to progressives who simply expected too much of him. Some are 
disappointed that the Nobel Peace Prize winner proposed even higher defense spending than George W. Bush did -- but 
Obama never said he would cut the Pentagon's budget. Many liberals are disappointed that he isn't pushing the "public option" 
more forcefully in the health-care debate -- but it was never something Obama emphasized during the campaign. For all of 
Obama's soaring oratory, it was plain even during the campaign that his record was that of an incrementalist. 
 

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Subject: large donation question

Hey Bart,
I think you'd benefit a lot from a Mac Computer, and I think I can buy you one.  My questions though are: 
a) Laptop or iMac? 
b) Would any other far better off readers be willing to match what I can afford 
    so you can get a top of the line model instead of bottom of the line? 
c) How did I get stuck being the one doing this :-)

I sent a donation to keep this from being lost in your inbox.

Cheers,
-Rex Devious
 

Rex, that was way cool of you to offer but I tried a Mac and I was non-compatible.

It worked fine but I'm still using Netscape 4.7 to build the page (old dog, new tricks) 
and the Mac had trouble adjusting to a system that old so I found myself using more
steps to complete the page and the last thing I need is more steps :).

Again, that was a nice thing to do.
 

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 Subject: governing to hillary's right

Bartcop,

It is easy to speculate that Hillary would have removed us from Afghanistan. 
Please fill us in on the evidence that supports this reasoning.

Unlike Bob Parry, I can't read minds and I don't think I said that.
Is it your position that Obama's decisions are consistent with his campaign?
Are you saying we got the same Obama we voted for?
He ran to Hillary's left, and he's no longer doing that.

Personally, I don't see the evidence. 
I see a leader dealt a hand that led him to refocus. 
I trust him.
 John B

I trust him too, as I said yesterday.
But I wish I could figure out what he's thinking.

How is tackling Afghanistan a good idea under the current circumstances?
And how will we know when we've won the war?
 

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Killing Comcast Quotes

"A new study shows that monkeys can look at photos and recognize other monkeys they know. 
  However, the study also shows that monkeys are terrible with names." 
     --  the very unfiunny Conan O'Brien,
 

 Comcast, are you going to fix this nightmare?
 

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"Suicides" at Gitmo
Why is Obama fact-blocking the suspicious deaths?

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 Excerpt:
On June 10, 2006, three detainees were found dead in their individual cells.  Without any autopsy or investigation, 
U.S. military officials proclaimed "suicide by hanging" as the cause of each death, and immediately sought to exploit 
the episode as proof of the evil of the detainees.  Admiral Harry Harris, the camp's commander, said it showed 
"they have no regard for life" and that the suicides were "not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetric warfare 
aimed at us here at Guantanamo"; another official anonymously said that the suicides showed the victims were 
"committed jihadists (who) will do anything they can to advance their cause," while another sneered that 
"it was a good PR move to draw attention."

Questions immediately arose about how it could be possible that three detainees kept in isolation and under constant 
and intense monitoring could have coordinated and then carried out group suicide without detection, particularly since 
the military claimed their bodies were not found for over two hours after their deaths.  But from the beginning, there was 
a clear attempt on the part of Guantanamo officials to prevent any outside investigation of this incident. 

To allay the questions that quickly emerged, the military announced it would conduct a sweeping investigation and publicly 
release its finding, but it did not do so until more than two years later when -- in August, 2008 -- it released a heavily redacted 
reported purporting to confirm suicide by hanging as the cause.  Two of the three dead detainees were Saudis and one was 
Yemeni and they had participated in hunger strikes to protest the brutality, torture and abuse to which they were routinely subjected. 
Perversely, one of the three victims had been cleared for release earlier that month.
 

I wish, on things like this, Obama was not-so-similar to Der Monkey Fuhrer.
 

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Goodbye Harry Quotes

"Harry Reid trails two potential rivals by significant margins, according to a new poll. Reid has gone on TV 
  with several early ads touting his success in helping the troubled Las Vegas economy through rough times, 
  pointing to loans he helped secure for CityCenter, a major construction project on the Strip that employs 
  thousands of workers. But those ads -- a GOP source tells us Reid has spent $950K running the ads -- 
  have not moved his favorable numbers; 38% view him favorably, while 49% see him in an unfavorable light, 
  virtually identical to his ratings in the Oct. '09 poll."God str
      -- Reid Wilson,    Link
 
 

 Harry Reid spent a million dollars and didn't move his favorable numbers at all?

 Looks like we're going to lose Hapless Harry next year.
 

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 Subject: DADGAD

I loved that you called a page DADGAD. In the 90's I worked at a startup company called Transperformance.
They invented a guitar that can switch between tunings while playing. The first one they sold was to Jimmy Page.

At one point the circuit board and all his cables were hand soldered by me. They later upgraded him to a newer
designed circuit board, but to this day he is likely still using cables that I either built or helped to design. If you see him
playing either a gold top or a purple (his signature prototype) Les Paul with a big black cube instead of the usual bottom
bracket, and a row of buttons in the top right front, and an LCD on the top, that's it.

He used to need to switch guitars on some songs, (including Kashmir) but at least during the Page/Plant tours he used
the Performer, as it is now called. Gibson has since put out an inferior version of a self-tuning guitar... after years of telling
Transperformance they weren't interested. On a side note, one time I house sat for the President/Designer.

Page's guitar tech called with questions, and I could hear the guitar god in the background.
I was so nervous, I must have sounded like a complete idiot...I'm afraid I wasn't much help.
 Mike G

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Quotes

"The teabaggers announced that Sarah Palin will headline the first national tea party convention 
  in February. It is expected to be the nation's largest ever gathering of misspelled signs." 
     --  Seth Meyers
 

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10 reasons You Gotta Love Glenn Beck

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 Excerpt:
#5. He went to church for sex.
 

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Tomatoes Thrown at Palin
 Shoes would have been better

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 Excerpt:
A man was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin 
from the second floor balcony during a book signing event in Minnesota.

Neither tomato came close hitting her, but a cop was hit in the face.

The man may face charges for assaulting a police officer.
 

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"Palin's done a lot to draw attention to herself that's positive. She's done some things that 
  are going to cause her to have to do some explaining if she runs for president. But right now 
  I think she's on a roll, she's having a good time, she's having an impact." 
     --  Rick Santorum, asked if he ever thinks of Sarah during man-on-dog sex,      Link
 

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Tiger beats Mother-in-law with sand wedge
 Police called to mansion again, she's in stable condition

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 Excerpt:
Tiger Woods' mother-in-law was rushed to hospital in the early hours of this morning.
Blonde (Why is her hair color important?) Barbro Holmberg was taken by ambulance to Florida's Health Central Hospital.

She had initially refused to go, according to reports.  A report claimed another blonde woman, 
that may have been Woods' wife Elin, was seen following the ambulance in a black Escalade Cadillac.
 

Poor Tiger - under so much pressure - he must've lashed out.
 

Tiger Woods alienates Blacks with white girlfriends

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 Excerpt:
Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles little attention has been given to the race 
of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer.  Except in the black community.

When three white women surfaced, in addition to his blonde, Swedish wife, blogs, airwaves and 
barbershops started humming, and Woods' already tenuous standing among many blacks took a beating.

Black women have long felt slighted by the tendency of famous black men to pair with white women, 
and many have a list of current transgressors at the ready.

"We've discussed this for years among black women," said Denene Millner. 
"Why is it when they get to this level ... they tend to go directly for the nearest blonde?"
 

I wish I could play poker with Tiger Woods.

"They" say he's given his wife $5M to stick around long enough to re-do the pre-nup.
"They" say he's giving Elin $55M to stay married to him for 5 years and 
something like $85M is she stays around for eight years.

Howard Stern had an idea - get the divorce, give her a truckload of money
and then you're free to bang every white cocktail waitress in America.

Eldrick can't un-ring that happy-family bell so he might as well have a good time.
Even if every sponsor dumps him, he can't run out of money if W was his accountant.
 

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Quotes

"So Charlie Brown is opposed to extraterrestrial affairs commission. 
  Lucy and Linus have not weighed in on this." 
     --  Der vulgar Pigboy, living in his own little world
 

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 Subject: The color of Tiger's mistresses

Hate to deviate from the liberal narrative, but it seems that it is black people 
who are enraged about a black man sleeping with a series of white women.

Especially black women, many of whom are not judging the characters in this drama by the content of their character.

Hmmm.

Could it be that the liberal trump card in all issues - that people who deviate 
from the left wing party line are racist - might just possibly be false?

And that the fervent racial hatred in modern America comes from - now don't get the vapors - your own base?
Just wondering.
 Ayn R
 

I had to read that several times to figure out what you meant.

You're saying it's racist for Blacks to ask why Tiger won't date a Black woman?

Race is a factor, sure, but wouldn't the same apply to geography?
What if someone from New York refused to date New Yorkers?
It wouldn't be racist to ask why, would it?

They say Robert DeNiro dates only Black women - should whites be angry?
What if a guy dates Asian women only - is he weird?
What about guys who prefer small-breasted women, or tall women?

I think we need to hear from Black women on why Eldrick is in trouble.

Sidebar:
When Richard Pryor married my good friend Jennifer Lee, who is white.
he got heat from the sisters and his answer was, "Sure - why should *I* be happy?"
 

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Mysteries of Pearl Harbor
 Why were they taken by surprise?

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A number of what-ifs, or enduring mysteries, about the Pearl Harbor attack continue to inspire debate. Among them:

Why didn't the US see Japanese planes coming on radar? 
Actually, US Army radar operators did spot the Japanese air assault on radar. They just did not know what they were seeing.

Radar technology was in its infancy, and an Army crew was training on a new radar installed at the northern point 
of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. On Dec. 7, 1941, this crew spotted a mass of incoming somethings larger than 
they had ever seen. They decided it was probably some expected US B-17s and reported it as such.

But the radar return looked much different from what they were used to seeing.

"Why didn't this stir up their curiosity?" Suid says.

Why did the US Navy ignore the sinking of a Japanese submarine prior to the attack? At 6:37 on the morning of Dec. 7, 
the USS Ward, an old four-stack destroyer, attacked and destroyed a Japanese mini-sub making its way toward Pearl Harbor.
 

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Hey Bart!  Happy holidaze...
Send me a "Get over it" t-shirt!
It will make an excellent holiday present!

The shirt is for my boyfriend...to rile up his repug relatives.
It's truly the gift that keeps on giving!
 Juanita in Rohnert Park, CA
 

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