Oh, you mean likve i’ve been saying for 3 years? really now? you dont say… It’s alsmost as if… all the signs I kept constantly pointing out that she had no interest in running and would not run were… 100% accurate? really? could it be?
So wait… you’re saying the reason Sarah Palin didnt finish her 1st term as Governor of Alaska and chose instead to become a book author and media personality on a reality show and as a commentator on cable news was NOT so she could run for president??
You’re saying that her bus tour across the nation was just a cross country media tour by a media personality and her schedule of doing no campaiging or political activism at these stops WASN’T in preperation so she could run for president??
Gosh, it’s almost as if when she never expressed any interest in running for president for the past 3 years, she was… being honest. weird.
/endofsarcasm4dummies
Here’s the audio of her on the Mark Levin radio show making the announcement.
Here’s the statement:
October 5, 2011
Wasilla, Alaska
After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.
My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.
From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.
I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.
Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.
In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.
Thank you again for all your support. Let’s unite to restore this country!
Across the nation currently, there are “occupy” protests that I have no idea what the point of which is. What dont they like about wall street? what is it they’re protesting? people with jobs making money? I assume it’s something more sinister but I have no way of easily knowing. There’s a general sloganeering among the crowds of Corporate Greed and White Collar Crime but no clear point.
If those two things ARE the entire point though, then why isnt it called the “prosecute economic criminals” protest or something? whats the point of “occupying wall street” as a way to rally against individuals within wall street that are breaking laws? this makes even less sense to me now. Maybe it’s all a prank to make hippies look silly? Idk…
As you may be able to tell, im not terribly interested in it (after all, I *am* aware of Google’s existence and could spend more time reading if I really wanted) and the more i see the less respect i have for it. for the amount of video coverage, news items, blogs, facebook statuses and pictures about this event i’ve seen there is no reason for someone like me to still know so little about wtf it is.
The Tea Partiers, I get. You see a tea party protest and its obvious: bunch of people dressed up like george washington, pro capitalism, desire for smaller government and more freedom. fine. I can agree or disagree with that mission statement and can search for more from there if i want. but this… wtf IS this?
The “about” page on occupywallst.org illustrated exactly the awkward mysteriousness that i’m talking about. It’s 3 paragraphs that rephrases the sentence “this is a protest where people protest wall street”. I got that part. now what?
If this is what the protests are all about then this should be front page stuff and encapsulated on signs and banners the protestors are carrying. C’mon people…
Then theres this other list of demands which is wtf-y enough to merit reposting here:
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
Basically they want to pass Smoot-HawleyII because that worked well last time, create trillions and trillions of new debt get paid for a job whether or not they do any work (I actually joked about this before I saw the list. Parody is dead). In general…repeal reality and destroy the economy.
I especially love the demand for an amendment demanding racial equality. Why didn’t someone think of that sooner?
BTW- These people are demanding jobs? If you’re unemployed, how extensive is your job search if you have time to spend days at a time camping out in lower Manhattan?
I would love for someone from a Wall St firm or two come out and start passing out job applications just to see the reactions of the “protesters”.
Amanda Carpenter notes that the “protesters” are looking for help in doing their laundry. An interest in hygiene is certainly a step forward in the world of hippies.
This whole thing is slowly coming together in my mind… I’m assuming the idea for this went something like “lets form a protest with no clear objective other than ‘corporate greed’. not greed. we’re down with greed. we’re greedy as fuck for instance when it comes to other peoples money. but greed by people and businesses selling products and services that we all use and love? fuck that! TAKE TO THE STREETS MY FELLOW PATRIOTS!!”
Reminder for when I have a few million to build things: I wanna put this type of staircase in a building and have LED’s under each strip presenting a color coded waterfall effect. It’d have to be subtle to prevent motion sickness and constant people tumbling down the stairs, but just a nice trickle down mix up that can be set from a computer or just go on autopilot. COMING SOON…
The Top 10% of Taxpayers Pay 70% of All Taxes.The latest research on U.S. income taxes data (conducted by several nonpartisan and independent organizations) shows that, on average, the top 10% of taxpayers pay approximately 70% of all federal taxes in America. Does “fair” mean they should be paying 80%, 90%, or 100% of all taxes instead? Is that the definition of “fair share” that both Obama and Buffett would be more comfortable and happy with? I think Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would definitely have approved.
John Steele Gordon, business and economic historian, on the American tax code and the Buffett Tax. He also echoes everything I said in my 15 minute video on the Buffet Tax. Millionaires aren’t necessarily rich and they dont necessarily think of themselves as rich, for good reason.
Being rich has gotten more expensive. A $1 million fortune was unusual in the early 19th century. The word “millionaire” wasn’t even coined until 1827 by novelist (and future British prime minister) Benjamin Disraeli. In 1845, Moses Y. Beach, editor of the New York Sun, published a small pamphlet called “Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City.” The price of admission to Beach’s list, which was wildly popular, was a mere $100,000.
By the time the first Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America was published in 1982, the smallest fortune featured was $75 million. There has been so much wealth creation in the past 30 years — much of it thanks to the microprocessor behind modern-day fortunes such as Dell, Microsoft and Bloomberg — that only billionaires are on the list. Today, $1 million in the bank generates only about $50,000 per year in interest. That isn’t chump change, but it’s roughly equal to the 2010 median household income.
Further examples of “why lefties hate any Fox News related broadcast” are found in this Buffet Tax fact vs fiction segment:
And another on this “fair share” bullshit: Forbes Media Chairman Steve Forbes talks in this segment about the government’s punishment of the rich (and also who will win in 2012).
Note to hippies: the sooner you stop with the communist bullshit and go back to the government control that I agree with (sorry Tea Partiers, but yes, you are too stupid to make some of your own choices and no freedom isnt the answer to everything – just like government power isnt the answer to EVERYTHING), the sooner I can go back to teasing Rep Boner about being orange and crying all the time. Until then though.. I’m with Rep. John Boehner, (R-Ohio), on his view of the President’s proposed tax hikes on the wealthy, his efforts to reduce government spending and the need to reduce regulations.
Enough already. The government isn’t entitled to the money people earn any more when they make a lot than what they’re entitled to when they make a little. The American Dream is about encouraging people to become millionaires, not punishing them for it with higher tax rates that are pertinently unfair.
The new facebook timeline change that is slowly rolling out to select profiles (coming to everyone soon) is already adding fuel for bitches on the crazytrain: one just messaged me cuz in the timeline she saw a status i posted about my car battery dying in 2009, using that as proof i was lying when i couldnt drive out to her a few months ago cuz of a dead battery… cuz you know. NO ONE has a bad battery go out twice in 2 years. totally busted. or something.
It’s come to this: Now his brother is issuing statements saying he will not run for president. Well, ya, his BROTHER, sure. but what does his uncle Benny say???? If ever there was a politician you’d take at their word, wouldnt it be the New Jersey Governor?
Despite the intensity that has heightened in recent days as the New Jersey governor prepares to deliver a speech Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, several people close to the governor insist he has not changed his mind to forego a presidential bid.
Christie is on tour, attending seven fundraisers in three states, which has fueled speculation that he could be preparing for a 2012 bid. And some people near the governor have been trying very hard — however futilely, it would appear — to convince him to get in the race, especially after last week’s debate GOP showed the field is still open.
I couldn’t find the clip I was looking for from 2010 of Chris Christie joking about how fat he is on the air with Don Imus that I was gonna post here as a means to diffuse my headline as being taken mean-spiritedly so if anyone knows where it is, gimmie a holler. I’m not using an ad hominem attack or pretending that being portly makes one a bad politician or disqualifies them for office or anything stupid like that. it’s funnier with the companion clip that I can’t find… trust me.
Instead just watch this clip of him talking about policy for now:
UPDATE: Just by coincidence today The View asked “Is Chris Christie Too Fat To Be President?” for a full segment…
For y’allz consideration: Here is a relevant selection from a discussion I had with a friend recently on drugs, crime, personal responsibility and societal responsibility.
Topics: Drug Addiction, Theft, Property Rights, Free Will, Morality, U.S. Prison System
BRETT: Drugs are the reason most are behind bars. Addiction isn’t weakness. They are either in there for possession of drugs, things they did on drugs, or things they did to get drugs. The fact someone is bound to chemicals doesn’t make them worthless, but our “correctional” institutes don’t correct anything so you end up with people that never get to the root of their problems, and they are bound by a cycle of addiction. If our country aimed at breaking addictions and treating the mentally ill, there would be far less people behind bars. I don’t think either chemical imbalances nor chemical addiction runs hand and hand with stupidity, hence the reason there are intelligent and capable people behind bars. And yes, some who could have been a political leader end up doing little more than hustling people either on the street or behind bars…wasted capabilities that could have been used constructively if the dice had fallen different along the way.
RICHARD: Drugs are absolutely not the reason most are behind bars and the actions one takes to get themselves addicted to something is absolutely a weakness. It is entirely possible to use recreational drugs and not steal, assault, murder or jaywalk so the excusal of prisoners as being victims of their own behavior (itself a silly circular reasoning) is nonsense. idk why you equate being in jail with being worthless. if that was the case then we’d have a Singapore or Chinese system of justice instead of the cushy one we have now. the root of these peoples problems is not chemical – its moral. you can be an absolute fiend and it doesn’t require you to harm your fellow citizens. There is no dice in this equation. It is peoples choices who put them where they are. Not cosmic roulette.
BRETT: an “absolute fiend” WILL steal, unless you are talking about Wall Street boys with 7 figure incomes powdering their noses. most poor people that become addicted to alcohol, crack, or heroin do not have 7 figure incomes and once they are fully addicted they have no recourse but to steal. i had a friend with decent morals (seems to be what you are stressing that non-criminals posses) who got addicted to oxycontins and proceeded to steal a bunch of appliances to sell on Cragslist. He’s in prison for 11 years now, but not a stupid kid at all . At one point he was making $80,000 a year fixing tanks in Iraq, but then he got hooked on drugs…first recreational treats like acid, and then later, the poor man’s heroin. it does take someone with an addictive personality to get so dependent upon drugs, but that is a genetic lottery, even if you don’t believe it is. Even at the furthest reach, we don’t pick our parents, so we’re all basically products of chance. Criminals are not inherently evil people. Often their lives just took a wrong turn and went off the road before they ever had a chance to turn back.
RICHARD: People are not driven to steal and assault to feed addictions. entitled people, stupid people and immoral people do. crime is going down despite the economy going down. alcoholics didn’t go on mugging and stealing sprees for speakeasy money during prohibition. it is entirely the prevailing moral compass of the person and no excuses should be made for any violence or theft from a person as there is no scientific data that shows an addiction makes you a shitty person.
Anne Franks mother died in Bergen-Belsen because she didn’t eat anything, choosing instead to give her entire food rations to her daughter. I think the certain death that comes at the end of prolonged starvation will poison the mind into acting selfishly more than the need to chase a high.
Describing a person who steals for pills as being of high morals is incongruent. Oxycontin doesn’t make you a werewolf. it makes you want something really bad. if you have a sense of entitlement, you’ll stomp on whomever you have to to collect your “get mine” tax. people in prison aren’t necessarily ape-like buffoons but wise people dont skip naively down a path of increasingly dangerous and addictive drugs, forming a habit which they steal over and lands them in prison – even if they were talented in their trade as a mechanic.
Genetics do not dictate behavior. Hitler was proved wrong on that. you can have a propensity to be angry, violent, addicted to something, rapey – whatever. but just like average humans have evolutionarily wired responses of rage, selfishness, etc and yet find a way to function in polite society – people with a tick towards another vice area can do the same just as easily.
Hundreds of thousands of criminals are inherently evil people. Others are low intellect fools and then that fraction of a percentage I mentioned before are the supervillian geniuses and the “just got unlucky” rubes. Peoples lives are not predetermined nor sentient so if they take a wrong turn, it is because of the person, not their genes or circumstance. that is – for all except that fraction of a percent that are held hostage in Repunzal towers or otherwise literally and physically prevented from taking action with their own life. If that weren’t true then there would be no explanation for people who will themselves through death, destruction, poverty, violence, abuse, negligence or anything else since if you dont control your own life, such things would necessarily dictate mathematically absolutist numbers of those lives flatlining and never improving.
BRETT: The kinds of things that lead people to use hard drugs usually stem from a shitty set of initial circumstances – shitty or missing parents, crime-ridden communities, economic oppression being the stem. These people are more prone to use drugs and are not wealthy enough, nor do they have the resources to provide a legitimate income, from which they can blow it all on the drugs. I don’t know of many junkies that work 9 to 5 jobs (not that I know any junkies at all, for that matter), but I would guess this working class addict you speak of is quite the exception to the rule. There are of course alcohol addicts everywhere that don’t cheat and steal to get their drink, but the people that drink alcohol are not always the same ones that get addicted to prescription drugs or hard street drugs.
Making wrong choices is usually the hallmark of what becomes a criminal life. I know it sounds nearly Christian to say, but by keeping away from bad associations people can avoid a lot of trouble, and the problem is that like attracts like, so addicts get to know addicts, and successful people their like. It breeds a cycle, as I referred to earlier, because they keep kicking out god damn children who turn out just like them (our friend [REDACTED], the super piece of shit that said he wanted to rape [REDACTED], has 4 kids. Low class people outbreed the wealthy and fill the prisons). You can’t tell me that a kid raised by a crackhead mother who was selling drugs and using them by age 12 has the same chance — even with an identical twin — speaking theoretically — as succeeding in a middle class “moral” (seems to be your main thrust on most things) family.
Morals are inculcated into children…we agree on that. The fact that some get it and some don’t pretty much is, not a genetic lottery, but a circumstance lottery, which was what I was trying to imply earlier, but I see where I left room for some ambiguity.
“Family Lottery,” Separate twins and put them in opposite circumstances, but only for entertainment value — new reality show.
RICHARD: It’s not a shock or being contested that people in shitty situations make shitty choices, but that is because human nature is selfish. You’re saying we’re bound to that nature in a predetermined genetic code and i’m saying thats bunk cuz everyone aside from a very small group with psychiatric problems is perfectly able to not just do what is easiest and they do it all the time. a crackhead raised kid and a middle class raised kid have the same opportunities if they’re raised the same way with the same moral code and access to information, i’m saying. The shitty drug addicted mother raises a baby that continues the cycle only because of the way its raised, not because she’s passing on selfish genes. if that were true then the President would be smoking crack and have 14 illegitimate kids somewhere like his dad right now. his dad was shit. his mom was shit, but luckily she dumped him off on his upper class grandmother in hawaii who was able to raise him and thus the genes of 2 selfish drug addicted irresponsible parents produced a united states senator and president.
I would definitely tune into Family Lottery! let’s pitch it to a studio!
Definitely dont disagree (idk how anyone could) that shitty surroundings will handicap a person into keeping the shitchain goin strong. The loss of community is a big deal, but the loss of personal responsibility is also a big deal. Crime went DOWN during the Great Depression in many cities and there was cultural attitude of “be thankful for what you’ve got and be happy”. now these same cities blame everyone else and their dog for their problems and rebel against society instead of work to make it better, as you put it.
Oh, you mean likve i’ve been saying for 3 years? really now? you dont say… It’s alsmost as if… all the signs I kept constantly pointing out that she had no interest in running and would not run were… 100% accurate? really? could it be?
Demand four: Free college education.
