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[Terry]

Palin delivers a gaffe-filled message
By: CNN's Gabriella Schwarz


(CNN) - In a Thanksgiving message, Sarah Palin made fun of the president, herself and one of her favorite targets, the media.

Thursday's Facebook post came on the heels of a mistake she made on conservative Fox News anchor Glenn Beck's radio show earlier this week. She mistakenly referred to America's ally, North Korea instead of South Korea, a story many in the media covered quickly.

"It seems they couldn't resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline," Palin wrote. "The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us."

She said her gaffes receive more attention than those made by the president and vice president. In honor of the claimed-disparity she titled the post "A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States," a reference to a mistake President Obama made on the campaign trail in 2008.

The former Alaska governor dedicated the first paragraph of the post to almost a dozen slips of the tongue by Obama.

"I didn't have enough time to do one for Joe Biden," she wrote.

Palin also chastised the media for creating stories "out of thin air."

"Let's hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America's free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!"

[Terry]

'i'm not endorsing her to run for President, 'i' think there's alot better choices ( if they choose to run ) [ gov is so screwed up the 'good guys' want no part of it ], but she is a guttsey good looking gal, with a sense of humor & direction.  Now add knowledge to the pot {experience} which takes time & "WE" might have a potential possibility of a future President with  a first gentleman:

.A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States
.by Sarah Palin on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 8:46pm.My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI's 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. And let's face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don't know what the term is in Austrian for that... 
All references to Obama's mistakes in speaking


Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn't have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can't remember hearing about them, that's because for the most part the media didn't consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors. 

YouTube links 'i' got this from CNN, where the links are printed in light blue & you can click on them to see she is exactly right; 'i' don't think she came up with all this stuff by herself, but if she did she's more on the ball than 'i' thought she was.

Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn't resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.



If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck's radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of "Dancing with the Stars" to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)



"Hope springs eternal" as the poet says. Let's hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America's free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!



- Sarah Palin

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[Terry]

[Terry]

Joe says:  "HOW COME 'she' didn't say anything about ME?



Obama says:  "U" act disappointed?

[Terry]

Do you think we have been too hard on President Osama?


  Subject:  Lighten Up




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I think everyone should lighten up on President Obama,why just two weeks ago he got jobs for 63 republicans.

[Terry]

"Saw the NEWS @ noon;  do "U" believe it?  The fed reserve spent 9 trillon dollars dolling it out to banks & companys-none to "US"
of the people, by the people, for the people   'i' don't think so!
Do the math, if they'd put that in the individuals hands [ wait a minute - bad idea ] anyhow, this is money they spent, "WE" don't have & it's going to be up to taxpayers to make it up.
    The {GOV} taxes "US" out the a$$ - "WE" pay Uncle Sam more than "WE" make... Yea that's right - he gets more than 1/2. Did "U" know that?
    Gasoline, cigarettes, booze, property taxes, <<< hidden taxes >>>... there isn't anything "WE" spend money on that isn't taxed.  Even if "U"r not spending any money on anything - whatever "U" own has a tax on it "U" pay each year.
    Don't even get me started on property taxes; 'i' bought property, built a house on it, it's not making me a dime, 'i' payed taxes on it when 'i' bought it, 'i' payed taxes on all the materials used to build the home & 'i' still pay taxes even though it's not making me a dime.  IS THAT RIGHT?

[Terry]

        Todd Palin on 'Dancing with the Stars'?By Ed Hornick, CNNDecember 2, 2010 1:15 p.m. EST
Todd Palin has remained mostly low key since his wife, Sarah, entered the political spotlight.STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Report: "Dancing with the Stars" producers eyeing Todd Palin for next season
Spider disrupts White House press secretary during briefing
Congresswomen are finally getting a bathroom near the House floor
Washington (CNN) -- Politics is serious business, but not all of the time. From the halls of Congress to the campaign trail to the international stage, there's always something that gets a laugh or a second glance. Here are some of the things you might have missed:

From gutting fish to waltzing on the dance floor?

Move over Bristol, papa grizzly may be headed to Hollywood to dance with the stars, E! News reports.

Producers are reportedly trying to get Todd Palin to join the next season of the ratings powerhouse TV show "Dancing with the Stars."

No word yet on what Sarah Palin thinks, though it's only a matter of time before a Twitter post comes out.

Bathroom equality in the House

Nancy Pelosi may have "shattered the marble ceiling" as the first female House speaker, but incoming Republican House Speaker John Boehner has decided to create equal bathroom access for female members of Congress, CNN reports.

According to an announcement from the GOP transition team, a women's restroom will be adjacent to the House floor to accommodate the 71 female members in the next Congress, something current female members live without.

Charlotte's White House web

A spider found its way into the White House briefing room, where press secretary Robert Gibbs tried his best to get rid of it .

Notable quotable

"I stand in front of you tonight as probably the second-most-famous immigrant in the history of state of California. The first, of course, is Meg Whitman's maid."
-- outgoing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to The Sacramento Bee

Notable quotable, take two

"I do believe Carl fell in love with the kerplunk of the turd in the punchbowl."
-- Michael Caputo, the campaign manager for former New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino

From the Twitterverse

The New York Daily News tweets that it may know the whereabouts of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who's wanted by Swedish authorities.

@nydailynews: Yep, seriously. #wikileaks founder Julian Assange may be roaming lower Manhattan. Seen him?

Late-night laughs

Jon Stewart: "So, another 7-11 beverage-based summit for the White House, based of course on the success of the previous beer summit -- the one that ended racism. What are we going to do about Iran's nuclear program? Perhaps it's time for a Four Loko summit. ... That's the kind of summit that ends with the phrase, 'nice doing business with you gentlemen. Has anybody seen my pants?' "

Jay Leno: "President Obama issued his annual Hanukkah message. See, this is what America is all about: When the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansas mother [is] elected president, thanks to Latino voters, [and] issues a statement over a Japanese-made computer, serviced by technicians in India, congratulating a Hebrew-speaking people of a land we took from the Native Americans. That's what this country is all about."

Conan O'Brien: "According to the [WikiLeaks] documents, U.S. officials think Afghan leader Hamid Karzai is 'paranoid and weak.' ... When reached for comment, Karzai said, 'I was afraid of something like this, but I guess there's nothing I can do

[Terry]

2 - 19 - 09 the day the music stopped

*Joe, get that smurk off your face, even "U" can find a way to get your share - 'i' can see your already planning

[Terry]

11:47am Friday Dec. 4, 2010
Presidential address to follow immediately

[Terry]

 


E-Mail of the Year!!



WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR
REPUBLICAN, GIVE THE FOLLOWING SPEECH?  ::D:  ::;:


'My Fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of the Iraq regime has been completed.

Since Congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission
in Iraq is
complete.

This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces
from Iraq . This action will be complete within 30 days. It is
now time to
begin the reckoning.

Before me, I have two lists. One list contains the names of countries which
have stood by our side during the Iraq conflict. This list is short.  The
United Kingdom , Spain , Bulgaria , Australia , and Poland are some of the countries listed there.
The other list contains every one not on the first list. Most of the world's
nations are on that list. My press secretary will be distributing copies of both lists later this evening.
Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations
on List 2 ceases indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will
pretty much pay for the costs of the Iraqi war.
THEN EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER It'll GO TO OUR SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM SO IT WONT GO BROKE IN 20 YEARS.

The American people are no longer going to pour money into third world Hell
holes and watch those government leaders grow fat on corruption.

Need help with a famine ? Wrestling with an epidemic? Call France .

In the future, together with Congress, I will work to redirect this money
toward solving the vexing social
problems we still have at home. On that note, a word to terrorist organizations. Screw with us and we will hunt you down and
eliminate you and all your friends from the face of the
earth .
Thirsting for a gutsy country to terrorize? Try France or maybe China .

I am ordering the immediate severing of diplomatic relations with France , and
Russia .Thanks for all your help, comrades. We are retiring from NATO as well.

I have instructed the Mayor of New York City to begin towing the many UN diplomatic vehicles located in Manhattan with more than two unpaid parking tickets to sites where those vehicles will be stripped, shredded and crushed. I don't care about whatever treaty pertains to this. You creeps have tens of thousands of unpaid tickets. Pay those tickets tomorrow or watch your precious Benzes, Beamers and limos be turned over to some of the finest chop shops in the world. I love New York
.
A special note to our neighbors: Canada is on List 2. Since we are likely to be
seeing a lot more of each other, you folks might want to try not pissing us off for a change.
Mexico is also on List 2. Its president and his entire corrupt government
really need an attitude adjustment. I will have a couple thousand extra tanks and infantry divisions sitting around. Guess where I am going to put 'em? Yep,
border security.

Oh, by the way, the United
States is abrogating the NAFTA treaty - starting now.

We are tired of the one-way highway. Immediately, we'll be drilling for oil in Alaska -which will take care of this country's oil needs for decades to come.
If you're an environmentalist who opposes this decision, I refer you to List 2 above: pick a country and move there.
It is time for America to focus on its own welfare and its own citizens. Some will accuse us of isolationism. I answer them by saying, 'darn tootin.'
Nearly a century of trying to help folks live a decent life around the world has only earned us the undying enmity of just about everyone on the planet. It is time to eliminate hunger in America . It is time to eliminate homelessness
in America .To the nations on List 1, a final thought. Thank you guys. We owe you and we won't forget.
To the nations on List 2, a final thought : You might want to learn to speak
Arabic.
God bless America .. Thank you and good night.'

If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.

 

[Terry]

 

:: article to follow ::

[Terry]

One day after President Obama and GOP leaders met and announced that they had heard the message of the midterm elections–that the people of this country wanted them to find a way to work together– Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell delivered a letter signed by all 42 Republican senators threatening to bring business to a complete halt unless Democrats agreed to extend all the Bush tax cuts. So much for cooperation.  No progress on food safety, on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, on the New START treaty, on extending jobless benefits for the unemployed (Merry Christmas!) unless the wealthiest Americans keep their precious tax break.

I hope (although I doubt it) that Obama has finally learned the lesson that Republicans have absolutely no interest in compromising with Democrats on anything, and that they are willing to hold the people of this country and our allies hostage for the sole purpose of scoring partisan political points. It's way past time for Obama and the Democrats to call their bluff. No more negotiating. No more meetings. No more attempts at compromise. And no more backing down in the face of their obstructionism. Bring everything to a vote, again and again if you have to, and force the GOP's hand.

And please, please, PLEASE, Mr. Obama, no more Mr. nice guy.
Try being a President dude!

[Terry]

Washington DC -- Superfluous (su-PER-flu-us): Adjective. Unnecessary or needless & useless  ::D:  ::D:  ::D:

[Terry]

On 'State Secrets,' Meet Barack W. Obama
April 10, 2009 9:20 AM

President Obama's Justice Department quietly argued in a San Francisco court that it was maintaining the same position as President Bush's Justice Department on a case involving detainees trying to sue a private company for its role in their (allegedly) extraordinary renditions.

The Obama administration pushed the status quo administration argument by invoking the "state secrets" argument, also a Bush-era fave.

"It is the policy of this administration to invoke the state secrets privilege only when necessary and in the most appropriate cases," said DOJ spox Matt Miller.

Last week, Team Obama did it again.

And why wouldn't they?

Attorney General Eric Holder recently said he was reviewing the way the Bush administration used the "state secrets" argument, but "on the basis of the two, three cases that we've had to review so far -- I think that the invocation of the doctrine was correct."

Huh.

That seems a little different from the Obama-Biden campaign website where "The Problem" is described in part as the Bush administration having "invoked a legal tool known as the 'state secrets' privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court."

Because that's just what the Obama administration tried to do.

This time the issue was the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, and whether courts would be able to assess its constitutionality in a case called Jewel v. NSA, where the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is challenging the NSA surveillance by suing on behalf of AT&T customers whose records may or may not have been caught up in the NSA "dragnet."

Last Friday, while President Obama traversed throughout Europe, his Justice Department sought to have Jewel v. NSA dismissed because "the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction with respect to plaintiffs' statutory claims against the United States because Congress has not waived sovereign immunity" and "because information necessary to litigate plaintiffs' claims is properly subject to and excluded from use in this case by the state secrets privilege and related statutory privileges."

Argued the Justice Department: Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair "has once again demonstrated that the disclosure of the information implicated by this case, which concerns how the United States seeks to detect and prevent terrorist attacks, would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security."

"President Obama promised the American people a new era of transparency, accountability, and respect for civil liberties," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. "But with the Obama Justice Department continuing the Bush administration's cover-up of the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans, and insisting that the much-publicized warrantless wiretapping program is still a 'secret' that cannot be reviewed by the courts, it feels like deja vu all over again."

This of course is just the latest in Mr. Obama's evolution on the matter. When the question came up last Summer as to whether then-Sen. Obama would support a filibuster of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill if it allowed telecommunications firms immunity for cooperating with the NSA program, Sen. Obama's flip on the matter was worthy of an Olympic gold medal.

Obama spox Bill Burton had told Talking Points Memo in October 2007 that "Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."

His office reaffirmed that position in December 2007: "Senator Obama unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies ... Senator Obama will not be among those voting to end the filibuster."

But things change. And Mr. Obama voted to end the filibuster.

On June 25, 2008, Mr. Obama said, "It is a close call for me but I think the current legislation with exclusivity provision that says that a president -- whether George Bush, myself or John McCain -- can't make up rationales for getting around FISA court, can't suggest that somehow that there is some law that stands above the laws passed by Congress in engaging in warrantless wiretaps. ... The underlying program itself actually is important and useful to American security as long as it has these constraints on them. I thought it was more important for me to go ahead and support this compromise."

DOJ spox Miller says that "the administration recognizes that invoking the states secret privilege is a significant step that should be taken only when absolutely necessary. After careful consideration by senior intelligence and Department of Justice officials, it was clear that pursuing this case could unavoidably put at risk the disclosure of sensitive information that would harm national security."

Continued Miller: "An examination by the Director of National Intelligence and an internal review team established by the Attorney General determined that attempting to address the allegations in this case could require the disclosure of intelligence sources and methods that are used in a lawful manner to protect national security. The administration cannot risk the disclosure of information that could cause such exceptional harm to national security."

But there's a new wrinkle to the Obama DOJ argument, critics say.

As Glenn Greenwald wrote in Salon earlier this week, "beyond even the outrageously broad 'state secrets' privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and -- even if what they're doing is blatantly illegal and they know it's illegal -- you are barred from suing them unless they 'willfully disclose' to the public what they have learned...

"Everything for which Bush critics excoriated the Bush DOJ -- using an absurdly broad rendition of 'state secrets' to block entire lawsuits from proceeding even where they allege radical lawbreaking by the President and inventing new claims of absolute legal immunity -- are now things the Obama DOJ has left no doubt it intends to embrace itself," Greenwald writes.

[Terry]

~WHAT IS THAT SMELL~
Top 10 Obama Administration Investigation Targetsby Human Events



Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has signaled he will conduct numerous oversight investigations of the Obama Administration. Here are the Top 10 areas ripe for investigation for Issa and other congressional Republicans:

(1) ObamaCare: Any measure that restructures one-sixth of the U.S. economy bears scrutiny particularly when passage of the bill required legislative bribes such as the Louisiana Purchase and Cornhusker Kickback. To paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, now that ObamaCare has passed, let's see exactly what is in it — and how it got there.

(2) Stimulus: The American people deserve to know what they got for the $787 billion stimulus package that Obama signed in February 2009, including how much money was spent frivolously to publicize the legislation. And where exactly are all those jobs that the administration claims were "created or saved?"



(3) Freddie and Fannie: Previous attempts by congressional Democrats to get to the bottom of the 2008 financial meltdown conveniently overlooked the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. How much of the housing crisis was due to financial donations going to Democratic officials, who overlooked financial transgressions at the agencies so long as mortgages flowed to unworthy credit risks?

(4) Wikileaks: Someone in the administration needs to explain how the lowly serviceman who served up secret documents to Wikileaks could have access to such a large amount of classified material. And were any actions taken to shut down Julian Assange in the months after the initial disclosures and before the embarrassing leak of State Department cables?

(5) Climate science: Considering the Obama Administration used concerns over global warming to advance its cap-and-trade energy tax and, via the EPA, regulate carbon dioxide emissions, a hearing on how climate science is impacting public policy is in order.

(6) ACORN: How much federal money was sent to ACORN and what was it used for? That this vote-stealing, partisan group of thugs received tens of millions of taxpayer dollars is an outrage.

(7) Oil spill response: So many questions over the Obama Administration's response to the Gulf oil spill last April: Why was the response tardy, and did the administration slow local efforts through unnecessary red-tape? Was science politicized with the administration's rosy estimates over how much oil was left? Were there legitimate concerns or did politics come into play with the decision to impose an offshore oil drilling moratorium?

(8) Justice Department: There are concerns that politics is running amok in the halls of the Justice Department. From undermining national security by trying enemy terror combatants in criminal courts to unequal enforcement of civil rights laws, Attorney General Eric Holder's shop should be scrutinized. A good place to start is the department's handling of the New Black Panthers' voter intimidation case that was dropped.

(9) Czars: While other Presidents have named advisers without congressional approval, Obama has taken the appointment of policy czars to a new level. With appointments going to people like former Green Jobs czar and Marxist Van Jones, Congress needs to know who has been given authority beyond the scope of the Senate's confirmation process.

(10) Obama's presidential eligibility: This one should be easy to settle once and for all. Even Hawaii's Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie says President Obama's birth records should be released. Let's see what the White House does if a congressional subpoena is issued. For a President who promised transparency, there are an awful lot of his personal documents still under wraps.