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Going Rogue Going Rouge

nobody@flickr.com (Alex.Tango.Fuego) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:30:18 -0800

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34111242/ns/today-today_books/

Lunch with Sarah

nobody@flickr.com (Blackhorse17) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:20:05 -0800

Soup and sandwich today, but, somehow I think caribou or wild salmon
would have been more appropriate. For anyone wondering about this new
best seller, it is all apple pie and red, white and blue patriotism. America at
it's best. Highly recommended.

091123-goldman-sachs-vs-new-moon

nobody@flickr.com (gregoriusu) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:03:28 -0800

gregoriusu posted a photo:

Nosferatu vs New Moon: CEO Lloyd Blankfein--Edward and Bella, he ain't, but he sure does suck SOMETHING!

See the whole article at:
ivcaffeine.com/2009/11/23/lloyd-blankfein-edward-and-bell...

Suspended Life

nobody@flickr.com (Jeremy_Schultz) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:15:51 -0800

Jeremy_Schultz posted a photo:

As seen at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

5 exposure HDR, tone mapped, unsharp mask.

Cracked

nobody@flickr.com (elycefeliz) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:58:54 -0800

elycefeliz posted a photo:

www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22rich.html?_r=1&a...

Sarah Palin's political appeal has never had anything to do with facts — or coherent policy positions. The more she is attacked for not being in possession of pointy-headed erudition, the more powerful she becomes as an avatar of the anti-elite cause. As Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, has correctly observed, “She represents less a philosophical strain on the right than an affect and a demographic.”

That demographic is white and non-urban: Just look at the stops and the faces on her carefully calibrated book tour. The affect is emotional — the angry air of grievance that emerged first at her campaign rallies in 2008, with their shrieked threats to Obama, and that has since resurfaced in the Hitler-fixated “tea party” movement (which she endorses in her book).

It’s a politics of victimization and sloganeering with no policy solutions required beyond the conservative mantra of No Taxes. Its standard-bearer can make stuff up with impunity: “Thanks, but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere”; Obama’s palling around with terrorists”; health care “death panels.”

. . . But no matter how much Palin tries to pass for “center-right,” she’s unlikely to fool that vast pool of voters left, right and center who have already written her off as unqualified for the White House. The G.O.P. establishment knows this, and is frightened. The demographic that Palin attracts is in decline; there’s no way the math of her fan base adds up to an Electoral College victory.

Culture is politics. Palin is at the red-hot center of age-old American resentments that have boiled up both from the ascent of our first black president and from the intractability of the Great Recession for those Americans who haven’t benefited from bailouts. As Palin thrives on the ire of the left, so she does from the disdain of Republican leaders who, with a condescension rivaling the sexism they decry in liberals, belittle her as a lightweight or instruct her to eat think-tank spinach.

The only person who can derail Palin is Palin herself. Should she not self-destruct, she will doom G.O.P. hopes of a 2012 comeback.

But the rest of the country cannot rest easy. The rage out there is larger than Palin and defies partisan labeling. . . . If Obama can’t tamp down that rage across the political map, Palin will at the very least pave the way for a demagogue with less baggage to pick up her torch.

Column by Frank Rich

www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/1344558.html by Cal Thomas

The Palin phenomenon offers an opportunity for conservatives to choose their path to the future. Will it be a path of the angry and disenfranchised outsider, or will it be something of substance that produces triumphs in both politics and policy?

The victim thing is getting old.

Conservatives have a significant presence in virtually every venue they like to denounce. That includes government and especially the media. Talk radio rules, and the rulers are conservatives. Fox News Channel dominates the ratings.

. . . Victimization plays well with the conservative base and that's a problem. If conservatives don't rise from the muck of feeling excluded, disrespected, ignored and mocked, they will continue to suffer all of these things. There is nothing like proving the worth of your ideas to put the mockers in their place. Victimization can raise money, sell books and get one face time on TV, but it doesn't advance the ball.

www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/blumenthal

www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/saint-sarah-republi...

remember me?

nobody@flickr.com (emilyizzles) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:47:19 -0800

emilyizzles posted a photo:

bday card for my boss

going rogue

nobody@flickr.com (emilyizzles) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:47:55 -0800

emilyizzles posted a photo:

2nd cover of the card

How do you solve a problem like Sarah?

nobody@flickr.com (davidwatts1978) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:22:01 -0800

davidwatts1978 posted a photo:

A Gun?

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nobody@flickr.com (mockstar) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:58:31 -0800

mockstar posted a photo:

At the Bootleg Theater. Silverlake, 2009.

Sarah Palin

nobody@flickr.com (KingdomExtremeMagazine) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:32:30 -0800

KingdomExtremeMagazine posted a photo:

21 November 2009 - Washington, Pennsylvania - Former Alaskan Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin makes a stop in Washington, PA near Pittsburgh to promote her book “Going Rogue An American Life”. Thousands lined up outside the Sam’s Club for a chance to meet Sarah Palin and the opportunity to have their book signed. Credit: Josh Drespling