"Y’know it was the best of times and the awesome-ist of times on a dark and stormy night and you can call me Ishmael."
So, I predict, will begin the next great contribution to our nation’s remainder bins.
Gov. Sarah Palin has signed a book deal with HarperCollins Publishers for what is described as her memoir…The book is to be published sometime in the spring of 2010. Palin will have a collaborator, who is expected to be chosen soon.
Which member of Greta Van Susteren’s family will it be I wonder?
News reports this winter suggested Palin was pursuing an $11 million advance. She called that figure "laughable" in January but has never provided another.
I bet she got more than Bush did.
You know the book will be a "special" book written for "special people" receiving a "special education".
"Being a voracious reader, I read a lot today and have read a lot growing up. And having that journalism degree, all of that, will be a great assistance for me in writing this book, talking about the challenges and the joys, balancing the work and parenting, and, in my case, work means running the state. I’ve read a variety of books, and that helps shape my opinions and my views."
Will she be wearing Coulter’s black cocktail dress on the book-jacket?
(via Wonkette)
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ZED…Zed is dead…long live Zed and Todd palin’s hormones!!
It’s Sarah Palin’s turn.
Attaturk offers up some of that recycled gratuitous sexism that he thinks Democratic ditto-heads never can get enough of. Remember, it’s those skanky Republican women office holders and commentators who are emptying out the Treasury and driving away single payer advocates from any seat at the table in the Senate.
Look over there netroots bitches, implants!
You know, I think there might be an opportunity for collectors of this stuff –I mean, say, in 25 years or so, when most of the books will have been recycled into home insulation or something. Campaign books, would-uv could-uv should-uv books, and just plain vanilla take the money and run books, which is Sara’s specialty. I mean, if you can make money storing baseball cards and vinyl records for a generation, why not this stuff?
obtuse doesn’t really play well here.
Citizen oldnslow:
I always appreciate your steppin’ in ta wipe up the shit that gets tracked in…you keep me outta trouble and I don’t lose anymore precious brain cellz on the stuff.
(smiling shyly)
Good morning Norske. Gettin awfull short aren’t ya?
8 more and a wake-up…too short ta take a nap.
oldnslow,
I assume your meaning is that you think my comment was stupid, rather than that you did not understand my point. O.K., I got you down as thinking it was stupid.
He’s so short he has to stand on a stepladder to kiss an ant’s ass.
He’s so short he could parachute off a dime
Good morning, pups. The Moustache of Wisdom is off today, and MoDo flies solo. In “Rogue Diva of Doom” she says just as the Republicans are trying to get kinder and gentler, Dick Cheney has popped out of his dungeon to carry on his nasty campaign of fear and loathing. She seems a wee bit miffed…
Here she is.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got a selection of bagels with cream cheese. After the torrential rain we had Monday evening it’s gotten blissfully cool here, with the temperature not forecast to go above 80 today. Thanks, oldnslow, for getting out the mop and bucket. I thought I detected an aroma when I got here, but it’s dissipating now. Have a great day.
Jesse wants to waterboard darth!
Bad ass loudmouth Joe is trashin Jesse, I’d like to see him do that in person.
Ah my eyes its to early to see Sarah dressed like that!
Dowd has been on a pretty strong anti-Cheney bandwagon lately, calling him the backseat driver that wrecked the Dubya Administration. Now she tells us. I show him as the Phantom of The White House.
You did see Sarah get interviewed by Katie Couric?
How much are tickets?
Citizen Raven:
So short I can’t see my shadow… ah, them were the days huh, Brother Freebird?
And this is what so many conservative men ( women?) find so appealing? yech !!
can you say vapid airhead !!
Joe tough? I’d like to see Joe explain that dead girl who ended his political career and why he is not in jail?
I’d like his bud Mike Barnacle explain how he thought he could get away with lifting Mike Ryoko’s Chicago’s best writer at the times columns.
Sarah Palin reads a lot? Bah hahahahahahahahaha! Yeah, like what? People Magazine and Elle? LOL
Has she answered the question yet on what daily newspapers she reads? I’ve not heard. She’s had close to 9 months to come up with an answer!
I just don’t see her as attractive she owns the mini van burb Mom look, and not in a good way.
I bet Guns And Ammo is on that list too !!
another fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives
Nice try in attempting to make us liberals out to be like you American Taliban members (brain dead, neck drooling, knuckle draggers, who don’t read, and who believe Sarah Palin was smarter than Ghandi)! The fact you even tried to attempt this shows how dead your party is. Now run along to spread hate about President Obama using Dijon mustard on his cheeseburger and how ACORN is using this mustard to overtake the world!
Oh yes, those who have a small brain almost always have a big gun. No different than having lemon drops between their legs and owning a muscle car to make up the slack. LOL
SP is really funny and I enjoy seeing and reading about her travails. She is the perfect air head and you couldn’t design a more perfect icon of a repuke women. In fact, if someone had created this character on a TV show – no one would believe it as a real person. But she is! Although I don’t watch reality shows could there be anything better? And it’s not just her, it’s her family. What a bunch of empty headed self promoters who are clueless to how dumb they all are. hahahahaa
I bet Sarah Palin still doesn’t know what the role of the VP does. I’m sure if we did a poll in Alaska, we’d find out Alaskans don’t think she knows what the role of the governor is either.
What a fraud this woman is.
http://blogs.reuters.com/globa…..it-longer/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..92663.html
Joe Scarbrough’s Friend Pat Buchanan has some explaining to do also!
Just why does he have a job was David Duke unavailable?
Carrie Prejean’s brother speaks out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWFxI-FIvYY
Man, is he intellectual or what? The Prejeans are looking awfully a lot like the Palins! Palin/Prejean 2012…..the trashy white Doublemint Twins!
Morning all, Sarah Palin is the only governor to reject funds for improving building energy consumption.
Who were the GOPpers who described Sarah’s wink in the debate like a bad porn movie? The GOP brought up how attractive she was like that was going to get them any votes when this was an issues election?
The issues being Iraq, Afghanistan, Ossam still being alive high gas prices, and the banks failing.
But the GOP preferred to focus on Sarah’s hi Sailor! wink.
Morning everyone. I’m in the minority here, but I like Mike Barnicle. And just to double down, I luv Chris Matthews.
Is it too much to hope that one Miss California will turn out to be Sarah’s officially unnamed collaborator? Or at least pen the foreword? I agree that there are collectable possibilities, especially if there’s a tasteful detachable centerfold of the principals suitable for use on poster boards in the California gubernatorial race and the 2012 primaries. Which might mean double or triple the book sales to the base.
Myself? I wouldn’t buy the book, but I would leaf through the pics, posed or not.
Rush’s quote was “We’ve got the babe.”
Seriously though, I’ve always regarded these book deals as money laundering. Think Mary Cheney. Do you know anyone that read her book? I never even saw it in the bookstores.
The moderators must have shut down cmike. Too bad. I’m in an ornery mood and wouldn’t mind a troll to confront.
Yup in Alaska of all places
showing that concern for the common man
How disrespectful of the American Flag.
Where’s the outrage?
I thought Rush liked Dominicans?…boys
shiny objects and trivial interests
issues ,WTF are those?
Mornin’, pups -
Credit where due – Dowd eviscerated cheney today.
If you’ve not followed Marion’s linkie, go and “make your day”. :-) There weren’t any comments when I read it early this morning…..gotta head back over and check out the responses.
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It’s a COOKBOOK!!!
roadkill
all pictures
.
I have never known anyone from the GOP side to Quote a Newt, O’Reily, Rush book unless when what was in the book was said on the air.
I agree money laundering big corporations buy copies and then hand them out as gifts at business conventions is my guess.
OT Today is National Call In Day to call the Congresscritters in support of 676
Issues are why we won this time. If the election is about issues we win if its about gossip, fear, hate.
Clinton Monica ok we won that one, Fear 9/11 Bush, Hate Reagan and the imaginary Caddy Driving Chicago Welfare mom then the GOP wins.
The GOP gets the easy to get outraged about anything vote and in a low turnout election where many voters don’t care to show up they can win.
The GOP can win in fear elections like Bush did after 9/11.
We win when voters are so screwed over that they have to pay attention to the issues.
Another worker-occupied factory in the works?
Hickey Freeman workers plan sit-in if bank acts to close parent company
This is the company that makes the suits that Obama wears.
Tell us, what does the Vice-President do? I mean the duties of the office are largely determined by a given president, right? So if you were being offered a chance to run for the job you might want to know what duties a presidential candidate would envision for the office in that candidate’s anticipated administration.
The Constitution provides that the Vice-President, as the President of the Senate, may preside over debate and business being conducted on the Senate floor but Vice-Presidents rarely bother to do that. The VP can vote on Senate bills to break ties but ties rarely occur. The VP counts the Electoral College votes for presidential elections. And, of course, if the president becomes incapacitated the Vice-President is assumes the duties of the presidency. Additionally, the modern VP is a member of the National Security Council but that Council may or may not meet with much frequency.
Former Speaker of the House and one time Vice-President John Nance Garner said the Vice-Presidency is “not worth a bucket of warm spit.”
Oh, and of course you are wrong as to my party affiliation. You’re also wrong if you think delighting in the umpteenth look at a photo shopped picture of Sarah Palin in a bathing suit makes you a bona fide Progressive.
Bad news brought close to home… front page above the fold in the largest local paper. One of the two clinical workers murdered in Iraq (plus three enlisted) was from Wilmington NC. It’s a low blow comment but why am I not surprised the killer hails from Texas? Apologies to all the fine pups who live in the state.
ooops.
you said all of the wrong ‘code words’ and ‘phrases’, and misused the rest of them….
just sayin’…
have a great day, pups!
But when a VP candidate thinks that the job is to run the senate that is mega ignorant.
Those tattoos are so creepy looking. Tatts were one of the most vile fashion “trends” to be mainstreamed in the US. I can’t imagine how people find them attractive. Can someone explain? Na don’t bother.
…thus even Sarah was qualified? Is that your point?
And, just for the record, if you think FDL is frivolous, hang around for 24 hours.
Almost as yukky as piercings.
If your on our side cool get used to not agreeing with us 100% of the time.
Sarah writing a book though thats time for mockery. Mocking Sarah’s looks well the McCain campaign’s GOP image people choose to make her looks the topic.
My bold at least 2 GOPers wrote about Sarah’s wink in well words that make Attaturk’s photoshopped picture seem tame.
The GOP created this battlefield that Sarah’s looks would help them win, we are just choosing to fight them.
Heck we are being nice we are choosing to fight them on a battlefield they choose.
If you don’t want to sink to their level then don’t. Me I have no problem getting my hands dirty.
Good morning. I see everyone’s feeling feisty this fine morning.
Yeah? So?
Remember Allan….IOKIYAR!
No. Not feisty. Not me, anyway. Pissed. the Magic blew another 4th quarter lead.
The VP isn’t supposed to do much accept be there in case the president dies. See?
The problem with Dick Cheney is……HE CREATED A SHADOW GOVERNMENT (included his own personal assassination squad!) OUTSIDE THE REALM OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and this is NOT THE DUTY OF THE VP OR ANYONE IN OUR GOVERNMENT!
Get that, dumb dumb?
Just tuned into democracynow. The Sri Lankans sound like the Israelis, bombing hospitals and other civilian targets.
So sorry to hear that.
By the way CMike, can you tell us what republican Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert, was Doing back in 2002 when the torture techniques were being legalized by the republicans in the White House?
Thanks pal. You know everything, so I’m sure you’ll have quite the response to this question! I look forward to it. I dare you to give it to me without using Nancy Pelosi’s name, because as we all know, she was not the head of any committee back then. She was a ranking member. Alright then! Let your truths be told! Tell us of how many committee hearings Hastert demanded in defense of the US Constitution and the Geneva Conventions when he learned this information.
We all know it’s photoshopped. IT’S YOU WINGERS WHO THINK IT’S SARAH PALIN AND WHO HAVE PASTED THIS PICTURE ON YOUR REFRIGERATORS, INSIDE YOUR TRUCKS, AND ON THE BUTT OF YOUR RIFLES!
G’Mornin’ Kay and Puppies.
Well. You’ve got that handled then, have you,
Basil? MikeC?h/t to Fawlty Towers.
You pups should be ashamed, taking advantage of a morning trawler who ain’t got the sleep rubbed out his’n eyes yet. heh
And then there’s Hastert’s being an agent of a foreign govt, Turkey, which he is now registered to do, but apparently started it while he was Speaker. Treason, anyone?
LeBron! It’s comin’. Be thou very afraid. ;->
PALIN: No, no. Of course, we know what a vice president does. And that’s not only to preside over the Senate and will take that position very seriously also. I’m thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president’s policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are.
That’s what the Vice President does Charlie Brown. I guess. Maybe she’s right. I dunno because I don’t know what the fuck she said. I don’t know where the Constitution allows a VP to choose to “exert more authority” though. Anybody?
poor lil’ fella. i didn’ even git ta’ play wit him. And now you gots ‘im all twisted up in his feets tryin’ ta’ dance w/ u pups. BAD BAD doggies! *g*
Magic: Over and out in game 6. Losers. Dwight Howard needs to grow up.
Don’t know why he took it on himself to try to defend Palin. Impossible task.
It is such a burden to be a woman when people like Palin become representatives of the gender.
Cheney had his own assassination squad? I guess that means President Obama and the DOJ under a Democratic Attorney General are going to be hot on his trail then. What if President Obama and the DOJ don’t pursue this issue or put someone in jail over the torture regime that the former Vice-President is boasting about? Guess that won’t matter much to you, you’re a serious Progressive who is focused on the really important stuff like the Palin family travails and recycling the last election cycle’s talking points.
It was definitely a case of “you thought George W. Bush was bad?” during the last election cycle. I’m wondering what it’s been like for Biden as the ascendent fourth branch of government.
Well…*filing fingernails*…I kind of like going after the neck droolers. Fun times!
I feel your pain, sorta. Not much of a sports nut here, but LeBron & Magic are both amazing. I’ll root for both. How’s that?! LeBron’s practically a local kid for us. Amazing talent and maturity for going straight to NBA outta high school. Seems like a nice guy to boot. Generous as a player on the court, and in the community. Rare sorta fella. ;->
She IS? Huh. I missed that. Alls I saw and see is a comic-book character. I didn’t think that was a sex-linked trait.
I luvs u guys ;->
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._0311.html
Not one denial from Dick Cheney yet! You’d think he would by now since he’s currently on a teaching tour called, “How To Dupe A Nation Once Again By Telling The Big Lies Over And Over And Over Again”. What a great MC he is for this tour!
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? Who ordered the Fort Detrick anthrax to be sent to liberals after 9/11? DICK CHENEY AND HIS SHADOW GOVERNMENT!
Well, CMikeRun, if Cheney did it and George Bush did it, then that means it’s okay for President Obama to do it! Right? And you’ll support President Obama because he’s your president and you wingers told us liberals for 8 years that we must always support the president right or wrong, because that shows how much we love America and how we are not traitors!
See? You’re going to have a great day today CMikeRun, because you love, honor, and support the President & Commander-in-Chief of the United States! Good for you, CMikeRun. I’m proud of you. I really am. You’re one of those neocons who is a man of his word!
Wait, wait! Perfessor. Could u pleeze repeat slowly for us kids in the back row? We never git da nuances part. Will this be on the exam? If not… *sets down elderly chewed pencil*
We are all focused on the important stuff but we do take the time to smell the Roses and laugh also.
Laughter has brought down more Tyrants than Armies although the Armies say other wise.
Also Learn to laugh or your own intelligence will drive you to Despair.
If we were serious all the time we would all be buying guns by now and [edited by moderator].
But we laugh instead
[mod note: Please do not suggest that acta of violence be carried out on anyone or any group. Thank you.]
What was Speaker Hastert doing in 2002? I don’t know, maybe trying to get an interstate to run by some recently purchased property of his. Do you have a point that ties in here?
KAY!
CMikeRun. Awwwwwww. just brutal. i thot he wuz just plain old neon. Didn’ see the c, it bein’ so sneaky n’ smart. heh.
Bush was a Man so don’t worry about Sarah because unless she gets in the WH there is noway she could top the Chimp.
*hands jug of maalox thru toobz to CMikeRun*
SIDEBAR NOTE: The neck droolers will bring up ACORN when a tough question is asked of them to answer. The question above about Denny Hastert has not been answered yet by the troll, so expect a good “ACORN tongue lashing” at some point!
Okay, going to work. You work, CMikeRun? Let me guess….you’re one of those neocons online who served the nation proudly and then became a multi-million who doesn’t have to work now? And you use this as a way to put everyone down online who are making less than $5,000,000/year, which is the starting point of poor people according to McCrazyGramps who owns 7 homes and 13 cars.
Yes, he did that, but what was he doing as the Speaker of the House to thwart the Bush Regime from breaking the law on torture. I’ll wait for your ACORN answer. *rolling eyes*
Speaker of the House gets briefed on the really top secret stuff a ranking congress woman like Nancy who headed no Congressional Committees relevant to the war would not get briefed unless the whole Congress got briefed.
I just wrote an email to Mika saying pretty much the same thing…..no kidding.
mika is on the same twit level as palin, she is an embarrassment.
And CMikeRun? We’re not fooled that you are a liberal progressive. Why? Because you came in here today bashing anyone who goes after Sarah Palin. You’re one of those right wing trolls who goes around the liberal sites in the hopes you can fool the liberals into thinking you’re one of us and you hope your time on the blog can slowly brainwash the ‘locals’ into thinking your way of thinking is the way all liberal progressives think. Sorry pal! Nice try, though. We give you a D+ for your effort today.
“Humor is the hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.”
Thanks Salada teabagger.
“An egomaniac is someone who’s hard of listening.”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
“Give some people an inch and they think they’re a ruler.”
“Bragging… the patter of little feats.”
Help! I’m a teatag junkie! I’ve fallen and can’t get up!
Aaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!
Just stay down dude KayinMaine is toasting you and you are not winning any friends.
Cripes its bad when I try and play peacemaker:)
Swim is upstairs…
Humor just what we needed:) Going upstairs.
Saved in a nick! *whew*
Peace to all Puppies and those they love.
yeah, you laugh, but at all of the wrong things. and don’t even know it. that’s the ‘tell’ and why you get a pitiable expression from people like me.
wrote that to mika and joe show, too. they do the same thing.
Grab your forehead and save yourself, Adie! LOL Okay, really going to work now. Have a great day everyone!
i already told him he doesn’t know the ’secret code’…heh…used all of the wrong phrases and others out of context. he’ll be back after he studies it all for a few years.
i liked the troll who said ‘who he was’ and why he was here, him, i liked. cuz he was honest….another thing this troll didn’t take into consideration when he typed a comment. come back when you come clean.
my 99 was to cmike’s 84
NOT to you, norske, at 1
but you knew that. heh.
edit expired./
we’re all learning new constructive skills, aren’t we?
that’s the difference between themnus.
Er, do any of you think the sitting president has an obligation to see to it that the laws are faithfully executed? Do any of you think President Obama is faithfully executing the laws in addressing the torture policy the previous administration has admitted to having instituted?
holding up his nominee for the OLC, dawn johnsen, is kinda keeping that from happening yet, isn’t it?
I laugh at the wrong things? :)
I have a Tell?
LOL I hope I’m readin this wrong dmac!
read my 103, wasn’t to you, was to cmike…ha….
104 IS to you though….
and what i read my comment 99/100 a minute ago it responded to #1 which is norske,and it said my 99 which is now #100!!!
sumpthin’ goin’ on with the hamsters!!!!
geeez, is it monday??????
Thought so something seemed off
Question schadenfreud you laugh at others pain
Bushschadenfreud you make money off of others pain (my own word)
What do you call it when you laugh at your own pain/impending doom?
GOPers laugh at schadenfreud and engage in Bushschadenfreud (investing in war contractors like KBR of the electrocuting showers)
I laugh at the wrong things too my own pain?
Attaturk, you rule the night.
a small thing: “pitiful” rather than “pitiable”? or was that “palatable” rather than “palatial”? “hapless” AND “hopeless”? “helpless”? but more is less, more or less n’est pas? oh this is all so confusing. i’ve run out of tea. how discombobulating is chaos theory, if you can’t understand it?
Now THAT is a “tell”, CMikeRun.