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But, he also called himself a ridiculous baffoon of a man, too.

The bit was all in good fun — taped a while ago — but why was there a need to bring up Palin’s looks? He could have talked about how much he enjoys salmon, or fishing, or could have made a joke about the sun being out all the time in Alaska, or how far away Alaska is, etc.

Why do men feel the need to constantly comment on a woman’s looks, and not any of the things she talked about in the clip?

Palin is a great sport, and she’s a good looking woman, but why do people feel the need to comment on her appearance, even if it’s in a positive way?

That’s something we as a culture need to explore, we think in a running “Sarah Palin Sexism Watch”.

VIA AudacityofHypocrisy

After SoetorObama’s speech, the Democratic Party threw tens of thousands of American flags into the garbage…at a Convention they claimed was supposed to be “Green”.

American flags could have been recycled for better use than being thrown in the garbage. Some suggestions off the top of our heads:

(1) Planting these flags in local Colorado cemetaries on the graves of veterans

(2) Decorating the lawns of VFW Halls

(3) Donating the flags to local schools, hospitals, nursing homes, boy scout troops, etc. for use during the next American holiday

(4) Sending the flags to American military bases for homecoming ceremonies for our troops — so their family members could waive these flags in excitement as they welcomed their sons, daughters, husbands, and wives back from active duty

And that’s just off the top of our heads. 

Surely if he tried hard enough, SoetorObama could have found a better use for these flags than throwing them in the garbage.

Or, maybe that’s asking too much of him.

He just doesn’t get it, does he?

Did you know that…

Sarah Palin does not have 5 kids, she actually has 7. Their names are Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig, Chuck Norris, and Jack Bauer.

The Northern Lights are really just the reflection from Sarah Palin’s eyes.

The Russians sold Alaska to America because Sarah Palin would not submit to autocracy.

The Arctic Circle runs through Alaska so the Sun can have some relief from Sarah Palin’s bright glare.

Sarah Palin is allowed first dibs on Alaskan wolfpack kills.

Sarah Palin is so pro-life that she personally hog-tied two reps from Planned Parenthood who came knocking at her door.

It’s not raining in DC. Those are God’s tears of joy that McCain picked Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin’s hotness is the largest single contributor to melting polar ice caps.

Sarah Palin is the “other” whom Yoda spoke about.

Sarah Palin’s presence in the lower 48 means the Arctic ice cap can finally return.

Sarah Palin fired Jack Bauer because he was too soft in dealing with terrorists.

Sarah Palin’s pageant career ended early so other women could have a chance.

Sarah Palin’s son Track is going to Iraq after the Surge, because a Palin during the Surge would have been unfair.

Sarah Palin wears glasses lest her uncontrollable optic blasts slaughter everyone. (X-Men reference)

Sarah Palin actually has Big Foot in her freezer.

Sarah Palin gave a speech in Texas after her water broke before flying home to Alaska to give birth. (Actually true)

Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.

Sarah Palin once spilled coffee on Joe Biden & one of his $400 ties from Pink.

Sarah Palin keeps her hair in a beehive to hide her ninja weaponry.

Sarah Palin will personally open a homemade can of whoopa** on Ahmadinejad, Putin, and Chavez as soon as she’s done making mooseburgers for her kids.

A grizzly bear once tried to stare down Sarah Palin. Once.

Sarah Palin will send Joe Biden a pre-debate cheat sheet. The sheet will have tips on defending against Kung Fu Death Grip.

Sarah Palin became governor because five children left her with too much spare energy.

Sarah Palin will give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s war against the machines. (Terminator reference)

Three of Sarah Palin’s 5 kids came out sideways and she never flinched.

Global Warming doesn’t kill polar bears. Sarah Palin does. Generally with her bare hands.

Sarah Palin was the original “Deadliest Catch.”

Sarah Palin paid her way through school by hunting for Kodiak pelts with a slingshot.

Alaska is the 49th state solely because they knew even in 1959 that Sarah Palin never finishes last.

Chuck Norris wishes he was Sarah Palin trapped in a man’s body.

Sarah Palin got Tom Brady pregnant, and then left him.

Sarah Palin killed and ate the Grizzly Man.

Sarah Palin killed and ate Frank Murkowski.

Sarah Palin once won the Iditarod without any dogs. She simply willed the sled to victory.

Sarah Palin wears half the makeup that John Edwards wears and still looks like twice the woman he does.

Sarah Palin once guided Santa’s sleigh through an Alaskan blizzard with the light from her smile.

Sarah Palin fishes salmon by convincing them it’s in their interest to jump into the boat.

Any other Sarah Palin rumors that other people want to start?

* Thanks to EagleWatch for the posting above

VIA ToledoBlade

Alaska is littered with the bodies of those who tried to bully Sarah Palin and failed.

Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna are picking up strength in the Gulf, with Gustav on a course for New Orleans.

Word is, if the hurricane hits, the Republicans will use their Convention time as a telethon and 4-day emergency address on the hurricane, America’s energy needs, and addressing the failings of Katrina.

It’s sick, but there are many in the media who are rooting for Gustav to wipe New Orleans out during the Republican Convention — this faction led by people like Michael Moore.

It’s shocking to us, but the Democratic Party is really becoming the party of hate and sexism, of the dirty, nasty politics of destruction Democrats used to fight against.

What happened?

Why did the Democrats lose their way?

Handing the party over to SoetorObama and his Chicago ilk was the worst thing the party could have done…New Orleans will survive…Democrats may never be able to recover.

There are Democrats rooting for a hurricane to destroy New Orleans. Let that sink in. They want people to suffer and die because they think this will benefit them politically.

Shocking.

Video courtesy of OlbermannWatch

UPDATE:  Former DNC Chair Don Fowler was also caught on tape laughing about Hurricane Gustav and claiming God was on the Democrats’ side, loving the fact the hurricane was going to hit on Monday at the start of the Republicans’ convention. This is just sick.

VIA PittsburghPostGazette

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin was a hockey mom, small-town mayor and rising young Republican star in Alaska in 2003 when she ran afoul of her party’s establishment over ethics reform and was cast into the political wilderness.

But she came charging back as an ethics crusader to win the governor’s office in 2006 (including a landslide primary victory over the incumbent Republican governor) and has remained one of the most popular local politicians in America, even as she continued to take on such powerful figures as the oil companies and leaders of her own state party.

Ms. Palin, 44, has been the Joan of Arc of Alaska politics, charging into battle against long odds on such big local issues as oil taxes and construction of a natural gas pipeline — only to see her opposition crumble.

Days after her 2006 primary victory, an FBI investigation into political corruption involving the oil industry and Republican legislators burst into view, with surprise raids of legislative offices. As criminal indictments and convictions followed, Ms. Palin’s outsider status helped her maintain consistently sky-high approval ratings.

Though fearless in choosing the difficult outsider’s path in politics, she remains relatively untested as a campaigner, a politician and as a two-year governor.

And even as she drew increasing attention nationally as a potential vice-presidential nominee in recent months, she has come under withering criticism at home from business-minded Republicans who consider her a misguided populist and an intellectual lightweight.

In one-on-one settings, her relaxed, no-bull manner has contributed to her popularity — in a state of 670,000 residents, where such contacts are not only possible, but essential for political success. And state voters have also warmed to the outlines of her all-Alaskan biography.

She was born in Idaho and came to Alaska when she was 3 months old. She grew up in the town of Wasilla, a now-sprawling small town an hour north of Anchorage, where her father, Chuck Heath, was a local teacher and coach.

One of her most formative experiences, she has said, was leading her high school basketball team to the 1982 state championship. Ms. Palin played point guard and from her teammates earned the nickname “Sarah Barracuda.”

Ms. Palin went on to study journalism and political science in college, graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987. Along the way, she competed in the Miss Alaska contest after being chosen Miss Wasilla 1984. In the Wasilla contest, she played the flute and also won the title of Miss Congeniality.

She grew up hunting with her father, whose living-room wall is densely populated with trophies and antlers. Her favorite meal, she said during her gubernatorial race, is moosemeat stew after a day of snowmachining.

She eloped in 1988 with her high school sweetheart, Todd Palin, who expands the family biography considerably. He is a commercial fisherman, an oil-field worker, a United Steelworkers member and an Alaska Native.

Todd Palin’s grandmother grew up in a traditional Yup’ik Eskimo house in Bristol Bay and accompanied Ms. Palin in her race for governor as she sought support from Alaska Native voters. Ms. Palin has joined her family every summer fishing a commercial setnet site on the Nushagak River in Bristol Bay.

Mr. Palin has worked 20 years in a job for BP on Alaska’s North Slope, where he has continued to work as a production operator. He is also a four-time winner of the Iron Dog snowmachine race from Anchorage to Nome and back along the Iditarod Trail. Since the election, Mr. Palin has remained in the background as “first dude,” an expression his wife sometimes uses.

Ms. Palin made her way into local politics in 1992 on the city council, and then ran for mayor as an agent of change. Though she established a reputation as a tax-fighter, she actually increased the town’s infrastructure spending on roads and sewers, helped by increased sales tax revenues coming to the booming commercial hub.

She has had the same luck as governor, a fiscal conservative in charge of a wealthy government — this time because of high oil prices.

Ms. Palin finished a strong second in the 2002 primary for lieutenant governor. She was being groomed by her party for higher office when she ran afoul of state Republican Party Chairman Randy Ruedrich. They both had seats on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — appointed by Gov. Frank Murkowski, the Republican she would later depose. She accused Mr. Ruedrich of political chicanery and eventually resigned in frustration. He was forced to resign as well, though he remains head of the state party.

She later took on Mr. Murkowski’s attorney general in a conflict-of-interest scandal that forced his resignation.

In 2006, she knocked off Mr. Murkowski and then Democratic former Gov. Tony Knowles in a campaign that drew on grass-roots support, relying for its staff on neighbors and friends rather than veterans of big-time campaigns.

She had strong support from social conservatives and often speaks of her religious faith. The Palins have five children, including their first-born, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007. Track Palin is 18 and stationed now at Fort Wainwright in Alaska with the Stryker Brigade, but his mother said he is preparing for deployment to Iraq. They also have three daughters — Bristol, Willow and Piper.

The newest family member, son Trig, was born four months ago, after a pregnancy Ms. Palin managed to keep secret for seven months. He was born with Down syndrome, which the Palins had learned of through testing.

But as governor, she has not pushed any big agenda items of social conservatives. Her focus has been on raising oil taxes — long suppressed by oil-friendly legislators, the taxes seemed ridiculously low once oil prices started rising — and on launching construction of a $40 billion natural-gas pipeline from North Slope oilfields.

Ms. Palin took on the oil producers there, saying they had been dragging their feet on a gas line, and she pushed the Legislature to pass a bill authorizing an independent firm to build it.

The Legislature’s ongoing corruption scandal over the influence of former oilfield services firm Veco helped Ms. Palin force change in the Juneau state capitol. That scandal has now spread to include Alaska’s two longtime powers in Congress, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young.

Ms. Palin has kept her distance from those GOP icons and backed ethics-reform measures the Legislature has passed.

Ms. Palin’s clean image has lately taken a shot, however, over charges that she tried to use her office to get rid of an Alaska state trooper who had gone through a messy divorce with one of Ms. Palin’s sisters. The governor denied any involvement but has conceded that a staff member made inappropriate calls.

The Legislature has hired a special investigator, with the strongest criticism coming from Republicans antagonized by Ms. Palin during the oil and gas battles of the past two years.

She already was under steady criticism from some quarters, including Anchorage conservative radio talk-show hosts and rental car executive Andrew Halcro, a former state representative who ran as an independent in the last governor’s race, and who features almost-daily criticism of her on his blog. Critics call her naive, a panderer in her economic populism and reckless in her dealings with the vital oil industry.

But at a time when state coffers are spilling over with new oil revenues, Ms. Palin has remained popular with voters, recently pushing through a $1,200-per-person “rebate” to help with high fuel costs.

VIA NY Post

Article above highlights how ridiculous it is for Democrats to claim Sarah Palin has no foreign policy experience, when look who is at the top of the Democrats’ ticket. SoetorObama argued all through the primaries that his inexperience doesn’t matter, so hitting Palin with anything falls into a brilliant trap that now focuses attention back on what a poor choice SoetorObama the Modest is for Democrats.

Also, VIA Weekly Standard, there’s a great article about how much the liberal left is terrified of Sarah Palin. They have been shrieking irrationally since yesterday morning, attacking her without thinking in the most crazy terms. They are truly terrified — McCain pulled off a stunner. They were all ready to go after Romney and Pawlenty and have been taken completely by surprise. It’s really fun to watch this — because we know the blowback that is coming. Sarah Palin is tough, and she has her party behind her 100%, so SoetorObama the Modest has no idea what’s coming for him.

VIA TimesOnline

Russian troops are not withdrawing from Georgia. Instead, this Tuesday, the Kremlin will force puppet leaders in South Ossetia to sign treaties establishing permanent Russian military bases on internationally-recognized Georgian soil. This does not appear to be the final move Russia intends to make: Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, the Baltics. Who knows?

Scary stuff.

Everyone, we don’t know what to do about this, but someone out there needs to think of a strong way to hit back at Daily Kos — because they have really crossed a line today. We knew the SoetorObama supporters would hit Palin in ugly, vulgar, sexist terms, but this one just takes the cake. Today, they are claiming Palin faked her last pregnancy (with her fifth child, son Trig, born this April) to “cover” for her teenaged daughter. Daily Kos is actually claiming Palin lifted one of the most lackluster storylines from Desperate Housewives last season, and did a Bree van de Kamp impersonation, because she decided to claim Trig was her son, and not her grandson.

It is the most unhinged and ridiculous thing we have heard in a while — and that says alot because almost everything these lunatics said about Hillary Clinton was unhinged and ridiculous, all beyond the pale.

Something was confirmed to us today that we have long suspected: whatever infection floats inside that Kool-Aid these people guzzle all day has completely driven them off the edge of reason. They are filled with so much hate and sexism that they no longer function on a rational plane. So consumed with hate for Clinton, and so used to attacking her in gender terms for the past year, they can’t let any of that bile go, so now they direct it against Palin, in the most bizarre outlets possible.

Daily Kos will no doubt yank this story in a few hours — what they do when they put something outrageous into the world, before taking it down to pretend they never did it — so here are some screengrabs of the garbage they posted this morning.

Feb. 11, 1964 — Born in Sandpoint, Idaho.

1982 — Graduated from Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska.

1987 — Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho.

August 29, 1988 — Married Todd Palin, whom she would have five children with.

1992-1996 — Entered public life, serving two terms on the Wasilla City Council.

1996-2002 — Elected mayor of Wasilla City, Alaska, for two terms until term limits forced her from office.

2002 — Lost her first statewide campaign for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor.

2002 — Frank Murkowski left the Senate to become governor and named Palin chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

2003 — Split with the party leaders by battling Randy Ruedrich, the head of Alaska’s Republican Party.

2006 — Upset then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican primary, then defeated former two-term Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat, in the general election.

2007 — Pressured lawmakers to get the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act passed, to build a natural gas pipeline to deliver 35 trillion cubic feet of North Slope natural gas to market.

Aug. 29, 2008 — Chosen as Sen. John McCain‘s vice-presidential running mate in the 2008 election.