I couldn't believe anyone would be stupid enough to say this in public:

Yes, IKEA offers nice, clean styles, but how many years before it all hits the local landfill? Not many, guarantee you.

Then I saw it was a post from KateTex. Well, at least she's consistent!

I still have furniture I bought at IKEA way back in 1999, when I first outfit my apartment in all-IKEA pieces. It's been thru 5 moves now, and is still in mint condition (in spite of the best efforts of dipsh*t lazy movers). IKEA's stuff certainly beats any alternatives in its price class, which is why they've gobbled up such a huge share of the furniture and housewares market.

I've also sold or given away a ton of IKEA furniture as I've moved from apartment to apartment - what works in one space doesn't necessarily work in another. In that whole time I've only lost two IKEA pieces, both thanks to movers who were idiots. IKEA's stuff is sturdy enough, but it's not designed for the monkey cage at the zoo.

For all the morons shrieking over IKEA's furniture, there's absolutely nothing new about low-end furniture. When I was a kid, Montgomery Ward, Sears, and even K Mart and Target sold lots of low end furniture, along with plenty of smaller local retail operations, and most of it was pure unadulterated hideous crap that ended up in a landfill within a decade (if you were lucky!). IKEA has now thankfully displaced most of that garbage with better-looking, better-made stuff, much of which even retains a decent resale value due to its design and quality.

Used IKEA furniture purchased thru Craigslist can be an incredible deal. I picked up a great (but seldom-used) dining room table for my latest apartment for only $50. It's fairly high quality, looks great and - assuming I don't move into studio apartment anytime soon - will likely provide me with years (or even decades) of service.

But the very sensitive BO who controls the press

Really? He controls Faux? The WSJ? Rush Limbaugh? mAnn Coulter?

They must all be a bunch of idiots to let Obama control them like that . . .

Back under your bridge, troll.

Just nuts.

A Kansas straw poll just came out showing Palin beating Romney and Huckabee handily among Republican stalwarts.

In other words, the lunatic asylum has spoken, and crowned Palin their Queen.

There's a ringing endorsement. Not.

Thank you, RZ79, for pointing out the obvious parallel.

This is brilliant. Palin can now hit the interview circuit if she likes, and explain her decision every time with reference to the legal bills

Ha! You're funnier than Tina Fey!

Plain's gonna hit the interview circuit and explain stuff? The dingaling can't even "explain" what newspapers she reads without making a total fool of herself.

And the last thing on earth any (successful) politician is gonna do is run around the country talking about how they're in legal trouble. Vote for me, I'm a fucking crook!

My advice for Sarah Palin would be, don't quit your day job.

Whoops! Too late!

>She is limited on what she can do as governor.

Only because she's a dingaling. Just like her fans.

On the one hand, I find it hard to believe we've heard the last of this narcissistic shitstain. She seems tailor made for the idiots who sit drooling before Faux News all day, although with that screechy voice it's hard to see her as a substitute for the smooth talking bloated gasbag Rush Limbaugh (whose days are clearly numbered).

If she's gonna run for President, she's got to get out of Alaska, pronto. You can't run for President from a state that far from the rest of the union, especially if you're currently serving as governor. And 2010 is way too late to throw your hat into the ring. Palin needs to be all over the lower 48, raising cash and pressing the flesh toot sweet.

On the other hand, why would you pick the Friday before the 4th of July to make such an announcement unless you intended to bury it like a reeking cat turd during the one holiday between Christmas and Thanksgiving when folks are least likely to be paying much attention to the news?

If you were going to run for President, you'd want as much (good) publicity as possible. You'd pick a slow news day near the start of the week so as to receive lots of free publicity - for days - from an attentive electorate. The lead would be the announcement you're running for President in 2012. You'd simultaneously announce your resignation as governor. You'd also offer your apologies to the citizens of Alaska, but point out that you hope to serve their interest at least as well during your run for President as you could during your remaining term as governor. I mean, it would be total bullshit and spin, but at least it would make some kind of sense. The actual incoherent ramblings we got from Sarah - not so much.

If she really is running for President, she's an even bigger idiot than I thought she was. And that's truly saying something!

The most logical explanation - although there aren't any facts to support it at the moment - is a big, fat scandal. Explains the timing of the announcement, and explains her rambling, incoherent performance (rambling and incoherent even by Palin standards). Perhaps the shadowy power players who pull the strings in the GOP are tired of Palin's role as the nation's most prominent Republican politician - her being a global laughingstock and all - and the impact she's having on the the Party's overall poll numbers. So maybe they're using some dirt they have on her to blackmail her shrieking, ignorant ass out of politics.

Boy, McLame's disastrous 2008 run is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?