Ex-Governor Palin's acceptance speech at the Rep. Convention was full of B.S.- "The Bridge to Nowhere", the jet on E-Bay, the natural-gas pipeline for "energy independence", courtesy of Alaska. Then we got the sleazy family business, a raft of revelations about her political career, the gibberish passing for knowledge (and, don't forget Sen. McCain's boast that she "knows more about energy than anyone"). This has been an absurd affront from the beginning, and now the publishing industry is wasting trees publishing even more nonsense. this woman is a fraud and a liar, an irresponsible mother and a grotesque caricature of a political figure. Will we never see the last of these repulsive people?

I've commented before on the way the right uses the Big Lie ("dare I say...death panels?") and have noted that the term was coined by Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf". it is bad enough that these liars use Big Lies as an integral part of their campaigns, but it is worse that too many people fall for them. "Well, they SAID that the healthcare bill would be like the Holocaust...which I kinda remember, maybe, with that Hitler guy, so I guess there must be something to it." The Big Liars and the irresponsible suckers tow listen to them share something in common: they are bad Americans.

Can anybody in the Tea Party group carry a tune? A rather pathetic, off-key rendition of our sacred hymn, "God Bless America" added an anemic touch to this rather attempt at civil disobedience. It is pathetic to watch people waging this 'pretend protest' and pimping of the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King. You don't have to remind me not to contribute to the legal defense fund for people arrested for littering. Still, the fellow who bellowed "End The Federal Government!" goes right up there with the Town Hall protester in South Carolina who snarled "Keep your government hands off of my Medicare."

Ok, ok, I may not be au courant with today's politico-speak (although I just got RINO). A number of folks, including the remarkably incoherent "imnopr" keep using the word "moran" and its plural, "morans". Am I missing something here, or is there a speling problem among the teabaggers? Please advise.

I note that some people pose the question- 'if they have been captured and imprisoned, aren't they guilty?' Not necessarily. Many, many people want to know the facts about the 'detainees'. Caught throwing a bomb or innocents, bagged by Pakistani bounty hunters? What if certain 'detainees' aren't guilty but victims, themselves? The Government 'detained' them and is obliged to prove their guilt or innocence. No, no, no, no critical intelligence secrets will come out during trials, unless we learn the awful fact that their 'detention' was illegal and horrific. We have to face that possibility as well.

Tom was only partly correct when he responded to a question at a "Hell in a Handbasket" book signing a few years ago. One of the guests asked him how it was possible that George Bush could have been elected twice. Tom replied that "50,000,000 Americans are stupid." I would add that way too many people are also bad citizens and bad Americans. They are irresponsible suckers for the Big Lies being thrown out- the birth certificate, the death panels, even the 'You Lie" is a Big Lie. Our parents fell for Joe McCarthy's constantly-changing Big Lie lists of the numbers of "Communists in the government." I wonder if it would impress them that the phrase, Big Lie, was coined by Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf". Will they ever feel ashamed of themselves? Bad! Bad Americans!

I would only add to Rep. Pelosi's remarks that people have to take responsibility for what they believe. Just because Rush Limbaugh says something doesn't make it so. I've written to Salon a number of times about The Big LIe (a phrase coined by Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf", by the way). Joe McCarthy waved around "lists" of "Communists" in government, always a different number, and, not remarkably, he never found ONE! People can, and should know better than to swollow Big Lies. In fact, they should be indignant that the political discourse is overloaded with them.

The idea that conservatives would pimp off of a decade-old photograph to brag about their 2,000,000 turn-out is another outrageous part-and-parcel of their Big Lie Campaign. All of the impressive-sounding "reporting" about the highways shut down by the hordes of angry conservatives heading for the Capitol, predictions ranging all over the map just shows how foolish they are, and how foolish they think we are.

It is wall past time to stand up to these iiars!