She didn't have to accept the Brittle Old Lunatic's invitation to be the Vice-Presidential candidate. But she did. And with that she donned her mantle of Underqualified, Overambitious Shallow Soccer Mom Twit.

It's like the birth of a new line of polyester jumpsuits or the creation of an ugly, sluggish American car which no one will buy. Pressing bravely on in the spirit of 1977 Elvis Presley. Disengaged, clueless, but spirited. Sarah Palin is cut from such a rich vein of naturally-occurring American cheese that it's difficult to adequately compare her to anything which has come before. Kind of a younger, more stupid Bob Dole. Plant-the-corn flyover state vapidity, but with pep.

I'm not reading it in this article -- what did he do besides have the outgoing Governor appoint him?

Is he Not One Of The Right People? Or just not one of the white people? The Chicago editorial was just whining.

What has he done wrong? Do professional politicians just not like him?

Odd how the Blago thing blew up the day after he suspended business with Bank of America unless they saw fit to continue to extend credit to that door manufacturer that had its workforce on strike. Odd how very litle of that factoid was reported on.

How do we get rid of Pelosi? She's a major Bush43 war crimes accomplice.

They've both saddled YOU AND ME with colossal debt. And neither can fix the problem -- the monetary system is broken badly, there are more debts than money to repay them. The dollar is worth 5% of what it was when the Federal Reserve came into being.

You can run a scam only so long. The Fed printing more and more worthless dollars is not helping.

What comes after generations of mismanagement?

Some kind of handicapping so that a Holocaust movie doesn't mean Instant Oscar. If Wall-E had a Holocaust survivor it may have won as Best Picture For Which We Didn't Have To Pay Actors with a special mention for Chaplin Did It Better, And Way Long Ago.

Every movie should include at least two or three references to the Holocaust. Truly. Congratulations, Kate.

Which prints money backed by air and then LOANS it to the US government -- you DO know that the Federal Reserve is as much a part of the Federal Government as Federal Express, don't you?

How did the Fed talk their way into this sweetheart deal: they print money backed by NOTHING and loan it to the US, 'creating' money.

Since 1913, the US dollar has fallen in value by 95% -- somehow printing fiat currency backed by nothing doesn't do the currency much good.

Strong government? Yeah, we could use one.

Since following the money (to Israel) is forbidden, let's ask questions about how many others were complicit in Madoff's activities -- he didn't do it alone, not on such a scale and not for such a long time.

Any chance whatsoever anything resembling justice will be served in this case? Think we'll find the $1.3 trillion missing on Dov Zakheim's watch @ DoD?

Do I smell pork? So did Obama grease the palms/wheels that needed greasing with that "stimulus" package? Why do I hear about "smaller government" but it never seems to happen? As if a monstrous entity is going to one day say "Gee, I'm a monster, I think I'll pull back..."

Could we go back to being 50 states instead of an imperialistic global superpower? Our cops could be neighborhood types instead of militarized goons. Maybe we don't need 30K nuclear warheads.

Is it happening? No? More of the same? Really? What a surprise.

Two typical bonehead male GOP habitues of San Diego politics were duking it out for the office of Mayor and Democratic Council Member Donna Frye entered the race. And won.

Oh. But wait.

Apparently some obscure state, STATE law requires a write-in candidate to have the little bubble next to their name filled in just so and the candidate's name spelled just so -- enough ridiculous small ant-sized dumb rules to give the election to one of our usual military-industrial no-brain male GOP candidates.

Republicans are why you chop the head off of a rattlesnake to make certain it's dead.

Those "bargain" stocks from six months ago have dropped another 30%. Let the Rush listeners clean up... the Dow is heading to zero.

I don't think he would.

The thing is, we're the biggest bully on the block. And we don't listen to anyone (well, except Israel). We were wrong to invade Iraq, we were wrong to have Iraq's popular leader hanged via a kangaroo court in a war zone, we are wrong to remain in Iraq.

Iraq never did a darn thing to us. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11/01. Iraq never had "WMDs" -- but, you know what? Israel has a nuclear ARSENAL, with missiles and missile-capable submarines. Why don't we invade Israel and depose their psycho religious leadership and get rid of their WMDs? Hey, we're in the neighborhood -- let's clean up Israel, some rogue nation which actually has WMDs. How about it?

The world would be a better place for it. We could remain in Israel forever to maintain the peace. Great idea! Send my Nobel Peace prize FedEx, plz.

Cloth, paint, fuel... the list of products that can be manufactured from hemp is a long one. Cellulose, biomass... industrial hemp is a large missing piece of our economy.

Please locate and read Jack Herer's "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" (ISBN 1878125028) which will answer your every question.

Prying the evil, cold claws of the government off of military-style policing and the private prison system, to say nothing of lawyers and judges who would have to perform a genuine service to society rather than participating in the unwinnable, un-American "war on some drugs" will be a job.

"We're going to cut your budget!" "WAAAAAAAAH!!!!"

Dope should never have been made illegal. Read the book. Learn.