... of Republican rule, we will have an entire generation of children who have grown up watching their behavior and thinking that is the only way to get ahead, and they will emulate it and perpetuate it and it will be too late.

We have been cursed with ultraconservative Republican mismanagement of our government because all major media outlets are owned by corporate America. If we had a truly free press, all of the lies, deceptions and hypocracy would be documented loudly and clearly through newspapers and television. As it is, McCain and the neocons get to make it up as they go and NOBODY holds their feet to the fire of truth! Garrison Keillor is a great writer and is right on target in this essay. However, Salon unfortunately is not widely read and he certainly never gets invited to appear as a guest "talking head" on any news program that I have ever seen. Wouldn't you just love to seen Ms Sara interviewed by Mr. Keillor? I suspect she would end up sounding like the double-talking, lying, right-wing nut that she is and Garrison would never have to raise his voice. Oh well, I am certain that the great journalist Charlie Gibson will do a bang-up job of interviewing Ms Sara.

The reality of your stance as you find the Sacred Mother Cow Palin in the center of your crosshair resembles Miss Sarah in the same way she murders moose. Yet we see this is the least of her problems since her hair seems to be her latest obstacle.

It is with great resistance the Republican Party is now shoving the tidbit of the Promise of Reform down our country's throat. This is a vain transparent last-ditch attempt to rally the waffling post-sitters entrenched in their indecisiveness.

Sarah may be a soul mate, but we can clearly recognize an old man going down whilst he rides the back of his flavor of a lifetime and chosen hood ornament, the apparently squeaky clean Barbie Doll Palin. Although, one must rightfully applaud her. The hefer knows how to make the outside look good.

THE ALCHEMIST ASCENDS

These are added for their radioactive properties:

Americium, Berkelium, Californium, Curium, Einsteinium, Europium, Fermium, Francium,Lawrencium, Mendelevium, Neptunium, Nobelium, Plutonium, PPolonium, Promethium (weak), Proactium, and Radium.

Ytterbidium is mixed for its rare earth quality.

Silicon is required for its brown contribution.

The blue hue comes with Zinc, Gallium, and Thallium.

Rubidium and silver are mixed for an ornamental medicine.

Potassium, obtained from animal ashes, to measure heat, and a pinch for gunpowder,

But is mostly used to fertilize the lavender

Fields of irises, Kentucky blue grass, and corn.

Rhenium is added to enhance the electronics,

And Osmium to tip my gold pen.

Finally,

We add copper for its red lustrous softness.

Alchemy completed,

Load this on the Mu,

And launch it on the A line

Until you reach the hemline.

There, take a left

To the soft velvet

Of the unchartered

Skin between her

Ionized thighs.

Berry spoon her nubile pout

With mouthfuls

To keep her quiet

While you establish

Your Dolphin Call

On the L.

Memorize and destroy this recipe.

It is fool proof.

1456HRS 11 SEPT 08. All Rights Reserved

Scintilla Fly

"Dolphin Call"- see the Urban Dictionary

I hope the Obama campaign can make use of the following word, the definition for which I found at dictionary.com. As a wordsmith of the people, I hope Garrison Keillor can as well. You just can't make stuff like this up (capitalized emphasis added):

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From American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary

PALINdromia pal·in·dro·mi·a (pāl'ĭn-drō'mē-ə)

n. A relapse or recurrence of a disease.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary

Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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The very first executive decision of the prospective 72-year-old president with four bouts of cancer behind him was to choose a VP candidate who is a wholly unvetted far-right fundamentalist and fiscally-irresponsible, intellectually incurious, self-serving, deceitful, pandering, vindictive, predatory, war-mongering, book-banning, pro-big-oil, anti-environment, anti-animal rights/welfare, global warming delusionist, animal-skinning secessionist who denies evolution in favor of the supernatural mytho-religious story of creation. She has links to the unpatriotic Alaska Independence Party, which harbors the goal of seceding from the union that McCain and Palin wish to lead.

So, why the GOP's interest in her? They need three constituencies: (1) the military industrial complex; (2) the religious right, and (3)the elite. Actually, that last group probably chose both McCain and Palin for us common folk to vote on. These interview questions show how Palin attracts the military industrial complex and the elite:

Q: If you were running for president, what causes would you champion?

A: I would push for a strong military and a sound energy policy. I believe that Alaska can help set an example on energy policy. -- Sarah Palin

Another interview gives us a clue to what she means by "sound energy policy":

"I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can't drill our way out of our problem." -- Sarah Palin

According to virtually every independent expert, this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. Trying to do so is a short-sighted and foolish (i.e., not "sound") public policy choice that won't solve our energy problem and will make the climate crisis worse. With her regular calls for corporate tax cuts and ear marks, this takes care of two out of three of the demographics--the military industrial complex and the elites.

The Religious Right is the remaining constituency, and she is equally unrestrained there:

"A task that is from God."

-- Sarah Palin, on the Iraq War

Wow.

So,... Palin is a throwback to the Crusades -- forget the rule of law, forget morality--just slaughter the non-Christians in the name of her god. As Governor Lowell Weicker Jr. observed, "History makes the point time and time again: No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government."

Steve Allen also reminded us of the danger:

"When the churches literally ruled society, the human drama encompassed: (a) slavery; (b) the cruel subjection of women; (c) the most savage forms of legal punishment; (d) the absurd belief that kings ruled by divine right; (e) the daily imposition of physical abuse; (f) cold heartlessness for the sufferings of the poor; as well as (g) assorted pogroms (ethnic cleansing' wars) between rival religions, capital punishment for literally hundreds of offenses, and countless other daily imposed moral outrages. . . . It was the free-thinking, challenging work by people of conscience, who almost invariably had to defy the religious and political status quo of their times, that brought us out of such darkness."

Sound familiar? Bush's policies and practices have brought back torture; taken away women's reproductive rights, and the abandonment of the poor in New Orleans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere certainly pass the bar of "cold heartlessness for the sufferings of the poor". The invasion and occupation in Iraq has led to violent civil war (sorry, "sectarian violence") between rival religious factions, and has been most difficult for the women. They have suffered atrocities at the hands of Iraqi and American men, with rape and murder ("honor killings") widespread. Kurdish and Sunni negotiators revealed that U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad basically supported the most extreme religious view for Iraq's Constitution and severely undercut women's rights. Bush is a fierce proponent of capital punishment (the act of demonstrating that killing people is wrong by, well... killing people) and imperialism. He certainly acts like a king and his own words testify to his "divine right":

"I am driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did." -- George W. Bush, as reported by Sharm el-Sheikh August 2003

"I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." -- GWB, Statement made during campaign visit to Amish community, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jul. 9, 2004

If McCain and Palin win, we'd have our oldest president, one who has early signs of Alzheimer's and who has given up all he stands for to get the office, and Palin (aka, 'Dick Cheney's wet dream'), who would bring us completely back into the Dark Ages. On the flip side, McCain will finally be unable to outrun the blame for the spiraling economy, the constant state of war, the loss of civil liberties, and further environmental and food safety compromises. No more flashing the "POW card" to avoid the "straight talk". Then the GOP would be heavily culled until only it's only a meager shell of its former self, and everyone else can begin to restore the constitution and the rule of law.