@Moment-in-Time,
Their bigotry against president Obama continues, because the liberals don't speak out against all the negativity that comes out almost daily from the GOP.
Look at Benghazi; the GOP has that as their number one issue, and there's no bounce back from anybody for this idiocy. Their silence only emboldens the righties to continue with their 'go nowhere' activity. SAD.
Mannequin with Obama mask found hanging on bridge over I-70
June 2
By GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star
Authorities shut a stretch of Interstate 70 between Grain Valley and Oak Grove for several minutes early Monday while the Jackson County sheriff’s office removed a fully clothed mannequin wearing a mask of President Barack Obama left hanging from a bridge overpass.
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The incident was reported about 5:30 a.m. at the bridge on Lefholz Road. While removing the item from the overpass, deputies noticed what they thought to be an explosive device attached to the mannequin.
The Independence police bomb unit was summoned, and all lanes of Interstate 70 were shut down as a precaution while deputies examined the mannequin, which was attached to the bridge by a rope, said Sgt. Ronda Montgomery, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
No explosives were found. The sheriff’s office is investigating who placed the mannequin on the bridge. It is not known how long it had been there.
“We are talking with neighbors and canvassing the neighborhood,” Montgomery said. “We are putting the pieces of the puzzle together.”
The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (474-8477).
Peddling Palin's Snake Oil: More Duplicity and Deception from the Last Frontier
Posted: 06/02/2014 9:22 am EDT Updated: 06/02/2014 9:59 am EDT
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In the arc of Sarah Palin's meteoric rise to fame following her acceptance speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention and her equally meteoric crash a short time later during her infamous interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson -- a crash that has repeated itself over and over again in the six long years since -- there's been a troubling and ultimately duplicitous narrative sprung up by some commentators out of Alaska, where Palin was briefly a popular governor, and it goes something like this: that Sarah Palin was a beloved figure and a committed political crusader before her Cinderella appearance on the national stage, plucked out of obscurity, such as it was, by John McCain's bumbling and beleaguered presidential campaign.
It's a fanciful fairytale. Alaskans are a bit like a dysfunctional family: it's fine for them to call Aunt Sally a so-and-so or Uncle Johnny a this-and-that, but when Outsiders -- and that's what they call the rest of us in the Lower 48, Outsiders -- do the same, well, then, watch out, it's circle-the-wagon time.
There have been many Alaskans who run counter to this tendency -- they know who they are, and I continue to salute them -- but this peculiar zeitgeist has been manifest in a couple of ultimately problematic books about Palin that have emanated from the Last Frontier, and it's a tendency that has often found its way into the reporting of the website Alaska Dispatch (which, it should be noted, has now purchased the state's newspaper of record, the Anchorage Daily News).
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And so we find on both the websites of the News and the Dispatch this past weekend still more of this disturbing tendency, in which one Maia Nolan-Partnow is trying to peddle the Palin snake oil once again.
For the past few months, Nolan-Partnow has found it her calling to review Palin's latest reality television schlock, Amazing America. (How any serious reporter could stomach this assignment is beyond me.) That said, following Episode 2, Nolan-Partnow issued a screed complaining that the show had "too little Sarah Palin," and that she was hoping for "more" of the former-half-term-quitter governor, who by just about any objective account is the most polarizing figure in recent American history. So be it. It takes all kinds, and, apparently, there's no accounting for taste.
But in her summary of the season finale, in which she asserts that we have met "a kinder, gentler Sarah Palin," Nolan-Partnow drops this absolute idiocy:
If Sarah Palin had never run for vice president of the United States, if she had instead finished her term as governor (or served a second term for good measure) and then gone into TV and talked about huntin' and fishin' and Alaska and tips for cooking up the perfect moose chili and maintaining volume on bad hair days, she wouldn't be Sarah Palin, Divisive Politician Who Also Does TV. She would be Sarah Palin, Engaging TV Personality, beloved by all.
It's a great myth -- a huge lie, really -- embraced by some in the Last Frontier and Outside as well -- that if Palin hadn't been corrupted by those damn outside forces, she'd still be one of us, good ol' Sarah from Wasilla.
It's unadulterated bullshit from beginning to end. What people conveniently forget is that Palin was under serious siege as governor before McCain plucked her from oblivion. She had just fired the beloved Commissioner of Public Safety, Walt Monegan, in what was clearly an act of political vengeance. She had already fired many from the inner circle that had first helped to get her elected governor -- John Bitney, Christopher Clark, Paul Fuhs, and Mike Tibbles.
It didn't begin in Juneau. As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin betrayed the likes of police chief Irl Stambaugh, her campaign manager Laura Chase, and her onetime political ally John Stein. She stuck the stiletto in the backs of several Alaska icons, including Wally Hickel, Ted Stevens, and Frank and Lisa Murkowski. Sooner or later, Palin burned everyone with whom she came in contact, including her onetime hatchet man Frank Bailey. Palin's political road-kill extended all the way from Juneau to the Matanuska Valley and back thru Anchorage again.
She's like the Arctic plague.
The one common denominator that links the old Sarah Palin with the new isn't her political ideology (she has none), it's her blatant opportunism. Sarah Palin has always been about Sarah Palin. If it enhanced her hand to work with Democrats on oil-reform and sound like a socialist, then she was willing to cross the aisle. It wasn't from a truly noble impulse to curtail the stain of oil money in Alaska; it was about building her ratings in a state absolutely riddled with political scandals. As I chronicle in my book, The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power, Palin had the national stage on her mind for a long, long time. The governorship was simply a stepping stone. She was angling for the national spotlight all along.
Would she really be beloved by all? Whom is Nolan-Partnow trying to fool? Palin has left mayhem and destruction everywhere she's tromped throughout her life.
But Palin's latest apologist doesn't stop there. "Politics Sarah Palin," writes Nolan-Partnow, using the noun as an adjective, "is a bit like Rachel Maddow in her red-meat appeal to her base, but Reality TV Sarah Palin has more in common with Rachael Ray."
Rachel Ray? Ask Palin's former brother-in-law Mike Wooten how much like Rachel Ray she was.
And is Nolan-Partnow actually comparing Palin to Maddow, a Rhodes Scholar and a brilliant political analyst, to the woman who muddled her way through five colleges and who still can't string two sentences together?
Really?
I'm sorry, but Nolan-Partnow and other like-minded Alaskans who buy into her line of argument still have their heads stuck in the snow. Sarah Palin is never going to be the Rachel Ray of the Last Frontier, no matter how many times she clicks her heels together. She's detested both Inside and Outside, a mean-spirited, self-absorbed grifter out to make a cheap buck wherever she can. And here's the saddest part of the story: She doesn't give a damn about Alaska and never did.
The proof is in the pudding. Palin had every opportunity to run for Senate this season against a Democrat in a bright-red state, and she chose not to. The deadline for filing for the Senate seat is today; I'll bet Nolan-Partnow a case of caribou sausage that Palin doesn't file. Not only does she not have the spine, but she also lacks the courage of her convictions.
If anyone ever wanted to understand what truly motivates Sarah Palin, what moved her and inspired her ambitions, all one has to do is go to the clip file of the old Anchorage Daily News and find a fascinating account from April of 1996:
Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla [the paper failed to note that she was a seated member of the city council], told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage to shop at Costco. Instead, she headed straight for Ivana. And there, at J.C. Penney's cosmetic department, was Ivana, the former Mrs. Donald Trump, sitting at a table next to a photograph of herself. She wore a light-colored pantsuit and pink fingernail polish. Her blonde hair was coiffed in a bouffant French twist. 'We want to see Ivana,' said Palin, who admittedly smells like salmon for a large part of the summer, 'because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture.'
Sarah Palin has become the cheap, vacuous celebrity she so admired when she was a council member in Wasilla. She's become a caricature of her caricature. Unfortunately, her poison still spills across the nation's political landscape. Notice that Nolan-Partnow doesn't mention Palin's continued verbal assaults on both of the Obamas, her polarizing forays into Senate and Congressional races, and her recent disgusting remarks before the NRA declaring that "if I were in charge, [her enemies] would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists."
Does that really sound like Rachel Ray?
Of course, Nolan-Partnow mentions none of that, nor the infamous Palin crosshairs on the Arizona congressional district of Gabrielle Giffords. Of course not. That's because our real collective lives are not to be found on reality TV or in the musings of social commentators who view Palin through that distorted lens.
In the last six years, the real Sarah Palin has been revealed multiple times to the American people. She's not fooling anyone. No amount of reality television footage or duplicitous commentary can obscure that.
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Award-winning writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn's best-selling The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power was published by Macmillan/St. Martin's in May of 2011.
Anyone watch "Cosmos" last night? Neil DeGrasse Tyson quitly, calmly, authoritatively eviscerated climate change deniers, in fvie or si minutes or so, between two commercal breaks, using just a small sampling of the true scientific research that shows it's real and we're responsible. Way to go, Neil. Eat your hear out James Inhofe. And it was on FOX, of all unlikely places. Bet the goops at Fox News are shitting bricks today.
@MontereyJack,
Naw; those jokers at Fox don't understand facts and evidence. That's the reason they're known as Faux Snooze.
@coldjoint,
Lies 5209, truth 1. Keep up the good work CJ.
Here's another sign that many in government are turning away from the GOP.
Quote:SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Monday that gradually increases the minimum wage in the city to $15, which would make it the highest in the nation.
The issue has dominated politics in the liberal municipality for months, and a boisterous crowd of mostly labor activists packed the Council chambers for the vote. Mayor Ed Murray, who was elected last year, had promised in his campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. A newly-elected socialist City Council member had pushed the idea as well.
"We did it. Workers did this," said Kshama Sawant, the socialist City Councilmember "We need to continue to build an even more powerful movement."
Councilmember Tom Rasmussen said "Seattle wants to stop the race to the bottom in wages" and address the "widening gap between the rich and the poor."
At least some people realizes the disparity between rich and poor and are doing something about it!
Believe it or not, Seattle is going to see their economy grow.
@coldjoint,
I'm sure a simpler machine with no moving parts can replace you! LOL
@cicerone imposter,
What lol? Let's get it done! An empty tin can will do nicely.
@coldjoint,
Quote:I bet you can't find any of those so called lies.
There's one. Pay up twit, or is that 'bet' two lies in one sentence?
@cicerone imposter,
Its raising its ugly head. All the yammer on Fox last night was about "deserter". This vet finds talk by Fox's armchair generals highly disgusting.
@coldjoint,
The Pink Prevaricator wrote:
You said scientific research proves it. What was used as a control group in analyzing our climate? Speculation of past weather is really not all that is possible when only extremes showing up.
Once again you prove how you have **** for brains. Not all science requires a control group. What was used as a control group to develop the theory of gravity? What was used as a control group to develop the theory of nuclear fission?
Why The Five Taliban Detainees Had To Be Released Soon, No Matter What
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/06/02/3443719/the-case-for-negotiating-for-bergdahls-release/
Less than forty-eight hours after securing the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo, Republicans in Congress and conservatives in media began attacking the deal. In doing so, they are refusing to accept the reality of the situation on the ground in Afghanistan and the way wars end.
The United States is engaged in an armed conflict in Afghanistan against al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces authorized by Congress under the 2001 Authorizations to Use Military Force. It is remains controversial whether this armed conflict extends beyond Afghanistan and the border regions of Pakistan, but what is not in doubt is that of the enemy forces party to this conflict, the Taliban is confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan. President Obama recently announced that the combat role for the United States in the armed conflict in Afghanistan will end this year and all participation will completely cease by 2016.
When wars end, prisoners taken custody must be released. These five Guantanamo detainees were almost all members of the Taliban, according to the biographies of the five detainees that the Afghan Analysts Network compiled in 2012. None were facing charges in either military or civilian courts for their actions. It remains an open question whether the end of U.S. involvement in the armed conflict in Afghanistan requires that all Guantanamo detainees must be released. But there is no doubt that Taliban detainees captured in Afghanistan must be released because the armed conflict against the Taliban will be over.
Sgt. Bergdahl was a U.S. soldier captured in an active zone of combat. The circumstances of his capture make him a Prisoner of War, not a hostage as some have erroneously claimed. In traditional conflicts, both sides would release their prisoners at the conclusion of hostilities. This is not a traditional conflict, however, and the Obama administration rightly had no expectation that Sgt. Bergdahl would have been released when U.S. forces redeployed out of Afghanistan. As that date neared, any leverage the United States possessed would have been severely undermined.
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