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June 10, 2009 By Fausta

Vile

Throughout mankind’s history, vile men have cast aspersions on women’s virtue for political purposes. The latest attacks on Republican and conservative women are just more on an ages-long trend. When you can’t defeat them with ideas, you diminish them through sex. My theory is that the mental impotence gets translated into sexual aggression, but then, that’s just a theory.

Now we have a new version of that trend, namely Playboy mag posting (and then deleting, but you can view the NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK article here) a 10-page, illustrated and cross-linked article about hatefu**ing (the new word for rape) 10 conservative women. The outrage in the media? None. Instead, Tommy Christopher got fired from AOL for condemning it.

The women Playboy picked are not the only ones. Carrie Prejean and a list of others have been targets because they are not liberals. That’s the only criteria.

So it’s hardly surprising that overripe gap-toothed comedians who didn’t get The Tonight Show come up with gems like this, saying that Sarah Palin’s “updated her slutty flight attendant look.”

But Letterman’s trying to be edgy while unfunny, so now he’s come up with this,

Attacking women for political purposes is an old story that is despicable and vile enough, but what is it with these impotent jerks and Palin’s children?

Just when you think they can’t stoop any lower: CBS has another jerk comparing Palin to an STD.

UPDATE
NSFW Dan Collins lets it rip.
Letterman in His Dotage

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April 17, 2009 By Fausta

Obama’s big government gamble, and other roundup items

Obama’s big government gamble

In his speech on the economy delivered at Georgetown University on Tuesday, he lectured the audience about the need to get serious about addressing entitlement reform. But even the Washington Post was skeptical.

“Many of the savings identified in the president’s budget are phony, and the real ones are used to offset the costs of his new spending increases or tax cuts,” the Post editorialized. The newspaper also noted that “the health-care savings he has identified are all directed to new health-care spending, and, even then, they cover only a fraction of the likely costs of a health-care bill — of what would become yet another entitlement program.”

In fact, the cost of implementing the type of health-care plan that Obama proposed during his campaign has been estimated at roughly $1.5 trillion over ten years. The only way Obama would be able to seriously reduce costs of medical care under a government-controlled system would be to ration care to the sick and slash reimbursement rates for doctors, which will trigger longer waiting times for patients. While Europeans may be used to this, it is harder to imagine Americans standing for it.

All told, Obama’s agenda is projected to more than double the public debt to $17.3 trillion by 2019, according to the Congressional Budget Office, equal to a staggering 82.4 percent of the economy.

Obama will be hard-pressed to pay off that debt without either massive, broad-based tax increases, or printing enough money to pay of the debt, which would trigger massive inflation.

Dr. Krauthammer calls The New Foundation The Sting, In Four Parts

As it happens, Obama is not the first to try this slogan. President Jimmy Carter peppered his 1979 State of the Union address with five “New Foundations” (and eight more just naked “foundations”). Like most of Carter’s endeavors, this one failed, perhaps because (as I recall it being said at the time) it sounded like the introduction of a new kind of undergarment.

Undaunted, Obama offered his New Foundation speech as the complete, contextual, canonical text for the domestic revolution he aims to enact. It had everything we have come to expect from Obama

Augean Stables looks at Ivy League madness:
Harvard’s Muslim Chaplain Notes the Wisdom of Killing Apostates and The Email of Taha Abdul-Basser, Harvard’s Muslim Chaplain, on the question of death for Apostasy in Islam

Shilling for the Democrat Party can be stressful apparently

From Maria, The Left Is Making A Mistake In Ridiculing The Tea Parties, while Evil Right Wing Extremists Who Would Destroy America Gather in Denver

And last but not least, Palin Says She Considered Abortion

The governor’s 30-minute speech was folksy and full of digressions, but also surprisingly confessional, and she went into some detail about initially panicking after learning, 13 weeks into her pregnancy, that her son would be born with Down syndrome: “That blew me away, it rocked my world… It was a time I asked myself, was I going to walk the walk?”

She was on a trip out of state at the time, she said, and “just for a fleeting moment I thought, ‘No one knows me here; no one would ever know.’ … My amniocentesis came back and then I understood why some people would think they could change their circumstances, just take care of it. Todd didn’t even know” the results of the prenatal testing yet, so “no one would know.”

“Plus, I was old,” she continued. “And I thought, ‘Very funny, God. My name’s Sarah, but my husband’s not Abraham, he’s Todd.'” At 44, she said, she had a hard time imagining changing diapers again, not to mention “putting down the BlackBerry and picking up the breast pump.”

Though it was unclear from her remarks how seriously she considered terminating the pregnancy, she assured the audience that “we went through some things a year ago that’s helped me understand a woman and a girl’s temptation to make this go away.”

Another worry in what she called “my moments of doubt” was whether she could love the child enough. “Believe it or not, I didn’t even know what a baby with Down syndrome was going to look like or feel like.” She found the subject hard to research, she said, and “I had to ask that my heart be filled up” with feeling for her unborn son. That prayer was answered the minute he was born, she said.

“My heart overflowed. I felt a love I had never felt before. He’s brought amazing, surprising happiness; he’s the best thing that has ever happened to me.”

I admire her courage in doing the right thing, and in being so candid about her decision.

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Filed Under: abortion, Barack Obama, economics, economy, Islam, media, Sarah Palin Tagged With: bailout, Fausta's blog, Harvard, stimulus bill, Tea Party

February 26, 2009 By Fausta

Obi’s Sister @ CPAC

While I’m socializing and taking pictures, Obi’s Sister has actually been posting,

Earlier, I attended the Media Malpractice session by John Ziegler. During the session, he showed the entire, UNCUT post campaign interview he did with Sarah Palin. This is the same interview that caused a media storm a few weeks ago when some snippets where shown in the usual MSM outlets.

Go read the rest!

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February 17, 2009 By Fausta

“McCain’s Vote Should Trouble Obama”

In today’s WSJ, McCain’s Vote Should Trouble Obama

Only a month ago, with Mr. Obama holding a dinner in Mr. McCain’s honor, it wasn’t hard to imagine the two coming together on the big challenges facing our nation. But now Mr. McCain has come out strongly against the stimulus in a spirited dissent suggesting that the whole process was a “bad beginning” for someone who promised a new spirit of bipartisanship. That ought to give White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel pause, if only because it wasn’t all that long ago that Barack Obama was speaking the same way.

In a passage from his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” he sounds like a Republican complaining about the stimulus. “Genuine bipartisanship,” he wrote, “assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — to negotiate in good faith.

“For the minority party in such circumstances, ‘bipartisanship’ comes to mean getting chronically steamrolled, although individual senators may enjoy certain political rewards by consistently going along with the majority and hence gaining a reputation for being ‘moderate’ or ‘centrist.'”

That’s all well and fine but now there are a number of things in play:
1. When Obama wrote those words, he and the Democrats were not in the White House. Much easier for people to preach bipartisanship when they aren’t.

2. The Democrats clearly and without compunction went out of their way to push this bill before it was read, even locking out fellow Congressmen from the discussion.

3. Then there’s the toxicity of the “stimulus” itself. The Republicans like McCain who sincerely believe this bill will not stimulate the economy – and might tank the economy – are not going to vote for it as the bill stands now. Any kind of honest bipartisan negotiation would have taken time and openness, which clearly wasn’t going to happen.

Ergo, the steamrolling.

The WSJ asks,

Now that he’s got his bill, it will be instructive to see if he will be held to that standard by an “exacting” press corps he says is essential to ensuring that a ruling party negotiates in good faith.

I don’t expect them to.

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Democrats, John McCain, politics, Republicans Tagged With: bailout, Fausta's blog, stimulus bill

January 28, 2009 By Fausta

Palin’s shoes auctioned for $2,025 on eBay

palinebay

Remember the Palin shoe auction on eBay?

It ended, and the shoes sold for $2,025:

As part of the purchase agreement, the governor is supposed to autograph the shoes for the winning bidder, whose identity was not revealed on the eBay site.

Now, let’s see if the RNC will get around to auctioning those clothes that The New Majority claims are sitting in trash bags. The Republican party needs the fundraiser!

Hat tip Sissy Willis, who’s pounding the shoe beat!

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January 26, 2009 By Fausta

Sarah Palin’s shoes on sale at eBay

Via Sissy Willis,

palinebay

Sarah Palin’s shoes are being auctioned on eBay

As of the writing of this post, the top bid is $1,200 but the reserve hasn’t been met. The auction goes until Jan-27-09 01:33:04 PST.

According to AP’s Colleen Starr,

Sarah Palin’s Red Naughty Monkey Heels eBay auction is from Sarah Palin’s Niece

However,

There is no way for a interested buyer to confirm these shoes are actually being sold by Sarah Palin’s niece or if these are the exact pair of heels she wore. The fact that eBay has not pulled the auction tends to make me believe this auction is 100% legitimate.

You can buy a pair of brand-new shoes in this style in your size from the store that sold Governor Palin hers:

Shoefly Inc.
DBA: Shoefly + Hudsons
109 Seward Street
Juneau, AK 99801

Phone: 907.586.1055
Fax: 907-586.3230
http://www.shoeflyalaska.com

I didn’t get the ones above, instead I got a pair of these.

More Sarah Palin shoes here.

Correction: I mistakenly and inexplicably linked to Sister Toldjah instead of Sisu. My apologies

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January 18, 2009 By Fausta

“Obama’s $100,000-Plus Backers Were Able to Contribute to Several Entities”

The Donors Who Gave Big, and Often
Obama’s $100,000-Plus Backers Were Able to Contribute to Several Entities

Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis shows.

John McCain, after pushing trough campaign finance reform and tying his hands behind his back by campaigning on public financing funds, lost big:

The ability to direct such large sums to a presidential candidate stems in part from the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation. The law banned unlimited “soft money” donations, but it increased the amount individuals can steer to presidential candidates by allowing them to donate directly to a campaign as well as to state and national political parties to help elect a candidate.

Under the law, the maximum amount an individual can give in a presidential election year has gone from $25,000 to $70,100 over the past five years. And by creating joint fundraising committees — allowing donors to give the maximum to all three funding pools at once — campaigns have become much more efficient in collecting the donations.

Not that the Obama campaign is giving up on small donors. People are still getting weekly or almost-weekly emails asking for $5 donations.

Let this be a lesson to you, Republicans.

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A few items of note:

Separatist? PBS Can’t Call a Terrorist a Terrorist

On taxpayer-funded PBS, reporters have a difficult time using words like “terrorist” to describe politically motivated bombers – even when Democratic officials have no problem using the term. On Thursday night’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, describing controversial Clinton administration pardons, PBS’s Ray Suarez identified the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN as merely a “separatist organization,” even though in the soundbite that followed, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder clearly described the FALN as terrorists

130 bomb attacks during a period of nine years, six dead, and Suarez can’t get himself to call them terrorists. At least he didn’t refer to them as “political prisoners”, which is the meme among some.

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Jersey Bites continues the food drive:

foodbank

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Shiny happy dhimmi – #9 is up, for Sunday Carnival goodness, and don’t miss Doug’s latest Larwyn’s Link Kerplosion.

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Rich Ivory of Hip Hop Republican is blogging on the inauguration for the BBC

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Beth is auctioning her photo on Ebay.
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Via Maria, Lionel Bart’s sad life story

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December 30, 2008 By Fausta

Bristol Palin has a son

Congratulations to Briston Palin and her boyfriend Levy Johnston on the birth of their son:

Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, gave birth on Saturday to a healthy 7 lb., 7 oz., baby boy in Palmer, Alaska.
…
The baby’s name is Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston and he was born at 5:30 a.m., according to Jones.

Now that Bristol Palin’s baby was delivered at full term, and in view that Trig Palin was born on April 18, 2008, it might be a good time for Andrew Sullivan to drop his embarrassing and shameful meme.

UPDATE
TigerHawk comments on the Palin clan nomenclature while Allahpundit links to the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

Fausta, if you were born to Sarah Palin, your name would be:
Bullet Bodycheck Palin

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