She gets a 1.25 MM advance to write a tell all. And didn’t write it!
Lynn Vincent, the real writer of “Going Rogue” and Sarah Palin
Rogue:
a dishonest or worthless person (n)
a mischievous person (n)
a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave (n)
an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation (n)
resembling a rogue elephant especially in being isolated, aberrant, dangerous, or uncontrollable (adj)
corrupt, dishonest (adj)
Thanks to sarahwatch.org
Name a PAC after yourself? You lost me right there, Mrs. Palin. I don’t like egotists of either sex or party. Especially scheming egotists.
This is laughable, but it had to happen. Palin’s angling for a seat at the table in 2012. Nevermind what happens during the next four years, and with Obama in office but one brief week.
She wants it that bad.
Hey if you like Palin, send her some money. And it better be a lot. Only blind, stupid luck and a boatload of brain-dead-yet-somehow-still-rich Republicans would put this woman in the ring again for leading our country.
I’m sure she’s thinking by 2012 the economy and the environment will both be “peachy” and she’ll waltz back onto the national stage, mouth some choice doggone-its in a few dee-bates, win the election and move right into the White House after the country (or at least a very moral majority) finds it can’t live without with her folksy wit, her stunning intellectual prowess, and her legendary ability to field dress an elk she dropped with her own 30-30.
This woman as President would gut our country the same way George Bush did, which was by any measure badly.
No thanks, Sarah Palin!
I’m not going to run for President in 2008. Go ahead, laugh. Now that you’ve got that out of your system, listen up. I don’t want to receive an assassin’s bullet after insisting that we Americans take stock in our situation and stop consuming a huge chunk of the world’s resources and waging war to ensure the Wal Mart shelves are stocked with Twinkies and Chinese-made chotzkys we “industrialized” people can’t seem to live without.
I can’t make anyone in this country or anywhere else meditate, be a vegetarian, drive less, recycle, ride a bike or plant a garden. Or do without something entirely, like driving your precious automobile. You like violence and white bread, especially the kind that comes with a dead cow, chicken, turkey or peanut butter in the middle. You like things just the way they are enough to kill to keep what you’ve got. You like cheap gas, NASCAR, you like football, you like hot dogs. You like people who resemble you. You can’t stand people who take a dissenting position. You can’t stand the truth, you just want the convenience of not having to pay attention to what the truth really means. Even if it means killing the entire planet. Similar to enjoying the steak when you don’t have to slaughter the cow.
Nope, I’ll step aside and let another in a long line of well-heeled Ivy League professional politicians, backed by big corporations and pomp and circumstance, tell you what you obviously want to hear: You’re great because you’re an American who consumes too much of almost everything. So don’t change a thing. But make sure to kill or otherwise disable anyone who suggests otherwise.
One of us proud xenophobes would kill Christ again simply for telling the truth or wearing the “wrong” type of clothing. It might even be you, especially if you fear “doing without” anything enough to kill what you don’t care enough to understand. I would surely take a bullet for my messianic streak that insists that truth have a capital T.
Change to a “less is more” personal ethic is largely feared and ignored/avoided because it is not well understood. It is antithetical in fact to the American vision, so clearly in the vise-like grip of corporatism and nationalist righteousness. This country sets the pace of consumption and denial. As a result, change in this country is usually traumatic because it is pent up until it can no longer be contained. Incremental change is being scrupulously avoided—even as greater changes loom—because our leaders and you and me steadfastly refuse to recognize the truth of our times, much less embrace managing the truth as a political imperative. We would rather live in a bubble of gluttony and fabrication even though it may well kill us all one day.
Now why would anyone who tells the unvarnished truth want to run for President of the United States of America?
Modern politics have given the word conservative a bad rap and obscured the true meaning of the word. Could be because most Republicans are about as conservative as a Humvee doing 80. As in not at all.
According to www.dictionary.com, the primary definition of conservative is: Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change. Their 7th definition of conservative is: Tending to conserve; the conservative use of natural resources.
When it comes to environmental best practices for individuals, what are the very best ways to make a difference—starting right now? Look at the correlation between the environment, your consumption habits, and your finances. If you ever wonder where all your nickels and dimes go, don’t look in your couch, look at your consumer-oriented life. Look at the declining state of our planet. There is a real connection. Now, do what it takes to break some of the many ties that bind.
So this is some personal stuff you can do. But what about all the other people consuming and therefore polluting like flatulent termites? Glad you asked. The most important best practice is to help others understand the importance of reducing personal consumption of electrical energy and oil. Not only is it cheaper and cleaner to be greener, it is smarter because not consuming removes dollars from the corporate table and from Middle Eastern terrorists and oil sheikdoms, reducing your dependency on stuff and helping you hang on to more of your assets.
Swine in Washington Expand Size of Trough
Congress helped itself to a $3,100 annual pay increase on Friday, and then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes to go on a two-week vacation. This brings the average ‘rank and file’ compensation for a Congressman or Senator to $165,200. And both parties endorsed the raise, almost unanimously.
Before leaving on vacation they also approved a measure to increase our national debt to $8 trillion. That’s “just” $27,000 for you, me, and every other taxpaying citizen of this miserable country.
Why did I say miserable instead of great? A great country’s leadership would balance its books a priori, not put the country’s entire future at risk by ignoring fiscal imperatives. This is sickening stuff, made even more dangerous because Republicans in particular have made no effort to rein in spending. Where will it end?
Senators and Congressman, and George W. Bush: If you’re going to continue to fuck with me and everyone else who pays taxes and actually makes a living by being productive at something, I’m going to scream ever more loudly. You don’t deserve a civil response or pleasant tone of voice. Judging by the results of your representation of our national interests, you all deserve to hang. Democrat or Republican, this is bad politics.
Have a nice vacation, you gilded assholes.
by Hunter S. Thompson
From ‘Kingdom Of Fear’ 2003
Let’s face it, the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what he is told to do, says what he is told to say, poses the way he is told to pose. He is a fool.
No. Nonsense. The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time, when the last living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House.
Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters, it is where the heart of America lives. So, if the president lies and acts giddy about other people’s lives, if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder by definition, he is a loud and meaningless animal with no functional intelligence and no balls.
To say this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon.
Whoops! Did I say that? Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a Liberal?
The capacity of these vicious assholes we elected to be in charge of our lives for four years to commit terminal damage to our lives and our souls and our loved ones is far beyond Nixon’s. Shit! Nixon was the creator of many of the once-proud historical landmarks that these dumb bastards are savagely destroying now: the Clean Air Act of 1970; Campaign Finance Reform; the endangered species act; a Real-Politik dialogue with China; and on and on.
The prevailing quality of life in America-by any accepted methods of measuring-was inarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of our Lord 2002.
The Boss was a certified monster who deserved to be impeached and banished. He was a truthless creature of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, a foul human monument to corruption and depravity on a scale that dwarfs any other public official in American history. But Nixon was at least smart enough to understand why so many honorable patriotic U.S. citizens despised him. He was a Liar. The truth was not in him.
Nixon believed, as he said many times, that if the president of the United States does it, it can’t be illegal. But Nixon never understood the much higher and meaner truth of Bob Dylan’s warning that “To live outside the law you must be honest.”
The difference between an outlaw and a war criminal is the difference between a pedophile and a Pederast: The pedophile is a person who thinks about sexual behavior with children, and the Pederast does these things. He lays hands on innocent children, he penetrates them and changes their lives forever.
Being the object of a pedophile’s warped affections is a Routine feature of growing up in America, and being a victim of a Pederast’s crazed “love” is part of dying. Innocence is no longer an option. Once penetrated, the child becomes a Queer in his own mind, and that is not much different than murder.
Richard Nixon crossed the line when he began murdering foreigners in the name of “family values”- and George Bush crossed it when he sneaked into office and began killing brown skinned children in the name of Jesus and the American people.
When Muhammad Ali declined to be drafted and forced to kill “gooks” in Vietnam he said, “I ain’t got nothin’ against them Viet Cong. No Cong ever called me Nigger.”
I agreed with him according to my own personal ethics and values. He was right.
If we all had a dash of Muhammad Ali’s eloquent courage, this country and the world would be a better place today because of it. Okay. That’s it for now. Read it and weep….See you tomorrow, folks. You haven’t heard the last of me. I am the one who speaks for the spitit of freedom and decency in you. Shit. Somebody has to do it.
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world-a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us… No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?
They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill “gooks”. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.
“My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken, and spoken with a clear voice. So I am here to offer my concession.
I concede that I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to vote for him. I never saw that coming. That’s really special. And I mean “special” in the sense that we use it to describe those kids who ride the short school bus and find ways to injure themselves while eating pudding with rubber spoons. That kind of special.
I concede that I misjudged the power of hate. That’s pretty powerful stuff, and I didn’t see it. So let me take a moment to congratulate the President’s strategists: Putting the gay marriage amendments on the ballot in various swing states like Ohio… well, that was just genius. Genius. It got people, a certain kind of people, to the polls. The unprecedented number of folks who showed up and cited “moral values” as their biggest issue, those people changed history. The folks who consider same sex marriage a more important issue than war, or terrorism, or the economy… Who’d have thought the election would belong to them? Well, Karl Rove did. Gotta give it up to him for that. Credit where it’s due.
I concede that I put too much faith in America’s youth. With 8 out of 10 of you opposing the President, with your friends and classmates dying daily in a war you disapprove of, with your future being mortgaged to pay for rich old peoples’ tax breaks, you somehow managed to sit on your asses and watch the Cartoon Network while aging homophobic hillbillies carried the day. You voted with the exact same anemic percentage that you did in 2000. You suck. Seriously, y’do.
There are some who would say that I sound bitter, that now is the time for healing, to bring the nation together. Let me tell you a little story. Last night, I watched the returns come in with some friends. As the night progressed, people began to talk half-seriously about secession, a red state / blue state split. The reasoning was this: We in blue states produce the vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes, and you in the red states receive the majority of the money from those taxes while complaining about ‘em. We in the blue states are the only ones who’ve been attacked by foreign terrorists, yet you in the red states are gung ho to fight a war in our name. We in the blue states produce the entertainment that you consume so greedily each day, while you in the red states show open disdain for us and our values. Blue state civilians are the actual victims and targets of the war on terror, while red state civilians are the ones standing behind us and yelling “Oh, yeah!? Bring it on!”
More than 40% of you Bush voters still believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. I’m impressed by that, truly I am. Your sons and daughters who might die in this war know it’s not true, the people in the urban centers where al Qaeda wants to attack know it’s not true, but those of you who are at practically no risk believe this easy lie because you can. As part of my concession speech, let me say that I really envy that luxury. I concede that.
Healing? We, the people at risk from terrorists, the people who subsidize you, the people who speak in glowing and respectful terms about the heartland of America while that heartland insults and excoriates us… we wanted some healing. We spoke loud and clear. And you refused to give it to us, largely because of your high moral values. You knew better: America doesn’t need its allies, doesn’t need to share the burden, doesn’t need to unite the world, doesn’t need to provide for its future. Hell no. Not when it’s got a human shield of pointy-headed, atheistic, un-confrontational breadwinners who are willing to pay the bills and play nice in the vain hope of winning a vote that we can never have. Because we’re “morally inferior,” I suppose, we are supposed to respect your values while you insult ours. And the big joke here is that for 20 years, we’ve done just that.
It’s not a “ha-ha” funny joke, I realize, but it’s a joke all the same.
As well as conceding the election today, I am also announcing my candidacy for president in 2008. And I make this pledge to you today: THIS time, next time, there will be no pandering. This time I will run with all the open and joking contempt for my opponents that our President demonstrated towards the cradle of liberty, the Ivy League intellectuals, the “media elite,” and the “white-wine sippers.” This time I will not pretend that the simple folk of America know just as much as the people who devote their lives to serving and studying the nation and the world. They don’t.
So that’s why I’m asking for your vote in 2008, America. I’m talking to you, you ignorant, slack-jawed yokels, you bible-thumping, inbred drones, you redneck, racist, chest-thumping, perennially duped grade-school grads. Vote for me, because I know better, and I truly believe that I can help your smug, sorry asses. Thank you, and may God, if he does in fact exist, bless each and every one of you.
-Anonymous, sent by a whj reader
Congratulations to those who were “smart” enough to vote for the winning Bush-Cheney ticket. What did we (all of us) get for $4B in nationwide election spending and $200B more in Middle East warmongering this fiscal year? The answer is not much besides 1,150 US soldiers in body bags, huge spending deficits, and millions of people around the world who now hate this country’s “guts.”
A life-long friend of mine sent me this recent response to a person he interacted with on a Web bulletin board regarding the “irrelevancy” of 1/2 the voting body of the United States electorate:
A guy on a message board taunted me, “How does it feel to be irrelevant?”
It’s liberating, BB. Your boys are juggling all the eggs, keep a careful eye out, some of them destroy masses. Because, it’s not our responsibility to be united with you anymore, we’re irrelevant, you told us so. You own it, you clean it up. Don’t send us the bill, it’s not our responsibility, you told us it’s your nation now, and we just need to get the heck out of the way and let you do it all. Sounds like a plan to me. “Hello, you have reached 49% of the nation. If you are the GOP, what happened, we are not relevant, you don’t need us so, hang up the phone and deal with it yourself. If you are not, please stay on the line and someone will be with you shortly.”
BB is a good example of fascism unmasked.
A 51% vote for the Yellow Rogue of Texas makes 49% of our nation’s voters “irrelevant.”
OK, if we are irrelevant, outlaw us, pass a new sedition (look it up) law and send all non-Republicans to Gitmo as godless, socialist, moral relativist, traitors. But, the workplace sure will be — empty. Who’s going to do all those jobs you count on, and not only the low paying, thankless, grimy ones? Irrelevant, eh–
“Aw, hell and tarnation, you mean we got to do something to keep them around, all right but I ain’t raising their wages, improving their health care, or making the path to their prosperity any easier, I got to look out for the relevant ones first, starting with the Boss.” Again I say, fascism unmasked.
GOP control of all three branches of government comes at a price buddy. You won’t be able to blame anyone but yourselves for what you do with our government, our treasury, and our nation. But as you know, a time will come when W nominates some over the top ideologue for Chief Justice, or proposes an insane fiscal measure, or seeks approval for something else requiring a 60-vote margin in the Senate, and then the Democrats’ irrelevance will needle you.
Remember Carter and the Dems had the same opportunity in 1976. What happened there? Sure Carter is different from W, plenty different, in fact, vive la difference. Watch what unfolds as the GOP’s power lust finally comes completely off the leash, and our nation will be able to have a clear stark record to judge them on. That is we would but for the unrelenting GOP spin machine that is going to conceal what our government really is doing to us and around the world, and propagandize the rest. Again, I say, fascism 2 points of the starboard bow.
So enjoy it while you are in the glow BB, because there is a rude awakening just over the horizon. And guess what? You’re going to have to pull the ropes yourselves, the crew was relieved of duty, because they are “irrelevant.”
Unbelievable. Our country has just voted for 4 more years of deficit spending, denial and warmongering to keep our frigging gas tanks full. What good will that do when the damn oceans rise and we’re all swimming?
Half of the country didn’t have the guts to elect the guy whose mind could encompass more than just “getting the bad guys” and spending this country into oblivion.
God help the world, the USA, and George W. Bush.
Well golly, ONE person has left a comment since I turned on the commenting feature and posted about it on the 6th. That’s gotta be a record, NOT! Is everybody else saving their energy to complete their touch screen ballots on November 2nd?
All that finger pointing can wear a body out…so thanks to the lone commenter, you brave and tireless soul…
More than ever, one person can make a huge difference. And lots of individuals committed to changing the status quo can spell the difference between ever-deepening governmental disaster and [at least] the hope for redemption of our future in the voting booth next week.
President Bush and his power cabal have buried this country in a pit of debt, sacrificed the lives of over 1100 American soldiers as “collateral damage” waging war on terrists, and put more people out of work than any president since Herbert Hoover. He’s also enraged nearly all the Islamic world and and alienated longstanding allies with acts of unilateralism that would make any dictator smile.
It’s time to make a leadership change, isn’t it? If you vote for four more years of what this country has experienced over the past four, you’re voting for not changing who you are as well. You’re voting for cheap gas, protection from international threats, and the right to continue being a pig-headed American consumer.
Voting for the alternative candidate, Senator John Kerry is a vote for changing not only the country’s leadership and direction, but also likely to be something of a vote for changing the person you are and have become. This country needs solutions, not manufactured problems.
Terrorism is a manufactured problem. If America consumed half of the Middle East oil it now consumes, the terrorism would disappear. The solution is a solid dedication to changing how we as Americans live, eat, waste, travel, invest, and taking on a modicum of culpability for being part of both the problem and solution.
I believe the Democratic candidate has a credible plan for moving this country forward to a better tomorrow. I believe the Republican incumbent is an ugly American who would lay waste to the world if given the opportunity. His motives are clear: keep the oil flowing, period.
If you think the status quo is working, vote for Bush. If you think our country deserves a fresh leader, vote for Kerry. He certainly can’t do any worse than the leader he will replace.
“No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author. Closing words of “Turncoats,” speech, 1884 (published in Mark Twain’s Speeches, ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine, 1923).
Unbelievable. Last week I received an autographed photo of George W. and Laura Bush thanking me for being a part of their campaign to steal another election. Nothing could be further from the truth. George, you really do suck. (Laura, I’m sure you do too.)
Picture coming soon.
