Posts Tagged Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin and Family Used to Get Their Health Care in Canada?
Posted by Lance Haley in 2012 Election, Campaigns, Conservatives, Healthcare Reform, Politics, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on March 10th, 2010
I would hope the irony of this little factoid is NOT lost on the Conservatives who support Sarah Palin and oppose President Obama’s Health Care Reform.
Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y?
Teabaggers Are Tards!
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Glenn Beck, Government, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, United States on March 5th, 2010
TEABAGGER ANTI-STIMULUS PROTEST AT WHITEHOUSE ON 2-27-09
OK.
Let’s analyze this Tard logic.
1) Teabaggers (members of the American Tea Party) are so incensed that Rachael Maddow calls them by that name – sarcastically referencing the sexually-perverted act - that they have filed 1,239 Indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)against MSNBC (subsidiary cable network of parent company NBC), the broadcaster of The Rachael Maddow Show.
2) The Teabaggers were the first ones to reference the term for political purposes in their February 27, 2009 anti-stimulus protest in front of the Whitehouse (see 2/27/09 post on web containing the picture above).
3) So now their politically-correct sensitivity is insulted?
Including the Teabaggers Chief Tard, Sarah Palin?
Hail to the Chief.
Harry Markopolos’ $50 Billion Dollar Failure
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Business and Money, Capitalism, Congress, Crime & Punishment, Economics, Financial Crisis, Financial Terrorists, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Legal & Justice, Politics, Sarah Palin, Show Them the $$$, Wall Street, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich, economy, financial industry on March 2nd, 2010
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S.E.C. LAWYERS’ GRADUATION CLASSES: 1999-2008
If you hired a security guard to watch your house, and it kept getting burglarized – even after someone told him countless times who the thief was – would you let him keep his job?
Stupid question, you say? Really?
So why do we keep the same morons on our government payroll to watch the financial markets? Now that is a good question. And there really is a simple answer. The foxes make sure to instruct their under-lords to have those dumb sharecropper farmers whom they pay beggars wages to for working their land, to keep that same old deaf and blind dog guarding the chicken coop. This metaphor should not be lost on anyone.
Bernie Madoff may be a household word – and one of Time magazines 2009 Top 100 people who affected the world. But Harry Markopolus is just another quiet hero in a global financial market run by pimps and whores. Markopolus has a new book coming out today called, “No One Would Listen“. The book chronicles the story of how Markopolus doggedly pursued a fraud case against Bernie Madoff from 1999 through 2008 by trying to get the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawyers to investigate Madoff’s House of Cards. All to no avail.
WTF you might ask? At least that’s what I have been saying since this story first broke in early 2009 when Markopolus testified before Congress (you can read his testimony right here), and then was interviewed by CBS’s 60 Minutes.
This is beyond a comedy of errors. This is Dumb and Dumber, The Three Stooges, and Beevis and Butthead all working in concert to unwittingly thwart one another while the criminals continued to steal from us with unbridled impunity. Now is that not a terrifying image? Meet your S.E.C., America. Wall Street owns these guys.
Starting in 1999, Markopolus made several attempts to give the most fundamental proof of Madoff’s fraud to numerous investigators at the S.E.C. - all of which was either willfully or woefully ignored (Markopolus calls them “idiots” – that is too kind, don’t you think, Sarah Palin? I would have called them retards). By 2007, he was fed up with their wanton stupidity, and decided to document it by submitting a nineteen (19) page memorandum to the S.E.C. outlining the basis for his claim. That too, was ignored.
View the complete 60 Minutes interview with Markopolos - or just watch the real BOMBSHELL from minute 7:25 to 8:18 of the interview. That brief one minute segment is incomprehensible. And you wonder why so many investors were “Madoffed” by Bernie?
So after all this, has anything changed?
Hell no!
Harry Markopolus is still trying to settle his first big whistle-blower case, he has spent years living in fear, and yet he remains undeterred in his dogged pursuit of financial racketeers and corporate fraudsters. Of course, his new book should help keep his wife and young boys fed until payday comes. Ironically, Markopolus refers to himself as a “$50 Billion dollar failure”- because he could not get the S.E.C. to listen. One might conclude that he is being flippant, since he all but beat them over the head with his evidence. However, he is serious about characterizing this as his “failure” - he honestly takes it very personally that all these people were hurt by Madoff’s fraud in the face of the S.E.C.’s utter incompetence.
You just have to love this man. After all this, the crooks and the “police” shirk responsibility, and the hero feels guilty? And you wonder why it seems the world has started spinning in the other direction?
Meanwhile, back at the S.E.C., they are still re-disorganizing the deck chairs on the U.S.S. Financial Titanic, and there should be smooth sailing on the calm seas of Neo-Capitalism all the way back to port. No need to worry. They have their securities regulation minions fast asleep on night watch while the next massive financial iceberg awaits in the darkness. And brace yourself, because this next one’s really going to be a doozy folks.
In the meantime, bring them some Dom Perignon, the exquisite pate’, and that rare Russian escargot they just had imported, all paid for with your financial bailouts. And don’t forget to put that on a silver platter.
Oh, they almost forgot to mention it. You can ignore the water rising on the Italian marble dining room floor. That’s just from the watered-down financial regulation reform we are about to get from Wall Street’s wholly-owned public subsidiary, Congress. They have the S.E.C working on that minor leak down in the hull right now.
One Final Note: please do not bother counting the number of lifeboats. Those seats have all been reserved.
Enjoy the cruise. 
P.S. They saved several seats in the lifeboats for the S.E.C. lawyers. You didn’t really think the Financial Terrorists were going to row those things themselves, did you?
Running the U.S.A. With Crib Notes and Giving the Country a Hand Job
Posted by Lance Haley in 2012 Election, Campaigns, Conservatives, Politics, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on February 10th, 2010
. . . and Teabaggers and Conservatives are worried about how Obama is running this country?
When Whitehouse Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used crib notes scribbled on his palm in a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Sarah Palin’s speech to the Teabag Party Convention this past weekend, it was a mockery of Palin that ranks up there with some of Tina Fey’s material -
Here is a close-up of Palin’s hand at the Teabagger Convention.
Please, Please, Please Republicans! Run her in 2012. Pleasssssssssssseeeee?
Eulogy for Senator John McCain
Posted by Lance Haley in Campaigns, Conservatives, Politics, Sarah Palin on February 9th, 2010
Over a decade ago, I stood in a long line of people holding a book under my arm, waiting to shake the hand of the man that I thought would be the next president of the United States of America. That book was called Faith of My Fathers, and the man was John McCain.
I had never before gone to a book signing for a politician. For me, it was enough that I read their books, and I was not so naive to believe that many of them really had our best interests at heart. But John McCain was different. Or so I thought.
As McCain prepares to fight for his political life in an Arizona primary, stooping so low as to resort to having Sarah Palin campaign with him, I can only reflect on the man that he once was – the consummate American Maverick.
Yes, he had been involved in the Keating Five. It was early in his political career, and he seemed transformed by the experience. An epiphany of sorts, if you will. That political corruption was only one campaign contribution away. That taking large sums of money from one man, or one industry, made you beholden to their interests, no matter how unlawful, immoral or unethical those interests might be. That often the agenda of the rich and powerful was anathema to the interests of your constituents – the very people at whose behest you serve. That these very powerful interests had the effect of diluting democracy through buying influence over your better judgment. Therefore, by avoiding the inclination to take these large sums of campaign contributions, a politician could vote his conscience, and ensure that the best interests of his constituents was always at the forefront of every decision he/she makes.
That was what made John McCain so different from other politicians. He did not stick his finger up in the air to see which way the political winds were blowing. Back then, no one could label him as a Conservative or Liberal – though many tried. His brand of politics defied labeling. He did not care that his fellow Republicans were pounding the podiums, railing like preachers against some horrible “liberal” agenda, while powerful corporations quietly stuffed their campaign coffers full of cash. He did not countenance the Democrats pleas to alleviate the toil and suffering of the American farmer, while they all lived in opulence and rode in limousines to the Capitol building every day – all paid for by powerful corporate agricultural interests.
He was the consummate warrior. A former POW, who understood what it was like to have no hope. Who could relate to the man who was downtrodden and beaten by those who held power over him. Who survived the the torture and suffering, and came back from the living dead to come face to face with his enemy, and walk through the ruins of the Hanoi Hilton – the building where they tried for years upon years to break his body and spirit.
Time and time again, he stood up in the Senate chambers, excoriating his fellow politicians – both Republicans and Democrats – for their duplicity and hypocrisy. He pushed hard for campaign finance reform. He wanted to eliminate the “soft money” that so deeply corrupts our political system. He was the penultimate maverick – no, not some Populist Teabagger “pretender” like Sarah Palin. When John McCain spoke, all of his fellow politicians shuddered. For they knew the things he was saying rang true. The system was broken, and they were all responsible.
That was then. This is now. As the Republicans have moved further and further to the right, McCain has followed. The Maverick is now just a hollow, old caricature of himself. Another washed-up politician, long in the tooth, and short on having the sense to know it’s time to bow out gracefully. Unfortunately, John McCain left all that grace at the alter of his egotistical aspirations for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2007. The price was his political independence – which was bought and paid for by the Far Right.
Paradoxically, he sold his soul to that devil, and now he cannot have it back.
The John McCain whose hand I shook that day in 1999 is dead. The book that contains an inscription from him to myself lies on a shelf, covered in dust - just like the man who authored it. We will miss you dearly, John. Your brand of politics was a breath of fresh air. Now all we have to breathe is the dark, politically-polluted gases that hang like a cloud of death over our nation’s capitol. And for that, John McCain, you too are now partially responsible.
I will shed no tears. I just shake my head in disgust, and walk away.
Homer Simpson Republicans Terrorize U.S. Over Terrorists’ Trials
Posted by Lance Haley in 9/11, Conservatives, Dick Cheney, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, Sarah Palin, War on Terror, al Qaida, foreign policy on February 7th, 2010
Terrorism is about creating fear.
Republicans are now clearly trying to create fear in the minds of the American public about the Obama Administration’s prosecution of terrorists in civilian courts. They are insinuating several things: one, that terrorists are “enemy combatants”, and therefore should be tried in military courts; two, that allowing them to be tried in civilian courts will only invite another attack on U.S. soil; third that these defendants are not entitled to any constitutional rights; and finally, that Obama is soft on terrorism.
These constitutional law geniuses include half-term Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), former Vice President Dick Cheney (Chief Republican Hypocrite – Washington, D.C.), and Chief Conservative spokesman Rush Limbaugh (former drug addict, and college drop-out).
Amazing how incensed these Conservatives are about this “recent” decision to take accused terrorists to trial in civilian courts, particularly after the Bush Administration tried over ONE HUNDRED FIFTY terrorists in the same federal courts, including such high-profile cases as 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Just in case any of you other hypocrites out there have also conveniently forgotten, Reid was going to blow up a plane on an international flight bound for the U.S.
“D’oh“!
P.S. Since yesterday, when this was posted, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) has proposed cutting off federal funding for terrorists trials in civil court. Add his name to the rapidly growing list of Homer Simpson constitutional law geniuses and conservative hypocrites.
Sarah Palin is the Real Retard in this Political Correctness Brouhaha
Posted by Lance Haley in Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Media & Communication, Morality, Politics, Sarah Palin, Uncategorized on February 3rd, 2010
Levi Johnston - the father of Bristol Palin’s baby – contends that his “ex-mother-in-law”, Sarah Palin, would say ”where is my retarded baby”. Sarah and Todd Palin have a “special needs” child, and Sarah Palin denies that she ever referred to her baby that way. Frankly, I can see Sarah Palin saying something like that “tongue-in-cheek” (in jest). Having a sense of humor about these things is normal human behavior (as in the heading of this post).
Nevertheless, I digress.
For decades now in the United States, minorities and their advocates – most of which are Liberals – have long protested the use of certain derogatory terms as socially unacceptable. The most common example are racial slurs like the “N” word. This drive to “scrub” the English language of these terms was labeled as “political correctness” – a concept that references the agenda to create a social sensitivity to members of our society who are not part of mainstream America. Conservatives have routinely criticized “political correctness” as liberal nonsense, and ironically, Rush Limbaugh referred to “liberal activists” as retards . Now you want to talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Moerover, where was Sarah Palin’s outrage regarding on his political incorrectness?
Recent reports have surfaced stating that Rahm Emmanuel, President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, was addressing a group of Liberal Democrat politicians last summer regarding their intended strategy to use “attack ads” against Conservative Democrats, and referred to them as “Fxxking retarded“. Now Sarah Palin has said that Emanuel should be fired.
I guess the irony of a “kike using ”politically incorrect” language while addressing a group of liberals is lost on Palin.
P.S. For those of you who are offended by my use of a politically incorrect term, you too are missing my point.
Fox News’ Hiring of Sarah Palin Makes Our Founding Fathers Want a Mulligan on Freedom of the Press
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on January 14th, 2010
At famous cemeteries all up and down the East coast, you can hear their contorted bodies rolling over in their graves at night. Our founding fathers are watching Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin invoke their names on Fox News as though these two are patriots to the principles of truth and freedom.
In her interview with Beck on Tuesday, Palin even went so far as to make a poorly veiled attempt at comparing herself to George Washington, stating that “he was almost reluctant to serve as president, too . . . that is who you need to find to serve in government . . . those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they’re reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek the power. They’re doing it for people. ”
Notice her use of the word “too“, as in “I also am reluctant, but I will do it for my country”?
You can be certain those comments make Thomas Jefferson and James Madison almost wish they could take a mulligan on the 1st Amendment’s clause respecting Freedom of the Press. After all, even men as intelligent as they were could have never envisioned two demagogues like Beck and Palin both employed by the same network. Think about it. Could you ever in your wildest imagination have believed there would be this much self-aggrandizement polished and wrapped under the guise of news and opinions?
Well thank goodness, Jefferson and Madison were also intelligent enough to know that most Americans would not listen to shameless frauds like Beck and Palin. Our founding fathers had enough faith in the wisdom of the American people to know that the principles of reason and logic would prevail over the false words and deeds from even the most duplicitous and disingenuous hypocrites that were in our midst.
That’s called Freedom of Thinking.
December 21, 2012: Apocalyptic End or a Little Nothing?
Posted by Lance Haley in 2012 Election, Conservatives, Humor, Sarah Palin, Sports, Uncategorized on January 1st, 2010
Having just read an Op-Ed piece on the Y2K “problem” that was to occur on January 1, 2000, one cannot help but be amused by the predictions now being bandied around regarding the Mayan Calender’s prediction of a global “End of Days” scenario for December 21, 2012.
The pending Y2K catastrophe predicted a global-encompassing technological calamity which would result in utter chaos and wide-spread death as a consequence of a systemic computer-chip design flaw in their internal clocks that failed to account for the change from the calender years of the 1900’s over to the 2000’s . Untold billions of dollars were spent worldwide for both preparation and prevention of the potential problems associated with this impending disaster – including concerns over airplanes falling out of the skies, as well as nuclear reactors melting-down and exploding – all of which had the feel of an apocalyptic ending to life as we knew it.
What ultimately occurred was a big nothing.
Since man first walked the face of the earth, predictions of doom and gloom have filled his vivid imagination. Religion and mystical beliefs have served as a buffer against the seemingly hopelessness of these scenarios. The associated writings and stories told of global catastrophe are offered as prophetic warnings to our vulnerable minds of the need to prepare ourselves for survival, and our souls for redemption.
This author’s prediction for December 21, 2012: just another Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, marking the tilting of the planet in a position furthest from the Sun .
In other words, too freaking cold to play golf for roughly ninety days. If repenting will change that, please forgive me all my earthly transgressions ASAP so I can go back out on the golf course next weekend with all my heathen buddies and commence to sinnin’ all over again.
P.S. Of course, my prediction is predicated on the notion that Sarah Palin will not win the Presidential election on November 6, 2012. If she does . . . all bets are off given that Mother Earth is probably just going to end it all before Palin gets her chance to fulfill the prophecy. In that case, I will play golf on December 20, 2012 no matter how much freaking snow there is on the ground.
The First American Quitters Family
Posted by Lance Haley in 2012 Election, Campaigns, Conservatives, Government, Politics, Uncategorized on October 5th, 2009
Have you ever heard of a Husky that quit pulling it’s sled in the Iditarod? Ever seen a picture of a salmon give up swimming upstream even with bears sitting in the rapids waiting for them to jump? Can you ever recall a sitting governor of a state resign mid-term because the media was so tough on them and their energy was better spent focusing on other things? Oh, I almost forgot, that last one has occurred – just one time. The others . . . NEVER!
Now Sarah “I’m no quitter” Palin and husband Todd are officially The First American Quitters Family. The guy that catches salmon and runs in the Iditarod has just announced that he is leaving his oil field job to “spend more time with his family.” You betcha, WINK, WINK.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, my Conservative friends . . . make her the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012. That is what she and Todd are setting the stage for anyway with all of this “quit whatever you are doing in Alaska and get your dumb asses down here in the lower 48 if you want to rate” whispers.
Listen. Even if Obama never accomplishes anything as President (and that is looking more and more plausible with each passing day), he can still beat her while continuously traveling all around the world during the 2012 Presidential Campaign, trying to get the winning bid for the 2040 World Curling Championships to be held in Detroit. All she has to do is give a few campaign speeches, do her best “going rogue” routine with Independent voters watching, and sit down for a handful of spontaneous interviews with some of those ”gotch ya” liberal political reporters, with all of their “tricky questions” (like, “Governor, can you tell me what body of water does Afghanistan lie next to?”), and you can stick a fork in her.
SHE’S DONE and he’s WON!
P.S. None of Afghanistan’s borders are bounded by water, and there is not a significant body of water within several hundred miles of Afghanistan. I won a beer betting on that fact one night in a bar with several of my Conservative buddies shortly after 9/11. We had a retired U.S. Marine who happened to be tending bar that night settle the dispute for us. Was that beer extra tasty? You betcha!
P.S.S. In 2040, the average daytime temperature in the winter in Detroit will probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 123 degrees Farenheit. They will have to hold the World Curling Championships in the Mayor’s office in City Hall since that will be the only public place in town that will still be allowed to have a window air conditioner installed in order to “keep it cool”. By then, people will be “Wintering” in Wasilla, Alaska, with it’s posh new Bed and Breakfast run by an elderly couple who just quit their consulting business (How to Quit a Job Without Consequences) in order to “come back home”.