Perhaps we should start a movement to get the building declared a historical landmark?

Sarah Palin has had a busy life since Senator John McCain plucked her out of obscurity during the 2008 election. Fortunately for us, the majority of this has been filmed and preserved as a now essential part of American history that we can relive over and over again on YouTube (thank you?). From interviews to speeches, here are the funniest, most outrageous and totally absurd Sarah Palin moments caught on tape thus far.

1. The Bush Doctrine

In her very first televised interview during the 2008 campaign, Charles Gibson asked Palin if she “agreed with the Bush Doctrine.” Uh oh. With obvious confusion, Sarah first tries to dodge the question and then when asked pointblank how she interprets the Bush Doctrine she responds (with obvious trepidation) that the Bush Doctrine is President Bush’s “world view.” Wrong. This interview was America’s first glimpse of why the governor of Alaska was simply not ready to be President of the United States.

2. Sarah Palin: “What does a VP do?”

In this clip, Sarah famously confesses on CNBC during the 2008 campaign that she has no idea what the vice president does. Yikes. The exact quote reads as follows: “As for that VP talk all the time, I tell ya, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me, what exactly is it that the VP does every day?”

3. Sarah Palin Prank Call

This Quebec comedy duo pranked Sarah during their radio show in 2008. Using nothing but French accents, they managed to convince the governor that she was speaking to France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy. Together, they discussed Nicolas’ beautiful wife, hunting, and promoting a special American advisor named Johnny Hallyday (a French singer). Sarah bought the prank up until they revealed themselves at the very end of the clip. An embarrassed Palin quickly got off the phone.

4. Interview Location Fail

Immediately following Sarah’s pardoning of a turkey on Thanksgiving in Alaska, Sarah proceeded to give an interview right outside of a turkey slaughter house. While discussing her career and “getting her message out,” we are given a clear view of turkey’s being killed directly behind her. Given the circumstances, you can’t help but laugh.

5. Palin: I Read All the News

Even Palin’s own camp admitted that her interview with Katie Couric went horribly, but this clip made headlines everywhere. When asked what newspapers specifically she read to keep informed, Palin responded, “Um…all of them.” Really, Palin? You read all the news? The media had a field day with this response and Palin ended up using it as an example of “gotcha media.” It was, after all, a pretty tricky question.

6. Palin on Foreign Policy

In this clip, Couric questions Sarah on citing Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of her foreign policy experience. Trying to redeem herself, Palin speaks nonsensically for about a minute on how this affected her duties as governor: “We have trade missions back and forth…it’s from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there…they are right next to our state.” I’m sure Putin was shivering in his boots with Palin on watch!

7. Palin: Okay, I Didn’t Quite Say That

In September 12, 2008, Charles Gibson interviewed Sarah Palin and questioned her on her flip flopping stance on “The Bridge to Nowhere.” Gibson says, “It’s now pretty clearly documented that you were for that bridge before you opposed it.” Oops. This clip shows Sarah Palin trying to back pedal her way out the subject…and failing.

8. Stump the Candidate!

Apparently September 2008 was not a great month for Palin. Here is a clip (courtesy of CNN) showing Sarah trying to answer an audience question at a campaign rally on her foreign policy experience. She tells the audience that she “has that readiness and if you want specifics with specific policy or countries, go ahead and-and you can ask me. You can even play stump the candidate.” Yes! That’s great! We would love to play stump the candidate…but sadly, this is about where John McCain jumped in and took over the answering of questions. Lame.

9. Palin: No Second Guessing Israel’s “Security Efforts”

Here we see Palin’s interesting take on Israel. According to Palin, the United States should never “second guess” Israel, even if they choose to take action against Iran. She sums everything up very succinctly by saying that in a situation where Israel took action against Iran, “It seems obvious to me who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.” I had no idea foreign policy was so black and white!

10. Palin Declares War on Iran

When talking about what she and McCain will do in their first 100 days in office, Palin accidently said, “We’ll get this economy back on the right track and really sure up the strategies we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars.”What? We’re at war with Iran? Not Afghanistan? Better get to the nearest bomb shelter, stat!

Emily Goll is the editor of My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on online courses for Guide to Online Schools.

Thankfully, most of us emerged unscathed from the scariest pandemic of all time,swine flu. The real heroes were the pharmaceutical companies that told governments to stockpile their products. But now, $260 million worth of expired vaccines will be destroyed.

That nasty swine flu shit was even worse than SARS, the other crazy virus that almost made humans extinct. Luckily, we had big pharmaceutical companies’ “experts” telling the World Health Organization to stockpile as many of the flu’s vaccines as they could possibly handle, and then some, because yesterday about 40 million of them ($260 million worth) expired. Jerry Weir, a vaccine researcher for the Food and Drug Administration, told the AP, “It’s a lot, by historical standards.”

And the Department of Health and Human Services backs up the government’s overstocking of the vaccine:

“Although there were many doses of vaccine that went unused, it was much more appropriate to have been prepared for the worst case scenario than to have had too few doses,” said Bill Hall, spokesman for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

About 30 million more vaccines are set to expire soon. The doses that have already expired will be incinerated. Money and resources well spent!

[Source: Gawker]

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It was 1977 in Miami (Dade County) when former beauty queen and singer Anita Bryant launched her infamous “Save Our Children” campaign to repeal a local anti-discrimination ordinance.

Her successful religious and political crusade against gays and lesbians led to repeal of Dade County’s non-discrimination provisions, and later that same year led to the Florida legislature’s passage of a ban on “homosexual” adoption.

Once her anti-gay campaign went national, Bryant helped set a nasty, narrow, prejudiced tone for the entire anti-equality backlash movement, which widely publicized quotes such as:

“As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduced children; therefore, they must recruit our children” and “If gays are granted rights, next we’ll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.”

Her efforts were not without backlash as she famously took a pie in the face during a TV interview.

But she was also quite effective.  Her rhetoric and viewpoints are still cited today in political “debates” not only in Florida but nationwide. In fact, the roots of modern political homophobia and the foundations of the campaigns to ban same-sex marriage can all be traced back to Bryant.

And after years of self-imposed seclusion, Anita’s back on the national anti-gay stage – this time helping headline a “Reclaiming America for Christ” rally in Oklahoma with Focus on the Family, the Liberty Council and even former Colonel Oliver North.

Anita’s re-emergence as a icon of bigotry has prompted us to ask you – who would be the best national leader to refute the Anita Bryant types?

We now are witnessing a struggle between two new factions that some might call the “Stimulators” and the “Austerians.” Both seem warn that a worldwide depression will ensue if governments now make the wrong choices: the Stimulators say the danger lies in spending too little and the Austerians warn that the true danger lies in spending too much. Each side also has their own economic champion: the Stimulators follow the banner of Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, while the Austerians are forming up behind the recently reformed former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. (It is cold comfort to witness “The Maestro” belatedly returning to the hard-money positions that characterized his earlier years.)

In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, Greenspan argued that the best economic stimulus would be for the world’s leading debtors (the United States, UK, Japan, Italy, et al.) to rein in their budget deficits, a strategy dubbed “austerity” by the press. Greenspan explains that because lower deficits will restore confidence, diminish the threat of inflation, and allow savings to flow to private-sector investment rather than public-sector consumption, the short-term pain will lead to gains both in the mid- and long-term. Rather than redistributing a shrinking pie, this approach allows the pie to grow. Greenspan’s Austereian view has been echoed loudly in the highest policy circles of Berlin, Ottawa, Moscow, Beijing, and Canberra.

Meanwhile, in several articles for his New York Times column, including one recently, Krugman has argued that those who push for austerity in the face of recession are either doing so for political expediency or out of a “crazy” fealty to archaic economic views. Krugman has apparently judged inadequate the trillions of dollars worth of deficit spending unleashed by the United States and European governments in the last 24 months. He believes our only remedy is to spend more – no matter how much debt results. Absent this, he claims, millions of workers “will never work again.” Unfortunately, Washington has clearly aligned itself with Krugman and the Stimulators.

Reading straight from the Keynesian playbook, Krugman argues that cutting government spending now will simply send the economy back into recession. He asserts that by flooding the economy with money, i.e. “stimulus,” governments can encourage consumers to spend. Once the spending creates better conditions, so the argument goes, the economy will be better positioned to withstand the spending cuts, tax hikes, and higher interest rates necessary to address the staggering deficits left behind.

Krugman proposes an enticing argument that is nevertheless built on rubbish. Economies do not grow because consumers spend; consumers spend because economies grow [for a detailed explanation of how this works, read the book: How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes]. Investment capital comes from savings, and when governments borrow, savings are diverted from private investment. While it is possible for governments to invest as well, it is much more likely that the money will be spent on entitlements or “invested” in projects that may be politically advantageous but economically useless.

Any money spent by governments is not available to the private sector to invest. The Stimulators don’t make this connection because they believe money grows on trees and that a printing press is a legitimate creator of wealth. However, printing money merely encourages people to spend their savings now rather than wait for it to lose value through inflation. This is okay to Stimulators, because stimulating “demand” by any means necessary is the only goal they can see.

What really grows an economy is not more demand, but more supply. The Austerian argument is that reductions in government spending will allow the private sector to generate the additional supply of goods and services. Europe seems to understand this; unfortunately, the US does not. Judging by the recent weakness of the dollar – not only against gold, but other fiat currencies, including the pound and the euro – the markets are coming to the same conclusion.

As sovereign-debt worries initially spread throughout Europe, the dollar benefitted. However, now that Europe has demonstrated a willingness to reduce its debts, while we have committed to make ours even larger, the sovereign-debt worries are moving west.

If Greenspan and the Austereians are correct, the stimulus will fail and leave us in a much deeper hole. As long as governments create bigger deficits, we will never have a sustainable recovery. Instead, we will be chasing our tail, and wearing ourselves out in the process. When we finally realize the folly of this approach, the austerity measures that we will then be forced to adopt will make those currently proposed by the Europeans seem relatively painless.

My guess is that before the end of Obama’s first term, our stimulus-induced recovery will falter, prompting Obama and Congress to administer even more stimulus. After all, the Stimulators have no other answer. However, given the adverse reaction this will produce in the currency and debt markets, this next jolt will likely vindicate the Austerians, as the world witnesses its greatest power careen into an inflationary depression.

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Police Officer Viciously Punches Young Girl

My disgust is caused by several things. First off, who in their right mind would bother stopping someone for Jay walking? Is there that little crime in Seattle? If there is, it sounds like it’s time to trim the budget and let some cops go. Secondly, this cop proceeds to display a series of the least professional actions I have ever seen displayed by a uniformed official. Now let me explain, I am in the U.S. Military. I am a small arms instructor, a non-lethal weapons instructor, and a Force Protection / Law Enforcement expert. It’s what I do and I have been doing it for over a decade. I have trained with everyone from U.S. Army Special Forces to local Sheriffs, and I do not know of ANY organization that EVER trains their people to punch ANYONE when taking them into custody. That’s why he has pepper-spray. From what you can see in the video, these women are guilty of nothing more than being disorderly, and frankly, as Americans, that’s what we do, and we have every right to.

In the interest of being open and honest, I should also point out that I too have been arrested on quite a number of occasions in states from Mississippi to Massachusetts, almost always for disorderly conduct, or disrespecting a police officer, and I have NEVER been treated the way this cop treats this woman. I have also never been convicted, because it is not a crime to tell a cop to go to hell.

We have a real problem in this country. The local authorities are acting as if they have far more authority than they do. With Arizona demanding to see papers, and with cops all over the country losing their minds (here in Jacksonville the Sheriffs will taze you as fast as look at you), something needs to be done. I am OUTRAGED at the complicity of the crowd here! No one stood up to defend or protect these women from an unlawful assault. That’s why I rarely travel unarmed. I only WISH I could have happened by this scene, so that I could have put the pepper spray I keep in my truck to good use. That cop should have been pepper sprayed, tazed, beaten or otherwise stopped from assaulting that woman, then he should have been disarmed and restrained (with handcuffs or anything available) until some proper authorities were able to arrive on the scene. That woman should not have had to suffer.

This is a call to the citizens of this country to WAKE UP!

Stop the Brutality

If you allow the local authorities to control your lives, then the Federal Authorities will do the same. Our liberties are beingeroded from within, and we allow it to happen because we feel there is nothing we can do because they have the guns and uniforms. Well let me tell you, that uniform only has the authority that YOU, the citizen give it. You do NOT have to cooperate with police! You do NOT have to talk to police! And if they want to arrest you, they MUST tell you what you are being charged with. While I would say that you’d be ill advised to resist arrest, you need not worry much about unlawful arrest, most cops don’t possess terribly high IQs. They are neither lawyers not judges. You do not need to impress them or plead with them. If you are ever arrested, just keep your mouth shut, and go quietly. Police are easily defeated in court if you remain silent.

NEVER talk to a cop. They are not your friends. They cannot and will not help you. They WILL help convict you. Let your lawyer do your talking.

And by all means, if you see a woman being assaulted… by ANYONE. You should defend her. There were like five men standing around. One cop will not beat five men. But fear kept those men complacent. So sad. Would have been nice to see justice be served. Now we can only hope that the Police will fire or at least SEVERELY discipline that Officer. It’d be nice if he got some jail time like other women beaters do. If he doesn’t, then this is a sad shameful day to be an American.

If you want to express your outrage, write to the Seattle interim Chief of Police:

Interim Chief John Diaz
610 Fifth Avenue
P.O. Box 34986
Seattle, WA 98124-4986

Let them know, that they are not the ones with the power, the citizens are!

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My mother posed the idea that the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon may have been a deliberate plot against President Obama. She pointed out that during the election the Republicans pushed hard with their whole “Drill baby drill” slogan, and it seems awfully convenient that the explosion happened the day after the President agreed to allow further off shore drilling. If nothing else, it does seem ironic that almost immediately after giving into one of the demands of the Republicans, it comes back not only to bite the President in the ass, but the entire nation.

Now when you consider that our last President, and his daddy, are both big Texas Oil men, and are certainly not terribly fond of President Obama, would you put it past them to be willing to sabotage a rig in order to sabotage Obama’s Presidency? After all, Bush is the man who was willing to send thousands of our troops to their graves for oil profits, what makes you think he’d hesitate to kill 11 oil rig workers to ruin Obama and help the Republicans regain seats in the House this November, if he had the means.

I am not saying this is a credible conspiracy, and I do not seriously think Bush had anything to do with it, but it is a fun thought experiment, and it is doubly fascinating to me since it all came from my mother, who is the last person you’d ever expect to say something bad about Republicans.

What do you think? Leave comments below.