Sarah Palin 2012 Campaign Slogan!!!

I've been working on this all week. To put her over, she needs a slogan that's both recognizable and punchy. Both packed to the hilt with emotional dynamite and "ballzy" with just the right touch of brass! It needs to say she's strong, without actually saying "I'm strong", in so many words. It needs to say "capable", and "able bodied", but without saying "intellectual" It needs to say "staunch", without saying "stubborn". And last but not least it must be memorable and make her look big, because people like big leaders.

So here is that slogan that says all these things in one complete capsule!
It's a play on an already memorable phrase, ("The Thrilla In Manilla") so it will have wide, fast and ready acceptance! To wit:

"The Gorilla From Wasilla 2012!"

Best of all, she can have it for free!

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

(Photo: Carolyn Tiry / Flickr)

Saturday 3 September 2011
by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis

Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"

Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)

Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats' health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats' rank capitulation to corporate interests - no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma.

But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP.

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SCAM-NET SCAM PREVENTION ALERTS

CURRENT SCAMS

NEW HOME REPAIR SCAM ALERTS - ROOFING SCAM AND DRIVEWAY SCAM

See also ASPHALT PAVING SCAM posted last year.

http://www.sanantonio.gov/sapd/SCAMS.asp#asphalt

FREE MEDICAL CARD SCAM ALERT

"WORK AT HOME" SCAM ALERT

Federal Trade Commission - Mystery Shopper Alert
Fake Checks.Org
SNOPES.com

http://www.sanantonio.gov/sapd/%5C%5Cwww.fakechecks.org

GIFT CARD SCAM ALERT
Be careful how you purchase Gift Cards for holiday gift-giving. It appears that it is safer to purchase cards directly from a clerk than select them from open display shelves.
Crooks can copy numbers from gift cards on store racks. Then, after the card is purchased and activated, buyers use them to shop online by entering the card numbers. So do the crooks. They phone an 800 number to check on the balances for card numbers they have copied. When they discover activated cards, they use the card numbers to buy merchandise on a store's web site.
The legitimate owner of the gift card may find the account empty before they even have an opportunity to make purchases.

http://www.sanantonio.gov/sapd/SCAMS.asp#morelotto?res=1024&ver=true

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Progressive Religious Believers' Big Hypocrisy: Cherry-Picking the Parts of Religion they Like and Ditching the Rest

If you're just going to use your own conscience and your own mind to decide what's right or wrong, true or false -- why do you need God?

Yeah. See, here's the problem.

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Revealed: Ayn Rand Worked on a Movie Script Glorifying the Atomic Bomb

In notes for an unfinished screenplay, the right-wing heroine called the nuclear bomb "an eloquent example of, argument for and tribute to free enterprise." READ MORE

Hacking’s Stunning Victim List

Sep 1, 2011 1:00 AM EDT
Scotland Yard has a list of 3,870 people whose phones were tapped. From the "schoolboy killer" to Prince William, Brian Cathcart reports on the scandal's huge scope.

The remarkable scale of the British phone-hacking scandal has been underlined by a new allegation that its victims may include one of the country’s most notorious murderers. Robert Thompson, now 29, was one of the schoolboy killers of 2-year-old James Bulger in 1993, a case that appalled the country. According to the Sunday Times newspaper, police have recently informed Thompson that News of the World acquired his telephone details—even though, to protect him from revenge attacks, he had been given a secret new identity by the authorities after serving his sentence.

Thompson joins a list of suspected and confirmed hacking victims that includes, notably, the future king, Prince William; half a dozen former cabinet ministers (including a former deputy prime minister); the mayor of London; senior police officers; and leading personalities in sports, cinema, television, business, and the news media. Most sensationally, as The Guardian revealed in July, the list also includes Milly Dowler, a schoolgirl who was missing at the time of the hacking and was found to have been murdered. There are also unconfirmed press reports that families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq have been told they were victims, along with bereaved families of those who died in the July 2007 bomb attacks in London.
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WikiLeaks: Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head

The bodies of three of the five children reportedly killed by US troops during a raid in the rural Ishaqi area of Iraq, 03/15/06. (photo: AP)

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By Matthew Schofield, McClatchy News

01 September 11



US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that US troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. US officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.

But Philip Alston, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication to American officials dated 12 days after the March 15, 2006, incident that autopsies performed in the Iraqi city of Tikrit showed that all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head. Among the dead were four women and five children. The children were all 5 years old or younger.

Read the Cable:
Cable: Massacre of Iraqi family by US troops in 2006.