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Not just amateur hour: no less than the New Republic claims Palin "named two of her children after witches".

Turns out one of her children is Willow, from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and Piper, who is apparently a character on "Charmed".

Turns out Willow was named before Buffy aired.

If you have nothing to say about a candidate, just mock her relentlessly.

You realize, Rich, that I'm putting these in here just so you have a "worldview" greater than that of your office space.

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BTW, I'm not sure how much of Colbert's viewership is from liberals and how much from conservatives who don't understand sarcasm.

Thanks for posting that in this thread so we don't have to copy and paste.

Willow, Alaska.
Had lunch there, it's beautiful.

Willow,
"A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen."
I loved it.

Looks like the Gov was pretty mainstream, hardly condeming...

If you have nothing to say about a candidate, suggest that she willingly risked the life of her unborn child

...then have pro Alan Colmes point to your post, only to remove his story when people pointed out that it was false, and rude beyond belief

...but even that first blogger, in the midst of spreading his own cruel rumor, knew that the cruel rumor-mongering Radar repeated was a piece of shit:

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Update: People who are spreading the cruel rumor about Palin's pregnancy and her daughter should read this April 27 blog entry from a woman who shared a commercial flight out of Fairbanks, Alaska, with the governor in March. Elizabeth Eubanks writes that Palin was "pregnant (she has since had her baby) with bags and daughter in tote." A search of Google's cache confirms this entry has been unchanged since April.

UT - stop telling the truth! It confuses those who only want to believe the lies.

Apparently we can't call our own fouls even when our candidate asks us to. I give this thread a fail. Enjoy the partisan nonsense and later wonder why the center didn't come out to vote for your superior candidate.

The difference in this case are the attacks on her family, her new baby, her 17 year old child. The attacks came mostly from left-wing-nut bloggers and then were subsequently picke up by the mainstream liberal press and tossed about as if they were true. When the right was making their attacks it was usually from single individuals like Rush, Hannity, or that digdong Coulter. And there it ended. They were cast off as extremists for their comments. Not in this case. In this case the press has run with the false stories as if they were true. That is the difference.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 479567)

No vitriol about Cheney? Dick Cheney? Are you fucking kidding me??

See, Rich can't hear properly. He needs some sort of hearing test because he can only hear out of one side.

Most of us suffer from it to some degree. This is the result of the playground.

Edit: but it was nice of Rich to put his post in this thread, so we don't have to copy it here, eh?

A few more nice pictures posted during the Bush years:

http://www.dudehisattva.com/2006_archive.htm

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary (Post 480755)

If false rumors have been routinely passed off as true by the mainstream press, you will have no trouble at all linking to just one example. A link to a story in the Washington Post or New York Times, for example. This is one that you really should back up with a link, especially in this thread about partisan stupidity.

You really think right wing attacks come only from a couple of talking heads? What about all the e-mail circulations? You post about them from time to time here on the Cellar. Forgot about them, huh?

Now that I think about it, I really became addicted to the cellar in the buildup to the 04 election. It's fun to see the claws come out on both sides. We had Mari***ko popping up with stories about GWB knocking on her door just to junkpunch her and steal her rent check... ah, the good ol' days.

OK - I just got this from a right winger - any truth to any of it???

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Your Social Security

Just in case some of you didn't know this.

It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it.

A little history lesson and it doesn't matter whether you are Democrat of Republican.

The facts are there!!
Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program,

3. ) That t he money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,

4) That the money contributed by the participants would be put into the independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month, and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to 'put away' -- you may be interested in the following:

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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the
general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

_______________________________________________________________________
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.
_______________________________________________________________________

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.

Immigrants that moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

Remember to VOTE

Well, UT, that'd be 220 million reasons to believe some folks just aren't as smart as I sometimes am, right there. True, it's easy not to be a Michael Moore fan, and there are things around like Moorewatch.com to weight the other end of the seesaw.

Is that Colbert or Ioan Griffith?

Rich, candidate for what office? Cheney's said he's never running for President, and he's sticking to that.

Partisan? Yeah. Idiotic? Not on your tintype, baby. Check the guys who most often call me an idiot -- are they really heavy with credibility?

You're the Reverse Radar.