Few images have ever been so ripe for “revising” …

http://i739.photobucket.com/albums/xx36/Lolocrat/Breitbart_poster_v3-1-1.jpg

So, the winner of the 1984 “Miss Wasilla” pageant would NEVER use her appearance to further her career ???

Look at her wardrobe choices during public appearances and compare them with what genuine female politicians wear …

I sincerely doubt you’ll find anyone else so often wearing such tight-fitting skirts or blouses with as much decolletage … and surely none teetering around in faux-leopard skin stilletto heels.

Look up the definition of “hypocrite” and you’ll find Palin stands out from the rest there too.

I don’t suppose there might be any “leftover” signatures that could be used to recall Kathy Nickolaus, the Waukesha (and World’s Worst)County Clerk ? … Please ??

She’s the former Republican Party worker who became County Clerk and recently “misplaced” a bunch of ballots in the contentious Supreme Court election … ?

Now it seems “Thousands of people could be affected by an apparent error in the state’s controversial redistricting process that caused them to be listed in the wrong municipalities, school districts or wards …”

“I know it wasn’t an error on my part, which is always a good thing,” Nickolaus said.

And a rare one, Ms. Nickolaus.

http://tinyurl.com/7fo35ak

Protesters sitting on the ground and covering their heads isn’t “chill” enough for you ?

NO ONE wants another Kent State, but fear of a re-occurrence is NOT a valid reason for muzzling our dissent by not protesting.

In fact, considering how many examples we’ve seen in the past month of law enforcement’s excessive and inappropriate use of force on peaceful protesters … ?

Just the opposite.

It’s wrong … Wrong … WRONG that Linda Katehi makes $400,000 a year plus free housing yet shows such an outrageously low regard for the treatment and safety of U.C. Davis students.

You’d think she’d at least be a little grateful that her generous salary and perks are made possible by the hefty tuition they pay …

But then, the current situation comes as no surprise when you remember how Katehi barely squeeked into her position in 2009 because of her involvement in the University of Illinois “clout scandal” :

http://tinyurl.com/746cuzj

Refusing to resign means Katehi has dug in and thinks she can just ride out another crisis caused by her poor judgement.

Here’s a one-minute version of what happened at Davis here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4

It could only take a minute or two more to contact University of California President Mark Yudof and suggest that he reward Linda Katehi for her incompetence — by terminating her NOW :

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/president/contact.html

Feingold was the only senator who voted against the Patriot Act, he opposed the Iraq war from the start, and he introduced a bill that would freeze congressional pay and end automatic cost-of-living increases back in ’01.

Hardly the record of a spineless sellout.

So long as “a weird, weird election” actually means “a painful, pointless, divisive, dishonest slugfest which is nothing but an execrable waste of all the money, time and effort that goes into it” … ?

I totally agree.

It’s not a conspiracy – it’s the normal functioning of the system …

America’s current financial situation is hardly “normal” (at least in my lifetime) nor does it seem capable of “functioning” for much longer.

Rather, it appears to be the intended result of a carefully constructed plan which included illegal means — in other words, a conspiracy.

The only thing that is changing now is the rest of us are starting to recognize all this …

The sickening number of middle-class Americans being reduced to poverty is a rather significant change.

As for trying to “work together and rise up to change it,” one can only hope that those doing so will carefully investigate and pursue all legal and non-violent methods first.

Whether government or “guidance,” oligarchy or (more accurately) plutocracy, all are preferable to anarchy.

Despite having little interest in finance, I started noticing some weird things going on back in 2005-06.

* October 2005 – The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act went into effect. Ostensibly created to curb “bankruptcy fraud,” it made it MUCH harder for average consumers to file for b.k.

* December 2005 – The OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a division of the Fed) suddenly declared that the banking industry CAN own and develop real estate. The banks had been fighting hard for this ever since it was disallowed by the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

* January 2006 – Due to changes in consumer lending rules by the Fed, the average consumer’s monthly credit card payments suddenly DOUBLED.

* About the same time: Aggressive marketing of “too good to be true” mortgages started really paying off, suckering more and more first-time home buyers into signing loans they can barely (if at all) afford and existing home owners into re-financing with variable rate loans which carry huge but “distant-future” balloon payments.

(And for those who bluster about “if ya borrow money, ya pay it back” ? Many of those loans were conjured into being by some VERY smooth-talking mortgage brokers who collected large fees but were NOT liable for any “errors” on loan applications.)

* About the same time: Warnings of a “housing bubble” and imminent real estate market crash grew louder but even those made by the president of the National Association of Realtors to a Congressional committee in June 2005 were completely ignored.

Hope it’s not too “conspiracy theory” to suggest that the ongoing financial crises eating away at America’s middle class might NOT be an accident.

Why else would the banks let foreclosed properties fall into decline ?

How else could they actually be dictating the penalties for their proven foreclosure fraud ?