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Todd and Trig, well at least we know THEY live in Alaska.

Courtesy of Arizona's own political pole dancer's Facebook page:

Friends,

Thanksgiving offers us invaluable time to spend with our family (So your finally going to spend time with them? Does Trig even know who you are anymore?) and reflect on our many blessings. In 1789, George Washington declared a day of national Thanksgiving for our new country to render unto God our "sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection."

But even before that first proclamation from a new nation, pioneers across America celebrated Thanksgiving as a time to give praise to God for full harvests and Divine Providence. (Holy crap, not only does she want to make sure that only Christians celebrate Christmas, now she wants to take Thanksgiving away from us as well!)

And indeed, America has been richly blessed. From coast to coast, we enjoy an abundance of natural resources, plentiful harvests, beautiful cities and our most precious gift of all—a people who value liberty and continue to stand as an example to the world of all that can be accomplished by a free and hard-working people. (So it's NOT about turkey, stuffing, and football?)

This Thanksgiving, join me in a moment of prayer to give thanks for the thousands of American men and women in our armed forces who will spend Thanksgiving away from their homes and families, facing danger overseas to protect our way of life.

When we sit down to enjoy a family meal on Thursday, I will give thanks to God for the blessing of a strong and diverse family life that has taught me so much about loyalty, selflessness, and compassion. I will pray for God's continued blessings on my family, and on yours, and on this great nation of ours. (Yep gotta pimp that Christian cred, after all she has a book to sell.)

From my family to yours, God bless you and Happy Thanksgiving!

With an Alaskan heart, Sarah Palin

Look she signed it with "an Alaskan heart" so doesn't THAT prove she is still an Alaskan resident?

I mean what more does she have to do, move to Alaska?

Palin also posted this video on her ghostwritten post, which I THINK was supposed to demonstrate how much people sill love her, but which to me simply showed a woman who appears sickly, undernourished, and desperate for attention.

P.S. By the way if you want to read a rather different, more accurate, take on the Thanksgiving story, from a couple of teachers, just click here.

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An article topic previously published by BirtherReport and GatewayPundit has now been picked up by Investors Business Daily along with Rush Limbaugh. IBD asks if voters are victims of an elaborate con. Well, Duh!



Excerpt: If someone else wrote the book the president has repeatedly claimed he did — a book that proved significant in his election and earned him millions in late royalties — it not only exposes him as a fraud, but further indicts the national media for failing to properly vet him.

In fact, the media elite used the book to help promote him for the presidency. Time magazine, for one, gushed that "Dreams From My Father" "may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."

Others waxed proudly about how his tangled and biracial life story reflected "the diversity of America."

But this myth-making was recently busted by Obama biographer David Maraniss, who documented at least 38 instances in the president's life story that were fabricated. Obama made up people, events and history. Much of the book was pure fiction.

The real story may be that Obama was deeper in bed with an unrepentant America-hating militant socialist than he has admitted.

Did America elect a fiction to the White House? Are voters victims of an elaborate con? It's high time the national media started asking hard questions. [...] - Continued at IBD. Also at Breitbart News here and here.

@ IBD: Don't forget about his fabricated birth certificates and selective service card... Both felonies!




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One of Bitcoin enthusiast Mike Caldwell's coins in this photo illustration at his office in Sandy, Utah.


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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, here attending the General Synod in London Wednesday, Nov. 20, acknowledged the 'revolution' of attitudes toward homosexuality in general society.


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President Obama feeling the love from Californians. A state where Obamacare is working quite well.

Courtesy of Salon:

The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads — either by this weekend, or whenever Healthcare.gov can legitimately be described as a “working” website.

The first came from Jeffrey Zients — the Obama administration point person in charge of fixing Healthcare.gov — who told reporters on Friday that the site will be able to handle 50,000 users at a time and 800,000 users a day by the the end of next week. That’s double the current capacity, and right in time for an expected surge in demand just before the end of the year.

The second came from the pro-reform group Families USA, which examined options available to 15 million people who are currently covered on the individual market (many of whose policies have been canceled and will lapse by the end of the year) under the Affordable Care Act.

According to Families USA, over 70 percent of those currently insured will either qualify for premium tax credits on state-based insurance exchanges, or become newly eligible for Medicaid coverage under the healthcare law.

“Nationally, 71 percent of people in the individual market under age 65 have incomes at or below 400 percent of poverty,” according to Families USA. “Under the Affordable Care Act, these people are income-eligible for financial help to purchase an insurance plan, either through new premium tax credit subsidies or through expanded Medicaid.”

Together that combines all of the ingredients any marketplace needs to be successful:

1) An appealing product.

2) A large population of motivated shoppers.

3) Affordable prices, either by design or by discount.

4). A fast-moving checkout counter.

For the past couple of months, the Healthcare.gov failure allowed Republicans to ignore the moral imperative they face to direct these constituents toward new options. The cash registers aren’t working, they could tell themselves, so what good would we be doing by directing people to the market anyhow. This was always dodgy logic, but it enjoyed a real sheen of plausibility. And that’s why Republicans have spent most of November soliciting Obamacare horror stories, rather than trying to help the narrators.

A working site that can service nearly a million people a day destroys that excuse. Some conservative groups have been craven and reckless enough to actively discourage people from enrolling in Affordable Care Act coverage. Elected Republicans have generally used their influence more subtly, by drawing attention to the hassles and supposed dangers of using Healthcare.gov. Manipulation vs. direct appeal. They’ve also maligned an administrative solution President Obama devised that will allow carriers in some states to reissue canceled policies.

But the real fix for 70 percent (or so) of people whose policies have been canceled is to get new, subsidized coverage through exchanges, or to enroll in Medicaid. Once Healthcare.gov is working at high capacity, they’ll owe people with canceled coverage more than just the play-acting they’ve offered for the past month.

A picture courtesy of Dennis Zaki who says these are everywhere in California.

There has always been a shelf life for the Republican attacks against the ACA, and the website problems certainly extended it, but once those problems are worked out the GOP will have to come up with a different strategy to use to attack Democrats and this President.

Gee I can hardly wait to see what that will be.

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I know that some of you expressed a desire NOT to see this video this morning, but much like seeing Uncle Harold pass out with his pants unzipped in front of the football game after dinner this too is a Thanksgiving tradition.

Besides WHO can really get tired of watching Sarah Palin fail so hilariously at trying to mimic the President turkey pardon.

My favorite part is that according to my friend Linda Kellen Biegel, (Celtic Diva) who was there that day, the cameraman suggested that she might want to move to a different location, but she looked back and then said she was fine right there.

And the rest is Thanksgiving history.

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I don't know how I missed this, but apparently Stephen Colbert predicted that John McCain would pick Sarah Palin as his running mate way back in 2006.

You know I don't usually buy into prognostication but I have to admit THAT is just freaky.

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