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From Unladylike Liberty's Facebook page:

Love you, Willow! Happy Birthday from Track and cousin Dylan.

So do we think she misspelled birthday just to be cute, or is that how she spells it after a few too many Red Bulls and vodka?

An hour after this post Palin posted another happy birthday message in which she called Willow a VIP, and included Doug McMarlin from her "SarahPAC team" who has been clinging to her coattails since the 2008 debacle.

She also included this old picture.

Boy those were the days, weren't they?

Back when everybody still paid attention to her, and the people around her thought that she was a gravy train they could ride until judgement day.

Oh how the not so mighty have fallen.

Well anyhow, Happy Birthday Willow.

You're still my favorite. (Not that there is a lot of competition in that family.)

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Courtesy of CNN:

Which one of these doesn't fit? More jobs, a record stock market, wars ending and dismal poll numbers.

All apply to Barack Obama's presidency as it passes the 2,000-day mark, raising questions about the viability of what used to be known as conventional political wisdom.

A strengthening economy and robust stock market traditionally mean general public satisfaction with government. Bringing soldiers home from war zones has always boosted presidential popularity.

Not this time with this President.

A CNN compilation of recent national polls indicates only 41% of Americans approve of Obama's handling of the job, down 6 percentage points from a year ago and matching the low of the past 12 months.

Why the disconnect? A convergence of factors -- uneven economic growth, government crises both real and exaggerated, foreign policy problems, hyper-partisan Washington politics now on election-year steroids -- helps explain it.

CNN then goes through each of the positives they just named and picks them apart in order to justify Obama's low poll numbers but that is all bullshit.

The reason is because ever since the day this President took office Fox News, Sarah Palin, and other Right Wing talking heads have undermined every single thing that he has accomplished, while the Republicans in Congress have actively worked to keep him from accomplishing anything.

President Obama has worked night and day to cleanup the devastating mess left by George W. Bush, and the entire time he has had to endure withering attacks from the very people who applauded the last president while he was making that mess.

So fuck them!

Look I have things that I disagree with President Obama on.

The drone attacks, NSA spying, the way we treat whistle blowers, but there is no room left to have a civil disagreement because as a progressive I feel it is my job to stand up for this President and defend him against unwarranted attacks, while also publicizing the incredible job he has been doing.

In the end there is simply no reasonable comparison between this presidency and ANY of the Republican ones that came before. Simply put, Democrats do this job infinitely better than do Republicans.

And despite the wishes of the Right Wing history story will show that THIS President was one of our very best.

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Courtesy of Americans Against the Tea Party:

Open carry “activists” have been terrorizing the retail district of Careytown, VA. Recently, three armed men paraded through the busy Carey street and downtown areas, causing residents and shoppers to grow concerned about the safety of the area — and are threatening a boycott of the shopping area if open carry ammosexuals are permitted to continue to parade their penile enhancements around in public. Dozens of e-mails, phone calls, and Facebook posts have rolled in complaining about the actions of the public blasturbators that are making residents feel uneasy.

“It was something about seeing, large guns, with three people carrying a flag that made it a little scary,” said Teresa Cerully, who works in Carytown.

“A few weeks ago, they were standing in front of our store, talking to people about their cause and my customers were actually afraid to leave the store because they have small children and didn’t know exactly what their cause was,” said Sheri Doyle, a Carytown shop owner.

One mother, a member of Moms Demand Action, said, “My belief is that no one should be normalized to the site of these weapons in public,” she said. “There is no way to know if the person carrying one of these down Cary Street is a good guy or a bad guy.”

The group has asked the Carytown Merchants Association to see if Carytown would consider a gun-free zone. The group defends its actions, saying the people the group frightens are the ones it needs to reach the most. “The people who are choosing to stay away, because of that, are the people we are trying to reach the most, because they are the ones that need the education of the firearms,” said Scott Royle, one of the men who regularly parades around with his boomstick.

Yeah you know I think these parents are already quite well educated when it comes to firearms.

They realize that the more there are of them, the more dangerous it is for both them and their families.

Especially when the spokesperson for the group promoting open carry posts crap like this to Twitter.

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These are pictures from Palin's latest Facebook post of her entire family looking as if Francis Scott Key threw up all over them.

Here is the tect she banged out with her forehead to go along with them:

Happy Independence Day from everyone of us at our family reunion today -- celebrating at the grand patriotic Coeur d'Alene parade!

Looks like fun. You know, unless you are are sickened by an over the top display of faux patriotism that is.

I celebrated the 4th of July right here in Alaska with my fellow Alaskans.

I did not dress like an American flag, shove sparklers up my ass, or try to have sex with an apple pie, but I think I was sufficiently patriotic.

Why is Sarah Palin dressed all in black, when everybody else is wearing as few clothes as possible?

But then again I am not selling myself as the spokesperson for the return to American exceptionalism (Whatever the hell that is!) like some people we know.

Update: Yes if you Google "Coeur d'Alene and racism" You might come to understand why it is so attractive to Palin and her clan.

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Courtesy of CNN:

The tea party-backed challenger who narrowly lost a Republican primary runoff in Mississippi to longtime Sen. Thad Cochran says he plans to file a legal challenge contesting those results "any day now."

State Sen. Chris McDaniel said Friday on CNN's "New Day" that "the integrity of the process matters. We believe on that night of June 24 there were thousands of irregularities and we've already found thousands of irregularities in the process."

McDaniel also defended his campaign's offer - announced Thursday - of rewards of $1,000 each for individuals providing "evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in voter fraud."

And McDaniel said "we condemn any racist comments what so ever," when asked by CNN anchor Kate Bolduan about a bizarre Cochran campaign conference call on Wednesday that included borderline racist comments by an unidentified caller who appeared to be a supporter of the challenger's campaign.

Thad Cochran beat McDaniel by over 6,500 votes, and it is very unlikely that there anywhere near that many disputed votes. However the McDaniel campaign has stated that they do not need to find enough votes to overturn the election, just enough to bring into question Conchran's fifty percent margin which would mandate yet a second runoff.

Oh lucky Mississippi.

Of course this is really pissing off the Cochran campaign who seriously doubt the numbers that the McDaniel team is throwing around:

Cochran campaign adviser Austin Barbour in a news conference called claims of illegal voting "baseless." He said McDaniel "ran a great campaign, and we applaud them."

"Sadly, the time has come now that we can no longer sit still with all these baseless accusations that are being fed by the McDaniel campaign and their out-of-state allies," Barbour said. "… If they've got hard evidence, bring it forward, but quit talking about exaggerated numbers that they know are not true and we know are not true. … The time has come to put up or shut up."

I don't live in Mississippi, obviously, but if this shit were happening in Alaska I can say with some degree of certainty that the next election that McDaniel forced the state to pay for would see his numbers down in the single digits as voters took out their anger on him over having to schlep to the polls yet again.

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Though it may be comforting to believe that our mythologies explain everything that we need to know, only a child clings to that misconception for the feeling of safety that it provides.

The rational adult must stand naked in their ignorance before the mysteries that lay ahead, resolved to the fact that though what they learn may frighten and intimidate them, the knowledge will benefit the future of our species and help to ensure its survival.



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Great Arrest by the 006 Pct! Nothing is Routine. #Tactics #Be Safe #NYPD pic.twitter.com/gFlku7MMbJ
— Chief Robert Boyce (@NYPDDetectives) July 3, 2014

Courtesy of New York Daily News:

A man who was armed with two AR-15 assault rifles and carried a suicide note that said he wanted to “die in combat” was arrested in the West Village on Wednesday morning, police said.

Victor Greer, 46, of Reading, Pa., was pulled over about 1:15 a.m. while driving the wrong way down a one-way street — he was headed north on Seventh Ave. near Grove St., police said.

Inside his vehicle, cops found a .9-mm pistol, a pump-action shotgun and a box of ammo in addition to the AR-15 rifles — a high-powered killing machine that has been used in some of America's recent mass killings.

His suicide note read: “I want to die in combat, so I can go to heaven and meet God,” according to police.

Of course there was NO way to predict that this kind of thing could happen while living in a society which glorifies religion, gun ownership, and military combat in equal portions. Right?

Yeah I'm sure it can all be blamed on mental illness, and if not that, video games.

Why look to the obvious reasons, with their even more obvious solutions.

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