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For the second time since Sarah Palin stepped into the national political spotlight, a photo of the former Republican vice-presidential candidate featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine is sparking controversy. Palin herself blasted the "out-of-context" cover as "sexist" on her Facebook page.

Originally published in the August 2009 issue of Runners World, the photo features the former Alaska governor in short runner's shorts. It was part of a multi-photograph slideshow that accompanied an article about Palin and her love for the sport titled, "I'm A Runner." In her Facebook post late last night, Palin took issue with Newsweek using a photo from an article about health and fitness to promote an analysis piece contemplating her relevance as a political figure

It is sexist. The photo and the accompanying title says, "She solves problems by being cute". It tries to demean any intellectual capacity and trying to make her look unprofessional.

Obama and Holder have decided to try the 9/11 terrorists in a civilian court in New York City, giving them the rights and privileges of American Citizens.


1. Change of venue - If the defense can show that they can't get a fair trial in New York, they can get the venue changed.

2. Miranda warnings - Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) wasn't giving Miranda warnings.

3. Illegal search and seizures - The Army didn't have warrants to arrest KSM and company.

4. Evidence gained under waterboarding - We all know KSM was waterboarded. Anything he said will be thrown out.

5. Cross examination - Defense will ask questions of CIA witnesses questions such as: "Explain how you did reconnaissance."

This is how the AP characterizes Obama's indecision on Afghantistan

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's drawn-out decision-making on Afghanistan is sending messages. To the Afghan government: Clean up your act. To the Pentagon: I'm no rubber stamp. To the American public: More troops can't be the sole answer.

So the AP is trying to turn Obama's indecision into a strength? How about:

Iran: He ain't going to stop our bomb
To Russia: I can invade Georgia
To the understaffed American forces: Drop dead

One of the worst Supreme Court decisions, Kelo vs. New London, the Court ruled that the town of New London, Ct, could claim Ms. Kelo's house to give to Pzifer, who would build something that would deliver more tax revenue. Today, however, Pfizer abandoned the project. So Kelo's house was destroyed for the "public benefit" (higher tax revenues) that never materialized. Now the "public" is worse off, because the site of Ms. Kelo's house is now a lot of weeds gaining no tax revenue at all.

Last Thursday, Army pyschologist, Major Malik Nidal Hasan yelled "Allahu Akbar" and starting shooting fellow Army personnel at Fort Hood, Texas. All totaled, 13 were killed and 38 were wounded.

Military has become politicized. Diversity is now a strategic imperitive. Despite knowing that he had tried to contact Al-Qaeda, the intelligence services did nothing (ABC News). Hasan previously attended a radical mosque that included two 9/11 hijacker alumni.

The military cannot carry guns on base. Why not? They are all trained responsible people. What's the downside? The unarmed military personnel at the base had to wait until cops got there. How many people could have been saved had everyone been armed?

Meanwhile the media is trying to say he was a lone crazy. The big story has become that Muslims fear an anti-Muslim backlash. They don't want to deal with the real story of removing other potential radicals from the military and dealing with CAIR.

I wasn't surprised to see the trailer of Hollywood disaster flick "2012", blowing up Christian landmarks (St. Peter's Basilica and the Christ the Reedemer Statue in Rio). There's no leftist fantasy greater than destroying religion, especially Christianity.

However, a recent interview shows that director Roland Emmerich was too scared to blow up any Islamic sites.

scifiwire - In 2012, he takes on landmarks in Rome, Rio de Janeiro and, yes, Washington, but there is one place even he couldn't bring himself to obliterate. We caught up with Emmerich in Jackson Hole, Wyo., where he told us why he chose various landmarks to lay waste in 2012, and about the one that got away.

Why? ..."Because I'm against organized religion," Emmerich says."

But.....

But Emmerich was thinking of something even more explosive: the Kaaba, the cube-shaped building at the heart of Mecca, the focus of prayers and the Islamic pilgrimage called the Hajj; it is one of Islam's holiest sites.

Really?

"Well, I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich says. "But my co-writer Harald said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right. ... We have to all ... in the Western world ... think about this. You can actually ... let ... Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is. So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."

Why? Islam is a religion of peace. We all know it. Make your movie how you want it to be made.

Last night two Republicans won governors races widely seen as a referendum on the Obama administration. While Obama carried Virginia in 2008 by 7%, McDonnell won by 20%. More importantly, in New Jersey, a state Obama carried by 13%, the Republican, Christie, won by 5%. If the Republicans won only Virginia they could easily blame the candidate. In New Jersey, however, Corzine had previously won election in 2005 as governor and previously won a Senate race there.

So if a sitting governor in a dark "blue" state, New Jersey cannot win reelection because of discontent with Obama's idea of "change", what is a Senator from a red state thinking about his re-election change if he joins the Obama lemming train?

Laughable. I'm glad people are realize what a joke the Obama adminstration is. This was supposed to be the administration that was going to be "open" and "accountable."


AP — President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.

The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.

About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved.

That type of accounting was found in an earlier AP review of stimulus jobs, which the Obama administration said was misleading because most of the government's job-counting errors were being fixed in the new data.