Well, now, here’s an intriguing headline!

Even GOP activists are turning against Sarah Palin

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At a recent gathering in South Carolina, the site of a crucial early presidential primary next year, party activists said the former Alaska governor didn’t have the experience, the knowledge of issues or the ability to get beyond folksy slang and bumper-sticker generalities that they think is needed to win and govern.

Whoa, that’s harsh. The GOP Activists are sounding like — well, like Democrats. And it took them only thirty months to see the obvious! Who says America’s best years aren’t still ahead of us?

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Near as we can tell, the FBI caught a real live terrorist this time:

The affidavit alleges that on Feb. 1, 2011, a chemical supplier reported to the FBI a suspicious attempted purchase of concentrated phenol by a man identifying himself as Khalid Aldawsari. According to the affidavit, phenol is a toxic chemical with legitimate uses, but can also be used to make the explosive trinitrophenol, also known as T.N.P., or picric acid. The affidavit alleges that other ingredients typically used with phenol to make picric acid, or T.N.P., are concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids.

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“Just when abortion rights supporters thought they had beaten a controversial bill they believe would legalize the killing of abortion providers, it has cropped up again [in Nebraska] — this time in a more expansive form that has drawn the concern of law enforcement officials.” Proponents, of course, deny the insinuation. [Mother Jones]

“The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in ‘psychological operations’ to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned — and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.”

In today’s edition of the GOP pissing on women, Republican Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin has introduced H.B. 1 in the Georgia Legislature, which, along with outlawing abortion, requires that all miscarriages (which the bill calls “spontaneous fetal deaths”) be reported to the local county registrar within 72 hours, along with documentation that the miscarriage occurred with “no human involvement whatsoever.”

If a woman cannot prove sufficient facts or details as to the circumstances of her miscarriage, investigators may obtain information from “relatives or other persons acquainted with the facts” to determine whether the miscarriage occurred naturally.  Any “fetal death” that cannot be proven to have occurred without “human involvement” will be classified as a felony offense. Along with ignoring Roe v. Wade, let’s just ditch the whole concept of innocent until proven guilty.

Franklin has previously introduced legislation abolishing paper money in the state and outlawing income taxes, so he has a track record of far-right teabaggery.

People magazine first observed Abe Vigoda’s passing in 1982 — which means that he’s spent nearly a third of his life in the Mark Twain Twilight Zone. (Twain himself only outlived the exaggeration by thirteen years.) The other two-thirds began on this day in 1921.

More shit that needs to go:

1) the Geico gekko – would somebody squash this little fucker already? Most aggravating ad campaign since the Energizer Bunny.

2) Ben Stein selling shit on TV – why does anyone pay this evolution-denying shitbag to sell anything?  Fuck him.

3) Steven Tyler – dude, you are 62 years old, yet you look like a Real Housewife of New Jersey. Retire, and stop spending your money on plastic surgery and hair extensions.

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