That's amazing.
To think she could go on Fox News Sunday today and rewrite history before a national TV audience... :142smilie
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/palin-says-she-didnt-err-on-paul-revere/
Sarah Palin's Midnight Ride
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To think she could go on Fox News Sunday today and rewrite history before a national TV audience... :142smilie
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/palin-says-she-didnt-err-on-paul-revere/
This is one of the key stories of the American Revolution, as much legend as history at this point. Nobody references Paul Revere being waylaid by British soldiers and warning them that the Americans were coming. If you answer a question about Paul Revere you talk about his ride, you recite Longfellow. You don?t babble incoherently about warning the British unless you happen to be a half-term former governor of Alaska who simply can?t be bothered to learn a little bit of American history.
I mean, surely Palin could have hired a few tutors between the 2008 debacle and now, right? Does she really honestly think she can just scrape by without spending any time off the publicity circuit? Maybe a course at Khan Academy, or a few hours in a library?
In any case, nobody needs yes men. At least no serious candidate. Maybe her supporters should stop defending her every foible and help her with her education instead.
It sure couldn?t hurt.
P.S. Just to clarify, my broader point is that Palin neither described the famous legend of Paul Revere as told in Longfellow?s poem, or the actual historical events. She mangled the facts (and mangled the syntax much more ferociously) and now her defenders are digging up an obscure story not even relevant to the history itself and holding it up as though Palin knew exactly what she was talking about. This is ludicrous.
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I mean, surely Palin could have hired a few tutors between the 2008 debacle and now, right? Does she really honestly think she can just scrape by without spending any time off the publicity circuit? Maybe a course at Khan Academy, or a few hours in a library?
In any case, nobody needs yes men. At least no serious candidate. Maybe her supporters should stop defending her every foible and help her with her education instead.
It sure couldn?t hurt.
P.S. Just to clarify, my broader point is that Palin neither described the famous legend of Paul Revere as told in Longfellow?s poem, or the actual historical events. She mangled the facts (and mangled the syntax much more ferociously) and now her defenders are digging up an obscure story not even relevant to the history itself and holding it up as though Palin knew exactly what she was talking about. This is ludicrous.
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Interesting - we will rip into this person for screwing up - and justifiably so - it is a very important part of our history...
yet, Obama signs the wrong date in the guest book at Buckingham - and it's not like he was off a day or two - 3 YEARS - and not a peep out of this crowd?
Really?
How could he be off 3 years?
yet, Obama signs the wrong date in the guest book at Buckingham - and it's not like he was off a day or two - 3 YEARS - and not a peep out of this crowd?
Really?
How could he be off 3 years?
He was captured and warned British officers ,that they were coming.Did Palin mean that?Probably not,but it makes her excuse at least plausible.
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And another
And another
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us...alins_historical_account/srvc=home&position=0
And another
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us...alins_historical_account/srvc=home&position=0
-- Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty laid out an economic vision for America on Tuesday that would cut taxes and dramatically reduce the size and scope of government operations.
Among his more novel ideas: If you can find it on Google, the government shouldn't be doing it.
We can start by applying what I call 'The Google Test.' If you can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be doing it," Pawlenty said.
Among the services he would cut: Amtrak, the U.S. Postal Service, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Government Printing Office.
Interpreted broadly, the test could spell the end of federal involvement in the storage of nuclear waste, environmental clean-up efforts and disaster relief -- all services that a Google search reveals are offered by private sector firms.
In addition, the Minnesota Republican has broader plans for curtailing government spending. As president, he would ask Congress to grant him emergency authority to freeze spending at current levels, and then impound up to 5% of federal spending until the budget is balanced.
"The implausible thing is cutting spending that dramatically from today's levels," said Rudolph Penner, a former Congressional Budget Office director who is now a fellow at the Urban Institute. And Pawlenty would be hard pressed to carry through, Penner said, because his pledge would require drastic cuts to health care and Social Security.
At the same time, he would take a meat cleaver to the tax code. Taxes on capital gains, interest income, dividends and estates would all be eliminated.
Individuals would pay a 10% tax rate on their first $50,000 in income and 25% on all additional earnings. Currently, income earned in excess of $373,000 is taxed at a 35% rate. That's the top bracket.
He also proposed reducing the current corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, while eliminating loopholes in the tax code carved out by special interests.
Don't count on stimulus. It's not coming
So how does Pawlenty plan to cut taxes by so much and still reduce the deficit? In addition to spending cuts, he is planning on blockbuster economic growth.
"Let's start with a big, positive goal," he said. "Let's grow the economy by 5%, instead of the anemic 2% envisioned currently."
The last time the U.S. economy enjoyed even two consecutive years of 5% growth was 1973 and 1974.
"It seems that Pawlenty's economic plan is falling right in line with other Republicans in the field," Jennings said. "Cut taxes, cut spending and then hope for unrealistic economic growth."
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Pawlenty enters the fray .
If you can google it the goverment dont need to be doing it.
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oh fawk me :mj07:
This is what grand old pricks come up with.
Among his more novel ideas: If you can find it on Google, the government shouldn't be doing it.
We can start by applying what I call 'The Google Test.' If you can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn't need to be doing it," Pawlenty said.
Among the services he would cut: Amtrak, the U.S. Postal Service, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Government Printing Office.
Interpreted broadly, the test could spell the end of federal involvement in the storage of nuclear waste, environmental clean-up efforts and disaster relief -- all services that a Google search reveals are offered by private sector firms.
In addition, the Minnesota Republican has broader plans for curtailing government spending. As president, he would ask Congress to grant him emergency authority to freeze spending at current levels, and then impound up to 5% of federal spending until the budget is balanced.
"The implausible thing is cutting spending that dramatically from today's levels," said Rudolph Penner, a former Congressional Budget Office director who is now a fellow at the Urban Institute. And Pawlenty would be hard pressed to carry through, Penner said, because his pledge would require drastic cuts to health care and Social Security.
At the same time, he would take a meat cleaver to the tax code. Taxes on capital gains, interest income, dividends and estates would all be eliminated.
Individuals would pay a 10% tax rate on their first $50,000 in income and 25% on all additional earnings. Currently, income earned in excess of $373,000 is taxed at a 35% rate. That's the top bracket.
He also proposed reducing the current corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, while eliminating loopholes in the tax code carved out by special interests.
Don't count on stimulus. It's not coming
So how does Pawlenty plan to cut taxes by so much and still reduce the deficit? In addition to spending cuts, he is planning on blockbuster economic growth.
"Let's start with a big, positive goal," he said. "Let's grow the economy by 5%, instead of the anemic 2% envisioned currently."
The last time the U.S. economy enjoyed even two consecutive years of 5% growth was 1973 and 1974.
"It seems that Pawlenty's economic plan is falling right in line with other Republicans in the field," Jennings said. "Cut taxes, cut spending and then hope for unrealistic economic growth."
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Pawlenty enters the fray .
If you can google it the goverment dont need to be doing it.
:142smilie :142smilie
oh fawk me :mj07:
This is what grand old pricks come up with.
OK looks like Newt Gingrich is done for.
All of his top aides resign at the same time.
Took a little digging but apparantly Newt refused to put off a 3 week vacation to the Greek Ises
and his top aides said .... ok we quiit.
Newt is the biggest example of the rich, egotistical, arrogant, know everything type of politicians that never need to be elected again.
We still have way too many more up there.
Vote them out and we may have a chance someday.
All of his top aides resign at the same time.
Took a little digging but apparantly Newt refused to put off a 3 week vacation to the Greek Ises
and his top aides said .... ok we quiit.
Newt is the biggest example of the rich, egotistical, arrogant, know everything type of politicians that never need to be elected again.
We still have way too many more up there.
Vote them out and we may have a chance someday.
Stephen Colbert re-enacts Sarah Palin's version of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride...
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http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/06/historians-agree-palin-was-right-about-revere/
Historians agree: Palin was right about Revere
posted at 9:25 am on June 6, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
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One if by land, and two if by sea ? and then what? According to historians interviewed by the Boston Herald, Paul Revere then warned the British not to challenge a roused and armed populace. That came as news to many observers who had rushed to criticize Sarah Palin for her response to a gotcha question at the Old North Church:
Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere ?warned the British? during his famed 1775 ride ? remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed ? is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up.
Palin prompted howls of partisan derision when she said on Boston?s Freedom Trail that Revere ?warned the British that they weren?t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he?s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.?
The first to dispute Palin?s critics was ? Paul Revere himself. In his own account of the ride, written twenty-three years later, Revere recounts how the British captured him, and how he attempted to dissuade the British from advancing. Revere warned that he had roused the local militias and that there would soon be 500 or more armed citizens coming together to repel the British.
A Boston University history professor told the Herald that Revere did indeed warn the British as well as the Americans earlier in his ride:
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, ?Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ?Look, there is a mobilization going on that you?ll be confronting,? and the British are aware as they?re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing ? she was right about that ? and warning shots being fired. That?s accurate.?
Of course, Revere wasn?t planning on getting captured. He and others riding to the alarm (William Dawes and Samuel Prescott) wanted to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of British action first, and rouse the militia second. Dawes and Prescott managed to elude the British and complete the mission, but Revere was captured. Furthermore, his warnings sufficiently rattled the British that they let him go ? but without his horse. He returned on foot to Lexington, where he managed to hide a trunk with Hancock?s letters to keep it from being captured, but missed the battle.
Historians agree: Palin was right about Revere
posted at 9:25 am on June 6, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
printer-friendly
One if by land, and two if by sea ? and then what? According to historians interviewed by the Boston Herald, Paul Revere then warned the British not to challenge a roused and armed populace. That came as news to many observers who had rushed to criticize Sarah Palin for her response to a gotcha question at the Old North Church:
Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere ?warned the British? during his famed 1775 ride ? remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed ? is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up.
Palin prompted howls of partisan derision when she said on Boston?s Freedom Trail that Revere ?warned the British that they weren?t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he?s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.?
The first to dispute Palin?s critics was ? Paul Revere himself. In his own account of the ride, written twenty-three years later, Revere recounts how the British captured him, and how he attempted to dissuade the British from advancing. Revere warned that he had roused the local militias and that there would soon be 500 or more armed citizens coming together to repel the British.
A Boston University history professor told the Herald that Revere did indeed warn the British as well as the Americans earlier in his ride:
Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, ?Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ?Look, there is a mobilization going on that you?ll be confronting,? and the British are aware as they?re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing ? she was right about that ? and warning shots being fired. That?s accurate.?
Of course, Revere wasn?t planning on getting captured. He and others riding to the alarm (William Dawes and Samuel Prescott) wanted to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of British action first, and rouse the militia second. Dawes and Prescott managed to elude the British and complete the mission, but Revere was captured. Furthermore, his warnings sufficiently rattled the British that they let him go ? but without his horse. He returned on foot to Lexington, where he managed to hide a trunk with Hancock?s letters to keep it from being captured, but missed the battle.
Come on, dude. Imo, she's an idiot, and in no way good for our country. Your constant toeing of the party line on every damn issue, great or small, is alarming. All republicans are not great, infallible people. All dems aren't pond scum. Why waste your time sticking up for this greedy, inept woman?
