"NJ pastor warns church leaders to get off Facebook"

Facebook causes adultery? Ha ha ha, wow.

That's about as dumb as the people who wail about video games causing violence. Look, I'll say the same thing about this as I do about the video game crap: if you're already inclined to commit adultery using Facebook as a facilitator, then you're going to find a way to do it even if you don't have Facebook. Banning the use of Facebook isn't going to magically make the problem go away, any more than banning video games is magically going to make the whole violence thing go away.

"TSA - Sexual Assault"

Seriously, this kind of thing needs to end. Now.

"I will leave you with this thought: 'It is acceptable and encouraged that a TSA government official can do something to an American citizen that US military personnel cannot do to a member of the Taliban.'"

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Also, I've seen this quote floating around a lot lately, and it is entirely fitting:

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

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"Sarah Palin 'New York Times' Article Previews Possible Presidential Run"

Sarah Palin running for President in 2012 will generate so very many "lulz." Many tons of popcorn will be eaten while watching such a trainwreck unfold. I mean, the simple fact that she uses terms like "lamestream media"* and yet still expects to be taken seriously as a potential Presidential contender is ridiculously hilarious. The debates against Obama alone would be worth the price of admission, given that she couldn't even hold her own against frickin' Biden. (Oh man how I wish I hadn't deleted the post that contained my live-blogging of the 2008 VP debates.)

I hope she does run, if only so that she will get the utter crushing defeat that she so richly deserves and will finally get it through her skull that everybody** is sick of her and has zero interest (aside from the "lulz" that it generates) in what she has to say.

With that said, however, Sarah Palin actually somehow winning in 2012 would be an unmitigated calamity. (Maybe the one that crackpots say the Mayans predicted?) And given the 2010 election results, it's not at all outside the realm of possibility that such a horrifying catastrophe could very well happen. While I personally can hardly imagine a universe in which Sarah Palin could possibly become POTUS, none of the ones I can imagine would be anything other than pure hell.

(Yeah, I've said recently that I'd try to refrain from seriously posting about politics, but come on. There's nothing serious about idea of Sarah Palin running for President. It's a complete joke. And if she somehow defies all odds and does win, then said joke will be on us all.)


* - But seriously, everything except for FOX News and her Facebook and Twitter pages is "lamestream media"? Really? I mean, why would the New York Times even run such an article as this (aside from "for the lulz") given that it is at the height of what Palin considers "lamestream"?

** - Everybody with even the slightest amount of common sense, at least. Tea Baggers generally do not fall into this category, of course.

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Oh, and you'd think something like Sarah Palin's daughter Willow calling people "faggot" on Facebook because they'd disparaged her mother's crappy Alaska show (EDIT 1.5 Oh and it looks like Bristol got involved too /EDIT 1.5) might negatively affect the above mentioned plans for Palin to run for president, but given the things that Dubya's daughters got into while he actually was president, I doubt this will hurt Palin all that much.

For that matter, a lot of Palin's supporters probably approve of the use of "faggot" and "gay" as insults, given the rampant homophobia and racism inherent in many of the Tea Baggers, thus this probably helps the Palin cause. *eyeroll*

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And to get back to the subject of Palin's presidential aspirations, she says she could beat Obama.

Only if Obama is caught eating dead infants slathered with ketchup made from the blood of puppies and kittens could Sarah Palin beat Obama, and even then it would still be a close race. Or, you know, if the wingnut Tea Baggers come out in droves and the rest of us stay home on election day 2012, which seems to be at least a partial reason for why 2010 went as pear-shaped as it did.

Maybe I'll just make this one post my "Sarah Palin dump post", at least for the time being.

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It is 43°F outside, yet I'm sitting here with two fans blowing on me and still sweltering.

It is too bloody hot in this office.

Oh well, only 17 more minutes to go before I can go out into the blessed cool and rain.