Some people just have a knack for doing or saying something at exactly the right time to get the maximum impact. Sarah Palin has taken that “knack” to a whole new level with her new video and the announcement that her “One Nation Tour” will be kicking off in Iowa on Friday.

She not only steals the spotlight from the other Republicans who are on the ground for the Iowa straw poll this Saturday just by being there, she totally knocks the wheels off Obummer’s bus with her one-line comparison between the two adventures: “Unlike next week’s Obama Bus Tour, taxpayers aren’t funding our tour…” Ba-da-BOOM!!!

Whether or not she decides to run is immaterial. Sarah Palin is a force of nature. She will defeat Obama in 2012. She has his number and she isn’t afraid to call it anytime, any place. He is so toasted.

I expect the trolls to start foaming at the mouth momentarily.

Guest Post by Loki

The Democrats are sinking as if they were in quicksand. Obama’s reelection looks dimmer than a burnt out 15 watt bulb. He reaches into his nearly empty bag of tricks to throw class hatred of the rich. Hateful rhetoric has become the weapon of choice and last resort. Stoking the flames of hatred they call all that oppose them extremists and terrorist. Backed into a corner with no record, no ideas and no leadership they are lashing out demonizing conservatives.

Through years of creeping social programs this country has become a nation of young who think they are entitled to feed at the public trough. Just like in Greece and Europe our young think they are owed a living and the ‘Constitutional Right’ to a full toy box of electronics and vehicles.

And when those perceived ‘rights’ are trimmed they ignore reality and throw temper tantrums trashing the rights of those the ‘progressives’ have told them to blame. In Europe they are rioting for toys and to get back at the ‘rich’.

In the USA we have race riots that are ignored by the liberal media to protect their nominee for president. They ignore what would have been front page news were a republican president. ‘Progressives’ show there true regressive colors calling for censoring those that question their destruction of our country and the economy. Anything to protect their collaborators in social engineering for fairness.

The only question that remains is when the extreme violence of Europe will bleed across the Atlantic. And how much violence we will see in our own streets. For it is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’. And will the media blame Republicans?

Having recently completed an online training program dealing with a subject that some would call dull as dirt (others would say “boring as hell”), I have an appreciation for the challenges that such endeavors must overcome. Not only are you charged with delivering pertinent, if not vital, information, you must somehow convey said information in such a way as to render the victim student conscious throughout. This is not an easy task. It’s not about the information – it’s all about the delivery. Sorta like childbirth.

Can you imagine having to create a “fun” instructional video for the Transportation Security Administration targeted to the flying public about going through airport security?

Yeah, that’s going to be a popular video.

Actually, yes it will be. At the behest of the CEO of Glacier International Airport, three eminently talented guys from the Flathead rose to the occasion with this unbelievably entertaining infomercial. This one’s going viral.

Without further ado – The Singing Sons of Beaches…

H/T to my Evil Twin.

I don’t usually copy/paste a whole post without editorial comment, but this one is too good not to share and there is nothing that I can add to it – so with credit to the Grouch at Right Truth by way of The Last Refuge. enjoy…

The Obama administration is urging both houses of the congress to pass sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits to many Americans: The Americans with No Abilities Act (AWNAA). President Obama said he will sign it as soon as it hits his desk.

The AWNAA is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambitions.

“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society.” said California Democrat senator, Barbara Boxer. “We can no longer stand by and allow people of inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers simply because they have some idea of what they are doing. We are legalizing another protected class of Americans.”

In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, D-CA. and Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, D-NV. pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest US. employer of persons of inability.

Private sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement warehouse stores (65%), as well as your local Radio Shack (98%). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring persons of inability (a whopping 83%).

Under AWNAA, more than 25 million “middle man” positions will be created with important sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.

Mandatory non-performance based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most inept employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of persons of inability into middle management positions. and gives a tax credit to small and medium sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.

Finally the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”

“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Keri Cox, who lost his position as a lug nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, MI, due to his inability to remember “righty tighty, lefty loosey”. “This new law should be real good for people like me,” Cox added. With the passage of this bill, Cox and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Said Senator, Dick Durbin, D-IL, “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.

If you have to cheat to win, you probably aren’t really winning. If you have to cheat to come in third, you really aren’t winning.

Ken Miller released the results of a poll conducted for his campaign today in an email that had more spin than a Maytag washer.

Here’s an excerpt from the actual press release from Magellan Strategies:

Louisville, CO – Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies today released the results of an autodial survey of 676 likely 2012 Montana Republican primary voters. The survey finds former two term Congressman Rick Hill with 24%, former State Senator Ken Miller with 13%, former State Senator Corey Stapleton with 5%, businessman Neil Livingstone with 3%, and Chouteau County Commissioner Jim O’Hara with 3%, and 52% undecided. Among senior voters (65 or older), which we project to be 37% of the total primary vote, Rick Hill leads Ken Miller by 11 points, 26% to 15%. It is no surprise that half, 52%, of respondents are undecided at this very early stage of the campaign…

These results will come as no surprise to anyone following the gubernatorial contest with even the slightest interest. Rick Hill is obviously the strongest candidate in the field – name recognition, favorability, and the all important fundraising. Miller may be in second place now, but when Neil Livingstone floods his campaign with enough money to buy God – and this is a matter of when, not if – Ken Miller won’t even know what ran over him.

What is kind of jaw-dropping about today’s “news flash” is the way Miller brags about the fact that it took some really serious push polling to get better results. Push polling is usually a last-ditch tactic for a failing campaign in the final, waning moments of an election. And the candidate rarely claims any knowledge – let alone credit – for having resorted to such desperate efforts. To be touting the need for such tactics so loudly and so early is certainly a unique strategy. But when a candidate has been on the stump for over a year and still has less than 60% name recognition within his own party that’s not a sign of a strong campaign. It’s even worse when less than a quarter of the voters who recognize the candidate’s name have a favorable opinion of him.

I know, candidates have to focus on the positives in order to keep the campaign afloat. Gotta keep the troops upbeat and optimistic and all that. But when you have to fudge the facts so deliberately and obviously, the smell of desperation indubitably permeates the carefully constructed meme.

I guess I can understand why Ken has to try so hard to put lipstick on the pig, but no matter what shade he chooses, it’s still a pig. With less than a year to go to the primary, Miller seems to have peaked in second place. Apparently he’s using that new definition…

Guest Post by Loki

Recently the Helena Independent Record replaced their editor and did some ‘restructuring’. I had wondered if this was going to be a step backwards toward a more liberal bias. We may now have an indication.

On July 18, 2011 a letter was published in the printed paper from a writer in Missoula. It was a missive of vile hate towards all conservative radio and TV talk shows hosts. It accused conservatives of being intolerant and not listening to other opinions. Interestingly though the letter was not published in their on-line edition to allow opposing comments. So it was a one-sided attack against conservatives. The obvious irony was missed by the IR.

On the same day they published an opinion piece from the noted extreme liberal Paul Krugman. This was the second article from Krugman for the month.

The IR began a ‘Civil Dialogue’ policy to tone down the rhetoric for comments. But they are not updating comments very often making real discussions difficult. And occasionally they are shutting off comments. And not having access to who they actually ‘moderate’ I can not know if there is a bias in the moderation.

So in my opinion it looks like the IR shakeup was a not too subtle left turn.

Ed. Note: Here’s the letter published by the Missoulian. Judge for yourself.

Reality reveals the self-righteous indignation of people like Bill O’Reilly, Denny Rehberg, Glenn Beck, Scott Walker, Jeff Essmann, Paul Ryan and Will Deschamps as symptoms of untruth. These individuals are hostile and angry precisely because they do not feel confident in their own truth. When someone is intolerant of listening to others, the more certain you can be that they do not know what they are talking about.
As honest, fair and truly intellectual debate degrades before our very eyes, the quality of American democracy degrades along with it.

– James Minckler, Missoula

Guest Post by Loki

The coming election year promises to be the most caustic hate filled Presidential race in my lifetime. This will be a vicious fight with cries of racism, lies, hate and cheating. I even expect a few deaths.

Let me lay out my premise. Obama’s presidency has been a failure. Unemployment is up with prediction of unemployment to be as high as 8.75% at the time of the election. His stimulus plan has failed and the backup plan is more stimuli. Housing prices continue a lackluster flat line. Household consumable prices continue to rise. High gas prices are remaining steady. Obama will not be able to run on his one great success. Obamacare’s popularity was nonexistent and fallen since. Waivers for Obamacare approach 1,500. With the printing of more money inflation is starting to show its ugly head. The Middle East now hates us more than when Bush was president. The voting public projected their hopes on Obama with his simplistic campaign of ‘Hope and Change’. Instead we got the same old politics with some added Chicago style thuggery. The election shine has been tarnished, his popularity and electability are falling. He can’t run against Bush anymore. His own mark is on the White House and the blame-game is not working anymore. He can’t continue his comparison of himself to Lincoln and Regan because nobody sees any connection. His only resort is dirty politics.

We have already seen some of that on this blog. Either paid or volunteer supporters of Obama have harassed this site possibly because of an article on Sarah Palin. The dumpster diving media has started to do hack reports on even potential presidential candidates. Rep. Jackson Lee (D) on the House floor claimed racism for anyone not supporting Obama’s debt ceiling. Bill Clinton claims Republicans are using ‘Jim Crow Laws’ to stop minorities from voting. And we are still over 16 months from the election.

Leaving Obama with nothing to run on but dirty politics I am afraid we are about to witness the dirtiest election of our lifetimes.