A good article on Palin...by a Democrat?!

Prelude to 2012: how did Democrats let Sarah Palin destroy health care reform with Facebook?by D.K. Jamaal

It’s not even 2012, and Sarah Palin, the “lightweight” Caribou Barbie stupid dumb right-wing inexperienced unqualified unaccomplished religious wacko birther enabling nut that came from Wasilla, has already defeated President Obama.

She has trounced Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

She has trumped MoveOn, ACORN, and Obama’s mass army of volunteers at Organizing for America.

She has out-demagogued the three stooges of MSNBC Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow.

Oh, and she did it with Facebook notes.

Read that again: she did it with Facebook notes.

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BING is now dead to me

On a "bias" note, I just had a bit of a "wow" moment. I've switched to using Bing quite a bit because of the liberal bias of Google (yeah, I realize the irony of using Blogger to post this), but I just tried to do a simple search of "Sarah Palin" there, and got an odd response. I have Bing's "Search Suggestions" turned on, and so after I typed in "Sarah ", a list of suggestions pops down, but strangely, no option for "Palin". But there are options such as "Sarah " Jessica Parker, Brightman, Silverman, Machlachlan, Jessica Parker clothing line, Dessen (who the hell is THAT?!)

So I went a little further, typing in a "Sarah P"...and still no Palin, but instead I get "plain and tall/palan/ purcell/pender/polly/purcell/etc..."

So I try to force the suggestion by typing "Sarah Pali"...and still, the odd suggestions leave out the person, but instead give me her "pastor/son/wardrobe/pregnant daughter/college education/eyeglass prescription/etc..." You get the picture.

So I finish typing the name and hit SEARCH, and what would you guess the top hit was?

The F'n HUFFINGTON POST! "Sarah Palin's CLSA Speech May Be "Borat"-Style…"

...plus a small thumbnail pic of Sarah reading and having a cocktail at the pool with the caption "Will Sarah Quit on Asia Too?" linking to an article with that title.

Unbelievable.

BING is now dead to me, and should be to you too.

…and on a related note, I tried the same thing with Yahoo, and the “Search Suggestions” gave me the right person (Sarah Palin), and the results were much more balanced.

So it’s back to Yahoo for me, unless someone can suggest something better.

The Cuda speaks out on Tort Reform

Sarah Palin posted a new "note" on her Facebook page today calling for tort reform to be a focal point of any health insurance reform. Love her (I do) or hate her, she repeatedly demonstrates an ability to focus attention and debate on any issue she chooses, and tort reform is a perfect example. I have seen people at town halls ask their muckety-mucks about tort reform and get blown off and their questions ignored. I have yet to hear P-BO and the rest of our rulers with a (D) behind their names utter the term, and yet the public is clamoring for it.

The Cuda just changed all that with another single opinion piece from the sidelines. “They” will not be able to ignore it now, as in their ongoing rush to discredit her, they will have to confront the issues she brings up, and today’s issue is tort reform. I bet the D’s are glad it’s Friday, and they hope it will all blow over by Monday. It won’t. She brought up the “death panels” about 2 weeks ago, and it’s still being talked about, even by P-BO & Krauthammer, whom I disagree with on this issue.

There is an article written by an Alaskan Fisherman that is so good that I believe it merits linking. He brings up several points about Palin that are largelt ignored by the state-run media.

Alaskan Fisherman talks about Sarah Palin