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Helen rants about the Big Three asking for government assistance:

So the oil companies are once again boasting record profits and yet the auto makers are asking for some government cheese.  Does anyone else see the irony here?  So I’ve got a little trickle down theory of my own.  As long as Detroit continues to make cars for the Gas-Capades let the oil companies bail them out.  It’s a  “robbing Peter to pay Paul” kind of thing except in this case Peter and Paul seem to be riding the short bus…  and it’s not to save on gas.

If you havent seen Margaret and Helen’s blog, you have to check it out. It’s quite entertaining.

A recent speech to American Constitution Society offers a peek into the mind of the President-elect’s pick for Attorney General, Eric Holder:

“Our needlessly abusive and unlawful practices in the ‘War on Terror’ have diminished our standing in the world community and made us less, rather than more, safe. For the sake of our safety and security, and because it is the right thing to do, the next president must move immediately to reclaim America’s standing in the world as a nation that cherishes and protects individual freedom and basic human rights.”

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous and most quoted speeches in American history at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”

— Morris West

So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

— Will Rogers (Nov 4, 1879 - Aug 15, 1935)

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”

— Plato

Laura Chase, campaign manager for Sarah Palin’s successful campaign for mayor of Wasilla in 1996, had this to say…

“She’s nothing like us! [S]he doesn’t know what it’s like to not be able to pay the bills, to not be able to get credit cards or health insurance for the kids. Not everyone has what they have; that image is a lie. And it’s not that she’s like us. We’d like to believe that. People are living vicariously through her. They feel they’re missing something in life. But she has that way where she can impact someone in that manner; it’s like you feel you’re living that life, and that’s why she can say ‘Oh, I’m just one of them,’ because we’re desperately trying to live vicariously through her energetic and determined lifestyle. Maybe that’s why I’m so damned proud of her – I’m doing it too.”

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UPDATE - 5:21pm… Laura Chase commented on this post and I wanted to bring her additional context “above the fold” for those who don’t look at the comment section:

. . . Just to put this quote in context, I was trying to explain why some part of me was proud of Sarah. The part that didn’t make it into the article is that I don’t believe Sarah is qualified to be Vice President and the mere thought scares the living daylights out of me. Before McCain selected Sarah as his running mate, I had planned to vote for him; I will not vote for him now.
–L

“The fate of empires is very often sealed by the interaction of war and debt. That was true of the British Empire, whose finances deteriorated from the First World War onwards, and of the Soviet Union. Defeat in Afghanistan and the economic burden of trying to respond to Reagan’s technically flawed but politically extremely effective Star Wars program were vital factors in triggering the Soviet collapse. Despite its insistent exceptionalism, America is no different.”

— John Gray

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(Hat tip: Daily Dish)

“Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start…

In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true.”

— Fareed Zakaria

“This Administration deserves to be trusted because it has kept us safe from terrorist attack since 9/11, has fought and won two wars, has presided over eight years of economic growth, has appointed two stellar justices to the Supreme Court, and has even learned how to do Louisiana’s job of protecting that state from hurricanes. The day will come, and not before long, when Americans will wish that George Bush was still president.”

— Steven Calabresi, professor of law at the Northwestern University Law School.

Un-freakin’-believable.

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(Hattip: The Daily Dish)