Escort with close ties to Russian oligarch claims to have video evidence of Russian meddling in America's election.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

A Belarusian escort with close ties to a powerful Russian oligarch said from behind bars in Bangkok on Monday that she had more than 16 hours of audio recordings that could help shed light on Russian meddling in United States elections. 

The escort, Anastasia Vashukevich, said she would hand over the recordings if the United States granted her asylum. She faces criminal charges and deportation to Belarus after coming under suspicion of working in Thailand without a visa at a sex-training seminar in the city of Pattaya. 

Ms. Vashukevich, who described herself as close to the Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska, said that audio recordings she made in August 2016 included discussions he had about the United States presidential election with people she declined to identify. 

Mr. Deripaska, a billionaire with close ties to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, also has business ties to Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman. Mr. Manafort is under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel looking into the campaign’s connections to Russia. 

“If America gives me protection, I will tell everything I know,” Ms. Vashukevich said on Monday. “I am afraid to go back to Russia. Some strange things can happen.”

Now you may want to discount such an outlandish claim out of hand, but then you have to keep this in mind:  

Her assertion could be easy to disregard were it not for a 25-minute video investigation posted last month on YouTube by the Russian opposition figure Aleksei A. Navalny, which relies heavily on videos and photographs from Ms. Vashukevich.

That was the YouTube video that you may have heard about which the Russian government kept trying to get taken down, and has now received more than 6 million views.

Now that does not automatically mean that Vashukevich should be taken at her word about all of this, but it also means she cannot be discounted entirely.

Of course the problem is that Vashukevich is seeking asylum in America. And since Donald Trump is currently in charge of our government there is no way that he wants this kind of proof made available to the press.

I would think it might be smarter for Vashikevish to reach out to some of our allies, like Canada, Britain, or Germany and ask them for asylum.

Once she arrives in one of those places, she can tell her story without fear she will wind up suffering the same fate as former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Accused pedophile Roy Moore promises to reveal the real motivations of his supposed victims.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast:  

Roy Moore on Saturday promised there would soon be “revelations” on the “motivations” of those accusing him of sexual misconduct. During a Veterans Day event in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, the Alabama Senate candidate questioned why his accusers didn’t come forward sooner and warned voters of what he described as a Democratic conspiracy against him. “To think that grown women would wait 40 years... to bring charges is absolutely unbelievable,” Moore said. “There are investigations going on. In the next few days, there will be revelations about the motivations and the content of this article,” Moore said, referring to the Washington Post story that first revealed the claims. The report cited four different women who said Moore pursued them sexually or touched them inappropriately when they were underage. The youngest accuser said she was 14 at the time of the alleged sexual misconduct. “Isn’t it strange that after 40 years of constant investigation people have waited until 4 weeks prior to the general election to bring their complaints?” Moore said Saturday. He went on to call the story “fake news” and “an attempt to divert attention from the true issues which affect our country.”

Yeah, I expect these "revelations" to be trotted out alongside Barack Obama's "real" birth certificate.

It seems these GOP assholes always have some secret evidence that proves their point or exonerates them in some way.

The Attorney for one of the accusers had this to say:

The lawyer for one of the women cited in The Washington Post's story about sexual misconduct by Senate candidate Roy Moore says it is "reprehensible that so many Alabama Republican officeholders" have rejected the evidence.

Gloria Deason told the Post she went on dates with Moore in 1979, when he was 32 and she was 18. Deason told the Post that Moore ordered her alcoholic drinks even though she was under the legal drinking age. 

Deason's lawyer, Paula Cobia, has released a statement blasting Moore for "incendiary statements about the women." She says Deason stands to gain "no glory, no financial compensation, no justice." 

Cobia says Deason has no affiliation with either the Republican or the Democratic party, and has never contacted Moore's election opponent, Democrat Doug Jones.

Of course this did not keep Moore's supporters from attempting to intimidate or frighten these women into backing down.

The coward deleted it. @jack @biz @TwitterSupport needs to ban this serial harasser who uses Twitter to put innocent people’s lives in danger. pic.twitter.com/ors1NtYTU3

— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) November 10, 2017

By the way the reason that women sometimes wait decades before feeling safe enough to finally go public and talk about their abuse is because of shit like that tweet.

Men did not always have Twitter to bully and intimidate their victims, but doing so is a long and well established tradition.

And that is essentially what that lawyer referenced above said after hearing this crap from Moore.

“Roy Moore is publicly making defamatory statements about the 4 brave women” — new statement from Paula Cobia, attorney for Gloria Deason pic.twitter.com/m0I2O3TZmp

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 11, 2017

It looks like Roy Moore better start producing these "revelations" of his.

Bill Moyers has updated his Russia/Trump timeline. You might want to take a look at it.

Courtesy of Bill Moyers.com:

When it comes to Donald Trump, his campaign and their dealings with Russia past and present, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all the players without a scorecard. We have one of sorts — a deeply comprehensive timeline detailing what actually happened and what’s still happening in the ever-changing story of the president, his inner circle and a web of Russian oligarchs, hackers and government officials. 

Since first launched in February 2017, the Trump-Russia Timeline has grown to more than 600 entries — and we will continue to add updates regularly. What have reporters and investigators already uncovered and made public? 

What are the connections and patterns? Review the timeline to see.

The new information about George Papadopoulos is now included, as well as the revelations from Carter Page which came out during his testimony and his many bizarre cable news appearances.

Simply put once you scroll through it there is no longer any way to doubt that there was absolutely collusion between the Trump campaign and Kremlin operatives. 

On that note Seth Abramson is also convinced that recent information provided by Papadopoulos proves collusion as well:

You will likely have to actually visit the site if you want to read that on your phone or I-Pad.

So have we proven collusion yet?

Yeah, I think we have. 

When even Fox News cannot swallow the idea that there is nothing to the Russia story, that is pretty much game over.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Between its “Fox and Friends” morning show and Sean Hannity at night, Fox News has become a haven for those who think this whole Russia thing is nonsense. On Friday morning, Steve Doocy even declared that “the Russia story is starting to fall apart.” 

But on Friday afternoon, a Fox host went off on the Trump administration's handling of Russia in a way we've rarely seen. 

Here's the transcript: 

"We’re still not clean on this, Chris [Wallace]. If there’s nothing there — and that’s what they tell us, they tell us there’s nothing to this and nothing came of it, there’s a nothingburger, it wasn’t even memorable, didn’t write it down, didn’t tell you about it, because it wasn’t anything so I didn’t even remember it — with a Russian interpreter in the room at Trump Tower? If all of that, why all these lies? Why is it lie after lie after lie? If you clean, come on clean, you know? My grandmother used to say when first we practice to — Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. The deception, Chris, is mind-boggling. And there are still people who are out there who believe we’re making it up. And one day they’re gonna realize we’re not and look around and go, Where are we, and why are we getting told all these lies?"

Now to be fair Shep Smith is like an oasis of responsible journalism in a desert of Right Wing talking points over at Fox, but Chris Wallace is right there with him.

And they are not alone.

Here is Fox contributor Charles Krauthammer, courtesy of CNN: 

In a column published Thursday night, Krauthammer said that the "Russian scandal has entered a new phase, and there's no going back." 

Krauthammer, a Fox News contributor, wrote that he has long been a skeptic of charges of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, but that he was "open to empirical evidence." 

Following a revelation this week about emails between Donald Trump Jr. and a business associate who helped arrange a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, Krauthammer wrote that the "evidence is now shown." 

"This is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks," Krauthammer wrote. "This is an email chain released by Donald Trump Jr. himself."

Now Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, and those airheads on Fox and Friends are simply NEVER going to admit that this president is a liar and that he colluded with the Russian government to steal an election, but for a growing segment of Fox News viewers those facts are starting to become unavoidable.

While busy hacking our election, the Russian government was also renewing licenses on Trump trademarks. Well, what a coinky dink.

Courtesy of the New York Times:

Last year, while hacking Democrats’ emails and working to undermine the American presidential election, the Russian government also granted extensions to six trademarks for Mr. Trump that had been set to expire. The Trump trademarks, originally obtained between 1996 and 2007 for hotels and branding deals that never materialized, each had terms that were coming to an end in 2016. 

Despite their inactivity, the Trump Organization sought extensions for the trademarks from Rospatent, the Russian government agency in charge of intellectual property. In a series of approvals starting in April 2016 and ending in December, Rospatent granted new 10-year terms for the trademarks, the agency’s records show. 

Four of the approvals were officially registered on Nov. 8 — Election Day in the United States. 

Under normal circumstances, renewing trademarks in Russia is generally a routine matter, and there is nothing to suggest from the few public records available that Mr. Trump was shown favoritism. Still, extensions are not guaranteed and can be subject to challenge — particularly if, as in this case, the trademarks went unused for years, according to interviews with a half-dozen lawyers specializing in intellectual property law.

Okay okay now this does not necessarily prove any kind secret deal making between Trump and the Russian government, it could all be very routine.

But then there is this: 

Beyond the questions about Russian government approvals, the trademark renewals cast doubt on Mr. Trump’s oft-stated insistence that he has no business interests in Russia. Mr. Trump has made the claims in response to investigations of possible collusion between his associates and Russia during and after the election. 

In January, he wrote on Twitter, “I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA — NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” He told NBC News in May that he has “no investments in Russia, none whatsoever.” And on Thursday, he expressed frustration on Twitter over scrutiny of his “non-dealings” in Russia.

Gee look, another lie.

I don't know about everybody else but I am pretty much past giving Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt about ANYTHING.

Sure this information is not definitive proof of anything, but if you throw it in with the rest of what we know about Trump and his interactions with the Russians it starts to seem like the kind of circumstantial evidence that gets people sent to death row.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how the evidence fails to support the existence of God.

Courtesy of DeadState:  

“The more I look at the universe, the less convinced I am that there is something benevolent going on,” Tyson said. 

“I look at disasters that afflict Earth, and life on Earth: volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, disease, pestilence, congenital birth defects — you look at this list of ways that life is made miserable on Earth by natural causes, and I just ask, ‘How do you deal with that?'” 

Tyson said that if science and inquiry someday leads to evidence of a creator, then that’s “not a problem.” But that’s not where we’re at now. 

“There’s just no evidence of it.” 

“And this is why religions are called ‘faiths’ collectively,” he continued. “Because you believe something in the absence of evidence. That’s what it is. That’s why it’s called ‘faith.’ Otherwise we would call all religions ‘evidence,’ but we don’t for exactly that reason.”

It seems like I rarely get to touch on another of my favorite topics, which is religion and the existence of God these days.

This is STILL in my opinion an incredibly important topic, as religious faith continues to have a significant impact on our politics, foreign relations, and social interactions.

If I believe in anything, it is that what is very important to the survival of our species is that we stop looking for differences which allow us to hate and war against each other, and instead focus on what we have in common, which would then allow us to focus on solving the very real problems we face together.

It is my opinion that one of the main filters we use to find differences with each other in 2017 is still differing religious faiths, and that the very fact that it remains so indicates that we are allowing primitive superstitions to actively interfere in our ability to grow closer together as a community.

That is why I feel it is important to raise awareness about the lack of evidence to support any and all religious faiths, as well as how religion is used to separate and manipulate us into doing things that are ultimately not in our best interests.

I think this interview with NDT, helps to move us a little further in that direction.

Our friend D.C. Douglas has created a new video just for those Trump voters. (Actually you should watch it as well.)

Courtesy of D.C. Douglas:  

Well, it’s pretty evident I had a backlog of things to address about Trump! 

I have been holding off doing another Tweaked Nipple Video because the insanity has been non-stop. I realized if I did edit a video that it would be old news by the time I put it online! There’s literally no winning with Trump. 

Then I realized what I needed to do was condense all the craziness into a short video – at least, as short as I could make it while still scratching my outrage itch. 

This video is my “snarky info-bomb online response video” – for all of us, really – to freely use in place of 15+ tweets or Facebook responses to that one infuriating Trump supporter who seems to have missed the more in-your-face facts about our president.

Douglas admits that the video will likely have little effect, but that it was cathartic just to make it.

As far as I'm concerned however, it is the perfect video to start circulating around Facebook and Twitter and even e-mailing to that special family member who is still desperately trying to defend their Trump vote.

CNN reports that the FBI does indeed have evidence of collusion between Trump associates and the Russians during the campaign.

Courtesy of CNN: 

The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN. 

This is partly what FBI Director James Comey was referring to when he made a bombshell announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, according to one source. 

The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings, according to those U.S. officials. The information is raising the suspicions of FBI counterintelligence investigators that the coordination may have taken place, though officials cautioned that the information was not conclusive and that the investigation is ongoing.

In his statement on Monday Comey said the FBI began looking into possible coordination between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives because the bureau had gathered "a credible allegation of wrongdoing or reasonable basis to believe an American may be acting as an agent of a foreign power."

I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that this might have been what Rep. Adam Schiff meant when he said this: If this CNN report is accurate this whole thing is about to blow wide open, and I don't see how the Trump presidency survives it.

FBI now backs CIA assessment that Russia hacked the election to help Donald Trump win. Update: Hillary Clinton weighs in.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:

FBI Director James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. have backed a CIA assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election in part to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to U.S. officials. 

Comey’s support for the CIA’s conclusion suggests that the leaders of the three agencies are in agreement on Russian intentions, contrary to suggestions by some lawmakers that the FBI disagreed with the CIA. 

“Earlier this week, I met separately with (Director) FBI James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election,” CIA Director John Brennan said in a message to the agency’s workforce, according to U.S. officials who have seen the message.

“The three of us also agree that our organizations, along with others, need to focus on completing the thorough review of this issue that has been directed by President Obama and which is being led by the DNI,” Brennan’s message read.

Trump has consistently dismissed the intelligence community’s findings about Russian hacking. 

The CIA and FBI declined to comment.

Okay this is big news as the FBI hesitance to jump on board with the CIA was the talking point used by the Right Wing to suggest that the CIA was not credible in their assessment.

I have no idea what Donald Trump and the conservatives can now use to cast doubt on these findings, since, whether the public has seen it or not, whatever evidence the NSA and CIA have in their possession made James Comey a believer.

I also have no idea how we can legitimize this election based on what we know was done to undermine its result.

Update: Here is Hillary's take:

Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the hacking attacks carried out by Russia against her campaign and the Democratic National Committee were intended “to undermine our democracy” and were ordered by Vladimir V. Putin “because he has a personal beef against me.” 

Speaking to a group of donors in Manhattan, Mrs. Clinton said that Mr. Putin, the Russian president, had never forgiven her for the accusation she made in 2011, when she was secretary of state, that parliamentary elections his country held that year were rigged. 

“Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people, and that is the direct line between what he said back then and what he did in this election,” Mrs. Clinton said. 

“Make no mistake, as the press is finally catching up to the facts, which we desperately tried to present to them during the last months of the campaign,” Mrs. Clinton told the group, which collectively poured roughly $1 billion into her effort. “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.”

THAT is the President we were supposed to have, the President that we deserved.

Not that orange baboon with the stubby fingers. 

Yep, that's about right.

I always find it somewhat amazing that conservatives refuse to believe in science they cannot see with their own two eyes and yet seem to accept Christianity without a shred of doubt.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair may face calls for impeachment in response to new report on the Iraq War.

Courtesy of The Guardian:

Senior figures from Labour and the Scottish National party are considering calls for legal action against Tony Blair if the former prime minister faces severe criticisms from the long-awaited inquiry into the war in Iraq. 

A number of MPs led by Alex Salmond are expected to use an ancient law to try to impeach the former prime minister when the Chilcot report comes out on Wednesday. 

The law, last used in 1806 when the Tory minister Lord Melville was charged for misappropriating official funds, is seen in Westminster as an alternative form of punishment that could ensure Blair never holds office again. 

Triggering the process simply requires an MP to propose a motion and provide supporting evidence as part of a document called the article of impeachment which has no time limit placed upon it. If the impeachment attempt is approved by MPs, the defendant is delivered to Black Rod before a trial. 

A simple majority is required to convict, at which point a sentence can be passed which could, in theory, involve Blair being sent to prison. However, MPs have said the attempt will be symbolic and is unlikely to result in imprisonment.

So it really would only be a symbolic gesture, but still a hell of a lot better than what we have done over here in response to learning that the Bush administration lied us into a war that saw the deaths of thousands of American servicemen.  

At least the Brits have the balls to continue to search for the truth, while in America everybody just wants to move on and pretend that the former administration was not involved in treasonous activities and war crimes. 

Sandy Hook truthers post personal information of victim's sister, who they believe is actually a "false flag" actress.

We normally don't like to post these kind of things, we try to keep everything positive here, but this just needs to be...
Posted by Victoria Leigh Soto on Saturday, December 5, 2015

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

Truthers accusing Carlee Soto, the sister of slain teacher Vicki Soto, of being a “crisis actor” have been posting her name, birth date and address on Instagram. “Crisis actor” is a term used by conspiracy theorists who believe the massacre at the elementary school was staged by the government as pretense for taking away guns. Twenty small children and six school staffers were killed in the attack. Vicki Soto died heroically, shielding her students. 

Family members of Vicki Soto have been harassed since the massacre, but told Raw Story it’s never gone to the extent of having addresses posted online. 

Instagram users are sharing a post that reveals contact and family information, including names of Soto’s mother, siblings and husband, and their social media user names. 

“The Dox Of All Doxes!” the post reads. “The whole world is wondering about this girl who pops up on every major attack around the world. She has been on every media around the world crying her eyes. She have raised too many question amongst everyone. It was time to finally put an end to it and reveal everything about her. I want her to remember my name… for the rest of her life. She have been Exposed. Make this Viral.” 

It then shows Carlee Soto’s home address, and says “Enjoy family.”

Apparently the reason behind this is the unshakable belief by certain people that Carlee Soto is an actress who has played the grieving survivor at a number of mass shooting scenes, all in an elaborate attempt by President Obama to take guns away from the American people.

 Of course Snopes has already debunked this bizarre conspiracy, going so far as to identify each INDIVIDUAL girl in the above graphic. But nothing seems to deter these folks from clinging to their absolute faith that the government and anti-gun crowd are trying to pull a fast one.

You know the thing that really irritates me about this kind of thing, besides of course the revealing of personal information, is that it undermines actual skulduggery that takes place, like Palin faking her last pregnancy.

Do you know when I was interviewed by The Anchorage Press five years ago they started off the interview by asking me what other conspiracy theories I believed in?

And that essentially set the tone for the entire article, which was, as you might imagine, far from fair and balanced.

That is the problem with these people who are open to believing every far fetched, fact free, assertion made by their crazy aunt on Facebook or Twitter.

There ARE actually some conspiracies to fool the American people, the lead up to the Iraq War was one of them, but once you slap the label of "conspiracy theory" on them (Such as "Trig Truther.), and categorize them along with these outlandish claims, then people simply stop listening despite whatever evidence you might bring to the table.

(P.S. By the way has anybody else noticed that Snopes has never delivered a ruling on Palin's pregnancy? Interesting, don't you think?

Arizona's Sheriff Arpaio is being charged with contempt for failing to follow a judge's instructions during racial profiling trial. Sounds about right, I have always held this guy in contempt.

Courtesy of AZ Central:  

After months of fiery hearings, legal filings and stern warnings, a federal judge presiding over a racial-profiling case has announced he will take legal action against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. 

Sheriff Joe Arpaio will face a civil contempt hearing in federal court this spring. 

U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow announced during a Thursday telephone conference that he will oversee a civil contempt of court proceeding against the six-term Maricopa County sheriff during a four-day mini trial in April. 

Snow has repeatedly threatened to level criminal- or civil-contempt proceedings against the office, and the judge spent the past week reviewing pleadings in which attorneys for Arpaio tried to persuade Snow not to take the monumental step.

Apparently the judge is pissed off that not only is the sheriff's office NOT providing all of the documentation requested by the judge, including body camera footage, but that they have continued conducting the kinds of traffic stops that got them into trouble in the first place.

Arpaio's attorneys are trying to explain away his behavior but the judge is simply not having it.

The trial is set for sometime in April.

So true.

Is this really so hard to understand?

I recently saw somebody respond to the challenge of how an Atheist can know there is no God.

And his response was "That's is a very good question. Why don't you explain to me the formula by which you know there is no Zeus, no Odin, no Ra, and I will use that to determine the nonexistence of the Christian God as well."

Atheists don't have the burden of proof, we just have a reasonable expectation that somebody trying to prove something extraordinary would have extraordinary evidence to support it.

"How do we know what is true?" Excellent question, with an excellent video to answer that question.

I am almost embarrassed to admit that I was virtually unaware of the many talents of the great Stephen Fry before seeing him in "V for Vendetta."

I loved that film and loved his character in it.

Since then I have learned a great deal about his vast body of work, and even follow him on Twitter.

This video is exceedingly well done and explains exactly why testing theories against evidence is the only true pathway to truth.

Why it often does not pay to have conversations with Fundamentalists.

I think that this point was made incredibly obvious during that recent "debate" between Ken Ham and Bill Nye.

The smoke and mirrors that Ham threw up to obfuscate the weak points in his argument were stunning.  And it served him well in throwing up an intellectually dishonest force field that repelled the logic of Bill Nye's rebuttals.

Oh the horror! Field and Stream has the audacity to tell it's readers that Sarah Palin is NOT a hunter. Here comes the backlash.

Courtesy of Field and Stream:

Some of you took umbrage at my interpretation of Sarah Palin botching the shooting of a caribou. I felt so poorly about this that I went back and re-viewed the tape (You can see it below. It runs about 3 ½ minutes) and it made me even more depressed than I was before. 

Ms. Palin is an extremely inexperienced shooter. 

First, she allows her dad and the guide, who are both apparently nitwits, to jabber at her continually throughout the performance, make suggestions, swap rifles when it turns out that the first one has a bum scope (!), and allow her to blaze away at a moving animal. 

An experienced shooter knows that when he (she) picks up a gun, he (she) is responsible for it, and the way it works. If you have doubts about its safety, you don’t use it. Before you shoot at something living, you check to see if it’s sighted in. Period. No excuses. 

If nitwits are yammering at you, you tell them to shut the f**ck up because you can’t concentrate. No experienced shooter would put up with their nonsense. 

An experienced shooter would not ask if a rifle kicks before using it in the heat of battle. That would not be uppermost in their mind; getting the animal down would be. 

Why, before the fatal shot was fired, did the editor of the film superimpose a bogus crosshair on the poor dopey caribou? Why do we not see Ms. Palin firing the rifle? Is it because she did not do the shooting? 

Finally, look at the way she carries the rifle as the party walks up to the late lamented ungulate. No experienced shooter carries a rifle like this.

Here is the video just in case there is ANYBODY who has not seen Palin acting like she has never seen a rifle before and taking so many shots to kill a clearly tethered caribou that it is amazing the poor animal did not simply die of boredom.

As you can see Mr. Petzal is only stating what should be glaringly obvious to even those of us with only minimal experience with firearms and hunting.

However daring to suggest that Sarah Palin could not shoot her way out of a wet paper bag is guaranteed to elicit a response from her hordes of supporters.

Sadly most of those hordes have moved on to support somebody who might actually run for office, so the gauntlet is left to be picked up by her brother Chuck "Oh my God! Stop undermining my meal ticket" Heath Jr.

Here is his letter for those that wish to have a good laugh.

In it he essentially says that he and his sisters (I understand that Palin is one of them, though interestingly enough he does not mention her by name) have been handling guns since before they were out of diapers. And that this guy is totally wrong about everything that he wrote, and everything that the video clearly demonstrates.

Look a picture of Palin holding a gun! Take that you liberals!

Because if you remember correctly from dealing with these people, reality is not the truth, only what a Palin or Heath tells you is the truth, is the actual truth.

Not only are Chuckie's panties in a bunch so are his rarely heard from sister's. Here is her response, or her ghostwriter's, or maybe even Chuck's, really who the hell knows anymore?

“He’s the typical lying SOB-type that I’ve been dealing with since 2008. I’m very disappointed in Field & Stream for printing his garbage. This made-up fantasy of the columnist ranks right up there with yesterday’s report in the Washington Post that claims I’m working for Al Jazeera. My retort to that one was: ‘Uum, right… and tomorrow I’m having coffee with Elvis at the Mocha Moose in Wasilla.’ Really, these silly people need to get a life!”

So there Mr. Petzal. you take your years of hunting experience, and decades of writing books about the hunting, and your incredible knowledge about hunting and you just overshoe it mister "hunter guy who thinks he knows everything."

Look another picture of her holding a gun. Convinced yet?

Oh, speaking of that picture up above, have you ever seen Sarah being shown how to hold that assault weapon? Well trust me, you need to see it.

You can almost FEEL her expertise and years of gun handling can't you?

Final Thought of the Day.

Why is this such a difficulty concept for so many to grasp?

Another lawsuit bounces off of Sarah Palin's ever fluctuating chest.

Courtesy of MSNBC:  

A federal judge on Thursday struck down claims in a lawsuit alleging that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acted to silence an activist who complained about traffic around the governor's mansion in 2009. 

U.S District Judge Timothy Burgess granted Palin's request for summary judgment, finding that activist Chip Thoma failed to provide the evidence necessary to support his claims. Palin's attorney, John Tiemessen, said the ruling means that, as a matter of law, no valid claims stand, and it should lead to dismissal of the case. 

Thoma sued for at least $100,000, claiming that Palin, while governor, undertook an effort to punish, embarrass, discredit and silence him after he complained about tour bus traffic around the mansion following her failed 2008 vice presidential bid. 

Thoma, in his lawsuit, said he complained about the traffic in 2009 to a state agency and made signs and fliers about the traffic situation that he posted and handed out. He alleged that Palin and unidentified conspirators retaliated - in some cases "twisting" his words, in others, "concocting complete fabrications" - to silence him and others whom Palin perceived as speaking out against her. 

Thoma's initial lawsuit was partly based on a leaked draft manuscript by Frank Bailey, a Palin aide during that period. Bailey's book claimed Palin aides "went into discrediting Chip overdrive" after Palin expressed frustration with complaints she took as an attack on her family being in Juneau. For part of her tenure, Palin had gotten flak for not being in Juneau enough, or full-time. 

Burgess said excerpts from the book could not be considered in the motion for summary judgment for several reasons, including that the passages are inadmissible hearsay. He said Thoma lacks the personal knowledge to authenticate the statements made in the book. 

Burgess also said the only documented evidence that Thoma submitted to support his motion and oppose Palin's was his own affidavit. 

"The record is simply devoid of evidence concerning the alleged retaliation," Burgess wrote.

This is very disappointing as I really thought that Thoma had a strong case.

And as for evidence, why didn't they try and subpoena the actual e-mails that Bailey has in his possession? I still have my copy of the first draft of "Blind Allegiance," that was sent out before publishing, and in it are the actual e-mails as they appeared in Bailey's e-mal box.

You would think those would be pretty damning in a court of law.

Whatever, whey should we expect THIS to stick when virtually EVER OTHER thing has slid off Palin's bony exoskeleton? I guess if you can get away with faking your poll numbers, pulling off a phony pregnancy, and convincing people you are an "energy expert," getting out of lawsuits must be a snap.

Yeah, well I have to think that the Grizzled Mama's luck is just about up, and that eventually one of these things will take her down for good. I just hope I am either the one that does it, or right there in a ring side seat when it happens.