The posts are still pretty good, but the quality of comments at OTB has gone way down in the last year or so. Just an observation.

sorry, I can't afford to play DDO any more so I do this for fun.

I still don't understand how a Team of Mavericks could lose

If only they had one more day to get the coal message out...

Yes it is very hard to ever prove that nothing never happen. However for one to give any validity to an accusation the accusation should be back up with some facts...

Wayne, I am on record here (at OTB) as stating that I do not buy for a second that she did not know Africa is a cotinent. Still, the fact that she has to defend herself against these rather scurrilous comments is rather telling, is it not?

To quote D.Larison at Eunomia:

Peter Suderman says that he doesn’t understand this Palin statement:

Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.

I have concluded that the problem that so many people have in understanding what Palin is saying is that we make the mistake of assuming that all of the words have some reason for being there. What we have to do instead is decrypt her message by filtering out all of the confusing chatter that keeps her statements encoded and difficult to follow. Let’s take the first sentence, and identify the essential elements in bold:

Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that.
See? If you just cut out about 60% of what she says, it hangs together nicely. By comparison, the second sentence is a piece of cake. Pretty much every word in the second sentence serves a function. Once reporters and voters acquire sufficient training in Palinonics, there should be no more misunderstandings.

All clear now, right?

Hope the GOP returns to some sort of reality soon. We need two healthy parties to really have good government.

You are still ducking the question. Are you excusing Palin lying with a moral equivalence defense?

The posts are still pretty good, but the quality of comments at OTB has gone way down in the last year or so.

LB: in some ways yes, but in others it is a lot more fun. As always, it is not what you say, but how you say it.

Deanna
Not only did you lie about what Palin said but the “Africa” comment has been proven a hoax.

No Wayne, the Africa comment has NOT been proven a hoax, just the attribution of who MADE it, is a hoax (to Martin Eisenstadt's great delight)(ME does not exist, and "he" said he was the leak, nothing at all about whether she did or not)

The English Language is a bitch. Meanwhile, refer to Palin's own remarks in which she said that the Africa comment was "taken out of context". (and I beleive her, certainly she has a 5th grade understanding of geography)

is that it not that they Know so much

The English Language. Use it or lose it.