**Sarah Palin**

This is becoming personal for me:

**Why I have subscribed to "The Nation" for 20 years**

And why you should read the longest running newsweekly in the United States:

From the Nov. 3rd print edition:

In case you haven't heard, there's a guy running for president named Barack Hussein Osama Nobama. This Nobama was born outside America and secretly schooled in Islamic terrorism at a Wahhabi madrassa. He then moved to the United States to take up the radical '60s teachings of the Weather Underground's Bill Ayers, while also organizing for ACORN, a subprime-lending, voter fraud-committing collective of affirmative-action welfare queens. All this happened before he became an elitist celebrity advocate of socialism, infanticide, the sexual abuse of children and treason.

Kind of sums up the insanity in the video below:

**Barama, baby**

OMG! Does my son go to school near these people? Do these people realize they are walking onto a college campus where reason and analytical thought are the modus operandi? Oh, wait, I forgot Mr. Intelligent Design is on the faculty there.......

**Some wonderful news in a difficult time**

In the New York Times today: A story on the Connecticut Supremen Court ruling on Gay marriage.

Some key quotes:

"The ruling, which cannot be appealed and is to take effect on Oct. 28, held that a state law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples, and a civil union law intended to provide all the rights and privileges of marriage to same-sex couples, violated the constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law."

"Striking at the heart of discriminatory traditions in America, the court — in language that often rose above the legal landscape into realms of social justice for a new century — recalled that laws in the not-so-distant past barred interracial marriages, excluded women from occupations and official duties, and relegated blacks to separate but supposedly equal public facilities."

“Although marriage and civil unions do embody the same legal rights under our law, they are by no means equal,” Justice Palmer wrote in the majority opinion, joined by Justices Flemming L. Norcott Jr., Joette Katz and Lubbie Harper. “The former is an institution of transcendent historical, cultural and social significance, whereas the latter is not.”

Three states down; 47 to go.

**Saturday New York Times**

"...Now, as he spends his last months in office trying to avert a global economic collapse, Mr. Bush has been telling people privately that it’s a good thing he’s in charge."

Nuff said.

**Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, said**

“I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.”