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(Scoamf) – Okay, this is my favorite one of the ‘Downfall Parodies’ yet.  Go ahead…Google it, I’ll wait.  Looks like this meme is just starting to take off, so I imagine YouTube will be pulling it down shortly.   Besides being chock full of satisfying good nicknames to call Obama, (i.e.  King Putt), the Tom Jones background music is a nice touch too. (Remember, I warned you about the language.)

(CBS)…Manchester, N.H. – “It’s great to spend Labor Day with you,” Palin told a large crowd of tea party supporters in Manchester, N.H., on the traditional kick off day of the presidential primary season. “You could be grilling up some steaks with your neighbors and instead, you’re concerned about your country and taking a stand.”
Palin drew about 600 people, more than double the number that turned out for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a tea party event in Concord, N.H., on Sunday. Many had hoped to hear the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee announce her candidacy, some of them chanting “Run, Sarah, run.” She smiled. “I appreciate your encouragement. I do,” Palin told them, with well-practiced coyness.   (more…)

(CBS/AP)…PERUGIA, Italy – The appeals case of Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British roommate, resumed Monday with lawyers questioning independent experts who cast doubt on the evidence used in the first trial.
The 24-year-old from Seattle who has been behind bars since the November 2007 murder was in the Perugia courtroom, as was her co-defendant and onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.
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DC based “Freedomworks” has stirred up quite a bit of controversy within the tea party movement with their latest suggestion that Mitt Romney can still possibly gain the support of their organization.   Matt Kibbe of Freedomworks appeared on “The Factor”, and said the following…“If he would repudiate Obamacare/Romneycare, if he would take a stand on the budget, if he would get some specifics about where he is on these issues, I think he has a chance. We believe that he can come around, he hasn’t been willing to do that and we believe a press conference just isn’t going to cut it.”
After weeks of playing coy, it seems Gov. Romney has had his ‘Come to Jesus’ moment, and has now decided to court the tea party vote.  (more…)

As Sarah Palin took to the stage to the sound of enthusiastic applause and the crowd yelling, “Run Sarah…Run”,  I was immediately reminded of the rally’s location, “Balloon Classic Field”.  It was the perfect venue for a candidate filled with hope and rising expectations.  She delivered a forty minute campaign-style speech that marked three years to the day since she accepted the nomination as the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate.  It  was also delivered entirely without the aid of a teleprompter.  She told the crowd that we’ll know by the end of the month as to whether or not she’ll be throwing her hat into the ring. If she does decide to run at this later date,  I’m sure by December no one will care WHEN she announced. 
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Full schedule for ‘Restoring America’ rally in Indianola: music, prayer and Sarah Palin

Today’s rally will be carried live on C-SPAN from 12-2pm eastern.  For the full schedule of today’s rally see below.
(DesMoinesRegister)…A grassy field in Iowa will become the scene of a festival of conservative rhetoric and patriotic music Saturday, while television cameras capture the event for a nationwide audience.The star attraction, Alaska Republican Sarah Palin, will speak at about 1:15 p.m. at the Tea Party of America’s “Restoring America” rally in Indianola, organizer Charlie Gruschow told The Des Moines Register today.  Palin won’t reveal during the event whether or not she intends to seek the 2012 GOP nomination, CNN’s Peter Hamby reports. But the event falls on the three-year anniversary of her address to the Republican National Convention when she became the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, he notes.   (more…)

(Politico)(h/t PhillyCon)…Fox News released its first poll Thursday since Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race, showing the Texas governor drawing 26 percent of the GOP primary vote and leading Mitt Romney by 8 points.  What caught one reader’s attention, though, wasn’t the size of Perry’s lead, but the name of Fox’s Republican pollster: Shaw & Company Research, a Texas-based firm that conducts the Fox survey in cooperation with the Democratic pollster Anderson Robbins Research.
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Remember…these are the same guys that like to hang out in front of polling centers.  They got away with it in 2008…what message do you think that sent them for 2012? 
(The Blaze)…Disturbing new YouTube videos have surfaced allegedly showing notorious New Black Panther Party member King Samir Shabazz teaching “black survival” training to a small audience — with children sitting in the front row.  In each of the three videos, uploaded June 6, 2011, the man identified as Shabazz graphically demonstrates self-defense tactics using a variety of weapons, including a handgun, a machete and a baseball bat:  (more…)

7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Felt Off Alaska; Local Tsunami Warning Lifted…

Sep 2, 2011 — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has not issued a warning, watch or advisory at this time for areas outside where the quake occurred. But the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center has posted a warning for local areas.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has been detected in a remote area of the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, about 1,000 miles west southwest of Anchorage, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.  (more…)