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Bob Herbert’s great column for the New York Times reminds us of the delusional fork in the road this country took in the 1980s, never to return. At this hour, NPR is reporting that some people are paying as much as $10,000 for scalped tickets to the official Michael Jackson memorial event in Los Angeles.

Wait a minute, who’s that guy on the left, and why does he look like the guy on the left in the picture above?

Their statement is defiant enough that they seem to be risking imprisonment, at the least. Printing up ballots is pretty damned brazen, it would also explain why the turnout was over 100% in “only” 50 cities.

He’s the chief executive of the state, in charge of law enforcement and the state police. What the hell? At least Palin resigned in order to allow someone else interested in  running the state to take over. Will he return from his Florida vacation, his second in less than a month, before the teenaged victim is buried?

Can’t see how this can possibly fit in with Presidential ambitions. I predicted since last year that she would not be a Presidential candidate in 2012, as much as I would like to see it.

UPDATE: “Sources tell NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that Palin is out of politics for good.” Sanford and Palin, all in one week. Sucks to be a GOP Presidential hopeful these days.

UPDATE 2: Some Democratic-leaning blogs are pushing an Alaskan rumor that there is a federal investigation for embezzlement, about to result in an indictment, over the bizarre and inexplicable construction process of Palin’s “homemade” house, which looks remarkably similar to the huge money-pit Wasilla Sports Complex, built just down the road while she was mayor. If so her choice of the house as the site for her resignation press conference is particularly strange. Ask Ted Stevens whether it’s unusual for crooked Alaska Republicans to take bribes in the form of a house.

A very real bombshell that I hope accelerates the demise of the entire paper off the face of this earth.