You can tell a lot about a candidate by the way she runs her presidential campaign. Presumably, she’ll run the country the same way if she’s elected president.

In Hillary’s case, that means good and bad news.

First, the bad news: Hillary’s campaign is running up more debt. If she becomes president, that’s very bad news since the United States is already in the hole over $9 trillion.

The good news is that even under overwhelming odds, Hillary will never say die — even when others like Slate magazine begin holding a Hillary Clinton Nomination Death Watch.

But, as if to prove she intends to steer her campaign’s ship all the way to the ocean floor, Hillary has come to Extreme Candidate Makeover to give her a boost.

10 Reasons Why Hillary Won’t Quit

While Extreme Candidate Makeover obliged Ms. Hillary with some new looks (see the awesome results to the right…), she divulged to the makeup artist 10 Reasons Hillary Won’t Quit:

10. She needs to stay in the race to get a definitive list of traitorous super-delegates to pass on to her post-election hitmen.

9. Although she has already misspoke about dodging snipers in Bosnia, there are still many more things she wishes to misspeak about.

8. If John McCain can claim Vladimir Putin is the president of Germany and still find support in America, Hillary’s got a heckuva chance, too.

7. Hillary’s campaign is the premier fight against discrimination in America, and everybody knows she’s twice as much female as Barack Obama is black.

6. Because somebody has to answer the phone to accept the nomination, and if that call comes at 3 AM she has vowed to answer it better than Obama.

5. Americans let George W. Bush in the White House twice. They clearly want a lying malignant narcissist as their leader. Hillary fits the bill!

4. To quote Hillary: “As God is my witness, they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll get to start my own no-good war and land on an aircraft carrier in my own flight suit. And Rhett…I mean Billy Jefferson, too. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, one day I’ll be the one declaring Mission Accomplished!”

3. “The thought of Monica Lewinsky and cigars still make me feel very insecure. I believe getting elected leader of the free world, getting to carry — maybe even use — the nuclear football…yes, I believe that will alleviate most, if not all, of my insecurities. And fixing my insecurities…that’s worth so much more, to me, than the health of the Democratic party or the greater course of human civilization.”

2. Because she’s already made the deal with Diebold, and paid them more than John McCain, so it should definitely be her in the general election.

And the number one reason Hillary won’t quit…

1. If she doesn’t become president, at the end of the day she’ll have to store all her shoes in Bill’s library.

Don’t forget to catch Extreme Candidate Makeover: John McCain.

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Remember when there was only one kind of spaghetti sauce on the store shelf. And now, there are, like, 36 varieties from traditional to extra chunky? How did that happen?

Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point and Blink, wonders about these kind of things, too.

In the following talk, filmed at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in 2004, Malcolm explains how spaghetti sauce, and eventually the rest of the marketing world, was changed by the ideas of one Dr. Howard R. Moskowitz, a well-known experimental psychologist in the field of psychophysics.

This talk covers everything from what we think makes us happy to how one person’s ideas can change the world in little ways that ripple into something huge.

To watch, click on the video below, or this link: Learning from Spaghetti Sauce.

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Pssst. You gotta read this book: Iowa Terror , by Mike Palecek.

Go ahead, order it here: Buy Iowa Terror now. Share it with your friends.

Iowa Terror is categorically fiction, but it’s woven from many threads of truth, not the least of which concerns the official lie of 9/11.

Palecek’s tale begins in small-town Iowa, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The once level-headed residents are soon besieged by paranoia and illogical fears. They jump to conclusions, commit hypocrisy, and are a bit too eager to damn the torpedoes in their rush to board the War On Terror bandwagon. They’re also eager to convict the guilty-until-proven-innocent in a court of rumor and wild speculation.

The story might seem a bit over the top as it gets started. But, as another reviewer pointed out, the real life quotes interspersed throughout the novel make the fiction seem much more tame than our current administration’s reality.

As the characters in the novel rush like lemmings to form terrorist watch groups, they learn all the wrong lessons from the 9/11 tragedy. As in real life, sometimes fictional characters can’t see the forest for the trees. Also, as in real life, sometimes fictional characters can’t see a black-op demolition for the smoke of nationalistic us-against-the-world propaganda being constantly blown up their britches.

I’ve often wondered if Mark Twain were reincarnated, what would his treatment of our modern times look like? Thanks to Palecek, I now have the answer. Tall tales steeped with irony that showcase humanity’s inclination for hypocrisy…tales that eventually work their way to the soft spot in your heart: that seems to be the forte of both Twain and Palecek.

As a bonus, Palecek’s Iowa Terror is illustrated with some gorgeous full-page artwork by Russell Brutsche, Allison M. Healy, Benjamin Heine, and Ian Ward.

Palecek is currently in the middle of a month-long book tour, travelling from Tulsa to the West Coast and back again, making stops almost every day along the way. Visit his website (www.mikepalecek.com) for updates and a detailed schedule, and if you’re lucky, maybe you can meet him along his journey.

Read More: Mike Palecek, Iowa Terror, 9/11, Iraq War, Bush, War On Terror, terrorism, fiction, Iowa

Following is the complete Hard-boiled Dreams of the World interview with Dick Cheney by guest interviewer Britney Spears:

Britney: You’re so creeping me out. I mean, your whole face is like one big freak flag. Let’s get this over with. Let’s get right to it, Dick: What’s up with this new fake bin Laden tape?

Cheney: I don’t buy the premise of your question, Britney. Simply stated, there is no doubt Osama bin Laden is alive. There is no doubt he is still the gravest of threats to the United States of America, and also to the freedom-loving peoples of the world. That, Britney, is exactly why your government must have the right to jail people, the right to bar them from seeing an attorney, and the right to keep them locked up without pressing charges for as long as any nameless threat requires — maybe forever.

Britney: But he’s DEAD! Admit it! In the bin Laden video released in December, 2001, he’s barely moving the left side of his body. He’s clearly got diabetes. He has low blood pressure. He’s got a wound in his foot. He’s on kidney dialysis–

Cheney: If there’s a 1% chance that bin Laden is still alive, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our–

Britney: Look, Dick, Pakistan’s president said bin Laden was dead over six years ago. Afghanistan’s president says bin Laden is probably dead, too. The FBI’s counter-terrorism chief said Osama bin Laden was probably dead as far back as July, 2002. And the Pakistan Observer even ran a story about bin Laden’s funeral. He’s dead, already!

Cheney: Bin Laden is alive, probably in Iraq. Maybe Iran. He wants to kill your children. We have good reason to believe he’s turned to cannibalism.

Britney: Sacred pig, Dick. Your entire life is entirely satisfictitious! The U.S. Military just released an exhaustive study clearly stating there was no link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. And then, last week there you were lying about make-believe connections again, like anybody still believes anything that comes out of your crooked little mouth…

Cheney: The evidence is overwhelming, Britney. It goes back to the early ’90s. It involves a whole series of contacts, high-level contacts with Osama bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence officials and Graceland and–

Britney: Scuz me? Did you say “Graceland”?

Cheney: Just to give you one example, Britney. Remember Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist, an al-Qaeda affiliate. Elvis Presley funded his training camp in Afghanistan for al-Qaeda.

Britney: But, like, Elvis is dead!

Cheney: Al-Qaeda is betting that you believe Elvis is dead. They’re counting on it. They can’t beat us in a stand-up fight. So, they’re betting that when we go after Elvis for funding al-Qaeda, the American People will insist that Elvis is dead and go home. If that happens, they win.

Britney: Elvis is NOT alive, and he’s NOT funding al-Qaeda. Why would he? I’m seriously choking on bafflegarb! What crapeteria is selling you this barfulous chuck?

Cheney: Reliable intelligence. Very reliable intelligence. We know for a fact that Elvis is funding an extensive al-Qaeda push to create jihad within the United States. We’ve taped phone calls between Osama bin Laden and his new second-in-command…he’s already in this country, right now, in Missouri. His name is Frank James. He has a younger brother, Jesse, actively recruiting–

Britney: Holy crappopotamus. Frank and Jesse James are dead. They are NOT going to attack Americans, at least not in this century.

Cheney: That’s just what al-Qaeda hopes you believe.

Britney: Dick, you’re a seriously paranoid old faloney.

Cheney: Everybody wants to kill us, Britney. A Dictatorship is the only thing that can save us.

Britney: You’ve had one too many fascist crappacinos, Dick.

Cheney: Dictatorship. Say it over and over…after a while, it gets to where it doesn’t sound so bad.

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Addiction to war doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time to face the fact that your country is out of control.

If you’re not sure, and you’re wondering if your country has an addiction to war or not, ask yourself these questions:

1. Is war a large and important part of your country’s history?

2. Is your country exhibiting an inability to keep track of its money? Is it doing things that it would normally not do, such as legalizing torture to produce questionable justification for irrational war?

3. Does your country continue to wage war even though the cost is putting its economy in jeopardy?

4. Has your country ever fought a war in secret by funding freedom fighters, and by covertly overthrowing democracies and replacing them with dictators?

5. Do you react badly when other countries suggest that your country has a war problem?

If you’ve answered yes to any of the above, perhaps it’s time you asked yourself whether your country controls its war habit, or whether a war habit controls your country.

Overcoming A War Habit

Sometimes it becomes apparent that your country has developed a war habit it can’t break. How do you get over it?

Maybe the best way is through education.

ADDICTED To WAR, a great little book by Joel Andreas, covers the history of U.S. foreign wars in comic book format. The book is packed with historical photos and contains quotes from a host of great Americans. The book does a fine job explaining who benefits from our many military adventures, who pays, and who dies.

The good news is that Addicted to War is now being used as a history textbook in hundreds of high schools and colleges. It’s also recently been approved by the San Francisco School District as a supplemental book to be used by high school history teachers, grades 10 through 12.

With help from organizations like Veterans for Peace, over 200,000 copies have been distributed, and an online version is available here: Addicted to War.

Five Years In Iraq

Today, the Iraq War has entered its fifth year. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. The American economy is spinning down the drain. And, not only is there no end in sight, but the powers that be are still threatening to start more wars.

If we only educate the next generation about the dangers of war addiction, we can break this cycle.

To be successful, we’ll have to teach them to recognize the signs of war addiction. We’ll have to teach them to follow the money and be wary of false flag operations. We’ll have to train them how to recognize propaganda masquerading as news in the mainstream media.

But, if our children don’t have to kill for, pay for, and die for lies that give covetous warmongers more wealth and power, it will be exceedingly worth our efforts.

Please read and learn more at The March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm.

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