On James von Brunn and his pals in the Reagan administration and Birch Society:

I was so saddened & disappointed when I found this web sight two days ago. I grew up with Leslie and I was seeing if I could find her. Also to see what Lesile had been up to and how she was doing.
Leslie & I were class mate K - 2 grade at Upton Elementry School Royal Oak Michigan until she skipped a grade. But I still saw a lot of her threw 1983 (she went to College) because we only lived a few houses apart. Leslie was one of a kind and a very special person. Leslie always standed out in a room and it was not just for her outside but even more for her inside(so smart, easy going & so very nice) I always knew Leslie would leave her mark on the world. I know She did in my world I am just sorry we lost touch.

So until we meet again

Thanks & God Bless you Leslie

Robert

I'd hit it

So sad to hear this news she was a very smart person with alot of confidence. Leslie had helped me with homework in a few classes in high school and she will be missed.

May god be with you Leslie

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Wow............I'm so saddened to here about Leslie through a fellow elementry student here in Michigan where Leslie grew up. She went to Upton elementry and knowing her as my fellow class mate from 4th-12th grade. She was the only student to stare at and wonder...............I was very shy and did not have too much to ask or say anything to anyone. What really stands out in my memory of Leslie is staring at her in 4th grade and looking deep in her and admiring her as she was the only student that skipped a grade above her same aged friends. She was a year younger than me but in the same class. Teacher would ask a question and Leslie had her hand up to reply correctly every time. To see the 6th grade pic of Leslie, visit my Face Book Album.

God Bless you Leslie

In Him,

Bobby

This woman's 15 minutes is over! She is not bright and is not worthy of any publicity!

What a hack job.

I'd question any one's intelligence that accepts any of the media's negative hype campaign against Governor Palin. And, this is just another example of the lengths the left will go to in an effort to smear someone they fear. It's obvious just from the title of this piece of 's...' her title is left out. She is a governor not just a run of the mill person. From what I've heard, she's doing pretty damn good despite the mudslinging left's efforts.

We'll see who is who in 2012. If Obama doesn't get impeached before hand.

And as a side-note... where on earth is Joe Biden respected as the vice-president? NOWHERE! He dis's himself by just opening his mouth.

Sarah Palin was the best thing that ever happened to Democrats except for George W. Bush. We need true intellect, knowledge and insight from our leaders, not some make believe symbolism and ideology such as Palin represents.

Her cow towing to Israel was disgusting but not that different from other US politicos. She was totally transparent about it.

Boo-F'ing-HOO

Palin COST McCAin the Election and THAT CAN NOT BE DEBATED.

She A) Didn't even know the role of what the Vice President Does

B) Depends SOLELY on Aides to make sure she's not going to make a fool of herself (though Aides cannot help with that)

C) Is an utter IMBACILE.

Sorry if you people cannot accept FACTS.

You can whine and cry all you want, but the TRUTH remains that Palin cost the republicans the 2008 election because of her inabiltiy to comprehend FACTS. (just like her supporters, which ALL of Alaska is now agaisnt her and considers her to be an embarassment to their glorius state)

It's pretty obvious that this is a photo-shopped picture... They took her head and put it on someone else's body.

Typical liberal-left propaganda. Obama, the socialist, facist is fixing to be the ring leader in running our country, pride, and military in the ground and you the liberal queer left media go around and print stories like this one. Why don't you research ACORN, the real CLIMATE CHANGE, or what the government is really trying to do. The Monkey Left want control and I be damn they will have to pry my gun away from my bleeding hands!!! It's time to take a stand America!!! Stand up against the leftest media and these radicals that want to control us.

Ken (above) makes an excellent point. "Barny [sic] Frank" and "Polosi" [sic] would definitely "wipe the floor" with the American flag. They both clearly hate America - as demonstrated by the fact that they've spent their lives serving their country.

What is it you do for a living, Ken?

Oh, please, give me a break - Its just a nice photo of Sarah - If it were a democrat the flag would be on the floor - in fact if it were Barny Frank, or Polosi they would be wiping the floor with it and know one would say boo.

It is amazing how gullible these Republicans are they never fact check anything at all, they need to learn to use snopes.com so they can look like less of an idiot

Well, MadMax71, the only problem with that urban myth is that... it's an urban myth.

Prior to the Democratic Convention, some McCain operatives bought a big bag o' flags and then told a Fox News reporter that the had been pulled out of the trash. When asked to substantiate the claim, the supporters could not because... it wasn't true.

Bloggers filled in the rest of the story because the facts didn't support it.

Am I the only one here who checks these things?

How come the liberals are ranting about the flag code after hundreds of U.S. flags were fished out of trash cans by boy scouts at democratic national primary????

It's hard to imagine that the smoke-filled-room Republicans would anoint Palin as their 2012 nominee. She's the GOP's Bill Clinton - she's got a new tabloid headline every week.

The Old Boys Network looks at her and thinks: "How are we going to control The Message when Palin can't even control her own daughter?" Like Clinton, she's too much drama. My guess is that they'll back a more disciplined candidate like Romney.

I find there is some intelligent life forms answering this. Reference to snopes.com and get the fact is a rarity among most psuedo-repubs, they just don't usually do it. They would rather spit lush slimball taking points. I see a lot of whinning here. Voters voyed for whom they thought was the best. That's the American way. Let's move on. After all we are Americans.

I had forgotten that thanks for the reminder. I think that is more evidence that the picture was taken in her office not at some remote staged location, I think at the very least the flag was staged by her staff therefore her responsibility.

Her son Track Palin is a private first class who was deployed last fall in Diyala province, Iraq.

CM I think that picture is taken in the Governors office, not sure but I think it is based on other pics I have seen of the office. In addition to the flag hanging on the window is a "Service Flag" with one star which means that the person displaying it has typcially one son or daughter serving in the Miliary overseas. I don't think Palin has a son or daughter servicing overseas does she? Your comment about "If you hate her so much, then why do you care, is really odd, obviously he cares because he hates her so much? Taht was reasonably obvious. He cares because he does not want this mess of a woman having any future in national politics!

DIJONAISE: I truly appreciate your service to our great country. I also have great respect for our flag. However, I understand that Gov. Palin is a very busy women and certainly didn't assist in the the crew that assembled the set for the photograph. She was probably there just long enough to snap the shot. Give it a rest.

Honestly, the ease of uproar from non-issuers fuels the Palin media machine anyway. If you hate her so much, then why do you care?

She can't name any because she does not read any and she does not know which ones interviewed her.

It's kind of funny how many magazines have printed interviews with Palin and yet she couldn't name any of them as being read by her.

You should get your family to reconsider on Speed Racer: it was actually a pretty good movie, despite all of the cgi awesomeness.

What a twat.

This isn't the first time Palin has arguably dishonored the flag in a photo op; I'm pretty sure that wrapping yourself in the flag is (implicitly) forbidden by the flag code as well, since it mentions that the flag shouldn't be used as part of a costume.

Karen, great comments, the party is actually as lost as she is. Anyone who thinks Palin is going to be the nominee is 2012 is delusional. I don't think she can get re-elected in Alaska and notice she has not said she will run again so I think she questions rather she could get re-elected and obviously losing in her own state would be a total humiliation.

But see also the flag shows that she is patriotic and pro-America too, otherwise, and then it will proGRESS this great nation if God so blesses her! Because holding TWO blackberries you can see she is also past the cutting edge of technology and popular also there! ::: door slam :::

If Palin spent half as much time actually educating herself as she does posing, running her mouth, and showing off, she might have actually helped to "rebrand" the GOP. Instead, the party looks nearly as lost as she is.

Now that was funny

How y'all better leaves Sarah Barricuder Palinator alone. She is the #1 USA USA USA preserdenting woman in the world. Y'all just be jellus of her and how she has them beautifull childrens and makes them cool speechmakings. I's loving them chants of USA USA USA and TERRORIST and DRILL THE BABY DRILL THE BABY. Y'all don't a be hating on my preserdenting candidates of Sarah Palin and Michell Bachamnn in the 2000 and 12 race to the White POwer House. USA USA USA!!!!

No Democrat has to do anything to make Palin look bad, she can manage to do that every day on her own with no help at all.

what a crock of crap this article this is.

I am sorry I thought I was chatting with people with a level of intelligence then I saw Mike's post and realized other wise.

This picture was probably photoshopped by the DNC and BO himself. What 1979repemtwon't the Dems do to make Palin look bad. Her daughters a fair game but we can't do anything about BO's daughters? Hopefully that will change as BO continues his nation destroying policies.

Yogiman you will look a lot less stupid if you actually do some research and get your facts straight before you post a dumb comment. The picture of Obama standing respectfully with his hands polietly folded in front of him was not during the Pledge of Allegiance but during the singing of the National Anthem, the code of conduct for the National Anthem requires that during it's singing a person stand quietly, it does not require hand over heart. If you will do a snopes. com search on the subject you can find multiple pictures of H. W. Buh, W. Bush and Reagan standing respectfully without hand over heart during the national anthem, you can also on line see the video of the even that the picture was taken at so you can clearly tell it is not during the pledge.

Please! You complain about this? Wait till all "Yes You Did" start burning it?

CM: I am appalled that this cretin was almost our vice president. I am appalled that the flag that I went into the service to protect, is nothing more than a prop for her self aggrandizing propaganda. Palin can't even do a simple magazine article without injecting some sort of PHONY patriotic imagery. It just reinforces the idea of how easily her fans are manipulated by something like a flag.

DIJONAISE: Why are you so appealed and disgusted? How come people get sooo bent out-of-shape when they see Sarah Palin? Someone explain, please.

Anyone "outraged" by this is clearly not a fan of Sarah and fails to make issue or remember what the anointed one didn't do during the pledge of allegiance on the campaign trail. Which picture is worse, hmmm?

No one in this country cares about the flag code any more. Any time you see some yay-hoo with a flag flapping from the car window, that person is in violation of the code, which says a flag must never be affixed to any vehicle except a military vehicle or the president's vehicle.

The code also says the flag is never to be used for advertising. How much of the business community do you think adheres to that part of the flag code?

And it's probably a good thing. The flag is worthless without the constitution. Desecrating the constitution is much worse.

I think the difference in color can be attributed to light make up on the face more than anything on her legs.

I am a Republican, and Palin makes me sick. Not like any of the others we have to offer are any better. Sanford would have been better served if he had just walked out and punched himself in the balls today than issue that statement, so does it really surprise you that SHE is the best the old, dying part of the party has to offer? She TRULY is smarter than they are, and that is the truly frightening thing