Palin: teh stoopid is still flowin'

Barely a week or two out of office and the ex-Governor of Alaska has been relatively absent from the media – something quite staggering in itself, considering her well-proven propensity to being the largest media-whore in the land (pseudo-scandal with Letterman, anyone?). But perhaps determined not to allow her legacy as the dumbest governor in Alaskan history to wither away in the collective memory, she's now rearing her crap-filled head again:

(AP) Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.

Yet more harking of that ridiculous "Obama's out to kill your grandparents!!" claim, which has time and time again been proven to be nothing more than silly bullshit:

The claim that the Democratic health care bills would encourage euthanasia has been circulating on the Internet for weeks and has been echoed by some Republican leaders. Democrats from Obama on down have dismissed it as a distortion. The nonpartisan group FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania says the claim is false.

The allegation appears to be based on a provision of the House bill that would require Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling sessions, on a voluntary basis, for beneficiaries who want the service. Medicare already covers hospice care. And legislation passed by Congress in 1990 requires that patients be asked if they have a living will.

Obama addressed the controversy during a July 28 AARP-sponsored town hall.

"Nobody is going to be forcing you to make a set of decisions on end-of-life care based on some bureaucratic law in Washington," he said.

So Palin's once again tightening her hold on the Idiot portion of America with sensationalist claims and lying drivel. Yet while we're all shocked at this (*bites knuckles*), it's overshadowing the real problem here, the biggest of all ...

Sarah Palin has a Facebook page?

We're all doomed.