Open Thread – 12 Days of Palin (Day 3)
On the third day of Christmas,
my Ex-Gov gave to me:
Three Lame Tweets
Two Crappy Books
December 17, 2024
Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Quitter Returns! -Monday, March 21, 2022
Putting the goober in gubernatorial -Friday, January 28, 2022
It must have been difficult selecting three lame twits out of the countless ones that exist. I love this venture and am looking forward to 12, 11, 10……..etc.
Open thread kind of comment: We had a horrendous windstorm night before last. We experienced major damage on our roof along with our neighbors from falling branches on our roofs. The tree in question belonged to our neighbor. Today they had it “felled”. It was necessary but so sad. I watched as this magnificent 125 year old tree was “laid down”. The guy who did it was very professional and exact. It fell exactly as he said it would. The owners were devastated but knew they had to do it. I sent them this quote and added that their magnificent tree was taking on a new role in the place that it had thrived. It now lies on the ground below where it once proudly stood. It will continue to thrive where it always lived by moving on to it’s next role. It was very emotional for the whole neighborhood who watched. Up until last year Bald Eagles had nested in that tree, but they moved down the hill about 300 yards so they are ok.
Mighty tree, rest in peace. 🙁
“The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what “the story of the trees” would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.”
~Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
Beautiful.
beautifully spoken. just lovely.
SCARY THOUGHTS…ANY PALIN GETTING NEAR THE WHITEHOUSE.
TOAD PALIN WILL BE DEFENSE SECRETARY!
BRISKET PALIN (Bristol) WILL BE SECRETARY OF STATE!
TWEET TWEET, SARAH! I TWEETED THE GREAT MAN AT THE
NORTH POLE. PLEASE, PLEASE $ARAH, GET ON YOUR SNOWMACHINE
AND RIDE LIKE THE NORTH WIND, AS SANTA NEEDS A HELPING HAND
(CASH), TO BUY BOYS AND GIRLS IN ALASKA TOYS FOR CHRISTMAS.
I forgot about the day of prayer. Didn’t work.
DOJ is suing BP and some of its partners. Saw that somewhere today.
A new take on an old joke (and yes, Sarah is an old joke but that’s not what I meant):
Sarah Palin was driving when she saw the flash of a traffic camera. She figured that her picture had been taken for exceeding the limit even though she knew that she wasn’t speeding.
Just to be sure, she went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed.
You know Sarah! She began to think that this was quite funny – plus she had that old vindictive feeling coming on – so drove even slower as she passed the area once more, and the traffic camera again flashed. She was looking forward to her day in court. She hadn’t made a judge get all wee-wee’d up for quite some time.
She tried a fourth and fifth time with the same results and was now laughing as the camera flashed while she rolled past at a snail’s pace.
Two weeks later, she got five tickets in the mail for driving without a seat belt.
You know, you just can’t fix stupid.
LOL. sure can’t. that’s priceless.
Here are some other Christmas season song titles for $arah, sent to me by my brother:
Christmas Carols for Disturbed Friends
1. Schizophrenia — Do I Hear What I Hear?
2. Multiple Personality Disorder – We Three Kings Disoriented Are
3. Dementia – I Think I’ll Be Home For Christmas
4. Narcissistic – Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
5. Manic – Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and….
6. Paranoid – Santa Claus is Coming To Town To Get Me
7. Borderline Personality Disorder – Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
8. Personality Disorder – You Better Watch Out, I’m Gonna Cry, I’m Gonna Pout, and Don’t Know Why
9. Attention Deficit Disorder – Silent Night, Holy oooh look at the Froggy – can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?
10. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
That’s wonderful….! Thank you…!
Chris Matthews is kicking butt tonight! Watch if you have a mind. Wow. He must have read around the blogs!
Sarah Palin holiday joke:
“Hi. This is Sarah Palin. Is Senator Lieberman in?”
“No, Governor, This is Yom Kippur.”
“Well hello Yom, Can I leave a message?”
HA!! 🙂
Breaking news! House passes DADT repeal in stand alone bill.
What???!!! that’s wonderful. go Obama go!
Does Palin think this is a new name for DWTS?
Dancin’ also Dude Todd
Mudflatters are so great!
I read a lot of blogs, but this is the only one that I comment on regularly. There’s a reason, besides AKM, and it’s because you are all so supportive, intelligent, hilarious, and just the best ever!
I can’t quit you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for letting me get that little story off of my chest. You all have given me lots to think about in terms of how I will interact with this fella & the whole family in the future… I will be nice, see if i can be the water that wears down the rocks for brains. Sorry, that probably wasn’t nice or a good way to start. I will be water that wears down rock, see if I can effect positive change in our corner of TX.
I wish I could share a diner booth with you, Bubbles, and meet up with the other Mudflatters here in TX (I am close to Houston!).
Forgot to ask you, Bubbles — do you give a damn?
nope. i sure don’t. life is too damned short and there are plenty people in it who love me or who would love me if they ever met me. when i was young i wanted everyone to like me. i soon learned that that could never be. as i got a little older i wanted to love everyone i met. that didn’t work out so well either. now i am proud to be disliked by the many and beloved by the few.
That made me laugh!
That’s a tough life lesson. For some people (like me) it leads to a lot of heartbreak. I go out of my way to make sure that my girls know that it’s all about quality vs. quantity when it comes to friends. My big girl had a rough 1st year in college, I think it had a lot to do with crappy superficial friendships gone bad, as crappy superficial friendships are destined to do. Our little one is much more like me — today, as opposed to the people-pleaser that I used to be — and draws her lines in the sand re: friendships. At 5 she is willing to tell people they are not nice and refuses to play with the bully twin girls down the street. The other day she said that the twins + the girl next door were like having “a mean stepmother and two mean stepsisters.”
Luckily I have 2 great girlfriends here in TX (one I worked with in Alaska, the other lived near us in the UK, and has moved here as well because the oil patch is the smallest of small worlds), a husband that is fabulous, and my girls, and life that keeps me busy, so who needs the pinheads?
BUT, fellow TX mudfriends are welcome to send me a message via the forum, and I’d love to meet up!!!!
TXSMR it would be a pleasure to sit with you in a booth in a diner surrounded by mudpups. your two young ladies are just as smart and sweet as their mom. two great girlfriends is plenty good and Houston sounds like a city where it is possible for a progressive lady to thrive . chatting with the folks here is what helps me keep a little balance also and believe me i can use all the balance i can get.
Whenever I get down because someone doesn’t like me or treats me poorly, I remind myself that my kindergarteners actually cheer when I enter their classroom once a week, and several of them always have to hug me when they see me in the hall (causes a traffic jam, but oh well!).
You can fool adults quite easily (Faux News ratings are proof of that!) but it’s pretty hard to fool a 5 year old. They can see right through any fakery and artificialness. Now I don’t care so much if an adult doesn’t like me because my little ones do. They are much more important to me than adults who aren’t smart enough to know a good thing when they see it! 🙂
I came here to post the good news that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the Year, which means it isn’t Sowah Pay-me, the quitter queen. Of course, I found that 2 others beat me to the post (mudpups are nothing if not informed).
Woke up with a sore throat this morning. Have swallowed cayenne & vitamin C in water, chased with local honey. Now, I’m going to make some sage tea. Staying warm, indoors. Have to visit the library before it closes, but it’s only 4 blocks away, and I’ll bundle up first. Other errands will have to wait till tomorrow or Friday, but I have to get to the library or pay fines.
Health and peace.
hope you feel better Zo. take care.
Can you renew the books online? Or call and ask to renew over the phone, so you don’t have to get out in the cold while you’re ill?
Plum Flower Gan Mao Ling. My family swears by it. Been using it for years and years and years. Take 6 tablets 3 times a day for 3 days – AT FIRST SIGN of sore throat. Don’t wait five minutes. If you are in bed and wake up with a sore throat, reach for it on your nightstand and take it right then. I keep a bottle in my office, in my car and at home so that no matter where I am I have it handy for that fist symptom. I would estimate its efficacy with my family and friends who use it correctly to be about 90%. It’s not expensive, the tablets are small, and Plum Flower brand can be trusted.
Feel better!
Hopefully most people won’t have fist symptoms. That could be weird.
LOL
I did not make it clear what Gan Mao Ling does – s/b working and not reading blogs. Oops. You don’t succumb to the cold – for me it’s probably 9 times out of 10 which thrills me to pieces.
Tabasco, zyx!
If you haven’t already checked flyinureye’s site, you don’t wanna miss this one:
http://flyinureye.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/organ-tutu.jpg
Can’t you just hear those lil’ feet tap dancing?
Another gem!
Sarah herself admits that she is the biggest klutz in the world to Barbara Walters. Why should we believe in her when she not only admits she lacks abilities, but showed she does not have it and quit on us as our governor?
Hello TXSMR – re your kind neighbor in Texas. I am also in TX, and I know very much the sort of person you describe. I forget sometimes since I live in Austin, but I was reared in a very small West Texas town, so I have known this attitude most of my life, much of it coming from dear relatives. Last time I was home, one of my cousin’s best friends (woman in her late 70s) was talking about how scared she was about the direction the Country was taking, and I agreed with her. She immediately made clear it was Obama she was scared of, not the Tea Party mentality. My mouth fell open, as did my cousin’s. My cousin (her age) replied, “I hate to think of you being scared. What is the Obama Administration doing that scares you?” Our friend then went into “he may not even be a citizen”, etc. I said, “You have to quit watching Fox News, that’s who is scaring you.” My cousin responded, “Of course Obama is a citizen.” None of us wanted a big disagreement, so our friend said, “I guess we just disagree.” My cousin said, “I just don’t want anyone scaring you.” And I said, “You have to wonder if he scares people, it is because he is black.” Long pause, then denial. Since I have a mixed race daughter that they both love, that shut things down. Hugs all around. Topic changed.
I tell this long story to say – although I’m a native Texan, I have lived elsewhere. I’ve always been an outspoken lefty and social activist. Outside of political circles, I find that most Texans are not highly politically aware (although they are often opinionated), but the majority will respect differences of opinion, especially when spoken with kindness, calm and as little condensation as one can muster . If you can work in some humor it helps too. My personal experience in my family and home town is that little by little change happens. For example, your neighbor will see the SPA episodes with a little different eye because of your conversation. Just keep smiling and being open. Water wears down rock.
Water wears down rock. lovely thought. yes it does.
Yep, I think some Texans are waking up. I was recently with a group in Mexico and surprised at how liberal the attitudes were. My R friend was along and felt very left out since the only other Cons were a xstain preacher with “Baptist tendencies” and wife and a TX good ol’ boy who nobody took seriously for a variety of reasons besides his politics.
I’m going to be reminding R friends that I’d be scared too if I watched and believed all the nonsense on Fox and the crazy emails that get sent out. A few times a week I listen to Rush for just a few minutes to pick up some lie. Then I can say honestly that I heard him say something like this “You know doctors will have to ask if you are Republican and then they will not be able to treat you if healthcare reform passes.” Yep, I really heard him say that. It doesn’t take long for him to say something outrageous and then you have a quote to ask friends why they want to be scared by BS.
wondering what on earth to send America’s Savior, Sex Symbol and Dear Leader Sarah Palin and family for Christmas? look no further my friends:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/
…i mean, after all, we gotta give her some love. our lives may depend on it.
TEX SMR—–it is called “brain washing”. I too have a friend who I thought was intelligent, and yet she shallows this crap from people like the Quitter. I think they all need a “shrink” to figure them out.
Well, it seems as if Mrs. Palin has to take time out from whatever soap opera she is watching. She needs to throw Time magazine under the bus. She wasn’t chosen person of the year. I don’t know about you, but I am not all that upset.
Hey, boys and girls! It’s a special day! Do you know what day it is?
Nope, not Arbor Day. Guess again.
Well, it IS day 3 of the Palin Christmas Song, but that doesn’t make it special, it just makes her pathetic.
Yes! It’s National Monkey Day!
Get a look that these intelligent, fascinating, creatures that couldn’t possibly be related to Sarah Palin. (They refudiate it, anyway, and they’re stickin’ to their story!)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1214/National-Monkey-Day-The-top-10-monkeys/Emperor-tamarin
MONKEYS!!! I want a National Monkey Day sweatshirt and will not rest until I find one!
I have many monkey type tzotchkes and I love them all. One of my favorites is a fuzzy monkey bank. When you add a coin via the slot in its back, it begins to scream and howl. Scares the living bejeebus out of the cats which cracks me right up. Never tire of it.
Thanks for the Monkey Day notice and link!
A few years ago, when I started teaching American Sign Language to my little 5-7 year old munchkins, I discovered that March 1st is National Pig Day. I now do an entire lesson about Silly Pig and his sister Frilly Pig for my first graders. He’s stuck on a desert island and needs to get home to the farm where his sister is waiting to play Monopoly (because, of course, everyone knows that it’s the favorite game of pigs everywhere!). We go through the various signs for modes of transportation and I have pictures (go bless clip art!) of Silly Pig flying, sailing and driving a plethora of transportation vehicles.
I’ve been doing this lesson for about 9 years now and, amazingly, the kids accept without question that a pig can pilot a rocket, sail a submarine, fly a helicopter, drive a school bus and a car, and even captain a cruise ship. The last picture is the pig on a bicycle and you can clearly see that his feet don’t reach the pedals. EVERY SINGLE YEAR, at least one kid will question a pig’s ability to ride a bicycle. Apparently, pigs can indeed become astronauts, but cannot ride your standard two-wheel bike!
In the spirit of all animal life forms, I wish you a very happy National Monkey Day!
That is is so funny – but it also shows that they have experience with bikes so they know what it takes to ride one!
it is the year 2025
Sarah Palin has been elected our Dear Leader For Life:
__________________________________________________________________________
America is back, my fellow citizens! Our people have assumed their rightful place and have learned once again the great qualities of respect and deference. We know, as we used to, that it is faith in what our superiors tell us -” not the Devil’s decadent belief in our own sadly mistaken observations -” that brings us the good life. And God has rewarded us for our faith by returning to us, and bringing his gifts of obedience, order and really, really rich rich people, just like the Good Book says.
God bless the Christian Corporate States of America!
this is an hysterically mind-bending essay. you are going to love it.
And God bless America’s Dear Leader For Life!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/In-The-Year-2025-by-David-Michael-Gree-101127-169.html
It’s almost like she wrote it herself…like recording a special dream that she has frequently.
Tx SMR–what a good post (my x key won’t do cap). I have been in the same position with people. One of my relatives married into a family who considered themselves kind of “above” me and my family. Had to do with their religious beliefs–being born again and saved and such. Anyway, they were the meanest, most racist group of people you can imagine. I was always looking out of the corner of my eyes at them and muttering, “You gotta’ be kidding me”.
I think that if we are going to do the Twelve Days of Palin right, we should stop somewhere at 6 1/2.
🙂
Good one!
That will keep me smiling for a while!
I am quaking with fear at the thought of a “dozen of anything” to do with Palin…
(((Frsbdg))) please don’t quake. Point your Mudpuppy nose straight up in the air and howl (sing) with the rest of us but first have a thirst quencher a la BenLomond (3 parts gin-one part tonic water) should do it. after all ’tis the season to be jolly.
That’s right – what she said. Never show your belly to the Twit.
I posted this at the end of the day a while back but wanted to add it again for my fellow Mudpuppies.
We are going to be hearing lots about immigration as the right gins up a lot of fear over the next few years. If you’d like to understand more about the complex issues involved here is a series done by the Fresno Bee that is very well done. Yep, some real journalism took place during the reporting of this series of stories.
http://www.fresnobee.com/indenial/index.html
On a high note, she is NOT the Time Person of the Year.
I question where we are as a nation that someone as completely unqualified for high office as Palin is discussed as a somewhat serious contender. I mean really, what in the hell is going on here??
I have to agree completely with you.
My loathing for her stems from 2 things:
1) Lowering the bar for politicians across the US
2) Lowering the bar for acceptable political discourse
On both of those issues she has lowered the bar so far that it is sinking in quicksand. Complete effing idiots now consider themselves qualified — don’t read, not informed, don’t know where Africa is, who our allies are? Big deal! And making it somehow acceptable to be a racist ignorant bigot bashing 75% of your fellow countrymen/women because they do not have “values” (I am certainly using that term loosely!) that you have? There is something very very wrong with that.
I came here to get some mudflatter warm feelings because I have been thinking too much about something that happened yesterday…
At the bus stop a nice grandfather came to pick up his granddaughter. I’ve talked to this fella many many times, a lot about hunting, he’s into it, I did more than I’d have liked to in Alaska, etc etc. Anyway, this guy is educated, seems very kind, his daughter, our neighbor, is very kind, his wife is so nice, the list goes on & on. So, I ask this guy has he seen the SP caribou hunt show, thinking he’s a big hunter, he’d relate to my frustrations. He says no, he & his wife have it taped, they’ve only seen the Kate Gosslein (sp?) one so far, boy that Kate is a spoiled brat! I said to him that real hunters have their own guns, know how to work the bolt action, load their own rifle, etc., and shooting without ensuring your sight is on target is just not on, never mind the waving the gun around w/finger on the trigger. Well, he says everyone hates her anyway, and he doesn’t trust reporters, blah blah blah…
And that’s where my mind froze up. Okay, what is wrong with people? This guy seemed nice. His wife & daughter seem nice. But here’s the deal with me: I cannot understand how anyone can claim to be intelligent or a good Christian/good person/whatever and support her. I just cannot. She goes around talking hate. She lies about every single thing under the sun. So, how can a person morally &/or ethically support her unless they themselves have a missing ethical/moral compass themselves? People talking hate cannot be good, particularly when it is based on WHAT? Race? Religion? How can a person support someone who says that 75% of their fellow US citizens are bad?
Life is short, I want to fill my life & my time with compassionate caring & loving people. Not that I have to spend quality time with this guy or his family, but I see him once or twice a week, and now I’m thinking YUK THERE IS SOMETHING PROFOUNDLY WRONG WITH YOU.
So, mudflatters, how do you all deal with people who seem good in so many ways, but go along with the quitter is great meme?
I came here to get some mudflatter warm feelings because I have been thinking too much about something that happened yesterday…
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first things first TX SMR. sending you warm hugs and sweet kisses.
i have found in my life that most people have a public side. a facade we put on just like we put on clothes and shoes. it seems this man and his family have adopted an outgoing, pleasant face when meeting strangers. this makes life easier for them. however, were it i who was standing there at the bus stop, his ‘friendly face’ might not be as pleasant; might dim somewhat and the smile might not quite reach his eyes.
i have learned to be wary of ‘nice’ people. try to put this guy and his phony-baloney family out of your mudpuppy mind. you don’t need him for anything. when next you see them just smile as usual and go on your way. the good thing is that now you know what you need to know about them. the truth about people is hard lesson to learn but it is a necessary lesson. it is how we develop discernment and how wisdom is attained. keep on being a genuine person. keep him in his place by disallowing any further discussion of anything of substance. he is an idiot so the case on him is closed. try to feel better. we got you babe.
“…his ‘friendly face’ might not be as pleasant; might dim somewhat and the smile might not quite reach his eyes.”
.bubbles – you nailed it. Gave me chills darlin!
SMR – read bubbles’ description and forget about these people. It’s a phenomena of group dynamics, like a mob mentality. It’s Sarah’s only skill really – and she is good at it – but she’s really good at nothing else. It’s why we Alaskans who got taken and wised up quickly think of the Emperor’s New Clothes when we see her. There’s nothing really there, but the illusion is strong. You know what I’ve learned from all this? That people are easily manipulated. I’ve learned a lot from all of this, and it has helped me. I’m not jaded by any means, but the way I see the press now, other politicians – it’s all changed. Even how I view my state and its residents from within my mind and heart has changed. And I will find a way to make room for all the changes so that I’m OK, and she’s not.
(((((Martha UYS)))))). i too have changed. it is a good thing to change, to grow, to discern truth from lies; and to be o.k. with the learning even when the the lessons are harsh and hurtful. we will make it through all this and our journey onwards will get easier; paths made straight and heavens’ light to show the way.
Good advice, Bubbles and MUYS – thank you.
I too am sad for finding out people I know and like for years are Joe Miller supporters or $PayMe fans.
I cannot fathom their thinking.
(((((((TX SMR))))))))!
It’s their fear that is attracting them to her and her ilk. Most of these people grew up believing in the superiority of white, christian people. Everyone else was just not as “good”. It a WWII mentality that identified certain “peoples” as bad. Japanese, Russians and Germans. As a kid I remember adults including my parents talking about never buying products from Japan or Germany. Of course that changed when Daddy found an incredible deal on a used Mercedes, but he felt guilty. It was weird because he’d had a car company with German partners who had come over before the war. So while on one hand he knew better, some low level part blamed the “unknown” Germans for the war.
It is ironic that folks who recognize the sheer incompetency of Palin are being labels as “haters”. This is pure Rovian double speak. We don’t “hate” her, we fear her unbridled “fear”. She is afraid of everything just like a typical bully. Those who defend her are her mean girl posey because her fears are their fears.
I’m thinking when someone labels me as a liberal “hater” my response is I’m not “hating” I’m afraid of fearful people with extraordinary levels of ignorance having power to affect changes in my life.
It is not hate, but fear. Ignorance is scary.
txsmr
(So, how can a person morally &/or ethically support her unless they themselves have a missing ethical/moral compass themselves?)
I know some people that say they are very religious and are not Obama fans at all. They simply don’t like him and justify it by saying that he is for the very things that are against their belief and the way they were raised as strong republicans. They identify with Palin and think she is a hero and says what they can’t.
Honestly, I don’t think it is right for me to judge or be judged but it is very difficult not to have an opinion. I realize that not everyone is going to agree with me. I have been conflicted about my view of Palin, mainly because I wish her well as a mom but hope she stays away from the road to the White House. I tend to agree with the President more than I disagree with him, so I probably justify my defense “a lot!”
Thanks mudfriends.
I guess that I forget sometimes why I so dislike this place — the reason being that it is filled up to the top & overflowing with nutjobs — and really want to like the people that I meet. I don’t want to operate w/in an environment where the default is to assume people are crazy, but here it just seems to be the case.
You know, I can handle someone liking Boehner, or McConnell, or even GW Bush — they all have a long history of governing/politics in some way/shape/form, and there are people who genuinely agree with their politics and policies. But the evil lady? Come on! Mayor of Wasilla and the hands-down lousiest governor that Alaska ever had and only for 1/2 term? There are no policies to agree with, it’s just her personal biases & opinions, so hey, have a beer or a glass of wine with her, but to believe she’s capable of participating in politics in a manner that directly affects the 75% of the country that thinks she’s insane? Well, I just cannot get on board with that, and I cannot like a person like that, and most of the time I do put them out of my mind and not think about them, but this guy, well, I see him often and his granddaughter & our little one are friends, so it just depressed me that someone who seems so kind to be so STUPID.
Unfortunately I know all about public face vs. private face. I like the people who have the same face in public/private, and I guess he’s not one…
Oh well, he’s not the only one I know. And I will continue to be nice & friendly, but talk to him less.
And keep counting the days until we can leave this crazy state. I am able to do some great things here in TX – for me & my family — but it is not a place that I want to be for any great length of time. I could go on about it, but won’t because it’s BORING.
So, thanks, mudfriends, now I must get back to my studying.
TXSMR i have a neighbor like that. i have known him for years and one morning i stopped in a neighborhood diner for breakfast and there he was. he goes there most mornings. i sat behind him and listened as he pontificated on that day’s news. he yapped on and on. i was gobsmacked. i knew he had opinions but good grief. the man who owns the restaurant looked at me shook his head. the waiter rolled his eyes when he came to pour my coffee. “every day” he whispered in my ear. “every damned day we gotta lissen to dis asshole”
well. you know they had to bring a mop for the coffee. i howled like a demented Mudpup. till this day he won’t speak to me. ask me if i care.
Try this:
“Yep, good ol’ Sarah Palin. Personally responsible for sending droves of Alaskan Republicans to the Democratic Party”.
(P.S. You and I know that probably most of the droves are actually Undeclareds now, but outside Alaska no one gets that so it’s not pertinent).
I am in the blue county(Dallas) in TX but I did live in a very red area(Louie Goehmert “terror baby” area) at one time and it was so sad. Dems there would say it didn’t matter if they voted because it didn’t count. I changed doctors in 2008 when I found she supported McCain/Palin. I couldn’t believe she would support Palin.
I am not saying I never talk to Palin supporter because I do, but I know you can’t change their mind. So I try to ignore them.
When people tell me they vote for Palin in 2008, I just figured that it was a love for being Republican nothing less or nothing more. There are some really good Republicans out there that don’t tune into the hype. I know a few even though we disagree.
I’m in Texas at the moment, as well. Lived in Houston for 20 years before moving back to Louisiana last year. We’re not all nut-jobs! Although, I admit there are quite a few. In fact, I’d have to say Houston has a pretty good population of those left-of-center. Got a lot of righties, but I think Houston is pretty progressive as well. We even elected our first openly lesbian mayor!
Anyway, I think there are a lot of factors that make people believe the hype surrounding her and the other Republican loud-mouths out there. But the main factor is a serious lack of critical thought. I was just discussing this with my brother yesterday. By and large, her followers are proudly ignorant and under-educated. One ability a good liberal-arts education should give a person is critical thought. Being able to look past platitudes and talking points and see the real issues involved in any subject is pretty much non-existent among her followers. I also believe it is a self-perpetuating phenomenon. Those under-educated don’t place the value on education and learning and remain willfully ignorant of issues they spout off about, they teach their children to do the same. And so it goes… we see it on TV and in the news about her family, and those that look up to her think that is the way to raise children, so they emulate. We already had one president who had no intellectual curiosity, we do not need another.
A person could write a thesis about this.
I also believe that as mudpups, we are all a bit hyper-sensitive about her activities and issues. Know thy enemy, as they say. Which is why I think TX SMR wanted the man to react a certain way, and when he didn’t, there was such disappointment. I see the point you made, but I also really try to remember that most people out there don’t have the same visceral reaction to her that some of us do. The idea of a Palin presidency frightens the bejeezus outta me, (which is why I have a plan to move to Belgium if she is elected), but I pay a lot of attention to all this, and most people just don’t (lack of critical thought again…) so a lot of them miss all the BS that comes along with her.
I’ve started to ask R friends why they are so afraid? I’m also asking them if they are getting tired of being lied to. I have one friend who still votes R because of all the “welfare”. When I pointed out that what’s left of welfare is mostly just aid for dependent kids and around 2% of the budget she’s shifted to asking me how I can be a socialist. I went on to explain that I am proud of our socialist parks, schools, roadways, etc. Now she agrees that Sarah is an idiot but that is OK because it’s the people behind her who are R’s who are OK. And yes, she is blond. I’ve known her for years and in some ways she is very smart but in other ways her brain is wired differently so sometimes she can just be very dense. Other friends and I will continue to work on her since I know in her heart she is a good person but has been raised and fed a lot of political nonsense over the years.
Her husband is also a life long Con but has lately started to question a lot of the TP off the wall stuff. I can’t wait to discuss how David Stockman has admitted that Reaganomics hasn’t worked.
I think Texans who voted R in 2008 voted for McCain more than Palin because there are alot of old establishment money Repubs here. I hear they are embarrassed by her.
I’m not sure if the folks you speak of, NOLA @ 7.1.5.1.1, so much “are proudly ignorant and under-educated” as they are proud of what they DO know…even though they don’t have an ‘elite’ education.
They are proud of their selfs for carefully following politics, for being able to understand ‘politics’, and for being able to pass judgement on political personalities and issues; for being engaged. Right and truly proud, they are! All thngs being equal, that’s as it should be. But when it comes to them, things aren’t equal.
It never crosses their mind that they might, once in a while, maybe ought to check the veracity of what they’re being told with a totally ‘outside’ source. Heck, if FOX says something happened, if $P tweets and/or Fbs about it, if Rushy and Bill-O expound upon it, and Glennie diagrams it, it must be true! And you know what? Because they have so much ‘information’, they are proud they KNOW politics; proud they UNDERSTAND all the issues (as presented by $P and confirmed by her tweets, her Fb, FOX, Glennie, Rushie, Bill-O, Hankyity, et.al.), proud to participate in the dialogue and share what they know.
No, I think it’s not that they’re “proudly ignorant and under-educated” or that they [what you also said] lack critical thinking skills, it’s more that they lack APPROPRIATE critical thinking skills. They do get their ‘information’ from multiple sources (Fb, FOX, Beckster, etc.) and do critically think about all of it — they just don’t use their critical thinking skills to the next level…they don’t use the skills to critically evaluate their sources and to recognize all their ‘information’ is being spilled out of the same slop bucket. beth.
I admit, I had a kind of feeling of disconnect when I saw comments to the SP and K+8 show that were almost entirely critical of Kate, not Sarah.
Now, sure, Kate is the guest from hell, and the whole thing was contrived, but honestly, most decent people I know – if they invited a friend to join them for a family activity and it turned out the friend totally hated it, would at least feel bad that they’d made a wrong assumption, and then try to make the friend feel better.
The idea that the hostess of the camping trip would pull faces and make fun of the neophyte camper is just wrong – no one should applaud it, no matter how badly behaved the guest is. You’re the hostess. You made the arrangements. You know your friend – why wouldn’t you pack in some paper towels or collapsible table or something that you know might make her feel more at home?
it’s just rude. They set Kate up to laugh at her, and because she is who she is, it was an easy cheap laugh.
My feelings exactly! If you are “introducing” someone to camping, you do it in a gentle way. You let them pack WITH YOU so have a chance to go over things like handwipes. You discuss food ahead of time (preferences, allergies, how to carry it in), how it will be cooked (open fire, campstove?). You try to pick a campsite that shows off the beauty of the area but that’s not so isolated.
I was waiting for more blogging of $P’s “book”. However, I now realize that the live blogging was simply a rather elegant variation of the Milgram experiment. Would otherwise normal people repeatedly urge the torture of a follow human, largely unknown except by name, for their own enjoyment?
I am on to your game, and in doing so recovered my humanity. The experiment is done, throw the book in the fire. I disclaim any further interest in it.
I lost interest in the book, too; AKM is always an excellent writer with salient points – I always feel as if I’ve had a healthy meal not brain candy. Not so with the second book – the extractions have shown it to be so non-nonsensical, it becomes so painful to read the synopses.
The book is so toxic I could not imagine using it in the outhouse for toilet paper – it would surely give anal cancer.
Are Sarah’s Fox friends turning against her when O’Reilly allows criticism of her to go unchallenged?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/charles-krauthammer-tells-bill-oreilly-sarah-palin-must-expand-policy-knowledge/
Y’know – every time I hear someone say that Palin needs to hit the books and expand her knowledge base – a chill goes down my spine. How scary is it to think of a candidate having to cram for a run at POTUS ?? And how absolutely ludicrous that this is even an option. I get this image of Todd sitting across the kitchen table from $P, asking her questions from scribbled index cards.
Brrrrr.
I know how you feel. Palin is not, was not and will never be qualified for the Presidency. She was not qualified as Governor and had Wasilla been the size of Anchorage she would not have been qualified to be Mayor (I’m being generous in suggesting that she might have been qualified to be mayor of a small town–as long as her city manager actually ran the place).
People who run for the office of the President of the United States need in-depth knowledge and extraordinary intelligence not crib notes written from the Reader’s Digest version of domestic and international affairs.
Shrub Lite (twice) notwithstanding.
Amen.
“People who run for the office of the President of the United States need in-depth knowledge and extraordinary intelligence not crib notes written from the Reader’s Digest version of domestic and international affairs”
…or gleaned from movies. beth.
I don’t think Palin is qualified to be PTA president. She was a runner up loser Miss Alaska who winked at old men and got her way. If you think about it, it took two brains to be mayor of Wasilla. Co-Mayors Todd and Sarah did a terrible job and put us in debt BIG TIME. They were so over whelmed, they hired a city manager. That’s like a stay at home mother hiring a nanny. Hey, you were hire to be the mayor of a very small town and you had small responsibilities and you had to hire a city manager? LOSER!
Palin isn’t cramming at all – she thinks it’s going to be a take-home, open book test. And she’ll pay someone else to write the answers for her. The Time Magazine interview conducted by e-mail was an embarrassment to journalism.
Hope this email is OK for interviews doesn’t get lost in the noise. Lots of joke potential here. If elected would she do her foreign policy by email? Or just be tweeting insults to Putin while waving from her porch?
My thoughts exactly!
I agree with you BuffaloGal. It’s like an ignorant person on the street announces they want to be president and everybody says go home and study. Person comes back makes some speeches and everybody says you are not ready, go home and study some more and the person comes back makes another speech and again the people say you are not ready go home and study some more. The cycle repeats over and over again. When is enough is enough and America tells the person you are too ignorant, find another occupation?
Also, they complain that Obama did not have enough experience, so SHE is better??!!! She has LESS if the truth is known, not the myth of the Reformer, City Manager, 10 years of PTA….
Re: The Cycle repeating – sounds like her college career.
It’s like they are saying, she is just perfect for president if she just knew anything about anything, it would be great!
They probably think she is going to run.
He spotted her from the start. I think he likes that she brings in the votes, but he knows that she is not an natural intellect.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402845.html
OMG
Look at the link above, I posted it in the wrong spot. Krauthammer did an op ed in 2008. I am sure there are others. Watch Billo in the next month, I think he is a Romney fan.
I am finding Palin kind of boring lately, she reminds me of a less smart Coulter (Ann should run if Palin does). I am not surprised by the things she says anymore, it is getting predictable kind of like a Beck or Rush L. Boeher is more fun, although people have been harsh.
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/john-boehner-press-conference-121410/1265175/
If SP runs for President, she is going to have to really bring it. I just can’t take her seriously and I don’t think she is going to run. If she does not run…
I did mean to type “Boehner.”
Good link to remember. I am not a fan of Krauthammer but I do appreciate his candor about Palin–it’s too bad, however, that he shows tact when doing so instead of calling her out for being the fraud that she is.
I am not a fan, yikes. I just remember someone sending me a nasty email about him being rude to the President in another op ed. I just got another one the other day with a title of Hanoi Jane. Another one of those false chain emails, people get a grip, they always send out these crazy things. I delete them, as they know I support our President.
No. This is them being “fair and balanced,” of course!
I posted this link on the last open thread but thought I’d re-post on this shiny new one:
It seems that the federal judge who ruled that the mandate to buy insurance in the Affordable Health Care Act might need a history lesson. He scoffed that mandating the purchase of health coverage would be like the founding fathers requiring all citizens to buy guns. He obviously did not know that George Washington DID sign legislation that required all citizens to do just that.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/14/cuccinelli-militia-act/
That was great. He obviously didn’t do his homework. I think this mandate has been upheld in other states over the past few months, so more judges have found that it is constitutional than not.
Another judge in VA upheld it, so maybe they cancel each other out 😉
Disagreements like this are settled by throwing all the judges into a pit for mud wrestling.
Nekkid, I hope.
That is too funny. I was reading another blog and saw this link about the Healthcare mandate.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2010/12/08_fried-debate.html
I was talking to my significant other about the militia act just last night.
This judge should have recused himself because he was part of a group wo4king to thwart health care reform.
This country is so broken.
Funny.
OT – So the wind is roarin. There is no snow left in the yard. The lawn looks green!
I <3 altos! I'm a mezzo.
Ooh, ooh, does this mean we can start the musician jokes? I'll go first:
Who are the members of a male quartet?
Three men and a tenor.
*rim shot*
I'm here all week!
What do you call a musician without a girlfriend?
Homeless.
BWAHAAAAAA. i met a few of those in my greener years.
What do you call Beethoven in the grave?
Decomposing.
That’s all you get. I don’t know any more.
And Also Too, $PayMe put out more than three stupid tweets IMHO but who’s counting?
another Mezzo here. Love the jokes…what fun!
I’ve been waiting all year for this. [standing in the alto section]
me too Patience. i will sing with you.
Make that three altos.
I will take the fourth position and bring cookies!
Count me in, also, too. Altos rock!
“Altos rock!”
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy altos!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have the more challenging part and our faces don’t turn magenta hitting those high notes!
I’ll join in as soon as I get over the last of my bronchitis…still a little froggy but getting better every day! And if the voice isn’t up to par, I can always do AKM’s loverly song in sign language.