Open Thread – Alaska Women Not For Sarah Palin, Part 9
Netroots Nation 2010 is drawing closer! I’ve been a bit quiet lately, mostly because I”m preparing for the trip and getting my other life in order, which is always more complicated than you think it will be.
I did have a strange encounter the other night which I’ll share. We haven’t had a good “Brian the Moose” story lately, so this one seemed like a good runner up.
I was sitting here at the computer (imagine that!) and all of a sudden I heard a tapping on the glass of the sliding door. It was about 2am, so I wondered what it could be. I looked over and saw nothing. It was still just light enough to tell there was nothing standing at the door, so I though maybe it was my imagination. -tap tap tap- There it was again! Nothing there. Maybe the wind? Nope, there was no wind. -tap tap tap tap- I get up and walk over to the door, and stand there with my nose on the glass, and my hands cupped around my eyes to cut the glare from the inside. Nothing there. -tap tap- The tapping is coming from waaaay down low.
I looked down and there were two porcupines sitting on my step, and the quills on the stubby tail of the mother porcupine are tap tap tapping on the glass. There was also a little baby porcupine, about 1/3 the size of the other one, and it was chewing on something with its giant long porcupine teeth. I looked closer and it was a wrinkled up beet that must have fallen as someone opened the door on the way out to the compost.
I watched them for a while. It was too dark for a picture but they really enjoyed that beet. So somewhere out there in the wilds of Alaska is a baby porcupine peeing pink.
All these articles about her are a bit premature and the media will tire of her in a few months. All celebs get overexposed at some point. Where has Paris Hilton been lately?
Unfortunately, this past weekend, the NY Times (!) ran this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/us/politics/18palin.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Sarah%20Palin&st=cse
I was horrified to find it on the front page (albeit below the fold).
Completely off-topic, but an etomological find!
trig — stone placed under a wheel to keep it from rolling
On patriotism, what it is, and how we treat others.
I’ve met the author. I don’t always agree with his views, but he is intelligent and when he talks, I listen. Someone with substance in their words.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2010/0719/The-right-wing-s-perversion-of-patriotism
This came up last week but it seems worth raising again. From where I sit (Chicago, actually “the heartland” that her nibs tweeted about yesterday) she seems to be fraying around the edges lately. Or, to put it in stronger terms, coming unglued.
Audience numbers for her events are down. Her oldest daughter may be about to blow her born again virgin cover. The naughty father of one (two?) of her grand children has been dragged back into the fold. Sorta. The Tea Party movement, which she has called “beautiful” just expelled one of it’s more visible members for being a freakin racist. Her negatives among Republicans are rising. Bill-O seems to enjoy making her twist in the wind from the studio in the compound. There’s “a creepy” neighbor just over the fence collecting the truth. And another respected author who keeps pushing back his publishing date because the material won’t stop. Everyone has come to realize that she doesn’t write her Facebook posts but clearly does her tweets.
There are financial and regulatory problems with her PACs.
I’ll give her credit for audacity. (hmmm a word we associate with another poitical figure) When your teenager get’s pregnant you/she become advocates of abstinance. And special needs kids. When you’re caught putting crib notes on your hand you call it The Poor Man’s Teleprompter. When you are caught twice using a word that doesn’t exist, and then replace it with a word that doesn’t fit, you say English is a living language and then invoke The Bard. And then show your religious intolerance and bigotry. All while you’re climbing a peak that doesn’t exist.
I think we’re watching a small person with a big ego and a personality disorder or two finally reaching the edges of her ability to cope. To keep it up. To keep it all together. Too many crazy balls in the air to sustain the fraud. I feel for the young children and other innocent by standers. Collateral damage.
I don’t know if she’s running for president. Or president of the junior class. Or Miss Congeniality. Or she wants her father to really love her but she is a sad excuse for a human being. She should have blinked a thousand times when John McCain called and said “Thanks But No Thanks, I appreciate the incredibly shallow, transparent and desperate thing you’re trying to do to win women voters but this would be a joke and bring shame on our country.”
Never forget that this is McCain’s legacy.
I think she’s already through. Just like they trace this market crash to back before everything fell apart, I think she’s already done. Stick a fork in her.
Like the cartoon character that runs off the cliff and then pedals madly in the air prior to falling, the descent is now inevitable. Neither she, her handlers, nor followers have figured this out. She may pedal the air right through a Republican convention and even a presidential election, but her brand of politics is over now, just as it was in the 60’s.
Republicans worked furiously to maintain the status quo in the 60’s and even put forward a viable and–dare we say–thinking candidate. They lost. Yes, they had some victories of a pyrrhic nature, and they still get them (and sometimes saddle us with George and Karl and Dick) but their day is really over.
The more vigilant the progressives are, the fewer their victories, but Sarah is damaged goods. Let her run.
She is mentally ill which makes her shameless so she can lie with no remorse, in fact, she seems not to know what is a lie anymore or that it matters at all what she says.
It looks like Doonesbury has started another tear on $arah this week. Today’s strip has one of their people on a special assignment in Wasilla. Goodie! My only beef is that Trudeau has referred to her as “Governor Palin”. I’ll see if I can find a way to email him, and have him “refudiate” that.
Great photo of a dozen or so white teabaggers refudiating charges of racism by posing next to a BROWN bear in the ADN today…
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2010/07/19/11/teaparty.embedded.prod_affiliate.7.JPG
AKM Thanks for your series on $P 1-9, to be continued I’m sure. It has been very informative, have enjoyed all the Mudpup’s comments and great links as well. We are going to be a very edjuamakated bunch for sure.
What strikes me is the ever-expanding list of persons (not just Alaska women), groups, politicians, various segments of our society, regular folk both Left and Right that she is alienating thru her lies, fear mongering, and sheer ignorance.
Perhaps a suggestion for a future post with help of the Mudflats readers, we could start an ongoing list of ‘Not4Palin’ as she plots and slithers her way to a possible POTUS run.
(I can think of Asian, African and Muslim Americans, wolf lovers, pro-choicers, kripes even O’Riley for starters.)
“So somewhere out there in the wilds of Alaska is a baby porcupine peeing pink.”
Now THAT’S a mental picture that’s just gotta make you laugh!
hee! adorable porcupine story =D
ALASKAN WOMEN IN POWER! I LOVE ALL OF YOU!! KEEP THOSE SIGNS
AND POSTERS HELD HIGH FOR THE WORLD TO SEE.
$ARAH HAS NEVER REPRESENTED ALASKA. SHE HAS ONLY REPRESENTED
HER OWN ‘SELF’ INTEREST…WHICH IS TABLOID CHATTER, PUPPET SPEECHES
WITH “WINKS” AND “WORD SALAD” RANTS!
BE PROUD, ALASKAN WOMEN, YOU ARE THE POWER WITHIN YOUR STATE.
LET US HEAR YOU SHOUT: “WE ARE PROUD ALASKAN WOMEN!”
“WE ARE PROUD ALASKAN WOMEN!”
Love you!!
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http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/icij/global_muckraker/entry/2254/
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To put this as succinctly as possible: oh, gag.
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/07/aristocracy-of-left.html
Yeah, they can be cute, but they’re on my S- – T list right now. Porcupines have been decimating my strawberry beds. Munch, munch, munch, there goes all the leaves and flowers leaving only saddened bare stalks standing. I’ve had to try to fence in my beds, not as easy as you think since porky’s can climb, and dig, and push. Grrrr!
I’m trying to figure out why she would remove her tweet with refudiate if she then comes back and compares herself with Shakespear? Any ideas, thoughts? My guess is that she’s just an idiotress.
Probably advise from one of those consulting firms she pays with PAC money?
~ snicker ~
or maybe Van Flea is earning is retainer moments…
hahaha, they must roll their eyes like the rest of the world does when she tweets or speaks.
My grandchildren roll thier eyes at Palin’s communicative style and at Palin supportive families out here in Mat Su valley.
However we love the Palin jokes.
My attorney brother in law says that Palin is a lawyer’s dream client. The more the monthly retainer, the more clueless your client is. It is not like Palin is a huge business, she is her clueless self warrenting a 10 grand a month legal retainer.
Cracks me up.
I don’t think she thought that people would actually take a screen shot and immortalize it. When she did realize that her twelete didn’t totally obliterate her faux pas from public consciousness, she had to some quick thinking. Or maybe she called somebody else to do it. I can imagine her passing her Blackberry to one of her minions to fix it with another tweet.
It seems that the national coverage regarding Palin is more about her butchering the use of the English language.
I think the emphasis should be on the fact she is a racist! There is proof of her being so in Alaska when she was half-term governor as well as when on the campaign trail w/McCain and now this, concerning the Muslims building a mosque in New York!
She is so evil!
BTW, AKM have a great time at NetRoots.
‘Refudiate’ is a perfect term for describing the GOBP. And here is why. At its core is ‘FUD’. FUD is a real term that is used in Marketing.
Here is the definition from Wikipedia:
“Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a tactic of rhetoric and fallacy used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics and propaganda. FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative and dubious/false information designed to undermine the credibility of their beliefs.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
It occurs to me that we should call Sowah and faux noisecasters by the term FUDanaitors.
The spreaders of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt via dubious/false information.
A little levity:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/palin-says-refudiate-appe_b_650841.html
Or is that hilar-vity?
Seems like the wildlife of Alaska are wishing you a safe journey and a fruitful (or vegetable-ful) Netroots conference!
“The Economist” weighs in: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/07/sarah_palin
Sarah Palin – The Stupid in 4 Tweets:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/sarah-palin-calls-on-peaceful-muslims-to-refudiate-ground-zero-mosque.php?ref=fpa
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-much-stupid-can-governor-dumbass.html
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36769_Sarah_Palin_Calls_on_Peaceful_Muslims_to_Refudiate_Their_Own_Religion
Referencing Palin as “Govenor” is weird.
Half-time Govenor…
Quitter Govenor…
Half wit twit Govenor…
etc.
But to just reference Palin as “Govenor” is what Faux News does.
Governo…..
It is instructive to see this 1947 War Department 17 min video – ‘Don’t be a sucker’ that deals with bigotry and its results. Someone provided this link on Huffpost over the weekend re NAACP / Teabaggers.
http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
Unfortunately for us, it appears that clumps of low information citizens are be being suckered by some headline grabbing teapeople led by its ex-half-former AK governesseratoress (hah!).
It’s how whatzername rode into office here in the first place, ya know…
Enough folks mad at the powers-that-be ( Alaska Republican Party and Murk the jerk) got suckered by a “fresh face” on the horizon, failed to do their homework, and voted their “conscience” and “convictions” …
And look at the mess she made- thumbing her nose at the Leg, Alaskan citizens, the Fed…agh.
While the cautionary tale within is obvious, I’m thinking far too many Americans are caught up in the Tea Party myths of taking-back-the-govt, personal-reponsibility-trumps-social-responsibility,greed-is-ok-if-I-think-I-might-get-some-of-the-pie, etc to think beyond what amounts to a protest vote against something they can’t really name and yet will yield more creepizoids like whatzername should they give into the impulse…
They would be better off writing in Donald Duck like my dad did when Nixon ran the second time…
At least they wouldn’t add to the damage.
I just had a thought…are there any Christian churches close to where the Oklahoma City bombing took place?
My guess is there are many, many Christian churches there, but that mental case wouldn’t get your question. Neither would her blind followers.
ya know…now that you mention it….
Refudiate reminds me of Elmer Fudd hunting Wabbits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIaDMp76YH8
This column provides some good links as well as some entertaining tweets:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Palin-Demands-Muslims-Refudiate-NYC-Mosque-Sparking-Criticism-Mockery-4361
thx:)
tweetlarious
very cute, indeed.
I am currently reading, ‘How To Hug a Porcupine~ Negotiating the prickly points of the tween years”, by Julie A. Ross,M.A.
Its a helpful read, no mention of beets yet.
I could’ve used that book about 8 years ago. Love the title. Thankfully my little porky-pines went on to become quite huggable young adults and dropped all of ( well , most of ) their quills.
Enjoyed the baby porcupine story. thanks!
Now this is funny: Palin says refudiate is in fictionary
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/palin-says-refudiate-appe_b_650841.html
I have emails delivered to me from Borowitz and I woke up to reading that from my phone. I’m just glad I wasn’t drinking coffee. I hate waking up Monday mornings, but his article made my Monday morning enjoyable. Falin is a fruitcake, for sure. I’m happy happy happy that so many people took a screen shot of her stoopid post.
My favorite comment came from an email I received overnight from the smartest person I know:
“Hemmoroids are obsolete with her running around!”
Kicking it Shakespeare-style
“Refudiate” might not be in the (Heartland) Dictionary, but it now has three entries in the Urban (Godless Socialist City Slicker) Dictionary.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Refudiate
😆
Aw, how cute. Baby animal kingdom right outside AKM’s door. We’ve got skunks. Baby skunks are adorable too.
Adorable.
Peeing pink – LOL. I know that first hand after I’ve been a tad exuberant with the beets when juicing.
What a cute story, thank you.