That would be funny, if it weren’t so sad, and dangerous for our country. Those kids are going to have to compete for jobs someday, with others here and abroad who actually received a decent education. They will likely grow up to celebrate their ignorance and vote for people like Palin, who are “just like them.”
Ah, folks, we have a large segment of our population who are poorly schooled (for whatever reason) and are drawn like magnets to the first ‘politician’ (I really hate to call $P that) who approaches them as if she were ‘one of them.’
The very, very sad thing is — this magnetism is growing. Scares me to death.
I don’t care what I have to pay in taxes! — let’s get our kids competitive in a global economy!!!
I read an article yesterday that said Palin sparkles. Which caused me to have a daydream, that she was debating Obama. When asked about foreign policy, domestic affairs, her qualifications, she would simply reply…I don’t need any, I sparkle.
Just remember that Sarah doesn’t play well with others, thinks planning is a commie thing, hates to be directed, and cannot function without her wall of family
Ignorance alone cannot get from here to there. Media helps but can’t fix the total lack.
I’m not against home-schooling; I have friends with education degrees and credentials that have opted for this route after moving and experiencing awful public schools.
This, however, is laughable. When will these people learn to proofread their signs?
This sad, so sad.
But isn’t it more ironic that tancredo believes that the tea baggers are smarter then those that voted for POTUS OBAMA?
Can we be on the brink of another Civil War led by twitter/quitter queen sarah?
If she gains momentum will the forces of good(us) be pitted against evil (them)?
And will that prove anything?
I keep thinking of how we were told we were traitors to our country if we dared to question bush, but yet these people can talk about guns and revolution and then truly believe when told by sarah, that POTUS Obama is telling us to sit down and shut up?
that learning and facts and numbers and such like, while impressin’ people and soundin’ important, also, doesn’t really matter! replied the almost half-term quitty-pants greedy ex-governor.
oy, vey!
I give thanks for the power to grow each day.
Off to the library, where I challenge myself and my students to, “Have a beautiful day in the forest. Now let’s get out there and Learn Something today.”
Isn’t Sarah’s little darling Piper the queen of the Home “Scholers?” She never seems to go to school since she is always on the trail with the queen.
When I saw the clip on Colbert of SP saying “Hopey-Changie” I almost got sick. How can anyone be duped by such a dolt? She used to act like a teenage girl. Now she’s acting like a elementary aged girl on the playground.
Pure Palin hypocrisy “Lift American spirits”/talk about the war card – invading Iran
This article has a lot of “common sense”: Palin’s hair and hand-notes have got to go
Third, since hair can be such a compelling battlefield for the ugliest kinds of passive-aggressive overgrown schoolgirl score-settling, I’m going to strike a blow for grownup female solidarity and be entirely straight with you about the hair thing: It’s too big and too long.
You could argue the validity or injustice of this point from a feminist, anti-feminist or post-feminist angle ad nauseum but the thing is, if you want to be taken seriously while speculating about the country most likely to be invaded or asking people over and over again if they like freedom, as though there’s someone in the room who can’t stand freedom, it helps if people aren’t sitting there thinking, “Are those extensions?” the whole time.
Think Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir: Benazir, not Beyonce.
Sixth, along the same lines, if you’re going to write stuff on your hand and then take a hit for it when you have to check your list while answering a question, at least pay attention to your own notes. That last hand note, “Lift American spirits,” assuming it wasn’t about swiping a pack of cigarettes, was the best thing on that list.
Snarking the other side and appealing to peoples insecurities about security isn’t really about lifting spirits, no matter how gung-ho the response in the room might seem.
I think it would be a mistake to cast aspersions on all home schooled children. I have seen it be very successful as well as a dismal failure. Friends of mine home-schooled their children; now one is at Annapolis and the other is at Stanford on a free-ride scholarship working on her doctorate in chemistry.
The best possible outcome for the Democratic Party come next election, would be if Palin ran for president. No matter how she fares in the primaries, she has too much baggage to win key states. To that end, I’m hoping she makes the leap. Besides, it’s not like Mitt and others won’t be there to chew her to pieces — (we won’t even have to lift a finger). The best political theater is yet to come, rest assured.
Then … be surprised for a change: Clinton for Biden. Have to imagine that’s already being discussed (Joe won’t be an asset come 2012, whereas Clinton’s base will likely outnumber Obama’s by then). Anyway, that’s my guess… So I’m encouraged to see Palin gettin’ serious. With any luck the Levi tell-all book will hit stores just in time for Iowa.
Palin’s bigger blunder (no not the one about bringing new meaning to ‘handwriting’)
Commemorating Track’s service by wearing a a black memorial bracelet which is reserved for those dead or even a red bracelet for those missing in action, demonstrates a horrifying contempt for those who gave their last full measure of devotion or an almost unbelievable ignorance of the importance of symbols in American history.
Unfortunately, given Palin’s reputation and frequent public statements, I assume it is the latter.
LondonBridges @13 – Good point! How can they proof their signs if they don’t know the correct spellings to begin with? A great deal of school testing is standardized nationwide nowadays, but the curriculum, materials, methods, etc. are NOT standardized and that leads to inflated test scores in some regions, and very poor showings in others. Until all school districts “get on the same sheet of music”, there will continue to be great (and misleading) variances in just how well students are being educated.
I’ve homeschooled, tutored, and taught English as a second lanuage class for many years, up until a dozen or so years ago. There are many excellent homeschooling materials and programs available at reasonable prices. If the school districts do not have reporting and testing requirements in place, there are no guarantees that the children are learning the skills they need to compete in the adult world, and many undoubtedly fall through the cracks. Some of the better (and more expensive) purchased programs require regular interaction and verbal contact between the student and a designated supervisor within the organization, as well as proctoring exams at a local college.
Michelle Obama was on Larry King last night. She is such a downright NICE lady and a real class act. Larry asked various leading questions, in the hopes of getting her to make some comments about Sarah Palin, polls, and other controversial topics. She parried them very well and came across as a truly decent person. She has an uphill battle ahead of her with the project on childhood obesity, as the rightwingers are already bashing her for *daring* to tell them what to feed their children.
We all know what kind of person that will write crib notes on their hand. For the most part it is about cheating on a test to get a grade you don’t deserve because you didn’t do the homework or are really “intellectually challenged” and don’t want anyone to know it. Most people leave that specific behavior behind when they leave school. By now most people in America and other parts of the world know Sarah was that kid in school, only she didn’t leave that behavior behind. In fact she was so afraid of being found out as “intellectually challenged” that she went back to the old play book. Busted!! And then to make matters worse, Hi Mom, Loggers Rule. Look I do this all the time. With Palin it is anything but honesty. The craziest part of this is that the people who have drank the Palin koolaid all have seen this and yet they cannot admit they saw it. Because in doing so they would have to admit that they are wrong about Sarah and in turn wrong about their very selves. Bob Dylan said “For those that defend what they cannot see…With a killers pride, security…It blows their minds most bitterly to think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally….Life sometimes must get lonely”….It blows my mind most bitterly to know that there are people out there that are more “itellectually challenged” than Palin….
As far as the sign goes . . . . Yeah–some spellchecking is in order.
Hysterical!
I have friends and acquaintances who home school.
Some are amazing at giving their children liberal, cohesive educations. They’ve found that their children do not thrive under institutional school settings. But they make sure their kids are socialized and aware of the world. Art museums, libraries, historical societies etc. are regularly visited.
And then there are the ones who homeschool because of their insecurities
about “others.” Unfortunately, I’m finding out these kids seem to get a lower level of homeschooling. Homeschooling in these homes seem to be less about education and more about shielding their children from the world.
This is one of the shortest and harshest, but en pointe, statements on Palin that I have read of late. Another epithet applied to her is harridan, which I think is most appropriate.
……..And, of course, there was, “How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?” which, in all my years of watching politics, is the most viscerally nauseating utterance I’ve ever heard. And these are just from the past week.
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
Sarah’s “hopey-changey” snark did not go over well with many people, and is incorporated into nearly every article on her of late. More and more writers are also becoming more aware of her continual interjecting of religion into her speeches. Here is another good read:
The year 2010 is the new 1200. The preferred candidate in this environment is one who reads no newspapers and is uncertain about how many branches we have in the government she hopes to lead. People celebrate her lack of knowledge as somehow making her more “authentic.” We have come to admire those who embrace insularity and xenophobia. We disdain mental acuity. A thick resume and experience prove only that a candidate is not of the people. In this new era, rationalism is considered a problem to be conquered with faith under the false pretense that we are a Christian nation. Science is a liberal plot with no more validity than the uttering of a bloated talking head spouting an opinion unsupported by fact. Intelligence is an ominous sign of elitism.
One more line from Schweitzer’s article gave me a good chuckle!
I have been ignoring Palin, hoping that like a small scratch she would eventually heal and go away. Instead, she has turned out to be a drug-resistant staph infection intent on destroying our body politic.
Snort! Your headline is what made the whole thing for me.
There is only one person who can spell in our family. My oldest son. If he didn’t look just like his great grandfather, I would really wonder if babies hadn’t been switched!
The rest of us rely on spell check and when that won’t come up for a guess, we google what we think it’s spelled like, and Google says “Did you mean. .”
We do have a dictionary in the house. It’s large and 60 years old. Totally cool for drying flowers.
When that Palin woman starts grunting her “slogans” please turn the camera off. We’ve had enough. I believe she is infested and the glitter has fallen off the rose. Mercifully let her crawl back to her compound in wasilly to marinate in the craziness she created.
On what planet is that a normal Sunday for an eight year old? Sunday was on the heels of Saturday following Friday and no doubt the grind continued through the week.
Dear old Ma is an insatiable narcissist and dragging a small child along for the ride.
Shouldn’t it be ‘homestudents’, because if you derive your education at an institution of learning, are you called a schooler? Or a schoolschooler for that matter?
what is wrong with HP??
Look at the picture they posted with the headline, which from the little i understand about banking is out of context if you read the article. Maybe i don’t get it and i know people are pissed about the banks but this picture really bugs me. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
#18 @ WakeUpAmerica Says:
I think it would be a mistake to cast aspersions on all home schooled children. I have seen it be very successful as well as a dismal failure. Friends of mine home-schooled their children; now one is at Annapolis and the other is at Stanford on a free-ride scholarship working on her doctorate in chemistry.
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As I said on Shannyn’s site earlier, the point is well taken, but proves the exception rather than the rule.
I know a family who home-schools their children and they are very bright and articulate. But, and this is the big factor – their parents are very engaged and committed to the education process devoting their time and efforts to making sure the work gets done to high standards.
The sad commentary today is that parents are “too busy” and unable to teach children the fundamentals of manners, cause and effect, the values of earning privileges, and the simple pleasure of sharing a meal together as a family each day. If you’re “too busy” to oversee your child’s homework, cook a meal, attend school plays, ballet recitals, sports events, know who your children’s friends are and their families and where your children are, then you shouldn’t be having children. Children don’t rear themselves when they reach a certain age. A teen-ager needs you just as must as a toddler.
My heart breaks most of all for Piper. She is a sad statement of very bad parenting and neglect. Being in the presence of a parent is not the same as parenting.
When we stop paying that woman to wander around in a tight black skirt, wiggling and grunting slogans for loggers et al. is a day we can all get back to basics. Let’s excoriate everyone who is paying her for this behavior.
For those of you who like lynnrockets’ songs, there had been a death in the family. Please leave your condolences at http://lynnrockets.wordpress.com/, not here, since lynnrockets likely to be tied up for a while. Thanks.
Juneaudream – Thanks……….I also look forward to your daily postings. You are a deep thinker and your comments often shake me and wake me up to viewpoints and ideas that are common sense (no, not Sarah’s kind of common sense), and really give me food for thought.
My guess about Clinton’s numbers is that her profile as Secretary of State will only increase her popularity (and Barack as a second term president is bound to lose voters). But should Obama pass substantial financial reform, a health care bill with teeth and we see unemployment numbers dip, his job will be easier.
Politics aside, we need all those things and more. Kinda soon, too.
going to grow up and be a roads scholer…
them morans..
sigh*
I’m still pissed that she refered to Texas as Alaska’s little sister state..that won’t play well here.
Good morning sarah,
Yesterday Meghan McCain called you and your fellow teabaggers out as racists. No surprise here, I know most of us on this blog realized this at the beginning of the movement (not ron paul’s but the recent t-baggers). As much as they run around pissing and moaning about taxes, socialism, gov’t take-over and give us our country back it’s really about one thing, racism. Most of you can’t stand the fact that a black man is in charge. So simple sarah, are you going to respond to Meghan? And if so how? By having your ghost writer post a snarky facebook? You know Meghan isn’t afraid of you, she didn’t back down from laura ingraham or man coulter. She knows you and she also knows at her young age she has ten times the intellect and social conscience than you’ll ever have. She knows you are nothing more than a common rube. So you spineless harpy, are you going to stand up to Meghan? She double- dog dared you. Be warned that if you go after her in your typical snarky fashion Cindy or John may come after you with both barrels. Oh and by the way, the rushy retard thingy? Boss hog isn’t about to let a empty-headed upstart like you horn in on his role in the party. It was time you be put in your place. Rushbo exposed you and meg to his trillion (or however many listeners he claims) as the cowardly, groveling hypocrites that you are. We’re waiting for your response sarah, in case you haven’t noticed the sharks are circling.
“There’s nothing wrong with questioning the Obama administration’s policies or its effectiveness, but why not leave it at that? Why does Palin feel compelled to ask those who supported Obama, “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for you?”
Because, to turn the phrase made famous by George W. Bush on its head–she’s a divider, not a uniter. And that, along with a host of other reasons too numerous to mention, is why she will never be president.
Pam Geller and Ron Reagan JR were on Joy Behar’s show. Pam had never met SR, but said that she knew him better than JR did, and that SR would have loved Palin. She argued this about Palin: “She did not quit. The Lower 48 needed her, and she heeded the call. She did not take the easy way out.” http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pam-geller-tries-tell-ron-reagan-jr
On another topic, there is quite a discussion go on at Bree Palin regarding Piper and her continually being dragged around the country.
If you have a few minutes stop what you’re doing and watch this video about true American heroes. It will make you ashamed that we spend even one nano-second on such an imposter as Scarah Palin:
* The knock on Sarah Palin is that she’s applying two different standards, one for Rush Limbaugh, because he’s a friend, and another for Rahm Emanuel, because he can do the crossword puzzle. But I think there’s something even creepier going on. Here’s what Limbaugh said Tuesday:
“I only hope here that Rahm doesn’t go out and call these people another F-ing unfortunate name out there, folks, because I’ll have to repeat it in another satire.” Rush Limbaugh 2/9/10
Notice how he said “satire?” It’s a quintessential bully move. He said it because she said it when she said it was okay for him to insult her children. He said it to let her know that he knows that he made her eat sh*t.
GreatGranny2C: I saw Joy Behar yesterday, it made me nauseous. I couldn’t believe Gellar saying “she (SP) didn’t quit”. RR let her have it, but gah, how can people like Gellar behave like that?
“Are the misspelled signs typos or are they indicative of an inability to correctly spell? Big difference….”
When you write the sign by hand, it isn’t a “typo” – you have to write the word one letter at a time. If I ‘fat finger’ my keyboard, I may type a letter I didn’t intend. I don’t see how you can ‘fat finger’ a magic marker.
My experience (as a public school teacher) is that so many home ‘skoolers’ lack a rigorous approach to education. Here in Nebraska, you can home school with virtually no qualifications at all.
I don’t buy the ‘typo’ thing, either. Even if it was inadvertent, why in God’s name would you bring it to a rally and thrust it up in the air for every media outlet in creation to capture? No, this isn’t a ‘printing’ problem. It’s a ‘thinking’ problem.
Apparently, Gov Perry’s campaign rally was sponsored by the Southeast-ish Texas MENSA Chapter and Regional Brain Trust and featured a keynote speech by Ms. ‘Hopey Changey’ herself. Perry wasn’t alone in earning the adulation of the special needs crowd. One suspects these folks arrived on the ‘Padriets for Palin’ bus.
As for the crib notes on the hand: it isn’t bad enough that she thought she had to write down her core principles lest she forget them, but the fact that she actually DID forget them and needed to read her hand! Unbelieveable.
We also homeschooled, but our kids weren’t hs so they were sheltered, unexposed and undereduated (to protect them from hellbound liberals, elitists and thinkers). There are A LOT of hs who do it to hide from evolution and secular schools -nothing more (and does it even matter, as we’re in end times).
Piper… in about 20 years we’ll read the book and cry.
Looks like every anchor on tv wrote on their hand this week, gasped at Palins unpreparedness and empty head. In reality, she’s and her crazy ilk are merely entertainment we really want to keep watching. Like a scary movie -you cover your face to miss the horror then peek through two fingers to see. You’ve just gotta keep watching. As scary as it is, it’s also fun as heII.
PS Yesterday: On the way to piano I remembered that I needed black ink. What kind of printer is our HP, I asked the son. It’s a 4200, he replied. So I scribbled it on my hand. But I didn’t have to write
HP
Printer/scanner/copier
number 4200
black ink
office store
drive there in car
bring money
the HOPEY-CHANGEY thing is working very well for me, thanks for asking.
I got another woman on the Supreme Court, and a liberal. I got the global gag rule lifted and now I am getting full rights for gays in the military. Oh, and Lilly Ledbetter act and the renewed respect for America under President Adult.
Pearl#8 regarding “sparkles” – I came across that term while reading a book written by Carmen Pagano. She was interviewing “kept” women and gigolos. One of the women, when questioned by Pagano as to how she attracted her wealthy boyfriend, said successful gold diggers are “extra shiny”. She mentioned her “look at me” aura and that “you have to be extra shiny, a SPARKLING star at all times.”
When Cronopio#12 joked about the “vampire” meaning because of the main vampire character in the “Twilight” series, I think that she was more on target than she realized!
It’s easy to spell a word wrong when you are lettering a sign, or painting a window, or creating a flip chart, etc, because you are primarily using the right side of the brain (spatial) rather than the left. Knowing that, why don’t you have another person check your sign before you wave it about?
Whenever I see a snarky post where someone has asked how that hope and change is working, I reply with a post saying that it is working very well for me- thanks for asking.
I think I’ll find a link to Palin’s mailing address and send her a post card.
pantsonfire: I have reacted in my own personal way to Sarah’s cultish popularity in the very-red community where I live. I have heard for the last time, with horror, acomment from one of her fans complimenting me on my Sarah hair and glasses. It is my misfortune to be about the same age, with similar hair (down, no bumpits!) coloring and the eyeglass frames I’ve worn for five years. I can no longer bear it! I’ve switched to contacts, and I’m getting my hair cut short on Friday.
GreatGranny2c: Thank you for the link! It is the perfect summation of how I feel about this awful woman. I also agree with the comment that McCain gave the country Herpes!
One more thing: whenever I get discouraged, mad, frightened or just plain irritated with Sarah’s continuing “pageant walking” through our national political landscape, comments at this site make me feel sane and hopeful again. Well, maybe “pageant walking” is too generous… it’s more like she’s caroming around, teetering on her F***Me heels in her tight little skirts, alternately snarling and sparkling, with a manic edge (hands like claws, clenched jaw, beady eyes). Wait, must stop, scaring myself again.
Absolutely some parents do it well. If you are smart, organized, have access to great materials, and connect with a network of other homeschoolers and/or partner with private schools to get kids access to field trips, playing on sports teams, being involved with a school music program (band or chorus), etc., then a homeschooled student can be very educationally prepared.
However, that’s not always the case for the parents. As someone somewhere else said, a parent may be quite bright, but that doesn’t mean they have the ability to teach what they know. I play the piano well above a rudimentary level, yet I don’t dream of teaching it, even at the very beginning level. I don’t know the pedagogy. If I wanted to I could learn, but it would be a lot of work. This is a case of ‘leave it to the professionals’.
Also, I think a large part of whether the homeschooled students transition into public schools or college or straight into the workforce well (or not) has to do with the parents’ motivations for homeschooling their kids.
If the parents’ honestly believe they can give their child a better, more in-depth and advanced education, or a specialized one-on-one education that will benefit their children more than what they’d get in public (or even private) school, then the homeschool system can work. It is these types of parents who actively ensure their child has a broad curriculum, that they hold their child to standards, seek out opportunities for the child to interact with others their age, get them out of the house for some ‘non-book learnin’, etc.
But if the parents’ desire to homeschool is based on the fear that the public (or even private) school will expose their child to beliefs which differ from their own and they feel that would be damaging for their child, to me that’s a big warning flag.
Far as I’m concerned, a parent has the duty to let a child be exposed to new and different ideas, age-appropriately of course. If you want your child to become independent, they have to be able to form opinions independent of yours. They have to develop those critical thinking skills. They have to learn how to sort fact from opinion. They need to, at some point, wrestle with the difficult questions – how do I feel about abortion? How do I feel about how Gays and Lesbians are treated in this country? Do I feel it is right to call anyone a retard? If mom and dad really think Intelligent Design is a legitimate scientific theory of the origins of life on Earth, then isn’t it possible the Designer was just as likely an outer space alien as a God?
I think a parent that doesn’t want their child to learn as much as they possibly can is incredibly selfish. Or maybe just insecure. Maybe that’s what going on with Sarah. After all, in the family, she’s got the most formal (dare I say elite?) education. Todd I believe did graduate high school, but Track and Bristol … not exactly. Who knows about Willow and of course how Piper is expected to keep up whilst traipsing around with mumsy is beyond me. Maybe Sarah (and Todd must be in cahoots) wants to keep her children ‘dumbed down’ so they will stay stupid and buy her spew forever, never becoming independent, functioning adults.
I’m just theorizing there. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Those signs are hilarious – and deliciously ironic. Tom Tancredo should take better notes before he mocks people who can not speack English. As a person who had to learn English at the age of 9, I take umbrage at his comments. Immigrants work very hard to fit into their new society plus they work hard in general. Tom Tancredo might want to ask himself how his immigrant ancestors might have felt if they heard his offensive speech last weekend.
Jon Stewart had a great segment on the Tea Party and Sarah’s speech:
Palin just can’t rein in the mean girl streak she has. Which is fine. Let’s see how well the constant snarky personal taunts to Obama, the demeaning mockery of his supporters, slogans slogans slogans sans policy detail and the Fox News softball interviews play out 6 months from now.
The DNC ads write themselves: “Do you want someone with the maturity of a snotty teenage girl to run this country? Or do you want adults?”
Rereading my penultimate sentence, I think I’m a little overharsh in my verbiage: “Maybe Sarah (and Todd must be in cahoots) wants to keep her children ‘dumbed down’ so they will stay stupid and buy her spew forever, never becoming independent, functioning adults.”
‘stupid’ was too harsh. I do not think any of them are stupid. I also do not mean to imply that I only value a high-level formal education. Nothing wrong with acquiring skills through apprenticeship programs, on-the-job training, and/or vocational/trade schools.
However, I do stand by my implication that part of the reason Sarah does not seem particularly concerned about her children’s academic record and future is that she 1) really does find it distasteful and elitist, a projection of her own insecurities; and 2) she is not going to actively encourage her children to become the kind of thinkers who will one day put two and two together and discover she is indeed the Empress with No Clothes (egad, that for me is a bit of a frightening thought.)
I’ll leave you with a last bit of snark I thought of as I was writing earlier.
It’s been reported Bristol is enrolled in college and taking some night courses. I think she’s enrolled in Palin College and working on her A.A.G. degree – Associates of Arts in Grifting.
terpsichore Says:
February 10th, 2010 at 8:35 AM
wants to keep her children ‘dumbed down’ so they will stay stupid and buy her spew forever, never becoming independent, functioning adults.
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I think it is something sadder than that. Sarah uses her children as a shield for herself. I’m sure their needs and wants are simply outside her concern unless they rebel. I suspect that Willow totally rebelled after last summer. It’s hard to pimp a kid when they sulk and won’t play.
If her children are there she is safe from overt criticism. That’s why she went bonkers on Letterman. He did not play by her rules. I’m sure the kids were front and center on the campaign trail so no one could really deal with her. That’s why the studio from Fox. Most professional adults do not expect to have to accommodate children in the work place. Apparently Piper is a nasty kid. So who needs it? Besides Sarah doesn’t really work; doesn’t understand the meaning of the concept, and professionalism is way beyond her scope. She is self isolating to protect herself. That’s why she can’t really do retail politics. Can you imagine her in NH or IA? She can’t skip the primaries. At some point she will have to play by other rules or not play at all.
Glenn Beck and the scourge that is Granny Buttercup were delivered on to this planet within 24 hours of each other ???? Today is Beck’s and tomorrow is hers.
Does anyone have astrology software ? That is just blowing my mind.
re: home schooling. Did anyone else the Q&A segment of the tea bagger’s ball. They had a panel onstage answering questions. One of the panelists had a little rant about taking back the schools from the “indoctrination” of the left. It is useful for their movement to promote fear of government at all levels even to the point that they believe their children will be brainwashed at school.
They also talked about how to get young people involved in the movement. This is their biggest weakness as a party or movement. What young person wants to join this hate fest?
Great quote from Linda Killian’s article that someone posted above:
“This is what above all else distinguishes a Sarah Palin speech–the snide put-down and the snarky remark delivered with a broad, sneering smile and spitfire demeanor. She doesn’t seem to think a speech is complete if she hasn’t winked and name-called her way through it. It’s not a coincidence that her nickname as co-captain of her high school women’s basketball team was “Sarah Barracuda.” She probably wasn’t afraid to throw a few elbows then and she certainly isn’t now.”
That’s just the thing. Out of a large group of people (let alone a country of 300 million ppl) there will always be the % of people who love to put people down and make demeaning personal remarks. These are the types of people who applaud Palin and say she is one of them. The majority will watch, bemused & curious, from a distance. Eventually though, the snark and the snide and the put downs get old. Mature informed voters want solutions. Palin has none – she only has hyperbole, slogans, talking points, notes on palms, cheesy stories that don’t ring true and when all else fails, she trots out the mean girl taunts and sneers. She’s going to wear every thin and grate on people’s nerves before long.
Plus – she seems to LOVE to declare war on other countries. Remember during Charlie Gibbs interview, she said that the US should back Georgia and go to war with Russia if the time comes? Now she’s saying that Obama could win if he declared war on Iran. Who in their right mind talks about declaring war with the same casualness as if she were talking about American Idol?
Another DNC ad writing itself: “We’ve spent billions on Iraq and Afghanistan. The deficit is in the trillions because of these 2 wars. Do we really a another President itching to declare war on another country?”
Twain12 That is a good read. Gryphen has just made the point that she has painted herself into a corner now and can’t be seen to use a teleprompter. So I reckon all her speeches will be like that….with her head down reading the script. We all know she is too lazy to practice it. I can’t forsee her speaking gigs lasting much longer if she keeps that up.
How evil does one have to be to mock Hope and Change…..under ANY circumstances?
A lot of American’s are suffering, but Sarah Palin has become rich beyond her wildest dreams in the last 18 months. How crass for the uber wealthy (like the Palin’s) to mock hope and change. Economist are saying that a much larger economic crisis was averted by President Obama’s actions. Things are getting better and they WILL get better.
She wrote on her hand that she would inspire the American people. HA! How? Inspire them by taking their money, getting richer……. but mocking hope and change?
That is about as low as a person can go. She is evil incarnate.
what’s really sad is that these kids have no education, health care or jobs available in the USA! Just being cannon fodder for the Military Industrial Complex, and it’s cheerleaders: SP, Rush, Beck and the rest of ‘the usual suspects’ who whip up wars that make the USA LESS safe!
Homeschooling, charter schools, private schools, or public schools are all fine, so long as the student is actually getting a decent education.
I have known many well-educated people, including my parents, who never set foot inside an institution of higher learning. However, all of them had a great deal of intellectual curiosity, and most were avid readers.
There was a time in this country when ignorance was an embarrassment, education was highly prized, and American innovation and industry thrived. We are becoming a nation that celebrates ignorance, belittles education, lacks the skills to compete globally, whines and looks for someone else to blame as we watch the good jobs go overseas and the trade deficit get larger. It is time to start investing in and expecting better things of ourselves again.
In my humble opinion, anyone who worries for one second about $P becoming president is wasting their time. Distracting the public and media from real issues is a concern though.
I think this because:
She quit as governor because it was actual work and you have to deal with people you don’t like.
Cruising around the country making speeches to friendly audiences is easy and profitable (her two favorite things), a two year presidential campaign is neither.
The more she talks the lower her approval is.
At her current rate of stupidity she will be relegated to very minor celebrity status by the end of this year. Even fuxednews won’t keep her around at this rate.
The repubs don’t bash her because they know she has no chance at the nomination, if they actually thought she was a threat to their establishment they would cut her to shreds in no time.
Does one think that the other repub contenders would just let her slide. She could not handle even the friendliest debate much less being asked to respond to complex issues and not allowed to just slogan her way through.
There is no way she could put together the management or fund raising team needed to even get started.
She will use the guise of running as long as she can to fleece the followers and garner attention. That’s it.
i’ve been thinking about the teleprompter, also and too.
what might happen:
when the need arises that herself has to use a teleprompter, she will turn it on the dems with some sort of snary comment.
we could have a contest to see who comes closest to the excuse given.
Republicans have shown themselves to be the ultimate hypocrites and in my humble opinion, traitors to the USA, for not voting for and supporting policy that they not only agree with but KNOW is good for the country SIMPLY because they want to be in power and they want to win. I agree with Maddow:
“Grow up Democrats; face the music. Do it alone. You’re the majority. Kill the filibuster if they won’t let you use that majority. The country needs you to.”
@85 My husband, the Republican, agrees with you. He asks me, why are you wasting your time even thinking about that stupid woman? She will never be President. She is a joke.
Then again, he is an “elite” (in Sarah’s terms). A Republican who is highly educated and intelligent. Unlike her fan base who value stupidity.
Good points @78 aussiegal77. When I heard that part of the Charlie Gibson interview, I knew we were in big trouble if she ever got elected. She lacks the knowledge and diplomacy necessary to avoid a war, and seems to have no idea that our military capabilities, while tremendous, are finite. Wasn’t it Napoleon who discovered fighting on too many fronts at once is disastrous? In any case, her essentially advocating for a war with Iran while we are in the midst of two other wars is irresponsible and dangerous. That woman should never be allowed anywhere near the White House.
ValleyIndependent – she’s a nut job and would probably have to google Napoleon. How anyone can condone letting someone so uninformed near the WH is impossible to comprehend.
I wish there was more discussion of the “war with Iran” comment along with what she told Barbara Walters about how the Jews would be returning in high numbers to Israel. Let us not forget that the “churches” she attended believe in the Rapture. I’d like to see more sunshine on this stuff.
Clydedog, what worries me is that Palin may just be the empty vessel the R power brokers have been waiting for. W was useful to them, but I think, especially toward the end, he realized he had been used and stopped going along with the program, hence the falling out of sorts with Cheney. I don’t think Sarah’s ego would let her see that truth, which makes her all the more useful to them and bad for the country, plus, her “rogue” streak is likely to get us into trouble that even the best advisers couldn’t anticipate and prepare for. She doesn’t seem to plan ahead or think things through before she speaks, she just reacts. Thinking people of all political persuasions should be worried.
I posted this a while back, but it’s appropriate here. I’ve taught school for years and seen some excellent results from home schooling. I’ve also seen disasters. In my family there’s two families that have home schooled. One, a far left family, has raised their children. They’re incompetent, mostly illiterate, socially inept (they still hide behind their mother when people show up) and most still live at home. They don’t have outside jobs, but eek out too little money to be called a living working at home.
The other family is far right. Their kids are in elementary school, but can’t read, write, or do math. Their social skills consist of throwing things at other kids and head butting adults they don’t think will discipline them because we all want to play nice at family functions. This year, their home schooling program consists of traveling through the sunbelt state taking in all the amusement parks and zoos (just to look at the animals. They don’t read about them or anything.) They’re planning on swinging through the northern states this summer.
One thing No Child Left Behind needs to include is mandatory rigorous testing of all home schooled kids twice a year by a proctor, as well as government approved curricula. (And I think govt. standards stink.)
“How evil does one have to be to mock Hope and Change…..under ANY circumstances?”
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I think that one sentence will be her undoing. It was just plain sick. However, it is all over the media now and I think it will turn a lot of people off that may not have been paying too much attention to her.
Trisha #84 – Exactly! $P’s quote may go down in history as the most hypocritical thing any politician could say. Hours before, as she touched down in her private jet, whisked away in a SUV limo, fawned over by adoring crowds, getting paid $100,000 for a 45-minute speech. Then she spits out her venom towards a president and administration who at least is trying to do their best in fixing a broken economy.
SP doesn’t seem to want change for anybody else. She likes things as they are. It’s a grifter’s market out there. And hope? Every evangelical church quotes the passage, “where there is no vision, the people perish”.
Chris Matthews Rips Palin for suggesting Obama could declare war on Iran to improve his political standing. Rips? Really?? Tweety showed some promise there for a second or two, but why didn’t he go on to discuss the fact that just a year and a half ago the country was living with that very fear about Bush andVoldemort Cheney – fearing that they would launch a politically motivated attack on Iran as a move to help John McCain in his bid to become president Commander In Chief? Does Matthews not remember talk of an October Surprise and what the general agreement was about what it would likely be? As for his criticism that the president couldn’t do that unilaterally, does he not remember that Congress has already passed a resolution allowing the president to initiate military action against Iran? And if he wanted to illustrate Palin’s empty-headed warmongering Crazy, why leave out of the discussion the willingness she expressed to go to war with Russia after they spanked the neocons’ monkey puppet in Georgia, Saakashvili, after Saakashvili attacked S Ossetian civilians and Russian soldiers in the dark of night? Palin needed no investigation nor consideration of facts – she was perfectly willing to rely on the advice of her current foreign affairs advisor, neocon Randy Scheunemann, who was at that time a paid foreign agent representing Saakashvili AND was foreign affairs advisor to the McCain campaign. While Matthews certainly has room to criticize Palin’s vacuous intellect, the specific gravity of his own gray matter more often disappoints than impresses. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/chris-matthews-rips-palin_n_456465.html
Aussiegal77, here’s my non-professional analysis: While they scare me, I feel sorry for some of her rank and file followers. They are scared people with no faith in themselves, our founding fathers, or God (though they profess it). They are desperate for a messiah to save them, and she’s pretty, and says what they want to hear, in the way they want to hear it, so they think she’s it. They protect themselves from the facts that make it clear she isn’t as a coping mechanism, in the same way that the mind often blocks memories of victims of abuse who are not yet ready to face their trauma. We need to find some way to give them hope, empower them, and engage them in finding solutions to the issues of the day, so those blinders can come off before they unwittingly sink us all.
A neighbor lent me her copy of “Going Rogue”. Thought I’d skim it to get it over with. Actually, needed a plow just to get through chapter one. So many werds, so little substance.
Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake of Buena Park sent out an email Monday night, saying that perhaps his prayers had been answered with the death of Rep. John Murtha yesterday.
“Maybe God took him out,” Drake wrote. “Maybe God Answered our IMPRECATORY prayer that we prayed every 30 days.”
The Pennsylvania congressman, a decorated former Marine who fiercely opposed the Iraq war, died at the age of 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery.
I asked Drake if his statements weren’t distasteful, particularly coming immediately after Murtha’s death. He said that as a Christian, he didn’t buy into the sentiment of not speaking ill of the dead.
“It’s not distasteful to pray the word of God and include somebody’s name,” he said. “I didn’t celebrate his death. I said maybe it was God’s answer to our imprecatory prayer.”
Drake regularly asks his “prayer warriors” to participate in prayer targeting “unrighteous” politicians. He typically uses Psalms 109, including these passages including in his Monday email: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” And, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
Trisha #84, a perfect example of her idiocy. if you LISTEN and understand when people are speaking, that statement would not sound like the words of a leader. The problem is that people who think she can do no wrong, see this as another salvo, a direct hit to the enemy. They are cheering her wonderful ability to hit ‘em where it counts. They have very immature thinking and this is all a game to be won.
Here is a great cartoon that shows the hypocrisy:
Home schooling is regarded essentially as truancy here in Germany. Hence illegal. The lead court cases for keeping kids out of the public or, alternatively, certified independent schools are from Muslims who seek to even more isolate their daughters, and to indoctrinate their sons with the hate teachings of the Imams. QED.
Then there’s Michelle Obama who manages much substance in just a few words.
“First lady Michelle Obama went on CNN’s Larry King Live last night to discuss her campaign against childhood obesity, as well as other subjects — including another famous woman in U.S. politics, Sarah Palin.
“I think it’s wonderful to have strong female voices out there, but I don’t know her,” Mrs. Obama said.
What about Palin’s criticism of her husband, King asked.
“Democracy is about critique and the president is not immune to criticism,” Mrs. Obama said. “I think he’s doing a phenomenal job.”
It seems that a number of the ‘holy hillbilly’ Baptist kidnappers in Haiti ‘done sprung’ from a home schooling background.
“Children were to be considered the children of the movement—they began to be placed in the care of other adults than the parents, and herded into nurseries. There were reports of children being forcibly removed from their parents to be placed in the care of others, sometimes across international borders.”
Palin can cause an awful lot of damage to this country without ever actually becoming president. That’s what I think, Clydedog.
She nurtures resentments and hate. But more importantly, having been once anointed by the GOP as a legitimate voice, she has the power to frame the way we speak about issues, what the issues are and how they are covered by the media. She “goes there” and the media follows, into territory that would have been unthinkable a few short years ago.
Just look at how effective she has been already –
Limbaugh is another of that ilk, and Glen Beck, and there are many more. What strikes me about Palin is that she is almost literally drunk with the power she has. At the same time she’s completely out of her league when it comes to making policy, or thinking about governing, or any of that boring stuff. That’s why she pays others to write her facebook posts and can’t remember her top three priorities without writing notes on her hand.
ValleyIndependent – see Paula’s post at #111, I think that just about sums up what Palin supporters think/believe in. It’s not the God of the bible I can tell you that much.
How any professing Christian can be HAPPY at someone’s death is beyond me. In my mind – to pray for someone’s death is evil.
As a Christian, I cherish the verse from the bible that says that God is not willing that anyone should perish but that all should find salvation. I guess Pastor Drake is too busy wishing death on his enemies to remember that teaching.
If you are not a Christian, I respect that. If you ask me what I believe, I will tell you and share with you why I think it’s important and true and we can talk about it, debate it, disagree, agree and still be friends. But I will never in my life PRAY for someone to die. Not even Sarah Palin. Death is the great equaliser and soon, all of us will have to face it. To pray for it to come on someone sooner is so demonic and evil, it sickens me. But to be gleeful enough to send out an email on the occasion of someone’s death that said “maybe God took him out”, just because that person disagreed with your views, is craven and depraved to a level that is beyond reason.
As a Christian, I believe that there will come a day when Sarah Palin and Pastor Drake will come before God and realise that they were gravely mistaken. Pun intended.
Based on Census Bureau data, five senators would represent Americans earning between $100,000 and $1 million individually per year, with [2/10 of a senator] working on behalf of the millionaires. Eight senators would represent Americans with no income. Sixteen would represent Americans who make less than $10,000 a year, an amount well below the federal poverty line for families. The bulk of the senators would work on behalf of the middle class, with 34 representing Americans making $30,000 to $80,000 per year. . . . Or how about if senators represented particular demographic groups, based on gender and race? White women would elect the biggest group of senators — 37 of them, though only 38 women have ever served in the Senate.
Just read the Crooks and Liars post on Pastor “I hate you and hope you die” Drake.
So Murtha was “prayed” to death cuz he cursed and used God’s name in vain. I wonder how many other people are on that list? Everyone in the whole wide world, I expect. Murtha was a decorated Marine who fought for his country. He opposed the Iraq war – which is the REAL reason why I suspect Pastor “I hate you and hope you die” Drake hated him so much.
Plus Pastor “I hate you and hope you die” Drake is a birther. What a major surprise, well I never.
So President Obama should die because he isn’t born in the US. Even though the state of Hawaii has formally released a certified birth certificate proving he is in fact a US citizen. Drake also says that Obama needs to turn his life to God. What part of “I am a Christian” does Drake not get? Oh that’s right. He’s a black man with a Muslim sounding name. Therefore, he MUST be a Muslim radical terrorist bent on destroying America so let’s all pray for him to die.
Reality impaired, Truth challenged AND crazy. Quite the despicable combination.
Kate in Canada, thanks for the link to the beautiful northern photos. It’s hard not to want to buy them all. The Northern Lights was what originally got me interested in AK, over 25 years ago. (Haven’t been to AK, but have been at least 4 times to Canada since then.)
On another note, keep in mind that the mobs try to kill the elites off so that the evil overlords can control the ignorant masses. She’s dangerous to this country, politician or not. We’re all so consumed with whether Brad and Angelina are together, that we forget what really matters in this country.
Sorry to be OT but I thought someone here might know; yesterday on one of my forays through all my favorite sites, I saw a story by someone (there, how’s that for vague??) calling Sarah Palin just about every name in the book when he wrote about what a dangerous person she is. Every word was preceded by a perfectly priceless, accurate adjective and one of the comments said that Sarah was undoubtedly having to reach for the dictionary. Does anyone remember where this article was? Thanks!
I agree with all of you on this home school thing. I see children who have been home schooled, and find them to be “brain-washed”.
They are like —- “puppets on a string”.
They cannot fit into social groups, and those that try , are odd balls.
The sad thing is that these home schooled children are missing out on a quality education. Math and Science are needed in today’s world. Most parents that are teaching their own children are short on these skills.
As for praying for someone to die—like the Pastor Drake has done, I could never do that. I believe when people die, it is God who they will face.
As a Christian, I too am APPALLED that anyone could read the Gospels, and think that sort of thing is OK by Jesus. Jesus said calling someone “you fool!” was equivalent to murder. Just saying.
First we have Paul Slansky, a New Yorker contributor and writer, with “The Horror! The Horror!” It’s a short article and was written to draw reader discussion in the comments:
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
I forgot to say on my last post that I thought Michelle Obama was great on the Larry King show last night. She is one classy lady. She handled the question Larry posed to Palin trashing her husband with style.
Also meant to say that I thought a lot of Senator Murtha. I thank him for his service in the Marines and the Senate. I agreed with him on the Iraq War.
You know Sarah was pretty off the radar until her book tour,that kept her busy.Now that she is out there making her appearances,she is doing exactly what I thought she would.She is her own worst enemy,self destructing before our eyes.The more she is out in public,especially off script,the more people will despise her.She was an unknown quantity,all star power and sparkle.Her time in the spot light was limited,there were excuse for her fumbles.
Now its just Sarah,ragged and empty,mean and stupid,and proud of it.People are seeing her for her true self.
A family member of mine went round and round with her local school board – they would not ban the books she deemed “unfit” for her (or any!) 9th-grade child to have on the mandatory reading list [as part of the district's English program.] The books contained such words as hell, balls (in relation to a male’s anatomical appendage), and damn. A few of the books she wanted banned even had characters who took the Lord’s name in an ‘unacceptable’ manner. (i.e. “G_d, I hated the route change,” and “Jesus, the test was hard.”)
The school board would not ban the books OR change the mandatory reading list. As a result, she yanked all 3 of her children out of public school at the start of the school year and “home schooled” them. (Her children were entering 9th, 3rd, and 1st grade, respectively.) She ‘joined’ other like-minded “home school families” so her children would have ‘socializing’ (but *only* from a like-minded standpoint), took her children on ‘field trips’ (a visit -by her… with them in tow- to her friend’s herb farm counted as a ‘field trip’ *even though* no preparation was made ahead of time OR follow-up made afterwards –to discuss with the children the science/properties of herbs, their medicinal and/or cooking use and distribution world-wide, etc.), and she spends a *maximum* of two hours per day, four days a week, dedicated to educational instruction – this last point is one on which she ‘brags’; in other words, she feels schools waste their time on ‘frivolous’ things; she can do it all in *less than* 8-hours a week. The rest of the time, her ‘home schooled’ children are ‘free’ to pursue -or not- areas of personal interest. Given that ‘freedom’, her children’s area(s) of “personal interest” run towards playing video games; sadly, they pursue that interest with great dedication and full concentration.
When her youngest was in month 7 of ‘home school’ 2nd grade, learning how to print letters (not write in cursive, mind you…*print!*) was her focus; her middle child, at 7th month ‘home school’ 4th grade, was struggling -mightily- to read Golden Books like “The Pokey Little Puppy”…let alone any story told in more than one or two paragraphs. In the 4-years since they were taken out of public schools, the youngest two children have NOT progressed ‘[up] to grade level.’ The eldest child dropped out of ‘home schooling’ 11th grade at month 5 to enter an apprenticeship/trade program. That child has since joined the military and is in a military field totally unrelated to the trade program in which an ‘escape’ was made from ‘home schooling’.
Ironically, the language the children hear in their own home on a daily basis (did I mention she has a very short fuse?) would make a sailor blush (no disrespect to sailors), but she would NOT allow her children to read the classics in which some curse words were included and/or in which the 7th Commandment was broken. It’s truly one of those “WTF?” scenarios! Equally ironic, she is an elementary school teacher by (elite university!) education.
I’ve also known children who were the products of *real* home schooling. For the most part, I’ve been impressed with their ability to focus on education and to be resourceful in finding information they need to succeed. Most, though, in my experience, do have some trouble with/in social settings where they are exposed to the diversity of others [from which they were insulated/isolated by not attending a public or private school.]
As many in this thread have mentioned, it isn’t “home schooling” per se that has the inherent flaw, it’s the reason/motivation of the *parent(s)* for home schooling their child(ren), that determines the ultimate outcome of that education. In my family member’s case, the motivation/reason for home schooling was to “protect” her children from being exposed *by the schools* to what she deemed to be ‘unsavory’/'unacceptable’ thoughts, materials, and ideas.
Kudos to her local school board for not caving to her talibangelical viewpoint and [thereby] depriving all students the opportunity of receiving a well-rounded education through exposure to (and discussion of) a variety of information and opinions. Not so many kudos to her for depriving her children of that opportunity, though. Actually, no kudos to her at all. beth.
>>> The name on her black memorial bracelet — one, like the gold star, a demonstration of a friend or associate who was killed in action — is that of her oldest son, Track. Track served honorably in Iraq, and both he and his parents should be thanked for his selfless service to his country. He is also alive. <<<
I had said this earlier today on Palingates. Now that she is out there in the public eye, the media are beginning to remark on the empty, ignorant, nasty person that she really is. They are seeing the Sarah Palin we have been trying so hard to tell them about since she appeared on the radar. They are learning why the McCain campaign worked so hard to keep her away from the media unless she was highly scripted or had McCain by her side to “translate” when she went off message.
The Bible says, “Pride goeth before a Fall” and boy oh boy is she going to come down hard. The veneer is cracking and all she is going to be left with is the crackpot demographic and they are welcome to go and cackle amongst themselves for all I care. The more she’s out “there” and the more people hear her and the more they go WTF? when they do hear her it’s all to the good.
She’s not getting very good reviews anywhere and even, Rush Limbaugh has b*tch slapped her good and hard over the satire comment. If Rush is saying anything satirical, you’d best believe he’ll let you know it.
I think too, Palin et al are going to find themselves in some difficulties with the IRS before too long and there are still the questionable redacted emails of Mr. Todd Palin, executively-privileged-advisor-of-no-consequence-to-the-governor-and-the-entire-Alaska-administration which need to be addressed.
There is a website herobracelets.org, where you can buy these. There are several types, according to the site:
Memorial HeroBracelets
Deployed HeroBracelets for families to wear while a loved one is serving
Deployed HeroTags for those who prefer a necklace
Vietnam HeroBracelets with the full list of those lost in Vietnam
Memorial HeroTags, a dogtag for those who prefer a necklace
Purple Heart HeroBracelets to honor and support those wounded in conflict
Sarah is pictured on the site with this caption:
Sarah Palin wearing her Deployed HeroBracelet
Frankly, I think it’s hard to argue with her wearing this even after her son returns from deployment.
I love the names they give over there at The Political Carnival. Barbie McLipSchmutz is a particular favorite. Schmutz is the Yiddish word for dirt or filth.
LiladyNY, the biblical quote is even better, “pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” I would much rather see Palin destroyed than merely fallen. Oh, does that count as an imprecatory prayer on my part?
momom, yep she’s proving those mccain handlers were necessary. Other than her teabagger pals I think most were pretty repulsed by her disrespectful speech on saturday night at the klan rally. In the last two days colbert has called her a effin retard, jon stewart called her the “c” word, joan walsh called her mean and dumb, chris matthews called her an empty vessel with no mentality, meghan mccain called her a racist and the list goes on and on. If she continues standing I’ll have to say maybe she’s less thin skinned than we thought.
“Palin’s Bigger Blunder
While everyone was focused on notes Sarah Palin apparently wrote on her hand over the weekend, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Eric Robertson says he noticed the black bracelet on her wrist.
“The name on her black memorial bracelet — one, like the gold star, a demonstration of a friend or associate who was killed in action — is that of her oldest son, Track. Track served honorably in Iraq, and both he and his parents should be thanked for his selfless service to his country. He is also alive.
“Commemorating Track’s service by wearing a black memorial bracelet which is reserved for those dead or even a red bracelet for those missing in action, demonstrates a horrifying contempt for those who gave their last full measure of devotion or an almost unbelievable ignorance of the importance of symbols in American history…”
“Sarah Palin, please take off the bracelet. Be thankful you have no reason to wear it.”‘
I would much rather see Palin destroyed than merely fallen. Oh, does that count as an imprecatory prayer on my part?
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I second your motion. And I’ll stand right by your side and pray that prayer with you and I’m a non-violent Buddhist. But the sheer nastiness and hypocrisy of this woman brings out the primal in me.
LiladyNY: Me too! I try to be compassionate and I know she her gut is constantly in knots, keeping track of so many lies and tripping over the bodies, and she is insecure and may be medicated or self-medicating and yet, and yet, I have officially given up and now I just have no empathy left.
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
Rob in CA @134 in re: to my post @132 about the black bracelets –
I googled that too and found what you did , that there are a few different bracelets that are dark / black and not necessarily worn only for those that have died in service.
My guess is that Palin was wearing the bracelet for show and had no clue, one way or the other, the full symbolism – and it was nothing different than the flag draping for the Runner’s World photo shoot. No different than the Israeli flag pin she wears on camera.
megacephalus – I’m glad that Germany has taken a stance against ANYONE attempting to give their children alternative schooling, Muslim or not. I truly wish there was more controls here in the US.
Beth’s story is a horrifying one, but all too true. I’ve known of several families here in rural KY – three brothers who are small-time tobacco farmers all living on the same family farm, with no high school diploma amongst any of them. Repeated problems with truancy, so their solution was to pull the children and homeschool them. One can drive by their farm any hour of the day and the young ones are outside playing around and the older ones will be in the fields or barns. They will probably never be able to obtain a GED or get even a minimal job off the farm as even factories require some minimal competency exams (TABE).
On the other hand, there are some families who homeschool for all of the right reasons and are competent at it, and the children are well-rounded and adaptible. We have a large Mennonite community in this area and they have their own school and those children seem to do very well. The adults I’ve talked with (who own businesses near us) have told me of the requirements they have both for teachers and students, and those requirements are stricter than the state requires.
Sadly, there are way too many (and the numbers are growing) of those homeschooling for religious reasons. Just look at the Mormons. Those children are so isolated and totally unprepared to exist off their compounds. States MUST get involved with overseeing homeschoolers and requiring equivalency testing. Federal funds are even available and it doesn’t take much to qualify for the annual check, and those laws need to either be changed or stricter as well.
On another topic – I read that Sarah took in an estimated cool HALF MILLION in just over a week with her various speaking engagements. How many hungry people in Alaska would that feed for the same period of time? How many cold people in Alaska would be warmed for the same period of time?
Trolls are out on some of the boards – they are saying Sarah’s bracelet was not black. According to some it was silver, and another is saying it was copper that looked black on camera. Not a single one said maybe she didn’t realize the meaning. To them, she is never wrong and can do no wrong.
Go to the herobracelets website and you can see it is not black – they have a picture of her wearing it and they specifically state that it is not a memorial bracelet.
I cannot imagine there being an upside to complaining about Sarah wearing her son’s name on a bracelet that honors his service.
The website that sells the bracelets has two photos of $P wearing a brown metallic bracelet. Brown is for a deployed soldier. (Of course, Track is near Anchorage these days, thus not deployed.) The story about a black memorial bracelet is apparently incorrect and resulted from the close up photo of $P’s palmprompter in which the bracelet looks black.
We know that at some point we may have to provide homeschooling for my oldest grandson.He is 9,has severe ADHD,and possibly Aspergers.He is extremely intelligent,but social problems are very difficult for schools to deal with.Luckily he is a happy healthy boy who sees me as his best friend for life.
We do not think of this as some easy remedy.We know it will require work and commitment,and the addition of out side interests to keep him working on the social issues.Thankfully he and I both like science and nature,and learning about pretty much everything in general,so we may get through with both of us thriving,if it comes to this.
Small communities in Louisiana do not have the resources or even the desire to help.
But,you know,it is REAL America.
I found out last week that my community is considered forbidden to blacks because of the Klan activity that has gone on here over the years.Great.My SIL’s best friend who lost his arm in Iraq a few months back and happens to be black came to my home to work on my truck.He wants to continue to work as a mechanic so we want to give him all of the work we can,where he can do it at our home and rest as needed.My grandson helped. He is a nice,friendly boy.
My neighbors informed me the next day that they are not used to blacks in this area.As I live on 5 acres I am sure it took binoculars to spy on him.
I informed them they would just have to get used to it.Then my mouth got the better of me and I let them have it.DH says we can look forward to more than them taking our Obama signs as they did last year. I cant wait.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.
When I heard the hopey changey remark I thought what are you 12? No offense to 12 year olds. Everytime I hear her speak it reminds me of my junior high years. The mean girls who thought they were the greatest thing ever. The ones who thought they knew everything, but actually couldn’t get a decent grade without copying someone else’s work. Then playing the victim card when they got caught. I grew up, but it doesn’t look like Sarah ever did.
When she said “hopey changey” I began to fume. AT that point, it didn’t matter if she suddenly began to praise President Obama, or adopted an orphaned puppy, or donated all the proceeds of her book to the Special Olympics. Right then, at that moment, I wanted to beat her up in the bathroom.
Clydedog mentioned a good point, that speeches are quick, easy cash for the ex-gov. It’s within reason that she’s keep drumming up hype for a presidential run to fill seats. She has a year to decide…and that’s a LOT of $100k speeches. Quite shrewd, actually. Then at the last minute she’s “decide” against it, we’ll have exhausted ourselves with endless discussions of what it would’ve been like to see her on the ticket, and she’ll dump her endorsement on Newt or who knows who.
I was with a friend -he doesn’t like or dislike Sarah, and he actually gasped with she said her “hopey changey” thing. I have a feeling quite a few people were turned off by that comment.
Just wanted to mention again re: the post at @132 and the bracelet thing –
I found online that there are some dark bracelets being sold that are to recognize ” those in service” . Who knows if Palin knew one way or the other but I’d hate to focus on something that might not be reflecting $P being typically , $P. ( She’ll offer more examples of that in the next few hours, I’m sure ! )
mommom……I hear ya, these southern states are hard to deal with culturally, behind most other states, but changing slowly. I do my best to help effect change whenever I can. We’ve helped ease a life long MO neighbor into the 21 century, he even voted for Obama, lol. I was worried about putting out my Obama/Biden signs before election, but did anyway and brought them in every night. But I’m sure it identified us as “them outsiders who are not like us”.
I just try to be as friendly and smiley as I can to all. You can tell who is a local or not by their drawl and speech mannerisms, it’s the outsiders who’ve helped move this state forward.
There is more poverty, low income jobs and uneducated areas in the southern states than I’ve ever experienced. For as old as it is, it’s sure stuck in a rut.
Explain to your neighbor your young friend is a war veteran, a good man, nothing to worry about and I’d gently ask them to please look beyond his skin color and let his work speak for itself.
It’s sad how stuck these people are, but I’m not sure angering them is the best way to win them over, which we need to do, even if it’s one person at a time. I know the curious locals have asked our neighbor about us outsiders, I’m fairly certain he’s had good reports for them as they try to pick his brain, lol.
My main concern about living here among so many of these life long locals is the underhanded lowlife behavior of some, they are like Scarah, they can be good cons and scam artists, act friendly and bullshit. No problem lying, many will take advantage if they can and take some sort of sick pride in getting the best deal or coming out on top of a deal. I don’t appreciate that.
The guy we sold our cows to was bragging in the community how he got the better deal, that he ‘took’ us, gah, we gave him a good and fair deal. That sort of mentality and behind your back talk and gossip is BIG in the south. Brag talk among the men.
Oh well, we’ve met some genuinely nice folks here too. But it’s a more mixed bag when compared to all my previous years in other western and northern states. It’s also fairly hard to break into circles, it’s like an outsider presents a threat, which is true if they are afraid of change and want to keep things like they’ve always been, lol.
Hey, today I heard on the radio news that Iraq wants Blackwater Contractors out of it’s country, asap.
mommom……I typed out a response to your post, southern living sigh, long story short I hear ya. We’ve been effecting change where we can when we can, but not as boldly as you, lol. Be careful.
Regardless of the color of the bracelet or it’s meaning, I think the real “meaning” is that Sarah uses her kids, again, to promote herself and her ideology.
Her son is forced to enlist in lieu of jail time, and the Shallow Grifter uses her son’s service (be it forced) to promote herself as the ever suffering but good Christian, all-American mother.
Gee, maybe she is a saint. She has a special needs child and a son in the military. You would almost think it was all by plan………..
I love the contrast between the two women in politics who have received the most media attention in the past year.
Michelle Obama is classy, intelligent and thoughtful, and chooses not to respond to juvenile criticisms of her husband. She has taken time in the early months of her husband’s administration to weigh the various options for her agenda as First Lady. She has chosen to focus on an issue that is of great concern to our country for many reasons; the problem of childhood obesity. She and the President clearly value education and family and demonstrate those values in their own lives. The Obama children are well behaved and expected to work hard in school as well as doing their daily chores. They spent most of the presidential campaign at home, going to school.
And then there’s Sarah Palin. She never met a snarky comment she didn’t like, particularly in regard to our President, and often speaks before thinking. She is divisive, mean and doesn’t have a single original thought. She mocks education, hard work and the concept of helping those less fortunate, issues that are in direct contrast to the religion she espouses. She has no respect for anyone who is of a different race, religion or cultural background. She claims to be a model mother but drags her children all over the country, removing them from school and/or therapy for weeks or months at a time, and yet seems to demonstrate little genuine affection for them. She takes every opportunity to demand large sums of money for her appearances while claiming to be a ‘regular hockey mom’.
Michelle Obama = high class
Sarah Palin = no class
87 ValleyIndependent Says: February 10th, 2010 at 9:27 AM
Homeschooling, charter schools, private schools, or public schools are all fine, so long as the student is actually getting a decent education…
There was a time in this country when ignorance was an embarrassment, education was highly prized, and American innovation and industry thrived. We are becoming a nation that celebrates ignorance, belittles education, lacks the skills to compete globally, whines and looks for someone else to blame as we watch the good jobs go overseas and the trade deficit get larger. It is time to start investing in and expecting better things of ourselves again.
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HEAR HEAR!!!
It truly is a shame that s’error palin so eagerly embraces ignorant thought and so studiously avoids any appearance of intellectual curiosity. Stupid is as s’error does.
The bracelet means she is proud of her son who risked his life in service to the United States.
Snarky comments about that are all over the internet, because a couple of people posted stories without doing any research.
Remember how Guantanamo creates terrorists? Well, unfounded attacks on Sarah can create new Palinbots, too.
If I were a totally neutral on Palin, and saw people claiming that she was disrespecting veterans by wearing a black memorial bracelet…..and then I found out the bracelet was sent to her as a gift, and that it was copper, and was meant to honor her son’s service…..well I would be outraged, and would rush to Sarah’s defense. I would be righteously indignant that Sarah was attacked for honoring our men and women in harm’s way.
Please, everyone. Leave this alone. If you see an uninformed post on this, correct it as soon as you can. If you need any information on this, just go to http://www.herobracelets.org They sent the bracelet to Sarah. They have a picture clearly showing her wearing a copper-colored bracelet, and they clearly label it as a ‘deployed hero bracelet’. The very worst thing you can accuse Sarah of, is that she didn’t take it off when her precious son returned home unharmed. Really, does anyone want to go there????
After reading the comments on that site, I almost like the Ron Paulers. I watched a debate with Ron Paul and a couple of others (*yawn*) during the campaign and did they ever drone on endlessly about the Second Amendment.
I agree with you totally in the perception of this incident. For once, I have to side with Mrs. Palin even though I don’t think much of her parenting skills.
When I first saw the bracelet, I immediately thought of the bracelet that I wore for a missing Marine during the VietNam War. We eventually learned he had died. My daughter still has that bracelet. My ex-husband fought in Hue, Cambodia for 18 months.
At first glance, my take was that that bracelet appeared to be black in the photo I saw of it. I wondered, because of that, why on earth she was wearing one with her son’s name on it as he is very much alive (thank Gods).
We, who remember a different meaning from an different time, jumped to a wrong conclusion and apologize for that, but those days are imprinted upon our memories just as clearly as 9/11 is imprinted on us.
The company who makes these bracelets might have considered that and should not have made their bracelets look exactly like those from the
VietNam war thus preventing any misperceptions.
I agree. Leave the bracelet alone. Mr. Robinson, the orignator of the meme, made an honest mistake, for which I’m sure he will apologize. Let the Palinbots go into a frenzy about an honest mistake. The rest of us should applaud Palin for her patriotism in wearing the bracelet and thank her for her son’s service. Period.
Thanks for the last link, austintx! Interesting & persuasive reading. Looks like the kids have decided that keeping income confidential helps both of them.
Since the discussion today was about Education… I remember hearing this guy at work today mention this quote to someone. I don’t know where he heard it if it was said by some famous person. Couldn’t find it in the Googles.. I looked.
The Quote is :
“When a person reads… they get questions.When a person ‘studies’… the get Answers ” ( Sounds like some ‘ common sense ‘ huh? )
And in S’carahs place… she doesn’t even READ….. so she gets neither questions OR answers.
I just had to share this comment from huffpo to the chris kelly post. It is priceless. thanks, calamityjohn!
calamityjohn I’m a Fan of calamityjohn I’m a fan of this user 21 fans permalink I had thought when Limbaugh went after Palin that she had an opportunity. I figured that she could go after Rush on this limited issue. The far right would forgive her seeing it as a small personal issue. Rush could call it a misunderstanding. The center would see Palin standing for something and standing up to the far right and she could broaden her appeal .. bringing back some echoes of her start in politics as someone who called out entrenched power.
Instead she threw her own child under the wheels of her political ambition .. and tried to defend it with a semantic argument that I have yet to see a single person try to defend.
She has jumped the shark so many times it is like some Great White steeplechase.
I made a comment about “the bracelet” but for some reason it has gotten lost, or maybe stopped to pick daisies…
I just wanted to say that I agree with Irishgirl and Rob. The original article was probably just an honest mistake. Mr. Robinson likely thought he had seen a black bracelet. It rankled him and he shared his thoughts. He’ll apologize tomorrow. Let the Palinbots stew and snipe. The rest of us should just thank the Palins for their son’s service and leave it at that.
I think it was The Daily Show that had a series of mis-spelled signs from Teabaggers.
Yeah, those darn intellectual elites throwing their knowledge of grammar and spelling in the faces of the real Americans. How dare they flaunt their education at us.
In other news, our local school district is looking at eliminating teacher librarians as a particular kind of service in order to balance the budget. As is, California has the least number of school librarians. On average one for every 4,000 students in comparison to the national average of one for every 900 students.
I guess when you worship ignorance it isn’t any surprise. (Or that someone like Sarah Palin has no clue what satire is and isn’t.)
Baker’s Dozen, re that New Jersey post–what a painful piece to read, as an Alaskan, even as a joke. Because they’re kind of right. Arggh. SP is irritating more people lately, and the downside is that Alaska continues to have guilt by association.
It used to be, when I traveled out of state, that people would strike up conversations about Alaska and were interested in hearing about the place. But the most recent time I traveled, I knew that if I even mentioned being from here, the conversation would inevitably turn to her. That was not OK with me– not because I mind people’s curiosity, that’s fine, but because I do not want her in my space. She is not my shadow, so I headed most of those conversations off before they even got started. It was a shame, actually. Double meaning intended.
I relate to some posters that wanted to attack Sarah when she sarcastically said ”’hopey changey thing…”I wanted to punch her in the face, and I honestly have never said that before in my life.
197 North_of_the_Range Says:
February 10th, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Baker’s Dozen, re that New Jersey post–what a painful piece to read, as an Alaskan, even as a joke. Because they’re kind of right.
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I know what you mean, about it being painful. I was in South Korea a few years ago, and people there always asked me if I were from Canada with a rather hopeful tone to their voices. They were disappointed when I said I was from the US, but brightened some when I said I was from California (they had a Korean ball player in San Diego. Don’t know if he’s still there.) For those with enough English, the conversation inevitably turned directly to Bush. Don’t pass Go, don’t collect $200, but do tell us you don’t like him. It was embarrassing. Fortunately, nobody seemed to hold me and my friends responsible. They were invariably kind.
You know, depending if you’re watching on a monster HD tv screen, or using antenna’s on a 19″ model or a b&w one – it is hard to really discern the color of that bracelet. Ah, the ambiguity of it. It could lead one to think, it’s black.
I slagged those hero bracelet folks, Chris Greta in particular on that Yale site. We’ll see if it gets posted. I ripped a few folks some new ones.
“Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling.
There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House. “
Lani…Good news (which backs up another recent poll) but I won’t be happy until 1 in 10 view her as qualified (actually, in my dreams I’d love it to be 0 in 10).
After her Tea Party appearance, there is also discontent in the ranks in other Tea Party groups about her hijacking the movement. If anyone has a link to an article about that, it would be great to pass around.
Perhaps, the first Rhodes Scholer.
Don’t you mean Roads?
That would be funny, if it weren’t so sad, and dangerous for our country. Those kids are going to have to compete for jobs someday, with others here and abroad who actually received a decent education. They will likely grow up to celebrate their ignorance and vote for people like Palin, who are “just like them.”
Priceless!
Cilly people, wonder if they no how two spell vote ? lol
I agree with Valley, this really is sad & dangerous.
Ah, folks, we have a large segment of our population who are poorly schooled (for whatever reason) and are drawn like magnets to the first ‘politician’ (I really hate to call $P that) who approaches them as if she were ‘one of them.’
The very, very sad thing is — this magnetism is growing. Scares me to death.
I don’t care what I have to pay in taxes! — let’s get our kids competitive in a global economy!!!
OMG, was just listening to “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, and heard: “Is Sarah Palin putting together a campaign team? — we’ll bring up some of the names … ”
YIKES!!!!!!
I read an article yesterday that said Palin sparkles. Which caused me to have a daydream, that she was debating Obama. When asked about foreign policy, domestic affairs, her qualifications, she would simply reply…I don’t need any, I sparkle.
What the heck does that mean…she sparkles?
Just remember that Sarah doesn’t play well with others, thinks planning is a commie thing, hates to be directed, and cannot function without her wall of family
Ignorance alone cannot get from here to there. Media helps but can’t fix the total lack.
Running for president when you are incapable of doing the job should be punishable as treason with a maximum sentence of life in prison.
After having Regan & The Bush crime families in the White House, I made up my own bumper sticker:
“No More i, i, i, i’s*”
* Insane, Immoral, Incompetent, Idiots!
I’m not against home-schooling; I have friends with education degrees and credentials that have opted for this route after moving and experiencing awful public schools.
This, however, is laughable. When will these people learn to proofread their signs?
Pearl, I think it means she’s a vampire
Are the misspelled signs typos or are they indicative of an inability to correctly spell? Big difference. Proofreading has qualifications.
This could be part of her Alaska legacy: transparency in tatters.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/sarah-palin-open-records-transparency
This sad, so sad.
But isn’t it more ironic that tancredo believes that the tea baggers are smarter then those that voted for POTUS OBAMA?
Can we be on the brink of another Civil War led by twitter/quitter queen sarah?
If she gains momentum will the forces of good(us) be pitted against evil (them)?
And will that prove anything?
I keep thinking of how we were told we were traitors to our country if we dared to question bush, but yet these people can talk about guns and revolution and then truly believe when told by sarah, that POTUS Obama is telling us to sit down and shut up?
Is our children learning? asked the shrub.
that learning and facts and numbers and such like, while impressin’ people and soundin’ important, also, doesn’t really matter! replied the almost half-term quitty-pants greedy ex-governor.
oy, vey!
I give thanks for the power to grow each day.
Off to the library, where I challenge myself and my students to, “Have a beautiful day in the forest. Now let’s get out there and Learn Something today.”
Isn’t Sarah’s little darling Piper the queen of the Home “Scholers?” She never seems to go to school since she is always on the trail with the queen.
When I saw the clip on Colbert of SP saying “Hopey-Changie” I almost got sick. How can anyone be duped by such a dolt? She used to act like a teenage girl. Now she’s acting like a elementary aged girl on the playground.
Pure Palin hypocrisy “Lift American spirits”/talk about the war card – invading Iran
This article has a lot of “common sense”: Palin’s hair and hand-notes have got to go
Third, since hair can be such a compelling battlefield for the ugliest kinds of passive-aggressive overgrown schoolgirl score-settling, I’m going to strike a blow for grownup female solidarity and be entirely straight with you about the hair thing: It’s too big and too long.
You could argue the validity or injustice of this point from a feminist, anti-feminist or post-feminist angle ad nauseum but the thing is, if you want to be taken seriously while speculating about the country most likely to be invaded or asking people over and over again if they like freedom, as though there’s someone in the room who can’t stand freedom, it helps if people aren’t sitting there thinking, “Are those extensions?” the whole time.
Think Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir: Benazir, not Beyonce.
Sixth, along the same lines, if you’re going to write stuff on your hand and then take a hit for it when you have to check your list while answering a question, at least pay attention to your own notes. That last hand note, “Lift American spirits,” assuming it wasn’t about swiping a pack of cigarettes, was the best thing on that list.
Snarking the other side and appealing to peoples insecurities about security isn’t really about lifting spirits, no matter how gung-ho the response in the room might seem.
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lisa_vandusen/2010/02/09/12812566.html
I think it would be a mistake to cast aspersions on all home schooled children. I have seen it be very successful as well as a dismal failure. Friends of mine home-schooled their children; now one is at Annapolis and the other is at Stanford on a free-ride scholarship working on her doctorate in chemistry.
The best possible outcome for the Democratic Party come next election, would be if Palin ran for president. No matter how she fares in the primaries, she has too much baggage to win key states. To that end, I’m hoping she makes the leap. Besides, it’s not like Mitt and others won’t be there to chew her to pieces — (we won’t even have to lift a finger). The best political theater is yet to come, rest assured.
Then … be surprised for a change: Clinton for Biden. Have to imagine that’s already being discussed (Joe won’t be an asset come 2012, whereas Clinton’s base will likely outnumber Obama’s by then). Anyway, that’s my guess… So I’m encouraged to see Palin gettin’ serious. With any luck the Levi tell-all book will hit stores just in time for Iowa.
Palin’s bigger blunder (no not the one about bringing new meaning to ‘handwriting’)
Commemorating Track’s service by wearing a a black memorial bracelet which is reserved for those dead or even a red bracelet for those missing in action, demonstrates a horrifying contempt for those who gave their last full measure of devotion or an almost unbelievable ignorance of the importance of symbols in American history.
Unfortunately, given Palin’s reputation and frequent public statements, I assume it is the latter.
Sarah Palin, please take off the bracelet. Be thankful you have no reason to wear it.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/opinion/guest-columns/2010/02/10/robinson-palins-bigger-blunder/
LondonBridges @13 – Good point! How can they proof their signs if they don’t know the correct spellings to begin with? A great deal of school testing is standardized nationwide nowadays, but the curriculum, materials, methods, etc. are NOT standardized and that leads to inflated test scores in some regions, and very poor showings in others. Until all school districts “get on the same sheet of music”, there will continue to be great (and misleading) variances in just how well students are being educated.
I’ve homeschooled, tutored, and taught English as a second lanuage class for many years, up until a dozen or so years ago. There are many excellent homeschooling materials and programs available at reasonable prices. If the school districts do not have reporting and testing requirements in place, there are no guarantees that the children are learning the skills they need to compete in the adult world, and many undoubtedly fall through the cracks. Some of the better (and more expensive) purchased programs require regular interaction and verbal contact between the student and a designated supervisor within the organization, as well as proctoring exams at a local college.
Michelle Obama was on Larry King last night. She is such a downright NICE lady and a real class act. Larry asked various leading questions, in the hopes of getting her to make some comments about Sarah Palin, polls, and other controversial topics. She parried them very well and came across as a truly decent person. She has an uphill battle ahead of her with the project on childhood obesity, as the rightwingers are already bashing her for *daring* to tell them what to feed their children.
@ Jay 19: I’m sorry… Hillary’s base will outnumber Obama’s by 2012?
Where are you getting this notion from?
ds55 -
I’m wonderin’ the same thing…………
@Pearl:
I think he means she’s got that Pokemon thing going on. You know, the one that gave all those children seizures in Japan?
We all know what kind of person that will write crib notes on their hand. For the most part it is about cheating on a test to get a grade you don’t deserve because you didn’t do the homework or are really “intellectually challenged” and don’t want anyone to know it. Most people leave that specific behavior behind when they leave school. By now most people in America and other parts of the world know Sarah was that kid in school, only she didn’t leave that behavior behind. In fact she was so afraid of being found out as “intellectually challenged” that she went back to the old play book. Busted!! And then to make matters worse, Hi Mom, Loggers Rule. Look I do this all the time. With Palin it is anything but honesty. The craziest part of this is that the people who have drank the Palin koolaid all have seen this and yet they cannot admit they saw it. Because in doing so they would have to admit that they are wrong about Sarah and in turn wrong about their very selves. Bob Dylan said “For those that defend what they cannot see…With a killers pride, security…It blows their minds most bitterly to think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally….Life sometimes must get lonely”….It blows my mind most bitterly to know that there are people out there that are more “itellectually challenged” than Palin….
As far as the sign goes . . . . Yeah–some spellchecking is in order.
Hysterical!
I have friends and acquaintances who home school.
Some are amazing at giving their children liberal, cohesive educations. They’ve found that their children do not thrive under institutional school settings. But they make sure their kids are socialized and aware of the world. Art museums, libraries, historical societies etc. are regularly visited.
And then there are the ones who homeschool because of their insecurities
about “others.” Unfortunately, I’m finding out these kids seem to get a lower level of homeschooling. Homeschooling in these homes seem to be less about education and more about shielding their children from the world.
This is one of the shortest and harshest, but en pointe, statements on Palin that I have read of late. Another epithet applied to her is harridan, which I think is most appropriate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/the-horror-the-horror_b_455738.html
……..And, of course, there was, “How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?” which, in all my years of watching politics, is the most viscerally nauseating utterance I’ve ever heard. And these are just from the past week.
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
Sarah’s “hopey-changey” snark did not go over well with many people, and is incorporated into nearly every article on her of late. More and more writers are also becoming more aware of her continual interjecting of religion into her speeches. Here is another good read:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/the-hopey-changey-stuff_b_455411.html
The year 2010 is the new 1200. The preferred candidate in this environment is one who reads no newspapers and is uncertain about how many branches we have in the government she hopes to lead. People celebrate her lack of knowledge as somehow making her more “authentic.” We have come to admire those who embrace insularity and xenophobia. We disdain mental acuity. A thick resume and experience prove only that a candidate is not of the people. In this new era, rationalism is considered a problem to be conquered with faith under the false pretense that we are a Christian nation. Science is a liberal plot with no more validity than the uttering of a bloated talking head spouting an opinion unsupported by fact. Intelligence is an ominous sign of elitism.
GreatGranny2C -
LOL !!
Don’t sugarcoat it. Tell us how you really feel.
One more line from Schweitzer’s article gave me a good chuckle!
I have been ignoring Palin, hoping that like a small scratch she would eventually heal and go away. Instead, she has turned out to be a drug-resistant staph infection intent on destroying our body politic.
Snort! Your headline is what made the whole thing for me.
There is only one person who can spell in our family. My oldest son. If he didn’t look just like his great grandfather, I would really wonder if babies hadn’t been switched!
The rest of us rely on spell check and when that won’t come up for a guess, we google what we think it’s spelled like, and Google says “Did you mean. .”
We do have a dictionary in the house. It’s large and 60 years old. Totally cool for drying flowers.
When that Palin woman starts grunting her “slogans” please turn the camera off. We’ve had enough. I believe she is infested and the glitter has fallen off the rose. Mercifully let her crawl back to her compound in wasilly to marinate in the craziness she created.
I read somewhere that McCain gave America herpes when he foisted sarah upon us.
When are the analysts going to finally stand up for this poor kid?
http://vvoice.vo.llnwd.net/e7/rick-perry-and-sarah-palin-rally-their-troops.4411016.36.jpg
On what planet is that a normal Sunday for an eight year old? Sunday was on the heels of Saturday following Friday and no doubt the grind continued through the week.
Dear old Ma is an insatiable narcissist and dragging a small child along for the ride.
of course, there IS the possibility that the child’s parent wrote the sign, and was using satire……..
Shouldn’t it be ‘homestudents’, because if you derive your education at an institution of learning, are you called a schooler? Or a schoolschooler for that matter?
I prefer drop-out, personally.
what is wrong with HP??
Look at the picture they posted with the headline, which from the little i understand about banking is out of context if you read the article. Maybe i don’t get it and i know people are pissed about the banks but this picture really bugs me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
#18 @ WakeUpAmerica Says:
I think it would be a mistake to cast aspersions on all home schooled children. I have seen it be very successful as well as a dismal failure. Friends of mine home-schooled their children; now one is at Annapolis and the other is at Stanford on a free-ride scholarship working on her doctorate in chemistry.
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As I said on Shannyn’s site earlier, the point is well taken, but proves the exception rather than the rule.
I know a family who home-schools their children and they are very bright and articulate. But, and this is the big factor – their parents are very engaged and committed to the education process devoting their time and efforts to making sure the work gets done to high standards.
The sad commentary today is that parents are “too busy” and unable to teach children the fundamentals of manners, cause and effect, the values of earning privileges, and the simple pleasure of sharing a meal together as a family each day. If you’re “too busy” to oversee your child’s homework, cook a meal, attend school plays, ballet recitals, sports events, know who your children’s friends are and their families and where your children are, then you shouldn’t be having children. Children don’t rear themselves when they reach a certain age. A teen-ager needs you just as must as a toddler.
My heart breaks most of all for Piper. She is a sad statement of very bad parenting and neglect. Being in the presence of a parent is not the same as parenting.
GreatGranny2C..love your commentary!!
I think Piper helped him with the sign.
austinTX @28 – It’s early yet………I’m just getting started! LOL
And LiLadyNY, I agree with you. I feel bad for Piper. All those kids. Sarah Palin is a bad parent. Period.
#36 @twain12
It seems that these are quotes taken out of context from an article which has yet to be published if I’m reading the post correctly.
When we stop paying that woman to wander around in a tight black skirt, wiggling and grunting slogans for loggers et al. is a day we can all get back to basics. Let’s excoriate everyone who is paying her for this behavior.
For those of you who like lynnrockets’ songs, there had been a death in the family. Please leave your condolences at http://lynnrockets.wordpress.com/, not here, since lynnrockets likely to be tied up for a while. Thanks.
Juneaudream – Thanks……….I also look forward to your daily postings. You are a deep thinker and your comments often shake me and wake me up to viewpoints and ideas that are common sense (no, not Sarah’s kind of common sense), and really give me food for thought.
My guess about Clinton’s numbers is that her profile as Secretary of State will only increase her popularity (and Barack as a second term president is bound to lose voters). But should Obama pass substantial financial reform, a health care bill with teeth and we see unemployment numbers dip, his job will be easier.
Politics aside, we need all those things and more. Kinda soon, too.
Did you take pictures or have them at the tea party??? Oh dear.
Okay- do you think it is someone trying to be funny? Just thinking…
going to grow up and be a roads scholer…
them morans..
sigh*
I’m still pissed that she refered to Texas as Alaska’s little sister state..that won’t play well here.
Good morning sarah,
Yesterday Meghan McCain called you and your fellow teabaggers out as racists. No surprise here, I know most of us on this blog realized this at the beginning of the movement (not ron paul’s but the recent t-baggers). As much as they run around pissing and moaning about taxes, socialism, gov’t take-over and give us our country back it’s really about one thing, racism. Most of you can’t stand the fact that a black man is in charge. So simple sarah, are you going to respond to Meghan? And if so how? By having your ghost writer post a snarky facebook? You know Meghan isn’t afraid of you, she didn’t back down from laura ingraham or man coulter. She knows you and she also knows at her young age she has ten times the intellect and social conscience than you’ll ever have. She knows you are nothing more than a common rube. So you spineless harpy, are you going to stand up to Meghan? She double- dog dared you. Be warned that if you go after her in your typical snarky fashion Cindy or John may come after you with both barrels. Oh and by the way, the rushy retard thingy? Boss hog isn’t about to let a empty-headed upstart like you horn in on his role in the party. It was time you be put in your place. Rushbo exposed you and meg to his trillion (or however many listeners he claims) as the cowardly, groveling hypocrites that you are. We’re waiting for your response sarah, in case you haven’t noticed the sharks are circling.
Easier to manipulate the masses if they are ignorant.
Good article here.
“There’s nothing wrong with questioning the Obama administration’s policies or its effectiveness, but why not leave it at that? Why does Palin feel compelled to ask those who supported Obama, “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out for you?”
Because, to turn the phrase made famous by George W. Bush on its head–she’s a divider, not a uniter. And that, along with a host of other reasons too numerous to mention, is why she will never be president.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/linda-killian/2010/02/10/why-sarah-palin-is-no-ronald-reagan.html
One of the funniest explanations yet!
Pam Geller and Ron Reagan JR were on Joy Behar’s show. Pam had never met SR, but said that she knew him better than JR did, and that SR would have loved Palin. She argued this about Palin: “She did not quit. The Lower 48 needed her, and she heeded the call. She did not take the easy way out.”
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pam-geller-tries-tell-ron-reagan-jr
On another topic, there is quite a discussion go on at Bree Palin regarding Piper and her continually being dragged around the country.
If you have a few minutes stop what you’re doing and watch this video about true American heroes. It will make you ashamed that we spend even one nano-second on such an imposter as Scarah Palin:
http://www.militarytimes.com/multimedia/video/?bcrefid=808163493#/Live%20RPG%20removed%20from%20soldier/51745112001
Chris Kelly’s take on Limbaugh and Palin.
* The knock on Sarah Palin is that she’s applying two different standards, one for Rush Limbaugh, because he’s a friend, and another for Rahm Emanuel, because he can do the crossword puzzle. But I think there’s something even creepier going on. Here’s what Limbaugh said Tuesday:
“I only hope here that Rahm doesn’t go out and call these people another F-ing unfortunate name out there, folks, because I’ll have to repeat it in another satire.” Rush Limbaugh 2/9/10
Notice how he said “satire?” It’s a quintessential bully move. He said it because she said it when she said it was okay for him to insult her children. He said it to let her know that he knows that he made her eat sh*t.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/limbaugh-and-palin-round_b_456303.html
GreatGranny2C: I saw Joy Behar yesterday, it made me nauseous. I couldn’t believe Gellar saying “she (SP) didn’t quit”. RR let her have it, but gah, how can people like Gellar behave like that?
“Are the misspelled signs typos or are they indicative of an inability to correctly spell? Big difference….”
When you write the sign by hand, it isn’t a “typo” – you have to write the word one letter at a time. If I ‘fat finger’ my keyboard, I may type a letter I didn’t intend. I don’t see how you can ‘fat finger’ a magic marker.
My experience (as a public school teacher) is that so many home ‘skoolers’ lack a rigorous approach to education. Here in Nebraska, you can home school with virtually no qualifications at all.
jwa, I agree.
I don’t buy the ‘typo’ thing, either. Even if it was inadvertent, why in God’s name would you bring it to a rally and thrust it up in the air for every media outlet in creation to capture? No, this isn’t a ‘printing’ problem. It’s a ‘thinking’ problem.
Apparently, Gov Perry’s campaign rally was sponsored by the Southeast-ish Texas MENSA Chapter and Regional Brain Trust and featured a keynote speech by Ms. ‘Hopey Changey’ herself. Perry wasn’t alone in earning the adulation of the special needs crowd. One suspects these folks arrived on the ‘Padriets for Palin’ bus.
http://priorbadacts.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/palins-constituency/
As for the crib notes on the hand: it isn’t bad enough that she thought she had to write down her core principles lest she forget them, but the fact that she actually DID forget them and needed to read her hand! Unbelieveable.
Great comments today.
We also homeschooled, but our kids weren’t hs so they were sheltered, unexposed and undereduated (to protect them from hellbound liberals, elitists and thinkers). There are A LOT of hs who do it to hide from evolution and secular schools -nothing more (and does it even matter, as we’re in end times).
Piper… in about 20 years we’ll read the book and cry.
Looks like every anchor on tv wrote on their hand this week, gasped at Palins unpreparedness and empty head. In reality, she’s and her crazy ilk are merely entertainment we really want to keep watching. Like a scary movie -you cover your face to miss the horror then peek through two fingers to see. You’ve just gotta keep watching. As scary as it is, it’s also fun as heII.
PS Yesterday: On the way to piano I remembered that I needed black ink. What kind of printer is our HP, I asked the son. It’s a 4200, he replied. So I scribbled it on my hand. But I didn’t have to write
HP
Printer/scanner/copier
number 4200
black ink
office store
drive there in car
bring money
etc.
the HOPEY-CHANGEY thing is working very well for me, thanks for asking.
I got another woman on the Supreme Court, and a liberal. I got the global gag rule lifted and now I am getting full rights for gays in the military. Oh, and Lilly Ledbetter act and the renewed respect for America under President Adult.
there is more but I am doing fine
Pearl#8 regarding “sparkles” – I came across that term while reading a book written by Carmen Pagano. She was interviewing “kept” women and gigolos. One of the women, when questioned by Pagano as to how she attracted her wealthy boyfriend, said successful gold diggers are “extra shiny”. She mentioned her “look at me” aura and that “you have to be extra shiny, a SPARKLING star at all times.”
When Cronopio#12 joked about the “vampire” meaning because of the main vampire character in the “Twilight” series, I think that she was more on target than she realized!
Chris Matthews Rips Palin: ‘Frightening,’ ‘Empty Vessel,’ ‘Nothing Going On Mentally’
This is very good! Sorry if it has been posted already.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/chris-matthews-rips-palin_n_456465.html
It’s easy to spell a word wrong when you are lettering a sign, or painting a window, or creating a flip chart, etc, because you are primarily using the right side of the brain (spatial) rather than the left. Knowing that, why don’t you have another person check your sign before you wave it about?
Whenever I see a snarky post where someone has asked how that hope and change is working, I reply with a post saying that it is working very well for me- thanks for asking.
I think I’ll find a link to Palin’s mailing address and send her a post card.
Anyone else want to thank her?
pantsonfire: I have reacted in my own personal way to Sarah’s cultish popularity in the very-red community where I live. I have heard for the last time, with horror, acomment from one of her fans complimenting me on my Sarah hair and glasses. It is my misfortune to be about the same age, with similar hair (down, no bumpits!) coloring and the eyeglass frames I’ve worn for five years. I can no longer bear it! I’ve switched to contacts, and I’m getting my hair cut short on Friday.
GreatGranny2c: Thank you for the link! It is the perfect summation of how I feel about this awful woman. I also agree with the comment that McCain gave the country Herpes!
#67, cutting your hair will make you look 5 years younger.
Take THAT! Granny Grifter $Paylin!
One more thing: whenever I get discouraged, mad, frightened or just plain irritated with Sarah’s continuing “pageant walking” through our national political landscape, comments at this site make me feel sane and hopeful again. Well, maybe “pageant walking” is too generous… it’s more like she’s caroming around, teetering on her F***Me heels in her tight little skirts, alternately snarling and sparkling, with a manic edge (hands like claws, clenched jaw, beady eyes). Wait, must stop, scaring myself again.
Did you know that you can email links to Shannyn Moore’s radio show archive? I really enjoyed listening to Geoffrey Dunn.
http://shannynmooreshow.mypodcast.com/
Gotta weigh in on the homeschooling thing:
Absolutely some parents do it well. If you are smart, organized, have access to great materials, and connect with a network of other homeschoolers and/or partner with private schools to get kids access to field trips, playing on sports teams, being involved with a school music program (band or chorus), etc., then a homeschooled student can be very educationally prepared.
However, that’s not always the case for the parents. As someone somewhere else said, a parent may be quite bright, but that doesn’t mean they have the ability to teach what they know. I play the piano well above a rudimentary level, yet I don’t dream of teaching it, even at the very beginning level. I don’t know the pedagogy. If I wanted to I could learn, but it would be a lot of work. This is a case of ‘leave it to the professionals’.
Also, I think a large part of whether the homeschooled students transition into public schools or college or straight into the workforce well (or not) has to do with the parents’ motivations for homeschooling their kids.
If the parents’ honestly believe they can give their child a better, more in-depth and advanced education, or a specialized one-on-one education that will benefit their children more than what they’d get in public (or even private) school, then the homeschool system can work. It is these types of parents who actively ensure their child has a broad curriculum, that they hold their child to standards, seek out opportunities for the child to interact with others their age, get them out of the house for some ‘non-book learnin’, etc.
But if the parents’ desire to homeschool is based on the fear that the public (or even private) school will expose their child to beliefs which differ from their own and they feel that would be damaging for their child, to me that’s a big warning flag.
Far as I’m concerned, a parent has the duty to let a child be exposed to new and different ideas, age-appropriately of course. If you want your child to become independent, they have to be able to form opinions independent of yours. They have to develop those critical thinking skills. They have to learn how to sort fact from opinion. They need to, at some point, wrestle with the difficult questions – how do I feel about abortion? How do I feel about how Gays and Lesbians are treated in this country? Do I feel it is right to call anyone a retard? If mom and dad really think Intelligent Design is a legitimate scientific theory of the origins of life on Earth, then isn’t it possible the Designer was just as likely an outer space alien as a God?
I think a parent that doesn’t want their child to learn as much as they possibly can is incredibly selfish. Or maybe just insecure. Maybe that’s what going on with Sarah. After all, in the family, she’s got the most formal (dare I say elite?) education. Todd I believe did graduate high school, but Track and Bristol … not exactly. Who knows about Willow and of course how Piper is expected to keep up whilst traipsing around with mumsy is beyond me. Maybe Sarah (and Todd must be in cahoots) wants to keep her children ‘dumbed down’ so they will stay stupid and buy her spew forever, never becoming independent, functioning adults.
I’m just theorizing there. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Those signs are hilarious – and deliciously ironic. Tom Tancredo should take better notes before he mocks people who can not speack English. As a person who had to learn English at the age of 9, I take umbrage at his comments. Immigrants work very hard to fit into their new society plus they work hard in general. Tom Tancredo might want to ask himself how his immigrant ancestors might have felt if they heard his offensive speech last weekend.
Jon Stewart had a great segment on the Tea Party and Sarah’s speech:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/stewart-takes-on-palins-h_n_454824.html
Yes, I agree with the one protester on Stewart’s segment – I don’t want a “Pubic Option” either. Ew. But I do like muslin.
Colbert’s take was even better:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/colbert-sarah-palin-is-a_n_454744.html
Palin just can’t rein in the mean girl streak she has. Which is fine. Let’s see how well the constant snarky personal taunts to Obama, the demeaning mockery of his supporters, slogans slogans slogans sans policy detail and the Fox News softball interviews play out 6 months from now.
The DNC ads write themselves: “Do you want someone with the maturity of a snotty teenage girl to run this country? Or do you want adults?”
Rereading my penultimate sentence, I think I’m a little overharsh in my verbiage: “Maybe Sarah (and Todd must be in cahoots) wants to keep her children ‘dumbed down’ so they will stay stupid and buy her spew forever, never becoming independent, functioning adults.”
‘stupid’ was too harsh. I do not think any of them are stupid. I also do not mean to imply that I only value a high-level formal education. Nothing wrong with acquiring skills through apprenticeship programs, on-the-job training, and/or vocational/trade schools.
However, I do stand by my implication that part of the reason Sarah does not seem particularly concerned about her children’s academic record and future is that she 1) really does find it distasteful and elitist, a projection of her own insecurities; and 2) she is not going to actively encourage her children to become the kind of thinkers who will one day put two and two together and discover she is indeed the Empress with No Clothes (egad, that for me is a bit of a frightening thought.)
I’ll leave you with a last bit of snark I thought of as I was writing earlier.
It’s been reported Bristol is enrolled in college and taking some night courses. I think she’s enrolled in Palin College and working on her A.A.G. degree – Associates of Arts in Grifting.
terpsichore Says:
February 10th, 2010 at 8:35 AM
wants to keep her children ‘dumbed down’ so they will stay stupid and buy her spew forever, never becoming independent, functioning adults.
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I think it is something sadder than that. Sarah uses her children as a shield for herself. I’m sure their needs and wants are simply outside her concern unless they rebel. I suspect that Willow totally rebelled after last summer. It’s hard to pimp a kid when they sulk and won’t play.
If her children are there she is safe from overt criticism. That’s why she went bonkers on Letterman. He did not play by her rules. I’m sure the kids were front and center on the campaign trail so no one could really deal with her. That’s why the studio from Fox. Most professional adults do not expect to have to accommodate children in the work place. Apparently Piper is a nasty kid. So who needs it? Besides Sarah doesn’t really work; doesn’t understand the meaning of the concept, and professionalism is way beyond her scope. She is self isolating to protect herself. That’s why she can’t really do retail politics. Can you imagine her in NH or IA? She can’t skip the primaries. At some point she will have to play by other rules or not play at all.
Sarah Palin’s debut as a motivational speaker: Houston attendees rate her a ‘Fail’
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/exclusive-sarah-palins-debut-motivat
Ok – this is just freaky .
Glenn Beck and the scourge that is Granny Buttercup were delivered on to this planet within 24 hours of each other ???? Today is Beck’s and tomorrow is hers.
Does anyone have astrology software ? That is just blowing my mind.
re: home schooling. Did anyone else the Q&A segment of the tea bagger’s ball. They had a panel onstage answering questions. One of the panelists had a little rant about taking back the schools from the “indoctrination” of the left. It is useful for their movement to promote fear of government at all levels even to the point that they believe their children will be brainwashed at school.
They also talked about how to get young people involved in the movement. This is their biggest weakness as a party or movement. What young person wants to join this hate fest?
Great quote from Linda Killian’s article that someone posted above:
“This is what above all else distinguishes a Sarah Palin speech–the snide put-down and the snarky remark delivered with a broad, sneering smile and spitfire demeanor. She doesn’t seem to think a speech is complete if she hasn’t winked and name-called her way through it. It’s not a coincidence that her nickname as co-captain of her high school women’s basketball team was “Sarah Barracuda.” She probably wasn’t afraid to throw a few elbows then and she certainly isn’t now.”
That’s just the thing. Out of a large group of people (let alone a country of 300 million ppl) there will always be the % of people who love to put people down and make demeaning personal remarks. These are the types of people who applaud Palin and say she is one of them. The majority will watch, bemused & curious, from a distance. Eventually though, the snark and the snide and the put downs get old. Mature informed voters want solutions. Palin has none – she only has hyperbole, slogans, talking points, notes on palms, cheesy stories that don’t ring true and when all else fails, she trots out the mean girl taunts and sneers. She’s going to wear every thin and grate on people’s nerves before long.
Plus – she seems to LOVE to declare war on other countries. Remember during Charlie Gibbs interview, she said that the US should back Georgia and go to war with Russia if the time comes? Now she’s saying that Obama could win if he declared war on Iran. Who in their right mind talks about declaring war with the same casualness as if she were talking about American Idol?
Another DNC ad writing itself: “We’ve spent billions on Iraq and Afghanistan. The deficit is in the trillions because of these 2 wars. Do we really a another President itching to declare war on another country?”
There wasn’t much ‘intelligent design’ put into that sign!
Twain12 That is a good read. Gryphen has just made the point that she has painted herself into a corner now and can’t be seen to use a teleprompter. So I reckon all her speeches will be like that….with her head down reading the script. We all know she is too lazy to practice it. I can’t forsee her speaking gigs lasting much longer if she keeps that up.
Hehe. @)
How evil does one have to be to mock Hope and Change…..under ANY circumstances?
A lot of American’s are suffering, but Sarah Palin has become rich beyond her wildest dreams in the last 18 months. How crass for the uber wealthy (like the Palin’s) to mock hope and change. Economist are saying that a much larger economic crisis was averted by President Obama’s actions. Things are getting better and they WILL get better.
She wrote on her hand that she would inspire the American people. HA! How? Inspire them by taking their money, getting richer……. but mocking hope and change?
That is about as low as a person can go. She is evil incarnate.
@ 54 laprofesora
what’s really sad is that these kids have no education, health care or jobs available in the USA! Just being cannon fodder for the Military Industrial Complex, and it’s cheerleaders: SP, Rush, Beck and the rest of ‘the usual suspects’ who whip up wars that make the USA LESS safe!
#80 Irishgirl
LOL! Hubris. Very satisfying.
Homeschooling, charter schools, private schools, or public schools are all fine, so long as the student is actually getting a decent education.
I have known many well-educated people, including my parents, who never set foot inside an institution of higher learning. However, all of them had a great deal of intellectual curiosity, and most were avid readers.
There was a time in this country when ignorance was an embarrassment, education was highly prized, and American innovation and industry thrived. We are becoming a nation that celebrates ignorance, belittles education, lacks the skills to compete globally, whines and looks for someone else to blame as we watch the good jobs go overseas and the trade deficit get larger. It is time to start investing in and expecting better things of ourselves again.
In my humble opinion, anyone who worries for one second about $P becoming president is wasting their time. Distracting the public and media from real issues is a concern though.
I think this because:
She quit as governor because it was actual work and you have to deal with people you don’t like.
Cruising around the country making speeches to friendly audiences is easy and profitable (her two favorite things), a two year presidential campaign is neither.
The more she talks the lower her approval is.
At her current rate of stupidity she will be relegated to very minor celebrity status by the end of this year. Even fuxednews won’t keep her around at this rate.
The repubs don’t bash her because they know she has no chance at the nomination, if they actually thought she was a threat to their establishment they would cut her to shreds in no time.
Does one think that the other repub contenders would just let her slide. She could not handle even the friendliest debate much less being asked to respond to complex issues and not allowed to just slogan her way through.
There is no way she could put together the management or fund raising team needed to even get started.
She will use the guise of running as long as she can to fleece the followers and garner attention. That’s it.
I am sure there is more, what do you think?
I’m also amazed at how stupid she is to give, essentially, a political stump speech at that motivational seminar.
Telling the story of Cain and Abel? WTH? How cutsie-wootsie of her.
It’s a business crowd, for Gawd’s sake, not a church. She’s a one trick pony. My apologies to ponies everywhere.
irishgirl @ 80…
i’ve been thinking about the teleprompter, also and too.
what might happen:
when the need arises that herself has to use a teleprompter, she will turn it on the dems with some sort of snary comment.
we could have a contest to see who comes closest to the excuse given.
Rachel Maddow continues to provide consistent, reasoned and fact based journalism and this is why I appreciate her work immensely:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/29054
Republicans have shown themselves to be the ultimate hypocrites and in my humble opinion, traitors to the USA, for not voting for and supporting policy that they not only agree with but KNOW is good for the country SIMPLY because they want to be in power and they want to win. I agree with Maddow:
“Grow up Democrats; face the music. Do it alone. You’re the majority. Kill the filibuster if they won’t let you use that majority. The country needs you to.”
@85 My husband, the Republican, agrees with you. He asks me, why are you wasting your time even thinking about that stupid woman? She will never be President. She is a joke.
Then again, he is an “elite” (in Sarah’s terms). A Republican who is highly educated and intelligent. Unlike her fan base who value stupidity.
A reader write to Sullivan at the Dish – interesting read:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/tomorrow-belongs-to-her-ctd.html#more
Good points @78 aussiegal77. When I heard that part of the Charlie Gibson interview, I knew we were in big trouble if she ever got elected. She lacks the knowledge and diplomacy necessary to avoid a war, and seems to have no idea that our military capabilities, while tremendous, are finite. Wasn’t it Napoleon who discovered fighting on too many fronts at once is disastrous? In any case, her essentially advocating for a war with Iran while we are in the midst of two other wars is irresponsible and dangerous. That woman should never be allowed anywhere near the White House.
I am so glad to read these comments from rational, thinking, educated people! This website is great!
Y’know, Trisha, that’s exactly it:
“How evil does one have to be to mock Hope and Change…..under ANY circumstances?”
ValleyIndependent – she’s a nut job and would probably have to google Napoleon. How anyone can condone letting someone so uninformed near the WH is impossible to comprehend.
Over at Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territory, young photographer Karl Johnston has spent the winter photographing the aurora. Some shots are posted here, others on his flickr link. Also some nice shots of pelicans.
http://www.karljohnston.com/blog/2009/12/24/the-legend-of-the-rainbow-aurora.html
I wish there was more discussion of the “war with Iran” comment along with what she told Barbara Walters about how the Jews would be returning in high numbers to Israel. Let us not forget that the “churches” she attended believe in the Rapture. I’d like to see more sunshine on this stuff.
Clydedog, what worries me is that Palin may just be the empty vessel the R power brokers have been waiting for. W was useful to them, but I think, especially toward the end, he realized he had been used and stopped going along with the program, hence the falling out of sorts with Cheney. I don’t think Sarah’s ego would let her see that truth, which makes her all the more useful to them and bad for the country, plus, her “rogue” streak is likely to get us into trouble that even the best advisers couldn’t anticipate and prepare for. She doesn’t seem to plan ahead or think things through before she speaks, she just reacts. Thinking people of all political persuasions should be worried.
Or maybe she got custody of Piper in the seperation agreement?
I posted this a while back, but it’s appropriate here. I’ve taught school for years and seen some excellent results from home schooling. I’ve also seen disasters. In my family there’s two families that have home schooled. One, a far left family, has raised their children. They’re incompetent, mostly illiterate, socially inept (they still hide behind their mother when people show up) and most still live at home. They don’t have outside jobs, but eek out too little money to be called a living working at home.
The other family is far right. Their kids are in elementary school, but can’t read, write, or do math. Their social skills consist of throwing things at other kids and head butting adults they don’t think will discipline them because we all want to play nice at family functions. This year, their home schooling program consists of traveling through the sunbelt state taking in all the amusement parks and zoos (just to look at the animals. They don’t read about them or anything.) They’re planning on swinging through the northern states this summer.
One thing No Child Left Behind needs to include is mandatory rigorous testing of all home schooled kids twice a year by a proctor, as well as government approved curricula. (And I think govt. standards stink.)
Mo Says:
Y’know, Trisha, that’s exactly it:
“How evil does one have to be to mock Hope and Change…..under ANY circumstances?”
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I think that one sentence will be her undoing. It was just plain sick. However, it is all over the media now and I think it will turn a lot of people off that may not have been paying too much attention to her.
Trisha #84 – Exactly! $P’s quote may go down in history as the most hypocritical thing any politician could say. Hours before, as she touched down in her private jet, whisked away in a SUV limo, fawned over by adoring crowds, getting paid $100,000 for a 45-minute speech. Then she spits out her venom towards a president and administration who at least is trying to do their best in fixing a broken economy.
SP doesn’t seem to want change for anybody else. She likes things as they are. It’s a grifter’s market out there. And hope? Every evangelical church quotes the passage, “where there is no vision, the people perish”.
Kate in Canada, Very cool pictures! What time of year is best for viewing the Aurora Borealis?
A great article on why bombing Iran would be the most moronic thing for a US President to even contemplate, let alone hang their political hopes on:
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=599
did you see these cards by the GOP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/gop-mocks-democrats-with_n_455295.html#postcomment
I need some Democrat Valentine cards to send stat!
Chris Matthews Rips Palin for suggesting Obama could declare war on Iran to improve his political standing. Rips? Really?? Tweety showed some promise there for a second or two, but why didn’t he go on to discuss the fact that just a year and a half ago the country was living with that very fear about Bush and
VoldemortCheney – fearing that they would launch a politically motivated attack on Iran as a move to help John McCain in his bid to becomepresidentCommander In Chief? Does Matthews not remember talk of an October Surprise and what the general agreement was about what it would likely be? As for his criticism that the president couldn’t do that unilaterally, does he not remember that Congress has already passed a resolution allowing the president to initiate military action against Iran? And if he wanted to illustrate Palin’s empty-headed warmongering Crazy, why leave out of the discussion the willingness she expressed to go to war with Russia after they spanked the neocons’monkeypuppet in Georgia, Saakashvili, after Saakashvili attacked S Ossetian civilians and Russian soldiers in the dark of night? Palin needed no investigation nor consideration of facts – she was perfectly willing to rely on the advice of her current foreign affairs advisor, neocon Randy Scheunemann, who was at that time a paid foreign agent representing Saakashvili AND was foreign affairs advisor to the McCain campaign. While Matthews certainly has room to criticize Palin’s vacuous intellect, the specific gravity of his own gray matter more often disappoints than impresses.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/chris-matthews-rips-palin_n_456465.html
Aussiegal77, here’s my non-professional analysis: While they scare me, I feel sorry for some of her rank and file followers. They are scared people with no faith in themselves, our founding fathers, or God (though they profess it). They are desperate for a messiah to save them, and she’s pretty, and says what they want to hear, in the way they want to hear it, so they think she’s it. They protect themselves from the facts that make it clear she isn’t as a coping mechanism, in the same way that the mind often blocks memories of victims of abuse who are not yet ready to face their trauma. We need to find some way to give them hope, empower them, and engage them in finding solutions to the issues of the day, so those blinders can come off before they unwittingly sink us all.
A neighbor lent me her copy of “Going Rogue”. Thought I’d skim it to get it over with. Actually, needed a plow just to get through chapter one. So many werds, so little substance.
From one of Sarahs ilk (of course):
Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake of Buena Park sent out an email Monday night, saying that perhaps his prayers had been answered with the death of Rep. John Murtha yesterday.
“Maybe God took him out,” Drake wrote. “Maybe God Answered our IMPRECATORY prayer that we prayed every 30 days.”
The Pennsylvania congressman, a decorated former Marine who fiercely opposed the Iraq war, died at the age of 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery.
I asked Drake if his statements weren’t distasteful, particularly coming immediately after Murtha’s death. He said that as a Christian, he didn’t buy into the sentiment of not speaking ill of the dead.
“It’s not distasteful to pray the word of God and include somebody’s name,” he said. “I didn’t celebrate his death. I said maybe it was God’s answer to our imprecatory prayer.”
Drake regularly asks his “prayer warriors” to participate in prayer targeting “unrighteous” politicians. He typically uses Psalms 109, including these passages including in his Monday email: “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” And, “Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
More——–>
http://crooksandliars.com/
Trisha #84, a perfect example of her idiocy. if you LISTEN and understand when people are speaking, that statement would not sound like the words of a leader. The problem is that people who think she can do no wrong, see this as another salvo, a direct hit to the enemy. They are cheering her wonderful ability to hit ‘em where it counts. They have very immature thinking and this is all a game to be won.
Here is a great cartoon that shows the hypocrisy:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/20100208_ink_tank/
Home schooling is regarded essentially as truancy here in Germany. Hence illegal. The lead court cases for keeping kids out of the public or, alternatively, certified independent schools are from Muslims who seek to even more isolate their daughters, and to indoctrinate their sons with the hate teachings of the Imams. QED.
Then there’s Michelle Obama who manages much substance in just a few words.
“First lady Michelle Obama went on CNN’s Larry King Live last night to discuss her campaign against childhood obesity, as well as other subjects — including another famous woman in U.S. politics, Sarah Palin.
“I think it’s wonderful to have strong female voices out there, but I don’t know her,” Mrs. Obama said.
What about Palin’s criticism of her husband, King asked.
“Democracy is about critique and the president is not immune to criticism,” Mrs. Obama said. “I think he’s doing a phenomenal job.”
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/02/michelle-obama-on-sarah-palin-dont-know-her/1
Paula,
Drake (and likely Palin) are examples of a ‘western taliban’ mindset.
Michelle Obama = Class. I’m sure I would not have been as classy with my answer.
Sarah’s Iran war comment disturbs me on a different level. I didn’t read it that she was suggesting Obama declare war on Iran.
The disturbing thing is that she ties together 4 things:
Declare war on Iran
Be stronger on defense
Be more supportive of Israel
Some weird pledge gesture (like an oath to support Israel)
Apparently this is all one big package to her. Is this her foreign policy initiative in a, uh… nutshell?
One thing for sure – Palin as president will bring the end times in a hurry!
It seems that a number of the ‘holy hillbilly’ Baptist kidnappers in Haiti ‘done sprung’ from a home schooling background.
“Children were to be considered the children of the movement—they began to be placed in the care of other adults than the parents, and herded into nurseries. There were reports of children being forcibly removed from their parents to be placed in the care of others, sometimes across international borders.”
Palin can cause an awful lot of damage to this country without ever actually becoming president. That’s what I think, Clydedog.
She nurtures resentments and hate. But more importantly, having been once anointed by the GOP as a legitimate voice, she has the power to frame the way we speak about issues, what the issues are and how they are covered by the media. She “goes there” and the media follows, into territory that would have been unthinkable a few short years ago.
Just look at how effective she has been already –
Limbaugh is another of that ilk, and Glen Beck, and there are many more. What strikes me about Palin is that she is almost literally drunk with the power she has. At the same time she’s completely out of her league when it comes to making policy, or thinking about governing, or any of that boring stuff. That’s why she pays others to write her facebook posts and can’t remember her top three priorities without writing notes on her hand.
I just learned yesterday that the Saudi’s are the second larges shareholders of News Corp, Faux parent, after the Murdoch family.
“Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Holdings owns a 7 per cent stake, or 56m shares, of News Corp and is the largest shareholder outside the Murdoch family. The prince is not on News Corp’s board of directors.” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7b0b1924-06f5-11df-b058-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Maybe we should started referring to faux as the “Saudi Propaganda Broadcast Service”, SPBS.
It’s all about oil and Scarah is their girl.
ValleyIndependent – see Paula’s post at #111, I think that just about sums up what Palin supporters think/believe in. It’s not the God of the bible I can tell you that much.
How any professing Christian can be HAPPY at someone’s death is beyond me. In my mind – to pray for someone’s death is evil.
As a Christian, I cherish the verse from the bible that says that God is not willing that anyone should perish but that all should find salvation. I guess Pastor Drake is too busy wishing death on his enemies to remember that teaching.
If you are not a Christian, I respect that. If you ask me what I believe, I will tell you and share with you why I think it’s important and true and we can talk about it, debate it, disagree, agree and still be friends. But I will never in my life PRAY for someone to die. Not even Sarah Palin. Death is the great equaliser and soon, all of us will have to face it. To pray for it to come on someone sooner is so demonic and evil, it sickens me. But to be gleeful enough to send out an email on the occasion of someone’s death that said “maybe God took him out”, just because that person disagreed with your views, is craven and depraved to a level that is beyond reason.
As a Christian, I believe that there will come a day when Sarah Palin and Pastor Drake will come before God and realise that they were gravely mistaken. Pun intended.
From 538 (just food for though):
Based on Census Bureau data, five senators would represent Americans earning between $100,000 and $1 million individually per year, with [2/10 of a senator] working on behalf of the millionaires. Eight senators would represent Americans with no income. Sixteen would represent Americans who make less than $10,000 a year, an amount well below the federal poverty line for families. The bulk of the senators would work on behalf of the middle class, with 34 representing Americans making $30,000 to $80,000 per year. . . . Or how about if senators represented particular demographic groups, based on gender and race? White women would elect the biggest group of senators — 37 of them, though only 38 women have ever served in the Senate.
Just read the Crooks and Liars post on Pastor “I hate you and hope you die” Drake.
So Murtha was “prayed” to death cuz he cursed and used God’s name in vain. I wonder how many other people are on that list? Everyone in the whole wide world, I expect. Murtha was a decorated Marine who fought for his country. He opposed the Iraq war – which is the REAL reason why I suspect Pastor “I hate you and hope you die” Drake hated him so much.
Plus Pastor “I hate you and hope you die” Drake is a birther. What a major surprise, well I never.
So President Obama should die because he isn’t born in the US. Even though the state of Hawaii has formally released a certified birth certificate proving he is in fact a US citizen. Drake also says that Obama needs to turn his life to God. What part of “I am a Christian” does Drake not get? Oh that’s right. He’s a black man with a Muslim sounding name. Therefore, he MUST be a Muslim radical terrorist bent on destroying America so let’s all pray for him to die.
Reality impaired, Truth challenged AND crazy. Quite the despicable combination.
Kate in Canada, thanks for the link to the beautiful northern photos. It’s hard not to want to buy them all. The Northern Lights was what originally got me interested in AK, over 25 years ago. (Haven’t been to AK, but have been at least 4 times to Canada since then.)
On another note, keep in mind that the mobs try to kill the elites off so that the evil overlords can control the ignorant masses. She’s dangerous to this country, politician or not. We’re all so consumed with whether Brad and Angelina are together, that we forget what really matters in this country.
Sorry to be OT but I thought someone here might know; yesterday on one of my forays through all my favorite sites, I saw a story by someone (there, how’s that for vague??) calling Sarah Palin just about every name in the book when he wrote about what a dangerous person she is. Every word was preceded by a perfectly priceless, accurate adjective and one of the comments said that Sarah was undoubtedly having to reach for the dictionary. Does anyone remember where this article was? Thanks!
I agree with all of you on this home school thing. I see children who have been home schooled, and find them to be “brain-washed”.
They are like —- “puppets on a string”.
They cannot fit into social groups, and those that try , are odd balls.
The sad thing is that these home schooled children are missing out on a quality education. Math and Science are needed in today’s world. Most parents that are teaching their own children are short on these skills.
As for praying for someone to die—like the Pastor Drake has done, I could never do that. I believe when people die, it is God who they will face.
As a Christian, I too am APPALLED that anyone could read the Gospels, and think that sort of thing is OK by Jesus. Jesus said calling someone “you fool!” was equivalent to murder. Just saying.
Duct Idaho Palin: yes I do.
First we have Paul Slansky, a New Yorker contributor and writer, with “The Horror! The Horror!” It’s a short article and was written to draw reader discussion in the comments:
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
I forgot to say on my last post that I thought Michelle Obama was great on the Larry King show last night. She is one classy lady. She handled the question Larry posed to Palin trashing her husband with style.
Also meant to say that I thought a lot of Senator Murtha. I thank him for his service in the Marines and the Senate. I agreed with him on the Iraq War.
You know Sarah was pretty off the radar until her book tour,that kept her busy.Now that she is out there making her appearances,she is doing exactly what I thought she would.She is her own worst enemy,self destructing before our eyes.The more she is out in public,especially off script,the more people will despise her.She was an unknown quantity,all star power and sparkle.Her time in the spot light was limited,there were excuse for her fumbles.
Now its just Sarah,ragged and empty,mean and stupid,and proud of it.People are seeing her for her true self.
2012 ? I dont think she will make it past 2010
A family member of mine went round and round with her local school board – they would not ban the books she deemed “unfit” for her (or any!) 9th-grade child to have on the mandatory reading list [as part of the district's English program.] The books contained such words as hell, balls (in relation to a male’s anatomical appendage), and damn. A few of the books she wanted banned even had characters who took the Lord’s name in an ‘unacceptable’ manner. (i.e. “G_d, I hated the route change,” and “Jesus, the test was hard.”)
The school board would not ban the books OR change the mandatory reading list. As a result, she yanked all 3 of her children out of public school at the start of the school year and “home schooled” them. (Her children were entering 9th, 3rd, and 1st grade, respectively.) She ‘joined’ other like-minded “home school families” so her children would have ‘socializing’ (but *only* from a like-minded standpoint), took her children on ‘field trips’ (a visit -by her… with them in tow- to her friend’s herb farm counted as a ‘field trip’ *even though* no preparation was made ahead of time OR follow-up made afterwards –to discuss with the children the science/properties of herbs, their medicinal and/or cooking use and distribution world-wide, etc.), and she spends a *maximum* of two hours per day, four days a week, dedicated to educational instruction – this last point is one on which she ‘brags’; in other words, she feels schools waste their time on ‘frivolous’ things; she can do it all in *less than* 8-hours a week. The rest of the time, her ‘home schooled’ children are ‘free’ to pursue -or not- areas of personal interest. Given that ‘freedom’, her children’s area(s) of “personal interest” run towards playing video games; sadly, they pursue that interest with great dedication and full concentration.
When her youngest was in month 7 of ‘home school’ 2nd grade, learning how to print letters (not write in cursive, mind you…*print!*) was her focus; her middle child, at 7th month ‘home school’ 4th grade, was struggling -mightily- to read Golden Books like “The Pokey Little Puppy”…let alone any story told in more than one or two paragraphs. In the 4-years since they were taken out of public schools, the youngest two children have NOT progressed ‘[up] to grade level.’ The eldest child dropped out of ‘home schooling’ 11th grade at month 5 to enter an apprenticeship/trade program. That child has since joined the military and is in a military field totally unrelated to the trade program in which an ‘escape’ was made from ‘home schooling’.
Ironically, the language the children hear in their own home on a daily basis (did I mention she has a very short fuse?) would make a sailor blush (no disrespect to sailors), but she would NOT allow her children to read the classics in which some curse words were included and/or in which the 7th Commandment was broken. It’s truly one of those “WTF?” scenarios! Equally ironic, she is an elementary school teacher by (elite university!) education.
I’ve also known children who were the products of *real* home schooling. For the most part, I’ve been impressed with their ability to focus on education and to be resourceful in finding information they need to succeed. Most, though, in my experience, do have some trouble with/in social settings where they are exposed to the diversity of others [from which they were insulated/isolated by not attending a public or private school.]
As many in this thread have mentioned, it isn’t “home schooling” per se that has the inherent flaw, it’s the reason/motivation of the *parent(s)* for home schooling their child(ren), that determines the ultimate outcome of that education. In my family member’s case, the motivation/reason for home schooling was to “protect” her children from being exposed *by the schools* to what she deemed to be ‘unsavory’/'unacceptable’ thoughts, materials, and ideas.
Kudos to her local school board for not caving to her talibangelical viewpoint and [thereby] depriving all students the opportunity of receiving a well-rounded education through exposure to (and discussion of) a variety of information and opinions. Not so many kudos to her for depriving her children of that opportunity, though. Actually, no kudos to her at all. beth.
Palin’s bonus screw up – regarding that black memorial bracelet she was wearing at the speech –
http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/02/palins-bonus-screw-up.html
>>> The name on her black memorial bracelet — one, like the gold star, a demonstration of a friend or associate who was killed in action — is that of her oldest son, Track. Track served honorably in Iraq, and both he and his parents should be thanked for his selfless service to his country. He is also alive. <<<
via Political Carnival / GottaLaff
@mommom
I had said this earlier today on Palingates. Now that she is out there in the public eye, the media are beginning to remark on the empty, ignorant, nasty person that she really is. They are seeing the Sarah Palin we have been trying so hard to tell them about since she appeared on the radar. They are learning why the McCain campaign worked so hard to keep her away from the media unless she was highly scripted or had McCain by her side to “translate” when she went off message.
The Bible says, “Pride goeth before a Fall” and boy oh boy is she going to come down hard. The veneer is cracking and all she is going to be left with is the crackpot demographic and they are welcome to go and cackle amongst themselves for all I care. The more she’s out “there” and the more people hear her and the more they go WTF? when they do hear her it’s all to the good.
She’s not getting very good reviews anywhere and even, Rush Limbaugh has b*tch slapped her good and hard over the satire comment. If Rush is saying anything satirical, you’d best believe he’ll let you know it.
I think too, Palin et al are going to find themselves in some difficulties with the IRS before too long and there are still the questionable redacted emails of Mr. Todd Palin, executively-privileged-advisor-of-no-consequence-to-the-governor-and-the-entire-Alaska-administration which need to be addressed.
Re: Sarah’s bracelet…
There is a website herobracelets.org, where you can buy these. There are several types, according to the site:
Memorial HeroBracelets
Deployed HeroBracelets for families to wear while a loved one is serving
Deployed HeroTags for those who prefer a necklace
Vietnam HeroBracelets with the full list of those lost in Vietnam
Memorial HeroTags, a dogtag for those who prefer a necklace
Purple Heart HeroBracelets to honor and support those wounded in conflict
Sarah is pictured on the site with this caption:
Sarah Palin wearing her Deployed HeroBracelet
Frankly, I think it’s hard to argue with her wearing this even after her son returns from deployment.
#132 @BuffaloGal
I love the names they give over there at The Political Carnival. Barbie McLipSchmutz is a particular favorite. Schmutz is the Yiddish word for dirt or filth.
BuffaloGal – another great post, we are on fire today.
I wonder how she will manage to spin this one? Is this also too “satire”??
lilybart– thanks so much! that was exactly it.
LiladyNY, the biblical quote is even better, “pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” I would much rather see Palin destroyed than merely fallen. Oh, does that count as an imprecatory prayer on my part?
If this isn’t a hoax, I want to know who impregnates a 10-11 YO girl:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584936,00.html
momom, yep she’s proving those mccain handlers were necessary. Other than her teabagger pals I think most were pretty repulsed by her disrespectful speech on saturday night at the klan rally. In the last two days colbert has called her a effin retard, jon stewart called her the “c” word, joan walsh called her mean and dumb, chris matthews called her an empty vessel with no mentality, meghan mccain called her a racist and the list goes on and on. If she continues standing I’ll have to say maybe she’s less thin skinned than we thought.
How about this name they used at The Political Carnival…..Bonkette McIgnorant. Hilarious.
McIgnorant…………I like that. It fits!
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/02/10/palins_bigger_blunder.html
“Palin’s Bigger Blunder
While everyone was focused on notes Sarah Palin apparently wrote on her hand over the weekend, Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Eric Robertson says he noticed the black bracelet on her wrist.
“The name on her black memorial bracelet — one, like the gold star, a demonstration of a friend or associate who was killed in action — is that of her oldest son, Track. Track served honorably in Iraq, and both he and his parents should be thanked for his selfless service to his country. He is also alive.
“Commemorating Track’s service by wearing a black memorial bracelet which is reserved for those dead or even a red bracelet for those missing in action, demonstrates a horrifying contempt for those who gave their last full measure of devotion or an almost unbelievable ignorance of the importance of symbols in American history…”
“Sarah Palin, please take off the bracelet. Be thankful you have no reason to wear it.”‘
#137 @ Duct Idaho Palin
I would much rather see Palin destroyed than merely fallen. Oh, does that count as an imprecatory prayer on my part?
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I second your motion. And I’ll stand right by your side and pray that prayer with you and I’m a non-violent Buddhist. But the sheer nastiness and hypocrisy of this woman brings out the primal in me.
Thank you for the guilty pleasure! That really tickled my inner elitist.
LiladyNY: Me too! I try to be compassionate and I know she her gut is constantly in knots, keeping track of so many lies and tripping over the bodies, and she is insecure and may be medicated or self-medicating and yet, and yet, I have officially given up and now I just have no empathy left.
The Logger speech was the end for me.
Marnie: Again, what if Mrs. Obama was wearing the WRONG military bracelet?
What if she wrote notes on her palm last night for Larry King?
What if her kids were knocked up and charged with vandalism?
What if….
@ Duct Idaho Palin #125
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/the-horror-the-horror_b_455738.html
After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities — the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I’m forgetting for the moment — that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
Verrrry interesting work someone here has done. Take a look. It takes a minute to load.
http://www.koolass.com/palin.html
Rob in CA @134 in re: to my post @132 about the black bracelets –
I googled that too and found what you did , that there are a few different bracelets that are dark / black and not necessarily worn only for those that have died in service.
My guess is that Palin was wearing the bracelet for show and had no clue, one way or the other, the full symbolism – and it was nothing different than the flag draping for the Runner’s World photo shoot. No different than the Israeli flag pin she wears on camera.
megacephalus – I’m glad that Germany has taken a stance against ANYONE attempting to give their children alternative schooling, Muslim or not. I truly wish there was more controls here in the US.
Beth’s story is a horrifying one, but all too true. I’ve known of several families here in rural KY – three brothers who are small-time tobacco farmers all living on the same family farm, with no high school diploma amongst any of them. Repeated problems with truancy, so their solution was to pull the children and homeschool them. One can drive by their farm any hour of the day and the young ones are outside playing around and the older ones will be in the fields or barns. They will probably never be able to obtain a GED or get even a minimal job off the farm as even factories require some minimal competency exams (TABE).
On the other hand, there are some families who homeschool for all of the right reasons and are competent at it, and the children are well-rounded and adaptible. We have a large Mennonite community in this area and they have their own school and those children seem to do very well. The adults I’ve talked with (who own businesses near us) have told me of the requirements they have both for teachers and students, and those requirements are stricter than the state requires.
Sadly, there are way too many (and the numbers are growing) of those homeschooling for religious reasons. Just look at the Mormons. Those children are so isolated and totally unprepared to exist off their compounds. States MUST get involved with overseeing homeschoolers and requiring equivalency testing. Federal funds are even available and it doesn’t take much to qualify for the annual check, and those laws need to either be changed or stricter as well.
On another topic – I read that Sarah took in an estimated cool HALF MILLION in just over a week with her various speaking engagements. How many hungry people in Alaska would that feed for the same period of time? How many cold people in Alaska would be warmed for the same period of time?
OOPS!…………there was more controls = there WERE more controls!
R’ipley, you beat me to it. It’s hilarious.
Trolls are out on some of the boards – they are saying Sarah’s bracelet was not black. According to some it was silver, and another is saying it was copper that looked black on camera. Not a single one said maybe she didn’t realize the meaning. To them, she is never wrong and can do no wrong.
I don’t know how I ended up on a Ron Paul website but read this little tidbit about Sarah Palin (the comments are interesting as well!):
http://dailypaul.com/node/124425
Go to the herobracelets website and you can see it is not black – they have a picture of her wearing it and they specifically state that it is not a memorial bracelet.
I cannot imagine there being an upside to complaining about Sarah wearing her son’s name on a bracelet that honors his service.
The website that sells the bracelets has two photos of $P wearing a brown metallic bracelet. Brown is for a deployed soldier. (Of course, Track is near Anchorage these days, thus not deployed.) The story about a black memorial bracelet is apparently incorrect and resulted from the close up photo of $P’s palmprompter in which the bracelet looks black.
* snap *
R’ipley – that website was great!
Least trusted banks? Is yours on it? If yes…CHANGE your bank!
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/108801/the-least-trusted-banks-in-america?mod=bb-checking_savings
We know that at some point we may have to provide homeschooling for my oldest grandson.He is 9,has severe ADHD,and possibly Aspergers.He is extremely intelligent,but social problems are very difficult for schools to deal with.Luckily he is a happy healthy boy who sees me as his best friend for life.
We do not think of this as some easy remedy.We know it will require work and commitment,and the addition of out side interests to keep him working on the social issues.Thankfully he and I both like science and nature,and learning about pretty much everything in general,so we may get through with both of us thriving,if it comes to this.
Small communities in Louisiana do not have the resources or even the desire to help.
But,you know,it is REAL America.
I found out last week that my community is considered forbidden to blacks because of the Klan activity that has gone on here over the years.Great.My SIL’s best friend who lost his arm in Iraq a few months back and happens to be black came to my home to work on my truck.He wants to continue to work as a mechanic so we want to give him all of the work we can,where he can do it at our home and rest as needed.My grandson helped. He is a nice,friendly boy.
My neighbors informed me the next day that they are not used to blacks in this area.As I live on 5 acres I am sure it took binoculars to spy on him.
I informed them they would just have to get used to it.Then my mouth got the better of me and I let them have it.DH says we can look forward to more than them taking our Obama signs as they did last year. I cant wait.
Speaking of pictures, additional 9/11 photos from choppers in NYC have been released.
Now these photos need no spellchecking nor an introduction, they truly do speak 1000′s of werdz.
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/new-911-attack-photos-released/19352489
Excellent comment from commenter at Wonkette re: Fox News.
“We distort it, you decide”.
How perfect is that?
WOW! 55″ of snow in D.C. Tell Chuck Heath that they might have snowmobiles there now!
Edit notes on palm: yes.
Fact check book: why bother?
Sad news re: Alaskan capt. from Deadliest Catch…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_phil_harris
Discovery Channel: ‘Deadliest Catch’ captain dies
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show “Deadliest Catch”, has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.
Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.
Oh, this is just too too delicious!
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/boehner-how-dare-obama-televise-the-health-care-debate-after-i-demanded-he-televise-the-health-care.php?ref=fpblg
When I heard the hopey changey remark I thought what are you 12? No offense to 12 year olds. Everytime I hear her speak it reminds me of my junior high years. The mean girls who thought they were the greatest thing ever. The ones who thought they knew everything, but actually couldn’t get a decent grade without copying someone else’s work. Then playing the victim card when they got caught. I grew up, but it doesn’t look like Sarah ever did.
When she said “hopey changey” I began to fume. AT that point, it didn’t matter if she suddenly began to praise President Obama, or adopted an orphaned puppy, or donated all the proceeds of her book to the Special Olympics. Right then, at that moment, I wanted to beat her up in the bathroom.
LiladyNY, thanks for posting that link. Hehe
Ripley, I am not a violent person, but when I heard her say that, I really wanted to wipe that asinine grin off her face. Just a slap mind you!!
Irishgirl, with a fish, no doubt!
Clydedog mentioned a good point, that speeches are quick, easy cash for the ex-gov. It’s within reason that she’s keep drumming up hype for a presidential run to fill seats. She has a year to decide…and that’s a LOT of $100k speeches. Quite shrewd, actually. Then at the last minute she’s “decide” against it, we’ll have exhausted ourselves with endless discussions of what it would’ve been like to see her on the ticket, and she’ll dump her endorsement on Newt or who knows who.
Oops for the numerous typos. Sorry to make anyone suffer through that.
I was with a friend -he doesn’t like or dislike Sarah, and he actually gasped with she said her “hopey changey” thing. I have a feeling quite a few people were turned off by that comment.
Just wanted to mention again re: the post at @132 and the bracelet thing –
I found online that there are some dark bracelets being sold that are to recognize ” those in service” . Who knows if Palin knew one way or the other but I’d hate to focus on something that might not be reflecting $P being typically , $P. ( She’ll offer more examples of that in the next few hours, I’m sure ! )
mommom……I hear ya, these southern states are hard to deal with culturally, behind most other states, but changing slowly. I do my best to help effect change whenever I can. We’ve helped ease a life long MO neighbor into the 21 century, he even voted for Obama, lol. I was worried about putting out my Obama/Biden signs before election, but did anyway and brought them in every night. But I’m sure it identified us as “them outsiders who are not like us”.
I just try to be as friendly and smiley as I can to all. You can tell who is a local or not by their drawl and speech mannerisms, it’s the outsiders who’ve helped move this state forward.
There is more poverty, low income jobs and uneducated areas in the southern states than I’ve ever experienced. For as old as it is, it’s sure stuck in a rut.
Explain to your neighbor your young friend is a war veteran, a good man, nothing to worry about and I’d gently ask them to please look beyond his skin color and let his work speak for itself.
It’s sad how stuck these people are, but I’m not sure angering them is the best way to win them over, which we need to do, even if it’s one person at a time. I know the curious locals have asked our neighbor about us outsiders, I’m fairly certain he’s had good reports for them as they try to pick his brain, lol.
My main concern about living here among so many of these life long locals is the underhanded lowlife behavior of some, they are like Scarah, they can be good cons and scam artists, act friendly and bullshit. No problem lying, many will take advantage if they can and take some sort of sick pride in getting the best deal or coming out on top of a deal. I don’t appreciate that.
The guy we sold our cows to was bragging in the community how he got the better deal, that he ‘took’ us, gah, we gave him a good and fair deal. That sort of mentality and behind your back talk and gossip is BIG in the south. Brag talk among the men.
Oh well, we’ve met some genuinely nice folks here too. But it’s a more mixed bag when compared to all my previous years in other western and northern states. It’s also fairly hard to break into circles, it’s like an outsider presents a threat, which is true if they are afraid of change and want to keep things like they’ve always been, lol.
Hey, today I heard on the radio news that Iraq wants Blackwater Contractors out of it’s country, asap.
test…….does typing out the word BS snag a post? I didn’t even get a moderation message, just poof gone.
I don’t have a link at the moment, but I think they may be wrong about the bracelet. Best not to discuss that.
Ripley, just a rather large halibut!
mommom……I typed out a response to your post, southern living sigh, long story short I hear ya. We’ve been effecting change where we can when we can, but not as boldly as you, lol. Be careful.
“but I think they may be wrong about the bracelet.”
The bracelet was coppery color.
Regardless of the color of the bracelet or it’s meaning, I think the real “meaning” is that Sarah uses her kids, again, to promote herself and her ideology.
Her son is forced to enlist in lieu of jail time, and the Shallow Grifter uses her son’s service (be it forced) to promote herself as the ever suffering but good Christian, all-American mother.
Gee, maybe she is a saint. She has a special needs child and a son in the military. You would almost think it was all by plan………..
Oh wait…..maybe it was.
I love the contrast between the two women in politics who have received the most media attention in the past year.
Michelle Obama is classy, intelligent and thoughtful, and chooses not to respond to juvenile criticisms of her husband. She has taken time in the early months of her husband’s administration to weigh the various options for her agenda as First Lady. She has chosen to focus on an issue that is of great concern to our country for many reasons; the problem of childhood obesity. She and the President clearly value education and family and demonstrate those values in their own lives. The Obama children are well behaved and expected to work hard in school as well as doing their daily chores. They spent most of the presidential campaign at home, going to school.
And then there’s Sarah Palin. She never met a snarky comment she didn’t like, particularly in regard to our President, and often speaks before thinking. She is divisive, mean and doesn’t have a single original thought. She mocks education, hard work and the concept of helping those less fortunate, issues that are in direct contrast to the religion she espouses. She has no respect for anyone who is of a different race, religion or cultural background. She claims to be a model mother but drags her children all over the country, removing them from school and/or therapy for weeks or months at a time, and yet seems to demonstrate little genuine affection for them. She takes every opportunity to demand large sums of money for her appearances while claiming to be a ‘regular hockey mom’.
Michelle Obama = high class
Sarah Palin = no class
87 ValleyIndependent Says: February 10th, 2010 at 9:27 AM
Homeschooling, charter schools, private schools, or public schools are all fine, so long as the student is actually getting a decent education…
There was a time in this country when ignorance was an embarrassment, education was highly prized, and American innovation and industry thrived. We are becoming a nation that celebrates ignorance, belittles education, lacks the skills to compete globally, whines and looks for someone else to blame as we watch the good jobs go overseas and the trade deficit get larger. It is time to start investing in and expecting better things of ourselves again.
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HEAR HEAR!!!
It truly is a shame that s’error palin so eagerly embraces ignorant thought and so studiously avoids any appearance of intellectual curiosity. Stupid is as s’error does.
Irishgirl is right. Leave the bracelet alone.
The bracelet means she is proud of her son who risked his life in service to the United States.
Snarky comments about that are all over the internet, because a couple of people posted stories without doing any research.
Remember how Guantanamo creates terrorists? Well, unfounded attacks on Sarah can create new Palinbots, too.
If I were a totally neutral on Palin, and saw people claiming that she was disrespecting veterans by wearing a black memorial bracelet…..and then I found out the bracelet was sent to her as a gift, and that it was copper, and was meant to honor her son’s service…..well I would be outraged, and would rush to Sarah’s defense. I would be righteously indignant that Sarah was attacked for honoring our men and women in harm’s way.
Please, everyone. Leave this alone. If you see an uninformed post on this, correct it as soon as you can. If you need any information on this, just go to http://www.herobracelets.org They sent the bracelet to Sarah. They have a picture clearly showing her wearing a copper-colored bracelet, and they clearly label it as a ‘deployed hero bracelet’. The very worst thing you can accuse Sarah of, is that she didn’t take it off when her precious son returned home unharmed. Really, does anyone want to go there????
#153 @OMG
After reading the comments on that site, I almost like the Ron Paulers. I watched a debate with Ron Paul and a couple of others (*yawn*) during the campaign and did they ever drone on endlessly about the Second Amendment.
#181 Rob in Ca
I agree with you totally in the perception of this incident. For once, I have to side with Mrs. Palin even though I don’t think much of her parenting skills.
When I first saw the bracelet, I immediately thought of the bracelet that I wore for a missing Marine during the VietNam War. We eventually learned he had died. My daughter still has that bracelet. My ex-husband fought in Hue, Cambodia for 18 months.
At first glance, my take was that that bracelet appeared to be black in the photo I saw of it. I wondered, because of that, why on earth she was wearing one with her son’s name on it as he is very much alive (thank Gods).
We, who remember a different meaning from an different time, jumped to a wrong conclusion and apologize for that, but those days are imprinted upon our memories just as clearly as 9/11 is imprinted on us.
The company who makes these bracelets might have considered that and should not have made their bracelets look exactly like those from the
VietNam war thus preventing any misperceptions.
Say NO -
Bulls^*t flys right on thru.
I agree. Leave the bracelet alone. Mr. Robinson, the orignator of the meme, made an honest mistake, for which I’m sure he will apologize. Let the Palinbots go into a frenzy about an honest mistake. The rest of us should applaud Palin for her patriotism in wearing the bracelet and thank her for her son’s service. Period.
B-Day card for Beck.
http://i.imgur.com/jJdi8.gif
Levi Johnston: My Future is Bleak
http://www.tmz.com/2010/02/10/levi-johnston-sarah-palin-bristol-palin-child-support-income/
Palin is a Teatard angry mean racist person. President! NOT……..
Thanks for the last link, austintx! Interesting & persuasive reading. Looks like the kids have decided that keeping income confidential helps both of them.
Since the discussion today was about Education… I remember hearing this guy at work today mention this quote to someone. I don’t know where he heard it if it was said by some famous person. Couldn’t find it in the Googles.. I looked.
The Quote is :
“When a person reads… they get questions.When a person ‘studies’… the get Answers ” ( Sounds like some ‘ common sense ‘ huh? )
And in S’carahs place… she doesn’t even READ….. so she gets neither questions OR answers.
I just had to share this comment from huffpo to the chris kelly post. It is priceless. thanks, calamityjohn!
calamityjohn I’m a Fan of calamityjohn I’m a fan of this user 21 fans permalink I had thought when Limbaugh went after Palin that she had an opportunity. I figured that she could go after Rush on this limited issue. The far right would forgive her seeing it as a small personal issue. Rush could call it a misunderstanding. The center would see Palin standing for something and standing up to the far right and she could broaden her appeal .. bringing back some echoes of her start in politics as someone who called out entrenched power.
Instead she threw her own child under the wheels of her political ambition .. and tried to defend it with a semantic argument that I have yet to see a single person try to defend.
She has jumped the shark so many times it is like some Great White steeplechase.
I made a comment about “the bracelet” but for some reason it has gotten lost, or maybe stopped to pick daisies…
I just wanted to say that I agree with Irishgirl and Rob. The original article was probably just an honest mistake. Mr. Robinson likely thought he had seen a black bracelet. It rankled him and he shared his thoughts. He’ll apologize tomorrow. Let the Palinbots stew and snipe. The rest of us should just thank the Palins for their son’s service and leave it at that.
oookkkaaayyy… what’s the word we aren’t supposed to use? is it palinbots?
alright, so that wasn’t it. two of my posts apparently have stopped off at the gingerbread house and haven’t made it anywhere but the oven….
thnx AusTx…….I thought so, very frustrating at times.
I think it was The Daily Show that had a series of mis-spelled signs from Teabaggers.
Yeah, those darn intellectual elites throwing their knowledge of grammar and spelling in the faces of the real Americans. How dare they flaunt their education at us.
In other news, our local school district is looking at eliminating teacher librarians as a particular kind of service in order to balance the budget. As is, California has the least number of school librarians. On average one for every 4,000 students in comparison to the national average of one for every 900 students.
I guess when you worship ignorance it isn’t any surprise. (Or that someone like Sarah Palin has no clue what satire is and isn’t.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-holt/alaska-is-the-new-new-jer_b_456217.html
Thank you, Alaska, from New Jersey. Very funny!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-holt/alaska-is-the-new-new-jer_b_456217.html
Bush billboard touchups. They really had me laughing!
Baker’s Dozen, re that New Jersey post–what a painful piece to read, as an Alaskan, even as a joke. Because they’re kind of right. Arggh. SP is irritating more people lately, and the downside is that Alaska continues to have guilt by association.
It used to be, when I traveled out of state, that people would strike up conversations about Alaska and were interested in hearing about the place. But the most recent time I traveled, I knew that if I even mentioned being from here, the conversation would inevitably turn to her. That was not OK with me– not because I mind people’s curiosity, that’s fine, but because I do not want her in my space. She is not my shadow, so I headed most of those conversations off before they even got started. It was a shame, actually. Double meaning intended.
I relate to some posters that wanted to attack Sarah when she sarcastically said ”’hopey changey thing…”I wanted to punch her in the face, and I honestly have never said that before in my life.
197 North_of_the_Range Says:
February 10th, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Baker’s Dozen, re that New Jersey post–what a painful piece to read, as an Alaskan, even as a joke. Because they’re kind of right.
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I know what you mean, about it being painful. I was in South Korea a few years ago, and people there always asked me if I were from Canada with a rather hopeful tone to their voices. They were disappointed when I said I was from the US, but brightened some when I said I was from California (they had a Korean ball player in San Diego. Don’t know if he’s still there.) For those with enough English, the conversation inevitably turned directly to Bush. Don’t pass Go, don’t collect $200, but do tell us you don’t like him. It was embarrassing. Fortunately, nobody seemed to hold me and my friends responsible. They were invariably kind.
Aarggggh. Put in the wrong link for the Bush billboards.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/what-should-the-bush-bill_n_455783.html
Letterman just said it snowed so much in New York today… Central Park is whiter than a tea party rally.
You know, depending if you’re watching on a monster HD tv screen, or using antenna’s on a 19″ model or a b&w one – it is hard to really discern the color of that bracelet. Ah, the ambiguity of it. It could lead one to think, it’s black.
I slagged those hero bracelet folks, Chris Greta in particular on that Yale site. We’ll see if it gets posted. I ripped a few folks some new ones.
Seems that the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund falls short of 2 important criteria to meet Standards for Charity Accountability.
Nothing like prophets* of war under the guise of a ‘fund’. Say, where’d we see that before?!
* heh-heh I know, profits… it’s a werd! too.
Speaking of political carnival, I love Carnival Slang & Sideshow Slang.
scroll down the page. There’s American Circus Slang, British/Euro Circus Slang, Vaudeville Slang, Carnival Slang & Sideshow Slang. You’ll laugh.
R’ipley in CT,
That 2nd shot of the short haired Grifter, she looks like Alfalfa from the Little Rascals!
Yoiks.
Hmm, my HTML links aren’t coming through.
1st one is:
http://www.bbb.org/charity-reviews/national/veterans-and-military/intrepid-fallen-heroes-fund-in-new-york-ny-2721
2nd one is:
http://goodmagic.com/carny/index.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021004708.html
“Although Palin is a tea party favorite, her potential as a presidential hopeful takes a severe hit in the survey. Fifty-five percent of Americans have unfavorable views of her, while the percentage holding favorable views has dipped to 37, a new low in Post-ABC polling.
There is a growing sense that the former Alaska governor is not qualified to serve as president, with more than seven in 10 Americans now saying she is unqualified, up from 60 percent in a November survey. Even among Republicans, a majority now say Palin lacks the qualifications necessary for the White House. “
Lani…Good news (which backs up another recent poll) but I won’t be happy until 1 in 10 view her as qualified (actually, in my dreams I’d love it to be 0 in 10).
After her Tea Party appearance, there is also discontent in the ranks in other Tea Party groups about her hijacking the movement. If anyone has a link to an article about that, it would be great to pass around.