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Palm Pilot to Nowhere

Palin’s still on the palm thing.  At a speech in Orlando, she referenced yet again the infamous palm writing incident where she had to write the words “Energy, Tax Cuts, and Lift America’s Spirits” on her hand so she’d remember the three things she’d do if she were President of the United States.  Palin the presidential wannabe described the incident by saying she was “busted for using a poor man’s TelePrompter,” and went on to elaborate, “I was just kicking it old school.  It’s the way we used to do it.”   Your assignment for the weekend is to find another human being who is closer to 50 than 40 who uses the phrase ”kicking it old school” without humiliating their children by trying to sound like one of them, and failing miserably.

She also told the audience to get a Bible and look up Isaiah 49:16, which reads, “Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands.”  ”If writing on one’s palm was good enough for God, then it’s good enough for the rest of us,” she spake.  Hmm.  Drowning almost every living thing on Earth was good enough for God too.  So was turning people into pillars of salt.  And there was lots of smiting going on there for a while, if I remember correctly.  Can we expect her to start striking people dead?  The “it’s good enough for God so it’s good enough for me” defense might be interesting in a court of law.

Say Uncle!

Lookie! Uncle Ted (aka almost convicTED Stevens) is back! He popped out of his hidey hole today to make an announcement endorsing a bullet line to bring natural gas from Alaska to Alaska via an Alaskan route. Some might say he’s a bit late to that party. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker has been saying this since anyone can remember, and is running his campaign on that issue above all others. And AGIA takes another body blow. Will we have to fork over Palin’s half a billion dollars to exit the Trans Canada agreement after all? Stay tuned…

Cawfey Tawk

Across America, the thinking man’s answer to the Tea Party movement will be seeing gatherings springing up everywhere. Started by a very clever and impassioned Facebooker, the Coffee Party has a mission:

MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.

***There’s a Coffee Party at 10am in Wasilla at the Metro Cafe, and one at 7pm in Anchorage at the Cafe del Mundo on Benson. Wherever you are, you can check for locations near you at Coffee Party USA.***

Good Wife Goes Rogue Rouge

On this week’s episode of “The Good Wife“  Going Rouge makes an appearance!   A backwoods ballistic expert flirts with a lawyer and as part of his flirtation he sends her a lavishly gift-wrapped copy of Sarah Palin’s  Going Rogue.   She responds by sending him a copy of Going Rouge – An American Nightmare!  I hear it got a great cover shot.  

Congratulations, Senator Begich!

Congratulations to Senator Begich for landing a spot on the Senate Budget Committee!  Nice!

Acknowledging his continuing efforts to address the federal budget deficit and growing debt, the Senate approved his appointment to a vacant seat on the Senate Budget Committee, effective Tuesday night.  He joins the Budget Committee with a focus on fiscal responsibility. During his first year in office, he has supported the Senate’s adoption of “Pay-Go” rules, Congressional and Presidential efforts to establish a federal debt commission, a Presidential suspension of discretionary spending, and numerous initiatives promoting transparency and efficiency in government spending.

For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow

Today is the birthday of one of my favorite members of Congress – Alan Grayson. He is living, breathing proof that it is medically possible to be a registered Democrat and also have a spine. He appears to be no worse the wear for having this spine, and to show support for him, there’s an effort to get donations to his campaign. He’s 52 years old, so if you would like to send a symbolic $52 to his campaign, or any amount you see fit, click HERE. This guy is fighting the good fight every day, not only for members of his district, but for all of us. Last week he introduced a simple four-page bill to let all Americans buy into Medicare. It has 50 cosponsors already. You can support the bill at WeWantMedicare.com. And he’s even leading the GOP primary poll in which only Republicans in his district were surveyed! I guess everyone loves a spine.

It’s All Mine

Ah, the loophole.  They always seem to find them, don’t they?  Well there’s a loophole in George W. Bush’s 2002 Clean Water Act that allows mines to dump waste in America’s waters.  But the good news is that the EPA has the authority to close the loophole.  EarthWorks is organizing a call-in day on Monday, March 15 when concerned citizens will call the White House and urge action.  This loophole is allowing the Kensington Mine near Juneau to destroy a freshwater lake by calling this mining waste “fill” and dumping it, untreated into the lake.  It’s also allowing mountaintop removal coal mines to dump their waste into the streams of Appalachia. 

So get ready to enter a new contact into your cell phone, or put it on your speed dial.  It’s the White House!  I think every American should have the White House on speed dial!  202-456-1414.  Call it and ask your president to restore the Clean Water Act’s prohibition on dumping mining waste into clean water.

 

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    laprofesoraNo Gravatar says:

    “Kicking it old school”? Seriously? She really said that? In front of people? Who PAID to hear her? I think this alone disqualifies her to be POTUS. I’m starting to think she really should start a third party, with Michael Steele. It can be “The Party of People Who Love Money So Much They Say Really, Really, Stupid Things and Don’t Even Get Embarrassed”. I’ll bet they’d have a following.

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    twain12No Gravatar says:

    “Palin’s still on the palm thing”
    She can’t let anything go (literally)

    good luck getting that loophole plugged

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    boodogNo Gravatar says:

    She is SO cool! With it, hip, groovy and far out man! Too far back?
    What a turkey..

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    mae lewisNo Gravatar says:

    “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.”

    According to my brief, on-line search, Isaiah is supposed to come from around 800 BC. In those days, there were scribes who wrote things by dipping an instrument into ink (or paint) and wrote on papyrus or animal hide (vellum). It was a slow process. (What pen would God use, Sharpie or Bic? Did he keep his pen in his pocket?)

    But, the word is “engraved” not “inscribed.” I’m thinking more along the line of clay tables or better yet, stone, as in The Ten Commandments. So, if it was really important, and we take the Bible as Gospel (some do), then the Lord engraved, carved, scratched that name in his palm.

    I think that it is a metaphor for “I’ll always remember you.” If the Lord could create the Heavens and Earth, oceans and air, every living thing, the Garden of Eden and get Adam and Eve in their places all in six days, then He could certainly remember someone’s name.

    This poor little story is has been hacked to death. But, Sarah cannot let it go. She was caught cheating, and she just can’t get over it. To quote a famous Alaskan philosopher, “Suck it up, Buttercup!” The mental picture that comes to mind is the kid in the kitchen with the broken cookie jar at his feet, chocolate stains on his hands and face, while he denies any involvement.

    Sarah has been caught at much worse things than writing on her hand. I recall the Branchflower report saying that she had abused her office and she claimed that it exonerated her. She repeated the “I said thanks but no thanks line” twenty times in her VP campaign while the press regularly corrected her. And, according to Steve Schmidt’s report, she tried to spin Todd’s AIP membership into a simple clerical error. It is one thing to lie in the face of actual facts, and it is another to keep the lie going, and going and going. Sarah is the Energizer Bunny of “I can’t let it go.”

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    Baker's DozenNo Gravatar says:

    I was just kicking it old school. It’s the way we used to do it.

    OK. I’m closer to 50 than 60, my kids are grown and on their own. They wouldn’t be humiliated, but they’d sure roll their eyes! And I’m sure they’d cut their visit short, and with good reason. :-)

    I couldn’t be embarrassed she was my mom, but I sure could be embarrassed that she was my sister. Yech.

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    Lacy LadyNo Gravatar says:

    I am really OLD—-but have never used the term—-” kicking it old school”.
    But I do rememer using—and still do—the term—”SICK COOKIE!!!

    I meant to imply that she’s trying way too hard to be cool. ;-) I’ve tweaked the sentence to make that more clear. AKM

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    leenie17No Gravatar says:

    I actually think Poor, Poor Sarah’s feeling neglected these days and that’s why she keeps bringing up the hand thing. All of her credibility regarding any worthwhile topic has been completely shot by the inane babbling she’s done all over the airwaves. She’s got nothing left but the ‘poor. poor me, everybody’s picking on me’ line to get the attention she is so desperately addicted to.

    She’s like a little kid who will take negative attention over no attention at all. When people stop talking about her, the only trick she’s got left is to go back to the writing on the hand nonsense. She doesn’t really care that it just perpetuates her image as an incompetent idiot, as long as people keep looking at her.

    She’s be really pathetic and sad if she weren’t still so dangerous.

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    karenNo Gravatar says:

    I’m early 50″s & have NEVER heard the corny phrase “kicking old school”, sounds to me like nursing home lingo!

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    Bones AKNo Gravatar says:

    Correction— the book that was sent to the ballistics expert was…

    Going Rouge: A Candid Look Inside The Mind Of Political Conservative Sarah Palin. This is a book with all blank pages.

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    from the diagonalNo Gravatar says:

    AKM: you are so right about the varieties of chapter and verse of all of that smiting, but you forgot about the multitude of “begat”ings. Seems that some of those begats do seem neither healthy nor are they legal in today’s world. But then, neither would be infanticide, the sacrifice of one’s child, at least not in this nation, at least not yet.
    But that’s just my opinion.

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    VoteNov4No Gravatar says:

    Palin truly can’t let anything go (until her next forehead slapping moment). Surprised she didn’t say anything about which charities received her old campaign clothes to one-up Pres. Obama’s Nobel Prize donations.

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    GasmanNo Gravatar says:

    Doesn’t Palin – that feckless twit – realize how imbecilic she comes across when she tries to justify the “palm pilot” thing? She was NOT emulating God, she was simply too stupid to remember 3 or 4 talking points. What made that whole episode so ridiculous was that it came on the heels of her protracted “tele-prompter” attack against Obama. Tele-prompters are a sign of rhetorical laziness and writing on the palm of your hand, à la a 4th grader, is not?

    Does she not realize that her overwrought, exceedingly lame, and unbelievable justification for the “palm pilot” is even more pathetic than the act itself?

    This begs the rhetorical question: just how stupid is Sarah Palin?

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    Grandma NancyNo Gravatar says:

    I’m old too and never have heard the term “kicking it old school”. We were always much more interested in the latest and greatest! In my school(s), getting caught with writing on our palms would have been scandalous and an indication we were trying to cheat. It also wouldn’t have been so bad if Sarah had not just made fun of the POTUS for using teleprompters. The point was that she is a hypocrite as well as being a liar, not that she writes on her hands (although that’s funny!).

    Another thing I’ve wondered — many think it’s the “older” people who are Palin followers. I’m 71 — and my friends think Palin is a nitwit. Many of us have been accused of “hating” Palin. We don’t “hate” Palin (supposedly because she is a wonderful mother and religious person). We did our homework to look at her record and check her “facts” and discovered how easy it is for her stories to change from one minute to the next. We had/have access to computers, the internet and the Alaskan blogging community who showed us where to look. We looked for the truth. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

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    ZyxommaNo Gravatar says:

    @#4, mae lewis: Years ago, while working at a law firm, Linda the incredible receptionist (RIP) told this story about her son: She had just put new blue carpeting in the living room. This was part of a renovation, and one of the upstairs bedrooms had been painted yellow. She came home to find her son painting the new blue carpet bright yellow. She said, “What are you doing?!!” Her son dropped the paintbrush, threw up his hands, and said, “I wasn’t even there!” (I believe he was 4 at the time.)

    Health and peace.

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    J faith LNo Gravatar says:

    I’m 75 a voracious reader, and fairly aware of slang, etc., but never ever heard that expression “kicking …… old school…”

    Where the devil did she pick that one up and might it be an original Palinism?

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    mae lewisNo Gravatar says:

    When I put “kicking it old school” into google, the top selections all make reference to a 2007 movie by almost the same name (Kickin’ it old Skool). The story involves a breakdancer from 1986 who has been in a comma for 20 years, and recovers with the help of his family and girl friend. I doubt that Sarah intended any reference to the movie or its story.

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    Enjay in E MTNo Gravatar says:

    Rut Roh !

    I was thinking I remembered that line “Kicking it Old School” from somewhere and Lo & Behold …… it was a movie — one that even failed VP Candidate & half term Gov wouldn’t like

    Movie review snip:
    What bothered me the most was that the overriding theme seemed to be that the “otherness” of the disabled is fair game for patronization and ridicule, which seems to dilute the redeeming qualities of the film.

    How very interesting
    more @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772178/

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    BigPeteNo Gravatar says:

    Kicking it old school

    Nothing more embarrassing than an aging (old school?), reactionary Granny Republican politician trying, desperately, to appear “hip” (see Michael Steele).

    Hopefully, elders will be impressed, because the young ‘uns certainly won’t-they’ll be flummoxed: the expression dates back to the late eighties/early nineties. HIPNESS FAIL!

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    Moose PuckyNo Gravatar says:

    @AKM

    “Alan Grayson. He is living, breathing proof that it is medically possible to be a registered Democrat and also have a spine.”

    Excellent piece of writing craftswomanship there!!!

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    IrishgirlNo Gravatar says:

    “Right to Lifers would accept any explanation that invokes the Almighty, and Palin’s words were met with thundering applause. But the rest of America still thinks that Palin is a dim bulb, and I have faith that my fellow Americans would never elect Palin as the next President of the United States. Right????”

    http://newsblaze.com/story/20100313114010reye.nb/topstory.html

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    floridafunNo Gravatar says:

    i have been on several coffeeparty web sites the last couple weeks. 1 is now not allowing discussion, the original coffeepartymovement on fb. the state-specific sites and coffeeparty usa allow discussion/comments.
    beware!! sites i have been on there are mostly teabagger members. liberals are shot down in a hurry, shunned or called trouble making trolls etc. the goal of coffeeparty is to make nice and be buds with teabaggers. have nice discussions with them and find common ground. learn from them (LOL!) on how to organize and raise money. after all we all are fed up with our gov..right??
    they have NO agenda or specific candidates they may support, or any actual info on where they hope to be in the near future. the whole thing stinks of intent to swell teabagger numbers so they can brag they won over thousands of progressives, independs, centrist, liberals. eeek!!
    they claim their idea is to let the majority of commenter opinions rule. hmmm read thru them and see if it seems that way to you!
    their mission statement and all the moderator comments are full of cute catchy completely vague statements about moving forward together.. i keep going to a few sites and posting but see all newer sites flooded with liberals who eventually get tired of no agenda..then soon there is a big influx of people posting with definate teabagger ideals.
    something fishy with the coffee gang..

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    floridafunNo Gravatar says:

    oh and you can donate but there is no way to know who the money may eventually support!
    hoping some of the mudflatters will post their observations about the coffeeparty. i suspect its diluted decaf wafting teabag scents ;-)

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    Wolf PackNo Gravatar says:

    Here is an idea.

    Seeing how the whole Palin clan (tribe) is on the government dole, getting free health care. Why not let Todd or one of the children sit in the audience and send S’error some smoke signals. That way she would get caught writing the simplest of ideas on her hand.

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    Say NO to Palin in PoliticsNo Gravatar says:

    This resignation just happened hours ago……. and yeah the incident was a long time ago, but in 2002 he paid $150,000.00 hush money to cover it up. When it happened he was 28, the girl was 15.

    http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14670369?nclick_check=1

    “SALT LAKE CITY—Utah’s House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting n*de in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state.”

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    Say NO to Palin in PoliticsNo Gravatar says:

    LOl she just keeps opening new doors for scrutiny doesn’t she…….so she’s saying before teleprompters politicians and speakers used to write crib notes on their hands? I’d love to hear from anyone who did this, because I don’t believe it. It would be just as embarrassing and distasteful in pre-teleprompter days as it was when Scarah did it. Pathetic. And now she’s reaching into the bible to cover her lame arse, wow lol, it must really be bugging her. And she keeps repeating excuses for it at every event.

    On the other hand she may be remembering her school days when she may have cheated using this method, not a very smart method either. She was trying to rub and blur the ink during the question/answer, was this how she made the answers go away in school? I wonder if she got caught cheating like this in school and is afraid the teacher or someone will say something publicly.
    Or just the embarrassment of being caught then and now is so strong, being the child of an educator and all, remember, she needed her cue cards during the gov debates.

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    CGinWINo Gravatar says:

    Where did a 28 year old get $150,000 to use for hush money?

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    Say NO to Palin in PoliticsNo Gravatar says:

    I should add that I think she’s making a big deal over making this hand writing thingy sound trivial because she actually does have real trouble keeping answers straight, I think her mind jumbles up information, just like her speaking coming out in a word salad mix.

    I think it’s evidence of a learning disability that she’s aware of and embarrassed by.

    But whatever……… truth is, she lies about anything and everything.

    “busted for using a poor man’s TelePrompter,” and went on to elaborate, “I was just kicking it old school. It’s the way we used to do it.”

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    aussiegal77No Gravatar says:

    The Coffee Party! I love it!

    I just read a good article on the Tea Party on The New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/weak-brew

    Here’s the thing. A lot of Teabaggers claim they were roused to action by Rick Santelli’s rant about the bailouts. To which I reply – absurd. Santelli is an opportunist. He doesn’t care about every day people.

    Calling people who are losing their homes to foreclosure as “losers” show him to be the callous jerk he is. Not everyone who got into problems with their mortgage were irresponsible – the mortgage lenders have their part to play here too. Singling out people to blame for the entire financial collapse is the height of absurdity. The whole system was rigged to fail – from deregulation to rampant greed to uninformed buyers. Those of us fortunate enough to not have lost our homes and our jobs should be so grateful as to show it in compassion to others who have.

    It’s despicable and stupid that the Tea Party movement would want to bring down the one person that is trying to help as many Americans as possible – the President. Of course the government can be improved vastly. But what they propose is to reduce the government to such an extent as to render it powerless.

    The fact of the matter is that for things such as infrastructure, healthcare and safety nets like unemployment benefits and social security, a free market model simple will not work. The profit motive does not provide social & economic justice in every instance, that’s just not how it works. Glenn Beck can fear monger all he wants but the FACT remains that the current system we have is broken and have not provided a just society. Plus – it is ridiculous to support more tax breaks to the rich. They have the means to take care of themselves in a recession – they are not beholden to their employers or to the market forces. Can I stop my company from doing lay-offs? No, I can’t. What I can do is save up as much as I can in case I do lose my job.

    People who are on unemployment benefits and social security are not losers or welfare queens – they paid into the system for years in taxes so it’s only fair for them to get some help when they need it. That is the POINT of taxes. If I ever find myself without a job, I expect the taxes I paid to bail ME out.

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    Lee323No Gravatar says:

    Palin: “I was just kicking the old fool.”……..reminiscing about McCain, I guess.

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    aussiegal77No Gravatar says:

    Palin keeps bringing up the palm pilot thing and keeps reiterating the same lame excuses for it, which reinforces the fact it was a humiliating moment for her. A fact that we all already knew.

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    Say NO to Palin in PoliticsNo Gravatar says:

    Republican Rep. Kevin Garn……..

    CGinWI, private citizen Garn was 28 when they skinny dipped together in the hot tub, that was 25 years ago, 1985. In 2002 Garmn paid her to keep quiet about it because he was running for a political office (he lost), he would have been about 45 yrs old (?) then…….still, it is a lot of money. It’s the hypocritical morality bs that makes this funny, the Utah Mormons and Republicans, they preach pureness and always fail to live up to it. My apologies to all good Mormons, Christians and Republicans. It’s the hypocrites that I cannot stand.

    Another article about him spoke of the family business, she was an employee at the time. I’ll try to find it.

    It was also interesting because he said just yesterday he wouldn’t resign, lol.

    Also, sorry all, this should be on the open thread. Will transfer it there if I post any more on it.

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    B in CoNo Gravatar says:

    “Kicking it old school” reminds me of when Michelle Bachman told Michael Steele, “You be da man.”
    My teenage son would call the padded wagon immediately if he ever heard me say anything like that!
    Bringing up her palm pilot at every opportunity just reminds people of what an imbecile she is. Also, too, she asked her audience to get rid of Alan Grayson for the American people next election. All the more reason to donate to his campaign!

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    bethNo Gravatar says:

    What SP fails to remember is that she gave her entire wordsalad to the audience off of the pages of paper she carried up to the podium! Yeah, that podium ~ the one where she [yet again] slammed POTUS for using the elite teleprompter.

    So, by the way she’s harping on her use of her very own iPalm, what she’s *really* she’s telling the audience is: “Hey, i gave my whole speech *without* a teleprompter…see how smart I am? See how much better a speaker I am? I don’t lecture you off of a teleprompter – I just have these few little words written on my hand to remind me == just like G_d reminds His Self!== of things that are important and I have to tell you about.”

    So, even beyond her bringing up the iPalm ‘explanation’/'excuse’ again and again and again, the problem with the *way* she’s portraying herself/her actions to audiences is: 1) she had her speech right there on the podium – she carried with her *to* the podium, 2) she didn’t even know there was a biblical ‘context’ until someone, weeks later, pointed it out to her, 3) the biblical text doesn’t ‘fit,’ anyway, and 4) she’s as clueless as they come…and always will be. She daren’t let anyone ‘in on’ that little secret, though.

    She keeps deflecting in hopes no one will be able to put 2 and 2 together. What a dangerous, dangerous woman she is [meaning, of course, NO disrespect to women.] beth.

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    trishaNo Gravatar says:

    She is a MORAN.

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    benlomond2No Gravatar says:

    if the verse really does say “engraved”… I’ve got a battery powered Dremel tool for her to use :)

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    thatcrowwomanNo Gravatar says:

    boodog @3 never too old, like …crazy, man, crazy…You dig, daddio?

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    thatcrowwomanNo Gravatar says:

    *adjusting black beret to a jaunty angle*

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    LilybartNo Gravatar says:

    Palin’s sister in insanity , Bachman, said at a rally today that President Obama is the first Post-American President.

    Someone yelled “kill the bastard” and the local paper reported it, then scrubbed mention of it in their on-line story.

    So I donated to Bachman’s opponent.

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    LaineyNo Gravatar says:

    @twain12 #2 :She can’t let anything go (literally)

    she did mention pitbull & lipstick a while back :)

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    TidelinesNo Gravatar says:

    My niece just texted me to say Sarah Palin had just finished singing the national anthem at the Aces game – she bood her in my honor.

    Re Kensington: They’ve agreed not to treat with cyanide or other, and the waste that’s used as fill is just that – simply what we stand on blown to smithereens and hauled out in the back of a truck to be dumped. It’s rock and clay, nothing more organic or inorganic than that. I’m a full supporter of Kensington’s practices; not sure enough about Pebble’s, but Kensington has complied fully with all the permitting and investigations and it would seem this little pony is staggering under a burden of abuse. How do we justify the continued crucifixion of a project that has lived up to every challenging accusation? Is the harrassment simply rhetoric?

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    TidelinesNo Gravatar says:

    Remember to reset your clocks!

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    MonaLisa (inCT)No Gravatar says:

    The first thing I ever heard referred to as ‘old school’ was hip-hop, regarding the stuff from the late ’70s – early ’80s (remember Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight? Old school.) Run DMC et al (‘83-4?) were ‘new school’; where old school was disco-y/funky party rhymes, new school was often more socio-political commentary, performed in an aggressive, self-assertive style.

    FWIW.

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    MonaLisa (inCT)No Gravatar says:

    Also, too: had she written a statistic, a percentage, a difficult-to-pronounce name (heck, even the name of the group she was speaking to!) I wouldn’t feel a need to make fun of her. I’d see it as a desire to at least have facts ‘on hand’…

    But the fact that she had to write this:

    Energy
    Budget TAX Cuts
    Lift America’s Spirits

    She took an order over the phone. “If you get stuck, talk about energy, talk about the cuts… think of it as it’s your job to lift America’s spirits, and you’ll be fine…. No, not ‘budget’ cuts, that’s too complicated for this group, it’s TAX cuts they care about. You got that? Energy… No – TAX cuts… I thought you said you’re writing this down?!”

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    califpatNo Gravatar says:

    I agree Mona Lisa!

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    califpatNo Gravatar says:

    Concerning Run DMC et al!

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    strangeletNo Gravatar says:

    I’m 62. My kids are 18 and 20. There has been some generational blurring, so we share opinions about some examples of music or humor or art, and differ on other examples.

    My 18-year-old uses the verb “kick” (in its “hang out” or “do it” sense) fairly regularly. My 20-year-old has never used it much. Both of them use the adjective phrase “old school” from time to time.

    If I were to utter the phrase “kicking it old school”, I don’t believe either of them would laugh at me, or even feel humiliated. I think they would react as we do when someone trying to speak a foreign language comes close to getting idiom right, but misses slightly. Gentle amusement.

    On the other hand, I cannot be sure of this because the chances of my ever saying “kicking it old school” are zero. It’s possible that I might sometime use the term “old school” as a shorthand — I have actually said “back in the day” more than once — but “kicking it” is terminally unlikely.

    Does Sarah-poo think she has a big following among skateboarders?

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    strangeletNo Gravatar says:

    @29 Lee323: ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

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    strangeletNo Gravatar says:

    @42 Mona Lisa: Pretty nearly the only thing referred to as “old school” is hip-hop.

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    PunkinbuggNo Gravatar says:

    Soooo I took the bait and looked up Isaiah 49:16, and then — like a good ol’ Southern Babdist gal that I am — I read a few verses north of 16, and looky what I found:

    Isaiah 49:14-16 (New International Version)

    14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me,
    the Lord has forgotten me.”

    15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
    and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
    Though she may forget,
    I will not forget you!

    16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls are ever before me.

    I don’t know why, but this image popped into my head:

    http://tinyurl.com/yz5p5ef

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    bubblesNo Gravatar says:

    There is absolutely no reason for the most of the folks who comment on this thread to be familiar with an African American colloquialism meaning to do something in a similar way to how that something was done before: i.e. preparing a meal using the same or similar recipes that one’s mother or grandmother might have used long ago. that Sarah Palin used that expression was a subtle expression of contempt because like most Americans Sarah Palin does not know many Black people and those that she does know are neither friends or social aquaintances therefore she attempts to co-opt an expression of a people of whom she is an arch enemy and who she actively despises.

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    lovemydogsNo Gravatar says:

    @50 Bubbles

    And once again, she proves that she is a fraud. She wouldn’t know “old school” if it were dropped in front of her. I know the expression but have never used it because it would most definitely make me feel like I had co-opted a phrase that does not belong to me.

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    thatcrowwomanNo Gravatar says:

    Punkinbugg @49 said, “Isaiah 49:14-16 (New International Version)
    14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me,
    the Lord has forgotten me.”
    15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
    and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
    Though she may forget,
    I will not forget you!
    16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls are ever before me.”

    Thanks for kickin’ it old school and putting granny blah blah’s “handwriting” In Context….amazing how perspectives change when we move from snippet to Chapter And Verse, eh? They say a Little Knowledge is a dangerous thing; I would add that a Lot of Learning makes us Safer.

    And also, too, a similar picture sprang to my mind.

    I kick it old school with my students during homecoming week when we have “80’s Day”…but that’s just the way we roll! :)

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    jojobo1No Gravatar says:

    SP wouldn’t know old school if it hit her in the face.My term also was always back in the day or way back when.

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    Oswego EileenNo Gravatar says:

    Didn’t Will Ferrilll use the “Kicking it old school” line in a couple of his dumb movies? I’m thinking the race car movie and the one that he returned to college. The line was a laugh line, to make his character look like the fool. Which worked for the character in the movies, I guess Sarah didn’t know that.