Hahahaha!
Ah Flyinureye . . . that’s the nattering nitwit to a future T.
So where is Ms. Drill Baby Drill during this very oily disastrous time in the Gulf?
Sarah? Sarah?
Oh Fly – I’m roaring! You always outdo yourself. Just luuuv those strategically-placed dollar pasties. Where can I send in for my subscription to NOCLU? I’ll take six-month’s worth, thank you. The magazine will hopefully be defunct by then. Swing them hips, $$aree! Right off the stage.
$arah needs to see a death panel doctor about that growth on the back of her head. Does she own stock in the Bumpit company? Eeewww…hope she washes them more often than she washes her wigs, purple or otherwise. (snark). Also, too – her silence on the oil slick disaster is deafening.
Dang, fly! Keep ‘em coming, brother. You are amazing; Lady Bla Bla (granny blah blah) is the Muse that keeps on giving. Petty of me, I suppose, but laughing AT her somehow diminishes her Power…makes me feel like Dorothy with a fire hose instead of just a little bucket of water.
When is “the one who quit” going to blame that oil spill on Obama? Yup, drilling our way to prosperity… plenty of jobs washing developing now…. washing fury things in an attempt to save their lives. S’error should be one of the first people required to clean the crude off of the coastal region. Lisa Murkowski should join. Dung Young and Ex-felon Senator Stevens, also too.
Just imagine McCain/Palin’s plan of building 80 new nuclear plants with the Republican’s Party track record of no oversight or regulation. That would have surely become the end of life on our planet.
I’ll bet good money that her comment will involve the fact the BP is not an American Company and we should trust Exon and Mobile who are good hard workin’ Merican busnusses that support freedom and all patriots.
Oh, those tiny little footprints! Aren’t they so cute? Bet $arah is paying her staff of writers overtime to find some way to blame this on the President. And of course, we can expect the “he wanted to do it, too” excuse any second now. The moral of that story is simple: if Palin thinks something is a good idea, you can pretty much bet it isn’t.
But the latest news it could have been caused by faulty work by….get this….Halliburton! Boy, they come up in just about every major screwup, don’t they?
Take a look at photos of her with McCain in AZ from a week or so ago. She gained a few miraculous cup sizes by wearing her new biker’s leather jacket. Call me… Tiger!
The following is from a friend’s facebook page:
Every a$$hole who ever chanted “drill baby drill” should have to report to the Gulf Coast today for clean up.
Speaking to AZ conservatives in their language, Lev. 19:33-34: ‘When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’ (biblegateway.com) http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A33-34&version=NIV
Nice catch, Austin. I suspect many have edited that passage out of their Bibles, along with all the ones about loving one’s neighbors and caring for those less fortunate.
For the fundies, religion is not real, not for the real world, apparently.
Those things God/Jesus said, well, we believe them but they are not practical. On earth we must be selfish and tough on those who don’t have a right to be here.
These people DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD. that is my theory. Deep down they don’t because they sure act like dicks without any fear of punishment.
But austin, that’s not one of the GOOD parts of the Bible! You’re ONLY supposed to listen to the parts that agree with the conservative platform (Rules for Living as a Rightwingnut) and ignore the rest. Silly boy!!!
The oil spill, wow, what a heart breaker. Here’s hoping the mine deaths create mega safety regulations & the oil spill stops off shore drilling (and drilling in places that need to be kept pure, like ANWR). They say we are the smartest creature on Earth, I have to wonder if we are the dumbest. What other animal would do this to their home?
The original “Death Panels”;
1. reinforced Palin’s energy expertise
2. misdirected attention from the Wall Street speculation that gave us $4 per gallon gas prices
3. was hopey-changey for “real Americans” (who didn’t have Big Oil shares in their stock portfolios)
Most of all, Palin was the only politician capable of spouting such an airheaded slogan.
Can anyone imagine any other candidate getting away with such silliness?
So what was Sarah Palin telling us about capitalism-as-usual before she was so rudely interrupted by the meltdown? Let’s first recall that before she came along, the U.S. public, at long last, was starting to come to grips with the urgency of the climate crisis, with the fact that our economic activity is at war with the planet, that radical change is needed immediately. We were actually having that conversation: Polar bears were on the cover of Newsweek magazine. And then in walked Sarah Palin. The core of her message was this: Those environmentalists, those liberals, those do-gooders are all wrong. You don’t have to change anything. You don’t have to rethink anything. Keep driving your gas-guzzling car, keep going to Wal-Mart and shop all you want. The reason for that is a magical place called Alaska. Just come up here and take all you want. “Americans,” she said at the Republican National Convention, “we need to produce more of our own oil and gas. Take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska, we’ve got lots of both.”
And the crowd at the convention responded by chanting and chanting: “Drill, baby, drill.”
Watching that scene on television, with that weird creepy mixture of sex and oil and jingoism, I remember thinking: “Wow, the RNC has turned into a rally in favor of screwing Planet Earth.” Literally.
To think that President Obama relaxed the off shore drilling restrictions in exchange for some some help from Sen. Graham on environmental protection regulation!
She told the crowd that Giddings, where she has been staying this week, has “become a home away from home.”
She said she felt comfortable in Texas because she is “surrounded by patriotic Americans.”
“You’re not afraid to cling to your guns and to your religion,” she said.
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Yeah , they cut some big checks in Giddings.
She kinda misses the point about “clinging to religion”. The whole point of that comment was that “religion” was more important to some people than compassion on their fellow Americans. That “religion” and “traditions” were more important than loving your neighbour as yourself. Essentially, Palin has no real idea about the teachings of Jesus because she really doesn’t have an authentic relationship with Him. Using Jesus and the Bible like some kind of political prop is not bringing glory to the name of God. Also too, clinging to guns doesn’t prove anything other than:
1. You have guns and you are very attached to them and
2. You seem to be afraid of something….hence the clinging to your guns…
Jesus said it best when he was rebuking the Pharisees, which Palin is increasingly similar to.
Matthew 15:1-20
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
But Peter said to him,”Explain the parable to us.” And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Rick Perry was with Palin in Austin last night. Today, the Republican Mayor from Grand Prairie, Tx endorsed the Democrat Bill White for gov because because Perry is he said “too divisive” and we need change. That ” hopey changey” feels great in Texas, Ms Palin!
I posted this above but I wanted to make 2 more points that is relevant to this passage from Matthew 15 and my understanding of Palin in particular:
1) Notice how Jesus calls the Pharisees “blind guides” when the disciples told Him that they were offended by His teaching of not worshipping traditions/religious ritual ABOVE God. Palin is indeed a blind guide to a lot of people and I really wish they would heed Jesus when he said “Let them alone, they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
2) Notice how in Isaiah, the prophet condemn God’s people that their “hearts are far from Him” and that they “worship Him in vain” because they are “teaching as doctrines the commandments of men”. How long will Palin perverse the Word of God by lumping the Scriptures and the Constitution into one big holy writ? Not all of man’s laws are bad but they are NOT biblical doctrine and shouldn’t be treated as such.
There is a very good reason for Jesus to rebuke the Pharisees in such strong language – because He knew that it was easier for people to set down rules and regulations to be pious over than to search their own hearts before God and be critical of themselves and their own behaviour. He knew that the Pharisees used the Law of Moses to lord it over the people that they are SUPPOSED to be leading. They were judgemental and heartless people.
AussieGal77 – true! The truth has been there all along staring the church in the face all these centuries, and those ambitious ruthless men of the cloth refused to see it. Now, political men/women claiming they are spiritual who wish to serve mammon (in politics) and push their idealogy on the masses think they are clever. But, It eventually leads to corruption. Besides, to me, Jesus doesn’t want someone forced to love him, he wants men to choose individually.
I don’t know Palin’s spiritual intent or heart, but by her actions, she seems to be exploiting God for her personal use. Throw a few endearing comments about praying with her child, her need for prayer covering, yet no mention of repentence, regret, no admittance to failure, no humility to speak about her frailties. Hypocrisy in speaking engagements at $100,000 or similar, at charity drives for right-to-life or women’s centers (tonight), talking about her baby with Down Syndrome.
Why do these foundations, charities find it acceptable to pay one woman with this experience above all the other women who have similar stories. It bugs me that our society places to much celebrity emphasis on exploiters and pay them to talk about what – I have a DS child. I had a pregnant teen. Like no other families have trials and tribulations? They give of themselves without cost or reward. I am so tired of this lame practice of paying people like her to speak for an hour at an outrageous cost. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all speak for that amount and talk about our problems?
Sorry, this started to be a Yes, Amen, and it turned into my rant.
Rant away! Believe me, I am just as frustrated about her obvious fraud.
And here’s the thing – fine, if these organisations want to throw $100k her way just to hear her speak but can she at least show up prepared? She earns a whopping pay check for each appearance and she just recycles the speeches! At the Tea Party convention she was so under prepared, she wrote on her hands! I mean, come on. The questions are already pre-screened and softball and yet she can’t put in a few hours to prepare for them? She’s gotta pull the last minute stunt of writing stuff on her hand cuz she couldn’t be bothered to remember a couple of points to EARN that $100k?
Honestly, I just feel sorry for the people who are paying her their hard earned money, in this economy, it is really a waste.
Back to you! That hand-writing thing has me wondering if she didn’t just plan that, planned it in advance. Put the dark marker writing on the hand, where obviously it would show as her hands were moving around. Could it be just a charade? it’s to extract the most amount of attention and news analysis for weeks. Also it could have been done because she wants to portray herself as poor man versus rich man (President Obama). Portray herself as just another good hot hard-lovin’ woman who doesn’t care about convention. It was a little “rogue” act to get the masses all wee-weed up! Wow, I’m on a roll.
I really would not be surprised if the hand writing thing, like all things Palin, was a lie and a hoax planned in advance to garner votes and populist adoration.
BRILLIANT! Now go and have yourself a Guinness! Well deserved! If this were HuffPo, I would fan ya! I thought for one second that the link didn’t work, and then… BAM! I gets it, austin, I GETS it!
I just read something about the judge telling the juors that they should change their minds and reach a decision,doesn’t sound good to me but maybe gives a chance at an appeal if he is found guility.and I think they will as it said they could not agree on the identy theft.
I’m guessing we’ll be seeing Palin defiantly wearing a black satin witch jacket with her usual collection of pearl danglies any day now. A mere work of the moment to swap out that pressed-dead-otter black velveteen job.
Apparently the twit finally tweeted about the oil leak. She is so compassionate, it’s touching how she and her family were in fear during the Exxon-Valdez disaster.
It took her quite a while to craft 3 sentences to address this issue, she truly is a genuis!
i love the ‘linking thingy’. once i learned how. i discovered the joys of copying and pasting. now i am really having fun with my computer. stick with mudflats. there is no telling what we can learn to do.
HA!! B in Co – You should have let it slide and we would have all assumed you were being terribly clever by purposely spelling it that way. Don’t you wish that posts had an “Etch – a – Sketch” option so you could just shake the mistake away. ( laughing with you and not at you. i know i’d be having a similar reaction )
Mr. Fly – as the only liberal in the office, my co-workers think I’m odd enough. this morning I fell out of my chair laughing. thanks for the brilliant send ups you create in your beautiful mind.
Great! Could we get $arah to stand on the gulf shore while the oil sludge hits the beach? She should be there- I’d love to see it. She needs to be as dirty on the outside as she is in the inside.
We could offer her all the fish and wildlife that washes up onshore with the slick. I’m sure she’d find a way to spin that it makes for good chili. After all , according to Palin, God put the oil reserves there for us to use so there simply can’t be a downside, right ?
I can barely bring myself to read about this, much less look at the photos. If she shows up anywhere talking about this I’m going to lose it .
High five to Fly! It’s so perfect that I can only find one little problem – the word “Lady”. She wasn’t ever, didn’t try never, and ain’t gonna be ever! Gawd that sounds pretty much like Palin’s mouth garbage you betcha!
You crack me up! We need this – it’s what she hates the most. Well almost – there are two things she hates:
1) people who cross her, and 2) people who laugh at her. The twit is so full of scorn, that she oughta grow horns!
Just caught up on the Rachel Maddow Show and heavens, what a rivetting interview she had with the President of FAIR, Dan Stein, – the group that helped drafted that awful AZ Immigration bill.
I think Stein was caught unprepared because Rachel – unlike most other journalists – actually had facts to back up her hard hitting questions.
His main arguments were:
- Rachel is unfair to attribute guilt by association just because one of the founding members (who is still on the board of Directors) held racist views, one of its employees held racist views and several others that Rachel points out (It’s not guilt by association – it’s called you hire and allow racists to be a part of your organization).
- Papers and memos written by someone and archived in a university library are private (No, it isn’t, they are public documents if you archive them in a PUBLIC LIBRARY).
- Rachel attributing the documented views of several of FAIR’s members to the group itself is……McCarthyism (No it isn’t, it’s called the FACTS).
- He also accused Rachel and her team of not getting their own facts (even though she brought up many examples of independent sources) and that she was just repeating talking points from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I think Rachel held her own and stuck to her guns whilst Stein talked over her any chance he got and wouldn’t let her finish asking her question.
Also, he was very rude at the end, telling Rachel that she was wasting his time when she actually gave him a lot of chances to answer to the clear disconnect between FAIR promoting itself as a moderate group and the racists among the organization. He never answered her questions, just kept barking about how it was unfair she was even asking the question and that the show was smearing his organization.
That clip really burns me! I commend Rachel trying to keep at Mr. Stein to get him to comment on her questions. He just kept denying and lying and disgusting the He// out me. She is a stronger woman than I am. I did like it when at one point he would not stop talking over Rachel and she balled up her fists and said “eerrrrrrg.” Stein is racist donkey’s butt.
I think he went on her show just to have a platform to talk and talk and talk…I’m glad she kept interrupting his lies, even thought no answers were given. what a piece of work…who knows how many other deceptive organizations are out there recruiting…oh brother, don’t get me started! :O
I have to say, as much as I like Rachel, that this interview was not a good one. She should have offered him a chance to explain what his spin is on what they do. Then start nailing him. She came out hitting and gave hime a defensible position.
Too bad. Its better when they prove they are jack a$$es on their own.
Well stated piece on HuffPo fr Malia Litman on HuffPo
regarding our favorite Queen of Quit
snip] This is not about politics. It’s about judgment and about respecting the rights of an individual citizen. There is surely nothing more objectionable than a politician attempting to confiscate that which you own, without any legal basis for doing so, but only because that politician wants something you have. This is not an example of something Palin did due to ignorance or lack of education. This was a fundamental error in judgment, or worse, an attitude that she could do whatever she wanted regardless of the rights of another person. [end snip
Oh, the hypocrisy! For once, I wish the Federal Govt would say NO! The repubs go on and on about state’s rights and how the states can take care of themselves – big govt stay out of our business!…alrighty then. Why is it that when an oil spill happens or a hurricane occurs, a state of emergency is declared and they want the Federal Govt it give them a ‘bailout’? Don’t they see the similarities? I’m not being harsh, I really feel for the states affected by this tragedy (mostly the wildlife) but I also wish a lesson can be taught here.
btw, no verdict yet in the ms yappy mouth trial…in my opinion, it does not look good for this kid. I hope her conscience eats her alive! oh yeah, she doesn’t have one! well, maybe some Karma will kick in…one can only hope…and what is it waiting for?!
OK mudflatters, (from Alaska and beyond!) it is time we take action. Contrary to what the Administration is saying, Shell and Conoco are continuing ahead with drilling in the Chukchi and Arctic seas this spring/summer. They are not slowing down, they are not stopping until we have a better understanding about what happened in the Gulf and how to prevent it from happening off the coast of Alaska. Shell and Conoco will be conducting deep sea drilling off the coast of Alaska, just like BP in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no one stopping them; not our Governor, not our Congressional delegation, not our President.
Seems the only thing that has any hope of stopping them is common sense loving folks like you and me. We know what happens when oil coats our shores! and it ain’t pretty. Just imagine the “Deadliest Catch” fishing in oil filled waters and pulling up oiled crab.
Find every blog you can and start the public opinion outcry to stop drilling in the Chukchi and Arctic now. Go forth and multiply those blog postings!
KNOXVILLE — A federal jury this afternoon convicted Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell of felony destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation and misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.
The jury acquitted Kernell, 22, of wire fraud.
It remains deadlocked on felony identity theft.
It’s unclear if U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Phillips will order the jurors, in their fourth day of deliberations, to continue.
Health care Story.
I saw this story on our local News last night. Remember the 39% Rate Hikes Anthem Blue Cross wanted when the Health care debate was going on..?
“California Insurer Drops Rate Hikes After Errors Are Found ”
“Now it turns out the Anthem hikes were a big mistake, literally. Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of insurance giant WellPoint, is canceling the increases, which it had previously postponed, after independent actuaries hired by the state’s insurance commissioner found the company’s rationale was riddled with errors.”
If you’re on or near the Gulf, and want to help with the cleanup (which will be vast and heartbreaking), please go to the link above and fill out the form. Blessings to all who can help.
LOVE the purple hair………..
Hahahaha!
Ah Flyinureye . . . that’s the nattering nitwit to a future T.
So where is Ms. Drill Baby Drill during this very oily disastrous time in the Gulf?
Sarah? Sarah?
Oh Fly – I’m roaring! You always outdo yourself. Just luuuv those strategically-placed dollar pasties. Where can I send in for my subscription to NOCLU? I’ll take six-month’s worth, thank you. The magazine will hopefully be defunct by then. Swing them hips, $$aree! Right off the stage.
$arah needs to see a death panel doctor about that growth on the back of her head. Does she own stock in the Bumpit company? Eeewww…hope she washes them more often than she washes her wigs, purple or otherwise. (snark). Also, too – her silence on the oil slick disaster is deafening.
Awesome, as usual Fly! You rock!
Dang, fly! Keep ‘em coming, brother. You are amazing; Lady Bla Bla (granny blah blah) is the Muse that keeps on giving. Petty of me, I suppose, but laughing AT her somehow diminishes her Power…makes me feel like Dorothy with a fire hose instead of just a little bucket of water.
Thanks, fly. I needed that.
L’Shalom, all.
LOL She’s arrived! SP has the popularity and fan-base any attention-loving momma bear would dream of. Lady BlahBlah blahing all the way to the bank.
When is “the one who quit” going to blame that oil spill on Obama? Yup, drilling our way to prosperity… plenty of jobs washing developing now…. washing fury things in an attempt to save their lives. S’error should be one of the first people required to clean the crude off of the coastal region. Lisa Murkowski should join. Dung Young and Ex-felon Senator Stevens, also too.
Just imagine McCain/Palin’s plan of building 80 new nuclear plants with the Republican’s Party track record of no oversight or regulation. That would have surely become the end of life on our planet.
I’ll bet good money that her comment will involve the fact the BP is not an American Company and we should trust Exon and Mobile who are good hard workin’ Merican busnusses that support freedom and all patriots.
…and our Troops, also, too, YBETCHA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MOzmiY9iQ&feature=player_embedded
Oh, those tiny little footprints! Aren’t they so cute? Bet $arah is paying her staff of writers overtime to find some way to blame this on the President. And of course, we can expect the “he wanted to do it, too” excuse any second now. The moral of that story is simple: if Palin thinks something is a good idea, you can pretty much bet it isn’t.
I hear rush and the other vermin are saying it was Ecoterrorists, so yes, they could be connected to the Kenyan Muslim.
But the latest news it could have been caused by faulty work by….get this….Halliburton! Boy, they come up in just about every major screwup, don’t they?
An Op-Ed from yesterdays Philadelphia Inquirer:
Tea partyers ought to consider the ACLU
Both groups appear to share a fervent attachment to the Constitution.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20100429_Tea_partyers_ought_to_consider_the_ACLU.html
If I needed a graphics guy, I’d hire fly! LOL! Pasties, wouldn’t be suprised to see her wearing them!
Take a look at photos of her with McCain in AZ from a week or so ago. She gained a few miraculous cup sizes by wearing her new biker’s leather jacket. Call me… Tiger!
Hey! That is the way to wake up! Thank you.
Anyone following Doonesbury this week?
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
Thanks for that! Funny!
Yeah. Doonesbury has been EVISCERATING her. It’s delicious.
Love that! She gets a sentence going and she doesn’t know how to stop it. Just goes on and on…..
Oh day-um, that is funny! The stuffed animals are just like the folks over at C4P.
Excellent work Fly!
The following is from a friend’s facebook page:
Every a$$hole who ever chanted “drill baby drill” should have to report to the Gulf Coast today for clean up.
That’s good merrycricket. I’m “stealing” it for my Facebook page!
Me too!
Bling Boobs! Love it. Another masterpiece.
Speaking to AZ conservatives in their language, Lev. 19:33-34: ‘When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’ (biblegateway.com)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+19%3A33-34&version=NIV
Nice catch, Austin. I suspect many have edited that passage out of their Bibles, along with all the ones about loving one’s neighbors and caring for those less fortunate.
Awesome quote – thank you.
Nan
For the fundies, religion is not real, not for the real world, apparently.
Those things God/Jesus said, well, we believe them but they are not practical. On earth we must be selfish and tough on those who don’t have a right to be here.
These people DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD. that is my theory. Deep down they don’t because they sure act like dicks without any fear of punishment.
But austin, that’s not one of the GOOD parts of the Bible! You’re ONLY supposed to listen to the parts that agree with the conservative platform (Rules for Living as a Rightwingnut) and ignore the rest. Silly boy!!!
Flyinureye makes Baby Trigg cry!
The oil spill, wow, what a heart breaker. Here’s hoping the mine deaths create mega safety regulations & the oil spill stops off shore drilling (and drilling in places that need to be kept pure, like ANWR). They say we are the smartest creature on Earth, I have to wonder if we are the dumbest. What other animal would do this to their home?
Drill, Baby, Drill
The original “Death Panels”;
1. reinforced Palin’s energy expertise
2. misdirected attention from the Wall Street speculation that gave us $4 per gallon gas prices
3. was hopey-changey for “real Americans” (who didn’t have Big Oil shares in their stock portfolios)
Most of all, Palin was the only politician capable of spouting such an airheaded slogan.
Can anyone imagine any other candidate getting away with such silliness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9D3epQL704
Naomi Klein:
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2009/07/capitalism-sarah-palin-style
To think that President Obama relaxed the off shore drilling restrictions in exchange for some some help from Sen. Graham on environmental protection regulation!
Seems as if President Obama’s “big stick” may have just gained some heft with this BP disaster. What a way for it to happen, though.
Wow. You found a real nugget! Thanks for passing it along.
good summary, thanks for sharing
Bravo~Fly you have created a masterpiece. Gotta say, this is my fav. I do believe that the Lady is in Giddings, Texas visiting with her oil buddies.
She told the crowd that Giddings, where she has been staying this week, has “become a home away from home.”
She said she felt comfortable in Texas because she is “surrounded by patriotic Americans.”
“You’re not afraid to cling to your guns and to your religion,” she said.
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Yeah , they cut some big checks in Giddings.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/at-anti-abo...
She kinda misses the point about “clinging to religion”. The whole point of that comment was that “religion” was more important to some people than compassion on their fellow Americans. That “religion” and “traditions” were more important than loving your neighbour as yourself. Essentially, Palin has no real idea about the teachings of Jesus because she really doesn’t have an authentic relationship with Him. Using Jesus and the Bible like some kind of political prop is not bringing glory to the name of God. Also too, clinging to guns doesn’t prove anything other than:
1. You have guns and you are very attached to them and
2. You seem to be afraid of something….hence the clinging to your guns…
Jesus said it best when he was rebuking the Pharisees, which Palin is increasingly similar to.
Matthew 15:1-20
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
But Peter said to him,”Explain the parable to us.” And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
This during the same week she told Sean Hannity that the President is “dividing the country,” and that “we are all Americans.”
Except she is surrounded by Patriots in Giddings, meaning not other places.
Rick Perry was with Palin in Austin last night. Today, the Republican Mayor from Grand Prairie, Tx endorsed the Democrat Bill White for gov because because Perry is he said “too divisive” and we need change. That ” hopey changey” feels great in Texas, Ms Palin!
Mr. Fly, you are responsible for an awful lot of coffee spray on my monitor. Does anyone know of a good cleaner?
I recommend this:
http://www.innocentenglish.com/pug-licking-screen-clean/
Speaking of Pugs….
http://www.headbutler.com/shorttakes/video-week
go here for youtube that is so silly you will smile
thanks, LiladyNY. I’ve used this one before, but had lost my link.
*waving from the Gulf Coast*
Hello thatcrowwoman. (Waving from the Elite East Coast.)
Is this oil spill going to impact you? My heart is breaking. Will we never learn?
I’m pretty sure Bubs would lend you a couple of kitties if you misplace your Puggies.
The best is Klear Screen. Only cleaner recommended by Apple. Non-toxic, pump spray with washable cloths. Also cleans CDs, DVDs, etc. Find it online.
Ask BuffaloGal to borrow some kittehs!
‘Flyinureye makes Baby Trigg cry!’
Don’t you mean Baby Burke!!!! *evil grin*
Hey MudFlats…your mentioned in a column today in a Canadian newspaper regarding the whooper of the bootleg grandpas lie.
http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/759724
Lady Gaga ‘Telephone’ + US Troops = Amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHXgFU7qNI
I posted this above but I wanted to make 2 more points that is relevant to this passage from Matthew 15 and my understanding of Palin in particular:
1) Notice how Jesus calls the Pharisees “blind guides” when the disciples told Him that they were offended by His teaching of not worshipping traditions/religious ritual ABOVE God. Palin is indeed a blind guide to a lot of people and I really wish they would heed Jesus when he said “Let them alone, they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
2) Notice how in Isaiah, the prophet condemn God’s people that their “hearts are far from Him” and that they “worship Him in vain” because they are “teaching as doctrines the commandments of men”. How long will Palin perverse the Word of God by lumping the Scriptures and the Constitution into one big holy writ? Not all of man’s laws are bad but they are NOT biblical doctrine and shouldn’t be treated as such.
There is a very good reason for Jesus to rebuke the Pharisees in such strong language – because He knew that it was easier for people to set down rules and regulations to be pious over than to search their own hearts before God and be critical of themselves and their own behaviour. He knew that the Pharisees used the Law of Moses to lord it over the people that they are SUPPOSED to be leading. They were judgemental and heartless people.
Remind you of anyone?
AussieGal77 – true! The truth has been there all along staring the church in the face all these centuries, and those ambitious ruthless men of the cloth refused to see it. Now, political men/women claiming they are spiritual who wish to serve mammon (in politics) and push their idealogy on the masses think they are clever. But, It eventually leads to corruption. Besides, to me, Jesus doesn’t want someone forced to love him, he wants men to choose individually.
I don’t know Palin’s spiritual intent or heart, but by her actions, she seems to be exploiting God for her personal use. Throw a few endearing comments about praying with her child, her need for prayer covering, yet no mention of repentence, regret, no admittance to failure, no humility to speak about her frailties. Hypocrisy in speaking engagements at $100,000 or similar, at charity drives for right-to-life or women’s centers (tonight), talking about her baby with Down Syndrome.
Why do these foundations, charities find it acceptable to pay one woman with this experience above all the other women who have similar stories. It bugs me that our society places to much celebrity emphasis on exploiters and pay them to talk about what – I have a DS child. I had a pregnant teen. Like no other families have trials and tribulations? They give of themselves without cost or reward. I am so tired of this lame practice of paying people like her to speak for an hour at an outrageous cost. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all speak for that amount and talk about our problems?
Sorry, this started to be a Yes, Amen, and it turned into my rant.
Rant away! Believe me, I am just as frustrated about her obvious fraud.
And here’s the thing – fine, if these organisations want to throw $100k her way just to hear her speak but can she at least show up prepared? She earns a whopping pay check for each appearance and she just recycles the speeches! At the Tea Party convention she was so under prepared, she wrote on her hands! I mean, come on. The questions are already pre-screened and softball and yet she can’t put in a few hours to prepare for them? She’s gotta pull the last minute stunt of writing stuff on her hand cuz she couldn’t be bothered to remember a couple of points to EARN that $100k?
Honestly, I just feel sorry for the people who are paying her their hard earned money, in this economy, it is really a waste.
Back to you! That hand-writing thing has me wondering if she didn’t just plan that, planned it in advance. Put the dark marker writing on the hand, where obviously it would show as her hands were moving around. Could it be just a charade? it’s to extract the most amount of attention and news analysis for weeks. Also it could have been done because she wants to portray herself as poor man versus rich man (President Obama). Portray herself as just another good hot hard-lovin’ woman who doesn’t care about convention. It was a little “rogue” act to get the masses all wee-weed up! Wow, I’m on a roll.
I really would not be surprised if the hand writing thing, like all things Palin, was a lie and a hoax planned in advance to garner votes and populist adoration.
Aussie and Rebekkah – Yes and Amen .
Tellin’ it !!
http://twitter.com/billmaher/status/13089003490
BREAKING: Picture of Sarah Palin and other “Drill, baby, drill” proponents helping to clean the Gulf of Mexico.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Nothing_whitespace_blank.gif
BRILLIANT! Now go and have yourself a Guinness! Well deserved! If this were HuffPo, I would fan ya! I thought for one second that the link didn’t work, and then… BAM! I gets it, austin, I GETS it!
Ain’t it the truth!
*laughing to keep from crying*
Penalty for college prank prying into Palin’s email account: 50 years
Penalty for getting kickbacks for sending juveniles to lockdown facilities: 20 years
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/04/29/1167941/ex-pa-judge-to-plead-guilty-in.html
What would Palin think? And what would Jesus think?
I just read something about the judge telling the juors that they should change their minds and reach a decision,doesn’t sound good to me but maybe gives a chance at an appeal if he is found guility.and I think they will as it said they could not agree on the identy theft.
This is my favorite. Parody is an excellent way to expose the truth.
I’m guessing we’ll be seeing Palin defiantly wearing a black satin witch jacket with her usual collection of pearl danglies any day now. A mere work of the moment to swap out that pressed-dead-otter black velveteen job.
Lavendar hair, strangely, becomes her.
Apparently the twit finally tweeted about the oil leak. She is so compassionate, it’s touching how she and her family were in fear during the Exxon-Valdez disaster.
It took her quite a while to craft 3 sentences to address this issue, she truly is a genuis!
I’m a twit that doesn’t tweet… or facebook for that matter! Can you post the twits tweet or link us there? PLEEEEEZE?
Sorry, just learning about this linking thingy! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/drill-baby-drill-champion_n_558014.html
i love the ‘linking thingy’. once i learned how. i discovered the joys of copying and pasting. now i am really having fun with my computer. stick with mudflats. there is no telling what we can learn to do.
OMG, I spelled genius wrong! Dying of embarrassment!
HA!! B in Co – You should have let it slide and we would have all assumed you were being terribly clever by purposely spelling it that way. Don’t you wish that posts had an “Etch – a – Sketch” option so you could just shake the mistake away. ( laughing with you and not at you. i know i’d be having a similar reaction )
Did you mean this one?
Check out Bob Cesca on the oil disaster this morning -
http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2010/04/the_smell_of_oi.html
Love this comment in particular:
“Spill, the mysterious fragrance with a hint of hellfire and brimstone from Sarah Palin, sold exclusively at Cabelas!”
Mr. Fly – as the only liberal in the office, my co-workers think I’m odd enough. this morning I fell out of my chair laughing. thanks for the brilliant send ups you create in your beautiful mind.
Evelyn, I am the only liberal in my office too! The only saving grace is that my boss is not at all fond of organized religion, so I can deal.
Great! Could we get $arah to stand on the gulf shore while the oil sludge hits the beach? She should be there- I’d love to see it. She needs to be as dirty on the outside as she is in the inside.
What kind of fee do you think she’d expect for that?
We could offer her all the fish and wildlife that washes up onshore with the slick. I’m sure she’d find a way to spin that it makes for good chili. After all , according to Palin, God put the oil reserves there for us to use so there simply can’t be a downside, right ?
I can barely bring myself to read about this, much less look at the photos. If she shows up anywhere talking about this I’m going to lose it .
Spill Baby Spill!!!
Great job!
My only problem is that her hair looks clean. A little grease, maybe some spiders crawling in it, would help.
Here’s a humorous jab at Arizona’s little law.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0429/New-iPhone-app-for-Arizona-immigration-law
If Fly greased up her hair and had a few spiders crawling through it, she wouldn’t be Lady Bla-Bla any more, she would be Sarah Whinehouse! LOL
High five to Fly! It’s so perfect that I can only find one little problem – the word “Lady”. She wasn’t ever, didn’t try never, and ain’t gonna be ever! Gawd that sounds pretty much like Palin’s mouth garbage you betcha!
You crack me up! We need this – it’s what she hates the most. Well almost – there are two things she hates:
1) people who cross her, and 2) people who laugh at her. The twit is so full of scorn, that she oughta grow horns!
I love being in category one and two you betcha!
Just caught up on the Rachel Maddow Show and heavens, what a rivetting interview she had with the President of FAIR, Dan Stein, – the group that helped drafted that awful AZ Immigration bill.
I think Stein was caught unprepared because Rachel – unlike most other journalists – actually had facts to back up her hard hitting questions.
His main arguments were:
- Rachel is unfair to attribute guilt by association just because one of the founding members (who is still on the board of Directors) held racist views, one of its employees held racist views and several others that Rachel points out (It’s not guilt by association – it’s called you hire and allow racists to be a part of your organization).
- Papers and memos written by someone and archived in a university library are private (No, it isn’t, they are public documents if you archive them in a PUBLIC LIBRARY).
- Rachel attributing the documented views of several of FAIR’s members to the group itself is……McCarthyism (No it isn’t, it’s called the FACTS).
- He also accused Rachel and her team of not getting their own facts (even though she brought up many examples of independent sources) and that she was just repeating talking points from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I think Rachel held her own and stuck to her guns whilst Stein talked over her any chance he got and wouldn’t let her finish asking her question.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#36862136
Also, he was very rude at the end, telling Rachel that she was wasting his time when she actually gave him a lot of chances to answer to the clear disconnect between FAIR promoting itself as a moderate group and the racists among the organization. He never answered her questions, just kept barking about how it was unfair she was even asking the question and that the show was smearing his organization.
And oh, apparently, according to Stein – if your racist white separatist views were held 20 sum years ago, then by 2010, they are not relevant!
Yay for statute of limitations on racism!
That clip really burns me! I commend Rachel trying to keep at Mr. Stein to get him to comment on her questions. He just kept denying and lying and disgusting the He// out me. She is a stronger woman than I am. I did like it when at one point he would not stop talking over Rachel and she balled up her fists and said “eerrrrrrg.” Stein is racist donkey’s butt.
wasn’t he the biggest d**k?!! I could not have kept my cool, as Rachel did.
He was a terrible jerk, honestly. Plus – never answered any of Rachel’s questions!
I think he went on her show just to have a platform to talk and talk and talk…I’m glad she kept interrupting his lies, even thought no answers were given. what a piece of work…who knows how many other deceptive organizations are out there recruiting…oh brother, don’t get me started! :O
they never do answer questions they don’t like.
I have to say, as much as I like Rachel, that this interview was not a good one. She should have offered him a chance to explain what his spin is on what they do. Then start nailing him. She came out hitting and gave hime a defensible position.
Too bad. Its better when they prove they are jack a$$es on their own.
Well stated piece on HuffPo fr Malia Litman on HuffPo
regarding our favorite Queen of Quit
snip] This is not about politics. It’s about judgment and about respecting the rights of an individual citizen. There is surely nothing more objectionable than a politician attempting to confiscate that which you own, without any legal basis for doing so, but only because that politician wants something you have. This is not an example of something Palin did due to ignorance or lack of education. This was a fundamental error in judgment, or worse, an attitude that she could do whatever she wanted regardless of the rights of another person. [end snip
read more @
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malia-litman/whats-wrong-with-sarah-pa_b_557253.html
Where on the front cover of the Swag-Hag-o-rama is the story line “Spill, Baby, Spill” gonna go???
Oh, the hypocrisy! For once, I wish the Federal Govt would say NO! The repubs go on and on about state’s rights and how the states can take care of themselves – big govt stay out of our business!…alrighty then. Why is it that when an oil spill happens or a hurricane occurs, a state of emergency is declared and they want the Federal Govt it give them a ‘bailout’? Don’t they see the similarities? I’m not being harsh, I really feel for the states affected by this tragedy (mostly the wildlife) but I also wish a lesson can be taught here.
btw, no verdict yet in the ms yappy mouth trial…in my opinion, it does not look good for this kid. I hope her conscience eats her alive! oh yeah, she doesn’t have one! well, maybe some Karma will kick in…one can only hope…and what is it waiting for?!
Happy Friday everyone!
did not mean, at all, to leave out the loss of human life…that goes without saying. my condolences to the families, of course!
Andrew Sullivan on the cult of Sarah Palin:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/04/our-sarah.html
This sentence sent chills up my spine;
“She is a symbolic, iconic figure – and her support comes from non-rational identity politics in a time of economic distress and great social change.”
Can we ever break this demagoguery?
The truth will come out one day. It sure seems long before that day though.
OK mudflatters, (from Alaska and beyond!) it is time we take action. Contrary to what the Administration is saying, Shell and Conoco are continuing ahead with drilling in the Chukchi and Arctic seas this spring/summer. They are not slowing down, they are not stopping until we have a better understanding about what happened in the Gulf and how to prevent it from happening off the coast of Alaska. Shell and Conoco will be conducting deep sea drilling off the coast of Alaska, just like BP in the Gulf of Mexico. There is no one stopping them; not our Governor, not our Congressional delegation, not our President.
Seems the only thing that has any hope of stopping them is common sense loving folks like you and me. We know what happens when oil coats our shores! and it ain’t pretty. Just imagine the “Deadliest Catch” fishing in oil filled waters and pulling up oiled crab.
Find every blog you can and start the public opinion outcry to stop drilling in the Chukchi and Arctic now. Go forth and multiply those blog postings!
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/apr/30/judge-...
KNOXVILLE — A federal jury this afternoon convicted Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell of felony destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation and misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.
The jury acquitted Kernell, 22, of wire fraud.
It remains deadlocked on felony identity theft.
It’s unclear if U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Phillips will order the jurors, in their fourth day of deliberations, to continue.
Health care Story.
I saw this story on our local News last night. Remember the 39% Rate Hikes Anthem Blue Cross wanted when the Health care debate was going on..?
“California Insurer Drops Rate Hikes After Errors Are Found ”
“Now it turns out the Anthem hikes were a big mistake, literally. Anthem Blue Cross, a unit of insurance giant WellPoint, is canceling the increases, which it had previously postponed, after independent actuaries hired by the state’s insurance commissioner found the company’s rationale was riddled with errors.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/04/california_insurer_drops_rate.html
I have read some other stories out there saying they may still go up 15%, which is still too much as well.
“Correcting the flaws could drop the rate hikes to an average of 15%, the outside analyst said in a report.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0430-anthem-20100430,0,2916652.story
http://www.audubonaction.org/site/Survey?ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&SURVEY_ID=3400
If you’re on or near the Gulf, and want to help with the cleanup (which will be vast and heartbreaking), please go to the link above and fill out the form. Blessings to all who can help.
Health and peace.
Hubby and I just watching news and heard a report about a strong earthquake near Anchorage. Hope AKM and everyone are safe!
Thank goodness, it’s not near Anchorage. 900 some miles away out in the Bering Sea. What’s going on with all the earthquakes.
Hope this doesn’t affect any islands with populations on western coastal Alaska.
So did fox news report that Bristol said she was home with HER newborn when the dreaded email password crackin’ happen. In October?
http://www.politicususa.com/en/babygate-fox-news
they’re waiting for transcripts