Open Thread – Pink Elephants
“Look out, Washington. There’s a whole stampede of pink elephants coming.”
~Sarah Palin
Yup. She really did. She said it once before and I guess nobody told her what it meant. Presumably she was trying to come up with a cute analogy for Republican women, not realizing the expression was already taken.
Allow me:
“Seeing pink elephants” is a euphemism for drunken hallucination, caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens.
The first recorded use of the term is by Jack London in 1913, who describes one sort of alcoholic in the autobiographical John Barleycorn as “the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. He is the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers.”
And of course, the term was immortalized in one of the most bizarre musical numbers from the Disney archives, “Pink Elephants on Parade” from Dumbo. Dumbo the elephant and Timothy the mouse drink from a water bucket that is (unbeknownst to them) spiked with alcohol. Wackiness ensues.
A word of warning to the nation’s capital, from back when Disney was just … well…. kinda disturbing.
Look out! Look out!
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come!
Hippety hoppety
They’re here and there
Pink elephants ev’rywhere
Look out! Look out!
They’re walking around the bed
On their head
Clippety cloppety
Arrayed in braid
Pink elephants on parade
What’ll I do? What’ll I do?
What an unusual view!
I could stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But technicolor pachyderms
Is really too much for me
I am not the type to faint
When things are odd or things
are quaint
But seeing things you know that ain’t
Can certainly give you an awful fright!
What a sight!
Chase ‘em away!
Chase ‘em away!
I’m afraid need your aid
Pink elephants on parade!
Pink elephants!
Pink elephants!
Chase ‘em away indeed.
She reminds me more of the crows Heckle and Jeckle.
Her speech writer works for the other side.
She is a Republican woman– does she refer to herself as an elephant?
But she gets it. She is a product of her generation. Whoever dies with the most wins in Sarah’s world, her legacy will be what she raked in for speeches and bad books.
GoI3ig ……….hey those crows were funny and a whole smarter than $arah….lol
Maybe that’s where her alter ego and Bristol go clubbing………check it out The International “Pink Elephants Club”!
The hottest thing going http://www.pinkelephantclub.com/home.html
Wow. Happily, I am much to old to care about this. Except that their music sucks big time.
She reminds me of Lazy Mayzie from Horton Hatches an Egg.
I know–right?!
She drops the kids off to galavant and when it’s convenient and someone else has done all the work raising them (or not) she tries to snatch them back–mostly for photo ops.
I have a million things to say about $arah’s brain-dead pink elephant comment. But right now, I’d like to thank AKM for the genius of finding the mesmerizing Disney video about pink elephants. Gazing at It transported me into another world (a delightful, mirthful one) that Palin would have no clue about. Today is my birthday (age 57 now), and that video had to be the best gift I’ve ever received.
Happy Birthday !!! ♥
Thank you twain! Truth be told, the best gift ever was finding the Mudflats. I love being here, just sittin’ on the porch with the mudpups. I feel wrapped in wings and paws when I come here. I had been a hushpup for many moons, but no longer.
Happy Birthday indeed! Loved your comment about being a “hushpup” before you became a “mudpup.” I bet a lot of us were. Glad to know we are one big happy community of fur and wings helping each learn and cope with weirdness and such that has escalated since SP hit the national scene. May your 50th year be the beginning of a long healthy and happy rest of your life! I remember my fifties quite fondly.
Happy birthday former-ex-hushpup!
Well…shucks. Thank you kind lady and new friends. You have made my day very happy indeed.
happy birthday heidi1!
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day.
Happy birthday! I am about finished with 57, so it is nice to pass it along to you! Enjoy your special day.
Happy Birthday heidi 1….wishing you many more to come….
Many happy returns of the day.
Mazel tov and L’Chaim!
Many happy returns!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday to you Heidi……hope you have a joyful day and many more to come.
Happy Birthday, Heidi! Perhaps you could enjoy some bubbly (or other adult beverage of choice) to go with the pink elephants.
Happy Birthday, Heidi1! I loved your gift from AKM, also, for your well said reason…(Ahh! To be 57 again!)
Same here except I am older but wondered where AKM found it.
Thank you, thank you, one and all for the birthday wishes! I had a wonderful day of doing absolutely nothing. We sat out on the patio, (with adult beverages, of course!) shaded from the 81° beating sun, and listened to the sounds of the local airshow going on. I’ve been going to that show since 1978, but decided to give it a rest this year. Hubby & I spent time deciding which avocado tree type will be best to buy & plant tomorrow. That’s an age-old tradition with us…every birthday gift is the selection and planting of a special new item for our yard.
Happy birthday!
Pink Elephants on Parade was probably second only to the dancing mushroooms of Fantasia in warping the brains of Boomers in directions that I presume Uncle Walt didn’t really intend, based on other evidence.
Early Boomer here (’47), and thoroughly entrapped.
Hmm, and maybe Walt was trickier than most folks give him credit for. The general ambience of Disney cartoons is pretty anti-authority, despite Walt’s reputation as a martinet.
Yep, grew up on Fantasia and Pink Floyd. No wonder I’m so twisted.
What was my Mother thinking?
Another great post…well done!
LOL, this is great. You know, it’s been a long time since I thought about the dentist I went to as a child. Sober, he was really good. But once when my mom was in there, he was seeing pink elephants and something flying around the ceiling and kept asking her if she could see them. (There was nothing there.) Then, sadly, after that, his office was closed more than it was open. I’ve no idea what happened to him, except that we had to find a new dentist.
But Sarah and her pink elephants. . . pink? Why would she pick that? It makes no sense at all, even given the reference to alcohol. Is she really that stupid? Hmm, never mind. You don’t need to answer that – I think she already did.
elephants=GOP
pink=girls
therefore pink elephants= Republican women, er ladies, er girls (drinking red bull and or kool aid?)
That’s about as deep as granny feckin’ fraud can think, eh?
oh, pink elephants was a favorite when my kids were little. Please, sarah, leave it to disney, and do not turn it into a teabag thing!!!!
And now… NRA redneck jokes, how Obama would take your guns if he could, and more jelously over not being in the White House (LOSER!!!!) and… tada! Now she thinks if her & Mcdork had won the could change the Supreme Courts votes! Doit!
“If John McCain and I were in the White House right now, the one-vote margin on [a recent gun case] would have been a two-vote margin,” she said.
“Elections do matter….God bless everyone in the NRA, and God bless America.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/14/2010-05-14_sarah_palin_at_national_rifle_association_lobs_laughing_crowd_with_redneck_jokes.html#ixzz0nzhLsiqu
Jeff Foxworthy ought to sue her ass for using his 15 yr. old stale material.
Actually, Jeff Foxworthy just gave me an idea on a new line of jokes: “You might be a Palin if………………………………………….”
Plenty of material to work with here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Palin%20
Great idea!
And we all know that the Constitution has been changed SO many times recently! And it’s a legislative process, not an executive decision.
I truly believe that she has no understanding of federal government at all. It’s astonishing, which is all that I’ll say…
As for the pink elephants, I think maybe her redneck diet drug is getting to her. Meth does that.
Meth would also explain her angry rants.
That explains everything. Now we know what the Tea Baggers really drink at their “tea” parties.
Nessie, is that you? My favorite place ever.
Considering how little sense Ms Quitter Pants makes, my guess is that by Pink Elephants, she means female republicans. A pretty rare commodity if you check all three branches of the Federal Government. Perhaps the lack of female republicans has something to do with the republican parties’ inability to treat women as equals who can determine life decisions without Uncle Sam forcing them to do as some religious fundamentalists wish.
Of course the Republican Party is mostly the pale pasty white old men club. A club so out of touch that they figured any young woman in a tight shirt would be their answer to Hillary Clinton and the youthful Black Boy. $’error really was only McCain’s Hail Marry Pass option.
Pretty good analysis, wolfpack!
yep. sure is.
Good one! Hehehe.
The Irish Times has an article on Palin.
For decades, as Palin said to laughter, American feminists were found “in faculty lounges in east coast colleges”. She was reclaiming feminism for the right, defining herself as “a western feminist, influenced by the pioneering spirit of our foremothers who went across the country in wagon trains. They had dirt under their fingernails and could shoot a gun and push a plough . . . I feel a connection to that tough, gun-totin’ Annie Oakley feminism.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0515/1224270464542.html
She’s so full of sh*t the flies are passing out. It really pisses me off when she describes herself as a “feminist”. She hasn’t the first clue what being a feminist is all about.
As far as “reclaiming”, don’t think so. The Republicans have never claimed feminism as a positive platform. No, this is another case of the Republicans attempting to highjack a word and redifine it. Examples of words that meant something completly different in the popular conscience 10 years ago: liberal, green, progressive, tea bag(ing), socialist, communist, czar, evolution, etc. I’m sure I could think up a bunch more, given the inclination.
Thank you, hedgewytch. This incarnation, given her sociopathic personality, may be a Clint Eastwood western character in an American-flag dress, wearing a big cross.
Start with “maverick”…
Eek. So does The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2010/may/15/sarah-palin-feminism-abortion
So now we know…
Red for lipstick
pink for elephants
green for envy
yellow for anybody but people like us, true americans
brown for ‘those’ people in Arizona
blue for all those people she left cold and hungry in Alaska
black like her heart or that oil spill (but lets drill, baby, drill)
The list goes on
And unfortunately , so does she.
Pretty angry box of crayons she has, isn’t it?
This was tweeted this morning by Owillis. You have to see it to believe it. Conservatives selling lewd poster of Sarah Palin. http://www.zazzle.com/sarah_para_bellum_2012_poster-228118176066278091
May I humbly add this to yours and the gazillion posters of sarah ??
http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/10/2/633585709524031789-Palin.jpg
LOL so right!
It’s not enough to have a President you want to have a beer with – now they want a President they can think about when they masturbate. Give “Pulling for Palin” a whole new meaning.
Isn’t it a white elephant that is the booby prize.
Pink elephants, tea baggers, and chicken hawks these are the names that the right has given themselves and all of them have other meanings that Im sure that they didnt know about which tells me volumes about the right in America. They are LAZY, IGNORENT, and PROUD OF IT since each one of these terms are have been used for other meanings for a long time, you would think that SOMEBODY on the right would use a search engine to look up the word before using it in an open forum, urban dictionary anybody, Bueller, Bueller. They have been reduced to using the Bush stratigum of governence by soundbite, if it sounds good use it no matter what it really means, or if it is really true.
Yes, Sarah is a white elephant!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
Perfect!
Sarah Palin’s tea party patriots vandalized a school in Maine (it appears that they did not want the children of this eight grade class to enjoy freedom of expression and thought)…it’s a very interesting read:
http://www.salon.com/news/tea_parties/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/05/14/maine_tea_party_worse_than_you_thought
Fascism by any other name….
…just a thought.. she did the NRA thing for free ( ok, probably got her expenses paid for)..maybe her schedule is starting to thin out of paying gigs.. let’s keep an eye on that. .. could be the start of the end for her..especially as 1) her speech is basically the same from place to place 2) her attempts to be relevant to current events seem to blow up on her…wrong position or just called a flat out lie…
Maybe that’s why she’s so obsessive about keeping recording devices out of her appearances. Since her speeches are essentially the same regardless of where she is or who she’s speechifying to, it would really save a fortune if someone could get a recording of one of them. Then they could copy it and sell it for just a few dollars to anyone who wants to save $100,000 and doesn’t want to share their bendy straws.
Hey, isn’t that just good ol’ Amurikan capitalism at its best???????????????????????
♫♪♫ … Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band
Won’t you take a ride on a flyin’ spoon? … doo doo doo doo
What ya smokin’, $’error ?
SAGE!… how did you do that? musical notes and smiley.
Please tell………….Puhleeze
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It is amazing that Mrs. Palin and friends have absolutely no idea about much of anything.
twice already some foolish person has made up names to represent some aspect of their party the first was calling themselves Teabaggers and the last, so far, is Pink Elephants. unbelievable. i love it though because from now i will think of Mrs.Palin’s bot mot when i think of Republican women. fortunately i will also think of the delightful pink elephants dancing and making music in the video above.
Money talks
Palin-as motivational speaker-is finally hitting her stride. Republicans are on the side of bible-thumping gun-toting rednecks. All Republicans want in exchange is tax cuts for the rich! Everybody wins!
The speaking engagement with the Hong Kong Investors was simply a false start. Yes, it was a good pay day!
Palin is a goon.
Keith Olbermann ends every report about Sarah by calling her an idiot.
but a wealthy idiot…..hmmm.
Keep in mind what the recently passed former governor said of her. (excellent post about an excellent man here on Mudflats.) ” She is not her own person.” Money is cold but comfortable comfort when you’re crazy.
LOL…that’s true MinNJ…but i am not so sure that Mrs Palin realizes she might be crazy.. i think in her world all is well and all is bright. look at all the real people who love her unconditionally and who are going to put her in the oval office in just two years.
@bubbles: a frightening scene, but she knows she’s about the money. I don’t think we have to worry. Her incitement, we have to worry ( I won’t go there, but she reminds me a lot of George Wallace, just sayin’.)
Also , too.
1. Palin American
A pc way to call someone mentally challenged.
See: Retard
Person 1: “OMG, Bryan is such a retard”
Person 2: “Retard is such a strong word. Use ‘Palin American’ instead.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=palin%20american
When I lived in Idaho, the term was “Montana intellectual.” Since the Teabaggers have gotten all pissy about being called Teabaggers, I’ve taken to referring to them as “Tea Party intellectuals.” As a Navajo friend told me one day when explaining the use of two derogatory words in his native language, “They taste the same.”
I suppose it’s worth noting that on The Simpsons, a pink elephant was decided as “something that says we’re gay *and* Republican.”
Good one LOL
Remember this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxL7MKsGoPo
Never did Betty White’s description of Palin ring more true…”that woman is one crazy b*tch…”
Here’s another article from this side of the Atlantic.
“It is not just that the faithful are beginning to question her readiness for the White House. It is not just that they have doubts about a would-be president who wants all her questions pre-screened, who needs to scribble her talking points on her palm and whose favourite modes of communication are those of a 15-year-old, namely Twitter and Facebook.
What is troubling Right-wingers is whether their great moose-hunting hope may not be the conservative real deal after all.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/sarah-palin/7728430/Sarah-Palins-political-bandwagon-is-wobbling-under-the-weight-of-contradictions.html
What a wonderful article! But then, my friends in Britain see Palin as the buffoon that she is.
It seems like most outside of the US can see her for what she is.
just had to share this comment from Huffpo comment section about Palin and KO article.. had me just LOL !
“Sarah Palin has succeeded where the GOP, RNC and Karl Rove have failed… she has made Dan Quayle look good. “
I have to confess, I too sometimes mangle my metaphors. One said, “there wasn’t an ounce of breath” when I should have said, “there wasn’t a breath of air”. And many others. But the pink elephants is really really funny. Got to say, one can imagine a million-woman march down Pennsylvania Avenue of tipsy, pickled ladies.
“a million-woman march down Pennsylvania Avenue of tipsy, pickled ladies”
Now THAT’S funny!!!!!
They might just have to pad the streetlight poles for the ones who are listing to the side!
I’m IN!
Would that be the LEFT side?
Of course…that’s the FUN side!!!
yep…that is lovely visual.
And what if everybody in the march wore 5″ high PINK naughty-monkeys?
My God but that woman gets dumber every day….
nah, she’s always been this dumb, vapid, and useless. They are just letting her talk more.
LOL. too funny. the more she speaks,. the more they lap it up. the more moolah mama takes home.
They be the crackheads , she be the rock queen that feeds ‘em.
Sarah uses many colorful expressions. I especially liked the one about Mama Grizzly Bears rising up. It reminded me of the time that Putin reared his head above Alaskan air space.
It also reminds me of her ’09 State of the State address when she compared her stewardship of Alaska to that of a mama grizzly’s for its cubs – and then quit a few months later.
And isn’t it funny how some still believe she quit for the sake of the state and not to make money???
You suck on a tea bag long enough, you’ll see them.
ROFL That explains a lot of things.
hahha.heeheee. gosh! that was hysterical….oh my.
There really is no bottom to the deep well of her ignorance, is there?
I think there must be books of English idioms she might have someone check out on her behalf. Oh no, silly me. They’re written for foreigners or not-real-Americans.
can we go back to talking about how big a oilwhore murkowski is? at this point she is really really really on my last nerve. to tell you the truth i no longer give a dang what paymemoreandmore has to say about anything……….she is a mere purchased red herring with a book to sell.
murkowski on the other hand is actually an elected senator from alaska and you guys need to put a little of the grassroots indignation on her every single day.
petition for recall? working on some competition for her seat next election cycle? letter writing campaign? anything and everything is what i say.
and you ought to find some coalition partners inn louisiana and mississippi coastline……..and riverkeepers.
I think you are right. While it is fun and addictive to concentrate on Sarah Palin’s shortcomings because there are so many, it is the active politician that is getting away with truly awful things as we pitch verbal eggs at Sarah.
Lisa Murkowski is someone enabling the oil companies right now in a very tangible way. We ought to be focusing on her relentlessly until she can’t or won’t continue to sell our country, its people and its environment away.
Good for you for pointing this out. It’s hardest to concentrate on the evils closest to you – so much safer to call out those furthest away.
Are there viable candidates being groomed to oppose her? When is Lisa’s term up? Time to get busy and get her big oil ass out of politics.
And don’t forget ya have palins good friend running for governor.Never forget that.
Does Todd Palin plan to run for Murkowski’s senate seat? Would Alaskans vote for him? Just asking.
No, he’s not going to run. He’s helping raise funds for Joe Miller, who is challenging Murkowski. You know darn well that’s another Palin vendetta – they have planned for a long time to try to “stick it” to Lisa and this is just one of the vindictive ways to prove that. Miller is a major whack job – I’d rather have Murkowski as bad as she is. The Palins are very predictable that way – nasty, nasty folks in all regards. The power they are trying to gather is not for the good of anyone or anything – it’s all a vehicle for them to smack down anyone who crosses them. it’s been that way since the beginning of Sarah’s imagined coronation to the Wasilla mayorship. They are extremely sleazy folks.
And BP was co-sponsosr of her inauguration as Governor. Scary.
We have little time left, and no Democratic challenger so far. We need someone to step up.
I like the sound of Senator AKM (D) Alaska or Senator Mooore (D) Alaska!
Why don’t you run AKM?
when you are right , you are right.
crap — “an oil-whore”
Funny how the human brain functions to fill things in – esp. if we find ourselves in agreement with the statement. My eyes saw what you meant, not what you typed. I do it all the time – typing too fast. We think faster than our fingers can interpret.
A scary excerpt from an article about Palin’s red neck NRA speech from true slant:
“But Bush couldn’t have spent more than ten minutes in some dirty trailer in Arkansas before signaling for the helicopter. The guy was just too used to being around rich people, nice houses, cigarette boats full of sheiks and oil executives, etc. Sarah Palin on the other hand really is the kind of person who you can picture eating egg salad off a ping-pong table. That and her utterly genuine stupidity and meanness can take her a long way — all by themselves, I think these things can win the White House for her — and it seems like she senses this on some animal/reptilian level. Hence the renewed emphasis on jacking off her audiences of late.”
“…..the type that gives rise to the jokes in the funny papers.”
Jack nailed it.
Thanks AKM!
how far will they let her go and how much crazy will they let her say, before the white coats come?
I’d prefer orange jumpsuits myself.
better yet!
Someone stop this crazy ass woman!
Her “dream” and “mission” in life is to be the first woman president. She thinks she is ordained by God to be president. She is delusional, and “idiot” is too kind of KO. The rest of the media propaganda machine supports her; owned by the GOP. This whole situation is a mess. As President Obama said on the campaign trail; it’s “us”, we have take our country back from the corporations. Block by block.
So far her fans chose to disregard her lies and say that they love her honesty. Something shocking needs to be uncovered about Palin before they turn away from her. Nothing so far has worked. Her obvious lack of knowledge, lies about the bridge to nowhere, proof that she did not pay her property taxes and public ridicule about her ‘death panels’ should have opened the eyes of her fans from their blind adoration. Alas, they still cheer every vile thing she says. She reminds me of an evil goddess from mythology…but which one?
I think lots of shocking things have been revealed about her, but the MSM never picks it up and runs with it. They are owned by the corporations, and it is in their best interests to promote the idiotic things she says.
I sent an email asking Rachel Maddow if she would cover the fact that racist David Duke wants to run for Pres and is urged by the tea party. When the tea party/palin/far-right Repubs are associated with Duke, former kkk grand wizard, they’ll have some explaining to do. I would like to see them squirm.
She’s hardly said anything in public that is truthful or accurate. She is mythic only in her own mind, and let’s not go there.
Any of ‘em….all of ‘em….to quote The Twit.
I don’t think a lot is getting out into the right venues.The people who like her won’t believe something written in a left leaning paper and a right leaning paper won’t print it.Wouldn’t it be nice if the palin clan and the heath clan of thugs moved back to Idaho way back in the back mountains where they could get lost.
It’s the morning after their inebriation that the Republican women have to worry about — namely waking up in a tree with a mouse after the night of partying… the hangover when they realize what has happened will be enough to make them hug the porcelain steering wheel and cry: “Ralph!”
The following courtesy of Doonesbury:
WHAT?????
“Glenn’s like the high school government teacher so many wish they’d had.”
– Sarah Palin
“Please, America, take this man for what he says….Read Mein Kampf.”
–Glenn Beck on Obama
“Is this where we’re headed?”
– Beck, showing photos of Hitler, Stalin and Lenin
We may have stumbled on to something here. Politicians and other speakers like to attach a theme and song to their campaigns. This has got to be the most appropriate song and image for Palin and her followers. Pink elephants may be the key to understanding her speeches. You have to be seriously drunk or in the DT’s to make any sense of them. I think the people protesting Sarah and her T’s should just carry posters with pink elephants and play the song.
For anyone who hasn’t found these yet, this link is to the Situation Status Maps issued daily by NOAA’s Deepwater Horizon Response Central Command.
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/53979/
Interesting find on the psychopath’s profile (Captive Hearts, Captive Minds, by Madeleine Tobias and Janja Lalich); Characteristics:
has the characteristics of a cult leader; tendancy toward manipulation (sexual, economic)
has an authoritarian personality; paranoia, tendency to use people and see them as inferior, drive for power and wealth, hostility, hatred, prejudice.
charismatic personality; magnetism, winning-style, self-assurance. Skillful at thought-reform techniques, Gathers newly converted around him as devoted followers. Skills of persuasion, usually suffer from a diagnosed personality disorder. Lacking in conscience and in feeling for others, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.
Dr. Robert Hare writes, “psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate and ruthlessly plow their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, and empty wallets”.
Are impulsive, unable to tolerate frustration and delay, have problems with trusting, externalize their emotional experience, relationship with others problematic. When close to another person, they feel engulfment. At the same time, paradoxically, they closeness; frustration of their entitled wishes to be nourished, cared for and assisted often leads to rage. They are capable of a child’s primitive fury enacted with an adult’s physical capabilities.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mining-the-headlines/200809/sarah-psychopath
“Sarah Palin is a classic “psychopath” as defined by Lowen psychodynamics, a system that analyzes the inner forces that affect behavior…
…When life is a battleground, the enemy is always out there to “kill or be killed.” Psychopaths can be great warriors in the causes they believe in, but presidents or vice presidents can’t be effective leaders if everyone is ultimately the enemy. Running a country requires a different set of skills: teamwork and cooperation, where many are decent and a lot of people are right, not just the leader. Sarah Palin seems to be an unlikely choice to have a heartbeat away from the oval office.”
Personally, I think Mr. Chucky is a major piece of this uninteresting but troubling puzzle.
thanks Rebekkah….i was looking at documentary that Dr.Hare did where he tested Sam Vaknin (who is the author of ‘The Malignant Self and self diagnosed sociopath). Dr. Hare, after extensive testing found that Mr. Vaknin is not only a narcissist he is in fact a full blown psychopath. Mr. Vaknin, however, cared enough to find out what is wrong and as far as i know he has not offended society since he began to seek answers for his behavior. i duobt she ever will unless her life falls apart at the seams and she has no choice and her supply is not able or willing to save her.
Palin is just a pink twit with big ears, and a bigger mouth.
LOLROF.
$carah is an as*. A rich as*. The only other thing that I have to say about this is that the women in “east coast college faculty lounges” are often the ones who have a far more “pioneering” spirit than $carah can possibly imagine in her tiny reptilian brain. These are the women who study such things as Chemistry and Biology and Neuroscience and (god-forbid) comparitive religion. They contribute their knowledge to things like genetic engineering, fighting global warming, feeding the hungry people of the world, finding alternative energy resources, fighting injustice in the world, to say nothing of educating the youth of America to become critical thinkers. I could go on and on but she would never understand.
The “pioneering spirit” of her mythic western woman who had dirt under her fingernails and could shoot a gun and work a plough??? What freakin century is she living in? Why did most of those women go west? Because they were married to a man who went west. They were pregnant every year, they cooked and cleaned and did what they were told. They were brave and carried guns because they had to. And they died young, very young. Camp followers, dance hall girls. They were NEVER free to follow their own dreams unless they were incredibly lucky. They didn’t have access to birth control. If they weren’t married they weren’t respected. Give me a friggin’ break.
Come out of the dark ages and quit using that “mamma grizzly” metaphor. And for god’s sake quit using the “mom” thing. There are plenty of women out here who are not moms. We are just as capable of getting angry about injustice, just as capable of feeling pain, just as capable of intuitively knowing when something is wrong. Having sex and carrying a baby to term does not a mother make. Being forced to carry a child to term does not a mother make. Bringing an unwanted child onto the face of this earth (that is already overpopulated) does not a mother make. So shut the f*$k up about it already. Just because you are a mother of 5 kids you obviously consider to be lower than number one on your priority list does not make you special, or endearing, or in any way an expert on anything (other than being a fool).
And this is to say nothing of what was done to the indigenous people that they transplanted and brought their white diseases to.
I agree that we need to keep the pressure on Lease-a M. Since my husband has come home from his last 2 weeks in the oilfield, the poor guy has had nothing but incessant questions from me. The most brilliant thing that he said to me was that I need to try to sort through the lies of the big oil companies and the BS of the press (who, for the most part, don’t seem to be willing to dig deep enough to find out one iota of what they are trying to talk about). His take on the bigwigs with the oil companies is that “if you aren’t caught with the ball in your hand, you can’t be blamed for breaking the window”. He’s a little cryptic sometimes.
So I find out from him that there are indeed some “Mom and Pop” oil companies (1 or 2) up here. They are known as “independents”. But Lease-a’s BS about them not being able to handle liability is just garbage. If they spill, they also need to be able to afford to clean it up and make restitution. If not, they shouldn’t be drilling. Drilling for oil is a dangerous and unpredictable trade. Our technology will not save us from accidents. Period.
The real question about the spill in the gulf is what did they really hit down there? Could they have hit a supply line coming from another well? Could that explain why it hasn’t stopped? And does it make any difference if they knew that? The damage is already done and more is to come.
I wasn’t in Alaska during the Exxon-Valdez disaster. But I know many people who were. I am being told the most outrageous stories about how it became a free-for-all for anyone with a boat. Everyone was begging their neighbors to use their boats so they could go and make money off of it. Whoo-hoo, there’s money to be made, let’s go get rich off of this! was the attitude of many up here. Many people did not have altruistic motives, they just saw a quick buck. I do not doubt that the same thing will occur in the gulf. The whole thing makes me sick.
lovemydogs, I love it when you’re angry! Yes, yes, yes!!!
I was so happy to see your name and read your comment. I followed all of your comments this winter and found them, unsurprisingly, to be competitive, compassionate, and inspiriational.
Last summer, my kitty was ill, and you answered so quickly, and I remember your comfort. She is now at the end, and it is so amazingly comforting to see your name and know what and who you are. I know that I am not alone in any of my feelings of sorrow and grief, and I thank you.
I’ve thanked her for her devotion and companionship, I’ve thanked my god for allowing me to have this precious spirit to love from abuse and abandonment for 15 years, I will miss everything that we do and us and her immeasurably.
I thank you again for being such a shining light on animal rescue and care. Your name is a light in my heart right now getting me through a difficult time, as our effort goes on. Thanks, again.
Your kitty was very lucky to have you to take care of her. So sorry.
What awesomeness to thank LMD – she needs to know that she truly does affect the world around her in many, many positive and uplifting ways.
How hard to say goodbye to your kitty, hugs to you and her.
GO…LOVEMD..GO!!
forgive me if this was mentioned already…Bill Maher had Alaska as #4 stupidest state…adding that before sarah palin, you wouldn’t have made this list.
I, for one, have never suffered as much from one individual in my entire life!
This is a great way to ignore a rainy evening. World’s laziest cat.
http://www.flixxy.com/seagull-and-cat.htm
Seagulls ain’t scared of s^*t.
http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/attachments/814d1190965423-so-seagull-walks-into-shop-seagull.gif
great video!
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sending love to you dear Min.
Cheers to you, Heidi, many happy returns for your special day!
Pink elephants? hahahah thanks for the heads up, I had no idea she said this! And thanks for the Disney reminder, I was kinda weirded out when I saw Dumbo and now I am just dying of laughter at Palin’s idiocy. Again.
Pink elephants…..mama grizzlies…..she has completely lost the plot.
Thanks, Aussiegal! It was a great day of figuring out what type of avocado tree to buy and plant tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder if Palin has a set of animal-shaped refrigerator magnets. Something in her life is sparking the use of animal analogies. Some fridge magnets even have cute little wordies on them, free for the plagarizing!
Ha Ha…pink elephants. What a doofus. And a white elephant, also, too.
Aussiegal ‘Round the Black Stump’ comes to mind.
Here come the elephants two by two…….pink little pachyderms followin’ you.
It’s about time that you started thinkin’…..bout givin’ up, all your drinkin!
Good one, akbatwoman. Methinks the drinkin’ is a lot more than Red Bull. And at this point, I have to think that the drinkin’ is the least of the problems. Here in SoCal (San Bernardino County, largest in the U.S.), we just booted our County Assessor…meth addict. Actually, he resigned in shame under great pressure. There are substantiated reports of him showing up at the office, turning blue, and frothing at the mouth! Sad to say, corruption is definitely not limited to Alaska.
Hmmm. Pink Elephants? Let’s break this down, Pink, pink is stereotypically associated with women or gays.(I have seen a pink t-shirt emblazoned with Real Men Wear Pink). Elephants, they are the symbol of the Republican party. Pink Elephants. OMG, she is speaking in code, Carly Fiorino and all those others she labelled as Pink Elephants are actually Gay Republicans. I guess that would make Larry Craig a Pink Elephant.
I must not have taken the kids to see Dumbo. I don’t remember this. Then again my memory went when my waistline did.