Open Thread – Lost in Translation
Every once in a while, I’ll be treated to a little present in my in-box that just makes me smile. An alert popped up for “Mudflats blog” on Google. And I clicked. It was a story written about the email that fell into my hands from Todd Palin to Joe Miller. Remember? When Todd had an ALL CAPS meltdown because Joe Miller wouldn’t jump up and down talking about how super qualified his wife is to be President of the United States? Not endorsing Palin for President is about the closest thing to a sane and rational decision that Miller made during the course of the campaign. But, no worries. He caved, and ultimately said there was “no comparison” and that she was more qualified than the guy sitting in the Oval Office now, thus confirming our original assessment of Joe Miller.
But back to my story. So the little present in my in-box was a recounting of the Todd email story, but it had apparently been run through some kind of synonym translator, or it was translated into Japanese and back. But either way, it’s pretty funny. I give you snippets for your reading pleasure. Or you can enjoy the entire thing on the deceptively named Most Hot News.
In an talk with Fox News, Miller steady a idea which he has settled before, which “anyone” who stairs brazen would have a improved presidential claimant than Democratic Boss Barack Obama.
Miller pronounced it’s not up to him to say either Palin will run. He pronounced the total emanate was a “sideline” to what’s function in Alaska and an bid to confuse from the Senate race.
When serve pulpy on his thoughts on Palin, he said: “She’s finished unusual things for this country. There’s no subject about that. She’s towering the debate.”
(snip)
The emanate was lifted after a Sept. 19 e-mail from Todd Palin to Miller was posted on The Mudflats, a blog on Alaska politics. He sent it before long after Miller appeared on Fox News and declined to criticism on either Sarah Palin was competent to be president.
Todd Palin wrote which his mother had put herself “on the line for Joe and yet he can’t answer a elementary question.”
“Joe, greatfully insist how this publicity things works, is it to be utterly one sided,” he wrote. “Sarah outlayed all sunrise operative on a Face book post for Joe, she won’t use it, not now.”
You know, the fact that Sarah Palin “outlayed all sunrise operative on a Face book post” explains so many things. And Freud would have a field day with the whole wife/mother confusion.
Well, I’ll let you enjoy and serve pulpy on your thoughts.
SP talks like that all the time . if we put her speaches backwards through the machine would they make sense ?
I have to admit, I lost it a bit today. The election here has been brutal, much as it has been in Alaska. I was driving to the post office, and right in front on the sidewalk was a couple with a very professional looking sign wrapped around the table. All four sides had a giant photo of President Obama with a Hitler mustache. One side said something about saving NASA from him. Another said something about “Socialist Obama”. I’ve seen theme there before and ignored them. Today I was over my limit.
As I drove past to get to the mail drop box, I flipped them off the entire way. As I came back around the circular drive, I hollared out the window as I drove by, “Thats —-ing unpatriotic, —hole!”
Sorry. I couldn’t help myself. I was hoping that the reference to Patriotism would throw them. If they heard it over the voices in their heads…
Good on ya. Some days it is too much to take. Driving around here in our little over-privileged area of TX, some days I just want to drive into the back of the escaldes with the “how’s the hopey changey thing working out for you?” or “nobama” or other pithy bumper stickers and blowsy botoxed wifeys at the wheel.
Rush Limbaugh playing at the post office made me ballistic. I complained at several levels about that. It hasn’t been playing the several times I’ve been in since. As a matter of fact, nothing playing there at all.
And the xxxxxxxxxteaparty bumper stickers for the local tea party organization (insert overprivileged town name). Give me a break. The only people here who are not living high on the hog are the down & outers who are going to be down & out no matter where they live and the non-white people that do the lawns and the cleaning. Houses with adults and teenagers paying someone $20 to do their lawn and then complaining about those %&$# immigrants.
I’d have liked to see you do your drive-by. It probably didn’t make a dent in their delusions, but I hope it made you feel better.
This is really really great.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/11/05/an-open-letter-to-the-white-right-on-the-occasion-of-your-recent-successful-temper-tantrum-tim-wise/#more-51960
Here’s a snippet:
You have won a small battle in a larger war the meaning of which you do not remotely understand.
‘Cuz there is nothing even slightly original about you.
There have always been those who wanted to take the country back.
There were those who, in past years, wanted to take the country back to a time of enslavement and indentured servitude.
But they lost.
There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when children could be made to work in mines and factories, when workers had no legal rights to speak of, when the skies in every major city were heavy with industrial soot that would gather on sidewalks and windowsills like volcanic ash.
But they lost.
There were those who wanted to take us back to a time when women could not vote, or attend any but a few colleges, or get loans in their own names, or start their own businesses.
But they lost.
After reading the above it seems as though I need to read more at the writers’ site. Check him out.
http://www.timwise.org/
AKM, I hear you are big in Japan
Hey Y’all…
Sad news. We lost a mudpup on Halloween.
https://themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,10778.0.html
Please join me in lighting a candle for her and her family. The link is on the forum thread.
So sorry to hear this news. I lit a candle as you suggested. It is so very sad when we lose a compassionate, loving soul. We need each and every one. Thank you for letting us know.
i have seen your manifestation and its excellence is most distinguished!
Hah, it sounds like the Palin word salad with an actual education supporting it (what with phrases like ‘improved presidential claimant ‘. Too darn funny.
And the funniest ‘lost in translation’ that I have ever heard was one from a japanese ad for Coke. I can’t remember the exact company slogan but the translation was, “Coke! It’ll bring your ancestors back to life!”
Had me laughing for about a week.
I want to thank Zxyomma, Desa, Lee and other mudpups (as well as my dogs) for helping to pull me from my wallowing in feelings of hopelessness yesterday.
Today I will remember the words of Ted Kennedy, “the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
Back to the trenches my friends!
Waiting with bait on my breath, for Sarah Palin do defend Keith Olbermann and his First Amendment rights, like she did Juan Williams.
I mean, it was totally unfair of NPR to fire Juan Williams even after he had repeatedly disregarded the instructions – written and verbal – his bosses had given him.
Whereas it is totally fair to fire Olbermann for disregarding this obscure written policy his boss just pulled out of the fine print of the company contracts and probably is not being applied across the board to all their employees. But hey, rules are rules.
If Juan Williams is within his right as a journolist to speak his opinion without getting fired, Keith Olbermann should jolly well be within his right to quietly, behind the scenes, donate to candidates of his choice.
I respectfully beg to differ, Terpsichore– Keith, (even though he is about as left as left can get without crossing over into the realm of an “ism” lable,) by donating money to Dem candidate(s), totally blew *any* pretense of being ‘unbiased’ and/or at least being willing to *listen* to the other side and their view.
Keith is a ‘face’ at MSNBC – an important, major, daily ‘face’, and as such, has an ‘obligation’ to both the company and to the public he reaches via that company, to show any ‘partiality’ he exhibits towards the left with his words is *for cause*, *not* because he’s purchased it [with money]. Words *against* the right, now, no matter how justified, are not going to be viewed the same; they won’t be for “cause” anymore, they’ll be sour grapes that *his* candidate(s) weren’t elected/don’t have power.
See my post @ 28.1.1 — IMHO, he should have known better than to pull a bone-headed move like that. beth.
Agree and disagree. Not contributing doesn’t make you unbiased, obviously. MSNBC’s policy was reasonable and ethical. Contributions by a commentator can lead to, or be induced by, an inappropriately cozy relationship with a politician, and the network has a right to be apprised of them. There is also a reasonable concern with the appearance of bias. Olbermann did not follow the policy, and can properly be disciplined for it. Your last sentence sums it up — he should have known better.
On the other side, indefinite suspension without pay seems excessive. I don’t know what’s in his contract, nor what, if anything, is customary in the business. What I’m asking myself is why MSNBC made this public. Was there no way they could reprimand him, perhaps fine him, without publicizing it? Unless his contributions had been publicized elsewhere, or someone is making a move to get rid of Olbermann, it looks like they are only hurting themselves.
Shar McBee is a motivational speaker for non-profits. I get a weekly email from her. Sometimes they are great. I also have always wondered if she has used a few of her emails to subtly attack some of our political leaders. Here is this week’s! Whattya thimk?
Are YOU a Strong Leader?
A strong leader isn’t the one who mothers and fathers people, or tries to control their behavior. A strong leader is one who remains firm through uncomfortable, ambiguous situations.
If you ski, it is like keeping your balance when you hit a mogul. You know it is going to be smooth on the other side if you can stand up through the bumps. If you sail, it is like staying on course when there is no wind.
When you feel disappointed because there is no visible progress, remember that there are always ambiguous moments. If you hesitate and doubt your direction, no one will follow you.
“Laura” bragged about being in charge of a big holiday event. But when it got bumpy, she quit. What this tells us is that she liked the title, but not the work. Do you like the title of “leader” or do you like the work of being the leader? The work of the leader requires you to remain firm, stick to your principles, and keep moving even when you are going through uncomfortable, ambiguous situations. – Shar McBee
To comment, or read previous tips, click here: http://www.JoyofLeadership.com/fundraising
OK, in light of developments on Tuesday, you need to see the following:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/?utm_source=GoComics&utm_medium=free_email&utm_campaign=user_comic
Tom the Dancing Bug is usually great, but this one took the cake.
Health and peace.
Haven’t read the above, but Keith Olberman was just suspended from MSNBC (w/o pay) because he donated to Democratic candidates w/o the permission of his boss – Mr. Griffin.
I tried to call MSNBC, but I’m sure their lines are tied up because of this, so sent an email and admonished Keith’s boss.
The only reason I watch MSNBC is because of Keith and Rachel. Absolutely idiotic!
The only reason I watch MSNBC is because of Keith and Rachel. Absolutely idiotic.
i concur wholeheartedly.
“The only reason I watch MSNBC is because of Keith and Rachel.”
Pretty much sums it up for me too.
Although I sometimes get kick out of Ed, and Lawrence has some promise with his new show.
Maybe we should all just send that simply message to Mr. Griffin.
“The only reason I watch MSNBC is because of Keith and Rachel.”
That is basically what I said when I submitted my email to him. Also, makes me wonder if Keith will actually rejoin the network….I’m sure others would want him!!! I so love when he would read to us from his Dad’s favorite author….
I really think they goofed in doing this!
Maybe liberals and Democrats should join forces and start a news network called the ‘Facts News Network’, one that is really, truly fair and balanced. 🙂
Go sign the petition It’s almost at 100,000 people already!
http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann/?source=auto-e&referring_akid=2628.60307.EQvDkh
You have to see and share the following. It makes a point about the need for health care reform.It’s funny and sad but true. I think it should be on HuffPo. See what you think.
http://wickershamsconscience.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/santa-files-bankruptcy
Ruh Roh y’ all….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/05/keith-olbermann-suspended_n_779586.html
this is bad. will the Mudpups get mad?. will the Mudpups take action?
Since when does an individual have to have the permission of his employer to donate to a political candidate?
Put the shoe on the other foot…if it was revealed Hannity had donated to GOP candidates, wouldn’t mudpups all be grousing that he was unbiased in his reporting and the donations just proved it?
What about Katie Couric donating to Bachmann – would we view Katie, then, as unbiased? What if Rachael had donated to O’Donnell – wouldn’t we all be jumping up and down that R was nothing but a hypocrite?
Best to keep *unbiased* reporting and commenting, *unbiased*…as much as possible.
Keith, even though he has *strong* left leanings and puts them openly on display every day, should have been smarter than to make those donations.
To my way of thinking, the media gets to champion candidates with their words OR with their money — not both. Once both are ‘donated’ to a candidate(s) by ‘the media’ [read, in this case: Keith], the media, to my mind, is no longer fulfilling their obligation to the public; they’ve shown they are ‘buying’ the praise they’re giving…and will be looking for reciprocity once/if that candidate is elected. It is bad form.
I completely agree with MSNBC – they are *not* Faux ‘News’. They have do have (some) standards to uphold as do their reporters and commentators. beth.
I didn’t see it as ‘buying the praise (he’s) giving’, I thought of it more as ‘putting his money where his mouth is’, personally.
I think individual citizens have the right to donate as they please. Period. But if it’s company policy that KO inform the network of his intentions first, well… then he screwed up.
(If Keith the Broadcaster said on the air, that he was putting on his Keith the Citizen Hat to tell his audience that he’d just donated $X to Candidate So-and-so, and called upon his viewers to do the same, well, that’d be something else!)
This kerfluffle, though, has more to do with office politics than political politics.
“While NBC News policy does not prohibit employees from donating to political candidates, it requires them to obtain prior approval from NBC News executives before doing so.”
This is pretty standard practice–it’s why there are ethics officers in a lot of businesses and in the federal workforce. To help ensure there are no backroom deals going on. I can’t own Sigma stock, unless it’s part of an index fund, for example. Can’t give or accept gifts (including a meal) unless there are other conditions met at the talk.
I don’t see that he would have been denied the opportunity to donate the money to any and all candidates of his choosing, just that he had to state who they were so as to avoid any conflicts of interest. Or the appearance of a conflict of interest. It’s a royal PITA, but there you go.
Here’s a link with some better examples.
http://www.usoge.gov/common_ethics_issues/gifts_outside_sources.aspx
Yeah, was just reading about this. I did actually make one e-mail to the corporation in his defense.
I mean, yes, rules are rules. But it just seems odd – the right yells at NPR and other stations for not letting them cover the Stewart/Colbert Sanity/Fear rally, under their rules, saying how unfair that is to the employees’ first amendment rights, but seems perfectly happy to condone the MSNBC boss for enforcing their rules regarding campaign donations when it comes to Keith Olbermann specifically.
If news corprations (and corporations in general) can make unlimited political contributions (see http://tinyurl.com/29v9cde for examples of news corporations and their donations), no corporation should be allowed to say what their employees can or cannot donate. True individuals, and not corporations, need to take this country back!
Agreed. 100%!
And I’d go further; ONLY people in a candidate’s area of sought-after ‘power’ should be able to donate to that candidate…be that ‘area’ city-local (Mayor, alderman, school board, etc.), seat-local (state or federal House of Reps, etc.), or state-wide (Governor, Senator, Agriculture Commissioner, etc.)
*All* ‘outside’ money should be banned. Why should wealthy Atlantans be able to buy the sheriff’s office for Joe Blow in Podunk, Iowa, by throwing more money at him than is the combined income of half the population he’ll be sheriffing? Or (combined) individuals in Utah groups be able to purchase opposition to a *strictly* California initiative? beth.
This Mudpup is mad, bubbles.
I’ve already sent a letter excoriating MSNBC. I can understand a reprimand, but suspension indefinitely without pay is harsh. Keith and Rachel have been the two voices in the wilderness this past two years debunking and countering FOX New’s and the hard Right’s lies.
The world has gone completely insane when corporations can throw billions of dollars into our elections, and these same corporate right-wing interests are assisted 24/7 by FOX News’s propaganda AND political donations…..but a private citizen who happens to have an unabashed left-leaning political opinion show gets his teeth knocked down his throat for giving modest political donations.
If anyone else is interested in sending an email to Phil Griffin at NBC regarding Keith:
phil.griffin@nbcuni.com
In the space of just a few hours, over 91,000 people have signed a petition against the indefinite suspension of Keith Olbermann.
If you want to join us, go to:
http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/petition_olbermann/?source=auto-e&referring_akid=2628.60307.EQvDkh
Thanks, sunflower.
When I signed it, the number was around 95,300 people. :>)
If you still support Nancy Pelosi as Democratic leader in the House, you can sign a petition here:
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12
Thanks for the link Moose Pucky. We’re both signing it. We think she did an incredible job as Speaker of the House, accomplishing things for the good of the American people against all odds. That she could do it without resorting to hate-mongering, fear-mongering, or other tactics all too common amongst the current crop of right-wing Republicans and Tea Partiers is astonishing.
Too bad Sarah isn’t capable of or interested in learning something about civility and how to act with grace under pressure. No one has attacked Sarah the way those on the right have attacked Pelosi. Had they, I think Sarah’s blood pressure would have popped the top of her head completely off. Can you imagine Sarah as Speaker of the House – she would have quit in two months, tops.
Last Christmas, my brother-in-law (a city-employed Republican mechanic in NC) gently teased me about my collection of ’08 campaign buttons I’d made into magnets and stuck to my fridge. In the interest of harmony, I just smiled serenely and said softly “That’s the very first political campaign I’ve ever actively worked on!”
I think he caught my drift, and was content to keep the peace, too, but not before saying something like, “At least you don’t have one for Nancy Pelosi, she’s scary.”
I meant to ask him later why, but I never got the chance. Since then, though, I’ve asked half-a-dozen die-hard R’s or self-identified tea partiers why she’s seen as so ‘scary’. I truthfully told them I’d never paid much attention to her other than to appreciate that a woman had risen to such a rank. Most of the answers I’d received were some variation of “I don’t know, exactly. She’s just scary.” (One TP-er, an employee in Lowes’ garden center, took over 2 hours not to answer my question, even though every 20 minutes or so, I’d prompt “But why Is she scary? What exactly has she done?”
As much as I hate to admit it, I’m at the point where my now whole-hearted support for her stems mainly from this lack of specificity. How can I NOT see her as a victim of shady machinations, if her detractors can’t even point to ONE single act of anti-American anything?
the man in the next office to ours has three dart boards – Reid, Obama and Pelosi. They replaced the Hillary dartboard. I don’t accept his Fed Ex pkgs – it’s the only action I can take short of supergluing his door shut.
I found some quotes from an article by Pete Hamill in the De. 94 issue of Esquire:
“Boneheaded vulgarians are honored for their stupidity.”
“Anyone with compassion is a target. Anyone with a sense of complexity is scorned.”
As true today as they were 14 years ago.
She is smart, focused and effective. She is certainly the most effective Speaker of the House in my memory, if by that we mean she delivered the President’s agenda. She knows people, she learns about issues, she can compromise. In short, she’s someone with an understanding of governance and an ability to influence and persuade. Oh, wait, I see now why she’s scary.
Plus she is a woman and Repubs don’t like strong women. Strong women are scary!
She delivered the public option. The Senate weaseled out of that one.
Japan understand Alaska and Todd mother emanate uncriticizingly accurate! 🙂
Finally, some good news!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/american-people-hire-highpowered-lobbyist-to-push,18204/
🙂 Thanks!
Love the Onion! My favorite lines:
“Though Weldon has only been on the job for three days, legislators have already seemed to take notice.
‘Before today, I’d actually never heard of this group,” Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) told reporters. “But if Jack says they’re worth my time, I’ll take a look and see if maybe there are some areas where our interests overlap.’
‘But I’m not making any promises,’ he added. “I’m a very busy man.’ “
Hah! That was great, AKM. That re-translated article made more sense the average Palin facebook/twitter post. I think ‘pulpy’ is my new favorite adjective. I wonder what would happen if we ran some of Palin’s facebook posts through that process.. maybe they’d make more sense?
“She’s finished unusual things for this country” indeed. I’d like to serve some pulpy to Palin myself.
Interesting….It should say she’s unfinished unusual things….the only thing she has finished is quitting.
I think that is unusual…or maybe it’s an oxymoron…or maybe just a moron.
or “unfinished usual things?”
Or maybe just “unfinished”…..
But she’s so good at quitting: mayor of Wasilla, Oil & Gas Commissioner, Gov of AK, several majors over five colleges.
“When serve pulpy on his thoughts on Palin, he said: “She’s finished unusual things for this country. There’s no subject about that. She’s towering the debate.”
I have to say, I agree with that statement completely. She has certainly finished some unusual things. In Tarot symbolism, the Tower represents abrupt, often catastrophic, change, so it’s possible that she is Towering the debate as well.
Oh, I love these! I love “stairs brazen!”
Well, hot damn! See what happens when Republicans and Tea Baggers are in control?
“Employers add 151K jobs, first gain since May” — http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101105/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_economy and “Jump in hiring lifts spirits on economy” — http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101105/bs_nm/us_usa_economy
With these reports in, I don’t see how anyone can dispute that the policies of the Democrat Party (and of Obama with his forcing a fundamental change of the America we all know and love), are anything but wrong, wrong, wrong.
See what’s happened since Tuesday close-of-polls? All it takes are GOPers and TBaggers to get things going again for our country. They are absolute miracle workers! [/snark] beth.
London Bridge – everyone in Alaska knows Libby Riddle, a great entertainer and I saw her right in back of Rachel Maddow when Rachel taped her show in Anchorage.
I think LB asked about Libby Roderick; Libby Riddles is famous for being the first female to win the Iditarod and is an entertainer. Libby Roderick is a singer from Anchorage.
Did you see how Sarah’s decided the sun rises in the west?
http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201011040004
“I want my President to succeed because if my President succeeds my country succeeds, and I want my country to succeed,” Bush typically says when asked about Obama.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/11/05/2010-11-05_dubyas_deepest_thoughts_former_prez_happy_to_be_out_of_dc_memoirs_say.html?r=news/politics
As I am a Washingtonian.. I am giving a great big…Woot! Woot! Hurray for Washington in re-electing Senator Patty Murray. I still have hope that there is some sanity out there. Also I found interesting the AP exiting poll here showed that she did well with voters who had a more positive view for the federal government. I wish more people did, after all, the federal government is our reflection of ourselves as americans, even though it seems pretty distorted at times.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/11/05/1410612/murray-wins-4th-term.html
Also some WA voter history here, back during our primary Clint Didier, former Super Bowl winner for the Washington Redskins was running for the GOP ticket he was backed by…”you know who” and the tea party…(sorry… some times when saying her name it just gives me a bad taste) he only received about 12% of the vote so in reflection I kinda grinned in remembering that.
A proud Murray supporter
If I were to pick other states to live in, it would be Maryland, Washington State, Oregon, and California. Smart people!!
The LA Times yesterday indicated in the election results that 14% of the electorate in CA had a HS diploma, 4% had less than that and the balance (82%) had a college degree or above. I wonder about the rest of the states.
I might need to correct that: 82% had college or above.
Ok, I’ll try again. Saw Michael Moore w/ Lawrence O’Donnell. Interesting stuff. They mentioned this website (which I can’t spell out or I’ll be thrown to the flats).
w…t…f…hasobamadonesofar and then dotcom
I didn’t know all that.
Excellent Democracy Now today, featuring a lot of depressing information. Among its guests is my favorite economist, Michael Hudson, and my favorite Congressman, Alan Grayson. http://www.democracynow.org
Amy introduced Alan as Congressman Grayson, and made a clear point that she did so because, (as of today), he is still a Congressman.
(Was this a subconscious Sarah slam? – Actually I hope it was 100% deliberate slam!)
If time is an issue, you should be able to watch only the Hudson and Grayson segments which are relatively brief.
Is there an update on Murkowski race?
I would love to see the President have more Q&A’s the Republican party debating their (Pledge to America). He should go on opposing view media outlets more often and break the political preference cycle. We need to know where our politicians stand when they go to work in the Congress and or Senate. Standards should be higher for our President and elected officials!!!
Shine the light on the fact that people don’t wear their repub/dem labels each and every day. We are people who hold many views regardless of the way we ultimately vote. Our Dem or Republican values may crossover party lines and we have to start finding some things we can agree on or we all lose. I wish we would invoke the (don’t kick the can down the road tone) versus the (us against us) approach.
I have never paid attention to politics but voted remembering the hard-fought right was afforded to me. I find it blatantly obvious that the rhetoric of both parties is not helping with the major problems we are facing in our economy and our country. I would imagine clearer minds prevail behind the scenes of all this “hyperbole” acting. However, the political actors are aware that people are uninformed and are happy to keep them there to further their personal monetary agendas. They want an educated workforce but an ignorant voter population. How does this exactly help the United States? We are fighting against our ideological differences in our own country, isn’t it obvious why we are stagnant in understanding why other countries don’t like us?
Can we please send the political attention seekers to create their own reality show and deal with our problems in a succinct and timely matter? This should be a learning moment that the negative rhetoric needs to fall to the waste side and the great thinkers need to rise to the occasion. Or am I just now understanding that politics stimulates the economy by providing an alternative to soap operas through advertised media spins? We expect our teachers to have advanced degrees to teach our children. Our Doctors must spend many years to master their trade. We will all need advanced educations to advance our careers or keep them, but we allow our politicians to act uneducated while holding our tax money as paid ticket for their rendition of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Evidently, I haven’t missed much all these years. However, I am impelled to believe that as a woman, I need to start paying attention. The concept of an educated voter is not a bad thing!!!
grammar moment- sorry.
his mother had put herself on the line for Joe
priceless
Saw Michael Moore w/ Lawrence O’Donnell. Totally agree w/ him that young voters stayed home this election. How did we let that happen? Also mentioned this website. Interesting stuff. (Hope it makes it through the filter).
http://www.whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
Heckuvajob WfA… have you thought of applying to SP to become her speech writer?
Thanks for the chuckle!
I haz thoughts for translationables to speakings from over the fences.
Thank you – feeling very pulpy in my thoughts so very today. Which infers my thinkingness to advance sunrise operatives for Boss Barack as others who stairs brazen will be thinking they is towering the debate to make our continued sorrowness and lossiness of movings.
I know just what you mean.
wow. How insightful; I wish I had said that…
Thankingness for your kindnesses.
Wow! A human being can accomplish what it takes two machine translations to do!
Oh, that’s the definition of artificial intelligence. I get it now.
I think Sarah wrote the email, after spending some quality time with her friend Bailey.
He.. He.. my first thought exactly!
Just like her real mentor, Bonzo. If McQuittyPants runs……that should be the campaign slogan from any opponents: BEDTIME FOR BONZO.
Perhaps that should be “Bedtime for Bozo”?
Hey, can you see Joe Miller or Sarah Palin taking part in a ritual like they have in Delaware after a contentious election? I would worry that they’d plant that hatchet in my back if I were the opposing candidate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/christine-odonnell-chris-coons-hatchet_n_779194.html
“Coons sat by his wife, Annie, while O’Donnell was accompanied by a bodyguard.” Evidently Joe isn’t the only paranoid teapartier who thinks bodyguards are necessary. Very cool tradition in Delaware! No way that Sarah would participate. Possible tweet: “Celebr8 ground frzn! Gonna keep hatchet 4 kinlin 2 start fires all winter. Gotta luv Alaska!”
Drat. From my Inbox from Amazon.
“We’re writing about the order you placed on February 25 2010 (Order# XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX). Unfortunately, the release date for the item(s) listed below has changed, and we need to provide you with a new delivery estimate based on the new release date:
Geoffrey Dunn “The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power”
Estimated arrival date: April 15 2011 – April 19 2011″
I received same message from Amazon. But, didn’t we predict that Mr. Dunn could write VOLUMES!! Wonder if his book will include some mid-term elections shenanigans?
Ditto with Geoffrey Dunn Book – But mine says April 29th
Still waiting & still want it !!!!
My last Palin post for a while…Palin whines about her famous, temporary next door neighbor possibly taking pictures (which he did not) as she opens up her family to a host of TV cameras (which she has done for years). Sad that her minions do not see the hypocrisy evidenced by this fraud.
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2029305,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular
I thought hypocrisy was one of the tenets of her christianity.
I do so love these “Lost in Translations”. The close proximity to reality is what makes them so special. Mother/wife is especially juicy 😉
I’ll take this Lost in Translation take over Joe, Todd and Sarah’s real verbiage anytime. It is more comprehensible and mature.
BTW, thanks AKM, for the posting. You did help me start my day with an amused smile!
Non Palin related, but a few years ago, I bought a CD by a performer named Libby Roderick. It’s excellent. Anyone in Alaska know her or her music? She’s from Anchorage.
Libby is not just an amazing, somewhat groundbreaking artist, she has a reputation as one of the more competent college administrators in the Pacific Northwest.
Known her for many many years – makes good music and has excellent personal insights of at least one I still remember and use to this day.
I like that title, “Democratic Boss, Barack Obama ” .
And, ” She’s finished unusual things for this country ”
Indeed !
Take a look at who is trashing Palin now…non other than one of her big heros: George W. Bush:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/11/05/2010-11-05_dubyas_deepest_thoughts_former_prez_happy_to_be_out_of_dc_memoirs_say.html?r=news/politics
My favorite part was the result of the poll asking people if they read Bush’s book. Over sixty percent said they wouldn’t because he had brought the country to its knees.
He is still is an arrogant ass. No wonder he doesn’t like Palin. They are too much alike.
72% now!
Peggy Noonan took her down today as well:
Electable doesn’t mean not-conservative. Electable means mature, accomplished, stable—and able to persuade.
Conservatives talked a lot about Ronald Reagan this year, but they have to take him more to heart, because his example here is a guide. All this seemed lost last week on Sarah Palin, who called him, on Fox, “an actor.” She was defending her form of policical celebrity—reality show, “Dancing With the Stars,” etc. This is how she did it: “Wasn’t Ronald Reagan an actor? Wasn’t he in ‘Bedtime for Bonzo,’ Bozo, something? Ronald Reagan was an actor.”
Excuse me, but this was ignorant even for Mrs. Palin. Reagan people quietly flipped their lids, but I’ll voice their consternation to make a larger point. Ronald Reagan was an artist who willed himself into leadership as president of a major American labor union (Screen Actors Guild, seven terms, 1947-59.) He led that union successfully through major upheavals (the Hollywood communist wars, labor-management struggles); discovered and honed his ability to speak persuasively by talking to workers on the line at General Electric for eight years; was elected to and completed two full terms as governor of California; challenged and almost unseated an incumbent president of his own party; and went on to popularize modern conservative political philosophy without the help of a conservative infrastructure. Then he was elected president.
The point is not “He was a great man and you are a nincompoop,” though that is true. The point is that Reagan’s career is a guide, not only for the tea party but for all in politics. He brought his fully mature, fully seasoned self into politics with him. He wasn’t in search of a life when he ran for office, and he wasn’t in search of fame; he’d already lived a life, he was already well known, he’d accomplished things in the world.
Then again, re-writing and/or ignoring history is something Todd’s mother/wife is most comfortable and adept at doing. She’s done it time and time again. Since it served her purposes to do so once more last week, it’s no wonder she re-wrote Saint Ronnie’s bio. beth.
For someone who claims to be such a Reagan follower, how could she not know Bonzo vs Bozo? That woman is a nincompoop.
It’s those sharp elbows, it’s reflexive, no matter the subject at hand.
The sad thing is that this lying, grifting multi-grandma has gotten away with so much for so long, I think this country has just gone completely down the toilet. It’s frightening what has happened intellectually, economically and politically in the US. The media is complicit in the destruction.
I’m very sorry AK didn’t expose her and Miller completely when they had the chance. Now the rest of the world is stuck with the consequences.
Actions and inactions have consequences:
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/11/devastation-gop.php
“Republicans picked up 680 seats in state legislatures, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures — the most in the modern era. To put that number in perspective: In the 1994 GOP wave, Republicans picked up 472 seats. The previous record was in the post-Watergate election of 1974, when Democrats picked up 628 seats.
The GOP gained majorities in at least 14 state house chambers. They now have unified control — meaning both chambers — of 26 state legislatures.
That control is a particularly bad sign for Democrats as they go into the redistricting process. If the GOP is effective in gerrymandering districts in many of these states, it could eventually lead to the GOP actually expanding its majority in 2012.
Republicans now hold the redistricting “trifecta” — both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship — in 15 states. They also control the Nebraska governorship and the unicameral legislature, taking the number up to 16. And in North Carolina — probably the state most gerrymandered to benefit Democrats — Republicans hold both chambers of the state legislature and the Democratic governor does not have veto power over redistricting proposals.”
A short note about Reagan…
True – Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild – but he was definitely not sympathetic towards unions. As president he lead the Hollywood purge of “communist sympathizers” by providing names to the FBI and testifying before congress. He was pro-management and was pushed to resign before his term ended.
His time at GE had nothing to do with the union; he was hired as spokesman and it during his time at this job that he transformed in the far right politician that he was later remembered as.
Reagan’s war against unions is well documented from his time at the Screen Actors Guide through his presidency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_traffic_controllers%27_strike_of_1981#August_1981_strike) please don’t try and paint him as labor friendly.
And his breaking of the PATCO strike (air traffic controllers) had nothing to do with the air traffic controllers! The post office workers were threatening to strike, with cause. He wanted to prove to them that he could “break” a federal union. (I remember this well, my mother was fairly high up in the postal service, and active in the union.)
Ronnie Raygun was no friend to labor unions.
My favorite part was the “elected to and completed two full terms as governor of California”…
Normally the “and completed” part would be understood without saying, but now that we have a Quitter Ex-Guv trying to bamboozle her way into the white house, the completed part becomes a big deal..
Noonan is awful….I think she sounds too giddy over Reagan…I want to slap her and that happy, nauseating sing-song pleasant-ness….she reminds me of my cousin….a ‘perfect’ human..
Interesting take on how the Republicans (and many on the left) misrepresented Obama’s record and how the President might move forward:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/opinion/05krugman.html?_r=1&hp
Wouldn’t it be great to see the President in a Q&A with the Tea Party congress??? Tea Summit now!!!