Bristol Palin may be way ahead of her mom when it comes to one of the country’s most controversial issues.
On December 27, Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Governor and former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Today, Bristol, who is 18 years old and just shy of achieving her high school diploma, joined her mother in a statement on the birth of her first child, Governor Palin’s first grandchild.
Governor Palin, obviously elated with the safe delivery of her grandchild and the health of her daughter, stated;
We are over the moon with the arrival of this healthy, beautiful baby.
And, she continued:
The road ahead for this young couple will not be easy, but nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Bristol and Levi are committed to accomplish what millions of other young parents have accomplished, to provide a loving and secure environment for their child. They are both hard workers, they’re very strong, and have faith they’ve made the right decision in setting aside their own interests to make this child their highest priority.
The operative word here is “decision.” Bristol and Levi, along with their families, made a decision that was right for them. And the fact that they have this choice is instructive on many levels. Read the rest of this entry ?
From THE ONION
WASILLA, AK—In a dramatic capper to a year that already saw her son’s hockey team go to district finals, a successful remodeling of the den, and her scoring of front-row tickets to a traveling production of the Broadway smash hit Les Misérables, Wasilla resident and former beauty queen Sarah Palin, 44, was chosen as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. The mother of five, who enjoys attending church potluck dinners with husband Todd, an unemployed commercial fisherman, reportedly “jumped at the chance” to become the second most powerful person in the country. “Oh, what a nice thing for [GOP running mate] Sarah [Palin],” said Debbie McInnes, who met Palin two years ago at an advanced step aerobics class at the Wasilla YMCA. “She’s such a good person, and so pretty! I think she’d be super-enthusiastic to take on that job.” Although Palin ultimately never got the chance to come within a heartbeat of ruling a global superpower and its 300 million citizens, she said she was happy enough to have beaten out the other potential Republican VP candidates, including a Nebraska receptionist and a congresswoman from Ohio with more than 20 years of political experience.
America for Kids • Operation Itch Video For the kids, so they know what kind of hell we’ve been through over the past nine years. “He who does not know the past…etc., etc..”
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According to Liberal Viewer- When John McCain appeared in the opening segment of Saturday Night Live last night with Tina Fey reprising her SNL role as Sarah Palin, I thought McCain ended up looking weak, ridiculous, and worst of all, like a loser as I show with the clips in this video.
I disagree- I thought McCain was funny, displayed a good sense of humor about himself and got in some points. The skit dis not make McCain look like a loser. In my opinion, it made him look like a gut who can laugh. Don’t mistake my high marks for McCain on SNL with an endorsement. I would not elect this guy to the PTA, never mind president
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Porno for Progressive Christians. OR a long winded video on which The Hermit tries to clarify goals, pick a fight with an b list celebrity Atheist and other self righteous “progressives” while breaking the unspoken rule of comedy against pointing to a joke after making one with a shamefully long David Foster Wallace esque title.
by Dennis Trainor, Jr
Thanks for all of the birthday well wishes. Yesterday was indeed my birthday and I hadn’t had so many people write on my wall since I was a teenager in 1988 and my parents were away for the weekend and I threw a party that was attended by members of a local gang (and I use that word in quotes because I grew up in a middle class area of long island) the Strong Island Boys or SIB for short and they spray painted all over my fence. But we didn’t have facebook back then kiddies, we just had the Martha Quinn and the MTV.
VP DEBATE- WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT (video below)
by Dennis Trainor, Jr
Joe Biden was unable to do to Sarah Palin what Katie Couric had done repeatedly over the past week. Maybe Obama should have picked Couric. What is more obscene- that Couric, the former host of the entertainment program “The Today show” whose only mandate is to sell shit has one of the to top three news jobs in the country or that Obama was to proud to pick Clinton as his VP- a choice that would have sealed up this election a long time ago. We would have never heard of Sarah Palin. Instead we get the irony of the black man taking all of the color, the life, the joie di vive out of jumpin Joe Biden, effectively neutering him.
Listen.
It is impossible for me to break down the Vice Presidential debate (see the full debate) without considering a seemingly unrelated news story. Chew on this as you prep your water cooler arguments about the VP debate between the sex-pot swine and the neutered country club lap dog:
America’s finest news source reported recently in an article headlined Members Of Twisted Sister Now Willing To Take It
In a stunning reversal of their long-stated reluctance to take it, members of heavy-metal band Twisted Sister announced Monday that, after 24 years of fervent refusal, they are now willing to take it. “I acknowledge that we promised not to take it anymore, but things change. The world is a different place today, and with that in mind, we would like to go on record as saying that, starting right now, we are going to take it,” read a statement released by the band’s lead singer, Dee Snider. “To clarify, we would still prefer not to take it, but as of now, taking it is an option that we would be open to. That is all.”
The youth anthem, “We’re not gonna take it” was released in 1984.
Orwell would have appreciated the resistance even as he could have predicted the state sponsored response.
The commission on Presidential debates hijacked the electoral process in 1987 and has run every presidential and vice presidential debate since, insuring, among other things, that you are going to take it America.
You are going to accept at face value the a farce of a debate where the moderator wrote a book, due out on inauguration day entitled “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” as a real debate.” as if she did not have a finacial stake in the outcome of the race.
You are going to take a democratic party that claims with a straight face to be both for “legal protections for gay couples” yet against gay marriage and walks a similarly ridiculous line on any number of issues, not the least of which being that the Democrats tell you they want to end the war even as Obama claims he will increase the military budget.
Listen up Democrats, unless the increased military budget is going to be used so that military doctors can start admisistering free healthcare to the 47 million Americans who have no insurance- even under your plan OBAMA- this two step does not fly.
You are going to take a former Sports reporter looking into the camera and addressing the American male as “Joe Six-pack” while smiling bobbing and weaving questions.
You are going to take this sham of a debate where campaigns that are on the ballot in enough states to mathematically have a chance at winning are excluded from the process.
You are going to go to your water coolers and your chat rooms and your local bar and debate Biden/ Palin like it matters.
What do I have to do to get through to you people? Dress up in tights and make up and front a glam rock band?
When are you going to grab the banner out of Dee Snider’s tired arms and declare loud and clear
We’re not gonna take it!
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Early on in Thursday’s debate, moderator Gwen Ifill asked vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin a question about bipartisanship: “Would you work to shrink this gap of polarization which has sprung up in Washington?” In response, Joe Biden painted McCain as a flip-flopper, and Sarah Palin attacked Obama. To which Ifill replied, “Neither of you really answered that.”
Gotcha.
Or did she? Many politicians have mastered the art of dodging questions. What struck me about this debate was that Sarah Palin has mastered the art of something else: making you forget the question.
Porno for Politics
by Dennis Trainor, Jr. (w/ video below)
Sarah Palin’s recent blunders under the cottony Courician spotlight have made her the punch line to so many jokes that Lorne Michaels is paying Tina Fey in gold bouillon cubes to keep the former head writer and weekend update host of SNL returning week after week.
That said, I’ve got a shocking prediction for you. Sarah Palin will win the debate against Joe Biden this Thursday night. Do not mistake my prediction for a wish. I wish that Lorne Michaels would hire me when Amy Poehler leaves the show for mommy land after the election. I mean, show of hands, how many of you would like to see me behind the SNL News-desk?
Thanks Mom.
But back to my thesis, for the numerologists and 9th grade English teachers in my audience, here are the three main reasons why Sara Palin will win Thursday, in what will be the most watched VP debate since the Commission on Presidential Debates started rigging elections in 1988:
One: Sarah Palin believes that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as humans. Now, if you think that is a strike against her take a look in the mirror and you will see one of two things. One: a cloistered urban intellectual who never leaves the cosy confines of the city preferring to remain surrounded by quote unquote culture, fine dining and cab drivers of dubious ethnic distinction. You are now or will one day be married to your former step daughter you Godless pervert or two; you attend or are employed by a college or university. Your Ivy shield may be real or metaphoric, but make no mistake- you are insulated from the real world. The rest of the country is cross referencing the daily news with the book of revelations and vacationing at the CREATION MUSEUM where God fearing families can take a “Walk through history” depicting humans interacting with Dinosaurs in a stunning design created by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, take in a lecture on how “the book of Genesis relevant in todays world” and have your children practice a the socially acceptable form of cannibalism know as the Eucharist.
The second thing going for Palin in this debate is the format. Trying to confine babbling Biden to 90 second answers and a two minute follow up is like asking someone to turn water into wine. It is just beyond reason. Even keeping Biden on message will be difficult. What will Biden say, for instance, when Gwen Iffil asks him to clarify his recent remarks that Hillary Clinton would have been a better Vice Presidential choice than he? All of America who gobbles up their politics from the left side of the table will look across the stage and agree with Joe Biden on this point. Backed into a corner, Biden is likely to come out swinging, flexing his intellectual superiority. Again, he is in a no win situation here, as that will come off as condescending, which brings me, sans an adequate transition sentence, to my third and final supporting point.
Three: Sarah Palin is George Bush with breasts. As I have said before, playing dumb while clinging to your bible and guns wins elections in this country. Ask Al Gore. Ask John Kerry.
Dress it all up in the porno librarian costume and you’ve got Karl Rove with a throbbing gristle. And when Rove- or one of his disciples- gets stiff, there is no bending, there is no breaking, only the rhythmic pounding of the democrats weaknesses until the money shot on election day.
Politics is porno.
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Is it possible that in this historic election that the first debate featuring McBama was actually overshadowed by other news? As lawmakers prepare to vote on the $700 billion dollar bailout (and McCain maneuvers to take the credit), the House approves a trillion dollars in spending- not for the bailout, but to expand the empire.
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Her faith views are strong and sometimes controversial. Her aides say she seeks to share but not impose her faith; her critics say she has ‘a fine-tuned sense of how far to push.’
By Stephen Braun/ Los Angeles Times Staff Writer/ September 28, 2008
ANCHORAGE — Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Sarah Palin never had much hope of getting my vote, but when she told the Republican convention that special-needs children would have “a friend and advocate in the White House” in a McCain administration, I felt obliged to give her a hearing. God knows, kids with disabilities and their parents need powerful friends, so I even called my own special-needs daughter to the television to watch.
Unfortunately, the camera kept cutting to Palin’s snowmobiler “guy,” alternately cradling and brandishing the couple’s Down syndrome baby, who appeared to be fast asleep. At first I told myself that this might be a good thing – special education and physical therapy are scandalously under-funded in this country and some TV images of a cute Down syndrome baby might be just the thing to raise consciousness about the problem.
But something about the aggressive theatrics sparked another, quite unpleasant image in my mind. When I visited Hanoi in 1994, beggars, sometimes men, would confront me on the street carrying limp, lifeless-looking babies that looked as though they were on the verge of death, if not actually dead. I later learned that the babies were drugged into listlessness and that many of them were “rented” by the beggars for their daily rounds. I confess that I was so horrified by this tactic that I recoiled instead of giving them any money. How could anyone, no matter how desperate, use a baby in that way to get sympathy? Read the rest of this entry ?
By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL POWELL in the NEW YORK TIMES
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages. Read the rest of this entry ?
CNN just aired a little more footage of their interview with Alaska trooper Mike Wooten, who’s at the center of the Sarah Palin Trooper-Gate affair. Among other subjects, Wooten talks about Tasering his 11-year old stepson.
Tina Fey PWNs John McCain as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live?
November 3, 2008I disagree- I thought McCain was funny, displayed a good sense of humor about himself and got in some points. The skit dis not make McCain look like a loser. In my opinion, it made him look like a gut who can laugh. Don’t mistake my high marks for McCain on SNL with an endorsement. I would not elect this guy to the PTA, never mind president
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