11.15.08
Song for Sarah
Oh, Sarah, what do you do to these men? (Apologies to David Bromberg)
Fractured English
Who am I talking about? Sarah Palin, of course. In an blog post on the New York Times site, Dick Cavett, a man who knows how to turn a phrase, writes about Sarah Palin, a woman who appears to have no first language. She is a woman of many words, but unfortunately does not seem to be able to assemble them into coherent sentences. Just in case you didn’t notice.
Everybody has completely missed the point of her grammar. The “language” she is using only consists of syntactically correct sentences when she is reciting memorized talking points or speeches. When speaking extemporaneously in response to questions (real questions, that is), she appears to speak a mishmash of seemingly randomly-chosen words and phrases. It sounds like language, but it is not.
Like any good Pentecostal, she is speaking in tongues.
11.07.08
Election stolen in Alaska?
It looks like the keystone kops running the election process in the state of Alaska stole it.
Now, after the results of the last election (clearly tampered with in several states) and the Republican voter suppression in the process of happening, I am not firmly convinced that there was not a “Diebold Effect” that Obama had to overcome by performing even better than predicted. But considering that the group that was most underrepresented in the polls—younger voters—is also his strongest supporter, this was possible.
The issue is that in order to steal an election so that it stays stolen, you have to make the results appear plausible. Irregularities stick out like a sore thumb. In the last two elections, there were widespread irregularities in Ohio, where Democratic precincts “voted” 100% (or even higher) Republican and Florida had to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of minority voters in order to get the results they wanted. These are just examples. The issue is that the losing candidates and their party (the Democratic party) decided not to make a stink, to be “conciliatory”, and the mainstream media decided to suppress it, although it was a fascinating read.
By tampering with the programs of voting machines or optical scanners, you can shave enough votes to have an effect in a close election, and it’s hard for anybody to be the wiser.
But in this election, the polls pretty much agreed with the results. So if that happened, it wasn’t enough to affect the result, and as yet we do not see irregularities.
Except in Alaska, where numerous precincts voted more than 100%, vote totals are way down from the previous election, even thought there was lots of enthusiasm for all races in the state, and the convicted felon Ted Stevens who looked like he was going lose big instead won big.
It was part of the plan for Stevens to win, then resign. Palin would run for his seat in the Senate. But that wouldn’t work out if his opponent failed.
How many Wasilla Faith Warriors (people from Palin’s apocalyptic cult—which has declared its intention of infiltrating the government and taking control from the godless) are managing local elections? Remember, these are people with such an intense faith in the Bible that they don’t see anything else as important. How else could she have no knowledge that Africa is not a country? She has tried to blame the release of this information by claiming that the people who said it are “small-minded and bitter”. Yes, bitter at having to work with her and her nasty personality. But she did not deny that she believed Africa was a country. She thought the question was unfair.
Context: When South Africa came up in discussion, she thought they were talking about the southern part of the country of Africa…
And in case you missed it, she has no understanding of science, either. She believes that dinosaurs walked the earth with humans 6000 years ago.
But getting back to the Alaska “election results”, it is incompetent people like her that would pull such a blatantly transparent election theft, people she has undoubtedly appointed at all levels, also those who have been working to get themselves elected locally. They think God wants them to win by any means. No laws apply to them. The only thing that matters is not getting caught.
They just couldn’t figure out how to make it look like it was a fair election. They didn’t think it mattered, because these are people who do not see this country as you and I do, to steal a quote from Sarah. And they just can’t imagine how people like us think.
11.06.08
Change in trajectory-the path to victory
There has, of course, been a lot of blaming going on. But the interesting thing is, there are a lot of decisions that we can point at and say they had a big impact on the results of the campaign. Some I have seen suggested:
- McCain’s choice to pander to right wing evangelicals, which alienated him with the moderates who had respected him.
- McCain’s choice of Palin, who gave a good bump to the polls before pushing them both off the edge of the world.
- Sean Hannity’s decision to run 24/7 smear attacks on Obama, in spite of the fact that the more people listened and watched, the more likely they were to vote for Obama. Hello?!? Hannity may have single-handedly destroyed the campaign hopes of the Republicans.
It turns out the Obama campaign was pleased to hear that Palin had been selected, because they had checked her out ahead of time and found her, uh, wanting.
And now, for some juicy gossip on Fox News, no less. Sarah Palin had no idea that Africa was a continent, rather than a country. Didn’t she learn anything from Muthee?
11.02.08
Sarah Palin wants to steal my stuff
Because she doesn’t think I’m a true Christian.
She’s right. I’m not, and that makes me one of the “godless” that her prayer warriors is planning on looting and pillaging when they take over the country prior to bringing on Armageddon.
Ecumenicism is a game they play. They want you to think you have something in common with them. Do you believe the world is beset by witchcraft and demons? Do you believe in praying for the deaths of people? Do you think it’s a good idea to bring on the End Times so you can get raptured right up into heaven?
She is a dominionist, which means she supports making the US a theocracy run by members of her cult. The movement to infiltrate the government at all levels is called New Apostolic Reformation. Check them out.
Sarah Palin believes in all this and more. Believe it, it’s true.
10.30.08
Why no medical records, Sarah?
She did, after all, promise that she’d release them what seems like more than a week ago. Why hasn’t it happened?
The logical assumption would be that she’s hiding something embarrassing.
It’s still possible that the “October surprise” may be a “sympathy miscarriage” for Bristol. Right now we are taking it on Sarah’s word that the teen is even pregnant. Would she throw her kid under the bus to advance her own career? Don’t answer that…
You can just guess what her evangelical followers might find unacceptable.
10.29.08
Pit bull/Hockey Mom rap
Doing their part. Watch the captions, the words go by pretty quickly.
10.28.08
Sarah Palin and Hugo Chavez trading insults
Too funny.
Sarah Palin calls Hugo Chavez a “dictator” as part of her campaign screed (which he may be, but that’s beside the point, especially since she doesn’t seem to have a clear idea of the meaning of her words.like.ever). He is now calling her a “confused beauty queen,” and says, “The poor thing, you just feel sorry for her.”
Sarah, you got owned. Out of the kitchen with you.
I might be feeling sorry for her too if I was a foreigner abroad who is not necessarily an ally, watching her try to destroy the very fabric of our democracy right here at home.
Just what we need, a Vice President who gets treated like the bimbo she is by foreign leaders. Imagine if she was trying to go on one of those diplomatic trips that Vice Presidents seem to go on so often. But she’d have to have a lot of handlers to keep her from talking and embarrassing us all…
10.26.08
Ms Extreme Makeover
Not to give you guys too many links, just a little catching up for those of you who haven’t been following the saga too closely…
But after the receipts were submitted by the Republican National Committee for the $151,000 in clothing from better stores, $13,000 and then $22,000 for her makeup artist—or was it more than that, I forget? Then Palin denied outright having spent that much money, making her either the worst liar in the world or somebody who shopped like she thought she wasn’t paying for it.
Of course, she did pay for it in the end, or at least she will, when tax time comes around. The IRS will consider this consumption, rather than an expense. She had clothes, even if they weren’t as tasteful as the ones bought for her by the chief robocall manager. And the clothes they bought her can be worn again, unlike a McDonald’s uniform.
It will bump her into a higher tax bracket.
They weren’t a loan, unlike an evening gown that a celebrity may wear once to the Academy Awards. When she gets done with them, they’ll be nothing but used clothing in the eyes of the IRS. Somebody said to me that she can auction them or sell them off to rich Republicans. Something tells me that there aren’t too many Republicans thinking kindly of her right now. But even if there are, if they give her money for clothes that aren’t worth anything, that’s declarable income, too. It’s definitely a no-win situation, which is why she should have taken advice from the likes of Michelle Obama, who’s quite the thrifty dresser, or even the folks at Lifehacker, where they’re showing us how to dress like a Veep for a fraction of what she spent.
Now there are those who say that it’s just a double standard, because we expect women in the public eye to dress much more expensively than men in the same job, and there’s certainly some of that. There was a blog entry on HuffPo that came outright and said she should be able to spend whatever she wanted, and she should also be able to take her kids with her wherever she travels at the expense of her employer, because she’s a woman and… Uh, didn’t go over very well.
Please, she spent twice as much as my house is worth on clothes. Her makeup artist is the most expensive McCain campaign worker they’ve got. HELLO? People are living on pasta and potatoes. They are skipping new shoes so they can buy fuel.
And now the McCain campaign doesn’t know what to do with her. The Veep hopefuls that McCain passed up when he picked her can’t think of anything good to say about her. She’s decided to go all rogue on them, won’t listen to anybody’s advice, and spouting all kinds of bizarre extreme rhetoric. She has decided it’s all the campaign’s fault, none of it hers for being incoherent and ignorant of the simplest facts. And now she’s announced that Obama’s tax plan, by allowing expiration of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy, is the beginning of Obama’s nightmare communist plot.
Ship that bitch back to Alaska. Somebody please sedate her, give her a Xanax or two. Or anesthesia, even better. Anything to shut her up.
10.25.08
Sarah Palin’s demons and witches
Contratulations to Bruce Wilson for a scary in-depth piece at the Huffington Post about Sarah Palin’s associations with witchhunters, “spiritual warfare”, Christian nationalism, and The Global Apostolic Prayer Network, which claims to be responsible for the death of Mother Teresa through prayer.
These are one scary bunch. They believe that to bring about the End Times, Bible-believing Christian warriors (hint: that’s not you) will have to cleanse the world of evil (we’re both probably in this group) through violent means. They see the world as full of demonic possession and witchcraft, and they’re looking forward to a witch hunt something like the one in Salem, but on a massive scale—only because there are so many witches in need of eradication, of course.
This is the woman the Republican Party is looking forward to nominating for President in 2012. God has chosen her for this path, and supports her in everything she does, you know, just as God chose Michele Bachman, who now looks like she will be defeated, thanks to her support of Congressional witchhunts. Too bad, Michele, looks like God must have changed his mind.
Just a sample, one of many videos in the article.
Where is the media on this? I am sure that it would be fair to say that Sarah Palin does not see this country as you and I do, to paraphrase her own words. These religious whackos do not think you and I are part of their god’s plan, why do Americans pretend that all religious belief is created equal, and she is one of them?
And now, just for fun, a video of Sarah Palin saying that Bill Ayers is a terrorist, while she “doesn’t know” if people who bomb abortion clinics and murder doctors and workers are terrorists.