happy turkey day Palin!... (not!)

i have to hand it to Governor "Gruesome" Palin --she really knows how to keep her name in the headlines! unfortunately, never for a good reason though... yesterday, Palin went through the schmalzy tradition that all American politicians go through each year of "pardoning a turkey" and setting it free right before Thanksgiving when millions will be slaughtered for our dinner... but, just to be DIFFERENT, i guess --Palin did her little interview in front of a guy who was actually busy killing birds and draining their blood... hmm yummy...

thanks governor! way to replace my rockwellian picture of family gathered at a table eating turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy with blood and guts right before thanksgiving!!! arrrrgh! i think i'll go back to making "hand turkeys" now... going to my happy place...

i know you are, but what am i?...

okay...first of all, it's been a bit of miserable week thus far... my heater broke, during a sudden chill forcing me under the covers... the weather in the Bay Area has been up and down. last week it was hot and sunny and this week it's lookin' overcast and chilly again. brrr... and during one of the few days that it was raining hard a little while ago - i managed to slip and fall on a crooked slab of cement right outside my apartment complex. ever since then, i've been feeling like the universe put out an invisible banana peel for me to break my "coccyx" on... ;D so sue me, i'm a bit grumpy...

but this story did make me laugh a little... (if you know Tucker Carlson, he's a right wingnut who often has trouble making coherent arguments himself, so i thought it was a bit of a pot calling the kettle black...)

Tucker Carlson apparently wasn't impressed with Palin's - um - verbal skills. On Slate's forum, The Conservative Crackup, he wrote:
After the (Republican) party has settled on what it believes, it ought to go shopping for a leader. I recommend someone who speaks fluent English. This matters, it turns out, and not just for aesthetic reasons. In a democracy, eloquence is a basic condition of leadership. A president has a moral as well as a political obligation to explain his program. His constitutional powers are limited to just a few (war, the veto). His real authority comes from persuasion.
It helps if you can talk.

Ouch. Bush set the bar really really low. Put Palin still managed to sail right under it... :P

britches to nowhere...

Palin "sorts clothes" to see what belongs to the RNC

Associated Press
November 10, 2008

WASILLA, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spent part of the weekend going through her clothing to determine what belongs to the Republican Party after it spent $150,000+ on a wardrobe for the vice presidential nominee, according to Palin's father. . . Republican National Committee lawyers are still trying to determine exactly what clothing was bought for Palin, what was returned and what has become of the rest.

Palin's father, Chuck Heath, said his daughter spent the day Saturday trying to figure out what belongs to the RNC. "She was just frantically ... trying to sort stuff out," Heath said. "That's the problem, you know, the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for.

RNC lawyers have been discussing with Palin whether what's left of the clothing and accessories purchased for her on the campaign trail will go to charity, back to stores or be paid for by Palin, a McCain-Palin campaign official said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the campaign hadn't authorized comment. . . .

just when you think it can't get any more BIZARRE - okay, what is more embarrassing? that Sarah spent a ton of cash on clothes like "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman-Marcus from coast to coast" or that her dad just went to the media and started talkin' about her losing her underwear??

she also reportedly called mccain's staff and the liberal media - "stinkers and jerks..." so there. i can just see it --pretty soon, somebody is gonna have a dead possum delivered to their front door... daggum it... ohhh.. it is soooo ON, dude!...

morons stand united...

okay, i confess... i am really enjoying all the in-fighting and the complete implosion of the republican party right now. it's like trying to look away from a train wreck! the republicans are coming out in droves to "eat their own" --like rabid dogs. after spending the last 3 months calling Sarah Palin "a mavericky maverick who knows more about energy than ANYONE EVER...", people in her SAME PARTY are calling her a "diva who constantly screamed at her staff and forced her underlings to buy expensive clothes for her on their own personal credit cards, an Alaskan hillbilly who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her wardrobe (during an economic crisis/running on a ticket of "cutting the fat from Washington"), and a complete ignoramus who doesn't know the difference between a country and a continent... after seeing her in the few interviews that she was allowed to give, i can't say i am really that surprised. the woman does not exactly "light up the screen" with her amazing intellectual prowess. but it still seems utterly ridiculous, even for them, that they could turn on a dime so quickly... i think it took them all of about 10 seconds to go from cheerleaders to mortal enemies.

Karl Rove, the architect behind Bush's "success", even claimed yesterday that the reason Obama won is because he is really a closet Republican and ran on "Republican ideals" whatever the hell THAT means. (Keep in mind that he's been calling Obama a dangerous Socialist/Marxist/friend of terrorists for the last few months with a vengeance.) So, all of this would be kind of hilarious if it wasn't so tragic...

Of course, Palin still has her "fans." In fact, there's a whole group of rich white repressed cowboys who absolutely LOVE the fact that she likes to shoot moose from an airplane and answers the door in just a towel for her "debriefings"... Although about 70% of the American public polled said that "Palin was NOT READY to be President" - evidently the 2012 campaign to get her elected has ALREADY BEGUN. So, although comedians around the country were really mourning the loss of "Bushhhh" as a target for their parodies - they do not have to worry. I'm sure Palin will provide PLENTY of material in the years to come... Actually, I am just praying that she has learned that throwing out random racist and inflammatory comments DOES NOT WORK. Evidently her statements regarding "Obama bein' someone who likes to pal around with terrorists" is what caused millions of Muslim-Americans to come out for him on election day. So, there was a little poetic justice in all of this... Anyway - I'm prayin' for yah, Sarah... You betcha!

our blue nation...

a stunning site. (blue represents people who voted more than 50% democratic, red represents the republicans and conservatives) this is the actual breakdown of how people voted on tuesday. while FOX, CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS pundits on EVERY US tv station continue to try to say America is a conservative "center-right" nation - the facts bear out that we are actually moving LEFT, LEFT, LEFT every day... it just never ceases to amaze me how willing the republican party is to IGNORE REALITY and opt for their idea of a puritanical fantasy land...

i don't think i ever realized the extent of how much the US media was distorting the TRUTH until i lived in Korea for a while... i think that should be some sort of requirement of every US Senator and Representative. go travel and live in other countries! get out of podunk county in AlaBAMA and actually TALK to people around the world! who woulda THUNK it? and for the love of God - stop trying to elect people who have NO PERSPECTIVE or GENERAL KNOWLEDGE of the world!!!

yesterday, i read that Sarah Palin's staff did not know where to begin in helping her prepare for her debates and interviews. she evidently does not know ANYTHING about anything! case in point: she thought Africa was a country not a continent. she could not name the countries that make up North America. she thought the 1st amendment should protect HER from being criticized by the media. sorry to say this, gals, but she is POWERFUL stupid. she would've made Bush look like a genius... and that, my friends, would NOT be an easy task! ;D

yer probably wondering what has me all worked up this morning... i think it was just watching the morning news and realizing that although Obama won a DECISIVE victory in an election where the Repubs were running on a campaign of racism, deceit, and a whole host of dirty tricks - the conservative media seem to have taken away the message (not that the country wants a real change) but that they failed because they just didn't get "dirty" enough... that disappoints me deeply... also the news that by some ridiculous twist of fate, there is still a chance that Sarah Palin may come back in some form - either as a nominee for president in 2012 or as a Senator representing Alaska since one of her mentors and colleagues in crime has already been CONVICTED of multiple violations of ethics laws... it's like a bad movie, seriously... anyway, i hope the Repubs study that map carefully... and now that such a large percentage of people have participated in this election, and found that their vote actually DOES make a difference, i really hope the participation in our democracy continues...