Okay, so I’ve been a little delinquent on the link-love stuff. Forgive a girl and dive in.
I just found this site: Sarah Palin is Cool. It has bios of all of the Palins, a blog, and advertises itself as a place to find Palin-related news.
Sarah will be on SNL tonight, showing the country that she has the sense of humour to laugh at herself. Too bad that a lot of Americans seem to miss the joke.
Ooohh, barracuda! Sarah slams Obama’s socialist policies to a sell-out crowd.
The Weekly Standard blasts so-called feminists for their (mis)treatment of Sarah Palin. Choice quote:
Yet, so far as one can tell, Arthur Miller’s treatment of his own child has not put the least dent in his reputation, while Sarah Palin’s having, keeping, and loving her Down syndrome child is somehow, by the standard of the liberal woman of our day, not so secretly thought the act of an obviously backward and ignorant woman, an affront to womanhood. “Her greatest hypocrisy,” proclaimed Wendy Doniger, one of the leading feminist lights at the University of Chicago, “is her pretense that she is a woman.”
The AP does a relatively decent job of highlighting Sarah Palin’s work with special-needs children, including her autistic nephew. Then, at the end, it repeats the oft-debunked lie that Gov. Palin slashed funding for the Special Olympics. Palin actually increased the funding by 10% over the previous year; she simply did not give the group the two-fold increase that they asked for - proving again that women can do math, but liberals can’t.
Speaking of debunking lies and Sarah Palin’s wonderful support for special-needs children, check out this video. I think we can safely determine that she does give interviews, she does well in them, and that, as a VP, she would bring a tonne of attention to a long ignored, marginalised part of society.
When the Obamassiah speaks to a football stadium, we all hear about it. When Sarah Palin speaks to a crowd of 25,000 people, who lined up hours in advance to see her in a packed stadium, it only makes the news in the local Indiana papers. Fear not, faithful readers - the power of googlenews brings this Sarah-loving to a computer near you.
Todd Palin, First Dude and alpha male extraordinaire, calls the Second Amendment not “just another Amendment” in Minnesota.
Vermont Teddy Bear now has bear versions of the VP candidates. Sarah’s bear sports, inter alia, a button with “Palin/McCain ‘08,” in reference to her one-time statement of the ticket. To some, it’s a mistake; to others, it’s the truth.
The Wheeling News-Register endorses the McCain/Palin ticket as being better for coal than the Obama/Biden ticket. It even goes so far as to say that any other take on Biden’s famous Pennsylvania words is an “insult to the intelligence of voters.”
Bangor, Maine residents adore Sarah Palin.
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Roxeanne,
This definately is not a link-love site, but I thought you would find it sort of funny nonetheless:
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
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Small correction, Hermantown is nowhere near Minneapolis. It is in the “Iron Range” near Duluth. It is an area with on-again-off-again cyclical poverty due to fluctuations in iron mining where people often have to rely on hunting in order to feed their families. It is part of Minnesota’s independant liberal tradition that we have voted hunting into our constitution as a protected heritage activity to preserve the independence of rural families in the face of capricious industry employment. Tax money dedicated to preserving habitat and careful custodial regulations have preserved it as a Minnisotan way of life.
Todd Palin was wise to tap into that, especially in that region.
I see he also went to my hometown of Bemidji. Nestled into an area of sublime natural beauty, where the Mississippi runs through Lake Bemidji, it is a quaint and beautiful little town with some of the most intellectually deprived rednecks imaginable…nice place to visit…if you don’t mind a rape and murder rate around twice the national average.
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Just one more thing, I guess he went to the Bemidji Woolen Mills. My aunt works there. That place is a hoppin’ place…my aunt just recently told me that she and one of her co-workers had a special order for a blanket coat for Barak Obama. She doesn’t like him at all, but she thought it was pretty cool to make a blanket coat for him. She had a whole list of famous people that she made stuff for, but I dont remember any of them now, except Obama, which was the latest. She also made a special robe for their preist to wear to an audience with the pope. I thought her head was going to explode.
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I want a blanket coat! Sounds cozy.
I also want a Craftmatic Adjustable Bed and a Hoveround. Blu Blocker sunglasses used to be on that list, but I got some the other week. WORD!
Allison,
They are cozy. I’m sorry, I searched all over the Woolen Mills catalogue, and couldn’t find it. Maybe they only do special orders anymore. I’ll ask my aunt if you want to know.
I don’t know how much they are, but I bet they cost a lot less than a craftmatic adjustable bed!
I bet she almost peed herself when Mr. Palin came and spoke there. I’m going to call her tomorrow.
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I was wondering if any of the coal communities would take notice Obama’s and particularly Biden’s views on coal.
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Teresa,
All better! Mea culpa.
That’s true of Alaska, too. There seems to be something about beautiful, desolate areas that inspires those things.
Allison & Teresa,
Blanket coats sound very cozy.
It’s getting chilly up here in New England….
Roxeanne,
Well, it’s better off than the rival town, Brainerd, that has eight times the national average for arson.
I swear, Hardly a week went by that we didn’t have a knock-down fist fight. Half the pick-ups in the student parking lot had loaded guns on gunracks in the back window. Every kid has a pocket knife…some of them “pocket knives” would have been sufficient to feild dress a deer with, and were probably used for such. One of the favorite pass-times was making ascetaline bombs in the gravel pits while drinking stolen beer.
By way of comparison, in the Republican-dominated town we live in now, my kid got written up for wearing a hat to school…a hat!
Sheesh…there’s a happy medium in there somewhere…
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Hi Roxeanne, wanted to comment on your point that “Sarah will be on SNL tonight.” Since you wrote this post the SNL episode was concluded (of course) and the viewer ship results has it that more people watched SNL than any show since something like 1994. Add this together to the narrowing of the polls in some important battleground states and hope for additional momentum and you may make a reasonable connection that the SNL piece put John McCain back in the race.
Wouldn’t it be a gas if McCain wins the election and the pundits attribute the turnaround point to be the SNL show. Wouldn’t that crowd love the distinction of putting McCain across the finish line?
……….steve
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I thought Sarah was funny and charming on SNL, showed she had a sense of humor about herself, increased her likability factor…
…but good grief! That 700 club interview…Ive only seen the clips they’ve made public, but she couldn’t have had a more friendly venue in which to take some risks and really speak frankly about her beliefs, and address some of the fears about her being part of the NAR, the Third Wave and Joel’s Army, etc. and she just glossed over it, and decried that people were making fun of Pentacostals…ignoring the fact that the real rumor is that she’s part of movement that mainstream Pentecostals consider to be dangerously heretical.
It was a missed opportunity to disctance herself from the very radical bunch she’s been associated with from video footage put out by the churches themselves.
I hardly consider First Assembly of God churches to be radical. Sheesh!
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Oh, and Steve, that would be awesome! I thought the SNL stuff was funny — and I was a little worried before hand. She came across very well.
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Teresa,
Agree that there’s a happy medium somewhere. Wonder where that place would be.
Steve,
Oh, that would be awesome - and SNL would be the new forum for political campaigns. She can laugh at herself, and I hope it shows other people that SNL is a joke and not reality.
Sunflower Desert (or Sunny D?),
I’ll let you take on the radical stuff - I don’t have the slightest clue about different religions.
Sorry to y’all for not blogging/responding much recently - no real excuse, just been a bit out of it and a little sickened by all the *(&@ that’s been going on in this election.
Yep, pretty sickening. But don’t give up. I wouldn’t put money on this, but I predict a McCain win. If only 5-6% of those claiming to plan to vote for Obama are in the “I’m not racist, but I fear being called a racist for not voting for the messiah,” then that will tie things up. And my guess is that the youth turnout will not be what Obama hopes for (if history holds).
And my guess is that the Clintons haven’t played their final card.
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Wow Neil, you make me feel better. Thanks
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Neil,
Were you reading Ann Coulter’s column, too? It’s amazing how they always misstate the polls in favour of the Democrats. It’s like flipping a coin and always having it come up heads.
Given the browbeating that anti-Obamaites have received, I wouldn’t be surprised if the vast majority of those who are refusing to answer the surveys are McCain voters, and if some of those who are answering that they’ll vote for Barack will either stay home or vote for McCain.
Sunflower Desert,
You don’t think that the New Apastolic Reformation is radical? Interesting.
The videos depict her being prayed over by a witchunter who gained politcal power by inciting mob violence against a woman he accused of wtichcraft. This is a Kenyan preacher (who claims to pastor hundreds of churches in Kenya) who was promoted by her church. She publicly bragged about him and credited his prayer with her election as governor.
Some people have described the predory witchunting of innocent women and children in Kenya, Nigiria, and South Africa as being “Satanic”.
Sounds pretty radical to me…but then, I was raised ELC.
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