Wonkette
- Sarah Palin’s speech tonight will likely be heavy on policy, short on bio. [Reuters]
- Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla, Alaska on a platform of wingnuttery and division. [New York Times]
- John McCain’s aides continue to insist that the Alaska governor was properly vetted (about 20 minutes before they announced her selection). [Washington Post]
- George W. Bush helped restore luster to his presidential legacy and gave John McCain a boost by staying as far away from the St. Paul convention as possible. [Wall Street Journal]
- North Korea is reportedly reassembling a nuclear reactor. What awful thing will John McCain say about this to bring us to the brink of nuclear war? [Reuters]
- The government of the Ukraine is collapsing as prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the one with the braids, joined forces with opposition groups. [Guardian]
- And somebody shot at the prime minister of Pakistan’s motorcade, but the prime minister was fine because he wasn’t in it. [New York Times]
I’d like someone in the MSM to point out that Dubya broke John McCain’s own election law by politickin’ from a federal government building… Not that anything would come of it, but just for the ironic historical footnote.
How many more skeletons are going to be dragged out Governor Failin’s extremely large closet before tonight’s speech?
I for one, look forward to tonight’s declaration of Alaskan independence.
Wow, Sarah Palin didn’t support her stepmother-in-law’s candidacy to succeed her as Wasilla mayor because the woman is an independent and not a fundy Republican. That must make Thanksgiving dinner tense.
Alaska is right next to Russia, who is oh-so-close to North Korea, and both are communist. Right? So no worries, Sarah will take care of the nuclear threat. Yup yup.
Looks like Princess Leia wants to snuggle with Darth Putin:
http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/eng/
HopeNutz:
Don’t forget, she has plenty of foreign policy experience racked up from her one trip outside the country to the casino on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
When does the new edition of the Natl Enquirer come out? Isn’t it a Palin dedicated issue?
Serolf Divad:
Canada? Forget about it. This woman is from Alaska, they don’t care about the “outside”. The other US states are virtually unknown to them (except flying to Seattle now and then to shop at real stores)or sending their kids to colleges in the Pacific Northwest. A different country? Canada might as well be the moon.
So the New York Times just confirmed the story about Palin wanting to ban books from the local library as Mayor? Best. VP. Ever.
Oh, goody. We get to see lemmings hoot-n-holler a lengthy, nerve-induced cackle of a speech about Goddamn Hero and how she defends the frontier from the communist onslaught.
Can I say something about Sarah Palin? Does it strike anyone else as odd that she would insistently refer to herself as a “hockey mom” knowing full well that her 17 year-old daughter was 5 months pregnant, having been knocked up by a high-school hockey player? Anyone else thinking that mom might not have been so much upset at her daughter, as, maybe proud that she landed such a tall, handsome, broad-shouldered all-
Amer… Alaskan catch? Am I the only one wondering if there might not have been some “Mrs. Robinson” action going on there as well?>>Canada might as well be the moon.
Apparently, Palin supports shipping natural gas to the moon.
4tehlulz:
Yeah, God told her to do it.
Serolf Divad:
She only gave him two minutes for high-sticking.
Serolf Divad: Also, according to WaPo, she may have travelled to Mexico, too. I can haz Spring Braek?
Where is old Hopey while all this Republicanism is happening? I hope he’s not riding unicorns on the beach in Hawaii. Seems like we saw WALNUTS every night during the Democratic convention. I am not sure I can take two more days of this bullshit without serious “medication.”
Terry: Funny you should mention that.
“Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity.
Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can’t miss it.
Palin was in church that day, Kroon said, though he cautioned against attributing Brickner’s views to her.”
Palin opposed the U.S. government’s listing of a variety of animals as endangered, including the polar bear and the beluga whale, both of which inhabit areas also rich in oil and natural gas.
Sarah Palin: Baby Baluga Killer! :-O
I think Sarah Palin’s done this country a great service. What did any of us know about Alaska up until now? Volcanoes… snow… oil spills… Jewel. And now, thanks to Sarah “the klondyke” Palin, we know that everyone there is bugshit crazy, too. Kind of like an arctic Texas.
So, Palin asked for the process by which one could ban books, upon having the librarian answer “you don’t” ended up firing her, but the question was merely rhetorical? Really? Nice that the community helped the librarian be reinstated. Can’t think of a less political job than being a librarian. Other than being, oh, maybe a museum director. Wait! She fired him, too! He probably didn’t want to take down all those pesky diaramas based upon “science.”
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2008/09/palin_versus_the_museum.html
And the cute thing with Ukraine’s government collapsing is that they have the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world too. So it’ll be like “mine” and “no way dude, ours” and then someone will have one of those ethnic weddings where they all fire their guns in the air and things’ll get really crazy.
Serolf Divad: Laugh about it, shout about it,
When you’ve got to choose,
Anyway you look at it you loose.
Sussemilch: Vice President Palin will use her PTA experience to travel to North Korea and announce a “nukes” for brownies trade.
Re: Daily Briefing
So basically everything and everyone is going to hell and if WALNUTS! and Gidget pull this off it’s time to hit the “eject” button on the USA.
NoWireHangers: Yes, but hope you don’t land in a NATO country, or Israel, because they probably won’t make it either.
ProgHead777:
There is a reason they seem like the Arctic Texas, there’s a lot of Texans up there.
From my observation, Alaska has a series of cultural or social strata that sort of kinda overlap:
1 - Native Alaskans, many living in remote villages as subsistence fishers/hunters.
2 - Homesteaders, Libertarians, the original wave of settlers from the US and their more modern day equivalents. Interact with the Native Alaskans well enough to very well.
3 - Retired military, you can live close to a base with a nice PX, have lower taxes than living most elsewhere, and get that annual check from the State, too. Kind of their own group, some lean over toward group #2
4 - Oil and other corporate folks, who seem to have the same attitude that the British did in colonial India. Ride in, pretentious and demanding, exploit the place for short term profit, send the kids to college back in the 48 states somewhere as the Alaskan colleges would never be good enough. Take your pot of money and leave, sometimes maintain a vacation home to keep that annual check from the State coming to you.
ProgHead777: Funny thing is, she got on that plane with baby juice leaking out of her and flew 10 hours cuz, according to her husband, “You can’t have a fishpicker from Texas.”
(BTW, what the heck is a fishpicker?)
*yawn* I just had the strangest dream. Here is your dream recap! My cat Mojo was a poisonous snake. I was still trying to enjoy him as a pet with little success due to the fact that he was able to kill me now. What else is going on?
I don’t think I can watch tonight. Last night sent my blood pressure up about 40 points. (Die, Lieberman, DIE.)
Cronopio: Interesting. He had the opposite effect on me. “Oh, look. Lieberman. Well, he’s sort of…ZZZZZZZZ.”
Um… re: that Ukraine article… is it just me or does Yuschenko look like he could be Cheney’s brother, but with hair?
We’re all angry that any sane journalist would be insane enough to think for a fleeting second that there’s any real news to be had at this so-called Republican “convention,” which in reality is nothing more than a stinking pile of rancid manure and a last collective of the desperate, pathetic, frantic and anguished cries from a dying nation of withered conservative psychotics who never really connected with the vast majority of Americans and never really connected with the vast majority of the people living on the planet Earth.
Terry: And surely it’s no coincidence that both states have relatively large populations of secessionists. I don’t get it. Both states are redder than Ted Nugents neck but the Dems are the anti-patriots? You don’t hear much from those Rhode Island secessionists, do you?
I’m actually breaking out in fuckin’ hives, really, it’s just too much republitard too much of the time and I think I’m honestly allergic to these fucks..I can’t wait until November, just end all this torture now!
ProgHead777:
Rhode Island broke away from Massachusetts or they were throw out during colonial times, depending on how you look at it. They got it out of their systems early.
Sussemilch:
The ever so photogenic Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will fund higher raises for miners with an extra 486 million hyrvnias in the federal budget.
How many million hyrvnias has Sarah Palin pledged for American miners?
It’s been days since I saw any buttsecs around here.
Dude, I was fully, full-on, totally not gonna say jack shit about granddaughter-gate anymore, out of, you know, respect–I knew a lot of kids that made some mistakes like that back in the day. However, you don’t get to decide what books other families’ kids can access, when you can’t even raise your own fucking kids. And unfortunately, NOBODY with any real media profile can let rip publicly on this, lest they be eaten by a three-headed trailor-trash-Ferraro-N.O.W. monster.
Fuckdis. If McCain is a turd sandwich, Palin is a frosty bowl of diarrhea.
HopeNutz: Are you sure they weren’t planning to name him Fishpicker, and what her husband actually said was, “Fishpicker can’t be from Texas?” Willow, Track, Bristol, Piper and Fishpicker. Not beyond the realm of possibility.
Wait a sec–Tymoshenko’s the one with the braids? I thought that was Stevie Wonder!