Here she is at Facebook. Of course we got the whole problem started by Cold War hysteria about a socialist (elected) government in Iran which hawks such as herself permitted the CIA to over-throw with a "private army" (not really a militia.)
So the US - I mean Obama - is the problem here and not China, France, Russia and Turkey (ignoring Syria.) China and Russia may have been the largest obstacle, so we can suppose that Palin policies toward China and Russia would have had them lining up on our side ... hmmm. Not very damn likely. A President Hilary Clinton, perhaps so.
Note no mention of the Russian-American agreement on nuclear arms reduction ...
And then there are those pesky Envangelical Pentecostal missionaries annoying a variety of nations ... but of course we can tell the Prime Minister of India that President Palin is not "really" donating to those missionaries in Hindu, Jain, Sikh or Moslem villages.
Real politics. Time to re-load!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Palin at the T-intersection of the ole country road
CNN reports that
Pentecostal Evangelists in Canada - a tiny minority - have been more successful in many ways than any other crank minority in influencing a conservative political movement. Of course, Palin denies that she is a Pentecostal: she simply attends Pentecostal churches. The approach in Canada has been to get people of the radical faith into politics under other banners.
What would a "Tea Party" in New York or Washington be today? A riot only? What revolution do the gun-toters imagine they are about to ram down the people's throats? In Canada the aims have not always been modest - but eventually moderated.
Whether Palin will sign a "Covenant of Civility" remains to be seen: her raving followers may not have such scruples.
"take back our country" - but from whom and for whom and in the name of what? All this to abolish Social Security and Medicare? To abolish the Federal Reserve? To abolish the the EPA? To "restore" single-party politics? To remove term limits for true Christian conservatives wearing the badge of permanent revolution?
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin kicked off a Tea Party rally Saturday in Sen. Harry Reid's hometown, encouraging disgruntled Americans to "take back our country"The call for "conservative revolution" was also made in the 1920's in Europe in what was then the Weimar Republic. Conservative fanaticism differs little from one setting to another: Russophiles for Putin, Mullahs in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt ...
Pentecostal Evangelists in Canada - a tiny minority - have been more successful in many ways than any other crank minority in influencing a conservative political movement. Of course, Palin denies that she is a Pentecostal: she simply attends Pentecostal churches. The approach in Canada has been to get people of the radical faith into politics under other banners.
What would a "Tea Party" in New York or Washington be today? A riot only? What revolution do the gun-toters imagine they are about to ram down the people's throats? In Canada the aims have not always been modest - but eventually moderated.
Whether Palin will sign a "Covenant of Civility" remains to be seen: her raving followers may not have such scruples.
"take back our country" - but from whom and for whom and in the name of what? All this to abolish Social Security and Medicare? To abolish the Federal Reserve? To abolish the the EPA? To "restore" single-party politics? To remove term limits for true Christian conservatives wearing the badge of permanent revolution?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
On the other hand ...
What is it that one must never find on the right hand? Nothing sinister I hope ... not that it would be something we would have in common with Him - we who are cast in His image - so what would be dextrous for Him, is merely sinister in us ... did I say "it" ? Holy sh*t! Don't tell me it's another damned objection to the the physical ascension!?! Somethings should never see the light of day!
On the other hand, what we could have is a new approach to the inevitable realization of the immaculate conception ... or of papal infallibility, whichever came first ... the right-handed chicken or the left-handed egg ... it is writ large somewheres ...
On the other hand, what if the Logos were actually merely an Indication, palmed off on us, so to speak, so as to keep us at arm's length from the Ineffable, the Immaterial and the Unmentionable?
The IIU, known to the uninitiated as the UII and spoken of in the presence of women - even in their suspected earshot - as the IUI, the triune vocable revealing that on each hand God had two thumbs and three fingers in perfect symmetry.
On the other hand, what we could have is a new approach to the inevitable realization of the immaculate conception ... or of papal infallibility, whichever came first ... the right-handed chicken or the left-handed egg ... it is writ large somewheres ...
On the other hand, what if the Logos were actually merely an Indication, palmed off on us, so to speak, so as to keep us at arm's length from the Ineffable, the Immaterial and the Unmentionable?
The IIU, known to the uninitiated as the UII and spoken of in the presence of women - even in their suspected earshot - as the IUI, the triune vocable revealing that on each hand God had two thumbs and three fingers in perfect symmetry.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Palin's comedic Exit
Exit Glacier, really not of much interest - no moose hunting allowed and so few moose on the glacier.
So someone has allowed an unverifiable report to be leaked into the mainstream press that Exit Glacier is making an exit. Is that really supposed to be funny? can they not find comedy writers?
Here's the facts. Alaskan tourism is in no way dependent on Exit Glacier. Many old web pages continue to report that it is a day hike and tourists who take cruise ships from Seattle did not come all this way to be told to hike in their deck shoes! FACT: you can drive right up to the "glacier" and we even have antique cars for rent, rare luxury cars, cars with real engines!
Fact: its just some ice. A big chunk, yes, but just a chunka ice. Forget all this hoopla about "climate change" - climate is always changing that why we have CNN for the changing weather and FOX News for the facts.
Kenai is hard to spell and how many el's are there in Seward anyway? As for that Harding Icefield its actually an Alaskan Ice Ranch, a kinda plantation.
Advert: Available now! Genuine Alaska ice water! Buy your chunk of the Exit Water Resource today! Don't buy into that hoax of water on the poles of the moon - here you don't even have to take a cruiseship to the north pole in search of ice! It's right here! But act now, supplies are limited by demand!
Advert: CLIMATE-GATE! Exit from Seward and you will be at the TAILGATING party of the decade! Place your bets now on whose RV will be at the ice edge at daybreak the very next morning! (No worries foks, park rangers move the portable signs "Glacier ended here this morning" at daybreak and you can rest until the Ambien and beer wears off.) Portable McDonalds and Burger King are park favorites! The biggest parking lot in a state park! Exit Glacier! Note to campers: Septic tank disposal areas are available most anywhere right on site.
So someone has allowed an unverifiable report to be leaked into the mainstream press that Exit Glacier is making an exit. Is that really supposed to be funny? can they not find comedy writers?
Here's the facts. Alaskan tourism is in no way dependent on Exit Glacier. Many old web pages continue to report that it is a day hike and tourists who take cruise ships from Seattle did not come all this way to be told to hike in their deck shoes! FACT: you can drive right up to the "glacier" and we even have antique cars for rent, rare luxury cars, cars with real engines!
Fact: its just some ice. A big chunk, yes, but just a chunka ice. Forget all this hoopla about "climate change" - climate is always changing that why we have CNN for the changing weather and FOX News for the facts.
Kenai is hard to spell and how many el's are there in Seward anyway? As for that Harding Icefield its actually an Alaskan Ice Ranch, a kinda plantation.
Advert: Available now! Genuine Alaska ice water! Buy your chunk of the Exit Water Resource today! Don't buy into that hoax of water on the poles of the moon - here you don't even have to take a cruiseship to the north pole in search of ice! It's right here! But act now, supplies are limited by demand!
Advert: CLIMATE-GATE! Exit from Seward and you will be at the TAILGATING party of the decade! Place your bets now on whose RV will be at the ice edge at daybreak the very next morning! (No worries foks, park rangers move the portable signs "Glacier ended here this morning" at daybreak and you can rest until the Ambien and beer wears off.) Portable McDonalds and Burger King are park favorites! The biggest parking lot in a state park! Exit Glacier! Note to campers: Septic tank disposal areas are available most anywhere right on site.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Principles, Privacy and Palin: the interview and the family.
"After an election - well, who really remembers who was Jimmy Carter's running-mate when he lost to Reagan?
You have to think about your family. Of course, you could go on being the public's servant, say, Governor of some state that's never in the news - or you could just look out for your family.
There's the principle, not mention to the interest right now. Suppose you could have a ghost writer, for example, and not have to worry about too many facts - well, you could have a book. A best-seller even - if you had a really good ghost-writer with, you know, connections. So there's all these options ...
Suppose someone offered you - asked you - to be on the Presidential ticket, well, you'd have to think of your family. Sure, it only pays a hundred or so a year, but really good long-term benefits. And a chance for the kids to decide if they want careers in acting or being in ad's and what not.
And then there's your looks - every year those digital cameras the Japs are making - they just pick up more and more details ever year. It's like being spied on, once those papperhatsi get going with those new digital cameras that've got internet built right into 'em - no one will even want to go to Hawaii any more - it's just a big fishbowl!
Mayor of Fairbanks would be all right - what with the Japs catching all the fish now - probably using underwater digital cameras in their sneaky robot fishin' nets - what else is Todd gonna do? Well yes, whaling, that would be alright ... they just eat all the fish anyways.
Does that Backman woman hunt? I dont' know ... do they really have moose there in Minnesota?
Now a seat in the Senate, that's for at least four years, right? And it sounds better on the campaign trail ... Senator Palin - what about Arnold, he's a Senator isn't he? Isn't he retiring?
And then there's acting - Arnold had lots of that before - it's a bit like modeling, right? Or standing along the sidelines at the big game, waiting for that little red light on the camera to turn all red. It's just always so exciting! And just once if they could use that snappy thing - you know, white and black box thing -"Take One - Palin for President".
I don't know about "Palin 'n Palin" - maybe just "Sarah 'n Todd" - like on a wedding invitation, only with pictures of the kids. Most people can't even spell "Backman" I don't know what that Limbow is thinkin' ..
If I would've known then, well I could've ...
Hey! Look here now! Stop that fussin' and complainin' right now! I told you yesterday - and I'm gonna tell you just this one more time - three more weeks on this bus and then you all get the two days to fly to Juneau and back! And it's all paid for - and you just don't know when to be grateful. And don't let me be hearing any lip!
So, what was I saying - do you have one of those little cassette players there - can we start that interview now? I have your questions right here .. it's just photocopies you know, so I just fold it all up like that for my purse - but you can just smooth it all out there on your knee there - now Todd thought we could start with this one in the big letters at the top ... do you ever interview any movie stars? Our pastor thinks I could be making at least one movie before the election ... it only takes a few weeks - and you don't have to be memorizing your lines anymore with the prompters they have now ... we didn't have those when I was in sports journalism and was being a sports analyst .. you had to remember what to ask the players and I didn't even have an assistant to tell me their names, you know, just to whisper it in my ear ... So, let's get started now alright? Todd says I just look great in red, don't you think so? You know they don't let their women wear red in Iran - makes them think like, you know, they might be having the curse - so you can wear red at home but not when you sit with your husband in those Muslin churches. So now energy. Oh, how silly - it's first for you to ask the questions. Alright, I'm ready now ..."
You have to think about your family. Of course, you could go on being the public's servant, say, Governor of some state that's never in the news - or you could just look out for your family.
There's the principle, not mention to the interest right now. Suppose you could have a ghost writer, for example, and not have to worry about too many facts - well, you could have a book. A best-seller even - if you had a really good ghost-writer with, you know, connections. So there's all these options ...
Suppose someone offered you - asked you - to be on the Presidential ticket, well, you'd have to think of your family. Sure, it only pays a hundred or so a year, but really good long-term benefits. And a chance for the kids to decide if they want careers in acting or being in ad's and what not.
And then there's your looks - every year those digital cameras the Japs are making - they just pick up more and more details ever year. It's like being spied on, once those papperhatsi get going with those new digital cameras that've got internet built right into 'em - no one will even want to go to Hawaii any more - it's just a big fishbowl!
Mayor of Fairbanks would be all right - what with the Japs catching all the fish now - probably using underwater digital cameras in their sneaky robot fishin' nets - what else is Todd gonna do? Well yes, whaling, that would be alright ... they just eat all the fish anyways.
Does that Backman woman hunt? I dont' know ... do they really have moose there in Minnesota?
Now a seat in the Senate, that's for at least four years, right? And it sounds better on the campaign trail ... Senator Palin - what about Arnold, he's a Senator isn't he? Isn't he retiring?
And then there's acting - Arnold had lots of that before - it's a bit like modeling, right? Or standing along the sidelines at the big game, waiting for that little red light on the camera to turn all red. It's just always so exciting! And just once if they could use that snappy thing - you know, white and black box thing -"Take One - Palin for President".
I don't know about "Palin 'n Palin" - maybe just "Sarah 'n Todd" - like on a wedding invitation, only with pictures of the kids. Most people can't even spell "Backman" I don't know what that Limbow is thinkin' ..
If I would've known then, well I could've ...
Hey! Look here now! Stop that fussin' and complainin' right now! I told you yesterday - and I'm gonna tell you just this one more time - three more weeks on this bus and then you all get the two days to fly to Juneau and back! And it's all paid for - and you just don't know when to be grateful. And don't let me be hearing any lip!
So, what was I saying - do you have one of those little cassette players there - can we start that interview now? I have your questions right here .. it's just photocopies you know, so I just fold it all up like that for my purse - but you can just smooth it all out there on your knee there - now Todd thought we could start with this one in the big letters at the top ... do you ever interview any movie stars? Our pastor thinks I could be making at least one movie before the election ... it only takes a few weeks - and you don't have to be memorizing your lines anymore with the prompters they have now ... we didn't have those when I was in sports journalism and was being a sports analyst .. you had to remember what to ask the players and I didn't even have an assistant to tell me their names, you know, just to whisper it in my ear ... So, let's get started now alright? Todd says I just look great in red, don't you think so? You know they don't let their women wear red in Iran - makes them think like, you know, they might be having the curse - so you can wear red at home but not when you sit with your husband in those Muslin churches. So now energy. Oh, how silly - it's first for you to ask the questions. Alright, I'm ready now ..."
Palin and Population: the next wave
Rick Sanchez will never fall for it again. Anyone who has been in a mall or resort wave machine knows how it works! Displace 9 meters of water and what will you get?
Same thing happened with the ticking population bomb? Remember that hoax? And then there was "acid rain"! That one was washed away quick enough!
And to think that these alarmists were trying to have Seattle budget for tsunami response readiness!
It is such a challenge to do the news before it happens ... it's really more of an art than a science. But you end up asking some expert - but only because some director thinks you can't take a moment to check in The Farmer's Almanac right there on the air - we could you know - just ask the viewers to recite a Psalm while we look up the facts ...
Let's see, Nigeria. Big place. Not really over-populated. Out here we just bush down some bush with an ole D7 CAT and voiley! a suburb! A country suburb, really.
Mexico City. Lack of suburban planning, really, if you think about it ...
And those sleepy ole volcanos - let me tell you - in Juneau we just don't panic the way they do up there in Anchorage. A bunch of nervous nellies ...
Oh, we may have a 2012 team: Palin - Bachmann. Forget Marsha Blackburn. She has the wrong wave ...
Same thing happened with the ticking population bomb? Remember that hoax? And then there was "acid rain"! That one was washed away quick enough!
And to think that these alarmists were trying to have Seattle budget for tsunami response readiness!
It is such a challenge to do the news before it happens ... it's really more of an art than a science. But you end up asking some expert - but only because some director thinks you can't take a moment to check in The Farmer's Almanac right there on the air - we could you know - just ask the viewers to recite a Psalm while we look up the facts ...
Let's see, Nigeria. Big place. Not really over-populated. Out here we just bush down some bush with an ole D7 CAT and voiley! a suburb! A country suburb, really.
Mexico City. Lack of suburban planning, really, if you think about it ...
And those sleepy ole volcanos - let me tell you - in Juneau we just don't panic the way they do up there in Anchorage. A bunch of nervous nellies ...
Oh, we may have a 2012 team: Palin - Bachmann. Forget Marsha Blackburn. She has the wrong wave ...
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