This Week in WTF - Uh, what else would it be but this fiasco

Honestly. 47% of America was ready to let this woman be one malignant skin lesion away from the presidency.



Sweet sweet Jesus.

Diagramming Sarah Palin

Sarah, in an interview: No, you know, we were told when we've got to be believing if we have enough elected officials who are going to be standing strong on fiscal conservative principles and free enterprise and we have to believe that there are enough of those elected officials to say, 'No, OK, that's enough.'

• No, : interjection
  you know, : colloq. & filler
• we were told : pro & verb phrase
• when we've got to be believing : [this is where it gets murky] when-prep; we-pro; 've got to be believing - verb phrase
• if we have enough elected officials : if - prep [now there are 2 prep phrases without a clear, comprehensible attribution]; we - pro; have -v; enough - adj; elected - adj; officials - n
• who are going to be standing strong : who - pro (ant for "elected officials"); are going to be standing strong - verb phrase, including idiom "standing strong"
• on fiscal conservative principles and free enterprise : on - prep; fiscal [sic] - should be "fiscally" because it is a modifier of the adjective "conservative"; therefore, it should be the adverb not adjective; conservative - adj; principles - n; and - conj; free - adj; enterprise - n
• and we have to believe: and-conj; we -pro; have to believe - verb phr
• that there are enough of those elected officials to say, : that - conj; there - pro; are - vb; enough - adj; of - prep; those - adj; elected - adj; officials - n; to say - infinitive
• 'No, OK, that's enough.': no - int; ok - idiom/filler; that - pro; 's - is; enough - adj

So, if I were her copyeditor or English teacher I would make the following changes:

No, you know, [we were told when] we've got to [be believing if we] have [enough] elected officials who are going to [be] stand[ing] strong on fiscally conservative principles and free enterprise. [and] We [have to believe that there are enough of] need ]those] elected officials [to] who say, 'No, OK, that's enough.'

The articulate speaker would have said something like:

No. What we need now are elected officials who will stand strong on fiscally conservative principles and free enterprise. We need elected officials who say, "No, that's enough spending. It's time to conserve."

But, I'm in favor of a second stimulus package - and a New New Deal type thing, for that matter - so I would never say that.

Terry Gross Asks a Good Question about Sarah Palin

It's not really news that Terry Gross asked a good question. I think we can all agree that she asks good questions (unless you're Gene Simmons or Bill O'Reilly). Anyway, there it was this afternoon. Something like, Sarah Palin is a working mom with a brand new baby who has special needs and another child who is dropping out of school and getting married young because she is a teenager having a baby. Much has been made about this, but Terry's question was, has Sarah Palin supported issues and done anything in her executive position to help people in the same positions as her and those in her family? The answer from the Anchorage reporter: No, not at all. No daycare, no special needs, so teen mom support, no sex ed prevention, etc. etc. etc. I'm not surprised, but I was surprised by the question. I mean, Palin talks this, "I'm just like you," talk but she it doesn't at all mean she will do anything in her position of power to make anything better for you.

Full story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95725546

Palin is a criminal and hypocrite - YAY!!!!

Some music to listen to as read the following story.

WASHINGTON — An Alaska state legislative investigator found Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her executive power when she and her husband engaged in a campaign to oust her former brother-in-law from the state police force.

In a lengthy report released in Anchorage, Steven Branchflower found that Palin also improperly allowed her husband, Todd, to use the governor's office to pursue a personal vendetta against the trooper.

"Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: To get Trooper Michael Wooten fired," said the report released by a bipartisan legislative committee.

More from Reuters.

This Is Real

Trolling the political blog and found this link to a doodle of Sarah Palin's--from when she was considering running for mayor.

http://www.tnr.com/OnlineScan.pdf

I don't know why it's disturbing, but it is. Maybe because it's so vacuous of actual content. It looks like notes from when I'm planning a trip or a bulletin board for the library...Just, so, unceremonious. Yet these notes were made just, what 8 years ago? And now the woman who doodled this has her eyes set on the VP and, since McCain is mostly dead, the presidency?

Yikes.

Testy Old Coot

John McCain gets cranky with someone from the Des Moines register. Yeah Irish temper. What an a$$.

This Week in WTF pt 2 - Sarah Palin Is Not Very Vigilant

A hacker got into Sarah Palin's email account by choosing the "forgot my password" option, then answer the security question: "Where did you meet your spouse?" Since Palin had told the stroy of meeting her husband in high school, the hacker guessed "Wasilla high" and was let into her yahoo account. An account where, by the way, she had conducted official Alaska business. This is a no-no because official business should be conducted on the arched anad trackable government email account. Err...hmmm...

Anyway, full story here:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iem-vu_mlRjRYfqkscEkw2ciRm7wD939AO101

The moral of the story is, if you're going to be governor of a state and then run for vice president of the most powerful country in the world, make sure your information is protected, instead of being left so wide open as to induce major eye rolls from the informed public.

Yeesh.

Stop Playing the "Gender Card" Republicans

Argh argh argh. I really have to stop listening in on convention coverage and punditry and all that.

Every time a legitmate issue or question is raised about Palin, Republican turn around and throw it back in the face of the reporter or left winger who raised it by calling the question raiser sexist. You know what's ACTUALLY sexist? Denigrating real women's issues by dismissing legitimate question & playing the "gender" card.

Without getting into too much, this "Caribou Barbie" Palin has thrown all my temperance out the window because of this:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1010000101/post/1460032546.html

She tried to censor the library books!!!!! Gauntlet thrown lady. You don't go near my house.

Snap snap snap.

This Week in WTF

This week in WTF covers all manner of Republican-y things.

#1: experience you can believe in

This is where Palin was gaining her executive experience just 20 months ago.

Photo courtesy of http://mudflats.wordpress.com/, a blog about Alaskan politics. There's a lot on the site re: Miss Pretty Lady.

#2 She also said this about the war:

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God.” She went on, "That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan."

#3 - Here's a collection of Men 4 Men ads posted on Craigslist St Paul. Thank you so so so so soooo much Wonkette people, for thinking to do this and for posting it. I was just overjoyed while reading through these. Hilarious.

Okie dokie, here's to the crazies, hypocrites and freaks in the Republican party who make it worth blogging.

New Poster for McCain-Palin Campaign

McCain did something maverick-ish and picked Sarah Palin, one time runner-up for Miss Alaska and current Alaska governor, as his running mate.

The Wonkette had the first scoop on their new campaign ad poster. It is lovely. See it here.

Excellent work, Wonkette. Excellent work.


Off to Maine and then posts are limited because I some of the mineral water I was drinking for my gross guts spilled into the effing keyboard of my laptop. As I heard the fizzle fizzle of what lies beneath, I filled with dread and sadness. Then I decided to read. Then I fell asleep. Now it's way later than I planned for leaving for Maine. So bye!