by Sandy Sand
The first hints of Sarah Palin separating herself from John McCain came last week from Rachael Maddow and Keith Olbermann; now it’s all over the Web.
As I write, it’s the first topic on Howard Kurtz’ Reliable Sources on CNN.
But the most prophetic analysis of Palin’s inner self came from the woman who beat her out in the Miss Alaska pageant 24 years ago, Maryline Blackburn.
If you haven’t hear all the buzz about Sarah Palin’s “divaship.” This is a must read: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
One Palin aide said she’s trying to take control of her message, while a McCain adviser is quoted as saying, "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone."
It almost goes without saying that divas are ego-centric people, who listen to no one or nothing but their own egotistical, single-vision inner voices.
But the most prophetic person in all of this is Maryline Blackburn, who nailed Palin for what she way back when.
Blackburn beat out Palin as Miss Alaska, and at the conclusion of the pageant in 1984, she nailed Palin as “calculating,” “determined,” and is always sizing up people and situations behind her smile.
It appears that nothing has changed in the intervening 24 years, except that Palin’s calculating and determination may have gotten even stronger.
You‘d be wrong if you think Blackburn‘s past association with Palin is influencing her to vote for the beauty pageant runner-up. In spite of the pageant’s Miss Congeniality winner’s note of congratulations to Blackburn, she said she’s firmly in Barack Obama’s camp.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
If Only One of the Debate Robots Had Stood Up and Asked…
by Sandy Sand
If only some ballsy questioner had asked McCain when he's going to stop Sarah Palin from inciting rally-goes to riot, and shouting out hateful threats because of her lying accusations that Barack Obama is a terrorist.
But, no. They all looked frightened, like they'd been cowed to death.
To call last night’s debate a town hall or open forum was a super practical joke perpetrated on the voting public.
There wasn’t anything open or free-wheeling about it.
The deck was stacked with a bunch of unsmiling robots, who mumbled out their pre-selected questions, while reading them off their pitiful scraps of pre-screened, pre-programmed paper.
But what if…
What if one of them would have had the moxie to go off-script and blurted out: Hey, Johnny, I dare you to look Barack in the eyes and say you see T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T staring back at you.
You hide behind your bulldog in lipstick and let her do it; it’s time for you to be a man and do it for yourself. Face to face. Here and now.
It’s time to own up to the truth, the truth that you’ve been lettin' Sarah Palin lie for you.
She lies for you so frequently with a wink and a nod, in a crescendo pitch that she’s inciting your manic crowds to riot.
How dare you stand for and tolerate anyone shouting out “terrorist” or “kill him” at a Palin/McCain rally?
Yeah, I said it that way deliberately, because you are not a leader, my friend.
With the first incident, you should have been out there with a bullhorn out-shouting the asses.
You should be throwing one of your temper tantrum that you are famous for, and laying down the law.
You should be out there tellin' them that you won't tolerate your supporters behavin' that way. You will not tolerate it for one instant.
You should be telling them that anyone who dares try it again will be instantly arrested and carried out of your rally on a rail.
You toss people from your rallies for doing no more than standing quietly with a sign or wearing a button you don’t like, because they dast to disagree with you or challenge you.
How McCain un-American, squelch free speech of you.
If anyone is injured during one of your pitbull’s rabble rousing, you are totally responsible and should be held criminally and financial libel, even if you have to sell one of your houses. So you'll only have seven and not eight, or is eight and not nine?
If you don’t come forward and denounce this hate speech, my friend, you are a coward! A coward hiding behind a woman’s skirt!
If only some ballsy questioner had asked McCain when he's going to stop Sarah Palin from inciting rally-goes to riot, and shouting out hateful threats because of her lying accusations that Barack Obama is a terrorist.
But, no. They all looked frightened, like they'd been cowed to death.
To call last night’s debate a town hall or open forum was a super practical joke perpetrated on the voting public.
There wasn’t anything open or free-wheeling about it.
The deck was stacked with a bunch of unsmiling robots, who mumbled out their pre-selected questions, while reading them off their pitiful scraps of pre-screened, pre-programmed paper.
But what if…
What if one of them would have had the moxie to go off-script and blurted out: Hey, Johnny, I dare you to look Barack in the eyes and say you see T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T staring back at you.
You hide behind your bulldog in lipstick and let her do it; it’s time for you to be a man and do it for yourself. Face to face. Here and now.
It’s time to own up to the truth, the truth that you’ve been lettin' Sarah Palin lie for you.
She lies for you so frequently with a wink and a nod, in a crescendo pitch that she’s inciting your manic crowds to riot.
How dare you stand for and tolerate anyone shouting out “terrorist” or “kill him” at a Palin/McCain rally?
Yeah, I said it that way deliberately, because you are not a leader, my friend.
With the first incident, you should have been out there with a bullhorn out-shouting the asses.
You should be throwing one of your temper tantrum that you are famous for, and laying down the law.
You should be out there tellin' them that you won't tolerate your supporters behavin' that way. You will not tolerate it for one instant.
You should be telling them that anyone who dares try it again will be instantly arrested and carried out of your rally on a rail.
You toss people from your rallies for doing no more than standing quietly with a sign or wearing a button you don’t like, because they dast to disagree with you or challenge you.
How McCain un-American, squelch free speech of you.
If anyone is injured during one of your pitbull’s rabble rousing, you are totally responsible and should be held criminally and financial libel, even if you have to sell one of your houses. So you'll only have seven and not eight, or is eight and not nine?
If you don’t come forward and denounce this hate speech, my friend, you are a coward! A coward hiding behind a woman’s skirt!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin Unable to Recite All Her Children's Names
by Steve Young
In what may be the most damaging of the slow but sure dissemination of the CBS News Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee was unable to name all of her kids' names.
Transcript follows:
Katie Couric: And when it comes to establishing your family view, I was curious: What are the names you use when you want to speak to your children?
Sarah Palin: I've spoke with most of them, again with a great appreciation for my children, my family, for the younger people who live with me.
Katie Couric: But, like, what ones specifically? I'm curious.
Sarah Palin: All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.
Katie Couric: Can you name a few?
Sarah Palin: I have a vast variety of children and, of course, they all have names. My family isn't a foreigner's family, where, it's kind of suggested and it seems like, 'Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of what children in Washington, D.C. may be named when you live up there in Alaska?' Believe me, my Alaskan family is like a microcosm of most American's families. Did I mention, Katie, that I can see many of my children from my house?
In other VP debate updates, Democratic VP nominee, Joe Biden, offered kinescope evidence of President Franklin Roosevelt calming American's fears at the start of the depression.
Also, before the debate tonight, watch as world champion limbo dancer, Ben Dover, attempts to get under the bar set for Palin.
Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com
In what may be the most damaging of the slow but sure dissemination of the CBS News Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee was unable to name all of her kids' names.
Transcript follows:
Katie Couric: And when it comes to establishing your family view, I was curious: What are the names you use when you want to speak to your children?
Sarah Palin: I've spoke with most of them, again with a great appreciation for my children, my family, for the younger people who live with me.
Katie Couric: But, like, what ones specifically? I'm curious.
Sarah Palin: All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.
Katie Couric: Can you name a few?
Sarah Palin: I have a vast variety of children and, of course, they all have names. My family isn't a foreigner's family, where, it's kind of suggested and it seems like, 'Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of what children in Washington, D.C. may be named when you live up there in Alaska?' Believe me, my Alaskan family is like a microcosm of most American's families. Did I mention, Katie, that I can see many of my children from my house?
In other VP debate updates, Democratic VP nominee, Joe Biden, offered kinescope evidence of President Franklin Roosevelt calming American's fears at the start of the depression.
Also, before the debate tonight, watch as world champion limbo dancer, Ben Dover, attempts to get under the bar set for Palin.
Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" and blogs at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A Humerous Look at Sarah Palin's Lack of Scientific Curiosity
by Sandy Sand
Speculation is that Sarah Palin will have a tough time in duking it out with Joe Biden in the veep debate. That remains to be seen; we all might be surprised. But considering her lack of scientific curiosity, how would she do if someone threw in some science questions?
Thanks to my friend, W. Christopher “Bill” Epler, who gave me an idea for a post with his Never in the History of the World Has There Been an Individual Who Has the Power to Destroy the Earth Like Sarah Palin.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Never-in-the-history-of-th-by-W-Christopher-Epl-080928-5.html
A couple of days ago [right here on runrundan.com -- see below], I surmised that even if Palin had traveled the world, she would have brought her narrow world view with her, and neither her small-minded, bigoted view, nor her experience would have changed her arrogant ‘my way is the only way’ philosophy.
In his post, Bill said that lack of curiosity, lack of scientific knowledge and relying on religious dogma and superstition is deadly to one’s personal growth, and fatal to a country when that is the criteria on which one’s leadership is based.
“In balance, she's probably about 15 times more dangerous than McCain, who seems to be a sort of Alzheimer’s God of War…many of us simply don't realize the limitless danger of this mindless and scientifically illiterate woman. She REALLY believes the Earth is a Motel 6 she's just "passing through" on her way to comic book salvation or damnation.”
I’ve always found science more than interesting, and I’ve always been interested in how things are construed and how they work.
It may be narrow of me to be bewildered that someone can have no curiosity in these matters, and I could chalk it off to different strokes for different folks.
Never in a million years will I understand how someone can allow their life to be controlled by religious dogma in lieu of scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity and a modicum of logical thinking.
Nearly eight years of George Bush, who’s governed by Bible rather than U.S. Constitution is proof enough that we don’t need another four years of the same, if not worse.
Belief in god and having scientific knowledge aren’t mutually exclusive; one can have both, they just have to be compartmentalized. I know. It seem like a contradiction, but a lot of things in life contradict each other.
Considering Palin’s lack of scientific “larnin” or curiosity, in addition to an encyclopedic dearth of knowledge on most things unrelated to anything other than her own narrow interests led me to spek-a-late on how Palin would answer a pop quiz on things scientific.
I suspect some of her responses would be as follows:
Quarks -- noises a duck makes
String theory -- what holds up bikinis; what keeps the little red ball attached to a paddle. Don't mention that it's elastic string theory, she'll get confused.
Quasar -- sound of a duck sneezing
Supercollider -- Magic Mountain’s number one attraction
Quantum mechanics -- how they put the TV show Quantum Leap together. Screws, wrenches and bolts, ya know.
Theory of Relativity -- family trees
Physics -- a medication for constipation
Square root -- oddball plant systems
Conversion tables -- religious awakening
Protons -- stuff in food that's good for ya
Atom -- misspelling of the first man in the bible who led astray by that E-vil serpentine woman
Sub atomic particle -- crumbs left on the table from a deli sub; what’s left over after a mothballed submarine in demolished
Magnetic poles -- polls to assess how attractive a member of the opposite sex is
Black holes -- don’t even go there!
Galaxy -- a German sports car
Slide rule -- how to dodge answering reporters’ questions; how to get around any rule governing political ethics
Newton’s Law -- fig cookies should never be dunked
Cosmology -- daily astrological forecast printed in every newspaper
Tsunami -- #3 combo plate on a Japanese menu
Ohm’s Law -- a meditation mantra
Rorschach Test -- she’ll get back to us on that one, don’tcha know.
Speculation is that Sarah Palin will have a tough time in duking it out with Joe Biden in the veep debate. That remains to be seen; we all might be surprised. But considering her lack of scientific curiosity, how would she do if someone threw in some science questions?
Thanks to my friend, W. Christopher “Bill” Epler, who gave me an idea for a post with his Never in the History of the World Has There Been an Individual Who Has the Power to Destroy the Earth Like Sarah Palin.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Never-in-the-history-of-th-by-W-Christopher-Epl-080928-5.html
A couple of days ago [right here on runrundan.com -- see below], I surmised that even if Palin had traveled the world, she would have brought her narrow world view with her, and neither her small-minded, bigoted view, nor her experience would have changed her arrogant ‘my way is the only way’ philosophy.
In his post, Bill said that lack of curiosity, lack of scientific knowledge and relying on religious dogma and superstition is deadly to one’s personal growth, and fatal to a country when that is the criteria on which one’s leadership is based.
“In balance, she's probably about 15 times more dangerous than McCain, who seems to be a sort of Alzheimer’s God of War…many of us simply don't realize the limitless danger of this mindless and scientifically illiterate woman. She REALLY believes the Earth is a Motel 6 she's just "passing through" on her way to comic book salvation or damnation.”
I’ve always found science more than interesting, and I’ve always been interested in how things are construed and how they work.
It may be narrow of me to be bewildered that someone can have no curiosity in these matters, and I could chalk it off to different strokes for different folks.
Never in a million years will I understand how someone can allow their life to be controlled by religious dogma in lieu of scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity and a modicum of logical thinking.
Nearly eight years of George Bush, who’s governed by Bible rather than U.S. Constitution is proof enough that we don’t need another four years of the same, if not worse.
Belief in god and having scientific knowledge aren’t mutually exclusive; one can have both, they just have to be compartmentalized. I know. It seem like a contradiction, but a lot of things in life contradict each other.
Considering Palin’s lack of scientific “larnin” or curiosity, in addition to an encyclopedic dearth of knowledge on most things unrelated to anything other than her own narrow interests led me to spek-a-late on how Palin would answer a pop quiz on things scientific.
I suspect some of her responses would be as follows:
Quarks -- noises a duck makes
String theory -- what holds up bikinis; what keeps the little red ball attached to a paddle. Don't mention that it's elastic string theory, she'll get confused.
Quasar -- sound of a duck sneezing
Supercollider -- Magic Mountain’s number one attraction
Quantum mechanics -- how they put the TV show Quantum Leap together. Screws, wrenches and bolts, ya know.
Theory of Relativity -- family trees
Physics -- a medication for constipation
Square root -- oddball plant systems
Conversion tables -- religious awakening
Protons -- stuff in food that's good for ya
Atom -- misspelling of the first man in the bible who led astray by that E-vil serpentine woman
Sub atomic particle -- crumbs left on the table from a deli sub; what’s left over after a mothballed submarine in demolished
Magnetic poles -- polls to assess how attractive a member of the opposite sex is
Black holes -- don’t even go there!
Galaxy -- a German sports car
Slide rule -- how to dodge answering reporters’ questions; how to get around any rule governing political ethics
Newton’s Law -- fig cookies should never be dunked
Cosmology -- daily astrological forecast printed in every newspaper
Tsunami -- #3 combo plate on a Japanese menu
Ohm’s Law -- a meditation mantra
Rorschach Test -- she’ll get back to us on that one, don’tcha know.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Travel Only Broadens One’s Backside, It Doesn't a Foreign Policy Expert Make
by Sandy Sand
Frankly, I don’t get Katie Couric’s question to Sarah Palin about what took her so long to get a passport (last year), or that people who wrote CBS before that painfully embarrassingly interview, wondered if that indicated a lack of interest and curiosity about the world.
Actually, I believe that really wasn’t a viewer-induced question; it sounded more like a question conjured up by Couric’s producers.
I’m no fan of Palin, but she was correct when she said a person can learned about other countries and cultures through books and other media, but honestly, I don’t really believe that she’s spent that much time in that endeavor. Her world view seems to be quite narrow.
Some, if not most, of her worldly knowledge appears to be force-fed by McCain’s campaign handlers and their infamous 3 x 5 flash cards.
What is this? Kindergarten?
The card Palin showed Couric with the heading “Iran,” was followed by three sub-heads: Bad guys, building nukes and invade if necessary," which are no more than three McCain/Bush talking points that she couldn’t follow up on any of them with a coherent paragraph.
One can probably learn more about a particular place through a half-hour Travel Channel video than spending a week in a country.
World travel and having a passport does not a foreign policy expert make.
Not traveling doesn’t indicate a lack of curiosity about the world. More than likely it’s indicative of lack of funds or time to travel.
Think about it. Most cruise ships and air tours are packed with elderly people. So much so that younger folks are often discouraged from taking cruises.
Most people have neither the time nor the money to travel and put it off as something to do in their dotage.
Condoleezza Rice has racked up more frequent flier miles than Santa Clause, and has made innumerable trips were to the middle-East. She’s sat in on a million meetings, and had a zillion one-on-one conversations with various middle-East leaders, yet she still doesn’t have an inkling of understanding into their mind-set.
She didn’t before her two secretary ships, and she doesn’t now. Her supposed expertise is on Russia, and I doubt she gets them either.
(Did anyone catch that Palin referred to Russia as the USSR? They haven’t been that for quite a while.)
But that aside, taking a 12-country tour in 21 days only broadens one’s backside from sitting on planes and buses, and leaves you with blurred memories of where you went, backed up by photos to jog your memory.
I’ve been to Las Vegas many times. That doesn’t make me an expert, or give me any insights into Las Vegan politics. I’ve sat in casinos and couldn’t begin to tell you why people will gamble away the baby’s milk money.
Let’s suppose that Michigan were another country. A while back I lived there for 10 years, yet I know very little about Michigan politics and less about the people who live there, except that like everyone else, Michiganders are frequently full of mishigas.
San Francisco is about 450 miles north of Los Angeles, and I’ve been there several times. Can I tell you why it’s a center for the most liberal politics in the country? No, I can’t. Nor can I tell you why Orange County, home of Disneyland, and about 60 miles east of L.A. is a bastion of conservative and ultra-conservative politics.
No, travel does not a foreign policy expert make. Years of study helps, but it doesn’t make one a complete expert either. Just look at Bush’s so-called experts who haven’t made on correct call yet.
And while a country’s history doesn’t change, the mindset of its people can have nuanced changes and their politics can change with time. The California of today where I live, isn’t the California of 30 years ago.
Like the desert sands of Southern California, our political philosophies are constantly shifting.
Even living here, we don’t know from one day to the next what they’ll be.
Frankly, I don’t get Katie Couric’s question to Sarah Palin about what took her so long to get a passport (last year), or that people who wrote CBS before that painfully embarrassingly interview, wondered if that indicated a lack of interest and curiosity about the world.
Actually, I believe that really wasn’t a viewer-induced question; it sounded more like a question conjured up by Couric’s producers.
I’m no fan of Palin, but she was correct when she said a person can learned about other countries and cultures through books and other media, but honestly, I don’t really believe that she’s spent that much time in that endeavor. Her world view seems to be quite narrow.
Some, if not most, of her worldly knowledge appears to be force-fed by McCain’s campaign handlers and their infamous 3 x 5 flash cards.
What is this? Kindergarten?
The card Palin showed Couric with the heading “Iran,” was followed by three sub-heads: Bad guys, building nukes and invade if necessary," which are no more than three McCain/Bush talking points that she couldn’t follow up on any of them with a coherent paragraph.
One can probably learn more about a particular place through a half-hour Travel Channel video than spending a week in a country.
World travel and having a passport does not a foreign policy expert make.
Not traveling doesn’t indicate a lack of curiosity about the world. More than likely it’s indicative of lack of funds or time to travel.
Think about it. Most cruise ships and air tours are packed with elderly people. So much so that younger folks are often discouraged from taking cruises.
Most people have neither the time nor the money to travel and put it off as something to do in their dotage.
Condoleezza Rice has racked up more frequent flier miles than Santa Clause, and has made innumerable trips were to the middle-East. She’s sat in on a million meetings, and had a zillion one-on-one conversations with various middle-East leaders, yet she still doesn’t have an inkling of understanding into their mind-set.
She didn’t before her two secretary ships, and she doesn’t now. Her supposed expertise is on Russia, and I doubt she gets them either.
(Did anyone catch that Palin referred to Russia as the USSR? They haven’t been that for quite a while.)
But that aside, taking a 12-country tour in 21 days only broadens one’s backside from sitting on planes and buses, and leaves you with blurred memories of where you went, backed up by photos to jog your memory.
I’ve been to Las Vegas many times. That doesn’t make me an expert, or give me any insights into Las Vegan politics. I’ve sat in casinos and couldn’t begin to tell you why people will gamble away the baby’s milk money.
Let’s suppose that Michigan were another country. A while back I lived there for 10 years, yet I know very little about Michigan politics and less about the people who live there, except that like everyone else, Michiganders are frequently full of mishigas.
San Francisco is about 450 miles north of Los Angeles, and I’ve been there several times. Can I tell you why it’s a center for the most liberal politics in the country? No, I can’t. Nor can I tell you why Orange County, home of Disneyland, and about 60 miles east of L.A. is a bastion of conservative and ultra-conservative politics.
No, travel does not a foreign policy expert make. Years of study helps, but it doesn’t make one a complete expert either. Just look at Bush’s so-called experts who haven’t made on correct call yet.
And while a country’s history doesn’t change, the mindset of its people can have nuanced changes and their politics can change with time. The California of today where I live, isn’t the California of 30 years ago.
Like the desert sands of Southern California, our political philosophies are constantly shifting.
Even living here, we don’t know from one day to the next what they’ll be.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Palin Suspends Vice Presidential Campaign: Rushes Back to Alaska to Keep an Eye on Russia
by Steve Young
In what most Fox News talk show hosts feel is a gosh darn terrific political move, Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin announced that she is interrupting her campaign to return to Juneau to look at Russia, which you can see from Alaska.
“This is exactly the time that those Ruskies like to attack like they did at Pearl Harbor, don’tcha know,” said Palin. “I would hope that Senator Biden would join me and put the country above the campaign and come back to Alaska to make sure the USSR doesn’t try something funny.”
“Governor Palin believes that geography is more important than politics,” said McCain campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds.
“If Senator Biden wants to place his vice presidential aspirations over the security of America, then we’ll let the voter decide who they’d rather wake up next to in the White House at 3 a.m. in case the president dies.
"And if the American voter wants to picture that person wearing a flimsy, sheer, shortie negligee, so be it.”
Asked by Katie Couric what she would do if Russia did make a move toward America, Palin was quick to appear earnest.
“I’d say, thanks, but no thanks, Katie.”
To her credit, when Couric wanted Palin to name at least one time Russia has stepped over into Alaska, Palin didn’t blink.
“I’ll try to find ya some and bring ‘em to ya.”
In other suspended campaign news, while attempting to chew a piece of Doublemint gum, Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain stumbled and fell off the curb.
Steve Young can be found at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com
In what most Fox News talk show hosts feel is a gosh darn terrific political move, Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin announced that she is interrupting her campaign to return to Juneau to look at Russia, which you can see from Alaska.
“This is exactly the time that those Ruskies like to attack like they did at Pearl Harbor, don’tcha know,” said Palin. “I would hope that Senator Biden would join me and put the country above the campaign and come back to Alaska to make sure the USSR doesn’t try something funny.”
“Governor Palin believes that geography is more important than politics,” said McCain campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds.
“If Senator Biden wants to place his vice presidential aspirations over the security of America, then we’ll let the voter decide who they’d rather wake up next to in the White House at 3 a.m. in case the president dies.
"And if the American voter wants to picture that person wearing a flimsy, sheer, shortie negligee, so be it.”
Asked by Katie Couric what she would do if Russia did make a move toward America, Palin was quick to appear earnest.
“I’d say, thanks, but no thanks, Katie.”
To her credit, when Couric wanted Palin to name at least one time Russia has stepped over into Alaska, Palin didn’t blink.
“I’ll try to find ya some and bring ‘em to ya.”
In other suspended campaign news, while attempting to chew a piece of Doublemint gum, Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain stumbled and fell off the curb.
Steve Young can be found at the appropriately named steveyoungonpolitics.com
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
To Even Mention Book Banning is Sarah Palin at Her Dangerous Worst
by Sandy Sand
The mere suggestion of book-banning should set off alarm bells of epic proportion across the country.
The fact that Sarah Palin, the Republican would-be veep, approached Wasilla, Alaska librarian with a ‘how would you react to banning books?’ question should not only give us all pause, but make us run shrieking in alarm to editorial boards in every nook and cranny of this country.
Besides that question being pulled out of her ass, it didn’t come from nowhere.
Why did she even think of it; there must have been a reason!
I try not to make personal attacks, but if you’re a Sarah Palin defender, and this one issue doesn't bother you, then you’re an idiot and an ass.
Worse than being an idiot and a jackass, you don’t have the first idea of what freedom means.
Even as a hypothetical…there had to be a reason, and a reason based in evil intent, and I’m not one who uses the word “evil” lightly.
There are some really bad books out there, but as much as I hate them and their subjects and would never read them, I would never say they should be banned, even if some insane person reads them, takes heart from them and commits a murderous or equally criminal act.
No matter how much the shrinks and the at-home-couch-potato shrinks want to blame the offensive book or movie for a person’s crimianal act, they’re full of illogical bull.
He was bent on dastardly deeds before ever reading or viewing the offensive material.
To ban a book -- any book -- is contrary to everything we believe to be freedom.
I don’t give a damn if Palin had in mind the banning of See Spot Run, a first grade primer, or The little Engine That Could or Dr. Seuss; it’s the fact that she even broached the question; that the thought even cross her mind; that, that insane, un-American, un-Constitutional thought was ever “thunk” up and verbalized in the first place.
Although I’m sure there is at least one idiot out there who could find something salacious or inherently bad in any of those benign books.
Omigawd, the kidlets cannot see Dick, Jane and Spot run; it’s dangerous to run. They might trip and fall. Today’s kids can’t even ride a bike without being suited up in a protective coat of armor.
The Little Engine that Could must have been an arrogant s.o.b. who thought he could do something he couldn’t. How dare he try to defy the you-can’t-do-it-gods!?!
Dr. Seuss must have been criminally insane to let his imagination run wild and open a world of fantasmic nonsense with a moral, and reveal a world of unbelievable word magic to a bunch of half-brain dead kids who were taught to read on the pap of Dick, Jane and Spot, while sitting if front of the television.
As dumb as the I-Hate-To-Read-in-Chief is, and even with his admission that he doesn’t read much; that his staff must submit reports on two pages, double spaced, in large type; that his yearly reading list is an absolute lie…I don’t ever remember even him suggesting the certain books be banned.
Even if he had, “My Pet Goat” would be a keeper, although I’m sure that Sarah and her ilk could find something objectionable about it.
A lot to think about. Ya think?
The mere suggestion of book-banning should set off alarm bells of epic proportion across the country.
The fact that Sarah Palin, the Republican would-be veep, approached Wasilla, Alaska librarian with a ‘how would you react to banning books?’ question should not only give us all pause, but make us run shrieking in alarm to editorial boards in every nook and cranny of this country.
Besides that question being pulled out of her ass, it didn’t come from nowhere.
Why did she even think of it; there must have been a reason!
I try not to make personal attacks, but if you’re a Sarah Palin defender, and this one issue doesn't bother you, then you’re an idiot and an ass.
Worse than being an idiot and a jackass, you don’t have the first idea of what freedom means.
Even as a hypothetical…there had to be a reason, and a reason based in evil intent, and I’m not one who uses the word “evil” lightly.
There are some really bad books out there, but as much as I hate them and their subjects and would never read them, I would never say they should be banned, even if some insane person reads them, takes heart from them and commits a murderous or equally criminal act.
No matter how much the shrinks and the at-home-couch-potato shrinks want to blame the offensive book or movie for a person’s crimianal act, they’re full of illogical bull.
He was bent on dastardly deeds before ever reading or viewing the offensive material.
To ban a book -- any book -- is contrary to everything we believe to be freedom.
I don’t give a damn if Palin had in mind the banning of See Spot Run, a first grade primer, or The little Engine That Could or Dr. Seuss; it’s the fact that she even broached the question; that the thought even cross her mind; that, that insane, un-American, un-Constitutional thought was ever “thunk” up and verbalized in the first place.
Although I’m sure there is at least one idiot out there who could find something salacious or inherently bad in any of those benign books.
Omigawd, the kidlets cannot see Dick, Jane and Spot run; it’s dangerous to run. They might trip and fall. Today’s kids can’t even ride a bike without being suited up in a protective coat of armor.
The Little Engine that Could must have been an arrogant s.o.b. who thought he could do something he couldn’t. How dare he try to defy the you-can’t-do-it-gods!?!
Dr. Seuss must have been criminally insane to let his imagination run wild and open a world of fantasmic nonsense with a moral, and reveal a world of unbelievable word magic to a bunch of half-brain dead kids who were taught to read on the pap of Dick, Jane and Spot, while sitting if front of the television.
As dumb as the I-Hate-To-Read-in-Chief is, and even with his admission that he doesn’t read much; that his staff must submit reports on two pages, double spaced, in large type; that his yearly reading list is an absolute lie…I don’t ever remember even him suggesting the certain books be banned.
Even if he had, “My Pet Goat” would be a keeper, although I’m sure that Sarah and her ilk could find something objectionable about it.
A lot to think about. Ya think?
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