HA!  I remember that episode of Star Trek too :D


McCain, his eyes unfurled!

In honor of all the drama on a thread about the funniest speech during an otherwise slow year in Presidential politics:

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7567/palinrallywtftk2.jpg

Also, on that speech, one for all you Trekkers out there:

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8335/7new900r8g.jpg

My only regret is that I'll never get to put this to good use:

http://i42.tinypic.com/35hffh0.jpg


My god, I love you.  Run away with me because I'm an immoral liberal commie with no family values! ;D


HA!  I remember that episode of Star Trek too :D


So do I. :o

McCain, his eyes unfurled!


Palin, her arms wide!

This thread is just the gift that keeps on giving. ;D

Palin, her armslegs wide!


Fixed that for you.

http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/2/20/Dathon.jpg/200px-Dathon.jpg

(Larry Craig, with sweat and dead men's balls!)

This in from Fok news

www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/07/palin-blasts-critics-resignation-announcement/

"Most candidates, most public officials get to look into a camera and say, 'you better leave your hands off my kids,'" she said. "Well I haven't been able to say that. And that double standard that's been applied, that's been a little bit frustrating."

As Palin spoke, she and her husband Todd Palin loaded four news crews into two small fishing boats and headed into Bristol Bay from Dillingham.

The Palin family -- Todd's sister, mother and father, as well as nieces and at least two children, had picked the journalists up at the airport in Dillingham and shuttled them to Bristol Bay in old pickup trucks and SUVs.


hhhhmmmmmmmm    ::)

This in from Fok news

www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/07/palin-blasts-critics-resignation-announcement/

"Most candidates, most public officials get to look into a camera and say, 'you better leave your hands off my kids,'" she said. "Well I haven't been able to say that. And that double standard that's been applied, that's been a little bit frustrating."

As Palin spoke, she and her husband Todd Palin loaded four news crews into two small fishing boats and headed into Bristol Bay from Dillingham.

The Palin family -- Todd's sister, mother and father, as well as nieces and at least two children, had picked the journalists up at the airport in Dillingham and shuttled them to Bristol Bay in old pickup trucks and SUVs.


hhhhmmmmmmmm    ::)
i was gonna guess that maybe she was upset over her family getting criticized in the unlikely event she's not dodging some kinda corruption scandal. corse she did kindause her kids as stage props and human shields bit at the same time I can understand that public scrutiny might get old.

This strategy may SEVERELY backfire though. I'm foreseeing the tabs trailing her on the beach for the next ten years scanning her for cellulite, putting a 24-hour tail on todd to try and catch him in an affair, and lurking around the local high schools trolling for evidence one of the palin girls might be preggles again. goodbye frying pan, hello fire.

This in from Fok news

www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/07/palin-blasts-critics-resignation-announcement/

"Most candidates, most public officials get to look into a camera and say, 'you better leave your hands off my kids,'" she said. "Well I haven't been able to say that. And that double standard that's been applied, that's been a little bit frustrating."

As Palin spoke, she and her husband Todd Palin loaded four news crews into two small fishing boats and headed into Bristol Bay from Dillingham.

The Palin family -- Todd's sister, mother and father, as well as nieces and at least two children, had picked the journalists up at the airport in Dillingham and shuttled them to Bristol Bay in old pickup trucks and SUVs.


hhhhmmmmmmmm    ::)


All politicians do the "photo op" thing.

There is a huge chasm between that and, essentially, the press calling her daughter a sluttessa, which is essentially what they did.

I'm not a huge Palin supporter (my willingness to party with her notwithstanding) but the treatment of her kids during and after the election was inexcusable.

the treatment of her kids during and after the election was inexcusable.
yeah it was a bit much but by the same token, if someone's gonna judge others and preach abstinence, you simply CAN'T get pregnant as an unwed teenager. It doesn't seem to have sunk in with people on the right just how galling and hypocritical regular folks find that. it's sorta like how sanford still seems to think he's qualified to preach family values. It's a very curious blind spot. That plaily had a lot to do with how the kids got treated, which doesn't make it okay but they seem to want to get a pass on the hypocrisy and on policing everyone else's lives and that's not okay either.

yeah it was a bit much but by the same token, if someone's gonna judge others and preach abstinence, you simply CAN'T get pregnant as an unwed teenager. It doesn't seem to have sunk in with people on the right just how galling and hypocritical regular folks find that. it's sorta like how sanford still seems to think he's qualified to preach family values. It's a very curious blind spot. That plaily had a lot to do with how the kids got treated, which doesn't make it okay but they seem to want to get a pass on the hypocrisy and on policing everyone else's lives and that's not okay either.


Sarah Palin was not the person who got knocked up though.  If her daughter had been running for office then she would have been fair game.

People even went as far as saying that the youngest Pailin child (Trig, I think) was not really Sara's kid but was really the product of Bristol, the alleged slut.

They did that with Sanford too?  They did that with Larry Craig and a couple of other Repubs who got in compromising positions.
::)

You serious?  Did you mean that one of your country's major news sources has repeatedly sought to pretend that Republicans caught in flagrante were actually Democrats?  This is Fox "fair and balanced" News?

Ah.. I get it now: not enough Democrats have been having affairs, so in order to provide "balance", they have to say that some of the Republican politicos were blue (in politics as well as behaviour) to provide balance.  I guess it's the fault of the general public if they're too stupid to realize they're being lied to ::)

Sarah Palin was not the person who got knocked up though.  If her daughter had been running for office then she would have been fair game.

People even went as far as saying that the youngest Pailin child (Trig, I think) was not really Sara's kid but was really the product of Bristol, the alleged slut.
but wasn't bristol herself actively advocating abstinence though? we all know the popular media are viltures so it was rather foolish to throw them so much carrion. particulary since as abstinants, the palins presumably had their animal urges under complete control.

Chucky, I meant that Democrats use our tax money to find candidates they think are sexy and visually appealing to voters, i.e.: Kennedy, Obama, Clinton(still can't understand that one! 8-P), and don't bother to check for ability to lead or make decisions(With Kennedy they obviously got lucky, since we survived the Cuban Missile Crisis! http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/05/hippy.gif). Is my position clear now?

Your Pal,
Doc
8)


even less clear... the Democrats don't use tax money to find candidates, that would be a violation of election law.  Have you ever taken a US history/gov't course to learn how the government works?

There's only one thing left for the Palins to do....











....a reality TV show!

Ant

There's only one thing left for the Palins to do....











....a reality TV show!

Ant

I was hoping you were going to say "palin to insignificance"

I was hoping you were going to say "palin to insignificance"


They usually mean about the same thing over on this side of the pond.

Ant

Sarah Palin was not the person who got knocked up though.  If her daughter had been running for office then she would have been fair game.

People even went as far as saying that the youngest Pailin child (Trig, I think) was not really Sara's kid but was really the product of Bristol, the alleged slut.


it's the old double standard.  Sarah can get on stage, drag her kids out in front of the audience and use them as a prop during her campaign.  If one of them is almost adult age and does something that goes against what the campaign was pushing, well, don't ya know, that just isn't supposed to be on the table.

here's some more examples of her "wisdom"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8016906&page=1

But as for whether another pursuit of national office, as she did less than a year ago when she joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the race for the White House, would result in the same political blood sport, Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House, she said, the "department of law" would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.

"I think on a national level, your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out," she said.

There is no "Department of Law" at the White House.

there's a dept. of Justice, and it's not really part of the White House.  Part of that whole pesky separation of powers nonsense I doubt she knows about, Bush apparently never knew about it either.  You would think such a fundamental lack of knowledge of how the government works would disqualify her for most people, but then again I have a feeling most people don't know more than she does.

Any news on the investigation or whatever as to why she resigned yet?  I might have missed it in all the mire...

Any news on the investigation or whatever as to why she resigned yet?  I might have missed it in all the mire...

Reckon that she might have read this ;)

Reckon that she might have read this ;)


:D

even less clear... the Democrats don't use tax money to find candidates, that would be a violation of election law.  Have you ever taken a US history/gov't course to learn how the government works?


I have...but they just taught how it's SUPPOSED to work!
::)

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/political-pictures-sarah-palin-winner-quits.jpg?w=500&h=300

No, because I'm not in office :D

;D

You serious?  Did you mean that one of your country's major news sources has repeatedly sought to pretend that Republicans caught in flagrante were actually Democrats?  This is Fox "fair and balanced" News?

Ah.. I get it now: not enough Democrats have been having affairs, so in order to provide "balance", they have to say that some of the Republican politicos were blue (in politics as well as behaviour) to provide balance.  I guess it's the fault of the general public if they're too stupid to realize they're being lied to ::)


It would be disgraceful if anybody really thought FOX was a "major news source."  If you've never seen FOX News, take your dodgiest Tory tabloid rag and picture what it would be like as a television news network, and you've basically got the equivalent of FOX.  I'm not kidding.

News "objectivity" is a thing of the past anyway.  In the U.S. "objectivity" was really more of a pragmatic policy than an idealistic one.  It stemmed from the founding of the Associated Press in the mid-19th century and grew more important with the development of teletype in the early 20th.  If newspapers were going to print stories from a shared pool, then it was practical for reporters to show as little bias as possible any newspaper could use the story regardless of that paper's editorial slant.  The same was applied to radio and television.  What the "objectivity" standard did was force editors to insist reporters refrain from writing stone bullsh*t.  That's all gone now thanks to the crass commercialization of "news" itself (which was helped along by the Reagan administration throwing out the Fairness Doctrine, but that's a whole other story).  Now any azzhole with a computer and a bit of spare time can start a blog and call it "news."
::)

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/political-pictures-sarah-palin-winner-quits.jpg?w=500&h=300

Canadian media says she'll be back in 2012 when it's Election time again. Is that what the American (non Fox news) media is saying as well?
Can't wait to see what the Alaskan barbie doll does next.

It would be disgraceful if anybody really thought FOX was a "major news source."  If you've never seen FOX News, take your dodgiest Tory tabloid rag and picture what it would be like as a television news network, and you've basically got the equivalent of FOX.  I'm not kidding.

But (a bit like the Sun over here) it is still a major news source, in that a ridiculously large number of people use it as the source of their news.  There are people do believe what they read in the Sun (and the Mail, even the Telegraph has its rather dodgy stories), and I wouldn't mind there's people who believe that Fox is fair, balanced and a news-reporting station.

People have a tendency to believe things that reinforce their prejudices.. I think Bertrand Russell said something along those lines (well, I know he did, but I've quoted it quite enough times recently)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-hit-with-more-ethic_b_226667.html

more ethics charges... stemming from her per diem expenses that she was claiming in violation with the ethics policy.  she needs to call one of them law talking guys

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-hit-with-more-ethic_b_226667.html

more ethics charges... stemming from her per diem expenses that she was claiming in violation with the ethics policy.  she needs to call one of them law talking guys


Whoops!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-hit-with-more-ethic_b_226667.html

more ethics charges... stemming from her per diem expenses that she was claiming in violation with the ethics policy.  she needs to call one of them law talking guys


Or can the law-talking fella who told her it was okay to do that.  Maybe the best lawyers really don't trade counsel for free snow machine repair!
::)

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/political-pictures-sarah-palin-winner-quits.jpg?w=500&h=300


She had a photoshoot in a runner's magazine, didn't she?

http://www.lettuce.org/gopinion/quitter.jpg

So how's that for an example? :)

I like that :D

A winner never wins and a quitter never quits  :o

If you wanna run in the Iditatrod...

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/p/2/palin-iquitarod.jpg

...well, first you start with an idiot, a rod  (( oh, come on, get your minds outa the gutter! )) ...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/swiftian/0_0_010109/031109/palin_newscaster.jpg

...and lots of dogs.  (( I said out of the gutter!! ))  And then you need to be lucky.  I'm lucky, he's lucky, we're all lucky...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j182/swiftian/0_0_010109/062409/palin_bannister.jpg

..."The bannister's lucky!"

I'll actually miss her when she's gone.  She made the campaign like a 24/7 showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, with an audience participation soundtrack crafted by MST3K.  Truly the end of an era.

Truly the end of an era.

The end of an error, more like :)

Children of politicians have always been targets.  I can remember they backhanded slights to Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton.  Rush Limbaugh in particular should have been taken out with what he did with Chelsea.

Children of politicians have always been targets.  I can remember they backhanded slights to Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton.  Rush Limbaugh in particular should have been taken out with what he did with Chelsea.


yet that was ok, because it had nothing to do with the politics of the parents... she just wasn't a beauty queen, so that was fair game right?

she just wasn't a beauty queen, so that was fair game right?

And Rush Limbaugh *is*????

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/political-pictures-sarah-palin-corrupt-nutjob.jpg?w=500&h=412

And Rush Limbaugh *is*????


Rush prolly prefers little boys.
::)

Rush prolly prefers little boys.
::)

Is he buying Neverland ranch?  :o (I'm so bad...)

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/07/custom_1246902587359_palinpress1.JPG




Cat

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/political-pictures-sarah-palin-role-model.jpg?w=480&h=432

And Rush Limbaugh *is*????


Hard to tell.  With Rush (as well as Al Franken on the other side of the aisle) you have to deal with the "ick factor" regardless of which way his door swings.

;D ;D

Hard to tell.  With Rush (as well as Al Franken on the other side of the aisle) you have to deal with the "ick factor" regardless of which way his door swings.

;D ;D


I think Al has less of the ick factor going that Rush.  Imagine Rush in bed with a guy smoking a cigar and popping morphine derivatives and Viagra.  Not to mention his voice nauseate everyone. 8-P

I think Al has less of the ick factor going that Rush.  Imagine Rush in bed with a guy smoking a cigar and popping morphine derivatives and Viagra.  Not to mention his voice nauseate everyone. 8-P


It's not his voice so much as what he says.  Limbaugh had cred as a talented broadcaster.  He had a superb radio voice and impeccable presentation.  That was the old days.  The dope eats away at his on-air presentation.  It's not what it was a decade ago.  I've done a radio program for 15 years.  When the light goes on and you gotta talk, it's a whole lot tougher than it sounds.  Mind you, Limbaugh has the best producers and engineers money can buy and if he's not in his right mind, they can spoonfeed it to him and he'll parrot what he hears -- even so, the guy had the chops.  Not just anyone can do that.  As for the content of his program, it's pure vomit-worthy swill.

Franken, on the other hand, does not have a voice for radio.  When he was on Air America, his nasal/guttural low tone got really annoying after a while.  It mattered not that I agreed with him most of the time.

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/political-pictures-sarah-palin-abstinence-education.jpg

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/04/sarah_palin_tales_from_the_crypt.jpg

http://img.allvoices.com/thumbs/event/598/486/21482025-civic-lesson.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_QtmPYAWGuZk/Slen3FLsTiI/AAAAAAAAGMU/UZPLyHaHL-o/s800/canteloupes.jpg

They're real, and they're spectacular.

http://www.metafilter.com/82987/Sarah-Palin-to-resign#2635083

What REAL Alaskan natives think about Sarah Palin...

Palin Defense Fund May Be Unethical

Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated state ethics laws by letting supporters set up a legal defense fund to help her battle ethics complaints, a preliminary report on the issue has found.

IRONY! ;D

Whats remarkable is Palin leads a Fox News Poll for the GOP Nomination for President in 2012 even after announcing her resignation:

Here are the results for the GOP Nomination for President in 2012(Fox News Poll)

Palin-72%
Huckabee 59%
Romney 56%

Palin/Huckerbee/Romney????

Not much of a choice, is it?  No wonder there's talk of changing the constitution so that Arnie can stand ;)

I really hope they nominate Palin.  That would be a very funny election.

I really hope they nominate Palin.  That would be a very funny election.



You betcha!  ;) ;) ;)



Cat

I really hope they nominate Palin.  That would be a very funny election.

Anyone remember Tom Lehrer's "I wanna go back to Dixie"?

I hope they nominate Palin
Republicans: vote Palin
And I hope she picks Rush Limbaugh as her VP
The election would be hot an'
Really dirty and so rotten
Folks might forget that her IQ's just 3
Yep, to make the contest fairer
And ensure y'all vote Sarah
We'll have to get more Diebold kit in, you bet
To realize our poten-
tial for *really* crooked votin'
That Karl Rove ain't finished gloatin' yet


..that one has potential :)