Flippy - I Rant, You Read

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

lunch time

Sarah Palin:  Could she be any less qualified?  Does John McCain know what “vetting” means?

Campbell Brown asks a simple question of Tucker Bounds, spokesman for the McCain/hahaha-Palin campaign.  He can’t think of a single thing she’s done that qualifies her, so he talks around and around and around.  It’s kind of sad to watch, but this VP pick is such a disaster, even if there weren’t any weird pregnancy lies/deception.  Apparently John McCain was thinking VPILF, instead of gee, who would be qualified should I not be in the greatest health and have to hand over the reins.  Frankly, I’m glad he picked someone who will keep the National Enquirer busy, plus I’m really really looking forward to the VP debates.  Remember that general guy who Ross Perot picked and how terrible he was in the debates?  Well, at least he had a plethora of military experience - Sarah Palin’s got nothin’.  I’ll bet Joe Biden is even more excited for the VP debates than I am, especially since he could win a debate with her while he was napping.

We still don’t know what the truth is about her daughter and the pregnancy(ies?).  What kind of mother, who has a nice cushy job as the governor of a small state (population-wise), would accept the VP nomination knowing how this was going to tear apart her daughter?  Or, maybe this is her daughter’s punishment for having sex, since her mother is such a creepy right-wing anti-choice (even if the woman was raped!), abstinence-only (sex education and birth control are B-A-D), polar bears should die (she sued to try to make sure they weren’t put on the Endangered Species list) kind of person.  Anyway, for more thorough baby drama, read up.  (scroll down a few paragraphs to the links) Oh yeah, one more baby thing - apparently her first child was born 8 months into her marriage.  Hmmm, like mother, like daughter?

Monday, August 14, 2006

early morning

Why I’m Not Voting for Geoffrey VanderPal for NV State Treasurer

Too many font changes.  Too many glaring spelling errors.  Poor grammar.  Odd sentence structure.  Doofus.  Plus, I’m not voting for a financial planner who filed for personal bankruptcy.  I know that sometimes bad things happen beyond our control (for instance, doctors/surgery centers charging $14,000 each for some worthless shots), but I think those of us who have our own debts shouldn’t be handling the state’s money.  He may be a lovely man and an excellent financial planner, but bad spelling/grammar and a bankruptcy makes me choose the prim sounding knitting lady.  Also, I find her ten year old daughter kind of charming in a “I can relate” way.   Anna’s other passions are science and finding excuses not to do homework.  Some of her latest excuses are:  “It’s Monday, and I don’t have any really important homework until Thursday.”  “It’s Wednesday and the week is really long in the middle.”  “The teacher went over it so much in class I can’t even remember what I am supposed to study, and anyway I know it all.”  “Can I have a snack?”

For the past four years, Geoffrey VanderPal has been frantically trying to hide his 2006 campaign ad, which is full of embarrassing grammatical and spelling errors.  Want your very own copy of the ad to post on your own blog?  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  Coming soon: actual quotes from the ad!

Endorsements, issue 2: Democratic Treasurer Primary - from the blog, “Reno and its Discontents”

ERASING THE PAST - from the Las Vegas Review Journal

Geoffrey Vanderpal and Sue Scheff, spending big bucks to spam search engines trying to erase the past - here’s a story from the Washington Post, in case you’d like to spend big bucks trying to erase your past, too.  You know, if they actually added valuable content to the search engines it would be one thing, but signing up for one account after another at dozens of domains and just copying & pasting your bio just clutters up search engines.  It doesn’t take more than a few seconds of thinking to know how to get your site to rank well in a search engine, but it takes effort and consistency.  Spam (generally) doesn’t overtake content.