Tuesday, September 02, 2008

lunch time

A couple more Palin tidbits before bed

Albert Brooks wrote his first Huffington Post blog entry (using the name A. Brooks) yesterday - it was entertaining, and I hope he sticks around and keeps writing.  His blog entry is titled “Anyone Can Become President” and this is the last paragraph - I’ve italicized my favorite line, which makes me laugh every time I read it because I’m actually picturing it. I am now hearing from the Karl Roves of the world that having a 17-year-old daughter pregnant out of wedlock will make Palin sympathetic to millions of Americans who know the pain of that situation. But my question is WHERE WAS THE ADVICE? Do we want a president who cannot communicate to their own child that possibly having a baby a year after you get your driver’s license is not the smartest thing to do? Is this the new way for women to break the glass ceiling? To have their daughters throw their babies at it? I want my president to control their children, then they can tell the Navy what to do.

Sick, I know, but this election is wearing on me and I just want it over with.  Although, to be fair, everything is wearing on me.  It seems like it’s going to take me a week to physically recover from the stress caused by the broken a/c.  I’ve literally spent most of my days in bed, sleeping, since we got the new a/c unit.  Stress just totally wipes us out because of the FMS.  I don’t even know how to explain how that happens so anyone who isn’t affected by it could understand it.  If only we could give someone an illness for a month, or even just a week, to help them empathize.  Like when I had the herniated disk - I had NO IDEA the kind of pain it can cause.  Now, when I read about, say, a professional athlete with a herniated disk, I can empathize and be amazed that they can play in that condition.

Oh yeah, and my other Palin tidbit.  This one comes from the renowned deep thinker, Cindy McCain.  Asked about Palin’s national security experience, Cindy McCain could not come up with anything beyond the fact that, after all, her state is right next to Russia. “You know, the experience that she comes from is, what she has done in government—and remember that Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia.”  Leigh-Ann and I were even closer than that to Bill Clinton, which means we’ve got national security experience by virtue of the new KBNSDS Law*, plus Leigh-Ann shook his hand; therefore, it looks like we’re both capable of running for POTUS right this instant.  Minor detail about Leigh-Ann being Canadian, but if the McCain folks were doing the vetting, they’d probably miss that part.

  Here’s Bill.  That’s me behind the camera with the stranger’s arm waving overhead.  Leigh-Ann is further to the right, with the pushers & shovers, trying to get to him, shake hands, or get something signed.

*Kevin Bacon National Security Degrees of Separation

terribly early in the morning

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?

Sunday, August 13, 2006

late at night

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! (Updated:  I filed an appeal to his DMCA filing and since it’s been so long, I’m putting the original ad back.  Sorry it’s smaller.  I don’t recall what I did with the original file or the original ad.  It still shows you all the spelling, grammar, and other mistakes.

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.