Margaret, that Sarah Palin sure seems to be enjoying her moment in the spotlight. And it appears she got another one of her Tea Party candidates one step closer to November 2nd. Now, I for one don’t begrudge her all this newly found fame and fortune. I still think she is an idiot, but I don’t begrudge her all this success. I just wish she came by it in a way that didn’t involve the fate of our nation…. like maybe being on The Real Housewives of Wasilla.
I hear she is about to have her own television show on the Learning Channel. Do you think she will learn anything? And when exactly did the Learning Channel become the Learning Deficiency Channel?
Well, I say good for her. If there was ever a person who was destined to be on one of those dysfunctional reality shows it would be Sarah Palin. Maybe she will eat a rat like that little one on the The View. I hope she has huge ratings and gets out of politics for good. Because stupid on television is one thing. But stupid running our nation… well George Bush proved that to be a really bad idea.
Before that jackass preacher down in Florida decided not to burn the Quran, Ms. Palin sent out a little one of those face tweeter things. She said she thought burning the Quran was as bad as building that mosque in Manhattan. Leave it to an idiot to denounce one form of religious intolerance by promoting another form of religious intolerance.
It’s a damn Burlington Coat Factory. Did you know that Margaret? This building they consider to be on sacred ground – or at least sacred ground for everyone but Muslims – is a Burlington Coat Factory. Has everyone gone crazy? It’s not at ground zero and it’s not even a mosque, honey. It’s a cultural center. And as far as sacred ground goes, we really should be careful. They have a whole lot of “sacred ground” in the Middle East and it tends to cause never-ending wars. This country already goes to war too often for sacred oil. We don’t need to add sacred ground to the list.
When exactly will common sense return to America? Just how far can the Republican Party - now called the Tea Party - throw the bullshit before someone calls them on it? You just have to pay attention to Sarah Palin for all of ten minutes before you realize just how deep it gets. And now this Christine O’Donnell has waded into the mess.
Margaret, it just makes me want to cry sometimes. But you know me. When faced with idiots and jackasses, I don’t cry. I bake a pie.
So have some pie and a little coffee. I know you prefer tea, dear, but skip the tea and have some coffee for me until after November. I mean it . Really.
Thank you for sharing to us.
Well written, hope to have more articles
Come on, hard.
By: Lucifer on June 29, 2011
at 8:18 PM
Yeah, I know I’m late on this one, I get side-tracked by meat life and forget to keep current on my cyber life.
The only sacred ground that I recognize are places were people did something that I found valuable, that placed a higher value on something other than their lives. Places that I find sacred are places like Gettysburg and a little strip of beachfront property in France that was once called Omaha.
Not everyone will agree with me, but those are places that I hold as sacred ground.
By: Scott on February 22, 2011
at 10:14 PM
Helen and Margaret, you now have a fan from Sydney, Australia. You rock girls!
By: Marika.p on January 24, 2011
at 7:31 PM
I would love to subscribe to this site and receive your comments. Thank you. Sharon L. Buffington
By: sharon buffington on November 15, 2010
at 5:05 PM
Dear Helen and Margaret,
I just wrote you to see if you were going to DC on October 30th to the rally- and then I closed up and went to Huffington Post- and look at what I found:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/14/sarah-palins-alaska-trail_n_763576.html
Sarah’s reality show trailer.
You can’t make this stuff up fast enough that it doesn’t come true these days….
Anyway- be well. Amanda
By: Amanda on October 14, 2010
at 7:40 PM
Love this blog – so look forward to new posts.
By: Vonda on October 13, 2010
at 12:46 PM
Great writing! Thanks for your ability to poke fun at the absurdities that pass for politics nowadays.
By: Walter on October 11, 2010
at 12:18 PM
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By: Margaret and Helen | themcglynn.com/theliberal.net on October 9, 2010
at 9:42 AM
Helen, I took a look at the Presidential schedule. Between travel and office work, Obama is out of the office more often these days than in it. Question to myself: is it possible to adequately govern under these conditions? If answer is no, think about this. His presence on the campaign trail is pretty much dictated not so much by his own party but the party in opposition. If they can keep him focused on speeches and public appearances, they can gleefully screech about his lack of governance. Is this the point in time where we should consider doing things like other countries;i.e., having one top person out in public all the time and another in the office. As for his predecessor’s governance, GWB was hardly at the White House, stopping by usually just to change his clothes. His governance consisted of social welfare for the richest Americans, two wars and making sure everyone knew what the terror threat level was.
By: Mageen in Old Virginny on October 8, 2010
at 1:00 PM
Districts are divided up in favor of republicans. Republicans are outspending democrats by almost 9 to 1 this campaign cycle – this primarily due to corporate donations and many are foreign owned. Republicans have been served historically by election fraud.
I admit, publicly funded elections would help. Term limits would help. Getting rid of the 2 party system is a must. Getting corporations out of control of our laws and lives would be the GREATEST remedy.
If we really want change, that HAS to happen.
If we haven’t gone too far down that path to turn back.
If people will get off their couches and demand it.
If we apply the laws of the land equally to ALL citizens.
If we learn that the almighty JOBS are not the be-all and end-all solution to what ails us. Everyone with a job in a company that in ANY WAY contributes or profits from war is not innocent of the blood that is shed as a result. Other corporations oppress peoples and pollute lands. A job with those companies also carries the same guilt. Doing business with these companies also helps enable their sins. It’s all interconnected. It isn’t easy to unravel. But knowledge IS the first step. Knowing there is this problem IS the first step to solving it.
I am solution driven. In my work I have become knowledgeable in many trades and encounter countless circumstances that require solutions. I don’t rest well until I solve the issues that confront me. Until people wake up to reality, NOTHING will change. Just because the beast is huge, doesn’t mean it can’t and shouldn’t be slain.
By: poolman on October 8, 2010
at 9:48 AM
Like Lori, I like to find solutions, but then I ruminate about unexpected consequences and how to fix them. Its how one runs a business.
I agree, public funding would solve many of our problems. I would like to see 100% public funding. Its the only method which would work over time in my opinion. I also would like to see the time for campaigning limited.
It might create new problems, such as how are splinter candidates funded? To be fair, each candidate needs to have equal financing. What if they disputed the formula in court? Would the government create a financial support formula based on petitions or poll numbers? Would the courts support forbidding voters to spend money on their favorite candidates? Would 100% government funding freeze out dark horses who might have a chance at winning, given unusual circumstances? Would in kind campaign work count as a non -funded contribution, or would a financial value be attached to it as it is in some grant applications? How could third parties be born?
I don’t know the answers. I don’t even know all of the questions, but I agree with Lori.
By: James on October 8, 2010
at 6:40 AM
Well Poolman you can have all the theories you want and who knows maybe there is some truth to them. However until we have publicly funded elections there is no solution.
I am a more solution oriented person and I like to fix problems not just ruminate about them.
So, if those who believe in the conspiracy theories would put some effort into working for and nominating candidates who are pro publicly funded elections as opposed to just shaking their fingers at “narrow minded tunnel vision democratic and republican voters”, perhaps we COULD take control back.
Until then it’s just a lot of smoke and mirrors.
Unless one of the two major parties are backing you, you have no chance of winning a state wide election. If you need proof, just look at the stats for this years elections.
By: lori on October 8, 2010
at 5:57 AM
“Creating a whip from some cords, Jesus – in his only recorded incidence of violence – drove the money-changers out of the Temple of Jerusalem; it was a moment of spiritual enlightenment, described in all four gospels.”
By: poolman on October 7, 2010
at 11:34 PM
Poolman–that’s terrific!
By: Donna on October 7, 2010
at 6:30 PM
Vote Republican!!
By: poolman on October 7, 2010
at 5:25 PM
Helen, you are right on about the hypocrisy. Here’s in a link that can be copied and pasted in a browser. It is an excellent story about Lou Dobbs and his own illegal immigrants ala Whitman.
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/155209/lou-dobbs-american-hypocrite
By: Mageen in Old Virginny on October 7, 2010
at 11:21 AM
Mageen in Old Virginny, I’d have handled the letter differently too, but as I wrote, maybe they didn’t want to know.
Whitman’s Spanish language ad is definite proof of dishonesty. Maybe the maid is took but I’m more sure of the ad.
Its too bad we don’t have a witch in the government. Maybe she and her coven could conjure up enough money to rest government printing presses.
By: James on October 7, 2010
at 11:14 AM
delurkergurl. I don’t know if Whitman knew or not. The letter stated an employer should not interpret it to mean the employee was illegal and to fire someone on the basis of the letter could be against the law.
I think maybe she and her husband didn’t want to know. Its splitting hairs, but to be fair, I don’t know enough to judge.
However, our son said Whitman was caught making Spanish language ads with different views than what she was saying in English. He was furious because he doesn’t like the choice between Whitman and “Governor Moonbeam.”
In my opinion, the illegal maid is not yet proven. Her advertising hypocracy was. So, I basically agree with you, but for different reasons.
By: James on October 7, 2010
at 10:57 AM
Delurker gurl, yes, there was a change in my demeanor, and since you did a nice thing for me, I will tell you what happened. Prepare to be bored. No body cares about something like this.
When I counter attacked against what I regarded as unfair food flinging, collectively “YOU”, it was as much an attack on “THEM.” Here is the shortest version I can give. Other things were happening then, but they are irrelevant.
When I was in the service, my superiors on a new base used me as bait to catch an extortion ring. They promised to protect me, but they secretly decided to let something violent happen so they could press heavier charges against them.
You know human nature. Troops who were afraid and said someone ought to stop them decided they weren’t so bad after all, and I became a pariah. I lived in a six man quansite hut, and one of the men was so mad at me he moved out and took the key.
They came for me in the night, fifteen or twenty of them. Finally, some of people who I had considered friends joined them. Our squadron had an office pool as they bet on whether or when I would be hospitalized or killed.
They tried everything in their power to make me recant the charges I had filed against them.
It finally ended, and my enemies were eliminated, but I wasn’t the same person.
I was a token veteran phone in guest on NPR’s Science Friday, Talk of the Nation. They discussed a new method of deprograming and counseling returning Iraqi and Afghanistani veterans. I told my story of that and other events. One of the men said I was a perfect storm, and I was the type of person they were trying to help.
I had talked to a counselor at the Vet Center after I came home, and he said he was worried by the violence I had seen without a support system, and that I seemed emotionally detached from the events. Another counselor told me I was in an unusual form of combat he considered light because it only lasted four months.
So, when people ganged up on me, it triggered another time as it always does, and I was attacking men long dead as much as I was attacking anyone here. You aren’t as real to me as those men. In my mind, we are in our twenties and still fighting. Like anyone, I’d have counter attacked if I’d had a different past, but in my case, it was against two sets of people. It made me more creative than I might have been and added a little panache.
My emotional quirks work fine for me; for some others, not so much. The way I regard it, is my country inconvenienced me for four years. Now they can put up with me.
I don’t know to which nasty personal attack against Jean you refer. I made a lot of them. I don’t hold grudges. She has also attacked me. If she apologizes to me, I will apologize to her. I might even apologize for hurting her feelings if the day feels right. I am erratic that way.
By: James on October 7, 2010
at 10:43 AM
Wingnuts are such cowards:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/06/5247107-an-invitation-to-conservatives-come-on-the-show
Δ ~ PEACE
By: Anonymous on October 7, 2010
at 9:19 AM
The “I am not a witch” ad left us laughing hysterically. Well, I figure there goes the pagan vote!
As for the letter to Whitman about the maid’s purported Social Security number, such a letter is not a penalty free zone no matter how it is worded. It is a definite shot across the bow. There is no way Whitman or her husband can wiggle out of this. Giving the letter to the maid and telling her to take care of the matter was totally not what they should have done. The letter was addressed to THEM. Period!
As for the maid’s lawyer, I couldn’t care less who she is.
The maid herself is probably in not that much danger of deportation, at least not immediately. The lawyer has no doubt gotten some legal protection for her in this situation.
The cult of funeral screamers is meeting with opposition at military funerals, the kind they never thought they would ever see obviously. Those motorcyclists include a lot of veterans.
Anyone want to bet that the court will come out with some kind of space requirement? I can only hope its a minimum of a mile!
By: Mageen in Old Virginny on October 7, 2010
at 9:05 AM
Oops. Allred.
By: delurkergurl on October 7, 2010
at 9:04 AM
James, Whitman’s recall of the letter or what she should have inferred from it is debatable, but do you really believe she didn’t know her maid was illegal?
Gloria Elrod is an opportunist but I don’t think that says anything about Whitman’s honesty.
By: delurkergurl on October 7, 2010
at 8:40 AM
I’ll bite delurker gurl.
Many Muslim countries don’t let Christians build many new churches. Insulting Islam is more challenging than deriding Christians because most Christians don’t riot or kill people over imagined insults.
Constitution gives us freedom of religion. Thus, Muslims, wiccans or any other group has the right to build a house of worship.
That cult which calls itself a religion has the freedom of speech to do or say anything it wants. I hope the Supreme Court decides in its favor. The rest of us also have the freedom to sue them as happened in Nebraska.
I also agree about the fire fighters.
“Christine O’Donald’s “I am not a witch” commercial was one of the funniest so far. The whole issue is stupid. Her flirting with wicans in high school has nothing to do with her qualifications now.
I’m not sure Meg Whitman was a hypocrite over the illegal alien. I read a copy of the government letter and it said the message should in no way be interpreted to imagine her maid was illegal.
Gloria Elrod has put the maid in jepordy for political gain, because she has been outed.
Our son in California found a more clear cut example of Meg Whitman’s hypocrisy.
By: James on October 7, 2010
at 8:31 AM