Yes Margaret. I admit it. I watched it and very much regret it. Never before have I wished so hard that a “crevasse” would open up and swallow a person whole. If you ask me, the “crack” Sarah Palin should be worried about isn’t on Mount McKinley in Denali National Park. It’s the butt crack hanging out of her teenager’s short-shorts in Palin’s Denial Park. My goodness but those Palin girls can’t wait to test the limits of that abstinence only education to which their momma gives so much lip service.
And poor Alaska. To have that as your spokesmodel. You clearly drew the short end of the stick on that one. I ask you, is the show about Alaska or about how Alaska can be used as a platform for Sarah Palin’s political aspirations? Here’s a little fact you won’t find on Sarah Palin’s Alaska: Alaska led the way in teen pregnancies with an increase of 19% last year.
The show starts off with Palin telling us that she loves Alaska as much as she loves her family. Which means if there’s enough money in it, she’ll quit her family too. But seeing how she’s pimped out Bristol to ABC’s Dancing With a Teenage Mom, and now she’s pimping out the youngest one to TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Grizzlies Gone Bad, I think the family is still paying off enough to keep Sarah coming home at the end of the book tours.
But I don’t want to talk about Sarah anymore. Instead I want to respond to some moron’s comment on this webpage blog about all those Americans sitting around enjoying their lavish unemployment benefits instead of looking for jobs.
Here are the facts. You remember facts, don’t you? Or has Fox News permanently deleted those in your world? Those lavish benefit checks on average are about $375 per week or about $1,600 per month. Only about 37 percent of unemployed workers actually collect unemployment benefits, and the unemployed workers who are not collecting benefits find a job, on average, only about one week earlier than unemployed workers who are collecting benefits.
So here is what I say. Rather than worrying about that extra week at the government spa or the occasional moron who is – wrongfully – gaming the system for $300 a week, how about being grateful for everything you have in your life? Beating people while they are down just seems so unChristian to me. How about you, Margaret?
If you want to beat someone down, beat down all those Republican politicians screaming about lazy unemployed Americans who are staying home collecting those enormous unemployment checks. And beat down Fox News for deciding to make factual reporting extinct. And beat down Sarah Palin just because. I mean it . Really.
I just recently found this blog. Thank you for your candor Helen. You make me laugh at the absurdity of so many things here in the USA.
By: Jonathan Cooksey on January 8, 2012
at 10:38 PM
I never worked harder than the year I was unemployed. My position was outsourced to India the week after 9/11. God bless our wonderful capitalists overlords. It’s not their fault that they can’t add, subtract or make competent decisions based on anything other than their own greed.
By: Scott on February 22, 2011
at 10:24 PM
My husband decided this was the day to check out la Palinista’s show. I checked out of the leaving room into the kitchen area with my computer in tow. Today of all days! Can’t take her screechy and whining voice and the fakery at play the fews seconds I wandered in there and the show was running. Ah…gr…
I decided to post it on this thread because it was more relevant. If the story about her show not being renewed is true, I say good riddance!
By: Easier on January 9, 2011
at 2:25 PM
Good to be back…hope my dilapidated old computer will let me stay around a while…
By: HoneyJorumples on December 13, 2010
at 5:13 PM
HoneyJo! It is so great to see you again.
By: delurkergurl on December 1, 2010
at 5:14 AM
On point as usual, Helen! And one brainless Republican congressman on the expiration of unemployment benefits tonight that these benefits do nothing for the economy because people don’t spend it, they hang onto it as long as possible. Yeah, they don’t pay rent/mortgage, don’t buy groceries or pay for goods and services, they “hang onto” it. How do these people walk and chew gum at the same time?
By: HoneyJorumples on December 1, 2010
at 12:23 AM
I got a kick out of the early promos for the show, in which Sarah says something along the lines of, “I’d rather be doing this than be stuck in some stuffy old political office. This is flippin’ fun!”
Sarah Palin, Philosopher, has discovered the principle that sightseeing is more exciting than going to work!
Since in her case sightseeing (in front of a camera) actually pays, and she flipped off her government job, this attitude isn’t hurting her. But I’d hate for young people to learn from her advice.
By: Bambi on November 30, 2010
at 5:03 PM
You are a breath of fresh air! I am glad I found your blog. Live long and give them hell!
By: Frances on November 30, 2010
at 2:22 PM
Sarah Palin’s show might be good, if they showed more of AK and less of the dysfuntional family. Appears to be AK’s version of the “Middle” without the wit of Patricia Heaton or Ma and Pa Kettle visit Alaksa. When I see the Palins, I think of Marjorie Main yelling, “Pa, carry my purse; Pa, wipe the crumbs off that kid’s chin; Pa, where did all these kids come from..are they our kids? or are our kids having kids?” Toad appears about as worthless as Percy Kilbride.
By: MO Inkslinger on November 28, 2010
at 5:13 PM
spoken like a true Liberal..thanks Kreisha
By: Noah on November 26, 2010
at 9:10 AM
Noah is a horse’s ass.
By: Kreisha on November 25, 2010
at 11:18 PM
Thank you Helen for your insight. Just to add to your comments, as a retired citizen I get about $1,700 a month from social secerity. This compares closely with the unemployment benefits you cite in your blog. My son was in a position to leave his job or be laid off. He chose to leave his job rather than be laid off. Consequently, he gets no unemployment benefits. He has no lavish unemployment benefits to enjoy.
By: balingwire on November 25, 2010
at 10:36 PM
Noted. Assumed level of integrity confirmed.
By: Noah on November 25, 2010
at 3:38 PM
I like Bristol Palin. She was admittedly shy and didn’t seem to have much confidence in herself. Her family probably pointedly told her what an embarrassment and loser she was.
My wife agrees with opps and anonymous.
That she drove herself from Alaska in her pickup truck says something about her too. She said something about how glad she was to have survived as long as she did because she knows many people hate her and her mother.
Of course, Bristol didn’t belong there. She was nothing but an awkward, gauky single mother. Her mother was the “star” not her. The show wanted her for ratings, and I’m guessing they thought she would soon be gone. Based on talent, she didn’t deserve to make the top three.
Everyone won. The show got its ratings, the right couple won, and Bristol convinced the judges, and maybe herself that she had the guts and skills to better herself under adverse circumstances.
By: James on November 24, 2010
at 8:33 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to you also delurkergurl.
I agree with your point, Keyboard Cowboy. Even without a ruling diety and creator we are as sovereign as an ant colony.
Our family has a history of Deism and Free Thinking which ended with the current generation. Maybe my aunt was right. After God set this up, it left us to our own devices, and most of our prayers serve to make us feel better and stronger than change things, as when two opposing high school football teams pray for victory.
I was taught God is all powerful and intervenes in our lives at appropriate times. If so how does He know which football team is more deserving? I think the foot ball teams are on their own.
Weird things have happened to me all of my life. I usually write them off as mind tricks or coincidences. For example, I was driving from the base to Rapid City to meet my future wife at the bus station. She had had a terrible weekend with her parents over our impending wedding and wanted to be back with me really badly. I knew none of this as I drove toward Rapid City on a back road around midnight.
Suddenly I heard “JIM, JIM!!” in a male voice I didn’t recognize. I stopped my car, got out and looked around. No living person was near me for miles, so I drove on.
We compared notes without my telling my now wife the time of the voice. Her strong feeling coincided with the voice. Was God warning me that my wife would be a basket case, was I hearing things, or was it something else? Maybe my subconscious was processing information.
When I was stationed in England, we lived in six man quansite huts. I dreamed a large brownish red rock was next to my bed. The next morning, the man sleeping across from me dreamed he saw a tall knight in armor standing next to my bed. I asked the color. It was brownish red. Twenty-five years later, he ended a letter with “don’t let the ghost get you.” I don’t believe in ghosts, but I have an open mind.
Maybe we are here because God was bored.
By: James on November 24, 2010
at 8:19 AM
Noah
She had no business being there in the first place.
What sort of star is she supposed to be?
The winner made BP look like an amateur porker.
pathetic.
By: oops on November 23, 2010
at 11:30 PM
Noah
She was a real porker and should have never been on the program at all. BTW what sort of a star is she anyway?
By: Anonymous on November 23, 2010
at 11:23 PM
Integrity check for all of those that were so sure that evil would prevail and the tea party and Ma Palin would steal the dancing with the stars, lets see some humility and admit maybe you don’t know everything.
By: Noah on November 23, 2010
at 9:54 PM
Sounds like “sinners in the hands of an angry God” around here.
By: vgman on November 23, 2010
at 9:42 PM
Thanks. Is this a WordPress function or HTML?
Oh, wait, there it is. My son works as a programmer for a local ISP and he uses w3schools.com all the time.
Thanks again.
By: PFesser53 on November 23, 2010
at 8:05 PM
Try that again – wish WordPress had a preview key. See the example.
http://w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_blockquote.asp
By: Keyboard Cowboy on November 23, 2010
at 7:55 PM
Pfesser53,
Blockquote, as in “
” without the quote marks, of course.
Makes it easier to read than italics – at least to me.
By: Keyboard Cowboy on November 23, 2010
at 7:53 PM
KC -
I’ll see if I can find an old article from the ‘seventies about why gods don’t interfere with laws of nature. I can’t think of the writer’s name, but I keep several files of good articles like that.
BTW, how do you do that thing with the indentation for quoting? That is very cool.
By: PFesser53 on November 23, 2010
at 7:32 PM
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By: Palin’s Denial Park | themcglynn.com/theliberal.net on November 23, 2010
at 7:14 PM
Physical laws still exist…why God chose not to intervene? Your guess is as good as mine. That would be a hideous way to die, as would 6MM Jews going to a needless death was unjust in Nazi Germany. Why did God not intervene did? Don’t know. Perhaps he did and we don’t understand the grand plan.
But I think you frame the question incorrectly James. The question isn’t why bad things happen to innocent people. The real question is why a holy and righteous God allows any of us to be here to begin with.
Because if you frame the question with the former, you’re claiming the sovereignty of man. How dare God not invoke his power for our use.
If you flip the script, then you can begin to correctly address your difficult question. When you flip the script, you resign yourself to understanding that man isn’t sovereign, but God.
And that is the way it should be.
By: Keyboard Cowboy on November 23, 2010
at 7:07 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, James.
By: delurkergurl on November 23, 2010
at 7:05 PM
Happy Thanksgiving. We will be spending the day with my brother and his family at our daughter and son in law’s home in Omaha. It will be an early dinner because our son in law has to work after 12:30PM.
They are big on getting up early for Black Friday. We may spend the night with them if they pursuade us to venture out in single didget cold.
By: James on November 23, 2010
at 6:42 PM