Sarah Palin Kicking Off Book Tour in Bethlehem, PA
Source: Philadelphia Magazine
Its November and the War on Christmas season has already begun? GROAN! Have no fear, brave crusader Sarah Palin is hereliterally here, in Bethlehem, to wage war on this war. Palins rolling into the local Barnes and Nobles there on Tuesday, November 12th to hawk her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.
Read more: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/11/07/sarah-palin-kicking-book-tour-bethlehem-pa
Psst. Wrong Bethlehem, Moron.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)If so, well played.
Are you from PA?
Edit to Add: Oh wait, that's Easton.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Zeke L Brimstone
(89 posts)Sognefjord
(229 posts)Rough beast truly.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)what is the literary reference?
The only one I know is "Slouching off to Fargo."
IveWornAHundredPants
(237 posts)And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)And Garrison was talking about Yeats last week.
It must be Yeats month.
Thank you....
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)from the poem:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Actually, the poem is pretty apropos today:
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)We studied it in high school- 1959-60 ish.
Back when such things as poets mattered in school.
I had forgotten the line....
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)and other well known references and allusions. If you're not familiar with it, check it out sometime. You'll be surprised.
Sognefjord
(229 posts)William Butler Yeats.
In my college and post grad years I never took a class in 20th Century UK/Irish poetry but read his work on my own. Sylvia Plath lived in a place in London once home to Yeats.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,427 posts)All her fans are still slogging through Going Rogue: An American Life (2009) and haven't even peeled the cellophane off
America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (2010).
Berlum
(7,044 posts)...and tied the economy in knots to prove to everyone that RepuliBaggers are meanspirited nitwits.
Blue Owl
(50,362 posts)n/t
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Archae
(46,327 posts)In their dollar bin.
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)I guess she needed another break. Hey, she's on a quitter's roll after falling down the chimney. Makes sense she'd kick off the santa boots.
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)She can see the manger from her backyard.
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)paleotn
(17,912 posts)....that's snow-billy, thank you very much. Trust me. I'm an expert on hillbilly. But whatever language it's originally scrawled in, it still comes out in English as word salad, lacking any discernible point.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Or common sense impared?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)egold2604
(369 posts)Ollies, a Central PA, odd lot bargain store, sold one of her books for 50 cents a copy. I bought 10 of them and put them in the porta-potty I rent for a major party I throw each year. They were used as toilet paper. My very liberal guests thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. We ran out quite fast and I had to put real TP in.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)You never know what you're going to find there.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)If you haven't discovered Malia Litman's blog, here it is:
http://malialitman.wordpress.com/
She is NOT a fan of Sarah Failin' and every day she blogs about another Palin foible, along with an occasional other topic.
She's especially tough on Todd Palin and his association with a prostitute in Anchorage and the alleged cover-up by the Anchorage PD of the woman's assertions that Todd was pimping her out to his friends.
Anyway, Malia has a long blog item on Sarah's Christmas book tour.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Loup Garou
(99 posts)Warning: Sarah Palin's voice may be detrimental to your hearing.
http://wonkette.com/533110/your-ears-appear-to-be-lacking-in-blood-lets-fix-that-by-listening-to-sarah-palin-read-her-christmas-audiobook
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)ck4829
(35,076 posts)Is probably what the gist of this screed is.
japple
(9,824 posts)protecting capitalism.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)Palin is either smart enough to have figured out how to do this, or someone told her how it could be done and she remembered.
In all other respects, the woman is a failure--but she does know how to take advantage of people.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)congrats sarah
Arkana
(24,347 posts)This shit again. "LIEBERALS WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR CHRISTMAS!"
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Big Box Retail taking away Thanksgiving.
KinMd
(966 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)OneCrazyDiamond
(2,032 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Same old, same old War on Christmas (and of course the Baby Jesus). Yet, strangely, Christmas is still here. Go figure.
Unfortunately Sarah Palin is also still here. Like an annoying gnat that circles your head, she won't go away.
MissMillie
(38,556 posts)I thought you needed to be able to think to do that.
Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)God, not being satisfied with denying her a brain....
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)Poor soul probably has PTSD. Even the MS Word editor that highlights grammar mistakes probably crashed.
woodsprite
(11,914 posts)At our local Border's, before they went out of business here in DE, they had racks of her book - some autographed - they had been marked down to $1.50. And they still weren't selling
I really thought of buying one of the autographed ones, but I refused to give the satisfaction of a sale to that bimbo.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)FTFY
louis-t
(23,293 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)For those right-wingers in your family. What joy it will bring them
Ednahilda
(195 posts)Not as far as I know. There's one in Easton, in Whitehall, and in Center Valley - all a fairly short drive from Bethlehem - but not a one in Bethlehem itself. The best-known book outlet in Bethlehem is the venerable Moravian Book Shop and I doubt they'd have her there signing books.
paparush
(7,964 posts)A blight upon this country. Another in a long line of opportunistic grifters who's only skill is lowering the lowest common denominators.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)What the fuck did we do to deserve Alaskan Barbie?
wordpix
(18,652 posts)That latest pic of hers makes her look like Strict School Marm