To Blog A Mockingbird

[Joanne98]

by Natasha Chart, Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 03:22:35 AM EST


"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." - Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland

- This is your nation on White privilege. I'll go another and say that if Cindy McCain (or Rush Limbaugh, come to it) were Black and poor, she wouldn't have gone to rehab for a drug addiction story that involved a doctor losing his license to practice medicine, she would have gone to jail. But she's White and rich, so she got a chance to learn valuable lessons that she can share with the rest of us on the TV.

- Stop picking on Sarah Palin for being an Alaskan.

- How financial magazines made people dumber.

- Socialism for the rich.

- How can people possibly be this frakking dumb and not drown from looking up at the rain like an inbred, *ing Butterball turkey? I'm guessing it's the spite that keeps them going.

- McCain hates regulating the finance industry, at least he did, until his pollsters doused him in ice water and threatened to take away his Ambien.

- McCain/Palin: the objectively pro-rapist ticket.

- Voters "comfortable" with Obama. That's going to help me sleep better tonight. The thought that the Bush DOJ is 'protecting' him will not.

- Republicans get graded on a curve - Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) just got graded "A" by the National Education Association for votes that should have gotten him a "C", whereas Washington State Democrats have to actually vote with the group to get their "A" rating. Send Darcy Burner to Congress in Reichert's place, so Obama will have one more genuine A-list vote for education.

- Michael Savage is a racist. It's his right to be a racist. It's your right to call the stations that carry his show and tell them that you don't want his racist hate speech broadcast on the radio where little kids can hear it.

- General Motors employs global warming deniers as executives.

- John McCain wants to raise taxes on healthcare, but not on millionaires.

- Is Sarah Palin a John Birch Society sympathizer, or does she just like their magazine for the pictures? Considering that she quoted a fascist, White-supremacist author in her acceptance speech, I'm not giving her the benefit of the doubt on this one.

- Food stamps don't cover the cost of food for people who live in major metropolitan areas.

- McCain doesn't understand what presidential powers are.

- Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) doesn't understand what laws are.

- After our government spent $1 trillion on terror-related program activities, Al Qaeda remains able to strike US facilities. After our government ignored Pakistan's territorial sovereignty, the Pakistanis announced that further cross-border incursions would get US troops fired upon. Feel safer?

- Markets rebounded on Thursday because investors thought the government might buy all the bad debt. What this means for ordinary people: consider keeping money in your mattress.

- Sarah Palin as frontierswoman? I keep reading that Ledeen fantasy descriptor in news articles, probably circulated by the same Beltway dopes who think that living in California or Texas can make Republicans 'cowboys.' But take a good look at Palin. She wears $2500 Valentino jackets, she lives in a suburb, she drinks white chocolate mocha lattes, she was a beauty contestant and went to a series of schools that I'm guessing had more than one room. I didn't grow up reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder's adventures in the *ing mall for a *ing reason, and it's because she, unlike Sarah Palin and I, grew up when America had a *ing frontier. Modern Alaska is no more of a frontier than the coast of California, it's just weather-challenged.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/9/19/32235/8274