Ok, for the record, it's totally ridiculous that people are acting like Sarah Palin's tanning bed matters. But I just find this comment from the president of the Indoor Tanning Association too damn funny: "Kudos to Governor Palin for standing up to dermatologists and other members of the sun scare industry who are trying to frighten Americans away from UV light.”
Like JOHN MCCAIN?? Mr. Malignant Melanoma?
Monday, September 22, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A family friend forwarded this around:
Who Am I?
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I was elected governor,
I lead concerted effort to root out corruption and machine politics,
I support efficient conservation of national resources,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I am a popular idol and a great vote getter,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as Vice President with
less than two years in the governor's office.
Did you guess?
I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900.
Ok, how much this annoys me aside, here are my thoughts.
I don't care that Palin's not experienced, I think that was always a weak argument. Just being in government for a long time means nothing, our best presidents in my opinion were some of the least experienced ones--T.R. is a great example, and Lincoln. And Cheney and Rumsfeld were some of the most experienced pols you could get. But the McCain campaign has built their argument on the idea that experience is necessary, and that's why Palin's lack of it is an issue.
It's more about her judgment. It doesn't show good judgment to glibly suggest that "perhaps" we should go to war with the world's other major nuclear power. I don't think most of her positions on the issues show good judgment.
Also, as for her "taking on the Republican establishment," it's important to remember that Alaska is basically a one-party state. In order to get into power she had to take on the establishment, and from what I've heard, the Republicans she's "taken on" are all just ones that were either in her way or who had somehow angered or offended her and so she took revenge. I don't really see that as "reform."
And anyone who thought he was talking about Palin when he said "I support efficient conservation of national resources" obviously doesn't know where she stands, since she tried to take polar bears off the endangered species list because they were getting in the way of oil drilling, opposed a measure that would have blocked a mine from polluting wild salmon fisheries, and wants to hunt wolves from the air to cull their population--a population that's only now beginning to come back from centuries of overhunting. I don't really think demanding drilling in a wildlife refuge when there are thousands of acres right next door that have been set aside as a drilling area and aren't being bid on shows support for efficient conservation of natural resources either. Oh and of course she doesn't think global warming is caused by man, so why do we need to conserve anyway.
Who Am I?
I am under 45 years old,
I love the outdoors,
I hunt,
I am a Republican reformer,
I was elected governor,
I lead concerted effort to root out corruption and machine politics,
I support efficient conservation of national resources,
I have taken on the Republican Party establishment,
I am a popular idol and a great vote getter,
I have many children,
I have a spot on the national ticket as Vice President with
less than two years in the governor's office.
Did you guess?
I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900.
Ok, how much this annoys me aside, here are my thoughts.
I don't care that Palin's not experienced, I think that was always a weak argument. Just being in government for a long time means nothing, our best presidents in my opinion were some of the least experienced ones--T.R. is a great example, and Lincoln. And Cheney and Rumsfeld were some of the most experienced pols you could get. But the McCain campaign has built their argument on the idea that experience is necessary, and that's why Palin's lack of it is an issue.
It's more about her judgment. It doesn't show good judgment to glibly suggest that "perhaps" we should go to war with the world's other major nuclear power. I don't think most of her positions on the issues show good judgment.
Also, as for her "taking on the Republican establishment," it's important to remember that Alaska is basically a one-party state. In order to get into power she had to take on the establishment, and from what I've heard, the Republicans she's "taken on" are all just ones that were either in her way or who had somehow angered or offended her and so she took revenge. I don't really see that as "reform."
And anyone who thought he was talking about Palin when he said "I support efficient conservation of national resources" obviously doesn't know where she stands, since she tried to take polar bears off the endangered species list because they were getting in the way of oil drilling, opposed a measure that would have blocked a mine from polluting wild salmon fisheries, and wants to hunt wolves from the air to cull their population--a population that's only now beginning to come back from centuries of overhunting. I don't really think demanding drilling in a wildlife refuge when there are thousands of acres right next door that have been set aside as a drilling area and aren't being bid on shows support for efficient conservation of natural resources either. Oh and of course she doesn't think global warming is caused by man, so why do we need to conserve anyway.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Bargain Foods
I was just at Whole Foods and they seem to have a new campaign to go with this "new economy." There are signs saying how their stuff is such a bargain, and instead of something about the season we're currently in or an admonition to "go local," the bags now say "I just got more of the good stuff for less." I'm not sure what world Whole Foods is living in, but in my world, it's not the store you go to when you want stuff for less...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Leave Bristol Alone!
Where's that Britney-loving guy to make a YouTube video about this? The joking facebook groups and plundered MySpace pages have begun, and while, Ok, it's totally funny, I can't help feeling really sick about the whole thing. All this girl did was have a conservative evangelical mom who wants to make a name in politics. Can you really blame her for getting pregnant when she lives in a town of less than 10,000 people where her abstinence-only mom is the most famous resident? How would you like to walk into that only drugstore in town and pick up a box of condoms?
And we are only hearing that she "made the right decision" from her mom, so for all we know she would have liked to have an abortion but it wasn't an option. I would certainly expect that she wouldn't have all her family's "love and support" if that's what she had chosen, especially when her mom won't even support abortion rights in the case of 14 year old rape victims.
It's bad enough that she has to have a kid at 17, marry this Levi guy, and do it all under the scrutiny of everyone in her town. But to have to take shit from the rest of America seems way out of line. She isn't Britney, she didn't choose this for herself, so despite our curiosity, we should really all lay off.
And we are only hearing that she "made the right decision" from her mom, so for all we know she would have liked to have an abortion but it wasn't an option. I would certainly expect that she wouldn't have all her family's "love and support" if that's what she had chosen, especially when her mom won't even support abortion rights in the case of 14 year old rape victims.
It's bad enough that she has to have a kid at 17, marry this Levi guy, and do it all under the scrutiny of everyone in her town. But to have to take shit from the rest of America seems way out of line. She isn't Britney, she didn't choose this for herself, so despite our curiosity, we should really all lay off.
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