Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. It seems like every day now we get another crazy O’Donnell story. Yes, we’re deep into silly season in Delaware.
Vanity Fair has a new profile of Sarah Palin. It’s creating a lot of buzz, especially with the certainty that Palin fans will go ballistic. America, please don’t let this deranged know-nothing get near the presidency.
The intensity of Palin’s temper was first described to me in such extreme terms that I couldn’t help but wonder if it might be exaggerated, until I heard corroborating tales of outbursts dating back to her days as mayor of Wasilla and before. One friend of the Palins’ remembers an argument between Sarah and Todd: “They took all the canned goods out of the pantry, then proceeded to throw them at each other. By the time they got done, the stainless-steel fridge looked like it had got shot up with a shotgun. Todd said, ‘I don’t know why I even waste my time trying to get nice things for you if you’re just going to ruin them.’ ” This friend adds, “As soon as she enters her property and the door closes, even the insects in that house cringe. She has a horrible temper, but she has gotten away with it because she is a pretty woman.” (The friend elaborated on this last point: “Once, while Sarah was preparing for a city-council meeting, she said, ‘I’m gonna put on one of my push-up bras so I can get what I want tonight.’ That’s how she rolls.”) When Palin was mayor, she made life for one low-level municipal employee so miserable that the woman quit her job, sought psychiatric counseling, and then left the state altogether to escape Palin’s sphere of influence—this according to one person with firsthand knowledge of the situation. The woman did not want to be found. When I finally tracked her down, her husband, who answered the phone, at first pretended that I had dialed the wrong number and that the word “Wasilla” had no meaning to him. Palin’s former personal assistants all refused to comment on the record for this story, some citing a fear of reprisal. Others who have worked with Palin recall that, when she feels threatened, she does not hesitate to wield some version of a signature threat: “I have the power to ruin you.”
Among the revelations – she’s a lousy tipper and she’s mean to the “little” people. She also refers to herself as “North Star” which she says also refers to God in Alaska (Sarah believes she’s God?). I can’t wait to we hear the apologist version of you just hate her/you’re just jealous.
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now that i can shove this in the right place….
this .. http://www.latimes.com/la-fgw-hamas-arrests-20100902,0,1295568.story is what i consider to be a bit of very good news.
I just think it is encouraging to see the Palestinians taking responsibility for, and making an effort to eliminate the cancer within that is only dedicated to war and death (Hamas, NOT the Palestinian people as a whole, delcrat)
Now it will be up to the far-right kosher-bags to show good faith and stop the advancement of settlements into what will hopefully someday be the sovereign nation of Palestine
Here’s a good take on Glenn Beck and his “faith” – http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/robert_parham/2010/08/glenn_becks_generic_god.html.
I think I have an asshat of the day contender – the head of the Hawai’i GOP:
Thanks for the link, and yet another objective perspective on Palin. The Vanity Fair article comes across like a petty gossip piece, not unlike one would find in the New York Post or the National Inquirer. After one sifts through the obvious bias and bullshit, she sounds like quite a gal, and I really hope she runs. If for nothing else, to continue to reinforce the fact that the liberal media are disingenuous douche bags.
I can only conclude that, since it’s not done out of ‘hate’ or ‘jealousy’, it must be fear.
Apparently Sharron Angle is against all public education. One of her U.S. Senate platforms is elimination of the Department of Education. She also voted against all state funding for public schools.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/seattle-man-attacks-shopk_n_702021.html
another “lone wolf”. This is getting to be quite a pack, conservatives. anyone wanna step up and say Muslims are not our enemy? anyone?… naw, that wouldn’t get ratings for Daddy Rupert.
Trust me Miscreant, I hope and pray that Sarah Palin runs in the same way I hope and pray Christine O’Donnell wins. The more the Republican Party aligns itself with the most batshit insane segment of our population, the better it is for my party.
a. price,
It’s up to the US to show good faith and tell the “far-right kosher bags” they’re old enough to be self-supporting and the checkbook is closed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/01/discovery-channel-hostage_n_702308.html
another teabagger upset with the evil government uses his 2nd amendment solution to stick it to those liberals. Had enough yet Glenn? (of course this is a PRO environment teabagger, but i am still blaming glenn beck)
How can you be an environmental teabagger? He is an environmental radical, who is comically upset that the Discovery Channel is not running environmental programming. If it were not so serious and horrible, this would be funny.
He’s a lot loonier than that, DD. He’s apparently a part of some “environmental” anti-immigration movement.
Hey hey!
A couple of places to be tonight.
5:00 The Newark Headquarters of the Delaware Democratic Party opens with lots of dignitaries, refreshments too. It’s in College Square Shopping Center between the Sears Hardware and the Grotto’s Pizza.
7:00 Come to DelDems HQ in New Castle for PDD’s new act. I’ll be saying a brief good-bye before the group takes up planning for the future.
Hope to see ya there, whichever there works for you.
“If it were not so serious and horrible, this would be funny.”
Indeed. Fortunately, it all worked out without anyone, except for the “environmental teabagger”, getting hurt. It would appear that Lee had more in common with Al Gore and the left, than with Glen Beck and the Tea Party.
“He’s apparently a part of some “environmental” anti-immigration movement.”
Jf there is a ‘funny’ part of this whole thing, it would be the use of *ThinkProgress* as a credible news source to emphasize Lee’s actions as part of an “anti-immigration movement”.
Speaking of Think Progress, this ought to make UI squirm with delight. A virtual goldmine of facts and new talking points:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/02/naacp-launches-%E2%80%98coalition-watchdog%E2%80%99-site-to-%E2%80%98monitor%E2%80%99-tea-party-%E2%80%98racists%E2%80%99/#ixzz0yNGnYhRT
a “trojan trick’ huh? SO lemmie get this straight…
A right wing Tbag “journalist” can make a conscience and planned out effort to deceive an interviewee into giving the answers he wants for his narrative…
but if Teabaggers are too stupid and ignorant to discern a college from a non existent web-site, the guys who identified themselves as journalists are at fault. What ever happened to the Bags’ personal responsibility?
I guess if you are a white disciple of Brother Glenn, nothing is ever your fault.
it also shows these baggers are aware of their moronic opinions and only feel comfortable sharing their views with biased media outlets.
I think next year, the folks from Burning Man should travel across the country and invade a Tbag rally. might restore a little sanity.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/09/wdsu-oil-rig-explosion-in-gulf-off-louisiana/1 another win for the free market.