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"My Alaskan soul sister is an empty vessel" Irish Times Op Ed. An Alaskan Women with A Downs Syndrome Child, Fillets The Barracuda.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0905/1220544890619_pf.html
Excellent article.
Read it please.
Excerpt:
Sarah Palin is not a famous reformer. She did oust Governor Frank
Murkowski, and Alaska is better because of that. But it's the Federal
Bureau of Investigation who took on and jailed corrupt politicians -
all Republicans bar one - who accepted bribes from oil company types.
She is far from being the Mother Teresa of anti-corruption.
Sarah
Palin is a tremendously ambitious woman. She has been in the right
place at the right time; her fairy-tale timing is remarkable. As mayor
of Wasilla she ruled in a time when the sales taxes from all the ugly
strip-malls in the commercial town gave her a big budget. She cut
spending for the museum - God knows why - perhaps just to keep her
socially conservative reputation intact.
Then she became governor
of Alaska in more fairy-tale times - when a barrel of oil soared to a
ridiculously high price, filling the state coffers with plenty. She
could have replenished weakened social services programs, but she
didn't. She has promoted no social agenda in Alaska.
Comments (9)
'Filet the Barracuda'
I Love It!!! I want a bumper sticker!
You know, it's funny, when they played that Heart song at the RNC, they clearly had NO awareness of WHAT the song referred to--the soul-less denizens of the recording industry. Heart was not 'celebrating' Barracudas--they were calling them out.
'All that night and all the next
Swam without looking back
Made for the western pools - silly fools!
If the real thing dont do the trick
No, you better make up something quick
You gonna burn burn burn burn it to the wick
Ooooooohhhh, barra barracuda.'--Barracuda
September 6, 2008 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think points out the need to nail McCain & Quaylin on what spending they will cut.
They talk about cutting spending, so give us the programs they would slash and show us the numbers that pay for their huge tax cuts for the rich and the huge expense of the endless war in Iraq.
Ostensibly, the MSM would be asking for this. But the gelded cowardly lapdogs there don't bother asking for facts. Too busy with horse race and narratives.
September 6, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sarah Barracuda, eh? They either have no sense of irony, or they just don't give a shit:
Barracuda
So this aint the end -
I saw you again today
I had to turn my heart away
Smiled like the sun -
Kisses for real
And tales - it never fails!
You lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
Youd have me down down down down on my knees
Now wouldnt you, barracuda?
Back over time we were all
Trying for free
You met the porpoise and me
No right no wrong, selling a song-
A name, whisper game.
If the real thing dont do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn burn burn burn it to the wick
Ooooooh, barracuda?
Sell me sell you the porpoise said
Dive down deep down to save my head
You...i think you got the blues too.
All that night and all the next
Swam without looking back
Made for the western pools - silly fools!
If the real thing dont do the trick
No, you better make up something quick
You gonna burn burn burn burn it to the wick
Ooooooohhhh, barra barracuda.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.
September 6, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the writer of this article is obviously a freedom-loving truth-defending woman with no axe to grind. Her sole motive is what exactly?
September 6, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
to make you look stupid.
September 7, 2008 8:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
My favorite part.
"The good news is that history often repeats itself. In the 1984 Miss Alaska contest, Sarah Palin lost to Marilyne Blackburn, the first African-American Miss Alaska."
Being in Alaska and spending my life here, the exclusionary practices of the Republican party and religious rightwing are foreign to me.
Not a lot of people here, we can't afford to be so arbitrarily choosy and judgmental if we want to make and keep friends.
September 7, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
The no social agenda line is just what conservatives want. That's not critical of her; it praises her in their eyes.
September 7, 2008 4:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Notice this phrase: "As mayor
of Wasilla she ruled in a time when...
She used the word "ruled" for Sarah's time as mayor.
Sarah RULED.
Scary!
September 7, 2008 4:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha, "Quaylin", cute.
But not, in my opinion, quite apt. Palin is no mere lightweight flak like Quayle, she's a real-deal fascist thuggess.
And after the RNC she's got a new army of right-wing zombie culture warriors to onward Christian soldier into battle for her.
If Obama wins this year I predict we will not have seen the last of Sarah Palin.
September 7, 2008 5:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
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