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I was watching a video clip of Sarah Palin attempting to answer a question at the Town Hall meeting about oil drilled in the U.S., and how we can be assured that oil produced in the U.S. will be sold here and not in the global market.  I had to watch the video three times, and I still could not understand what the hell she was saying.  It was f*cking baffling.  I really did try to understand.  After all, according to John McCain, Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone else in the country.

On my third viewing of the video, I recalled having seen something that seemed very, very similar....


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You know, I think the public has got her number.

She will continue till election day to draw adoring crowds of nitwits, "gender feminists," UFO-curious/People Magazine types, drifters, and the Talibangelical base. Maybe big crowds at that. But I think the Moosehide is starting to stink, and her ticket is going to get clobbered.

You know, I think the public has got her number.

She will continue till election day to draw adoring crowds of nitwits, "gender feminists," UFO-curious/People Magazine types, drifters, and the Talibangelical base. Maybe big crowds at that. But I think the Moosehide is starting to stink, and her ticket is going to get clobbered.

"I'm Elvis, and I approve that message - thangyouveramuch."

Hey, thanks, Elvis! Sure love your movies!

"UFO-curious'. Brilliant!

You know, I'm always up for a good people-watching/freakshow adventure, but I think that crowd would be too much.

Hunter S. Thompson would've *loved* her...

Smirking W/Lipstick, Elvis, and Brain, that's hilarious! Yep, I think you guys have identified her target audience!

:-D

At her rally in Golden, CO the local news was showing some footage of interaction between protesters and attendees. There was a guy in his 20's with a sign and a well-dressed guy in his 50's gettin' right up in his face with "What about the FACT that Obama refuses to pledge allegiance to our flag?"

Add the willfully ignorant.

LOL!!

Thanks, LBJ's brain! I see we're on the same page!!

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I believe it has something to do with "construction bonds" or "reform", Charlie. Sorry, I mean Laura. Ruffled Feathers Doctrine?

It is not just a matter of integrity, experience, judgement, intellect, character, ethics, sense of justice, or right-wing neo-fascist fundamentalism. She is just babbling! She is just bat shit crazy throwing out programed words that reveal no knowledge or pragmatic policy advocacy babbling! Of course her mentor is John McCain, so should we pity her? McCain stumbles from one buzz-click word to another, variation on a large and undefined theme, stirring to righteous indignation, and building to a crescendo finale...FIGHT! Close up angle of contorted angry faces shouting USA, fists pumping. What reasonably sane peace loving person would vote for these people?

Great LOL comparison, LHJ.

Another 'lipstick on a pig and calling it a Chihuahua' moment, is what I call her, er, sorta answer. But, if, she was trying to 'splain where the oil would go, as members of OPEC, any oil would be put on the global markets and could end up anywhere.

But hey, anybody who can see Russia from their own house must know a lot about ... something ... or lipstick, right?

I think she has the "fungibility" factor. They better switch her with someone with a little experience talking in confidence. She just sounds like a bullshitter with lipstick.

Very funny, Laura Hussein Jordan. But you won't be laughing when foreign terrorists steal the molecules from our oil and replace them with altered foreign molecules that will increase our oil addiction. Congress needs to pass a law requiring oil companies to flag their molecules so that when we fill our tanks, we know that we've got the pure stuff, 100 percent American.

I think she was trying to say "no way! we gots to make our profits!" but somehow couldn't articulate that in a nice way.

Funny Laura, rec'd.

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Gee Genghis-- I think you should sign on as an adviser to the Palin campaign!! Marvelous idea. I think she'd like it.

Oh, my God. You're right, Ghengis! What if our molecules have already been infiltrated?? Which privacy rights of U.S. citizens can we intrude upon to protect us from this very real terrorist threat??

Dang. Sorry about the misspelling, Genghis.

Funny in a terrifying way. Thanks for the giggles Laura :) PS. I should have known the Mnemonic Calendar would remember Talk Like a Pirate Day ;)

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Deference, please!

Drill, oh baby . . .

And mcpain's got his *somebody shut the c--t up* look!

Thanks, Laura. That's the first belly laugh I've had in a long time.

I'm amazed that Obama hasn't harped on the point that in 'capitulatism' when you sell licenses to drill to Exxon, the oil Exxon drills is Exxon's oil.

"Drill baby" - even if it worked as advertised, would very marginally reduce the WORLD commodity price of our not-so-light or sweet crude.

Unless Bernanke nationalizes Exxon. GO BEN GO!

Look, can somebody PLEASE nail them on this, but NOT by making a "confusing to voters" argument that oil is a globally-priced commodity? i.e. We can beat the tar out of them on their OWN terms, without having to show how smart we are. As in:

1. Palin's OWN gas pipeline - the much ballyhooed $40 Billion largest infrastructure project - is NOT going to deliver that gas to "hungry AMERICAN markets." PALIN PERSONALLY TAGGED AMERICAN ENERGY MOLECULES FOR DELIVERY TO FOREIGN MARKETS. It's that simple.

In more detail.... PALIN overrode the oil companies who wanted to build a pipeline to an Alaskan port, which could then have shipped it to American refiners. Instead, she gave $500 Million to a FOREIGN company (TransCanada), which has already SAID it's sending that energy overland TO CANADA. Once in Canada, the gas will be used in the CANADIAN oilsands. They need huge quantities of natural gas to help enrich/process the bitumen into gas/diesel. And from there, there's no guarantee that that oil gets used for Americans. In fact, I'm going to put it in my snazzy new little
Vespa.

Which I purchased with American dollars BTW, and which I will use to drive up and down the US border, cocking a snoot (or two) at North Dakotans stuck on their immobilized tractors, SUV's and aging Chevies.

Why not make the argument that simply, that obnoxiously, when they hand it to us on a platter? Yes, it simplifies, but if they're dumb enough to argue that they want to TAG MOLECULES for AMERICAN delivery, then for God's sake, can we point out that they've ACTUALLY tagged American molecules for delivery to ANOTHER COUNTRY?

there. I've said this before, politely, so I thought I'd try something slightly more obnoxious. Any better? ;-)

And yes, I may even cock a snook at those North Dakotans.

But only when I'm done with the snoot. Which will take a while.

Hah! You coulda gotten away without any attempt at clarification, Q. I got no idea what either "cock a snoot" or "cock a snook" means. I just figured it was crazy Canadian babble that sounds like blah, blah, wakka, wakka to me!

I'm with Laura! What in the world (or at least the US) does "cock a snook" mean? And what do you intend to do with the "snoot"?

Cock a snook. British idiom. "To express contempt by placing one's thumb on one's nose with fingers spread out."

Snoot also gets subbed in sometimes, since it relates to the nose.

Of course, if the meaning was actually dirty as hell, do you think I'd fess up to that?

- the Snook

Q, you'd think people of normal intelligence would have reached this conclusion already, huh?

Amazing, isn't it? The guy at the Town Hall meeting who asked Gov. Palin the question probably believes he got an answer from Palin that why, yes indeed, oil from the U.S. should and will go directly to the U.S. market.

I've decided that folks who want to believe this schlock can't be moved by reason. I've found research to support my pessimism.

That is either depressing or hilarious, or both. So we know that fact, reason and truth sends Republicans further into spin, denial and lies. What in the Hell does move them? (Other than things like tap dancing in public airport restrooms or snooking their cocks at teenage pages and stuff?)

And goaty, that wasn't a black box, it was her vibrator. Damn, now I'm grumpy.

*gasp!* Seashell! You're naughty!

>;-D

Yes, and it felt good, too! But I'll restrain myself for awhile again. :-) Bet you laughed anyway!

OMG! Enough said. Thanks Laura.

OMGGGGGGGGG! I laughed my ass off until I started to cry. What the hell is going on here? My first response was enough ... enough ... please don't ask her another question. I don't need to know anything more.

It's too painful to see where this country is going.

How do we know this beauty queen thing isn't just another McPowlin lie? What hard evidence is there that she really was a beauty queen? I mean, how can we be expected to believe it when she's so clearly not for world peace?

I think the video linked in this post shows she is unconventional. I am sure she probably she did not use the standard answer to the most common pageant question. That act alone probably cost her the crown. :)

I dunno, but did it look like there was a little box on her back under her jacket?

Dangerous moment. I almost choked on my Cheerios when I read, "I mean, how can we be expected to believe it when she's so clearly not for world peace?" Love it.

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