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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Trembling Eagle on September 11, 2008, 09:09:43 PM
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you just wanna hug her
I hate her politics but she is adorable as a person
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMWhrCzbdk[/youtube]
What a brilliant move picking Palin, now I see the mad genius of it all. Republicans are gonna win.
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That's what the ladies said about Ted Bundy.
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she is soooo gross.
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she is soooo gross.
c'mon
be honest
just on the most surface, superficial level she is an attractive peson
She's got all these mannerisms of someone who is cute and has been that way her whole life and knows how to leverage it.
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Did you see her RNC speech!? There was nothing cute about her. She was just full of mean insults and kept repeating tons of her lies.
I agree with Tom: people need to stop the stupid mouth-breathing, fussing over her.
An Alaskan "ten" is like an LA "four".
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You're nuts, my friend. She's just, like, a normal-looking lady. Who incidentally happens to be a repellent fascist.
However, I would support her entry into the world of mixed martial arts and/or bad hip-hop.
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in what world is this woman good looking?
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in what world is this woman good looking?
In the relative world of unattractive or elderly female public figures like Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright, Condoleeza Rice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg et al.
This 'she's hot' business is very much like my all-male catholic high school classmates' reaction school to any female teacher under 45.
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Condoleeza Rice
I always thought she was pretty good-looking.
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Condoleeza Rice
I always thought she was pretty good-looking.
Maybe shave a few years off her. I like the plays piano, speaks french and russian angle. I'm not too fond of the "changes her foreign policy views to suit her boss" angle nor the rest of that business, but at least she's also a snappy dresser.
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C'mon guys she isn't average looking she went to college on a scholarship from a beauty pageant
She's physically attractive and seems to know how to use her natural gifts to propel herself through the political landscape.
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Maybe shave a few years off her
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Condoleeza Rice
I always thought she was pretty good-looking.
Right, she's cute in a geeky kind of way when I think about it (I all of a sudden feel totally tubular), and the fact that she's a huge football fan doesn't hurt either... it saddens a little to think that she's probably the smartest person in the whole administration but has been rendered ineffective by her lack of will and the president's blundering. I just wanted to include someone from the right to balance my list.
I guess we should just face facts, Republican females are hotter.
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I can't look at her in that way at all. She seems mildly evil, and her voice makes me want to sick Yetta's Pitbull callers on her.
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Also, Jason wins. :)
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You're nuts, my friend. She's just, like, a normal-looking lady. Who incidentally happens to be a repellent fascist.
However, I would support her entry into the world of mixed martial arts and/or bad hip-hop.
Yes.
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...it saddens a little to think that she's probably the smartest person in the whole administration but has been rendered ineffective by her lack of will and the president's blundering.
Cheer up!
"Where Dick Cheney was once the poster child for the administration, today policy is being run by Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, Stephen Hadley and Hank Paulson—all pragmatists."
source (http://www.newsweek.com/id/151731)
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Why is it when this insane debate of ugliness in the democratic party comes up, nobody mentions Arianna Huffington? She's the cats pajamas! And who doesn't love how her accent gets when she's flustered by a GOPbot? Super sexy.
As far as Sarah Palin goes, anyone who names their kids Track or Trig is off my list of sleepover invites. In the spirit of bipartisanship I do have some free suggestions for potential Palin childrens names though: Plank, Zink, Brap or Trilt. That's a freebie.
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See I hate we always judge women on their looks
but I can't help it.
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Oh Trembling Eagle, I think you might need to get out more. Meet some Actual Women.
Tom.
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apparently Palin is a huge Wyclef fan
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she is soooo gross.
she is soooo gross.
she is soooo gross.
Arianna Huffington is definitely cute, though. She's like a politically sassy Marika Papagika.
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Watching the interview she seems like she doubts her knowledge and her intelligence and is trying to mask that with over aggressive false confidence.
That's hot!!
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Watching the interview she seems like she doubts her knowledge and her intelligence and is trying to mask that with over aggressive false confidence.
I think you're giving her too much credit.
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Yeah, if anything, she doubts the electorate's knowledge and intelligence, and thinks that she can get away with saying whatever she wants, as long as she does it with confidence.
And she might be right.
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If there is anything that the internet has done, its make pictures and videos of pretty women, in various states of dress and undress, incredibly available to everyone.
With that in mind why does anyone care if Sarah Palin is pretty or cute?
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Are you being disingenuous? Or are you just adorably naive?
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
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If there is anything that the internet has done, its make pictures and videos of pretty women, in various states of dress and undress, incredibly available to everyone.
With that in mind why does anyone care if Sarah Palin is pretty or cute?
I'd say that in the context of a world where it's easy to see images of attractive people, attractiveness actually becomes more important. We are surrounded by constant, emphatic messages from every medium that assert that people who are physically beautiful are more interesting and more valuable than plain-looking or unattractive people.
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
This guy looks like a melted fish monster.
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
And yet for some reason some women find Fred Thompson VERY attractive (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1977478.ece).
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That's the former district attorney of Manhattan you're talking about there! Show some respect.
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
Have you seen Fred Thompson's wife? Talk about cute!
(http://blogs4brownback.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/fredthompson_jmccarth_8441278.jpg)
Not as hot a Dennis Kucinich's wife but still...
(http://www.walkblackforest.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Dennis_Elizabeth-jpg.jpg)
That picture is actually a bit misleading as she's actually like a foot taller than him.
Palin is definitely an attractive woman, a bit Tina Fey-ish (with apologies to Miss Fey). Hot? If you're 50 and newly divorced then perhaps.
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"repellent fascist."
Amen.
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You just want to hug her?
With all that fear she was spewing?
Someone should post the equivalent - a picture of little rabbits huddled in fear.
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My 66 year old mother is an avowed Hillraiser, admittedly because she wanted to see a female president in her lifetime. She's not buying this crap, though.
Personally I'd settle for an open atheist candidate during mine.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -HL Menken[\quote]
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Not to mention that her voice is so shrill I can feel it in my gut when she speaks.
Cute? Really?
Trembling Eagle.... between this and the ultimate fighting, I'm going to have to say I question your taste, sir.
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My friend made these:
http://www.cafepress.com/hellodeer
PS: Palin is vile
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
its to bad cuz i was really pulling for this guy!! did anyone hear him in any of the republican debates. the man is a genius.
(genius is the word you use for someone who you think is a hump right?)
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See I hate we always judge women on their looks
but I can't help it.
Didn't you start this thread talking about how she's cute and you want to hug her?
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Palin has that salty librarian look that I love in Tina Fey so much, but none of her sparkle and charm. Call me crazy, but I can't get past her fascism.
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See I hate we always judge women on their looks
but I can't help it.
Didn't you start this thread talking about how she's cute and you want to hug her?
Yeah I Know I do it too, part of me realises it's messed up we always judge a woman on her looks
while guys can get away with looking like lizards.
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Their chairs are set up really close to each other.
She seems to not have great sitting posture. If she can't conduct herself in a more lady-like way on television I will have to vote for Ron Paul.
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I'm not voting for anyone.
There. I said it.
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You guys know anything about NLP?
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
You're right. That's the ugliest woman I have ever seen.
Coincidentally, two of Fred Thompson's earliest clients were my parents. He had passed the bar less than 3 months previously when he did the paperwork and made some phone calls on their behalf in their bankruptcy declaration (I was afflicted with childhood neuphrosis (sp?), and drove them right over Mt Ruin.)
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You know what would be great? If H.L. Mencken were still alive, I bet he'd be writing columns and articles about Sarah Palin that would give her a verbal flaying like we can't even imagine. I have to go track down some of his essays -- he was ruthless in his treatment of some of the crackpot politicians of his day, such as Warren Harding and William Jennings Bryan. (He also heaped praise on Grover Cleveland, of all people, who he seemed to think was horribly underrated.) But he reserved some of his most brutal vituperation for the anti-intellectual and Calvinist tendencies of the Scots-Irish folk of the midsection of the country. The leaders he singled out for his most stinging attacks lead me to believe he'd have it in for Sarah Palin, with her creationist-populism buffoonery. I'm not saying Mencken was right about everything he wrote, far from it -- just that I'd love to see what he'd have to say today in print.
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Well, personally, I'd love to know more about Natural Language Processing. Because I don't know what it is. Enlighten me, JFM.
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oh, those Scots-Irish hill folk
They've added SO much to our American culture: music, religion, literature...but they've also brought some toxic elements to this melting pot.
That old country clannishness has morphed into a particularly nasty brand of xenophobic nationalism in the undercurrents of republican politics.
Just my opinion but the real reason the South and rural areas of the Midwest and elsewhere vote so staunchly republican of course has nothing to do with economics or foreign policy, it's all in reaction to the social upheaval of the 1960's.
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I think it's that as well as FEAR. Just my pop-psych take on the issue.
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These were all posted on the Bitch Magazine site, and are all pro-McCain/Palin. Classy, especially the "McMilf" onesie! I think some of them might make some good Best Show shirts with a little alteration.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/2840108033_59dcc5f82c_o.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2840107663_89643a48ef_o.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2840941906_5df8237f7b_o.jpg)
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I'm not voting for anyone.
There. I said it.
You can always write in for Pudge.
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
OK, is it just me, or does that look like it's not his hand? That is really freaking me out to look at.
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These were all posted on the Bitch Magazine site, and are all pro-McCain/Palin. Classy, especially the "McMilf" onesie! I think some of them might make some good Best Show shirts with a little alteration.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2840107663_89643a48ef_o.jpg)
If anybody has their kid wearing that in public, they should immediately be turned over to Social Services.
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in what world is this woman good looking?
in the world of politics - where most people look like this:
(http://politicsoffthegrid.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/ft.jpg)
OK, is it just me, or does that look like it's not his hand? That is really freaking me out to look at.
I'm pretty sure that's Palin's hand.
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Can't be. Not perfectly maincured. I believe it's Sam Waterson's hand.
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
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I thought you meant "Nemerson Lake & Palmer."
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
There is some controversy about establishing a solid research base, in my opinion the principals are solid (since it draws from a lot of evolutionary and social psychology). I bring it up just to say Sarah Palin seems to be a "natural" in her ability to build rapport.
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Not with me. Her charm eludes me just as Ronald Reagan's did.
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Sarah Palin isn't wooing anyone over to the republican vote who wasn't going to vote for McCain in the first place.
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http://www.electoral-vote.com/ (http://www.electoral-vote.com/)
One week ago, Obama was ahead by 50.
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Sarah Palin isn't wooing anyone over to the republican vote who wasn't going to vote for McCain in the first place.
I'm not so sure about that. I have no evidence to back this up, but I think that normal, non-partisan dumbasses are impressed by Palin.
I have decided to adjust my brain so that I am now expecting a McCain victory. If Obama wins, it'll just be a happy surprise.
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It's not about Palin though... they could have any woman set up as the VP candidate and they'd be framing Obama for "smearing" her, attacking him as harshly as they have been since the conventions.
The fact of the matter is that Obama doesn't respond in a strong way to criticism from the right, his speech at the DNC wasn't all that great (at least not when it came to convincing skeptics that he was more than just a person who talked about "hope"), and the RNC stole the show right out from under him. That's the change you're seeing there... it's not about Palin's personality or charm or cuteness or whatever.
The republicans are playing the same games they always play by creating drama that isn't really there, the media is focusing on that drama like they always do and overshadowing the issues, and the dems are being as weak as ever. We just don't know how to win an election against these evil fucks.
And I really hope I'm wrong.
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I thought Obama's DNC speech was epic, and prior to that, I had been supporting him only as an alternative to pure evil. Now that I enthusiastically support him, he's Dukakesque.
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I thought Obama's DNC speech was epic, and prior to that, I had been supporting him only as an alternative to pure evil. Now that I enthusiastically support him, he's Dukakesque.
Fair enough. I'm glad to hear it.
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I thought that speech was pretty lackluster.
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
It is nonsense.
This jackass, meathead salesman at my office was going on to me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming the other day (incorrectly explaining it, it goes without saying). It's clear that he attributes way too much of his success in his current position to his perceived skill at Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and not nearly enough to the fact that his dad is tight with the CEO of the company by an amazing coincidence. He's like a Wurster cahracter made flesh.
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
It is nonsense.
This jackass, meathead salesman at my office was going on to me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming the other day (incorrectly explaining it, it goes without saying). It's clear that he attributes way too much of his success in his current position to his perceived skill at Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and not nearly enough to the fact that his dad is tight with the CEO of the company by an amazing coincidence. He's like a Wurster cahracter made flesh.
If you're going to toss NLP in the rubbish bin I guess you'll have to toss in the rest of social psychology.
The hell with Chomsky too I guess.
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Sounds good to me.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbMuk3wDlo[/youtube]
Did the republicans just back up a truck to a beauty pageant in the past ten years to get their hench...people?
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
It is nonsense.
This jackass, meathead salesman at my office was going on to me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming the other day (incorrectly explaining it, it goes without saying). It's clear that he attributes way too much of his success in his current position to his perceived skill at Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and not nearly enough to the fact that his dad is tight with the CEO of the company by an amazing coincidence. He's like a Wurster cahracter made flesh.
If you're going to toss NLP in the rubbish bin I guess you'll have to toss in the rest of social psychology.
The hell with Chomsky too I guess.
Here's a good summary (in my opinion) of the controversy over NLP by someone who feels it is bunk. I read this guy regularly; he has a strong skeptical point of view regarding pseudoscience and woo. He's a neurologist at Yale and runs the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast.
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=228
I first came across the term NLP when I heard about Derren Brown, the English mentalist who implied for a long time that he used the techniques in many of his tricks (he's since backed off, partially because NLP is so controversial and partially because it became clear he could achieve many of the same affects through traditional magic).
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
It is nonsense.
This jackass, meathead salesman at my office was going on to me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming the other day (incorrectly explaining it, it goes without saying). It's clear that he attributes way too much of his success in his current position to his perceived skill at Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and not nearly enough to the fact that his dad is tight with the CEO of the company by an amazing coincidence. He's like a Wurster cahracter made flesh.
If you're going to toss NLP in the rubbish bin I guess you'll have to toss in the rest of social psychology.
The hell with Chomsky too I guess.
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Wha? This is a ridiculous thing to say. Given the context, it makes me hope you're trying to make some satirical "I can say anything I want, and if I do so with enough confidence and contempt, people will think it's true" commentary.
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Natural Language Processing? That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?
no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.
It is nonsense.
This jackass, meathead salesman at my office was going on to me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming the other day (incorrectly explaining it, it goes without saying). It's clear that he attributes way too much of his success in his current position to his perceived skill at Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and not nearly enough to the fact that his dad is tight with the CEO of the company by an amazing coincidence. He's like a Wurster cahracter made flesh.
If you're going to toss NLP in the rubbish bin I guess you'll have to toss in the rest of social psychology.
The hell with Chomsky too I guess.
Here's a good summary (in my opinion) of the controversy over NLP by someone who feels it is bunk. I read this guy regularly; he has a strong skeptical point of view regarding pseudoscience and woo. He's a neurologist at Yale and runs the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast.
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=228
I first came across the term NLP when I heard about Derren Brown, the English mentalist who implied for a long time that he used the techniques in many of his tricks (he's since backed off, partially because NLP is so controversial and partially because it became clear he could achieve many of the same affects through traditional magic).
The guy in that article is attacking NLP as a therapeutic discipline, which is fine, my understanding of it is more of observational modeling of human behavior. The map can never be the territory as they say in NLP, if there are better more accurate models being developed let's have them.
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My Gal (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/22/080922sh_shouts_saunders).
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Now THIS I've d/l and about to listen to ironically
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdlhe0e73w[/youtube]
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That song is ironic. You'd be listening unironically to an ironic song, I says.
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That song is ironic. You'd be listening unironically to an ironic song, I says.
I stand corrected
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Two times today I've seen this headline on the NY Times website:
"Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"
and read it as
"Palin Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"
(shudder)
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That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.
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That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.
I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.
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That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.
I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.
so gross.
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That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.
I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.
so gross.
what?? don't judge me
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That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.
And that is her heavily trained PR voice! I personally am eating up how much she trembles when she isn't on stage, now that she finally is answering a few select questions from the press. It makes me nearly unable to wait for the VP debate, and not just for the reasons of finding Joe Biden to be one of those hapless people who entertain me with their lack of tact or conversational foresight.
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That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.
I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.
so gross.
what?? don't judge me
But that's what the internet is for, isn't it?
(you don't judge me I judge you)
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I think trembling eagle is my kevin smith
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Two times today I've seen this headline on the NY Times website:
"Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"
and read it as
"Palin Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"
(shudder)
Me too, me too! I didn't think it through enough to get to the gross part, though.
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I think trembling eagle is my kevin smith
Trembling Eagle is my Raad_Man.
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Munger, who writes the Progressive Alaska blog, told me Palin is not just a creationist, but a "young Earth" creationist who believes that man and dinosaurs once shared the planet, and that the world will end in her lifetime...
"She doesn't believe in science, and her father was a science teacher," Munger said.
"She told me she felt she would see Jesus in her lifetime."
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Munger, who writes the Progressive Alaska blog, told me Palin is not just a creationist, but a "young Earth" creationist who believes that man and dinosaurs once shared the planet, and that the world will end in her lifetime...
"She doesn't believe in science, and her father was a science teacher," Munger said.
"She told me she felt she would see Jesus in her lifetime."
That's HOTT
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http://thesuperficial.com/2008/10/sarah_paylin_makes_a_porno.php (http://thesuperficial.com/2008/10/sarah_paylin_makes_a_porno.php)
Some promo shots for Nailin' Paylin.
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the first nipples I've ever seen that could fight their own war on terror - and win.
Is that one of the funnier things i've heard today, or one of the creepiest things I've heard ever?
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I'm going to go with funny.
Speaking of boobies, how the heck does Lisa Ann walk around all day without a cane to keep her upright? I'd be flat on my face with that rack.
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Maybe she has a flying buttress.
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Maybe they're filled with helium?
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Maybe her spine is fortified with the pride of a woman who purchased DDD cups. That could be strong enough for anyone...
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"She doesn't believe in science, and her father was a science teacher," Munger said.
Look lady, sort out your issues with your father on someone else's watch.
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That could be said of all the candidates, it seems to me. Or at least two of 'em (I don't know anything about Biden's daddy issues).
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That could be said of all the candidates, it seems to me. Or at least two of 'em (I don't know anything about Biden's daddy issues).
Ahh, good point.
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I was definitely looking forward to the Palin porno, but the woman they got looks nothing like her! I'm disappointed.
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I was definitely looking forward to the Palin porno, but the woman they got looks nothing like her! I'm disappointed still going to watch it.
I agree.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm7T0gcXDMs
kawaii!
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I've been wondering how the Alaska Personnel Board's inquiry into Sarah Palin has been going, since it hasn't been mentioned on the news for a while, and came across this update (http://www.palinvpnews.com/14640/alaska-rep-personnel-board-will-find-palin-violated-ethics/): "An investigation by Alaska’s personnel board into Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan in July will likely conclude that Palin violated state ethics laws, said a top Alaska Democratic lawmaker." Also interesting is the news (http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/troopergates-not-over-scope-of-alaskas-personnel-board-investigating-gov-palin-will-include-other-ethics-complaints/) that the board has expanded the scope of the investigation to include other possible ethics violations and that "while the Legislature’s inquiry ended last Friday with vague talk of further action, the official investigation can bring legal consequences under the state ethics law."
My fingers are crossed.
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I've been wondering how the Alaska Personnel Board's inquiry into Sarah Palin has been going, since it hasn't been mentioned on the news for a while, and came across this update (http://www.palinvpnews.com/14640/alaska-rep-personnel-board-will-find-palin-violated-ethics/): "An investigation by Alaska’s personnel board into Gov. Sarah Palin’s decision to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan in July will likely conclude that Palin violated state ethics laws, said a top Alaska Democratic lawmaker." Also interesting is the news (http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/troopergates-not-over-scope-of-alaskas-personnel-board-investigating-gov-palin-will-include-other-ethics-complaints/) that the board has expanded the scope of the investigation to include other possible ethics violations and that "while the Legislature’s inquiry ended last Friday with vague talk of further action, the official investigation can bring legal consequences under the state ethics law."
My fingers are crossed.
at most she'll be censured, with people like her and Bush you have to understand how teflon they are.
BTW look how great she looks here
the camera loves her
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/46432/thumbs/r-PALIN-huge.jpg)
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If you spend 150k on hair, makeup and clothing, you can make a turd look camera-friendly.
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I can dream, can't I, TE?
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If you spend 150k on hair, makeup and clothing, you can make a turd look camera-friendly.
PROVE IT.
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Give me a hundred and fifty thousand bucks and I'll get right back to you on that one.
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She is NOT attractive. She condones teen pregnancy.
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Sarah Palin is at a level on the Cunt-O-Meter that only truly attractive people can attain.
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(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/46432/thumbs/r-PALIN-huge.jpg)
This is the best I've sen her dressed. She might've bought this when she went to "the city." But still, her style is just retarded.
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(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/46432/thumbs/r-PALIN-huge.jpg)
Caption for this picture: "What's this election all about? This election all comes down to one thing ... ME!!! ME, ME, ME!!"
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wow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc
proud moments
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wow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc
proud moments
Kinda funny until you realize that it's real. Wow.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/masked-avengers-prank-cal_n_140023.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/masked-avengers-prank-cal_n_140023.html)
Palin gets punked! Great job, Canada.
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Holy shit I just spent an hour reading about how Palin was anointed as a spiritual warrior by a witch-hunting pastor from Kenya who is part of a group that claims to have killed Mother Theresa through an aggressive prayer campaign. Global Protestant Inquisition, here we come!
(http://www.theimproper.com/Images/Art/sarah%20palin%20wink.jpg)
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I loved/was frightened by that prank call. There were so many nasty little jokes in it. And Madame Palin sounds like a giggly schoolgirl--just what one wants in a leader.
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all kidding aside I'm sure I'd have a chance with her
one on one after reading this
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-once-greeted-mccain_n_141394.html
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8_uTY45Jqk[/youtube]
I just can't let go
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Haha neither can they.
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Bury your dead, TE.
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I can't bury her, either. Lately, what's really been bothering me is the way she handles her baby. She hauls him around like a burden, slung over her arm like a load of dirty laundry. I think she can't stand to see his face. Only once have I seen her hold him against her shoulder, and only once have I seen her interact with him (she flipped the ear of his elephant costume over his face on Halloween and appeared to coo at him--from a distance). My theory is that she hates the kid, that she takes his disability as a personal affront and is embarrassed by him. At least his father carries him with a little affection, and Willow seems to like him all right (Piper treats him like a doll, which is understandable in a kid her age, although I suspect she's already a cold-hearted attention hound like her mummy).
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I can't bury her, either. Lately, what's really been bothering me is the way she handles her baby. She hauls him around like a burden, slung over her arm like a load of dirty laundry. I think she can't stand to see his face. Only once have I seen her hold him against her shoulder, and only once have I seen her interact with him (she flipped the ear of his elephant costume over his face on Halloween and appeared to coo at him--from a distance). My theory is that she hates the kid, that she takes his disability as a personal affront and is embarrassed by him. At least his father carries him with a little affection, and Willow seems to like him all right (Piper treats him like a doll, which is understandable in a kid her age, although I suspect she's already a cold-hearted attention hound like her mummy).
I'm not convinced that's her baby
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My latest theory is that he is Willow's.
Actually, he probably is Palin's. But even if he weren't, that would be no excuse to treat him like a sack of rotten potatoes.
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My latest theory is that he is Willow's.
Yah, dood does get around
(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee183/gaughin/willow-warwick-davies.jpg)
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Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012. So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.
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Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012. So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.
This is the woman who couldn't name one other Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade, or any newspaper or magazines she read. I don't find it hard to believe she was deficient in other areas.
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Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012. So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.
This is the woman who couldn't name one other Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade, or any newspaper or magazines she read. I don't find it hard to believe she was deficient in other areas.
I said don't believe everything, you munch. Anyway, stories with anonymous sources should always be read with a hypercritical eye.
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Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012. So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.
This is the woman who couldn't name one other Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade, or any newspaper or magazines she read. I don't find it hard to believe she was deficient in other areas.
I said don't believe everything, you munch. Anyway, stories with anonymous sources should always be read with a hypercritical eye.
It's not like these are anonymous nobodies
these are leaks from inside the campaign itself. I haven't seen anything they've leaked that seemed out of character for Palin.
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Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012. So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.
This is the woman who couldn't name one other Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade, or any newspaper or magazines she read. I don't find it hard to believe she was deficient in other areas.
I said don't believe everything, you munch. Anyway, stories with anonymous sources should always be read with a hypercritical eye.
Or not read at all.
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Bah, all this latest stuff just corroborates what came out of her mouth. It's that there icing on nem cakes, you know? Unnecessary and perhaps dangerous icing, in fact: it's making people feel sorry for Palin, when instead they should be hating and fearing her.
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If it's any consolation, Sarah, I really hate her.
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I'm a little late coming to this, but has anyone else read Camille Paglia's totally insane take on Palin?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html
'I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse -- which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come.'
I compulsively read her column every month knowing I'll be made helplessly angry by her knee-jerk contrarianism and liberal-baiting, but I can't help myself. She's the Armond White of political blogging.
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Every bit helps, Martin.
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Actually, I totally read all those articles, with glee. I mostly agreed with the Daily Show take, which is "So, the press knew this shit and agreed not to tell anyone until the race was over? As in, once it didn't matter and was of no use to anyone?
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Actually, I totally read all those articles, with glee. I mostly agreed with the Daily Show take, which is "So, the press knew this shit and agreed not to tell anyone until the race was over? As in, once it didn't matter and was of no use to anyone?
They had to, they signed non disclosure agreements for the access. It was up to the American people to see and understand the obvious.
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I'm a little late coming to this, but has anyone else read Camille Paglia's totally insane take on Palin?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html
'I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse -- which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come.'
I compulsively read her column every month knowing I'll be made helplessly angry by her knee-jerk contrarianism and liberal-baiting, but I can't help myself. She's the Armond White of political blogging.
Even though it almost makes me helplessly terrified again, I think what Camille said there is mostly true. No matter what your affiliation, Palin has in large measure become (by default of her position on the ticket) a leading example for females with power, no matter her lack of qualifications. Yes, ultimately that missing experience was her fatal flaw, but as far as I can tell, that was pretty much the singular thing most people didn't trust about her, outside of partisan politics as usual. It is SO much more worrisome that the only reason she became a liability instead of a laser for the right, was something so potentially fixable as her lack of factual knowledge. Given more time and a measured, concerted effort to install the party software into her already charming and disingenuous hardware, she is precisely the type of Terminator that could con a great number of people into sopping up the prettified Regan-centric bullshit, like honey on a biscuit.
There are only two saving graces I can see right now. Either the Bush administration has so mortally wounded the GOP that it will now just lay there in the dirt gushing out its lifeblood until it dies, leaving Sarah Palin high and dry (seems unlikely, given the 2 party lockdown on our system), or in 8 years somehow enough of us will remember her as the Sarah Palin of the past week, a buffoon, but only a buffoon in the same pitiable way that anyone would be seen as, if they too were so quickly rushed onto the national stage and thrown to the lions. This is more likely, but come on. Most people forget everything. Trusting in these things alone still seems so shaky, even if Jesus H. Obama himself fulfills every promise he's ever even hinted at and finishes off his next 8 years with all the finesse everyone hopes for.
Gosh, I really thought I'd buried this on election night too. I guess not! I just wish everyone would ignore her like a proper troll should be ignored so I can ignore it too and maybe it will just go away. Honestly I blame reality television for ALL of this, even my own lengthy post. I watched every episode of Kid Nation and am currently following the second season of Charm School (it's way better than the first one), so I am by far among the guilty. It's a disease, not a choice, but I still disgust myself.
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I'm a little late coming to this, but has anyone else read Camille Paglia's totally insane take on Palin?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html
'I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse -- which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come.'
I compulsively read her column every month knowing I'll be made helplessly angry by her knee-jerk contrarianism and liberal-baiting, but I can't help myself. She's the Armond White of political blogging.
Even though it almost makes me helplessly terrified again, I think what Camille said there is mostly true. No matter what your affiliation, Palin has in large measure become (by default of her position on the ticket) a leading example for females with power, no matter her lack of qualifications. Yes, ultimately that missing experience was her fatal flaw, but as far as I can tell, that was pretty much the singular thing most people didn't trust about her, outside of partisan politics as usual. It is SO much more worrisome that the only reason she became a liability instead of a laser for the right, was something so potentially fixable as her lack of factual knowledge. Given more time and a measured, concerted effort to install the party software into her already charming and disingenuous hardware, she is precisely the type of Terminator that could con a great number of people into sopping up the prettified Regan-centric bullshit, like honey on a biscuit.
There are only two saving graces I can see right now. Either the Bush administration has so mortally wounded the GOP that it will now just lay there in the dirt gushing out its lifeblood until it dies, leaving Sarah Palin high and dry (seems unlikely, given the 2 party lockdown on our system), or in 8 years somehow enough of us will remember her as the Sarah Palin of the past week, a buffoon, but only a buffoon in the same pitiable way that anyone would be seen as, if they too were so quickly rushed onto the national stage and thrown to the lions. This is more likely, but come on. Most people forget everything. Trusting in these things alone still seems so shaky, even if Jesus H. Obama himself fulfills every promise he's ever even hinted at and finishes off his next 8 years with all the finesse everyone hopes for.
Gosh, I really thought I'd buried this on election night too. I guess not! I just wish everyone would ignore her like a proper troll should be ignored so I can ignore it too and maybe it will just go away. Honestly I blame reality television for ALL of this, even my own lengthy post. I watched every episode of Kid Nation and am currently following the second season of Charm School (it's way better than the first one), so I am by far among the guilty. It's a disease, not a choice, but I still disgust myself.
She is from the that type of willful ignorance that doesn't need or want to be enlightened. The republican party is essentially the White Nationalist Party of America the future for them is either distancing themselves for their shameful behavior over the past 40 years and become more inclusive or they can get retract and get meaner, nastier and embrace their white nationalism more openly.
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Look, say America forgets all the scandals, which is pretty safe to assume. Assume that she works really hard to learn about the things she doesn't know (somewhat less likely, but she might). She's still a terrible person on a purely personal level.
She is nothing but cruel on the campaign trail. Every election she has ever won has been done on the basis of hate-mongering, playing to evangelicals, looking pretty and crying sexism at every opportunity. That works well in Alaska because there's a substantial segment of the population that is batshit crazy. In the US, that kind of thing is out of favor and done to death. She will have to develop a whole new bag of tricks in order to succeed.
Not to mention that she'll have to keep her looks up, which will only get harder. Let's see how she does if she's no longer able to win conservative Gen Xers over with a Betty Boop wink.
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Look, say America forgets all the scandals, which is pretty safe to assume. Assume that she works really hard to learn about the things she doesn't know (somewhat less likely, but she might). She's still a terrible person on a purely personal level.
She is nothing but cruel on the campaign trail. Every election she has ever won has been done on the basis of hate-mongering, playing to evangelicals, looking pretty and crying sexism at every opportunity. That works well in Alaska because there's a substantial segment of the population that is batshit crazy. In the US, that kind of thing is out of favor and done to death. She will have to develop a whole new bag of tricks in order to succeed.
Not to mention that she'll have to keep her looks up, which will only get harder. Let's see how she does if she's no longer able to win conservative Gen Xers over with a Betty Boop wink.
she's got great genetics she'll look good for years to come. Plus I sense a boob job coming.
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Besides, boobs aren't the basis of her appeal: she never used cleavage to get attention.
I'm going to keep hoping for a big election scandal in Alaska that can be unequivocally laid at Palin's door.
In conclusion,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03fcGelz8Hw&eurl=http://mudflats.wordpress.com/
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Plus I sense a boob job coming.
Eagle sense... tingling!
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I don't want to think about his tingling.
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Besides, boobs aren't the basis of her appeal
They are the basis of her appeal to a lot of people, sadly. Jason G being but one. Philly Boy Roy being but two.
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I realize I misspoke. Let me put it another way: while boobs may be the basis of her appeal to some, she did not flaunt her possession of them. It is perhaps the only thing for which I can respect her: she refused to unleash the power of the (however discreetly) exposed breast to cloud men's minds.
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I realize I misspoke. Let me put it another way: while boobs may be the basis of her appeal to some, she did not flaunt her possession of them. It is perhaps the only thing for which I can respect her: she refused to unleash the power of the (however discreetly) exposed breast to cloud men's minds.
No I think you have it right she definitely played on her looks but not to the degree of wearing anything boob revealing or accentuating, she was way more into showing the legs off.
Maybe I'm a prude but weren't some of those skirts cut way high (for professional attire)?
Also, Katherine Harris
(http://protoplasm.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/katherineharrisholdspossum.jpg)
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Sarasota, Florida in the house!
It's where my parents live.
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Plus I sense a boob job coming.
Eagle sense... tingling!
Don't you mean... trembling?
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Whatever happened with KH?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/displacedtexan/blogstartdatesept232005/harris.jpg)
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I think she got stranded in a desert with Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
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Palin's hooker boots really got me. I mean, boots are one thing, but the stiletto heels are another.
KH looks like she's on her way to this:
(http://magazine.libero.it/c/img52/fg/10/10198/2007/10/350JocelynWildenstein.jpg)
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Whatever happened with KH?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v228/displacedtexan/blogstartdatesept232005/harris.jpg)
Enough already, TE.
Who's next, Peggy Noonan?
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(http://static.flickr.com/80/246304911_01e2d85720.jpg)
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Besides, boobs aren't the basis of her appeal
They are the basis of her appeal to a lot of people, sadly. Jason G being but one. Philly Boy Roy being but two.
Wait, whuuuuut? I'm on record as not really caring one way or the other. To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
GOT to be John Edwards, such a pretty boy
*NH*
(not that there is Anything wrong with that)
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Anyone interested in pandering to his or her Palin preoccupations (which I'll be doing for the foreseeable future--at least until that blessed day when she's finally, completely disgraced) would do well to monitor this site (http://mudflats.wordpress.com/). It's full of fun stuff.
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
GOT to be John Edwards, such a pretty boy
*NH*
(not that there is Anything wrong with that)
I'm talking, like Tyler and a couple of other 19th-century guys. I was into thinking Vice Presidential candidates were hot before it was cool.
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
GOT to be John Edwards, such a pretty boy
*NH*
(not that there is Anything wrong with that)
I'm talking, like Tyler and a couple of other 19th-century guys. I was into thinking Vice Presidential candidates were hot before it was cool.
Aaron Burr was a handsome fellow, and a cold blooded killer... a true Hottie from History (http://bugle.wikia.com/wiki/Hotties_From_History).
(http://diglib.princeton.edu:8000/EADRBSC/images/bioghist/C0089.jpg)
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
GOT to be John Edwards, such a pretty boy
*NH*
(not that there is Anything wrong with that)
I'm talking, like Tyler and a couple of other 19th-century guys. I was into thinking Vice Presidential candidates were hot before it was cool.
Come on, Nathan Sanford.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/NathanSanford.JPG)
That guy's just straight-up dashing, I think we can all admit that.
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
GOT to be John Edwards, such a pretty boy
*NH*
(not that there is Anything wrong with that)
I'm talking, like Tyler and a couple of other 19th-century guys. I was into thinking Vice Presidential candidates were hot before it was cool.
Come on, Nathan Sanford.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/NathanSanford.JPG)
That guy's just straight-up dashing, I think we can all admit that.
taaaaake ooooon meee
takeonme
take meeeeeee on
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To be honest, I don't even think Sarah Palin was our hottest VP candidate.
Walter Mondale?
GOT to be John Edwards, such a pretty boy
*NH*
(not that there is Anything wrong with that)
I'm talking, like Tyler and a couple of other 19th-century guys. I was into thinking Vice Presidential candidates were hot before it was cool.
Come on, Nathan Sanford.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/NathanSanford.JPG)
That guy's just straight-up dashing, I think we can all admit that.
taaaaake ooooon meee
takeonme
take meeeeeee on
I heard Lil Wayne is using A-Ha as his warmup music these days.
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I've posted this before, but check out this suave motherfucker:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Stalin_1902.jpg)
Sure, he killed millions of people, but that is a good lookin' dude.
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I wonder if that was before or after the insanity had begun to set in?
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He looks like the bassist for I Hate You The Ghost of Anwar Sadat.
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I dunno, but I want to run my fingers through his hair and talk dirty about genocide.
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I wonder if that was before or after the insanity had begun to set in?
I'd have to say it was after or at least during. That one squinty eye is a good sign of madness.
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I've posted this before, but check out this suave motherfucker:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Stalin_1902.jpg)
Sure, he killed millions of people, but that is a good lookin' dude.
That's Frank Rizzo?
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"Welcome to Rizzograd!"
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Get outta here, that's Stalin??
He's handsome as hell
looks a little *ahem* ethnic (if u know what I mean).
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Get outta here, that's Stalin??
He's handsome as hell
looks a little *ahem* ethnic (if u know what I mean).
umm...
If by ethnic you mean Georgian, you are correct.
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Stalin looks like he could play bass in The Killers!
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Stalin looks like he could play bass in The Killers!
Or direct Blue Velvet.
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Get outta here, that's Stalin??
He's handsome as hell
looks a little *ahem* ethnic (if u know what I mean).
What the fuck is this "*ahem* ethnic" thing you do all the time?
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Get outta here, that's Stalin??
He's handsome as hell
looks a little *ahem* ethnic (if u know what I mean).
What the fuck is this "*ahem* ethnic" thing you do all the time?
I believe its *ahem* racism.
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This monster won't die.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/us/politics/12watch.html
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Get outta here, that's Stalin??
He's handsome as hell
looks a little *ahem* ethnic (if u know what I mean).
Obviously that's a young Sasha Baron Cohen. I didn't know he killed anybody, though.
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You're nuts, Jasong; Stalin is much prettier than SBC.
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Palin's hooker boots really got me. I mean, boots are one thing, but the stiletto heels are another.
KH looks like she's on her way to this:
(http://magazine.libero.it/c/img52/fg/10/10198/2007/10/350JocelynWildenstein.jpg)
Man, Chloe Sevingy sure has gone downhill.
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I love how SP is clawing to stay in the spotlight by making bland pronouncements like this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/palin.rga/
She's the Michael Phelps of politics in that she's yesterday's news and doesn't know it yet. The analogy only goes that far, though. Phelps is talented; Palin got lucky.
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She's the Michael Phelps of politics in that she's yesterday's news and doesn't know it yet. The analogy only goes that far, though. Phelps is talented; Palin got lucky.
She's talented at throwing red meat to crowds of angry, psychotic rednecks.
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I'm convinced she's a sociopath, and I'll be very, very glad when she fades back into obscurity.
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Ugh, she's spent more time in front of journalists since the election than before.
I'm torn though. She annoys the hell out of me, sure, but I'm also convinced that she hurts the Republican party more than she helps it so a part of me wants her sit around and blab some more.
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Word on the street here in Mass. is that Mick Rodney's stooges are the ones spreading the rumors about her, since they're probably the two major GOP contenders for 2012. So don't believe everything you read from these 'sources'.
This is the woman who couldn't name one other Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade, or any newspaper or magazines she read. I don't find it hard to believe she was deficient in other areas.
I said don't believe everything, you munch. Anyway, stories with anonymous sources should always be read with a hypercritical eye.
It's not like these are anonymous nobodies
these are leaks from inside the campaign itself. I haven't seen anything they've leaked that seemed out of character for Palin.
For the record, the Africa story was a total hoax (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_en_tv/palin_hoax_1).
Good call, TE.
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For the record, the Africa story was a total hoax (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_en_tv/palin_hoax_1).
Good call, TE.
That article makes clear that the identity of the source was the hoax, not the story itself. Fox News originally reported it, not MSNBC.
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For the record, the Africa story was a total hoax (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_en_tv/palin_hoax_1).
Good call, TE.
That article makes clear that the identity of the source was the hoax, not the story itself. Fox News originally reported it, not MSNBC.
Good catch, I guess in my mid morning punchiness I overstated the case, the article does state that it's just about identity and not the story itself.
Though this story causes me to suspect that the journalism surrounding the Palin postmortem has gotten beyond sloppy. I believe that some reporters are just falling over themselves to report the latest bit of Palin news without doing the appropriate legwork to verify. Though Palin's not helping herself either in the media by refusing to bow out gracefully. I'm just uncomfortable with all these 'anonymous' sources and refuse to regard them as valid evidence of Palin's ineptitude as I would her cringe inducing Couric or Gibson interviews. Republicans are the established experts on the political dirty trick, and I find it amusing that people who are filled with hate for Palin are so willing to believe whatever's on the news, just because it has the air of truth.
Edit: I guess I'm not the only one (http://medianation.blogspot.com/2008/11/hoax-doesnt-affect-palin-story.html) to misunderstand the hoax thing either.
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Did anyone else get a letter from the Governor's office of Alaska? It was a letter signed by "Sarah" (just Sarah!!) urging me to visit beautiful Alaska.
Weird. I was hoping it would be a thank you note for that one time I donated fifty bucks to Planned Parenthood in her name and had the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card sent to McCain's campaign headquarters.
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Though this story causes me to suspect that the journalism surrounding the Palin postmortem has gotten beyond sloppy. I believe that some reporters are just falling over themselves to report the latest bit of Palin news without doing the appropriate legwork to verify. Though Palin's not helping herself either in the media by refusing to bow out gracefully. I'm just uncomfortable with all these 'anonymous' sources and refuse to regard them as valid evidence of Palin's ineptitude as I would her cringe inducing Couric or Gibson interviews. Republicans are the established experts on the political dirty trick, and I find it amusing that people who are filled with hate for Palin are so willing to believe whatever's on the news, just because it has the air of truth.
Ah, the plight of the equivocator just lost when you can't sit back and blame both sides. What a peculiar malady equivocation syndrome is, I wonder if I could get a grant to study it?
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The truth is sometimes equivocal, TE. Sorry.
Look, I don't know what the truth is behind "Palin thinks Africa is a country". I would guess it's something a McCain aide made up out of spite. It was abundantly clear to most observers that Palin's a self-centered dummy. But throughout the campaign, people within the McCain organization seemed to think they had to hit voters over the head with leaden, simplistic messages. So I'm guessing that was the thought process behind the creation of this Africa meme. McCain insiders who hated Palin didn't trust the American people to determine Palin's unworthiness for themselves.
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The truth is sometimes equivocal, TE. Sorry.
Look, I don't know what the truth is behind "Palin thinks Africa is a country". I would guess it's something a McCain aide made up out of spite. It was abundantly clear to most observers that Palin's a self-centered dummy. But throughout the campaign, people within the McCain organization seemed to think they had to hit voters over the head with leaden, simplistic messages. So I'm guessing that was the thought process behind the creation of this Africa meme. McCain insiders who hated Palin didn't trust the American people to determine Palin's unworthiness for themselves.
Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.
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The truth is sometimes equivocal, TE. Sorry.
Look, I don't know what the truth is behind "Palin thinks Africa is a country". I would guess it's something a McCain aide made up out of spite. It was abundantly clear to most observers that Palin's a self-centered dummy. But throughout the campaign, people within the McCain organization seemed to think they had to hit voters over the head with leaden, simplistic messages. So I'm guessing that was the thought process behind the creation of this Africa meme. McCain insiders who hated Palin didn't trust the American people to determine Palin's unworthiness for themselves.
Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.
In fairness, her handlers had not prepared her for that question.
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Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.
I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:
"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”
'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'
And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."
Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em (http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em)
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Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.
I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:
"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”
'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'
And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."
Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em (http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em)
I was gonna post about this earlier but I didn't know how to phrase it, what is she doing wrong technically with her diction? Is it wrong even or are we just being exposed a uncommon regional speech pattern?
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Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.
I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:
"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”
'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'
And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."
Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em (http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em)
I was gonna post about this earlier but I didn't know how to phrase it, what is she doing wrong technically with her diction? Is it wrong even or are we just being exposed a uncommon regional speech pattern?
As Camille Paglia so helpfully pointed out, it is neither -- it's the the linguistic equivalent of free jazz, and Palin is the Coltrane of this nascent movement.
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Hey, TE, how about that Brock Lesnar?
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Hey, TE, how about that Brock Lesnar?
First, I was like: >:(
but then I was like: :-[
now I'm all: :(
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I remember him from my younger, WWF-watching days.
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Hey TE, I thought of you when I read Dick Cavett's column today in the Times. He concluded by saying that he thought she was attractive, and would enjoy watching her on TV with the sound turned all the way down.
I liked how he charged her with assaulting the English language:
"What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”
'My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.'
And, she concluded, 'never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.'
It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any."
Check out his column here. http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em (http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em)
I was gonna post about this earlier but I didn't know how to phrase it, what is she doing wrong technically with her diction? Is it wrong even or are we just being exposed a uncommon regional speech pattern?
Cavett answered that question nicely too:
"What will ambitious politicos learn from this? That frayed syntax, bungled grammar and run-on sentences that ramble on long after thought has given out completely are a candidate’s valuable traits?"
He went on to describe her as a "serial syntax-killer" who "seems to have no first language."
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Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.
I think she reads stuff. But the stuff she reads is much too extreme for the acceptance of the general public. Therefore, she obfuscated in her answer to pretty Katie Couric. I'll try and expand on that theory later, but I'm much too debilitated right now.* She's married to a guy who's associated with a secessionist movement. And yet she had no problem throwing Obama under the bus for his vague associations with whomever. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds ... because she has no awareness of when she's being hypocritical.
*Always
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For years, I've predicted and feared the arrival of a world where people have so lost track of what words mean and how they need to be put together in order to make sense that we will have no way of knowing precisely what others are trying to say when they attempt to communicate. Speech and writing will cease to function as anything more than conveyors of mood. Understanding will be so subjective that we will all be stranded on private islands of solipsistic interpretation.
That world is on its way, and Sarah Palin will be very comfortable in it.
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Or she's just that dumb, what evidence do you have to the contrary? The woman couldn't name one newspaper or magazine.
I think she reads stuff. But the stuff she reads is much too extreme for the acceptance of the general public. Therefore, she obfuscated in her answer to pretty Katie Couric. I'll try and expand on that theory later, but I'm much too debilitated right now.* She's married to a guy who's associated with a secessionist movement. And yet she had no problem throwing Obama under the bus for his vague associations with whomever. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds ... because she has no awareness of when she's being hypocritical.
*Always
So you are saying she's a politicopath.
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For years, I've predicted and feared the arrival of a world where people have so lost track of what words mean and how they need to be put together in order to make sense that we will have no way of knowing precisely what others are trying to say when they attempt to communicate. Speech and writing will cease to function as anything more than conveyors of mood. Understanding will be so subjective that we will all be stranded on private islands of solipsistic interpretation.
That world is on its way, and Sarah Palin will be very comfortable in it.
I know what you mean, Sarah. I know what you mean.
Cheer up. Here, have an aardvark.
(http://www.chocolatecookiesrecipes.com/wp-content/uploads/nestle_tollhouse_cookies.jpg)
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Prog rock, Fido!
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For years, I've predicted and feared the arrival of a world where people have so lost track of what words mean and how they need to be put together in order to make sense that we will have no way of knowing precisely what others are trying to say when they attempt to communicate. Speech and writing will cease to function as anything more than conveyors of mood. Understanding will be so subjective that we will all be stranded on private islands of solipsistic interpretation.
That world is on its way, and Sarah Palin will be very comfortable in it.
You seem bummed out. Next time instead of typing a bunch of high fullutent stuff you can just do this: :(
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But being high fallutent is half the fun, Junk. Besides, all the typing keeps my fingers nimble.
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guess who?
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/49251/thumbs/s-SARAH-PALIN-POOLSIDE-large.jpg)
http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop
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guess who?
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/49251/thumbs/s-SARAH-PALIN-POOLSIDE-large.jpg)
http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop
Argggh. You're bottoming out, TE. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for her. Most politicians are not subjected to this type of stalkerazzi stuff. Granted, there's not a whole lot of difference between her and Britney Spears. But nevertheless ... you gotta kick the habit, Eagle. Go lift.
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guess who?
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/49251/thumbs/s-SARAH-PALIN-POOLSIDE-large.jpg)
http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop
Argggh. You're bottoming out, TE. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for her. Most politicians are not subjected to this type of stalkerazzi stuff. Granted, there's not a whole lot of difference between her and Britney Spears. But nevertheless ... you gotta kick the habit, Eagle. Go lift.
as soon as I print these pics out for my locker door.
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guess who?
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/49251/thumbs/s-SARAH-PALIN-POOLSIDE-large.jpg)
http://www.celebuzz.com/short-shorts-pics-sarah-palins-s64391/photos-32205611/#bodyinnertop
Argggh. You're bottoming out, TE. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for her. Most politicians are not subjected to this type of stalkerazzi stuff. Granted, there's not a whole lot of difference between her and Britney Spears. But nevertheless ... you gotta kick the habit, Eagle. Go lift.
as soon as I print these pics out for my locker door.
Just so long as you don't print those pics out and record a "tribute" video, buddy.
:'(
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I think TE may be successfully destroying all my enthusiasm for this board.
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Don't let the terrorists win!!!
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I remember him from my younger, WWF-watching days.
I remember watching him win the NCAA wrestling championship in my high school gym class and then seeing him in the WWF and now I hear he's the UCF heavyweight champ. Sometimes I hate that I know this kind of stuff.
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This is like a Robert Smigel cartoon come to life. It's uncanny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8
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This is like a Robert Smigel cartoon come to life. It's uncanny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8
I really thought that endorsement from the TFA (Turkey-Fuckers of America) was gonna put the McPalin ticket over the top. Oh well. So much for the conventional wisdom!
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This is like a Robert Smigel cartoon come to life. It's uncanny.
it's real in the field
son
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This is like a Robert Smigel cartoon come to life. It's uncanny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8
Oh my God, this is batshit insane. She's obviously a total dickhead too. I like when she says "relatively safe..." around 2:40.
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I always knew there was something undeniably evil about burberry.
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1. What the god was that man doing to that turkey? It looked like he was feeding it into a chipper.
2. For a second, I thought she said, "My son, Striker Brigade," which confused me mightily 'cause I didn't know she had a third.
3. Apparently, when a photographer asked her if she wanted the turkey slaughter as a backdrop, Palin said, “No worries!”
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I guess he was cutting its throat? Exsanguinating the poor thing, maybe? Whatever it is, it looks pretty unworthy. And in front of its mates too!
What an utterly bizarre clip. And they guy kept turning around and looking into the camera.
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I guess he was cutting its throat? Exsanguinating the poor thing, maybe? Whatever it is, it looks pretty unworthy. And in front of its mates too!
What an utterly bizarre clip. And they guy kept turning around and looking into the camera.
Those are called "killing cones". They're meant to keep the bird still and relatively stress-free while it's being slaughtered so the meat doesn't get bruised. The bird is placed in the cone, its head pokes out the bottom, and the butcher slits the turkey's throat.
And yes, that turkey executioner is way creepy.
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Here's the Palin turkey massacre in a slightly different context:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/countdown-sarah-palins-turkey-pardoning-fi
The clip is from "Countdown", with some younger guy sitting in for Keith Older-man. They show what happened before the interview -- Palin doing one of those goofy "pardon a turkey" events. Incredibly, she declares herself a "friend to all creatures, great and small". Then Countdown shows that same interview clip -- but they make a hilarious attempt to blur out the more gruesome moments of the turkey molestation in the background.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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this all makes me so happy I could cry
I hope she stays famous 4ever.
Don't u ever go away SP
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Obama should put her on the payroll.
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Obama should put her on the payroll.
She would be the greatest Secretary of the Interior since James Watt.
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this all makes me so happy I could cry
I hope she stays famous 4ever.
Don't u ever go away SP
TE! This made me laugh.
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That guy in the background had to be the funniest extra ever. He reminded me of the custodial worker from the UK Office that always just kept staring into the camera in fear.
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this all makes me so happy I could cry
I hope she stays famous 4ever.
Don't u ever go away SP
TE! This made me laugh.
Me too! You've won our hearts back, TE. (So now it's time to do something totally alienating. Gotta keep us on our toes).
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Sarah Palin Gives Interview With Turkeys Being Slaughtered Behind Her!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp10TAM-gpw
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You can have Sarah Palin, TE. But my heart belongs to Barbara Mikulski. When I hear that Baltimore accent, I swoon.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_2kw_Lw2vM[/youtube]
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Barbara_Mikulski.jpg/477px-Barbara_Mikulski.jpg)
(In all seriousness, at least I can rest at night without worrying that somebody like her is a bat-shit crazy right-wing lunatic)
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I see that, like SP, she favors pink.
You've won our hearts back, TE.
How dare you speak for me, daveB? TE never lost my heart. (Of course, he never had it, either, but I've always liked him.)
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I already posted this in the YouTube thread, but it belongs here as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bju8ybvSs&e
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was that...a black lesbian in a cowboy hat?
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I already posted this in the YouTube thread, but it belongs here as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bju8ybvSs&e
I was honestly expecting that to have some horrifying joke ending. Instead I got a horrifyingly sincere ending.