My Last Salvo on That Woman - Don't Steal This Look!

What is up with the lipliner outside the edge of her lips?

I know I know, meow, hiss, put the claws away Preppycrat. But still, she DID agree to be McCain's running mate and if she's going to put herself out there front and center her looks are fair game. The looks and sartorial style of the gents have also been fair game.

She's attractive, she doesn't need the overflowing lip color look. Or those shoes.

From Night, Into Day

I know it's a chunk of time but please play the video of McCain on the view, then this one of Joe Biden in Wooster Ohio. The contrast is amazing:

Officially Sick of Sarah Palin

And sick of the mainstream media coverage of her but thank gawd for the women of The View. I wanna be Babawa Wawa when I grow up.

I sincerely believe this is required viewing for everyone, women, kids and the men who love them.

Still More ID (Intellectual Dishonesty)

I've made it an acronym, that's how much I'm finding. Might as well save some keystrokes.

This is from the Wall St. Journal, no bastion of the liberal left, copied in its entirety and not behind a cut. Do as I say, not as I do, again. What on earth would she end up doing with the federal budget if she, a self proclaimed small government politician, did this to Wasilla's?

She may be the running mate but she's only a heartbeat away.

Feel free to forward to anyone you want, dear readers.

Palin's Hockey Rink Leads To Legal Trouble in Town She Led

By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS September 6, 2008; Page A5
WASILLA, Alaska -- The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.

The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before it had unchallenged title to the land. The misstep led to years of litigation and at least $1.3 million in extra costs for a small municipality with a small budget. What was to be Ms. Palin's legacy has turned into a financial mess that continues to plague Wasilla.

"It's too bad that the city of Wasilla didn't do their homework and secure the land before they began construction," said Kathy Wells, a longtime activist here. "She was not your ceremonial mayor; she was in charge of running the city. So it was her job to make sure things were done correctly."

Ms. Palin cited her mayoral duties as partial evidence of her executive experience. Dianne Woodruff, a Wasilla city councilwoman and critic of Ms. Palin's performance, agreed.
"If people are going to be voting on her based on her experience as Wasilla's mayor, then they should know how she did in the job," Ms. Woodruff said, "the good, the bad and the ugly."
online.wsj.com/article/SB122065537792905483.html

More Intellectual Dishonesty

This is horrible. I wasn't aware of the republicans holding a "so called" tribute to 9/11, until this morning because I refused to watch the last night of the republican national convention. But I'm aware of it and of Keith Olbermann's reaction now, and my hat goes off to Keith for apologizing to the country for MSNBC showing it. I truly believe he didn't realize this part of the program was coming and was as shocked and sickened by it as anyone, except maybe those on the dark side.

Watch the "so called" tribute to 9/11 at your discretion and please PLEASE tell me what this has to do with going to war in Iraq. And tell me how they can say the war is being won when Osama is STILL at large.

Each time I visit my parents' gravesite in Arlington, I see the wall of the Pentagon that was hit on 9/11 and I see more troops "coming home" from Iraq and grandparents burying them. I remember I was in NYC less than 48 hours before the attacks and in the basement of the WTC the Friday before. Again, my blood runs cold.

It is morally wrong for grandparents to have to say goodbye to grandchildren, and for parents to have children taken away from them for a pack of lies. If that's not offensive enough, it has to be the absolute height of intellectual dishonesty.

Where is Bin Laden? The question remains 7 years later.

Intellectual Dishonesty

Though I'm adamant on this blog being about ideas and style and not me personally, from time to time I will refer to my parents in this blog because they have shaped alot of my ideas. They were older, grew up in the 1930s and both served our country in World War II, Dad then married to his first wife enlisted and fortunately for my half brother and sister who were small at the time was sent to a battleship in the south Pacific, far away from active conflict. Mom had yet to meet my Dad and was one of the many single women who came from all over the country to work for the government when the war broke out. She was an editor at the State Department and when the time came for restabilization efforts in Manila and Okinawa and people were needed to go over there, she went. They loved this country and unfortunately both are gone now, but as a testament to how much they loved America, both are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

We frequently had dinner table conversations about politics, especially in that intense period around 1971 and 1972 where my Dad would complain of President Nixon's habit of "wanting to make one thing perfectly clear" or saying something was "crystal clear". How could he talk like that when he covered up *something* in Watergate, when he may well have erased tape? He would always then go on to say he was intellectually dishonest.

I wonder what my Dad would say today to a Republican party whose candidates for President and Vice President make Nixon look like a completely transparent, open guy. Much has been said about Sarah Palin these past few days but what makes me the angriest is not the family issues but the intellectual dishonesty.

In her acceptance speech last night she spoke of being a maverick, of saying thanks but no thanks to the Gravina Island Bridge, also known as the Bridge to Nowhere. She spoke of refusing to take congressional monies for many things. But what's this? And what would be done, could be done with $91 million dollars. Probably a LOT for teenage mothers.

Even The Heritage Foundation has spoken out against this project. The same group that on its homepage touts Sarah Palin's proposals and grasp of energy issues.

This is intellectual dishonesty at its best, never mind the many MANY other reasons these people do not and MUST not represent our country or be given responsibility of any kind. When I contrast this dishonesty, and her acceptance speech last night with Senator Biden's acceptance speech at last week's DNC, I am as proud to be a Democrat as I have ever been.

Family Values Part 2

The Obama/Biden campaign is declaring children off limits and I agree they should be. My kids aren't teenagers yet but I've seen plenty of my friends struggle with raising them. It's not easy, some never outgrow being teenagers and some do, but have to learn the hard way...alot, before finally becoming adults.

That said, I feel my post about Palin leaving Trig, her 3 day old baby with Downs syndrome to return to work speaks of HER, not of her child. As one of my friends put it over the weekend, a woman isn't even fully recovered from childbirth 3 days after, it takes weeks, not days. And that's assuming the baby does not have health issues. What does this say about Palin's willingness to bond with her new baby? Isn't a primary family value taking time TO bond with a new baby? Most reasonable people would think so. Some of course can't afford to stay home with our new babies for very long and have to return to work, or else. But from all indications, Palin did not have to return to work 3 days after Trig was born.

Most of us regardless of our political beliefs would argue Hillary Clinton is a very very ambitious woman. Those on the other side have done it blatently and brought her daughter into their arguments. But I could never, ever see Hillary leaving a 3 day old baby to go back to work. If anyone feels otherwise, I say look at Chelsea Clinton, Oxford educated, by all appearances a great daughter, and a successful human being.

I think this is the real issue, you just can't say you're for family values if you willingly abandon a baby 3 days after its birth to rush back to work.