sarah palin

Huff Po has this slide show of Piper Palin. She really is too cute. She was really cute when she spat down Trig's cowlick. Haha, i didn't even realize the pun. Anyway, my favorite photo here is where she has her hands on her mom's butt. It's really cute. I feel really bad. I don't want Sarah Palin to turn her into a Bristol or Sarah. I want to adopt her! Maybe I'll start a movement. Oh, I also like the seal skin blanket photo, which reminds me of when I was a kid and would jump on my seal skin blanket. And I like the photo where she's petting Levi. I added text to the captions.

WHERE IS SARAH'S UPPER LIP?

YOU DON'T WANT TO GET ON PIPER'S BAD SIDE I CAN IMAGINE HER SAYING THAT: "YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET ME MAD. DO YOU KNOW WHO MY MOTHER IS? YOU ARE SOOOO FIRED"

YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST SEAL SKIN BLANKET JUMP (I'M NOT JOKING-- THAT'S REALLY A SEAL SKIN BLANKET)

PIPER (@ RNC) HELPS LEVI GET INTO CLEAN CUT CHARACTER AND EMBRACE HIS NEW WARDROBE. EVEN THOUGH IT WAS CUT OFF, HIS PHANTOM MULLET STILL ITCHES HIS NECK.

PIPER IS LIVING THE DREAM. LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM. LIVING EVERY AMERICAN MAN'S DREAM

OH MY GOD! IT'S BEEN FOREVER!

"MOM. I WANT A JAUNTY CAP! STAT!"

PIPER WAS SNOW WHITE FOR HALLOWEEN. BUT NOT VERY CONVINCING. THEY SHOULD HAVE DIED HER HAIR BLACK. THEY DIED IT MULTI-COLORED (SEE ABOVE.)

After decades of being persecuted for their nontraditional marriages, Mormons were thrilled to organize their members to support Proposition 8, a California amendment which stripped gays and lesbians of their right to wed, a right which the California Supreme Court had granted. The Church of Latter Day Saints, renounced polygamy in 1890, but they continue to worship a text which exalts it and follow a religion which breads fundamentalism. The Mormons feared that, if not stopped, equal rights would creep into other states. Spokesman Mike Otterson said "If same-gender marriage is approved in California...other states will follow suit." The Church issued a letter, which was read in every congregation, urging members to donate their "means and time" to pass Prop 8. The Yes on 8 campaign estimates that up to 40 percent of its donations come from Mormons. And so, the people who had insisted that marriage is between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman...would not stand for a marriage between two men or two women.

In the letter grounded their argument in their founding texts, saying "Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and the formation of families is central to the Creator's plan for His children." I wonder why they didn't quote their Prophet Brigham Young, who said "Marriage is a civil contract. You might as well make a law to say how many children a man shall have, as to make a law to say how many wives he shall have. It would be as sensible to make a law to say how many horses or oxen he shall possess, or how many cows his wife shall milk." Perhaps Mormons will next campaign for an oxen-based amendment.

Anti Prop 8 activists are fighting to repeal the Church's tax exempt status, which is a good move because, for Mormons, there is a holy alliance between the IRS and God.

Consider, for example, the long-held Mormon belief about black people. According to the Book of Mormon, blacks (the Lamanite race) received their dark skins and inferior status as punishment. According to The Pearl of Great Price, another authoritative text, anyone who was black or who had a black ancestor could not be ordained.

"For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."

And lo and behold, when the IRS threatened to revoke the Church's tax-exempt status, because of their policy against admitting black priests, God told the President of the Morman Church, through a revelation, that it was time to let black people in. . I will not attempt to tease out the theological subtleties--if the Creator speaks through the Internal Revenue Service, or if the Service itself is sacred in some central way. Suffice to say that the IRS plays a powerful role in the Church's evolving beliefs, and at the very least uses the same postal service the Creator. God moves in mysterious ways, often accompanied by IRS threats.

Go to one of the peaceful protests against Proposition 8 and maybe you'll witness a revelation yourself.

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Before you vote on Proposition 8, you need to read this. I used to be like you--for Gay marriage. And I thought that the proposition, which aims to overturn the supreme court ruling which recognized gay marriage, was dumb, distracting, and, obvi, discriminating, disenfranchising, homophobic, embarrassing for the country etc.

But that was before I saw the sign, and--to quote the Ace of Base anthem--it opened up my eyes. (Ace of Base is just soooo right on sometimes.) The sign was more physical than most epiphanies. It was literally a sign--a sign being held at an anti-gay marriage rally. And it said "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steven."*

I immediately began to question myself, what I knew and what I thought I knew.

1) The first thing I questioned was why nobody had suggested taking the "n" of of the "Steven," rendering it "Steve." It's not that the motto "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steven" isn't catchy and powerful. But wouldn't a rhyming "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" sign be even more effective?

2) So my next question was towards myself: Had I been making uneducated assumptions about homophobia. I had always assumed that homophobia was a fairly straight forward phenomenon. The final "N" showed me that homophobia was much more textured and mutlifaceted than I had wanted to admit. There is your run of the mill dumb homophobia, whose members would have, for example, redone the sign or at least crossed out the N. And then there's really, really dumb homophobia, in which obvious poetry rules are ignored or, more likely, missed.

3) Then I wondered if I was, once again, underestimating homophobia. Was the N not mistake, but part of a deliberate poetic plan in which exact rhyme was eschewed and Emily Dikensonian near rhyme was embraced? Was this idiocy? Or the emergence of a homophobic experimental poetry sub culture?

4) Who was the dumb one now? That would be me. For making an ass out of u m e and homophobia.

So if you want to vote yes on artistic expression and yes on the renaissance of homophobic poetry, which has been called** "homo-phoetry," and no on civil rights, you'll vote Yes on Proposition 8! You'll also want to make sure you vote for McCain-Palin, especially since Palin announced desire to amend the constitution and ban gay marriage. (In all fairness, the Governess is not that familiar with the Constitution, so she may not know what this all means.) Palin explains that she is "not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do." She'll just non judgementally criminalize their way of life.

*I swear I saw this sign. I didn't have any camera on me, but this is for real. I mean, it would be a really bizarre thing and not quite over the top enough to make up.

** by "has been called" I mean "has been called by the author."

I also <3 Michelle for her deep understanding of caribou and her "dear stuck in headlights" eye brows 1 hour ago

I kinda <3 Michelle Bachman for not hiding the RNC's McCarthyexual tendancies about 2 hours ago

OK, Pat Buchanan. I'm Watching the Rachel Maddow Show. Can you at least TRY to cover up your huge boner for Sarah Palin? It's embarrassing. And what's the deal with you hair? Warm honey tones? about 3 hours ago

Awesomeness! Women for McCain Picks up our Video! http://ping.fm/kouZY about 5 hours ago

David Allen Greer as Maya angelou is amazing!!!!!! Everyone put on comedy central 12:08 AM yesterday

Take a look at this photo of McCain speaking at Florida International University, flanked by his wife Cindy and his ambassador to the Jews, Joe Lieberman. What's wrong with this image? Scroll down to find out.

1) Obama's elitism was proven by salt-of-the-earth Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild and everyman Donald Trump endorsing McCain.

2) George "Macaca" Allen will lead a GOP rally to [no joke] reach out to minorities. I guess Trent Lott wasn't available. Allen embraces diversity so much, he welcomes Macaca monkeys and non white people alike to America with open arms.

3) Bush compared the stock market crisis to 9/11 except with out the "financial crisis to strike United States" warning memo.

4) Charges against Mark Foley are unlikely because, honestly, who hasn't told someone who works under them "I have a totally stiff wood now" and I'd love to grab your "one-eyed snake."

5) The liberal media misunderestimated Sarah Palin. They think that when Palin refusesto say whether she would be part of the executive branch, she is copying Cheney, who used the half executive half legislative excuse to protect himself from investigation and prosecution. But when Palin avoids the question, it's because she's as familiar with the definition of "executive branch" as she is with the term "Bush doctrine."