Ninety-six tears through twenty-four hours...
I know I am preaching to the choir, but this entry has been spurned by some recent things I've read and heard and most recently by the block of Sarah Palin supporters I heard speak on NPR much more articulately (and unfortunately, more incorrectly, in my eyes) than supporters of the Obama campaign: some personal thoughts, if you will.
You can respect Sarah Palin for being a successful working mother with five kids if you want. But you'd damn well better question that respect when you find out that she has a son being sent to Iraq and doesn't know as a bloody Republican governor what the Bush Doctrine is. That is when you are not well-informed enough to be a responsible parent.
You can send her accolades for wanting to lower America's dependence on foreign oil. But you'd better then do your research and find that drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (which is her proposal) won't give America a sustainable supply of oil and will probably be too costly to start to be worth it. And that's only your biggest concern if you don't care about wildlife or the Inuits that live or have lived there. It should also be noted that existing oil plants in Alaska create more nitrous oxide (ie smog) than Washington, DC.
You might think its great that she holds family and religious values upon a pedestal. But man, thinking that the activity of humans is in no way correlated to global warming is so 20th century.
Sure, it might be kind of, in some weird way attractive that she hunts her own moose and makes her own mooseburgers. But, I gotta say, it's not so attractive that she believes polar bears should be taken off the endangered species list, since, you know, people don't cause global warming and getting the rights to drill in the Wildlife Refuge would be a lot easier if other people hated polar bears, too.
You may think it's a novel idea that she can see Russia from her country. I think it's a novel idea that she attempted to ban a large number of books from the Wasilla Public Library (get it -- novel?). That's so traditionally... communist -- at least if you watch Indiana Jones movies. Oh, and included on that long list are A Clockwork Orange, A Wrinkle in Time, East of Eden, The Canterbury Tales, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, and a majority of the Harry Potter books.
There's plenty more, but I'm getting hungry, and I really have the urge to eat some raman noodles right now. So I'll summarize it with this. Basically, there's one think I kind of like about Sarah Palin, and that's that she played point guard on a state championship high school basketball team. Oh wait, that was in Alaska -- I could totally have done that, too, if I were only located there. 5'2 me would have been a starter.
You can respect Sarah Palin for being a successful working mother with five kids if you want. But you'd damn well better question that respect when you find out that she has a son being sent to Iraq and doesn't know as a bloody Republican governor what the Bush Doctrine is. That is when you are not well-informed enough to be a responsible parent.
You can send her accolades for wanting to lower America's dependence on foreign oil. But you'd better then do your research and find that drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (which is her proposal) won't give America a sustainable supply of oil and will probably be too costly to start to be worth it. And that's only your biggest concern if you don't care about wildlife or the Inuits that live or have lived there. It should also be noted that existing oil plants in Alaska create more nitrous oxide (ie smog) than Washington, DC.
You might think its great that she holds family and religious values upon a pedestal. But man, thinking that the activity of humans is in no way correlated to global warming is so 20th century.
Sure, it might be kind of, in some weird way attractive that she hunts her own moose and makes her own mooseburgers. But, I gotta say, it's not so attractive that she believes polar bears should be taken off the endangered species list, since, you know, people don't cause global warming and getting the rights to drill in the Wildlife Refuge would be a lot easier if other people hated polar bears, too.
You may think it's a novel idea that she can see Russia from her country. I think it's a novel idea that she attempted to ban a large number of books from the Wasilla Public Library (get it -- novel?). That's so traditionally... communist -- at least if you watch Indiana Jones movies. Oh, and included on that long list are A Clockwork Orange, A Wrinkle in Time, East of Eden, The Canterbury Tales, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, and a majority of the Harry Potter books.
There's plenty more, but I'm getting hungry, and I really have the urge to eat some raman noodles right now. So I'll summarize it with this. Basically, there's one think I kind of like about Sarah Palin, and that's that she played point guard on a state championship high school basketball team. Oh wait, that was in Alaska -- I could totally have done that, too, if I were only located there. 5'2 me would have been a starter.