Will V-P Palin bring her spouse south to house-sit, or will he find fame and fortune as the V-P's spouse? Will he be too busy babysitting while the young 'uns smoke dope, and party in the V-P mansion? Will his daughter overcome the temptations of Washington, and go on to college, or will she fast track into the Senate? I am looking forward to this latest "soap opera" in the Executive Branch. Are we seeing a shift to a "libertarian" White House were "mary jane" has pride of place among the spirits, or will we see a continuation of good old moral values that go along with the free enterprise system?
So How Do You Think The Republican VP Family Will Fair?
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Actually, ST1DinOH, I used to enjoy pot on the weekends when I was younger until the Carter admin started using paraquot. I still remember waiting at the flashing yellow light on Copland for it to change, and realizing after a long, long time that it never would. I am being somewhat fetitious. I am sure that there are thousands of millionaire entrepreneurs who have contributed billions to the economy through their use of pot. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Will her husband stay home in Alaska with the kids, or move to Washington and be "rewarded" with a corporate position (of course, with no relation to his wife's official duties). Will he get bored, and end up in the news like Bill Clinton? Will the kids go on to "higher" education, or are they having that already? Maybe we've given the Republicans a bum rap, and they are more like George Carlin than Chaney.
posted by oldsendbrdy on Sep 03, 2008 at 08:45:59 am #
so what you're basically saying is all young 17 year old girls who get pregnant are pot smoking redneck hillbillies.
i see...
*facepalm
thats just asinine. i'd wager that most first children in this country were born to teenage mothers. how exactly is it fair to hold palins daughter to such a bullshit double standard.
just like the whole tissy about palins husbands DUI like 300 years ago.
WHO GIVES A FUCK???
seriously, do you know what barry was doing at the time palins husband got his DUI?
BIG FAT HORSE LINES OF COKE.
i'll smoke some weed, because all the good people i know and trust have at one point in their life smoked some pot, but i'll never trust a coke head.
WHY DON'T WE TALK ABOUT BARRY DOING LINES?
why doesn't the media blog their eyelashes off about that one?
could it be a media bias???
NO
couldn't be.
i'm listening to beck right now, and the story he's talking about should be something all you stupid BHO supporters should be aware of. you are part of the idiot vote.
in other words, the news and the BHO campaign lies to you and tells you all sorts of insane lies and stretches of the truth and you buy it???
don't believe me...look at the front page of [i]us weekly[/i] today.
nothing but lies and slander. yet this is considered "news" to the dumbass masses.
congratulations you dolts you've proven just how truly stupid you all are.
Wow ST1DinOH, got an opinion there I take it.
I'm a Palin supporter myself, and am fascinated in the spin the media puts on news simply by the lack of reporting on specific subjects, or the excessive coverage of others. fair and balanced news coverage does not exist. As Sean Hannity has commented, 2008 was the year journalism died.
posted by hugabugger on Sep 03, 2008 at 09:55:38 am #
Alaska Party Official Says Palin Was Not a Member (NYTIMES ADMITS AIP PALIN STORY FALSE)
The New York Times ^ | September 2, 2008 | staffThe chairwoman of an Alaskan political party that advocates a vote on the state’s succession from the union said Tuesday that she had been mistaken when she said Gov. Sarah Palin was a member of the group.
A front-page story in The New York Times on Tuesday and articles in other news media reported that Ms. Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party for two years in the 1990’s.
The information in the Times article was based on a statement issued Monday night by Lynette Clark, the party’s chairwoman, who said that Ms. Palin joined the party in 1994 and in 1996 changed her registration to Republican.
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GASP The NY SLIMES reporting a FALSE story? What is the world coming to?
As Sean Hannity has commented, 2008 was the year journalism died.
He should know. Rush, Bill-O and Sean did as much as anyone to kill fair, reasoned and impartial journalism.
hey libs...here's your champion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow8_pCPfhDk
you tards sure know how to pick em.
if that dude isn't super high on crack in that video i'll be shocked. these are the type of people voting for bho. total idiots and crackheads. you all must be so proud.
He should know. Rush, Bill-O and Sean did as much as anyone to kill fair, reasoned and impartial journalism
Hey genius, Hannnity, Rush, & O'Reilly don't claim to be impartial journalists. They are commentators. Think of them as the 'Keith Olberman & Chris Matthews' of the Republicans.
posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 03, 2008 at 12:45:54 pm #
The election is over-for the libs.
posted by CharlieA-Z on Sep 03, 2008 at 01:59:35 pm #
So no speculation on how the family will fare in Washington, D.C? Will Sarah's husband be given a job commensurate with his skills, or will he stay in Alaska where he feels useful? Lots of marriages are separated by long distances. It could survive the distances and time of separation. Or he could be given something to keep him out of trouble if he goes to Washington, and he might come to question his position in the scheme of things.
I bet he rues the day his wife ever got into politics. He'll probably divorce her one day after she leaves office. Bristol can probably find a living in Alaska (do they still dole out a living to Alaskan citizens from oil revenues?), but I doubt she 'll be the "poster child" for how to live your life wisely in Alaska. I wonder why the Palins moved to Alaska? Was it to get away from the "social evils" of the lower 48 states, and these "evils" followed them there along with television, movies, and all the rest of the social milieu that leads to unrestrained sexual contact and the children born before marriage that ensures poverty for most mothers. Well, they tried to get away, and it caught them anyways. So much for a "conservative lifestyle".
posted by oldsendbrdy on Sep 03, 2008 at 03:35:46 pm #
Hey genius, Hannnity, Rush, & O'Reilly don't claim to be impartial journalists. They are commentators. Think of them as the 'Keith Olberman & Chris Matthews' of the Republicans.
You are right, Rush and Hannity don't claim to be impartial or journalists. But O'Reilly does. Ever heard of the "No Spin Zone"? Here's a profile of him from 60 Minutes. His claim that he is independent and a journalist begin around 9:30.
I will also acknowledge that Olbermann is almost as big a blowhard as O'Reilly. Almost.
Oldsendbroad- you wouldn't know what a "conservative lifestyle" was (as if there was such a thing that all conservatives abide by) if it bit you in your cigarette-stained butt. Your twisted and fantasied speculation noted above is about as insightful and valid as a five year old's opinion on foreign relations. Did you have to get that little scenario out of another lefty blog somewhere? Because I don't think you have the imagination or the brains to come up with it yourself.
Go outside and suck down another cancer stick and think about how stupid your comment was.
For all the libs here - you are the most pathetic group of gossiping assholes.
Have you 'heard' one conservative here go on some tirade about Biden's or B.OB's marriage or kids? Grow the F up!NO. I didn't think so.
posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 03, 2008 at 03:59:44 pm #
Go outside and suck down another cancer stick
Oh....NOW you've done it. You don't know what forces you've just unleashed.
Darkseid, Starling---get her.
Ace - I rather think Morley Safer was the indignant ass in that interview.
I find it ironic that you chose a 60 Minutes clip to make a point. Two words - Dan Rather.
nuff said
(although much could be said)posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 03, 2008 at 04:12:04 pm #
I agree with you, SillyWabbit, that I haven't heard such a tirade (maybe it is because there is nothing to tirade against). As for cigarettes I used to have one about every three months when I used to get high (to usually be "social", and find out what I was missing). Now which stupid comment do you refer to. I am sure that there are several that you can see, and that I have not. Perhaps you could elaborate.
I admit that I am not a conservative. I have never sired any bastards, or divorced a wife for a younger piece of tail.
posted by oldsendbrdy on Sep 03, 2008 at 04:23:16 pm #
The difference between a "conservative" and a "liberal". Conservatives sometimes take financial care of their bastards while "liberals" feel we should all be taxed to take care of the little bastards. Doesn't that just gripe your butt?
posted by oldsendbrdy on Sep 03, 2008 at 04:36:41 pm #
Ace - I rather think Morley Safer was the indignant ass in that interview.
I find it ironic that you chose a 60 Minutes clip to make a point. Two words - Dan Rather.
nuff said
(although much could be said)Typical conservative. Attack the messenger. What about what O'Reilly said about being an independent journalist?
Oldsendbrdy - I have to apologize to you.
I was confusing you with Starling02.
Sorry 'bout that.
posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 03, 2008 at 05:01:42 pm #
What about what O'Reilly said about being an independent journalist?
I lost interest and didn't watch the whole thing.
If you want to make this about O'Reilly and not the context in which he was originally mentioned - have fun.
posted by SillyWabbit on Sep 03, 2008 at 05:06:02 pm #
wow, what the hell is this post about? you mention pot a few times up there and i gotta say i don't quite understand where that comes from. one of the biggest qualms i have with the republican party is they claim to stand up for personal freedoms and less government intervention yet they are the party who most demonizes such a harmless plant as cannabis.
on a good note i can say at least the republicans do what they say, the democrats have been acting as if they'd legalize/decriminalize pot but they don't do anything.
the only people i see with such repressed ideals concerning marijuana are either the far right religious, or those who feel that marijuana is some sort of threat to civilization/mankind.
well to the monotheistic cultists, i must say that in your very own little book of tall tales gen 1:12 says "god has given you all the seed bearing plants and herbs to use" (or some variation depending on what version of the bible you are being brainwashed with). there are numerous mentions of marijuana and hemp in the bible, and most modern religions. so the whole "even though god made it he hates it and the devil will get ya if you smoke it" is just hypocritical hysteria. i'm quite sure, if there were such a thing as god, he wouldn't put pot here if he didn't want us to use it. he wouldn't have made the seeds an ideal food for humans (perfect ballance of protien, fiber, calories, and EFA's for the human diet).
if your beef with pot isn't religious in nature i must say i'm quite disappointed in you. the entire bag of tricks that the government has used to make marijuana illegal has been either debunked as bogus science or exposed as mindless rhetoric used to make money of a non-taxable commodity that consumers want.
NEWS FLASH.
people smoke pot, lots of people. if it were possible to die from smoking pot we'd have heard about it by now. more importantly, with all the studies out there on everything from red meat to cell phones you'd think there'd be some real concrete evidence showing a permanent loss in brain cell growth, numbers, or activity.
THERE IS NO SUCH STUDY.
bottom line is pot is illegal in this country because it's the only way the government could profit from it. pot could be sold and taxed, but as easy as it is to produce there's no way people would pay full + taxed price for it. next spring everyone in america could toss a handful of seeds in their back yard and next fall this country would be a sea of green. it's a weed, it grows real easy without the aid of pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. knowing full well they cannot tax it and rely on it as revenue, they keep it illegal. you get caught with it, you owe them money. you get caught growing it, they take your house and property, auction it off, and they make money. you go to jail in this country if you get caught holding a plant? more inmates, bigger prisons, bigger prison based revenues (between prison industry and justification of tax dollars to build new and larger prisons which are all staffed and ran with our increased taxes).
these days it's an odd thing to see someone so anti-pot. i look at them like i look at some of these 6000 year old earth idiots who can't understand the difference between macro and micro evolution.
basically i just think it' funny that people are this un-informed. all the major studies that have been done on pot have proven that the early claims from the "reefer madness" mob were all garbage.
for example: the whole "pot kills braincells". this all stems from the study, funded by anslinger and hurst, where they made monkeys smoke weed. after the test is over they cut the monkeys heads open and find a bunch of dead spots in the brain. after further investigation it turns out that the study involved hooking monkeys up to gas masks and force feeding them 30 or more "columbian strength" joints a day.
the real cause of brain cell loss...hypoxia/oxygen deprivation. they were inhaling more smoke and carbon monoxide than oxygen. the attempt was to simulate a life time of use in a few short weeks. all that force fed smoke nuked the monkeys brains. not because it contained THC, but because they were deprived oxygen.
this whole study and premise has since been laughed out of scientific circles, yet the average american still thinks this is fact.
here's an idea...do some research. you'll quickly find that all the independent peer-reviewed studies out there have all concluded that marijuana is harmless and much better for you than a majority of "safe" legal products we humans consume daily. not just alcohol and cigarettes, but the mountain of chemicals and dyes we ingest that are FDA approved. pill junkies are the fastest growing group of drug users out there. and pills KILL people.
make weed legal, you'd see the use of alcohol and hard drugs plunge.
(lies in wait for the "gateway drug" argument)
posted by ST1DinOH on Sep 03, 2008 at 12:26:16 am #