In case anyone's missed it, Sarah Palin is McCain's running mate.

[Swatopluk]

A thin thing to count on indeed, as the last two consecutive elections have shown.

Even, if we subtract the Diebold factor*, there are too many of those that Mr.Barnum bet his money on being born in short sequence (1 per minute)

*don't nail me that factors are for multiplication/diviosn not adding/subtracting

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Suckers? Voters? Why do you say that? Is not as if 90% of republicans were voting against their own interests... 

[pieces o nine]

My mom found out about this late in the day and tried to wind me up about it. I had already read -- and double-checked -- more info about this choice than I could believe and expressed my agreement with those who think this is the latest in the Repub's back-handed slaps against women.

Sadly, I think she's warming to her since I've been speaking critically of her Evangelical pandering and eagerness to not only rape her own state for crude oil profits, but stance on undermining so-called Women's Issues.


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Mom watched Obama's acceptance speech with me and acted receptive. She also claimed that she never liked Bush from the start (a bald-faced lie, which she repeatedly makes of late). I reminded her that I called and begged every one in the family to *not* vote for Bush either time, which they all did anyway, bamboozled by flags and bibles and fear-mongering, and were showing every indication of going down that road a third time. She denied it.

Well, my brother drove down today to help with stuff here. Mom -- aka "The Chameleon" -- smarmily brought up politics at *BOTH* lunch *AND* dinner. Tension ensued. Perceiving my brother as having more status than me, she immediately back-pedaled on every negative thing she's said about McCain and slurred Obama in her own ... particular idiom ... to curry favor with her son.

She brought up -- as she does around anyone not clearly a Dem -- that she's been "afraid" of Obama since the first time she saw him. I decided that was the *last* time she's going to say that around me and stopped washing dishes (by myself) to ask her to stop vaguely *hinting* at 'fears' and lay out what exactly she is afraid of.

Kids, sit down, or maybe even lay down on the floor...

All the prophecies, from Nostradamus and the Bible and everywhere, all say that he's [Obama] the End Times.

: pieces almost has an aneurysm and starts *throwing* silver into the rinse sink, one at a time :

Yes! Nostradamus foretold the coming of the AntiChrist.

: pieces is throwing silver into the sink harder and biting her tongue to keep from screaming at the sheer effing *stupidity* of what she is hearing :

The prophecies state clearly that the AntiChrist will be young, and -- and good-looking -- and the people will follow him! And he will be able to wear a turban if he wants to! ... And every time she looks at him, she thinks, 'Can it really be? Is it the End Times? Is he the AntiChrist, preparing to do bad things when he gets into office?

: pieces turns on the autoclave-hot-water full-blast to rinse the silver and drown out the *unbelievable* stupidity prejudice she is hearing from the woman who likes to paint herself as the skeptical, savvy one at her (chronic) Bible-study classes :

Yeah, mealtimes were fun, fun, fun, today. I excused myself after finishing the dishes and went to another room so she and my brother could commiserate about the 'terrible' choices and why Ralph Nadar could 'easily' get 20% of the popular vote and really teach "them" a lesson.

(The "them" *NOT* being their neighbors who actually voted in the primaries to put these two at the heads of their respective parties, I'm guessing...)


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[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I will never, ever understand people--particularly women--like your mother.

(One question I have is, how can she claim to be RC and believe Nostradamus?)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

(One question I have is, how can she claim to be RC and believe Nostradamus?)

Are you suggesting that 'catholicism' is synonym with 'consistency'?
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In all fairness there are consistent catholics but the big majority doesn't have the foggiest clue about theological interpretations or the subtleties of the catholic dogma. In fact that applies to most christians (or people from all religions for what matters).

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

(One question I have is, how can she claim to be RC and believe Nostradamus?)

Are you suggesting that 'catholicism' is synonym with 'consistency'?
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In all fairness there are consistent catholics but the big majority doesn't have the foggiest clue about theological interpretations or the subtleties of the catholic dogma. In fact that applies to most christians (or people from all religions for what matters).

Which is kinda funny, given the whole umpteen years of CCD you're supposed to suffer through before confirmation (ok, at least since the second Vatican council).

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Given the umpteen years from elementary to high school, everybody should dominate algebra, and geography, and the constitution and... 

[beagle]

All the prophecies, from Nostradamus and the Bible and everywhere, all say that he's [Obama] the End Times.

Rubbish. Can't be him and Gordon Brown, phantom scribbler of Westminster.

Still, at least you can go for the "it's therefore inevitable he should be elected and you'll be carrying out God's 'mysterious ways' plan and advancing towards the beaming up of the faithful" strategy.  Not a technique I'd recommend for Democratic door step canvassers in general, but it just might work here.

[ivor]

You guys have to watch a documentary called Jesus Camp. It's the scariest movie I have ever seen.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Or you can see a South Park version.. 
http://www.southparkzone.com/episodes/1102/Cartman-Sucks.html

[pieces o nine]

All the prophecies, from Nostradamus and the Bible and everywhere, all say that he's [Obama] the End Times.

Rubbish. Can't be him and Gordon Brown, phantom scribbler of Westminster.

What.
What?
What!

You have "French Polishers"?   OoooOOOooo... 
I cannot imagine the End-Times brouhahahah there would be if "French Polishers" infested *our* nation's capital.   


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Update on the Family Feedback...

She's got children and one is a ... some kind of a "Special Needs" child, apparently ... people might think she's not -- you know -- a very good mother if she isn't taking care of her home and family first. They might hold it against her.

: pieces points out that (1) this is not a avalid objection to any married man with children entering politics, and (2) such people usually have the means to get help with house and family, which help increases as the status and perceived responsibilities of the politician increase. :

Hmmmm, maybe her *husband* helps out with the house and kids!

: pieces has no love lost for fundiegelicals in or out of politics, but experiences a 'red state' of vision at hearing such remarks coming from anyone, let alone a woman who *also* worked outside her home, for monetary compensation and personal satisfaction, leaving her *own* children to the occasional care of themselves and their father. :


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Back t'yer reg yule early skedjeweled diskushuns...   

[Sibling Chatty]

But she has foreign policy experience! She lives in a state bordering Russia!!
That's not a joke. Someone actually used that argument 

Cindy McCain!! I saw a video...the phrase Mindless Twit kept running through my mind, along with WATCH OUT FOR THAT BOOTOX, GIRLFRIEND!! 

[anthrobabe]

But she has foreign policy experience! She lives in a state bordering Russia!!
That's not a joke. Someone actually used that argument 

Cindy McCain!! I saw a video...the phrase Mindless Twit kept running through my mind, along with WATCH OUT FOR THAT BOOTOX, GIRLFRIEND!! 

I agree -- she is herself anti woman and she is a slap against women. But of course y'all know us wimmin need a man to keep us in line..........

[Sibling Chatty]

But of course y'all know us wimmin need a man to keep us in line..........

Dan tried that. Didn't work. I even promised to not hurt him....

[beagle]

You have "French Polishers"?   OoooOOOooo... 
I cannot imagine the End-Times brouhahahah there would be if "French Polishers" infested *our* nation's capital.   

The French have traditionally provided a variety of services to Londoners. French polishing in Westminster, French lessons in Soho, and so forth.
Sometimes the accent can be a little suspect though.