Don’t you love it when liberal columnists lecture us unwashed conservative hicks on morals? Gee, maybe you people should have thought of all this when you decided all those years ago that self-restraint was for the squares.
(Via.)
I’ll have more to say on this later, but I have to get ready for work.
You know, if Sarah Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy can make liberals rethink their ideal of sexual freedom at any cost, then the momentary embarrassment many conservatives are feeling has been worth it.
Grumble grrrr #$%@$ those little plastic tubs that fast food places put their sauces in grumble grrr.
Gee, I wake up this morning to the dulcet tones of the station I have my clock radio set to announcing that Hurricane Ike had overnight exploded into a Category 4 storm. And the current track (very far off, it is true) has Florida in the center. Rrrr.
I’m watching the Republican National Convention (mark up another first for me). And so far, my verdict is… Well, it’s kind of awesome. Maybe it’s simply the fact that they chose to have it in an indoor venue, so the energy is better contained, but I agree with Steve H. — the people at this convention seem a lot more upbeat and optimistic than the ones I saw at the Democratic get-together over in Denver. Now to be fair, I only watched an hour and a half of that one or so, and I think I caught them toward the end, when everyone was probably tired, but still — so far everyone I’ve seen speak has been emphasizing what Americans can do, unlike the doom-‘n’-gloom Dems and their “everything sucks, we need to get rid of the sucky Rethugs” refrain.
Uh oh, Romney is getting a bit down on liberals. I agree, but… chill, dude, we can do it. Anyway, I’m basically holding out for Sarahcudda. More later.
Later: okay, failed candidates Romney and now Huckabee are bringing things down just a tad with their attempt to steal the Obama “change” rhetoric. Still, Huckabee mentioned that people want to prosper, which is good. Still, can’t wait for him to shut up. Oh wait — he’s dissing Islamic creeps and government busibodies. I permit that. (She says grandly.) Good save with mentioning Lincoln, who by the way had a crazy wife. Shh!
Update, 9:44PM: the governor of Hawaii is a Republican? I had no idea. I thought Hawaii was some kind of Democrat paradise…
9:51PM: I tried to comment on the Ace of Spades live chat thingie. So far it has not shown my comment. Fuck you, Ace of Spades live chat thingie.
One more: don’t mess with state governors. I’m just sayin’. Governor Lingle: (paraphrased) governing a state is fine experience for being vice-president! Now stand still while I hula your ass to death. (Well, something like that. Australian shiraz is dangerous.)
Added: the Ace of Spadesters are right — this lady talks really slow. Update: see my comments — Lingle a Republican lesbian? That’s not as strange as you might think. Consult Florence King. Still, now my ignorance (as I depend like anyone else in the US mostly on the professional media) is made more understandable.
10:02PM: ah. Rudy. Such a refreshment. See, I grew up in Miami, which is populated mostly by displaced New Yorkers and displaced Cubans, and both groups talk very fast (that is, at normal speed). Then I moved 275 miles north to the Orlando area and I feel like I’ve been living in cold maple syrup for the last nine years. (Aurally speaking — physically it’s as hot as Miami most of the time.) I guess it’s the same in Hawaii. (See the above.) Maybe if I ever go to Hawaii I should be prepared to drink a lot. Anyway, Rudy Giuliani is talking at normal speed. It’s like being home, only without the irritation of either being in Miami or New York, which is the same place.
Later: Rudy is firing up the crowd. Are they serving booze at the convention? People seem a little… eager. Ooh, that’s good about voting “present.” Even as a kid in homeroom in elementary school we knew that was a way to weasel out of a decision.
More: Rudy is good. “He’s never run anything. He’s the least experienced candidate…” Just telling the facts. “Nothing, nada.” Still, I am not that interested in experience. (I have scads of experience in office work. So why am I still stuck at $10.00 an hour?) I’m not even against Obama’s personal friendships with old terrorists like that Ayers ex-Weatherman guy (who should be shot, but I digress) and that cranky old racist preacher. I just don’t like Obama’s ideas and the direction he seems to want to take this country in. (Yes, I know, dangling preposition, I don’t care.) And whatever John McCain’s personal trials, family problems, and those of his running mate, I prefer the direction he seems to want to take the country in. So there.
So bring on Sarah! You’re okay, Rudy, but you’re not the star. Enough!
I changed my mind. It was necessary to hear “Obama was in favor of an undivided Jerusalem — for one day — until he changed his mind!” =O
10:25PM: Oh, Rudy has to be a blog reader. How else can he be coming up with all of Ace of Spades’ quips and talking points? Okay, that’s enough link-luv for you guys.
RUDY ASKED MY QUESTION! “WHO EVER ASKED A MAN–” OH RUDY, I AM YOURS.
(10:30PM. Sarah Palin enters.) SHE IS WEARING THE GLASSES. THANK YOU, GOD.
Democratic Party strategists, take note: this is how you rev up a crowd for someone. Day-um.
Her husband is hawt. Not that I noticed. My evil twin wrote that.
Sarah is so sweet to build up the Dems (“…confident opponents…”) but we all know they are toast.
10:37PM: whatever you may think about her daughter Bristol’s life decisions, it was a real mistake of Dem operatives and the media to freak out over her, and Sarah will now make them feel it. In the nicest way.
Ouch.
God, her husband is hot. (Shut up, evil twin! I’m so embarrassed for my evil twin’s behavior.)
Okay, “every woman can walk through every door of opportunity…” Thousands of NOW members seethed as Sarah Palin handily lifted their raison d’être and walked away with it.
10:45PM: Bitterly clinging to religion and guns! Oh! (Dems: “no… no… no… bad dream, bad dream…”)
Verdict: she’s going to Washington. To kick ass and chew bubblegum. And she used her last wad of bubblegum to plug the holes in her fishing tackle box, so…
“I put it on Ebay.” Oh, oh, oh… LOL.
10:54PM: finally someone points out that just because drilling for oil in our own country won’t cure a liberal’s psoriasis, that’s no reason to sit and do nothing.
10:57PM: I swear, Sarah has also been reading the blogs.
Read terrorists their rights? Crowd responds: “hells no!” Dems curl up in fetal positions under desks, etc., and pray for the bad woman to stop talking.
11:01PM: I can’t keep up with the smacking! I feel like Obama must feel. Mercy, woman!
Quote of the year: “the American presidency isn’t supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.” I think I’m in love.
Okay, and this one, from the Ace of Spades live thingie (which still has not published my IMPORTANT comments): “SARAH PALIN = KEYZER SOZE, BARACK OBAMA – EVERYONE ELSE ON THE BOAT.” Heh.
Okay, I’m kind of tired. Nighty-night!
Actually I had a friend like that. (No longer.) She could pick up men at bars and have one-night stands (which she insisted on telling me about in lubricious detail), sleep with all her actual boyfriends without the benefit of wedlock, and so on, but when I announced I was moving away with my then-fiancé she acted as if I’d committed adultery with the pope. She actually had the nerve to tell me I should have made then-fiancé marry me first. See, as long as I continued to be the non-dating, non-sex-having, celibate “good” girl, she felt — oh I don’t know. Safe? In control? Since I didn’t date I could always be counted on to be there when she needed a shoulder to cry on; suddenly I had a life. That wasn’t supposed to happen.
This is how tolerant, progressive, anything-goes liberal leftists are: like children who engage in naughty behavior because they know that long-suffering mom and dad have steady jobs, love them unconditionally, and thus will always be there to bail their kids out of trouble. This makes the kids feel guilty because deep down inside they know they are wrong, and feeling guilty makes them feel uncomfortable, and feeling uncomfortable takes them out of their safe padded little fun universe, which makes them feel angry, so they take it out in “acting out” behavior, rudeness towards their parents (the objects of their guilty feelings), and cutting their parents down to all their cool friends. It’s like when the parents of Baby Boomers started getting divorces; suddenly all those “no fault” loopholes the hip, with-it Me Generation cooked up for themselves didn’t look like such neat escape hatches anymore.
Re this freakshow that recently happened near where I live because of that weird disappeared kid case:
A family of protesters made its way to the home of the grandparents of Caylee Anthony Monday morning.
Ericka Courtney, her husband and their three children showed up at the Anthonys’ home with signs to protest what they called a lack of support for the missing 3-year-old.
Courtney and her family even started banging on the front door, demanding to speak with George or Cindy Anthony.
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies eventually arrived and cited Courtney for trespassing.
“Why I’m here today is to say what happened to Caylee is wrong, and there should be more people standing in support to figure out where the child is,” a tearful Courtney told News 13. “Don’t support this family; don’t support George and Cindy. Support Caylee, and find out where she is.”
Courtney told News 13 the case of Caylee Anthony hit home with her family, because she lost a daughter years ago.
I have one question: what. Fucking. Business. Is it of these people? I don’t care that you lost your daughter recently, lady. That’s what therapy is for. Harassing the families of missing kids (regardless of whether or not one of them did away with the child) won’t bring your daughter back, and your actions on live tv in front of God and everybody only cements Florida’s status as a nuthouse full of low-class trash.
Update: just to clarify, I saw this on a news segment on tv this morning, and it really irritated me. The woman was carrying on as if she was on Oprah. Did she even know the missing kid? I think not. I think this is a case of some people have to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral, and be in everyone else’s business.
When I first read about the pregnant Palin daughter pregnancy (the real one, that is), I was, I admit, a tad disappointed. I am always disappointed when I hear about high school girls who aren’t married getting pregnant, but to be honest that’s because I don’t get the whole high-school-love, I-want-babies mentality, and I never did. When I was in high school I didn’t even date, and the whole idea of love-‘n’-hugs made me go “ugh,” not “awwww.” And I disapprove of high schoolers having sex anyway. For one thing, it’s so common. I’ve never understood the herd instinct. But at least Bristol and her paramour are getting married — that’s not common, at least not these days.
Anyway, I find it… amusing that some of my fellow* rightwingers have their underwear in a twist over this. (As for what lefties are saying, let us pass over such inanity in silence.) And here’s why, two words: Ronald Reagan. Or has everyone forgotten his rather famously dysfunctional set of kids? And Ronnie was even divorced once! The horror! But it’s all okay, because it’s Saint Reagan. And he’s not the only one. Democrats aren’t the only people with wacky relatives. Excuse me if I find the pronouncements from some high horses rather hypocritical. Why all of a sudden are we buying the leftist demand that Republicans have perfect families in order to qualify for office? We didn’t before. Why the change now? Are we so insecure that we have to flip out over the least little thing the way lefties do? I thought we were the ones wearing the grown-up pants.
*Updated — I had “so many rightwingers” when in fact most rightwingers have been sympathetic and understanding. So I changed it to “some of my fellow rightwingers.”