An Apology of Sorts
So I posted a “repulsive” image of Sarah Palin’s autobiography cover Blingee‘d into oblivion yesterday.
Yes, I still have the heart of a twelve-year-old.
I thought they were funny. I sent the link to an ailing friend of mine to cheer her up and she laughed, coughed, and laughed again. Palin’s only real claim to fame is her tagging along with McCain for a run to the White House and, in the process, turning that campaign into a bigger joke than it already was. As far as I’m concerned, her story ought to have ended right there, but she keeps coming back like a bad penny. It’s sad and awful that the media has turned into her tool to the extent that her book is already selling out online. She most certainly does not speak for me, either as a woman or as a public figure, has already proven a willingness to manipulate even her own offspring for her own ends, and, in the end, she is simply a quitter in the realm of public service.
Her brand of selfish crazy is indeed repulsive to me.
What is also repulsive, though, atop it all is how much the mainstream media takes its eye off the ball with regards to the real issues of the day…
….how ineffective a Democratic majority in Congress really has been…
…why we still cannot extricate ourselves from Iraq and Afghanistan…
…why not having the Olympics in Chicago is a good thing…
…and why, when all is said and done, a murder rate is much, much more than its numbers:
What concern of mine is Carmen? Why do I publish the lists of the dead, the mostly low-life victims? Why do check the blog stats page for links into those posts and the Internet searches that bring them in. I wonder why I plucked the story of another young girl named Chanel Sanchell. The local newspaper story doesn’t tell us much about Chanel either, what lead her out of her house that night with someone her family didnt’ know who came to the door looking for her. All I know is here in New Orleans there are too many golems with guns, soulless shells who will take a life without much more thought than to take out and light a cigarette, and they move through the life of the streets like sharks through schools of fish, predators and prey trapped together in the currents of only place they know to live.
I remember what I wrote about Chanel and it applies to Carmen as well. Whatever lead them out into the night with a stranger, a night that ended with a gunshot, both were once small children not much different than my own, as innocent as lambs in the lap of Sunday school Jesus. If their deaths cease to matter to you, matters no more than the condition of the bad schools your children didn’t attend or the trouble on streets you never cross; if the broken families of people who pulled two or three tours in Iraq don’t bother you then consider this:
The next time you see some kid on the corner eyeballing you at the stoplight, the one in the chee-wee haircut with the long white t-shirt, don’t avoid his gaze. Look straight back at him. If that bulge at his waist looks like it might be a gun don’t turn away or run the light. Look hard, as if into a mirror at your own cold and soulless reflection in his eyes.
That is what matters.
Okay, so I shouldn’t have posted the Palin picture in a Sukkot post. My apologies there as a Yiddishe maideleh.
It’s actually more appropriate for Purim…
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The Olympics in Chicago… that’s all we need.
Remember that it was the good people of Chicago who wished the citizens of New Orleans would have “drownded” during Katrina. Not just isolated incidents of poor sportsmanship, but wholesale animosity of the lowest form over a football game. One can only imagine the all-encompassing worldwide conflict that would result had the 2016 Olympic Games been awarded to the Blowhard City.
Fuck Chicago.
M:
I agree 100% about the asshole behavior of Chicaganites towards New Olreanians at such a terrible time, and in fact, still think they stink out loud.
On the other hand, the video bites of groups or crowds, jeering and clapping as the United Sates of America is treated like a bad trailer park in the choice for Olympic Cities, well, it really pisses me off.
Besides the mean spiritedness of it, there is no doubt in my mind that one of the factors that lead to this decision is the ongoing moronic behavior of Americans, particularly the Republican’t Conservative Movement.
Who in the world would want to hold an international event of this magnitude in a place where people carry guns to church meetins about health care, threaten the life of their highest official from Pastoral Pulpits and generally act like spoiled brats because ‘that negro’ somehow snuck in to the White House.
Just like their last mentor, The Bush Cheney Beast, this behavior is turning a recent growth in positive viewpoints of the USA in to a horrible interantional joke. We are becoming portrayed, nationally, as gun carrying, bible beating racist illiterates, banning movies on evolution and threatening to burn books.
This jeering mob of Obama Haters At Any Cost are a world wide embaressment to any thinking (or reading, for that matter) American.
The fact that have have their own make believe “news” channel, their own private army (Blackwater) and their obviously racist agenda, up and running almost unchecked, would lend creedence to any belief that we’re the idiot red neck nation they think we are.
Maybe we could just send all the applauding morons to Chicago and hold Steel Cage matches until there are none left?
I’ll bring the beer….
Well, here’s the thing with the Olympic Games. They’ve grown too big for their own good and for the good of any city they ‘honor’ with hosting them.
The first modern Olympics drew some 241 athletes from 14 countries. They competed in 43 events from 9 sports. The numbers have increased to almost unbearable proportions. The Beijing games boasted 11,000 athletes from 204 countries competing in 302 events from 28 sports. The mind boggles. I give props to the organizers for actually making this thing run as smoothly as it does, but I think they’re missing a huge opportunity.
Break up the games.
Split the Olympics into half a dozen groups, say Equestrian, Water, Track, Wrestling, Soccer, Baseball, etc, and hold those events in one city. Every continent gets an Olympic venue every four years and more people will be able to actually attend the games. Not only that, but cities will actually be able to afford the realistically prep for the games.
As it stands now, an Olympiad is basically a nice bag of medical grade cocaine for a city’s nose. It gives them a huge high, costs an assload of money, then leaves them with an empty feeling as everyone watches the shiny venues rot and decay due to disuse after the party is over. Splitting the games up would still bring in a ton of revenue for host cities, but the tax burden would be lessened for citizens and the amount of useless venues would be all but diminished.
But what the heck do I know… :)
(Waitaminit… Obama’s black?)
Brilliant idea, dude.
If you weren’t so ethnic, you could be president.
Not me Jack. I’ve seen what we do to Catholic Presidents…
I went to wikipedia just to it straight. Palin was on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska. She chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 until her resignation in 2004 (She’s obviously no stranger to resigning early). She was governor of Alaska for about 2/3 of one term. She was the vice-presidential candidate on a losing ticket. She has now “written” a memoir. What the hell has done that’s worth buying a book over?
Perhaps she explains what she was smoking when she came up with Frick & Frack for her kids’ names. I mean Trig & Track.
Lloyd, I’m thinking her ghostwriter will most likely be cleaning things up BIG TIME, judging from the way Palin speaks and the fact that she mostly dictated the bio. An article referenced below applies English grammar rules to her speech, including scrutinizing her sentence structure:
http://www.slate.com/id/2201158?nav=wp
I hate that any woman is the subject of this sort of ridicule, but she unfortunately does this to herself over and over and over again. No shame. No true stick-to-it-iveness, as you’ve noted. All for her and that is that…and large numbers of people are apparently eating this up.
liprap, while i thought the pic you posted of Palin was in bad taste, i had a good belly laugh. (i find her insulting to women..all women)
but i think it’s pretty clear the reason people are ‘eating this up’ is because everyone can’t stop writing about her. the more coverage she gets, the more others write and so on.
what is it they say? “even bad press is good”
…’trig & track’…. lmao!
Yeah, termite, and I guess I’m no exception to piling on with the Palin coverage…but man, I couldn’t resist those tacky pictures. I also couldn’t resist getting a leopard print maternity dress when I was pregnant with my son, so I guess I have a tacky streak in me somewhere. An Incredible Hulk-like sort of tacky streak.
I thought:
A) the picture was hilarious, especially Bullwinkle, leering from the corner.
B) all women look hot in leopard skin fabric, no matter what. you go girl.
C) People keep writing about Palin because they don’t get out enough to watch train wrecks in person.
D) People keep reading about Palin because it’s slightly more intellectual than having Maury Povich tell you what she said and then giving you a paternity test.
E) Please post more funny pictures of know-it-all blowhards who tell everyone off and quit their jobs in a snit. It’s fun, dammit.
Palin… really is a shining example of what real women, DON’T want women portrayed as… I find it difficult, when a female friend makes a pro palin comment to me. I just want to end the friendship there…. I just can’t see past this atricoity of a human being… If you want a really good laugh? try this… from my friend Jayne County…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMFD_4BgYyc
Jayne has several other very political video’s… they all make me laugh…