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President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Sarah Palin. One’s a naive, oil-obsessed, holy war-calling, religious extremist, and the other is an Iranian. Here’s the Lovesick Billy take on this dynamic duo:
Ahmadinejad: Thinks the Holocaust is a myth.
Palin: Thinks evolution is a myth.
Ahmadinejad & Palin: Were not widely known when they entered their presidential election campaigns, although they had already made their marks for rolling back earlier reforms. Continue reading ‘Sarah Palin: Ahmadinejad in Heels’
It’s time to stop talking about Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin may not share beliefs with much of the country, and that’s just fine. She has her hands full with a special needs child, a pregnant teen, and an investigation into her conduct, all of which she’s certain to survive. It’s okay, because at 44 – by political standards – she’s just a kid. Her day will come. Just not this year.
Governor Palin is formidable: a smart, congenial, accomplished woman, passionate about her country. Continue reading ‘The Real Last Word on Sarah Palin’
Palin Comparison to Lynne Spears
Last December, People reported Lynne Spears’ book on parenting was indefinitely delayed when her 16-year old, unwed daughter, Jamie-Lynn became pregnant. The world called them trailer trash. The implied cry: what’s she doing writing a book on parenting when she can’t keep her teenage daughter intact through high school? (Say nothing of Britney.) Hey, at least Lynne called it what it was. Almost a year later, instead of a book that may have accompanied Dr. Spock, she publishes Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World.
Now that we have a recklessly chosen VP candidate in the same situation as Lynne Spears, (say nothing of the Troopergate scandal [where she pretty clearly dogs her former brother-in-law, expending considerable personal and state resources over a personal vendetta] and the ensuing legal defense), what will be said of her? Continue reading ‘Palin Comparison to Lynne Spears’
Cheeky News Recap 8/21/08
British Olympian Craig Pickering (clearly a big boy) laments that he ‘let the country down’ with a bad run at the games 1 while a Florida community let down an adorable lesbian high school student by standing behind the fundamentalist principal who shamed her, told her to stay away from children, and outed her to her family. 2
The king, and absolute monarch, of Swaziland, one of the world’s poorest countries where 40% of the population is HIV+ and can’t afford treatment or even food, sent 9 of his 13 wives (check this out) on a shopping spree across Europe and the Middle East. Nice. 3
Native Americans accepted gay marriage 4, while the Knights of Columbus, upped the ante to revoke our right. 5 Why don’t they just Continue reading ‘Cheeky News Recap 8/21/08’
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