The 2008 year in birthdays in quite something...!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Sham Marriage
Ah yes, that 17-year-old child of Gov Palin has a joyous little family to look forward to, since her preggers daughter will marry the Baby Daddy to "do the right thing". That ought to be fun at Thanksgiving. And Mommy Palin had to know what was going to shake down in the media. She had to. And for that...
"Way to shove your own daughter under the wheels of the GOP Machine, Governor Palin. Ultimate sacrifice indeed. "
Dear Sweet Mark Morford of the "San Francisco Chronicle" continues (never such truer words)...
"This just in: Hurricane of delicious irony slams Republican National Convention, flooding the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul with rivers of savage hypocrisy as levees of evangelical denial and sexual confusion overflow into the streets, leaving stunned party members scrambling in vain for shaky moral high ground.
"Meanwhile, clever looters smash windows of opportunity and steal valuable quips about underage sex and teen pregnancy, as everyone gets a very unsettling if not downright weird taste of warped pro-gun anti-choice elk-kabob conservative Alaskan family values. YouTube at 11.
"Yes, the rumors are true. The cosmic votes have all been tallied, and I do believe we can now say, with some measure of happy certainty, that God appears to be just as sick-to-death of the Republican Party as the rest of us. "
"Way to shove your own daughter under the wheels of the GOP Machine, Governor Palin. Ultimate sacrifice indeed. "
Dear Sweet Mark Morford of the "San Francisco Chronicle" continues (never such truer words)...
"This just in: Hurricane of delicious irony slams Republican National Convention, flooding the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul with rivers of savage hypocrisy as levees of evangelical denial and sexual confusion overflow into the streets, leaving stunned party members scrambling in vain for shaky moral high ground.
"Meanwhile, clever looters smash windows of opportunity and steal valuable quips about underage sex and teen pregnancy, as everyone gets a very unsettling if not downright weird taste of warped pro-gun anti-choice elk-kabob conservative Alaskan family values. YouTube at 11.
"Yes, the rumors are true. The cosmic votes have all been tallied, and I do believe we can now say, with some measure of happy certainty, that God appears to be just as sick-to-death of the Republican Party as the rest of us. "
German flag
There's something so unapologetic about this picture: the German flag. It seems like all we ever learned in school in the US was that Germans were bad and the stigma of WWII will be there forever. While this conversation is longer than I have space, it was quite refreshing to see so many German flags waiving on my trip in June.
Patriotism of any kind is a slippery slope in Germany - even my cousin said so. But during the EuroCup the flag was everywhere, on homes, in gardens, on scooters and cars, you name it.
And no where bigger a flag or so many was here at the Reichstag Building in Berlin. The flag waives proudly and elegantly as if it were saying "we accept the past but look toward the future."
Just my translation of it. And again, it's my fucking blog...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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