This hockey-mom is about to go nuclear.

It is pant-crappingly scary when some gun-toting, radical christian fundamentalist, former beauty-queen with a dubious political track record and zero foreign policy experience starts to talk about getting into a fight with Russia.

If Vladimir Putin looked into the eyes of George Bush and saw a weak, feckless idiot, what will he see when he looks into the eyes of Palin?  A hockey-mom with launch-codes, no foreign policy experience, fanatical beliefs far more excessive than those of Sayyid Qutb and the hubris that makes her think she is even in Putin's league as a head of state?

Put yourself in Putin's place.  Apply hawkish republican reasoning to the situation from his point of view.  Here you have a foreign super-power talking about armed intervention in your back yard.  Under the command from someone who believes she is talking to God.  Would you show restraint?

How would you feel if a military superpower, like Russia or China, started showing up in South America?  Meddling in conflicts in the back yard of the United States?  How would you feel if you knew this person held religious beliefs that we usually associate with less enlightened times.

You would be very uncomfortable.  Not only with the interventions in your back yard, but with the highly dangerous unpredictability of someone who is out of touch with reality.

The Russians are scary.  But at least they are not threatening with military presence in locations directly on the American mainland borders.  Nor are their leaders afflicted by irrational religious madness.  Nor are they lightweights.  They may lie, deceive and oppress -- but they are competent totalitarians.

Good Will Hunting on Palin

McCain's POW years are irrelevant

I wonder why McCain keeps relying on his five years in a Vietnamese shithole as a means to get out of any argument and why nobody has called him on it yet.   That story is getting really old.

Yet he keeps banging on about his stint in jail and his military service.  He even seems proud of the fact that he was among the worst performing officers in his class.

While having to endure 5 years of imprinsonment as a prisoner of war is a terrible personal tragedy, it is not something that qualifies you to become a president.  Or a physics teacher.  Or an auto-mechanic.  

Are we going to make McCain president based on pitying him?  Does he look like he needs pity? This is a man who has all the material wealth he could possibly need available to him.  He is wealthy to the degree where he has no firm grasp on how many houses are at his disposal. Meanwhile large numbers of people in the US have lost their homes.  To foreclosure and to natural disasters.  Meanwhile veterans of war, people who sacrificed their health, their future, their lives, are coming back to the US and finding that Their Guy, McCain, is not taking their side.  Either voting against them or not bothering to turn up to vote at all.

The contrast between what one should reasonably expect from McCain and what he enacts is shocking.  McCain didn't learn anything from the experience and is now abandoning his own, the veterans, while putting even bigger swaths of the population at risk of having their lives destroyed.

By the same logic that makes McCain's imprisonment in Vietnam a qualification for the presidency, should we expect the future leader of Afhanistan, Pakistan or Iraq to come from one of the many military prisons operated by the US?  How would you look upon a candidate that served 5 years in Guantanamo running for president in Afghanistan.  Especially one that was only too ready to let others suffer through the same hardships. 

Would you view years in a rathole like Guantanamo as an experience that in itself qualifies someone for presidency?

Of course not.

Fact of the matter is that McCain's stint in jail is irrelevant.   Fact of the matter is that it didn't even do anything about his character.   McCain emerged from prison, character flaws intact and not having learnt anything.

Not much of a celebrity.

A few weeks back the republicans, feeling unloved by the media, accused Obama of being a celebrity.  Well, how the fuck is being a well known public figure a bad thing when you are running for president?  Especially if you are a politician.  I thought the republicans said that Obama was an "unknown"?  Then they say he is too well known. 

If Obama was such a big celebrity, you'd expect him to do better in interviews.  McCain does a lot better in interviews than Obama.  At least from what I have seen.  Of course, McCain has the advantage of having positions that are one-liners.  Simple shit he made up on the plane on his way to the rally -- and not always cleared with his campaign management. 

Meanwhile, Obama actually tries to formulate meaningful answers, and thus comes across as more hesitant.  In a country where the majority of the population are below most third world countries in education and world knowledge, that is a handicap.

Obama, work on those one-liners.  You are over-estimating your voters.

"May we borrow a Soyuz capsule, please, Mr Putin, Sir?

The sad thing about Bush pissing away trillions of dollars bombing the shit out of brown people on the other side of the globe, is that his successor will have to be really nice to Putin and his buddies to hitch a lift to the ISS on the Soyuz capsule.  Coz' NASA sure as shit ain't getting the budget to pimp the space shuttles or get the new Orion/Ares vehicle on line.

Well, that and the fact that if the shitter breaks again, they'll have to just hold it in until NASA can send up a plumber in 2014.

This is your country on GOP.

Republican values

I wonder if Palin practiced safe sex when she fucked Brad Hanson.  Probably not.  After all, she irresponsibly took no precautions not to get knocked up in her old age. 

And her god rewarded her with a retarded offspring.  And a teen pregnancy to boot.

You can keep your republican values, Palin.   I suggest you take your values and go hide out with people who share your values.  Like that spineless Saudi everyone is looking for in caves on the Afghan-Paki border.

September!?

Shit, september already?   It was june just a couple of days ago.

How the fuck did that happen?

Shaking things up?

As irrelevant as we would wish people's personal tragedies are, the complete lack of decency of that Palin-woman is something the voters need to consider.  Especially given the overwhelming risk that McCain, although running only for a single term lame-duck presidency, has a significant risk of kicking the bucket early -- thus leaving that crazy woman in charge of the whole operation.

The US could end up with one of the craziest least morally fit presidents ever.

Just look at Palin's family.  This woman is so delusional that she is unable to admit that her family's deep dysfuntion is the result of her twisted morality.  She is:

• Anti-family planning, even for married couples
• She despises single mothers and teens who have gotten themselves knocked up
• She believes in abstinence-only 
• She does not believe in sexual education
• She is militantly anti-choice
• She preaches family values, yet foisted her kids on other members of her family to raise while she was off doing more glamorous things.
• Irresponsibly got knocked up herself at an advanced age, resulting in an unwanted special needs child.

With republicans being so obsessed with morality and family values, it would seem odd to choose someone to represent them who so clearly illustrates how these positions lead to tragedy.

That Palin-woman is just The Wrong Stuff through and through. 

No, the *other* Palin

Casual conversation at the urinals:

- Palin?  McCain's running mate?  But...he's british!

- No you stupid cunt, the other Palin.  The white trash, hypocrite, Miss Moose from Alaska, Palin.

- Oh.  Oh I see.  Oh, dear, I see...