Most people who dislike PALIN are victims of media distortions, for example everytime she is giving sound on WBZ radio, the sound quality is purposedly poor, in fact last week there was a reporter asking her a question in fine clear audio, but as she went to speak it was slightly garbled...
This is yellow journalism done to impact our psyche, CNN does it all the time. When they present Obama everything is on a platter and he sounds great, no garbled talked, shame on media, they have lost their soul. Are they expecting a bailout too? Are they already bought and paid for?
But apparently she had to quit or go bankrupt - she was supposedly getting sued from all sides intent on silencing her and the only way she could pay her bills which were greater than her salaray as gov was to go out on the lecture circuit. She's most definitely not the brightest bulb in the box (although she's definitely making the most out of extending her 15 minutes), but I don't understand why everyone thinks she's evil - other than the fact that the 50% of Americans even dimmer than she is might actually vote for her.
As an aside, which is worse - Palin quitting and actually leaving the job, or Mitt quitting and staying in the job all the while badmouthing his home state around the country?
Sadly it looks like Mitt is the best thing the R's have to offer.
I may end up abstaining in the next election for the first time ever - or doing what I used to do when Wilkerson ran - vote for myself. My track record on that one is pretty good. Certainly won't make a bit of a difference as I'll go all the way out on the plank and predict that Obama takes Mass about 58-42.
now a days, but funny enough, I'd probably be considered a Reagan Republican if it were the 80's.
There's nothing "Conservative" about the GOP platform in this day and age. It's a mixture of crony consumerists, fascist religious nutjobs, and libertarian idealists. Held together by tax cuts as the golden law, and hand off medicare.
Can you provide a source for this? IIRC the lawsuits had to do with her official actions while governor (public records, involvement in firing a state trooper) so I'd imagine that the state would have had to pay to defend her.
why would they have to pay for her? these things aren't protected by the legal liability of a state. It's similar to these types of things that employees of corporations can be held accountable for individually even though the corporation provides shielding for typical offenses. The limited liability limits itself to actions similar to what Palin did in office, which means she screwed up bad.
What a leader! Sarah Palin cares so much about the United States and thinking she's the best thing for it, that she can't even make up her mind about wanting to run. What an amazing self sacrifice she's making by playing a game of "should I or shouldn't I?" Sarah Palin cares soooooooo much, so much so that she can't be bothered to have a plan!
It would be better to just shun her. Palin is like a dog that takes a crap on your carpet and then feels it gets rewarded by all your attention. Ignoring her works better
and I still think she is brutally ignorant (not stupid) and has no business near a position of power. She's clearly good at telling certain demographics what they want to hear and getting rich doing it. Good for her. She's a politician. Assuming she has any interest but her own at heart is foolish.
"While an intolerant sect does not itself have title to complain of intolerance, its freedom should be restricted only when the tolerant sincerely and with reason believe that their own security and that of the institutions of liberty are in danger."
I leave it up to the reader to determine whether Sarah Palin and her lot comprise such an intolerant sect as to warrant restrictions.
When is the right-wing going to understand that "liberal" is not an insult in any way, shape, or form to people who are left-leaning? So uncreative it hurts.
And, as a proud liberal, I consider myself to be 95% tolerant - the 5% towards which I am intolerant are those who are 95% intolerant.
Careful, there's numbers involved there, and I know how difficult the tea party sect finds them.
I can't remember ever signing a document saying I'd be "tolerant" of willful ignorance and unashamed stupidity. I guess it's conceivable that "tolerance" is another one of those words that don't really have to mean anything if you're using it to make a dumb political point.
Amen to that. I have no respect for people who think that being educated is elitist, and believe that the US is flying into some socialist downward spiral (again with not knowing the meaning of the word "socialist") - all whilst whining about how they want their Medicare and Social Security.
Palin may indeed be stupid, especially when compared to Obama, at least based on his college transcripts, published work in the Harvard Law Review and accomplishments as POTUS. Er, never mind.
But I've seen her unable to name a single newspaper she reads on a regular basis. I have seen Obama's birth certificate, not that I wanted to, and I've also seen him speak in complete sentences for several minutes at a time.
I'm being generous here. If you want to compare their college and post-grad work, though, there's this thing called Google that will really ruin your day.
Well it sort of depends on what you're applying the adjective to. If we're talking economic policy or social policy. The "socialists" complain about the liberal economic policies of the right. And the right complains about the permissive liberal social policies (e.g., gay rights) of dem damn pinkos. I don't think it's all that useful a term really. I prefer shitheads and assholes.
"Poor George Will. He's got a huge boehner in his boxers for Jon Huntsman, but he can't -- try and fantasize as he might -- see a path for his chosen love to the White House.
The reason for Will's frustration is quite simple. His party, the once grand old one, has been hijacked by the petty young thing of profound unseriousness: a seething, tempestuous horde of geezers and bigots and thumpers and temperamental medievalists and Hayekian hayseeds who prefer to soar blissfully on the goofweed of ideological purity than swoon over a candidate's dignified record of accomplishment," - PM Carpenter.
. . . on he Greenway giving a "Hello/Thank you for welcoming me" speech and I think the Mayor was there- but It was across the street when I was passing by and tour trolleys were in the way so I didn't see her. But she sounded like she does on TeeVee. Not a big crowd gathered from what I saw.
A few weeks back when she was aghast that "thug" (read: dark-skinned) Common was invited to the White House for their poetry night. Common is no stranger to using violent rhetoric to get a point across. On his website, he pinpointed a list of several political opponents who needed to be voted out of office. He drove the point home by marking their states with cross-hairs!!
Oh wait, that wasn't Common... who was that again?
Don't know what people expected from the Greenway- circus acts every weekend? Spent the long weekend in the city and the Greenway was filled with people- especially the fountain - choked with families all three days. And it is a big hit across from the North End. I think the addition of more food carts - the cupcake cart and the grilled cheese wagon- especially- are good additions.
It's the butthurt from the people who think it needs to be a public garden, and those that think it needs to be razed for luxury apartments.
Tourists and Workers alike seem to love it in the summer. Multiple local gyms use it for outdoor training and activities all summer, and it's a great place to take a walk and get some lunch.
There does need to be a push to try to attract more stores on the sides of it, but since the highways dump directly to the access road (and they're built for that, not being pedestrian friendly) it might be a problem.
Still, it takes time for them to move in, and change around floor plans to face the greenery. For years it was just a back alley for them, with the highway above them.
Here's an interesting blog post from April which examines what the city actually looked like BEFORE the highway and how basically all the park has done is put a scar on an otherwise gaping wound until now.
Sure, we can't recreate what we've fully destroyed at this point, but look at the old picture. Look at how well connected the North End was to the rest of the city. We could have had that again in some form...but instead, all we did was replace one giant green rusting stripe with a prettier green growing one. The fact that people have been able to find uses for it isn't the point. The fact is that it still parses the city in two pieces and yet before the highway the city was whole. We got rid of the highway...but we didn't regain as much as we could have in doing so.
The fact is that it still parses the city in two pieces and yet before the highway the city was whole.
Citation needed...
As far as I'm concerned, it reconnects the city pretty well.
Just building anything on top of it would seem to rectify your problem of connectivity, but it be in poor judgment IMO. Parks and green space work just as well, and give us an area to enjoy that isn't concrete and brick.
Parks and green spaces don't necessarily connect the city. Just look at Morningside Park in NYC. There's tons of examples like that, where a park actually isolates an area and creates a slum.
Obviously, the Greenway is a different situation. Are people enjoying the Greenway? Sometimes it seems like it. But how often? I was walking up and down it a lot in March, and it seemed pretty deserted. That's not good.
All I know is I gotta hire a team of fuckin' pack mules and a sherpa to make that treacherous crossing from Haymarket to Hanover Street! Do you have any idea how many times I've almost perished from dehydration by the time I've gotten to the fountains? There are times when it takes me almost FORTY-FIVE WHOLE SECONDS to cross the whole thing!
When, when, when will this horribly comfortable and unforgivably pleasant blight be eradicated so that our city can be made whole again????????
The agony! The aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagoneeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
One is a pretty looking but essentially useless, but with a lot going on under the surface, the other...well, scratch the second part.
If you think about it, hizonuh da mayuh is sort of the flip side of her -- as pretty and coherent as the old Central Artery but still with a lot going on under the surface (even the Feds couldn't get at it).
And can anyone confirm if Mayor Menino was actually at a Palin event or was it just proximity of separate evetns?
As described below, I'm thinking it was all just coincidence, rather than our mayor going batty and deciding to give put keys to the city to visiting ex-governors from the other party.
The Harbor Islands thing had been planned awhile ago - I even got a press release about it (and might have gone, except I stayed up way too late working on storm stuff last night) - long before anybody knew Palin would be showing up here, let alone at a hotel across the street from the dedication.
. . . Or anything much for that matter- I was across the street walking by and buses were in the way- but I could have sworn I heard her voice thanking the mayor. It was real short followed by polite applause from the 50 or so people there. Didn't know she was even in town until I read uhub this morning.
Because the mayor was scheduled to be on the Greenway this morning to help dedicate the new Harbor Islands visitor center - which is right across from the Marriott, by amazing coincidence.
I think I just put two and two together without thinking. I had just read that Palin was at the Long wharf like an hour earlier and when I heard her I guess I thought I was hearing Palin. My bad.
"It is of course the symbol for Americans to be reminded of other countries, like the French and other countries, warning us not to make some of the mistakes that they had made. This is a symbol, a reminder of what we can do right, in the name of freedom. That's what I appreciate about the Statue of Liberty. I think it's great, all the symbolism, just represented in each different aspect and detail of the statue..."
Palin said, “He (Paul Revere) who warned uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”
Actually...it went more like this:
On the evening of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. After being rowed across the Charles River to Charlestown by two associates, Paul Revere borrowed a horse from his friend Deacon John Larkin. While in Charlestown, he verified that the local “Sons of Liberty” committee had seen his pre-arranged signals. (Two lanterns had been hung briefly in the bell-tower of Christ Church in Boston, indicating that troops would row “by sea” across the Charles River to Cambridge, rather than marching “by land” out Boston Neck. Revere had arranged for these signals the previous weekend, as he was afraid that he might be prevented from leaving Boston).
On the way to Lexington, Revere “alarmed” the country-side, stopping at each house, and arrived in Lexington about midnight. As he approached the house where Adams and Hancock were staying, a sentry asked that he not make so much noise. “Noise!” cried Revere, “You’ll have noise enough before long. The regulars are coming out!” After delivering his message, Revere was joined by a second rider, William Dawes, who had been sent on the same errand by a different route. Deciding on their own to continue on to Concord, Massachusetts, where weapons and supplies were hidden, Revere and Dawes were joined by a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott. Soon after, all three were arrested by a British patrol. Prescott escaped almost immediately, and Dawes soon after. Revere was held for some time and then released. Left without a horse, Revere returned to Lexington in time to witness part of the battle on the Lexington Green.
No bells, no yelling, no pseudo-Second Amendment nonsense about arming the countryside. He went to alert Adams and Hancock to the British presence and then got arrested before the fighting began.
. . . "Johnny Tremain" was on the junior high reading list when I grew up here. It's a good read even now- and I think a lot of people would benefit from reading it.
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Go Home Fraud
That's all.
WELOCOME SARAH, A TRUE LEADER
Welcome Sarah!
Most people who dislike PALIN are victims of media distortions, for example everytime she is giving sound on WBZ radio, the sound quality is purposedly poor, in fact last week there was a reporter asking her a question in fine clear audio, but as she went to speak it was slightly garbled...
This is yellow journalism done to impact our psyche, CNN does it all the time. When they present Obama everything is on a platter and he sounds great, no garbled talked, shame on media, they have lost their soul. Are they expecting a bailout too? Are they already bought and paid for?
...
I think my favorite part of
I think my favorite part of that macro is that the Joker is being confused by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy.
True leader's
Don't quit their jobs when they get tough.
It's all a media conspiracy?
It's all a media conspiracy? That explains so much!
True leader indeed!
She led the state Alaska proudly, right up until the day she quit on them.
I'm no Palin fan
But apparently she had to quit or go bankrupt - she was supposedly getting sued from all sides intent on silencing her and the only way she could pay her bills which were greater than her salaray as gov was to go out on the lecture circuit. She's most definitely not the brightest bulb in the box (although she's definitely making the most out of extending her 15 minutes), but I don't understand why everyone thinks she's evil - other than the fact that the 50% of Americans even dimmer than she is might actually vote for her.
As an aside, which is worse - Palin quitting and actually leaving the job, or Mitt quitting and staying in the job all the while badmouthing his home state around the country?
Sadly it looks like Mitt is the best thing the R's have to offer.
I may end up abstaining in the next election for the first time ever - or doing what I used to do when Wilkerson ran - vote for myself. My track record on that one is pretty good. Certainly won't make a bit of a difference as I'll go all the way out on the plank and predict that Obama takes Mass about 58-42.
I'm a progressive
now a days, but funny enough, I'd probably be considered a Reagan Republican if it were the 80's.
There's nothing "Conservative" about the GOP platform in this day and age. It's a mixture of crony consumerists, fascist religious nutjobs, and libertarian idealists. Held together by tax cuts as the golden law, and hand off medicare.
Blatant, unadultered, fearless stupidity
Blatant, unadultered, fearless stupidity IS evil. Especially for someone who was that close to the presidency.
not sure about this
Can you provide a source for this? IIRC the lawsuits had to do with her official actions while governor (public records, involvement in firing a state trooper) so I'd imagine that the state would have had to pay to defend her.
why would they have to pay
why would they have to pay for her? these things aren't protected by the legal liability of a state. It's similar to these types of things that employees of corporations can be held accountable for individually even though the corporation provides shielding for typical offenses. The limited liability limits itself to actions similar to what Palin did in office, which means she screwed up bad.
What a leader! Sarah Palin
What a leader! Sarah Palin cares so much about the United States and thinking she's the best thing for it, that she can't even make up her mind about wanting to run. What an amazing self sacrifice she's making by playing a game of "should I or shouldn't I?" Sarah Palin cares soooooooo much, so much so that she can't be bothered to have a plan!
God bless America, and no place else!
Wow
Wow, you are just incredibly
Wow, you are just incredibly stupid.
Like many victims of Faux News, you seem to use expressions without understanding their meaning.
beep beep boop palin bot
It doesn't matter what the sound is like, her WORDS are terrible! She is empty-headed and spreads hate and resentment.
It would be better to just
It would be better to just shun her. Palin is like a dog that takes a crap on your carpet and then feels it gets rewarded by all your attention. Ignoring her works better
Think...
She'll get the history right this time?
Someone should tell her Paul Revere road to Quincy where the original dunks is, and that the tea went into Revere Beach.
I bet she'd buy it.
You can use filters to that end.
I have Google News set to filter out several boring, unimportant, irrelevant, or just plain ridiculous topics.
Sarah Palin is one of them.
Wonder if she'll stop by Concord, NH
Where the American Revolution began?
She can join Michelle Bachman there, still searching for the Old North Bridge.
Ahh, tolerant liberals.
Ahh, tolerant liberals. As long as you agree with them. And someone is calling Palin a fraud? Ha!
Liberal taunting... like shooting fish in a barrel...
from a helicopter!
I'm no liberal
and I still think she is brutally ignorant (not stupid) and has no business near a position of power. She's clearly good at telling certain demographics what they want to hear and getting rich doing it. Good for her. She's a politician. Assuming she has any interest but her own at heart is foolish.
As philosopher John Rawls once said
I leave it up to the reader to determine whether Sarah Palin and her lot comprise such an intolerant sect as to warrant restrictions.
When is the right-wing going
When is the right-wing going to understand that "liberal" is not an insult in any way, shape, or form to people who are left-leaning? So uncreative it hurts.
And, as a proud liberal, I consider myself to be 95% tolerant - the 5% towards which I am intolerant are those who are 95% intolerant.
Careful, there's numbers involved there, and I know how difficult the tea party sect finds them.
As a proud liberal
I can't remember ever signing a document saying I'd be "tolerant" of willful ignorance and unashamed stupidity. I guess it's conceivable that "tolerance" is another one of those words that don't really have to mean anything if you're using it to make a dumb political point.
Amen to that. I have no
Amen to that. I have no respect for people who think that being educated is elitist, and believe that the US is flying into some socialist downward spiral (again with not knowing the meaning of the word "socialist") - all whilst whining about how they want their Medicare and Social Security.
Palin may be stupid, especially when compared to Obama
Palin may indeed be stupid, especially when compared to Obama, at least based on his college transcripts, published work in the Harvard Law Review and accomplishments as POTUS. Er, never mind.
She's incredibly stupid
And there's not one feeble deflection on Earth that will change that fact.
I Haven't Seen Her Birth Certificate
But I've seen her unable to name a single newspaper she reads on a regular basis. I have seen Obama's birth certificate, not that I wanted to, and I've also seen him speak in complete sentences for several minutes at a time.
I'm being generous here. If you want to compare their college and post-grad work, though, there's this thing called Google that will really ruin your day.
Google
is part of the liberal conspiracy.
When is the right-wing going
So the left wing's change in terminology ( "progressive" ) was just for the hell of it?
liberal use of liberal
Well it sort of depends on what you're applying the adjective to. If we're talking economic policy or social policy. The "socialists" complain about the liberal economic policies of the right. And the right complains about the permissive liberal social policies (e.g., gay rights) of dem damn pinkos. I don't think it's all that useful a term really. I prefer shitheads and assholes.
And the term
"progressive" has been around for quite some time, Dave. Actually the actual progressive movement spanned the 1890s through the 1920s.
So your point is?
As far as I know the words "liberal" and "progressive" are both in use today. One is not is use over the other.
I thought I was a progressive
but then found out i was a moderate after someone explained that a progressive was a communist in liberal clothing
Damned if I know, I didn't
Damned if I know, I didn't get the newsletter.
"Poor George Will. He's got a
"Poor George Will. He's got a huge boehner in his boxers for Jon Huntsman, but he can't -- try and fantasize as he might -- see a path for his chosen love to the White House.
The reason for Will's frustration is quite simple. His party, the once grand old one, has been hijacked by the petty young thing of profound unseriousness: a seething, tempestuous horde of geezers and bigots and thumpers and temperamental medievalists and Hayekian hayseeds who prefer to soar blissfully on the goofweed of ideological purity than swoon over a candidate's dignified record of accomplishment," - PM Carpenter.
Cry more
Are the liberals hurting your feelings? Poor you. Just go run and hide from reality some more.
Thank you for this Two
Thank you for this Two Minutes Hate session.
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Heard her . . .
. . . on he Greenway giving a "Hello/Thank you for welcoming me" speech and I think the Mayor was there- but It was across the street when I was passing by and tour trolleys were in the way so I didn't see her. But she sounded like she does on TeeVee. Not a big crowd gathered from what I saw.
Favorite Palinism?
A few weeks back when she was aghast that "thug" (read: dark-skinned) Common was invited to the White House for their poetry night. Common is no stranger to using violent rhetoric to get a point across. On his website, he pinpointed a list of several political opponents who needed to be voted out of office. He drove the point home by marking their states with cross-hairs!!
Oh wait, that wasn't Common... who was that again?
who was marking states with targets?
Were you trying to remember the Democratic Leadership council?
Back in the Bush years.
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253055&kaid=127&subid=171
Targets != Gun Sights. But
Targets != Gun Sights.
But nice try*. Even that wasn't that bad, but it was more about her terminology anyways, and nonchalant way of equating gun violence to winning.
*refer to image above.
Wow, we got away with one there
Some unhinged lunatic might have tried to throw a dart at Missouri!
Dammit
beat me to it.
And that surely excuses Palin's racist hypocrisy. Thanks for that.
New Favorite Palinism
Paul Revere ringing those bells FTW!
Philosophical Question
If Sarah Palin rang Paul Revere's bells on her porch, could you hear them in Russia?
That reminds me of a joke
What's the difference between Palin and the Greenway?
One is a useless embarrassment that has never lived up to expectations and came onto the scene in the fall of 2008...the other is Sarah Palin.
Lives up to my expectations.
Don't know what people expected from the Greenway- circus acts every weekend? Spent the long weekend in the city and the Greenway was filled with people- especially the fountain - choked with families all three days. And it is a big hit across from the North End. I think the addition of more food carts - the cupcake cart and the grilled cheese wagon- especially- are good additions.
Yeah
It's the butthurt from the people who think it needs to be a public garden, and those that think it needs to be razed for luxury apartments.
Tourists and Workers alike seem to love it in the summer. Multiple local gyms use it for outdoor training and activities all summer, and it's a great place to take a walk and get some lunch.
There does need to be a push to try to attract more stores on the sides of it, but since the highways dump directly to the access road (and they're built for that, not being pedestrian friendly) it might be a problem.
Still, it takes time for them to move in, and change around floor plans to face the greenery. For years it was just a back alley for them, with the highway above them.
Depends on the question asked
...and your frame of reference.
Here's an interesting blog post from April which examines what the city actually looked like BEFORE the highway and how basically all the park has done is put a scar on an otherwise gaping wound until now.
Sure, we can't recreate what we've fully destroyed at this point, but look at the old picture. Look at how well connected the North End was to the rest of the city. We could have had that again in some form...but instead, all we did was replace one giant green rusting stripe with a prettier green growing one. The fact that people have been able to find uses for it isn't the point. The fact is that it still parses the city in two pieces and yet before the highway the city was whole. We got rid of the highway...but we didn't regain as much as we could have in doing so.
The fact is that it still
Citation needed...
As far as I'm concerned, it reconnects the city pretty well.
Just building anything on top of it would seem to rectify your problem of connectivity, but it be in poor judgment IMO. Parks and green space work just as well, and give us an area to enjoy that isn't concrete and brick.
Parks in cities
Erm, citation? Look at the picture in the link.
Parks and green spaces don't necessarily connect the city. Just look at Morningside Park in NYC. There's tons of examples like that, where a park actually isolates an area and creates a slum.
Obviously, the Greenway is a different situation. Are people enjoying the Greenway? Sometimes it seems like it. But how often? I was walking up and down it a lot in March, and it seemed pretty deserted. That's not good.
P.S. Thanks, Kaz, for the great link.
I know, right?
All I know is I gotta hire a team of fuckin' pack mules and a sherpa to make that treacherous crossing from Haymarket to Hanover Street! Do you have any idea how many times I've almost perished from dehydration by the time I've gotten to the fountains? There are times when it takes me almost FORTY-FIVE WHOLE SECONDS to cross the whole thing!
When, when, when will this horribly comfortable and unforgivably pleasant blight be eradicated so that our city can be made whole again????????
The agony! The aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagoneeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Useless embarrassment?? That
Useless embarrassment?? That is the first time I've ever heard someone say such a thing about the Greenway. I for one love it!
You don't get around much.
You don't get around much.
hmmm
One is a pretty looking but essentially useless, but with a lot going on under the surface, the other...well, scratch the second part.
If you think about it, hizonuh da mayuh is sort of the flip side of her -- as pretty and coherent as the old Central Artery but still with a lot going on under the surface (even the Feds couldn't get at it).
And can anyone confirm if Mayor Menino was actually at a Palin event or was it just proximity of separate evetns?
Based on the timing ...
As described below, I'm thinking it was all just coincidence, rather than our mayor going batty and deciding to give put keys to the city to visiting ex-governors from the other party.
The Harbor Islands thing had been planned awhile ago - I even got a press release about it (and might have gone, except I stayed up way too late working on storm stuff last night) - long before anybody knew Palin would be showing up here, let alone at a hotel across the street from the dedication.
I didn't see her . . .
. . . Or anything much for that matter- I was across the street walking by and buses were in the way- but I could have sworn I heard her voice thanking the mayor. It was real short followed by polite applause from the 50 or so people there. Didn't know she was even in town until I read uhub this morning.
About what time?
Because the mayor was scheduled to be on the Greenway this morning to help dedicate the new Harbor Islands visitor center - which is right across from the Marriott, by amazing coincidence.
Yeah-
It was right at the new Harbor Island center (which is informative). I think it was around 11 or 11:30 or so.
Actually, that celebration
Actually, that celebration was for the opening of the new Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion next to the carousel. That was Vickie Kennedy speaking.
Must have been.
I think I just put two and two together without thinking. I had just read that Palin was at the Long wharf like an hour earlier and when I heard her I guess I thought I was hearing Palin. My bad.
Is your title subtly Palin-esque?
Methinks you mean "casually" not "causally" in your title.
Feel free to make up words, too, when writing about her.
No, it's subtly typo-esque
Fixed.
Yeah, but, spelling (and civics) counts ...
The Statute of Liberty is like the Statute of Limitations ... sort of.
"It is of course the symbol
"It is of course the symbol for Americans to be reminded of other countries, like the French and other countries, warning us not to make some of the mistakes that they had made. This is a symbol, a reminder of what we can do right, in the name of freedom. That's what I appreciate about the Statue of Liberty. I think it's great, all the symbolism, just represented in each different aspect and detail of the statue..."
But dressing as a Native
But dressing as a Native American and tossing her into the harbor is still cool, right? Isn't that the kind of thing her people go for?
Here's your "smart" "true leader" in her own words
Actually...it went more like this:
No bells, no yelling, no pseudo-Second Amendment nonsense about arming the countryside. He went to alert Adams and Hancock to the British presence and then got arrested before the fighting began.
I've talked with first
I've talked with first graders who can more accurately describe this event than Palin.
Oh, Cilla...
I guess Johnny Tremain wasn't on the reading list in Alaska for 8th graders. But then, was it here? It was in Maryland.
Yes . . .
. . . "Johnny Tremain" was on the junior high reading list when I grew up here. It's a good read even now- and I think a lot of people would benefit from reading it.
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