Entry #672994, added on 10-23-09 @ 2:33 pm EDT
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If you haven't offered up your two cents in yesterday's entry, "riddle me this"  , I encourage you to do so. It helps with my novel and satiates my curiosity, and, perhaps most importantly, there are gift points to be had!
Not that I'm a fan, but the latest Sarah Palin news: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/10/23/palin_endorses_hoffman_in_ny-23.htm...
I just can't figure this woman out. Really. I have her narrowed down to three possibilities:
 She's so inept that she sabotages her own party without knowing it;
She's blinded by ideology, so much so that Republicans aren't conservative enough for her;
She's secretly a Democratic operative who not only guaranteed Obama a win in the 2008 elections but is working to keep the House Democrat-controlled, too.
Being partial to conspiracy theories, I like to think it's the last one. How delicious a story, right? She could be a spy in the middle of the Republican party, carefully choosing only soundbytes so ridiculous that no normal human being would buy them. (Not that no human beings seem to agree, just that no normal ones do.) It'd be a shrewd move for the Democrats.
As some of you are aware, for last year's primaries, I re-registered as a Republican so I could vote for Ron Paul. Right afterward I switched back -- the Libertarians need my registration, you know, to keep party status in the state -- but the damage was done, I guess. My parents' house still gets mailed "District Alerts" from a local Republican group, although my dad reregistered to vote for Ron Paul too, so I can't take all the blame for that.
Unfortunately, something that is entirely my fault is the amount of conservative junk email I get now. I've mentioned before that somehow I mysterious got on the Democratic Governors' Association listserv; I'm also, somehow, on the listserv for "Gun Alerts," "Socialism Alerts" and "Conservative Action Alerts." That a lot of alerts. I don't know how conservatives function, being on alert all the time.
Here's the problem: if it were genuinely a "socialism alert," I'd probably be all for it. If, for instance, it were an email that gave me updates on socialist countries' abuses of citizens or violations of civil liberties, I'd probably like it a lot. Instead it keeps reminding me that Obama was born in Kenya and wants to kill my grandmother. Scary! Except that neither of those things relate to socialism.
Next week, I'm giving my class presentation on Maoist policy and the Miao in 20th century China. Now that's what I call socialism! Maybe I should write a Socialism Alert about it... |
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