It’s on!
Sarah Palin launched her PAC this week. Whether she’ll really run in 2012, I don’t know, but I think it would be swell if Sarah’s new PAC grievously outraised McCain’s new PAC. Don’t you?
Oh, and for those who think I support Sarah Palin because she’s an ordinary girl just like me, may I say a couple of words?
Fuck you.
If the word “ordinary” stings you like the lash, you’ve got issues. I knew kids like you in art school who made up these awful broken homes because their happy, stable middle class real families seemed too darned ordinary to produce sooper geniuses.
That’s right, Normo McBoringloser — I’m rubber and you’re glue.
Anyhow, business-runnin’, moose-huntin’, rootin’ tootin’ Mayor-Governor-Moms like Sarah are hardly ordinary. Sure, her accent says, “golly, this sure is some tasty Frito pie” but her resumé says, “get out of my way or I’ll kick your fat balls up around your eye sockets, Sonny.”
Here’s the deal: I think I recognize Sarah Palin. I think I’ve run across her kind before. If I’m right, she’s the sort of person who can take on a big, tangled mess and make it right, by way of a sort of native perceptiveness, grim determination and ginding, relentless, inexhaustible good cheer.
Am I right about that? I don’t know.
Are those qualities even good to have in high office? I don’t know that, either. I’m not positive I’ve ever seen it in government before. But it’s bound to be an improvement over the string of useless weirdos we have been running, isn’t it?
Click to enlargen and behue. Sizing help available on request.
Posted: January 28th, 2009 under personal, politics.
Comments: 56
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Comment from dfbaskwill
Time: January 28, 2009, 8:41 pm
Clickable colorization! Is there anything you can’t do? Are you developing a British accent yet. That would seal the deal for sure. Americans (especially Eskimos) love British accents.
Comment from Allen
Time: January 28, 2009, 8:53 pm
Hey, I just read a book by Jonathon Kellerman, he of the serial killer drama genre. Link, pfft, I’m lazy.
Anywho one of the victims was a grad from the Rhode Island School of Design… The first suspect also an alumni. Hmmmm.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 28, 2009, 9:01 pm
Hey, don’t look at me!
Although my first blog idea was True Crime, on account of I lumme a grizzly murder. When the time came, I couldn’t bear to be parted with my collection of crappy TC paperbacks and I packed up the lot and moved them across the pond.
There was a ghoul in Lovecraft who was a RISD student, too, IIRC.
Comment from apotheosis
Time: January 28, 2009, 9:23 pm
“embiggen” > “enlargen.”
And bless you for calling out those poor, delicate tormented souls from the mean streets of suburbia. For one brief, shameful period in my childhood I felt a stab of shame at coming from such a home; a home which not only wasn’t broken, but would in fact have driven Ward and June Cleaver to seek immediate counseling, that they might discover where they’d gone so horribly wrong.
I got over it.
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Comment from iamfelix
Time: January 28, 2009, 10:30 pm
Thanks for another great pic, Stoaty. Have minimized & installed on my blog as a linky-button to SarahPAC. Go, Sarah!
Comment from bad cat robot
Time: January 28, 2009, 11:42 pm
Hi, I’m Bad Cat Robot and I’m the product of a happy home too
[chorus: Hi Bad Cat!]
One of the few in my circle of childhood friends whose parents are not only alive, but still married to each other and happy about it. They nearly kicked me out of the Mad Scientist Club for that …
[whistling aimlessly as I nick the SarahPAC graphic]
Comment from Mrs. Hill
Time: January 28, 2009, 11:43 pm
Every presidential campaign we donated to now has its PAC hand out — Fred, Mitt, McCain — but this is the one I think we’ll be supporting. At least it’ll give us something to cling to, bitterly, as we endure the next couple of years.
Your wardrobe adjustments are perfection! And I love Sarah’s graphic of Alaska superimposed on the Lower 48 — “I’m sorry, did someone ask about the breadth of my experience?” Heh.
Comment from Dawn
Time: January 29, 2009, 1:16 am
My parents were still madly in love when the state came to take me away from them, too.
As I have said before, I want to be Sarah Palin when I grow up!
Comment from Matt P
Time: January 29, 2009, 10:01 am
Frito pie?
hmmm….
FRITO PIE!
Recipe please…
Comment from apotheosis
Time: January 29, 2009, 10:09 am
1 Large bag Fritos.
1 (or 2, whatever) cans Hormel Chili. With beans.
1 bag shredded cheese.
Combine first two ingredients in a medium baking dish. Toss lightly until thoroughly and evenly coated. (The Fritos, I mean.) Spread evenly in dish and cover with cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees until done. I don’t know what defines “done” with Frito pie, as it’s all precooked. It’s sorta crusty on the top and warmed all the way through and makes an impossible-to-remove film on the pan.
Serve warm.
Comment from Dawn
Time: January 29, 2009, 11:02 am
For a second Drudge had the headline Is is 2012 already? Obama and Palin to share same stage.
Comment from Matt P
Time: January 29, 2009, 12:01 pm
Thanks Apo,
If the Gods has a pot-luck dinner, I bet the Frito Pie would be the first dish empty.
Comment from apotheosis
Time: January 29, 2009, 12:06 pm
It’s comfort food, with a capital “blorp.”
Also, I learned on Survivorman that Fritos are awesome kindling. So if you’re ever stranded in the arctic wilderness with nothing but tupperware containers of leftovers, this recipe might just save your life.
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: January 29, 2009, 12:32 pm
I am stealing that picture and sharing it with all of my friends.
Comment from apotheosis
Time: January 29, 2009, 12:36 pm
If I might be so bold as to suggest reading, Miss Wzl: David Thompson turns a jaundiced eye toward pretentious artspeak jackassery, e.g.:
‘The shuffling and unfolding of the information of her body in sensory space is enacted across a gap or trajectory of subjecthood that is multiple and present. Subjectivity is the lens and connector through which the spatio-temporal dislocation gets focused and bridged. The gap is outside vision – felt not seen – and always existing on the threshold in between nodes. Like the monster’s subjectivities, all knots in the matrix are linked.’
Comment from Matt P
Time: January 29, 2009, 12:49 pm
Its not just in art,
I can’t remember the details, but didn’t a group create a computer program to write gibberish which they submitted to science journals/conventions and they got a few accepted.
Comment from Red State Witch
Time: January 29, 2009, 12:58 pm
Hear, Hear! Great graphic, Stoaty.
BTW, have you ever cooked eggs in the grease of the bacon that was cooked just before the eggs, and not while camping? That’s how I grew up.
Also, if Frito Pie makes you lick your chops, consider:
Bacon Pie
http://ckdake.com/content/2008/bacon-pie.html
Mmmmmm, bacon.
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: January 29, 2009, 1:02 pm
BTW, have you ever cooked eggs in the grease of the bacon that was cooked just before the eggs, and not while camping? That’s how I grew up.
There’s another way to cook them? 😉
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: January 29, 2009, 1:32 pm
There was a ghoul in Lovecraft who was a RISD student, too, IIRC.
Richard Upton Pickman. Appeared in Pickman’s Model (as a human) and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
And yeah, I’m an extreme nerd for knowing that.
Comment from scubafreak
Time: January 29, 2009, 1:33 pm
Like Emeril says, “Its a pig fat thing!”
Comment from apotheosis
Time: January 29, 2009, 2:07 pm
Bacon. Pie.
I’m so doing that. If you asked Chuck Norris to make quiche, when he was done kicking your ass, he’d make that. Then he’d kick your ass some more.
Comment from scubafreak
Time: January 29, 2009, 2:43 pm
Question for Apo. Since he would be kicking your ass over a food question, will Chuck be yelling “BAMM!” each time he hits you? Or is that just an Emeril thing?
Comment from apotheosis
Time: January 29, 2009, 3:02 pm
I honestly hadn’t thought about that.
But under the circumstances I wouldn’t want to consider who might be kicking what up which notch, either.
Comment from scubafreak
Time: January 29, 2009, 3:13 pm
Makes you wonder what a chuck norris brand of spice rub would be like… LOL 😉
Comment from Red State Witch
Time: January 29, 2009, 3:30 pm
Oops. Forgot the h/t to Instapundit for the bacon pie link.
The only thing that would make it better would be to batter and deep fry it.
Comment from MCPO Airdale
Time: January 29, 2009, 3:31 pm
I always tell people I didn’t vote for MAVERICK. I didn’t. He just happened to be on the same ticket as Sarah Palin!
Comment from Lemur King
Time: January 29, 2009, 6:28 pm
Have to weigh in…
Apo, wonderful comforty-food. Add some french-fried onion-rings from the can and we’re on our way to heaven on earth.
Regarding the artspeak… That is hands-down the biggest steaming pile of bullshit I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading and slogging through.
… across a gap or trajectory of subjecthood that is multiple and present. Subjectivity is the lens and connector through which the spatio-temporal dislocation gets focused and bridged…
My eyes are watering and I’m dizzy. There goes a perfect example of someone who gets high by sniffing their own farts. Thank you for passing that link on. If ever I feel bad about my writing again, I’ll just pull that out and it’ll be right as rain again.
Red State Witch – an associate told me today of bacon-flavored dental floss. I may keep my teeth yet.
Comment from scubafreak
Time: January 29, 2009, 7:24 pm
BTW, it is official. The Blag has left the Pigpen and is on his way to the frying pan of history.
Comment from Lemur King
Time: January 29, 2009, 8:57 pm
Yahoo, scubafreak!
Taking out the trash should never take that long though. Ridiculous that a bunch of state officials didn’t just throw a blanket over his head as he left the building and pound the stuffing right out of him.
In Illinois the frying pan of history is pretty nasty and I doubt it has ever been scrubbed really clean.
“Imagine what future governors will face if I’m thrown out of office for this,” Blagojevich said.
Gasp! You mean they’d face laws and accountability? Dat sucks.
🙂
Comment from Mike Myers
Time: January 31, 2009, 12:59 am
Heck yes I’d vote for Sarah again. I sure didn’t vote for any of the three male clowns on the two tickets (although they probably counted my vote for the faux Maverick).
I’ll pass on the Frito pie, but if you can ship some bangers and mash over here, I’ll gladly scarf them down with a pint of craft brewed ale.
Comment from BillT
Time: January 31, 2009, 4:50 pm
There was a ghoul in Lovecraft who was a RISD student, too, IIRC.
Nup. The geek’s name was Henry Wilcox, and his fever-induced dreams of vast, Cyclopean ruins of non-Euclidean geometricitousness served to introduce the concept of R’lyeh bloorping up from the floor of the Pacific in “The Call of Cthulhu.”
Other than being subject to fever-induced dreams of vast, Cyclopean yadda-yadda, Hank was, by contemporary accounts, somewhat normal…
Comment from Brigette Russell
Time: February 2, 2009, 2:29 pm
1 Large bag Fritos.
1 (or 2, whatever) cans Hormel Chili. With beans.
1 bag shredded cheese.
CANNED chili???? Dude, I don’t THINK so. I live in New Mexico, so I oughta know.
Make homemade chili w/beans (pintos, cooked from dry, not that canned crap, and not red kidney beans either). Pour chili over Fritos (not some other tortilla chips, has to be Fritos). Top with your choice of: shredded cheese, lettuce, chopped tomatoes, onions, sour cream. I personally hate sour cream and it’s not part of the recipe but a lot of people I know like it.
PS Thanks for the political post, Weasel. And here I go commenting with a recipe.
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: February 2, 2009, 3:27 pm
Make homemade chili w/beans (pintos, cooked from dry, not that canned crap, and not red kidney beans either).
Bleh, you lost me here. I hate beans. Chili is not Chili to me if it has beans in it, that’s Chili Beans. Two completely different condiments.
And adding beans to Frito Pie/whatever Chili is just uugggghhh. 😐
This must be a Texas thing, because growing up there whenever I ordered “Chili” it NEVER had beans in it, if you wanted that you ordered “Chili Beans”. But once I left Texas and went to AZ, all “Chili” has beans in it unless you specify otherwise.
Comment from Brigette Russell
Time: February 2, 2009, 4:43 pm
Here in New Mexico we call chili “Texas chili” because chili (more properly chile) is something else altogether. Being a Californian originally, I still just call it chili. And by all means, feel free to make it without beans. Whatever floats your boat. But homemade is better than canned, either way, and not all that hard.
Comment from Brigette Russell
Time: February 2, 2009, 4:45 pm
Nicholas, I just clicked on your link and realized that you’re the “Grue in the Attic” from my blog. Small world. Or did you find me by way of the future Mrs. Badger?
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: February 2, 2009, 5:27 pm
Nicholas, I just clicked on your link and realized that you’re the “Grue in the Attic” from my blog. Small world. Or did you find me by way of the future Mrs. Badger?
Bwahahah, yes that’s me. Grue’s actually the name I use on most of my political-leaning blogs… started on HotAir and then Manly’s site before coming here. I’m not exactly sure why I went with Nicholas, other than I was reading the books the name is from at the time. And yes, I found your site via here and have become something of a daily reader. 🙂
But homemade is better than canned, either way, and not all that hard.
Here-here!
Comment from Brigette Russell
Time: February 2, 2009, 7:27 pm
And I’m delighted to have you as a reader and frequent commenter. You are kicking Dan’s ASS today!
Comment from apotheosis
Time: February 3, 2009, 12:55 pm
CANNED chili???? Dude, I don’t THINK so. I live in New Mexico, so I oughta know.
We’re discussing MAN FOOD.
Now, if you wanna make chili you be my guest. There’s nothing on earth wrong with a noble bowl of red. But such a bowl of chili is a meal to be appreciated in and of itself, not something to pour over a bag of corn chips and bake.
Frito chili pie is meant to be quick, cheap, easy, and trashy. Making actual homemade chili just to turn it into a Frito pie is like a Jag parked outside a double-wide trailer.
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: February 3, 2009, 1:20 pm
And I’m delighted to have you as a reader and frequent commenter. You are kicking Dan’s ASS today!
I have doomed myself to the tormented future existence of attempting educating young-skulls-fullamush. At least if I can ever manage to get back into school… with the current economy that may be a while. 😛
I consider this practice. *bows*
Making actual homemade chili just to turn it into a Frito pie is like a Jag parked outside a double-wide trailer.
*SNORT*
Comment from Brigette Russell
Time: February 3, 2009, 2:10 pm
such a bowl of chili is a meal to be appreciated in and of itself, not something to pour over a bag of corn chips and bake
You don’t bake Frito pie.
Comment from apotheosis
Time: February 3, 2009, 3:07 pm
You don’t bake Frito pie.
*sniff* Speak for yourself. I like the nice crusty top.
Comment from Fred Fnord
Time: February 4, 2009, 8:10 pm
Sarah Palin’s type has been seen in government dozens of times. She’s a ‘there are always simple answers to complicated questions and I know what they are and you don’t’ type. She’s also woefully ignorant, and not at all ashamed of it.
If you’re looking for an example of the type, look no further than Arnold ‘Oops I Fucked Up California Worse Than Davis Ever Imagined’ Schwartzengroper. Reagan was a similar type, but he wasn’t actually actively proud of his ignorance, and actually worked to remedy it when he ran across it.
-fred
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 4, 2009, 8:34 pm
Ut oh. Warning. Dangerous smug levels in that last comment.
Comment from Brigette Russell
Time: February 4, 2009, 10:29 pm
Notice how once Reagan was dead leftists started speaking of him as not-all-that-bad-really-not-like-the-dumb-fuck-Republicans-THESE-days?
Comment from Dawn
Time: February 4, 2009, 11:35 pm
We have had this same chili discussion like six times now.
You know what we haven’t done in a while?
Haiku.
Comment from Machinist
Time: February 5, 2009, 12:55 am
Chili’s the topic,
but Weasel’s “movements” came up.
Should both be discussed?
Comment from Machinist
Time: February 5, 2009, 1:00 am
These just shouldn’t mix.
The images make one gag,
when brought together.
Comment from Machinist
Time: February 5, 2009, 1:04 am
These wrinkle my nose,
but at “firmer stools” I laughed,
in spite of myself.
Comment from Machinist
Time: February 5, 2009, 1:11 am
I sure hope someone as “ignorant” as Reagan comes along and leaves our economy, our military, and our national self image in as bad a shape as he did. We could sure use another generation of prosperity and pride. I think we will need it even more in a few years.
Comment from Machinist
Time: February 5, 2009, 1:12 am
But then I’m just an ignorant peasant myself. I don’t even speak French.
Comment from CONSERVATIVE (not moderate lib) ’12
Time: February 5, 2009, 3:02 am
I just donated to the SarahPAC. Thanks to SWeasel for the tipoff. Read it a week ago and just now as I’m catching up I think she has a good chance. I have to admit my donation is at least partially aimed at snark for the big Zero I give Juan McShamnesty and the sorry sops that got him the nomination and thus lost us the election (see ‘Bama Pachyderm and the type, worthless ….tards) Note on that blog they don’t say anything now.
With name recognition, Sara would have a strong start especially what Carter err Obama is about to do to the economy, but the American people are notoriously blind, deaf and dumb about economics, so ne’er can tell. She may not even run. Here’s to hopin.
Comment from Muslihoon
Time: February 5, 2009, 3:02 am
If anyone here reads “The Innocent Bystanders,” they would know I now have very strong opinions when it comes to politics and economics.
The idiots today are the Keynesian opportunists who are try to put out the fire by throwing in gas. And their miracle-working plans won’t even kick in until after the system rectifies itself, at which point they will swoop in to take the credit and swat any hand that threatens their pet projects which are now a waste of money.
Politicians applying corect economics to get correct principles are what saved us. Volcker (whom Carter mistakenly appointed) comes to mind. And I need not remind you that Reagan and Thatcher saved America and Britain, respectively, from the clutches of decades of Keynesian-originating destruction.
Cut taxes.
Cut spending.
Let the people make their own decisions.
Let the successful succeed and the failing die.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 5, 2009, 8:31 am
Muslihoon for President.
Or economic czar, anyhoo.
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