So
fishwhistle and I were trading comments about, yes, Sarah Palin again, over at
idlerat's lj and then I wandered over to his desk:
me: Ah, the comedy stylings of Lola and Fishwhistle! Thank you, thank you, we'll be here all week ...
Fishwhistle, pointing to his own damn comment: And look here, this is
even funnier.
me, chagrined to learn that this was true: Damnit Fishwhistle, you're always topping me - oh wait -
Fishwhistle, triumphantly:
IN EUROPE! ... pity you can't post that.
me: oh yeah?
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And I know I said, three posts ago, that I was going to step away from the wacky Sarah Palin facts, but ... I'm not. Stage an intervention if you must. But first:
From a link provided by, among others, the delightful Ms.
djinnj,
this is a collection of facts taken from Alaska newspapers by Democratic party researchers to aid opposition to Palin when she ran for Governor of Alaska two years ago. It's all good but here are some highlights:
* While Mayor of Wasilla, she presided over a wedding in the local Walmart of two Walmart employees. It made her teary. "It's so Wasilla!" she said. Among the attendees: passengers from a tour bus.
* Her brother-in-law was a losing contestant on a reality-TV show about dating. He crashed his mountain bike in the first episode.
* In 1996, she drove to Anchorage on the pretext of a visit to Costco, but really to see Ivana Trump at JC Penney's cosmetic counter. She told a local reporter how wonderful the event was because "we are so desparate in Alaska for any semblance of culture or glamour." [note Canadian spelling. More on this later. Am desperately researching possible Canadian angle. Are we
sure Alaska is really in the US?]
* Either she welshed on a bet, or she has the Big Dipper tattooed on an ankle.
From other ramblings around the internet - this is somewhat less reliable - it appears that she's not a fundamentalist at all, but a member of an Assembly of God congregation, which is to say a speaking-in-tongues Pentacostalist. If there is any justice in this universe at
all, there will be video of her or her family members handling snakes, and McCain will lose the entire right-wing Christian vote except for the other Pentacostals and maybe the right-wing Unitarians.
Finally, apropos of last night's speech, somebody in a comment thread over at
Making Light quoted this from some other comment thread on some blog, so we'll just have to attribute it to Anonymous Internet Genius:
"Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor."