Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Palin’

The Ground Zero Mosque or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Muslims

Posted: 08/24/2010 in Politics
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Not so Ground Zero-y

I’ve been meaning to write about this “Ground Zero” mosque (of course ground zero is in quotes because the mosque isn’t actually at ground zero) for sometime, but for the most part I just figured there’s no way this story would stick around. It was just too cynical a political ploy and far too hateful to actually survive as an actual issue in 2010. Well, after two plus solid weeks of hate I believe I’ve been taught to never underestimate the stupidity or prejudice of the American public. This was something I thought I already knew, but I guess I had allowed myself to get my hopes up. Oh well.

However the main reason I haven’t written anything is that I couldn’t seem to spit out any thoughts past “Fuck you and get the fuck out of New York, you Alaskan snowbilly! Get the fuck off our land and go back to “real America!” (more…)

Sarah Palin And 2012

Posted: 07/30/2010 in Politics
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I’ve read a lot of articles lately about Sarah Palin and her chances at the Republican nomination and then at the presidency in 2012. My opinion on this matter is that we’re still more than two years away from the election can we please stop worrying about it for two seconds and maybe focus on the actual problems our country is facing?

In truth, I know my opinion, as simple and common sense as it may seem, is completely and utterly ridiculous. After all this is America and politics is a business. We are the land of the never ending campaign, where the presidency is a billion dollar commodity and we have the best paid, best trained bullshit peddlers in the world (there are two areas in which America is still light years ahead of the rest of the world: military budget and bullshit – although, I guess we should really include debt and imprisoning our own citizens). (more…)