


Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
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Zero Two Mike SoldierOne more Sarah Palin thing, because something has to be said about Newsweek.
I was going to blog about the Runner’s World spread, but that was the weekend that Palin resigned from the governorship of Alaska. Her fitness regimen ended up not making the cut. Anyway, Newsweek somehow selected one of the pictures for the November 23 cover. Probably for purely commercial reasons, not to reflect a party bias.
Although I do find it rather incredible to think they’d make a similar decision about a democrat.
Palin herself has a problem with it. Darn, there goes that fantasy of her attending her own inauguration ceremony in a Supergirl costume. From her Facebook page:
The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this “news” magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness – a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention – even if out of context.
– Sarah Palin
I see the objection. It isn’t against her being shown as casual, or come-hither, or bookish or leggy. It has to do with what is appropriate in what setting.
It also has to do with relocating things. Newsweek, it seems, didn’t have permission to use this. Palin posed for the picture “among friends,” one might say. Kinda. Her comments for Runner’s World were entirely apolitical (hilariously, a couple of readers objected anyway since they didn’t subscribe for “that political stuff”). Newsweek placed the picture before a decidedly more hostile audience.
What’s the message here? That if Palin is President, she’ll spend all her time jogging and posing for pictures? I can certainly see more than a few Newsweek readers picking that up…the ones who are inclined to. Which is probably most of ’em. Still and all, the thought makes me chuckle. The nightmare of having a President who spends all the President’s time posing for pictures. Oh heavens to Betsy. Perish the thought. What’s that like?
Dr. Melissa Clouthier adds:
After this post got fed to Twitter, I got into an argument with a leftist feminist there about this cover. She brought up Hillary Clinton. She believes that Sarah Palin did this to herself by posing for Runners World. What serious politician or man would pose for that sort of cover?
What serious newsweekly would put a degrading picture, say of Obama frolicking in the surf or Bil and Hill dancing in the sand for the camera, on the cover of a magazine? Only conservative politicians need worry about being portrayed as trivial and sexy (Sarah), mean and old (McCain), mean (Cheney), mean and stupid (GWB). A Democrat gets gravitas-portraying treatment.
Always.
And that’s why conservatives view the press as biased. They don’t even attempt, even feebly, to hide it anymore.
Well said.
Another Black Conservative has an interesting thought:
I am beginning to think that I was right when I said that the Oprah interview humanized Palin. It is going to be much harder to disrespect Palin like the left did before without pissing off new people. Perhaps this book tour and all the interviews on the lamesteam media will produce a Sarah Palin 2.0. It will be interesting to see Palin’s approval ratings after the book tour.
Neptunus Lex, perhaps committing an infraction of protocol, audibly notices the elephant in the room:
[O]ne only has to look here, where Newsweek greets Palin’s newly published memoir with a provocative photo from a running journal and asks “How do you solve a problem like Sarah,” a header that literally begs the question, while demonstrating both political and gender bias and undoubtedly souring the faces of envious, shrewish, muumu wearing, lemon-eating scolds across the country. [emphasis mine]
Yep, there it is. That was undeniably the effect of it; and I’m pretty sure there was a fair strength of effort in that direction as well.
There certainly is some resentment there. And looking really good in running shorts while being a 45-year-old mother of five, probably has a lot to do with it.
However, it must be said — lately, winning elections seems to have a lot to do with figuring out who you can write off, not who you should go chasing for their vote. Case in point, Barack Obama doesn’t seem to care one bit what He has to do to get my vote. He doesn’t and He shouldn’t. I, and millions like me, have been gutterballed. It seems to be working out very well for Him.
Sarah Palin should do the same. Women who dislike her because she’s good looking, aren’t ever, ever, ever gonna like her.
And hey. Let’s be completely frank about things. If you’re answering polls saying Hillary is qualified to be President, and Palin is not — whatever the bee is that is up your butt, I do not want you deciding anything. Let me repeat that: Anything. I do not want you taking my customer service calls, I do not want you making my coffee, I do not want you running a leaf blower on the sidewalk an hour before I go walking on it. You have just-plain-poor decision-making abilities. Stay home.
Regarding Sarah’s comment. She would have been ahead-of-the-game keeping her mouth shut. Just let everyone argue about the magazine cover; maybe make it privately known that she disapproves of it, to sort of nudge the national conversation off in the direction of the permission Newsweek gained to use the photo, or lack thereof.
Good-lookin’ women showing their legs when they run for President? Hey…if you don’t know whether I’m for-or-against, you must not have been reading this space very long. Not saying I don’t see where she’s coming from, because I do. Yes, it’s sexist. But sometimes a subtle critique can be much more effective.
Anyway: Why so much attention riveted on the photo? Check out those headlines:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?
She’s Bad News for the GOP — And For Everybody Else, Too
Good grief. You see my point. The photo, inappropriate as it is, is nuthin’. Nuthin’. Melissa’s right. They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.
Update 11/19/08: Ah hah…as I figured.
What on earth was Sarah Palin thinking when she posed in a pair of teeny-tiny gym shorts for a photograph that ended up on the cover of Newsweek — a cover she has called “sexist”? Perhaps she was thinking that her image would only appear in the magazine she was posing for, Runner’s World, and nowhere else, at least not for months and months. If so, she had good reason — since, as DailyFinance has learned, the photographer who shot the picture violated his contract by reselling them to Newsweek.
That photographer, Brian Adams, could not immediately be reached, and his agent, Kelly Price, declined to comment, saying, “I keep all of my clients’ business private.” But a spokeswoman for Runner’s World confirms that Adams’s contract contained a clause stipulating that his photos of Palin would be under embargo for a period of one year following publication — meaning until August 2010. “Runner’s World did not provide Newsweek with its cover image,” the spokeswoman said. “It was provided to Newsweek by the photographer’s stock agency, without Runner’s World’s knowledge or permission.” The spokeswoman declined to say whether Runner’s World intends to respond to Adams’s breach of contract with legal action.
Update: The resident conservative of NPR, which I guess would be like the tallest building in North Dakota, doesn’t like Palin. And he’s found some exceptionally silly reasons…that’s the only adjective that seems to apply after a fair amount of this…
The rap on Palin is that she’s too shallow and inexperienced for the presidency — a conclusion that early Palin supporters like me came to during the 2008 campaign. Alas, for conservatives in search of a champion, there’s nothing in Going Rogue to challenge that conclusion. It’s like this: Palin spends seven pages dishing about her appearance on Saturday Night Live, but just over one page discussing her national security views.
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This is the Republican Party’s great populist hope?Sarah Palin is selling a personality, not a platform. That’s not dumb. She’s doing the best she can with what she has to work with. She quotes her father’s line upon her resignation this summer as Alaska’s governor: “Sarah’s not retreating, she’s reloading.” On evidence of this book, Sarah Palin is charging toward 2012 shooting blanks.
Palin’s selling a personality and not a platform.
Consistently since 1992, people have been getting elected on personalities and not platforms. Most notably in the election just passed. But we should hang it all on Palin like she’s in the process of inventing it. She’s not to be taken seriously unless she’s the only contender running on platform. And not even then. Like I said: “Silly” is the only word that applies.
Doctor Zero has a different take:
Newsweek advertised its cover story on the release of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” by asking, “How do you solve a problem like Sarah?” This headline was informed by the same journalistic standards that led the Washington Post to publish a book review by someone who admits she didn’t read the book – and then prompted MSNBC to invite this person on the air as an expert on the book she didn’t read. Newsweek apparently couldn’t be bothered to watch “The Sound of Music” all the way through, because Maria is the hero of the piece. The nuns singing “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” are singing about suppressing the very spirit that will help Maria save her family from totalitarian oppression. Considering Palin’s indestructible good cheer, if she runs for office again, I wouldn’t be surprised if she used “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” as a campaign song… and thanked Newsweek for the suggestion.
:
The careless, sloppy disdain of the Left’s reaction to “Going Rogue” is almost as strong an argument for Palin’s politics as anything contained within its pages. The absolute lack of care and competence from the government that ran up a $12 trillion national debt is astonishing. Months of dithering over Afghanistan strategy, with American troops under fire, ends with a painfully unqualified Commander-in-Chief wailing that he wants a new set of options…
:
The argument over whether Sarah Palin is “qualified” for the presidency is the opposite of the question conservatives should be asking. What we need to know is whether any other aspiring candidate has the essential qualifications Palin brings to the table. [emphasis mine]
“How do you solve a problem like Maria?” as a campaign song. I like it.
Sarah Palin is indeed a conundrum. A prevailing viewpoint is a powerful thing, and a durable thing too. It can survive its own internal contradictions, if it has some — for quite awhile. And our current prevailing viewpoint does have some.
It goes like this: Sarah Palin is to be summarily disqualified because she is a contender in a contest of personality, not quite so much of platform or position. BUT — right after she’s been so dismissed, and you address our current Commander in Chief, you shouldn’t be so bold as to ask Him any heady questions about platform-or-position, and most certainly not about how He came to a certain decision about a certain thing…instead, you should compliment Him on the gracious and dignified lilt to His voice. In sum: He gets to compete on appealing aspects to His personality, at the expense of any debate on substance. Palin is to be dropped from the running for any hint that she’s about to enjoy the same advantage, even if it isn’t at her instigation.
This is an unworkable contradiction, one that becomes less comfortable with repeated exposure, for all consciousnesses save for the most intellectually flaccid. If this is a vital underpinning for Palin’s still-considerable disapproval rating, and it is our impression that it is, don’t look for the disapproval rating to remain where it is for too long.
Update: Victor Davis Hanson has some interesting things to add:
[M]any conservative elites imagine that a Harvard Kennedy School degree is superior to multifaceted knowledge of .357 Magnums, chain-sawing, skinning game, and fishing, they will judge her only in terms of a traditional cursus honorum—spiced up with invective about creationism and Christian fundamentalism. (I have some experience with such snobbishness: when I used to speak before hostile university audiences, I was often introduced along these lines: “Mr. Hanson is a raisin farmer from Fresno State of Jerry Tarkanian fame.” [and therefore, presto, must be an idiot].)
:
If Sarah Palin thinks FDR was President in 1929, or that he could speak on non-existent TV, she is through; if Biden says that, it’s “just old Joe again.” If Obama does not know the first thing about our most prestigious medals, the language of Austria, or diplomatic protocol about presidential bowing, it’s because he is deliberately trying to be cool; if Palin did the same, she’s a buffoon hockey mom. That is the way it is, and her supporters should accept it, deal with, and overcome it.
Ridicule can be a powerful weapon. And how difficult would it be to deploy?
Liberal snobs and conservative snobs are wondering aloud about some kind of threat…some unstated threat…some avenue by which our nation will meet harm due to a President Palin’s cluelessness and lack of intellectual depth.
In the very same week in which the hysterics begin, Kalid Shiekh Mohammed is being brought to New York City to face trial and enjoy the same privileges and guarantees an American citizen would enjoy in civilian court. Because the “intellectually deep” folks in charge think that’s just a swell idea.
Priorities, snobs. Priorities. Maybe if some of you spent some time working for a living, you’d be organizing them better.
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?
She’s Bad News for the GOP — And For Everybody Else, Too
As I said in the prior thread, if they didn’t see her as a major and emerging threat to Chairman Zero, they wouldn’t be putting so much energy into making sure she doesn’t get nominated for anything in 2012.
When was the last time you saw such a vicious smear campaign against Lamar Alexander, Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney? Yeah, me neither.
- cylarz | 11/18/2009 @ 13:32Honestly, who would think, upon seeing that picture, ‘uh oh, there’s a problem all right’? Certainly no human straight male would. So just on the goal of trying to portray her as a problem, the choice of picture is a big fail on Newsweek’s part.
- KG | 11/18/2009 @ 13:40“Although I do find it rather incredible to think they’d make a similar decision about a democrat.”
Quick, name three Democrats (female or male) that anybody would think was physically attractive.
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 13:47There’s a culture war going on here. I remember the first picture I ever saw of Hillary Clinton, it was a Star or Enquirer expose on the Gennifer scandal. Arkansas’ First Lady had her hair all frizzed up eighties-style, was decked out in a flattering girly-girl sundress of some kind, and looked really quite fetching. Dainty and sophisticated at the same time. Yeah, her. Really.
And then she was thrust on the national stage…by the time she was making a thorough mess out of the Clinton health care thing, she’d been “gotten-to” and that’s where the blonde-bowl-cut came from. It’s been pantsuits all-day-every-day ever since. The witches’-cackle when she’s asked a question she doesn’t want to answer, the nasal resonance that could cut through glass…none of it goes back in time to the Tammy-Wynette cookie-baking days.
Hard-left democrats are throwing around the word “credibility” quite a lot with the release of this book. They seem to have a different definition of that word than most people do. It seems to mean something, to them, that cannot exist in proximity with anything that would bring pleasing thoughts to a manly man. And I’m not talking just thoughts about legs, butts and boobs that tug at the, um…primal instincts. Anything. Anything on this list.
They live in a narrow world. Just smart-alecky thirty-something white folks who live in cities, listen to hip-hop, drive huge cars, and watch half-hour sitcoms about other smart-alecky thirty-something urban white folks. Bottled water, expensive coffees, tons and tons of psychobabble, George Clooney movies.
And any woman wielding any sort of power has to be a frump-a-dump.
- mkfreeberg | 11/18/2009 @ 14:01I believe you’re flat out obsessed with the pretty woman, Morgan. 😉
Have you pre-ordered the book?
It’s blatantly clear that this photo was chosen to undermine Palin. There are a million beautiful shots of her dressed to nines, looking sharply elegant and business competent, to find anything but sheer denigration and bias in their choice of a cover.
Best get used to it, they hate her. The more unattractive and unserious they can make her look, the better.
If you thought the Left expressed a high level of irrational hated towards Bush, hold on to your hat if Palin runs in 2012, she’ll be labeled a two-bit, poorly bred, ignorant, syphilitic whore on the cover of NYT within three weeks of her announcement.
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 14:19I don’t know about hat Morgan is “obsessed”….and why it matters, I don’t know, but I have ordered two, one I will send on to somebody in Azerbaijan who asked for help in getting one.
I am “obsessed” about the fact that somebody is gaining national prominence who represents what I believe in.
At 70+, that she is an attractive female is a bonus, but not more than a tie-breaker,
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 14:42I was teasing him, Larry. Lighten up.
Palin’s all good in my book.
More importantly, so is Morgan.
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 14:49Sorry, dint mean to come across as a Heavy (although at 23 stone it is an easy role to slip into).
And I agree with you on everything you said, although in the details there may be differences–the will almost certainly write “ho”, for example.
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 14:56No worries, Larry. I just wanted to clarify my love and devotion to the wonderful Morgan.
Are you visiting from the UK or Australia?
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 15:07If I had a daughter, Palin’s exactly the sort of “ho” I’d want her to be. ONE guy…for life…obviously he’s keeping her happy and the feeling is mutual…they just go on year after year, family first and a bunch of other stuff second. So the MoveOn crowd considers that whoreish, huh. Interesting.
As opposed to what? A biography like Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman? That, I suppose, is a left-winger’s idea of chastity.
Christ, these liberals. Everything’s gotta be backwards.
- mkfreeberg | 11/18/2009 @ 15:10Heh. No, born and raised in California (as was my father, and his father).
(Currently live near Omaha.)
The “stone” is an affectation–I often use locally obscure units, like furlongs and fortnight (giving furlongs per fortnight) and so on.
And 318 looks so fat.
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 15:15You mis=spelled “bassackwards”.
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 15:17Liberals are slutty, that’s how they express their individuality, define their freedom. Like it’s something special or new. These people gold plate their rampant multiple herpes infections like some sort of weird badge.
Larry darlin’, kill the affection. It sounds liberal coming from someone not born across the pond. Trust me on this, my thirty or so British, Irish and Aussie friends would concur. Be big, be proud, be American!
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 15:26Sorry Morgan, I need to derail for a moment…slap me if the urge strikes.
Larry, what’s Omaha like? I’ve never been there.
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 15:28Thanks for the advice, but I’ll probably stay with the affectation–I have too much fun watching the know-it-alls trying to figure out what I said.
Nothing wrecks an argument worse that a long pause that looks like you weren’t prepared.
Same reason that when sombody gets all involved about somebody’s boobies, I post this pointer:
http://crankylitprof.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/b-bies/
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 15:32As you please, Larry. I expect you aren’t commenting on too many sites with UK/Aussie readers, so you’re probably safe wearing that odd coat.
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 15:40Omaha–the geographic center of the North American Continent is 200 or so miles north and a little West, I think.
I used to refer to it as “the Flatlands” but around the rivers there are actually more hills that in San Francisco (maybe none as tall).
Summers can be pretty hot and humid (three rivers nearby tends to guarantee that) although since the global warming thing it has been cool to cold all summer for the last several yers with a few punctuating hot spells.
Winters can be pretty dreadful–cold, windy and snowy–although they too have been sort of mild form the last several years. I’m pretty sure we are going get that bill caught up this winter. People say it never snows here, what you see going by horizontally is snow that fell in North Dakota or the Canadian prairies.
The people are of all sorts–going back to the meat-packing days I guess the people trace their roots to Italy, Slovakia, Denmark, and Germany (there are places nearby where English is rarer than it is in Laredo).
Right here in Omaha we have a lot of “liberals” with the usual liberal nonsense, but out side of the city there are mostly people that have always worked for what they got.
Starting a sentence with “In California, we….” or “In New York the smart people….” will gain you a lot a lot of derision, and probably a fatal loss of credibility.
But we regularly forget to lock the door, and if you have a problem all sorts of people will try to help.
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 15:52I got a fairly good idea of how far I’d have to drive to get a whiff of ocean surf. So I’ll skip to the only OTHER question that matters…
…If I have five empty wine bottles, three dozen beer bottles, the boxes they came in and a .40 cal. How far do I have to drive before the fun starts?
- mkfreeberg | 11/18/2009 @ 15:57My house.
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 15:59How far to the surf….
As I said, we are about in the middle.
But it was funny (still is sometimes) when wife and I came for a visit to see if we wanted move here we though steak houses and such would be good places to eat. But the locals kept taking us to seafood houses.
Out here in the middle equidistant in any direction to salty water..
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 16:14But just this last week end we drove 160 miles one way to have lunch with two of our daughtes–at a Red Lobster.
- Larry Sheldon | 11/18/2009 @ 16:16From my house, depending on who you know, no farther than 15 miles and perhaps closer.
- philmon | 11/18/2009 @ 19:35Dayam! Am I late to this party. Blame it on my baby grandson. I’ve been playing with him all evening and I don’t regret one second of it.
Here’s the good news. The book showed up in the mail today. Yes, I pre-ordered it. (The bad news is I’m reading that dead liberal Saul Alinsky’s infamous book right now and I probably can’t start Sarah’s until this weekend) And yes, Morgan and I are somewhat obsessed with Mrs. Palin for more than one reason. She is smack spot on our age and she’s hot. Sue us.
She wouldn’t be nearly as hot if she were spouting liberal nonsense, either.
Is she qualified to be President? Well here’s the deal. My qualifications aren’t did you go to an Ivy League School or do you have a law degree. Sure, I can see where a law degree would be an asset, but frankly world view has a lot more to do with why I’d rather see her in there than the current dude, McCain, or even the previous dude. (And the lawyers in government have worked out SO well, haven’t they? Come to think of it, ole Billy was right. Let’s kill all the lawyers, kill ’em tonight!. Yeah, I know what you mean Mr. Henley.
In my book, she beats Hillary, Gore, and Kerry hands down.
I’m not a memorizer. I handle problems not by “knowing” what “The Right Thing To Do” is, I handle them yes, with knowledge I have, advice, some horse sense, and all of that through the lens of my worldview which is going to take me in a certain direction.
It’s that last bit, I believe, that’s the most important. Direction. Hers has a very large overlap with mine. So I’m good with her.
Would she f*ck up here and there? Probably. So would I. So has every other U.S. President. Or president of anything else. But she’d f*ck up heading in the right direction, re-group, and keep heading in that direction. That’s why I’d support her.
Do I care if she wins or even runs? Not really (until she runs and then I will care if she wins). I want someone with her world view, horse sense, and “cut through the shit-ish-ness”. The current fellow’s world view sucks, his sense seems to come from the wrong end of the horse — in that he’s in the business of piling the shit on so we won’t see his …. a) incompetence or b) downright malicious takedown of America — to … at the very least, a Euro-Socialist nation.
As far as the Newsweek cover goes, yes, I think they picked it to belittle her — but it didn’t work with me. I’ve seen pictures from that photo shoot before, and I like them. She’s a good looking woman, she works hard at it, and she works hard at everything else she does as well.
She works hard.
For the right reasons.
She’s plenty qualified.
- philmon | 11/18/2009 @ 20:00Yeah…you get the impression I won’t ever be able to retire unless I lower my standards. Or something drastically changes. Blue-staters own all the coastlines.
I want to wake up in the morning smelling the seaweed at low tide. And walk out to my back porch wearing a pair of blue jeans and nothing else, empty a .357 into last week’s “recyclables” during a commercial break, and go back inside to watch the rest of C.O.P.S.
Seems I can have one or the other of those, but not both. Oh well. If I mind all my P’s and Q’s, I’ve got my own Sarah Palin in bed with me every night and that’s better than either one of those two things. That’ll have to do, I suppose.
- mkfreeberg | 11/18/2009 @ 20:06I didn’t read the Newsweek article, but … in their defense…
She’s bad news for the GOP if they don’t head what this all means (the cord she has struck in America), and that’s a GOOD thing.
And when they said “and everyone else, too” … I don’t think they’re talking about the general population. My take on it would be she’s bad news for anybody in power — the governing class in general.
I understand the temptation to jump to the conclusion that they’re saying “bad news for America” before I
- philmon | 11/18/2009 @ 20:11flushed the copy of Newsweek down the toiletread the article … but … we should probably read the article so we speak from a position of knowledge rather than (however justified) speculation.Heh. Yeah, even I can’t step outside and blast away at bottles during commercial breaks. I live in a city, and a pretty freaking progressive one at that. Now if I went to my brother’s house, or my friends out near Fulton, or another up near Sturgeon…. it would be no problem. No problem at all. We could even be drinking beer!
And thank God I didn’t marry a liberal ditz … this one is right along side me in her political views on 99% of things and is quite supportive of my firearms habit, NRA membership, and love for Survivorman.
- philmon | 11/18/2009 @ 20:17Phil, have you been to bed already? You are one verbose man tonight.
Or are you just high on wonderful grand babies and a boofkful of Sarah Palin?
- Daphne | 11/18/2009 @ 20:28How far to the surf…..?
Don’t forget that Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina have coastlines and sensible populations, and North Carolina and Virginia are possibilities..
- Larry Sheldon | 11/19/2009 @ 08:06Daphne – probably the grandbaby, and all of this provocative discussion. 🙂
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