Isn't that what she named her second kid?

Wait a minute....I thought "Prop" was the name of her youngest daughter...?

Bladel: Wait a minute....I thought "Prop" was the name of her youngest daughter...?

HAH! HAHAHAHAHA! HA! HA! HA!

This Is Bold Text: Isn't that what she named her second kid?

Oooooo. Your punchline was one-second better.

Well done.

The only person allowed to give their kids stupid names was Frank Zappa.

The messenger is dead, sir.

Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

And it's always sleeping through the rallies. I think they dose it up on Children's Benedryl before each event.

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

My sentiments exactly.

Vote yes on Prop 345.

/vague trig joke

Bladel: Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

And it's always sleeping through the rallies. I think they dose it up on Children's Benedryl before each event.

That's been my impression. I would think those rallies would scare an infant to death. So much noise and activity.

They're her humans shields.

I suppose it begs the question: how many damn tutors do they have on this campaign?

Hobodeluxe: They're her humans shields.

Winner!

Prop?

Well yeah. The kid can't walk yet.

Tresser that is awesome.

This Is Bold Text: Isn't that what she named her second kid?

Bladel: Wait a minute....I thought "Prop" was the name of her youngest daughter...?



/not mine...I stoled it

"I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of," Bruce wrote. "I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about."

Pretty astute observation.

ExJerseyGirl: "I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of," Bruce wrote. "I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about."

Pretty astute observation.

I demand you resign from Fark for that comment.

Bladel: Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

And it's always sleeping through the rallies. I think they dose it up on Children's Benedryl McCain speeches before each event.

FTFY

Her kids are off the table unless she puts them there ... which she does at every opportunity.

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

You mean like Maddox?

On the one hand, the less bloggers there are the better. On the other, being forced to resign after speaking the truth, simply because the truth happens to be ugly, is shameful.

Hobodeluxe: They're her humans shields.

Kome: On the one hand, the less bloggers there are the better.

She'll just be replaced. There's an endless supply. Some kind of Resurrection Ship or something.

How do you resign from blogging?

impaler: How do you resign from blogging?

You go outside.

The truth hurts, eh Sarah?

It is pretty tasteless to call someone's children 'props'. Ms. Palin wasn't even in politics when she started poppin' them out. She got those child bearing hips. Pop go the weasel cuz the weasel say pop!

Ha ha. The Submitter has to quit his job, now. I demand it, with boundless outrage!

Resigning from blogging? That's like retiring from eating cheese doodles.

I think Palin has to drag her kids everywhere because the voters who are impressed with her having a family and all can't remember for very long that she's a mother.

I'm not sure that they think she has any qualifications other than working genitals, either.

Family Values, baby!

I add my energy to the Dead Zone references and the notion that we should celebrate one less blog in the world.

And I still have energy left to get to the vending machines.

ExJerseyGirl: Pretty astute observation.

"Astute" is a pretty fancy word for someone from Jersey. :)

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

Ah, so I see you were one of my regular readers.

/Blogged daily for 3 years
//Last post December 18, 2006

Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in a statement. "Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children."

Well seeing how Obama's kids aren't usually following him around all over the country, they are in school, and she is in the running for VICE president for the last damn time, there are some differences.

All family members of politicians are props. If you don't see them, that means they are a family embarrassment, like Billy Carter or the Kennedy daughter that was lobotomized.

BMulligan: /Blogged daily for 3 years

Do you ever wonder how much blood Jesus lost just to pay for your sins?

impaler: How do you resign from blogging?

This.

AdolfOliverPanties: All family members of politicians are props. If you don't see them, that means they are a family embarrassment, like Billy Carter or the Kennedy daughter that was lobotomized.

Not really. Bill Clinton did a pretty good job of keeping her out of the spot light. Hillary on other hand.

It makes my taco prop.

Well, they gotta be useful for something.

Better than calling him a "jet". McCain might have tried to crash the little bastard into a rice paddy.

Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

Wait, a blogger "resigned"? From what? Being a drain on the collective intelligence of the country? Kissing ass? Wasting everybodies time? I don't get it.

Too much truth...

///Sad but true.

Shaggy_C: It is pretty tasteless to call someone's children 'props'.

How are they not props?

Retiring from blogging is like winning the war on drugs.

3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

That's what the Eskimos do with their tards.

Control_this: Prop?

Well yeah. The kid can't walk yet.



um...don't hold your breath on that one

FTFA "Barack Obama would fire a member of his staff for making that sort of offensive comment about Governor Palin's infant child, and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter ought to consider doing the same," said Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in a statement. "Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children."

Sounds like the NH Republicans are in the tank for Obama.

Churlish. Pathetic.

Yeah -- I think that describes most posters to this thread.


/but I'm glad you're having fun.. apparently that's most important.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: SockMonkeyHolocaust: Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

My sentiments exactly.

Well, sometimes they quit in order to garner the vague notion that somone, anyone cares and will write them in support, returning on a wave of popular opinion. Most never do, shockingly enough.

Lionel Mandrake: /not mine...I stoled it

I sense a new meme ...

Hot Carl To Go: impaler: How do you resign from blogging?

You go outside.

also a winner.

Prop - Noun - a person or thing serving as a support or stay: Her son is her campaign prop.

So her son doesn't support her?

If her son doesn't support her, how can we?

/seriously not being serious

whereisian: Shaggy_C: It is pretty tasteless to call someone's children 'props'.

How are they not props?

If they were props, you'd need more union guys at the rallies.

whereisian: How are they not props?

They're her children. Should she just toss them aside and leave them with a nanny while she's out campaigning? At least she's not having them speak and raise money and all that shiat like the Clintpwn3ds did with my beautiful lustbunny Chelsea.

Yeah, I was gonna say... Prop is just as good a name as Trig, Track, or Trog. Maybe Prop can be the grand-baby.

Well, what should we call Obama's shoop da whoop kids?

Shaggy_C: It is pretty tasteless to call someone's children 'props'. Ms. Palin wasn't even in politics when she started poppin' them out. She got those child bearing hips. Pop go the weasel cuz the weasel say pop!

It is even more tasteless to use them as props or as human shields like she tried to do when she dropped the puck at the Fliers game.

rodeofrog: If they were props, you'd need more union guys at the rallies.

She's a Republican, so not likely.

Hot Carl To Go: impaler: How do you resign from blogging?

You go outside.

I lol'd

Palin has really nice hair.

/not voting

Mr. Anon: It is even more tasteless to use them as props or as human shields like she tried to do when she dropped the puck at the Fliers game.


Her retarded daughter got really big!

Oh, wait, that's just a rube from middle America. My mistake.

Well why the hell else are her kids on stage with her, if not as props?

It's not like they are writing her material or any . . . Wait a minute. This actually explains a lot.

Maybe "prop" is the sound that is made when these troglodytes fall out of the ol' Palin clown car?

rodeofrog: BMulligan: /Blogged daily for 3 years

Do you ever wonder how much blood Jesus lost just to pay for your sins?

I did my penance. Monday through Friday was all politics, but Saturday was devoted to beer.

The little girl is named Piper and Pipers have props.

How the fark does somebody resign or retire from blogging? Do you disconnect from the interwebs for a day or two? Get an AOL account?

dillenger69: Her kids are off the table unless she puts them there ... which she does at every opportunity.


Ding!


Tresser, my sides hurt, I kicked a wall in my cube, and I feel dirty for laughing at that. Thanks.

Why can't the Palins hide their kids in shame and humiliation, like the Clintons did with Chelsea until she became useful?

Chaim Witz: Well, what should we call Obama's shoop da whoop kids?

Hot Carl To Go: impaler: How do you resign from blogging?

You go outside.

Awesome. Win.

Stay classy Democrats.

HotWingConspiracy: It makes my taco prop.

Thank you. Thank you for this.

Of course they're props. All politicians' kids become props at some point, even if it's only briefly.

/not defending Palin though
//she farking sucks

Shaggy_C: Mr. Anon: It is even more tasteless to use them as props or as human shields like she tried to do when she dropped the puck at the Fliers game.


Her retarded daughter got really big!

Oh, wait, that's just a rube from middle America. My mistake.

Her daughter is the one standing behind the Flyer. And she was certainly there in hopes that the crowd wouldn't boo Palin so heartily with her child present. Another miscalculation by the campaign.

jjorsett: Why can't the Palins hide their kids in shame and humiliation, like the Clintons did with Chelsea until she became useful?

Chelsea in 2008:

blueyedevil: jet

Holy farking LOL

From personal experience, Fergus Cullen is a giant douchebag. He exceeds the traditional douchebaggery of normal Republican state chairmen, because he's about 35 years old.

Prop is pretty appropriate for having young children out at 10pm at night.

When a blogger resigns, doesn't that mean they got a real job?

Chaim Witz: Well, what should we call Obama's shoop da whoop kids?

Let's see. Smart, good looking and well rounded?

Obama's parenting mimics my own...I am not an easy parent.

/love my kids...plan to be friends with them when they're 25...until then I'm dad.

Shaggy_C: It is pretty tasteless to call someone's children 'props'. Ms. Palin wasn't even in politics when she started poppin' them out. She got those child bearing hips. Pop go the weasel cuz the weasel say pop!

srsly lol'd

(I just watched the Nutty Professor the other day with my kid)

Prop Palin kind of has a nice ring to it.

Prop Johnston, not so much.

Tabatha Static: Hobodeluxe: They're her humans shields.

"I'm in a coma, and the only cure is more cow-bell!"

whereisian: FTFA "Barack Obama would fire a member of his staff for making that sort of offensive comment about Governor Palin's infant child, and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter ought to consider doing the same," said Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in a statement. "Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children."

Sounds like the NH Republicans are in the tank for Obama.

Came here to say this, figured I'd check to see if someone else said it for me. Thanks!

blueyedevil: Shaggy_C: Mr. Anon: It is even more tasteless to use them as props or as human shields like she tried to do when she dropped the puck at the Fliers game.


Her retarded daughter got really big!

Oh, wait, that's just a rube from middle America. My mistake.

Her daughter is the one getting boned in the locker room by the Flyer. And she was certainly there in hopes that the crowd wouldn't boo Palin so heartily with her child present. Another miscalculation by the campaign.

FTFY

whereisian:

FTFA "Barack Obama would fire a member of his staff for making that sort of offensive comment about Governor Palin's infant child, and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter ought to consider doing the same," said Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in a statement. "Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children."

Sounds like the NH Republicans are in the tank for Obama.


That stood out to me too. Interesting little betrayal of some level of respect, which is uncommon to see in these circumstances.

On the other hand, I'm inclined to think that their sense of outrage is a tad overblown. It's not as if the woman was promulgating some outrageous fiction with her comments. Are they more gentile about their politics in New Hampshire?

Diogenes: Bladel: Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

And it's always sleeping through the rallies. I think they dose it up on Children's Benedryl before each event.

That's been my impression. I would think those rallies would scare an infant to death. So much noise and activity hate.

FTFY

DavePinFL: Stay classy Democrats.

Yeah why can't they have class like the GOP?

Local Calif. GOP compares Obama to Osama bin Laden (new window)


The Sacramento County Republican Party has removed images from its official Web site that compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and urged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama."

The Sacramento Bee posted an image it said was captured from the Web site that showed Obama in a turban next to bin Laden. It said: "The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S."

That's so much classier than referring to a child being used as a prop in a blog.

3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?


Good question. Will she be dragging the infant to Washington and back too ? Or to meetings at McCain's Arizona ranch ? or to Beijing ?


you see, most SANE parents wait until their kids are a little older and more resilient before taking a job with massive amounts of travel.

Even the children are un-American.

*Rummages around onfinite*

What the... I know I left that image around here somewhere...

*reads thread*

Lionel Mandrake:
/not mine...I stoled it

MAAAAANNN DRAAAAKKKEEEE!!!

*shakes tiny fist*

Someone post the animated gift...where she talks about her retarded vagina.

Alright, it doesn't mention that it's retarded...just the products kept inside.

Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

cettin: Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in a statement. "Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children."

Well seeing how Obama's kids aren't usually following him around all over the country, they are in school, and she is in the running for VICE president for the last damn time, there are some differences.

Is it just me or does it seem that Liberals don't get "outraged" over anything at all, regardless how outrageous, while Conservative fake outrage at every opportunity?

If you want the true example of a prop, you don't look at the Palin kids, you look at Bridget McCain. The only time they acknowledge her existence is when they can brag about how worldly and compassionate they are to adopt a Bengali child.

PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.


What's funny: That's about as good as it gets for Republicans this year. Mocking the only partially-informed for their enthusiasm. Like watching grown men playing with popcap guns and crying at the same time.

ucfknights: Prop is pretty appropriate for having young children out at 10pm at night.

When a blogger resigns, doesn't that mean they got a real job?

Would you hire someone with "blogger" as a resume item?

Big thanks to Tresser for reminding me what it feels like to blow coffee out of my nose. Let's hear it folks!

dbaggins: you see, most SANE parents wait until their kids are a little older and more resilient before taking a job with massive amounts of travel.

Oh? Don't you mean most Moms?

tresser

I think out of all of them, that one is my favorite

Hot Carl To Go: impaler: How do you resign from blogging?

You go outside.

Nice.

I suppose it begs the question: how many damn tutors do they have on this campaign?

I believe they have all dropped out of school to have more babies. They aren't all fancy-pants and too much skoolin makes you a snob, so they're like a real Murkin family there and such as.

PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

"Sheeple." Haven't heard that one since about ninth grade.

Also, it's "shepherd."

blueyedevil:

You bastard ... I just literally LOL'ed in class on that one.

Control_this: Prop?

Well yeah. The kid can't walk yet.

+1 interweb for you sir, I bow at your cerebral cortex.

Fart_Machine: Would you hire someone with "blogger" as a resume item?

I can has Nobel Prize in Economics ?


(that must REALLY stick in their craw over at NRO)

I've noticed a trend, here at my office, of people bringing in their crotchfruit. I suspect they're using their kids as props in an elaborate production to brand themselves as family-oriented people who deserve a promotion so they can feed their tax deductions and send them to private school (or buy a boat).

I should also mention that I work in a secured govrnment building where the official policy is that only employees should enter the building unless there is a business need for others to enter.

RedT: cettin: Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, in a statement. "Imagine the outrage on the left if a Republican made a similar comment about the Obama children."

Well seeing how Obama's kids aren't usually following him around all over the country, they are in school, and she is in the running for VICE president for the last damn time, there are some differences.

Is it just me or does it seem that Liberals don't get "outraged" over anything at all, regardless how outrageous, while Conservative fake outrage at every opportunity?

It's just you.

PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

Wow! You. Are. So. EDGY.

"Sheeple"? Did you come up with that all by yourself? I'll bet you did. It's so fresh. So new! Sheeple! I like that. Mind if I use it?

And... and the way you finish the metaphor, saying Barack Obama is the "shepard". Sure, the word is actually "shepherd", but its still funny. And not at all because you look like an ignoramus with a third grade spelling ability. No, its because it fits so well with calling Obamanauts 'sheeple'.

SHEEPLE! Get it? Sheep? People? Sheeple? Oh god. Oh god. That is so farking funny. I cannot stop laughing. You really should do stand up comedy. Or maybe work for saturday night live. You'd fit right in, you funny funny man you!

Does one ever really "resign" from being a self-important douche?

Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2008-10-15 04:14:37 PM
Kome: On the one hand, the less bloggers there are the better.

"She'll just be replaced. There's an endless supply. Some kind of Resurrection Ship or something."

Bloggers are a fungible commodity?

Comments are the best. FTFA:

"the repubs hate the truth, these are things I was thinking long ago"

lolz. Yeah, you were thinking it, so it must be the truth.

Tabatha Static: Hobodeluxe: They're her humans shields.
[no future for stillson pic]

gilgigamesh: ..."Sheeple"? Did you come up with that all by yourself? I'll bet you did. It's so fresh. So new! Sheeple! I like that...

See, the clever bit is that it's a combination of people and sheep!

Scoop84: dbaggins: you see, most SANE parents wait until their kids are a little older and more resilient before taking a job with massive amounts of travel.

Oh? Don't you mean most Moms?


there was a P/VP candidate with an infant child before ?

who ? I really hadn't meant "mom" I meant "parent", just like I typed it.

FT Comments:

1#

If it's any comfort to Ms. Bruce, she was also speaking for me and many other people I heard decrying poor little Trig's being passed around from person to person at 11:00 at night after the VP debate. At one point, his little sister had him and was not holding up his little head, and I was afraid he was going to hit the floor because nobody was looking at him; they were all flocked around his flighty mother. The hall where the debate was held was noisy and brightly lit, and any tiny little baby at the mercy of people who should know better would be overwhelmed by the sensory input, not to mention overtired and overstimulated because he should have been put to bed at a reasonable time, in the care of a responsible adult, in a quiet place. "Prop" is a word I have heard used many times about the Palin kids; Ms. Bruce is merely the first person who had the courage to say it publicly. And the Republican response is disengenuous and unfairly victimizes Ms. Bruce: it is clear that she was not speaking ill of the baby, but in defense of him. Shame on Sarah Palin, the First Dude, and their handlers. If they can't take better care than this of their own children, how can they care about ours?

Comment by Belva McKann - October 15, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

HotWingConspiracy: 3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

That's what the Eskimos do with their tards.



/benefits package bail out

gilgigamesh: PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

Wow! You. Are. So. EDGY.

"Sheeple"? Did you come up with that all by yourself? I'll bet you did. It's so fresh. So new! Sheeple! I like that. Mind if I use it?

And... and the way you finish the metaphor, saying Barack Obama is the "shepard". Sure, the word is actually "shepherd", but its still funny. And not at all because you look like an ignoramus with a third grade spelling ability. No, its because it fits so well with calling Obamanauts 'sheeple'.

SHEEPLE! Get it? Sheep? People? Sheeple? Oh god. Oh god. That is so farking funny. I cannot stop laughing. You really should do stand up comedy. Or maybe work for saturday night live. You'd fit right in, you funny funny man you!



and the Academy Award^TM for Best Over-reaction in a FARK Thread goes to..........

Meet the Palin kids...

Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.



I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

wmoonfox--I actually like that picture, sans the script. It's a nice encapsulation of a momentary lull in the campaign, and just a nice moment with her boy. You can see she's tired, she's aware of being watched, and it's kind of a vulnerable shot.

NorCalLos: I've noticed a trend, here at my office, of people bringing in their crotchfruit. I suspect they're using their kids as props in an elaborate production to brand themselves as family-oriented people who deserve a promotion so they can feed their tax deductions and send them to private school (or buy a boat).

Actually, they probably do. :p

Just try getting a raise as a single person in the midst of an office full of whiny parents.

Obama.... Our Savior. The 'One'.

Timmy the Tumor: and the Academy AwardTM for Best Over-reaction in a FARK Thread goes to..........

You're just jealous you aren't as clever as he is.

You Obamatards are SHEEPLE!!! BWWAAAH HA HA HA HA!!!

How does one "resign" from being a blogger?

^thanks for mentioning it. Who gives a shiat if a blogger resigns. Time names 'you' the person of the year and now everybody is full of themselves and they think they can change the world by making their thoughts public via blog, youtube. Before these tools those people were just boring, now they are a blogger.

ckellingc: Leave Sarah alone! I'm serious!

This.
Is.
Sewious!

Oh my god, this thread is so full of win.

PartTimeSaint: Obama.... Our Savior. The That 'One'.

Fixated.

gilgigamesh: Timmy the Tumor: and the Academy AwardTM for Best Over-reaction in a FARK Thread goes to..........

You're just jealous you aren't as clever as he is.

You Obamatards are SHEEPLE!!! BWWAAAH HA HA HA HA!!!



It's ok, son, take the nice pills the nurse is handing you and slip into the pretty, white jacket with the REALLY long sleeves now...

dbaggins: there was a P/VP candidate with an infant child before ?

who ? I really hadn't meant "mom" I meant "parent", just like I typed it

You didn't limit your original comment to p/vp candidates. You said sane parents don't take jobs with lots of travel while the kids are little. Of course, that's BS. Dads have always done that, and moms increasingly do.

scotto: Oh my god, this thread is so full of win.

My gods, yes. It went to stratospheric win with the speech-impediment duck from that kids' show.

Sis and I aren't sure why NickJr. or whatever the show's on is teaching children to talk in a manner that will require speech therapy once they enter school.

Kazuya: At one point, his little sister had him and was not holding up his little head, and I was afraid he was going to hit the floor ...


Well, what harm could it do? As long as he landed on his head.

/str8 t'hell

know what would have been good for everyone involved ?


McCain publicly asked Sarah Palin to join the ticket. She says "no, I have a special needs infant at home and need to stay with my family in Alaska at this time".

McCain wins for publicly nominating a right wing woman. Then gets to choose someone competent.

Sarah Palin looks like a rockstar family-values candidate that can really put family first. starts being groomed for the 2012 race as a suitable VP choice, with more grown kids and some national political education.


That might have won them the election this time. McCain would only last one term. Palin would likely get elected president in 2012.


but she said yes.

Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.

when the fark did she marry napoleon????

gilgigamesh: Timmy the Tumor: and the Academy AwardTM for Best Over-reaction in a FARK Thread goes to..........

You're just jealous you aren't as clever as he is.

You Obamatards are SHEEPLE!!! BWWAAAH HA HA HA HA!!!

Yeah. Pretty sure that award was directed at you.

El Robbo: How does one "resign" from being a blogger?

just as i've resigned myself to being a pervert.

hubiestubert: wmoonfox--I actually like that picture, sans the script. It's a nice encapsulation of a momentary lull in the campaign, and just a nice moment with her boy. You can see she's tired, she's aware of being watched, and it's kind of a vulnerable shot.

I was thinking the same thing. If you're being sarcastic, then nevermind. But yeah, I was thinking that while actually at work, you'd have grandma or grampa, or a friend, or whatever, watching the kid. I couldn't be more anti-mccain if I was paid for it, and palin has NO business being a vice president, but I am not going to mock her for comforting her kid while there are a bajillion strangers nearby.

Arklop: Meet the Palin kids...

Track, Trig, Peck, Avon, and Gaylord?

Did I get those right?

Lumi: scotto: Oh my god, this thread is so full of win.

My gods, yes. It went to stratospheric win with the speech-impediment duck from that kids' show.

Sis and I aren't sure why NickJr. or whatever the show's on is teaching children to talk in a manner that will require speech therapy once they enter school.

My kids love that show, and if a kid learns to talk from watching TV their parents have failed.

Timmy the Tumor: Maybe "prop" is the sound that is made when these troglodytes fall out of the ol' Palin clown car?

Not unless she has a little Asian in her. Or had one.

Scoop84: dbaggins: there was a P/VP candidate with an infant child before ?

who ? I really hadn't meant "mom" I meant "parent", just like I typed it

You didn't limit your original comment to p/vp candidates. You said sane parents don't take jobs with lots of travel while the kids are little. Of course, that's BS. Dads have always done that, and moms increasingly do.

OK, change "sane" to "good" then.

Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.



I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

Given her parents' predilection for things "independent" up there in Alaska, I'd say that the odds are pretty good.

oregoncat: Family Values, baby!

Yeah, I think she puts their value at about 123,000 votes each, and 2 time that for the one with Down's.

When she learns how to write, they'll make great fodder for her memoirs also, win or lose.

Lumi: Just try getting a raise as a single person in the midst of an office full of whiny parents.

You never heard of blow jobs?

gilgigamesh: PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

Wow! You. Are. So. EDGY.

"Sheeple"? Did you come up with that all by yourself? I'll bet you did. It's so fresh. So new! Sheeple! I like that. Mind if I use it?

And... and the way you finish the metaphor, saying Barack Obama is the "shepard". Sure, the word is actually "shepherd", but its still funny. And not at all because you look like an ignoramus with a third grade spelling ability. No, its because it fits so well with calling Obamanauts 'sheeple'.

SHEEPLE! Get it? Sheep? People? Sheeple? Oh god. Oh god. That is so farking funny. I cannot stop laughing. You really should do stand up comedy. Or maybe work for saturday night live. You'd fit right in, you funny funny man you!

I read your entire post in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy. Nice!

rodeofrog: Lumi: Just try getting a raise as a single person in the midst of an office full of whiny parents.

You never heard of blow jobs?

I laughed, out loud.

Dman33: gilgigamesh: PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

Wow! You. Are. So. EDGY.

"Sheeple"? Did you come up with that all by yourself? I'll bet you did. It's so fresh. So new! Sheeple! I like that. Mind if I use it?

And... and the way you finish the metaphor, saying Barack Obama is the "shepard". Sure, the word is actually "shepherd", but its still funny. And not at all because you look like an ignoramus with a third grade spelling ability. No, its because it fits so well with calling Obamanauts 'sheeple'.

SHEEPLE! Get it? Sheep? People? Sheeple? Oh god. Oh god. That is so farking funny. I cannot stop laughing. You really should do stand up comedy. Or maybe work for saturday night live. You'd fit right in, you funny funny man you!

I read your entire post in the voice of Stewie from Family Guy. Nice!

Yeah, it sounded like he was berating Olivia.

/A+ Would read again.

jst3p: This.
Is.
Sewious!

There are, like, four of us who get that reference. And all four of us LOL'ed.

PartTimeSaint: Obama.... Our Savior. The 'One'.

Mr. Farrakhan? Is that you lurking in this thread?

rodeofrog 2008-10-15 04:54:33 PM
RedT: ... Is it just me or does it seem that Liberals don't get "outraged" over anything at all, regardless how outrageous, while Conservative fake outrage at every opportunity?

"It's just you."

No, it's fairly accurate.
Liberals tend to get outraged over things like warrantless-wiretaps, redefining torture, engaging in torture, suspension of habeaus corpus, breaking international agreements (such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty), increasing the partisanship of bureaucracies, lies about WMDs, lies about links to Al-Queda, exposing the identities of undercover agents, playing "executive privilege", refusing to testify under oath, rampant corruption due to lobbyists, when 5 million white house emails go missing, and decreasing the transparency of government process by using private email accounts for official government business...

But, other than that, you're spot-on.

BergZ: Bloggers are a fungible commodity?

Are we flagging their molecules?

Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

it is, in a word, RETARDED to drag a newborn baby around the way she is. It's abhorrent and it makes me feel stabby. And sad. For that poor child. :(

Mayor Bee: Track, Trig, Peck, Avon, and Gaylord?

Did I get those right?

Close, I think it's Trig, Track, Bristol, Odin, and Ashtray. Or maybe Carseat. Not sure on that last one.

...you left out "ignoring Congressional subpoenas"

jst3p: OK, change "sane" to "good" then.

So neither parent can have a job that requires lots of travel? Seems kind of narrow minded.

jst3p: rodeofrog: Lumi: Just try getting a raise as a single person in the midst of an office full of whiny parents.

You never heard of blow jobs?

I laughed, out loud.

I didn't. :(

Images flashed through my head. Horrid, horrid images.

jakomo002: Not sure on that last one.

Come on. It's obviously "Kilt".

Or maybe "Belt".

Shaggy_C: whereisian: How are they not props?

They're her children. Should she just toss them aside and leave them with a nanny while she's out campaigning? At least she's not having them speak and raise money and all that shiat like the Clintpwn3ds did with my beautiful lustbunny Chelsea.

Not the same at all. Two things:
1) NO ONE should be dragging a newborn baby around hell and creation and they MOST CERTAINLY shouldn't be parading the baby out on stage, in front of thousands of people - under the lights, with the cameras, etc. etc. AT FRICKIN 11PM AT NIGHT. It's sick and wrong. Hence the "prop" comment.

2) see 1).

3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

No, she should have aborted him. Next best option would be to abandon him at some hospital in Nebraska.

Scoop84: jst3p: OK, change "sane" to "good" then.

So neither parent can have a job that requires lots of travel? Seems kind of narrow minded.

It is only my opinion, but changing jobs to one that requires extensive travel and time away from home when you have an infant unless absolutely necessary is selfish and short sighted. I have a six year old and a three year old and I wouldn't take a job that puts me on the road often for three times my current salary. I can make more money later but the nights with my kids I can never get back.

Now when they are in high school, that is a different matter.

Lumi: NorCalLos: I've noticed a trend, here at my office, of people bringing in their crotchfruit. I suspect they're using their kids as props in an elaborate production to brand themselves as family-oriented people who deserve a promotion so they can feed their tax deductions and send them to private school (or buy a boat).

Actually, they probably do. :p

Just try getting a raise as a single person in the midst of an office full of whiny parents.

My 4-day a week overpaid boss is constantly whining about travel or working a few extra hours to get her job done "with 2 children at home". Meanwhile I get to work until 4am on my freaking birthday.

Sure, I sometimes work 2x as many hours in a week as she does, but I'll be damned if I make maybe 60% what she makes.

Hell, we hired this one guy that I had to teach everything to. He made a significant amount more than I did. He had two crotchfruit at home.

My next job, I am wearing a fake wedding band to the interview. I will be a married guy, with a wife and 2 kids. Insta-bucks!

rodeofrog: You never heard of blow jobs?

Sure I've heard of them. I've heard of unicorns, too.
/married

farfigneugan: hubiestubert: wmoonfox--I actually like that picture, sans the script. It's a nice encapsulation of a momentary lull in the campaign, and just a nice moment with her boy. You can see she's tired, she's aware of being watched, and it's kind of a vulnerable shot.

I was thinking the same thing. If you're being sarcastic, then nevermind. But yeah, I was thinking that while actually at work, you'd have grandma or grampa, or a friend, or whatever, watching the kid. I couldn't be more anti-mccain if I was paid for it, and palin has NO business being a vice president, but I am not going to mock her for comforting her kid while there are a bajillion strangers nearby.

Not so snarky.

I think that Palin is a national nightmare waiting to happen. I think she's far from qualified, far from ready for even being on the national stage, and incurious and willfully ignorant soul, who tries to brash her way out of situations where she knows very little, and I think that she'd be downright dangerous for the country to be placed anywhere near The Big Chair.

But that doesn't make her a monster. It means that she's out of her element, and far from ready.

Take a look at the kids who get booted up to the Big Show in baseball. Is it really their fault that management wanted to make them a spectacle? Use them to put butts in seats?

Now then, some kids, when they get to the Majors, they knuckle down, they work hard, they listen for all they're worth, and they learn for damn sure quick. Others, they try to brash it out, and they try to bluster their way out of the pocket that they've been put into--but it's hard to blame them, if no one is there to show them the ropes.

That's how I feel about Palin. I despise that she won't turn for help--or rather, that she's been instructed to bluster her way onto the mound. But that doesn't mean that I despise her personally. She is who she is, and she's been put into an extraordinary circumstance. I can't say that I like her--not from all the things that she's allowed to be done in her name--but I don't have a real dislike for her either. She is a poor choice, but that doesn't mean she's bad people.

Scoop84: jst3p: OK, change "sane" to "good" then.

So neither parent can have a job that requires lots of travel? Seems kind of narrow minded.


so, what scenario are you imagining here ? stay-at-home husband ?

That might work, Dad's can make great primary parents....if conservatives could bring themselves to call that a "real" family.


might as well elect homosexuals then.

BergZ:

Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2008-10-15 04:14:37 PM
Kome: On the one hand, the less bloggers there are the better.

"She'll just be replaced. There's an endless supply. Some kind of Resurrection Ship or something."

Bloggers are a fungible commodity?


Think cockroaches.

came for the Biden/Palin comics and was not farking disappointed.

more please.

gilgigamesh: jakomo002: Not sure on that last one.

Come on. It's obviously "Kilt".

Or maybe "Belt".

Steroid seems like a strange name for a kid.

jst3p: ckellingc: Leave Sarah alone! I'm serious!

This.
Is.
Sewious!

I am SO ashamed that recognize that.

BergZ: rodeofrog 2008-10-15 04:54:33 PM
RedT: ... Is it just me or does it seem that Liberals don't get "outraged" over anything at all, regardless how outrageous, while Conservative fake outrage at every opportunity?

"It's just you."

No, it's fairly accurate.
Liberals tend to get outraged over things like warrantless-wiretaps, redefining torture, engaging in torture, suspension of habeaus corpus, breaking international agreements (such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty), increasing the partisanship of bureaucracies, lies about WMDs, lies about links to Al-Queda, exposing the identities of undercover agents, playing "executive privilege", refusing to testify under oath, rampant corruption due to lobbyists, when 5 million white house emails go missing, and decreasing the transparency of government process by using private email accounts for official government business...

But, other than that, you're spot-on.

Then they don't do anything about it (whining doesn't count)

jst3p: Now when they are in high school, that is a different matter.

That's when they'll get teen pregnant.

BMulligan: jst3p: This.
Is.
Sewious!

There are, like, four of us who get that reference. And all four of us LOL'ed.

Unfortunately, only a couple of us are parents.
Which makes the others...

beanx: Diogenes:and it makes me feel stabby.

did some one say stabby???

blueyedevil: Better than calling him a "jet". McCain might have tried to crash the little bastard into a rice paddy.

I really didn't want to laugh at that

Scoop84: You didn't limit your original comment to p/vp candidates. You said sane parents don't take jobs with lots of travel while the kids are little. Of course, that's BS. Dads have always done that, and moms increasingly do.

Maybe one parent, but that parent didn't take the kid(s) with them. The kids still had the stable and sane home environment with the non-traveling parent.

jerry2a: blueyedevil: Better than calling him a "jet". McCain might have tried to crash the little bastard into a rice paddy.

I really didn't want to laugh at that

i lol'd he did it like 5 farking times!

More_Like_A_Stain: Timmy the Tumor: Maybe "prop" is the sound that is made when these troglodytes fall out of the ol' Palin clown car?

Not unless she has a little Asian in her. Or had one.

What you did there. I see it with slanted eyes.

Without looking, I'm guessing there is a "One down, 1.2 Million to go!" up there somewhere.

jakomo002: Mayor Bee: Track, Trig, Peck, Avon, and Gaylord?

Did I get those right?

Close, I think it's Trig, Track, Bristol, Odin, and Ashtray. Or maybe Carseat. Not sure on that last one.


Twix, Fishstick, Pledge, Lemonjello, and Roger, isn't it?

Dman33: Sure, I sometimes work 2x as many hours in a week as she does, but I'll be damned if I make maybe 60% what she makes.

Hell, we hired this one guy that I had to teach everything to. He made a significant amount more than I did. He had two crotchfruit at home.

Maybe you just suck at your job?

Just throwing that out there. If you are equally skilled and making less than your peers you need to learn to negotiate better. I have seen others work in similar positions making less than me and usually it is because they didn't ask for more when they got hired.

Scoop84: Sure I've heard of them. I've heard of unicorns, too.
/married

Hell, I've at least seen things that remotely resemble unicorns. Narwhals. Horses. Deer with broken antlers.

/also married

beanx: Shaggy_C: whereisian: How are they not props?

They're her children. Should she just toss them aside and leave them with a nanny while she's out campaigning? At least she's not having them speak and raise money and all that shiat like the Clintpwn3ds did with my beautiful lustbunny Chelsea.

Not the same at all. Two things:
1) NO ONE should be dragging a newborn baby around hell and creation and they MOST CERTAINLY shouldn't be parading the baby out on stage, in front of thousands of people - under the lights, with the cameras, etc. etc. AT FRICKIN 11PM AT NIGHT. It's sick and wrong. Hence the "prop" comment.

2) see 1).



Yeah, isn't there a former Director of State Police they can pay $5/hr to babysit or something?

dbaggins: so, what scenario are you imagining here ? stay-at-home husband ?

That might work, Dad's can make great primary parents....if conservatives could bring themselves to call that a "real" family.

Of course. That's what Mr. Palin's been doing much of the time since the wife became governor.

might as well elect homosexuals then.

I got no problem with that.

jst3p: Steroid seems like a strange name for a kid.

Well, how about Roid?

Nevermind. That almost sounds like a real name.

beanx: 1) NO ONE should be dragging a newborn baby around hell and creation and they MOST CERTAINLY shouldn't be parading the baby out on stage, in front of thousands of people - under the lights, with the cameras, etc. etc. AT FRICKIN 11PM AT NIGHT. It's sick and wrong. Hence the "prop" comment.

I think Palin is perhaps the only politician who can tie her own shoes and still be less competent than President Bush, but the above is nonsense. Newborns don't give a rat's ass about schedules, and many of them don't care if it's noisy around them or not. Most babies are happiest to be held by their caregivers regardless of hour or surrounding crowds.

Palin is a certified moron with a proven track record of unethical and ineffective political 'leadership' - that's the issue that matters. She's doing fine by her kids.

TheBigDog: BMulligan: jst3p: This.
Is.
Sewious!

There are, like, four of us who get that reference. And all four of us LOL'ed.

Unfortunately, only a couple of us are parents.
Which makes the others...

Oh my, is that the show with the turtle and bird and somethign else, where they "rescue" pets in danger? That show is adorable.

Scoop84: rodeofrog: You never heard of blow jobs?

Sure I've heard of them. I've heard of unicorns, too.
/married

If I dream tonight of some retard blowing a unicorn, I'm never coming back to this place.

vandelay: TheBigDog: BMulligan: jst3p: This.
Is.
Sewious!

There are, like, four of us who get that reference. And all four of us LOL'ed.

Unfortunately, only a couple of us are parents.
Which makes the others...

Oh my, is that the show with the turtle and bird and somethign else, where they "rescue" pets in danger? That show is adorable.

Wonder pets for the win!

/The phone. The phone is ringing!

Car_Ramrod: Pretty astute observation.

I demand you resign from Fark for that comment.

I thought that was what Fark was for, generally.

We come here because we like to make snarky, insensitive comments, but aren't enough of a nerd for Digg or Slashdot, not quite enough of a troll to be comfortable at Something Awful, not enough of a molestor for 4chan, and not enough of a complete and total moron to comment Youtube videos or frequent ebaumsworld.

Shaggy_C: whereisian: How are they not props?

They're her children. Should she just toss them aside and leave them with a nanny while she's out campaigning? At least she's not having them speak and raise money and all that shiat like the Clintpwn3ds did with my beautiful lustbunny Chelsea.

I don't recall chelsea doing that during the clinton administration. Got a link?

Gordon Bennett:

We come here because we like to make snarky, insensitive comments, but aren't enough of a nerd for Digg or Slashdot, not quite enough of a troll to be comfortable at Something Awful, not enough of a molestor for 4chan, and not enough of a complete and total moron to comment Youtube videos or frequent ebaumsworld.

Perfect.

vandelay: Oh my, is that the show with the turtle and bird and somethign else, where they "rescue" pets in danger? That show is adorable.

I watched it for a few minutes, then launched into a speech about how my children live in a golden age of children's programming. In my day, Mr. Rogers kept our attention by feeding fish and changing shoes.

gilgigamesh: Hell, I've at least seen things that remotely resemble unicorns. Narwhals. Horses. Deer with broken antlers.

Did you try rubbing your johnson on a salt lick?

gilgigamesh: *Rummages around onfinite*

What the... I know I left that image around here somewhere...

*reads thread*

Lionel Mandrake:
/not mine...I stoled it

MAAAAANNN DRAAAAKKKEEEE!!!

*shakes tiny fist*

A gilgigamesh original? I'll make a note of it. I've *right clicked/saved as* so many of those I lost track...good work, old bean...

Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.



I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

She's already got one.

Timmy the Tumor: jakomo002: Mayor Bee: Track, Trig, Peck, Avon, and Gaylord?

Did I get those right?

Close, I think it's Trig, Track, Bristol, Odin, and Ashtray. Or maybe Carseat. Not sure on that last one.


Twix, Fishstick, Pledge, Lemonjello, and Roger, isn't it?

That's stupid. Not even Sarah Palin would name her daughter "Roger."

Scoop84: Did you try rubbing your johnson on a salt lick?

You have no idea how low I will stoop. Let's just say the neighbor's cat didn't come out from under the porch for a month.

Lionel Mandrake: A gilgigamesh original? I'll make a note of it. I've *right clicked/saved as* so many of those I lost track...good work, old bean...

No credit necessary, steal at will. But thanks!

RevMercutio: She's already got one.

Yeah, I gotta say. I am starting to like that kid.

Itll be interesting to see where she is in 20 years.

Thread is chock-full-a 'Progressive' win !
Liberalism is hella-cool.

RedT 2008-10-15 05:21:18 PM
"Then they don't do anything about it (whining doesn't count)"

Aye, it is so.
I suppose if you're going to outraged about anything, those are pretty good things to be outraged about.

The first step is whining, the second step is winning elections, and the third step is ending the most outrageous abuses of executive power (bringing the executive branch back into proper supervision of checks and balances).

A constitutional scholar would be uniquely qualified to carry out step 3.

BMulligan: Timmy the Tumor: jakomo002: Mayor Bee: Track, Trig, Peck, Avon, and Gaylord?

Did I get those right?

Close, I think it's Trig, Track, Bristol, Odin, and Ashtray. Or maybe Carseat. Not sure on that last one.


Twix, Fishstick, Pledge, Lemonjello, and Roger, isn't it?

That's stupid. Not even Sarah Palin would name her daughter "Roger."



Not so fast...

It's Inuit...so it's pronounced like "Piper"

rodeofrog:
I watched it for a few minutes, then launched into a speech about how my children live in a golden age of children's programming. In my day, Mr. Rogers kept our attention by feeding fish and changing shoes.

At least my kids can learn something from today's shows. My kids have all been early readers, a trait I partially attribute to good entertaining shows for kids, unlike myself who grew up watching reruns of "The People's Court"

I do appreciate the Palin VP decision. It has ended all pundit jibber-jabber about "Family Values" and their coded dog-whistle politics.

"Life Happens" (new window)

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

My thoughts precisely.

/bloggers are becoming a little too widely-accepted as mainstream, but that's the times, I guess

vandelay: Oh my, is that the show with the turtle and bird and somethign else, where they "rescue" pets in danger? That show is adorable.

Yeah, real farking adorable....unfortunately, like anything, it becomes much less adorable after you've watched the same 4 episodes 1000 times and your child runs around singing it all day. But thank goodness for shows like this that will keep the little one's attention for 1/2 hour...any opportunity to catch up on a few winks is a blessing. I remember bashing Barney until my first was born...I think I would have died from loss of sleep if it hadn't been for that stupid show.

PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

Huh. I was misinformed. My BFF told me Zombie Jeebus was the Shepard of Sheeple.

/should really stop listening to Loki
//Heilsa!

Tabatha Static: Hobodeluxe: They're her humans shields.

The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

PartTimeSaint: Thread is chock-full-a 'Progressive' win !
Liberalism is hella-cool.


you just keep trying..... maybe try expanding beyond the two incomplete sentence format.

attempt a paragraph. Do you need someone to show you what a paragraph looks like ? they don't occur often on Fark, since more people post interesting enough material to not need one, but you are struggling, so I'd thought I'd suggest it.

or a picture! Farkers respond to pictures.

jerry2a: Yeah, real farking adorable....unfortunately, like anything, it becomes much less adorable after you've watched the same 4 episodes 1000 times and your child runs around singing it all day.

Actually it is a new trend among kids tv shows. They have lots of episodes but they sing the same 4 damn songs in all of them. Backyardagains does this too.

/watches too much TV with my kids

RevMercutio [TotalFark] 2008-10-15 05:29:59 PM
She's already got one.
[image: Piper Palin has had enough of your bullsh*t]

Oh Piper you're so mavericky, you should run for VP! I hear she's just as qualified as McCain's current running mate.

Can'tLetYouDoThatStarFox: Resigning from blogging? That's like retiring from eating cheese doodles.

I retired from eating cheese doodles so I'm really getting a kick...

Shaggy_C: whereisian: How are they not props?

They're her children. Should she just toss them aside and leave them with a nanny while she's out campaigning? At least she's not having them speak and raise money and all that shiat like the Clintpwn3ds did with my beautiful lustbunny Chelsea.

Yes. She should. That would be responsible and inline with their rhetoric.

More_Like_A_Stain: Timmy the Tumor: Maybe "prop" is the sound that is made when these troglodytes fall out of the ol' Palin clown car?

Not unless she has a little Asian in her. Or had one.

That was damn funny.

PartTimeSaint: Obama is the Shepard of the Sheeple.

Wrong thread

This is complete and utter bullshiat. This blogger's boss ought to show a little guts and stick up for her staffer, who has done nothing wrong but be honest and offended no one except political hacks. This is NOT the kind of representation that New Hampshirites deserve.

TheBigDog: rodeofrog:
I watched it for a few minutes, then launched into a speech about how my children live in a golden age of children's programming. In my day, Mr. Rogers kept our attention by feeding fish and changing shoes.

At least my kids can learn something from today's shows. My kids have all been early readers, a trait I partially attribute to good entertaining shows for kids, unlike myself who grew up watching reruns of "The People's Court"

At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.

dbaggins: PartTimeSaint: Thread is chock-full-a 'Progressive' win !
Liberalism is hella-cool.


you just keep trying..... maybe try expanding beyond the two incomplete sentence format.

attempt a paragraph. Do you need someone to show you what a paragraph looks like ? they don't occur often on Fark, since more people post interesting enough material to not need one, but you are struggling, so I'd thought I'd suggest it.

or a picture! Farkers respond to pictures.

Too busy to be verbose, etc.
Pissing off hippies on six (6) different Lefty Boards makes for a busy task bar.
Thanks just any ol how though...

blueyedevil: Better than calling him a "jet". McCain might have tried to crash the little bastard into a rice paddy.

WIN!

Stickdeath: At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.


oh man, you must be twisted.


so....much....soft-focus....

the horror.

PartTimeSaint: Thread is chock-full-a 'Progressive' win !
Liberalism is hella-cool.

Nothing's cooler than being a North American Miniature Hairless Douchenozzle.

PartTimeSaint: Too busy to be verbose, etc.
Pissing off hippies on six (6) different Lefty Boards makes for a busy task bar.
Thanks just any ol how though...


are you failing at it in the other forums, like this one ?

maybe you have a new (personal/incorrect) definition of "pissing off" that you aren't sharing with the rest of us.

Stickdeath: TheBigDog: rodeofrog:
I watched it for a few minutes, then launched into a speech about how my children live in a golden age of children's programming. In my day, Mr. Rogers kept our attention by feeding fish and changing shoes.

At least my kids can learn something from today's shows. My kids have all been early readers, a trait I partially attribute to good entertaining shows for kids, unlike myself who grew up watching reruns of "The People's Court"

At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.

"The Young and the Restless"? Luxury! When I was a kid, my mother watched "The Edge of Night" and "The Guiding Light"! In the snow! Uphill!

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: PartTimeSaint: Thread is chock-full-a 'Progressive' win !
Liberalism is hella-cool.

Nothing's cooler than being a North American Miniature Hairless Douchenozzle.



adding THAT along with the other day's "ass wookie" to my personal lexicon in 5...4...3...2...1

Prop? Maybe... Speed bump? Nope.

dbaggins: PartTimeSaint: Too busy to be verbose, etc.
Pissing off hippies on six (6) different Lefty Boards makes for a busy task bar.
Thanks just any ol how though...


are you failing at it in the other forums, like this one ?

maybe you have a new (personal/incorrect) definition of "pissing off" that you aren't sharing with the rest of us.

Mystery solved:

Account created: 2008-06-15 19:53:53

Pontus and the Nail Drivers: PartTimeSaint: Thread is chock-full-a 'Progressive' win !
Liberalism is hella-cool.

Nothing's cooler than being a North American Miniature Hairless Douchenozzle.

cmon now, he's still got a little bit of hair.

Stickdeath: At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.

Nope. I had Lite Brite. And I knew where mom kept the glue. God I loved getting high off of glue. You know, just slather some onto one hand, then kind of clap a bit while the vapors wafted up? I can't wait to be five years old again.

dbaggins: Stickdeath: At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.


oh man, you must be twisted.


so....much....soft-focus....

the horror.

I blame that show for making me indifferent to human suffering, that's for sure. That theme music still gives me the urge to crush mankind and every aspect of humanity that the show attempts to exemplify with cheesy, long-winded, boring dialogue.

jst3p: jerry2a: Yeah, real farking adorable....unfortunately, like anything, it becomes much less adorable after you've watched the same 4 episodes 1000 times and your child runs around singing it all day.

Actually it is a new trend among kids tv shows. They have lots of episodes but they sing the same 4 damn songs in all of them. Backyardagains does this too.

/watches too much TV with my kids

So it's like talk radio, only the instead of yelling about communists and atheists, they sing about sharing and being nice...

Arklop: Meet the Palin kids...

That's awesome, Arklop.

Stickdeath: dbaggins: Stickdeath: At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.


oh man, you must be twisted.


so....much....soft-focus....

the horror.

I blame that show for making me indifferent to human suffering, that's for sure. That theme music still gives me the urge to crush mankind and every aspect of humanity that the show attempts to exemplify with cheesy, long-winded, boring dialogue.

I can't look at Victor without imagining his personal life...sashaying around a biker party in a summer dress and being passed around like a sweaty, panting bag of Skittles.

jst3p: ckellingc: Leave Sarah alone! I'm serious!

This.
Is.
Sewious!

+1 for Wonder Pets reference

I'm not a Palin supporter, but what is the big deal about traveling with the newborn? It's not as if he's going to care. I would think it would be worse for the older kids, and this way she actually gets to spend time with the baby which is really important.

That being said, I don't like the way she holds him up to the crowd like she's acting in The Lion King. That does seem as if she is using him as a prop. And when she thrusts her family into the spotlight like that, she has to expect people to react. You can't constantly use your family for political gain, and then demand privacy. It doesn't work that way. Kind of like a stripper saying, "Hey! Why are you staring at my boobs? My eyes are up here, pal!"

I'm all for a candidate standing with his or her family now and then, but otherwise keep the poor kid off the stage.

jst3p: Dman33: Sure, I sometimes work 2x as many hours in a week as she does, but I'll be damned if I make maybe 60% what she makes.

Hell, we hired this one guy that I had to teach everything to. He made a significant amount more than I did. He had two crotchfruit at home.

Maybe you just suck at your job?
Nope, not quite. I am not one to brag, but I certainly do not suck at my job.

Just throwing that out there. If you are equally skilled and making less than your peers you need to learn to negotiate better.
Now you are on to something. I was hired into a 2 person department in 2003. Now I run most of the department which totals 8 people. If I could go back to my hiring in 2003 I would ask for. Now when I ask for more during annual reviews, they laugh. Why? Because my boss will not allow me near her. She is afraid she will lose her job to me if she did. What I need to do is get another job, and negotiate better. I am still going to fake having a litter of kids though..

How many do you have? I'd say at least 2. And I'd say you probably have unconsciously used them for your own gain over those without children.

Surpheon: beanx: 1) NO ONE should be dragging a newborn baby around hell and creation and they MOST CERTAINLY shouldn't be parading the baby out on stage, in front of thousands of people - under the lights, with the cameras, etc. etc. AT FRICKIN 11PM AT NIGHT. It's sick and wrong. Hence the "prop" comment.

I think Palin is perhaps the only politician who can tie her own shoes and still be less competent than President Bush, but the above is nonsense. Newborns don't give a rat's ass about schedules, and many of them don't care if it's noisy around them or not. Most babies are happiest to be held by their caregivers regardless of hour or surrounding crowds.

Palin is a certified moron with a proven track record of unethical and ineffective political 'leadership' - that's the issue that matters. She's doing fine by her kids.

wrong forum. this is reserved for screaming and ranting. you want the room down the hall, next to silly walks.

rodeofrog: If I dream tonight of some retard blowing a unicorn, I'm never coming back to this place.

Hey, fark: why can't I have this on a t-shirt?

Fart_Machine: would you hire a blogger if that was listed on their resume

Absolutely - if the quality of the work was what I was looking for. There are plenty of bloggers out there that put real journalists to shame, and do it for free or whatever ad revenue is generated.

Some of the best baseball writing I read comes from a college freshman and a junior in high school.

BMulligan: Stickdeath: TheBigDog: rodeofrog:
I watched it for a few minutes, then launched into a speech about how my children live in a golden age of children's programming. In my day, Mr. Rogers kept our attention by feeding fish and changing shoes.

At least my kids can learn something from today's shows. My kids have all been early readers, a trait I partially attribute to good entertaining shows for kids, unlike myself who grew up watching reruns of "The People's Court"

At least you didn't have to watch "The Young & the Restless" with your mother for every freaking day. farkING A.

"The Young and the Restless"? Luxury! When I was a kid, my mother watched "The Edge of Night" and "The Guiding Light"! In the snow! Uphill!

DAMN. This thread is turning into psychiatric therapy gold.

Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.



I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

She will be the first queen of the Independent Nation of Alaska.

Dman33: How many do you have? I'd say at least 2. And I'd say you probably have unconsciously used them for your own gain over those without children.

I don't do very much unconsciously, except snore on occasion.

And everyone in my dept. also has kids. As a matter of fact I don't know how in my position I could use them at work for personal gain, but I do understand that some workplaces are more political and less results driven so I can see how it could happen.


The suck at your job part wasn't a serious accusation, but I have seen many people who don't negotiate aggressively enough when getting hired.

I farkin love this thread

gilgigamesh: RevMercutio: She's already got one.

Yeah, I gotta say. I am starting to like that kid.

Itll be interesting to see where she is in 20 years.

My guess is that there will be a pole involved. I'm not sure if it will be a north, or stripper, but it will be a pole nonetheless.

I_Love_Cheesecake: Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.



I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

Given her parents' predilection for things "independent" up there in Alaska, I'd say that the odds are pretty good.

RevMercutio: Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.



I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

She's already got one.

Damnit! I came here to post that.

Her husband scares me more than any Arab or even Obamas wife.
Alaska should be really worried.
I say we give it to Russia... or CanAda.

Dman33: Lumi: NorCalLos: I've noticed a trend, here at my office, of people bringing in their crotchfruit. I suspect they're using their kids as props in an elaborate production to brand themselves as family-oriented people who deserve a promotion so they can feed their tax deductions and send them to private school (or buy a boat).

Actually, they probably do. :p

Just try getting a raise as a single person in the midst of an office full of whiny parents.

My 4-day a week overpaid boss is constantly whining about travel or working a few extra hours to get her job done "with 2 children at home". Meanwhile I get to work until 4am on my freaking birthday.

Sure, I sometimes work 2x as many hours in a week as she does, but I'll be damned if I make maybe 60% what she makes.

Hell, we hired this one guy that I had to teach everything to. He made a significant amount more than I did. He had two crotchfruit at home.

My next job, I am wearing a fake wedding band to the interview. I will be a married guy, with a wife and 2 kids. Insta-bucks!

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis! Except I'm a girl and would thus be considered odd if I didn't have pictures of them all over the place and discuss them ad nauseam.

dbaggins:
That might have won them the election this time. McCain would only last one term. Palin would likely get elected president in 2012. Bbut she said yes.

She'll be lucky if this little stint doesn't impact her term as governor when she gets back home. It sounds like the folks there are getting increasingly cranky with her about Troopergate.

Fascist!

Diogenes: Bladel: Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

And it's always sleeping through the rallies. I think they dose it up on Children's Benedryl before each event.

That's been my impression. I would think those rallies would scare an infant to death. So much noise and activity.

remember it is a republican rally...

/somewhat republican
//could not resist

WildMonkey: Fascist!

Hag.

3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

She could have left Trig with his mom.

Diogenes: That's been my impression. I would think those rallies would scare an infant to death. So much noise and activity.

My daughter had a blast at the Obama rally, and she was 11 months old. Her favorite part was the police on horseback that kept riding back and forth.

Of course, she's not a retard baby, so that might have something to do with it.

is the second-youngest troglodyte wearing a friggin' tiara in that picture everyone keeps photoshopping?

The Icelander: Diogenes: That's been my impression. I would think those rallies would scare an infant to death. So much noise and activity.

My daughter had a blast at the Obama rally, and she was 11 months old. Her favorite part was the police on horseback that kept riding back and forth.


Did you tell her the animal with the gigantic teeth was actually Michelle Obama giving one of her kids a "horsey-back ride?"
Of course, she's not a retard baby, so that might have something to do with it.

Prop is SOOOO subjective.
Like, whose the prop in the picture?

The Icelander: Of course, she's not a retard baby, so that might have something to do with it.

Takes after mom, eh?

By ixijimixi at 2008-08-29

Tresser and sysrpl really need to give credit to lukelightning for that one.

/been laughing at that for almost a week now

I wish I had the original Biden & Palin debate photo. Somebody must have it. Please share?

not props?

why else would they ALL, even the downs kid be up at a debate to join her on stage at 11:30pm?

nexxus: Churlish. Pathetic.

Yeah -- I think that describes most posters to this thread.


/but I'm glad you're having fun.. apparently that's most important.

You have to understand, they were abused as children and now they are abusing other children. When they call an innocent child a "retard" it is a cry for help to assist them in dealing with their messed up lives.

///Liberals... may God have Mercy on them.

smallerGov: Diogenes: Bladel: Diogenes: Prop or not, I just don't think it's healthy for her to be dragging that poor infant around at his age.

And it's always sleeping through the rallies. I think they dose it up on Children's Benedryl before each event.

That's been my impression. I would think those rallies would scare an infant to death. So much noise and activity.

remember it is a republican rally...

/somewhat republican
//could not resist

To appeal to the Lefty, she should have aborted the children. Then, tote 'em on CNN '6 pack' style in little glass jars with catchy name tags. This would convey a sense of 'Progression' you betcha.
However, the little dead ones would end up as 6 (six) little registered Democrats wouldn't they ?
Man...it DOES suck to be Sara Palin on Fark.

HotWingConspiracy: 3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

That's what the Eskimos do with their tards.

LOL

/one please

In other news, bloggers are being paid to "blog" on behalf of politician's campaings? (otherwise, how do you resign?)

PartTimeSaint: To appeal to the Lefty, she should......blah blah blah


I don't think you are as good at multi-tasking as you think you are.

just pick one forum to troll and try to not sound so Trig.

No, for serious, hold on. Bloggers can resign? what are they resigning? "Effective immediately I can no longer eat Cheetos and type while I watch Oprah"?

dbaggins: PartTimeSaint: To appeal to the Lefty, she should......blah blah blah


I don't think you are as good at multi-tasking as you think you are.

just pick one forum to troll and try to not sound so Trig.

Slow your roll, flowerchild.

Don't laugh. That kid could be third base for the Mets some day.

3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?

There's always the "raised by wolves" option. Unless she's got a new helicopter.

ExJerseyGirl: "I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of," Bruce wrote. "I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about."

Pretty astute observation.


I was going to say that. Her kids are off limits until she starts bringing them to rallies and public events with her, which is what she's doing. I don't see Obama doing that with his children constantly. And Bristol is somewhat relevant to her mother's platform, as Palin (from what I've heard) supports Bush's abstinence-only sex education, while Bristol is living proof that it fails horribly.

Her daughter needs to be at home resting and planning her Republican-funded shotgun wedding to her boyfriend, and Trig should be resting or at least with his father or a nanny, not being paraded out in public in front of large crowds and reporters.

RevMercutio: Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.

I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

She's already got one.

You might already know this, but the original pic looks like this (new window):

Of course, two fingers up in a V like that is something of a flip off in England. I learned that from this show:

Kazuya: FT Comments:

1#

If it's any comfort to Ms. Bruce, she was also speaking for me and many other people I heard decrying poor little Trig's being passed around from person to person at 11:00 at night after the VP debate. At one point, his little sister had him and was not holding up his little head, and I was afraid he was going to hit the floor because nobody was looking at him; they were all flocked around his flighty mother. The hall where the debate was held was noisy and brightly lit, and any tiny little baby at the mercy of people who should know better would be overwhelmed by the sensory input, not to mention overtired and overstimulated because he should have been put to bed at a reasonable time, in the care of a responsible adult, in a quiet place. "Prop" is a word I have heard used many times about the Palin kids; Ms. Bruce is merely the first person who had the courage to say it publicly. And the Republican response is disengenuous and unfairly victimizes Ms. Bruce: it is clear that she was not speaking ill of the baby, but in defense of him. Shame on Sarah Palin, the First Dude, and their handlers. If they can't take better care than this of their own children, how can they care about ours?

Comment by Belva McKann - October 15, 2008 @ 1:15 pm


QFE, thank you for posting this!

Lumi: I learned that from this show:

That show taught me much. "Big jobs" for example.

I'm no repugnican, but if I remember correctly, the media brought the kids into it when there was the big "scandal" about her daughter being pregnant. I believe this was before she even made any public appearances. I don't think she had a chance to use them as props prior to the media making them fodder.

This being Fark and all, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Prop this!

Lumi: RevMercutio: Lumi: Cyborg77: Even the children are un-American.

I love that pic. Little Willow/Piper/Prop/Tomater/Brickyard is adorable. Hope she winds up with a hell of an independent streak.

She's already got one.

You might already know this, but the original pic looks like this (new window):

Of course, two fingers up in a V like that is something of a flip off in England. I learned that from this show:
I do know this. I don't judge her or her mother for it. Hell, if she did in fact throw the finger, I'd still think it was adorable. It's her annoyed expression that nails it for me.

IXI Jim IXI: By ixijimixi at 2008-08-29

I'm tired of explaining this. She doesn't HAVE to be patriotic. As you can see from her crown, she's ALREADY Queen of somewhere.

rodeofrog: Lumi: I learned that from this show:

That show taught me much. "Big jobs" for example.

and, hippie-beat-down 0-plenty !

THE YOUNG ONES!

Yes indeed. Because I've never seen Obama's daughters before -- on TV or, say, a People Magazine cover multiple times.

She was fired for failing to point out that Sarah herself is a prop?

I resign from FARK because I want to be an attention whore also.

Wait...how can't a blogger resign again? Just not update their blog?

thatmanfromtexas: nexxus: Churlish. Pathetic.

Yeah -- I think that describes most posters to this thread.


/but I'm glad you're having fun.. apparently that's most important.

You have to understand, they were abused as children and now they are abusing other children. When they call an innocent child a "retard" it is a cry for help to assist them in dealing with their messed up lives.

///Liberals... may God have Mercy on them.


Not...really.

I'm pretty sure people are calling him retard because he has down syndrome.

And I'm pretty sure us "liberals" can do without your god's mercy. That'd be the same mercy that makes people like her child disabled, wouldn't it? Because only a caring, loving god would put someone through the hell it is to go through life with that kind of a impediment and have to deal with how people treat you...right?

If your god was good and merciful there wouldn't be children with that disability. So, realistic people would make do with what we do have; parents with the means and ability to take care of them and give them a good life. Which, you see, is exactly what is not being done in his case...instead, he's being paraded about, passed around, and otherwise going without the one thing a baby of his needs requires at that age.

/liberal with family member who has down's
//who thinks you're a retard

FishingWithFredo: Yes indeed. Because I've never seen Obama's daughters before -- on TV or, say, a People Magazine cover multiple times.


I don't see them up late at night at his rallies. And last I checked, both of them weren't babies but still had bedtimes.

It's hard to compare a magazine article with a live public rally. I hear far more negative comments about Palin using her family as publicity stunts than I do about Obama and his children out in public.

This Is Bold Text
Severed heads make for classy T-shirts!

/stay classy, America
//USA SUA ASU

NikolaiFarkoff: Vote yes on Prop 345.

/vague trig joke

3 + 4 + 5 = triangle

You're not unappreciated :)

AtomicPenguin: If your god was good and merciful there wouldn't be children with that disability.

I believe God made darkness so we could find the light. My neighbor has incredible capacity to love people. I think one
reason for this is that he has a disabled child.

Sure. Tiger tiger burning bright, and all that jazz.

I don't know that it's true that she uses the baby as a prop. Does anyone know if she breastfeeds? Maybe she always has him with her because she's still nursing him?

Her youngest is around the same age as my tater tot. I still exclusively breastfeed and my baby is with me constantly because he needs my b00bies when it's time for him to eat.

FTFA - "I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of," Bruce wrote. "I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about."

Probably should've put that under a screen name that couldn't be easily traced to her, even though she has a point.

I've not heard about any wedding plans for the daughter yet. I'm betting it's not going to happen.

Aw cmon, you can tell they aren't props.

She cared so much about the littlest one, that when her water broke in Texas, she still gave a half-hour speech, took an eight-hour plane flight back to Anchorage via Seattle, and a forty minute car ride to Wasilla to give birth, bypassing several much nicer hospitals on the way, just because, as the First Dude said, you can't have a fish-picker from Texas.

If a hockey mom will do all that just for her special needs child, despite what any of those wimpy baby doctors would recommend about going to the hospital right away, you know she must love it extra special.

ScottMpls: How the fark does somebody resign or retire from blogging? Do you disconnect from the interwebs for a day or two? Get an AOL account?

I think it means they stop getting a paycheck from the campaign they were paid to blog about.

FishingWithFredo: Yes indeed. Because I've never seen Obama's daughters before -- on TV or, say, a People Magazine cover multiple times.

Do you see them dragged around to every event, or even used as a human shield at a hockey game? Or perhaps you've seen them in a mere couple of pictures and one night at a political convention.

Rubberband Girl: FTFA - "I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of," Bruce wrote. "I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about."

Probably should've put that under a screen name that couldn't be easily traced to her, even though she has a point.

I've not heard about any wedding plans for the daughter yet. I'm betting it's not going to happen.



I'm guessing that all they really need to do is act like they are moving ahead with the marriage until the election, then announce it is not to be at some point down the road. You know, "life happens" has now replaced "family values" for the GOP.

Isn't blogging just typing random crap on an livejournal?

I like Sarah, she is nothing like the Washington politicians. Call her stupid??? Why? She has a love of country that mirrors mine. She has an understanding of what's right, and what is wrong, like me. She has a vision of what it means to be an American, just like me. I like her, I like what she stands for. I like the fact that she didn't rub out a baby just because it wasn't "perfect". I say "Well done madam!" Let's have a beer together. I like you.

AtomicPenguin: If your god was good and merciful there wouldn't be children with that disability.

Wow. Someone sat in two classes of philosophy and didn't bother to stay any longer.

But I would be inclined to believe that the retarded were created because I am his favorite, and he knows I like laughing at retards like you. Your disabilities amuse me.

SockMonkeyHolocaust: Do bloggers really resign? I thought their post frequency kind of just trailed off until there was a six month gap and an update saying that they know they haven't been faithful to their blog but a big update is coming soon and then nothing for a year.

If you resign, you were not really a blogger anyway.

Prop Joe

I was watching Olberman masterbating to Obama on the air recently and he got so upset that some random guy in the audience supposedly yelled out "kill him" while everyone was boo'ing Obama. Good ol Keith wouldn't let it go and was so very upset with McCain, as if McCain had said it himself. Oh, this was so terrible and McCain should just quite the campaign because he can't control his audience or some such utter bullcrap.

And then I come in here and the offensive nature of these personal attacks on Palin are just incredible. Not surprising, and not shocking. I mean, I've been around and I've seen this and it's expected in this online world. But the heights of hipocrasy are what most annoy me.

The leftwing MSM is SO utterly in the tank for Obama and completedly convinced he's already won (doesn't matter if he has or not) that they are just going hay wire hog crazy and spueing anything they'd like knowing there is no one to stop them.

I know I'm just talking to myself here and that the vast left leaning crowd here will piss on my thoughts but ... damn people, could you at least pretend you weren't so childish? You wear "Palin is a coont" t-shirts and then get offended if someone mentions "Hussein" ZOMG! Big deal. We all know it's meaningless, get over it. But to be so offensive and crude? Is this how you would like your party to be represented?

In related news ... Gallagher has just been taken out by an over-zealous Secret Service sniper.

ATTN Farkers
20081015
RE Letter of resignation


I, robomonkster, apologize to the thoughtless comments posted yesterday, the 14 of October, concerning the Bird Watchers of America (BWA). It was not my intent to draw comparisons to the BWA's enthusiasm for nature and the Spanish Inquisition. My allusions to the BWA and the events of 11 Sept 2001 were highly inappropriate and not only embarrassing to to myself, but also all participants of these discussions.

I feel that the only appropriate response to the fair criticism that has been leveled at both me and the website I love is to offer my official resignation from Fark. I apologize for my actions and wish you all godspeed on your internet journeys.

Any thread that can work in a Young Ones reference is definitely full of win

hoopy22: I like Sarah, she is nothing like the Washington politicians. Call her stupid??? Why? She has a love of country that mirrors mine. She has an understanding of what's right, and what is wrong, like me. She has a vision of what it means to be an American, just like me. I like her, I like what she stands for. I like the fact that she didn't rub out a baby just because it wasn't "perfect". I say "Well done madam!" Let's have a beer together. I like you.

You probably share an abject ignorance of basic civic knowledge as well

.

drestin: I was watching Olberman masterbating to Obama on the air recently and he got so upset that some random guy in the audience supposedly yelled out "kill him" while everyone was boo'ing Obama. Good ol Keith wouldn't let it go and was so very upset with McCain, as if McCain had said it himself. Oh, this was so terrible and McCain should just quite the campaign because he can't control his audience or some such utter bullcrap.

And then I come in here and the offensive nature of these personal attacks on Palin are just incredible. Not surprising, and not shocking. I mean, I've been around and I've seen this and it's expected in this online world. But the heights of hipocrasy are what most annoy me.

The leftwing MSM is SO utterly in the tank for Obama and completedly convinced he's already won (doesn't matter if he has or not) that they are just going hay wire hog crazy and spueing anything they'd like knowing there is no one to stop them.

I know I'm just talking to myself here and that the vast left leaning crowd here will piss on my thoughts but ... damn people, could you at least pretend you weren't so childish? You wear "Palin is a coont" t-shirts and then get offended if someone mentions "Hussein" ZOMG! Big deal. We all know it's meaningless, get over it. But to be so offensive and crude? Is this how you would like your party to be represented?/i>


FTFY

"I don't think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and throwing her to the wolves in front of the whole world is something to be proud of," Bruce wrote. "I don't think that using a special needs baby as a prop on late night TV appearances is a value to crow about."

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Free country ???
Guess not, 1 for bad guys, 0 for American free speech..

Joao: Prop this!

That's sweet. Where did you get that?

/Gateway computer?

Hotlinked like a rhesus.

drestin: MSM is SO utterly in the tank for Obama....

well, they did spend the last 12 years fellating John McCain for no apparent reason. so much so that he used to refer to reporters as "his base". Joe Scarborough (R) mentioned the national press corps covering the presidential campaign and said, "I think every last one of them would move to Massachusetts and marry John McCain if they could."

and now, they are feeling a little sheepish about being called out on it, and might be leaning the other way like a jilted lover (after McCain lashed out at them a few months ago). But not to worry, they will turn on Obama. They will always persue lurid rumors about a Democrat President, no matter who is dropping them out there.

so you can stop crying.

Oh Please!

If she left the kid home all you Obamabotiots wold be bullshiatting about how she abandoned the kid.

Your Obullshiat just makes you all look like broken babbling robots.

A blogger resigned for calling a spade a spade? That's lame.

I think people give bloggers too much credit. It's not real journalism. I nearly laughed my arse off when I saw she "resigned". Now she is free to write about Katamari Damacy to her little heart's content.

NYZooMan: Oh Please!

If she left the kid home all you Obamabotiots wold be bullshiatting about how she abandoned the kid.

Your Obullshiat just makes you all look like broken babbling robots.

Her hubby should be taking care of the kids instead of her hauling them all around at odd hours and strenuous schedules. Oh wait, he needs to be everywhere with Palin for who knows why. When you treat your kids as props you should expect others to notice.

ParagonComplex: Prop Joe

McCain = Stan Valchek

hoopy22: I like the fact that she didn't rub out a baby

I'm not sure if your post was sarcastic or not, but either way you might want to update your prohibition-era slang. Sadly, these days "to rub out" doesn't only mean what it meant back when McCain was in short pants. I'm not sure what sort of sick act "Palin rubbing out a baby" might be, but it sounds very, very filthy and probably involves a moose call.

albtraum: ParagonComplex: Prop Joe

McCain = Stan Valchek

Maybe LEVI HOCKEY JOHNSTON can be Cheese. Just keep Marlo out of there because it won't end well.

Shaggy_C: whereisian: How are they not props?

They're her children. Should she just toss them aside and leave them with a nanny while she's out campaigning? At least she's not having them speak and raise money and all that shiat like the Clintpwn3ds did with my beautiful lustbunny Chelsea.

Jesus goddamn motherfarking Christ. If you think Chelsea campaigning for her mother at the age of 28 belongs in a conversation about Palin's minor children, you're so farking blinded by partisan bullshiat that it's a farking wonder you haven't had a fatal car accident yet because you mistook an oncoming semi for another "liberal media" lie.

I thought that every politician use their kids as props. It is sort of a tradition in this country.

It's kinda vaguely on the edges of ethical, but every politician does it. To the extent that making a big deal of it probably does mean that you're an idiot and should stop publishing your opinion as if it meant something.

//Obama and Palin have both done it so far, McCain has sorta done it (hey, y'all, my son's in the army), I forget if Biden's done it and I don't recall if any of the others even have kids.

buster_v for the late thread win!

buster_v 2008-10-15 10:42:17 PM
Too funny.

Jim_Callahan: It's kinda vaguely on the edges of ethical, but every politician does it. To the extent that making a big deal of it probably does mean that you're an idiot and should stop publishing your opinion as if it meant something.

most infants should be laid down for bed before midnight.

pre-teens can have the occasional late night up with mom or dad at special events. Teens could probably handle a couple events a week. post-teen you can work on the campaign full time if you want.


by that kind of standard, the Palins aren't doing too great.

BergZ: rodeofrog 2008-10-15 04:54:33 PM
RedT: ... Is it just me or does it seem that Liberals don't get "outraged" over anything at all, regardless how outrageous, while Conservative fake outrage at every opportunity?

"It's just you."

No, it's fairly accurate.
Liberals tend to get outraged over things like warrantless-wiretaps, redefining torture, engaging in torture, suspension of habeaus corpus, breaking international agreements (such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty), increasing the partisanship of bureaucracies, lies about WMDs, lies about links to Al-Queda, exposing the identities of undercover agents, playing "executive privilege", refusing to testify under oath, rampant corruption due to lobbyists, when 5 million white house emails go missing, and decreasing the transparency of government process by using private email accounts for official government business...

Taking 'under god' out of the pledge of allegiance, giving kids the grades they earn in school and thereby hurting their self-esteem, whether x publication is inadvertently 'insensitive' to a race/sexual orientation/imaginary number/new-age quackery/fake religion someone made up to get out of taxes or trouble, allowing people their admittedly guaranteed constitutional rights (arms, press)...

There's plenty of fake and/or stupid outrage that falls under both categories. I mean 'liberal' and 'conservative' both cover pretty broad modes of thought, people are capable of immense stupidity and lack of perspective based on pretty much any philosophy.

But, other than that, you're spot-on.

About half of your examples can be just as easily attributed to Democrats, too, so if you're using the inaccurate rep=conservative/dem=liberal neologism, then I'm not quite sure why you think 'liberals' are the only ones upset even assuming total partisanship.

that has got to be one of the crepiest shirts I have ever seen

Those are some pretty nice pics of the soon-to-be first family. I suggest getting them framed, or put onto commemorative plates.


(note, not on shirts. that's creepy)

dbaggins: 3steps: Sometimes you guys are just asshats.

She should have left Trig in Alaska by himself?


Good question. Will she be dragging the infant to Washington and back too ? Or to meetings at McCain's Arizona ranch ? or to Beijing ?


you see, most SANE parents wait until their kids are a little older and more resilient before taking a job with massive amounts of travel.

You dont drag your infants jackass....

The best place for any child is with their parents unless the parents are going to war or will be back in about 8 hours from work. What the heck was carters vice presidents name? Does anyone even remember? did it have children? was it even human?

I suspect that she will take the youngest with her until he is about 2.5 yrs and can be left with a nanny for short durations. I remember we left our 1 yr old with her grandparents when we went on our belated honeymoon, and she affected not to know us when we got home....that was a rough 15 minutes. People dont like to be away from their kids.

archichris: You dont drag your infants jackass....

I gave what I thought was there better approach for all concerned shortly after this post, you can read it and tell me if you agree or not:

dbaggins:

know what would have been good for everyone involved ?


McCain publicly asked Sarah Palin to join the ticket. She says "no, I have a special needs infant at home and need to stay with my family in Alaska at this time".

McCain wins for publicly nominating a right wing woman. Then gets to choose someone competent.

Sarah Palin looks like a rockstar family-values candidate that can really put family first. starts being groomed for the 2012 race as a suitable choice, with more grown kids and some national political education.


That might have won them the election this time. McCain would only last one term. Palin would likely get elected president in 2012.


but she said yes.

dbaggins: Those are some pretty nice pics of the soon-to-be first family. I suggest getting them framed, or put onto commemorative plates.


(note, not on shirts. that's creepy)

Yes, they are nicely staged photos. Anything it takes to get himself elected.

/after=have to

zefal: Yes, they are nicely staged photos. Anything it takes to get himself elected.

yeah. That's a real zinger. stage photos. I'm chagrined that I would be taken in by a nice staged photo. what pathetic uninformed voter I must me. How the Democratic party has sunk to such base tactics.

drestin: I was watching Olberman masterbating to Obama on the air recently and he got so upset that some random guy in the audience supposedly yelled out "kill him" while everyone was boo'ing Obama. Good ol Keith wouldn't let it go and was so very upset with McCain, as if McCain had said it himself. Oh, this was so terrible and McCain should just quite the campaign because he can't control his audience or some such utter bullcrap.

And then I come in here and the offensive nature of these personal attacks on Palin are just incredible. Not surprising, and not shocking. I mean, I've been around and I've seen this and it's expected in this online world. But the heights of hipocrasy are what most annoy me.

The leftwing MSM is SO utterly in the tank for Obama and completedly convinced he's already won (doesn't matter if he has or not) that they are just going hay wire hog crazy and spueing anything they'd like knowing there is no one to stop them.

I know I'm just talking to myself here and that the vast left leaning crowd here will piss on my thoughts but ... damn people, could you at least pretend you weren't so childish? You wear "Palin is a coont" t-shirts and then get offended if someone mentions "Hussein" ZOMG! Big deal. We all know it's meaningless, get over it. But to be so offensive and crude? Is this how you would like your party to be represented?

You DO realize that the "palin is a coont" comment is based on what john mccain said about his "trollop" of a wife in front of a couple of lobbyists, right? (or was it reporter friends, i forget)

So don't get your knickers in a twist, it's not like they called her a terrorist or something.... oh wait.

/you're too sensitive for the intertubes

theorellior: Hotlinked like a rhesus.



"IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE BURST OF TIMES..RUBBISH!!! GET RID OF ALL OF THEM AND GET ME A NEW SET OF MONKEYS!"

/link couldn't be hotter.

Subby's hate has made him powerful. Or not.

Actually I agree. Trig Palin should be treated with respect.

After all, he *is* the most intelligent member of the Palin family.

The Republican party and John McCain out to take the heat for obviously choosing this women for vice president. Besides simply trying to get the Hillary vote they knew that her challenged offspring would bring sympathy from the voters especially women. This was one of the main reasons she was picked. Every time you think they have sunk to new levels they find a lower level.

drestin: I was watching Olberman masterbating (ew, why?) to Obama on the air recently and he got so upset that some random guy in the audience supposedly yelled out "kill him" while everyone was boo'ing Obama....
Blood-thirst is a reasonable part of our democracy?

And then I come in here and the offensive nature of these personal attacks on Palin are just incredible. ... the heights of hipocrasy are what most annoy me.
Saying that her political actions are making her kids into props is not a personal attack anymore than criticizing Obama's campaign spending is. You compare valid questions about her campaigning to calls for assassination?

The leftwing MSM (Marché Suisse des Machines?) is SO utterly in the tank for Obama and completedly convinced he's already won (doesn't matter if he has or not) that they are just going hay wire hog crazy and spueing anything they'd like knowing there is no one to stop them. Palin School of Writing alum?

I know I'm just talking to myself here and that the vast left leaning crowd here will piss on my thoughts but ... damn people, could you at least pretend you weren't so childish? You wear "Palin is a coont" t-shirts (yes this is sexist, but contextually means 'I dont like her and she's a woman') and then get offended if someone mentions "Hussein" ZOMG! (this is to foment racism, it says a lot more) Big deal. We all know it's meaningless, get over it. But to be so offensive and crude? Is this how you would like your party to be represented?

If Obama talked about being black constantly you would be whining that he was making that into a prop for his campaign. Palin can't stop being a mother and a woman, however, she could leave her kids out of it.

/and learn how to spell, drestin

chrismac: 3 + 4 + 5 = triangle

Why, yes, I expect that's the kind of answer Palin would provide on an arithmetic exam.

/knows what you meant
//just think it's funny out of context

I see mothers who name their children unusually as being pathologically selfish...they treat their children as possessions, and yes as props in their one-star performance in the show where you are the unwilling audience.

The submissive husband who allows his offspring to be manipulated and debased in this way is as culpable and should be shamed as well.

Saran Palin is not a moron in the traditional sense, I've seen her with the aw-shucks mode shut off. But she is blisteringly stupid if she thinks people can not sense her true nature: cruel and unempathetic, a sociopath in training.

If you want the truth about Saran Palin's nature, look to her children.

Mothers who name their children unusual names are pathologically selfish? The mothers of South Central Los Angeles would like a word with you. . .

I used to think kids who have unusual names would be negatively impacted in their careers. But then we all learned about Barack Obama. Too bad about his mom being pathologically selfish and treating him as a possession.

Seriously though, do your kids a favor and give them a traditional name that is easy to pronounce. And don't give them a normal name with lame alternative spelling.