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Showing posts with label sarah palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sarah palin. Show all posts
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sarah Hill?
A friend of mine at work just pointed this out. Is this similarity a mere coincidence?
Thanks Simosa!
Thanks Simosa!
Drill, Drill, Drill By Eve Ensler
Reading this, I was reminded of the sick churning in my own stomach as I watched and listened to the RNC crowd begin chanting "Drill drill drill!" I couldn't really believe that I was witnessing something so akin to a lynch mob broadcast for millions to see and still have yet to hear from any mass media about how fucking horrifying the implications of that truly were. So reading this piece by Ensler gave me some consolation. Because ladies, it's lights out on our rights if Palin and McCain make it into the White House. Are we really about to let this happen? And what does that mean? What does that say about us as a nation?
Drill, Drill, Drill
“I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club
where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice.
Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar
bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they
have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It
will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?”
-Eve Ensler
From The Huffington Post
Drill, Drill, Drill
“I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club
where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice.
Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar
bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.'
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they
have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It
will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?”
-Eve Ensler
From The Huffington Post
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The View's Eye on Politics
While it is surely obvious to most viewers that she expects to vote for Mr. Obama, Ms. Behar noted that it was not exactly out of self-interest.
“I don’t stand to gain as a comedian if Obama wins,” she said. “He’s not that funny. McCain-Palin, they’re a riot.”
-NY Times
“I don’t stand to gain as a comedian if Obama wins,” she said. “He’s not that funny. McCain-Palin, they’re a riot.”
-NY Times
Friday, September 12, 2008
A Bad Disney Movie
Whoever thought Matt Damon would be the voice of reason? But thank Jesus! I mean if people won't listen to reason maybe they will listen to a celebrity!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Watching the RNC between dry heaves
So I watched the RNC last night. Okay that’s not exactly true. I watched most of Guiliani’s two faced speech and then Sarah Palin’s. Thank God I had a small dinner last night because listening to her was making me physically ill. Fortunately I was only paying marginal attention to it because I was also busy typing up a response paper to a reading from my Cultural Diversity class. I think that nausea began with chants of (urgh) “Drill Baby Drill.” WHAT THE FUCK?????? These are the people who will send this country straight back to the dark ages. WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. OMIGOD. As an African American I have to tell you, I felt like the audience was one step away from the fucking clan!
As sick as I got I did not turn it off. I feel it is very important to be as educated about your enemy’s positions as it is about your own. I can’t afford to only see one side of these issues. But I couldn’t see myself anywhere in that convention! NO WHERE! I realize that people in the Midwest feel that cosmopolitan dwellers are freaky elitist snobs and that we think they are dumb, narrow minded redneck idiots. But let’s face it. In urban dwellings there is a diversity that reflects the entire world more accurately than the Midwest does. The Midwest is a large part of America and have a large part in defining what we have come to understand as traditional Americana but THEY ARE NOT AMERICA! Lord help us if this woman becomes second in command!
This morning on GMA they gathered a group of teenagers to talk about Palin’s pregnant daughter and essentially they all agreed that it was their parents who influenced their decisions about sex more than anything else. I’m sorry but correct me if I’m wrong. Aren’t we supposed the trying the lower the rates of teenage pregnancy in this country. Hasn’t that been one of the major political issues for the last I don’t know how many years and then McCain picks a virtual political nobody whose teenage daughter is pregnant and all of a sudden, no wait! That’s okay because at least she’s getting married to the baby daddy! HUUUUUHHH!!!!! Where the fuck am I? Is this really what’s happening? If this happened in the Obama family THEY WOULD TEAR HIS ASS UP! NO QUESTION! This is some bullshit!
Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that a response to something of this nature would be to just shrug it off and not identify it as the serious issue it is. Excuse me…feeling sick again.
As sick as I got I did not turn it off. I feel it is very important to be as educated about your enemy’s positions as it is about your own. I can’t afford to only see one side of these issues. But I couldn’t see myself anywhere in that convention! NO WHERE! I realize that people in the Midwest feel that cosmopolitan dwellers are freaky elitist snobs and that we think they are dumb, narrow minded redneck idiots. But let’s face it. In urban dwellings there is a diversity that reflects the entire world more accurately than the Midwest does. The Midwest is a large part of America and have a large part in defining what we have come to understand as traditional Americana but THEY ARE NOT AMERICA! Lord help us if this woman becomes second in command!
This morning on GMA they gathered a group of teenagers to talk about Palin’s pregnant daughter and essentially they all agreed that it was their parents who influenced their decisions about sex more than anything else. I’m sorry but correct me if I’m wrong. Aren’t we supposed the trying the lower the rates of teenage pregnancy in this country. Hasn’t that been one of the major political issues for the last I don’t know how many years and then McCain picks a virtual political nobody whose teenage daughter is pregnant and all of a sudden, no wait! That’s okay because at least she’s getting married to the baby daddy! HUUUUUHHH!!!!! Where the fuck am I? Is this really what’s happening? If this happened in the Obama family THEY WOULD TEAR HIS ASS UP! NO QUESTION! This is some bullshit!
Never in a million years would I have ever guessed that a response to something of this nature would be to just shrug it off and not identify it as the serious issue it is. Excuse me…feeling sick again.
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