Mom of the Year...

I took an extended hiatus from the blogging due to the overwhelming amount of vitriol spewing forth from my hi-tech typewriter here (which, I'm sure, is exactly how you have to describe a computer to Crazy John McCain lest he give you that Republican caught in a lie..think Tom Delay's mug...stare of his). This election cycle has filled me hatred for some of my fellow humans. Okay, okay. Those of you who know me know that last bit was a false statement. I have hated many of my fellow humans since long before this election cycle. Let's say then that this campaign season has magnified, or intensified, my loathing of some people.

Which brings me to the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States of America. Second highest office in the land. A heartbeat away from the Presidency. That's right, I'm talkin' about the second runner-up in the Miss Alaska 'beauty' pageant...Tammy Faye, er, Sarah Palin.

I know my friends Kevin and Lisa are both fans of the Rude Pundit, but for those of you who may have missed this...this piece speaks to my feelings about this whole thing...

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/bristol-palins-vagina-considered-let-us.html

It's not about the 16 year-old girl being preggers. It's about the judgement of the polar bear-killing mother that put the teenager in the national spotlight to begin with. Dumbass. Again, the mother, not the daughter. And hey, it's a good thing Palin took a hard line on a question in 2006 from the conservative Eagle Forum Alaska:...

Q: Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?

Sarah Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.


Sounds like a solid plan. Why educate your children about sex when you can just tell them "Hey, don't do that!"? Because it is well-known that teenage kids listen to that kind of insightful advice from adults. You can lock them in a room with a table full of soda and cookies and say "Oh, by the way, don't drink that soda or eat those cookies because, while being very damned tasty, they might spoil your appetite for dinner, which is five hours from now...but I'm sure you can wait." Sure enough, those kiddies will probably not pay any attention to the wonderful sugary-goodness sitting on a table just a few feet from thier soda and cookie-starved bodies. They will probably not notice how seductive the soda looks with the little dew drops glistening on the can, trailing ever-so-slowly down the side of the can to pool at the bottom in a moist, beckoning stain on the tablecloth. Or how fantastic those fresh, young cookies smell in that just-out-of-the-oven way that young cookies have of luring one in. No they won't pay any attention to all of that. Will they? Or will they, once the door is closed and the adult is out of the room, throw themselves upon the waiting tasty treats and have their way with them, devouring every last damned cookie crumb and slurping every can of soda?

But if, on the other hand, you were to point out to the kids that by eating all of those cookies and drinking all of that soda they are going to add pounds to their mid-sections, increase their risk of diabetes and generally make themselves feel poorly, that if, instead of eating and drinking all of that nasty shit they simply nibble a bit and they shouldn't have any health issues, well, then the kiddies can make an informed decision about what it is they want to do...eat, don't eat, eat just a few cookies, take just a sip of soda...whatever.

But no. Sex is bad dammit! It must be bad because my pastor told me so...

These people are cretins. Talk about your bridge to nowhere!

YIKES!