palin on script, manny r. and rhonda's back.
sarah palin reminds me of some tv stars that i know....dumb as dirt but give them a script and they do quite well. she cannot talk off the cuff and when asked a question that she did not have notes on she adroitly changed the subject and talked about alaska energy or, if all else fails, brought up hockey moms.
she used the goebbels/bush/mc cain tactic of telling lies, even ones that are patently untrue, believing, as j.b said, that if you tell a lie, regardless of how obvious it may be, over and over again then the "people" will begin to believe it to be true and act accordingly. example: the lie that obama will raise taxes on anyone making 42,000 dollars per year. the observent among us noticed that when she was called on this obvious lie, she totally dropped it and went on to the next one. when biden pointed out that only those making a quarter of a million per year would see a tax increase and 95% of us would see a tax break, she then said that small business owners would suffer. biden then pointed out, once again the obvious, that small business owners do not make a quarter of a million dollars per year. you know and i know this is true. surely some of you out there reading this are small business owners.....do you make 250k per year? do you know any small business owners? are they making that? of course not.
having said all that, sarah palin did not hurt the republican cause last night and as far as "debates" go, she did well. i thought biden came across as much more "presidental" and did not once wink at the camera. sarah, when on script, sounds quite confident and is bubbly cute but then again, do you want bubbly cute or thoughtful and knowledgeable?
on to other matters: rhonda had a mri on her back and now we know why the healing process has taken so long: she tore a couple of discs in her back and now has to be treated for that so the healing process is going to take much longer than we thought and there is the slim possiblity that it could get worse.
i have never seen a player come into a team and so completely change that team both on and off the field as manny has done for the dodgers. he has been nothing short of amazing. the dodgers have now won more play off games this year than in the last 20 years combined. with him in the line up the whole attitude of the team has changed and everyone is a more confident and dangerous hitter than they were before his arrival. with fucal back and producing, (how about that bunt for the first rbi?) and torre's steady hand at the helm (the hit and run in the second got the ball rolling) the dodgers now look able to go all the way to the world series. derrick lowe is one of the best money pitchers in the game and billinglsy is the real deal rising star. throw in kershaw from the left side and kurado (sp) and we have a good rotation and the bull pen is solid. go dodgers.
oh, and to my request for those who critize but not using their real names...one did send me his real name and he is someone who always disagrees with me...lol. courage of conviction he does not lack.
on that note, i am only talking about people who post long comments and disagree with my positions and, in some of the cases, attack me personally. if you are only a now and then poster then i don't care but if you are on there all of the time...show some courage. rudy/peter doesn't need to tell me their name...i know it.
the only thing i "know" i am right on is the war in iraq. everything else, shit, i could be totally off the mark. my opinions are just that...an opinion. we all know the old adage about opinions...they are like assholes, we all have one and no one's opinion is fucking gospel.
now the rescue package has been passed by both houses let us all hope that it helps turn this around. we are in bad times and they could get much worse. japan went through this and they did not bail out their banks and their market today is still only 1/3rd of it's value of 19 years ago. it staggered the japanese economy and they still haven't recovered. man oh man.
that is all for today, go dodgers, peace to us all.
she used the goebbels/bush/mc cain tactic of telling lies, even ones that are patently untrue, believing, as j.b said, that if you tell a lie, regardless of how obvious it may be, over and over again then the "people" will begin to believe it to be true and act accordingly. example: the lie that obama will raise taxes on anyone making 42,000 dollars per year. the observent among us noticed that when she was called on this obvious lie, she totally dropped it and went on to the next one. when biden pointed out that only those making a quarter of a million per year would see a tax increase and 95% of us would see a tax break, she then said that small business owners would suffer. biden then pointed out, once again the obvious, that small business owners do not make a quarter of a million dollars per year. you know and i know this is true. surely some of you out there reading this are small business owners.....do you make 250k per year? do you know any small business owners? are they making that? of course not.
having said all that, sarah palin did not hurt the republican cause last night and as far as "debates" go, she did well. i thought biden came across as much more "presidental" and did not once wink at the camera. sarah, when on script, sounds quite confident and is bubbly cute but then again, do you want bubbly cute or thoughtful and knowledgeable?
on to other matters: rhonda had a mri on her back and now we know why the healing process has taken so long: she tore a couple of discs in her back and now has to be treated for that so the healing process is going to take much longer than we thought and there is the slim possiblity that it could get worse.
i have never seen a player come into a team and so completely change that team both on and off the field as manny has done for the dodgers. he has been nothing short of amazing. the dodgers have now won more play off games this year than in the last 20 years combined. with him in the line up the whole attitude of the team has changed and everyone is a more confident and dangerous hitter than they were before his arrival. with fucal back and producing, (how about that bunt for the first rbi?) and torre's steady hand at the helm (the hit and run in the second got the ball rolling) the dodgers now look able to go all the way to the world series. derrick lowe is one of the best money pitchers in the game and billinglsy is the real deal rising star. throw in kershaw from the left side and kurado (sp) and we have a good rotation and the bull pen is solid. go dodgers.
oh, and to my request for those who critize but not using their real names...one did send me his real name and he is someone who always disagrees with me...lol. courage of conviction he does not lack.
on that note, i am only talking about people who post long comments and disagree with my positions and, in some of the cases, attack me personally. if you are only a now and then poster then i don't care but if you are on there all of the time...show some courage. rudy/peter doesn't need to tell me their name...i know it.
the only thing i "know" i am right on is the war in iraq. everything else, shit, i could be totally off the mark. my opinions are just that...an opinion. we all know the old adage about opinions...they are like assholes, we all have one and no one's opinion is fucking gospel.
now the rescue package has been passed by both houses let us all hope that it helps turn this around. we are in bad times and they could get much worse. japan went through this and they did not bail out their banks and their market today is still only 1/3rd of it's value of 19 years ago. it staggered the japanese economy and they still haven't recovered. man oh man.
that is all for today, go dodgers, peace to us all.
posted by Ron Shock | 12:30 PM
4 Comments:
Ron - I came across this flow chart of the debate and thought you might find it entertaining.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/03/sarah-palin-debate-flowch_n_131607.html
Jolene
I don't *always* disagree with you--I don't think we are far off on our opinions of George W., for instance. I just don't bother writing unless you need to be corrected :)
You know..I think that I know the best way to describe Sarah Palin. She's a "dick joke". Think about it, Ronno. For those who don't recognize the analogy-let me explain. When a comic is bombing-not doing well, a Hack comic will tell a gratuitous sex-based joke, usually one that has a great deal of profanity, and usually about penises. These jokes appeal to the lowest common denominator, and will often produce a laugh. It takes no skill to get a crowd to laugh at a "dick joke". They're cheap.
McCain had nothing going, and certainly could not compete with the charismatic Barack Obama. So the Republicans found a semi-hot chick, with a nice rack and a nice ass to hold the "joe six-packs" in thrall, with a feisty soccer-mom persona to reap in the feisty soccer moms that populate the red states. All charisma and nothing more. They give her some bullshit to say against the opposition, and push her up to front. A hot chick speaking low english, winking and mugging, attacking a muslim N-gger (we really should use the language that many of these clueless idiots use). Of course they're gonna go for it. It's cheap. It's lowest common denominator. It's a dick joke.
And it should be said that clever comics talk about sex in a clever way-even with profane language. Our host is one of these clever comics. Ron doesn't tell "dick jokes". He DOES tell Giraffe jokes. He might be the ONLY comic that tells Giraffe Jokes.
Sorry to hear about Rhonda's back. A few years ago I had three car accidents in the space of 2 years..only one was my fault :-)
As a result I had inflammation of several lumbar discs and it was very painful so I can imagine how painful torn discs must be.
The good thing about it is that discs like to heal but the problem is that it takes a long time for them to heal. It took about 6 months for mine to be back to normal.
I wish her a speedy recovery.
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