With all the attention focused on yesterday’s annual Clash of the Performance Enhanced Titans in Miami, it was easy to overlook the other star-studded exhibition taking place in town. An event that, like the Super Bowl, boasted top-tier entertainment and a boisterous crowd while requiring little in the way of actual thought. I’m speaking, of course, about Governor Rick Perry’s “Super Sunday with Sarah Palin” rally at the Berry Center in Cypress.
If I’m going to be charitable about it, I’d say the center was filled to slightly over half its 8,500-seat capacity. Most of the rear of the arena was empty, as was about three-quarters of the floor, which had been sectioned off for presumably more teeming masses. Speaking with some of those in attendance, it also became apparent that this number would have been dramatically lower without Palin’s presence. Some folks had come from as far away as San Antonio and Austin to hear her speak.
I didn’t ask how many were there to see Ted Nugent.
Attendees started filing in shortly after 1:30. They were welcomed by dozens of rally placards strategically placed in the stands — presumably for those who’d left their own “Perry 2010″ signs at home — and by numerous inspirational banners festooning the center. My favorite — which is in no way a play on an idiotic statement made last year by the Governor — is below:
We don' need no stankin' gubmint scholin' up here neither
So afraid is Sarah Palin of being expected to answer questions coherently that for the pre-screened “questions” after the Teabagging “speech” she found it necessary to write her talking points on her hand …. even after she’d rehearsed them!
The list reads:
Energy
Budget cuts – amended to read ‘Tax cuts’
Lift American Spirits
She couldn’t even get it right the first time …
Never let a good list go to waste …
If you feel a need to punish yourself, watch the “Q and A session” (with the sound off, unless you murdered a kitten today) and count the number of times she rubs her stockinged leg or her skirt trying to remove the list after she’s caught reading from it.
Sarah and Todd Palin have for years owned their own little holiday paradise in Alaska. There is one partner, a hunky nobody with poor moral standards.
For years there have been two double-storey holiday chalets on the property – complete with sauna and a nice big shop to house their 4-wheelers and snowmobiles.
And for years the Palins and their buddy have hidden these holiday homes from the Mat-Su Borough’s property tax assessor.
The Mat-Su Borough relies on the honor system for these remote holiday chalets …. so there ya go. The Palin worshipers will claim “it’s all the gubmint’s fault!” But everyone knows how an honor system works (or doesn’t).
Sarah Palin, former Mayor of Wasilla (in the Mat-Su Borough) has been cheating her own community for years – while the Palin children attend the schools funded by the Borough, while Trig Palin’s special needs have been met by the Borough, while the family gets its flu shots from the Borough, and showers in water provided by the Borough – not to mention using those nice, clean, smooth, plowed roads for their nice, clean, smooth Cadillac Escalade …..
You can read all about the Palin family’s “favorite family vacation spot” here.
In 2000, Palin declined to endorse local rep Vic Kohring (one of the many former Alaskan politicians now in prison) because he refused to pay his property taxes. As Mayor, she said, she understood how vital it is that residents not cheat their communities of property tax.
Sarah Palin has millions in the bank but she doesn’t have the brains to understand that tax cheats who run for the office of Vice-President will be found out. This is just the beginning.
“I am proud to give back to Australia, after the great people of Australia have given so much to me over the years, like the movie Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and, well, that’s pretty much it,” said “Homer” in a statement.
A new Fox News survey shows that Americans remain deeply wary of the tea party movement, and strongly prefer Barack Obama to a hypothetical tea party candidate. And it’s a result Fox News chose to bury in its reporting on the poll — choosing instead to highlight “anti-Obama” voter sentiment. The poll, released by Fox News yesterday, shows that if given the choice between re-electing Barack Obama and electing a member of the tea party movement, Americans prefer Barack Obama 48% to 23%, a margin of 25 points.
Fox’s survey, conducted just over a week ago, shows that independents are still uneasy about trusting a member of the tea party movement with a position of power. Indeed, among independents, Barack Obama enjoys a 17 point lead.
Scientists pushed back the hands on the symbolic Doomsday Clock by one minute citing hopeful developments in nuclear weapons and climate change.
The symbolic clock that shows how close mankind is to self-annihilation was moved back to six minutes before midnight from five minutes on Thursday.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which maintains the clock and puts an illustration of it on its cover, attributed the move to efforts by world leaders to reduce their countries’ nuclear arsenals and collaborate on climate stabilization.
In a first for Melbourne Zoo, Asian elephant Dokkoon yesterday gave birth to her long-awaited daughter. The zoo staff have been preparing for the birth for 22 months, nevertheless they were up for two nights – some praying, some wishing and some hoping.
The small crowd who witnessed the long and difficult birth on CCTV dissolved into tears (without exception, I understand) when it was confirmed that the baby was healthy and strong.
Dokkoon is recovering reasonably well and the staff have gone home wearing big smiles after an experience they will never forget.
No comment has been sought from the baby daddy. He has no idea he is one.
