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HISTORY AS PLAY DOH.
( this is a long one, bear with me, its HOT outside )
( this is a long one, bear with me, its HOT outside )
Sixth Grade, Winder-Barrow Elementary School:
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
and to this day, I can still do this part of it...
real world : 2 + 2 = 4
Sarah Palin/Today's GOP/ tea-bagger world;
2 + 2 = Pina Colada, AND if you say it does not , you are a Sharia law loving Muslim, you hate America and the terrorists, baby killers homos and non gold reservists have won. Why cant we just have OUR country the way it used to be. God Bless You, Sarah Palin.
You hopefully all know the story by now, but some of you may not, due to life or lack of cable. The Clampets Palins are on vaca. Just throw the family in a giant painted up bus and tour the North East ( why o why did so much American History have to happen in Godless New England ??!? ) It's been all over the news , stealing the thunder from all the real GOP wannabees...
So, she and Velma, Shaggy, Scooby et al, tour The Old North Church, and then do the folksy thing of waiting in line for ice cream or some other such common folk thing when an evil agent of the lame stream media throws out a GOT'CHA question to her (paraphrasing here) : "what have you seen and what do you think about .. the things you have seen?"
So, she and Velma, Shaggy, Scooby et al, tour The Old North Church, and then do the folksy thing of waiting in line for ice cream or some other such common folk thing when an evil agent of the lame stream media throws out a GOT'CHA question to her (paraphrasing here) : "what have you seen and what do you think about .. the things you have seen?"
Ok... her voice is nails on a chalkboard to me... that is just me, you can't really fault her for that, but we can fault her for being bat shit crazy and flat our wrong.. right? As JS or SC put it.. "General Eisenhower to Hitler " yeah, coming to Normandy to kick the shit out of you....". Paul Revere, that night.. DID NOT WARN THE FREAKING BRITISH ! Come on folks... sixth grade, Winder Barrow Elementary.
The next day.. when ever.. she takes off her mommy forcing the kids to do educational vacation hat , puts on some SERIOUS boots are made for walking falls ( a " snookie bump-it to you younger folk ), goes to work at FOX and lets go with she was NOT wrong!
Got it? Now , for those that have lives and are not OBSESSED with the right wing in this country , you may not know that they, even when not handling snakes, speak in tongues, or code, really. This is SO FULL Of red meat for the Iowa voters that what to you , a somewhat educated audience sounds like some freaky word salad , creepy sort of 4th of July poetry slam, to the faithful, is the gospel. AND, right after this her minions ( or her daughters.. ) went to work on fixing history! Sarah is not wrong, you and Longfellow are! They set about changing the Paul Revere Wiki page etc, to reflect what Gov. Palin had said. Wikipedia changed it back and locked the page but CONSERVAPEDIA ( yes.. but do not go there ) changed it for good.
Irritable bowel Andy put it this way : " I think it helps to understand that, for right-wing populists, this thing we call "history" is less about real people who did real things in the real world, and more like just the Bible Part II. It's a myth that can be manipulated to suit their purpose, which is usually to establish themselves as the only Real Americans. When Palin says she got it right, I believe she believes that, because her story wasn't really about Paul Revere. Her story was a thinly veiled allegory of the Tea Party worldview, and in it, Tea Partiers are Paul Revere and the British stand in for Obama, the foreign usurper who is out to take their guns."
Who the hell knows if she will run for President.. I for one do not think she will , because it is hard work and you don't make any money, but either way, she is for what ever reason a force to be reckoned with. Sad for us.
One other QUICK Sarah'nTodd ( the new Ross'nCookie ) tidbit. They are taking a break from New England, shipping the bus out to the mid west and GOING to the real England, where Queen Sarah, let it be known that she would be getting her photo made with the IRON LADY herself. Now Baroness Thatcher has stopped receiving at all, is in the last stages of dementia, but Sarah is pressing on. From all sorts of media outlets : "Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, is well respected by Sarah Palin, but it doesn't appear that the feeling is mutual.
Recently the former Alaska governor revealed plans to take her "One Nation" road show across the pond next month, with a stop in London as she makes her way to Sudan. "I am going to Sudan in July and hope to stop in England on the way. I am just hoping Mrs. Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her," Palin told Britain's Sunday Times in an article titled "Reloaded and on a Mrs. T mission: the Palins are coming to Britain!"
But the woman affectionately dubbed the Iron Lady isn't interested in meeting with Sarah Barracuda during the hockey mom's trip."Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts," an unnamed "ally" told the Guardian.
Ugly Americans, indeed.
