1. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #282571 by MBC Morgan on November 12, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Comment # 282560 by Steve

I appreciate your sentiment, but find that I agree with Titania on this. Despite his obvious learning disability, cognitive disconnect, and tenacious adherence to what is ultimately a dangerous mode of thought for any member of a society should they wish to continue benefiting from the advantages that societies offer, DP is not a lost cause, and what is more, he provides a vital service to others through his arrow-slit vision; through discussion with him, we are able to hone our arguments that when we are required to explain our position to the severely brain-damaged we will have a simplistic enough explanation that even the most complex topics can be understood.

2. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #282542 by MBC Morgan on November 12, 2008 at 11:51 am

Does anyone mind if I again ask DP at this time to please define the social safety net that he claimed to support?

3. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #282024 by MBC Morgan on November 11, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Closeted homosexual? He does dress well.

4. 'Child-witches' of Nigeria seek refuge

Comment #281983 by MBC Morgan on November 11, 2008 at 9:10 am

Acitta:

Do you mean the western imperialist colonialism that regarded anyone who was not Christian as savages who must me converted or enslaved and exploited?

Not to speak for Ian, but if I were to propose a reintroduction of the practice of colonialism, I would be highlighting the education, technology, medicines, democracy, etc that the colonialism brought. You don’t by chance believe the myth of the noble savage, do you, Acitta?

5. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #280363 by MBC Morgan on November 7, 2008 at 11:52 am

DP, is your example actually legitimate? How many companies pay the majority of their workers the minimum wage? Seriously, man, if you really dream that all companies should pay the lowest wage allowed by law rather than a wage that a person would earn based on merit, it doesn't make you a libertarian, it makes you a complete asshole. Raising the minimum wage had no discernible effect where I live, as most people don't get paid the least possible amount.

6. Japanese researchers make brain tissues from stem cells

Comment #280153 by MBC Morgan on November 7, 2008 at 3:40 am

And in other brain news, those wacky Muslims are at it again.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/07/autopsy-brain.html

7. Gay Marriage Outlawed in California

Comment #279758 by MBC Morgan on November 6, 2008 at 11:04 am

Ishruul - I think it's the new word for hermaphrodite.

Edit: That's a great deal more involved than I thought it was... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

8. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278986 by MBC Morgan on November 5, 2008 at 1:09 pm

DP

The system will never get better if all it does is get bigger. The bigger it gets, the bigger the problem it creates.

DP, wouldn't some others say that an easy way to fix the system is to pray for change? Try to provide a little evidence of your faith-based claims, will ya?

9. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278896 by MBC Morgan on November 5, 2008 at 11:22 am

DP

Like I said, many presidents were seen as horrible during their presidency but then history showed them to be good. The opposite has also happened with presidents people thought were great but history has a different story.

Which presidents and which historians, DP? How about a little evidence to go with that assertion?

10. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278095 by MBC Morgan on November 4, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Seconded, KRKBAB (278084). Also, this (and I cringe to see myself write it) could provide a sense of hope to other groups that feel disenfranchised, such as Native North Americans, and help their children see that no matter where they came from, they too can achieve the highest post in their land, be it USA or Canada.

11. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #278054 by MBC Morgan on November 4, 2008 at 11:25 am

Ian Bamlett

Things CHANGE Steve. The USA now has senior black people in government, business, entertainment (earning millions i might add), sports (earning more millions I might add) etc etc etc.

And when it can be said that they are just people - leave out that black bit, then, and only then, can this be considered equality. Sure things change, but how quickly, and how much?

12. ELECTION DAY IN THE USA. GO VOTE.

Comment #277994 by MBC Morgan on November 4, 2008 at 10:27 am

DP

Is that any worse then some black people voting for Obama just because he is black?

Is that any worse than some white people voting against Obama just because he is black?

13. For many evangelicals, it will be the end of the world if Obama wins

Comment #277910 by MBC Morgan on November 4, 2008 at 9:02 am

I think perhaps what Garp is pointing out here is that Obama has a separate and distinct section of his website listing women as an issue.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/womenissues

This could be interpreted to mean that in the absence of a listing of men as an issue, this singling out is misogynistic. The subtext? According to Garp, Obama thinks that women are America's Little Dumplings.

Or the first part of this was giving Garp too much credit, and the second part an extrapolation of that. I could be wrong.

14. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275638 by MBC Morgan on October 31, 2008 at 10:37 am

Steve, does this not just prove that DP is a bigger pain in the ass than DR?

15. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275512 by MBC Morgan on October 31, 2008 at 9:04 am

Frankus - I e-mailed them about that section of their platform, and their response didn't exactly make me confident of their ability to change based on evidence. If anything, it has made me more skeptical of the evidence behind their other claims and propositions. I think that in any election, the best thing that any voter can do is ask questions of the candidates and their campaigns. Ask a lot of them. Ask probing questions. The media isn't going to do it, so we as individuals must.

16. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #275383 by MBC Morgan on October 31, 2008 at 6:09 am

Frankus, did you seriously vote for the green party? From their own website, they planned to

(from section 5, point 1, bullet 5)
“Provide funds to expand provincial health insurance to cover proven alternative therapies that are less expensive and invasive such as chiropractic, massage, acupuncture.”

http://www.greenparty.ca/en/policy/visiongreen/health

This isn't exactly rational.

17. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274549 by MBC Morgan on October 30, 2008 at 7:23 am

Has anyone already commented on how Obama is nailing the Peruvian faith-healer vote?

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/081029/K102904AU.html

18. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #274536 by MBC Morgan on October 30, 2008 at 7:02 am

Frankus, I thought your avatar was based on the mascot for the band Disturbed, more so than the character Venom.

http://www.disturbed1.com/news

Edit: Although, to be fair, it seems that McFarlain had a hand in working on the character - http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1525848/20060310/disturbed.jhtml?headlines=true

19. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #273276 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 12:32 pm

I don't know if she likes football or not, but if you bought this doll, you could use it as a football.

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-cabbage-patch-candidates,0,2627691.story

20. Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids By Doing Away With Science

Comment #273270 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 12:26 pm

DarwinsPitbull meets the people at Richarddawkins.net - a bed time story.

Once upon a time, a very short time ago, there was an egocentric pot-stirrer named DarwinsPitbull. Now, DarwinsPitbull (Or DP to the people at RichardDawkins.net, foreverafter referred to as RD) spent many days and many nights trying to think up a grand scheme to annoy the many good, intelligent, thinking people he had met at RD, when finally he realized that the best way to annoy sooooo many people at once was to be completely irrational, to quote mine, and to dig his heels in the ground and not move on any position no matter how many times he was proven incorrect! So he did, and people thought at first that he was sincere, that he just didn’t get it, so they tried to correct him, because they were good people, nice people, who wanted to help him learn. When they did this, he pretended to be an idiot, and to not understand anything that they were writing to him. He did this so that he could make the people angry! “I might make mistakes and make typos, but I dont like getting into just insulting people. I do enjoy when others do it though. I think "wow I really must of pissed them off" and find that funny. But I am not trying to convince anyone here because I know it won't happen. I just enjoy debating ideas and arguing, when people actually do that. But if people get into insulting then I try my hardest to be as sarcastic as I can be and see how mad I can get them. Thats also pretty fun.” He said. So he tried, and he tried, and he tried to have fun, but the people saw that he was just a child, and began to treat him as such. Some people by this point in time had even begun to consider that this must have been done on purpose! “I'm sorry but ..... POE POE POE. No-one is this fucking stupid.” Said AllanW. But the more that people got upset, the more that DP had a good time. So when AllanW said that DP should go to bed and DP said “No bed time story? I can't go to sleep until I hear a bed time story”, MBC Morgan wrote him one so that he would just admit to being a pot-stirrer. Afterwards, no one took DP seriously.

The End.

21. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #273266 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 11:53 am

Well, in the interests of cranking the post count up, (ahem)

DP, have you actually considered the implications of your precious constitution and taxation, specifically in terms of Article 1, section 8

Section 8 - Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States

and amendment 16?

Amendment 16 - Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

You see, this seems to indicate that the congress can have an income tax and spend it in the best interests of the country. Pretty simple, eh?

Edit: Just noticed I was beaten to this on the OTHER Palin thread. Oh well. It's still true.

22. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #273250 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 11:20 am

SSO - Okay, I'll be extra careful then. For the record, if I go missing, it was probably John McCain's men, paid out by the VC to keep the story hushed. Sarah Palin may be off the hook on this one, unless the Russians programmed her while she was lookin' at 'em from Alaska.

23. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #273234 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 10:48 am

Righton - if you're that concerned about not receiving anything about McCain, why not start your own - you could say Vietnamese sources interested in putting all former hostilities aside have informed government insiders that McCain was programmed to destroy the United States (akin to that in The Manchurian Candidate) if he ever acheived a position of authority. So, if McCain is elected, he will immediately sabotage the American economy and otherwise act in a fashion that will tear apart the nation before nuking it himself.

24. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #273222 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 10:34 am

Since we're posting links that have a tenuous connection at best, how about that Republican Senator from Alaska and his felony conviction?
http://www.cbc.ca/world/usvotes/story/2008/10/28/mccain-stevens.html?ref=rss

25. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #273211 by MBC Morgan on October 28, 2008 at 10:10 am

Kaiserkris, maybe a forwarded email isn't the best place to get your current news and world events? This has been listed as false by snopes. That doesn't mean much, but I suppose you could also check out the primary sources listed there.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/fanniemae.asp

26. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #270689 by MBC Morgan on October 24, 2008 at 1:11 pm

Mitch, I tracked them down because after reading his posts for a while, I found them consistent with those others, who it is also deemed fit to mock, as they, too, are incapable of considering a bigger picture scenario.

Frankus, I think you may have hit it on the head. Perhaps in future, we should do as DP wants his government to do - tax him less. I suggest we begin by offering him a cookie, a pat on the head, and a lullabye. This should provide all the taxing thought his brain will require.

27. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #270675 by MBC Morgan on October 24, 2008 at 12:40 pm

Why do all these non-rational fundamentalists always seem to have the same/similar sign off(s)?

DP
Anyway, I gotta go to libs. Ill be back later to make your blood boil again. hahah

Joe Morreale
Goodnight boys and remember that banning or moving, concealing the truth does not eliminate it

I KNOW IT HURTS

Daabbah
Enough for today, tomorrow I will come and check if you studied your lesson.

I mean, really, how many more examples of this type of sign off are we to receive before this can be entered as a legitimate psychosis in the next DSM?

28. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #270595 by MBC Morgan on October 24, 2008 at 10:20 am

So by all means keep insulting me and saying whatever you want, but don't then turn around and say I am the one who "makes" them insult me or I am the one being rude.

For the record, DP has never made me insult him. I choose to insult him because I have heard his opinions, I have seen his inability to change, and I have come to the conclusion that he is a worthless, obfuscatory, conniving turd who shall neither read a new book or think a new thought.

DP, how are you coming on defining that social safety net you support?

29. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #270513 by MBC Morgan on October 24, 2008 at 8:32 am

I am arguing from a point where I see these programs in place and not doing much. Libs are arguing from a place where they some how think these programs don't exist already and need to invent them or something.

DP, perhaps you should first consider where other people are posting from? Not everyone who posts here dwells in the failing state that is the United States of America, where through the actions of governments you seem to support, the wage disparity between the rich and poor continues to increase, and as a direct result of there being no supervision to the financial system in your country you have recently suffered a rather dramatic market correction. The growing poverty in your country will not lead to people picking themselves up by their bootstrings no matter how many times you tell them that their poverty is their own fault, but will likely result in conditions similar to other places where poverty is rampant - high crime, ghettoization, despair.

Many people here have pointed out to you that they are not proposing to simply throw money at a problem, but rather have considered alternatives through public funding that can make a difference in the overall lives of people, thus leveling the playing field, as MPhil specifically pointed out, to the end result of each person being able to ideally contribute more than they would have been able to had they remained in squalor. You continue to ignore this rather basic point, reveling in your ignorance, shaking it out your bedroom window like a bloodied sheet.

By the way, have you yet defined what the social safety net is that you claim to support, what specifically it can accomplish, and who is able to benefit from it?

EDIT: Link - US Poverty statistics.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty07.html

30. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #270392 by MBC Morgan on October 24, 2008 at 5:57 am

Good morning, All.

To be on topic for a moment, it seems that Sarah Palin claims that she DIDN'T spend 150k on clothing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/3253062/Sarah-Palin-denies-spend-on-clothes-was-90000.html

Oh - also, Mitchell, good point. Anecdotes are acceptable from neither side of the debate as evidence of anything. Titania - Shame! Now go forth and do some serious research, else we'll think you to be a ne'er do well who makes everything up, like DP!

31. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #270072 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 4:04 pm

So, I have returned after my two hour commute, to find that the conversation has moved on in my absence, from additional commentary on DP's complete inability to learn from his mistakes, despite those being indicated to him by numerous parties, to girly-girl anime.
However, before this is completely forgotten - no, DP, you haven't gotten me riled. I stand by my comment that I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire - I don't have to be riled up to say that. It is an unemotional statement of fact. I think that the world would be a much better place if we were to find some means by which we can eliminate those who adhere to a policy of strict tribal selfishness, and at times, if it means standing by while those we know carry those genes and memes burn, so be it. I can feel this way and still, equally, choose to assist you in forwarding your education - do you see the difference? One is a feeling, intuitive, and questionable. It is also not acted upon. The other is logical, reasoned, and rather decent. It is acted upon. Despite the many reasons I think the world would be better off without you, I choose to assist you in bettering yourself so that perhaps, maybe, the world will be a better place with you.

32. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269946 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 1:16 pm

Did anyone else find it funny that in an attempt to mock me he solved my problem for me? He is best pitied. Poor, poor, ignorant DP. Now then, DP, answer my question. What, SPECIFIC social safety net do you support, who would benefit from it, what would it entail, and how would it be paid for?

Whats the big difference there? Nit picking is all I see. But go ahead and pick on my grammar skills, thats how I know I got you pissed. Score for me.

Do you really think I am nit-picking when I am merely attempting to provide a little polish to your sadly lacking education? You think me "pissed" because of this? No, DP, I am trying to help you, because you just don't know any better. Shush, little ignoramus, it will be all right in the morning.

33. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269925 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 1:06 pm

That sentence makes sense with "should of",

No, no it does not.
Should've is the contraction of Should Have. Now, it may sound similar to your ear, but perhaps that is a fault of your particular dialect? Scrios is correct in this.

34. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269903 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 12:42 pm

Yep I understand. I wouldn't want you to spend time researching places you can say you work for or help, so you don't look foolish. I completely understand.

DP. If I currently look foolish, it is because I continue to engage with you; not because you get the better of me in jibes, but because in pointing out your continued folly I reduce myself to your level, and lower the overall quality of the conversation here. You simply do not understand certain basic concepts. Perhaps your education was highly flawed, and I should pity you instead. Perhaps you live in a bubble, and I should pity you instead. Perhaps you have been kicked in the head by a mule too many times to count, and I should pity you instead. Perhaps your ignorance is entirely self-inflicted, and I should instead mock you mercilessly. Now, answer my question. What, SPECIFIC social safety net do you support, who would benefit from it, what would it entail, and how would it be paid for?

35. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269881 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 12:16 pm

This is why most of them are republican and want to be taxed less because they personally take their own money and go out and help people in their community. They do a much better job of that than government.

So, let's break this down:
1. The US government has, through various republican governments, ensured that government does not provide social assistance.
2. The people, seeing a need to provide social assistance, provide social assistance.
3. The people, having provided the social assistance, then vote to continue rejecting government assistance.
4. THEREFORE, people do a better job than the government.

Um. No. You haven't proven this. You've only proven that these people don't want to pay twice.

36. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269867 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 11:58 am

This has little to do with Palin and politics, but at least it is about religion.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/10/23/virgin-dubai-fires-dj.html?ref=rss

37. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269860 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 11:53 am

I apologize for my crass indulgence, Titania, but such self-centred anti-social behaviour really, really, irritates me. I'll tell you what, though - if I ever saw him and he WASN'T on fire, I'd piss on him then. He can share in my liberal socialist piss.

Oh wait - did you mean that it was just shockingly unexpected...oh. Sorry.

38. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269844 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 11:40 am

DP

The funny thing is that is EXACTLY the same response i have gotten from people here. No one has yet to list things they personally do to help people.

Perhaps this is because the people here, myself included, did not come to brag and pat ourselves on the back, DP, or to seek your approval for our actions, but rather to hold you to task for your own lack thereof. Certainly I could list off the charities I support, and the organizations that receive my time (note that this is plural in both instances, DP), but, simply, this is not your concern. Now answer my question - What, SPECIFICALLY, is the nature of the social safety net you support, who is entitled to receive benefits, how will it be paid for? You have claimed that you support one, but provided no evidence of this. I am afraid (and based on others comments do not think that I am alone in my thinking) that you are a parasite, a leech, a petulant man-child who believes that you are special and that you are owed something. I'm reasonably certain that if I ever encountered you on fire, knowing exactly how selfish you are, I wouldn't piss on you to put the flames out even if I was waiting to use a public toilet and the line was three blocks long.

39. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269832 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 11:24 am

DP

Because I forgot where I read it, not because I am afraid of any libs. It might of been on the internet or in a newspaper or in a magazine. Sorry I can't remember.

I'll bet it was in Reader's Digest. Anytime someone makes up absolute crap they always claim to have read it in Reader's Digest. BTW, DP - I believe you meant "It might HAVE been..."

40. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269823 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 11:18 am

mismos00 - If he sounds like a leech on society, then perhaps he is one. Let's give him the benefit of hearing of his social safety net first, however, who it will benefit, and how he plans to pay for it.

DP - why should I take my paycheque and do this when I already have taxation to take care of that for me, and I take part in the democratic process to support political parties that will continue to provide social benefits knowing full well that I will continue to be taxed heavily for this?
Additionally, why do you automatically assume that I do not already volunteer my time and money to support other causes that I think are worthwhile? Do you normally project so much? Do you really feel that you contribute so little that you assume others contribute as little as you do?

41. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269808 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 10:58 am

DP

No because I support the military, I support public schools(even though they tend to not be that good), I support the police and firemen, and I support some type of safety net for people who actually work and contribute to society. I don't support welfare for people who don't work and I don't support paying for someone elses healthcare.

Okay, I get you now. You support anything that provides YOU with a direct and tangible benefit that is paid for by someone else (fire, police, military, education) but do not support something that provides you with an INDIRECT benefit (the guy down the street being healthy and productive so that he can pay taxes and not lose his house to medical bills). I understand completely. You appear, based on these and other comments, to be a clannish and ignorant shut-in who demands to be the centre of his own universe. On this note, please define the safety net that you support, since you support "some type" of one.

42. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269791 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 10:34 am

DP

No, try to follow me here, freedom means being able to live my life the way I want to without being responsible for someone else. As a free person I am still responsible for myself and my family. I am not responsible for the guy down the block.

Okay, I'm trying to follow you here - so for you, freedom is not being subject to any form of social contract that is useful in community or nation building? I understand from this why you are responsible for yourself, but am having trouble understanding why it follows that you are responsible for your family. Does your family not contain other presumably adult persons in it, IE, your spouse? Why are you assuming responsibility for them? Should they not be responsible only for themselves? What of the children - to what extent are you responsible for them, and to what age? What are you responsible for? Is it only those things that the society you reject tells you that you must provide, or is it for their actions as well?

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Comment #269720 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 9:05 am

DP

If I am responsible for someone else then I am not free....
As for healthcare, I don't have to wait like countries with socialize healthcare do. Its a common complaint heard that you have to wait months to see a doctor or get some medical procedure done. I also don't have to worry about my taxes going up because the programs gets bigger and bigger.

So, to you, freedom equates solely to freedom from responsibility, rather than freedom TO behave in a fashion of your choosing, sort of like the relationship Sarah Palin has with her sky-daddy. As to the comment regarding health care, I'm certain that this applies specifically to certain individuals and is not endemic to the system(s) themselves, being as there are many varieties of socialized health care. For what the anecdote is worth (since you are fond of having heard things) I've never had to wait for a treatment or to see a doctor. Does this then mean that you are spouting off shit that you have no idea about? I think it does. You have picked your moniker well, however, as where I live pit bulls are to be castrated or spayed, and muzzled at all times.

44. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269697 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 8:46 am

DP

We don't have a choice about whether country X wants to attack us. We do have a choice not to drink, smoke, do drugs, have sex, or do other things that make us sick. The problem with universal healthcare is that I get no reward for living a good healthy life, except being healthy. Even if I do my best, I still have to pay for that other person who just doesn't give a shit. The other problems is that universal healthcare will not have a cap on it. Its not like the government will say "Well we will only spend X amount of money". programs like that tend to just get bigger and bigger. The bigger they get, the more taxes we have to pay. Eventually I will end up going to work not to just support my family but to support someone elses family. This country was created on a belief of people having individual rights and responsibilities. You are allowed to do all those things that will cause you to get sick because it is your right to live life the way you want to, but that does not make me responsible for you. I have my own life to worry about, I should not now have to worry about everyone elses. That is freedom. I am free to do what I want but I am also free of being responsible for someone else.

Really? Do you have insurance, DP? If you do, you can rest assured that you are paying in so that someone else can get a pay out - you just might pay in a little less than someone who doesn't jog to work. Please, for the record, since I live in one of these Socialist countries, can you define what freedoms you have, exactly and specifically, that you have that I do not, and can you truly say that you are better off for not having any form of socialized health care?

45. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269667 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 8:05 am

Several,

I wasn't trying to do that, but I think that the article raises an interesting point. Palin lives in a world where everything is going to work out for the best so long as you really, really believe that it will, and in later episodes, have the right blood parasites. That's all right, so long as you remember that at the end of the day, it is a fantasy, and designed to entertain children.

46. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269650 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 7:53 am

Apparently we've all got this wrong with Palin and Star Trek.

http://io9.com/5059126/sarah-palin--star-wars-hillary-clinton--star-trek

47. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269643 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 7:48 am

Tez, of all the science fiction programs taking place on a space station, it was the best. Buy the DVDs.

48. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269626 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 7:39 am

Fact. William Shatner has two albums.
Fact. Leonard Nemoy has one album.
Fact. George Takei has NO albums.

This doesn't really prove anything, actually. I just felt that if Sarah Palin were to listen to music by star trek cast members, she would be limited to the heterosexuals, which would conform to her religious stance.

To Titania's question, since she encourages her children read fantasy fiction, which was once categorized similarly to science fiction, why would she not allow them to watch, say, Babylon 5?

49. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #269535 by MBC Morgan on October 23, 2008 at 5:47 am

Answers (in no particular order)
1. The pants are perfectly-normal-pants. They go with everything.
2. I refuse to accept Quetz' judgment as to word meanings. I fail to see how the ruling of a feathered serpent is applicable on matters of terminology, however I will grant that he may have some insight into the cloak/shirt/hat combination. Equally, I would submit this combination to those who pay 150k to dress *Sarah Palin*, just to bring this back on track.

50. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #268978 by MBC Morgan on October 22, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Titania - I'll only wear the Petulant Hat if it goes with my Obdurate Cloak and Callous Shirt.