Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez of Brave New Films has penned a funny but scary presidential acceptance speech for Sarah Palin. Here's a snippet:
When President McCain passed away because of that thing in his jaw, you know that goiter kinda thing that made him look like a hamster storin’ food for the winter? Well, as you know his doctors said it popped inside his head like a big inside pimple, and it was sad for all of us who loved the little rascal even if he was kinda liberal about some stuff but we don’t have to talk about that now, but you know what? God works in mysterious ways, my friends. (Laughs.)
Read the rest of it at AlterNet. It'll make you laugh and it will make you queasy.
I can't find the Stephen Colbert video in which he quotes Palin hassling Biden regarding his prior statement that offshore drilling would be a "rape of the continental shelf". Colbert then speculates whether Palin would make the continental shelf pay for its own rape kit. I hope you saw it. If not, you need to watch this show. Trust me.
Palin has her finger on the pulse of the American people when she says that paying higher taxes is not patriotic. Well, she must be a real Yankee Doodle Dandy considering how much taxation she has avoided. As detailed in The New York Times,
One big issue that tax attorneys are pointing to is the fact that the Palins did not report as income the $43,490 that the state gave the family to cover travel expenses for Mr. Palin and the Palin children. Had the Palins reported these payments as income, the couple would have had to pay taxes on it.
Sarah's Joe Six-Pack husband races snowmobiles and considers it a business, rather than a hobby. To wit:
The Palin’s deducted $9,000 in business losses from snowmobiling. This tax-loss would not be allowed if the activity is a hobby. The I.R.S. rule is that if an activity produces a profit in three of the past five years, is a businesses and not a hobby. But the Palins released tax returns for only two years, so it is impossible to tell. One year showed a $9,000 loss, the other year a slight profit.
Not that it should really matter, since seeing Russia cannot confer foreign policy acumen, but Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska. There is only one place to do that, a tiny town called Diomede. CNN's Gary Tuchman went there and filed the following report.
Sarah Palin has never visited this poverty-stricken place in her beloved state. In fact, she's worth more than a million dollars. Not bad for a hockey mom, right? But she's still down-to-earth, you betcha.
