Sarah Palin’s reality show scored huge ratings for its premiere, while the guardians of usage at the New Oxford American Dictionary awarded the former Alaska governor the higher-brow distinction of coining 2010′s “word of the year” — “refudiate” — via her Twitter account.
Sarah Palin has minted the word of the year.
The Elite take their pot-shots, they try to besmear.
What it means to refudiate
Is refuse and repudiate.
It’s clear to most folks, not the liberal ear.
Our “post-racial” and “post-partisan” president insists that Republicans sit in the back of the bus: “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” The Anointed One apparently went off teleprompter for a few unguarded moments.
The Limerick:
Republicans: Ride in the back of the bus.
So that’s how Obama would like to treat us.
But Sarah, she sparks,
She’s our Rosa Parks.
She’ll take over the bus and not cause any fuss.
Can Romney dethrone “The anointed no-one?”
Campaigned very often, but seldom he won.
His own track record weak.
So we are up the creek,
less Sarah will enter and get the job done.
Sarah Palin’s speech is a hit in Hershey.
The Limerick:
Protecting a mother, and her unborn child;
Of Trig Sarah spoke, her conclusion is mild:
To God’s perfect will
You submit, and we still
must give: Equal rights to both mother and child.
Sarah Palin proclaimed: Union Bosses are thugs.
The Media skews it, their software has bugs.
She was union member
And bosses remember.
But Sarah the hater? The Press is on drugs.
Some union bosses are “acting like thugs,” Palin told Sean Hannity of Fox News. And unions have a responsibility “to turn down the rhetoric and get truth out there so nobody gets hurt,” Palin said.
Some union officials “are leading some of their good members down a road that will result in, unfortunately, somebody getting hurt if you believe the death threats that are being received by those who happen to support amending some collective bargaining privileges of state unions.”
Cojones, a word that is great
Its meaning just dawned on me late.
Obama the fool,
What caused them to drool;
In One word did Sarah negate.
I listened to the video with Mike Wallace Sunday Aug 12919 where he asked about the Arizona situation Sarah Palin’s answer was: “Jan Brewer has the cojones that our President does not have, to look out for all Americans, not just Arizonans, but all Americans in this desire of ours to secure our borders and allow legal immigration to help build this country.” Listening again to the video she did say cajones, not cojones. From Wikipedia we get the explanation of the difference: In US slang, cojones denotes “brazen, brave attitude”, pronounced /kəˈhoʊneɪz/ and /kəˈhuːnəz/ in English. Contextually, its usage is like that of the Yiddish chutzpah (nerve), the French couilles (gonads) and the Finnish sisu (perseverance). A common euphemistic misspelling of cojones is cajones (furniture “drawers” and “wooden box drums”, see cajón).
In light of this, the Limerick changes somewhat:
Cajones, a word of some weight
Spiced up with pizzazz the debate.
Obama the fool.
What once made them drool
Did Sarah with ONE word negate.
There once stood a corporate jet in Anchorage,
When Sarah took reins of the State she had courage.
Without a delay
she put on e-bay
that state-supplied jet on Ted Stevens, Anchorage.
(Ted Stevens International Airport, that is)
I have researched matters further, here is version 2 of the Limerick.
There once stood a corporate jet in Juneau,
and Governor Sarah – “you Betcha ” you know
without a delay
she put on e-bay
that fuel-guzzling state-supplied plane in Juneau.
Those were two of the only three airports in Alaska with runways long enough for the W III jet.
Update: While it was put on e-bay, the sale of a corporate jet is a little more complicated than processing it thru PayPal, so the deal was finalized using a broker.
The croniest capitalism
Obama’s is sort of fascism.
But Romney can’t say
He is out of the fray.
So Run, Sarah Run, for we can’t have a schism.
Sarah Palin: Criminal penalty if vote traded for campaign contribution. [The Alaska Senate watered down the 2007 ethics bill] The Senate’s action was politics-as-usual. We were determined to keep the pressure on. That pressure paid off when legislators approved an omnibus ethics bill. It included my administration’s ethics proposal, as well as the House’s muscular amendment that imposed criminal penalties on lawmakers who traded votes for campaign contributions. Plus, any legislator convicted of a felony would forfeit his or her state pension. We were pleased that no one could claim pride of authorship on this. Finally the Capitol had pulled together and passed a strong bill. A Democrat lawmaker noted: “This is one of the best pieces of work I’ve seen come out of the legislature because it came out as a policy document and not a political document.” It was music to my ears: POLICY, not politics. From Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin, p.156
On “Blood Libel” Sarah has one point to make.
Her own church got torched, children’s lives were at stake.
The media kept silence
To not promote violence
Christians endure much. How much does it take?
Dec 14 2008. — Andrew Malcolm
Sarah Palin, her husband Todd and up to 1,000 fellow parishioners will worship in a local school this morning after a suspicious fire virtually destroyed the Wasilla Bible Church early Saturday. Some women and children in a crafts group were inside at the time. Larry Kroon said some parishioners were in the church on Nicola Avenue at the time the fire was noticed but no one was injured. Firefighters battled for about eight hours in minus-20 degree temperatures to completely extinguish the blaze that began at the front door.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate went to the church Saturday to apologize to pastors in case the estimated $1 million fire damages, suspected as arson, were “in any way connected to the undeserved negative attention the church has received” since the governor’s involvement with the church.
The 30-year-old congregation in Wasilla, about 40 miles north of Anchorage, had moved into its new church just 30 months ago. Church officials said they expect to hold services at the Wasilla Middle School for the foreseeable future during repairs.
(UPDATE:
Though several federal, state and local agencies were involved in the investigation, no arrests have been made, nor have any solid leads been announced. The media reported the fire and the subsequent determination that arson was involved, but quickly lost interest in the story. The Obama administration closed the federal part of the investigation.
In the ensuing weeks since the fire, there doesn’t seem to have been much media attention or outcry against the anonymous attack on a house of worship. Probably just because Wasilla is so far away. (Yes, that’s probably the reason.)
The illustration on the left, located at the cult-church of Anderl von Rinn until recently, portrays the “martyrdom” of Anderl, a three year-old boy who became the focus of a blood-libel cult in the seventeenth-century. Anderl is the child being held down and having his throat slit. The killers are clearly marked as Jews by their clothes and turbans (one form of the “special mark” Jews were forced to carry by Church decree).
The third, lower, figure is collecting the child’s blood in a bowl. The myth of the blood libel was that the blood of a Christian child was used to make Passover matzohs.
“
Blood Libel” is termed the new phrase of the week.
As ugly as sin and not fit for the weak.
Sarah Palin, she dared
The apt term to be shared.
For hate is much worse than a slow dripping leak.
While most liberal Jews attacked Sarah Palin for using a term she knew nothing about and was offending them in so doing, the famous law professor Alan Dershowitz defended her use of the term, saying “I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report. There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in Sarah Palin using the term to characterize what she reasonably believes are false accusations that her words or images may have caused a mentally disturbed individual to kill and maim. The fact that two of the victims are Jewish is utterly irrelevant to the propriety of using this widely used term.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257003/alan-dershowitz-defends-palin-blood-libel-daniel-foster
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