They’re not gonna catch us. We’re on a mission from God.
CNN: “Speaking of the troops in Iraq, Palin says they were sent on ‘task that is from God’.”
Yeah, this is totally someone I want in the copilot’s seat for the nation. Definitely. Sometimes I think the only thing keeping us from stitching ornate crosses on the uniforms of our soldiers is that it would be counterproductive to camouflaging efforts.
Anyway, two decades of Pentecostalism under her belt, huh? Maybe the reason they won’t let her give press conferences or participate in debates is that she has a habit of dropping to the floor and speaking in tongues.
In other news, I’ve started working on an online-only television show. I’m aiming for ten episodes, roughly eight or ten minutes apiece for the first (and possibly only) season. I’ll try to squeeze out a Chick Dissection at some point soon, though. Promise.
Jabberwock
September 9th, 2008 at 10:33 am
i think youd have fun tearing into her. being that shes a fundie and all.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:24 am
There are people who are so enthralled with Sarah Palin who know about the back alley abortions of the past. They lived through it. The bleeding and the death. This is why I can’t understand their enthusiasm. What do they think will happen if Palin gets into office? When she and McCain overturn Roe vs Wade we will be back in the dark ages. I don’t like abortion. But I think it is between you and God. When God asks you when you get face to face with Him, and you will, why you killed His child, what are you going to say? I think you are just going to have a dumb look on your face and be speechless. But like I said it is between you and God. The government is not going to stand there with you pleading your case and it should be YOU personally who decides what to do about an unwanted pregnancy, not the government! If you love God you will not abort His gift. But McCain and Palin should not be allowed to have the luxury or the obligation of deciding what you do about it.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I believe the quote from CNN was that SP actually was offering a prayer and she said to “PRAY that the task is from God.” NOT that the task itself is from GOD.
This is from the test of the article itself. Of course the headline version takes the “task is from God” out of context and by artfully placing quotes tries to make it appear she actually said the war is ordained by God.
I am always just astounded that the same people who wail and cry at any mistreatment of animals, rail against the death penalty can justify chopping up babies that are at or near term and call it “choice”. Isn’t denying life to a child because he isn’t perfect a form af genocide?
September 9th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
CNN’s your 4th bullet-point highlight at the top of this story is misleading:
Speaking of the troops in Iraq, Palin says they were sent on “task that is from God”
If you read her quote, she’s not declaring that it’s a task from God, but rather she’s asking people to pray that it’s a task from God, i.e. she hopes that if we’re sending men and women in harm’s way that it’s for a just cause. There’s definitely a difference in meaning there, and their wording in the highlight is perpetuating the misunderstanding.
(I posted this to the comments of the CNN article too, so far it hasn’t passed moderation…wonder if it ever will?)
September 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
But why would a person even think that in the first place? It’s not like the fact that she thinks it’s merely a possibility that our soldiers are ordained by god somehow makes it all that much more sane.
It’s like if you saw some dude sitting out on the sidewalk using a pair of tweezers to tie his arm hair around the legs of live cockroaches: Is it necessarily any better if his explanation isn’t “God told me to do this” but “please pray that God told me to do this”? The fact that he thinks God sends people messages and instructions in the first place is pretty scary, even if he only thinks it’s a possibility.
September 9th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Regarding abortion, if you really believe that what exists in the womb prior to maybe a month or two before it actually pops out is a baby, then you have a really (linguistically) liberal definition of what a baby is. It’s like calling a pickle a hot dog, or a tumor with teeth in it a jaw. But the “what is it?” argument is always already irreducibly complex, so whatever.
didi: There really aren’t as many women running around going “oh, shit, I forgot to get that abortion over the last eight months, it totally just slipped my mind” as you might think. Most if not all late-term abortions take place in situations where bringing the baby to term seriously threatens the mother, or when it’s clear that the baby’s going to come out in such rough shape that it would probably be better off dead or would die pretty soon after being born.
By the way, caring about life should encompass more than just whether or not something gets pushed out of a vagina — it should include the quality of that life as well. It’s part of why I find it so humorous when conservatives start cutting social programs while at the same time railing against abortion — maybe if all those children crawled back up into their mothers’ respective vaginae, Republicans would give a shit again about whether they starved to death.
Anyway, it’s not genocide by any means, and I think the term you might be looking for is “eugenics”, but even then, it’s only arguably anything along those lines. Again, it’s about caring about quality of life as well as simply existence.
Not to mention that miscarriages happen pretty regularly (roughly 20-25% of all pregnancies), often without the mothers-not-to-be even knowing about it. Surely if God is going to allow this to be so common a fact of life, it’s not going to be too huge a deal for him if someone artificially induces miscarriage (which is, for most intents and purposes, what abortion is — induced miscarriage). If God’s going to condemn people for early terminations of their pregnancies, then he has quite a lot to answer for himself.
In any event, I don’t quite see any hypocrisy involved in caring about life while also caring about a mother’s right to choose. The whole thing’s an extremely complicated issue, and the fact that you think, didi, that the concern people express over the death penalty and animal cruelty is somehow hollow or preposterous because they also feel that women ought be able to induce miscarriage instead of just hoping it’ll happen at random is rather insulting.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Yay for new dissection! The Halloween edition this year is extra cracky — Ninja Jesus cures a vampire!
September 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
As I’ve discussed in a previous post soon to show up here, her ‘faith’ is about the most crass, pecuniary shit I’ve ever witnessed. We haven’t had a figure in the public eye trying to wish magical ponies out of God’s ass since Tilton fell from grace; I don’t like what having one again says about us.
Really, I think she gave the game away when it became known she had prayed for the Alaska pipeline. She’s faking it, and anyone who claims in seriousness that she’s a faith-driven or evangelical candidate after that is either using it as a term of contempt or a fucking liar.
Any right-wing evangelical who actually buys the Jesus stuff is going to think of coming out on TV with a bunch of kids and praying REALLY LOUD that God give the Republican Party the strength to build a pipeline is going to feel dirty, abused, shamed – she’s about the most cloyingly false Christian impostor in the public eye right now.
Praying for a pipeline. Really: how fake can you get?
September 9th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Alec, this could mean that she is not a fundie. I hope so.
If she IS afundie (which is likely), God help us. Again.
As he failed to do the last two times there was an election.
September 9th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Completely irrelevant, but I hope you don’t mind. I’ve also noticed that the Russians have still not left Georgia a month after they were supposed to.
I wonder what Palin and McCain’s solution will be? Nukes?
Again, God help us.
September 9th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I’m… reading Felis’s comments. And I’m… nodding.
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?!?!?!?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Palin…some men will vote for her because she’s “refreshing” “spunky” and “hot”. Some women will vote for her because hey, she’s a woman. This isn’t an election of penis or ovaries, looks or color–this is an election of ISSUES. She lies about the “Bridge to Nowhere” because at first it seemed like a good idea and then??? She doesn’t believe in gay marriage, recognizing civil unions. She doesn’t believe in abortion, even if a woman is raped. Research the candidates, look into the issues. Don’t vote if you are voting for gender, color or looks. Stay home and watch QVC or some other mind-numbing thing.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I created the following picture about this topic but since it is a graphic design rather than a photograph it will be taken down, so if anyone is technologically savvy (as I am not) and can copy it before then, you can distribute it as you wish (since it’s satire I don’t know if it’s copyright infringement – but use it at your own risk). Please let me know by post if anyone was able to obtain it, if possible:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30414929@N06/
September 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30414929@N06/