Archive for October 24th, 2008

What the fuck? Are people in this country really so dim that they think Palin’s a good idea? The notion that she might be one heartbeat away from the Presidency is mortifying. Granted she’s the MILF next door, but she’s simply not that bright or informed. And being someone who can’t make up her mind unless God tells her to, that’s even more scary.

Here’s another of her latest commentaries:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has accused Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama of "palling around with terrorists," has refused to call people who bomb abortion clinics by the same name.

When asked Thursday night by NBC television presenter Brian Williams whether an abortion clinic bomber was a terrorist, Palin heaved a sigh and, at first, circumvented the question.

"There’s no question that Bill Ayers by his own admittance was one who sought to destroy our US Capitol and our Pentagon. That is a domestic terrorist," Palin said, referring to a 1960s leftist who founded a radical violent gang dubbed the "Weathermen" — and who years later supported Obama’s first run for public office in the state of Illinois.

"Now, others who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or facilities that it would be unacceptable to… I don’t know if you’re gonna use the word ‘terrorist’ there," the ardently pro-life running mate of John McCain said.

Early this month, after the New York Times ran an article highlighting the ties between Obama and Ayers, Palin told a campaign rally in Colorado that Obama "sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."

Attacks on doctors who practice abortion and on family planning clinics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s left several people dead and scores wounded.

Eric Rudolph, the extreme right winger who planted a bomb at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, which killed one person, was sentenced three years ago to two life terms in jail for an abortion clinic bombing in Alabama in which a policeman was killed.

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Of all the Faire seasons of recent memory (now granted I’m already well famous for having a somewhat spotty one at this point), I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced or seen one quite as rough on a personal side as this one.

I don’t think there’s a producer I know of that hasn’t had deeply personal problems this year: separations, divorces, major surgery, death in the immediate family, loss of home, loss of job, everything one could imagine almost. With each next person chiming in that they had to take some personal time to step back, another story was waiting around the next corner.

It seems like another lifetime ago when I hopped into the car to head off to set up for the Symposium weekend back in Feb. I still have a particular feeling that I’d gone up the hill to Tahoe, but never came back down again. I wonder what it’ll be like to go back again next year – who will I be by then, how will it feel to go back to where really everything started (and ended).

Life goes on. So does hope, and aspirations, and love, and friendships. Even as close as it got this past year to it not going on – I learned a great deal about myself and about what I want out of life, both in the near as well as longer term.

And I learned to no longer be afraid. Of myself most notably. I’d blamed faire for many of my behaviors – but doing so was really like an alcoholic on a bar for their addiction. It was a crutch, an enabler, but I was letting myself get swept along instead of standing up and doing what I really wanted most.

Now for the Holiday season, and then to 2009. I hope most earnestly that 09 is a vast improvement for myself, my friends, and my loved ones over what came in 08.

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