Some like coffee.
Some like tea.
I’d like Rachel Weisz sitting on my knee.
If only she’d eat something. No really: I mean food. Doesn’t she look thin? I’m thinking she just doesn’t eat enough. I mean, what would her mother think? She makes Keira Knightley look like a fat lardy munter.
Still, we can play the sound: unsound game.
Constant Gardener, unsound: Constantine, sound.
Picture from here.
Here is how Alaska Democratic party operative Linda Kellen Biegel, aka "Celtic Diva," treats an image of Trig Palin.
Take a look at how Biegel edited this picture of Trig:
Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself. Is this the position of the Alaska Democratic party? Keep in mind that she was the official Alaska blogger for the DNC. Does Bob Poe, who attended a Q&A with Linda Biegel, approve of this? Actually, why don't you email Bob Poe himself to find out...
Update: (H/T K.Carpenter)
Biegel's blog is advertised on the Alaska Democrat's website.
UPDATE by RAM: For those of you who might be unaware, Linda Kellen Biegel was one of the people who filed a frivolous ethics complaint against Gov. Palin. Her complaint claimed that the governor abused the Ethics Act because she wore a jacket with with the logo of the company that sponsors her husband in the Iron Dog snowmachine race. Biegel's ridiculous complaint was, of course, dismissed, but not before costing the governor thousands of dollars in legal debt to defend herself. You can donate to the governor's legal defense fund, The Alaska Fund Trust, here.
Biegel's use of this sick photoshop is part of her efforts to raise money for her next frivolous ethics complaint.
UPDATE II by RAM: This was the post that Biegel wrote in response to the public outcry her sick photo has sparked:
It's called "Baby Burke" because it's Eddie Burke...basically his probable second-biggest fantasy about the Governor.
She is claiming that it was a photoshop of the Alaska radio talk show host Eddie Burke being held in Gov. Palin's arms. This is the original photo:
That photo was iconic. It meant a great deal to parents of special needs children. I recall listening to Bill Bennett discuss it the day after the speech with Laura Ingraham on her radio show. He said that it was beautiful how Gov. Palin turned her son around in her arms to show him to the audience -- as if to show the world that he was perfect and precious. It was a silent rebuke to a world that is too often indifferent to those who live with special needs. What a horrible and cheap thing to do to take that photo and make it ugly.
The photoshop doesn't look at all like Eddie. It simply looks like a grotesque manipulation of Gov. Palin's beautiful baby boy. It was a tasteless and heartless thing to do. It was the sort of thing a person who is sick with hatred would do.
Biegel then makes a crude sexual suggestion about Eddie Burke and the governor. Biegel is objectifying the governor. Turning her into a sex object and suggesting that Eddie's admiration of her is nothing more than hormonal.
Why do they always attack her for her "femaleness" -- for her appearance or her attractiveness as a woman or her role as a mother? It's crude and sexist. It's not okay.
Let your voices be heard. As noted above, Linda Kellen Biegel was the official Alaskan blogger at the DNC convention. The DNC platform states:
"We believe that standing up for our country means standing up against sexism and all intolerance. Demeaning portrayals of women cheapen our debates, dampen the dreams of our daughters, and deny us the contributions of too many. Responsibility lies with us all." (DNC 2008 Platform, Sec. I, Page 16.)
It’s official. Elvis has left the building.
Here’s what Big 0 said about
"We have continually insisted that
And here’s what he added when he went all hardball:
The president emphasized that along with the
“Our open societies, our commitment to free democracy and a market economy, and our sustained partnership provide a foundation for the enduring friendship, shared values, and mutual respect that tightly bind the American and Korean peoples,.."
Bring the rain.
And here comes the thunder thundering in support of hopeandchange, momsapplepie and doodledandy for some guys over there in
Mr Obama called on
Get some!
Which is pretty durn tootin’ tough of him, given the fine nuance that this sophisticated political thinker and supreme diplomat shows here:
The president also said there appears to be little difference in policy between the conservative Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Mousavi, a reformist.
Guess that’s his famous bipartisan approach, as much mentioned during his own election largely thanks to foreign credit card donations last year, huh?
Previous independent overseas freedom movements have haltered thanks in part to Western ineptitude – Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Soviet Union (Vladimir Putin, anyone?) the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, but on the other hand many unfree peoples of the world have long looked to some kind of moral support from the leadership of the United States of America – if not always competent material and military support: the Marsh Arabs, the Cuban freedom fighters, South Vietnam.
But the Wall fell, with American-led NATO behind it, and Saddam Hussein fell, and
And of course Western Europe and
What they can hope for now is ‘Whatever.’
This bounty comes to the world as Big 0 raises his wise, bored, compassionate eyes full of adolescent integrity skyward at all the carping from all those uptight freedom squares both domestic and foreign.
As if any unknown foreigners who don’t even have their own advocates on the talk shows could suffer in any meaningful sense in the liberal imagination compared with the dark, adolescent goth world of Victimerica.
Why, the President’s dear ole Pappy couldn’t ride at the front of the bus, except maybe in his ‘home’ state of Hawaii and perhaps a few dozen other states, and so a bit of a healthy appetite amongst a few guys in North Korea (and that’s not even the cool Korea with that great show with the cute doctors, mind!) and some pre-postmodern ‘reform-conservative’ deal in Iran is no biggie when maybe up to half America’s women still don’t have fast internet connections at home or carbon-neutral cars.
I had wondered whether he really was an uber-pragmatist looking for a vessel for himself to fill and be shaped by, but mostly I go for the Cultural Marxist blame the West first and support only its enemies shtick as standard.
It appears that, despite the hopes of the Obamamcons and others, that he is not a hollow man at all.
As far as the Free World and its would-be new members goes, there’s no sherrif in town.
