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[alexmacpherson]

I have been tremendously entertained over the past few days by the soap opera shenanigans around Sarah Palin (who I think might still be a canny choice for VP - that, or batshit insane), but the most important thing, really, is:

Track Palin. Would hit that.

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[g0ldt00th]

According to the Guardian today, Track is named after his mother's love for Track and Field events. It's a good job she wasn't into badminton then.

[alexmacpherson]

I have spent all day trying to work out if there's a pun on badminton/Palin which I'm not getting :(

[g0ldt00th]

I was thinking more along the lines of naming her child shuttlecock. Maybe if she was a javelin fan then they would be Javelin Palin. Which is about as close as I'm going to get to a joke about being impaled. Pretty contrived though.

[alexmacpherson]

I've spent much of the past...24 hours, or whenever it was that I learnt of Bristol Palin's pregnancy, trying to think of a decent way to work a Juneau/Juno joke into a sentence.

[skyecaptain]

I'm going to name my children Butter, Disco, Diet Coke, Documentary, and Shit-Shoot.

[dubdobdee]

i like their names!

this entire story reminds me of a neighbour of mum and dad's at the village fete a few years back

a: this guy told ppl he wasn't comin cz he wz trying to "go dry" after the doctor told him he had to cut out all alcohol
b: then he turned up anyway very merry...
c: ... and drank lots more
d: finally collapsing right across the beer table, knocking everything everywhere
e: he was then rushed to hospital

(disclaimer: he actually has gone dry, and in much better health -- tho he is very frail and halt these days)

it always amuses me when cityfolk assume that country life is somehow more stable and bland and less bonkers than life in the capitol: NONE of what's come out about this enormously entertaining woman surprises me at ALL; she should of course be on the actual proper libertarian* ticket, where we could all adore her properly and safely

*breaking news: her former membership of the alaskan independence party, which is as sane as free kernow

[alexmacpherson]

A secessionist party! Sez the current AIP vice chair:

"[Palin] was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town - that was a non-partisan job. But you get along to go along - she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership."

She is the anti-American Trojan horse that the Reps have been trying to paint Obama as! If McCain wins the election she will shoot him with her hunter's gun the very next day and FREE ALASKA~~~

[dubdobdee]

“As part of their pushback against the charges of Lynette and Dexter Clark of the AIP, the McCain campaign says that Palin did not even attend the AIP convention in Wasilla in 1994...

“For her part, Ms. Clark -- a self-employed gold miner who wants Alaska to become an independent nation -- says that the McCain campaign pushback that Pain was never part of the AIP is ‘hooey’.

“‘This is like a cat covering up crap in its litter box,’ she says.”

a: alaska is awesome!
b: SELF-EMPLOYED GOLD MINER