International Talk Like Sarah Palin Day

I read Facebook so YOU don’t have to. And this is typical of the kind of thing I find there:

Grog Fest Inf’rm’tion
Cap’n:
Teddy Ware and Chrissy Tolley
Sort:
Book learnin’ – Learnin’ Crew
Fleets:
Global
Time and Port
When:
Tuesdee, Octobarrr 21, 2008
Hourrrr:
12:00 in the mornin’ – 11:55 in the evenin’
Coordinates:
Wherever mooses be found
Port City:
Anchorage, AK
(I should perhaps explain that I have enabled Pirate English on my Facebook)

Sarah Palin is one of the most accomplished public speakers of all time. Through her insightful remarks about the economy and foreign affairs, she has inspired a nation to incite world-wide change. On this day, we honor her pseudo-Minnesotan accent and bubbly energy.

How? Like this:

I must warn you…

dog

I must warn you that I’m going on about forty-five minutes of sleep since two days ago, have consumed nothing but caffeinated beverages, a turkey sandwich, two oranges and a bag of chocolate chip cookies today, and have another blog post to do over at Ayyyy before I crash, so this could get weird.
Oh yeah, and I worked on the election all day, as a polling clerk in a mobile poll. And it’s a full moon tonight, Hunter’s Moon, Blood Moon.
I was absolutely crushed not to be in charge of the polling place at the city jail, but oh well, you can’t have everything! How would you keep it fresh? Polling at two assisted-living communities and a women’s shelter were interesting enough to fill the day. It’s not every day you meet a fellow who was in the Normandy invasion (not the one in 1066, the later one, going in the other direction).
Not in the women’s shelter.

Bailout? Who needs bail?

Married To The Sea

Posted 8-15-08. Hmmmmmmm. What does Married to the Sea know that Jim Cramer doesn’t?

Empire, or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire, by Howard Zinn

Passed along from NagOnTheLake by Metro, here is a thoughtful autobiographical essay by Howard Zinn, a former soldier and current thought leader (what we used to call philosopher, before we decided that old words were old-fashioned).

Britain pwns Aussie vs Yank War

Bloody Hell