Mr. Walken

Call me crazy, but I have had a crush on Christopher Walken for a couple of decades now. Not a Johnny Depp kind of crush; something a little different. Nonetheless, a crush. I've been watching the "Sarah, Plain and Tall" movies on the Hallmark Channel, late at night when no one is around. Christopher Walken plays the role of patriarch Jacob Witting. Such an odd choice to play that role, in my opinion. Who sat around thinking "Hmmm.....who should we ask to play the role of Jacob Witting, the strong, awkward widower farmer who turns out to be a subtly romantic man in need of a good plain woman? Oh yes, Christopher Walken would be perfect for that role!" As odd as it seems, he really is perfect for the role. Ok, ok, so this is not his shining moment in acting, not his greatest role ever. This is:


Just give me five minutes alone with him, it would be so much fun! No, no, no - get your minds out of the gutter! Dance, dance.....I want to dance with him!

Because I am too lazy and not creative enough to come up with stuff this good on my own.

(Thanks for sharing, Cheyenne!)

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers,a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well-grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", has at least one DWI conviction and no college education, didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.
Jack Hession
Madison Government Affairs
444 No. Capitol St., NW, Suite 601
Washington, DC 20001
202.347.1223 ext 103
571.245.9094 cell
www.madisongov.net

Are you with me?

Friends, compatriots, fellow-lamenters,

We are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce—on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate—that has a real possibility of becoming fact.

Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech (as mayor she wanted to ban books and attempted to fire the librarian who stood against her), gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second-most-powerful person on the planet.

We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and all together devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin's political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and that we've so demonstrably benefited from.

First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women. It is presumed that the inclusion of a woman on the Republican ticket could win over women voters. We want to disagree, publicly.

Therefore, we invite you to reply to womensaynopalin@gmail.com with a short, succinct message about why you, as a woman living in this country, do not support this candidate as second-in-command for our nation.

Please include your name (last initial is fine), age, and place of residence.

We will post your responses on a blog called "Women Against Sarah Palin," which we intend to publicize as widely as possible. Please send us your reply at your earliest convenience—the greater the volume of responses we receive, the stronger our message will be.

Thank you for your time and action.

VIVA!

Sincerely,

Quinn Latimer and Lyra Kilston
New York , NY
womensaynopalin@gmail.com

Questions to your Answers

No, the posts aren't about YOU. Or, if they are, I already talked to you about it before I posted a blog. That is how I like to work my friendships.

I didn't mean to close the blog. I'm starting another blog about strictly parenting hoo-ha. I meant to have that one closed until I can start posting there. Apparently, I closed both.

For all of you that inquired, quit worrying........it isn't about you. Depending on what is going on in your life, it might strike a chord with you, however.

It isn't about you......it is all about me, don't you know? ;)

Brilliance at its best!

Thank you, Jon Stewart, for so eloquently putting into words/video, that which I want to say.