[kj] [OT] More Pain

[Karen Weil]

Yep, you nailed it, Alex! Thanks for sending that one -- it just magnifies 
the incredible hypocrisy of some GOP syncophants.

k.w.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Smith" <vassifer at earthlink.net>
To: <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>; "A list about all things Killing Joke (the 
band!)" <gathering at misera.net>; <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] More Pain



>

> Friend of my just passed this on:

>

> 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 moose burgers, yours is 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, 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 and next in line 

> behind a man in his eighth decade.

>

> * 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 then left 

> your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true 

> 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 laywer 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 you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI 

> conviction and no college education, who 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.

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

>>From: Change <crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk>

>>Sent: Sep 18, 2008 12:25 PM

>>To: gathering at misera.net

>>Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] More Pain

>>

>>--- On Tue, 16/9/08, Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com> wrote:

>>

>>> From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>

>>> Subject: Re: [kj] [OT] More Palin

>>> To: crackedmachine at yahoo.co.uk, "A list about all things Killing Joke 

>>> (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

>>> Date: Tuesday, 16 September, 2008, 6:20 PM

>>> OK, change: Let's calm down here.

>>

>>Why?

>>

>>Change is often violent or traumatic...

>>

>>>I'm no fan of

>>> McCain, but I certainly

>>> don't want him to keel over.

>>>

>>> k.w.

>>

>>Best fermez les yerrrr then lady, cos he's getting on and like that lovely 

>>Mugabe that means he'll kick the bucket sonner rather than later.

>>

>>So if he becomes president and death knocks on his ol' ticker, you get 

>>Palin to END THE GOD DAMN PLANET!!!!!!

>>

>>

>>

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