Heh. Arctic meth princess.

That link doesn't work :(

And I do like the "Caribou Barbie" moniker the best ;)

It works for me. Here it is on it's own:

http://wonkette.com/402545/wasilla-i...aska-of-course

Kilkenny can be easily verified -- her name is on public records for testifying in front of various government entities as part of her community work.

They interviewed Kilkenny on NPR. She really exists. And she sounded like a pretty ordinary person.

Also, if you read her email, a lot of that information can be vetted, since she talks about things that happened, stances that Palin took, etc. and the way they are presented in Kilkenny's email, they should be easy to verify from local newspapers and council meeting minutes.

Heard this on Real Time last night...

Not that I would ever laugh at anything like that. :)

If they want the pit bull moniker, they can have it.

LSPE and I were out yesterday morning and saw a pit bull nearly kill another dog. We walked into a little cheese store and there were some dogs with their owners milling around outside. After being inside for a few minutes, one of the dogs outside, a pit bull, attacked one of the other (smaller) dogs there, latching its jaws onto the dog's face and NOT letting go. It took several minutes of several people struggling with the two dogs (the smaller dog yelping in pain and terror the whole time) before someone was able to pry the pit bull's jaws open and free the other dog. LSPE and I were seriously afraid that the smaller dog was going to have it's face ripped off, or worse. Luckily, the only damage I saw after they were separated were some puncture wounds on it's snout, but we were literally shaking for a long time afterward.

I hadn't thought of Sarah Palin calling herself a pit bull until I logged in to this thread this morning, and it was jarring. Now it sounds to me like Sarah Palin is calling herself someone who viciously attacks the weak and helpless. Someone who will explode into violence with little or no provocation. And someone who is psychotic and needs to be put down. I know she didn't mean any of these things, and I don't think them of her, but wow, that line took on a whole new meaning for me this morning.

I'm not thinking her campaign was quite meaning it in that way.

Hmm, I wonder how she defines "pit bull"...

Neither does he.

But, yeah, when considering a pit bull, what other definition is there?

I assume that Palin's pit bull comparison is meant to tell the world "if you're one of the bad guys, don't mess with me, I'll kick your ass, even though I am pretty and nice." There is a tendency that I seem to notice coming more from conservative figures (though I am sure this happens both ways round) to couch things in "good guy white hat vs. bad guy black hat" terms. For moderately wimpo/leftish types like me, this sort of rhetoric makes the speaker sound a) guilty of oversimplification and b) potentially dangerous.

Most of my family are conservative, and they are wonderful, compassionate, caring people to whom I owe my life. But I really don't get why they are so fond of political "don't mess with me, shoot the wounded, you bad guys better run" talk. Mostly just a matter of style, I guess. (i am often kidded by them for being a Mr. Softee.)