musing minds

Sarah Palin officiated at a wedding at Walmart when she was Mayor of Wasillia.

Palin Presided Over a Wedding at a Walmart.

He worked in the pets department. She was a cashier. A romance blossomed. And when it came time to say ”I do,” they chose — where else? — an aisle next to menswear. Sandwiched between racks of cotton pants and surrounded by ”Back-to-School Specials” signs, Jake McCowan and Rosalyn Ryan exchanged vows last week at the place where they met, work and fell in love: the Wasilla Wal-Mart. A crowd of 200, including passengers from a tour bus and several dozen curious shoppers, watched the two employees tie the knot in an afternoon ceremony officiated by Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin. ”It was so sweet,” said Palin, who fought back tears during the nuptials. “It was so Wasilla.” [Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), 8/28/99]

This from an opposition research report from when Sarah Palin was running for her current office, that of Governor of the State of Alaska.

That’s certainly a “throw her under the bus” offense.

h/t: the American Princess

Don LaFontaine has died at age 68.

Having the enmity of the Washington Post and the New York Times is a very good predictor of political and electoral success.

To Juan Williams: “It is enmity. You didn’t say enmity, but I’m saying enmity.”

It’s Labor Day!

Do the kids in your town start school tomorrow? Have they already started school? How long have they been in school?

Mine started on the 18th of August and have been in school for two weeks already.

According to the fashion mavens today is the day to pack up your white clothing. Not supposed to wear it after Labor Day. That’s a crock.

It’s the unofficial end of summer.

Please donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for Hurricane Gustav and future storms. The American Red Cross does very good work in disaster relief.

They haven’t hit yet, but the American Red Cross can always use the help – and they do have a need with the voluntary evacuations for Gustav.

Please click here to go to their donation page.

I started a group over at Culture11.

Culture 11 is a new online/social network that was started by Bill Bennett, David Kuo, Steve Forbes, and more. Joe Carter of Evangelical Outpost is the managing editor.

Please stop by and check it out, sign up, and start going!

Obama’s spokesman Bill Burton put this out this morning (via Huffington Post):

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Excuse me?

Obama chose Biden for his foreign policy experience because Obama himself has none. Obama almost had to pick a VP with foreign policy experience.

McCain doesn’t need to pick a VP with foreign policy experience, he has enough of his own thank you very much.

Governor Palin as Governor and as a former mayor has more executive experience than any of the other three…

Updated:

For more on what Governor Palin brings to the table see Beldar’s post that links to all the posts he’s written on Governor Palin over the past months.

Fox News confirms with the McCain Campaign that the VP pick is indeed Alaska Governor Sarah Palin!

Yay!

Added: Happy Birthday Senator McCain!

Happy 20th Anniversary Todd and Sarah Palin!

Yesterday, while watching Fox News, there was a segment about taxes and whose taxes would be higher and all that. Unfortunately I can’t remember which show it was on and I didn’t hit the record button on my TiVo remote…

One point of discussion was death or estate taxes. The Fox person asked the democrat about death taxes and the democrat said they must stay and even increase. The Fox person mentioned that money inherited is money that has already been taxed.

The democrat representative said, and I paraphrase because I can’t remember the exact quote:

We can’t allow people to accumulate wealth and then pass it to their heirs.

And there you have it, the main difference between democrats and republicans. Republicans say more power to you – accumulating wealth to pass on to your heirs. The democrats don’t want you keep your own money or give it to your own family. You can accumulate wealth, but only to give to the government so they can redistribute the wealth that you worked so hard to accumulate.

arte y pico award

Kate at Electric Venom has confered upon me the lovely Arte y Pico award for just being me.

I need to link Kate since she awarded me the award. I also have to post the picture of the award, post the rules and give the award to five others and link them too.

1. Pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award in terms of creativity, design, interesting material, and general contributions to the blogger community, no matter what language.

2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3. Each winner has to show the award and give the name and link to the blog that has given him or her the award itself.

4. Each winner and each giver of the prize has to show the link of “Arte y pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5. To show these rules.

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1. The Anchoress.

2. Fausta’s Blog (that’s FAH-oo-sta).

3. ~J~ and Sue at J’s Cafe Nette.

4. Lorie Byrd

5. The American Princess.