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Sarah Palin emerged today from the Marriott Long Wharf hotel and said she planned to walk the Freedom Trail before heading to New Hampshire ...
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Go Home Fraud
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:06am
That's all.
WELOCOME SARAH, A TRUE LEADER
By Glade
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:15am
Welcome Sarah!
Most people who dislike PALIN are victims of media distortions, for example everytime she is giving sound on WBZ radio, the sound quality is purposedly poor, in fact last week there was a reporter asking her a question in fine clear audio, but as she went to speak it was slightly garbled...
This is yellow journalism done to impact our psyche, CNN does it all the time. When they present Obama everything is on a platter and he sounds great, no garbled talked, shame on media, they have lost their soul. Are they expecting a bailout too? Are they already bought and paid for?
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By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:31am
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I think my favorite part of
By Miss M
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:58am
I think my favorite part of that macro is that the Joker is being confused by Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy.
True leader's
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:32am
Don't quit their jobs when they get tough.
It's all a media conspiracy?
By R Hookup
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:36am
It's all a media conspiracy? That explains so much!
True leader indeed!
By The Beer Guy
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:40am
She led the state Alaska proudly, right up until the day she quit on them.
I'm no Palin fan
By Stevil
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:03am
But apparently she had to quit or go bankrupt - she was supposedly getting sued from all sides intent on silencing her and the only way she could pay her bills which were greater than her salaray as gov was to go out on the lecture circuit. She's most definitely not the brightest bulb in the box (although she's definitely making the most out of extending her 15 minutes), but I don't understand why everyone thinks she's evil - other than the fact that the 50% of Americans even dimmer than she is might actually vote for her.
As an aside, which is worse - Palin quitting and actually leaving the job, or Mitt quitting and staying in the job all the while badmouthing his home state around the country?
Sadly it looks like Mitt is the best thing the R's have to offer.
I may end up abstaining in the next election for the first time ever - or doing what I used to do when Wilkerson ran - vote for myself. My track record on that one is pretty good. Certainly won't make a bit of a difference as I'll go all the way out on the plank and predict that Obama takes Mass about 58-42.
I'm a progressive
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:27am
now a days, but funny enough, I'd probably be considered a Reagan Republican if it were the 80's.
There's nothing "Conservative" about the GOP platform in this day and age. It's a mixture of crony consumerists, fascist religious nutjobs, and libertarian idealists. Held together by tax cuts as the golden law, and hand off medicare.
Blatant, unadultered, fearless stupidity
By baepp
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 12:29pm
Blatant, unadultered, fearless stupidity IS evil. Especially for someone who was that close to the presidency.
not sure about this
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 5:06pm
Can you provide a source for this? IIRC the lawsuits had to do with her official actions while governor (public records, involvement in firing a state trooper) so I'd imagine that the state would have had to pay to defend her.
why would they have to pay
By anon
Fri, 06/03/2011 - 8:30pm
why would they have to pay for her? these things aren't protected by the legal liability of a state. It's similar to these types of things that employees of corporations can be held accountable for individually even though the corporation provides shielding for typical offenses. The limited liability limits itself to actions similar to what Palin did in office, which means she screwed up bad.
What a leader! Sarah Palin
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:55am
What a leader! Sarah Palin cares so much about the United States and thinking she's the best thing for it, that she can't even make up her mind about wanting to run. What an amazing self sacrifice she's making by playing a game of "should I or shouldn't I?" Sarah Palin cares soooooooo much, so much so that she can't be bothered to have a plan!
God bless America, and no place else!
Wow
By Michael
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:36am
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Wow, you are just incredibly
By jeveuxsavoir
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:56am
Wow, you are just incredibly stupid.
Like many victims of Faux News, you seem to use expressions without understanding their meaning.
beep beep boop palin bot
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:43pm
It doesn't matter what the sound is like, her WORDS are terrible! She is empty-headed and spreads hate and resentment.
It would be better to just
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:18am
It would be better to just shun her. Palin is like a dog that takes a crap on your carpet and then feels it gets rewarded by all your attention. Ignoring her works better
Think...
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:33am
She'll get the history right this time?
Someone should tell her Paul Revere road to Quincy where the original dunks is, and that the tea went into Revere Beach.
I bet she'd buy it.
You can use filters to that end.
By c1josh
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:47am
I have Google News set to filter out several boring, unimportant, irrelevant, or just plain ridiculous topics.
Sarah Palin is one of them.
Wonder if she'll stop by Concord, NH
By East Cambridge
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:13am
Where the American Revolution began?
She can join Michelle Bachman there, still searching for the Old North Bridge.
Ahh, tolerant liberals.
By O-FISH-L
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:28am
Ahh, tolerant liberals. As long as you agree with them. And someone is calling Palin a fraud? Ha!
Liberal taunting... like shooting fish in a barrel...
By The Beer Guy
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:36am
from a helicopter!
I'm no liberal
By JP-Stonybrook
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:38am
and I still think she is brutally ignorant (not stupid) and has no business near a position of power. She's clearly good at telling certain demographics what they want to hear and getting rich doing it. Good for her. She's a politician. Assuming she has any interest but her own at heart is foolish.
As philosopher John Rawls once said
By Kaz
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:45am
I leave it up to the reader to determine whether Sarah Palin and her lot comprise such an intolerant sect as to warrant restrictions.
When is the right-wing going
By jeveuxsavoir
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:59am
When is the right-wing going to understand that "liberal" is not an insult in any way, shape, or form to people who are left-leaning? So uncreative it hurts.
And, as a proud liberal, I consider myself to be 95% tolerant - the 5% towards which I am intolerant are those who are 95% intolerant.
Careful, there's numbers involved there, and I know how difficult the tea party sect finds them.
As a proud liberal
By Michael
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 12:01pm
I can't remember ever signing a document saying I'd be "tolerant" of willful ignorance and unashamed stupidity. I guess it's conceivable that "tolerance" is another one of those words that don't really have to mean anything if you're using it to make a dumb political point.
Amen to that. I have no
By jeveuxsavoir
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 12:08pm
Amen to that. I have no respect for people who think that being educated is elitist, and believe that the US is flying into some socialist downward spiral (again with not knowing the meaning of the word "socialist") - all whilst whining about how they want their Medicare and Social Security.
Palin may be stupid, especially when compared to Obama
By O-FISH-L
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:40pm
Palin may indeed be stupid, especially when compared to Obama, at least based on his college transcripts, published work in the Harvard Law Review and accomplishments as POTUS. Er, never mind.
She's incredibly stupid
By Michael
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:00pm
And there's not one feeble deflection on Earth that will change that fact.
I Haven't Seen Her Birth Certificate
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:01pm
But I've seen her unable to name a single newspaper she reads on a regular basis. I have seen Obama's birth certificate, not that I wanted to, and I've also seen him speak in complete sentences for several minutes at a time.
I'm being generous here. If you want to compare their college and post-grad work, though, there's this thing called Google that will really ruin your day.
Google
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:25pm
is part of the liberal conspiracy.
When is the right-wing going
By Dave
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:13pm
So the left wing's change in terminology ( [i]"progressive"[/i] ) was just for the hell of it?
liberal use of liberal
By John-W
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:25pm
Well it sort of depends on what you're applying the adjective to. If we're talking economic policy or social policy. The "socialists" complain about the liberal economic policies of the right. And the right complains about the permissive liberal social policies (e.g., gay rights) of dem damn pinkos. I don't think it's all that useful a term really. I prefer shitheads and assholes.
And the term
By whyaduck
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 3:10pm
"progressive" has been around for quite some time, Dave. Actually the actual progressive movement spanned the 1890s through the 1920s.
So your point is?
As far as I know the words "liberal" and "progressive" are both in use today. One is not is use over the other.
I thought I was a progressive
By Stevil
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 3:47pm
but then found out i was a moderate after someone explained that a progressive was a communist in liberal clothing
Damned if I know, I didn't
By jeveuxsavoir
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 3:58pm
Damned if I know, I didn't get the newsletter.
"Poor George Will. He's got a
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:19pm
"Poor George Will. He's got a huge boehner in his boxers for Jon Huntsman, but he can't -- try and fantasize as he might -- see a path for his chosen love to the White House.
The reason for Will's frustration is quite simple. His party, the once grand old one, has been hijacked by the petty young thing of profound unseriousness: a seething, tempestuous horde of geezers and bigots and thumpers and temperamental medievalists and Hayekian hayseeds who prefer to soar blissfully on the goofweed of ideological purity than swoon over a candidate's dignified record of accomplishment," - PM Carpenter.
Cry more
By chicken
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:49pm
Are the liberals hurting your feelings? Poor you. Just go run and hide from reality some more.
Thank you for this Two
By NotWhitey
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 12:28pm
Thank you for this Two Minutes Hate session.
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By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:05pm
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Heard her . . .
By Chris Dowd
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:22pm
. . . on he Greenway giving a "Hello/Thank you for welcoming me" speech and I think the Mayor was there- but It was across the street when I was passing by and tour trolleys were in the way so I didn't see her. But she sounded like she does on TeeVee. Not a big crowd gathered from what I saw.
Favorite Palinism?
By The Beer Guy
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:31pm
A few weeks back when she was aghast that "thug" (read: dark-skinned) Common was invited to the White House for their poetry night. Common is no stranger to using violent rhetoric to get a point across. On his website, he pinpointed a list of several political opponents who needed to be voted out of office. He drove the point home by marking their states with cross-hairs!!
Oh wait, that wasn't Common... who was that again?
who was marking states with targets?
By johnmcloughlin
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:23pm
Were you trying to remember the Democratic Leadership council?
Back in the Bush years.
http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253055&ka...
Targets != Gun Sights. But
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:28pm
Targets != Gun Sights.
But nice try*. Even that wasn't that bad, but it was more about her terminology anyways, and nonchalant way of equating gun violence to winning.
*refer to image above.
Wow, we got away with one there
By Michael
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:30pm
Some unhinged lunatic might have tried to throw a dart at Missouri!
Dammit
By The Beer Guy
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:32pm
beat me to it.
And that surely excuses Palin's racist hypocrisy. Thanks for that.
New Favorite Palinism
By The Beer Guy
Mon, 06/06/2011 - 7:02am
Paul Revere ringing those bells FTW!
Philosophical Question
By Stevil
Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:43am
If Sarah Palin rang Paul Revere's bells on her porch, could you hear them in Russia?
That reminds me of a joke
By Kaz
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:38pm
What's the difference between Palin and the Greenway?
One is a useless embarrassment that has never lived up to expectations and came onto the scene in the fall of 2008...the other is Sarah Palin.
Lives up to my expectations.
By Chris Dowd
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:11pm
Don't know what people expected from the Greenway- circus acts every weekend? Spent the long weekend in the city and the Greenway was filled with people- especially the fountain - choked with families all three days. And it is a big hit across from the North End. I think the addition of more food carts - the cupcake cart and the grilled cheese wagon- especially- are good additions.
Yeah
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:24pm
It's the butthurt from the people who think it needs to be a public garden, and those that think it needs to be razed for luxury apartments.
Tourists and Workers alike seem to love it in the summer. Multiple local gyms use it for outdoor training and activities all summer, and it's a great place to take a walk and get some lunch.
There does need to be a push to try to attract more stores on the sides of it, but since the highways dump directly to the access road (and they're built for that, not being pedestrian friendly) it might be a problem.
Still, it takes time for them to move in, and change around floor plans to face the greenery. For years it was just a back alley for them, with the highway above them.
Depends on the question asked
By Kaz
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 3:47pm
...and your frame of reference.
Here's an interesting blog post from April which examines what the city actually looked like BEFORE the highway and how basically all the park has done is put a scar on an otherwise gaping wound until now.
Sure, we can't recreate what we've fully destroyed at this point, but look at the old picture. Look at how well connected the North End was to the rest of the city. We could have had that again in some form...but instead, all we did was replace one giant green rusting stripe with a prettier green growing one. The fact that people have been able to find uses for it isn't the point. The fact is that it still parses the city in two pieces and yet before the highway the city was whole. We got rid of the highway...but we didn't regain as much as we could have in doing so.
The fact is that it still
By anon²
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 6:17pm
Citation needed...
As far as I'm concerned, it reconnects the city pretty well.
Just building anything on top of it would seem to rectify your problem of connectivity, but it be in poor judgment IMO. Parks and green space work just as well, and give us an area to enjoy that isn't concrete and brick.
Parks in cities
By chicken
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 8:11pm
Erm, citation? Look at the picture in the link.
Parks and green spaces don't necessarily connect the city. Just look at Morningside Park in NYC. There's tons of examples like that, where a park actually isolates an area and creates a slum.
Obviously, the Greenway is a different situation. Are people enjoying the Greenway? Sometimes it seems like it. But how often? I was walking up and down it a lot in March, and it seemed pretty deserted. That's not good.
P.S. Thanks, Kaz, for the great link.
I know, right?
By Stewart
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 10:25pm
All I know is I gotta hire a team of fuckin' pack mules and a sherpa to make that treacherous crossing from Haymarket to Hanover Street! Do you have any idea how many times I've almost perished from dehydration by the time I've gotten to the fountains? There are times when it takes me almost FORTY-FIVE WHOLE SECONDS to cross the whole thing!
When, when, when will this horribly comfortable and unforgivably pleasant blight be eradicated so that our city can be made whole again????????
The agony! The aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagoneeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Useless embarrassment?? That
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:15pm
Useless embarrassment?? That is the first time I've ever heard someone say such a thing about the Greenway. I for one love it!
You don't get around much.
By NotWhitey
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 8:18pm
You don't get around much.
hmmm
By John-W
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:18pm
One is a pretty looking but essentially useless, but with a lot going on under the surface, the other...well, scratch the second part.
If you think about it, hizonuh da mayuh is sort of the flip side of her -- as pretty and coherent as the old Central Artery but still with a lot going on under the surface (even the Feds couldn't get at it).
And can anyone confirm if Mayor Menino was actually at a Palin event or was it just proximity of separate evetns?
Based on the timing ...
By adamg
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:31pm
As described below, I'm thinking it was all just coincidence, rather than our mayor going batty and deciding to give put keys to the city to visiting ex-governors from the other party.
The Harbor Islands thing had been planned awhile ago - I even got a press release about it (and might have gone, except I stayed up way too late working on storm stuff last night) - long before anybody knew Palin would be showing up here, let alone at a hotel across the street from the dedication.
I didn't see her . . .
By Chris Dowd
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:44pm
. . . Or anything much for that matter- I was across the street walking by and buses were in the way- but I could have sworn I heard her voice thanking the mayor. It was real short followed by polite applause from the 50 or so people there. Didn't know she was even in town until I read uhub this morning.
About what time?
By adamg
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:42pm
Because the mayor was scheduled to be on the Greenway this morning to help dedicate the new Harbor Islands visitor center - which is right across from the Marriott, by amazing coincidence.
Yeah-
By Chris Dowd
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 2:05pm
It was right at the new Harbor Island center (which is informative). I think it was around 11 or 11:30 or so.
Actually, that celebration
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 7:39pm
Actually, that celebration was for the opening of the new Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion next to the carousel. That was Vickie Kennedy speaking.
Must have been.
By Chris Dowd
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:15pm
I think I just put two and two together without thinking. I had just read that Palin was at the Long wharf like an hour earlier and when I heard her I guess I thought I was hearing Palin. My bad.
Is your title subtly Palin-esque?
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 4:26pm
Methinks you mean "casually" not "causally" in your title.
Feel free to make up words, too, when writing about her.
No, it's subtly typo-esque
By adamg
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 5:04pm
Fixed.
Yeah, but, spelling (and civics) counts ...
By JohnAKeith
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 4:52pm
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The Statute of Liberty is like the Statute of Limitations ... sort of.
"It is of course the symbol
By anon
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 5:27pm
"It is of course the symbol for Americans to be reminded of other countries, like the French and other countries, warning us not to make some of the mistakes that they had made. This is a symbol, a reminder of what we can do right, in the name of freedom. That's what I appreciate about the Statue of Liberty. I think it's great, all the symbolism, just represented in each different aspect and detail of the statue..."
But dressing as a Native
By joecab
Thu, 06/02/2011 - 8:35pm
But dressing as a Native American and tossing her into the harbor is still cool, right? Isn't that the kind of thing her people go for?
Here's your "smart" "true leader" in her own words
By Kaz
Fri, 06/03/2011 - 12:48am
Actually...it went more like this:
No bells, no yelling, no pseudo-Second Amendment nonsense about arming the countryside. He went to alert Adams and Hancock to the British presence and then got arrested before the fighting began.
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