Frogs, Rice, Sarah Palin and Shoeboxes

Get a ten-pound bag of rice. Find a frog. Dump the rice on top of the frog. Imagine you are the frog and each grain of rice is a news item about Sarah Palin. Be comforted as the frog shares your pain. Misery loves company, even if the best you can do is a frog buried in rice

One grain of rice that stuck in my eye was a Newsweek column by a definite liberal who says she really likes Palin. She almost swoons over this vision: "Palin, BlackBerry in one hand, Red Bull in the other, checked her messages as she crossed the street, seemingly oblivious to her youngest daughter, Piper, who trailed along behind her, jumping rope in the crosswalk." She continues, "Now that's my kind of working mom..."
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I don't feel good about the conservative family values demonstrated by ignoring your (then) five year old daughter while crossing the street. I also have an urge to take a big dose of liberal laxative and purge myself of any agreement with somebody who thinks that is their ideal working mom. Any paparazzi could have caught me in moments like this with my kids, but Newsweek wouldn't have run the picture as any body's ideal working dad.
The whole thing is meaningless; it just left me feeling kind of yucky. As if I found out Karl Rove is a Boy Scout leader or something.


You have to be really smart to figure out why McCain picked Palin as a running partner. It boils down to this: on Inauguration Day 2009 McCain will be 26,442 days old which added to Palin's 16,145 days will make a total of 42,857. Now let's go back and look at June 15, 1906 which was 42,191 days before their prospective inauguration.

First: On that day a species of foreign parasite insect was found on some tea flowers in Massachusetts; even then a hotbed of liberalism. This little pioneer of illegal aliens was described as "posterior metatarsi very broad...genitalia prominent...length, 2.5 mm. Disturbing? I thought so, too.
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Second: That day was the earliest recorded Pentecostal religious experience in Los Angeles. Mr. Frank Bartleman wrote that the event "...seemed to still criticism and opposition, and was hard for even wicked men to gainsay or ridicule." Powerful! Especially realizing that "Brother Seymour generally sat behind two empty shoe boxes, one on top of the other. He usually kept his head inside the top one during the meeting, in prayer. There was no pride there."
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So on Inauguration Day -- exactly 42,191 days after these two symbolic events -- McCain and Palin will have accumulated 42,857 combined days of life experience. If you subtract 42,191 from 42,857, you know what you get?

666, that's what you get!

Coincidence? Go find Osama Bin Laden and try to convince him that's coincidence! Just realize it's going to take you seven years, and it won't matter at all. Not if you believe me and the President. So stay proud! Hold your head high whether it's in a shoebox or any other dark place!

The really yucky thing is realizing that Sarah Palin was born in my senior year of high school. That's like finding out that Karl Rove is a Girl Scout leader.