Sarah Palin: tanned, rested and ready for the GOP Convention

above is sarah palin with her husband's dog sled team.  She is the real deal, I mean, she dog sleds in Alaska.  Hunts Elk, bear.  Ok, she also hunts wolves from a helicopter (I think wolves should be armed if they are going to be hunted from the air, at least make it a sporting event).  here is sarah announcing sports earlier in her career. She is a good shot:

she really does fire automatic weapons, but this is not a real photo.  could be though.  So i have this strange attraction to Sarah Palin.  Maybe it lies deep in my childhood, some traumatic event, who knows.  But the latest news is that she thinks the GOP convention maybe brokered: that means, no one will have a majority of delegates, so there will be more than one vote.  Kinda like the GOP convention of 1860, where Lincoln eventually won after his supporters "sold" cabinet positions for votes.  Anyway, she doesnt rule out a future run for office.  Does this mean she is throwing in her hat for President at a brokered convention?  Could she be the next GOP president to deal with a "team of rivals" like Lincoln had to deal with?  Hey, we all know how that turned out: "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"  Ok, sick joke.

So what is this about?  I know:  LOW RATINGS for ROGER AILES cable news shows!  Yes, sarah is a paid media celebrity, and the more controversy she can generate the more people watch FOX news.  This is the ultimate is bullshit journalism (which is all we have lately) - not only do the networks MANUFACTURE news, but they hire politicians as reporters-celebrities, and then instruct them how to make news to increase ratings, sell more advertising, make more money.

So what is politics in the USA today?  A way of making lots of money.  Its not unlike third world nations that have no real economy other than foreign investment and foreign aid and UN relief money:  you run for office, get elected, and divide up the loot.  I mean Richard cheney did that as VP- he was our first contractor who was in the Executive Branch.  You can make alot of money when you control the contracts.  Did cheney get paid by contractors while VP?  Kinda.  he had blind investments that benefited from his policies.  But he obviously made money after his stint as Sec of Defense - hes making lot of money now too.  I listened to a patients heart with a pump valve like cheney's - thump whooosh, thump whooosh.......the guy literally has a strange heartbeat, of course, we knew that about cheney even before his operation.

Ok, Sarah, make your money.  You can spend it all in the next life, right?