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last night i had a dream i met sarah palin at the airport.
i was running utterly late trying to get to the airport from this after party i had in LA. i only had 45 minutes to get on the plane and i was flying to london. i was going to miss it. i went up to the counter to get the next flight knowing i'd missed it and the lady says, 'oh chloe, someone is here to talk with you.'.. i said oh ok. thinking it was some airline person who was going to help me or something. sarah palin walks out and says, 'hi hi hi, can i call you chloe, ya ok ya thanks', trying to shake my hand. we start walking the hall, she must have seen the disgust on my face because right away she starts in, 'so i've read things you've wrote about me and boy oh boy you sure don't like me, do ya?' i sort of give off a yes face without talking, and she continues, 'well i just wanted to show ya i'm not like how ya think. imma really good person and i just wanna show you a bit about my life, ya. ya wanna do that?. i shudder thinking no, not really - i'd rather you lick the floor clean to be honest, but i indulge her.
she walks me over to her family, the pregnant one, the *special one*, the other ones. I'm still not sure how many kids she has. she introduced me to them all, but there seemed to be like 50 of them, and i couldn't remember all thier names. She asked me 'why don't you believe in god?' and i came up with 'because the whole religious phenomenon bores me'. 'Bores you, but how' she quizzes. 'I dunno, all i see it going and through history is really just helped create problems, but to be honest Sarah I don't really want to talk about why I don't believe in your god. I may believe in something other than what you deem religious but that doesn't mean I am not spiritual.' I said. 'Well doggone it, I'm sure I can help your soul find the holy spirit that you are in such desperate need of.'
So this is where problems arose, as I'm sure you could guess. 'Listen lady, I don't want to have you help me, I want you to step down from politics because you are not prepared, educated, progressive or even interesting enough. You need to go back to school and learn more. You need to come live where people live to see how people live. You need to integrate more into a society that needs progressive people thinking and trying to pull us out of this shitty box we're in. I am tired of the religious right stepping so far into politics that I have to hear and read about it every fucking day. I'm tired of hearing God bless you. I'm tired of the flip flopping that goes on in churches, and i'm just god damn (see that hehe) tired of having religions mixed with politics in America, and you bring that whole thing to the table, again.'
'We've done this before, and I don't want to argue, I just want religious people to open thier minds a bit. It wouldn't be hard, look at the Catholic priests in South America who are urging thier people to use birth control. That is what I'd like to call 'REAL-MINDED'. It's dealing with reality and knowing that you still can be super religious and be real.' I turned to Bristol, 'you're preggers right now, but you may not have been if your family taught you birth control. how do you feel knowing you are becoming just another stat of teenage pregnancies? I wish you the best, I just wish you could have waited longer, till you were out of school, had a good education, and were able to make adult decisions with someone you probably found love with to have a baby.' Sarah steps in, 'Hey now, don't you be telling Bristol that the baby isn't a miracle, because it sure is. It's a miracle how these little people grow inside you and become these beautiful wonderful people I'm so proud of, and I'm so proud of Bristol for understanding her miracle that has been given to her, I really... ', I stop her because of her run on sentence, which was driving me bonkers. 'Miracle or not, she got pregnant because she had unprotected sex and those wacky sperms found an egg and bam, child. Not so much a miracle as it is science, but thats ok. Anyway, I'm finding you all a bit strange, so last thing before I walk away I'd like to ask why you think dinoaurs and humans lived at the same time and why you would believe random books over science?'
They all look puzzled and Sarah quips back at me, 'Well why would I believe science when I know in my heart that is how it happened.' The sheer shock of stupidity on my face must have been priceless. 'Wow', I said. 'Pretty meaningful stuff'.
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errrr- i dunno.
i was running utterly late trying to get to the airport from this after party i had in LA. i only had 45 minutes to get on the plane and i was flying to london. i was going to miss it. i went up to the counter to get the next flight knowing i'd missed it and the lady says, 'oh chloe, someone is here to talk with you.'.. i said oh ok. thinking it was some airline person who was going to help me or something. sarah palin walks out and says, 'hi hi hi, can i call you chloe, ya ok ya thanks', trying to shake my hand. we start walking the hall, she must have seen the disgust on my face because right away she starts in, 'so i've read things you've wrote about me and boy oh boy you sure don't like me, do ya?' i sort of give off a yes face without talking, and she continues, 'well i just wanted to show ya i'm not like how ya think. imma really good person and i just wanna show you a bit about my life, ya. ya wanna do that?. i shudder thinking no, not really - i'd rather you lick the floor clean to be honest, but i indulge her.
she walks me over to her family, the pregnant one, the *special one*, the other ones. I'm still not sure how many kids she has. she introduced me to them all, but there seemed to be like 50 of them, and i couldn't remember all thier names. She asked me 'why don't you believe in god?' and i came up with 'because the whole religious phenomenon bores me'. 'Bores you, but how' she quizzes. 'I dunno, all i see it going and through history is really just helped create problems, but to be honest Sarah I don't really want to talk about why I don't believe in your god. I may believe in something other than what you deem religious but that doesn't mean I am not spiritual.' I said. 'Well doggone it, I'm sure I can help your soul find the holy spirit that you are in such desperate need of.'
So this is where problems arose, as I'm sure you could guess. 'Listen lady, I don't want to have you help me, I want you to step down from politics because you are not prepared, educated, progressive or even interesting enough. You need to go back to school and learn more. You need to come live where people live to see how people live. You need to integrate more into a society that needs progressive people thinking and trying to pull us out of this shitty box we're in. I am tired of the religious right stepping so far into politics that I have to hear and read about it every fucking day. I'm tired of hearing God bless you. I'm tired of the flip flopping that goes on in churches, and i'm just god damn (see that hehe) tired of having religions mixed with politics in America, and you bring that whole thing to the table, again.'
'We've done this before, and I don't want to argue, I just want religious people to open thier minds a bit. It wouldn't be hard, look at the Catholic priests in South America who are urging thier people to use birth control. That is what I'd like to call 'REAL-MINDED'. It's dealing with reality and knowing that you still can be super religious and be real.' I turned to Bristol, 'you're preggers right now, but you may not have been if your family taught you birth control. how do you feel knowing you are becoming just another stat of teenage pregnancies? I wish you the best, I just wish you could have waited longer, till you were out of school, had a good education, and were able to make adult decisions with someone you probably found love with to have a baby.' Sarah steps in, 'Hey now, don't you be telling Bristol that the baby isn't a miracle, because it sure is. It's a miracle how these little people grow inside you and become these beautiful wonderful people I'm so proud of, and I'm so proud of Bristol for understanding her miracle that has been given to her, I really... ', I stop her because of her run on sentence, which was driving me bonkers. 'Miracle or not, she got pregnant because she had unprotected sex and those wacky sperms found an egg and bam, child. Not so much a miracle as it is science, but thats ok. Anyway, I'm finding you all a bit strange, so last thing before I walk away I'd like to ask why you think dinoaurs and humans lived at the same time and why you would believe random books over science?'
They all look puzzled and Sarah quips back at me, 'Well why would I believe science when I know in my heart that is how it happened.' The sheer shock of stupidity on my face must have been priceless. 'Wow', I said. 'Pretty meaningful stuff'.
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errrr- i dunno.
Some disturbing comments though. 
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