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When did Hillary jump the shark?
(An explanation of shark-jumping, for those who need one.)
(Oh, and if you don’t like politics, just skip to the second ***)
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Was it yesterday, when she refused to reject or denounce Geraldine Ferraro’s racist statements about Barack Obama’s candidacy? Or was it today, when Geraldine Ferraro dug herself a deeper ditch and Hillary again refused to reject or denounce?
Was it a few days ago, when being called a “monster” proved too offensive to her delicate sensibilities, and she demanded that Obama throw out that dirty rotten poo-poo head? I mean, since when did “monster” rise to the level of “bitch” or “cunt”, hmm? Like I wrote somewhere in the blogosphere: if you were in elementary school and you ran to the yard monitor, complaining, “BARRY CALLED ME A MONSTER!” what would the hall monitor do? Laugh in your face, that’s what she’d do. Or else say, “Suck it up, kid. Grow a spine.”
Maybe it was when she appeared on 60 Minutes and couldn’t manage to say, “Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim” without also adding, “. . . as far as I know.”
Maybe it was that damned 3AM your-children-are-all-gonna-die ad.
Her inability to learn from her mistake on the AUMF on Iraq, leading her to support Bush’s saber-rattling on Iran — that was pretty dumb. Not to mention voting for the AUMF in the first place.
When did Hillary jump the shark for you?
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New post up at the Boogerz blog tonight, but since all the FUN kids hang out here, I’ll come right out and ask:
Y’all have any waxy phlegmy boogery questons for me?
D.
she may not be my favorite candidate (she ain’t) but I can’t see voting for McCain or McBush as someone calls him. And I can’t see not voting in this election
So if by some fluke it goes to her, I don’t hate her enough not to vote for her.
That’s part of the reason I’m not ready to play like her and be entirely “eeeewwwwww ICKY Never HER” about a candidate on the left. I don’t want to end up like all those omigod-MCCAIN-hating repubs (Coulter) who’re having to eat their words.
Snot Question: what color boogers cause you to think about giving out the antibiotics or at least getting the patient tested for bacterial infections since nobody just gives out those pills any more?
Lord. Politics. Then there’s American politics. I don’t find Ferraro’s comments to be offensive: pointing out that Obama won a lot of the black vote because he’s black isn’t racist. What is interesting is Ferraro’s whining that a) she’s being tarnished because she’s white, and b) racism isn’t really operating in this campaign, but sexism is.
She’s buying into the whole competing-victims thing. The sad thing is that this does more to diminish both candidates than outright racist or sexist attacks, at least to my mind: if Obama wins, it’s because sexism is stronger than racism. If Clinton wins, it’s the other way round.
I happen to think that either candidate offers something, and that either is vastly preferable to McCain.
Oh, booger question: the allergies that caused me so much trouble last year have started up again. Should I ask my GP for a referral to an allergist, or am I going to have to suffer this year? Is starting to take an antihistamine now likely to work better than if I wait until it gets bad?
Notice that I’m following the Kate pattern of posting two comments.
Oh, wait, it’s three now…
i had a waxy question but i looked at the other blog and it’s answer #1. although, i guess i have a followup to that question: whaddaya do if you don’t have an ENT and your pediatrician/GP has kind of blown you off when you told her about your itchy ears? she gave me drops once, but i wasnt supposed to use them for too long. and then she was all, “whatever you’re doing (aka using q-tips to scratch/clean daily) isn’t hurting you, so you can keep on doing it”. halp! my ears drive me CRAZY.
did you know if you give your 11-year-old a nighttime cold relief tablet (because that’s all you have in the house) at 7:30 hoping it’ll make him feel perky enough to go to school, it’ll make him sleep and sleep and sleep instead?
Kate: I knew this. We also discovered that if you give an 11 year old Gravol so that she won’t throw up on the 6 hour drive to your camping location, she’ll be tired enough to sleep on a rock when you stop so that everyone else can stretch their legs.
Kate: I’d vote for her too, but I’d have to hold my nose.
Kate(2): yellow, green, brilliant orange, anything but white or clear. Yellow isn’t always an infection, but green always is.
Dean: see if Astelin is available in Canada. Great spray for allergies. How about Nasalcrom — is that available to you? Here, it’s OTC. A nasal steroid spray would be my backup choice to those first two suggestions.
Shaina: don’t assume you need a referral in order to see an ENT. It depends upon your insurance. Even if you do need a referral, maybe you don’t need it — you can verrry nicely tell your GP that you have this friend who’s an ENT, and he recommended, etc.
Kate: 7:30 AM? Are you nuts? But if you gave it 7:30 PM, that was an understandable thing to do.
Kate: how long should I wait to hear back on a partial? It’s been three weeks!
Dean: the wonder of Benadryl!
I don’t find Ferarro’s comments racist. I find it really annoying that people are pulling out the racist card or sexist card every time someone has a negative opinion (That would be you, Mr. Obama’s Media Spin Doctor Axelrod). I would like to have been privy to the whole interview to hear the bits that were cut to make the article far more titillating. Anyone who knows Ferraro, knows she’s not a racist. I’m more impressed she’s not turned around and offered up a false-faced apology, but defended her opinion.
I also agree completely with Kate’s comments.
Have you seen Jackie Mason on YouTube talking about the candidates yet? Yikes!
I have a question!!!
I got off a cruise ship on Sunday, and I’m still so dizzy I can barely type. How long is it normal for this to last, and is there anything I can do?
for me, mrs. clinton’s sharkjumping moment came during that whole chocolate chip cookie mess waaaaaaay back when.
either then or that “60 minutes” interview she and bill did in re ms. flowers.
Hi Lyvvie! Hi Joolz!
Tracy: that sounds a lot more severe than the usual “land legs” people talk about. Sure you didn’t catch some viral crud on the ship?
I could probably figure this out, but I’d need a lot more detail on your symptoms than what you’ve given me here. First thing, though: check out this bit on vestibular neuritis and see what you think.
lesseeee, I have three partials out at publishers
1==it’s been FOUR YEARS. A requested partial. Four. Years. I think it’s lost by now (dug up once)
2==2 years prolly lost
3==6 months
4==hmmmm maybe 4 months?
If you have something with an agent, I’d say three months and I’d start bugging again. I don’t know why less time with an agent though.
I meant FOUR partials.
five **requested** fulls currently out with publishers:
1 year
6 months (and that’s an Epub!!!)
5 months (and that was a WOW I LOVE THIS IDEA! publisher)
2×3 months
With agents? Nothing out anymore because I have a new one. She’s relatively new or I suppose she wouldn’t have picked me up, the sucka.
I’m officially turning this into an all Kate n’ Dean comment thread.
I have no partials out. In fact, that sounds a bit dirty to me. I do, however, feel sorry for Kate, the other official commenter on this thread, that she has had one out for four years. I’d prolly have given up on it and submitted it to someone else by now.
Nasalcrom is not available here, but I have some left over from my Vegas trip in Nov, so I’ll fire that stuff up. It didn’t work on my ear last fall, but it was already plugged so maybe that’s why.
Partials take as long as they take. Some take days, some months.
As long as you’re not getting a rejection, just smile and try to be patient. Most agencies give a ‘rough estimate’ on turnaround time on their site or their industry ad information. Follow that, add two weeks, then send a followup note. Otherwise, I’d give them three months.
Not to be a huge downer, but all of the agents I know are crazy swamped and if you’re not a money making client, you’re set aside ‘for later’. Sometimes later takes a while. Hang in there and try to relax, okay? EVERYTHING in publishing takes a long, long time. Especially getting paid. 😉
For me, Hillary has been shark jumping since the spring of ’88. I’ve can’t stand her and can’t recall ever liking her at all. Ever. I will not, under any circumstances vote for her. I WANT to vote for Obama, but should it be Hilla-skank on the Dem side, I’ll be planting McCain signs in my front yard. I really do despise her that much.
Btw, we put a bid on a house, contingent on the sale of ours. Woohoooooo!
Did you hear that the little girl in that 3 a.m. commercial (who is now 16 or 17) wanted to make it very clear to everyone that she doesn’t support Hillary; she supports Obama?
How did this comment thread get so long? Oh yeah — Kate and Dean! Get a room, guys!
I’m going to work on today’s post. It’ll be a late SBD.
I think it’s getting better. SLOWLY. I googled around, and some people report it taking a month or more to go away.
Argh!
I don’t think it’s that viral thing, but just an acute sensitivity to the motion of the ship and the waves. I was so dizzy on the ship, too. No more cruises for Baby Tracy.
Thanks, Doug.
Dean, I sent that baby out to more than her (and I sent it to her twice because she lost it once, and probably twice). I don’t do exclusive submissions anymore. I don’t lie–if asked, I admit to anyone that, yeah, I sent it to 1000 of my closest editor friends.
And never mind the room–I think we need a flag and motto for this thread.
I’m taking green booger boy to the doctor in an hour, two weeks of green boogers is enough. The other two flu-with-fever boys can just lie around feeling sorry for themselves on their own. We got IHOP here. International house of pain.