Finally! Biblical stories presented in their proper form.

Courtesy of Amazon: 

"Myths fired my imagination powerfully as a kid. Greek, Norse, Hopi, West African animist tales, I devoured them all. But the stories of the Judeo-Christian canon were an exception. The retellings were always so mired in kid-glove sacredness that all the rich drama was drained out of them. Christian Mythology for Kids finally restores these fantastic tales to their rightful place among the great, compelling stories of humanity. I want to be a kid again so I can discover Christian myth afresh." - Dale McGowan Author, Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers.

Increasing numbers of parents are raising their children free from religion. Christian Mythology for Kids is for secular families, to hear the stories of Christian myths without fear or empty promises. These stories are just as exciting, improbable, and fantastic as the myths of the Norse gods or the fables of Aesop.

Taking a mythology class in high school was very instrumental in helping me to properly understand the stories of the Bible. In fact it was a few years later that I determined to read the Bible from that point of view, and it was far more interesting and entertaining from that perceptive.

I have always felt that the Bible had value in helping to understand ancient societies and the formation of some of our current governments, but only with the ideas of how the book was written, sourced, and translated kept in mind.

I will totally buy this book and add it to my collection.

New SarahPAC e-mail promises an honest to goodness signed copy of a book that Sarah Palin could not get ANYBODY to pay for if you will just send them some damn money!

This is from an honest to God, I shit you not, e-mail that an IM regular sent to me the other day.

Dear (Name removed to protect the innocent.), 

We have some exciting news! We were organizing the office today and found some extra copies of Sarah’s book “Sweet Freedom: A Devotional “ and she has agreed to sign one!  (What they mean by this is that they keep tripping over the hundreds of leftover boxes of these crappy books and they need to find some way to get rid of them.)

We will raffle off and send a signed copy of Sarah Palin’s book for just a $25 donation. (Currently Amazon has this marked down to $12.83. I think it's less if it has Sarah Palin's signature on it.) Your donation will go straight towards funding bold conservatives running for office in tough elections. (Ha!) President Obama and Hillary Clinton have handpicked many of this year’s democrats running for office, and it is our job to stop them. 

Make a donation of $25 and you will be entered into the raffle! 

Or… Make a donation of $50 and be entered in the donation twice! Every $25 contribution will be counted as one entry. So if you donated $100 you will be entered four times. (Does this actually work on people?)

Please hurry! We will close the raffle in five days. 

Thank you so much for your help, (Name removed to protect the innocent). I hope you’ll enter the raffle for a copy of Sarah’s signed book and help us defeat Obama and Hillary’s hand-picked liberals running for office this year. 

Thank you. 
Best, 
SarahPAC 

Is now the right time to mention that in 2015 SarahPAC spent less than 4% of its total expenditures on conservative campaigns?

It certainly feels like the right time to mention that.

You know I was thinking, this would probably work a lot better if they raffled off something with some actual value. I mean this glorified roll of toilet paper is currently ranked at 114,065.

Perhaps they could raffle of, oh I don't know, the purse that holds Todd's family jewels for instance?

Or a pair of Palin's non-prescription, "worn just to make her look smart," eyeglasses?

Or how about one of her rabies infected road kill wigs that she can no longer keep sedated long enough to staple to her balding head?

Hey I've got it, how about a "get out of paying child support free" card for the next poor sap that crawls between Bristol's legs and leaves a deposit in the only all night sperm bank in Alaska?

Just a thought.

All I know is that if they want to have a less embarrassing financial disclosure than last time they certainly need to do better than one of her crummy "nobody wants to buy" ghostwritten books.

I'm just saying.

After low turnout at previous venues, and several cancelled book signings, Sarah Palin suddenly has an extremely successful one in California? Really?

So according to the Santa Clarita Valley Signal Palin had a VERY successful book signing:  

More than 1,000 people spent their Saturday afternoon in line for a chance to meet former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a book signing at Oaktree Gun Club in Newhall.

Wow! Really, more than a thousand people?

Well according to the Signal, yes. In fact:

In fact, shortly before 1 p.m., all of Palin’s books were sold out even though there were still more than 200 people in line.

Well, that IS impressive. Especially considering the fact that recent signing had suffered from low turnout and she had in fact cancelled at least two of them.

But then the article gets a little confusing for me.

For instance it says this:

The one-time Republican vice presidential nominee talked, mingled and took photos with hundreds of her fans for several hours while she sold and signed copies of her bestselling devotional “Sweet Freedom: A Devotional.”

However  since this book signing did not start until 11:00 AM, and ended before 1:00 PM, how could she have mingled with for "several" hours?

And speaking of mingling, if she really saw somewhere around 800 people in less than 120 minutes that means she would have had less than 20 seconds per "mingle."

I'm not the best with math, but really?

Now local station KHTS provides a more reasonable picture of the event:

Hundreds of Santa Clarita residents lined up outside the gun club Saturday to have the chance to meet the former Governor, get their copy of the book signed and take a picture with Palin. 

The crowd was brought in one at a time through a side room of the main building where they could purchase a book if they did not own one, before meeting Palin.

Now the article does not say how many hundreds, but clearly they did not count numbers in excess of a thousand.

Courtesy of Sarah Palin's Facebook page.

KHTS also gives provides us a little insight into the type of person who would actually line up to get a book signed by Sarah Palin: 

“We’re here to support (Sarah Palin) with her new book she’s coming out with,” Friedman said, “because we support her and her stance with the Second Amendment Foundation. I’m a woman. I’m a lifetime member of the NRA.” 

Clearly an Ammosexual.

“We would love to have her join in this presidential race as well,” Friedman said. “She is a biblical based, faith loving woman. She also has a very strong connection with her family and her community. She also advocates for children and families of children with special needs.”

And a moron.

I think that is fairly descriptive of the type of person Palin attracts.

So the question to be asked here is has Sarah Palin's newest ghostwritten book suddenly had a resurgence of interest? (It's currently back up to 1,353 over on Amazon.) Or is there a little behind the scenes manipulation designed to give that impression?

The Ted Cruz coloring book has attracted some rather...interesting reviews.

As many of you may remember that I wrote about this book back in December: 

Yes kids get your coloring book dedicated to a Senator in his first term who is famous for obstructionism, sabotaging government, and lying. You know, just like Abraham Lincoln!

Of course I did not take it very seriously, and who would? However it quickly left my thoughts and I did not spend another second wondering how it was doing or what others thought of it.

And then the other day I happened across a Reddit post that mentioned the reviews it has been receiving. Curious I decided to take a look.

Courtesy of Amazon: 

I didn't know how well I'd enjoy this book, seeing as how I only have white crayons. But, as it turns out, that's the only color required! Magnificent! 

This book showed up just in time, as my daughter had recently finished her "Connect the Dots Mein Kampf." We spend all day listening to Skrewdriver and breaking the brown crayons. 

As a bigot, it's hard for me to find books that advocate for and advance my position. Especially books designed for little kids. Thank God for this book. Now, I can stimulate the creativity of my little children, while still installing in them important lessons. Lessons like guns are good, health care is bad (at least if it comes from a Democrat president), and America is always right. If there are any facts that don't support my positions, I would prefer to ignore them. And if I can't ignore them, then I'd like to be able to shout them down. And I want to teach my children the same lessons. Without books like this one, we are in danger of raising a new generation of open-minded and tolerant adults . . . and it will be impossible to maintain our way of thinking if this happens. I'm looking forward to the next book in this series: "I am not a witch (but if I were, it would totally be okay to cast a spell and turn President Obama into a newt)." 

I'm not a fan of his politics, but I have to give Ted Cruz credit for coming up with this coloring book idea. A perfect way to reach the Tea Partiers on their own literary level! The big question remains: Will they stay within the lines? 

I could not understand nor stay with in the lines, this book was way over my head, I should stick with Sarah Palins books about green eggs and stuff. 

So, after reading many reviews that mentioned what good toilet paper this book made, I was super excited to order my copy. Unfortunately, after receiving mine in the mail I was immediately disappointed. I don't know, perhaps I accidentally received a used copy, but mine was completely worthless for this purpose as every single page was already completely covered with crap...

And here I thought this book would not be well received. 

P.S. By the way, good luck in finding a positive, serious, review of the book.

Okay my only question is how do I tell this from the real thing?

The Sarah Palin Bobblehead.

I don't think the hair looks fake enough.