Well guess who got pulled over for speeding in Wasilla a week ago. Good guess.

"Not my fault officer. I was driving under the influence of classic rock."

Courtesy of TMZ: 

Sarah Palin may be conservative, but her driving is unabashedly radical ... giving TMZ an epic rationalization for speeding in her pick up truck in Alaska. 

The former guv was stopped in her hometown of Wasilla last Wednesday for going 63 in a 45 MPH zone in her Toyota Tundra. The cop wrote her up and she was on her way. 

Palin cops to the crime, telling us, "I wasn't speeding, I was qualifying." She didn't accept full blame, saying Sammy Hagar's, "I Can't Drive 55" on the oldies station contributed to her lead foot. 

We're told Palin will pay the $154 ticket STAT. 

Can you believe that a middle aged woman would blame her careless driving on a song playing on her radio?

Well you know Sarah "I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't" Palin, she doesn't ever follow the rules, even in the city where she was once in charge of enforcing them.

And if other people are put in danger by her carelessness and lack of respect for the law, well who cares about those people any way? After all they certainly don't care about her anymore.


P.S. When I wrote this post last night, I figured it was just a throwaway post documenting something not very newsworthy about Sarah Palin. (Meaning she wasn't arrested for drunk driving or anything.)

However this morning revealed that this story has been picked up by numerous blogs and news sites who do seem to think it is newsworthy. 

The reason for this, it seems to me, is not so much that she was speeding, but her imperious attitude to being caught ("I wasn't speeding, I was qualifying."), and the fact that she could not simply apologize for breaking the law and pay the ticket she had to blame it on somebody else. In this case poor Sammy Hagar for a song he wrote in 1984.

Because in Sarah Palin's world nothing is her fault, and she despises anybody treating her as if she is not more important than everybody else. And THAT makes even almost insignificant incidents like this seem newsworthy.

Twisted Sister frontman tells the world that the Motor City Madman, and darling of the pro-gun teabaggers, is a cowardly draft dodger. Ooh, that's going to leave a mark!

Courtesy of WRFX News:  

Ted Nugent promotes a lot of conservative ideals, particularly gun rights. But, at least one other rocker sees that stance as hypocritical. Twisted Sister's Dee Snider lashed out at Nugent in an interview with Noisecreep: 

"Ted's always been a gun-toting conservative. But what gets me is that he was actually a draft dodger! I mean, to the point where he didn't bathe for a week, and vomited on himself to deliberately avoid the draft. I totally understand why he did that, but all of these Republicans who love Ted don't seem to know or remember that too well. It's crazy that he's become one of the voices of Conservative America even though he was a draft dodger. If you don't believe me, Google it." 

Dee Snider is citing an interview Nugent gave to High Times magazine in 1977. In the interview, Nugent described how he avoided the draft because he wanted to continue to play guitar instead of serve in the Army. From the 1977 interview, Nugent said: 

"I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up."

The article goes on to point out that Nugent took back his early story however Snopes.com got a copy of Nugent's deferment which indicates that while the gun toting pedophile received a student deferment for much of the time he was eligible for the draft he also failed a physical exam and was given a 1-Y classification, which are generally assigned to registrants "who have exhibited medical conditions that were limiting but not disabling." You know like having their pants full of their own feces and acting like a lunatic.

Snider calling him out as a coward did not sit well with Nugent who took to Twitter (Where else?) to register his frustration.

Shame on @deesnider for falling for the big lie I challenge u to man up to the truth We xpected btr
— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) January 23, 2013

Well that's pretty weak. And what "truth" is Snider supposed to "man up" to?

All Snider did was repeat to the interviewer the same story that Nugent gleefully told to High Times back in 1977.

If anybody needs to "man up" and tell the "truth" it is this pathetic excuse for a tough guy. But what can you expect from a guy that measures his manhood by how many guns he owns and preys on underage girls to feed his oversize ego?

Mitt Romney hires Journey to perform during convention. And almost drives a stake through the heart of my rock and roll memories.

"Are you sure hiring the sad leftovers of a once popular eighties rock and roll band to play at the convention will make me look cool? Okay then, roll on! Oh, it's ROCK on?"

Courtesy of Christian Post:

As part of the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney has called on the timeless band Journey to perform at a fundraiser. 

Many other big acts, however, are steering clear of both conventions. Journey has not officially endorsed the presumptive Republican presidential candidate and said they are treating this show as just another paid performance.

I must confess that Journey is my ALL TIME favorite band. So this news hit me like a punch to the  groin.

But then I remembered that Journey ain't Journey anymore.

The iconic, and amazing gifted singer, Steve Perry left the band permanently in 1998, to be replaced by the lead singer from a Journey "cover band." I'm sorry if you DON'T have Steve Perry you DON'T have Journey.

So that is good news at least.

In other news the lead guitarist Neal Schon is still banging Michaele Salahi, one half of the duo that crashed a White House party in 2009, and she will be at the convention as well. You know to class up the joint.

By the way I feel this is the appropriate place to put a video if the REAL Journey performing their song "Don't Stop Believing."

Now THAT is Journey!