Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
The Daily Mail calls Bristol Palin on her hypocrisy.
'Fills my heart!' Bristol Palin proudly shares a snap of her eldest son Tripp posing with a soccer medal - a month after she vowed not to share any photos of him on social media.
A month ago the protective mom announced that she was trying not to share photos of Tripp and her seven-month-old daughter Sailor Grace on social media because 'there's been too many creeps recently'.
And while she has made an effort to lightly blur some of their photos in recent weeks, it looks like the mom once again feels comfortable sharing snapshots of her kids with her 117,000 Instagram followers.
However, she did make sure to blur out the logo on Tripp's soccer uniform for his safety in the new photo, which is the first one she has posted of him in over two months.
Damn even the Daily Mail, Bristol's recent go to media outlet of choice, is calling her out over her bullshit.
The picture of Tripp can be found over on the Daily Mail site but I am no longer posting his pictures here on IM.
Not because I give a shit about the wishes of Bristol Palin, but because I am doing it as a favor to Levi and Sunny who would rather their child not be used to sell magazines or attract clicks.
However it is very clear that Bristol takes after he mother, and is going to use her kids to garner support, attract attention, and deflect criticism.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Well it appears that Bristol Palin gave in to all of Dakota Meyer's demands and they have finally reached a child custody agreement.
It’s over! Bristol Palin has ended her messy custody battle with Dakota Meyer, RadarOnline.com has learned — at least, for now.
The duo filed court documents in Alaska on April 20, alerting the judge that they had “reached a custody and parenting agreement in mediation” regarding daughter Sailor, born in December 2015.
Details of the agreement were not made public, as they agreed “not to disclose those terms publicly” and to file them as “confidential documents.”
“The parties agree that it is not in the best interests of their daughter for the terms of their agreement to be publicly disclosed,” the documents state.
Ah yes the confidentiality agreement. That is how the Palins continue to control the narrative.
Sarah Palin and her family have made co-authors, co-stars, co-workers, and now even co-parents sign them ever since Sarah Palin left the governorship.
After all truth is essentially Palin Kryptonite.
However I know that Dakota used the threat of publicity as a tool to force Bristol to sign a child custody agreement to his liking. I assume that agreeing to the December birthday was simply his olive branch to her.
Of course now that he has signed on the dotted line I imagine that we will not be hearing much from Dakota, but if this poor son-of-a-bitch thinks this is over, then he is in for a VERY unpleasant surprise.
So that is two child custody agreements, and two confidentiality agreements, with two baby daddies this year.
Quite a year wouldn't you say?
And look it's not even over yet.
Saturday, November 07, 2015
Well I for one am NOT watching Donald Trump on SNL tonight.
So I will be showing solidarity with my Hispanic brothers and sisters by boycotting SNL tonight.
Besides personally I have had enough Trump for one lifetime.
I never liked the guy in the first place and now I feel like somebody is waving a plate of brussel sprouts in front of my face every single day. (Seriously how does anybody eat brussel sprouts?)
Now I know what you're going to say, "Gryphen you always fall asleep during SNL anyway, so big whoop."
Well yes you have a point. However tonight instead of struggling to stay awake to see the SNL monologue I will be struggling to stay awake in order to watch a rerun of Two and a Half Men.
Still counts.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Woman takes flag from protesters because she feels they are desecrating it, then fights with police who try to return it. Update!
A military veteran was detained but not charged by Valdosta State University police after she approached a group of protesters on campus who were walking on an American flag and took it from them.
Michelle Manhart, an Air Force veteran, said she was not planning to take the flag from the group, but she had heard about the group’s recent campus demonstrations and wanted to take action.
“I did not want anything like this, but I got a call from a student who told me that the flag was on the ground, and they were walking on it,” said Manhart. “I was just going over there to pick up the flag off the ground. I don’t know what their cause is, but I went to pick it up because it doesn’t deserve to be on the ground.”
Manhart said she was taken into custody by VSU police officers who then returned the flag to the demonstrators. She admitted to The Valdosta Daily Times that she resisted arrest after seeing the flag being returned.
The group reportedly declined to press charges against Manhart. The officers attempting to detain her also declined to press charges for resisting.
The minute I saw the video up above I thought, "publicity stunt."
And I think my instincts are probably right, because as it turns out this "military veteran" is also a former Playboy model.
She is already getting quite a bit of coverage, and I have little doubt that Fox News is reaching out to her right now.
Like I said I highly doubt that her response to the protesters was fueled by patriotism, but if somebody was offended by what they saw the proper thing to do would be to file a complaint or even respectfully express your feelings to the protesters themselves.
But stealing the flag from them and then fighting with the cops who are simply trying to defuse the situation is ridiculous.
But like I said it will play well with the Fox News crowd who will undoubtedly be sufficiently outraged.
(H/T to Raw Story.)
Update: Well it looks as it Manhart has a history of disrespecting the flag, and her uniform, as well:
Manhart, a sergeant in the Air Force at the time, appeared in Playboy in 2007, posing in uniform, out of uniform and while draped with the American flag. She was reprimanded and demoted and quit the military the next year.
Can you say "hypocrisy?"
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Jahar Tsarnaev: Rolling Stone cover heartthrob or dangerous terrorist?
Much of the anger has been focused on the fact that Tsarnaev looks TOO attractive on the cover, and some have compared his cover to the one done for Jim Morrison of "The Doors."
However in my opinion it does not even reach the level of "controversy" when it comes to Rolling Stone covers.
After all this is a magazine that once had THIS image on its cover.
Not to mention this one:
And as for glamorizing hateful figures Rolling Stone would be hard pressed to beat this one:
Comparatively speaking it is a little difficult to get TOO worked up.
After all the idea is to attract interest and if this kerfuffle is any indication they have certainly done that.
Here is is a taste of what the actual article reveals:
• As Jahar lay in the boat, surrounded by SWAT teams and police, FBI negotiators mentioned a public plea for his surrender from his former wrestling coach. An agent on the scene later told the coach that it could have been this name from the past – and the memory of that past – both of which were invoked during the standoff, that convinced Jahar to ultimately give up.
• Around 2008, Jahar’s older brother Tamerlan confided to his mother that he felt like "two people" were inside him. She confided this to a close friend who felt he might need a psychiatrist, but Zubeidat believed that religion would be the cure for her son’s inner demons and growing mental instability, and pushed him deeper into Islam.
• Jahar never spoke about 9/11. Once, though, he let slip to a high school friend that he thought the terrorist attacks could be justified, and pointed to US policies towards Muslim countries and US drone strikes and other attacks as his rationale.
As a parent who was shocked to learn that my daughter not only believed that Jahar Tsarnaev had died along with this brother back in April, but who also believed that there was a government conspiracy involved, I am interested in getting more facts to help me understand exactly what did happen and how the United States can keep it from happening again.
(And yes I recognize that part of keeping that from happening again might be exactly the type of program the details of which are currently in Edward Snowden's possession in a Moscow airport.)
So ultimately I think the fuss over the photo is much ado about not very much. If the point was to attract attention and readers, Rolling Stone did just that. If the point was to turn Tsarnaev into a terrorist version of a rock god I think that is only something we could determine after reading the article. But I somehow doubt it.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Sarah Palin is always looking for attention, so this should thrill her. Right?
Sarah Palin needs to have a Super Big Gulp of STFU.Will Ferrell is a VERY famous actor with a huge following on Twitter.
— Will Ferrell (@Will___Ferrell) March 17, 2013
Happy now Juicy?
Update: Oooh this one is even better!
Who makes me want to gag every time I hear her name? Who makes me think there's no hope for the human race? #SarahPalinDoesYep the Grizzled Mama certainly made an impression on Mr. Will Ferrell.
— Will Ferrell (@Will___Ferrell) March 19, 2013
Kind of like the one she made on me, come to think of it.
Update 2: Oops looks like it is my turn to be red faced about getting tricked by a parody account.
Well when you blog everyday you know it will happen sometime.
Here is Ferrell's actual account. No mention of Palin as of yet.
Oh well, it was still good for a laugh.
Update 3: Hey you know now that I check his tweets it turns out that Will Ferrell and I have similar views on marriage.
Whoever invented marriage was probably creepy as hell. Like, hey I love you so much I'm gonna get the government involved so you can't leaveWho knew?
— Will Ferrell (@WillFerreI) March 19, 2013
Update 4: Sorry for all of he updates but I would be remiss if I did not mention that Jimmy Kimmel is ALSO paying attention to Wasilla's most famous attention whore:
Sunday, August 21, 2011
The arrest of Shawn Christy. Was the FBI justified?
Courtesy of The Daily Beast:
But Shawn and Craig, 47, are accused of being interested in technology as well. On Aug. 18, the day after a federal grand jury in Alaska indicted the pair, agents at the FBI office in Allentown, Pa., arrested the father and son and charged them with making hundreds of harassing, expletive-filled, and threatening phone calls to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's attorney John Tiemessen and employees of his law firm in early August. The calls were placed after Tiemessen and Palin, the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and potential 2012 presidential candidate, obtained restraining orders against the two men in the last year because of what they said was harassment, including text messages and phone calls to Palin family members and friends.
Shawn Christy reportedly admitted in court to having threatened to rape Palin, and sending her numerous emails and gifts. Following their arrest, Craig and Shawn appeared in U.S. district court in Allentown. "There's a level of obsession here that elevates the conduct from merely creepy to truly threatening," Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gallagher reportedly said in arguing for the men to be held until they're transported to Anchorage for further court hearings. They face up to two years in jail, U.S. Attorney Retta-Rae Randall tells The Daily Beast.
I had written about Christy two times in April. Once essentially calling Sarah out for publicly playing the victim over these phone calls rather than handling it quietly (Like President Obama would) and then again later in the month after Christy lost his job, possibly over this same publicity.
I spoke to Shawn on the phone and though I did detect some difficulty separating reality from fantasy, I did not believe that Shawn posed a viable threat to the Palin family at that time. (An assessment also shared by the FBI, Secret Service, and Alaska law enforcement.) I did however tell Shawn that he should NEVER come to Alaska again, and that he needed to stop making any calls, or sending any e-mails, to the Palin family or friends. He agreed that was a good idea.
However clearly he did not take that "good idea" to heart.
In an affidavit dated Aug. 12, FBI Special Agent Jacqueline DeCou details the quite disturbing calls that the father-and-son duo allegedly made to the offices of Tiemessen and his family members. In an Aug. 1 call that Shawn allegedly left Tiemessen, he says: "... are you just a little fucking Semite kike that likes to get a dick up your ass and likes to fuck people over? Well, surprise, for the first time in your life, John, somebody small, some little dick fuck from McAdoo is going to ram it up your fucking ass and take everything away that you ever fucking—everything you fucking love ..."
On Aug. 4, Craig allegedly left Tiemessen a death threat, according to the affidavit, in which he said: "I tell you, motherfucker, you're playing with the wrong fucking boy. I tell you what, you want to play fucking games like that, I'll fucking kill you. There's a fucking threat now, fucking bring it on, motherfucker. You got that? You wanna fuck with my boy like that, I will come and fucking kill you ..."
I am sorry, but there is just NO excuse for making these kind of threatening phone calls, or sending e-mails with a similar content.
I also spoke to Shawn's mom, Karen Christy, about the situation (Before I knew anything about the above exchanges.) I chose to talk to Karen instead of her husband because I believed she was the most rational person in the family.
I talked to her about getting Shawn counseling, but she said he had passed a psychiatric evaluation with no problem, and that Shawn only had problems stemming from his exposure to Lyme disease. She spoke about his gentleness and intelligence, and seemed to believe that the REAL problem stemmed from Sarah Palin and her family. Sadly there seemed to me to be a certain disconnect for Karen when it came to her son and husband's behaviors.
Anyway after that phone call I severed my communication with the Christy family.
Listen I know that it is very natural for those of us who have watched Sarah and her crazy antics all of these years to almost automatically take the side of anybody with whom she has a conflict. But if what is described in the above affidavits is accurate, and I am sorry but it is hard to believe at this point that it is not, then as rational people we have to recognize that in this circumstance Sarah Palin might actually have really been the victim.
In other words, to answer the question posed in my headline, yes, it appears that the FBI was probably justified in their arrest of Shawn and Craig Christy. I may wish that such were not the case, but all of the evidence seems to suggest that they had little choice.
Monday, July 11, 2011
What exactly is the message Sarah Palin is sending America with her Newsweek photo shoot? And is it the one she THINKS she is sending?
Finally what this country needs! A Presidential candidate they can masturbate to! |
Or perhaps this pose will make you want to pull your lever and vote for me. If you get my drift. |
Or how about a saucy, windblown look? I believe this is just how Ronald Reagan pushed his breasts out to save America. |
Come and get some boys...uh I mean get some conservative common sense principles to run this country. |
Or perhaps the small town mom/ public servant is more to your liking? I can fake that too! |
See? I am just like any Alaskan gal. I even just finished peeing in the fireweed. |
This is my best demure pose, though it makes me look constipated. But I bet you still want me don't you? To be your President I mean! |
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
THIS is what Sarah Palin considers an appropriate apology?
Sarah Palin In Jersey City: MyFoxNY.com
Okay I certainly hope that NOBODY is taking parenting cues from this woman. Nothing about that demonstrated any sense of wrongdoing on either Piper of her mother's part, and it was clearly just an attempt to shut us up about it. (Hell they did not even bother to find the right journalist to "apologize" to!)
Look I am not going to berate Piper for what happened, she is clearly having one of the worst family vacations EVER! But her mother is demonstrating a completely selfish attitude and essentially punishing her family for the fact that they were unfortunate enough to be born into her family.
I guess the rest of the kids, and Todd, are too fed up with Klondike Kardashian to allow her to use them as props anymore. Poor Piper is the only one left without the good sense to pretend to have a stomach ache or to simply refuse to be seen in public with her crazy ass mother.
(H/T to My FoxNew York.)
Saturday, May 08, 2010
David Kernell's attorney requests retrial and other Sarah Palin news nuggets.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Weddle on Friday noted defense motions requesting a retrial. He said that only if a new trial were granted on either of the two charges resulting in conviction, the identity theft case also would be retried.
Defense attorney Wade Davies declined comment Friday about his motions for a retrial. During the trial he made motions for a mistrial and now has numerous appeals pending before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
To me this is a "no-brainer". Clearly there was a lot of evidence the defense could have introduced that they did not use. Not to mention getting the Palin's on the witness stand for a REAL cross examination.
Let's see how smug Sarah is the NEXT time she emerges from the Tennessee courtroom.
I did three long posts about Sarah, and her Wasilla-billy family, yesterday so today I am just going to do a quick round up of Palin related stories and hopefully move on to other topics.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Welcome to Sarah Palin's mythology.
Welcome to Palin Central, a remote lakeside outpost where, for one recent afternoon, the woman in the headlines opened her home for an up-close look at her life.
What we found during three harried, uncensored hours was a working mom who gives new meaning to the term “multitasking.” One minute Palin, 46, is making a baby bottle, checking the latest stream of e-mails on her BlackBerry and asking Piper, 9, if she wants a playdate; the next she’s dashing out the back door, taking off her dangle earrings and doing a live TV shot on, yes, health care reform for Fox News. And this is all during our interview.
And this essentially is the Sarah Palin mythology that I referred to in the headline. A frazzled, yet relatively normal, family all pulling together to deal with Sarah's fame, two toddlers, and the Alaska lifestyle. All for one, and one for all.
Now my job essentially is to identify the lies, disinformation, and bullshit and then reveal the truth that all of it is designed to disguise. It is a fairly simple scenario that has played out a number of times on this blog.
But rather then spend a whole lot of time disassembling the house of cards that Sarah has, oh so carefully, constructed let's just cut to the chase.
Essentially the entire thing is bullshit, with bits of truth scattered throughout like undigested corn.
There that was easy wasn't it? Look how much reading I saved you!
So instead of addressing the lies let's just focus on the truths. It will take less time. I have a life you know.
Inside, the barely controlled chaos flows over a hectic household in which each member is expected to do and make do. “We do the cooking. We do the cleaning. We all do the laundry,” Palin says.
True, except by "we" Sarah means the girls and Todd. Sarah is the ringmaster and they are expected to perform when commanded. Now you know why Track. Bristol, and Willow have had some behavioral "difficulties".
“We just want to get from point A to point B and get the job done. I don’t waste time; I’m too busy.”
True, and I don't think this requires clarification.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sarah Palin to make appearance on Oprah in November.
Palin has been courted by numerous talk shows. Other than news-channel interviews and a cameo on "Saturday Night Live," she hasn't made it to Leno, Letterman, etc.
Of course, there's really one reason Palin chose Oprah: She's got a book to sell. And Oprah can move tanker-loads of books. Palin will be hawking her upcoming memoir,Going Rogue: An American Life.
I am beyond nauseous that Oprah would provide a venue for this woman to promote her book of lies and half-truths.
We all know she did not write a word of it, and I have no idea how she will even be able to have an intelligent conversation about what is in it.
But Oprah is powerful enough to give Sarah the credibility that she simply cannot attain on her own, and that really bothers me.
Update: But what if Oprah decided to treat Palin like a real interview subject? Perhaps Oprah could get answers to questions that even Katie Couric never had the guts to ask Sarah about? Say for instance about a certain pregnancy?
Perhaps she just needs a nudge to inspire her to ask the questions that all of us would like the answers to. Perhaps receiving a few links to some of the relevant information from Palin's Deceptions, Palingates, Bree Palin, and this site might help Oprah come up with some truly fascinating questions. We could all provide that nudge by going here.
I am just saying.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
The New York Times is less than impressed with Bristol Palin's Abstinence-apalooza tour.
But surely, when it comes to combating teen pregnancy, the Palin family has done enough damage already. What worse message could you send to teenage girls than the one they delivered at the Republican convention: If your handsome but somewhat thuglike boyfriend gets you with child, he will clean up nicely, propose marriage, and show up at an important family event wearing a suit and holding your hand. At which point you will get a standing ovation.
Now a single mom on the outs with the father of her baby, Bristol wants a new kind of happy ending.
“I just want to go out there and promote abstinence and say this is the safest choice,” she said on “Good Morning America.”
“It’s not going to work,” said her ex-boyfriend, Levi Johnston, in a dueling early-morning interview.
If you have ever watched Levi Johnston on TV for two minutes you will appreciate how terrifying it is when he has the most reasonable analysis of a social issue.
Because Bristol’s own philosophy seems, at minimum, tentative, it’s hard to tell whether she believes that cheerleading for abstinence should be coupled with education about birth control methods. She and Levi used condoms, except when they didn’t.
Her mom has said in the past that she opposes “explicit” sex education, which kind of sounds like ... sex education. And while encouraging kids to wait is obviously fine, the evidence is pretty clear that abstinence education is worse than useless. Texas, where virtually all the schools teach abstinence and abstinence alone, is a teen pregnancy disaster zone. “It’s had one of the highest rates for as long as I can remember,” said David Wiley, a professor of health education at Texas State University.
Bristol appeared Wednesday at Event to Prevent, a teen town hall, during which she said very little except to assure her audience that having a baby is no picnic. (“You have so much responsibility. It’s just hard work all the time.”) It’s hard not to suspect that for her, being the anti-pregnancy ambassador is just a good excuse to get out of Wasilla.
You know what I like about this column? The fact that it agreed with much of what I wrote on the topic yesterday. Great minds and all of that.
I think I would take issues with Gail Collins description of Levi Johnston as "thuglike". I prefer to defer to the usual description of Alaska men as "rugged yet lovable".
Another portion of this column that I found particularly interesting is just how anxious the Palin family was to get Bristol out of Alaska and onto the national stage.
“We contacted the governor’s office, and the next thing we knew Todd Palin was on the phone and said Bristol wanted to talk,” Cole said, explaining how his ambassador had been recruited. And indeed, there was Todd, beaming as his beautiful daughter stood in front of about 50 shrieking photographers, smiling a fixed smile.
Those of us who have been paying close attention to the Palin family know full well that this idea did not come from either Todd or Bristol Palin, any more than did the Greta Van Susteren interview. No this has Sarah's fingerprints all over it.
She is pulling the strings and she is the one with the agenda.
Personally I think she is doing damage control for damage that has not yet been inflicted. Which by the way shows some growth on her part, since usually she is only reactive instead of proactive.