I feel like a certain politician would love this.

Because their tagline is "Where dinosaurs and God meet."

Dinosaur Adventure Land scares me a little bit.

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I will vote. If only to say the things I hope I continue to have the right to say.
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Why do I hate her so much?

Mostly because she makes it so damn easy. 

The best part about that segment is that they basically stuck to the transcript of the actual interview.

Oh, and also. When Gloria Steinem is embarrassed by a woman, we should all be ashamed.  

On Jezebel:

"When Palin's name comes up, Steinem says, “It’s such an insult," and she goes on to add, "Having someone who looks like you and behaves like them — who looks like a friend but behaves like an adversary—is worse than having no one."

Something keeps coming up ...

New information about Miss Palin's past keeps popping up and it gets scarier and scarier every time. 

CNN's front page leads to a lovely article about Palin and her state's ridiculous practice of charging rape victims for the collection of sexual assault kits. 

Finally, in mid-2000, a bill was passed which was sponsored by a state representative. 

Before then, many Alaskan towns were charging rape and sexual assault victims for the practice of taking evidence. More often than not, this procedure involves invasive medical procedures. Forcing victims to pay for it could be deemed another form of rape. 

When the bill was written, as mentioned, many towns charged victims or their insurance companies. At the time, such procedures could cost up to $1000. 

You really want a victim to first pay emotionally for the act of violence against him or her and then to pay again literally?

The most vocal opponent of the bill? Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon.

The Wasilla Frontiersman at the time of the bill passing, quoted Fannon as saying "the new law will cost the Wasilla Police Department approximately $5,000 to $14,000 a year to collect evidence."

Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. There are no quotes from her on the matter to be found as of yet, however, it remains highly improbable that she knew nothing of the bill or even the chief's blatant anger toward it. In fact, her deputy mayor, Judy Patrick, spoke with CNN about that period of time in the state.  

"The bigger picture of what was going on at the time was that the state was trying to cut their own budget, and one of the things that they were doing was passing on costs to cities, and that was one of the many things that they were passing on, the cost to the city," said Patrick, according to CNN. 

NOTES: On salon.com: "And now, according to wire reports, all states will next year be required to pay for the kits in order to continue receiving funding under the federal Violence Against Women Act, which helps support women's shelters and relevant law enforcement training." 

Article on feministe  about the same issue.

No sex

I've been recently obsessed with this lovely song, No Sex For Ben. 

And today I found this brilliant blurb about some poor shmuck named Joe who finds himself in a precariously similar situation. 

Think the poor guy needs a sit-down with Rapture for the follow-up song?

Best backstory ever

We may not know much about Sarah Palin.

But what we do know can be gleaned from Disney movies. 

Walt Disney Presents: The Sarah Palin Story

Palin v. Biden

The debates are rapidly approaching and Palin has yet to speak to a member of the press on-the-record. She reportedly spoke with a gaggle of them, except her damned handlers insisted it be strictly off-the-record. 

Well, with that Oct. 2 debate date fast approaching, anybody else think Palin should atleast prove she can speak without a script? 

Perhaps I'm being a little mean here to the lady, but really, it's not as though she's been accused of a crime; I don't have to treat her as "innocent" till proven dumb. 

Alright, that all does sound a little harsh. In all seriousness I simply don't like her policies. I feel sex education needs to be taught in schools, and abstinence only programs rarely work, taxes should change because obviously this deficit isn't going to pay itself off and stem cell research could save more than a few people around the globe. 

I don't dislike Palin simply because she's a female Republican; no, I don't like her because she has repeated refused to speak to the general public from the gut. Any clip you see of her on television is either stock footage, her convention speech, or a regurgitation of her convention speech. I don't like the woman because she's a lifetime member of the NRA yet her campaign cries foul when stem cell research is brought up by Biden. I don't like her because she wants everyone to be and think the same as her. 

Palin can believe whatever she wants, she can believe that abortion is a sin and that's fine by me. But once you attempt to force your beliefs down my throat, we have a major problem. Biden, whether in spite of or because of his faith, feels that while his definition of life begins at conception, he acknowledges that some people have differing viewpoints, and that's OK. 

All in all, Palin needs to speak up and come out. Well, this week she's said to be set to sit down with ABC's Charles Gibson and have an actual discussion. The problem(s)? First, Gibson was carefully vetted by McCain's campaign team before being handpicked for the interview (he also had the McCain chat during the RNC). This most likely means McCain's team implemented a Disney-esque demand of "show us your questions before we give you the stage." Second, Gibson didn't even touch on the controversial Palin issues during his McCain sit-down. 

According to the Washington Post, on his blog, Gibson wrote, "Once you know about her daughter's pregnancy, once you know about her husband's political interest in the Alaska Independent Party, once you know about the special nature of their child, I think that's enough."

And I'm still holding out hope that perhaps she'll surprise us all and be more eloquent than her speechwriters.