Bent Corner

Both of these photos are of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s when she was seven months pregnant. The one on right was taken in in 1989 when she was seven months pregnant with son Track. The one on the left was taken in 2008 when she was seven months pregnant with son Trig.

Maybe it’s just me, but in one of these photos, Palin looks to be pregnant. In the other photo, not so much. Could the rumor that Sara Palin is Trig’s grandmother and not his mother have any truth to it?

I think something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

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It’s one thing for Governor Sarah Palin to think that even a woman who was raped should not be allowed to receive an abortion. It’s quite another to hate polar bears. How much does Governor Sarah Palin hate polar bears? So much so that she is currently suing the Bush administration over it’s efforts in saving the polar bear.

America loves polar bears. I believe once Americans learn that Palin is suing the Bush administration not for invading a country that posed no threat to us, but for trying to save endangered polar bears, they will turn on her before you can say Miss Alaska 1984.

Daily Kos currently has a blog post — they call them “Diaries” — up that claims that Governor Sarah Palin’s 4-month old baby with Down syndrome might be her granddaughter grandson. Evidently there is a rumor going around that the baby is Palin’s teenage daughter’s child, not the Governor’s.

They linked to an article in the Anchorage Daily News published this past March that broke the news that Palin at the time was 7-months pregnant. The problem was that she didn’t look pregnant. Supposedly her own staff was caught off guard by the news.

It states on Daily Kos that Palin’s teenage daughter was out of school and unseen by anyone for months because she had mono.

I’m somewhat surprised that this story would appear over on Daily Kos. I highly doubt the mainstream news will touch this, unless you consider the National Enquirer to be a member of the mainstream news media.

I’m not sure how Republicans or conservatives will respond to this rumor. Palin is extremely anti-choice. While running for Governor of Alaska, Palin stated in a debate that even if her daughter became pregnant in the result of a rape, she would “choose life”. I believe that is code for forcing her underage child to have her rapist’s baby.

That’s just plain nuts.

How would Governor Palin and her husband respond if their teenage daughter became pregnant?  Would they hide the fact that their teenage daughter obviously had unprotected sex and became pregnant?

I read over on the Consumerist that the bloated Internet auction giant eBay will be switching over to a PayPal or credit card only auction site. What this means is that if you win an auction, you have to pay for the item with either PayPal or a credit card. A credit card can be used only if the seller is set up to take credit card payments.

You can’t use a money order, a check, or even cash.

A part of me doesn’t really care since I’ve pretty much stopped using eBay entirely. I used to use it a lot. I even named this very blog after an eBay auction that went south. I had bid on and “won” an Alfonso Soriano baseball card that was advertised as being in mint condition. When I got it in the mail, I discovered it wasn’t quite in mint condition. It had a bent corner. I tried getting the seller to agree to take it back and refund my money, but he wasn’t having any part of it. This was right around the time that I was thinking about getting into blogging. I decided that I would try to extract something positive out of an experience that at the time I perceived to be negative.

EBay has just become too much of a hassle. No matter how simple the item up for auction is, it usually includes a plethora of rules and conditions. Then there is the whole feedback thing. I’ve kind of moved past caring about leaving or receiving feedback. I cared about it in the late 90’s, but not so much anymore. I purchased something off eBay a few months ago and the seller has been sending me an email at least once a telling me to leave feedback and he will do the same. Who cares? I just looked and he has a feedback of 317. I have a feedback of 437. Why should it be important to either one of us? I sure know it’s not important to me.

As it stands now, the only reason I buy something off eBay is when I can’t get it anywhere else. I would happily pay more for something if it meant I didn’t have to deal with eBay. [eBay]

It appears the Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has decided to throw a curve ball at Obama Nation.  He has done the one thing Barack Obama refused to do, he has chosen a woman to be his running-mate.

So who is Sarah Palin? I did some looking into her background. By that I of course mean that I looked her up on Wikipedia.  What I found was interesting:

• She is 44 years old
• She is married to a Yup’ik Eskimo named “Todd”.
• Her oldest son enlisted in the U.S. Army last year and will be deploying to Iraq next month.
• She is staunchly anti-abortion.
• She is a life-time member of the NRA.
• She recently gave birth to a child with Down syndrome.
• She enjoys killing and eating defenseless animals.
• She owns her own float-plane.
• She finished in 2nd place in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant.
• She admits that she used to smoke marijuana when it was legal in Alaska.

So there you go.  That’s pretty much all you need to know about John McCain’s running-mate.

She reportedly will be joining John McCain in Dayton, Ohio to officially make the announcement.  If it was me and I had to go to Dayton to become Vice-President, I would turn down the offer.

Cindy McCain’s half-sister tells Us Magazine that she isn’t voting for John McCain. She will be instead voting for Barack Obama. Kathleen Hensley Portalski claims to have a different political viewpoint then her half-sister and her half-brother-in-law, but she recently told NPR’s All Things Considered that she felt like a non-person when Cindy McCain described herself as an “only child”.

Kathleen Hensley Portalski is 11 years older then Cindy McCain and they have different mothers.  I’d imagine that with the age difference and the fact that the two woman were born to different mothers, the two women grew up in different homes.  I would imagine then that Cindy McCain feeling as though she was an only child was indeed genuine. [Us Magazine]

Over on Daily Kos is a post — they call them “diaries” — that points out that George W. Bush also accepted the 2004 Presidential nomination standing in front of a fake Mount Olympus set.  Except it’s not really Mount Olympus, but a fake White House looking set.

I’m guessing that the Obama campaign was shooting for something more like this then they were Mount Olympus.  While watching ABC News tonight, they showed the set where Obama will be making history by accepting the Democratic nomination for President.  The set looked a lot less “Mount Olympus” then it did before.  It was covered with American flags. Lots and lots of American flags.

So maybe Obama isn’t trying to emulate Zeus on Mount Olympus.  Maybe he is trying instead to emulate George W. Bush.

Isn’t that . . . .  worse?

Maybe this is why the Fourth Estate doesn’t like to actually do it’s job. They might just get arrested for it. From ABC News:

Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.

This isn’t China, it’s the United State of America.