Sorry for the hiatus. I’ve literally been away from my laptop for 2 weeks and I was not keen on writing a blog from my phone.
While my Dad and I were in the wilderness of northern Arizona, a group of political activists known as the Tea Party had their first convention. As you all know, the keynote speaker was “populist” (LOLZ) Sarah Palin.
Actually, we were staying at a lodge at Jacob Lake, AZ the night before we were supposed to start our hike in the Grand Canyon and were able to watch most of her speech. She claimed that her $100,000 speakers fee was a mere formality and would all go back to the movement…but something had to pay for her exorbitant travel expenses and *cough* private jet *cough*.
What Sarah Palin and the GOP are doing is hijacking a fundraising movement started in 2007-08 by supporters of Ron Paul. The same people who lambasted Paul and his ideas then are using them now for political gain. The Tea Party has turned into nothing more than a subsidiary of the Republican Party now and Palin…Palin will continue to use her clout in the movement as well as her own mainstream “gotcha” media outlet (Fox News, where she was named a regular contributor) to garner more and more support for her eventual run for President in 2012 (And she will, God save us).
As the sun rose the next morning, we were greeted by a few feet of snow outside the lodge. We were at 7,000 feet and figured by the time we descended the few thousand feet from the summit to the lower elevations, the snow would be gone or close to. It wasn’t. We weren’t even able to make it to the trailhead at the base of Saddle Mountain. If we had made it, there would have been a hike through knee to waist high snow up the mountain until he reached the Nankoweap trailhead at the rim of the Grand Canyon. Beyond that would have been a mystery, or close to anyways. You see, my Dad and I previously hiked up Saddle Mountain through knee high snow during my freshman year of college. The snow was powdery enough to make the hike manageable, albeit exhausting. When we finally reached the rim, we looked into the magnificent Grand Canyon and noticed snow all the way at the bottom. We turned back, smartly.
This time, the snow was old, having accumulated over a period of a month or so and was not powdery, but crusty. It would have been hell to trudge through, not to mention that it was becoming increasing hard to drive in the stuff on the access road we were on. We did not even make it to the trailhead. We turned back again, smartly.
This left me more time to ponder the course of recent history. Sarah Palin’s speech rested inside my mind like bad nights sleep, even though I slept well the night before. People are absolute sheep. They will cheer at the negative comments made by Palin about Obama using a teleprompter yet turn a blind eye to her using her OWN HAND as a teleprompter, dubbed “hand-prompter”. You can see her refer to it as she was asked questions by the moderator. Ridiculous. Oh, and by the way, the questions she was asked were already pre-screened by her people so Palin could have an idea of what to say. This makes her hand scrawling even more absurd. Wake up people. It’s not about being Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat; it’s about not being, as Rahm Emanuel and Rush Limbaugh so eloquently put it: “Retards”.
dscarroll
