Palin Ruminations

Will this farm be blue or red on Election Day? Hi......remember me from a few weeks ago? I'm the heifer named "Number 28". Similar to the famous "99" from Get Smart, I'm thinking of asking to be called simply......"28". Or, maybe like "Joe-the-Plumber", I'll should refer to myself as "28-the-Heifer".

I, 28-the-Heifer, have been attempting to get smart about the presidential election. When Jeannelle and her sidekick dogs wander out to the pasture each afternoon to herd us heifers home, we sense the churning stew of her mind's ruminations. We are ruminant animals, you know. Because we have several stomachs, we chew, swallow, and burp up the same wad of food several times before it is digested properly. Jeannelle has a habit of doing that with her thoughts; she chews, swallows, and regurgitates them numerous times.

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Jeannelle ruminates on Sarah Palin quite a bit......probably because she's jealous of Sarah's knockout good looks. That has to be it. The latest Palin info to ruminate on is the story of the governor taking her children along on business trips. Jeannelle is so flawed......she very easily becomes confused, perplexed......you know.......a perpetual head-scratcher. Jeannelle has read that the Palin children are possibly homeschooled. Obviously, Mrs. Palin has a job outside the home, too. Jeannelle has nothing against homeschooling (unless its purpose is to isolate children) and is acquainted with several homeschooling mothers and, of course, also knows many mothers who are employed outside the home. Jeannelle has never met one who does BOTH, however......homeschooling AND outside employment. Jeannelle wonders how such a creature could even exist. Sounds like a major instance of someone believing they are entitled to have their cake and eat it, too. Jeannelle has never had much patience or sympathy for those types. You know, the ones who expect lots of leeway and special privileges so they can have it all, while others can't. Kind of like royalty. What if every working mother demanded to be allowed to have her children along with her while she's at work?? Hmm. Jeannelle is perplexed also with Alaska's First Dude.......wondering why he would ever agree in the first place to his wife running for governor when their children were still very young. And, shame on John McCain and the GOP and the Religious Right for dangling the VP temptation in front of this politically-ambitious mother of young children, Sarah Palin. For everything there is a season, right? Sarah's out of season, in Jeannelle's old-fashioned opinion.

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Sorry folks......Jeannelle really is VERY old-fashioned, a duddy mom who never was employed away from home, or attempted to be employed at home. She didn't homeschool, either......she's a complete fizzle. Lack of outside income leads to Jeannelle shopping the Goodwill store and clearance racks at Kohl's......no eating out and no vacations......all of which Jeannelle can easily do without, anyway; she's wealthy in so many other ways besides cash flow. Doctor visits.....can't indulge in many of those, either, which might cause a problem someday, of course, although she's hoping that by not drinking, not smoking, getting enough sleep and sun, holding purring cats, drinking raw milk, eating dark chocolate, laughing, praying, taking long walks, and flossing her teeth daily (seriously, flossing is very important to overall health), she'll get by until Medicare kicks in. Maybe by then the bill from her few days spent in a hospital psychiatric unit a couple years ago will finally be paid off.......hm-m, hundreds of dollars charged for each five-minute head-doctor consultation at the hospital (THAT would be a lucrative line of work to get into, folks......tell your kids.). Don't worry, Jeannelle does have one of those expensive major medical policies for self-employeds, with a gigantic deductible which must be satisfied numerous times before coverage kicks in, and even then the insurance company will bend over backwards to find reasons to deny your claims......all while its execs are basking in fancy homes, cars, hotels, and spas, probably. We would hate to see them spread the wealth around, of course. Whoops......sorry to veer from the subject at hand.......

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Though many Christians can't seem to be able to bring themselves to say it, others ARE saying it: "Sarah Palin, be a true maverick......go home and focus on your family. They need you. What your children don't need is you lugging them all over creation to show what a great mother you are. When your youngest child is sixteen or so, THEN AND ONLY THEN think about entering the national political arena. Yes, Sarah, it will be difficult.......you'll have to retreat back to faraway Alaska and somehow exist outside the limelight of national attention. (Perhaps you can make cameo appearances in movies and TV shows occasionally to remind us Lower-48er's that you're still kicking.) You are a strong woman.....YOU CAN DO IT even though the situation will certainly include shades of How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree-ee!! (When Jeannelle was in junior high---in public school..... cough, cough, gag [Sarah, did you know that Iowa's governor is a public school teacher?]---the vocal music teacher was an elderly lady who made her students do a whole program of World War I era songs........the one already mentioned, plus Over There, Over There; Give My Regards to Broadway; Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing; Mary Lou; Marianne.......and others.) At any rate.....yes, Sarah, you can do it! Go tend to your family! Carting them along on field trips to governmental business events does not count...... in Jeannelle's opinion, anyway. And, why does Jeannelle believe that she can advise Sarah in these matters? Ha......read this Bible passage: Titus 2:4-5, which says that older women are to teach younger women about taking care of their families. Jeannelle IS older than Sarah. Yup.....you betcha......gosh darn it.......Jeannelle believes a mother-of-young-children's first priority should be her family.......and that applies all the way down the mom-line, from the snazzy, politically-ambitious mom clear down to the frumpiest, duddiest everyday mom. Perhaps Dr. Dobson and his friends should ruminate on that.

Read this entire article to get a clear view of the political ambitiousness of Sarah Palin.

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Here's an article comparing Sarah Palin to the biblical Queen Esther.

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The preacher on the radio the other night exclaimed with passion that Sarah Palin is "our Deborah" (another Old Testament figure), ascending in the ranks to be "our" End Times leader. When a self's ego gets so big, and it can only see itself, and that self becomes all-important and pumped up, then delusional thinking can easily take over, leading to behavior that is bizarre or violent, which is the self's ego imploding, because it can't expand anymore. Jeannelle knows about this sort of thing......it happened to her. Fortunately, she didn't hurt anyone, and fortunately she was only one person, and not a government, or a nation, or a religion. And, after the time of deflation, she recovered.

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Sarah or Esther or Deborah---whoever you are---take it from me, 28-the-Heifer.......a certain set of circumstances would have to exist before Jeannelle MIGHT consider voting for you: 1. You have finished raising your family.......2. You belong to a church which is not obsessed with End Times doctrine....... 3. You become dowdy-looking like Jeannelle: gain some weight, cut your hair........lose the hottie/model look, ya know what I mean?? You're causing Jeannelle to turn green with envy and now she's thinking of joining the Green Party. Also, we heifers aren't as naive as we look......we know appearances can be crucially distracting.

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Holy Holsteins!! Do you see now what we heifers and cows have to put up with when Jeannelle's ruminational vibes such as these go wafting around on the air currents of this farm. Be glad, BE VERY GLAD, happy, joyful---ecstatic, even---that you don't have to live in close proximity to Jeannelle like we do. We handle the situation quite easily, though.......we simply turn on our hoofs and gallop away when she attempts to herd us in a specific direction. And, we can run MUCH faster than she can, hahaha! Naa-nana-boo-boo, Jeannelle......come and get us!

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Ahem......I don't know why I allow livestock to do blogposts. However, in keeping with this post's photo: here's a web page which asks and answers the question, "Why RED for the Republicans and BLUE for the Democrats?" Answer #2 is interesting. As you can surely tell, I don't plan to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. I will vote the way my conscience tells me to vote......and, you do the same---listen to YOUR conscience!!

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[NEWSFLASH: Sarah Palin to speak in Dubuque, Iowa........TODAY, Monday, Election Day Eve. The elephant must be worried that the Catholics there on the east coast of Iowa will go mulish. Do you know that some Fundamentalist Christians don't believe that Catholics---or Lutherans, for that matter---are truly "saved". I have first-hand experience with people of that mindset.....right in my own family. It might be a major factor in how I form opinions about religion, these days.

IF YOU ARE CATHOLIC, or even if you're not, or if you're simply into dogma-less "Love Thy Neighbor", you might be interested in THIS ARTICLE! ]

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P.S. - And,if you have time, click to this link. What do you think of it? Does it make you cringe, or does it give you the warm fuzzies? So many thoughts rattle around in my head.........when I was a kid, we would often listen to Jerry Fallwell preach on The Old-Time Gospel Hour on Sunday mornings before church. I can still see him there, with the choir behind him.......the same woman always stood right behind Fallwell----I can still see her face. As time went on we began to hear about the Moral Majority.....we thought, "Wow......Christians are finally getting into politics." After that, Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family came on the scene. I faithfully listened to him for years, along with Chuck Swindoll, The Southwest Radio Church, and others. It was just normal for me to do that; that's how I was raised. Years of marriage and motherhood and life-in-general have changed my tune on many issues. Sorry, but I see Sarah Palin as a phony, trumped-up, contrived "woman-of-the-hour", being used by a political machine desperate to stay in power. The machine is now weighted down with the Religious Right, who are hungry for power. Let's never forget that "power corrupts.......and absolute power corrupts absolutely". (Who said that, anyway?) Maybe we would do the Religious Right more of a favor by NOT voting for their candidates! At any rate, we certainly don't need to have divine right of kings and queens come back into vogue, which our country's founders fought and died to extricate themselves from.

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Tomorrow, on Election Day.......I hope to do two things: VOTE and PRAY! I'll be praying that everything goes smoothly and peacefully at all polling sites.......that no underhandedness takes place, and no controversial situations occur, like the "hanging chads" of 2004........and that the BEST choice of leadership for the United States will be voted into office. I can't see into the future to know which leaders will be best for our country, but I can certainly pray for all to work out for the best for everyone. Please join in with your votes, thoughts, and prayers, too!!

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