Matt Damon’s comment that Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for vice president could end up "like a really bad Disney movie,” inspired the very witty Walt Disney Presents: The Sarah Palin Story from the clever minxes at Jezebel.com
Commenting on Palin as McCain’s successor, Damon remarked, “It’s like a really bad Disney movie, ‘The Hockey Mom.’ Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska –and she’s president,” said Damon. “She’s facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”
But that’s not the only plot Palin brings to mind.
Along with a feel-good comedy about the winning diplomatic deke scored by a puck bunny, there are other cinematic options–Mom-bo where a plucky mother from the Alaskan outback uses her accurate aim with an AK-47 and righteous moose gutting skills to stop Americans from exercising their Constitutional rights; or Abuse of Office, a Lifetime Original Movie about a misguided beauty queen who, when elected mayor of a small town, attempts to subvert justice to in a vengeful attempt to help her sister in child custody battle.
Damon’s Disney quip overshadowed another concern. "I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were really here four thousand years ago. I want to know that. I really do. because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes."
Well, Matt, there’s some good news. Sort of: Creationists have not completed decided upon when exactly dinosaurs were on earth. In Genesis 1:23, on the sixth day, God made animals "everything that creepeth on the earth" and then later on that day God "made male and female," so Creationists do believe that man and dinosaurs co-existed, but the exact date God began work is still up in the air, ranging from 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Most of these so-called Young Earth Creationists believe the dinosaurs died off soon after the Flood, with Leviathan and Behemouth in the Book of Job being the last of their giant kind.
Let’s hope Creationists don’t inspire a remake of that Raquel Welsh classic One Million B.C. as 6,000 B.C. with a maverick mom defending her tribe from oversized reptiles.
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Damon claims that the actuarial tables show that McCain, if elected, stands a one-in-three chance of dying in office. Unfortunately, he offers no evidence for that claim, not even a link to a table.
My own calculations show that a 72-year-old American male stands a one-in-seven chance of dying in his next four years. But that doesn’t take medical conditions/history into consideration, e.g., smoking, heart condition, four melanomas removed, effects of boxing and torture, etc.
The ‘94 Movie “Princess Caraboo” was based on the Impostor Mary Baker, who famously pulled this stunt:
According to Eynesso, she was Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean. She had been captured by pirates and after a long voyage she had jumped overboard in the Bristol Channel and swum ashore.
The Worralls brought Caraboo back to their home. For the next ten weeks, this representative of exotic royalty was a favourite of the local dignitaries. She used a bow and arrow, fenced, swam naked and prayed to God, whom she termed Allah Tallah. She acquired exotic clothing and a portrait made of her was reproduced in local newspapers.
Eventually the truth came out. A certain Mrs. Neale recognised her from the picture in the Bristol Journal and informed her hosts. The would-be princess was actually a cobbler’s daughter, Mary Baker (née Willcocks) from Witheridge, Devon. She had been a servant girl in various places all over England but had not found a place to stay. She had invented a fictitious language out of imaginary and gypsy words and created an exotic character. The British press had a field day at the expense of the duped rustic middle-class.
Sarah’s vision of biblical times:
http://www.sirlin.net/wordpres…..nosaur.JPG
Dinosaurs in Eden:
http://images.google.com/imgre…..n%26sa%3DG
T-Rex sounds off on Palin’s view of creationism over evolution:
http://i8.tinypic.com/6gjcawi.jpg
Early Golf:
http://www.gasolinealleyantiqu…..olfing.JPG
Origin of Palin’s hairstyle:
http://barkbarkwoofwoof.blogsp…..tstone.gif
Matt Damon’s worst nightmare:
http://www.artuproar.com/uploa…..46dino.jpg
BTW, according to some YEC, T. Rex was a peaceful vegetarian.
IOW, a dirty f*cking hippiesaurus
BTW, according to some YEC, T. Rex was a peaceful vegetarian.
uh, we’re talking about a different T-Rex here…
http://www.iamtrex.com/
check out the video of Jim Cramer losing his mind on CNBC – under the post “Holy Smokes.
Passion of the Christ 2, Crucify This.
fundies should be focusing their efforts on getting their gods or idols or whatever it is that they worship to pray for the economy or for the sanity of those who control our country’s economic policy. at this point, divine intervention is just about the only thing that’ll help.
manners – better late than never:
Welcome, Lisa.
This one seems reasonably on-topic.
Dugg it!
Welcome, Lisa
Are some posts appearing twice a day sometimes? Please tell me yes so I won’t think I’m losing my mind.
this post was up earlier today at the silo. ian cross posted it at the lake so that those who may have missed it earlier would get a chance to know our new entertainment reporter
Thank you. I can sleep easy now.
ian has another fresh post up at the mothership
sometimes it’s hard to remember which ship I’m on.
Was the picture at the top from the cartoon Gunslinger Girl?
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But that doesn’t take medical conditions/history into consideration, e.g., smoking, heart condition, four melanomas removed, effects of boxing and torture, etc.
McCain has reportedly had melanoma four separate times. This one in three chance of dying business has been repeated throughout the blogosphere and I’ve heard on liberal talk radio too. My hunch is that this factoid is coming through a surrogate of the Obama campaign; it is entirely possible that someone actually ran an actuarial table with a 72-year old melanoma survivor and came up with one in three. If anyone has a link to this data, I would really like to see it.