A cult where an outsider is ostracized, and emotionally and verbally assaulted. Where media and Madison Ave constantly reinforce the ideal that it's members are supposed to live up to, and where giving oral sex to members of the opposite sex is the norm. Oh, and you bleed out of your vagina every month.

If your an American woman from the age of 12 and up, congratulations, you're in it.

1) Are you serious?

2) What is Wrong with you.

3) Get back on your meds!

This just in, young boy like to play "fort" and don't find much use for girls their age.

...In other news Francisco Franco is still dead.

"for those who are witnessing this spectacle with alarm in the lower 48 (outside)"

Apparently they refer to the rest of the US as "the outside"

Talk about siege mentality.

For a state with a population the size of Ft Worth, this is a little creepy. No wonder, someone like Palin--insular-minded, incurious, small town, native Alaskan girl--is so popular there.

It's funny you mention the office akin to the decor of an Indian restaurant--which I'm sure there are plenty of in Alaska.

And I'm sure that Palin has had chicken Tandoori plenty of times. It probably goes great with mooseburgers!

Seriously, though, what's wrong with being educated. The whole point of America, according to conservatives, is for people to be able to say "I'm better than you."

I'm better than you, so why should I pay taxes.

I'm better than you so why do we need welfare.

I'm better than you which is why I drive a Porsche Cayan.

You're black, I'm white: I'm better than you.

What happened to the America where conservatives used to be the Yale elite that looked down on laborers and farmers, and the farmers knew this.

Now it's the reverse. The Republicans are still Yale elites, but the farmers think the Democrats are the elitists.

The word 'retarded' was actually a medical term back in the day, so were 'moron' and 'imbecile'. They were used to describe someone's mental development.

But thanks to the PC police, these words are not used as such.

- "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, Mrs. Cavendish, but what you've got...is a retard. (cue dramatic music)"

- "Alright, men. I'm only going to say this once, trust your training and stay frosty. The enemy wants to destroy your will to fight, but always remember...they're retards."

- "Jack, the test...it came back positive. We're going to have to inform the President. I'm getting General Mavis on the phone. You were right Jack..it's a retard."

You get the idea.

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I hear that they're working on the 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary as we speak.

Here is this lady? (the OP) who works at a not-for-profit community center, no doubt a die-hard progressive vegan animal rights activist environmentalist liberal (she complains about the cleaning solutions), coming face-to-face with what any serious-minded person would acknowledge is the fruit of the progressive movement (namely mentally handicapped people gainfully employed) and what is her reaction, disgust!

But it's not just a simple opposition to their employment, with her. No, it goes further than that.

It is a cognitive dissonance between the work that she (supposedly) wants to do and its outcome.

Let's look at it this way.

Let's say the OP got her way and they were fired. What would that look like?

Two mentally handicapped individuals fired for doing their jobs from a not-for-profit community center. It would be inexcusable, no doubt a few other people would lose their jobs, and at a minimum their funding would go down.

What world does this lady live in?

I guess to her being a progressive means wearing a hemp shirt, or something. "But I buy organic," she says to herself. Or maybe she watched "Captain Planet" one too many times as a child, and never really gave though as to what it means to be a progressive.

Lady, what's wrong with you. If you don't want "special" people cleaning your desk, go work at a corporate law firm. No r-tards there, am I right?

At the moment McCain announced his VP I was like whaaattt?

Palin who?

And then she has conservatives eating out of her hands, she's the most popular person in America, and no one seems to be asking her any questions.

For a whole week after the republican convention it was all Sarah, all the time. She was cultivating a cult of personality like no one other than Bush himself.

Then my mood changed from incredulousness to slightly panicked. Could this really have been a master stroke by McCain

But the drip drip drip of scandal was slowly accumulating around her. First the pregnant kid, then troopergate, then the librarian, and on its goes on.

Then her interview with Charlie Gibson came along.

Plus the Couric interview only confirmed Palin's incompetence. And I have recently felt relief that my original judgment had been correct, and after Barack's superb debate performance and his ascendance in the polls am no longer worried.

OP, you should not be either. Let Sarah Palin go!

For it would seem that the Palin pick was not McCain's Master Stroke, but merely a stroke :-)

That's all this myspace/facebook bullshit is all about.

That's why you use an alias, lady. I know that defeats the purpose of "networking", but hey, ever heard of business cards.

I've heard from third parties that there are videos of teenage girls jerking off on their webcams on the internets.

I wonder what their job interviews are going to be like when they're 25.

Have I seen you from somewhere?

It's amazing how little people value their anonymity now-a-days.

And I am a computer geek, to boot. But that only means I am well aware of their consequences.

NO facebook myspace friendster for me thank you. If I want friends I go to the nearest bar.