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[commotiocordis]

Something I was just thinking about.

All this talk about Sarah Palin raising a child with special needs. Umm, he's not even one yet. I highly doubt she's done anything different for Trig than she had to do for her other kids when they were that age. That's not to diminish the work it's going to take as he gets older, but I'm pretty sure the special needs bit hasn't exactly factored into his raising thus far. So though I understand we've got to make it sound like she's got experience at doing something besides cutting funding for rape victims (btw, paper I wrote about that? 100%, baby!), I think we can stop talking about it like she's got all this experience in taking care of special needs kids.

Another random thought. What's with the Denver Broncos sending people to the Houston Texans? First Kubiak, who was Elway's backup QB until 1991 and then offensive coordinator for the Broncos later, goes off and becomes the Texans' head coach. And then what does Kubiak do? Hire the DB head coach (who was first his coach and then his old boss) Mike Shanahan's son as his offensive coordinator. And here I was wondering how the Texans managed to beat us in the preseason.

Back to politics. During the debate--

McCain: During the Depression era, we had a thing called the home ownership loan corporation.

Did anyone else's mind jump to his use of the word "we" there and immediately use it as confirmation of the fact that McCain is, in fact, incapable of dying? I have a feeling Colbert's going to pick up on that one as good for a few dozen dinosaur jokes.

And--
SCHIEFFER: The question was, what are you going to cut?
MCCAIN: Energy -- well, first -- second of all, energy independence.
Umm, what?

Edit: and to connect the two a little bit more, here's politics + football.

MCCAIN: Well, if you'll turn on the television, as I -- I watched the Arizona Cardinals defeat the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
OBAMA: Congratulations.



And hooray for fall break being this weekend, as I'm going to go hear Obama speak again on Saturday and possibly Jill Biden on Friday (depending on where she's talking, as the schedule hasn't been released yet). I really wish McCain and/or Palin would swing by, though; I'm an equal opportunity political speech listener, and I'd like to hear what the other side's got to say.

I've been crazy tired since probably 9 or so, so I'm not sure why I'm still awake. Probably going to try to go up to the election office and vote tomorrow (or Friday), so I've got to actually be coherent enough to, you know, read names and issues (because there are quite a few of the latter on the ballot this time around; I've got a list but I've yet to go through and look at them and decide what I like and what I don't) and such.

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[xakana.livejournal.com]

Not only is he under a year, but at what point is she even involved in his upbringing? This is a woman who went into labor dangerously prematurely with her water broken, stopped to give a speech, then flew 8 hours home, then, instead of going to the nearest hospital with a NICU, drove another hour to a backwater hospital without preemie facilities to give birth to her Trisonomy 21 positive premature infant (that she didn't tell ANYONE she was pregnant with until she was 7 months in).

You know, I'd get my ass home too if I were in Texas, but I wouldn't be stopping to give a speech and then driving to my favorite hospital if it didn't have a NICU if I was THAT premature. What a great start to parenthood--complete and utter disregard to her child's safety.

And yeah, she can talk about being the mother of a special needs kid when he's being refused services he needs because she doesn't make enough money (oh, I guess THAT won't be happening) while trying to homeschool or deal with the crappy school system.

(and have you read the internet rumors that she's not even Trig's mother? That Bristol might be? How's that abstinence-only sex ed doing for ya, Palin, eh?)

(sorry, that woman really bothers me--all those "you'll have an advocate in the white house" comments without ONE plan to do ANYTHING for special needs kids or their parents all while riding a ticket that promises to tax health care while removing access to even MORE kids...)

[xakana.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot to add that she went back to work when he was 3 days old.