Sarah Palin, yesterday:
If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand, I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans, talking to them about our plan to get the economy back on track and winning the war and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls…
TPM today:
Carol Johnson, a retiree from Spooner, Wisconsin, and a second reader from Nevada, report to us that they received robocalls starring Palin herself.
Palin’s robocall touted both her and McCain as “mavericks” who have a feel for people’s economic suffering, vowed that they would reform Wall Street and Washington, and hit Barack Obama and Joe Biden for not “listening” to the American people.
J.
So is Palin a good witch or a bad witch?
(Btw, I am pretty sure those were ruby slippers she was wearing during the VP debate. Can’t wait until that guy from Kansas pries them off her politically dead feet.)
cleek
sounds like little maverick Sarah doesn’t like the chores she’s been asked to do. also.
Comrade Jake
My favorite comment from a poster over at TPM:
Delia
When does the word "maverick" get its own vid on failblog? It’s long overdue.
D-Chance.
https://balloon-juice.com/?p=12618
Do you even bother reviewing your boss’s posts before wasting space on his site with these repeat threads?
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
The Palin wave will collapse the first time some goober asks his wife to "wear these special glasses " when they’re having sex.
Stuck in the Funhouse
LOL, I laughed, but hope that Good Fairy Witch or whatever wasn’t hurt in that fall. Palin/McLame and there imminent political fall, me care not so much.
The Moar You Know
Nonsense. The "submission" wives love that kind of thing.
demimondian
@D-Chance.: Yeah, ’cause, you know, every electron is sacred, every electron is unique. (Then again, that last part is actually true, by the Fermi Exclusion Principle, so maybe I shouldn’t make the joke.)
burnspbesq
OT breaking news:
What was that you Republicans said about election fraud???
gbear
But this one goes to eleven.
JL
From Americablog and the New Yorker. lol what will Rush say now?
jake 4 that 1
I’m trying to imagine the trauma of picking up the phone only to have your ear violated by that Minnefauxta clogged-nostril braying that comes out of Palin’s mouth.
The horror! The horror!
Svensker
Conservative Republican is not what I’d call Adelman, more like fascist neo-con warmonger prick bastard scum douchenozzle. Ahem. The fact that he is endorsing Obama makes me uneasy.
Cris v.3.1
"Your boss!" That phrase makes me think of Officer Marvin Nash begging Mr. Blonde for mercy.
Punchy
You meant Pauli, right?
Zifnab
One of the reasons I’m happy I don’t live in a swing state. If I was from Ohio, I’d be about eight seconds from strangling the entire GOP campaign aperatus.
JL
@Svensker: Although I agree with your analysis, if Adelman thinks McCain’s temperment and judgment is shaky, then McCain is crazier than a rabid fox.
Garrigus Carraig
@JL: He will perhaps say that Adelman is a secret negro.
Stuck in the Funhouse
He has been one of the worst of the bunch of shithead warmongers. My own guess, he trying to undo his "cakewalk" support for the Iraq War. Imagine that, a neocon with a conscious. Or maybe he’s trying to pre-empt the verdict at his own possible war crimes trial. You know, go all Vichy Wingnut before the reckoning comes.
Shygetz
@Stuck in the Funhouse:
Or maybe he’s an egocentric douche who can’t stand losing anything, so at this late hour is looking for any excuse to leave the sinking ship ahead of the other rats.
Just a thought…
Tsulagi
Unlike The Mav and Mavette during their one-way robocalls.
MikeL
D-Chance: Mocking Sarah Palin’s ineptitude is never a waste. Had Tim not posted, he would have wasted the opportunity.
But, if John has a problem with this post, he’ll take it up with Tim himself.
Adam
if I could wave a magic wand, I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans
Seven kitchen tables = seven times as many Americans!
Joshau Norton
Good news: The repiggies found a bona fide case of "voter fraud" to prosecute.
Bad news: the alleged perp is the head of the Republicans’ California voter registration effort.
Karma.
JGabriel
Unrepentent Dennis – SGMM:
And I’m suddenly reminded of Wesley telling Lilah to leave on the glasses on "Angel".
Mmm, Lilah.
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Zuzu's Petals
@D-Chance.:
Uh, two different posts making two different points.
As far as I can tell, anyway.
jake 4 that 1
@Joshau Norton: YPM. You mean this YPM?
[Guffaw snort chortle]
Soon we’ll hear that California is not RealAmerica(TM).
JGabriel
Then again, that last part is actually true, by the Fermi Exclusion Principle…
Er, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
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Socraticsilence
Palin wouldn’t want to be at teh kitchen table with the average American, they’d tool on her dumb ass.
sistermoon
More Freeper hilarity.
Seems Sarah Palin’s not the only candidate with a witch doctor…
SamFromUtah
@Punchy: You meant Pauli, right?
No, no, it’s printed right here on my bottle of St. Fermi Girl.
Rommie
Personally, I took this entry as a response to Fearless Leader’s original, so the sacred Electrons weren’t wasted to begin with.
Getting tackled hard by your opponent is one thing. This is the equivalent of running clueless out the back of your own end zone.
Jon H
Obama’s campaign should put together an ad showing Bush’s frequent use of "if I had a magic wand"-type statements, with Palin’s, and any of McCain if he’s used it.
Jon H
"The Palin wave will collapse the first time some goober asks his wife to "wear these special glasses " when they’re having sex."
Or until someone finds Palin glasses tacked up over a glory hole.
SamFromUtah
Carol Johnson, a retiree from Spooner, Wisconsin…
Hey, I’ve been there! Only I keep screwing up and calling it Wooner, Spisconsin.
JGabriel
Jon H:
Or The Daily Show.
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Punchy
Completely OT:
Did you guys see this referee’s move?
After watching it a few times, I cannot say it was accidental. It looks completely intentional. WOW.
phobos
If I could wave a magic wand, this McCain ad would run on Fox every hour, on the hour.
dmsilev
@demimondian:
(a) As pointed out above, it’s the Pauli Exclusion Principle, and (b), it’s wrong anyway. Electrons are quantum-mechanically indistinguishable. The exclusion principle says that if you have two electrons (or, more generally, two particles with half-integer spin), they can’t occupy the same state. You cannot, however, determine *which* electron is in which state; all you can do is say which states have electrons in them and which don’t.
-dms
demimondian
Uh, yeah. Right. Pauli.
They’re fermions, subject to the Pauli exclusion principle. Just like I wrote.
JGabriel
HuffPo:
I think it’s time for the Rev. Wright to come out and endorse John McCain.
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demimondian
Oh, for heaven’s sake. I know that.
In fact, you can’t even say *that*, since the electrons in the cloud of a given atom don’t actually have any "independent existence" in the quantum sense, and they aren’t "in" any given state at any given time. What Pauli says is that each orbital for each atom is occupied at most once, no less — and no more. It says nothing universally, and I made a universal claim.
[grmbl. can’t even make a joke around here.]
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
Balloon Juice: come for the snark – stay for the Quantum Physics.
Krista
And return for the pie.
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
Epic FAIL:
Fox News Hires Judith Miller
Yes, Garçon, I’ll have a FAIL burger with a little dish of FAIL Sauce for dipping.
bago
And the Half-Integers, also.
Tsulagi
Maybe could convince the really smart serious adults still in power to build a wingnut collider. To test the theory some intelligent particles do exist in them, no matter how transitory. Wingnuts would happily volunteer; Country First. If those particles found, it’d be a breakthrough on the order of Brownback’s talking snowflake zygotes.
Stuck in the Funhouse
I knew all that too, but was just to modest to say it. :)
SGEW
Where’s my god damned pie?!
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
Not sure about the science but the idea of accelerating wingnuts to some nice fraction of C and then smacking them into each other does have its appeal.
– And make mine pecan [ie.
Comrade Jake
So I assume Rush Limbaugh & Co are frantically searching for that black mistress/love child Ken Adelman has? I mean, what else could explain the switch to Obama? Surely it’s not LOGIC!
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
And make mine pecan.
Martin
So Obama, simply on account of running for office and presumably for already being in Congress, is by-definition pro-American now according to Gov. Palin. Good to know. How about you run an ad with those words, Obama?
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
David Duke is sending Palin a bouquet of roses.
Comrade Jake
You read that and can’t help but think that if someone would just walk her through the logic of the whole thing, she’d realize she should vote for Obama.
JL
Now this is an endorsement that I can agree with, from Washington Note. Google’s Eric Schmidt is backing Obama.
Punchy
orbitals occupied at most once? this reads odd…..since each orbital can have 2 electrons, I took this as imcorrect. but as u may be invoking Hiesenberg’s (sp?) uncertainty princ., and its been too long since I’ve dug into quantum mechs, i’ll take yo wurd on dat. shaould we go Huns Rule next, or Aufbau?
JL
How long will it take for Rush to say that Google’s exec is selecting Obama because he’s black?
Punchy
Hund’s, not Huns. I can already see the Atilla refs coming….
Stuck in the Funhouse
Head, meet wall.
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
Google Search: "John McCain"
Returns:
How Badly Does John McCain Suck?
John McCain: Allegations of barnyard sex "totally untrue."
John McCain: A History of Angry Outbursts
John McCain yells at self…
etc.
Comrade Jake
@JL:
If you search on Google, the results show up in a blue font. This shows that the company is biased towards Democrats.
Plus, the ‘G’ in Google is in blue font. QED, sayz Rush Limbaugh.
Unrepentent Dennis - SGMM
Maybe a giant hand whose palm strikes their foreheads at ten thousand miles an hour.
Comrade Tax Analyst
Wow! Snark & Quantum Physics & Pie & FoxHiresJudithMiller-Fail & Make Mine Pecan & Half-Integers & David Duke sends roses & Occupied Orbitals & and Atilla + Huns~!~
This beats "Lions & Tigers & Bears & Shit, Oh, My", all to Hell, at least IMHO.
Comrade Jake
Jesus Fucking Christ. Check this story out. Unfuckingbelieveable. Why don’t they just burn a fucking cross? Why bother with subtlety? Fucking cowards.
demimondian
@JL: Eric does not speak for the company when he speaks as Eric Schmidt, private citizen, any more than I do when I speak either under my own name or as demi . (Yes, I work for big G.) What Dr. Schmidt chooses to do during the next two weeks doesn’t reflect Google’s corporate position on the election.
Shaggy
Put it together and what have you got? Bibbity Bobbity Boo!!
Why doesn’t Palin just use her bevy of public appearances/rallies to talk about the economy and provide details regarding how McCain wants to help us Average Americans in these times of great financial woe?
Oh, that must be because these appearances are for fightin’ the demons ah librlizm.
Sarah, please just smack them ruby reds together and repeat after me:
"There’s no place like Wasilla…there’s no place like Wasilla…there’s no place like Wasilla…"
(Parenthetical love)
I just finished watching Tweety kick Tom Ridge in the balls… good stuff.
JL
@demimondian: Thanks, I realize that, the block quote is from http://www.washingtonnote.com
Earlier I wrote that Ken Adelman came out for Obama and then I found this endorsement. Schmidt’s endorsement carries more weight in my eyes.
Martin
Heh, Joe Klein is excommunicated from the straight crash express.
Guess McCain isn’t planning on staying in the Senate after all. Klein won’t let that one go without reminding him of the relative reach of Time vs. random GOS blogger.
RoonieRoo, dontcha know
@D-Chance.: Gee, how was your Monday?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Considering how well things are working out for the McCain campaign, shouldn’t the title of this post be:
Magic Fail Wand
Comrade Jake
@Martin:
The best part of that Politico article?
Halperin hasn’t had a problem with access? That, my friends, is shocking! Shocking I say!
kay
I’m now getting robocalls in Ohio begging me to attend Palin rallies that are in a blood-red County 90 miles from my home.
I’m a registered Democrat, and I voted weeks ago for Obama, as did my husband.
The number at the end is the RNC in DC. I called and left a message.
I think those rallies may not be as popular as we have been led to believe.
Perhaps.
demimondian
‘Cause it’s wrong — this time for my own stupid real fault. (The other one was a joke; this was just stupid.)
Here’s the physics. Fermions (electrons and a number of other particles) have half-integral spin, and Pauli states no two fermions can occupy the same *quantum state*. However, since electrons in a single orbital — which don’t exist if you look for them — are distinguishable by their magnetic spin, there are at most *two* (not one) in any given orbital. So, yes, you’re right about the Schrodinger-relatedness of this.
Now, the whole Pauli exclusion issue operates at many scale simultaneously. For electrons in an atom, we see orbital exclusion, from which we get effects as diverse as bands in hydrogen atoms and metallic behavior for electrons in continuum orbitals. For white dwarfs, the exclusion principle means that eventually the gravitational collapse of a star of mass less than Chandrasekhar limit, in which the protons and electrons remain separate, is eventually limited by the fact that the electrons in *that star* need to all be in different quantum states, and that means the star can’t collapse any further. For stars of greater mass, but of mass less than about 4 solar masses, there’s enough energy floating around to fuse electrons and protons together to make neutrons, but Pauli exclusion (once more) forbids collapse beyond a certain point, yielding a neutron star.
Once you get beyond that point, things get kind of weird, though.
kommrade jakevich
@kay: People all over the world, join in. Join the Fail Train, Fail Train.
jcricket
But what about the Neutrinos?!? Won’t someone think of the Neutrinos?
You’re probably in favor of the Neutrino holocaust. Socialism!
I want to name the new pocket dimension ("real america") that exists somewhere I can’t see after Sarah Palin.
Delia
Whoa, I was, like, out phonebanking for the senatorial candidate of the blue persuasion and I totally missed the physics lecture. Is this going to be on the test?
demimondian
We covered the contents of the test during class yesterday. Do you have a pre-approved absence?
gbear
wingnut collider security cam.
blogreeder
I’m still kinda undecided. Should I go with Barack "Spread the Wealth" Obama? I’m sure it was just an unintentional slip of the tongue. Nothing scary. My money is still my money under that one. Biden will surely make me feel safer:
OMG!
kommrade jakevich
@gbear: Awesome.
I fully expect it to show up on some fRiechtard’s blog. "OMG LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE?!11"
Conservatively Liberal
If someone builds this, I call shotgun on loading up and launching the wingnuts!
If we are going to discuss the Pauli Exclusion Principle, then I demand equal time for discussion of the VSEPR (Valance Shell Electron Pair Repulsion) theory, the Octet Rule and the exceptions to the Octet Rule.
Fair is fair!
Tim F.
Blogreeder, you seem to miss the point. We don’t want you. Democrats don’t need to destroy the GOP when we can narrow it down to Pat Robertson and bitter enders like you. Barring a complete overhaul along the lines proposed by Ross Douthat and Andy Sullivan* the party will be a regional band of theocrats and ideologically pure numbskulls drifting towards third party status. That’s a win.
(*) also, monkeys could fly out of my butt.
blogreeder
Where was that point? I don’t think you read my comment. Your post had nothing to do with needing help from the other side either.
Now that is classic, remember how bitter you guys were at the height of the Iraq war? And using an obvious Rumsfeld reference about the Bathists in Iraq towards the Republicans? Oh, I get it since Obama’s middle name is Hussein it’s just like Iraq, only in reverse. The socialists will win this time around, right?
Anyway, there is no bitter on my part. I’m just being snarky and you’re taking this way too serious.
I’m worried your campaign will backfire. There is a thing as over confidence. Why should democrats vote because obviously he’s already won? I’m not even in a battle ground state and Obama commercials are on all the time. Overload.
Although I think you guys might be giving Palin a boost with all this publicity. Remember there is no such thing as bad publicity.