Tonight's diary features women's issues with Sarah Palin, Carrie Prejean and more!
First, read a personal letter from Carrie Prejean and take a look at an exclusive Prejean interview on Michael Buckley's show discussing Sexxx Tapes for Jesus. I also include book review of Prejean's & Palin's books. At the end, I ask you, my fellow Kossacks, to help me respond to a troubling & perplexing Sarah Palin question.
All this and more right below the fold...
Everyone's favorite neo-pagan tantric buddhist taoist rosicrucian orgasmican alchemist mystic shares an open letter from Carrie Prejean in which she shares advice for other sextape aspiring Christians:
Days after Carrie Prejean admitted that she participated in a sex tape and called it "the biggest mistake of my life," seven additional such videos -- all "solo performances" have surfaced starring the de-crowned beauty queen, Radar reports. -- Us Magazine
I'm just gonna say it outright, OK you guys? You ready? Here it is ...
People always ask me, Carrie, when you make a sex tape, does it help to actually be a Christian? I mean, like, not a very good one, more like a pseudo-moralistic, fundamentalist homophobe ex-beauty queen with as many brain cells as you have limbs? Someone who wouldn't understand true Christianity if Jesus himself came down and tickled your feet and called you Lilith?
But to answer the other question: heck yes, it helps! I find that mock Christianity only cranks up the irony factor, the sexy hypocrisy of what you're doing -- and massive moralistic hypocrisy is a total turn on! Just ask all those Catholic priests! And Republican senators! And televangelists! And gay televangelists who have sex with Republican senator priests!
Here's a very simple formula I learned back when I was knee-high to a tequila shooter: The more you profess your hollow, virginal Christian righteousness, the greater the melodrama and drooling media attention when your lame, cheeseball sex tape -- or meth fetish, or gay lover -- comes to light, and the more money you get for your book deal and/or reality show. It's like magic, or something! OMG you guys, capitalism is so awesome!
Check out this exclusive interview Carrie Prejean gave to hard hitting news journalist and veteran vlogger Michael Buckley:
From Gen. JC Christian, patriot (Tremonton, UT United States)comes this Amazon Review: Still Standing by Carrie Prejean. You can find it in full here. If you like it, please cast a vote recommending it, so it becomes the "top favorable review."
As a paean to love segregation, "Still Standing" serves its purpose. Readers will come away understanding why it is so important to deny basic human rights to their fellow Americans. But it could have been so much more than that. Take a look at the chapter on pornography. Think about how much better it would have been if Miss Prejean had discussed her own video, the one in which she pleasures herself in front of a camera. It would have offered her an opportunity to discuss the Book of Leviticus and God's commandment to use kosher hot dogs. Christian study groups would be scrambling to buy it.
Although the writing in Miss Prejean's book caused me to throw up a little in my mouth, the spirit moves me to give it five stars. I know some might find that a little strange, but a book is more than simply words, sentences, and chapters; it's also cover art, spine glue, and the little blurbs the publisher commands its other authors to write. In sum, all these pieces must come together to make a book. If I love the smell of the book's spine glue, shouldn't I be allowed to reward the publisher with a few extra stars? I certainly think so.
His review of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" is equally enjoyable, highlights include this gem:
But the book isn't perfect. As much as I enjoyed the few short paragraphs in which Mrs Palin laid out her policy objectives, she could have condensed it all into one sentence: "I'm going to grab an Oxo Good Grips Stainless Serving Spatula and go all mavericky on your non-white, non-Christian and non-heterosexual butts."
And from kitchen tools and traditional woman's roles and the way the GOP, Palin, Prejean still view the world comes this vintage Public Service Announcement on "A Ladies Guide to Party Plannig."
Women Should Be Seen, Not Heard
The idea that women shouldn't have an equal voice in the public sphere should be treated as fringe at best, but it's moving more and more into the conservative mainstream. This may have been expressed most dramatically when conservative Republicans in Congress shouted over female Democrats who tried to use the microphone to give a brief statement. With every woman who tried to have a voice, Republicans led by Tom Price (R-GA) shouted "I object" over and over.
It's not plausible that the attitude driving this behavior is not related to the statement from the National Republican Congressional Committee that Nancy Pelosi needs to be put "in her place." Apparently, leading the House of Representatives is not an appropriate place for a woman, just as the microphone before the House is also not a woman's place.
Come to think of it, women are also sometimes treated as if they shouldn't be seen, either. Every so often another conservative comes out to defend the idea that perhaps women should never have been given the right to vote in the first place — a position that is every bit as "moral" and "reasonable" as suggesting that blacks shouldn't be allowed to vote or that only white men should enjoy basic civil liberties. You can't get much more fringe than this, but it's a view that's been moving into what now counts as the conservative "mainstream.
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And finally, from my own personal facebook page, I can' wait for you to help me respond to one of my conservative friends who asks, "Why are libs so afraid of Sarah Palin? And don't say you aren't, cause all I hear is how bad she is. If she was/is, then what is the worry, just ignore her."
Please respond & comment!