From my days with the Student's Companion in the motherland, I remember vaguely the more common definitions of rogue but since I've been sitting 27 floors up in thin air for a bit, I had to go back and look it up.
Rogue \Rogue\,
1. (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a
tramp.
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Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large
class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons.
They were formerly punished by being whipped and having
the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
[1913 Webster]
2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
[1913 Webster] #sarahpalin
This is the apex of the movement by Christianists in this country to unseat local school boards and replace them with Taliban-esque fundamentalists eager to replace science with superstition, sex education with religion, history with jingoism and holistic approaches to literacy with phucking phonics. She represents everything that is wrong with exurban America, trading on her brittle good looks to railroad anyone who stands in her way. Yes, she is a pitbull. And she wants to eat your children.
@Mediahohoho: We can only hope she grows an enormous ass while sitting, counting the millions she made from this moose tripe, gobbledy-gook book of hers. My sincere hope is that the people who were, erm, "misquoted" in her book file a joint legal action and block her from ever publishing again.
@sanyucat: Palin's only cache at this point is the aging beauty queen with a pack of kids. If she loses her morning talk show host veneer, I see her fading into the wallpaper. She's proven again and again that she cannot articulate any sort of coherent thought. I'll admit though that I want to just once see her "going rogue" on a group of producers trying to cobble together a show with her as host.
@Mediahohoho: You've hit the nail on the head. It's all very well to laugh at SP and the fools she "pals around with". Enjoy the funny; God knows they bring enough of it. But pay close attention and watch when they get down to business. The less amusing and much less attractive disciples of this movement are grimly devoted to taking this country back to an imaginary "better time", with their pastors firmly in control of your lives. Vote in school board elections; attend city council meetings; God help me, read your local papers. If not, the infestation will take hold and we all lose. #sarahpalin
Well, on the plus side, I've always wanted to see Vancouver, and should Palin ride into the White House on the wings of angels and lies, I guess I'll be seeing it for the rest of my life. #sarahpalin
Every day I pray to the Great Clown Face in the sky that the world doesn't really have enough stupid people in it to let this woman within a mile of the White House. The longer she's in the public eye, the more I'm appalled she ever got as close as she did to such a high office. She's the epitome of everything that is WRONG with small-town America: narrow-minded provincialism; aggressive anti-intellectualism; charismatic, fundamentalist Christianity; cheesy choices in hairstyle and eyewear.
And I feel like the media is using the excuse that she's popular with a certain very narrow segment of viewers/readers to give her what is truly an undeserved amount of attention for a book that amounts to nothing but score-settling and blame shifting - all classic narcissistic, self-aggrandizing behaviors. Classic Sarah Palin. #sarahpalin
@RandomLunatic: Thank you for articulately describing why Sarah Palin is one of the few truly (and completely deserving) cringe-worthy people on this planet. #sarahpalin
Marriage is constantly being redefined, and has been for 5,000 years. Marriage, for example, has survived the legalization of no-fault divorce. What greater threat could there be to the "traditional" definition of marriage? Hell, it even survived the establishment of a wife's right to not take her husband's name. How can they be married if they have different last names?! It's not REAL! It's an affront to GOD!
Every one of his examples is an example of a way that marriage has been -- and in many places still is being -- defined...by his own religious tradition (you know, the judeo Christian one).
I think the problem is that this dipshit got his theology degree out of a box of Cracker Jacks. The only thing that would make his quote more perfect would be if he'd defined marriage as between a white man and a white woman. Because that's how a lot of his fellow evangelical "Christians" would have defined marriage 40 years ago.
"I was asked a question that made it sound like I equated gay marriage with pedophilia or incest, which I absolutely do not believe," Rick Warren explained this week.
Really? Cuz i still believe he's a bloated, pompous gasbag who should be held down and anally raped to death by tweaking midget Somali pirates.
Good lord what an idiot. The earliest forms of what we might consider "Western marriage tradition" begins with the Greeks and the Romans -- requiring neither the state NOR the religious institutions to validate it. This early form of marriage was probably most closely related to modern common law arrangements: no church involved.
probably the earliest forms of marriage that we know about is Hindu, which starts with invocation of the Lord Ganesh (the elephantine god of wisdom) and invoking the names of the planets and all kinds of shit that would freak out the typical homophobic redneck.
Oh and dowry. Most early forms of marriage involved a financial transaction of some kind -- typically (but not always) to the in-laws of the family inheriting the "burden" of a woman into the clan -- because 5,000 years ago and even more recently, marriage has been really just a way of ensuring a guy isn't cuckolded by some freeloading whore passing off somebody else's kid as her new husband's burden.
This guy is an idiot if he think marriage has been some immutable, universally static thing for five millennium involving white wedding gowns with one God fearing hillbilly stuffing cake into the cake-hole of the significant other while everyone throws rice.
@gawkimo: while i'm totally with you on this, people of his ilk are profoundly ahistorical, if not anti-historical, hence their issues with evolution, for example.
Thus Warren's reaction to the above is likely to be, "Your lips are moving, yet the words make no sense."
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Rogue \Rogue\,
1. (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a
tramp.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large
class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons.
They were formerly punished by being whipped and having
the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
[1913 Webster]
2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
[1913 Webster] #sarahpalin
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And I feel like the media is using the excuse that she's popular with a certain very narrow segment of viewers/readers to give her what is truly an undeserved amount of attention for a book that amounts to nothing but score-settling and blame shifting - all classic narcissistic, self-aggrandizing behaviors. Classic Sarah Palin. #sarahpalin
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I think the problem is that this dipshit got his theology degree out of a box of Cracker Jacks. The only thing that would make his quote more perfect would be if he'd defined marriage as between a white man and a white woman. Because that's how a lot of his fellow evangelical "Christians" would have defined marriage 40 years ago.
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Really? Cuz i still believe he's a bloated, pompous gasbag who should be held down and anally raped to death by tweaking midget Somali pirates.
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probably the earliest forms of marriage that we know about is Hindu, which starts with invocation of the Lord Ganesh (the elephantine god of wisdom) and invoking the names of the planets and all kinds of shit that would freak out the typical homophobic redneck.
Oh and dowry. Most early forms of marriage involved a financial transaction of some kind -- typically (but not always) to the in-laws of the family inheriting the "burden" of a woman into the clan -- because 5,000 years ago and even more recently, marriage has been really just a way of ensuring a guy isn't cuckolded by some freeloading whore passing off somebody else's kid as her new husband's burden.
This guy is an idiot if he think marriage has been some immutable, universally static thing for five millennium involving white wedding gowns with one God fearing hillbilly stuffing cake into the cake-hole of the significant other while everyone throws rice.
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Thus Warren's reaction to the above is likely to be, "Your lips are moving, yet the words make no sense."
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If Tim Gunn and Michael Kors were present, they'd be saying, "Matchy, matchy!" in unison.
Despicable fashion sense to match a despicable point of view.
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