(I figure if Crabby’s not doing Random Fridays anymore, maybe I’ll get into the act…)

South Dakota to Chicken Girl: “Quit yer bitchin’!”

MSNBC: Blizzard trapped hundreds of drivers overnight

I woke up a little bit dismayed this morning because we got snow, and now we’re going to get rain, and then more snow tomorrow, and it’s gonna be a huge mess, but at least I didn’t get snowbound in my car last night…

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Hundreds of motorists had to spend the night in their cars as a blizzard pummeled the South Dakota as well as parts of North Dakota and Nebraska.

The South Dakota Highway Patrol, which responded to more than 400 calls for help, worked through the night to rescue people stranded in their vehicles on snow-clogged highways in the western part of the state. Most travelers stayed in their cars.

Billy Graham doesn’t wanna preach for the President anymore

MSNBC: Billy Graham’s work with Presidents ends

Billy Graham’s got some problems with Obama’s positions on abortion and gay marriage. Boo hoo hoo. Or maybe he just doesn’t want to go to the White House anymore with a dog underfoot?

Mother crushes daughter’s political aspirations, film at 11

MSNBC: In mama-daughter disputes, politics is personal

I saw this article when it was originally posted and I was going to blog about it, but then I lost the link. This is how ridiculous the conservative anti-intellectual thing is getting:

“I called my mom all excited, especially because it’s a woman appointee, and I said, ‘Mom, can you believe it? This is the greatest news!’ and my mother actually says, ‘What kind of education does she have? A BA?’” says Sarah Heidkamp, who lives in San Francisco and has a bachelor’s degree, but not the master’s degree her mom is pursuing now.

“It almost pierced my heart. My mother seems to think you have to have this elitist degree … It’s like she’s looking down on me, because I’m not educated enough.”

Yeah, can you believe that? Next thing you know, Mama Heidkamp’ll be saying Sarah can’t be a doctor, either, because she hasn’t gone to medical school! You know, I always kinda thought that the “American dream” was that people who work hard can have a successful career, house in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a dog, etc — not that some random moron who doesn’t even know what the Vice President does has any business trying to get into the White House. Can we all get over this now, please?

Via Think Progress by way of Democratic Underground, Sarah Palin takes a question from a third grader about what the Vice President’s job is, and gets it completely wrong.

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

At this point, I’m pretty sure any one of Palin’s kids would be better qualified to be Vice President than Palin is. Yes, even the baby.

I wonder if McCain is regretting blowing off Dave yet?

Via Bligbi.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry… Keith Olbermann watched this and lost the will to live!

Bonus track: Katie Couric stumps Sarah Palin by asking her to name a Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade!

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“I found my son’s hockey skates this morning, how hard could it be to find Bin Laden?”

Via Humanist Dad.

Keith Olbermann was saying yesterday that the way Sarah Palin muddles her way through public speaking sounds almost like Madlibs. I thought we might have some fun with this.

CBS: Text of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric

Palin: I’m all about the [NOUN] that America is in and that we have to [VERB] a [NOUN]. And as [PERSON] has said unless this [ADVERB] [ADJECTIVE] [NOUN] is what it may end up to be, unless there are [PLURAL NOUN] in [PERSON]’s [NOUN], really I don’t believe that Americans are going to [VERB] this and we will not [VERB] this. The [ADJECTIVE] thing in the last couple of days that I have seen is that Americans are waiting to see what [PERSON] will [VERB] on this [NOUN]. They’re not waiting to see what [PERSON] is going to do. Is he going to do this and see what way the [ADJECTIVE] [NOUN]’s ["ING" VERB]? They’re waiting to see if [PERSON] will be able to see these [PLURAL NOUN] implemented in [PERSON]’s [NOUN].

Gee, did I [VERB] enough [PLURAL NOUN]? Have at it.