I AM NORMA BATES AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE
This Presidential election is all about ME, of course.
Still, it’s all about Norma, Hogs.
Elections are CHOICES (or used to be before they were shoplifted).
Winona Ryder (Palinesque, no?) is a very very dear, very very old friend of mine, so I totally understand the neurotic syndrome that is theft.
Parlayed to NATIONAL popular and electoral college levels, however, as I told Winie a coupla years ago, “You can’t just bag everything you want at Neiman’s and Saks and walk out without PAYING, sugarplum!” She didn’t listen.
Choices = Consequences, Razorbacks. (Matt Jones, credit-card coke-cutting star Razorback, paying attention, hunka?)
Since I was a Brownie, I’ve been taught to always be forthright and truthful and sell those cookies. 
TMI, but that’s how I married and divorced three powerful Christian fundamentalist ministers on my faith journey toward spiritual enlightenment and financial freedom. Ringing random doorbells and, uh, selling my cookies.
That, plus my inerrant fashion sense which urged me to comply when, as a voluptuously developed sexually uninhibited woman, my husbands encouraged me to dress as a Brownie or Catholic schoolgirl for “playtime.”
Fashion, again. ALWAYS fashion.
Choice = Consequence. I’ve made careful choices, armed with research and facts rather than parroting second-hand knee-jerk reactions. Thus (modestly) my enviable / reviled glimmering diva-inity.
You?
The choice is yours unless They (You) keep voting to take it all away like the last eight years. (I actually dated a guy, once, named Bill Wrights.)
You’re smart. You catch on.
CHOICE = FREEDOM.
ANTI-CHOICE = FASCISM.
Life at its core, Hogs, really is that simple.
Though I LOVE the choices I’ve made in life and their breathtaking consequences, I wish the same freedom of choice for you and all diverse Americans, whatever color and race, whatever religion or not, whatever gender or sexual orientation, whatever economic or educational level.
Like Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music.”
Though I sleep au natural, even then I dream about Truth, Justice and the American Way for all.
But of course, this election is all about me.
Who else?
I AM NORMA BATES AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE
Comments
The last O-Mc debate left out much substance. Democracynow.org allowed two other Presidential candidates Green Party Christine McKinney and Independent Nader to respond to the same questions that were posed to the corporate candidates, O and Mc. Scroll down the transcript of the debate to see their responses.
Posted by: Jim Lendall![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/norma/nav-commenters.gif)
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October 20, 2008 08:50 AM
Thanks Jim. I doubled your fun an put your FOUR PERSON debate on open line, AT.
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Posted by: eLwood![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/norma/nav-commenters.gif)
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October 20, 2008 08:54 PM
There's no debate: Palins owe thousands in back taxes
On Friday afternoon, just at the time of the week when people unveil unhappy news releases in order to minimize media coverage, the McCain-Palin campaign released Sarah and Todd Palin's federal income tax returns for 2006 and 2007. The returns do not include as taxable income any of the per diem allowances or travel expense reimbursements that the State of Alaska paid for travel by Sarah or Todd Palin, or by three of their children (Bristol, Willow, and Piper Palin), in 2007. At roughly the same time as it released the returns, the campaign also handed out an opinion from a Washington, D.C. tax lawyer that purports to address at least some aspects of the propriety of the omission of the travel money from the 2007 tax return.
Since then, one commentator has reported that there is now a "wonky debate" as to the correctness of their omitting the travel money from their tax returns. We disagree. There is no serious debate (at least, none that has been brought to our attention) about the fact that at least the amounts paid for the children's travel -- $24,728.83 in 2007, according to the Washington Post -- are taxable.
The campaign's tax lawyer has got at least that much of the law, and perhaps more, wrong.
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October 22, 2008 01:34 AM