I know you've already heard this...

I'm "Batchin-it"...

For the next few days with "Bunches" out to NY to collect our daughter, see some of the sights available on the NY side of America. Warm and sunny enough here in the Greatland to beat last year's miserable global-warming-denial-of-a-summer already, and it's only the middle of May. I'm crossing fingers.

Sarah (our governor) Palin has sided with fellow beauty pageant contestant Miss USA California, claiming that the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech clause covers Miss Prejean's somewhat impolitic statement, seemingly (and biblically) anti-gay rights. Our Governor thinks that the freedom of speech is unrestricted by privately owned ("The Donald" Trump)and funded events like the Miss USA bimbo-fest. This is of course, not true, which is why Al Campanis, Jimmy-the-Greek and others have famously been fired or retired by their media bosses when caught practicing bigotry. Not by the bosses, but by the public.

While it is a true example of sisterhood that an aging former beauty queen is standing up for a silicon-enhanced current beauty queen, neither of them seem to "get" the 1st Amendment: You can speak your mind...but there may be consequences. We bloggers should understand this too.