{"id":1408,"date":"2010-07-19T21:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:22:13","slug":"if-you-ignore-them-they-wont-go-away-theyll-take-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"If you ignore them, they won&#8217;t go away, they&#8217;ll take over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sick of Sarah Palin. \u00a0She is a dimwitted fool who holds no political office. \u00a0She is a racist, a bigot and completely insulting to those feminists who actually know what that term means. \u00a0I have often thought, with regard to the excessive piling on that the left does at Ms. Palin&#8217;s expense, why bother? \u00a0Why give her any more attention? \u00a0That&#8217;s exactly what she wants. \u00a0Just don&#8217;t pay any attention to her and that will be the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>But one could say the same thing about Facebook &#8211; why complain? \u00a0You don&#8217;t like it, just leave it alone. \u00a0But if you follow me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mr.mpomy\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mpomy\">Twitter<\/a>, then you know that I&#8217;m not inclined to leave it alone. \u00a0There are too many people on Facebook. \u00a0It has achieved a firm foothold, like a tick that is dug in deep, and ignoring it can lead to dire consequences.<\/p>\n<p>After the absurdity of Ms. Palin&#8217;s own tweets over the past few days, I feel that the same is true. \u00a0We ignore her and her ignorance at our peril. \u00a0These two pearls confirm it. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palingroundzerotweet1-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1409\" title=\"palingroundzerotweet1-cropped-proto-custom_2\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palingroundzerotweet1-cropped-proto-custom_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palingroundzerotweet1-cropped-proto-custom_2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palingroundzerotweet1-cropped-proto-custom_2.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/07\/sarah-palin-calls-on-peaceful-muslims-to-refudiate-ground-zero-mosque.php?ref=fpb\">Talkingpointsmemo has the complete analysis<\/a>, but the two key points are that (1) any Muslim who wants the mosque near ground zero is not peaceful, and (2) refudiate is obviously not a word. \u00a0Whoever among her handlers that is allowing this woman to use twitter should be fired. \u00a0But, like any experienced tweeter, Palin deleted the above, but rather than admit she did anything wrong, we got the following.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palintweet4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1410\" title=\"palintweet4\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palintweet4-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palintweet4-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/palintweet4.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I want to know which works of Shakespeare this woman has read, that she would compare herself to the greatest writer the English language has yet known. \u00a0And please, gentle ex-governor, do tell which words the bard made up, so that we might learn from you ample knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>But when I read about young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/article\/candidate-keep-states-complexion-white\">Ryan Murdough, running for political office in New Hampshire<\/a>, I realize there is good reason to worry about ignorance and hatred. \u00a0If there is no effort to make note of these frightening politicians, their influence will spread unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>So, on I rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sick of Sarah Palin. \u00a0She is a dimwitted fool who holds no political office. \u00a0She is a racist, a bigot and completely insulting to those feminists who actually know what that term means. \u00a0I have often thought, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1408\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[140,1138,1136,1137,1135,524,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}