Grifter.
Third rate con artist.

Later on in the article,

A Costco shopper who could not find tomatoes………..

The clerk told her they had no tomatoes that day.

No tomatoes? At Costco?

As she was leaving, she noticed a man with a store manager’s name tag and asked him why they had no tomatoes. He informed her the store did have tomatoes, but they were taken off the shelves for a few hours.

It turns out that Palin had been pelted with a tomato at an earlier stop on her book tour and the management at the Costco was determined it wouldn’t happen here.

The horror. The horror.

Also

Too good. All too good. I love the warning over here that says “bumpit is not edible.” No shit, girlfriend!?! I guess when you’re dealing with the Palins of this world you gotta cover all bases: remove the tomatoes, ensure she doesn’t eat her hair piece, etc.

Uh, also. I may be an elitist, but since when did the consequences of bad dental hygiene become a rite of passage, as in: “planned to take her 3-year-old to the dentist for her first filling that morning”? Is that the way they roll in Utah?

This may be why she won’t do her book tour near a Home Depot. The management would have to remove all the 2x4s, pitchforks, and cement blocks from the shelves.

(don’t talk to Palin unless she talks first)

So Palin either sees herself as the Queen of England or Diana Ross.

I wonder if the took their supplies of 4×4′s and asphalt and feather pillows off the shelves too.

don’t talk to Palin unless she talks first

I guess that means you can’t ask her for the fucking money she owes for services rendered.

Nothing like snowbilly royalty luvin’ some Real Murkans©™ as long as their credit cards aren’t declined and their checks don’t bounce.

Seems like just last year that the press was all over the story that Clinton had failed to tip her waitress at a Made-Rite. It’s certain that our newshounds will cover this one with the same thoroughness.

Bumpits! I had no idea. I’m so out of touch with real Americans I didn’t even know coneheads were back in fashion.

Soda pop. I’ve got a few friends/family who allowed their 3-year-old (and even 2-year-old) children drink it, and they all developed cavities. The carbonation and sugar is like battery acid to baby teeth. A lot of people don’t think anything of it, and just consider baby teeth cavities as natural. It isn’t.

And thanks, Tbogg. I was blissfully unaware of Bumpits. Now there’s one more thing to distract me in social situations.

“I wonder if she’s wearing a Bumpit? And maybe a mini-Bumpit in the front? Or is that a tumor?”

I hope KO catches this story. He could do a great snark, especially re the part about removing the tomatoes from the shelves.

Queen Liz doesn’t carry money, either, except for a five-pound note for the Sunday church collection plate. Of course, she’s the richest woman in England (or maybe the second-richest after J.K. Rowling now), and Palin is, for all her pretensions, a cheapskate who is perfectly willing to leave others holding the bag (see also: McCain campaign).

The arcticle actually says the customer was looking for “grape” tomatos and we all know how dangerous those little bastards can be. Someone could have lost an eye..lash. Besides, tomatos are red, dirtly little commy veggies.

C’mon, man, it’s one thing to ogle her fucked up home life and shit, but all this ‘cuz she was in a rush and forgot to pay the bill? Yeah, it’s classless, but so the fuck what.

Stop obsessing over this monstrosity. Train wrecks are fun and all, but we don’t need to know what they were serving in the fucking dining car.

What’s all this about a bum pit?
It don’t smell no worser than the rest of me.

They’re the shotgun shells of tomatoes!

Even though you would think Utahn’s would be slavering for a chance to sniff at Caribou Barbie, they didn’t even give away all the tickets, and at the signing there were signs of dissent! From a 12/10 SLTribune article about it:

” Some shopping at Costco were caught by surprise by Palin’s visit.

“We were just coming here for our dog food and there she is,” said Matt Bedsaw. “Good for her, I guess.”

Another man had to get help trying to find a vacuum in the aisle where the crowds were gathered.

Courtney Orwin heckled Palin as she pushed her cart past the crowd. “I can’t stand her,” Orwin said. “She’s a quitter. Thank God she didn’t win [the vice presidency].”

Palin was kept about 50 feet from reporters, who were herded by handlers into an employee break room before her arrival and invited to leave after about 90 minutes of book signing.”

Even later in the article cited today, it said that the manager of the Costco sent a clerk into the back and got the woman who was asking for tomatoes a package, which he gave to her for free. That’s the same Costco I always go to, and now when I walk in there to get my giant jars of pepporcinis (and the croissants! The best in the city, no lie) I’ll know that I’m breathing in the true air of Freedom and Liberty! But not all Utahns are so enamored of Caribou Barbie: the Utah rethug leadership, as batshit crazy a bunch as you can imagine, was stiffed by her as well, they were all lined up with flowers and boutaineers in their lapels and she blew them off, didn’t even give them a nod.

My youngest is the editor of her high school literary magazine, and her assistant went to the signin’ to meet her, even though he’s an Asian-American gay proto-liberal. Now he’s writing a “found poem” using words taken from the book; I can’t wait to see that! (and yes, she had to explain to me what a “found poem” is)

Ummmmmm…hot pockets, now with Bumpits!

She keeps this up, her fans might actually catch on.

Although of course, note the waitress still doesn’t blame Palin for her treatment – just somebody on her staff screwed up.

Still, if she doesn’t slip off the radar screen soon, her true nature may yet out.

Damn. Shouldn’t the CostCo have locked up those flats of eggs? Eminently throwable!

I didn’t know what a bump-it was either until I was enlightened by http://www.breepalin.blogspot.com. In addition to her ongoing bump-it watch, Bree has assumed the more sobering duty of monitoring the use of underdressed, eyeglasses and hearing aids-free Trig as a tote-around fashion accessory, at least until he’s handed off to one of $arah’s forelock-tuggin’ vassals.

Dont read it, then.

Apparently, a number of people haven’t yet gotten the memo on the Palinoscpopy Procedure, like you apparently have, and thus talking about her wild & whacky pursuits in peasant exploitation need more readership.

Also, too, you might have noticed that this is a playground built on schadenfreude and bile. And the ashes of concern trolls, but mostly bile.

Also, too, you might have noticed that this is a playground built on schadenfreude and bile. And the ashes of concern trolls, but mostly bile.

So, where do you fall in?

The national hairdressing association might want to put a notice out to hairdressers that when Palin blows into town, to ask for the cash up front.

If she doesn’t pay, apply some Superglue to the backcomb.

Btw, Mr. Bogg, that first paragraph has me wishing you were a front page writer for the NY Times, because your style is long overdue in the mainstream rags. I’d be willing to bet their circulation would go up. “Facebook auteur” – now that’s just genius.

Some people just have shitty teeth, genetically. Why assume bad choices in the absence of evidence? And give a three year old a break. Getting cavities filled can be traumatic for adults, I can well imagine a three year old who needed her mother’s presence to keep her calm. If mom and kid have a closer bond than dad and kid, it’s a good idea. Also if dad has a hard time getting time off. But if you cancel an appointment that close to it, you may get dinged with a no-show fee anyway. Mentioning the inconvenience you went to to attend to someone is not the same thing as bragging about your kid’s cavities. Being there with her as she gets her first ever needle from a dentist is not the same as making it a “rite of passage”.

So, where do you fall in?

I shoot for a a retrograde flavor of schadenfreude, leavened with kosher communism and baked in a coal fired oven of mockery. Thanks for asking!

Thanks for the link. That was entertaining.

I’m surprised $arah, Queen of the Snow, didn’t try to hit up the hairdresser for a sawbuck.

“I gotta go ta CostCo ta get some diapers and stuff for Trig, but I left my purse back in ‘Laska, doncha know. Ya gotta twenny ta hol’ me over? I’ll pay ya back when I’m runnin’ for da Prez’dent, but don’ tell no one, K?”

Not paying for services rendered by working folks is what “common sense conservatism” is all about. Just sayin’

Plain or with seeds?

Thank you. The casual reader might otherwise suspect that your post stank both of the lamp and of smug superiority.

Perhaps you’re right, point well taken. The casual wording implicating that, “well, of course cavities in a three year old are just waiting to happen” just jumped out at me. I’m still inclined to to agree with drew42 waay up there about soda being the culprit — your average three year old’s teeth need a catalyst for the cavity to happen. Not his or her fault, of course…

Oh, that is so adorable! Her first filling…
~ Harry R. Sohl

well, after reading blogs all day and getting very depressed….
nothing like KO’s special comment to the Prez. and this little
dandy to put a smile back on my face. thank you $arah

Was Ms. Halliday also instructed to curtsy on first encountering Her Nibs? And to walk backwards, facing her (but with head bowed and never making eye contact), while leaving the room?

Oh yeah, the queen is real mavericky, you betcha!

Um, it’s Utah, it’s a typo, what she said was she planned to take her 30 year old.