Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces...

[charlie]

...4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng."

-- Sarah Palin, natural-born Tweeter, on climate change.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/19/palin-continues-to-blast-climate-change-believers

[Jamastiene]

1. What the fuck?

:wtf: is that gibberish? Damn, she's stupid.

[charlie]

4. It's 40lbs of poop in a 20lb sack

Twitter forces everyone else to be concise. It makes Sarah an alphabetic serial killer.

[Jamastiene]

12. alphabetic serial killer

Perfect!

[SidDithers]

2. Hey Palin, urdoinitwrong....nt

Sid

[hobbit709]

3. Proving that twittering is for twits.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "Change for ions!" There's a slogan I can get behind

Don't you realise how many ions are deficient in electrons? While others have more than enough to go around! It's a disgrace!

[Cetacea]

6. LOL. Jeeze.

She just keeps giving.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

15. i think 'charge' for ions would be more appropriate... n/t

[BR_Parkway]

7. My first thought was "it's too early for the poster to be that drunk"

[Toasterlad]

8. It Took Me Three Times Reading That For It To Make Any Sense.

Sadly, I don't think that's due to Sarah Palin's illiteracy. I think that's how people "talk" on that twitter thing. I guess I'm just a grumpy old man, but I find it deplorable that people can't write correctly anymore. Even when I text, I don't use things like "R" instead of "are" or "2" instead of "to", and I hate it when people do.

If you haven't got the time to write properly, pick up the phone and talk to someone. If you're writing a message to many people, you should take the time to write clearly and correctly.

In related news, GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Jamastiene]

13. You mean you actually DID make sense of it?

:wow:

Props for your cryptography expertise. :P

[charlie]

14. There's more where that came from

if you enjoy decoding line noise back into gibberish.

"Upon rtn2 AK glad2hear Legislr fights Fed's"Endangered Species Act"listing w/all-out effort!Fed's efforts 2 stymie r devlpmnt is unaccptable"

http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA

[Toasterlad]

19. Well, I WAS an English Major

I'm supposedly trained in making sense out of the English language.

For what it's worth, here's the English translation of the Palinspeak:

Eath saw climate change for eons, and will continue to see changes. Our duty to responsibly develop resources for humankind compels us to not pollute or destroy, but we can't alter natural change.

Not that that makes a whole lot more sense, actually.

on edit: Silly me...I didn't realize that the brackets I was using to highlight my corrections were being interepreted by HTML as "remove this". I've changed them to bold. That's what I get for not previewing. Sarah Palin's got nothin' on me!

[charlie]

18. Uh-uh

She's dumb as dryer lint. Annoying as it may be, there really are syntactical conventions in innernetspeek. As SidDithers says above, she's doing it wrong. She's aping what she doesn't understand, like playing piano with her elbows and thinking it's "jazz".

[Tailormyst]

9. "WTF, my brain hurts now"

The response of my 17 year old son after reading that.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Sra Pln is an ignrnt asht

im astnded she evn rmembrs hw 2 brthe

[bananas]

11. k&r onto the greatest page - I almost didn't read this thread

I figured it was just some drunken rambling.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. When I saw IONS I knew you were quoting Sister Sarah.

She is such a moron.

[neverforget]

17. and she was a candidate for Vice President.....wow

:wtf:

[JerseygirlCT]

20. Can someone translate that into English, please? nt

[Toasterlad]

23. See Post #19

[DavidDvorkin]

21. Translation:

"Earth saw climate change for generations, will continue to see changes. It's our duty to responsibly develop resources for humankind and not pollute and destroy, but we can't alter natural change."

She could have used more than one tweet and made it more comprehensible, but nonetheless it can be translated. Of course, the result in actual English is just the old denialist talking point.

[Obamanaut]

24. In Sarah's defense, there has been climate change for awhile - note

the ending of the ice age.

[DavidDvorkin]

27. True, but they go on to insist

that any human contribution is insignificant compared to ongoing natural change.

[charlie]

28. Not just insignificant

It's arrogant to think that we can affect climate cycles. If you're not a denier, you've likened human ability to God's.

[DavidDvorkin]

31. That's one of the silliest denialist arguments I've heard yet

I hadn't heard it before.

[charlie]

32. It's boilerplate among rightwing Christians

If you get in a "debate" with one of those nutters, you'll hear it right off.

Even Rush uses it. It probably works great for shutting down Christians who aren't deniers.

[DavidDvorkin]

33. Wow

Thanks for the forewarning. If I run into it, I'll respond that I'm an atheist. That could get interesting.

[sakabatou]

22. Wait, what?

[SpiralHawk]

25. Republicons are such defeatists

Such negativity. Such 'can't do.' Such FAIL.

What a pack of losers.

[dysfunctional press]

26. "climatechange4ions..." is an "i" shorter than an "e"...?

or is she just that fucking stupid?

[asdjrocky]

29. I am not smart.

But even I'm pretty sure it's eon not ion. The E key is nowhere near the I key, so what is her excuse going to be?

[daleo]

30. Umen c cancer 4 ions, so cigs ok 4 us 2 now

It makes about as much sense.