Results tagged “Sarah Palin”

• The National Transportation Safety Board is concerned that a malfunction in the automated signal system that caused a deadly crash in Washington, DC in June could cause a similar incident in Boston. [WBZ]

• Mayor Tom Menino appears to have a cash and organizational advantage over Michael Flaherty. [Boston Globe]

Have you always looked at Sarah Palin and said, "Say, someone oughta make an opera about her"? Well, if so, you're in luck. Guerilla Opera's "Say It Ain't So, Joe" is based on Curtis K. Hughes' perception of "was struck by the extraordinary musical contrasts between the voices of Sarah Palin and Joe Biden" during the vice presidential debates. The show launched last weekend but continues this Saturday at 8pm with an encore matinee at 2pm on Sunday the 27th. All shows at The Boston Conservatory's Zack Box Theater (8 The Fenway).

Does Sarah Palin really have any significant impact on Boston? Fortunately, no. Governor Community Organizer/Private citizen Palin just quit as Alaska's leader after a rambling sharply focused public statement.

• The Boston Licensing Board met today to decide if the South Street Diner should continue to operate 24 hours after a mere 60 years of already doing it. [UniversalHub]

• Not even six months have passed since president Barack Obama took office and Rasmussen thinks we want to know that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are leading the "race" for he 2012 GOP nomination? [Boston Herald]

Sunday's slow pace followed an action-packed July 4 for this Bostonist. That left free time for some idle thoughts on some pressing, or not depending on your perspective, issues:

Senator John Kerry simply can't help himself and has, yet again, confirmed he is like a serial killer whose victims are jokes. He took on John McCain's unmentionables and the educational bona fides of "the troops" - Bostonist knows there must be more examples but we also think these two prove the point. And now, Kerry unleashed his funny bone on Sarah Palin by saying he wished she had disappeared instead of former presidential wannabe/frequent flyer/gigolo Mark Sanford. Bostonist won't lose sleep if Governor Palin stayed out of, or in, frankly, the lower 48 so Kerry's point isn't lost on our corner of the Internets. However, in light of David Letterman's skirmish with Palin it occurs to Bostonist that if Democrats give her more free publicity then her disappearance, that Kerry mentioned, from the national scene won't come to pass.

The Romney camp is denying claims that former campaigners staffers are attacking Sarah Palin. Various sources have reported that former Romney supporters (and even Romney himself) were critical of Palin but forced to keep their opinions under wraps during the campaign. Those making the accusations against Romney and his staff say the former Massachusetts governor is attacking Palin in the interest of promoting his own presidential chances in 2012. In public, Romney has defended Palin, saying "She has been able to keep cool under the pressure” during the campaign process. 40 percent of Herald readers would like to see Romney run in 2012; 24 percent would go for Palin.

Universal Hub has a map of election-day events reported by readers. Most of the updates focus on wait times (and there are some long lines), though one reader has posted a concerning tale of voters being turned away at polling places. Many folks are sharing their votes online, but Sarah Palin, for one, is keeping her vote under wraps. Maybe she is a maverick. Maybe she is secretly pro-hope. Or maybe she just doesn't like to wash her hands. [Other coverage: Brookline TAB, Cambridge Chronicle, Fark, Globe.]

-- "If you really want to test the strength of your foot bone you need to lodge it under a bus for some measure of time." Yikes! [Boston Biker]

Gail Collins' recent op-ed in the New York Times waxes nostalgic about the old days of the presidential campaign, before we lost Mitt Romney and met Sarah Palin:

Bostonist's Camberville correspondent Lora V. has provided us with something to do in between doses of Valium during tonight's Vice Presidential debates: Sarah Palin Bingo. If you have Photoshop, download this file to make your own Bingo cards. Remember, Bingo doesn't work if all of the players have the same card unless you are very, very drunk.

So in case you haven't heard already, our homeboy Matt Damon's not a big Sarah Palin fan. Maybe he just doesn't like mooseburgers. Or lipstick. Or maybe he's sexist! Yeah, that must be it!

Let's face it: No one really expected presidential candidate John McCain and aspiring presidential candidate/former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to kiss and make up. But McCain surprised everyone by choosing Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate.