Pit Bulls don't wear lipstick, but Hockey Mom's do

That's what I learned last night watching Governor Sarah Palin speak.
Sarah Palin did it and boy she proved what a dazzling speaker she is!

She took the interest and negativity off her daughter's teen pregnancy, and put it back on herself where it rightfully belongs.
Her children were bright spots in the booth with Dad, Todd and Cindy McCain,also John McCain's Mom, along with Trac, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and baby, Tres the Palin kids. Hysterical laughter is what was caused when the cutie youngin Piper licked her own hand to flatten her new baby brother's doo. Levi, Bristol's baby’s daddy did look handsome but out of his element, definitely showed that he was a fish out of water. I think Whoopee Goldberg may have said it best that he looked so bewildered like he was thinking all I did was take the governor's daughter Bristol out on a date one time, and here I am. He was whirlwinded. Other View hosts also noticed about the amount of African Americans at the GOP convention… they counted only two that the camera kept in their sight as Governor Palin tore apart Senator Obama, and I noticed it too, and that was interesting.

So much was going on that I didn't realize until much later when Joe Biden and other Democrats reminded me that she didn't answer any questions or concerns we all had about the economy or foreign policy etc.
She did have answers for her home state to beef up oil drilling production, but why can't they do that now? Alaska is part of the United States, isn't it?

She played down too much the reality of any knowledge of the suffering of Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Give me a break Sarah, play fair. We all know that Senator McCain was a POW during Viet Nam, and that he was a miraculous brilliant survivor of that. But they both did not just magically appear without living their lives with quite a bit of sadness and hard times, and picking themselves up after. It was definitely not all laughter and light to get where they are at this point.
And they have both well paid their dues in the game of life.Evident in their bios, which apparently she neglected to read.

The evening was definitely interesting.
And hearing what Governor Palin had to say was good to know so I could be that better informed.

Update on Tropical Storm Hanna: she has her destination planned now as the Carolinas, and will be possibly a Category 1 on her arrival this weekend.
From what I saw the Carolinians seem to have it also under control with their preparations from experience too.

Update on Hurricane Ike: he is massive, and one reporter compared him to Hurricane Andrew that was off the scale back in 1992 when it hit south Florida.
Scary, we helped after that devastation, and lived through Charley since not even as strong, but horrendous just the same.
If Ike is half as bad, and heading this way we are very much on guard for what may be coming at us as early as next Tuesday.
All we know so far is that we are still in that cone of uncertainty for Hurricane Ike, but not even the pros know for sure where he will be going!
So we are glued to the TV and weather sites so we will know what to do and when to do it.

Good night to all... the future is looking very tumultuous, stay tuned, it could be rocky ride.