Apparently someone in the Wasilla, Alaska, Volunteer Fire Department
has a sense of humor.
(Courtesy of
Mark Manning, whose brother Terry
Manning is a volunteer firefighter in Wasilla.
Also, another of Mark's many manly brothers, Brian Manning, is a captain in a fire department
around
here.
Update of July 2008: Brian has been
promoted to chief. As of this writing on February 27, 2022, Brian went
on to become an arson investigator and then he retired.)
Also, as far as I know, now-governor Sarah Palin did not, as
then-mayor, try to
FIRE anyone about this. (Fire, get it? Also, as with
everywhere on this site, I remind you that Wikipedia articles are never
automatically trustworthy, but the references and links they offer might
be.)
Update of July 2009: Brian's career has moved forward yet again,
and Palin is now a former vice-presidential candidate and also a former governor, having inexplicably
quit her post with 18
months left in her term. She's a character.
George H.W. Bush chose Dan Quayle to be his
running mate in the 1988 election, and they won. For the next four
years Mr. Quayle proved conclusively and repeatedly that he's an
idiot, yet
when George ran against Clinton in 1992 he chose Quayle again, which
to me showed a shocking lack of judgment.
Similarly, I am astonished that John McCain thought Sarah Palin -- no
matter how pretty she is -- was or ever could be qualified to preside over
the whole, entire United States. She wasn't.
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