You ever have one of those nights?

For those confused as to what happened with the simple little Happy Birthday Tripp post on Saturday night, let me explain.

Originally I had the Sea of Blue post scheduled for that last slot at the end of the night.

However when I visited Facebook to see what my family was up to I happened to see a post from Mercede wishing her nephew a happy birthday.

"Oh yeah it's Tripp's birthday" I thought so I quickly put up a simple post wishing him a happy birthday, which I have done several times in the past. No biggie.

After that I kind of turned away from my computer and started doing other work while watching Netflix in the background.

At around 8:04 I received a comment suggesting that Tripp's birthday is actually two days away.

Wait, what? So at this point I have also had a glass or two of wine and am exhausted and not thinking at all clearly.

So I Google Tripp's birth date and find this. In my somewhat bleary eyed state all I do is read the date, which is December 29th, and think "Oh crap I might be premature." (The article actually says that Tripp was born on Saturday which would have made it the 27th. But hey. who reads the articles?)

I then went to my post on the day that we all learned that Bristol gave birth, and once again only read the date it was posted, December 29th. (The actual ADN article listed the birth date on the 28th. More confusion.)

So at this point I have confused myself completley since I am literally running on fumes. In response I quickly write a post saying that I might be wrong, and how weird it is that Mercede would have Tripp's birthday wrong.

Then I post that and go back to Facebook to ask Sadie about it. When I get there I see that Sunny has also wished Tripp a happy birthday and talked about spending the day with him to celebrate.

After that I changed the post once again to what most of you saw Saturday night and Sunday morning.

When I woke up in the morning I went back to see where I had screwed up and was able to figure out where I had, if you pardon the term, tripped up.

Tripp's birthday is, and always has been, December 27th. Which is something I have known because I have wished him a happy birthday several times in the past.

So let me apologize for my rather confusing post, and remind all of you that drinking and posting never mix.

I would also like to mention that though I may have bungled my birthday post for Tripp, at least I took the time to make one.

As of right now neither Bristol nor Sarah have bothered to do the same.

P.S. For those of you who are curious about the next post coming from my source, I will let you know that I sent her a list of the questions that many of you left in the comments and she has responded. I am still working on followups and clarifications, but the post is planned for January 2nd which will place it outside of the holiday slow period when blog traffic is traditionally down.

Sarah Palin admits she does not pay attention to the rules, and that her endorsements are poison. Wait, what?

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At the beginning of this interview from last night Palin finally seems to confirm that she does indeed read this blog as she actually states the following when asked about whether she will endorse a candidate or not:

"No you know I want to help the cause, not hurt the cause, and I recognize that if my name is attached to a person, or a cause, or a position a lot of controversy seems to ensue with that attachment."

Wow!  Now how many times have we said that exact thing on this blog?

And here I thought she was virtually unable to learn anything!

However Palin barely misses a beat before demonstrating how thick-headed she is by complaining bitterly about Newt getting booed during the debate for bringing up Mitt Romney's "record:


"We can't take a page out of Obama's playbook. What happens when you bring up anything about Obama's record?  And this has been going on for about four years now. You bring up something about his record, you're automatically shut up and cut of by being accused of being a RACIST, just by asking about his record. GOP, let's not do that. No questions should be censored, should be banned, no topic should be off the table."

Did you hear that pop? That was my head exploding.

Does this idiot really believe that fanning the flames of racism during the McCain campaign, and claiming that Obama "palled around with terrorists" was really just "talking about his record?" I mean seriously?

And now the woman who has refused repeatedly to provide a birth certificate for her fifth child, and fights tooth and nail to keep journalists from gaining access to her government e-mails, claims that "no topic should be off the table?"

Is there an antidote for an overdose of hypocrisy?

But here is the REALLY entertaining part, as Judge Pirro points out, Newt did NOT get booed for bringing up legitimate campaign questions, he got booed for breaking the rules of the debate.


"With all due respect Governor, wasn't the booing about the fact that Newt Gingrich violated the very rules of the forum? By mentioning, by name, another candidate which he was prohibited from doing, clearly, by governor Huckabee when the forum began?"

You have to watch Palin's face as she is pwned by Pirro here. (The image above is actually captured from that precise moment.) And her response?

Essentially that she is too busy to be concerned about any rules:

" I don't know because I didn't tune in at the very beginning to hear what the rules were, but here's the deal Judge, I think I am a good, kind of microcosm as a person (WTF?) reflecting what the rest of America is thinking right now as we go through this primary debate process. We are busy people. We do have businesses to run, and we have families to raise, and a lot's going on in this country. No now a particular rule like that, where a particular name wasn't supposed to be mentioned in a negative light in the, in the forum, I'm not aware of. I don't know how everything works. Again because I'm busy along with everybody else." (In other words, "Rules? We don't need no stinking rules!")

To recover Palin simply launches into an ad hominem attack on the President, which smacks of anger and frustration at being called out by Pirro.

However no matter how fast she talks, or how much venom she spews all over her Fox provided microphone, she cannot cover for the fact that she is an uninformed, hypocritical, imbecile that just got spanked on national television by the very network that has mollified and protected her these last three years.

And here I thought there was nothing good on television last night.