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Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name
Hugh Pickens writes "The LA Times reports that former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has filed paperwork with the US Patent and Trademark Office in November to trademark her name. On her initial application, Palin listed usage of the trademark for a website featuring information about political issues; and educational and entertainment services, including motivational speaking in the fields of politics, culture, business and values. Legal experts say it is relatively unusual for politicians to formally trademark their names because they are generally not associated with commercially valuable products or services and that trademarking a name is more common for celebrities in the fields of entertainment, fashion or sports. 'Sarah is somebody who is now out of government and pursuing other activities, in particular, speaking engagements ... and it looks like she's looking to protect her name with those activities,' says attorney Claudia Ray."
$10 says she uses this as a club to try to quell speech that she doesn't like.
There is a war going on for your mind.
more common for celebrities in the fields of entertainment, fashion or sports
She is clearly in entertainment - how many TV shows are about her right now?
She is also in fashion - we all heard about her massive wardrobe budget when she was campaigning with McCain.
And her entertainment is sport - at least to her. She tells us about her heroic helicopter hunting trips, and her husbands awesome snowmobile races. Those definitely count as sport where she is.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Well, we can still use Clueless Bitch, right?
Sure, that is how I refer to Obama!
Man, you see how he took that dude down? Guy was like "Sarah Palin is a Clueless Bitch" and he came back with "Nuh-uh, Obama's a Clueless Bitch!" He probably high-fived his keyboard after coming up with that witty bon-mot.
It's basically the Sunday morning TV news talk shows, distilled to their essence.
To be fair though, Sarah Palin is pretty much the Platonic ideal of Clueless Bitch. The first poster has accuracy going for him, if not the Oscar Wilde-like ability with the verbal comeback that the second poster showed with his "I know you are, but what am I?"
You are welcome on my lawn.
Obama is provably the bitch of the powers-that-be. Sarah Palin is provably a clueless bitch, and the same kind of bitch as Obama. So what we have is a couple of little bitches, but one is ever so much bitchier than the others.
Obama has fallen down on his promises again and again. Palin has proven her idiocy time and again. Anyone supporting either of them at this point, however, wins the absolute clueless bitch award. Palin was chosen for unelectability. Obama was chosen for his palatability. END OF LINE.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
^^^ Exactly. In a thread about Palin, they want to discuss Obama.
The bigger issue is why slashdot posted this story on the front page in the first place.
Its not news for nerds, it has no bearing at all to any tech or nerd issues at all. In fact, there is no basis for posting this story unless you had some political bias and wanted to just score cheap political points.
On short, this entire site should be no Sarah Palin news at all. Somebody please inform douchebag editors like timothy of this.
To be fair though, Sarah Palin is pretty much the Platonic ideal of Clueless Bitch.
And as solid proof of her "cluelessness", she's probably making more in a year than all but a minute portion of Slashdot readers. To be fair, I was planning to slam Obama, but he makes good coin too. Nothing says "clueless" like making lots of money, amirite?
I see cluelessness right here. I didn't make that argument, hence, there's no reason for you to mention it.