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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
A party at a place? That doesn't sound crazy to me. It's just a cover charge.
A cover charge at a venue is understandable. I was thinking of a party as held at someone's home or clubhouse or someplace private. I've never heard the term "pay party" before.
I had a pay party for New Years at my house! Only I was the only one paying. Oh, wait, that doesn't count.
I would like to point out that most mentally ill people, schizophrenics included, don't hurt or kill people.
People with mental illness are VASTLY more likely to be the victims of violence than to be the perpetrators of it. So all of the defensive rhetoric coming from the right about "he wasn't moticially motivated; he was CRAZY" pisses me off for reasons beyond just their denial of responsibility for contributing to a sociopolitical climate in which it's acceptable to suggest killing people they don't like who were elected to Congress.
This is going to tar mentally ill people with a very wide brush, and it's completely wrong.
Yeah, if the party is at a club or a bar or something, I can see paying a cover charge. It would be weird (to me) for a party at a house, though.
True story- my friend's (the male half of the newly pregnant couple mentioned earlier) first in-laws threw his and his first wife's reception at a venue with a cover. They (my friend and his then-wife) were mortified.
These are not common? Maybe it's a regional/black/age thing, but I've been aware of them for a while. Never cared to go to one, though. And certainly not this one.
They were pretty common when I was younger, like college age to mid-twenties. I wouldn't raise a brow at it then, but if it was people my age that would different.
As long as we're talking about ignorant bloviators, this came up elsewhere: Glenn Beck is Prothero [link]
OK, I'll shut up about Palin... after this:
She says right-wing violent rhetoric does not incite people to violence. But accusing someone of inciting violence can incite violence.
She saved her harshest words for "media and pundits," whom she said "should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible."
The term when I was growing up "house party". In Olympia we have something called a "Secret Cafe" which is house party thrown to raise money for a good cause. This being Olympia, it is either an Olympia specific terms, or really old slang Olympia is just picking up now.
So, which is it? Dumbass. (Why am I looking for logic, the only speech that matters to Sarah Palin is about Sarah Palin.)
She says right-wing violent rhetoric does not incite people to violence. But accusing someone of inciting violence can incite violence.
I doubt she even realized that that's what she was saying.