White Powder Comes to Alaska, But You Can’t Ski on it…
Well, this is strange. Today Governor Sarah Palin’s office received a letter containing some unidentified white powder. After the anthrax scare of 2001, the place went in to lockdown mode, the mailroom staffer was “decontaminated”, and the powder whisked away to a laboratory somewhere.
But, before you go thinking that some linguistics professor finally snapped after hearing one too many Palin interviews, the letter was actually addressed to Frank Murkowski, Palin’s predecessor who left office two years ago. And not only that, similar letters were sent to seven other governors: Rhode Island, Alabama, Michigan, Montana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Minnesota.
I always liked those math problems, or word games where you had to pick the next in the series. After 5 “M” states in a row, I’d be avoiding the mail room if I were the governor of Massachusetts.
All the powder so far has been found to be harmless, and all the letters originated from Amarillo, Texas. In addition to the governors’ letters,
A total of more than 30 threatening letters mailed from Amarillo, Texas, were sent to the Chase banks and other financial institutions in eight states in October.
FBI agent Mark White, spokesman for the FBI office in Dallas, said in October that in addition to the Chase Banks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in Dallas and the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision in nearby Irving, Texas, also received threatening letters and a white powdery substance.
In this election cycle, I don’t know how anyone anywhere could NOT know that the Governor of Alaska is no longer Frank Murkowski. My official advice to the FBI, is to start your search with angry, cave-dwelling Texans.
First?
You wonder if there are more of these letters in the dead letter office of various state capitals, because they werer addressed to the wrong ex-Gov…
This person must not watch TV and get the newspaper six months late.
OFF TOPIC.. any word on Bristol’s baby birth???
Um … well, the FBI is a little busy over in Illinois right now. : )
http://nowhereil.blogspot.com/2008/12/two-mules-for-sister-sarah.html
Whose governor is the biggest crook? OUR governor, that’s who! What do we win??
I think you have to look at each of those states and find out what they have in common that would piss off some idiot to send that stuff. Politicians, how the state voted, the color of the day, how the moon set, who knows???
Or the envelopes got stuck in some postal mail shute all these years and finally made it to the proper destination.
Or the dead letter dept of the post office finally got those letters to the proper destination.
The Gov was probably royally pissed that ANYONE, ANYWHERE didn’t know that SHE is now Alaska’s Governor! LOL!
OFF TOPIC: Has anyone seen a news report about Todd no longer being employed by BP?
Poor mail clerk.
Sending gov’s white stuff in the mail put me in mind of the days when we’d send the a can of spam and a handfull of flour and a pinch of yeast, asking them to bake their own bread and join us for lunch. The point was to get them to eat the same commodity food other poor people where forced to eat.
Now I read that spam has become the new deli food. Who knew?
Well, word is that one of those letters was intercepted on its way to the governor of Maine too…
Wasn’t Murkowski, the corrupt Governor? If not I apologize, but if he was maybe who ever just got the 2 mixed up? I mean, we all know she is corrupt too! Can’t wait until the FBI pays her a visit and not about amorphous white powder!
The FBI may very well be paying a visit to BOTH of those Governors. (nice hat, btw!) AKM
@crystalwolf a.k.a. caligrl (16:26:51) :
Yup, he had some issues, including being the least popular gov. in the country, even lower than the gov. of Ohio, who was indicted for something at the time…
OT: re Troopergate I…just got a small message from Rep.Anna Fairclough
Thank you for your additional information.
Anna
I just basically sent the info from Alaskan’s for Truth.
But I think its great some of them are at least responding.
Got another from Anna, this one more involved:
Think I will post in the Troopgate forum…
Er…Alaskan’s for truth
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,4588.new.html#new
Most of the folks on HuffPo last night thought she had sent it to herself as there had been no national news about her for a few days!!! Pretty funny…
Interesting article from ADN
Should Todd Palin’s e-mails be public?
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/135463
I thought I read that this latest set originated in Dallas. I could be wrong though. I know that the Chase letters were sent from Amarillo. Whatever…I’m not sure what the intent of these mysterious letters would be if the white powder is harmless. I guess it is supposed to be a prank, but why send it to the former Governor’s attention?
Ohhh…the Rudolph Special is on ABC family channel. I will have to go watch it.
It was just her latest shipment of “nose candy”. This just offers us proof that, given her behavior and odd way of speaking, she MUST be high!
LITTLE WHITE BAG ALERT*
This just in, celebrity make-up artist reveals secrets of SP’s campaign look:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/10/sarah-palins-makeup-artis_n_150046.html
*like the little white bags on commercial airlines, for barf-catching purposes
Melody, OregonNo Gravatar (18:26:18) :
LITTLE WHITE BAG ALERT*
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OMG! Thanks for the warning!!
OT- You go McLoed. Keep the fire to their feet and the pressure on. Get those-mails, text messages and phone records. Find out what all those blacked out messages are. I applaud you for your bravery. Keep up the good work.
Todd Palin is her advisers..Sheesh!!!
Anyone who sends white powder in the mail is too freaking stupid/psycho to read the news or to pay attention.
I don’t care to whom the powder was sent; it’s not funny and requires that someone get the bottomside of both of Uncle Sam’s boots planted concurrently upside their bleepity bleeping heads.
Some idiot needs to knock that sh… off.
This is getting too weird, even for me. Didn’t Frank leave a forwarding address?
And that makeup chick, oy.
I swear to the Goddess it wasn’t me..I don’t live any where near Amarillo…I live over by Willie and down the road from the dickhead president..I swear it wasn’t me…really…not me…
when i heard they addressed it to the wrong governor, i assumed that in itself was a comment or a put down directed to S Palin!
Looks like the work of yet another child left behind.