Sarah Palin’s Personal Efforts on Behalf of Rural Alaska.
I suppose I could save myself some effort and make this post completely blank, but Alaskans were treated yesterday to a press conference from Governor Sarah Palin, so I suppose I should mention it.
And I was pleased to see that a reporter asked exactly the question I would have asked the governor regarding the energy/food crisis in Western Alaska.
Q – “What have you done on a personal level, NOT a governmental level to help people in the Lower Yukon…”
I would like to know the answer to this. Politically we hear all kinds of reasons that things can’t be done. But each of us has the ability to direct personal efforts at whatever matters to us. What does the governor have to say to this question?
“We have certainly sent the message to those in Emmonak and those that are hurting that I will do everything I can personally and in my position as governor to help, including offering to travel to those specific villages.”
The governor WILL do everything she can, personally? We might ask “What, exactly, is she waiting for?” The letter from Emmonak resident Nicholas Tucker which put a glaring spotlight on this situation, appeared in the Bristol Bay Times on January 12. One month ago today. And by answering the above question in the future tense, the governor states loud and clear that she HAS done NOTHING.
A lot has happened in the past month. Food drives have been organized, grassroots efforts have resulted in needed packages of food and supplies, online donations have been made to help with fuel costs, a private citizen has traveled to Emmonak to document the situation with the help of online donations from private citizens, this coverage has been picked up by CNN and other mainstream media. And the governor WILL do everything she can, personally. When?
During the State of the State address, our governor compared herself to a mother grizzly protecting Alaska.
When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we’ve got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course.
I’m no wildlife biologist, but isn’t a mother grizzly supposed to actually feed her cubs when they’re hungry? I don’t think she looks at their hungry faces day after day for a month and says “I’ll do everything I can.”
I hate to be cynical, but watching all the opportunities that the governor has had to help, like lending her image and support to a food drive, or making a statement at the Iron Dog start, or utilizing her national celebrity to ask donors to her PAC or members of Team Sarah, or Human Events to make donations, or recording a public service announcement, or donating her energy rebate check, or one of a hundred other things she could have done but didn’t, has led me to this conclusion. She just doesn’t want to help. And if she suddenly decides to do something now, a month later, I’m going to have to assume it’s only because her lack of compassion and unwillingness to help so far has made her look bad.
Because this, I know. If people want to help, they generally do.
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ARRGGHH! What part of that question does she not get, other than the whole darn thing?
During the State of the State address, our governor compared herself to a mother grizzly protecting Alaska.
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Appears to me that she is letting some of her “cubs” starve and/or freeze. Doesn’t sound very protective to me…
Again. Is “Emmonak” the Alaskan word for “Katrina” ?
Doesn’t she know someone at a … I don’t know… a turkey farm, or something, that could send a little food?
Well perhaps she CAN’T figure out how to mail a package or write a check or charter a plane. I have a visual of a cat trying to get out of a papper bag. Sorry, no offense to cat people. Palin is a heartless blank ity blank.
Maybe she could do a “flyby” and shoot a couple of wolves for them.
If she WERE a bear, she’d EAT her young!
Once again, her selfish, Sarah first attitude rears its ugly head.
Palin is a flippin disgrace! There is NO excuse for her inaction on an crisis that Walt Monegan forecasted last summer and that she’s been slapped in the face with over a month ago.
What motivates this narcissistic asshole? Does she think this will all go away if she ignores it? And then the veto guarantee for Tropper-gate investigation halt deal..WTF over? Palin has enjoyed her only 15 minutes of fame.
Alaska sux if it can’t do better than this trailer trash. (And I humbly apologize for insulting trailer dwellers.) Palin has turned Alaska politics into an international joke!
Wow. Just, wow.
She looks VERY nervous and fidgety in the videos. She does not look directly at anyone asking questions. And asked about Talis Colberg, she brings up – what? HER KIDS, personal matter, blah blah – NOBODY BROUGHT UP THE KIDS.
She is losing it. Incapable of a press conference even surrounded by her buddies and at a conference table.
She could action off the Campaign wardrobe for a bundle and right the wronge of the whole wardrobe debacle. But NOOOOOOOOO
I’ve only seen a few interviews with Palin before she was Governor and she does the same thing then that she does now.
She does not answer a question. And if she attempts to, you cannot understand what she is saying.
Never, ever elect a person that does not answer a question.
I just can’t believe she believed she was qualified for the VP spot. Thank you Lord for letting us dodge that Bullet.
I have faith that the AK citizens will remove this boil on the face of thier state. ( However, nothing is “for certain” considering Bush got elected twice)
She’s just trash, plain and simple.
She can’t ask for help without losing face…that is the crux of the matter. She does not care that peoples’ lives are at stake. She will not admit that others knew this was coming (especially Monegan) because that would mean that she wasn’t smart enough to do so herself. She is the Governor, gosh darn it all. There is no room for failure in her mind. Her image is all she’s got. Grovel in front of anyone to ask for help? It is beneath her.
She is a self-serving politician. Nuf said.
Just when I thought she couldn’t get any worse, she surprises me yet again with a new low. Wow!
She’s either starting to crack or, more likely, she’s so bored with Alaska & everyone in it -not to mention those crappy Carhartt Clothes, that she’s just buying time until she can move into that Big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue.
As for Levi, I hope his grilfriend is preggos, he leaves Bristal and does all the TV rounds and tells all. Could we get that lucky?
Well this is confusing, or am I not getting something. Lisa Murkowski picked to give GOP response to President Obama’s address. I thought Bobby Jindal had that in the bag. And didn’t the GOP think Palin was up to it?.
http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/687696.html
Please keep doing everything possible to get the word out about this GINO, masquerading as a caring being. Please make her go away, back to her den.
Sarah Palin needs a good slap across the face. And then her lying mouth should be thoroughly washed out with soap. Then another slap across the face, just to be sure she’s really a human. I personally do not think she is.
Why doesn’t someone ask Palin this question:
She is utterly incapable of thinking about anyone besides herself. As Lori in LA mentioned, when asked about Talis Colberg, she immediately brought up her kids in an attempt to deflect the question. I was delighted to see that Bob Tkacz didn’t let her away with that.
Palin is an icy cold, self-centred, self-serving, uneducated fool who is in way over her head. All her plans are based on “who can I throw under the bus now so that I can further my career.” Whilst she’s busy plotting this, she has no time to consider the plight of the Native Alaskans.
She simply doesn’t care.
Ah, the harsh glaring light of truth shines on the lies of Sarah.
Sarah doesn’t care about anything but Sarah. Therefore, she does not help anyone in need–not on a personal level or in an official role. She doesn’t even tithe at her church. Sarah is all about GETTING, not about GIVING.
She is the nations FOREMOST energy expert. “Piper, can you turn up the heat a bit…I’m a bit chilly.”
I wasn’t going to watch her, because she just annoys me every time she opens her mouth, and AKM, you did such a good job of stating the irony of her response.
But I did finally listen to her. Watching her was even more informative. She looked really uncomfortable with that question and looked like she wanted to get through that answer and onto something else quickly. No winking, no you betcha, in other words, no excuses for her lack of understanding of the situation or that she, as governor, does have the power and means to do what most of us do not. She keeps saying she’ll go there, but what’s the point? She probably wouldn’t think to take food or money with her that might actually be useful.
She is disgusting. And I wish she’d quit comparing herself to the wildlife that she doesn’t want to help either.
Pat
I now feel that Governor Palin is either stupid or evil. I’m leaning toward “evil”. Admittedly, my spiritual tradition (Buddhism) would call her “deluded” so I guess I just call her incredibly deluded. I am trying to feel compassion for her. I have no problem feeling compassion for the citizens of Alaska, my former home.
I remember so much beauty in Alaska. And I remember so many smart and talented and dedicated individuals. The challenges we faced when I was living and working there, and our sense of collective satisfaction at the positive things we accomplished, shaped me and my future work in so many positive ways.
But Governor Palin represents, in concentrated form, what I DON’T miss about Alaska–those individuals who exploit the state and its people and its resources. She embodies, in concentrated form, ignorance, greed and corruption and a horrifyingly callous disregard for the human, social and physical environment.
@Puula re: As for Levi, I hope his grilfriend is preggos, he leaves Bristal and does all the TV rounds and tells all.
What? Did I miss something? Levi has a different girlfriend now???
She’s willing to do anything she can do personally and as governor, including going to villages?
What the heck is she waiting for? Or is she afraid that once she actually gets to a village that it will become too obvious that that village was without an idiot until her arrival?
gah, indeed.
And, yes, I did notice that she never actually answered the question presented to her.
What have you, Sarah Palin, done to help the people in the Lower Yukon on a personal level? Donate any food? Send cash?
I’d ask about fuel but we all know that The Dud is wasting gallons of it at the Iron Dog instead of sending it to where it’s needed.
New ice cream flavor
Village Voice in the Wilderness. It’s a house shaped carton that’s really cold and empty inside except for some inedible buttons: “Where’s Sarah?” “I can’t see Alaskan villages from my house.” “Blame Talis” “Let them eat snow” “Flying’s for wolf shooting, not food delivery” “Jesus fed thousands. Ask Him” “I’ll help the poor and helpless when they’re rich and powerful” “I can’t worry about their kids–I have enough trouble ignoring mine.” “Alaska could have a governor who cares. We didn’t elect him.” “Chill baby chill.” “You can get by on graft and grifting.” “With everyone playin’ gotcha with me, I don’t have time for you” “I care about you–if you vote Republican” “Shoot Wooten and we’ll send food” “Let Moneghan do it” “Why don’t you live in MatSu, like REAL natives?” “Only 4 months until summer. Hang in there”
Why doesn’t someone ask Palin this question:
“Governor Palin, given that Walt Monegan forecasted this crisis back in the summer of ‘08 and the publicity that this crisis has garnered due to individual, international blogger efforts and contributions, how do you explain the lack of the state response to the problems being experienced by our rural villages?”
Or, this question:
“Governor Palin, how many of our rural Alaskans have to starve to death before you can declare an emergency and USE STATE RESOURCES TO GET THE FREE FRIGGIN FOOD FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO THEM?”
Martha Unalaska Yard SignNo Gravatar (12:15:08) :
Sarah Palin needs a good slap across the face.
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No.
What she needs is a good swift kick in the rear.
I like the part about washing her mouth out with soap but I have this thing about not abusing soap. …
She seems to be irritated by the question and just flips off an answer as if she couldn’t be bothered. She has no more intention of doing anything now than she did before. You guys in Alaska need to keep plugging away at her so maybe, just maybe, the others in the lower 48 will get wise to her. She is dangerous and needs to be stopped!
It’s obvious Palin does not care about Yukon villages, Bush dwellers, the poor, those with special needs, schools (thus the lawsuit)…she cares about those who can donate to her PAC, contractors, hunters,big businesses, oil companies that drill-
If she is going to avoid and dodge awkward questions, she needs some serious coaching…
Just read that our new POTUS plans more trips … Denver and Phoenix. He’s become quite the jet-setter – I think that’s great. Americans need to see and hear him.
Soooooo … how about someone invites him to Alaska? say, someplace like er, …… Emmonak?
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Also, I didn’t get much of SP’s video with my dial-up connection, but sure did notice that she fumbled with that pen a whole lot.
Aw, gee, you know? She “might offer” to visit the villages but then again, she might not, you know?
Sarah, I don’t know, if anyone informed you of this, but since you are “pro-life”, that means you should support not only the unborn, but poeple in your own state WHO ARE ALREADY ALIVE! It means helping the needy, the poor, and all of God’s creatures which include animals like polar bears, wolves, and beluga whales. It means being anti-war, pro-education, and anti-violence.
The hypocrisy of this woman is astounding. No mention of church efforts, helping Princess Piper pack a box to ship, nothing. I just love all these pro-life religious nut jobs…they are pro-birth and that’s exactly where it ends. They don’t support any programs that help mothers, infants, and the needy, because that’s “welfare”, but they want everyone to have babies…she makes me ill.
Palin is a LIAR.
Palin is a HYPOCRITE.
Palin is an IGNORAMUS.
Palin is a FRAUD.
Do any rational people actually support this person? How did she get elected governor? Alaskans are un-frickin-believable!
too mad… had to go back to ice cream
Gee, do you think they have this video posted on her SarahPAC, or Teamsarah?
Thank you AKM for posting the anonymous blogger website. I will be sure to forward that on. Do you think KO will have an opinion?
I’m sorry but, what would it help if she traveled to those specific villages? Unless of course, she was carrying a load of supplies herself. I just don’t understand her.
She is speaking in future terms about people who may not have one.
I finally worked up the nerve to watch the video… She is sooo flippant, and obviously doesn’t care at all! Many kudos to our legislators who have to stomach her… she is so sickening. We should have a counter on this site for how many days she has left in office.
People from all over have PERSONALLY sent money and food and Sarah has PERSONALLY done NOTHING!! She reminds me of a wicked stepmother – perhaps a wicked grizzly stepmother who really doesn’t like her cubs she says she’s actually protecting. She makes me want to spit. Thpttt!!!! So there.
Ripley in CT (13:14:10) :
She is speaking in future terms about people who may not have one.
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So true. And so sad.
This woman is losing it. I really enjoyed watching her squirm like the snake she is. She can barely contain her contemp for ANYONE who questions her on ANYTHING she does not wish to discuss. Sarah Palin has an identity crisis. She is the governor of Alaska in the year 2009, not Queen Elizabeth I in 1600 who could have people beheaded or thrown into the dungeon if they displeased her. Wonder how it feels to be at the end of the tunnel with the headlights in view?
What do you think it would take to get Barack or Michelle to visit the YK Delta?
I guess we can look at her personal motherhood example. She doesn’t do well protecting her own children, sending them to live with relatives, and off to Iraq…..How could she possibly know anything about what it is to be a mother?
Sarah…could you elaborate on exactly what “anything and everything I can do personally and in my position as Governor to help” means since you have done absolutely NOTHING to date?
Unbelievably sad.
I can’t stand it. She makes my blood pressure go sky high and I am not kidding. Sometimes I have to stop reading this stuff and step back for a while because I might have a stroke.
Jesus loves the little children
All the little children of the world
Be they yellow, black or white
They are precious in his sight
Jesus love the little children of the world
Sarah loves the little villagers
All the villagers that contribute to her PAC
Be they yellow black or white
Their money’s precious in her sight
Sarah loves the little villagers, uh contributers, in their Bush.
Sarah loves the little villagers
All the villagers starving in the bush
She’s helped them all she can
By starting irondog when they ran
Sarah loves the little villagers of the Bush
Sarah loves the little villagers
Less food means “heroin chique” doncha know
They’ll do better in beauty contests
When they come in from the West
Sarah loves the little villagers of the Bush
It’s the same mouth-music as when people say “I’m here for you.”
Here for me? What, just sitting there? Bump/log, chair/corner of the room? “Being there” means nothing; “helping whilst there,” that might be useful.
SP has a local agenda in Wasilla. Its hard for her to protect Alaskan people or cubs out of the valley.
She has been promoting Wasilla as a destination for the coming Armageddon. Her own people in the state of Alaska suffering, is just her way of saying, I told you so! So as, these things shall be, god told me.
I just got off the phone with a good friend of mine in Wasilla, and he told me that the real-estate market is starting to take off. Lots of people calling from the lower 48 looking to move up here in the spring after tax returns. SP has really been campaigning hard for her special interest Wasilla right wing Youbetyaberry crowd. Pipeline jobs, great strip malls, big churches, and all my friends build roads, sell Real-Estate, get grants, like to fire guns out of planes, and have lots of babies.
Once the road to no-were gets built, there is going to be a new event of snow-machine hunting while racing to Nome on the Irondogs.
I’m with those who have already voiced the “what difference would it make if SP went to the villages” question. Send the money it would take to fly her, her staff, Todd, and a child or two instead. Or have her pay back the per diem she has taken for living at home and send that as a gift of good will.
Stop the Insanity…I’d love to see a countdown of the numbers of days left in SP’s term. Any bit of hope would be great to hang onto!
I think it is funny that idiots are thinking of moving to Wasilla. Crappy place to live. They will all regret it and sell out, thus plummeting the temporary housing bubble of hillbilly wasilly.
UK Lady (12:14:00) :
Well this is confusing, or am I not getting something. Lisa Murkowski picked to give GOP response to President Obama’s address.
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“We need someone to read a speech on the radio next weekend ……”
Watch those old GOP senators find their second wind and rush the doors!
countdown to the numbers of days it takes her to actually go to any of the villages…[add inthe day that have passed already]
WHAT IS GHINO waiting for an invite?
Hhhmmmm! Andrew Halcro has a new post up – questions schmestion, interesting little snippet there
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/questions_schmeshtions
Martha Unalaska Yard SignNo Gravatar
Just read your reply to Jim Behlke over on AnonymousBloggers. Way to go. So, what, is he, Sarah’s beard? Sounds suspiciously like they’re wanting to fill the State’s Food Bank at the expense of a working, ongoing, successful private enterprise that is truly making a difference.
Slightly OT, but what in God’s name is a strip mall? I know what a mall is, but strip mall conjures up all sorts of connotations!
Well she is not taking care of business in Alaska- just her own business. At anonymousbloggers.wordpress we are trying to arrange for RAMUSA.org. to fly to Emmonack with alot of Md’s, dentists,maybe veterinarians. They provide service for free to remote areas. A great organization but it is hard for them to work in USA. Problem is that the doctors need Alaska licenses or a waiver from the government.(Most states have these restrictions) Does anyone know a lawyer who would do pro bono work to figure this out. Thank you.& Martha: that flyby wolf killing comment is so horrible yet so right on …..
Let do an old fashioned Keith Obermann [sp] Countdown to the days left in the Palin Administration….
I’m praying that you guys don’t have to have her for another term…IN FACT, I’m HOPINGTHAT HER DAYS IN OFFICE GET cut short!
Anyone want to pray with me…it seems that God has cracked the door a little, now we can all bum-rush the stage to get her flat azz outta there!
{no offense to the flat-butt ppl]
WOW!!! It’s definitely FRIDAY the 13th isn’t it??
Wonder if someone from SP’s office reads mudflats???? Talk about a WHOLE LOTTA PO’d mudpuppies. Honestly, have never seen y’all this worked up
Just popped on to let y’all know that I kinda adopted 2 VILLAGES and am helping them get their own food drive started.
To find out how to help please visit….
http://anonymousbloggers.wordpress.com/another-village-in-need-of-help/#comments
Everyone take a DEEP BREATH!! LOL BREATHE!!!! as my friend AK PI always tells me!! LOL
Have a great weekend y’all
Ann Strongheart
Nunam Iqua Food Drive
c/o Ann Strongheart
P.O. Box 7
Nunam Iqua, AK 99666
nunamiquayouth@yahoo.com
Irishgirl -
; ) Strip Mall : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_mall
That Sarah even got nominated for VICE PRESIDENT of this country should be enough to send shivers (of the warning! warning! kind) down the spines of every thinking patriot in the country.
That Sarah adamantly refuses to accept any responsibility whatsoever for her own and her Party’s failures should cement the notion that she is in no way fit to serve in any public office.
That Sarah provably has obstructed justice and shown herself to be devoid of any understanding of public ethical behavior is simply icing on the cake upon which should be written, “Thanks, but NO THANKS.”
That Sarah tries to pass herself off as an ordinary “hockey mom” (or “soccer mom” or “working mom” or “a pro-life feminist”) is an insult to women everywhere.
Dear god, she makes me sick. And as long as she believes she’s been chosen to be in government to codify her born-of-religious-extremism beliefs, I can not rest in reminding anyone who will listen what an abject failure she is, personally and personnel-ly and governmentally.
Thanks once again, AKM, for a great take on the squirmy, defensive, snarling Palin she showed us all in the presser.
A strip mall (also called a shopping plaza or mini-mall) is an open area shopping center where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. Strip malls are typically developed as a unit and have large parking lots in front. They face major traffic arterials and tend to be self-contained with few pedestrian connections to surrounding neighborhoods. (Wikipedia)
So, according to the person Andrew Halcro is repeating, Palin now has her daddy poking his nose into government business, what’s up, can’t wait for the dud to get back from his male bonding session. What a plonker!!
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Does anyone know a lawyer who would do pro bono work to figure this out.
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Why don’t you call Talis? I hear he’s got some time on his hands, and maybe he’d like to make amends to the Great State of Alaska while ‘buffing’ up his image a little bit?
Ifeel you Ennealogic!
The closest I’ve been to Ak, was Seattle, WA. But i feel for the folks there – havingto deal with ‘Sarah the GINO’…eeewwww
We outside of Ak don’t want her either! So lets stop her now, while all her Official Sins are fresh and still discoverable….
Those are small town values for you. NOT!
@Libby and NY Dem,
Thanks. I understand now.
To UK Lady:
It appears Murkowski is giving the Radio response. Jindal will give the televised response.
@libby (13:53:40) :
You know, I think GINO actually has one of those clocks, up on the wall on the outside of the door to her offices in the Capitol. However…, I do think she’s marketing it as how many days she has left to “make a difference” or “save the world” or some such nonsense as that…
@UK Lady,
I’ve heard it mentioned that Halcro’s sources are fairly good. I’m not a local though, so what would I know! The video on his blog was new to me….more of her passing the buck and avoiding questions.
Oh, OK, thanks Boudica, now I get it.
Irishgirl, if it is true WTF! – her daddy?!!
UK Lady….it wouldn’t be the first time he’s put his foot in her, I mean his mouth.
Uh why don’t Alaskans take her up on her offer.
Spell it out for her. Use simple language.
Yes, Sarah lend your name to the effort. Hold a press conference, and encourage people to donate to a food & Fuel drive. Write a personal check for $250.
Plan a delivery trip, in which you (SP) will accompany the food to its destination.
And while you’re at it on a personal level she can tell the Governor to apply state resources to help solve this problem. Oh I don’t know… advocate for earmarks to help the fishing industry.
Yep thats a start.
Yes, Sarah that will even help, also.
I’ll bet that she was thinking about Rural Alaska the whole time that she was flagging the start of the Iron Dog Snowmobile race. You betcha, also, too.
Only reason I can figure why SP is being SO evasive and stubborn on this issue, is because she is a person that, above all else, has to be FIRST. Head cheerleader, head of everything, and first in having an idea, like, the idea of providing relief in Emmonak. Because it wasn’t her idea, and someone else thought of it………..she refuses to acknowledge it, and is unrepentant in acknowledging it. This look, sounds, and smells like a child-like reaction, temper tantrum. Similar to cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face.
Hello Ann! So there we have it – it’s the “Revenge of The Mad Mudpuppies” being viewed on all channels.
Thanks for including Ugashik and Pilot Point in your efforts!
@ Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble
Why don’t you call Talis? I hear he’s got some time on his hands, and maybe he’d like to make amends to the Great State of Alaska while ‘buffing’ up his image a little bit?
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hehehe, you get a serious attaboy
Thanks, Tewise:)
In my opinion, if you read the attached article regarding the ARLF loan practice and the Matanuska Creamery, you will no longer wonder why there is inaction by the administration for our rural Alaskan families in need. The decision to assist depends on cronyism, feathering nests, and personal vendettas. This is just one example and the last sentence sums it up:
“…After a senior ARLF loan officer informed both Chair Kristen Cole and the state’s attorney in an e-mail that the application was incomplete and should be denied, the loan officer was immediately replaced and removed from any further reviews regarding the Valley Dairy…
Shortly after the November 13 board meeting, Amy Moore, the former Milk Room Supervisor said that the Director of Agriculture Franci Havemeister (whose father in law is a dairy farmer and sells milk to Valley Dairy) strolled into the dairy and told Beus that if the Valley Dairy wanted to get the personal guarantee requirement lifted, “We have to pull our last two strings; Kristen Cole and Sarah Palin.”
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/palins_agriculture_board_got_fraud
OK I’m getting to the point where I’m going to do some Muthie curses on Palin for her lies. The first – ALL OF THE SKELETONS come out of her closets, dressed in Naughty Monkey shoes and RNC clothing, and they will dance around her singing “Liar Liar Pants on Fire” til she fesses up.
Perhaps we should all send Palin an e-mail letting her know what each of us has done personaly to help rural Alaska.
Yes, Emmonak is Yup’ik for Katrina.
Palin said in her mama grizzly speech that “we must not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course.”
She, of course, is the sensationalized distraction. … Gov Winky looks like she’s startin’ to circle the musk ox. …
Sorry, I posted this in the wrong place! My bad.
OT What a hoot! Did anyone see on CNN that over $1,000,000 has been donated to Planned Parenthood in SP’s name? I think they said over 46,000 donations! Sarah is pissed, and even admitted that some are doing the same with wildlife societies.
Re Emmonak and the whole Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. This administration’s apparent disregard for life in the villages is so unlike the Alaska I knew. And when I hear some advocate that those who can’t make a living there move the the city, I know they have never experienced life in that region. What do they think would happen if the urban areas of AK suddenly were inundated with folks whose only experience with earning a living was that of fishing, hunting, trapping, etc. that has always previously sustained them? I think what I dislike about SP and all her cronies is that it makes a state that I have a deep love and appreciation for, seem like a bunch of ninnies, liars and incompetents.
Hey, we have them here In GA, too. What about that peanut man that knew his product was tainted, and now refuses to testify?
If you want a bit of light relief, Gryphen at the Immoral Minority has a great piece. I highly recommend it.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
I plan on challenging GINO to outspend me for the purchase I made at Costco on the 16th of JANUARY for Village Aid. I’m preparing a fax (so I can include a copy of the receipt) to send to her Juneau office. I WANT her to outspend me ($500.00) and to bring cameras along if she so desires. I plan to follow up with her until I get a response.
Are you interested in me posting the fax (passing it on to AKM)? I would love others to pressure her to take on my challenge. It would be interesting to see what, if any, response she may have.
What do you think??
I love a good challenge. Let’s see what this so-called “momma bear” is really made of!! Let’s circle GINO like the good musk oxen we are!
@tigerwine (15:33:35) :
My comment fits as well here as on the other thread:
That man is just evil!
I watched this video 3 times just to watch her mouth and to listen to her tone. This women had not one ounce of compassion to her voice and the set of her mouth ..it looked like she had to force the words up and out of her mouth and she was not happy about it. I am afraid that the Ice Queen was pretty transparent and could not hide her disgust and unconcern that she felt for this subject. sarah palin I hear that there is a special place waiting in h*!! for women like you..Say it all you sarah palin that you are pro life…but that is just not true. you are just PRO BIRTH..after BIRTH you don’t give a hoot about any one…I sure hope that you don’t own any pets except the Toad of course and speaking of the Toad…why didn’t the Governor of alaska cancel this iron dog thing during this undeclared AK crisis and donate all of that wasted fuel to the village people instead of these rich macho men using up all of this precious fuel so that they can go home to their ladies feeling like studs. Yaa how proud are all of you toad studs when each of you could have taken boxes of food to the Bush…that would have been a race that lots of people would have been proud of supporting and every one would have come home looking like a hero instead of fuel wasting Toadies.
Sarah can’t go to the Bush, she’s afraid they’ll lynch her. I sure hope they won’t VOTE for her… ever. For any reason.
Secret Shopper- I like.
@Secret Shopper,
I think that sounds like a great idea.
IrishgirlNo Gravatar (15:38:12) :
If you want a bit of light relief, Gryphen at the Immoral Minority has a great piece. I highly recommend it.
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Thanks, what a hoot!
@Lance,
I got a good giggle from that. It de-stressed me.
I sent the story of the plight of the villages, along with all the letters to a friend of mine, she then posted it on iReport/CNN.
I think that if more of these stories got onto iReport, it might help get more of the national attention it deserves.
AK Muckracker does such a bang up job reporting and the lower 48 remain fascinated with Palin as you know, I’m sure you could include dedicated snippets from this blog. Maybe even submit as a group of mud puppies from Alaska.
I think that it carries more wieght when it comes from the folks in Alaska, who really know best what is going on.
Anything with Palin in the headline would get attention. The more “Sarah ” you throw against the wall, the more that sticks.
I’ve included a link to Barbs submission;
Click the following link to view the full article:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-206441?ref=email
mhrtNo Gravatar (15:53:17) :
I watched this video 3 times just to watch her mouth and to listen to her tone.
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To me, when she puts her finger on her ear, it suggests that she’s wearing an earbud, and sounds like she’s channeling Meg.
Me, too, Irishgirl. And if I think about it too much, I almost fall down on the floor laughing hysterically when I think about one of Sarah’s bots having to keep up with AKM and Gryphen and report back. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
@Secret shopper: I think that is a superb idea. Keep the fire under Gino’s hooves.
UK LadyNo Gravatar (14:37:14) :
Oh, OK, thanks Boudica, now I get it.
Irishgirl, if it is true WTF! – her daddy?!!
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Well, ya know, dud is “indisposed” right now with the all important irondog…so she has to get someone to do her bidding….!
SecretShopper-Wow, good for you, go for it, I for one would love to see her respond, especially after her despicable “let them eat cake” attitude on the vid.
See her fidgeting? I think its getting to her mentally and physically (she looks awful lately)
Crystalwolf
She does look awful lately (no expensive stylists)
Also’ as Letterman says ‘happy birthday Sarah Palin, not saying how old she is but she can see 50 from her house’.
Old saying ‘by the time you are 50, you have the face you deserve’ – SP could be in a lot of trouble!
There is a science to spotting liars (not kidding). I went to a seminar once and learned that people who use their LEFT hand to tug at their ear or cover their mouth or touch their nose when speaking are unconsciously telling the listener that they are not telling the truth or are unsure of what they are saying.
wes-ben
What if you are a lefty like me, would that make it the RIGHT hand?
Add up the couple’s 2007 income and the estimated value of their property and investments, and they appear to be worth at least $1.2 million.
One measure of financial health: While there is a home loan, Palin reported no personal credit card debt on her most recent financial report as Alaska governor. That compares to average household credit card debt among Americans of $9,840 last year.
Palin this week characterized herself as “an everyday, working-class American” who knows how it feels when the stock market takes a hit.
The Palins’ total income last year was split almost evenly between Sarah Palin’s white-collar job and her husband’s blue-collar work. Sarah Palin’s salary as governor was $125,000; Todd Palin took in $46,790 as a part-time oil production operator for BP Alaska in Prudhoe Bay, plus $46,265 in commercial fishing income and $10,500 in Iron Dog snowmachine race winnings.
These figures do not include nearly $17,000 in per diem payments Palin received for 312 nights spent in her own home since she was elected governor; she also has received $43,490 to cover travel costs for her husband and children.
In addition, each member of the Palin family received $1,654 in state oil royalties paid to all Alaskans.
The Palins’ assets seem enviable: a half-million-dollar home on a lake with a float-plane at the dock, two vacation retreats, commercial-fishing rights worth an estimated $50,000 or more and an income last year of at least $230,000. That compares to a median household income of $64,333 for Alaskans and $50,740 for Americans in 2007, according to the Census Bureau.
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Geez, with all this, she can’t do something to help the people in Emmonak ? Like maybe donate the use of their float plane to ferry supplies where needed ?
Sarah Palin’s 2006 Inaugural Speech excerpt:
“I am humbled to be here with so many good Alaskans and here in a land of great native heritage. Alaska is a family and Alaska natives, you’re the first family. Your grace that welcomed newcomers to this frontier yesterday; it let us forward in unity today. Wiith respect, with good stewardship of the land of your birth, with——–let us be united with one heart.”
Ready to barf at her LIES????????????
UK Lady…good question. I think i still have the book the lady wrote, so i’ll see if I can find out about lefty’s. I can tell you that ever since that seminar, I now watch people for those mannerisms to see if they’re pulling my leg or not
It’s especially concerning when I see execs or politicians do it.
ROFLMFAO
I just now realized that I am a day ahead!! I was certain today was Friday and yesterday was Thursday, thus why my posts are dated a day ahead LMAO
Thanks to OPRAH on TV I just realized today is Thursday and NOT Friday. Hee hee, over anxious for the weekend??? NO probably more caught up in all the events and stuff going on that I just lost track of the days LOL
Ann
@AnnA(14:07:34) :
I can’t help you on visiting MD’s, but we got a new law passed last year that will allow licensed veterinarians from other states to come up here and work on a very short-term basis. (The State Vet asked us to lobby for that bill, so a few of us worked hard on it and got it.)
She doesn’t care about Alaska…probably never did…she just wanted the prestige (oh yeah, like she’s not a laughing stock) and a way to climb a political ladder (over the lower 49’s dead body!)…she’s a disgusting piece—
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (16:55:54) :
Sarah Palin’s 2006 Inaugural Speech excerpt:
“I am humbled to be here with so many good Alaskans and here in a land of great native heritage. Alaska is a family and Alaska natives, you’re the first family. Your grace that welcomed newcomers to this frontier yesterday; it let us forward in unity today. Wiith respect, with good stewardship of the land of your birth, with——–let us be united with one heart.”
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blechhhhh!
The way she’s been acting, it seems like she’s doing everything in her power to make things difficult for Alaska Natives. This might be stretching things … but maybe she’s mad at the First Nations folks in Canada for not wanting her gas pipeline …
AKM on HuffPo, with another excellent blog:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/chevrons-oil—between-th_b_166577.html
I have not read all of the posts. This may have been addressed earlier.
Sarah P. said what she meant–she compared herself to ‘like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own.’ Grizzlies do not (correct me if I’m wrong here) guard the cubs (babies) of other animals.
IMHO Ms. Palin does not recognize other humans who do not look, think, smell, or act like those that she feels reliant on or even cares about (survival of the fittest). She would not naturally ‘guard’ other human beings because she does not recognize ‘others’ as human. On some strange level, this is probably the most honest statement that she’s ever made that I’ve heard/read.
These feelings whether innate or by culture have damaged her irrevocably. Those around her know that she is damaged and use it to their own advantage.
She sincerely believes the misused Bible scripture used to sanction ‘the peculiar institution of slavery. Misapplication of ‘political religion’ declared enslaved Africans three fifths human and discounted Native Americans altogether.
Thank you asiangirl for your early (before the election) links to religious Dominionism that many right-wing denominations (knowing or not) citizens ‘cling to’ along with guns (NRA), violence, and especially rhetorical violence that divides to conquer.
South Side Chicago
Sarah Palin NEEDs to resign..this interview is the MOST sickening thing I have seen!!!!! She can’t answer a single question straight. Squirming in her chair, messing with her ears, fidgeting….looked just like Blagojevich being ineterviewed..classic signs of a LIAR!!!!!! Her Commisssioners must just cringe listening to her. People….can you imagine her as our VP? NO!!!!!! We all know Sarah reads this blog—-Sarah—give it up….we can see you…”The Empress is wearing no clothes!” You do NOT have what it takes to govern this State. You filled your cabinet with your little high school clique and they and you are failing miserably. Go have your book published, retire on some nice island and save us from your stupidity!
Before midnight EST, i’m compelled to post this in honor of Charles Darwin:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Thanks for that Tina!
Agreed Tina!
Did anyone else happen to catch Obama’s speech in IL tonight? Wow.
Boo-Boo Bear (19:37:15) said :”..Squirming in her chair, messing with her ears, fidgeting….looked just like Blagojevich being ineterviewed..classic signs of a LIAR!!!!!! ”
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I couldn’t have said it any better. She is a complete and total fraud! Watch her eyes jet around as she struggles to get the word salad out. Oh my goodness, psychology 101: She is a phony baloney to boot.
To Pandora’s Box—I have been following this Dairy Debacle being carried off by Sarah Palin and Gang. Won’t be long before the FBI is sniffing around on how that original $650,000 grant is being squandered. There is money being laundered left and right it appears. Those dairy farmers have it made…Federal Money, State money, and a Governor who keeps the money flowing. Andrew Halcro has done his research and thank God for that. ADN is pathetic in not exposing this scandal!!!!!!!
Just curious here, but while you wait for Sarah to actually do something that is NOT self-aggrandizing… anyone contact your new federal senator and ask him to do a fact finding trip to the Lower Yukon to investigate the situation? Make a suggestion that either he ask for some of the stimulus money to be directed straight their in terms of relief or that directly he ask for emergency aid as the governor is too bleeping incompetent to fulfill that requirement of her job.
Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble:
“Just read your reply to Jim Behlke over on AnonymousBloggers. Way to go. So, what, is he, Sarah’s beard? Sounds suspiciously like they’re wanting to fill the State’s Food Bank at the expense of a working, ongoing, successful private enterprise that is truly making a difference.”
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1. The Food Bank of Alaska is not the “State Food Bank.” The Food Bank of Alaska is a nonprofit and was recommended to me by several folks, and Ramras’s office is coordinating with them. They’re trying to send at least a couple thousand pounds to each village. I donated today hoping to get some supplies onto a plane heading to Mountain Village and a couple other places early next week. I don’t know if Palin has anything to do with Foodbank but yes, I looked up Mr. Moller, emailed him, and asked if he knows any good ways to help. A person I talked with at Alaska Federation of Natives earlier this week thought Foodbank was a good way to go too. Senator Olson did too. They are one of several options (including our personal direct donations– I’ve done that too). Foodbank, from what I understand, might have better bulk purchasing abilities and better shipping arrangements than I would have as an individual.
2. Perhaps unlike Palin, as an individual I’ve given in various ways for Yukon Relief. I’ve mailed directly and I’ve contributed to Foodbank. You should contribute in any way that makes you comfortable; just contribute. Mail is great if you want to use mail.
3. I shudder thinking about places that may have not yet received any aid. I don’t know where these places are. I especially don’t like the idea of crying hungry babies and that is why I send powdered baby formula, and I’m contributing to Food Bank because food from there will go on flights to perhaps a dozen villages.
4. I hope everyone here will contribute as they can and in whatever way they choose. JUST CONTRIBUTE. People need to work together, especially in a situation like this. It looks like private contributions are going to have to carry the ball.
5. If you are not busy tomorrow (Friday) and you are in Anchorage, you can drop stuff off at Hanshew Middle School– Fedex is providing a plane to carry the donations to Yukon villages. Anything helps. Go to Costco and get some toilet paper, sugar, whatever. (Perhaps you could call me “Carol Comeau’s Beard” for this suggestion).
-Jim
@ Jim
I started out thinking you were a little on the sanctimonious side, but you are beginning to grow on me big time. You have a big heart and busy hands, so THANK YOU for everything you are doing to help rural Alaskans!
can we start a petition demanding her impeachment? The good Christian lady strutting about in her f–k me boots and bad eye lift, is so “pro-life” that she stands by while her Alaskan “cubs” freeze! The ones she is guarding- when she’s not campaigning for president. Or running with the DC insiders… Anyone??
GINO’s steeped in narcissism
In her mind resides a schism
Never was a more truism
Than her dismissive bad decision
Treats her people with derision
Molerat in her errant vision
Cruel refusal is her mission
Never will she be forgiven
Rot in hell Palin!
Thanks, Jim, for the heads up about the collection at Hanshew Middle School. We will load up and head over there in the morning. Kudos to FedEX!!
yes .. thank you FEDEX
Tell Sarah the village has a new and free pair of naughty monkey shoes for her and she’ll show up doggonit.
@Jim: I just checked out The Food Bank of AK, website: https://ssl.foodbankofalaska.org/Donate/index.php
I noticed they have a great webpage, with an online donation system, but not one word on their site about the current crisis in the Villages. I sent them an email asking them to put up a page of what is currently being done to help the villages, which villages need help and when air lifts are going to go out, ect. I also suggested they revise their donation box options to include the various villages so folks can have a choice which villages to support. It would be nice if we had some way of knowing how many families, children, babies, elders ect need help in each village. I’m sure in small villages that information can be tablulated pretty quickly.
Also, I said folks want to know how long this assistance will be needed. And that I’m prepared to begin posting a link to their site on every post I send out to as many places I can think of, as long as they keep this information flowing, via their Webpage, so folks can check back and see what needs to be done and what has been accomplished. Also if villagers are coming back into larger towns and cities the food banks in those towns will need support. So posting those needs are also informative.
When I was director of our local food bank, I didn’t have the web to post our needs, but I sent out a weekly one page newsletter to every church in town letting them know how many people were coming in and what they needed. The web makes this so much easier. I have always believed we have so many great people that really want to do the “right thing” they just need to know how to do. Now we have amazing tools to help get this information to those that can do something.
Bless each and every Mudpuppie.
I also have a very sad story that I will post shortly, I’m just now recovering from some sad news, which kind of threw me for a loop. More to come, shortly.
Peaceful Granny – you’re lovely you are. I’m sorry you are sad.
Ok, I’m to tired now to post my sad story. If you want to read it, I’ve posted it
on the new blog Anonymous Bloggers, get the link at the top of this thread.
Good Grief! everybody go plug AKM’s article on Huff. This could be a very bad. And we certainly don’t need more trouble at this time!
I sent it to the White House since we know how “involved and competent” Palins administration is. I asked that it be brought to the attention of Prez, Ken Salazar and all who deal with natural disasters.
I’m also going to take the liberty to send them information on the native freezing and starving issue.
Also, those in AK should contact your legislature, especially Ramras, he seems supportive. Palin is so inept!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/chevrons-oil—between-th_b_166577.html
wow, she looks like her batteries have run down in this video.
hopefully they won’t be replaced . . .
Peaceful Granny, I read your tale of woe. How awful! I hope you are at least able to get free postage out this. (((((Hugs))))))
I saw most of this press conference on TV. It was fairly “unscripted” so her responses were unfiltered. That said, I would so much like to read a psychological description of her mannerisms, facial expressions etc. To me she just looked like she was ready to come apart – which probably isn’t too far off in the future.
Hi Peaceful Granny:
I talked with Foodbank yesterday and they are set up to receive village aid contributions. Their phone number is (907) 272-3663. I gave them my credit card info on the phone. They said we should make donations on the phone so we can specify that we want the money to go to village aid. I will also encourage them to put some links on their site.
For me it would suffice if I could go to their online donation page and have an option there of specifying village relief. That hasn’t been done yet. I don’t know when their webmaster will get around to it. I think until very recently they didn’t know they’d be involved in village aid but they have agreed to do it. In talking with those people I’m confident my contribution will go out to the Delta.
For today I’ll take stuff over to Hanshew Middle School here in Anchorage and see If we can get that Fedex plane filled. Last Week Emmonak indicated they need stuff like rice, oatmeal, Sailor Boy Pilot Bread, Powdered Milk, Spam, canned corn, coffee, sugar, Tang or Kool-Aid, canned fruit, cold and hot cereals, ketchup, worchestor sauce, ketchup, and table condiments. They also requested Similac Advance. I’m sure they can always use toilet paper too.
I have come to realize that villages need just basic stuff that we take for granted, which is very humbling. It is hard to switch gears and throw something like a bag of sugar in the mail and realize I’m helping someone by doing that.
I’m sad about your box. Sorry that happened.
Jim
Do you think we have a chance to rid of this wacko in the next election.
Sara doesn’t want to shine any attention on the plight of rural Alaskans because addressing the root causes is at odds with her political goals. A large part of the problem is that the Salmon industry in Bristol Bay collapsed. The reasons for the collapse are complex but Global Warming and pollution are at the heart of it. Sara favors digging for coal in the Bristol Bay area and the last thing she wants to do is shine a bright light on the problems mining and global warming are causing in her state. The public face of Alaska is that energy is the only viable industry in the state and that there are no competeing industrys that are being harmed. And yes, I think Sara is evil enough to let people suffer and even die to further her political ends. In fact, I think the energy industry is so evil, I won’t put it past them to intentially destroy the Bristol Bay Salmon industry if they thought it would clear the way for them to move in their mining industry. By the way it is not just Bristol Bay, the Salmon are gone all along the West Coast of NA as well. Here is an intersting article in Salon regarding the missing Salmon and the hope that they might return this year.
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/01/07/return_of_salmon/index.html
@Jim – thanks VERY much for the heads up on being able to drop stuff off at Hanshew. I had purchased a huge garbage bag of things at Sam’s but was worried about what it was going to cost to ship (I got a little carried away), but now that I was able to pass along that without paying any shipping, I can go out and buy some more lightweight items like toilet paper and ship them myself.
What could is her going to those villages going to do? Is she the 2nd coming of Christ, who thinks just your presence in these villages will be enough to save them?!?!?! Seriously, unless she plans on playing Santa and pulling food and supplies out of a big red sack, she is pretty much useless. She has had more then a month to do something.
But yet she has managed to go to D.C. for a private dinner, and other trips, as well as seeing her husband off on some snow race. All that fuel used in the race, could have been sent to the villages in need. That would have been an amazing act of kindness, as well as the prize money.
I realize that Alaskans don’t have much in forms of entertainment, and local things to support. That this Iron Dog or whatever is important, but in a time of crisis it would not have been too awful for them to cancel the race and send the fuel and other supplies to the Yukon. The Country is in a recession, and other States, towns, and cities have got back on ‘entertainment’ and useless spending.
Her kissing her husband goodbye as he hops on some gas guzzler to go race 2000miles in a big circle, while people are starving and freezing elsewhere is a horrible image, and not good for her PR.
This will be remembered in 2012 if she decides to run for a National office….
Correction…I should have proof read better. Sorry, I guess I was so angry I didn’t see some typos.
Should be “what good” and “cut back” not “got back” sorry about that!!
@alaskantiger: That’s great you could make it over to Hanshew. I was there around noon and they’re getting a good pile. It is my understanding they’ll keep taking stuff next week. Thanks!
Thank you for isolating that clip.
Her Response sounded snippy, curt cold, and uncaring. She does not care about anything that she does not want to see.
The sad part is Pro Palin supporters call some of the questions asked by the press rude and unprofessional
The only person in that press conference that is rude, unproffesional and mean spirited is Sarah Palin.