Bedtime in Alaska – Your Sugar Fix, and More!
Sweet!
If all goes well, and I have negotiated embedding this fabulous live streaming video into the tubes, this is what will happen. Today, Friday, February 13, from 10am-2pm Alaska time (11am-3pm Pacific, 2pm-6pm Eastern) in celebration of the 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth, and President Barack Obama’s inauguration, artist and baker Zilly Rosen will be creating a temporary portrait called “A New Birth of Freedom”, in conjunction with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, made entirely of more than 5,000 cupcakes! And you can watch it here LIVE from Washington, DC. Isn’t it a great time to be alive?
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If you are lucky enough to be in the D.C. area, you can participate in the dismantling of this increidble work of art on Saturday. (Yes, that means you get to eat a cupcake!)
More Sugar!!!
We have a winner for the new Sarah Palin Ice Cream Flavor! Here are the top five with over a thousand votes in:
#1) YouBetchaBerry
#2) Wasilly Hillbilly Vanilly
#3) Rocky Road to Nowhere
#4) I Can See Fudge From My House
#5) I’m a Narcissist Who Lies, Also. With Nuts.
Brian was very disappointed I forgot to include “Brian’s Revenge Moose Nougat Surprise”… Maybe next time!
Thanks to all who threw out suggestions and participated in the voting! The best part is that you can click HERE and make your very own virtual carton of Ben & Jerry’s style Sarah Palin Ice Cream. I had fun playing with our winner. I chose a base ice cream of white chocolate and coffee (that’s the best way to stay warm you know). Then a double dose of berries – blackberry (you can run the state of Alaska with one of those!), and raspberry (The Bronx cheer kind). Then a swirl of cake batter (Let them eat cake!) and voila! Sarah Palin’s YouBetchaBerry!
Good News from the Good Guys – Go Pete Petersen!
The long-awaited gas price gouging report from recently-resigned Attorney General Talis Colberg confirms the need for gas price gouging legislation, according to Rep. Pete Petersen (D-Anchorage). The report cites a lack of competition and a small Alaska market as the sources of higher-than-average prices at Alaska gas pumps. Petersen says that confirms the need for an anti-gouging law.
“It’s true that there’s only one refiner in Alaska,” Petersen said. “The former AG called that justification for socking it to Alaska consumers in a free market environment. The truth is, the free market only functions properly when there’s competition. That’s why we have anti-trust laws, and that’s why Alaskans need to be protected at the pump.”
Island Blog Love
Up here in the frozen North Country, my thoughts today turned to a nice quiet island somewhere south…. Kodiak! Here’s a great article about the bloggers of Kodiak Island, including Kodiak Konfidential, the Rogue Wave and Flats Rat Rants.
The paper actually had NICE things to say about them. They didn’t call them ‘pathetic’ or ‘annoying’. Wow. There’s some major blog love on the Island! Keep up the good work! (Snappy salute to the south south west).
Three Cheers for Alaskans for Truth!
I am remiss in not congratulating the fine folks at Alaskans for Truth for a couple major victories in the last week. Two of their four calls to action have been realized. Witnesses who refused to show up for questioning when served with legislative subpoenas were found in contempt, and now Attorney General Talis Colberg has resigned. That leaves censuring the governor for the Legislative Council’s own finding that she violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act and abused her power, and investigating potential perjury by the governor in her deposition to Personnel Board investigator Tim Petumenos. So far, Alaskans for Truth are batting 500….not bad!
For two great write-ups on this, check out Blue Oasis and Progressive Alaska.
snappy salute to all bloggers – go bloggers – go alaska
Let me get this staight 560,000 gals of oil about to blow should MtR go poof, but AK citizens have to pay 3 times what we pay down here in ID because you only have one refinerary? Let me see, do we have any refineraies here in ID, nope can say as we do? Boy, what a crock! I got a bridge to no where I’d like to…no, I won’t even go there.
A little diddy to wake you up.
Obama is Irish? Yep.
And the hockey moms gone!
http://www.oneeyedparrot.org/obama.html
GO Alaskans for Truth!!! That is one righteous bunch of peeps.
and ben & jerry’s ice cream may JUST do it, too! they’re feisty like that.
What a coincidence…I found Kodiak Konfidential only the other day…and found out that the picture of Sarah on the cover of Vogue was photoshopped. I had always thought it was real. Duh!!!
Go Kodiak Bloggers and Alaskans for Truth.
Worth sharing:
http://www.anchoragepress.com/articles/2009/02/12/news/doc499363c28f4b7655399559.txt
Discusses the contrasts between New York’s and Alaska’s Troopergates and how an elected AG may have made the difference in New York.
This may be the truth: If it weren’t for Bloggers, we would have no truthful reporting at all. The “mainstream” sure were getting in a nice huddle with the Bushies back in ’01.
Thanks and Hats off to AKM, et al.
As a hillbilly in good standing, I really must protest at the continued disparagement of my people.
Connie
If my calculations are correct, the legislative session is now about 25% complete. Has a new budget been introduced yet? I noticed that the mercantile price of oil slipped below $34/barrel, so this is a piece of business that is of the utmost importance even with a large surplus.
Does anyone know when the deadline is to put your hat in the ring for either the governatorial and senatorial races for 2010?
And since we’re talkin Palin and AK evirenmental issues read this, and take note of the $25,000 PER MONTH pay to Todd’s friends relative to house mine workers at a native village.
“Palin’s Hand Seen in Battle Over Mine in Alaska”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/politics/22mining.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
I REALLY hate to say this….it looks like we have something to be thankful to Sarah Palin for, besides all the laughs with the ice cream.
Excerpt;
Here is Plouffe on Gov. Sarah Palin: “Vice presidential picks rarely but sometimes make an electoral difference. Our view was it probably wasn’t going to matter that much. It’s the most over-covered story in politics. This was the one exception to that. It did have an effect.”
“She was our best fundraiser and organizer in the fall.”
link;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/13/plouffe-palin-was-our-bes_n_166683.html
check out the cool chalk drawing of Palin, lol
http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/05/the-pepple-mine-project-and-alaska-initiative-4-how-palin-rolls-over-the-environment-and-the-law/
“The Pebble Mine Project and Alaska Initiative 4: How Palin Rolls (Over the Environment and the Law)”
Connie (06:35:52) :
As a hillbilly in good standing, I really must protest at the continued disparagement of my people.
Connie
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Connie, I heard that there is a test to determine a persons “hillbilly” status;
You know that you are a true hillbilly if you use the ring from the bologna slice for dental floss.
Just to keep you in good standing…:)
here’s another “gate”…….measure 4 ballot-gate
note the Pepple Mine is the largest open pit mine in the WORLD. and it’s drainng into the largest SALMON proucing river system in the WORLD.
“Well, isn’t that dandy. Illegal, but dandy. And what is it with Republicans and their “hats”? In any case, it seems obvious that a Governor can’t simply state, while talking to the press, that she’s taken off her Governor hat so she can now speak publicly when the law expressly forbids her from so doing. When you’re talking to the press, your Governor hat is stuck to your head. Sorry, but “personal privilege” in this context is apparently something Palin just made up.”
“The Pebble Mine, if allowed to proceed, will place the largest open-pit mine at the watershed draining into the largest salmon-producing river system in the world.”
this woman infuriates me! this is from KTUU news article but I can’t find the video of it.
This should also be put on Alaskans For Truth list., since it’s against the law and all.
“It is against the law for the governor to officially advocate for or against a ballot measure; however, Palin took what she calls “personal privelege” to discuss one of this year’s most contentious initiatives, which voters will decide Tuesday.”
Hey Connie… no one is dissing hillbillies. However, I do have a request. I am in need of a banjo player. Know anyone who’s got more than one tooth but has the skills to play Deliverance? I’d ask Sarah Palin, but she’s too busy palin around with the wrong kinda people while doing absolutely nothing.
“Energy Policy
Palin is an enthusiastic advocate of drilling in ANWR and offshore, while not that long ago McCain was opposed. Palin dismisses renewable energy as “at least a decade away” showing her abysmal lack of knowledge in the potential for economic growth from the “green” sector as well as the almost daily technical advances in renewable energy. Palin fails to mention the fact that the production of oil from ANWR or offshore is what would actually be at least a decade away.
On these points alone she engenders a vast lack of credibility on energy issues. In fact, Sarah Palin represents a disaster in terms of energy policy. She is neither forward-thinking or displays any awareness whatsoever of the realities of our energy economy or how to go about building a new one.
She merely sits in her office and sees
“…the big oil company’s building… right out there next to me…”
That sums up the “leadership” Sarah Palin brings to the Republican table in terms of energy policy.”
http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2008/09/02/sarah-palin-a-bridge-to-nowhere-energy-climate-and-the-environment/
Funny and so true….
It’s Fun to Watch Obama Driving These Republicans So Crazy
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/126655/
I heart Ken Salazar and Prez Obama!
http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/10/drill-baby-drill-not-so-fast-interior-dept-scraps-bush-offshore-drilling-plan/
““The Bush Administration was so intent on opening new areas for oil and gas offshore that it torpedoed offshore renewable energy efforts,” Salazar said. To remedy the “headlong rush” to develop oil and gas at the expense of renewable energy development, Salazar says he will “build a framework” to incorporate development of wind, wave, and ocean current energy, along with oil and gas, into a comprehensive energy plan.
Oil and gas developers not amused
Not surprisingly, oil and gas interests are upset with Salazar’s announcement. Barry Russell, chief executive of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, accused Salazar of imposing an “unnecessary delay”.
and check out a cool pic of a bear walking on a pipeline.
http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/04/palins-clean-energy-plan-for-alaska-takes-backseat-to-anwr/
Mercenary Universities? Outspoken Marine Professors? pulled grants, fund cuts equaling gag orders on Bristol Bay research?
and now a group called:”Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility”.
More Alaska drama! hope AKM does an article on this.
Jeff Ruch and Rick Steiner are puttin up their dukes!
http://www.ktuu.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=3438688&h1=Professor%20questions%20NOAA%20funding%20cut&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=136367&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=28733110
Socking it to consumers in a free market environment.
First of all, the orthodox GOP term for price gouging is “what the market will bear”. Second, we have a free market in ideas-elections-and it turns out that the market couldn’t bear having the Republicans in power.
Now that the neo-con war mongers have been vanquished, Wall Street speculators aren’t able to drive the price of oil up to $140 per barrel, the gas companies are gouging a little bit less, Iran is now interested in some respectful dialogue and (mercifully) that awful hillbilly woman from Alaska isn’t constantly yapping about drilling.
IT is nice to hear a story and update about Alaskans for truth.
The cupcakes sound so good ! I couldnt think of anything about Sarah, I want to actually enjoy my ice cream when I do eat it, after the video I saw of her saying nothing I was thinking,, chocolatta lies fidgety fudge. but… since i dont like fudge on my ice cream.
I wonder about that, with the oil. Where I am from there is only one oil company.
I know I will meet michelle.
@crystalwolf, I hope to one day meet obama.
don’t mind me.
i’m zoning out watching the floor at the smithsonian.
hoping for action soon.
Some people are putting all the blame on AG, talk about really tossing him under the bus. Check it out. I hope they push legislation to vote our AG in, this writer is way off, http://www.ownthesidewalk.com/2009/02/why-colberg-amendment-should-go-away-in.html I will comment them later I have to go to class.
Youbetchaberry sounds yummy.
You know what is funny about Sir Codpiece? The report on the fuel prices and verdict nothing was illegal, the die hard Gov. folks are out for blood, calling him everything but a child of God. hehehe
good question, when she finally shows her head again.
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Tristan 57 (DKos)No Gravatar (12:42:04) :
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?”
neener neener, the Dud team has dropped to 8th place.
Sat no to Palin
They did and she said,
“What? Who? When did I say that? That is personell, I mean personal. I don’t comment on that, also though, well you betcha, wink.”
Twiddle twiddle with her pen.
Big bubble over her head says “Wonder if my hair looks okay? Did I remember to take that big bloddy red home grown, protein filled, great Alaskan, yumiier steak out of the freezer before I left? Oh, the hell with it. How DOES my hair look.”
Twiddle twiddle with her pen.
Yeah to dud fallin’ behind. And I assume that means they’re not drinking coke in your backyard anymore?
Eeer, Uggghhh.
Is it just me or is Vday so stupid?
I mean, I know my husband loves me because he treats me well all year. I would be pretty mad if once a year he bought me some roses and I was spposed to assume, by that act alone, that he loved me. I’d boot him out.
Flower Free for V-Day? Am I alone on that?
What’s with Daddy Chuck taking over the threatening phone duties? First we hear he called Colberg and told (I won’t use the word “ask” because I don’t think it applies) him to write to French about that contempt resolution. Now I hear he called Linda Menard too? Does somebody need to explain to Daddy that, just like Todd, he is not a member of the governor’s administration? I’m starting to have flashbacks to that horrible scene in Deliverence, when those toothless vicious locals go after the guys running the river. Daddy yokel stalker hillbilly nutball? Or how about local mob muscleman? Anybody else think Daddy Heath is one creepy guy?
I love valentines day. I told hubby to skip the flowers this year (I prefer daffodils over roses) because we are really broke and i want to go out for burgers and beer. My husband tells me every day that he loves me, but i like a day that is just a little extra lovey, with presents. NEVER diss a present day. I don’t get many presents. I’m not giving up ANY day that is likely to produce a present.
I’m so off topic today just call me woman with OT can.
good good good! someone wrote a letter to ADN that needs to be supported.
I gotta run to town…..can others go there now, only 12 comments so far and some are dang good.
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Alaskans should look at where their natural gas may go
COMPASS: Other points of view
By MATT PRICE
COMPASS
http://www.adn.com/opinion/compass/story/689040.html
“Instead of buying into this political game, President Obama can help transcend it by refocusing the conversation on the stake of both countries in the new energy economy. Instead of America sending relatively clean burning natural gas to the tar sands in exchange for dirty oil, the U.S. could tell Canada that it wants as much trade in renewable energy as possible. A strong North American climate pact that doesn’t give the tar sands a special deal would accelerate the transition to trade in the type of energy production that doesn’t put the security of our climate at risk.”
Paula – I’m with you. We don’t get into Vday at all. We respect each other and show each other all YEAR long, why save it all for just one day?
@35 minutes in:
You’d think these folks would have it together. Looks organized but sounds like they are confused.
Final product should be interesting!!
Deliverence…….just watched that recently. LOL. Is this the problem of being such a small -everyone knows eveyone- state or is Palin just that immature she is still getting her dad (or husband) to visit the ‘coach’ to raise hell because she got benched? Not very Mavericky to be hiding behind every man you know, now is it? I would think a pitt bull like Palin could take care of her own business.
What a fraud. Not suprised, are we?
VDay- we went to dinner the other night -I like an excuse to eat out. I just hate all these diamond commercials & stuff. Barf.
No on the flowers, yes on the meal. We lurves to eat good food together, and it’s even better if someone else makes it.
Say No… everytime I post on ADN they I have to sign up again. I must be blackballed, or else my computer is doing something weird (cause I lost my USA Today name, too).
Small Steps and Off Topic lady… I think we’re the only people in PA with a massive amount of work/hours right now, almost too many/much. So if I want a present I just buy one. I am terrible. But practicle, too. I am not into stuff just for the sake of having stuff.
But I have every single thing I need. So, blah on flowers. I like picked from the side of the road Black Eyed Susans in the summer.
“I am a commercial fisherman; my daughter’s name is BRISTOL,” said Ms. Palin, then a candidate for governor. “I could not support a project that risks one resource that we know is a given, and that is the world’s richest spawning grounds, over another resource.”
WHAT THE FUDGE THAT THAN MEN, THAT she is againstthe mines, or that she named her daughter in honor of the bay?
Which one is a lie…both maybe, cause recently she said ESPN was the connection to the name…
I’m confussed?
OT but…
Apparently she was only going to be a friend to special needs families if she was in Washington…
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/686257.html
Oh I want my Valentines! Yes…yes, I do!
It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. Just something that tells me he put the time and effort in. I am blessed that he does show me he loves me every day and in everything that he does, he does do it with me in mind.
Thirty years together and as a two time cancer survivor (living three months at a time currently) I will never pass up an opportunity to celebrate!
Palin will offer special needs kids about as much help as she has offered the villagers. None.
Goalie, good for you, VDay everyday in your honor. With wine. And may 3 months turn into 30 years, then 30 more. Cheers! … Oh, wait, should I start drinking? It’s only 2:49 here… okay, cheers at 5 -or should I just figure it’s 5 o’clock somewhere?
And the stimulus passed, “Told that no Republican backed the measure, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reacted by citing another number: “3.5 million jobs that we look forward to saving or creating.”
God I really loathe Republicans. I hope they lose every single seat in the country in 2010 to the GREEN party (jab & twist).
mt (10:11:26) :
Some people are putting all the blame on AG, talk about really tossing him under the bus. Check it out. I hope they push legislation to vote our AG in, this writer is way off, http://www.ownthesidewalk.com/2009/02/why-colberg-amendment-should-go-away-in.html I will comment them later I have to go to class.
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Actually, I thought Maia did a really good idea of presenting the arguments against electing an AG.
I personally think some form of appointment with the approval of the State Bar and/ or Judges would be the best bet. That way you would force the governor to pick people that had some credibility in the legal community.
@Paula (11:09:41) :
One of my favorite restauants has signs in the napkin holders that say, “It’s 5 o’click somewhere, have a beer!” so, I say, go for it. On the other hand, it’s not even lunch time here yet, so I think I’d better wait!
CUPCAKES!
Yeah, I better wait, too. Am not sure what my writing would look like between now and 5:00. My editor would be like WTH? 5:00 My time. Cocktails begin…
AKM are you having cupcakes for lunch? They better be carrot cake! Don’t you remember the granola lecture? LOL
I’m watching the cupcake art on the ustream from the Smithsonian! (above)
Although now you’ve got me thinkin’… AKM
love the cupcakes.
love valentine’s day.
love to celebrate love with the honey.
but…
also love friday the 13th. interesting things happen around me on this day.
The term “hillbilly” is really offensive to some people. It may not appear in the politically correct dictionaries, but I think we can use some other term to characterize people we disparage. I have travelled in the Ozarks and Appalachia and have found very good people who live simpler lives. “Deliverance” should not be construed as typical.
Ewwwww that’s right. It’s Friday the 13th and here we’re talking Deliverance… better check those cupcakes before you bite AKM!
@fawnskin,
Ooooh..do tell! I love this day as well. I have a friend that lives in San Clemente, CA that calls me every Friday the 13th – it’s a holiday to us! (Can’t say what we call this holiday but I always look forward to it!)
So in the spirit of my friend…Happy Holiday!
Say No TO Palin In Politics (07:35:00) wrote :
“Palin’s Hand Seen in Battle Over Mine in Alaska”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/us/politics/22mining.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
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Say No: Big THANKS for this link! I had missed that article. Strongly recommend that everyone read it – very appropos to what’s going on today.
($25,000 per MONTH? Hey, I could quit my job …)
Just in heard Stevens prosecuters are being held in contempt of court…off to check adn.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge says he will hold Justice Department attorneys in contempt for failing to deliver documents to former Sen. Ted Stevens’ legal team.
– http://www.adn.com/1536/story/689563.html –
@ yukonbushgrma
Good catch – I emailed that to AKM when SayNo posted it. The Pebble Mine is a HUGE deal here, too.
@ Dr. Patois
Good catch there, too! I sent that link to RM for whatever that’s worth.
@ womanwithsardinecan
“What’s with Daddy Chuck taking over the threatening phone duties? First we hear he called Colberg and told (I won’t use the word “ask” because I don’t think it applies) him to write to French about that contempt resolution.”
I couldn’t agree more – I think we are seeing where the whack job Sarah got her whack jobiness. He always came across like the proud dad and ex teacher who was low key – but I think ALL of the PALINs lie like fish. I think he may just be our TOP liar. He’s beginning to creep me out, and I’m gonna be keeping an eye on him.
Dr. Patois
oops, I meant “lie like sea kittens”.
Wow, color me impressed. That cupcake picture is simply amazing. Kudos to whomever came up with this idea and made it happen.
If we want to get all pc about the term hillbilly, even though everybody here knows we are not talking about salt of the earth hill folk in the appalachians, but instead about “rednecks” “trailer trash” etc, then lets go back to the term somebody brought up way way back at the beginning of the VP election stuff and call that worthless family the Wasilla Borgias or Wasilla MacBeths. Unless that is an insult to literature or something. We are running out of terms because no matter what they call them somebody complains that it is a diss term, like people complaining that they give slime a bad name.
How about I just call them stupid, mean, worthless, stalkerish (anybody want to defend stalkers?), ignorant, bullies (any bully defenders or defenders of the ignorant?), wolf killers, liars, theives…
@ womanwithOTcan
That’s a start!
The cupcake portrait is most incredible, AKM. Thank you for sharing it with us.
i sooooo want a cupcake right now
go on over and check out Halcrow’s blog. Interesting story on the Heath/Palin… can’t keep their fingers out of the puddin. What’s with these people? Everyday brings a new revelation on how they behave, it’s becoming kinda gross…I am starting to become speechless, due to the fact I can’t find the words to convey how sick to my stomach they make me. It’s becoming more and more grossly negligent.
That is very cool. But somehow doesn’t make me want to eat cupcakes. Nostral anyone?
Excellent video “I welcome their hatred!” and in a good way!:
http://www.dailykos.com/
There’s hope for Alaska:
PA-Sen: GOP Vultures Circling Around Specter
by Arjun Jaikumar aka brownsox
Fri Feb 13, 2009 at 11:20:04 AM PST
The Number One Rule for today’s Republican Party: When anything goes wrong, fly right. Immediately. And execute the moderates on the way.
Reeling from two disastrous cycles, accentuated by the merciless destruction of the Pennsylvania GOP’s own Conservative Icon Rick Santorum in 2006, Pennsylvania Republicans apparently think Arlen Specter is what’s wrong with the world today.
Not, mind you, the decade-plus of Santorum-styled right-wing idiocy. That seemingly had nothing to do with the GOP getting trounced the last two cycles. No, it’s all Specter’s fault, and when things go wrong, the answer is to Rediscover Your Conservative Roots.
Quinnipiac Poll, Feb. 4-9:
8. Looking ahead to the 2010 election for United States Senator, do you feel that Arlen Specter deserves to be reelected, or do you feel that he does not deserve to be reelected?
Overall: Yes – 40%, No – 43%
Dems: Yes – 41%, No – 42%
Repubs: Yes – 42%, No – 42%
That’s correct – Pennsylvania Republicans want Arlen Specter gone every bit as much as Democrats do.
So since the insane wing of the Pennsylvania GOP wants Arlen guillotined for insubordination, who do they turn to in their hour of need, since old-time Specter-hunter Pat Toomey (R-Club for Growth) is looking at Harrisburg instead? So, we all have our right winger nutjobs.
Santorum was just like Palin, a right wing religion in government freak. We tossed him -he was oh so shcoked. Specter, knowing he is next on the list, backed the stimulus, and is now being thrown under the GOP bus. Guy is getting run over in 8 lanes. Palin will be gone soon. And so will Spector. As Tina Fey said so well: BYIEEEE!
I’m watching the cupcake video and it is great.
Slightly OT, but as regards VDay, my husband and I usually exchange cards, flowers etc….not going overboard. The greatest pleasure we get though is that my husband sends our daughter a Valentine’s card. She is 11. Hubby always disguises the writing…sometimes it is childish…today it was more grown up. It is always different and always from a secret admirer. The pleasure we get from her trying to figure out who sent it is huge. Last year, she took the card into school and tried, along with the other girls in her class, to pinpoint the handwriting….blaming some poor hapless 11 year old boy.
That is Valentines Day for me.
Absolutely, utterly and completely OT:
http://juneauempire.com/stories/021309/loc_387598124.shtml
Bet this made Sarah’s day today – the whack job that she is. I’m SO GLAD the Empire decided to remove the comments section (sextion?).
Wow! I’ve got a hankering for some cupcakes now! I’ll eat two….one for each thigh!
oh, yea.
she is fixing the mistake cupcakes over obama’s eye.
it was driving me nuts
Looks like Mrs. Johnston got herself a new attorney, prominent Anchorage defense lawyer Rex Butler, and a new trial date.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/689656.html
Been AWOL for a couple of days……..I believe I was the first to submit -youbetchaberry – besides the honor of even being considered………any prizes ??
@ austin tx
That was a berry good name – you betcha! How ’bout a t-shirt?
austintx:
Have you not witnessed the weeping masses? You won dear. Is that not prize enough?
Oh, and by the way, you have to send us each a 1/2 gallon of youbetchberry. Overnight. On ice. And hurry up. Everyone wants ice cream w/ their cupcakes.
Planned Parenthood opened Thursday afternoon. For the first time in more than a decade, Juneau women can now get abortions without flying to Seattle………..LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble
“Michael Lawson, the Anchorage man sentenced to 99 years in the killing of 21-year-old Talkeetna resident Bethany Correira, and Josef F. Boehm, the businessman sentenced to 11 years for his role in an underage drug and sex trafficking ring.”
Notice that in the two cases cited, BOTH defendants were sentenced. Do ya think Sherrie did a decent research job on this guy?
You want cupcakes, here are real cupcakes
http://www.bunrab.com/dailyfeed/2008December/dailyfeed_december-08_p2.html#121508
willtilley, I think I am voing for the “sight of Willy Wonka-esque displays of dental deteriorants”
PA-Sen: GOP Vultures Circling Around Specter
I happen to like Arlen Specter and have voted for him several times. I’m a big fan of free-thinkers, not beholden to their party whether it be Democratic or Republican.
Now Santorum and Toomey are guys that I have debated publicly and history has proven me right each time.
Well I’ll give you this Tom, he’s better than Santorum was. But Spector still leans too far R for my taste. But I lean pretty far Left.
Martha Unalaska Yard SignNo Gravatar (13:19:08) :
Notice that in the two cases cited, BOTH defendants were sentenced. Do ya think Sherrie did a decent research job on this guy?
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Maybe a concerned citizen is paying his fee. OR, maybe he’s doing it gratis for the media exposure.
I was just wondering how she could afford him considering she had a public defender before.
The cupcake thing is great. But, you wouldn’t catch me eating one of them… you HEAR that woman coughing and hacking? It doesn’t matter how many pairs of gloves you wear, it’s the airborne things that stick!!!
Seriously, someone should have gotten her a mask.
Otherwise, very cool.
Ripley in CTNo Gravatar (13:39:27) :
The cupcake thing is great. But, you wouldn’t catch me eating one of them… you HEAR that woman coughing and hacking? It doesn’t matter how many pairs of gloves you wear, it’s the airborne things that stick!!!
Seriously, someone should have gotten her a mask.
Otherwise, very cool.
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Yeah, I had to turn the sound off. Yuck!
Amazing!!! Look how this man has inspired us!!!
The cupcake picture is DONE! I can’t believe I watched the live feed (mostly) from the beginning. And heck, I feel like I share in the accomplishment. Soon as I wipe the tears from my eyes — congratulations to everyone who planned, prepared, baked, rolled, laid out, checked, and implemented this amazing dual portrait.
YAY!
OT As suggested by another blogger, I did check out Halcro’w blog, and was interested to hear the name of the reporter that gave SP such a hard time (i.e. asking her for the truth) at her last press conference. Isn’t Sean Cockerham that reporter? Does that mean that if you ask the Gov. a question she doesn’t like, you are recalled? (She couldn’t fire Charlie and Katie, thank goodness!!)
@ Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble
“I was just wondering how she could afford him considering she had a public defender before.”
I was thinking the same thing but trying not to be snarky and make assumptions. But you know what – I am going to be snarky after all and make a wild guess that Palins are helping foot the bill. After all, they are “rolling in dough” after all those undeclared and forgiven gifts and grifts from the state, and you betcha they don’t want a conviction for Sherrie to slow their break neck pace to the White House. I think my snark is probably right on.
re: Planned Parenthood in Juneau
Is it just me, or did anyone else find it ironic that the article was under a link to wedding announcements? Also, PP said they expect 20-25 clients per day. I hope that doesn’t mean 20-25 abortions per day. : (
Paula – I have an idea for your “youbetchaberry” craving. Here in Austin , we have an ice cream place called Amy’s. They have every flavor of made from scratch ice cream you can name.Then they have ANOTHER counter of every cookie , candy , fruit , you name it. They will crush and mix any and all for you. If they have someone near you like this , take AKM’s recipe , and have them whip up a FRESH batch. Instead of cake mix , sub cookie dough ice cream……I think you will go to bed a happy camper !! If Goalie is around – and she has been to Amys- she can testify to how good they are……
re: Mother Johnston According to the article, her new atty. is often hired by guilty parties who want as small a sentence as possible. With the incident at Target, it seems likely that she will be found guilty. So IF the Palins hired him to clear her name (as part of SP’s 2012 agenda), it seems to me that they probably wasted their money.
OT—Yesterday our Oregon legislators rushed through a bill that will disconnect our state income tax from the fed. income tax. This means that our exemptions will no longer mirror the fed. exemptions. Some of the new exemptions that will come from Pres. Obama’s stimulus plan include tax breaks for small business owners and for people who have lost their jobs. Oregon, evidently, didn’t want to give those needy people a tax break. I know that times are hard for all state governments, but are things so bad that we must deny tax help to those hit hardest by this depression? (Yes, I said depression. A full year and a half after the rest of the country knew we were in a recession, our govt. finally decided that we were in one. I figure that in a little over a year, they will discover that we are in a depression and announce it officially.)
Thanks to the man in charge of the police officer, Ms. Johnson doesn’t need a lawyer at all. I forgot that mans name but when he leaked about the warrant being a falsehood that was enough to get it threw out, just watch.
@ Sue
Hee hee I noticed that, too! And that 20-25 sounds like regular visits, consults, BC etc not abortions. Juneau is far too small for that, and although blue, I would flatly be shocked and disappointed in my community if that were the case. We would be falling down on our jobs as parents, teachers, confidants and friends if that were the case. I would have to move.
Tigerwine…
The reporter that asked her the question is Bob Tzak. He use to be a reporter down here in Southeast Alaska and does pieces for the Fisherman’s Journal. I can totally see him asking her that question, he is a tough scrapper and when he goes for it, he goes for it! It was great when he corrected her and told her he was refering to the “Personnel issue, NOT the personal issue. Once again she tried to use her kids as bait.
@ Sue
I think it’s more likely that the Sherrie att’y money is coming from some loyal supporter of SP – like the TX group that funded the appeals to Troopergate. With money, there is always a better chance to go scot free. Someone does NOT want her to be attached to a felon.
Sorry to be so OT from cupcakes, AFT and price gouging. I’m done now, leaving to take my snarkiness elsewhere til I’m over it.
New thread alert…
Sue….Paula…..
Maybe all clinic’s are not the same?
Planned Parenthood “also” talks to teenagers as well as women of all ages when wanting information for birth control. They have a doctor available for pap tests and a nurse available to run basic tests such as U/A’s and/or pregnancy tests. Our Planned Parenthood clinic is professional and well respected, and it does not perform abortions! If twenty to twenty five clients per day visit the clinic, they are seeking advice for birth control and the different options they have, as well as asking questions about STD’s. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. As a parent of teenagers, I am very thankful for Planned Parenthood and the wonderful staff that maintains the clinics.
@Martha and Women who run….
Thank you! I didn’t think about all the other reasons people go to PP. Now that I think about it, it IS a place for young women to get free bc pills (in some towns). And when my sister was 45 and had no health ins., she got a mammogram there. : )
Could I have another scoop of that Rocky Road to Nowhere, please?
“Sherry Johnston, neatly dressed in a white hoodie sweater…”
Seriously?
**FROWNING** I wanna cupcake
Tried to make brownies last night with powdered eggs don’t know what happened usually they turn out just fine this time YECK!!!
I have a major sweet tooth today, no y’all got me craving cupcakes!!! LOL
Hubby just went upriver via snowmachine with his brother to go cash his check, supposed to be bringing back eggs, bread and potatoes, so maybe I can make a sweet treat for Valentines Day
Really wanted eggs the other day when we went up but the trail was too rough. Glad it’s MUCH warmer today and now he can get us fresh potatoes too
Someone pass me a cupcake and some icecream too!!
Ann S.
On Halcro’s blog he has recently commented on a story that Heath phoned a politician and chewed her out for supporting the legislative contempt resolution.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/put_me_through_to_colberg_errr_menard
The second comment on this, by Ratfish, is even better– he explains why the Palins are tribal in the good old Iraqui sense.
I read as much as I can find about Palin. I have tried to temper my obsession with her tremendous lies and power hunger, and finally come to the realization that I am WAITING. Waiting for her to be exposed, to admit that she is a joke, or for someone to officially say, ok, let’s admit she’s a pretty hick that somehow slipped through and got this job as governor…I never heard of her before the election, and she represents all those people in my life that float to the top for no apparent good reason. I study body language and nonverbal communication, and there are pitifully few things that come out of her mouth that her facial expressions and physical movements do not immediately contradict.