Palin to Travel to Western Alaska!
Now we know! We’ve been asking ourselves since January 12, what it would take to shame the governor into actually taking some personal time and doing something to help villages in Western Alaska who are running out of food and fuel this winter.
Five full weeks after the news hit, we have an answer. A whole lot of bad press.
The press conference given by Palin in Juneau recently spotlighted how utterly unprepared she was to answer the question “What have you done personally” to help? Many of us have donated food, money, and personal time toward the relief effort. Palin has used her personal time for all kinds of other things – travel to Washington D.C. to attend a swanky banquet and a dinner party at the home of a GOP fundraiser. She’s given interviews, and started the Iron Dog snowmachine race. But has she donated food? Has she made a public cry for help? Not until now.
And when she said she had “offered” to travel there, it sure didn’t sound like any plans were in the works.
The press release that came from the Governor’s office moments ago tells us a few things:
First, she won’t be traveling alone. She’ll have none other than Franklin Graham, son of evangelical Billy Graham with her. This does two things – it creates a great photo op, and assures some national media coverage so that it really looks like she cares. It also spotlights her “it’s not the government’s job to help people” mantra that she’s been reciting at every opportunity to appeal to her conservative 2012 “base”.
Graham delivered the invocation at George W. Bush’s inauguration, and he’s also the same guy who said that Islam is “wicked, violent and not of the same God.” Way to shore up the base.
You may recall just the other day when she horned in on an interview between Fox’s Greta Van Susteren and Palin’s unmarried teen daughter who just had a baby. She told us she can’t imagine what teen moms do when they have no family or money or resources, but that it sure isn’t government’s job to take care of them. *shrug*
Now, she can’t imagine what people with no food or heat in her state are doing. So, it’s time to drag an evangelical minister along to handle things. That “base” is getting all excited again. I think they need a cold drink.
And the best news of all is that since she waited so long to actually do anything about this, she can now claim that this immediate and pressing problem is keeping her from traveling to the National Governor’s conference in Washington D.C. this weekend. That means martyr points, and “concern” for her people all at the same time.
There’s that spin again. I think I need to sit down…I’m getting dizzy. If you want to read the press release, I suggest you too sit down, or at least make sure you’re holding the handrail.
February 19, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Following up on several trips to Western Alaska by multi-agency state personnel, Governor Sarah Palin and Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will travel with Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, to the communities of Marshall and Russian Mission on Friday. Samaritan’s Purse is a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid across the world. Working with private sector and nonprofit resources, an estimated 10,000 pounds of food will be distributed to more than 200 Alaska families in need.
For several weeks the administration has been working with residents on the Lower Yukon in an attempt to identify their eligibility for various aid programs for communities and individuals. Five state departments and the governor’s rural affairs advisor, John Moller, are involved in the immediate relief effort, and are currently visiting communities across the region.
Faith-based, nonprofit groups, such as Samaritan’s Purse, have partnered with state agencies and have been instrumental in providing assistance to Western Alaska in recent weeks. The Department of Public Safety has utilized its aircraft to deliver food collected from around the state by faith-based and other nonprofit organizations. The Department of Public Safety is working with the Department of Education and Early Development personnel in implementing a plan to provide bulk foods to area residents.
Additionally, state benefit specialists from the Department of Health and Social Services visited Emmonak recently and enrolled individuals in several existing public assistance programs. The Department of Fish and Game has expanded the moose-hunting season for residents, and is also reviewing concerns with the commercial king salmon fishery that many Lower Yukon River residents depend on for a substantial portion of their income.
The governor’s trip to Western Alaska, coupled with work on the economic stimulus certification requirements and budget amendments, will prevent her from attending the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
Well, here’s that transparency she promised…just not the type I was looking for.
…that rural affairs advisor…hard @ work already?
I really wish I could say what I am thinking, but I bet ya’ll can guess. Just plain dam scandalous. I love how she says all help she and the churches have done, unbelievable, but at least maybe the villages will get the attention they need and the help, I don’t mind going, phlaat, phlaat, as we go under the bus.
This has me very POed. I emailed the folloing to ADN
In todays paper Gov. Palins admin released a statement that said “Faith-based, nonprofit groups, such as Samaritan’s Purse, have partnered with state agencies and have been instrumental in providing assistance to Western Alaska in recent weeks.” and “The Department of Public Safety has utilized its aircraft to deliver food collected from around the state…” As someone who hs been sending food from out of state I’d sure like to know when this things happened. If this is another of Palins lies it should be exposed.
Either natives collecting boxes are liers, or Palin is a lier. My money is on Palin. I emailed Ann because I want to hear who she has heard of who has recieved this “supposed” food. If she is AGAIN being a big mouth lier it needs to be spread far and wide. How dare she take credit when we have given up luxuries, dining out, etc. to do what she did not. RRRRRRGGGGGGGG
She now gets to take credit for all of the food and supplies sent by we, the pajama bloggers. I am not surprsed at all. Her base will love her even more, but so what? Her image is tarnished beyond repair to the majority – and always will be. Meanwhile, I wonder how the IRS will react to the news that
“My taxes are not the business of the IRS.”
IIRC, the Governor’s Association were a bit annoyed at her spotlight-hogging ways, so this way she gets to avoid that bit of awkwardness.
I am sitting her wanting to say something but all that comes to mind are things that have the F word in them. So, Rggg, I will go mail a box and cool off. Maybe her plane will crash. Bad me. But I am SO mad.
this is a big deal…and we need to make it bigger….
Time line on this pls…[sorry, not good at that sort of thing] I think back in OCT of last year when she was put on notice…forward to Jan…
so I guess she needs to distract from the 1-month anniversity of Obama as POTUS….resume building…
eeewwww [my new sig]
I am so damn mad..
That I don’t know, what to write.
Now she is going to take credit for all of this??
After I got my whole family involved with sending funds, (some of them sent their entire tax refund!), not to mention the people here on mudflats, huffingtonpost, etc…she thinks she can fly her ass in there and reap all the credit, a month later, and ONLY because she is receiving bad press??
GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRR.
Palin who sooner spit bricks than admit that ‘those bloggers ‘have been sending food, contributing money for fuel in support of the families.
Typical Sarah — if it’s a good thing she takes credit, if not it’s someone else’s fault. She is such a loser and so are the morons that idolize her.
no mention of the ‘half-nakeet bloggers’ who organized the sending of aid either….
eeeeeewwwwwww [when it comes to GINO this word is an upgrade]
URGH, I’m still so upset that she’s “our” gov, I just don’t know what to do. I think I need something for the headache!
Am home in my leisure wear because it’s blizzarding outside, so this is my second post (in case pro-Palinites think this is all I have time to do). I want to say this is great news, and it is, if the Samaritan Purse will supply goods; but because I question Sarah Palin’s motives am thinking the worst right now. This relief effort by her this coming weekend, is a a) stick-it-to-the-media and bloggers effort. b) national exposure for future campain. c) media attention d) excuse to be pitied as the only governor not going to Governors’ meeting and e) blowing her own horn in the marketplace after doing a good deed, like the Pharisees, where Jesus said, When you do your good works, do them in secret, for this is pleasing to your Father in Heaven.
At the very least, those in need will get more supplies, but for Sarah, it is too little too late. People will not buy it.
Can Ann Strongheart get there to see her? Can Ann give her a list of all the people (jerks, haters, bloggers, real samaritans) who sent aid in whatever form they could without having to see for themselves??? If a see a tear drop or a “choked up” governor, I will…well…I don’t know what I will do [jumps up and down] ..but it won’t be pretty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will GretaVS have enough time to get up there to hold SP’s hand?
I really do feel sorry for you good folks in Alaska that are saddled with an idiot with an ego for your Governor. Every time I hear her speak, that song the scarecrow sang in The Wizard of Oz runs through my mind. You know the one – If I only had a brain.
…somebody else is pulling the strings…MAKING her go [her team uses that fancy 'advising' word]
eeeewwww
How much will she get for per diems? Check out Huffington Post
Sarah-come-lately will have a tough time with all the documentation of her complete lack of action in the crisis. The fact that she didn’t have a rural advisor, the where’s Sarah buttons, etc. Any opponent of her in any future race just needs to announce he/she is running and all the documentation for the canditate’s campaign to rip her to shreds will come out, don’t you worry.
Is it possible that Ann S. can do a call in to the radio and speak of the donations? I know I have listened to your station on line. Signage available saying “Thanks Bloggers for Food” for when she visits as there are the photo ops that will appear because of Graham.
Just trying like you guys to toss ideas out.
If Ann is able to film the boxes she picks up at the post office and her and the people sorting and when she delivers, then upload it to iReport on CNN.
We should calm down a bit. We’ll see what happens with this promise. I don’t appreciate others getting credit for what we’ve been doing; however, we know the rural people will see through this. They know who the first responders were. Also, the main point of our concerns was to get help to the people who need it. We have done a very good job of getting attention.
I hope this will provide some support to help the rural people maintain their culture and thrive.
sandra
She’s just trying to disctract people from the fact that she was a TAX EVADER. This is what this is about. This is what the BS with Bristol and the baby was about. It’s transparent, all right!
Somebody please help! I just received a call from my priest, who said he had, in response to my plea, a check for $250 for the villages in W. AK. AKM or Ann, could you please get back with an address? I’m wondering if some of the other villages might need help more than Emmonak right now, and Ann mentioned two others she was helping out. I could just send it to her, but need to verify that.
Thanks mucho!
The NGA conference wasn’t on her schedule anyway!. She is unbelievably lazy, isn’t she?
It would be great to get Dennis Zaki, Kyle Hopkins at ADN, and Mallory from CNN to get on board with this. ALL responders and contributors to the food and supply issues to Rural Alaska need to be documented to some extent – NOT for anyone to take credit over others – but because there is a real story here of people pulling together in all sorts of ways to help a people and their livlihoods survive a tough winter. There are many threads and feelers in the blogosphere and elsewhere that are sharing information and discussing long term solutions. There are groups, families, co-workers, churches, bloggers and politicians all working on rural issues, but not very much in coordination. These spontaneous and far flung efforts are interesting all and of themselves!
Just by its nature, a true article / story on the various unfoldings of help and awareness springing up since mid January would preclude the star hungry SP from taking all the credit which as we all know, is not only undeserved but just another sleazy ploy on her part. It’s not the brainwashed followers that need the truth – they are lost to us forever unless they have an epiphany of some sort – it’s the everyday person who reads the news that should know of ALL of the outstanding efforts put forth by many.
Oh man, she is really trying to rehabilitate her image. I read those articles someone linked to the other day about what she needs to do if she is serious about a future in national politics. This sure looks like she is following their advice. It is extremely maddening though that she might try and take credit for what all of you have been doing – I can only hope that folks will see through this total scam of a press junket!! She is the worst, maybe she will just fall off the face of the earth…………..
I just heard from Ann who wrote:
Paula…
I have been told, not that I have seen it, but supposedly Jon Moller is in Emmonak and is supposedly coming to Nunam Iqua today. According to his secretary that I spoke to on the phone.
I definitely DO NOT agree with the INSTRUMENTAL statement. and the Dept. of Pub. Safety, was reported to have used an aircraft to airlift food to Kotlik.
I don’t know much else of what the state is doing. But we are still plugging along with our food drives on
The Rev. Franklin really made a name for himself by building houses in the same region in 2006 when Hooper Bay was ravaged by a village-wide fire. Even tight-fisted Governor Frank-the-Bank Murkowski was responsive enough to declare an emergency to get aid out to that village. So there was both private and public support pouring into that community. It worked so well in terms of publicity and fundraising that the Reverend would be a fool not to come back, with a glamorous and world-famous Governor this time.
What a God-almighty (pun intended) brilliantly contrived effort, it detracts from direct Government aid, and allies itself with a faith-based solution.
Senator Begich is in Bethel today with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to discuss Senator Murkowski’s suggestion in having their discretionary funds go to relief, note the lack of PR there. . . now that is admirable.
Credit goes to mudflatters and legions of other anonymous bloggers out there, you helped without blinking. Almost all Yup’ik / Cup’ik’s are Catholic, Russian Orthodox or Moravian, despite how devastating the missionary contact ended up being to our social structure. But it always troubles me that charity tends to be exclusively labeled as a “Christian” trait.
You are all honorable (even if you can’t help taking a swipe at our swipe-worthy Gov) no matter how you package it.
This is part of BS anti-socialism, let Christian organizations care for the needy blitz for her right wing freakobots. May they all rot in hell.
As far as the per diem thing, did you guys see that. She’s getting paid $60 a clip to talk on the phone! And billing Alaska to talk to Faux Noise! She has no morals at all.
@ I can see the Village from my House
YOU have contributed so much to the conversations and like Ann S, bring light to the dark corners everywhere. Would it be a lot to ask for a story from you? People are loving the stories!
It was written by “From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage –” who just interviewed people all over the world who were sending food (Palin wasn’t not included).
@tigerwine (10:49:58) :
Check out the information from Ann Strongheart available at the “Anonymous Bloggers” link under the “Alaskan Blogs” section on the righthand side of this blog (up there somewhere). There is also information on how to help the families in the “Village Aid Shopping List” link a bit further up on the righthand side with the graphic of a kid’s face. Hope this helps.
GINO is trying to combat her negative numbers with this 12th hour grandstanding
I am so happy that more ‘might’ get done.
Hoping that despite all the state agencies involved, the villagers don’t have to ‘jump thru hoops’ in order to get assistance…
BELIEVE me; it will be about her before the story ends
YEAP, I’m sure she’ll take more pictures for her political PHOTO Album [SarahPAC, TeamSarah, etc…] instead of chilling on the sidelines & letting it be about the villagers
Her whole time in office has been about as transparent as cardboard…eeewwww
Somebody please help! I just received a call from my priest, who said he had, in response to my plea, a check for $250 for the villages in W. AK. AKM or Ann, could you please get back with an address?
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Tigerwine: click on the icon on the Mudflatters home page and it will give you lots of links. Ann has an email address and she will reply promptly. The best bet may be the donation by credit card to SPAN Alsaks..will get the money there faster for the villages to use. Hope this helps.
Is that all you guys can do is piss and moan? People like you make me ashamed to live in this state.
Actually, Kim, this community and others like it in the blogosphere have been sending donations of money and food, funded a video journalist to fly to Emmonak to document the situation, and Mudflatters have even coordinated a food drive for the village of Nunam Iqua, resulting in the “adoption” of several families. Our actions began the day after Nick Tucker’s cry for help appeared in the Bristol Bay Times. Food and donations for fuel have come from all over the country as a result of these efforts. So, that’s what we’ve done.
Feel free to be ashamed if you like, but as far as I can see, the blogging community has done far more to relieve the suffering of fellow Alaskans than the governor has up to this point. Feel free to use the search feature and search for the terms “Rural Alaska” “Emmonak” and “Nunam Iqua”. It’s helpful to have some background before stating that all we do is “piss and moan.”
Just sayin.
AKM
Yes, I can see her pushing the little native children to the side -move, move, move -Push. Thud. As the beat children stumble off she’ll be the only face in front of the camers screaming, “Look at me! Look at what I did!”
Awww poor little darlin’ can’t go and play with the big kids = has to stay home and act like she gives a poot! LOL.
I think my illustrious governor Jindal (or Booby as I’ve seen him called) will be there. Don’t let SP see this article just released online – I’m sure she’ll throw a gasket:
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13145422
brown quilts = poo troll
It’s clearly not about the struggling Alaskans that has prompted this “sudden change of a hollow heart”… but an effort to try and change the conversations, as if she is really doing her job. But all the snow in Alaska will not deflect the light which is now shining into the darkness of one, Sister Sayrah.
And with disaster aid still slowly trickling into Louisiana, the state’s economy has not been hit as hard as most…. Lets see what they think of him when he refuses the bailout money and thousands of needed repairs are not done and jobs are lost. Good lukc there Tali-jingle.
Ignore trolls. They go away if they get no responce.
Yes Paula I hear he’s contemplating not accepting the money…he’s a BOOB for sure. I actually voted for him but when the legislature decided to give themselves a fat raise that same year he said he wasn’t going to stop them. He was going to let them GOVERN THEMSELVES. After a huge outcry from the public he changed his mind and vetoed it. That’s when I learned the power of an email – I flooded every one of the LA legislators shaming them if they voted for it, and thanking them if they didn’t.
Like others, this pisses me off no end. A timeline of GINO’s inaction is a good idea, but I don’t see ADN doing it. They are on her side. Still, more aid for the Bush communities is a good thing, so we need to hold our fire as SP uses Franklin Graham as a human shield.
Well, at least you guys have Ang and Brad. I heard Brad Pitt got more houses built in the state than the state did. True?
264 Crayons,Where are you from ? Im up here in Shreveport. Bobby/Booby is everything Palin says she is,and then some.He will be a formidable opponent for her in 2012,and if he were to win an eventual presidential race in 2012,2016,etc ,I would at least not be terrified of the results.He is an intelligent,educated,thoughtful person of integrity,kind of the anti-Palin.It seems the Rep party may be waking up to the fact that Palin is a negative for them.I have always likened her appeal to her mostly male base as the same thing that happens when a roomfull of old ,fat,bald men see a young,pretty women walk in.They all immediately think that she is interested in them,and make fools of themselves.They somehow think they have a chance. Women have been taking advantage of this reaction for centuries.
mommom- eewwie image there of the room full of old men! LOL!
Godamn Sarah Palin.
TIME LINE….I’ll be willingto help ‘gather’ info…talkingabout Us doing it! relying on ADN is like relying on GINO to tell the truth
GINOs just gonna say that the help ‘we’ extended is JUST THE TYPE of thing she’s talking about [not relying on the govt'ment to take care of issues like the villages].
eeewwww
Kim (11:12:46) :
Is that all you guys can do is piss and moan? People like you make me ashamed to live in this state.
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We have sent flat rate boxes, raised funds, mailed checks, encouraged others to donate, sent goods through Span Alaska, sent stuff through JB Bush, adopted families, contacted mainstream media to spread information…what have you done?
Our frustration is that Palin is using this trip as a photo op; she has done nothing since she was informed of the looming crisis in July and October. If, due to this trip, Palin finally gets working on a long-term solution to the villages’ problems- that would be wonderful. But I’m not going to hold my breath.
When you have done as much as we have- and some of us have made real financial sacrifices to help- you can criticize.
sandra in oregon (10:46:44) :
We should calm down a bit. We’ll see what happens with this promise. I don’t appreciate others getting credit for what we’ve been doing; however, we know the rural people will see through this. They know who the first responders were. Also, the main point of our concerns was to get help to the people who need it. We have done a very good job of getting attention.
I hope this will provide some support to help the rural people maintain their culture and thrive.
sandra
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Agreed Sandra — the ppl in the villages know that SP and state government haven’t lifted a finger to help since the initial cry went out several weeks ago. After Walt M predicted this crisis last summer.
Let her get her photo op with the Christian right. WE KNOW, the VILLAGERS KNOW, and — THEY KNOW that WE KNOW they dropped the ball.
Yeah, what CO almost native said. I am so mad, I could spit tacks. That’s all I can really say on a family-friendly site. As for Kim, do you not see the rich irony in your comment?
Enjay in Eastern MT, the problem is, I am not sure that Palin won’t make the matter worse in some way. I am not sure how, but she has managed to foul up almost everything she’s touched. I don’t trust she will actually accomplish anything good. If she does, I will be the first to tip my hat to her.
Physicsmom (11:25:55) :
Like others, this pisses me off no end. A timeline of GINO’s inaction is a good idea, but I don’t see ADN doing it. They are on her side. Still, more aid for the Bush communities is a good thing, so we need to hold our fire as SP uses Franklin Graham as a human shield.
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Perhaps ADN loves her, but most of the commenters don’t. They see her purpose quite clearly. Don’t know how many of them are AK voters…
I cannot stand people like her, always one step above the law, always taking credit for someone elses work, but sooner or later it always comes back to bite them in the butt, and she spends all her time covering her butt!!! I just hope those people in the villages appreciate what everyone’s done for them and will not let her take the credit. And she will get per diem on top of it!!! too funny. Wouldn’t it be great if MSNBC could send someone to cover this?
asiangrrlMN (11:54:10) :
Hey, good to see you! I noticed she is not going to Emmonak or Numam Iqua:-) Where are Russian Mission and Marshall? I’m sure they are suffering, too, but those names have not been on anonymousblogger or in Ann’s emails…can you help, AK mudpups?
The main thing is the sincerity and heart that this blog has put forth in the help for those in need. Sarah “camera whore” Palin has an agenda. Soul-less piece of human feces.
The one good thing about all this (or two?) is that the villages *are* getting badly needed assistance, no matter who actually sent it. They are also (possibly) getting badly needed attn from the governors office, which *could* result in more assistance. That’s where it should have been coming from all along, but hasn’t (time will tell if, when, and what assistance this little jaunt will produce).
That said, we knew something like this would happen. Or should have. Anonymous bloggers are right up there with community organizers in “her” eyes.
Question: if one flight is considered “instrumental,” then what does that say about all those flights (plural!) instigated by said bloggers?
This jaunt is not including “our” villages, apparently. I wonder why… (ha)
Does “continuous” mean “non-stop-for-several-weeks” or “in 5-minute-increments-once-or-twice” over the course of same several weeks? (ok, that’s a meow… sorry).
still thinkin here…
Nan
SP got out of town for her PR tour, because Sen. Lisa M. is speaking to our Legislators in Alaska today. No how no way does SP want to start a cat fight today.
Mommom~~I am in Shreveport too. Would be nice to meet for coffee sometime.
Pppssstt! Andrew Halcrow seems to be promising a juicy bit of gossip tomorrow. Check out the ‘Black Helicopter’ post. What do you think?
I have links to the first news stories, the blogs, resources and ways to help.
http://anonymousbloggers.com/
I’ll try to get some kind of a time line together. Please add any links to resources or ways to donate or send them to me and I’ll put them up.
Any suggestions on how to make this more effective are welcome. I want to get it cleaned up and send it to the 300+ members of our Facebook group before this hits the MSM.
Thanks,
Jane
jane@latintravel.com
@ InJuneau and Let It Run – Many thanks for the info. I knew someone would get back quicker than I could go through all those posts. Will get back to Mudflats when I hear from Ann. XXOO
This ‘Samaritan’s Purse’, their gifts seem to hold only pamphlets extolling the virtues of jesus….
“Our outreach to these children and their families may begin with a shoe box gift but our ultimate goal is to open doors to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and to open hearts to receive Him as Lord and Savior.” – Franklin Graham
Read all about it here:
Stay cool Paula, we’ll find out from Anne Strongheart exactly how many pounds of the supposed 10,000 Palin states is on the way that actually arrives and gets distributed and how many families get anything. This lie too, will be exposed — in a matter of time…because we will question every damn statement, line by line of that press release.
Seems like traveling to see the villages ought to be undertaken by the newly minted rural affairs advisor, John Moller…not mr.biblethumper
I’ve ghosted this blog for many months now… ever since that human monster that calls itself Sarah first screeched her nonsense last September. I’ve followed her deceptive, self-serving, close-minded ways through this blog and others (though this is the best!). I’ve wathced her manoeuvre around Troopergate, campaign expenditures, absenteeism (I remember when you wrote that a rural affairs office has been vacant since October), misuse of funds, and just out-and-out lies.
This is the first time I’ve been so outraged that I felt the need to share my voice with others. This cannot stand. I’d say this is where the line should be drawn. Every day with Sarah is a lie, but using others’ misfortunes to elevate oneself in such a cynical, selfish, and hollow manner while at the same time shoving out of the way the very people who did the work (and ironically are the very people she decries is inexcusable and downright evil.
Of course, the real issue here is that people get the help they need, not who gets kudos for it. Let me make that clear. But this isn’t simply a question of who gets the credit.
If the MSM covers her grandstanding junket without giving credit where it’s due (you good folk) then the rest of America is in serious trouble. Glossed-over lies such as this upcoming politicized trip are exactly the sort of deceptive “character-building” events that give us horrible leaders like Bush.
Like Rachel Maddow, I need a “talk me down”. Someone please assure me that the gears are moving to if not blow the whistle on this, at least make sure regular citizens (especially you “anonymous” pajama bloggers) get some sort of recognition and that it all won’t go unchallenged to that unholy, beastly Eva Peron clone to elevate her status and doom us all some time down the road.
oops, messed up the html thing, go ahead, click on that humongous link, it’ll get you there.
Sue in Kansas (10:44:31) :
I really do feel sorry for you good folks in Alaska that are saddled with an idiot with an ego for your Governor. Every time I hear her speak, that song the scarecrow sang in The Wizard of Oz runs through my mind. You know the one – If I only had a brain.
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LOL! How did I miss this the first time reading:-) Good one…except I’ll be humming the song the rest of the day-
@The Right Reverend (12:12:00) :
Welcome out of the shadows! We love seeing/hearing new voices.
Hopefully enough of us have been sending info on what’s actually been being done by the anonymous pj-clad, parents’ basement dwelling bloggers (!) to people like Rachel and Keith that they’ll have ammo to shoot back at the rest of the MSM if they start fawning over GINO. Here’s hoping…
The Liar
Sarah Palin big fat liar
For your sins your pants on fire
Sarah Palin sneaky fibber
Sly boots who can only gibber
Dribble, bibble, from your gash
Shyster with the least panache
GINO is the perfect name
Hang your head in turgid shame
What a wilful libertine
All hail the dissembler Queen
Lipsticked pitbull, what a fake
Fibber, boaster, trickster, snake
Why your nose could reach to Moscow
Putin could look up your nostril
Shower him with shammer snot
Hoax him good with all your grot
Fabricate your fat head off
While the rest can only scoff
Double crosser from Wasilla
Cozened shyster, English killer
What will Guv’nor swindler do?
Slicker Palin, full of pooh
Perjurer for PR reasons
Intrigant, I call your treason
Liar, liar, chiseller, cheat
Bullshit piling at your feet
Ugly crimping has a cost
Now your preznit run is lost
HA HA!
Palin and Christians will visit Natives on Friday
Alaska Dispatch
Feb 19, 2009
“The press release fails to credit the hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Americans who have already been donating food and money to villages like Emmonak, the community that’s come to symbolize the crisis this winter. This grassroots, non-faith-based effort was prompted by several Alaska bloggers and independent journalists, and it was in direct response to allegations that the Palin adminstration had been slow in reacting to pleas from the far-flung corners of western Alaska.”
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/rural-alaska/822-palin-and-christians-will-visit-natives
UK Lady (12:07:44) :
Pppssstt! Andrew Halcrow seems to be promising a juicy bit of gossip tomorrow. Check out the ‘Black Helicopter’ post. What do you think?
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Try reading this, posted by Halcrow today
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/of_audits_assesments
While Palin gets ready for her photo op, the AK Legislature passes a boondoggle.
On the one hand I have to say, better late than never if more aid gets to the villages, though the thought of her taking credit for what others have been working so hard to do from way back when, makes me just plain….sad.
My next reaction was to who she is getting to help….”Samaritan’s Purse is a nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid across the world” they may claim to be nonprofit, but google them to see just how much that organization of Right Wingbats actually spends on Admin and how much they get to people that need the help. Our church and lots of our school kids here in ID use to support them, putting to together box after box of things for Christmas, Easter, and the school year, until we learned how much of the stuff was left setting in warehouses and on docks around the world never being given out because no money was available for local distribution. Look to see how much the CEO’s make, and how much is spent to may Rightwingbats look good in the new. Lots of graft and other stuff was noted to, like if you didn’t agree to go to Church sponsored rally no food or help was available….it wasn’t at all pretty all the strings attached to Samaritan’s Purse. You can be sure Sarah’s Purse has just as many strings attached.
I am livid too. My contribution was made on the 16th of January to get Dennis Zaki out there to film the villagers. It is now the 19th of February, and Sarah decides to get off her bony butt to go out there for a photo-op. I cannot express how much I abhor this vile woman.
By the same token, I do hope the villagers get their much needed help.
President Obama, after leaving Parliament Hill meetings with out Prime Minister, went to the market not far down the street to get a ‘OBAMATAIL / BEAVERTAIL’!!!! He’s back in the “Beast” on his way to airport to me with U.S. Embassy people.
His brother-in-law lives in Canada in Burlington, Ontario, so he’s knows the important spots!!!
Pssst — they haven’t discovered yet — the wheels are missing!!! Ooops
Martha Unalaska YS – thank you. I’d love to share my story, but like AKM, I have to protect my identity since my livelihood and advocacy could suffer if revealed. Isn’t that sad?
Thousands of Alaskan women have much more compelling and intriguing life stories that are worthy of respect and note, and those village residents should be included.
Co almost Native, don’t worry, Russian Mission and Marshall are very worthy villages to visit. They are Yukon communities and rely just as heavily on the lucrative King fishery to survive.
These are heavily Russian Orthodox communities, so the faith slant will be interesting, but I’m sure it will work for relief purposes. In the instance of the Samaritan’s Purse dealings with Hooper Bay, it was done at the request of the village’s Covenant Church pastor.
Relax folks, give the locals some credit – you should have heard how angry the people of Emmonak was with the Governor’s staff on the teleconference, we know the score.
Welcome The Right Reverend,
No more ghosting…..we want to hear more posting!
Can’t wait to hear State Senator Ramras, R from Fairbanks take on this latest from the Gov. He was the one who loudly complained of being rejected state help to distribute to the Y-K area the thousands of pounds of food he helped collect in Fairbanks.
She is delivering on the transparency pledge….it’s abundantly transparent that anything she does at this point is all about Sarah, and her so-called “base”. This will get air time via Greta and Beck, et al. The evangelical churches will take up the call, and save the poor Natives, and do it for Sarah.
Excuse me while I take a long shower.
LOL- Jack Cafferty is on CNN, and just expanded his comments on Palin’s tax problems; her office said they don’t know if she is still taking a per diem (you can imagine his face, voice), don’t know about the $21,000 she claimed for her childrens’ travel expenses- and Palin’s tax issue is his question of the day:-)
I can’t wait to hear the comments…another reason to escape to the Yukon-
Where is Greta? Why isnt she covering this? Why isnt she interviewing Piper or Willow to get their insight and see what they have done to help? Why is Todd off snowmobiling when he could have used that fuel to warm his fellow citizens or organized a snowmobile run to help get them supplies?
God, I love Cafferty!?
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/19/should-gov-palin-say-how-much-she-owes-in-back-taxes/#comment-875989
Wonderful Alaska Dispatch – even the press recognizes that this is probably a PR/Photo Op for SP —
I will hope for the best outcome from her trip ~~ that the state will do SOMETHING !
However, just in case that doesn’t happen — one of the villages want to give her a glass of water? ( lol )
Don’t you think she is avoiding Emmonak and the other areas that has had help from the bloggers on purpose? If she was to show up there with her cameras someone just might mention the help from others.
Right Rev rocks – are you sure you’re not a Left Rev?
@mmboucher Florida
You betcha! ;-D
ewww… now I have to go wash my hands…
Nan
re: Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse—-This organization is one of a few which, in my opinion, are completely above-board and honest in their efforts to help those in need. The money you send is spent helping people, not on salaries or “expenses.” Franklin Graham, like his father, is an honest, loving, caring man who wants to help those in need. I would suspect that Samratin’s Purse has only recently been made aware of the suffering in western Alaksa, but if Franklin Graham says he will be distributing food, he WILL be distributing food. If Gov. Palin has said it, we don’t know if it is true. If you want to know, contact Samaritan’s Purse; they will give you an exact accounthing of what is being sent and what is being spent. Remember, NOT ALL CHRISTIANS ARE HYPOCRITS LIKE SARAH PALIN.
I can see the Village from my House (12:33:36) :
Thanks for the information, as I am still learning a lot about the Yukon Delta, as well as your fair state. I am frustrated that Palin governs by riding on others’ coattails, but I’m glad more villages are getting help.
I hope there is opportunity for the villagers to speak with the Governor on camera or mic, and not just those that might need to “make nice”.
It would be great to have signs that can be spotted by any journalistic cameras that are there; signs that say “thank you bloggers!” or something similar that gets the point across.
Sarah is just simply ‘too little, too late”.
accounting even : )
Well, like everyone else, I’m glad that people are finally getting help, wherever it is coming from. But I have to wonder, when this photo op is over, if Sarah will still continue to do anything of if she thinks this one time jaunt is sufficient. My bet is on the latter. And even though I haven’t done nearly as much as others here, I have done something and resent the obvious refusal on the part of the gov to acknowledge that people, individuals, not faith based organizations or government of any kind, are the ones who have already tried to help. Oh, wait, that would be because those efforts align more with what a community organizer would do, and that’s a bad thing. (Never did understand her point there, but there are too many of her points that just defy any sort of understanding.)
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I had to laugh at this one too, being a Kansas native myself, and a fan of the Wizard of Oz. The difference is, though, that the Scarecrow did have a brain, the Tin Man did have a heart, and the Cowardly Lion did already have courage. Sarah, unfortunately for everyone, has none of those attributes.
Pat
And the good news is……………………CNN & Jack Cafferty just had a really negative report on Palin’s tax situation…collecting per diem while living at her home in Wasilla. Her office is not forthcoming with info & quite frankly it’s looking bad. So even though she steps to the stage & accepts credit she’s not due…karma will win out. She has to get the award for the world’s most annoying person…she is absolutely shameless in her manipulation.
Maybe some shoe throwing is in order, don’t they wear some big, heavy snowshoes in rural Alaska?
Hmmm, the html tags didn’t work as I intended, so here’s what I was trying to comment on:
“CO Almost Native
Sue in Kansas (10:44:31) :
I really do feel sorry for you good folks in Alaska that are saddled with an idiot with an ego for your Governor. Every time I hear her speak, that song the scarecrow sang in The Wizard of Oz runs through my mind. You know the one – If I only had a brain.
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LOL! How did I miss this the first time reading:-) Good one…except I’ll be humming the song the rest of the day-”
Sorry
@ I can see the Village from my House (12:33:36) : Could you PM me over in the forum? I struggle with the “anonymous” question all the time. Most of my friends know me on here, but it is hard in a small community to keep the discussion on the message, not the messenger. And if you hold a position of representation of an organization, it is hard to speak your mind, without involving the organization. Anyway, just wanted you to know, we can talk!
mommom – I’m in the northshore area about 30 min from NOLA. I read an article about the housing issue not too long ago shaming the state because brad’s group has built more houses than the state…apparently their number is ZERO. At least if Jindal is in the running he won’t frikkin’ wink us to death – I wouldn’t vote for him anyway he’s too right nutted. WOW that sounds bad but you know what I mean! I didn’t know that before – I’m one of those darn liberals…in fact until Palin came on the scene I was pretty much politically ignorant, so I reckon something good came out of that whole mess!
Yes, we know that Palin is a hypocrit. And yes, some of us feel that we have not been given the “credit” we are due for helping people without expecting anything in return. BUT…the bottom line is that the people of western Alaksa are now going to get even more help. Let us not care where it comes from or why it has been sent; instead, let us rejoice that the blessing is being given!
Yes, there is an e in hypocrite. I spell well but type poorly. I am too lazy to proofread. : )
@UK Lady
Wouldn’t that be wonderful????? What a statement that would make!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just saw this on CNN (Cafferty File).
Should Gov. Palin say how much she owes in back taxes?
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/
Some interesting comments.
Perhaps some veteran Mudflatters could weigh in as well, if they haven’t already.
Let’s see.
The richest State in the richest nation in the world. The self proclaimed Only Superpower in the world – is actively seeking and accepting relief from an organization whose primary goal is helping third world nations????
I know there’s not as much oil money as last year, but other states are not going begging to international relief agencies.
Where is all the oil income going Sarah?
Why did it take somebody else to find your sense of Christian compassion and desire to help the afflicted?
Holy cow what is it with this dysfunctional woman? There are people from other states trying to help your citizens and you use these suffering folks as a PR trip. And like Bush in New Orleans I bet the whole shebang picks up and leaves as soon as she does.
I also am livid! I wonder how much hocus-pocus those poor villagers will have to listen to in order to get anything. I wish Dennis would go there and get the scoop. I’m sure Faux News will be sending someone to put the spin on. Possibly Greta and team are still here?
I am not furious. I am hurt, for all of you here that sent boxes and money and supplies. Hurt because you are hurt. But, know that at the very least, someone might get some help they need to survive the winter.
And I agree that we need to trust the locals there. Those people KNOW who came to their aid first. They KNOW that it wasn’t their governor or their government, but good-hearted strangers from all across the nation. Hopefully, after the visit, they will proclaim their thanks to us all for spreading our wealth and our word about their plight.
SWWNBN will not be considered a friend of the Natives there. We all will be. And in the end, that’s what counts.
Enjay in Eastern MTNo Gravatar (12:40:27) :
Wonderful Alaska Dispatch – even the press recognizes that this is probably a PR/Photo Op for SP —
I will hope for the best outcome from her trip ~~ that the state will do SOMETHING !
However, just in case that doesn’t happen — one of the villages want to give her a glass of water? ( lol )
{smirk}
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she would probably insist on a diet dr. pepper or skinny white latte….!
I think all the bloggers and Dennis Zaki should issue a press release, how/when Nick issued the call for help, getting Dennis to the villages, Help in Emmonak and Nunam Iqua…..Ann S…..send to CNN, MSNBC,Faux etc. ADN!!!!
And how GINO dropped the ball and whined and dined while people starved….
I had a thought… it does happen sometimes, even to me… but does anyone happen to know if there are any “Where’s Sarah” buttons left? Or where they might be at the moment?
I really should be ashamed.
going to go stand in corner now.
There are givers and takers in this world. Unfortunately SHE is a taker and a taker and a taker while trying desperately to convince others that she is a giver and a person who should be praised. She will have to answer to a Higher Power in due time. She will also have to answer to the people of Alaska. I would not want to be her. I give thanks for all those who stepped up and did their part.
Welcome The Right Reverend,
No more ghosting…..we want to hear more posting!
Yes!
If The Right REverend has been reading s/he knows that today is an angry day but not all are.
Share your perspectives, with us in our calmer moments.
@CRFlats & Village & all you Anonymous Alaskan Bloggers
Those of us who don’t live in Alaska respect & understnad why Alaskans want & need to remain anonymous…..that is one vindictive woman. Hopefully, the political environment will be different in the future.
it’s all a farce…for show…for publicity. just b/c she’s traveling there (on alaska’s dime) doesn’t mean she’s going to ‘DO’ anything!!!
i know you’ve heard this a thousand times, but you guys really do need to evict this governor…she’s worthless to say the least
did you guys see this from anonymous blogger page?
I hope this works, first time I’ve tried to incorporate link in title,lol!
It’s official — Homer candidate challenges Gov. Palin
http://www.homernews.com/stories/021809/news_3_002.shtml
from the article above:
His primary motivation for seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, however, was the conduct of Palin, he said.
A conversation with former Palin rural advisor Rhonda McBride woke him up to Palin’s indifference to important issues in rural Alaska, he said.
“I asked Rhonda why she stepped down and, come to find out, she said she was unable to secure one meeting with the governor in 10 months as her rural advisor. Rhonda is a good person, but she was really perturbed.
“What I’ve learned from people in Juneau is that it’s hard to get meetings with her. She lives in an insulated reality. It’s wonderful to have advisors, but if you don’t meet with them then it’s just a game of make-pretend.
“Instead she concerns herself with national and international politics. This state deserves a governor that pays attention to Alaska. I just don’t see that with Governor Palin.”
that came out yesterday, perhaps that’s why she’s going, b/c she looks the FOOL that she is as each day passes. GINO!!!!!
OT, sort of:
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
$60.00 per diem for a phone call to Elizabeth Dole?! I hope the IRS and AK state auditors are not drinking coffee when they read these kind of entries, otherwise they’ll spew coffee all over the documents.
I just sent the Homer gov-candidate piece and the link to the adn article about her highness’ visit to rural Alaska to Rachel.
Such a nice juxtaposition with one article talking about what a savior she is next to another article saying her rural advisor stepped down b/c the queen couldn’t be bothered with meetings about her rural constituents…
That felt really good!
The governor’s trip to Western Alaska, coupled with work on the economic stimulus certification requirements and budget amendments, will prevent her from attending the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
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How convenient GINO…you can run ~ but you cannot hide…and why not take your conscience along for the ride!
I don’t think any of us are mad because she’s taking OUR “credit.” It’s that she is trying to take credit for something she hasn’t done -yet again. It’s just maddening to see her -anyone, be such an immoral, unethical, uncaring low life while she reaps the rewards. There’s a special place in hell for people like her. And I don’t even beleieve in hell, but I beleive in some kind of karmic payback.
I’d also be curious to know how much Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse are/have/will donated to Palins Political purse?
@ pdx mb
You’re goooood!
I like Homer. Educated and greenie. And a mediator. That’s a really good quality.
Ok, that does it!
What can be done to get a paid ad in the various AK newspapers touting all the aid groups/individuals that have already done the job of providing life supplies to Alaskans in need? And…in the ad, make sure that these groups/individuals are noted as not waiting on eligibility, unlike DQWAPT’s crew, who spent weeks working on who was qualified?
Christian charity at its finest…qualifications must come first!
G-r-r-r-r-r!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ok…back to normal now. Just had to let my momma grizzly show…even if I’m more of a puppy person (soft/cuddly).
Paula (13:41:11) :
I don’t think any of us are mad because she’s taking OUR “credit.” It’s that she is trying to take credit for something she hasn’t done -yet again.
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Exactly!!
Hi all…
Sounds like Jack Cafferty might be all over this too. Here’s hoping.
Hopefully this will play out in a positive manner… though the efforts I’ve read have been pretty darn positive. You Alaskans may have one of the worst governors, but as a people you really stick together when it counts!!
Not to creep anyone out, but I check this blog daily… have for about 5 months now…
This one and fivethirtyeight.com are tops!
P.S. I’m the Right Reverend ’cause I’m right because I’m left
There ya go again, gotcha bloggers, saying the governor does nothing while people go hungry and cold …..
I distinctly remember at the ‘press availability incident’ last week, the governor, when asked what she had done personally to help the villages, scanned her colleagues while they mumbled about government officials/visits/programs – and confirmed out loud, “Twenty people were given food stamps.”
“Twenty people were given food stamps.” That was the sum achievement of a planeload of overpaid government employees. I can’t get that little factoid out of my head.
Pepper!!! An AD IN ALASKA!!! What a GREAT IDEA!!!! A full page one would be perfect!!!
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAAAA
It would be great if the folks in the two villages GINO plans to visit would make a great big sign, something to the effect:
“Thanks Governor Palin! Where have you been?” OR
“Do you have a doggie bag from the Alfalfa Dinner? We’re hungry!”
Perhaps they are less cynical than I am, but I agree with others that donated VERY early in this plight. We have a right to be annoyed.
I’m just thankful the villages are getting the attention they badly need.
If you get a chance, go to
http://anonymousbloggers.wordpress.com/how-to-help/#comments
February 19, 2009 at 4:21 am
Kath the Scrappy from Seattle posed a fun question to Ann S about how the villagers view us – the bloggers and senders of pkgs. Ann S’s reply is a very enlightening, endearing and funny all at once. A must read.
Someone needs to ask GINO: “Did you personally buy any of the food you are bringing here??”
Or is it like at the Food Bank before the holidays where GINO got to deliver the state check, but not a personal one.
It’s really easy to give other people’s money; it’s a lot harder to give your own.
Instead of trying her usual – blaming of the liberal-bloggers – she is now STUCK following their lead….when she was in more of a position to really do more – faster/sooned than tomorrow, or how ever long the SPIN is that she’s been working on her new project.
And I’m not excited that that Graham organization won’t try to convert ppl…I really wish such a charity didn’t include all ‘that’ other stuff with their work.
asiangrrlMN
I am not sure that Palin won’t make the matter worse in some way.
If she gets enough of the kind of publicity that she probably wants “I came, I saw, I fixed everything.” – some individuals and organizations may feel that the problems are fix and stop sending aid, or reduce the flow and look for other groups to help.
Of course just her ingratitude for the help that others have volunteered, those true acts of love and faith, without the benefit of PR, can have a certain chilling effect.
Left is right is correct.
austintx
The main thing is the sincerity and heart that this blog has put forth in the help for those in need. Sarah “camera whore” Palin has an agenda. Soul-less piece of human feces.
I can sense you are stressing. Try going to Trudy’s for happy hour and have the second Margarita for me.
Secret Shopper – Grifters always use OPM (other peoples money)……..it’s in their operating manual , right on the 1st page.
@ the Right Reverend – ha ha – you’re right because you are left. Silly me, I thought you might be a Bishop!
Helping should not come with a Prerequisite that one has to have the same BELIEF SYSTEM, seperation of church & state…GINO must have missed that lesson in school…
Kinda reminds me of GeorgeBush at the start of HIS war, he only allowed Christian organizations to help the ppl of Iraq, even when there were already Charities set-up in the country who were better connected to do the charity distribution…ONLY Christian charties were able to set-up…then after that lots of the charities were FALSELY accused of sponsoring the attactks against America…Their bank accounts were frozen, FUNDS TAKEN and the list of contributers was taken/investigated….
Just a thought… to cool off a bit about what the villagers SHOULD DO. In my experience, rural Alaskans vote regularly and often with consensus with their region / village. For many years, Ted Stevens had very robust voting support from rural Alaska and he brought in a lot of federal projects, as we all know.
This may not be the time for residents in rural Alaska to get into the politics, many villages likely voted for SP, hoping that she would be a champion for rural AK. They may just be finding out, sorting out, what has and has not been done. Remember how isolated these villages have been this winter – little communication w/ other villages or even between families and residents. It’s not likely that politics are on their minds with the urgent issues at hand.
Rural Alaska needs our help and attention, but it’s up to the villages, councils and residents to become political in the LONG TERM effort needed to help make this a sustainable and fulfilling life in Alaska, as it should be. It’s not our place to urge them to picket, or take up arms (just kidding about the arms part). And if YOU voted for SP, would YOU want to talk about that right now while you are hungry and cold?
Just sayin…be respectful and thoughtful.
@CRFlats (12:37:33) :
Jay Ramras is actually just a State Rep. (please don’t give him a bigger head!)
@Nan (13:06:14) :
I thought AKM had some “Where’s Sarah” buttons in the Cafe Press store. Check that link up there somewhere…
Marnie – LOL……I can throw a rock and hit a Trudy’s from where I’m sitting right now !! I like Z-Tejas also. Fresh limes only….no crap out of a plastic bottle. Cheers !!
60.00 per diem for a phone call to Elizabeth Dole?! I hope the IRS and AK state auditors are not drinking coffee when they read these kind of entries, otherwise they’ll spew coffee all over the documents.
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LMAO..Dole probably billed the taxpayers for the same call. Ha!
I have setteld down and decide it is good for her to bring her celebrity to that area…hopefully, she’ll bring a can of tuna with her as well. Maybe little Piper will be dragged in to give away canned food and candies. Bringing Parnell with her no doubt to answer coherently the “reasons” for the delay instead of her issuign pyscho’s babble. Ramras must just be ready to spit! I trust in the Villagers.
“she was unable to secure one meeting with the governor in 10 months as her rural advisor”
iNCLUDE THAT IN THE TIME LINE, it’s so important!
I think the state officials who have been working on this should go together, as a team, and develop a coordinated response. Jay Ramras should be there and I’m sure there are democratic legislators who have also been working hard. It is ironic that much of the rural crisis may not have happened in the first place if the legislature had embraced democratic proposals to provide fuel relief at last summer’s special session. Ramras has done more than Palin to address this crisis.
Somebody pointed out that one of the villages Sarah Palin and Franklin Graham will visit is Marshall, a village that was destroyed by fire and he helped rebuild. How’s that for a media opportunity?
The other is Russian Mission where a grant from Bill & Melinda Gates has successfully introduced subsistence living skills into the public school curriculum — a really good idea but probably not one she was involved with.
http://www.whatkidscando.org/specialcollections/student_research_action/russian%20mission/index.html
Just wanted to throw that out there.
Jane
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (14:05:45)
I understand your points; however, I think we’ve moved past being able to deal with GINO in a respectful and thoughtful manner. She would interpret that as “love” for her.
Narcissists like GINO don’t understand a wide range of emotion, and don’t understand subtlety. You have to hit her hard with disdain or GINO won’t get it.
GINO’s only doing this, not because she truly cares for villagers, but because she’s worried about her image and has been advised to do something due to the barrage of negative press. We need more of that, not pleasantries or anything she would interpret as positive affirmations.
The rural villagers have a right to be mad, and I’m mad FOR them.
If you Alaskans are so damned mad at your do nothing governor, you need to take action and do something about it. Vote her “OUT” of office if she runs again.
Per diem is taxable income. Sarah reminds me of Leona Helmsley when she said “only the little people pay taxes”, until Helmsley got caught by the IRS and spent some time in the gray bar hotel.
UK Lady (12:46:36) :
Maybe some shoe throwing is in order, don’t they wear some big, heavy snowshoes in rural Alaska?
Good idea. Muklus would seem appropriate.
lucks?
I’n saving some old stinky tennies for the Duhbya statue on the DC Mall as well.
I’d rather eat some of that tainted peanut butter than have to read that press release again.
Your girl gino is starting to make our boy george look better by the day.
If she keeps it up I’m afraid I might get whiplash shaking my head in dis-belief.
I want to know if anyone has received this food she has talked about. The woman has no shame.
Jane in Miami – VERY interesting info…….thanks !!
@ Sue, I lost all my respect for the Grahams, associating with the most hypocritical women I ever knew about. UGH! See if I end up in their church.
What an opportunist that Gov is! I will definately go give them a few of my thoughts on this.
Either way, WE KNOW THE TRUTH! I can see they dont! Glad people are still contributing, too bad she will turn this into something to benefit herself. Remember that we are as powerful as our vote and we have this ,, on file! She cant say they were there back in Jan!
Natalie (14:27:17) :
I for one have been trying to keep GINO out of office since BEFORE her election as governor!!!
My husband (a very smart guy) and I went to the gubernatorial debates as concerned citizens and couldn’t believe what a nim-wit GINO was then– she hasn’t changed a bit.
GINO is more like the Britney Spears of politics than anything else.
We are leaving the state hopefully this summer after 15 years here because I cannot live in a state that would support someone like GINO. And I cannot take another day of “everything GINO.” I’m jealous of everyone of you who don’t have to suffer at the hands of GINO (thought you may be in states with similar politicians). It’s getting to be too much.
I’m done watching the train wreck.
Scorpie-Great to have another Shreveporter here,it really is a small world.Maybe we can do coffee sometime.
264Crayons-Yeah,me too,I voted for him and would probably not do it again,but you know the choice we had was not good,I think he is the best we had to choose from.I am at least not embarrassed that he is our Governor.I think he will be the Rep answer to the popularity of Obama,because they think the 2 have a lot incommon.I see that they are both intelligent and thoughtful,but Bobby/Booby(he will always be that in my mind now!)will never move people the way Obama does.
I want a new blogger title:
I can see the truth from my house
austintx (14:06:37) :
Marnie – LOL……I can throw a rock and hit a Trudy’s from where I’m sitting right now !! I like Z-Tejas also. Fresh limes only….no crap out of a plastic bottle. Cheers !!
Stop your killin me. I don’t live in Austin or Texas any more. Sob!
Relax. Palin has not fooled anyone….except for maybe TeamSarah and their ilk.
Three important facts which must NOT be forgotten:
1) Dedicated and respectful long-term policies for rural problems have to be diligently and doggedly pursued over the next year. (BTW, Rev. Graham, I’m talking “legislation” here which means “State” Business….as in separation of church and state.)
2) On Palin’s timetable of Do-Nothing and Ignore for five weeks, there would be dead bodies in Western Alaska ( similar to Bush’s Katrina) if the bloggers hadn’t stepped in with TRUE “servants’ hearts” to raise food, funds, and media awareness.
3) Palin the Shameless had to be shamed yet once again by “bad press” to get her butt moving…..not to help the villagers…..but to spin and lie her way out of that bad press.
Kind of pathetic that Palin has to haul Graham along…….Can’t she face her own constituents by herself? Would she say to them what she said to the legislators when they asked about her plans for the upcoming leg. session…”You guys are always trying to put me on the spot.” tsk tsk. Well, maybe Mr. Graham can field the tough questions for the governor? Or maybe she can get James Dobson involved with State business again?
Palin doesn’t have a clue about what a governor actually does…”Being put on the spot” is par for the course for any leader. But then, she never did figure out what a VP’s role was either.
Keep after her, Mudpups.
Since my great husband wasn’t her to “talk me down,” I depended on a sweaty workout and a cocktail (actually I’m on the second one).
My husband always reminds me that no matter what the end result, no matter the cheaters, the liers, the crooks or the losers who claim credit for the good deed of another -If you do the right thing you can NEVER be wrong. Wrong can never outdo right. Right will always win out in the end.
Palin is creating her own Karma. Everyday there is another, or two, or three articles on her shady, back door, cheating, lying ways.
Let her take the credit. And later, the heat when she gets called on it.
Here’s to warm natives with fat full times sitting by a toasty fire with hot coffee (cream and sugar included).
@Secret Shopper
Spot on. This is no time for codependency. The Native Alaskans need to speak up or be manipulated.
Back of Feb 12th AKM posted SP’s interview about the crisis, and she said she didn’t know if going there would even help.
Maybe she reads AK’s most popular anonymous blog, cause I wrote ‘to her’ -
DrChill (14:55:34) :
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.
Seems they’re even talking about helping the fishing industry.
Hey maybe I can get a job as an adviser for SP… heh heh…
DrChill, Sarah has a adviser: God. She doesn’t listen to him, why would she listen to anyone else?
Sex Kitten Feminist Sarah Palin Is a Big Media, Internet Draw, Love or Hate Her
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2009/02/18/sex-kitten-feminist-sarah-palin-is-a-big-media-internet-draw-love-or-hate-her.html
@Paula—You have chosen your life partner well. It’s always good to have a bit of bottom-line wisdom in a marriage.
Poopies
They made me give the tires back. Boo Hoooooo!!
Here is a link to a Canadian News station, if you’re interested, that has uploaded a short video of Obama visiting the Byward Market for Beavertails & Cookies as it probably won’t be shown on CNN et al. Asking for the cookies dialogue was a kewl Dad moment. That human factor everyone loves about the Obamas. Unplanned stop as far as itinerary but know full well it was quietly planned in order to deal with secret service. CNN is already put some word spin on the trip that Obama had to tread lightly — yearight NOT. Relaxed and kewl as a cucumber like you know — nothing flaps him!! The fact he has CDN money was commented on on CNN and they said it was probably because of one of his admin people. Helllllloo — knock, knock. Michele’s brother lives in Canada about 1-1/2 hours away from me. Hmmm, if I only knew if and when he visited there.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/ On the right top side of the page you will see Audio & Video box. Obama at the market.
this has likely been said, but she backed out of the CPAC last week, right? sighting “state’s business” so she drummed up her own bad press…on purpose, folks. so she could then turn around with a big name, big press, lots of critical eyes, and say “SEE? I DO care, you silly liberal poopy heads.”
i for one think it’s time AK said “ENOUGH!” it’s one thing to play politics with issues, to shore up the base. but to play politics with the lives of native Alaskans, when they are hungry, cold and needing immediate relief, well that’s a form of political genocide. and it’s simply evil.
IMPEACH. HER. IMPEACH. HER. IMPEACH. HER. IMPEACH. HER.
@ Secret Shopper for Hungry Children
OK now I’m giggling. Did you think I meant treat SP with respect and thoughtfulness? Wow I don’t even think those words could tumble out of my mouth – I’m surprised I could even type them (blech). Surely, my reputation precedes me?
The respect and thoughtfulness is for rural Alaskans. It’s not up to us to tell them to jump on the political band wagon while they are in crisis. We are “secret talkers” from outside the villages and homes, and our gifts must be without conditions. The villagers may not even know where things are coming from, just that they are coming somehow (or not).
It’s the outside world that needs to know that SP is once again using this as a photo op and a trip to further her contrived image. If we remain anonymous “secret talkers” to the villages for ever more, that’s fine with me.
Problem Child -Yes I did. And I am grateful every day for it. 25plus years later and he’s still my best friend. And he can always talk me down.
Pat, Washington state (12:46:44) :
Hmmm, the html tags didn’t work as I intended, so here’s what I was trying to comment on:
“CO Almost Native
Sue in Kansas (10:44:31) :
I really do feel sorry for you good folks in Alaska that are saddled with an idiot with an ego for your Governor. Every time I hear her speak, that song the scarecrow sang in The Wizard of Oz runs through my mind. You know the one – If I only had a brain.
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LOL! How did I miss this the first time reading:-) Good one…except I’ll be humming the song the rest of the day-”
Sorry
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Isn’t that song “Ding dong, the witch is dead, the witch is dead” also from Oz? Maybe this is the death of her politically. Or at least a start. One can hope.
Okay Martha, we’ll let you stay. Good thing you caught that, we were going to outcast you with the trolls! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
DrChill…you’re way over qualified for that job…
@ phoebe
“This is no time for codependency. The Native Alaskans need to speak up or be manipulated”
You are using white people’s words.
I think her political death is here already, it’s just a slow agonizing death. While we may wish it was more like an -oh look there’s a train BAM! -we’ll get to savor her demise act by act. Until finally, like that ole wicked witch she withers away into some unknown place (a hole somewhere beneath the stage?). Regardless, where we won’t have to see her ever again.
Click your shoes! Click your shoes!
with respect to the communities of Marshall and Russian Mission – whats distance, location in relationship to the other villages needing help?
Are they more populated, more repugs, GINO has ties…?
Just wondering why not go to the other villages…
Another piece to this puzzle is the new Rural Advisor, John Moller. He may very well be in Nunam Iqua today, weather permitting.
And today:
http://begich.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=308270
“Sen. Begich will discuss the economic recovery package in Bethel on Thursday when he travels to the village for a series of meetings. Traveling with the Director of Congressional Affairs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Darren Pete, Sen. Begich will tour the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation and meet with a number of community leaders from the region to talk about the recovery package and how it can help rural Alaska.”
There are some interesting things afoot I hope…
Okay, see what happens when you exhale and accept? You relax, let go and the father of the family you adopted sends an email -just like that offering thanks. Just at the moment your heart can experience it best.
That’s what it’s about. Connecting stranger to starnger, person to person… just to make the world a better place for all. I see a circle, everyone is holding hands…all the little children of the wolrd.
let’s keep on uplifting the people of rural alaska with our gifts of food,fuel,friendship and love. we don’t have to concern ourselves with what that nasty piece of goods is doing and saying. the woman is running out of rope and hope. the end for her may not come tomorrow or even next year but it will come. what we are about is what will last and grow in ways we can not even imagine now. we don’t need or want praise and recognition from sarah palin or her friends or associates. we do what we do because that’s the way we roll!…love b
I heart BUBBLES!!!
That’s right bubbles.
Who ever remembers some politcian who gave you a one year tax cut of food stamps andyway? But the kidness of a stranger, you remember that. You pass that on. That spreads love, sharing and caring.
Palin had a job to do and did it.
What we have done is not some job we get paid for. It’s humanity. It’s love. It’s just good stuff all around.
GROUP HUG???????????????
I meant Palin DIDN’T do it. But who will remember that in 20 years? (Except maybe us).
The mudpuppies pay it forward…
How about some of those Yellow MudFlat Boots — that would grab her attention !!!
LMAO..Dole probably billed the taxpayers for the same call. Ha!
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I’m from NC and I don’t think Dole billed for the call. She had already been defeated at the time of this call. So, essentially, Palin billed the state of AK for talking to a private citizen which makes it even more outrageous.
@Paula@
“I’d also be curious to know how much Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse are/have/will donated to Palins Political purse?”
Samaritan’s purse does not make political contributions; it is a non-political organization. All the donations go to help the needy around the world. I don’t know if Franklin Graham has made a personal donation to Sarah Palin or any other candidate, but I have never heard of him (or his father) endorsing any candidate. Franklin Graham is all about helping people in need.
@bubbles and Paula:
Yup, group hug and high fives all around…
Alaska I think it is pretty clear that Go Go Boots Governor is just not that into you unless she gets national coverage.
Sue, you must have much greater faith than I. I don’t think for one minute that a religios group like that doesn’t slip the bucks to Bushes and Palins. I could be wrong. But I myself am very suspect of anything that involves religion. What could be more corrupt?
Watch these moronic Palin supporters say how Wonderful she is to not attend to the Convention and to care for her own citizens of Alaska. The sad part is when you try to tell them the Truth they call you a hater.
We do not hate Palin, we just despise her lack of common sense, her Blame the Media victimess she tries to portray to the ignorant mindless supporters, and inebtness.
@ Canadian Neighbour……no you can’t have him!!!!!!!
@ Enjay in Eastern MT
However, just in case that doesn’t happen — one of the villages want to give her a glass of water? ( lol )………………………great idea, lets give her a whole gallon.
@ The Right Reverend nice to meet ya, there was a quite few of us that were ghost too
Was just scanning though some of the links.
One of the requests was for cloth tote bags. Asks about a donation of surplus.
Bet most of us have multiple unused (Ok Ok I store junk in mine in the back of my closets etc. ) cloth bags.
Use them as stuffing in you next goody boxes??
Marnie (15:56:34) :
Great idea- mine hang out in the garage and multiply…:-)
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (15:00:11) :
I’m always glad to provide some comic relief! Of course, I’ve ready many of your posts and understand where you are coming from. I’ve been a reader/fan of Mudflats long before I joined the discussion. Thank you for providing a perspective from an Alaskan who lives outside AnchorTown! Unfortunately living here we probably get more inundated with GINO and our tolerance of her is wearing thin. And it shows…..
Actongue (15:55:35) :
“We do not hate Palin,….”
I will be the first to admit I’m really close!!!
I think crystalwolf is too!
Secret Shopper, I will join you will almost hate. Actually, sometimes do hate.
Guess I should add the bags are so recipients will have something permanent to carry their food from the donation site to their homes and be reusable for additional trips.
The folks doing the distribution had run out of boxes so the bags would be more permanent
Secret Shopper for Hungry Children (16:06:34)
I will be the first to admit I’m really close!!!
I understand how some can it is just that hate is such a strong word. Then again so is Love:}
It saddens my heart to see so many people who have been turned off to all Christians by self-proclaimed Christians like Sarah Palin. Please remember that not all Christians are like Sarah Palin. Yes, I know that you can name many others who ARE like her. But most of us are quiet people, out of the spotlight, who try to live our lives as Christ wishes. A good rule of thumb that I have found is this: If a person announces, “I am a Christian!” and makes a big deal out of it–makes it public–they are probably not a good example of what a Christian is. The “true” Christians just work quietly, trying to serve the Lord and glorify Him; you probably don’t even know they are Christians unless you ask. People like Sarah give the rest of us a bad name. : (
Franklin Graham will cry his evangelical crocodile tears, pray over the Alaskan Natives, proclaim the reason for these most dire circumstances is because the Republican God has been set aside. . .blah blah blah. . . .and silly Sarah will stand there chattering away while pretending she cares. And the really sad thing – people in the Lower 48 who’ve never heard about this situation will say ” oh my, what a good Christian Woman Sarah Palin is. . . our country really really needs her”
I am sorry Sue, but you are right. Living in a “Bible belt” area, most of the very worst people & least tolerant people I know are Christians. Kudos to you if you’ve actually read the book, took something from it and follow the teachings. You, sadly, are not in the majority from my experience. Shine the light, the faith sure needs it.
PaulaNo Gravatar (15:50:21) :
Sue, you must have much greater faith than I. I don’t think for one minute that a religios group like that doesn’t slip the bucks to Bushes and Palins. I could be wrong. But I myself am very suspect of anything that involves religion. What could be more corrupt?
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I’m with you, Paula. McCain actually made a trip to see Billy and Franklin before Sarah was chosen (06/29/08) http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9736654?source=rss. Sarah was ‘chosen’ August 29. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/29palin.html?hp. I think Franklin chose Palin. I want his tax exempt status taken away.
Marshall and Russian Mission– although all the villages out there proably need help, that’s not Emmonak or Nunam Iqua– apparently Palin has no intention of meeting with people like Nicholas Tucker or Ann Strongheart– the people who communicated with the outside world in the first place and gave us a “heads up”. Palin doesn’t seem to like heroes.
Palin is bringing Sean Parnell. I wonder if Mr. Parnell will provide as much assistance as bags of rice in his seat would have.
I’m concerned Governor Palin may have identified this food crisis as an opportunity for exploitation and self promotion. I see no sign that she is developing a coordinated statewide relief plan (in collaboration with legislators who have been more concerned about this issue than her in the past).
It is hard to hate a fellow human……..BUT…….Sarah Palin posseses and projects SO many vile and despicable traits , that she makes it VERY easy to get there. She is pushing the biggest bucket of shit around with a really short stick……and is WAY overdue to trip and do a face plant into said bucket.
I have followed this blog, along with a few others with various AK topics, and see this entire subject as one that has the ability to bring together factions that normally have not worked together.
There are what 7 villages that now that are in need of help? Maybe more but haven’t come forward?
The state has singed up families for already offered programs?
The Office of… has made one flight out to Emmonak with food and supplies?
What is happening with the rest of the villages?
Has the governor brought the representatives of these two, or are there three areas, together for a meeting to see what they know about it?
Have the representatives gotten with the governor to coordinate efforts?
Has one local (statewide) TV station made an effort to cover this issue (s)?
Has even one hotline been set up for people making donations, or better yet for families to call for help?
To me there is a lot the state, the area representatives, and area media STILL have let to do.
I have seen long term ideas batted around and am thrilled to see people from all walks of life helping figure this out. Letting someone else take credit is something that too often happens. YELL, SHOUT, SCREAM and stand up for yourself as the ones who have kep this going. Someone of matter will do the right thing and help get the word out!
The idea that some shameless, no name bloggers would be the first and consistent responders makes this even worse than Katrina!
Pretty sad deal.
Jim (16:24:51) :
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Marshall and Russian Mission– although all the villages out there proably need help, that’s not Emmonak or Nunam Iqua–
Jim it would seem logical that a person would head there too. Then again it requires that the person takes the time to Read more then her own pro palin websites and to actually pick up the local papers from one own State.
Top 10 things about GINO that annoy-the-crap-out-of-me:
10. Fiscal conservatism. Don’t claim per diem for filing your nails and tell me you’re a fiscal conservative! And creative accounting does not equal fiscal conservatism either.
9. Her voice. Let’s all thank God for the mute button. I’ve gotten really good at reading lips, though I hear deaf interpreters struggle interpreting GINO!
8. Media whore-ness. No GINO, the world doesn’t revolve around you either!!
7. Narcissism. “What? It’s not ALL about me??” Somehow I think she never entered the stage of development when you become less egocentric and realize it “ain’t all about you.”
6. Cronyism. Wouldn’t YOU love to apply for a job and be considered qualified just because YOU had a childhood love of something?? You could if you are a friend of GINO. No experience necessary, just undying loyalty and a willingness to be manipulated and thrown under the bus.
5. Fake persona. She wants everyone to believe she’s a good, honest, hardworking woman from “outside the beltway.” The reality is she’s a ruthless, unscrupulous egomaniac from “inside the chastity beltway.”
4. Lack of intellect. Could that be anymore obvious? Sorry, those were “soft” questions from Katie. Saw a supposed SAT report during the campaign that showed a combined score of 840 for GINO! Not sure of it’s authenticity but I would believe it’s probably true…or close.
3. Incuriosity. I doubt she cared one bit about how others live while touring the country during the campaign, as long as they loved her. Not everyone has the opportunity to travel, but she certainly has had the means and rarely traveled outside Alaska prior to her governorship. And she didn’t know that 3 or 4 Harry Potter blockbusters were published while she was mayor!!!
2. Her mothering. Sorry, but birthing a child (or children) doesn’t make you a good or great mother, just ask any adoptive parent out there. Her children create an image for her, and she uses them accordingly. I would NEVER use a child of mine as a “shield” like GINO did with Piper at the Philly hockey game. And, IMO, I believe Bristol’s pregnancy was a call for attention from her mother, as well as her way of saying “F*@& You, Mom.”
1. She’s pro-life. Really? I question that one. It’s certainly ok for her daughter to have a choice but not everyone else. And don’t tell me that an 8-week fetus has rights to medical care but a 35-weeker does not??
Thanks for the “colon cleansing.” I feel much better now.
Many send food, some have adopted individual families. Pride likely keeps many in need from requesting food and fuel.
This is just a photo-op opportunity for Sarah Palin. She has no shame. This is what happens when when mediocrity meets with unbridled ambition.
410 comments on the article at adn.com (didn’t have time to do a breakdown of pro vs. negative) and 122 or so on the Cafferty website (almost all positive that she should divulge the amount of back taxes).
Does this person do anything without stepping in it? She’s not Quayle with a ponytail, she’s Bush with a ponytail since he had the reverse Midas Touch just like the GINO.
Here’s the latest on GINO’s trip to Western Alaska: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138171
UPDATE: A Samaritan’s Purse official said the group is gathering food in Wasilla today as they prepare to visit the villages tomorrow. They plan to send out as many as four of their planes in the morning.
“We’re buying 4,400 pounds of groceries,” said Luther Harrison, director of North American projects for the group.
What’s Palin’s role?
“She will be participating in the actual work of the food drop. Her goals are to help the specific individuals she will be seeing and to express moral support for all of those in similar circumstances,” wrote Bill McAllister, her state spokesman.
@ Marnie (and whoever else has an opinion)
I missed the request for totes. Is there a link? Or could you just let me know what page it’s on (about the totes).
I just missed two full weeks of work and simply don’t have it to spend until next payday. Meanwhile, I can sew like gangbusters and I have an embarrassment of fabric stash just sitting doing nothing.
If someone has dimensions – I think they’d need to be larger than what I use as a knitting bag, but how much? How deep x how tall x how wide, etc.
Anyway, I can throw together a bunch of sturdy totes and get ‘em in the mail to who- and whereever.
Nan
Ah, and from the same ADN Alaska Politics link, here is what Sen. Begich is up to on his trip to Western Alaska today (see who’s actually talking to Emmonak and Kotlik, et al?):
UPDATE: Sen. Mark Begich is in Bethel today with Bureau of Indian Affairs officials, for a teleconference with people from several villages “to talk about BIA funds, stimulus, etc,” Begich spokeswoman Julie Hasquet said in an e-mail.
The villages are Emmonak, Tuluksak, Kotlik, Chevak and Kalskag, she wrote.
Nan,
I remember Ann asking people to use plastic bags for packing so that she would have something to use to hand out the food in when they ran out of boxes. Someone on one of the threads suggested we could send reusable fabric bags. I think if you made them about the size of any fabric grocery bags you have around or about the size of a paper grocery bag but with handles it would work well. Ah, someone else with a fabric stash…I just cant get to mine or to the sewing machine!
Here’s the latest on GINO’s trip to Western Alaska: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138171
UPDATE: A Samaritan’s Purse official said the group is gathering food in Wasilla today as they prepare to visit the villages tomorrow. They plan to send out as many as four of their planes in the morning.
“We’re buying 4,400 pounds of groceries,” said Luther Harrison, director of North American projects for the group.
What’s Palin’s role?
“She will be participating in the actual work of the food drop. Her goals are to help the specific individuals she will be seeing and to express moral support for all of those in similar circumstances,” wrote Bill McAllister, her state spokesman.
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Great for the villagers. Otherwise, barf, puke, spit, barf.
And that food from Wasiila? Hope that witchdoctor had a chance to pray over it….
Secret Shopper
A few to add to your list.
The Masked Avengers Interview when she thought she was Talking to the President of France.
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AVENGERS: Gov. Palin, I love the documentary they made on your life.? You know Hustler’s Nailin’ Paylin?
PALIN: Ohh, good, thank you, yes.
2 Special need kids Speech
She proves her lackof intellict once again by picking on the Fruit Fly. Any parent of a special needs kid Should Run away from Sarah
Smart parents take the time to do Research first to learn and Educate themself on what is being done to find cures and treatments for their child. Even though its a different fruit fly logic dictates do not use the
first Earmark on a website you find and claim it as an earmark to cut if it can be construed also as a scientific means to help your own kid. I googled fruit fly pork and one of the first websites is Citizens against Waste and Fruitfly is the very first one mentioned.
Energy Policy Speech.
She was in a Solar power plant and could not take the time to Address the workers but went on an on about drill baby drill. A smart energy policy Expert would talk about Solar power and other forms of energy and also take the time to Address the Workers and thank them for their effort in helping out.
asrgh my typing I need to proofread before i submit to correct tpyos and errors. No one to blame but me though……..unlike somone else we know who shifts the blame to others:}
“she will be seeing and to express moral support …”
do you think Palin is aware this does not actually involve the biting of the neck and the sucking of the blood?
Can you see it, blood dripping from her jowls, while she says, “Yes, wonderful protein filled Alaskan blood. Yeah! Think I’ll bring some home for the kids.”
This is a direct quote from Franklin Graham:
“Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound.”
The fact that Sarah sees fit to finally make an appearance with this man in tow shows exactly what she thinks of Villagers, or indeed of the rest of us. Going in with such a self-righteous, holier-than-thou attitude is an insult.
“Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound.”
Yepper mag the Mick, exactly why I totally distrust “Christian” groups.
someone better start working on that handbasket…i’m sure there are more than a few of us around who are gonna need it on that trip we’re bound for.
handbasket? Heck with that, we’re bringing coolers. And lost of ice!
2. Her mothering. Sorry, but birthing a child (or children) doesn’t make you a good or great mother, just ask any adoptive parent out there. Her children create an image for her, and she uses them accordingly. I would NEVER use a child of mine as a “shield” like GINO did with Piper at the Philly hockey game.
by Secret Shopper for Hungry Children
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Yes, I concur, because I remember when Sarah Palin decided to “drop the puck” at the Philadelphia Flyer’s first Home game of the season. Philly fans are infamous for blasting their own players and anyone else they aren’t happy with at the moment, and Sarah Palin had been warned. Here’s a paragraph about that hockey game in Philly from The Nation , entitled “Palin Drops the Puck”, October 13, 2008:
“You cannot make this up. Sarah Palin, the best-known hockey mom in the United States, gets booed Saturday at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game….The Philly welcome was what New York Times hockey blogger Lynn Zinser described as ‘resounding (almost deafening) boos from the Flyers crowd,’ and don’t believe the reports that describe ‘a mix of cheers and boos.’ There was a mix all right: a mix of boos and piped-in rock music that was like (we have to say it) lipstick on a pig.”
“As added insurance, the GOP vice-presidential candidate walked out on the ice with 7-year-old daughter Piper, who wore a Flyers jersey. Palin acknowledged this strategy beforehand, saying, ‘I’ve been warned that Flyers fans, they get so enthused, that they boo everybody at the drop of the puck. But what I thought I’d do is I’d put Piper in a Flyers jersey, bring her out with me. How dare they boo Piper!’ Well, they dared, and Sarah Palin once again makes her case for mother of the year.”
I’d like to conduct a non-scientific poll:
Question:
Tomorrow, Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be traveling with Governor Palin to visit distressed Yukon Delta communities. If you had a choice, which would you prefer to put in Governor Palin’s plane: Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, or his equivalent weight in powdered potatoes?
She really is vile, isn’t she!
Secret Shopper – on reason #8……..you forgot to add “slowly”.
@Joaquim (17:03:28) :
Potatoes which would be much more useful!
Secret Shopper for Hungry ChildrenNo Gravatar (16:06:34) :
Actongue (15:55:35) :
“We do not hate Palin,….”
I will be the first to admit I’m really close!!!
I think crystalwolf is too!
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Yep!
Wow interesting information about Graham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Graham
Graham came under criticism for comments he made about Islam in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks when he referred to Islam as “a very evil and wicked religion.” Further criticism came on April 18, 2003, when he preached at a Good Friday service at the Pentagon.[2][3][4]
Franklin Graham was also criticized in 1994 for allegedly refusing to be part of peace negotiations between Sudanese Muslim and Christian fighting factions: the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) as well as Ugandan government intermediates
After Franklin Graham allegedly refused to help talks disintegrated and renewed fighting that still persists to this day began. This is often cited or inferred most notably by the Jun 2005 issue, “The Walrus,”[1] as the precursor to the modern-day Darfur genocide.
As an evangelist, Franklin Graham stirred controversy when he was chosen by George W. Bush to offer a prayer at Bush’s January 20, 2001, inauguration -
Sounds to Me like Sarah is hanging out with more Nutcase Right Wing Fanatics.
Republicans would be smart to throw the right wingers in the dumpster:}
It was inevitable that she would be taking credit for this. The cameras will be rolling and the footage will be used in a future ad campaign. What a gash! I hope people don’t forget!
@Greytdog
Okay how many of us have thought about Billy Graham’s wild & crazy, belatedly come to Jesus son???????????? Not many……..PHOTO OP.
Keith o is about to do his worst persons. Palin and her $60 phone calls!
Heaven hellp me. I read this:.
“What’s Palin’s role?
“She will be participating in the actual work of the food drop. ”
and got a mental image of SP toting (a single) grocery bag while tottering around in those patent leather spike-heeled boots…
I’m already paying for that image…
(“hellp” typo = unintended pun = I’m keepin’ it anyway)
I wouldn’t wish any kind of accident………but IF the plane went down – and the Gov. and Lt. Gov. perished – who is next in line ??……..oh – I vote powdered potatoes.
GINO just made Keith’s Worst Person list!
Keith nailed her on her back taxes and her charging AK every time she did a phone interview!
@ InJuneau
“Ah, someone else with a fabric stash…I just cant get to mine or to the sewing machine!”
I knit, too. Can you imagine a “double stash”? Scary thought, ain’t it? As it is, I’ll be doing some creative rearranging, at the very least. But then, the machine will be all set up. Yay!
I know it’s not necessary to add this, but I have been a follower of “Jerusalem Slim” (the nickname given to Jesus by the Wobblies of old) for many years. I have a feeling that my Jesus and Mr. Graham’s Jesus ain’t the same cat.
Kim (11:12:46) :
Is that all you guys can do is piss and moan? People like you make me ashamed to live in this state.
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If you can’t be proud of the folks on this blog then, I suggest you move to Texas where Phil Gramm lives. You sound just as accurate AND ignorant;
In an interview with the Washington Times, McCain’s top economic adviser Phil Gramm tells America to suck it up and stop complaining about the economy:
“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”
“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.
NMJNo Gravatar (17:11:25) :
GINO just made Keith’s Worst Person list!
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Missed it but will catch next hr.
Boy that’s what the second time this year already??? She’s going to be right up there with rush , and Bill ‘O! LOL! He should change to vilest person in the world!
From the AP:
Alaska sees $1.25 bln budget gap on oil price drop
Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:05am GMT
* State officials slash oil price, production forecast
* Alaska had expected surplus just two months ago
* Budget gap poses challenge to Gov. Sarah Palin
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb 19 (Reuters) – Sliding oil prices and production have prompted Alaska officials to forecast a state budget shortfall of $1.25 billion in the next fiscal year instead of the surplus they predicted just two months ago.
The dramatic change in state fortunes poses a stiff challenge for Gov. Sarah Palin, whose record during the oil price boom helped propel her to the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2008.
Hope that mental recession isn’t hurting us too much.
“She will be participating in the actual work of the food drop. Her goals are to help the specific individuals she will be seeing and to express moral support for all of those in similar circumstances,” wrote Bill McAllister, her state spokesman.
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Huh? Has he been taking word salad lessons from his boss? I guess it means she might heft a box and smile at everyone else…unlike Begich:-)
It is amazing the excuses that Pro palin supporters make for Sarah’s inebtness.
Quote from conservatives4palin
This is how responsible govt. works. Maybe the guy in last week’s press conference who asked about what the Governor had done personally about Emmonack will take note here, also Ramras and the “progressive” (hah) bloggers who have been bleating about SP not visiting the bush. The involvement of multi-state agencies and now this national organisation evidences responsible leadership which holds out the promise of lasting help. Proper government in action. Bravo from me too.
endquote
glad to see the Ramras and Progressive Bloggers doing the right thing and not waiting.
Gotta comment on the “inside the chastity beltway.”
She was pregnant with Track before she got married. Her parents did something similar, her daughter did something similar….I’m noticing a pattern—that chastity thing is working really well for that family.
Here is the kicker from conservatives4palin as posted by the person who started it on that site.
quote
Instead of making the people of Western Alaska dependent on government handouts, Governor Palin has harnessed the power of private charity, made it easier for residents to obtain their own food via hunting, and is partnering those resources with the transportation the State can provide with its existing aircraft. Bravo!
endquote
BRB need to find the porcelin goddess.
I guess Sarah the GINO is thinking that ppl will be so glad to see her, they’re be waiting in lines just to smile back @ her…OH BROTHER!
A REAL executive would have been proactive way back when…
Make no mistake about it, she will be boasting about this all the way to 2012 and beyond…so of course there will be lots of pictures of SMILING SARAH
crystalwolf aka caligrlNo Gravatar (17:46:19) :
We can only hope…and keep sending updates and links to KO and Rachel.
Ya alls know why Sarah Palin couldn’t get her snarky behiney over to the Yukon… I mean, come on… it’s tough doing anything with the IRS breathing down yer neck. Hope she and her people still think those back taxes and penalties are “private matters” cuz soon as I can, I am sending in a FOIA request.
Oh, and because the IRS is federal instead of state, she won’t be able to block any attempts to access her payment amounts. Fact, most federal courts (district court records room) have a computer dedicated to tax liens, etc., which will show the amount(s). But it still seems that some part of that story is missing. It is, afterall, not just a one year thing, but multiple years. If I know the IRS, they ain’t done with her yet.
Which means she’s prolly still too busy trying to keep her behiney out of the IRS noose to really pay attention to what’s going on with the people of Alaska. She’s not a very good multi-tasker, imho, and that means the people of the Yukon will continue to have to do without the assistance of their own state government. A shame, really.
Can’t wait for housegate to hit the IRS fan… using buddies to build something that large fits within the IRS definition of bartering… yet another item which must be treated as regular income under IRS rules.
I continue to be astonished every day how completely tone deaf this woman is to the needs of her constituents.. I wonder even more why someone hasn’t finally stood up and said ‘enough’ and filed a formal recall for her in Alaska.
She seems not to care about Alaska although she plays to the media that she’s ‘true-blue’..but in reality she doesn’t give one crap about Alaska…or it’s people. I am continuously astonished that she hasn’t been run out of town – literally.
Regarding the ‘food drop’…I’m SURE she will just literally do that…from the “hunting” plane. bullseye & look out below
rats… back on the usual puter (it had to have a thingie scrubbed out of it) but find nearly all my comments dumped into the wordpress spam filter! geebus… sarah palin gets more respect than I have on wordpress tonite.
…and the Oscar for the Worst Political Move [Special Effects] goes to the Queen of Outer Space for her role in Back to the Future 6…
for pretending [lying], as if she was on top of the situation from day one, now acting as if she was for it before she was put on notice – also.
eeewwww [does she have any working brains cells]
Regarding her mothering…when I saw the Bristol interview and SHE showed up to steal some of the spotlight, I noticed how ‘unlovingly’ Bristol looked at her mother…a guarded, embarrassed look…something unnatural…can’t quite put my finger on it. It must be so tense in that household.
Can you see Russia from Russian Mission?
I saw Russia from just West of Little Diomedes Island when i was in the Coast Guard on CGC Polar Sea:}
One of the neatest sights I have ever seen was a Polar Bear waiting over a Seal Hole. A seal popped up its head and the polar bear swatted it about 20 yards then goes over and starts munching Away on it:}
They have no fear one of them came about 20 feet away from the ship:}
If this was poker, I’d call her bluff. It’s time to show your hand Gov. Pain-lin.
Let the transparency begin. Now that this story has gone MSM, you come to the “rescue”. Kinda like a bailout of sorts.
I don’t care how they spin it. It’s too little, too late for her come out of this smelling like a rose. That plane flew out weeks ago with Dennis Zaki aboard.
I read daily (or more) and rarely post anymore– we are of one mind and everything I am thinking you all already say) BUT this really made me mad. God help her if she takes credit for the grassroots movement by the Mud Puppies…
Hey Lance:
Thanks for your wisdom, or should I say, wisdumb.
I can’t help myself! I just want the b**** slap her into the middle of next week
we all knew she would find a way to take credit. It does NOT, however, take anything from all us anonymous bloggers in pj’s who did what was good and right and WE shamed her into doing what she should have done all along.
Good on us! Mudpups rock! (quietly stepping off soap box now)
@Actongue
Here is the kicker from conservatives4palin as posted by the person who started it on that site.
quote
Instead of making the people of Western Alaska dependent on government handouts, Governor Palin has harnessed the power of private charity, made it easier for residents to obtain their own food via hunting, and is partnering those resources with the transportation the State can provide with its existing aircraft. Bravo!
endquote
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THAT is what I was most afraid of. Grrr. Now I’m biting my lips to keep from saying something really…. unprintable. Bleep-worthy.
Uh, just how much of the “pj-clad anonymous bloggers’ shipments” were flown in on the “State’s existing aircraft” anyway?
humpf.
I hate to say this but,
Defending Stupid only makes them look stupid.
I personally hate calling people names for it is not good but facts are facts
I wonder if anyone informed her that this isn’t an aerial wolf hunt. She may assume that anytime she flies a state plane she’s gonna shoot something. Like someone else said, hope the villagers are ready to duck and cover.
ROFLOL
Check out the Immoral Minority.
A brief quote just FYI:
“I just got off the phone with Dennis Zaki who told me that he tried everything he could think of to be allowed to tag along on this trip. He was told there would be NO MEDIA! No reporters, no video, and no photos!” (Except for SP’s people and the Samaritan’s Purse folks’ photos)
Odd coincidence that SP & Samaritan’s Purse bunch, same initials
nswfm (18:00:14) :
Yes, lots of hypocrisy there, also! (wink, wink) GINO expects everyone else to be chaste but she and her family have proven to be anything but!
I was going to respond with how angry it made me to read a press release that basically seemed to invalidate the amazing thing we all saw happen with this blog posted the story of the villages back in January. But others beat me to it (I was going to go with “jack sh#t” personally, but that’s just me). I agree that the central issue is that the people in rural Alaska receive the food and fuel they need to finish out the winter. I’m glad to see that at last their situation is beginning to gain the attention of some of the large philanthropic organizations.
However, there’s another issue here for me, and that’s the issue of bloggers, and their reps, or lack thereof. Governor Palin has made no secret of her scorn for people of the blog; maybe that’s why her press release hit such a raw nerve. Because her feelings about bloggers notwithstanding, bloggers played a key role spreading the word. In the face of government indifference, ineptitude, or inflexibility (the reason really doesn’t matter–at the end of the day children were still cold and hungry) bloggers found ways to get vital food, money, and resources to the people who needed them. This is the story behind the story, and it needs to be told.
I hope that you, dear lady who runs this blog, will take this on–maybe you and Anna in the villages can write the story, since you’re central to it. You have pictures, thanks to Mr. Zaki. You have an “in” at CNN. Also, there’s an iReport section on CNN–stories posted there are available for public view, and the best ones are picked up by CNN.
The irony here is absolutely delicious, and I think others would appreciate it as well–the very group that the governor has heaped scorn on has stepped up and solved a pressing problem that she either could not or would not solve. I would write the story myself, but I don’t have the kind of access to sources and information that you do (besides, everything I write comes out a feature story, not hard news). Please–tell the story. Somebody needs to, if only as a spark to others. No one can ever again sit and wring their hands and say, “If only there was something I could do.” With good will telephones and the internet we have the tools we need to address needs wherever we see them. It truly turns us into a “global village.” And THAT’s the story.
Nan (19:05:18) :
“Odd coincidence that SP & Samaritan’s Purse bunch, same initials”
No worries, Nan, soon enough GINO will have their name changed to “Sarah’s Purse.”
crystalwolf aka caligrl (17:06:35) :
Glad you’re with me girl!
Joaquim (17:03:28) :
Sending LiteGov Parnel (GLINO= GovLite In Name Only) is the SAME as sending a sack of potatoes!
How about using whatever self-serving word salad s… she makes on the tour?
then having an ad in the Alaskan paper with the widest circulation
with the corrections of the reality of the situation?
I am broke but I would sell pop bottles and shovel snow with back condition
to raisethe money for my share of the ad.
Keith O and Rachel are wonderful but I don’t think people watch them to
learn about what is going on. Alaskans…and others…. who haven’t been
paying attention need to get the facts.
‘Here is the kicker from conservatives4palin as posted by the person who started it on that site.’
quote
Instead of making the people of Western Alaska dependent on government handouts, Governor Palin has harnessed the power of private charity, made it easier for residents to obtain their own food via hunting, and is partnering those resources with the transportation the State can provide with its existing aircraft. Bravo!
endquote
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Yup, that’ll sure take care of the problem once and for all, won’t it? Just make sure those private charities keep sendin’ the stuff up, and then we can cross that ‘problem’ off our list ………
Wonder if SP knows the meaning of long-term planning or problem-solving?
Oh, and another thing -
After I read the guv’s press release, I was left wondering just *exactly* how Samaritan’s Purse got involved. Yes, it says they are involved, and that they’ve ‘been working with’ state agencies, blah blah … but just exactly how did this come about? Did SP have one of her aides contact them? Or did one of those awful pj-people get a message out that eventually reached Rev. Graham?
Inquiring minds sure would like to know! The answer could be rather revealing.
Secret Shopper – yeah…….but the potatoes are wanted and needed.
@I Can See…
“Relax folks, give the locals some credit – you should have heard how angry the people of Emmonak was with the Governor’s staff on the teleconference, we know the score.’
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Heard a smidge of what folks in Emmonak had to say to ghastly gov’s staff-
NO question those folks were angry!
No question , either, that they have clear, concise grasp of their community’s situation and plans for their future.
The ghastly gov disgusts me and this stunt about tops all her others but I have full faith she will NOT know what hit her if she actually talks to folks on this trip.
Course she could just babble on so much, like usual, that no one else gets a word in…
Do have faith, mudpups.
Make sure the foolishness of this over-a-month-late and a-whole-bunch-of-everything-short act of the gov’s gets cast properly Outside .
Some of you have popped in over at anonymousbloggers- come on over again and catch up on ways we have found to get stuff in. New ideas are welcome.
The ghastly gov’s stunt won’t feed folks til breakup… lots more to do!
Here’s a big pat on the back for all of you “I didn’t get thanked for sending a contribution” and here’s a get a life too ….you guys are all whiners and I bet every one of you from Alaska took the free handout last year from Palin. Well I have talked to several people that live in Alaska from different countries and they say Americans need to stop complaining about how bad it is here and realize that Americans have it better than most of the world. So grow do something to change someones life and quit sitting at home on your computer and complaining about everything….Whiners Whiners Whiners
To mommy dearest: I don’t think Todd will be using his snow machine just yet to deliver food, rumor has those silk boxers he wore during the race gave him one heck of a chaffing.
i doubt if anybody who donates to help those in need is asking for a personal thank you…it just comes from the heart, you either want to give or you don’t…besides, regarding the food drive, ann has thanked everybody numerous times
Lack of Accountability:
Sarah and Samaritan’s Purse, a match made in heaven! (so to speak)
http://www.nwnc.bbb.org/commonreport.html?compid=1507
“On January 16, 2009, this charity’s BBB Accredition was revoked by the BBB’s Board of Directors due to failing to meet BBB Standards of Charitable Accountability.”
from Actongue (18:01:06) :
“Here is the kicker from conservatives4palin as posted by the person who started it on that site.
quote
Instead of making the people of Western Alaska dependent on government handouts, Governor Palin has harnessed the power of private charity, made it easier for residents to obtain their own food via hunting, and is partnering those resources with the transportation the State can provide with its existing aircraft. Bravo!
endquote”
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Ok- here’s the made -up story the gov is pushing.
Everyone here knew it was coming.
Kinda pitiful …well, a lot pitiful.
It is, however obnoxious, a puff piece.
Start practising rebuttals… I am.
I am not glad you brought this here Actongue
but it was necessary. So, thank you.
Am I the only one who is sick of the whiners who complain about whiners? Yanno… complaining about public servants not doing their job is not whining. It’s called holding the mudderfockers accountable.
Does anyone else hear that whining sound?
Too cold, I thought for flies or mosquitoes…?
Where is the fly-swatter?
Dear sick of winers.
I guess the obvious irony is that you’re on your computer complaining… whining even.
This blog was instrumental in getting aid to those who need it.
If you want you can read AKM’s reply to a similar post by Kim @ (11:12:46)
Sick of Whiners (19:38:45)
Dear Sick, No one on this site has whined that they did not get thanked for their donation. They are rightfully upset that the Governor of Alaska is trying to take credit for something that she has NOT done for weeks on end. Perhaps it is the Governor of Alaska that should think about how much higher a standard of living she and her constituents enjoy compared to many parts of the world. For example, the parts of the world that Samaritan’s Purse is suppose to serve. Perhaps Sarah should think about the billions that Alaska has stashed in reserve that she could use to help the villagers until the issues that have created the crisis situation are rectified. Perhaps as she sits by the fire in her lakeside home, sipping her skinny white, she will have visions of the starving children who will NOT be helped by Samaritan’s Purse because Sarah, the Governor of Alaska did not think that Alaska should have to feed and warm their own citizens who are in a crisis caused by the policies of Alaska.
SAMARITAN’S PURSE & SARAH PALIN CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!
Haven’t posted in ages so haven’t even met many of you, but like “Right Reverend,” have been here since August. I think that you’ll find this very interesting….
Sarah Palin’s Troopergate Scandal Reveals Her Fundamentalist Street Cred
Anchorage Daily News and Election Confidential. Posted September 21, 2008.
Shedding further light on Palin’s pattern of advocating Christian right ideology and her ties to the movement.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/99661/sarah_palin's_troopergate_scandal_reveals_her_fundamentalist_street_cred/
To advance oneself via the misery of others is truly a new low, but not unexpected from such a shallow, self-serving coward.
The Right Reverend @ (12:12:00) said it best, and there is no need to say more. She can try to lie to us, but she cannot lie to God. I rest easy on the certainty that life will absolutely catch up with her.
Sheesh, just realized something else.
Since she simply MUST be there in Wasilla to micromanage that food drop organization, of course she’ll be getting that per diem, won’t she?
ugh
Sick of Whiners (19:38:45) :
Here’s a big pat on the back for all of you “I didn’t get thanked for sending a contribution” and here’s a get a life too ….you guys are all whiners and I bet every one of you from Alaska took the free handout last year from Palin***********************************************
I understand that you adore our governor, however, your perception of her holiness is based on zero, zip, and Nada. There is no Christian holy well doer person there. She is morally bankrupt. Sorry to tell you this. Don’t believe everything you see, read, and hear. They are providing this as entertainment and a diversion. Everything we thought was true, isn’t anymore. In other words, up is down, right is wrong, and truth is lies. So focus on that, instead of this false adoration of a make believe MAVERICK.
Well there you have it…..she’s a total fraud. Sarah Palin on the scene for a photo-op to take credit and having done nothing to help.
I’ve just followed the links to Alaska Dispatch and Alernet.org so thoughtfully provided by other commenters. Wow. The whole Palin-Graham-Kopp political orgy screams that this sink-hole is deeper than we realized. Holy Moly. Compared to this sleaze, I can’t think for the life of me why anyone thought the Nixon plumbers breaking into the Watergate was any big deal.
Now that’s rich… The Palin trolls are desperately scanning the nearly 300 (yep, that’s right!) comments, working themselves into a frothy, savage lather… and launching pathetic attempts at witty reparte (such as “you guys are all whiners,” “get a life,” “you make me ashamed” …. lol). Do these sad little people not see the irony?
@SMG – MN (20:03:41) :
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You found it! i have been trying to find this again for months!
Made tons of sense at the time and in light of current events … well, you know what Mr Biden said in VP debate to the ghastly gov ” Past IS prologue…”
We are at chapter what now? 2,5,10?
Chapter named?
Sick of Whiners (19:38:45) :
“So grow do something to change someones life and quit sitting at home on your computer and complaining about everything….”
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We did.
We raised money to pay for Dennis Zaki’s trip to Emmonak, so he could report firsthand on the growing crisis on the Yukon Delta.
Governor Palin did nothing.
We listened to the letters from proud people, worried about families having to choose between heat and food; we raised money, sent boxes, spread the word to other blogs, who spread the word to more blogs- people from all over the world send boxes and checks and hope.
Governor Palin did nothing.
We learned about other villages that were suffering; we brainstormed ideas of getting more supplies to other villages, helped set up accounts at Span Alaska, sent more boxes, wrote to mainstream media, got the word out.
Governor Palin did nothing.
If Governor Palin’s trip results in more short term help for the villages, that is good. She will take all the credit, and her supporters will believe her.
The villages will know a different story.
And- if Governor Palin does not come back and work hard on coordinating efforts to help her own citizens regain a sustainable life, have a bright future and still keep their culture…
We’ll do more than whine.
@Sick of Whiners:
Educate yourself. Read more than Mudflats and conservative blogs. Find out the truth, and- if your are truly concerned for your fellow Alaskans- do something constructive.
Instead of whining at us.
Cool!
http://www.thetundradrums.com/news/story/4911
Headline: BIA to expand cash assistance in Emmonak
Is there any way for Emmonak to share with other villages just *how* they did it?
@CoAlmostNative
That was poetry. Also the truth. But that was just wonderful.
Thank you for your eloquence.
Very good @CoAlmostNative –
Respond with facts !! You Go Girl !
On another note – I finally got a response from TeamSarah — my application was declined. Dammmmmmm would be interesting to lurk over there to see them get their panties in a twist.
sort of OT (but not really since we’re talking about rural energy along with food) –
Someone above mentioned Halcro’s blog today … after the black helicopter teaser, there’s another new post:
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Skyway Robbery: $100 million into the wind
(2/19/09) Tuesday night, the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee (LBA) quietly approved $100 million in taxpayer money to be used for a collection of renewable energy projects funded through the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA).
Shockingly, lawmakers approved the money just hours after the Division of Legislative Audit released a report that raised serious questions about AEA’s due diligence in determining the economic viability of these speculative projects……..
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Just last night I had a short discussion with austintx about alternative energy in Alaska. Halcro’s report is pretty dismaying. Sounds like money being thrown away at risky ventures. Suggest everyone check it out.
Dr. Patois (19:48:15) :
Sarah and Samaritan’s Purse, a match made in heaven! (so to speak)
http://www.nwnc.bbb.org/commonreport.html?compid=1507
“On January 16, 2009, this charity’s BBB Accredition was revoked by the BBB’s Board of Directors due to failing to meet BBB Standards of Charitable Accountability.”
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So now Sarah is palling around with an org leader stripped of “charitable accountabilty” creds. Sick.
Enjay in Eastern MT (20:56:44) :
Your application was declined?! Boy, way to run an inclusive campaign right out of the gate! Funny I don’t remember Obama’s websites EVER having any portion of the sites for members only.
CoAlmostNative…..whoo hoo, nicely said!
@Sick of Whiners
I rarely take another anonymous blogger to task about an opinion but cannot let your ignorant claptrap stand unchallenged. “[P]eople that live in Alaska from different countries” are obviously unaware of the third world conditions some of the remote villagers live in. Being on the verge of starvation/freezing to death matters not whether you live in a failed state or the good ol’ US of A. Poverty and subsistence living is the same wherever in the world you are but particularly unforgivable in the richest nation on the planet.
“[T]he free handout from Palin” – oh yeah, she fished that out of her own pocket for the good people of Alaska out of the goodness of her bursting with love heart? The PFD has eff all to do with Palin – if she had her way it would all be funnelled into her own pocket just as the per diem payments are.
I do NOT live in Alaska, or even the US for that matter – I live on the other side of the world in New Zealand and the blog fired me up enough to send money to Nunam Iqua – how do I expect to be thanked? I don’t, I’m an “anonymous blogger”.
“So grow [sic] do something to change someones [sic] life” – let me give you a free English lesson: “So go and do something to change someone’s life…” There you go Sick of Whiners – you got something for nothing – does that make me a “socialist”?
I guess I should feel badly since I was rejected by TeamSarah – but what the heck – wasn’t expecting to be a “TeamPlayer” anyway
@SMG-MN, thank you for connecting the dots for me. Franklin Graham is a dangerous man, and Sarah, who thinks she’s in a Jane Austen novel taking a basket of yesterday’s bread to the tenant farmers, is beyond contempt.
Yes, it is the job of the government to provide for the most at-risk among us. It’s all of our job because the gummint is us! That’s what those gol-dang taxes are for. Government-sponsored relief is not hand-outs. Franklin Graham’s aid is hand-outs, and watch out for the hook embedded in those potatoes. A government’s response is from us for us, and without the evangelical propaganda. Why don’t republicans get this?
And I tried posting this twice earlier to no avail.
The Liar
Sarah Palin big fat liar
For your sins your pants on fire
Sarah Palin sneaky fibber
Sly boots who can only gibber
Dribble, bibble, from your gash
Shyster with the least panache
GINO is the perfect name
Hang your head in turgid shame
What a wilful libertine
All hail the dissembler Queen
Lipsticked pitbull, what a fake
Fibber, boaster, trickster, snake
Why your nose could reach to Moscow
Putin could look up your nostril
Shower him with shammer snot
Hoax him good with all your grot
Fabricate your fat head off
While the rest can only scoff
Double crosser from Wasilla
Cozened shyster, English killer
What will Guv’nor swindler do?
Slicker Palin, full of pooh
Perjurer for PR reasons
Intrigant, I call your treason
Liar, liar, chiseller, cheat
Bullshit piling at your feet
Ugly crimping has a cost
Now your preznit run is lost
HA HA!
@ Joaquim
I’m so glad you posted that question about our Lt. Gov because I found it your post on anonymous bloggers and it gave me a belly laugh! Now, Sean Parnell ACTS like a sack of potatoes, but I’d still rather have REAL potatoes if I were a villager / resident of rural AK. So yes, toss his butt off the plane and put in something nutritious and substantial – he is neither. What does he look like anyway, I can’t remember? Never mind, I don’t want to be reminded. The sooner he and Palin are gone from memory, the better!
I’m happy to see that the comments about what the villagers themselves should do have calmed down. We can fight the political fight for now and do some name calling (isn’t it fun to bash Palin – does it EVER end?) but please do leave them the dignity to face the situation in how they see fit. Part of the joy we receive from giving is just that – the opening of one’s heart and mind – faith to accept and cherish that which we know little about.
Okay, fourth attempt at posting this – maybe a rude word blocked it?
The Liar
Sarah Palin big fat liar
For your sins your pants on fire
Sarah Palin sneaky fibber
Sly boots who can only gibber
Dribble, bibble, from your gash
Shyster with the least panache
GINO is the perfect name
Hang your head in turgid shame
What a wilful libertine
All hail the dissembler Queen
Lipsticked pitbull, what a fake
Fibber, boaster, trickster, snake
Why your nose could reach to Moscow
Putin could look up your nostril
Shower him with shammer snot
Hoax him good with all your grot
Fabricate your fat head off
While the rest can only scoff
Double crosser from Wasilla
Cozened shyster, English killer
What will Guv’nor swindler do?
Slicker Palin, full of pooh
Perjurer for PR reasons
Intrigant, I call your treason
Liar, liar, chiseller, cheat
Bullsh!t piling at your feet
Ugly crimping has a cost
Now your preznit run is lost
HA HA!
OK Troll feeders – no more popcorn for you guys! Let’s kick “Sick of Whiners” out to the mudflats with a LARGE SPLAT and see how they like THAT for engagement, OK? Do most of you pj bloggers actually KNOW how nasty the Cook Inlet mud flats are? They are nothing to be trifled with, and just the thought of walking on the flats during low tide is enough to make the hair stand up on end for a seasoned South Central Alaskan. It is a very fitting end to the trolls, indeed!
Nan (20:44:40) :
Cool!
http://www.thetundradrums.com/news/story/4911
Headline: BIA to expand cash assistance in Emmonak
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Seems to me that Murkowski and Begich got this FEDERAL aid.
yukonbushgrma (19:31:38) :
Oh, and another thing -
After I read the guv’s press release, I was left wondering just *exactly* how Samaritan’s Purse got involved. Yes, it says they are involved, and that they’ve ‘been working with’ state agencies, blah blah … but just exactly how did this come about? Did SP have one of her aides contact them? Or did one of those awful pj-people get a message out that eventually reached Rev. Graham?
Inquiring minds sure would like to know! The answer could be rather revealing.
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I seem to remember that GINO has been involved with Franklin Graham for some time. He was part of the group of bible thumpers who encouraged the Republicans to select her. Franklin is not his daddy and has a reputation for tacky money grubbing. Anyone read about his BibleLand? WAPO ran a series on him a year or so ago when there was all the scandal about him, his treatment of his mom, money issues, etc. Not very Christian IMHO
Enjay in Eastern MT (21:30:22) :
I guess I should feel badly since I was rejected by TeamSarah – but what the heck – wasn’t expecting to be a “TeamPlayer” anyway
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You aren’t missing anything..there’s about 30 regular chatters who spend most of their time bashing Obama and saying how wonderful Sarah is. The funny thing is, they seem to keep losinf folks because they get all riled up about Obama and violated TOS with their rants and get banned. Also, it seems like their “membership” has stalled out around 66 thousand folks, of which I’m betting a lurkers like me who just want to see how idiotic they can be. LOL LOL
SameOld (22:00:01) :
I think I read this trip was coordinated by an Atlanta PR firm; I will look for it tomorrow, as it is late in Colorado. ‘Nite, mudpups…
I heart Bardette!
OK, Time for Alaskans toget organized before her F@#$%cking visit to claim responsibility for all the bloggers and OTHER PEOPLE have done, but NOT GINO! Maybe the people from Emmonak and from other villages close by can get toghether a demonstration, with their own photographers and tape recorder people (since NO media is allowed, Yeah, right!)
Organize a huge demonstration, and show the mountain of boxes that has been arriving from all over the world.
DON’T LET THIS PIECE OF MOOSE-EXCREMENT GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!
Again, it does not matter WHERE the food comes from; it does not matter WHO delivers it. All that matters is that the people of western Alaska are getting the help they need. I am thankful for this blessing.
@ Everyone
A voice of reason and joy will be joining us soon!
Even if no one’s reading this far, I am compelled to comment:
@Dr. PatoisNo Gravatar (19:48:15) :
Lack of Accountability:
Sarah and Samaritan’s Purse, a match made in heaven! (so to speak)
http://www.nwnc.bbb.org/commonreport.html?compid=1507
“On January 16, 2009, this charity’s BBB Accredition was revoked by the BBB’s Board of Directors due to failing to meet BBB Standards of Charitable Accountability.”
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I followed the link for Sarah’s (oops Samaritan’s) Purse and ‘Accreditation revoked stated 1-23-09′–minor point?
Thank you fellow mudflatters for posting the Alternet piece from Sept 21, 2008 that connects the dots–I (and others I’m sure) read it then and did not anticipate how many dots needed connecting. The appealing picture of ‘the pit-bull with lipstick’ appeared complete a month or so BEFORE the election and the obfuscating nutters thought that they were writing with invisible ink. Thank God for anonymous bloggers for truth.
Please my fellow human beings, don’t throw out the milk-baby Christians with the nasty, mucky, and murky bathwater of Christians In Name Only (CINO).
There are many of us turned off by Christians with a rabid ‘red meat’ appetite that is only satiated by GINO and other ‘dark christians.’
AND there are many of us who faithfully stand and who quietly serve according to the WWJD Christian precept.
There, I feel better because we are.
South Side Chicago.
OMG!!! OK EVERYONE BREATH!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
I go upriver to cash my check and y’all EXPLODE in here!! There is no way I can catch up on nearly 300 posts tonight, I just had to skip down and post.
I was upriver cashing my check and stocking up on groceries. The massive amounts of snow we got made it VERY SLOW going today. Took over 6 hours round trip.
And now I come online to try to catch up on my emails and find the EXPLOSION in here.
I can tell (LOL who couldn’t) that Y’ALL are mad, no REALLY MAD.
But we all need to take a breath and be thankful for what we have right now.
Be thankful that you have a roof over your head, and food on your table and for those of you that have been able to send donations YOU have been able to help others with those simple things!!!
We all know that this isn’t right. And you know what??? It will come out!!! And ARGUING and VENTING in here is just one of the small ways that will help it come out.
Rather than spending the day sitting here on computer VENTING about SP, why don’t we use that time to do something about it??? Write SP, write newspapers, do what Y’ALL are in my opinion FAMOUS for
GET THE WORD OUT!!!!
I am thoroughly engrossed with keeping up with all the blogs and emails but not EVEN I can read everyones comments in here. Do we really think that someone from SP’s office/supporters is going to take the time to do that???
Here’s an idea…
Take your pent up energy and go to the store and send out a box of food to a needy village and write in big letters on the outside something like…. I heart Rural Alaskans. If you are brave enough write on it something like… THIS BOX OF FOOD has NOTHING to do with SP!! it is from a caring anonymous PJ clad blogger!!!
There are so many other ways we could use this energy!!! Let’s harness it towards helping the situation instead of just venting about it.
I am mad!!! In my opinion SP hasn’t done anything to help the crisis in bush Alaska. But I am not going to sit here and whine about it. Instead, I am going to go and speak for my village and my people and my neighbors in rural AK.
Care to guess who I am going to SPEAK to about it??? I met him today, while I was shopping in EMMONAK. One of my uncle’s was escorting him around the village and practically drug me over to meet him. Insisting that I MUST talk to him.
Anyone guess who it is yet????
no??
ooh come on… who’s in EMMONAK this week???
still nothing????
I met and spoke to……..
none other than……
JON MOLLER!!!! the Governor’s RURAL ADVISOR.
And you know what??? He’s coming here tomorrow and I will be there to talk to him some more and some more and some more. Not only that but also I will be calling every needy family here in Nunam Iqua that I have been giving food donations to and ask them to come and talk to him too!!!
You want to know whatelse I will be doing while I await Mr. Moller’s arrival in Nunam Iqua????
I will be contacting another village in need that I was forwarded an email from and again asking them if I can ADOPT them and help promote their food drive!! Just like I adopted Ugashik and Pilot Point when I read the letter about them on The Tundra Drums.
When I am not busy doing those things… I will be over picking up food donation boxes from the Post Office and distributing food to my needy neighbors here in Nunam Iqua.
When I am not doing that I will be spending quality time with my Hubby and Daughter very THANKFUL that we are warm and fed! And VERY thankful that I am doing something to help my people.
Wanna know what I won’t be doing??? Mainly because I will go blind if I try…LOL I will not be sitting here typing and reading posts. OK we know that’s not entirely true LOL but there are just SOOOO many other POSITIVE things we can do.
Please keep in mind KARMA!!!! What comes around GOES around. This whole issue is OUT THERE now. People know what is going on.
SO I will leave you with some simple questions….
What have YOU done today to help yourself, your family, your neighbors, your country??
Have you done something constructive??? Something POSITIVE???
Finally, I keep hearing my grammies words ringing in my ears from my childhood….
IF YOU CAN’T SAY ANYTHING NICE…. DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL!!
Isn’t it funny how the sayings and things we hated hearing while growing up stick with us for LIFE???
JMHO
Quyana EVERYONE for wanting to fight for what is right, BUT keep in mind that doing something for VANITY isn’t right, and from what I have seen that IS what SP does NOT anonymous bloggers and MUDPUPPIES!!
SO again TAKE A BREATH. Hey go hug your spouse and kids and sit and think what YOU have to be THANKFUL tonight. And PAT YOURSELF on the back for helping Rural AK!!!
Ann Strongheart
Nunam Iqua Food Drive
c/o Ann Strongheart
P.O. Box 7
Nunam Iqua AK 99666
nunamiquayouth@yahoo.com
BardetteNo Gravatar (21:40:48) :
Oops, forgot to say ‘thank you’, I needed to read some your succinct poetry on this subject–I enjoy it.
South Side Chicago
Ann Strongheart–you are absolutely right. Bless you…
Frankly, I think the people in the villages see through the “prom queen.” They aren’t dummies. The villagers should treat Palin as she has treated those villagers who have been in need for a while. While the national news is filming Palin’s photo op, they should ignore her completely — let people nationwide see how popular she really is in Alaska – NOT! They might have a sign or two that says, “Sarah Go Home!” “Sarah don’t use us for your hokey photo ops! We need help from people who truly care.”
Who knows, maybe she won’t go. Palin said she was going a few weeks ago and she never went. Palin tends to think she is a above others, and meeting with Villagers is probably a waste of her time – now that she considers herself one of “Washington’s elite” – villagers don’t seem to fit into that category. However, if she should go, it would be nice if she got snowed in for a week or two, so she could see what it’s really like to be cold and hungry – something she has never experienced in her lifetime. Poor deer – (no misspelling of dear).
Whether you like Halcro or not, this new post is worthy of a read! He explains the relationship between GINO and Greta van Susteren.
http://tinyurl.com/amc5de
Blessings abound, and you bless us with your words, your work and your forever Strongheart….thank you, thank you, thank you. Ann!!!!!!
Ann of the strong heart….We admire and support you.
Your suggestions are excellent….but like Pres. Obama, we can multi-task.
We will continue to support the rural villages because it’s a privilege to help.
But….. we will concurrently and relentlessly continue our crusade to expose Palin.
She’s not good for Alaska (and not just rural Alaska)…..and we never want to see her at the national level again.
@Nan (17:16:08) :
Totally OT:
Ummmm: fabric stash, knitting yarn stash, spinning fiber stash (some of which ends up in the knitting stash), beading stash, jewelry making stash, gotta be something else too stash… I think I need to not be working a full time job so I can just play!
@ Ann
Bless your heart, you’re right. But in our own defense, we did settle down eventually. Some, anyway.
AWESOME re Jon Moller!
Pat yourself on the back while you’re doing your own multi-tasking, ok?
Checking in from Germany.
It took me at least an hour to read through all of the comments and I don’t know if this thread is still active anymore, but, anyway. Thank you CO almost native for shooting down the whiner poster and Rev Right – Thank you for introducing yourself.
I too am mad as Heck and I will do everything I can from here to make sure that anyone – anyone that defends Palin is going to get an earful of FACTS from me. And I will point them to this blog and show them those FACTS and dates and stories of those that help the villagers. That woman (who I want to beetch slap) gives Christians a bad name. I don’t hate people but this woman has pushed me over the edge. I hate unethical camera whore criminals.
More OT @ InJuneau
You spin too???? Hot diggety! (yeh, me too – and have way too much roving sitting around waiting for me to remember it) – omg and beads, too! Stones mostly, for me
Say, are you on the forum?
Nan
who is also on Ravelry…
Martha Unalaska – I heart you too!
Dowl – no thanks necessary – I find I need the catharthis at times.
Palin is a “Blott on the Landscape”. The fact that she got so close to being VP and has designs on being US prez in 2012 sends serious shudders down my spine. I do not have a problem with Christians per se – in fact I know some wonderful Christian people but her “type” are those that blame everything that goes wrong with their lives or are uncomfortable with as “being of the dark side” and can only see any aspects of their personality that do not include the “shadow self” (as per Jung). This gives these people an extreme external locus of control; they have no sense of personal responsibility. We’ve seen what 8 years of this type of thinking has caused.
As a malignant narcissist Palin cannot ever allow herself to suffer the pain of self reflection and never will. Us “pyjama-clad bloggers” will never change her basic failing through valid criticisms. We can only work to change the course of events through EXPOSURE – as far and wide as possible. I think The Mudflats does that in the most admirable way possible and am honoured to play a small part in this community.
Ann Strongheart you know I have the utmost respect for what you are doing up there. However, I think if people didn’t vent on blogs like this the truth may not be so in the faces of certain politicians. I’m all for doing, but there’s also a time for just sayin’.
Quyana Ann for all your hard work and passion and a big heart from New Zealand.
Ann Strongheart (22:43:21) :
God bless you for your efforts! However, I do believe it is completely appropriate to channel our disdain towards GINO, especially those of us inundated with GINO on a daily basis. We are fed up with her policies, her phoniness, and obvious lack of empathy. It goes beyond her neglect of the rural villages, though at the moment, the rural villages should be her first priority, not Alfalfa dinners and TV interviews.
GINO impacts you and your family, but does mine as well. And I don’t take it too kindly when I see someone ruining my children’s futures. This blog helps many of us to get this off our collective chests.
Thanks for the Update Ann:}
I did some more research on the BBB of NW Carolina and Samaritans purse and found this.
http://charityreports.bbb.org/Public/Report.aspx?CharityID=281
Despite written BBB Wise Giving Alliance requests in the past year, this organization either has not responded to Alliance requests for information or has declined to be evaluated in relation to the Alliance’s Standards for Charity Accountability. While participation in the Alliance’s charity review efforts is voluntary, the Alliance believes that failure to participate may . DEMONSTRATE A LACK OF COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY. Without the requested information, the Alliance cannot determine if this charity adheres to the Standards for Charity Accountability. A charity’s willing disclosure of information beyond that typically included in its financial statements and government filings is, in the Alliance’s view, an expression of openness that strengthens public trust in the charitable sector.
I capitalized the reason the BBB gave. Interesting that the key word of it all is Transparency.
@Nan (23:27:47) :
Um, yeah, just drop spindle for now, soon will learn on my wheel. WAY too much roving (and bought yarn!) hidden in the laundry/craft room. And yes, I’m over on the Forum, same name there.
Secret Shopper for Hungry Children (23:10:32) :
Thanks! Halcro’s post was well worth the read. Here are more connecting dots to how Sarah may have hooked up with Graham.
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/palin-pallin-with-preacher/
SMG – MN (20:03:41) :
SAMARITAN’S PURSE & SARAH PALIN CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!
Good catch!!
This Graham guy might just regret pallin’ around with Sarah, it shines a very bright spotlight on you just lately.
The Andrew Halcrow post is a must read ‘also’.
Sick of Whiners (19:38:45) Are you Sarah? Sure sound like her or her mouthpiece…
Enjay in Eastern MT (21:30:22) :
I guess I should feel badly since I was rejected by TeamSarah – but what the heck – wasn’t expecting to be a “TeamPlayer” anyway
Be glad you got rejected – I have read from many different blogs that that site is a den of computer viruses…
Secret Shopper…
I’ve been meaning to ask you ….
are you a secret shopper/mystery shopper?? the kind that evaluates businesses on their customer service and products???
I ask b/c I was a mystery shopper for 8 years while I was in college in the Fresno area. It was great. I got paid to eat at restuarants and go shopping and then evaluate them. Too bad I can’t do that here LOL
I keep seeing your name and wondering
Ann Strongheart
New open thread!
@ Secret Shopper for Hungry Children
I can empathize – I think I understand your proximity to SP and how it grates, but here we treat ourselves to some humor, enlightenment and education along the way. I would not come back to this blog if it were just angry, whining bloggers in PJs all the time, nor would a lot of folks.
AKM has a large audience and the blog is very popular. We do get the word out, we do solve problems, we do learn about each other and each other’s states and countries. Not only is AKM an excellent writer, but also witty as hell. Sometimes humor and an open heart do as much good as a growl and a bite. SP deserves our bites but Rural AK does not.
Sorry for jumping in late on this topic. Here’s my 2cents.
Alaska is a unique place. The further one travels beyond the cities, the more attuned you become to both positive and difficult aspects that our life up north offers up. I guess you can say that about any urban vs rural dichotomy. But there are additional forces at work here particularly in bush Alaska. The fine line between surviving and living elevates the human spirit. When this balance is lost, people within and beyond the communities are compelled to act.
People who live out in bush Alaska are some of the kindest, take you in regardless of what they have, group of good samaritans known on earth. Simply put, when they hurt, we hurt.
Unfortunately, there are those bad seeds whose belated ‘compassion’ loosely veils a self-motivating ego of epic proportions. Actions speak louder than words (or doing nothing for that matter).
Although it seems obvious that our spectacled ‘leader’ is creating another self-inflicted spectacle for her own gain. I truly hope she learns something from the people she is planning to use… that taking care of one’s own is in our dna (for those of us who still have souls). Because Lord knows, we have learned something about her over these last few months.
Hey, where is the stats Bob Poe stated?
What if we had Anne go to meet GINO, or are there people in Russian Mission who can speak about SP’s ineptitude…
I cant find the comment about the Alaskans not viewing KO, that is so true.
Just earlier I left 2 comments on ADN, that were deleted The media in Alaska is totally controlled by anyone working for GINO. if you dont support her, then you get cut out. They dont see the full picture, they only see what Sarah tells them. Sad, but its almost like a communist country. The difference is,, we actually are exposed to a bunch of lunatics who believe they are gods answer to our problems. and they dont even know, god, they live…a life based on greed. When people get greedy like that, they no longer have human compassion.
I like many of you, are not upset for not being acknowledged, it is just that she is making it out that this “faith based groups” have helped. That wont change the facts, and just to let you all know, that I m truly appreciative of your humanity and true compassion. That to me, means more to those who were helped.
@ mt
“I like many of you, are not upset for not being acknowledged, it is just that she is making it out that this “faith based groups” have helped.”
Thanks for stating that so WELL and understanding the anger I feel as result. I happen to be an Agnostic myself. I don’t figure people in hunger need preaching to – in order to be fed.
Yup -A couple of days ago and 2 or 3 threads ago I mentioned that GVS was a Scientoligist and was asked what it had to do with anything……..I rest my case. Also – lets see……right-wing nuts , Scientoligists , Samaritans Purse ……….what a “pot ‘o pals” SP is cookin’ up……..somehow I don’t think the end result will be edible.
The time line as I see it.
http://anonymousbloggers.com/timeline.cfm
Won’t have time to read the comments I missed overnight until later so , if someone already did this, sorry. It stinks to be on the east coast and miss the live chatter.
Jane
If I should add anything, post it here. Thanks!
LMAO..Dole probably billed the taxpayers for the same call. Ha!
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I’m from NC and I don’t think Dole billed for the call. She had already been defeated at the time of this call. So, essentially, Palin billed the state of AK for talking to a private citizen which makes it even more outrageous.
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Agreed pearl 89 to that angle. But btw defeat and inauguration is Dole still a paid gov employee? Don’t they get time to close down the shop. Agree at any angle, it stinks. Was only launching “my” humor at Dole who may have the morals not to bill for what undoubedtly was a 15 minutes (at best) phone call. Unless she gave Sarah good ideas on how not to sink your own ship by letting your mouth get in the way! Hmmm…nah,. that didn’t happen.
She waited until the Iron Mutt race was finished before she took any action. Priorites, dontcha know.
@ mt
“I like many of you, are not upset for not being acknowledged, it is just that she is making it out that this “faith based groups” have helped.”
Thanks for stating that so WELL and understanding the anger I feel as result. I happen to be an Agnostic myself. I don’t figure people in hunger need preaching to – in order to be fed.
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Thanks–you said it better than I did (and far more succinctly!) I’m as much Wiccan as anything, myself, and at the core of that belief system lies the idea of the Law of Return–what we send out comes back to us–three times over. I became involved with the plight of the AK villages because I saw a need I could help fill (thanks to this blog). I think most of us did. I passed the word on to my fundamentalist Christian mother because even though we disagree on about everything, we both agree that people should not be cold and hungry when we have the means to stop it. She passed the word to her church, which I believe did the same. The point is less who did the sending (we all did) than that the people are getting what they need.
Gotta say, if I were in the villages and had cold, hungry kids sitting in my house I’d probably do and say whatever would get help there the fastest. We on this site are angry at the aid tot he villages being misrepresented, and rightly so. IMO the villagers don’t have that luxury. And unless we can commit to providing all needs, all winter, seems like we have a deal with the devil to make.
Sheesh, I hated writing that. I STILL think there’s a news story here, but a positive one–a grouple of people from around the world have found a way to work together to solve a problem–and they’ve done it without a committee, without a president, without bylaws, charters, regulations, or a lot of chatter about how being caught in a disaster might or might not reflect on one’s personal preparedness and choices, and how offering needed food and fuel might be undermining cold and hungry people’s personal freedom. And that’s amazing.
It’s only short term, probably not enough, but it is something: the BIA waivers are upstaging SP’s trip. http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/breaking-news-western-alaska-relief/#comments
Also reported on Immoral Minority. http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/
Good morning, mudpups-
I was able to get some information on Samaritan’s Purse from Charity Navigator, and a couple of other charity-evaluating web sites. It is not an “A” rated group, but mostly a “B”- due to an 89-87% of giving (vs. administrative expenses). Charity Navigator said F.Graham’s salary was $500,000+ for 2007, but I don’t know if that is total from several sources (ministry, etc.) or just Samaritan’s Purse.
I thought he had a falling out with his father several years ago- but I can’t find that reference, so maybe I’m making that up:-)
I agree that it’s good that the villages are getting help, no matter the source. It’s also good to know who you are dealing with-
Warm hugs to Ann and everyone else in the Yukon, and on Mudflats.
Am putting on my brain cap here, trying to sift through the topic of the situation of the villages/versus the relief effort. Just encouraging everyone here that knowing you helped without the fanfare and attention, but that’s the better way. I believe Sarah P is compromising her faith by USING anyone, anything to make herself look the hero. And, she would USE Franklin Graham, preacher, and relief organizer. Real christians don’t buy this production that will be going on today.
As a christian, her duty is to abide by her promise to do her job, the best she can do in this crisis, which would have been get an emergency team together, send aid immediately, and relieve the suffering. Alaska waited, nothing. Now, she sends an international celebrity preacher, to send food, (donated by grannies with small pensions) around the country. She USES these donations to send to the Villages. No money out of her pocket. Doesn’t use State funds at all, so later can brag about her great budget.
Her plan to grandstand with a preacher is not a christian example. I am a christian in progress, and church and politics don’t mix. The governor could have contacted him for help – he could have done this relief drive on his own merit by going incognito. She doesn’t have to be there. It’s a ruse, plain and simple. She gets whisked by State plane, to and from, wears her high-heeled boots, gets in the camera, passes a few boxes with a wink and a smile, and she’s gone. If she takes the praise and gets the credit, so be it. Only she can live with herself.
Ann Strongheart (00:10:12) :
Secret Shopper…
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No, but I’d be really good at it. I have very strong instincts about people and I’m very often correct (sorry for the obvious tooting of my own horn!) I had a very bad experience as a child and I think that God gave me the ability to read people very well- probably for my own protection.
Unfortunately that instinct is so powerful it sometimes drives me crazy when I come across someone like GINO. She isn’t who she portrays herself to be and I’ve been trying to warn people for a very long time. Trust me, it’s not a jealousy issue. I knew that Vic Kohring was a crook long before he was convicted- it was on his face. GINO is a master manipulator, I saw that on her face long ago. Not very bright, but masterful at getting people to do what she wants them to do, and fear her in the process.
I stay home now and raise my kids after decades of working and time as a military officer. I have a child with autism and turning his life around is my priority. Work can wait.
Secret shopper came about because I had run into Nordstrom one day for a very quick “pick something up for a trip” and low and behold I almost physically ran into GINO. She’s short, I’m not, so I didn’t see her! Funny thing is when it happened I was on the phone with my husband and he was telling me about a comment her just wrote about GINO on ADN. And there she was!
But then I thought, what the hell is she doing here at 11:30 on a Friday buying something for herself?? (She was waiting on alterations). The military officer in me wanted to say, “Get your butt back to work where you belong!” So I took a photo of her and sent it to Mudflats.
I had been reading Mudflats long before August but was just a reader. Sending the photo and reading the subsequent comments prompted me to participate in the discussion. I’m a big fan of Mudflats, and now, most if not all of the commenters.
PLEASE READ THIS. I’M DOING IT IN CAPS , NOT TO BE YELLING OR RUDE, OR ANYTHING ALONG THOSE LINES. I’M DOING IT IN CAPS IN HOPES TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
I’M A SINGLE MOTHER LIVING IN A SMALL VILLAGE WORKING 40 HOURS A WEEK. MY HUSBAND PASSED AWAY A FEW MONTHS AGO AND PAYING A SITTER TO COME AND TAKE CARE OF OUR BABIES HAS BEEN TAKING A GOOD PORTION OF MY CHECK. I’M GOING THROUGH THE EXACT SAME THING THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH BUT HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING UNTIL NOW. And for the longest time thought I was the only one until I read the out cry for help from people in other villages.
I, UNFORTUNATELY AM NOT FROM THE VILLAGES THAT ARE GETING THE HELP, BUT WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS TIME TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT GOV PALIN HASN’T FOOLED ME OR ANYONE THAT I KNOW. SOME OF US DO KNOW BETTER AND ALSO KNOW THAT SHE HAS TRIED TAKING CREDIT AWAY FROM THOSE WHO REALLY DO CARE AND ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. SHAME ON HER!!!
BUT TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE HELPED EITHER IN PRAYERS, CASH DONATIONS, FOOD DONATIONS, MORAL SUPPORT, ETC. THANK YOU. A TRUE HEART FELT THANKS TO YOU ALL. WEATHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, THERE HAVE BEEN PRAYERS OF THANKS AND PRAYERS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AND MUCH THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS. IT’S VERY MOVING TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE REALLY DO CARE AND TOUCHING TO SEE HOW MUCH PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DO FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS. THANKS YOU… FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART THANK YOU. IF I COULD HELP, I WOULD. BUT MY STORY IS THE SAME HERE. THERE IS NOT MUCH I CAN OFFER BUT PRAYER…
Hi,
I love reading this blog but I have to ask because apparently I missed the first use of this acronym, what does GINO stand for?
Thanks,
Sadie
governor in name only
@OutsidelookingIn (11:34:05) :
GINO = Governor in name only
Thank you, and how very appropriate.
Secret Shopper,
How short is SP? She looke the same height as McCain, but I know she had to be wearing heels…or hooker boots.
She’s fairly short. Shorter than I am, as I recall, and I’m 5’5″.
From the ADN:
It’s quickly become a familiar tale: Towering fuel costs and poor fishing led to reports of families in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta struggling to afford food this winter. Starting with a letter from an Emmonak man about hard times in his village, the news eventually led to a flood of private donations to the Lower Yukon in recent weeks, not to mention political finger-pointing.
Palin’s critics accused the state of being slow to react. They slammed the governor for not visiting the region herself or declaring a disaster. Palin, who sent state officials to villages, responded that the state was looking for solutions and was doing what it legally could to help.
Rep. Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks, has been organizing food deliveries to many Western Alaska villages and was among Palin’s most vocal critics.
“I applaud her for following in the footsteps of what Alaskans and nonprofits and churches have already been doing over the last four to six weeks,” he said Thursday. “I think she’s setting a great example for the next wave of giving.”
Myron Naneng, president of the Association of Village Council Presidents, has said Palin appeared more interested in the presidential election than Western Alaska last fall.
“Is she finally realizing that our villages are in dire straits?” he said Thursday.
Comment on the ADN article above:
fsmith wrote on 02/20/2009 06:04:02 AM:
Here’s your chance to join the 2009 Graham/Palin luxury “Hypocrisy Now!” tour:
“Last year Franklin’s “crusade” arrived in Knoxville, Tennessee on a private jet. No commercial coach fare for this man of God. KHS had to pick up all the expenses for the Graham private jet at the Knoxville airport.
– Franklin and his entourage were met by six limos — and the six limos were to stay with them 24 hours a day for every day he was in town.
– The Graham entourage needed hotel suites at the best place in town
– every suite and room on four floors. Room service and all that.
– Knox Spiritual Heritage had to raise over $250,000 just to get Franklin to show up.”
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.politics/2008-07/msg00673.html
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If you want to give to a charity that REALLY HELPS, try Direct Relief International, based in Santa Barabara, CA. I think they get higher marks from CharityNavigator and not nearly as wasteful nor as ostentatious.