Mt. Redoubt Responds to the GOP in an Explosive Interview.
In a surprise announcement today, Mt. Redoubt volcano in southcentral Alaska finally delivered an official response, to the Republicans’ official reponse, to President Obama’s speech to the nation last month.
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (R) represented his party when he decried the Democrats for indulging in wasteful spending, like the proposed $140 million for what the governor described as “something called volcano monitoring.”
“Yeah, what about ‘something called hurricane monitoring, Mr. Louisiana?’” Redoubt fumed. “It’s always fine to cut someone else’s funding, as long as it’s a good sound bite…” it continued. “I mean the next thing you know these people are going to be rejecting stimulus money so they can sound like ‘fiscal conservatives’…Give me a break.” Redoubt’s five explosions since last night have thrown ash more than 50,000 feet in the air, disrupting commercial airline traffic and threatening a Chevron tank farm sitting at the base of the volcano on the Drift River.
Asked why it took the volcano almost a month to respond, Redoubt explained, “I’ve been holding it all in, and that’s no good. I finally just had to let it out, you know? I mean what…does this guy live in a cave? As far as I’m concerned, he can come up here and kiss my glowing red ash,” the volcano quipped. “Oh, that’s right…he’ll have to wait until I’m finished responding so he can catch a flight. How do you like THAT, Jindal?”
Redoubt’s fiery rhetoric was not completely unexpected. Alaska residents were stunned by the GOP response to the president’s speech at the time. “We’ve actually been waiting for this,” an unnamed Democratic official in Alaska told Mudflats today. “We all knew it was coming. I’ve been carrying around a mask in my car for weeks now.”
Many Alaska residents were stunned, however, by the explosive force of these comments from a volcano that has kept to itself and been fairly reticent about talking to the press for almost 20 years. “I guess I just didn’t have anything to say until now,” explained Redoubt, “but this guy is just a putz.”
Just in case Redoubt has anything else to say, you can check in at
The Redoubt Webcam
Let me be the first to congratulate Mt.Redoubt on the clarity of its response; well done, bravo.
(Take that, Repugs…)
Just finally pushed over the edge and wanting to join in the Palin protest.
And congrats to AKM Mudflats, for continued cleverness:-)
Another great photo from the Volcano Observatory here:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu
Does anyone have Jindal’s e-mail address? I’d like ask for his official response to Mt. Redoubt, and also if he’s changed his position on the merits of volcano monitoring.
*giggle*
Folks in Kenai getting the best view? Most impact?
Power was down in parts of Homer for about one hour. I wonder if Redoubt had anything to do with are outage.
Specking of mother nature, and mother natures unstoppable power that can kick are a** at any time she wants, did any one of you Anchorage Mudflaters go to Rick Stieners presentation on Sunday? WOuld be great to get a report of what that wise man had to say. I wish his talk was streamed over the web, you would think that with all the billions of dollars we put into are school systems we would be able to stream more scientific programing.
FlandersNo Gravatar (10:03:52) :
Does anyone have Jindal’s e-mail address? I’d like ask for his official response to Mt. Redoubt, and also if he’s changed his position on the merits of volcano monitoring.
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Here’s the link somebody else posted on the first Redoubt thread.
http://www.gov.la.gov/index.cfm?md=form&tmp=email_governor
Take that Jindal – watch yourself Sarah – you’re next!
I announced yesterday we are looking for Sarah. It’s not a good thing to piss off “Mother Nature”.
Here, I’m bumping up the webcam link so people don’t have to go looking for it.
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/Redoubt_-_CI.php
Stupid cam has jumped back to image 333 when it was up to 474. Not like we could see anything anyway, but come on! Doesn’t the whole damn world, Alaska included, either have a camera or a phone camera? Why aren’t you all out there snapping pictures? Get off your ashes and start clicking.
Jindal is an ashhat.
I read somewhere that the camera isn’t working. On the volcano-status-site maybe?
I wonder if it’s not working, or if it’s working fine and there’s just that much ash floating around. Anyone?
Nan
Redoubt go so mad that he and/or she and/or it blew away poor little webicorder RSO_EHZ_AV and the Redoubt Hut Webcam. O.k., Redoubt, we get the message. Please don’t annihilate the oil terminal.
Speaking of hot heads, TeamSarah just banished Alaska Dispatch:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/palin-watch/10-palin-watch/1054-banned-from-team-sarah-
Republicans generally don’t like the First Amendment. They just want to banish dissent. Reminds me of some regimes. Palin seems to like regime style of governing.
BJ+SP= 2 lamebrain gov’nors….
Nan:
I didn’t read your message before posting mine. Yes, AVO indicated the hut webcam isn’t working. And at least one of the webicorders got “damaged.”
Cook Inlet Pipe Line Co., which operates the Drift River Oil Terminal on the western shore of Cook Inlet downriver from the volcano,said early this morning that it had begun shutting the facility down.
An approximate 10-member crew has been evacuated from the site, and flooding from melting ice and snow has already reached the edge of the terminal, AVO hydrologist Chris Waythomas reported at 9 a.m.
“We had confirmation that water is flowing over the heli-pad and it’s on the runway,” Waythomas said. http://www.adn.com/volcano/story/733152.html
Do many people live in the Skwentna and the Chuitna areas?
It’s pretty obvious that the hut cam is no more:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webcam/Redoubt_-_Hut.php
@ deist – thanks, I’m glad you posted it – it answered my question (I’m glad I quit “refreshing” a while ago – ha!)
Nan
OT concerning the Dispatch ban. I don’t have an actual problem with them banning the Dispatch, because they are a Sarah-love society and they do not want dissent. That’s fine. They “own” their site and can do as they please. But the comments defending it are hilarious. They are positively vicious and biased, with the usual crap about Barack HUSSEIN Obama and all of the evil liberals. The only fun thing about reading Sarah-love spewings is their utter inability to see the humor and irony of their position. They run around to all of the so-called evil liberal sites, filling them with Sarah-love and liberal-hate and then say that there are plenty of evil liberal places for evil liberals to spew Sarah-hate, and that harahmaet is just for Sarah-love and the truth. lol. Silly braindeadies.
I’m surprised Palin/Stapleton never attacked Jindal like they did Obama for his Special Olympics remark.
Unlike Obama, Jindal has never apologized.
@ diest – thanks for the link to alaska dispatch. below is a quote from one of the comments (pro Palin)
“Freedom of the press belongs to the owner of the press.”
Far cry from what I was brought up to believe – that you could expect fair, unbiased and objective ideas from your papers. Representng both sides. Sad.
Paid bloggers? Where do I sign up? Do you send it by check or by Paypal? : )
“…Way to go to the Dumbest Woman in America….”
…”now, since there’s been blowback from the AK voters and legislature, she’s saying that her use of the word “reject” doesn’t actually mean “reject” but rather bring up for discussion.”
“…Then it will be a Brdige to Somewhere (over the rainbow?)…”
“…The fact is that Alaska will not leave a penny of federal money on the table. It’s not even up to her. All this talk is just political posturing. But, if you guys want to let her make headlines, go for it.”
Comment over @ Huff Postfrom the Palin Flip Flops On Stimulus In Face Of Anger article…
lmao !!
Very well put, AKM !
Yet another “principled” stand, a la Groucho Marx – “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well I have others.”
that comment is so-so funny!
I laughed out loud at Mt. Redoubt’s response.
I’m imagining it to sound pretty much like Treebeard…
Again, good luck and best wishes up there
@ Ratfish
“I’m surprised Palin/Stapleton never attacked Jindal like they did Obama for his Special Olympics remark.”
You must be kidding, right?
For one thing, Jindal is an R of course so SP is only going to trash him behind the scenes (for now). She can’t get any political mileage from that.
2nd – she probably didn’t even know about the volcano until it recently started its rumblings – it’s not really in her neck of the woods and it’s not like she’s a vigilant governor or anything! She also doesn’t travel the state much, or know much about regions unless she’s trying to move along the extraction of everything salable within them, or to find photo ops for her propaganda machine.
3rd – SP could not care a whit who apologized and who didn’t – it doesn’t even register w/ her because she has no common decency or manners. Once she’s on a vendetta she is driven to complete it (her vendettas CONTROL her, which I like!)
4th – we already know about Sarah and her lack of scientific savvy, so what is it again that volcano monitoring does? If God wants to push or pull on that volcano, well she’s gonna let him. Maybe there’s a door in there someplace for her?
5th – As long as that volcano doesn’t mess w/ the Rapture Grounds, then she and her hoards of bots and whack jobs can still use their lift off spot when the time comes, volcano or no.
GINO said the money was a bribe…so what about the part of the money she decided to take/keep…???
someone help me to understand….
@Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (11:11:59) :
Ah, but glory be, did you see that the ash is moving toward Wasilla and the Valley? Maybe it will contaminate the Rapture Grounds and whatever lift-off machinery they would be using will be grounded!
@ InJuneau
Too funny!!!!!!!!!
Mt. Redoubt keeps ashing when these two moron governors are going to be ousted.
Great post! I love when Mother Nature and her spokesmen remind people who really is in charge.
When I clicked on the webcam, they had a smaller pic beneath, with the image from a clear, non-ash-filled day. Incredible!
Rev, I like the idea of the vocano sounding like Treebeard
Can Jindal see Mt Redoubt from his house? =)
AKM you are brilliant!
AKM ~~ Great Commentary
I am still laughing
” he can come up here and kiss my glowing red ash,”
Here ya go. Huffpo beating up jingle.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/jindal-vs-palin-on-volcan_n_178120.html
Totally, totally off subject….but has anyone heard that GINO will be featured speaker at the NRA meeting in PHX May 15-17…… Heard the rumor and would like to know. Anyone??
Ok … now I HAVE TO order some mudflats gear. This is too good. Bravo. Well spoken Mt. Redoubt. I am so proud to be a mudpuppie!
I hope no one gets hurt but this is pure poetic justice! One up ‘n comer guv’nor puts the hex on another up ‘n comer guv’nor. cant they just pray this away? Is the volcano gay?
Jindal should move to AK for a while. I hear there’s a nice hut near the base of Redoubt.
BTW, I heard on MSNBC that even if the legislature votes for all the Stimulus $$, GINO can still veto it. Anyone confirm this?
@ Martha UYS
LoL at “Rapture Grounds”.
There’s a spot on my favorite river called the “Rafting Grounds”, a spot that is popular with rafters/ canoers/ kayakers as a place to get off the river because it’s the last bit of whitewater excitement before the long, slow, paddle to the sea over flat water with little current and sometimes the wind and tide against you…
Have you ever considered writing for The Onion?
)
No one knows what a natural geological event is like, I suppose, until one lives right in it. Don’t know what is worse, hurricanes, earthquakes, or volcanoes, floods, tornados……each has it’s unique danger features. With the crazy weather patterns these last few years, it would be nice to know some funding could be thrown in meteorological research.
Hope that Redoubt has finally settled down and got that off it’s chest.
OT here, just read The Alaska Standard, by Dave Stieren, “The Anchorage Lincoln Dinner, Gov. Palin calls us out”. Good write up and also just unbelievable.
NMJNo Gravatar (11:54:42) :
Jindal should move to AK for a while. I hear there’s a nice hut near the base of Redoubt.
BTW, I heard on MSNBC that even if the legislature votes for all the Stimulus $$, GINO can still veto it. Anyone confirm this?
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I doubt this is true. I mean, that would be a pretty big loophole to overlook. My understanding is that the legislators don’t have to pass a law, just a resolution, and a governor doesn’t get a veto over resolutions.
AKM…love the picture. As soon as I was it I started ROFL!!! Thanks for the laughs!! Now, back to the story…
@ NMJ
“Jindal should move to AK for a while.”
Funny you should mention that – I wrote his office just today and said that I thought traveling the country more might up his volcano savvy since he seems completely unaware that the Pacific NW, Hawaii and Alaska all have these pesky critters. I told him he could probably stay at the Gov’s Mansion B&B since our governor wouldn’t ‘t use it as a residence. And don’t forget the visit to her actual residence, the one she collects per diem to live in, so he could stare out at the dead Lake Lucille when he wasn’t learning about volcanos.
And yes, SP can veto the Legislature for stimulus funds (she won’t), and then they can veto her back. It was just SP blowing her wind anyway – she’d be in the VERY hot seat if she tried to veto stimulus funds. And then her poor plastic boots might just melt.
Here’s my question: Who the hell would place an oil farm at the base of an active volcano, adjacent to a river? Hello??
From a commenter over at huff po….
“What else does the volcano and Jindal have in common? Both are ash-holes.”
Jill – I was wondering the same thing. It’s mindboggling…….
Mike Doogan on the stimuls process : (remember him – the Alaska State House Representative, author and former newspaper columnist, who doesn’t understand or believe in “email etiquette”?)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/tundra-talk/9-talk-of-the-tundra/1042-saying-no-to-federal-money-is-un-alaskan
“That’s not the end of it, though. The legislature can still accept the money by passing a resolution doing so.
That’s not the end of it, though. Once the state gets the money, it goes right into the regular appropriations process, which means Palin can veto it.
That’s not the end of it, though. A three-quarters vote of each House can override her veto.
Stay tuned.”
AKM.. great work. I do have a question. Knowing the devastation a volcano can cause, why is a Chevron tank farm sitting at the base of the volcano on the Drift River?
Martha Unalaska Yard SignNo Gravatar (12:03:19) : And yes, SP can veto the Legislature for stimulus funds (she won’t), and then they can veto her back. It was just SP blowing her wind anyway – she’d be in the VERY hot seat if she tried to veto stimulus funds.
Good to know. I would suggest that she be sacrificed to the volcano gods, but Redoubt would probably just spit her out and gag.
Mommy Dearest: Just because volcanoes all erupt doesn’t necessarily mean they are gay. That’s like saying all progressives are alike (like they say over at TeamSarah).
NMJ: Yep, she can veto it. And as an appropriation item the legislature would need a 75 percent (not 2/3) majority to override. Palin faces a dilemma– if she vetoed education funds, perhaps she’d seem determined that all our kids suffer like hers and not graduate from high school. Even outside Alaska (where public opinion matters to her) this could be unpopular.
rebekkahNo Gravatar (11:56:07) :
OT here, just read The Alaska Standard, by Dave Stieren, “The Anchorage Lincoln Dinner, Gov. Palin calls us out”. Good write up and also just unbelievable.
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That was pretty funny, in a sad sort of way. I know it was too much to ask AKM to stick around for the whining, but darn, we could have gotten some juicy direct whine quotes.
Thanks for this post! Hope you will all be okay and too much damage isn’t done with the ashes floating around. AKM, you would be fun to have beer with.
I clicked on the link to the Alaskan Standard posted above and we now of on person who recived an added goodie in his auction:
“Super” Dave Stieren enjoyed the menu, and was glad that the food was fully cooked, and was delighted with the cheesecake finish. He was surprised to be the winner of a silent auction item, as being a high bidder for anything isn’t something he’s accustomed to.
sheesh… one person who received
Just got back from baby sitting for my 5 month old niece and I’m pooped!
tigerwine (10:54:43)
Regarding freedom of the press…
This morning I was watching CNN waiting on the President to speak regarding clean energy and energy efficiency. Shortly after he began, he said something that I had been waiting to hear…and as soon as he finished the sentence…the CNN anchor started talking and he was taken off the air. I turned to MSNBC and continued for a minute or so…again, the anchor started talking and he was taken off the air. But from the little bit I was able to see, he has my confidence.
So . . .
Is this why GINO finally decided to go to Juneau? Just askin’.
ahhhh!….. I found this blog entry just delightful! Thank you for brightening my day with the clever retort to Jindal.
Oh, and that tank farm. Are they just sitting there with a bunch of sand bags at the ready to lay out and divert any water/mud/lava slides that may come at them???? How many types of stupid overseen by how many other idiots did it take to plan that! I’ll bet none of them live anywhere near the volcano.
Does Mt Redoubt make lava, or is it an ash making volcano, and the danger is snow melt and mud?
@ Ripley in CT
@ anon blogger
“Here’s my question: Who the hell would place an oil farm at the base of an active volcano, adjacent to a river? Hello??”
Looks like the EPA and ADEC allowed it.
Source: Cook Inlet Pipe Line Co. –
http://www.ktva.com/ci_11977469
“The safety of our employees and our community is our top priority, and we have been coordinating with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to prepare for this event,” said Rod Ficken, Cook Inlet Pipe Line Company vice president. “Our preparations have ensured that every employee understands his or her role in safely shutting down the facility.”
CIPL notified area producers that the terminal would not be available to receive, store or deliver additional crude oil during this period. All emergency agencies have also been notified.
Quote from an Alaskan at Redstate. Presumably a right wing nutjob very confused Palin supporter -
Gov. Palin’s keynote was …all over the place. It went way too long, I’m guessing close to an hour. For the first 30 minutes or so, I thought she hit a home run. She hit the Dems hard, had great timing, looked like she was enjoying herself. She hit a lot of good themes both local and national. If she stopped then she would have had an almost perfect “HELLO 2010? launch. Then it got weird. She started on a riff about needing party unity, about needing to heal from some of the stuff that went on, then went on what had to be a 15 minute tirade about “Tasergate”, having to pay hundreds of thousand of dollars of her own money fighting off frivolous ethics complaints many of which she said quite directly “were probably filed by people in this room”, the treatment her family was getting etc. It was strange since during that earlier 30 minutes, one of the things she pounded on is that we have to be optimistic, not whine. The folks at my table were just looking at each other, unsure what to think. I’m just wondering if this was scripted, or if she lost it when she saw someone in the crowd. She then went to a pretty standard boilerplate closing, which she struggled to get through. I’ll be curious how it gets played by the Media tomorrow. I’m not quite sure what I’d write myself, if I were in their shoes.
@rebekkah OT-ish
Fantastic article! Thanks for pointing it out
Fantastic post by M. Redoubt and his/her ghostwriter!
AK in CA: Not a volcano expert (although with some geology training). But the Cook Inlet volcanoes tend to be ash producers, with a little lava. Reboubt, Iliamna, Augustine and Spurr are all considered active and have spouted ash over the last couple of decades. Not explosively (a la St. Helens) but big plumes that interfere with air travel, power plants, and pregnant people. Keep in mind tho that Katmai Volcano, not so very far away across the Alaska Peninsula, exploded with many times the force of St Helens in 1912. I suppose Gov. Jindal believes we shouldn’t be monitoring that kind of thing.
deist, I just figuered if it was a gay volcano they could just pray it away!
i am falling all over myself laughing.
i discovered a website where you can make little animated shorts by pasting in your own text.
i made a little film of the part of the couric-palin interview where couric asks palin about alaska’s proximity to russia giving palin foreign policy cred.
if i do say so myself, it’s hilarious!
http://fromlaurelstreet.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/remembering-the-past-september-25-2008/
Heard about this on the radio and right away thought of all the mud puppies!! And, yes, Bobby Jindahl can kiss Alaska’s ash. Bet he feels like an idiot now. Keep posting those awesome pictures.
This is a great little write up from 2000 for the COOK INLET REGIONAL CITIZENS’ ADVISORY COUNCIL about all the regulatory agencies for Cook Inlet:
http://www.circac.org/documents/pdf/props/Overview_pipeline_regs.PDF
See page 18 which states:
RSPA/OPS is responsible for “Plans to mitigate natural hazards” 195.110 (addresses
earthquake, vibrations to be addressed in design)
Feds: Research and Special Programs Administration & Office of Pipeline Safety
HIS IS JUST MORE EVIDENCE THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE DIVORCED FROM REALITY.
Jindal had NO comprehension of “volcano monitoring” just as Palin has NO comprehension of ” fruit fly studies”. You will recall that there was breakthrough discoveries about the autism Palins nephew has, due to fruit fly studies, yet Palin railed against them as ridiculous and a waste of tax payer monies. Jindal and Palin, may as well be Bevis and Butthead.
GREAT writing. A jpy to read. Thanks for the post AKM.. er Mt. Redoubt… always enlightening and fun.
UK LadyNo Gravatar (12:43:17) : Quote from an Alaskan at Redstate. Presumably a right wing nutjob very confused Palin supporter -
Do you have a link to this? I’d like to read more.
This is the “other women”, Palins match in the republican party. They must be in a contest to see who can”outcrazy” whom!
Excerpt and link;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/michele-bachmann-i-want-p_n_178156.html
Michele Bachmann: I Want People “Armed And Dangerous” Over Obama Tax Plan
Bachmann also told her constituents she was “a foreign correspondent on enemy lines,” sending Minnesotans warnings through her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. “I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”
Any statement from the Gov. of AK. ??
@austintx–
Not that I’ve seen.
Congrats AKM and mudflatters alike, you made on the “Iowa Independent”! Read your own story here;
http://iowaindependent.com/Is Palin pollin’ Iowa already?
AKM-Hey Jindal! Kiss my ash!
I was reading this blog post aloud to my BF and I couldn’t stop cracking up, so damn funny!
Now speaking of funny….Redoubt has spoken, where is the other ash, ugh GINO? In Wasilla? Stuck in Juneau? Anchorage? Why hasn’t she reassured her cubs that all is fine and she is monitoring the situation of the volcano?
Oh she is probably wasting time defending “frivolous” Ethics lawsuits against her to be concerned with like, you know…Governing….?
NMJ – Sorry, copied it from a comment at P4C in a thread about that dinner. The poster had copied it from RdStte. They were all horrid to the poster even though he/she was a GINO fan and just concerned. They just didn’t want to hear anthing that didn’t gel with their idolatry.
If you go over there and find the thread, go into comments and it isn’t very far down.
Ha! Yes, I saw that one too. Thought it was great! AKM
Martha – speaking of Minn. , I saw a piece on MSNBC with the actual doll , but can’t find a pic. of it. The doll was a scream !!
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/odd_minnesota_senate_bobblehead/2009/03/22/194705.html
@Martha (13:34:48) :
Someone commenting on there should get their numbers right though, as the fact that the commentor palingates said GINO owes $500 million rather than $500,000 in legal fees is getting him/her slammed.
@austintx (13:42:48) :
Oh, that’s just hilarious! Wish the article had had pictures though!
I don’t like my Gov. , but his ass would’ve been in a National Guard helicopter at dawn this morning. Also , can Sarah swim ?? I think she is afraid of deep water.
UK LadyNo Gravatar (13:36:44) : Sorry, copied it from a comment at P4C in a thread about that dinner. The poster had copied it from RdStte.
I’m not pulling up anything under “P4C” or “RdStte”. Do you have links to these? I think you’re assuming I understand something you take for granted…or I’m missing something obvious.
InJuneau – I was laughing as hard as Nora O’Donnell. Believe me , I searched hard for a pic. I’ll keep digging….it is funny as all get-out…..
NMJ (13:48:59) :
Those are coded so that internet searches for those groups don’t lead to links here. Are you registerd on the Mudflats Forum? If so, PM me over there (Same name), and I can let you know what the real names are. Or just add “a” vowel twice to Rdstte, and you should get it…
When I lived in Homer, I really could see Mt. Redoubt from my house – Honest!
Don’t forget to stay tuned:
“Governor Sarah Palin well-prepared Alaskans for this event, so no lives are in danger. ”
From two blogs already. Sure, you betcha! Let’s send her to the crater where she can get a photo op standing next to the plume.
NMJ – sorry, thought you would understand my pathetic attempt at subterfuge. Go into conservatives4 (you know who’s surname inserted here), scroll down to the Licoln dinner thread, go into comments and about eight to ten comments down.
Martha UYS–where did you see that comment?
“Governor Sarah Palin well-prepared Alaskans for this event, so no lives are in danger. ”
How did she prepare them? When? What emergency plans were put in place? At least most air traffic is at a standstill right now, so she can’t fly out for photo ops!
@ InJuneau
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/mount-redoubt-in-alaska-is-erupting/
This is one – I can’t find the other because my history clears itself. I’ll PM you in the forum if I find it.
Martha UYS–ACK, that’s hilarious! And such awkward wording…
http://sagemcgreen.com/blog/2009/02/05/throw-sarah-palin-into-the-volcano/
“Sacrificing Sarah Palin to the volcano would fix so many problems. “
Oh, Martha UYS, that’s a good one!!
Niiice. Wonder what he would have to say? Or does he hate elite media bloggers too?
Oh, AKM , you had me at hello. Thanks for the much-needed laugh.
UK LadyNo Gravatar (14:02:52) :
So this is in the forums? I’ve been searching on the net for mention of that dinner…kind of hard when you don’t know the name of the dinner or when it was. I don’t spend much time in the form area.
I’ll search the forums.
NMJ – No, not the forum. Google conservatives4Palin, then scroll down until you find the Lincoln dinner thread. Then go into the comments for that thread.
Just dropping by and catching up. Jackie Gardina’s post was very moving, and I was so glad to read it. As a person who has held many military people from my family in my heart, this meant a great deal to me. They might not have been progressive at the time but I believe that they were people of understanding. (Col. in Army, Airforce, Capt. in Army, purple hearts, Bronze star.) Great post.
Sizzle and snizzle and fo’ shizzle, AKM. You are a delight to read. Hope any sparks are no more than enlighening thoughts.
UK LadyNo Gravatar (14:50:15) :
OK, I got it. The full, original review of her speech is at:
http://www.redstate.com/aksteveb/2009/03/21/my-impression-of-the-alaska-republican-party-lincoln-day-dinner/
Foregot to add that I got to know a representative out of my district, Frank LoBionco, who is very liberal, Thanks, AKM.
Of my state (NJ,) and ‘forgot’.
NEW POST!
This is hilarious! Made me laugh out loud.
Those of us who live anywhere near any volcano were astounded at the stupidity of Jindal’s remarks. And we all knew that, once a volcano is puffing away, it wasn’t going to be too long before his stupidity came back to bite him where it counts.
Hope you are all OK with all the ash – sounds like air travel is still on hold, but better safe than sorry. Airplane engines don’t like things like volcanic ash flying into them.
Take care, and thanks for the interesting links about Redoubt.
Jindal must be sacrificed to Fire God Redoubt. Throw him in! Fire God Redoubt very angry!!!!
I showed this to Madam Pele and she exploded with laughter.
I just went to the Guv’s official site to verify that she actually posted that asinine reply. Indeed she did. It just looks really especially asinine on an official site, from an official. Oh, and bogus, too. As someone else mentioned, she doesn’t address the merits of the complaint, just blathers on showing how unprofessional she is.
A coworker has invented a word which we use quite often and is often really the only word that will do:
“BOGOSITY”
As in, that press release is total bogosity. GINO’s job performance shows what total bogosity it is that she was ever conferred a college degree. Claiming that Bristol Palin agreed to an interview with GVS all on her own and that GINO did not know about it until the day before is complete bogosity. Your water breaks in Texas and your labor “settles down” long enough to get you through two flights and an hour long car ride, to the hospital of your choice…..also such bogosity!
It’s actually quite a useful word.