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		<title>By: rjw.progressive</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/02/numbers-shmumbers/#comment-89113</link>
		<dc:creator>rjw.progressive</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suggest you edit out the 

&quot;headed up by Ed O’Callaghan who had no license to practice law in the State of Alaska)&quot;

It&#039;s meaningless in the context of political advise and just dilutes or undercuts the meaningful information.

Respectfully

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suggest you edit out the </p>
<p>&#8220;headed up by Ed O’Callaghan who had no license to practice law in the State of Alaska)&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s meaningless in the context of political advise and just dilutes or undercuts the meaningful information.</p>
<p>Respectfully</p>
<p>rjw</p>
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		<title>By: Get your News &#187; AKMuckraker: What Is Sarah Palin Thinking? One Alaskan&#8217;s Perspective</title>
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		<dc:creator>Get your News &#187; AKMuckraker: What Is Sarah Palin Thinking? One Alaskan&#8217;s Perspective</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the state. Millions, she said. Two million. Yesterday&#8217;s headline in the Anchorage Daily News tallied up the cost at $296,000, with the bulk of that stemming from the Troopergate investigation of last [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Palin throwing in the towel? - Alaska (AK) - Page 11 - City-Data Forum</title>
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		<dc:creator>Palin throwing in the towel? - Alaska (AK) - Page 11 - City-Data Forum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] here in Feeeeenix.   Hey guys, you think that other mudflat story (posted before the lipstick one) The Mudflats </description>
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		<title>By: mlaiuppa</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/02/numbers-shmumbers/#comment-86278</link>
		<dc:creator>mlaiuppa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Because Palin thinks she&#039;s entitled to free anything by virtue of being the Governor. 

And she is certainly vindictive enough to have the barista fired. As far as preventing them from getting another job, I don&#039;t think she&#039;s that good. She&#039;s that petty, but she can&#039;t simply send out a circular with the barista&#039;s name (which she won&#039;t know) or picture (which she won&#039;t have) or even description (which she wouldn&#039;t remember even if she cared) to have the person blackballed for every job in Alaska. 

As for the entitlement issue, I think this is what will come back to bite her because I think she&#039;s been doing her IRS taxes for the last 16 years or at least since she&#039;s been in office with this entitlement mindset. I doubt she has declared plenty of &quot;gifts&quot; going all the way back to when she was elected to her first position. 

As for the barista...I suppose they could shout to an employee to bring their purse, then get out their wallet and make a big show of putting the money to pay for GINO&#039;s order in the cash register saying &quot;My treat. I make minimum wage and can certainly afford to treat you.&quot; Snark is the only thing GINO would understand. 

But it&#039;s a lose lose situation. Let GINO go without paying. Get fired or have it taken out of your pay. Make GINO pay, get fired. Pay it yourself, you&#039;re still out the money and may possibly be fired anyway. 

Now that she&#039;s resigned, I imagine many baristas and waitresses will heave a sigh of relief over their jobs and their paychecks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because Palin thinks she&#8217;s entitled to free anything by virtue of being the Governor. </p>
<p>And she is certainly vindictive enough to have the barista fired. As far as preventing them from getting another job, I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s that good. She&#8217;s that petty, but she can&#8217;t simply send out a circular with the barista&#8217;s name (which she won&#8217;t know) or picture (which she won&#8217;t have) or even description (which she wouldn&#8217;t remember even if she cared) to have the person blackballed for every job in Alaska. </p>
<p>As for the entitlement issue, I think this is what will come back to bite her because I think she&#8217;s been doing her IRS taxes for the last 16 years or at least since she&#8217;s been in office with this entitlement mindset. I doubt she has declared plenty of &#8220;gifts&#8221; going all the way back to when she was elected to her first position. </p>
<p>As for the barista&#8230;I suppose they could shout to an employee to bring their purse, then get out their wallet and make a big show of putting the money to pay for GINO&#8217;s order in the cash register saying &#8220;My treat. I make minimum wage and can certainly afford to treat you.&#8221; Snark is the only thing GINO would understand. </p>
<p>But it&#8217;s a lose lose situation. Let GINO go without paying. Get fired or have it taken out of your pay. Make GINO pay, get fired. Pay it yourself, you&#8217;re still out the money and may possibly be fired anyway. </p>
<p>Now that she&#8217;s resigned, I imagine many baristas and waitresses will heave a sigh of relief over their jobs and their paychecks.</p>
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		<title>By: EyeOnYou</title>
		<link>http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/02/numbers-shmumbers/#comment-85900</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RE: The Palin Coffee Theft...

I have to wonder why in the hell the Governor would go into a place and expect to obtain services knowing she doesn&#039;t have any way to pay for it.

Unless she has a prior arrangement to run a tab, there is simply no reason for her to think that it would be acceptable to simply walk into an establishment thinking it is okay to obtain something without paying for it.</description>
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<p>I have to wonder why in the hell the Governor would go into a place and expect to obtain services knowing she doesn&#8217;t have any way to pay for it.</p>
<p>Unless she has a prior arrangement to run a tab, there is simply no reason for her to think that it would be acceptable to simply walk into an establishment thinking it is okay to obtain something without paying for it.</p>
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		<title>By: KaJo</title>
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		<dc:creator>KaJo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>duct idaho palin said July 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 PM  &lt;i&gt;&quot;If Sarah ever shows up at that Starbucks again they should ask her, BEFORE they start making her coffee, whether she has the money to pay for it.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

I was thinking about that yesterday.  

Chances are that the barista DID ask her, since she said she never carries a wallet, that she ask &quot;her people&quot; (who were doubtless standing right next to her) to pay the bill -- and that same barista 3 days later found him/herself out of a job,  and looking for work the same way Levi Johnston did -- out of state, because he/she&#039;d been blacklisted in Alaska by the GINO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>duct idaho palin said July 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 PM  <i>&#8220;If Sarah ever shows up at that Starbucks again they should ask her, BEFORE they start making her coffee, whether she has the money to pay for it.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I was thinking about that yesterday.  </p>
<p>Chances are that the barista DID ask her, since she said she never carries a wallet, that she ask &#8220;her people&#8221; (who were doubtless standing right next to her) to pay the bill &#8212; and that same barista 3 days later found him/herself out of a job,  and looking for work the same way Levi Johnston did &#8212; out of state, because he/she&#8217;d been blacklisted in Alaska by the GINO.</p>
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		<title>By: lazarhat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@124 Ted

&quot;Mark Hemingway and Bill Kristol both attempt unsuccessfully to dismiss strong suspicions that Governor Palin suffers from NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder).&quot;

That Mr. Bill &quot;always been wrong about absolutely every damn thing&quot; Kristol could a.) be objective about NPD (as its biggest sufferer) and b.) not actually support Sarah Palin when he is the chief metrosexual/DC insider representative to her new neotheocon wing of the Republic(an)(&#039;t) party -- both are ideas I find totally hilarious. You can nearly see Bill&#039;s kool-aid mustache.

Wrong again, Bill! Keeping the streak alive, buddy! Go you!

-Laz</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@124 Ted</p>
<p>&#8220;Mark Hemingway and Bill Kristol both attempt unsuccessfully to dismiss strong suspicions that Governor Palin suffers from NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder).&#8221;</p>
<p>That Mr. Bill &#8220;always been wrong about absolutely every damn thing&#8221; Kristol could a.) be objective about NPD (as its biggest sufferer) and b.) not actually support Sarah Palin when he is the chief metrosexual/DC insider representative to her new neotheocon wing of the Republic(an)(&#8217;t) party &#8212; both are ideas I find totally hilarious. You can nearly see Bill&#8217;s kool-aid mustache.</p>
<p>Wrong again, Bill! Keeping the streak alive, buddy! Go you!</p>
<p>-Laz</p>
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		<title>By: lazarhat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@89 anon blogger

Well I&#039;m neither envious nor personally hateful, so that&#039;s just more dissembling and attempted re-branding on their part... then again I&#039;m male. So perhaps I&#039;m not the &#039;target audience&#039;.

On the other side of this double headed coin is the sexualization of Sarah. The Naughty Monkey pumps. The jogging togs cheesecake shots. The skimpy bikini comic book character (and granted on this latter issue Sarah has little or no control over what third parties do with her &#039;image&#039;, or &#039;iconography&#039; as we have all recently learned with the help of Meg &quot;The Mouth&quot;, the internet and graphics editing software). Or consider the excessively sexualized nature of comments made by numerous male supporters, including John Cole and Wayne Anthony Ross, both of whose public comments about Sarah&#039;s looks were excessively creepy... yeah that doesn&#039;t work for me either. I have never thought Sarah particularly beautiful or attractive nor have I/would I entertain inappropriate fantasies, sexual or otherwise about her. She&#039;s a married woman with five kids, people. There is nothing in that looks/circumstance/lifestyle combo that would close the deal for me. Sorry Sarah, I&#039;m just not that into you.

So I am further protected from their &quot;populist sex-ray gun marketing campaign&quot; as conducted by Republic(an)(&#039;t)(s) Meg, the C4Pers and AFT (her legal slush fund) by personal ethics and morals. And maybe a necklace of garlic, some holy water and a large wooden cross. Or a big &#039;whacking&#039; shovel in case they&#039;re actually ZOMBIES that come after my BRAAAAIIIIIINNNNNSSSS! Or a big bucket of wet beach sand from Homer to pour on the Palinbots... so yay -- go me! As an Alaskan, I am prepared to be Austin Powers to her Dr. Evil. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Look it up, neotheocons (supporters of Palin).

Alaskan bloggers have gotten past the sharks with frikken&#039; lasers, past the fembots with machine guns for nipples, past the missile launch (see recent youtube video produced by a Sarahcophant). We&#039;re ready for the justice and just deserts part. Yeah baby, YEAH!

Now show me the public documents providing full disclosure or actually run an open and transparent government and I get all flush with excitement! ;) You betcha! I&#039;m just old enough to be funny that way. But I understand Sarah just isn&#039;t all that into the representative democracy, public servant foreplay stuff.

-Laz</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@89 anon blogger</p>
<p>Well I&#8217;m neither envious nor personally hateful, so that&#8217;s just more dissembling and attempted re-branding on their part&#8230; then again I&#8217;m male. So perhaps I&#8217;m not the &#8216;target audience&#8217;.</p>
<p>On the other side of this double headed coin is the sexualization of Sarah. The Naughty Monkey pumps. The jogging togs cheesecake shots. The skimpy bikini comic book character (and granted on this latter issue Sarah has little or no control over what third parties do with her &#8216;image&#8217;, or &#8216;iconography&#8217; as we have all recently learned with the help of Meg &#8220;The Mouth&#8221;, the internet and graphics editing software). Or consider the excessively sexualized nature of comments made by numerous male supporters, including John Cole and Wayne Anthony Ross, both of whose public comments about Sarah&#8217;s looks were excessively creepy&#8230; yeah that doesn&#8217;t work for me either. I have never thought Sarah particularly beautiful or attractive nor have I/would I entertain inappropriate fantasies, sexual or otherwise about her. She&#8217;s a married woman with five kids, people. There is nothing in that looks/circumstance/lifestyle combo that would close the deal for me. Sorry Sarah, I&#8217;m just not that into you.</p>
<p>So I am further protected from their &#8220;populist sex-ray gun marketing campaign&#8221; as conducted by Republic(an)(&#8217;t)(s) Meg, the C4Pers and AFT (her legal slush fund) by personal ethics and morals. And maybe a necklace of garlic, some holy water and a large wooden cross. Or a big &#8216;whacking&#8217; shovel in case they&#8217;re actually ZOMBIES that come after my BRAAAAIIIIIINNNNNSSSS! Or a big bucket of wet beach sand from Homer to pour on the Palinbots&#8230; so yay &#8212; go me! As an Alaskan, I am prepared to be Austin Powers to her Dr. Evil. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Look it up, neotheocons (supporters of Palin).</p>
<p>Alaskan bloggers have gotten past the sharks with frikken&#8217; lasers, past the fembots with machine guns for nipples, past the missile launch (see recent youtube video produced by a Sarahcophant). We&#8217;re ready for the justice and just deserts part. Yeah baby, YEAH!</p>
<p>Now show me the public documents providing full disclosure or actually run an open and transparent government and I get all flush with excitement! <img src='http://www.themudflats.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  You betcha! I&#8217;m just old enough to be funny that way. But I understand Sarah just isn&#8217;t all that into the representative democracy, public servant foreplay stuff.</p>
<p>-Laz</p>
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		<title>By: The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXXI: The Cost Of Ethics Complaints &#183; Iranian Election Coverage</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXXI: The Cost Of Ethics Complaints &#183; Iranian Election Coverage</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] has found another untruth from the office of the Alaskan governor: “In the past two years, the state of Alaska has spent [...]</description>
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		<title>By: LiladyNY</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lazarhat Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:14 PM

@47 NY Dem

Okay Mr. “My state legislature was just taken over by a Republic(an)(’t) coup”.

These things take time and money and patience but we’re working on it, thanks. Now how about them Mets? ;)

-Laz
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Oh Laz!!  Snap!!  We&#039;re just tryin&#039; to be as entertaining on the East Coast as your Gov is on the West Coast (altho Arnie is running a really close second) otherwise we&#039;d all be sitting around bored out of our skulls just hating and jealous of the beautiful Sarah Palin also too. Therefore and.  (*snark*)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lazarhat Says:<br />
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:14 PM</p>
<p>@47 NY Dem</p>
<p>Okay Mr. “My state legislature was just taken over by a Republic(an)(’t) coup”.</p>
<p>These things take time and money and patience but we’re working on it, thanks. Now how about them Mets? <img src='http://www.themudflats.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>-Laz<br />
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<p>Oh Laz!!  Snap!!  We&#8217;re just tryin&#8217; to be as entertaining on the East Coast as your Gov is on the West Coast (altho Arnie is running a really close second) otherwise we&#8217;d all be sitting around bored out of our skulls just hating and jealous of the beautiful Sarah Palin also too. Therefore and.  (*snark*)</p>
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