Comments on: Palin’s Millllions – Take 2. A Closer Look.

By: rylly

rylly — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:00:54 +0000

Welll, if you’re losing weight and your hair is falling out, just jump on a plane and go down to the lower 48 and start making more waves, that’ll prove how astute ( plumb dumb) you are. But, make sure there are NO REPORTERS allowed at your speech…which will likely ensure that a digital recorder will be smuggled in and used appropriately, we should hope.
That spelunking comment sounded the most apt in describing the “no light at the end of the tunnel” kind of mind Scarah has…just fumbling along choosing door after door after door and finding behind them only more debris to rail against. Damn!
If you look at her eyes, they don’t both track in the same direction, which might account for her mental dyslexia where her left brain doesn’t know what her right brain is doing. It cobbles up her speech in the same way, a bit of this and a bit of that, each veering off in a different direction.
She is in such deep doo doo now, a nervous breakdown is about her only face-saving device left…she could have used that excuse to take some months off and as a reason for resigning, instead she lied.
Her days as a national political player are so numbered.
We all know she can stir up hatred and violence, she might just do that to see if she still counts. When she does, we’ll be watching.

By: Barbara Spencer

Barbara Spencer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:21:23 +0000

Because narcissists bore easily and it’s not as much fun as it used to be.

Peggy Noonen over at WSJ/Huffington Post deconstructed Sarah Palin.

By: Pacificnwgal

Pacificnwgal — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:17:40 +0000

Sometimes I listen to FOX News. (I always have to keep up with the enemy.) One commentator said that what the reason why most “women” hate Palin is that we are suffering from “Palin-derangement syndrome”! Now I have heard it all. How sexist. Just because some women are smart enough to not want an incompetent, devious, egomaniac running our lives, we accused of having some diabolical hatred toward Sarah. The fact is that she is just plain WRONG to be in the kind of position she is in. She needs to go into entertainment where she can entertain people, not have such an important role in people’s lives. I am really thankful to bloggers like AKM who have brought all this our over the past 9 months. Great investigative journalism! You should be working for the networks, but then maybe NOT since they can’t seem to get things straight.

By: Zuzu

Zuzu — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:30:10 +0000

Did they say how many “staff hours” were spent gathering this information for Ms. Palin?

Just wondering.

By: samper

samper — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:27:06 +0000

BTW: Do we have detail on the EB’s accounting, also too?

They threw a bunch of numbers out there without backup as well, didn’t they?

There isn’t a reputable accountant roaming God’s green earth that would submit this crap as actual documentation.

By: samper

samper — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:22:08 +0000

Bad editing alert:

There is a full 2 month period that are actually in both 2008 and 2009 FY labels. These would be July and August 2008.

Should read:

There is a full 2 month period that IS actually in both 2008 and 2009 FY labels. THIS would be July THROUGH August 2008.

By: samper

samper — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:18:29 +0000

On that “open and transparent” checkbook, linked above by schlock and flaws:

Did anyone notice the dates of purported Fiscal years?

There is a full 2 month period that are actually in both 2008 and 2009 FY labels. These would be July and August 2008.

Accounting gurus: Is it common practice to arbitrarily determine FY’s and to overlap this way?

That spreadsheet she published is garbage. Piper probably did it while simultaneously feeding Trig and cooking dinner for the rest of them while sarah was tweeting and whining.

Where is the back up? How about a time sheet or two? Maybe an invoice? Maybe a report generated by the computer system showing the searches (when they were done, how long it took, etc.).

There was a time when I felt it very necessary to document all the overtime I was putting in. However, being on salary, time sheets weren’t used and I thought that just putting together MY version of time wouldn’t fly in court. What I did was send myself an email at the start and end of each day and the VERY rare lunch time I was away from work. At the end of each week, I just printed the email log of the folder I stored them in. The emails were all date/time stamped, so there couldn’t be a challenge in a court as to the actual hours I was in the office. It was EASY to document my time with just a subject line: Time in/Time out.

I guess in offering up this information, I’m wondering if email date/time stamps might be telling of actual time spent on any given project?

For instance, an email at the beginning of the day saying “I’m just getting started on Arctic Cat research. Will let you know when I find something.” followed by (at the end of the day) “I’ve been at this since my last email. Wow! You really WERE a head-to-toe, neon, flashing billboard for Arctic Cat! We’ll have to make something up. For now, let’s just say you wore a jacket because it was cold out and it happened to have a logo on it.”

Then, we could determine that some yahoo spent X hours discovering SP was wrongfully advertising for Arctic Cat. And those “billable hours” would be accounted for in the spreadsheet.

Of course, getting our hands on the emails would be impossible with the delay/cost tactics they use to keep information secret. It was just a theory I’m throwing out there. Kind of a “what if” they were all SP guaranteed… “open and transparent”?

Where does the $286,000 figure fit into that number salad?

I hope to heck that the new complaints move forward, even with her out of office. I also hope that the ethics board is brought under scrutiny for their mindless decisions.

By: zyggy

zyggy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:12:52 +0000

curiouser, no nothing at all like that. lol If I was, I wouldn’t haven even mentioned it in the first place. Nothing intriguing at all.

By: LiladyNY

LiladyNY — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:37:17 +0000

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By: Marnie

Marnie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:21:48 +0000

Does Sarah open herself up to another ethics complaint for lying about how her office uses it money? Or how she used her position to “influence” memberrs of her staff to knowllingly release false and or misleading information about the Governor’s Office’s budget usage?