Open Thread – Sunrise
14 07 2009
The smoke from fires in the interior of Alaska may be irritating to the respiratory tract, but the particulate matter in the air creates some beautiful sunrises and sunsets. This was taken a little after 5am in Prince William Sound. There was a gentle breeze, perfect for sailing. There were no other boats around, and only the sound of the hull cutting through the water. The strange smokey haze was everywhere, and the water, the mountains, the thin cloud cover all had an eerie orange glow. The birds didn’t even seem to be awake, and it was a strange silent feeling, almost like there was nobody else on the planet.
[Enjoy the open thread, and remember that it's open all day for off-topic comments. Comments on other posts should remain on topic. Thanks!]
July 14th, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Ethics issue would almost be funny if it weren’t such an abuse of justice. AKns deserve our public resources be used wisely, not frivolously
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry
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Can’t let it go , huh , quitter ??
sarah – you read this blog. Put up or STFU. Release the e-mails.
P.A.T.H.E.T.I.C.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:33 PM
CG #246
Would that be the church attended by Chuck Kopp?
July 14th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Give $arah her severance package and kick her out the door.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Is the title for this piece a typo?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/the-cures-of-cursing-vide_n_232245.html
Shouldn’t it read “Cursing Helps Endure Palin?”
July 14th, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Chuck Kopp is Franklin and Billy Graham’s homeboy. Chuck’s dad started Cook Inlet Academy underwritten by the Grahams. More of the same.
They start every day with the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by two more pledges:
The Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Flag
“I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag and to the Savior for whose Kingdom it stands. One Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe.”
The Pledge of Allegiance to the Christian Bible
“I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God’s Holy Word, I will make it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path and will hide its words in my heart that I might not sin against God.”
July 14th, 2009 at 5:27 PM
CG – did you see this link I posted earlier?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/14/13157/1259
Palin was speaking Christianese to her Creationist base. – RE: the WaPo op-ed.
July 14th, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Seagull Junker Palin Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Give $arah her severance package and kick her out the door.
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No don’t give her Severance pay! She aborted her term! Take those blackberries, SUV and everything else and kick her ass out the door!
She grifted enough from Alaskan’s they are lucky to still have their shirts!
Sue me!!!
July 14th, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Saw a great bumper sticker today:
January 20, 2009
The End of an Error
July 14th, 2009 at 5:53 PM
I find this very telling of the GOP fundies intolerance – Sotomayor is probably the most qualified candidate ever nominated to the SCOTUS and yet they politicize and rant just because it’s Obama’s pick.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/sotomayor-hearings-video_n_231206.html
I have a new math equation to explain this – F = BS squared, whereas F = the fear the GOP feels about now being a minority party and BS being the amount of bullshit they regurgitate in an attempt to stay in control politically. So they more they are afraid, the more they BS exponentially.
Hope all is well. I gotta go barbecue.
Big
July 14th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
crystalwolf, I did. Thanks. Good one.
I found an approach to appeal to Sarah to stop the nonsense:
“And if your brother sins, go and reprove him in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed. And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-gatherer. Matthew 18:15-17
Do you believe that God hates you when He disciplines you? No one who is familiar in any way with the scriptures will allow that statement to stand for even a moment before protesting with passages such as Revelation 3:19 “Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; be zealous therefore, and repent.” or Hebrews 12:4-11.
Why then when another brother or sister in Christ offers to correct our doctrine or a misbehavior of ours do we immediately take offense? If God’s motive is love, why would we assume that His children’s motives would be something less?
Hebrews 12 is most fascinating. Even though we are children of God, saved from the fear of eternal punishment, God requires us to be “trained” through discipline during our time on Earth. Is the discipline light? No. The passage says that one may be tempted to “faint” dead-away from the severity of the scourging by the God who is love.
Precisely what method of discipline will God subject us to? It is not for us to choose or to know. Just as our own fathers chose for us the disciplinary method that “seemed best to them”, God will do the same. It is rare that the children are permitted to select this for themselves. God selects the discipline that will not only train, but will also protect His glory; even to the point of bringing death to some (1Cor.11:28-34) if necessary.
Why would a God who is love purposely subject us to discipline so violent that it is called “scourging” and may even cause us to faint under the weight of its severity? Verse 11 of Hebrews 12 says that the result of discipline is sorrow. Sorrow can lead to genuine repentance. Repentance leads to the “peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
“I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, in order that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but the sorrow of the world produces death.” 2 Cor.7:9-10
Get it, Sarah?
July 14th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I find this very telling of the GOP intolerance – Sotomayor is probably the most qualified candidate ever nominated to the SCOTUS and yet they politicize and rant just because it’s Obama’s pick.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/sotomayor-hearings-video_n_231206.html
I have a new math equation to explain this – F = BS squared, whereas F = the fear the GOP feels about now being a minority party and BS being the amount of bullshit they regurgitate in an attempt to stay in control politically. So they more they are afraid, the more they BS exponentially.
Hope all is well. I gotta go barbecue.
Big
July 14th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I plagiarized this, by the way. Not my composition.
: )
July 14th, 2009 at 6:06 PM
tweet tweet
Great news for Eagle’s flood victims – manufacturer’s construction crew will build first pre-fab house Thursday!
about 1 hour ago from web
YBG – Please keep us posted on this.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:06 PM
CG Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I plagiarized this, by the way. Not my composition.
: )
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My fave in regard to the Grifter is proverbs 10:10
“He who winks the eye causes trouble, And a babbling fool will be ruined.”
That’s her! Epic FAIL!
http://www.australiangamer.com/images/stuff/epic-fail.jpg
July 14th, 2009 at 6:07 PM
I just read the John Kerry post about , What sarah palin did not say.
Wow . She is taking on the big boys now and they are not going to SDASU.
Sounds like he knows more about Alaska then she does. No one has said anything to her until now. I guess that she has finally stepped over the line.
I wonder how many OP-ED pieces she will be (writing).I think she is now dust.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:14 PM
New post on ethics complaint
July 14th, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Sarah’s WaPo Op-Ed — I wonder how much Acting AG Sullivan had to do with it? Anything to do with the composition of it? I wonder this due to his involvement with energy in his position under SOS in the Bush Admin.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
257 crystalwolf aka caligrl Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Seagull Junker Palin Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Give $arah her severance package and kick her out the door.
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No don’t give her Severance pay! She aborted her term! Take those blackberries, SUV and everything else and kick her ass out the door!
She grifted enough from Alaskan’s they are lucky to still have their shirts!
Sue me!!!
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And God only knows how many side deals sarah did.
Sue me too ! also !
BTW – Van Flea sure is quiet……..guess he’s getting all those lawsuits ready.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:14 PM
I find this very telling of the GOP fundies intolerance – Sotomayor is probably the most qualified candidate ever nominated to the SCOTUS and yet they politicize and rant just because it’s Obama’s pick.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/sotomayor-hearings-video_n_231206.html
I have a new math equation to explain this – F = BS squared, whereas F = the fear the GOP feels about now being a minority party and BS being the amount of bullshit they regurgitate in an attempt to stay in control politically. So they more they are afraid, the more they BS exponentially.
Hope all is well. I gotta go barbecue.
Big
July 14th, 2009 at 7:15 PM
I find this very telling of the GOP intolerance – Sotomayor is probably the most qualified candidate ever nominated to the SCOTUS and yet they politicize and rant just because it’s Obama’s pick.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/sotomayor-hearings-video_n_231206.html
I have a new math equation to explain this – F = BS squared, whereas F = the fear the GOP feels about now being a minority party and BS being the amount of bullshyte they regurgitate in an attempt to stay in control politically. So they more they are afraid, the more they BS exponentially.
Hope all is well. I gotta go barbecue.
Big
July 14th, 2009 at 7:41 PM
austintx Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
257 crystalwolf aka caligrl Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Seagull Junker Palin Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Give $arah her severance package and kick her out the door.
~~~~~~~~~~
No don’t give her Severance pay! She aborted her term! Take those blackberries, SUV and everything else and kick her ass out the door!
She grifted enough from Alaskan’s they are lucky to still have their shirts!
Sue me!!!
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And God only knows how many side deals sarah did.
Sue me too ! also !
BTW – Van Flea sure is quiet……..guess he’s getting all those lawsuits ready.
The flea has just released a statement on the the new thread…meritless!!!
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Ooooooh Austin….alot of discovery there
Can you believe this meatball????
July 14th, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Here’s a really good HuffPo piece on the confirmation hearings of Judge Sotomayor:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gilroy/sessionss-hate-speech_b_232246.html
July 14th, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Any baseball fans? This is the best diary!!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/14/753531/-PLAY-BALL!!!Obamas-All-Star-Game-Ovation!!!(FULL-UPDATE-#2)
July 14th, 2009 at 8:51 PM
sarah palin wants to talk the walk and says she can beat President Obama on endurance on running, as she says in her running world picture op. My sister in law and her two daughters just walked the Avon Breast walk in San Francisco, Ca. 39.3 miles. On Saturday 20 miles and the rest on Sunday Which was hilly, and much harder to walk. My niece developed a “pull” in her left foot on the first day. After they got home after the walk the next day they found ot it was a stress fracture.
They raised 6 million dollars for the greater Bay Area. Well not just them.
http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/DocServer/Avon_Walk_for_Breast_Cancer_SF_Closing_Release.pdf?docID=9902
sarah palin could do so much if she chose to but she does not chose to.
When she says I am all about Alaska that is just not true.
Either she is So AIP/or i think more CHURCH, more third wave.
How sad Sarah Palin and I usually do not spell your name correctly on purpose but i am hoping Toddler still has his phone on alert when it hears your name. Thinking of you sarah and sorry not in a good way.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Is it just me, or is anyone else hoping that when she comes to So Cal in Aug that her car breaks down on the 405 during rush hour? Maybe she would have an anyurism…or maybe she would just rapture already.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I just want to remind everyone to go to Democracy for America and cast a vote for Dr. Chill.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Dr Chill has my vote..I think I was 31
July 14th, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I am really hoping they all rapture early. I just want to stay here where I am and not have to worry about some church telling me that I have the devil in me. And to think that that are in the military now, also too. That is very scary.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Another random thought….
Governor, soon to be EX, Palin is all about the children she claims. She spouts her words of wisdom in the resignation speech about how bad it was that Trig was made fun of and how the world needs more Trig’s not less of them.
Did anyone else notice that when she went to Evansville for the RTL speech, and she spoke of how much Trig means to her….Trig wasn’t there.
When she went to NY and did that Autism walk…..Trig wasn’t there.
Trig is a prop for her to use as she sees fit, but taking him with her to these functions is too much of a hassle? She can’t be bothered unless she needs him for a photo op …like the Runner’s World article….
July 15th, 2009 at 10:28 AM
EyeOnYou, that’s because as she said “Bristol can be used.”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/bristol-can-be.html
So, Trig can be used, by that same logic. She doesn’t give a rat’s rear about her kids as shown by her actions, which speak a lot louder than her words.