Open Thread – Sunrise
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.
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So beautiful! Did you take this on vacation? If so, it seems a perfect balance to the Palin craziness.
That was the sunrise on Sunday morning. I’ll be posting more pictures from my trip to PWS soon. AKM
i have a new name for buttercup, i dont think ive seen it yet
pioneer princess………..
Gorgeous! Makes me want to take a vacation this very minute.
Tried to stay awake to watch Olberman, Maddow, The Daily Show and Letterman last night. Maddow’s piece on Palin was excellent but she pointed out her prediction was wrong about Palin last year prior to her being picked for McCain’s VP.
lovely picture
and I guess Sarah writes for the Washington Post now :
Sarah Palin’s Op-Ed Slams Obama’s Cap-And-Trade Plan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/sarah-palins-oped-slams-o_n_231135.html
Great sunrise.
Yeah, sure. Sarah wrote that piece in the Post! And she wrote Hamlet, too. Also, too.
ericmiami- I was going to say the exact thing, though they writer did throw the phrase “hungry markets” in there to try and fool us.
Sail boat vacation, ah, that sounds so lovely & the pics assure it was.
New bumper sticker out:
PALIN 2012 – 2014 1/2
SayItWithWookies says at 2:55 am, July 14th, 2009
- American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president’s cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
Varied sentence structure. Dependent clause. Parallelism. Dependent clause and layering of modifiers. Conclusion. FRAUD ALERT! FRAUD ALERT! FRAUD ALERT!
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From the comment section @ wonkette
http://wonkette.com/409832/409832#comments
How Infantilism Frames Our Politics: “No Request is Too Extreme”
“An “infantile” politician refuses to grow up or accept adult norms, remains stubbornly self-centered and certain his/her gut instinct guides flawless decision-making. In short, infantilism extends immaturity – signaled by narcissism, magic thinking, mendacity, defensiveness, or pigheadedness – into adulthood, often blindly rejecting experience, learning, rules, or perspective. Adolescence plagues our politics – framing the low points of Bill Clinton, GW Bush, McCain, Palin, Ensign and Sanford – while nicely dramatizing the remedy: more Barack Obamas.”
http://tinyurl.com/excellent-article
Who is Palin’s new writer?
There is no way that Sarah palin wrote that speech herself. There is an abundance of examples of her speeches and in those how she thinks.
No way no how. She does not acknowledge the environment at all.
Is that how Palin will rise to the top, with the help of a speech writer that she does not acknowledge? Will she give no interviews so that people can see the difference?
Liar and deceit, this the same old republican values not the acts of a reformer.
Twain 12 – I just took a gander at the article and the first song that rolled through my mind was, “Ghost Writers on the Storm”. Blech! She used that darn silly word “progressin(g)” so I would imagine she gave the writer a few key words to include so that it’s Palin branded. Me thinks it’s a little bit late to be coming off all serious NOW.
Forget Palin. Nah, nevermind…that’s impossible!
But seriously, we have far bigger problems…like DADT and our military’s lax recruiting standards:
http://theworldofhowey.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/the-bottom-of-the-barrel/
I hope the Post publishes a rebuttal, written by someone who truly knows about the economic consequences and environmental concerns that cap and trade will effect. It would be nice if that person were a well respected Alaskan. Know anyone?
7 Paula Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 3:05 AM
ericmiami- I was going to say the exact thing, though they writer did throw the phrase “hungry markets” in there to try and fool us.
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And ‘clobber’. And restrained use of exclamation points.
Gorgeous sunrise. I can hear the boat slipping through the water. A magical time, those first moments of the morning.
Re: the WaPo op-ed – My guess is that she initially wrote something which was then edited by someone who can actually write coherently. The “hungry markets” phrase, reference to God making oil and gas just for us, the sarcastic “yes we can” and a few other nuggets , to me, all point to Sarah being involved in some way but she’s most certainly not responsible for the end result. Of course, at the end of the article it said, “The writer, a Republican, is the Governor of Alaska”. Maybe she got Parnell to write it!
My guess is that she committed to this pipeline deal and honestly does believe that when God created the earth a few thousand years ago He made sure to hide some “natural resources” like cracker jacks prizes for us to find and play with all willy nilly. She’s being all “we have dominion over all the earth” and there’s no way that she’s going to see past that. Climate change? It ain’t in the bible so phooey!
I openly admit that I don’t have enough understanding of cap and trade to know whether it’s an awful idea that will bite us down the road but it seems to me that it will at least motivate movement towards alternative energy ideas. She doesn’t seem interested in that angle. I would’ve been compelled to give her and ghost writer a second read if something other than that danged pipeline and ANWR drilling had been touted as the ultimate solution. That bit that she throws in about “and of course every state can consider nuclear energy” seems like it was said with one of those dismissive waves with the back of hand. “yeah yeah and there’s always that stupid idea of nuclear energy or whatever”
I hope she’s going to go back to writing in her own voice again because , to be honest, I think she’s even more dangerous when her whacky comes out coherently. Not as easy to spot the nuttiness. Thankfully, no one can control the stupid that spills out of her mouth and there’s always video and audio to capture it.
wow – this was much longer than I intended!
NAR/third wave site is coming along nicely. Thanks to the mudpups who have offered their time to give feedback on the early version. You’ve been really helpful! Others interested, just PM me and I’ll send the link.
I’m swearing off blogs today so I can work on that site and my local news site. I swear. I really am!!
Have a great day everyone!
How beautiful. It is other worldly. I went on a short vacation too! Out to Marblehead, MA to visit youngest son who’s directing out there. It was also beautiful. At least what I could see of it through the downpours and lighting.
Had fun though. Didn’t listen to any news or read (sorry) any news or blogs. Came home refreshed and NOTHING had changed.
Oh well, sat around waiting for Sotomayor to speak. Jeez I finally did some work, went for two walks and she still hadn’t been able to say a word. I liked when she did speak, she kept it short and to the point. Something that I wish most of the Senators would do. I say let’s go back 15 years and bring out some of the stuff they said, heck, just go back 8 months and see what some of the said.
Got to remember to breathe. I did it on vacation, I can do it while listening to Senators who don’t seem to have any education at all.
Soon to be “Citizen-Sarah” is too stupid to realize she is the biggest “Threat” to
the ENVIRONMENT. She doesn’t know how to SHUT UP!
Beautiful picture. Thanks, AKM- reminds me that there is so much more to Alaska than Palin.
Be prepared to see a string of SP OpEds strategically released in discrete intervals … no doubt part of what the PAC is paying people to do.
I agree w/ BuffaloGal, the positions seem total Sarah, including some of the phraseology BUT I doubt she sat at the computer and edited it herself for final publication (or … heck, maybe she really did, but the original was so grammatically-mangled the WaPo editors cleaned it up for her!).
My beef with it is that it is essentially fact-free, just another rehashing of the same talking points that anyone who wants to make Obama out to be the bad guy can run off with and link to every blog and say “See? I was right! Cap-and-Trade stinks and will ruin the US Economy! It must be STOPPPPPPPPPPEDDDDDD!”
Long-time reader/lurker here (addicted to Mudflats, in fact) … one of Andrew Sullivan’s guest bloggers has a very fine critique of SP’s op-ed in the Wa-Po:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/sarah-palin-does-not-understand-cap-and-trade.html#more
Waves to all lurkers and ex-lurkers!
AKM
Andrew Sullivan thinks $P doesn’t understand cap and trade.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/sarah-palin-does-not-understand-cap-and-trade.html#more
America will remain an incredibly prosperous nation with a cap and trade bill. Indeed, America will be a nation several times more prosperous than it is now! I think this is a small price to pay. Why doesn’t Sarah Palin?
264 crayons Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 3:32 AM
Twain 12 – I just took a gander at the article and the first song that rolled through my mind was, “Ghost Writers on the Storm”. Blech! She used that darn silly word “progressin(g)” so I would imagine she gave the writer a few key words to include so that it’s Palin branded. Me thinks it’s a little bit late to be coming off all serious NOW.
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what i thought to but on a lighter side watching John Stewart on Palin right now….i love him
you can watch a recap on here:
Half Baked Alaska video
http://www.thedailyshow.com/
HAHHAHA! Good one, SP!
“We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil.”
Doesn’t she realize that God created those resources underfoot on RUSSIAN soil? We’ve only had that soil for 50 years! Or, I guess a little longer… didn’t we buy it, it was a territory for a time, and THEN we “Stated” AK? I should be shot for my lack of timeline on that!
Rumour has it that by the time the pipeline is done, our need for AK’s resources will have substantially depleted due to increased and fast-track implementation of alternatives. It will end up being a colossal waste, according to some. The “hunger” will have eased substantially in our markets.
(Sorry, I don’t have the source. But I SWEAR I read/heard that somewhere reputable not too long ago. I wouldn’t even mention it if I heard it on Fox. I SWEAR!)
Sorry… I couldn’t get past page 1. Tryin’ to be all “smart” and all by confusin’ us with a ghost writer. There is no way in the world some of those sentences were actually composed by Journalist Citizen Quitter Bittercup. Yup… I said BITTERcup.
Blecchh. Barf.
michigander: Are you aware that the President will be in Warren today? Only a few miles from my house, but tickets were via raffle to the students of Macomb Comm College, where the speech is being held. I was all excited at the chance to go and very deflated upon finding out I can’t.
You can watch it on WDIV (Detroit/NBC) or on http://www.clickondetroit.com (Live Stream).
Stewart was hilarious last night. I fell asleep during Letterman though. I vaguely remember he said Palin’s name early on but I was exhausted.
Anybody watch and have a recap of jokes?
BTW – NY Dem, love the bumper sticker (o:
MAVERICK BASKETBALL!!!111 LOL, this is going to last me for a few days. Thankyou, thankyou the Daily Show, thankyou….
samper – Thanks! No, I did not know. Sheesh, here I thought I was keeping up on things.
So much going on and work, pets, pond and yard are going to put me over the edge.
What’s sad about the WaPo op-ed (no matter who wrote/edited it) is that it completely misses identifying the chief end of cap-and-trade: to reduce carbon emissions, no matter the source of that carbon (oil or coal, foreign or domestic). One of its stated benefits is to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, yes–but to take THAT as cap-and-trade’s goal and rebut it with the alternative of increasing domestic production is to be right for the wrong reason.
So: whereas before Palin’s chief liability was that her command of the language was a bit tenuous, this column’s clearer writing allows us to see that it’s her (or somebody’s) understanding of this issue that’s tenuous. Progress of a sort.
UK Lady…thanks for the heads up in Andrew Sullivan’s column today. The author, Conor Clarke, is also a fellow at the Atlantic Monthly and his work has been recognized internationally. I’m going to write an email requesting that he submit his comments to the Washington Post for rebuttal of Ms. Palin’s sophomoric assessment. I think I’ll also send it to the Post myself.
I think this explains it all. I don’t want leaders that act like children. Get them out of office.
Impeach her.
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/How_Infantilism_Frames_Our_Politics_No_Request_is_Too_Extreme__7132.html
“Politicians, actors, and celebrities epitomize the refusal to grow up because they succeed by turning egocentricity into achievement. Success, which make adults wary, instead feeds child-like disdain for all “silly rules.”
Palin, ALWAYS the victim, even in this oped. “Sorry to disappoint the chattering classes”
Well, Scarah, you never disappoint.
And the WaPo had to disable the comments. LOL.
YBG has news from Eagle on the last page of the “HOME” open thread. I also posted on the forum ‘Eagle Disaster’ thread. Our work is not done.
@lovemydogs -
YBG’s written us at anonymousbloggers too-
New post today… and lots of contacting of news organizations. Ideas for helping Mr Bassich, anyone?
Favorite wonkette comments:
“Some people can’t even quit right”
and
“BTW, in Darwinian terms, the gradual suicide of the human race is not a reversible phenomenon. We’re not the fittest, that’s all.”
Sums things up nicely.
twain
Thank you for the Daily Show clip. Made me laugh, “quittyfish”
Say NO – As you know, I agree and urge Alaskans to write/email the leg requesting they impeach at Special session before she officially resigns. It is the only way to stop her.
Lee323, Yoo-hoo where are you? You were much more eloquent than I in regards to this on the Constitutional Crisis thread
Am trying to muddle through all the different news bits about Sarah; yes, I do have another life, but reading about your Governor is like trying to figure out a Rubix Cube.
So, it is good brain exercise.
And, love the photos of Alaska; it is a beautiful place.
I really think she is priming herself for Presidential nomination in 2012. Her tweets and newest article, Washington Post, clearly tell she is trying to impress. That article shows that she is not exercising the claim that she made about speaking her partisan issues to all groups. It shows that she is still competing with President Obama. Usually, someone who is determined to repair their reputation as a divider would offer realistic solutions, without the need to rehash how the opponent doesn’t do it that way. She’s still living in the campaign days of 2008, it shows in her piece.
Why wasn’t she worried about people’s high electric bills last winter, in her own State?
AlaskaPi@33:
I wonder if someone can write an article about Andy and what he is doing for Eagle. It would be good to submit it to Mushing Magazine and put on the big mushing websites. Perhaps that would be a way to generate some interest and funding from people with sled dogs (some in the lower 48 have more money than many up here). That Magazine has a world-wide readership.
It could possibly be printed in other places as well.
Someone would need to write it…
Okay, when the wonkette commenters are using snark to de-construct and destroy your article in the WashPo and are more coherent than the original article, I think you have hit a new level of WTF.
commenter hobospacejunky writes:
“Those who understand the issue (cap & trade) know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America’s economy.
Typically nonsensical winger argument these days. They don’t offer an idea of their own. They simply offer the reader a choice: either we have cap & trade or WE DESTROY AMERICA’S ECONOMY.
And how cute, she shows her deep understanding of the issue by calling it “cap & tax” a couple paragraphs later. Ha ha ha. No mention of solar, an idea wingers could get behind and call their own and maybe even grab some voters with. Propose tax incentives (what they love most) to bring initial adoption costs down, make all R&D into solar tax deductible maybe. But no, just drill here there & everywhere. And throw a one-paragraph bone to Big Coal, which is well on its way to completely destroying the entire state of West Virginia. But it’s getting cleaner!
Also, I didn’t realize that “Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas.” When did this happen? And of course we can all consider the possibility of nuclear energy. In fact we have, in central Texas. It was sold to us as “too cheap to meter.” Now we get none of our electricity from the plant, yet 30-40% of our bills pay for the non-producing plant. Yes, nuclear energy is our future.
We can safely drill for U.S. oil offshore and in a tiny, 2,000-acre corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Liar. All the oil in the ANWR is not in one little corner. Those 2000 acres will be spread throughout the ANWR and pollute it irretrievably. And for relatively small amounts of oil which would take years to get to market. It’s a bad idea economically and environmentally.
For so many reasons, we can’t afford to kill responsible domestic energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices.
If there are so many reasons we can’t afford cap and trade why aren’t you telling us what they are you stupid bunny brain? Nice resurrection of the versatile and under-appreciated word, clobber, though.
Yeah, so let’s continue to ignore the giant nuclear blast furnace eight light-minutes away that plants learned to use millions of years ago, without help from government or private industry. Why are plants smarter than humans?”
LOL. You’re comment about beautiful sunrises reminded me of the Terry Pratchett novel in which one of the 4 horsemen made the same comment about air and water pollution in general. It may have been Pestilence, but he may have turned over the reigns to Pollution owing to advances in medical technology.
Rebekkah@ 37
She isn’t worried about anything but what kind of stupid can next fall out of her own mouth. “I will not sit down and shut up”.
She has no idea what she is talking about.
I know I said I was swearing off the blogs today but that was before I went to check my local business twitter updates and couldn’t resist the urge to peek in on Sarah’s.
I’m still blinking a lot and goin’ , ” am I awake ?? did i just really read that??”
Palin’s twitter:
“Criticism is something easily avoided by saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing.”Aristotle – Don’t fear it;it means u make a difference.
But Sarah McQuittyfish Bittercup – You LOATHE criticism. That’s why you’re quitting, remember ? Hold on – I’ll tweet you a link to your “gettin’ outta dodge faster than a dead fish in a fast stream” speech from July 3rd.
Can’t say it enuf – it feels just like Alice Through the Flippin Every Lovin’ Looking Glass!
rebekkah, I agree. Palin, star struck by her own celebrity, began her campaign for the WH last November. Attacking Obama instead of the “current administration” speaks loudly about her intentions. Her constant campaign, her lack of attention to her own state while serving in the position of governor (that she had sworn to the people of the state that she would respect), the constitutional crisis that she has thrown the state into among many other things also speaks loudly.
Let the phone calls, emails and letters flood the legislature. Urge them to make good use of their special session (if called) and IMPEACH PALIN NOW!
Wow AKM Breathtaking picture that specks in volume of the stillness of the now.
Samper, T, Boone Pickens says there is tons of natural gas in the lower 48 so we don’t need Palin’s pipeline, across 2 Canadian provinces where permission to use the land will take Native People to agree.
why not export the gas through the ports in Alaska?
why build 3000 miles of pipe to somewhere that doesn’t need your gas?
If we don’t use mostly renewable energy in a few years, we are screwed anyway.
I skimmed the op-ed put out under Palin’s name but wouldn’t bother to read the whole thing, nor will I bother to read anything else such like also that is published dishonestly under her name.
I would love to know who did write it.
It’s clear that Palin got hold of it pre-publication to make sure some of her personal bug-a-boos were promoted (second paragraph, I’m looking at you!), but anyone who believes anything more complex than the amorphous concepts of “pipeline!” and “drill” is attributable to Palin should consider laying off the drugs and/or alcohol.
The West has some oil, but it is VERY expensive to get and takes tons of water which the West does not have.
Next idea?
What a beautiful looking picture. Being a jigsaw puzzle ‘addict’, that would be one I’d love to do. But as beautiful as it appears, it has to stand out in your mind, the sadness knowing the cause of it being the fires in the interior and therefore creating poor air quality aiding in the appearance of this picture and therefore affecting not only human life, but the wildlife of all sorts — the birds, the relatives of Brian and Brenda, far too many to list.
It was still super that you were able to get away AKM for a much deserved break — short as it may have been, value it and take it when you can get it.
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C Rock @43:
ohm-good point.
Thanks for the gorgeous photo, AKM! It sounds sooooooo relaxing (except the 5 am part!).
There have been a lot of comparisons of Gov’s Sanford and Palin recently. One interesting difference is in how their administrations deal with records requests:
http://www.thestate.com/154/story/862957.html?storylink=omni_popular
“Through the state’s open record laws, The State late Monday received nearly 600 pages of documents — e-mails and phone call exchanges — between the governor’s staff members.
The documents shed new light on a June 18-24 secret trip the governor took to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to visit his lover.”
So, within about 3 weeks the newspaper had 600 pages of e-mails and phone records! And some media outlets have been waiting 9 or 10 months for $P’s?!?!?!?
@38 lovemydogs -
Good idea… have passed it on…
i guess she was for cap and trade before she was against it :
http://www.seethroughthepodium.org/issues/climate/environment_mccain.pdf
“They have proposed a cap-and-trade system that would reduce
greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging the development
of low-cost compliance options. A climate cap-and-trade
mechanism would set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions
and allow entities to buy and sell rights to emit, similar to the
successful acid rain trading program of the early 1990s. The key
feature of this mechanism is that it allows the market to decide
and encourage the lowest-cost compliance options.”
LOL — Another deconstruction of the WashPost op ed
http://marmel.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-wrote-this-in-the-same-way-i-can-fart-gold/
“Jesus, this issue again? Hasn’t she killed enough wild life? And what is this, a big slurpy love-letter to her buddies at Chevron? Isn’t it enough that she got a free house in return for having some unnecessary center built in her crazy Alaskan town? Stop it, Sarah’s ghost writer, you’re embarrassing yourself. Herself. Itself.”
Gonzo gets a job , finally.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/gonzales-texas-salary/
BuffaloGal said: “But Sarah McQuittyfish Bittercup – You LOATHE criticism. That’s why you’re quitting, remember ? Hold on – I’ll tweet you a link to your “gettin’ outta dodge faster than a dead fish in a fast stream” speech from July 3rd.”
SP has joined the Aphorism-of-the-Day Club. It is her newest attempt to drown out her critics by shutting her eyes, sticking her fingers in her ears, and clicking the heels of her Naughty Red Monkey shoes together while she repeats her aphorism over and over and over.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/sarah-palin-does-not-understand-cap-and-trade.html
There is a list of the Legislature’s emails posted on Alaskans for Truth (see sidebar)
If enough people send emails requesting the leg to Impeach Palin at Special Session surely someone could get a story out about it even if the Leg decided not to act on it.
The request in itself would send a strong message. Come on you guys, do it for Alaska and for our country!
AlaskaPi@51
Too bad we can’t get that Home Makeover Show to come to Eagle….I wouldn’t have the faintest idea of where to start with that one…
Before things get all serious today, here is your morning giggle!! Jon Stewart is so funny.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/half-baked-alaska-samanth_n_231330.html
A few KOS diaries about Sarah’s piece in the WaPo.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/14/753292/-Sarah-Palin-Is-In-My-Internet
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/14/753257/-Sarah-Palins-Op-Ed-in-the-WashPost-:-Who-believes-that-she-wrote-it(UPDATE-WITH-PALINS-LIES)
Here’s a reasonable summary of where it’s all at, in Congress. Who’s voting on it and how. Dates for action and deadlines. Boxer is in charge of writing. That might be the issue for Sarah.
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/29/29greenwire-and-now-climate-bills-supporters-try-counting-85672.html
WAPO article might as well have been attributed to Trig or Tripp. Obviously written by someone who know how to construct a sentence in English- not a Palin ! Sarah thinks “Cap and Trade” is a guy in a coonskin hat swapping wolf pelts for elk jerky.
I guess she thinks she can ghost write herself into appearing smart and informed.
Good luck with that- and avoiding any more interviews.
Oh brother…………
“Criticism is something easily avoided by saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing.”Aristotle Don’t fear it;it means u make a difference
about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Daughter just returned from NBC
basketball tour in Italy full of Coach Fred Crowell’s inspiration; may we all grasp what they learned like:
about 8 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Kids:be more concerned w/your character vs reputation bc character is what you are, reputation is merely what others think you are. J Wooden
about 9 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Will she say that McCain MADE her agree to like cap and trade?
McCain-Palin on Climate Change
John McCain and Sarah Palin will establish a market-based system to curb greenhouse gas emissions, mobilize innovative technologies, and strengthen the economy. They will work with our international partners to secure our energy future, create opportunities for American industry, and leave a better future for our children.
They have proposed a cap-and-trade system that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging the development of low-cost compliance options. A climate cap-and-trade mechanism would set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and allow entities to buy and sell rights to emit, similar to the successful acid rain trading program of the early 1990s. The key feature of this mechanism is that it allows the market to decide and encourage the lowest-cost compliance options.
A cap-and-trade system harnesses human ingenuity in the pursuit of alternatives to carbon-based fuels. Market participants are allotted total permits equal to the cap on greenhouse gas emissions. If they can invent, improve, or acquire a way to reduce their emissions, they can sell their extra permits for cash
The secessionist emails were released by these two writers, the next day she resigns. They’ve been working on a book due to come out Nov.- Dec titled “Sarah from Alaska”.
They say her resignation was not planned, she wrote her own speech with no consultation help, Meg was on vacation in NY, it was not part of a strategy, it was not planned and that as of this video interview (July 8th? from what I can tell) they said one campaign aide (Taylor Griffen?) is headed up to AK to try to take care of fall out and do damage control.
Sound familiar?!
So Scarah went rogue, made her own decision AGAIN. The Washington post article is most likely written by this campaign aide and I suspect we can look for more “rational” behavior and spin to pull her out of the “mudflats”.
I for one hope it’s impossible. For her to quit just because it was hard and no longer fun, she was no longer adored in AK but was in the lower 48 just stinks. This was her decision to quit. She’s an irresponsible immature spoiled brat who just through a temper tantrum.
Now we have an outside influence trying to guide Alaska governing, through Scarah, her AG pick who isn’t confirmed, her lt Gov who isn’t seated, her next in line lt. gov who is controversial and once again the legislature gets to deal with Scarah’s mess and someone is helping clean it up.
GAH, Troopergate all over again!
They fully expect her to run for President because that’s what Scarah wants to do.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/sarah-palins-resignation-makes-sense-to-two-journalists-working-on-the-upcoming-book-sarah-from-alas.html
From the WaPo piece:
“Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. ”
Before translation: “Particular Alaskans know they have to trade between energy and money for other needs; energy for heat and energy to run machines; and energy and eating.”
I put this on another thread. (Remember, Sarah told her husband she was going to go to Costco, but went to J.C. Penneys to see Ivana promote her beauty line. And exclaimed about how Alaska needed or lacked glamour. She was drooling over Ivana. )
Interesting that I never noticed how Sarah does her hair like Ivana!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005506/
On the last open thread (last night) I posted several replies to $arah’s op/ed piece in the WaPo.
Some were taken from the comments @ WaPo, including quotes from the VP debate where $arah said she was FOR cap & trade.
Celtic Diva is getting some responses from the SOA…VERY interesting stuff so far with much more to follow! check it out
Funny how she now opposes cap & trade when just roughly 6 months ago she supported it.
Palin/Biden debate on October 3, 2008:
IFILL: We do need to keep within our two minutes. But I just wanted to ask you, do you support capping carbon emissions?
PALIN: I do. I do.
Capping carbon emissions is short-hand for cap-and-trade.
Back to watching the confirmation hearing of Judge Sotamayor. Listening to Sessions, inasmuch as he has stated on numerous occasions that Judge Sotamayor should be afforded a fair hearing, I can hear the undertones in his 30 minute whack at her — he’s “like a woman scorned” — his chance of payback for his confirmation failure.
Unfortunately I only have CNN to listen to and they seem to think their mouth pieces are more important and qualified with their opinions and what Judge Sotamayor is saying as they spend more time forcused on them than the hearings.
Alex Castratehisballs just referred to Judge Sotamayor as it’s like listening to Judge Sotamayor and her twin Judge Skippymayor as she is talking the opposite of everything she has said. He continued to say Which Judge are we to believe – that one that spoke in the speeches or the one that is looking for the confirmation. How disrespectful. He could only dream to aspire to the height that Judge Sotamayor has achieved.
HI
Even if If you have voted for someone else already, I just threw my hat into the ring for a netroots scholarship, at the last minute.
I’m going stealthy with my screen name DrChill
I hope you’ll consider voting for me…
A closer look at the rules indicates that after the most popular candidate (Shannyn Moore) the rest are selected on merit.
So, your vote has more meaning if you have something you’d like to say.
They can be edited too.
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/641-drchill
Thanks.
I’ve seen the comments and I am very very grateful and thankful. Mudpuppies are the best !
Now, I’m scared. Palin makes sense. Sort of. And even if she had to have someone else write that article, her faithful will give her full credit without stopping to realize she has only repeated the cutesy phrases of right wing commentators and given them nothing of substance – again. It’s always easy to trash the other guy’s idea; it’s a lot harder to come up with your own. I suggest that when we see pieces like Palin’s (and there will be more) we point out that the author hasn’t come up with a workable alternative.
That said, I don’t think the Obama administration’s plan is workable, either. Here’s Andrew Halcro’s take. (He writes better than I do.):
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/monday_morning_comment_cap_trade_charade
Question for Palin, :
You were in favor of cap and trade during the campaign. How is Pres Obama’s plan different than the one you proposed last year?
If some reporter were to ask a real question, she would meltdown.
DrChill Just voted for ya. Good Luck !
“The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.”
Dear Sarah, the question is do you understand “supply-side economics” ?
Most of us, in fact, don’t. It’s an outdated catchphrase casually tossed out and applied to damn-near everything. (I suspect the use of it is mainly to make people feel a little smarter and well-informed.)
Now, I’m purty smart and have a science degree and can do Calculus and stuff, also took four classic languages, but I didn’t take an economics class, also. Too.
So I had to look it up, because I was pretty sure that it relates to economics and not so much political parties, not really an ideology.
I thought I’d share it with you, since it’s a quick easy study. And short. So you don’t have to spend much time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/opinion/06bartlett.html
Cap and Trade is actually conservative policy. It makes the market reduce pollution with financial incentives to stop polluting.
That is an interesting piece about the difference (between Sanford and Palin) in gaining access to public records. I take it that Alaska doesn’t have an open records law.
Someone up there needs to start screaming louder about this subject. You all really need to see those emails, phone records,etc. Maybe that will stop this Palin circus.
Just the fact that requests are NOT fulfilled is….errrr….fishy. I just got a great idea for a new Palin graphic….wish I could do this myself, but there are plenty of talented artists here who could do this……..
think Palin in her high waders…fishing….and her fish tales about why she quit…why she is “for the people” but “The People” can’t have access to her private emails,etc. Plus, all the other fishy stories about Palin.
Question: “Governor Palin, do you support ‘supply-side economics’?
Palin: “In what respect, Charlie?”
My other rant for the morning:
Our gas isn’t going to get us anywhere in the lower 48 – even if we can get it there. It simply isn’t desperately needed, and we will need to cover the transportation costs, so either our prices will be higher, making it difficult to compete, or our profit margin much smaller.
BUT we desperately need that gas here in state. Anything we can do to reduce energy costs for businesses to help offset our higher labor costs will help us as we strive to keep our current employers and attract new and more diverse businesses (jobs). It sure wouldn’t hurt those of us who just want to keep our homes warm either. And, as mentioned by another poster earlier, if we have excess, we can ship it from our own port to those markets most desperate for it. We need an all-Alaska pipeline now.
CG: Thanks for the insights and the link. Good work.
Thanks Seagull for your good memory. Has she ever been consistent on any position?
Valley Independent:
I agree. We need natural gas here. I wouldn’t hold my breath on getting it though. There aren’t enough people here to make it profitable for anyone to sell it to us (much less take on the expense of a pipeline).
Plus-SP just had to stick her finger in the eye of big oil because it was the popular thing to do. Everyone loved her for it. Paybacks are h*ll.
CG Says:
Question: “Governor Palin, do you support ’supply-side economics’?
Palin: “In what respect, Charlie?”
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Funny. Does anyone believe that Palin could have a discussion about this, or argue her points with someone who knows what they are talking about?
This would be her response,
“I can see that you really have your facts and figures memorized, but I have to ask, does that really matter? (as she looks at the camera and winks). What really matters is God, Country first, our troops who are puttin’ thier lives on the line, limited government and progressing forward. wink, wink.
See, once you know how the “magic trick” works…..it’s not as impressive. I think everyone has seen how she operates, so it’s very transparent. Well, to most American’s…at least those who use their brains.
Question: “Governor Palin, Canada ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2002. In terms of North America, what’s your take on the United States’ position?
Palin: “In what respect, Charlie?”
I do hope everyone is also posting some of their thoughts about Sarah’s OpEd on WaPo. Not just that it’s doubtful that she wrote it, but her flip-flopping on this issue.
I know that you already went through $arah’s PAC report with a fine tooth comb, but here is a question for those who have been paying more attention than I have to Meg Stapleton.
Meg appears to have been paid a whopping big salary with PAC money. Does that mean that her press releases and other duties must only be political in nature, since that is presumably what the PAC money is for? How does it work if Meg also made official announcements on behalf of Governor Palin. That would be a state function, and it should be covered by the state. Does Meg draw two salaries, one political and one official? Does $arah have a State of Alaska spokesperson in addition to her Political spokesperson Stapleton? And, when Meg lashes out at Letterman or Levi, that’s personal. Which is the correct pocket for that response? Were Levi and Letterman attacking the political candidate or the Governor? (NY Times article said the $arah had a hard time distinguishing between official and political- I’m paraphrasing here).
Eric Boehlert has just posted a tribute to Alaska bloggers at Media Matters:
Saradise Lost: How Alaska bloggers dethroned Sarah Palin
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200907140005
At least three links to The Mudflats in the article.
I would really enjoy seeing a Sarah Palin interview with all the mudpuppies. No softballs here.
THIS IS FABULOUS:
Half-Baked Alaska: Samantha Bee Defends Palin’s Choice
To Resign As Mother Of Her Children (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/half-baked-alaska-samanth_n_231330.html
Palin does not understand Cap&Trade, and not even Alaska’s own BEES program (Building Energy Efficiency Standards) The standards were written by the same people as the Federal program, ASHRE, a trade group -Smer. Soc. of Hearting Refrig Engineers.
Alaska’s own “Strings” require state buildings to comply with the 2004? ASHRE codes, if state financing is involved.
Also too-
Tweeting fortune cookie quotes. Its just so Palin.
michigander…….I think Snos had to delete some that had sh*t spelled with a !, plus it may have been a duplicate by the time she got it out of the spam filter, plus again, lol, when it’s so busy like this by the time the mods go through everything in the tubes it’s post # would be way way buried.
just my guess……..you probably did nothing wrong, it happens. Also, too, don’t ever put more than one link in a post, it won’t go through.
Mae – there’s been so many instances of cross-over – it’s just a jumble.
Even another point – a mudflatter made last night – that almost 50% of the Pac has been spent on administrative costs. Not a good thing.
Phil (and all Alaskan bloggers) post 87 – great article!!!!!
When it comes to Sarah, I have one mental picture that I can’t shake. Remember in the Wizard of Oz, when Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the mere mortal behind the curtain as the voice of “The Great and Powerful OZ”?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain……
I keep thinking of Palin—-behind the curtain, with the GOP pulling the levers and strings to try and project her greatness to the American people. Yet, it’s Toto (bloggers and American citizens) who pull back the curtain to reveal the truth about Palin.
She is NOT the great and powerful Oz….she is an empty vessel and someone else is feeding her lines for “The Palin of Oz”.
Sing along (I changed the words slightly)
With the thoughts I’d be thinkin’, I could be another LIncoln—if I only had a brain.
#45 Karen Marie, I so agree. I will not waste my time reading something that the nitwit claims she wrote, when anybody with one brain cell knows there is no way she wrote it. I guess the only silver lining is that at least we all know she isn’t capable of writing said op-ed. If McCain hadn’t thrown her out at us & allowed Katie Couric to expose her for what she really is we might be sucked in.
sarah palin, Meet the Press!
Sure! What is the name of the store, again?
Huh?
Where can I meet the dress?
Oh…. Meet the Press?
No thanks! Wanna cookie?
I woke up this morning and even before I could turn on the computer I was thinking about that ‘ phony op- ed piece’ that was in the paper. After reading even the first paragraph you said there was NO WAY she wrote that. I guess it is some fresh meat that her ‘ followers ‘ can chew on and shout adoring praise in her direction…. just hoping their ‘ Queen’ will hear them and give them a smile or a wave of the hand… or mention them by name if they yell loud enough.
Everybody else…. just wanted to gag.
I immediately said to myself… what new nonsense or stupid tweet will burst forth and ‘spew ‘ from that juicy ripe Blackberry as she clenches it between her fingers. She’s squeezing that blackberry so tightly though… it will soon be jelly or jam. A sweet confection that her ‘ family ‘ out there in cyber-world can spread on their dry toast…that would be burnt toast now.
‘ They ‘ will spread it on, eat it anyway and be happy.
With all these tweets though a new word just popped into my head to describe her. (Like we don’t have enough already )
Incompe-Twit…. or Incompe-Tweet The first one has a nice ring.
From Conor Clarke @ Andrew Sullivan:
“Just one more point about Sarah Palin’s op-ed in this morning’s Washington Post: Derek Thompson and others have pointed out to me that the piece does not contain the words pollution, emissions, carbon, or global warming. As Derek says, this is a bit like an op-ed on health care that doesn’t contain the words spending, costs, coverage, or medicine, or a high-school paper on Catcher in the Rye that doesn’t contain the words, um, Catcher in the Rye.”
Just read the morning paper and noticed that Buttercup’s spokesperson says she has not accepted any speaking engagements for after the resignation. Of course we all read the other day that she has accepted a speaking engagement at the Reagan library in California in August. It is scary that such incompetence can exist along side someone who is taken seriously by at least 5% of the population.
#92 Seagull Junker Palin Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Phil (and all Alaskan bloggers) post 87 – great article!!!!!
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Indeed! Clap Clap Clap Clap (standing ovation). The PEN is mightier than the sword!
Even is she is out on the national stage (gag gag puke), she cannot escape the Internet.
I’ve been mulling over Sarah Palin’s yearning for a crack of light behind a door that would call her to plow straight through it. In the context of a lot of small things, from the multitude of comments here, to McCain’s “she doesn’t think she quit” to the strange labored breathing on the youtube video that amplifies her gasping–
I think that by looking for what she was running away from, I’ve had it backwards.
I think we just watched her plow through a door— toward a longed-for state.
This doesn’t mean she isn’t escaping her job and other stresses, or being very practical about money, or making a career move into work she expects to enjoy a lot more. Nor does it mean she didn’t just dump responsibility for something she was doing badly. All of these things can and do apply.
But now I see her as breaking through into her imagery of a crack, in a kind of psychic/spiritual ecstasy, right before our eyes. I want to go back and watch again, and ask a friend who is more knowledgeable about religious trances to watch it and tell me what she observes.
If Sarah does appear disconnected from ordinary reality, I will then have to try to judge whether she was acting that role or to some degree inspired by her beliefs, stress, setting and situation, to genuinely behaving as she did.
Sarah presents herself partially as a religious mystic and I have been viewing this video though an entirely secular, logical lens, colored by my views of her political roots. Someone with ecstatic religious experience, Christian or other, might see something else happening. Few people do this, fewer talk about it. To her religious peers this may have been too obvious to talk about.
I haven’t heard any religious people weigh in on this and very few have even made comments on Sarah’s 20 years of pentecostal religion as her gut experience, not as merely as a set of views driving her politics. I’ve never seen anyone analyze the Muthee video with the question, “What did this experience feel like inside Sarah, how transformative would it be?” Most commenters seem to mention her as participating passively in something they view as weird. If I’m right, she was being anything but passive. Net searches haven’t found much- if anyone has a link to a religious studies analysis of Palin’s background and actions, I’d like to follow it.
Now, I think, we have two videos of Palin experiencing something extraordinary- perhaps there are fragments shot of her on the campaign trail that also reflect her in an altered state.
If any mudpups would like to discuss this idea, especially in light of our own views of religious experience, I’d prefer to do this in the forum. I’ve not spent much time in the forum- has there been discussion of religion there already?
Here’s my version of Palin’s recent conversation with her politcal strategist:
“Show America that you ARE smart, Sarah. Quote Plato instead of refrigerator magnets”.
Palin replied, “Quote Play-Dough?”
Drat! (Head slap) The pen IS mightier than the sword. Even *if* she is out. . . .
Phil Munger, thanks for link. What a great article. Way to go Alaskan Bloggers!
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200907140005
In other words, Alaska bloggers have been blessed with a perfect foil: a politician who overreacts to criticism and who often lashes out in hopes of exacting personal revenge, a politician who can’t walk away from a fight, but who often doesn’t have the facts on her side when she enters the online fray.
Saradise lost, indeed.
I just read on HuffPo that hundreds of email and other documents related to Mark Sanfords trip to Argentina were requested and are now made public. Seems like they are pretty quick to respond to public info requests in South Carolina. Just “wondrin” why Palin’s emails and other requests are taking so long?
Is the issue her private email account?
Oh…..wait a minute……the issue is she doesn’t want the public to know.
Stupid me!
LiladyNY:
“she cannot escape the Internet…”
you mean, “she cannot escape the web…”?
political —sorry
AK Mudflats! If you post your email address in this thread, I’ll send you pictures of four of the more interesting Mooses in Bennington, VT’s “Moosefest.” While my photo’s don’t compare to yours, I think they’d be neat pictures for some of your open threads, and other MudPups will like them.
Polly, lol…….that would have been when she found Bump It for Big Happy hair
http://www.bighappiehair.com/instructions.html
There are at least a couple of good things to come out of Bible Spice’s ignorant cap & trade rant.
1) There are bound to be hundreds of analyses regarding the piece with thoughtful, deliberative & informed comments. It can only help to have this issue discussed more as it comes down to the wire for a vote.
2) Just as reasoned/thoughtful politicians know that Bible Spice is the Typhoid Mary/Kiss of Death/Black Plague of politics (thanks but no thanks to your offer to campaign for me!), any position that she takes up strongly in the public sphere (Obama as terrorist/unAmerican/etc) creates a massive backlash. Therefore, one can hope that Dems/Liberals/Progressives/Independents will now take the time to educate themselves and voice their support for the cap & trade proposal.
On the matter of Andrew Halcro’s piece — I’ve not read it, but have this caveat to offer: He owns a rental car business. It can be presumed, then, that he feels that his business interests will be unfairly taxed, as it seems to me that anything involving cars, and their emissions, must be taxed on the upper end of the spectrum.
Further, Andrews, as most Alaskans do, has strong ties to the oil industry, and there is plenty of resistance from oil companies. It’s disappointing to me that BP, with their green talk and efforts at alternative energy, their fancy new(ish) green logo, have not had much to say about this.
We are an oil company family, both spouse & I have spent most of our adult lives employed by oil companies, but we have always made great efforts to be environmentally responsible, and believe that oil & the environment do not have to be mutually exclusive. My husband has been involved in several hi-tech programs that could make great strides in that area.
#105 @Philip Munger Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
LiladyNY:
“she cannot escape the Internet…”
you mean, “she cannot escape the web…”
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Ah, yes, I see. : )
Thanks AKM for the lovely picture. It is the only way I can enjoy the view from a boat, as I get horribly seasick even on relatively calm waters.
wwsc: For your seasickness, try ginger capsules. They work. My DP turns green on the water, and it helps him a lot. Also, don’t stare at the horizon when you’re on a boat.
John — It is scary that such incompetence can exist along side someone who is taken seriously by at least 5% of the population.
Indeed it is. And it says that at least 5% of the population is scary as well. Palin’s inability to develop enough structure within her organization to coordinate the communication and efforts of such a small handful of people speaks volumes about why she is now forced to abandon her crumbling administration — her persistent inability to administrate. If, as mayor of Wasilla, she had not exercised the option to hire an Administrator to cover her duties, would she have completed a term as mayor before her administration was in shambles? I’ve always viewed that move as potentially one of the most telling aspects of her mayoral history. We’ll never know what would have happened, but she has now made it difficult to avoid thinking that her tenure as mayor would not likely have had the same ending as her tenure as governor.
Oh, now this is a doozy: http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/us_world/Sarah-Palins-Worst-Enemy.html
Chatterbox: Sarah Palin’s Worst Enemy
It’s not who you think
By ROBERT A. GEORGE
Updated 5:00 PM EDT, Fri, Jul 10, 2009
A politician’s press secretary has to be like a doctor in one important respect: The Number One rule to follow should be a version of the Hippocratic Oath — “first do no harm.”
Working under that principle, one must wonder why Sarah Palin bothers to keep spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton around.
As I sit and watch the confirmation hearing of Judge Sotamayar, a flash crossed my mind. I totally admit, I have not stopped laughing at the vision to the point, my sides hurt. At every turn, she pops up in your head!!
Could you envision Palin in a senate seat and sitting in this confirmation hearing? The vision in my mind of the look on her face of her attempting to comprehend was is being discussed in this Q&A.
If there was a picture available, it would be that of a total blank slate as she would still be working to decipher that which was said in the opening remarks yesterday. She would be asking someone for simplified cliff notes and playing catch up without success. The TV cameras would no doubt catch her ‘winking’ — is that her code to the base that “I got that” but in reality the return of a nervous twitch as she would be like a fish out of water in the setting.
samper–In spite of what Glenn Beck (?) thinks, the Alaska Territory was purchased from Russia in 1867. We became a state in 1959. There was no concept that there was oil here when we were purchased; the US wanted the access to the fur seals, among other things…
As an Alaskan I believe it is in the best interest of ALL that Sean Parnell make the appointments currently needed.. ASAP after his swearing in. then they can call a session for confirmation. (I bet he has some old friends from high school who need a better job???) We need RESULTS and he should choose who he needs to help him, He needs no be his own MAN. If he is one??? Not so sure?? he has allot of taint to overcome..
SMR – thank you for a great post.
WOW, that is an awesome picture !!
You all up there must feel a direct connection to those beautiful places
mae lewis–In spite of the fact that you can’t tell based on how she releases statements, Stapletongue hasn’t been a state employee for quite some time. I think she and Bittercup both have difficulties differentiating between what the SOA Governor’s press office should be saying/addressing and what she should be.
Could these people be any freakier?, John Ensign linked to do it yourself exorcisms.
At least people are beginning to realise that this stuff is bubbling under the surface.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/john-ensign-linked-to-do_b_231272.html
In my April 2009 Religion Dispatches story, Fighting Demons, Raising the Dead, and Taking Over the World, I described the role of Ted Haggard’s New Life Church as one of the key launching points for the new demon-deliverance paradigm which, as noted in an October 25, 2008 New York Times story by reporter Laurie Goodstein, extended to Sarah Palin’s most significant Alaska church, the Wasilla Asembly of God.
LiladyNY Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 8:41 AM
wwsc: For your seasickness, try ginger capsules. They work. My DP turns green on the water, and it helps him a lot. Also, don’t stare at the horizon when you’re on a boat.
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I just watched a mythbusters that concluded that ginger capsules were the only non-pharmacutical that works for motion sickness. I eat ginger candy in the car. I’ve been motion sick since I was a baby. My mother discovered that the reason I cried louder when she jiggled my baby bed was because it made me sick.
When I used to take the ferry from Seattle to Juneau, I would be flat on my back moaning for a whole afternoon during the crossing of Queen Charlotte Sound. When I was a kid my dad would take me fishing with him in a little boat by the jetty. I would just lie in the bottom of the boat, a lovely shade of green, and moan.
I think I will get some ginger capsules, since they are probably stronger than my ginger candy. Black licorice helps too. I’m about to leave on a camping trip that involves going over my least favorite twisty road. I’m putting ginger and licorice on my list, now that this has reminded me.
They blame Meg, but I’m sure Palin is standing over her shoulder saying something like….
“Come on Meg, say…. Levi is a liar…and an opportunist….say it NOW Meg….you do like your job, don’t you Meg?…..say IT……you aren’t listening to me”.
blue moose Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
As an Alaskan I believe it is in the best interest of ALL that Sean Parnell make the appointments currently needed.. ASAP after his swearing in
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Makes sense to me.
He could announce his intent for the nomination, legislators could consider it, then he gets sworn in, then have hearings.
The crisis would last as long as it takes to confirm.
Katein Canada: I agree about the religious weirdness. If people haven’t been exposed to this, they could think we are making it all up.
Most politicians go to church because they think they have to for the voters. That is passive. Letting some preacher toss out the demons and witches, that is a CHOICE and since I was in a small town religious life once, I know these people and they are scary because they believe ALL the crap, rapture, lakes of fire, and on.
At the end of my forays into Evangelical christianity, I went to the Pentacostal meeting (speaking in tongues promised1) at the Catholic church across the street. I lasted one night. I looked around and saw the everyone there was an emotional cripple in some way and I fled.
London Bridges,
If you go to the About/Contact section which you can see at the top of the Mudflats page, you will see the address there.
I am on the Whitehouse e-mail list. President Barack Obama has asked me to share this e-mail.
Good Morning,
Yesterday, Judge Sonia Sotomayor made her opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee and moved another step closer to taking a seat on the United States Supreme Court. In case you missed it, watch the video of her opening statement here:
As President, there are few responsibilities more serious or consequential than the naming of a Supreme Court Justice, so I want to take this opportunity to tell you about the qualifications and character that informed my decision to nominate Judge Sotomayor.
Judge Sotomayor’s brilliant legal mind is complemented by the practical lessons that can only be learned by applying the law to real world situations.
In the coming days, the hearings will cover an incredible body of work from a judge who has more experience on the federal bench than any incoming Supreme Court Justice in the last 100 years. Judge Sotomayor’s professional background spans our judicial system — from her time as a big-city prosecutor and a corporate litigator, to her work as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court, and an appellate judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
And then there is Judge Sotomayor’s incredible personal story. She grew up in a housing project in the South Bronx — her parents coming to New York from Puerto Rico during the Second World War. At the age of nine, she lost her father, and her mother worked six days a week just to put food on the table. It takes a certain resilience and determination to rise up out of such circumstances, focus, work hard and achieve the American dream.
This character shined through in yesterday’s opening statement: Watch the video.
In Judge Sotomayor, our nation will have a Justice who will never forget her humble beginnings, will always apply the rule of law, and will be a protector of the Constitution that made her American dream and the dreams of millions of others possible. As she said so clearly yesterday, Judge Sotomayor’s decisions on the bench “have been made not to serve the interests of any one litigant, but always to serve the larger interest of impartial justice.”
In anticipation of today’s first round of questioning, I hope you’ll share this email widely, because Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation is something that affects every American. It’s important for these hearings to be about Judge Sotomayor’s own record and her capacity for the job — not any political back and forth that some in Washington may use to distract you. What members of the Judiciary Committee, and the American people, will see today is a sharp and fearless jurist who does not let powerful interests bully her into breaking from the rule of law.
Thank you,
Barack Obama
womanwithsardinecan–you might see if you can also find the Altoids Ginger and Altoids Licorice candies to supplement your other ones. They’re STRONG!
Don’t believe a word from any Palin spokesperson, she lies to them, they lie and spin for her. This is Scarah damage control. Houston, we have a problem.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27310999/
“Taylor Griffin, a McCain-Palin campaign spokesman, said Palin followed state policy allowing governors to charge for their children’s travel. He said the governor’s office has invitations requesting the family to attend some events, but he said he did not have them to provide.”
“Griffin, the campaign spokesman, said he believes someone with the event personally sent an e-mail to Bristol inviting her, but he did not have it to provide.”
“Griffin said the governor’s office received an invitation that was not specifically addressed to anyone.
When Palin amended her children’s expense reports, she listed a role for the two girls at the function — “to draw two separate raffle tickets.”
“In the original travel form, Palin listed a number of events that her children attended and said they were there “in official capacity helping.” She did not identify any specific roles for the girls.
In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show.”
A quibble about your photos — those tall portrait oriented photos are gorgeous, but you’ve spoiled me with your landscapes. Every week or so, I borrow one of your pictures for my computer. So when you are aiming your camera, please think of us poor blokes who reside vicariously in little Alaska by gazing at our computer desktops.
InJuneau Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 9:05 AM
womanwithsardinecan–you might see if you can also find the Altoids Ginger and Altoids Licorice candies to supplement your other ones. They’re STRONG!
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ooh, I love those! Thanks for reminding me.
Phil: thanks for the link to Erik Boehlert’s article at Media Matters. That was a fascinating recap of what we have all lived through since we stumbled onto this group of blogs last summer. Who would have guessed that information would have such power?
This also fits in the larger picture of ‘the news’ and what journalism really is, and how people not only get information but also evaluate information. How DO we separate the truth from speculation or even outright lies?
Having an ever larger group of readers and commenters that essentially ‘vets’ the blog posts, seems to have been enormously successful, it seems to me. I can’t count the number of times an observation or statement of fact has been made, and then shot down by multiple others with sources. The Truth will out!
And here at the ‘Flats’, the level of moderation seems to strike that perfect balance where conflicting views are always allowed, and you can disagree as long as you are not (too) disagreeable. Nice touch on that, AKM…and of course that tone is struck from the start in AKM’s posts…
Dr. Chill…I am proud to be vote number 66 for you!
Regarding the kid’s travel – that was one of the ultimate grifts. Out of 72 trips $arah had to pay back 10? The Ritz-Carlton? The girls had their own room? For 5 nights?
Verrrry conservative….yeah right.
Read the boring old ghost-written industrial-lobby press release “op ed” under Sarah Palin’s byline in the Washington Post today if you want the neocon elitist version of the Alaskan idiot. For the real “Let Sarah be batsh^t Sarah” Palin, you must look (with horror) upon her Twitter page.
From wonkette:
http://wonkette.com/409843/sarah-palin-found-some-list-of-famous-quotes#more-409843
InJuneau Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 9:05 AM
womanwithsardinecan–you might see if you can also find the Altoids Ginger and Altoids Licorice candies to supplement your other ones. They’re STRONG!
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watch the licorice if you have blood pressure issues. licorice makes it go UP! also, licorice should not be used on a daily basis for more than 7 days. it can result in high bp even in people with normal bp.
@InJuneau — I sent you an email (not sure how often you check it!), as your forum inbox is full!
@seagull — thanks! that was a nice note!
It has been great living here in Calgary — ask me how many times I’ve driven since we’ve moved here in May! Once! And that was only to get things from the condo to the house! The girls & I walk everywhere — grocery, doctors, errands, you name it. My husband walks or bikes to/from work. We take the car out about twice/week for big errands. Yesterday the 4-yr-old & I walked to our errands in a torrential downpour, got soaked, jumped in muddy puddles all the way home. When we lived in Scotland our landlord and neighbors made jokes about our recycling & composting, then after a few years the local waste authority got on the bandwagon and provided recycle bins. I told our landlord “you live on a tiny island! why wouldn’t you recycle every possible thing that you can?” And I think we are pretty close to the most responsible/environmentally friendly campers that we know (my folks are a bit more retentive than we are!). I’m also doing my best to get most of our produce from local farmer’s markets, but it’s not always possible for the timing to work out (there’s one a few blocks away, but only once/week).
It’s important to walk the talk, and not be careless of the responsibility that each of us has for our planet. I don’t always agree with Andrew Sullivan, but his synopsis of his take on the Bible Spice cap & trade editorial is spot-on.
The cap & trade bill is not perfect, but we must take action now. There will never be a “perfect” bill. And drill baby drill is not going to bring about the incentive necessary for the technological advances that need to be made to encourage responsible oil extraction.
I’m sort of at a turning point in terms of career — have been out of it since having the little one, now out of the US, rethinking my path, and am hoping that I can somehow effect some positive change in that direction when I go back, with some further education on the enviro front… We’ll see.
Hilarious video
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/watch-ex-speechwriter-ann_b_230387.html
austintx @ 135
Bejeebus! – those commenters at Wonkette are feral funny. LMBAO
The first headline I saw today: NJ man who stole lobsters tails sentenced to 4 years. He stole food in February, and has been in custody since then.
And I remembered that Ted Stevens committed federal crimes for decades, never spent a day in custody, and continues to live like a prince. Senator Ensign defrauded at least three organizations to pay for his affair; no charges will be brought. It’s been more than six months since Blogojevich was arrested, and he continues to make deals and enjoy the good life. The odds that he will spend time in prison are very, very low. Crimes against the Constitution or domestic terrorism against women? Please.
For some reason (or just a strange Brit mother) I grew up with William Hogarth. The atmosphere in this country seems so very familiar.
How many people in Alaska will end up in jail for crimes of hunger? Will they stand up in court as voiceless individuals, or will each and every one of them have the citizens of Alaska massed at their back, forcing the court to recognize that the problem is NOT the crime, and demanding that a humane solution be found?
Is Alaska a frontier in name only?
This would be a cute bumper sticker;
Palin: 2012-2014 1/2
From “Help A Reporter Out (HARO)”
20)Summary: Seeking Community Problem Solvers/Alaska
Name: Dafna Michaelson
Category: General
Email: groundcrew@50in52journey.com
Title: JourneyWoman
Media Outlet: http://www.50in52journey.com
Specific Geographic Region: Y
Region: Alaska
Deadline: 05:07pm EASTERN – 16 July
Query:
The 50 in 52 Journey is traveling America to one state per week for the 52
weeks of 2009 interviewing people who are helping to solve community
problems or are otherwise working to build community. We travel as much of
the state as possible to represent what American’s are facing and solving
in the different sections of our country. Please reply with HARO-ALASKA in
the subject line. Include the following in the body of the email, no
attachments please: Your Name: Your direct email: Nominee Name: Nominee
location in ALASKA: Nominee email: Reason for nomination: Nominee
website or links to projects etc…
A must read article at Daily Kos on Sarah Palin—
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/13/753198/-Palin-Caps-Intelligence,-Trades-for-Nonsense
A snippet, after noting Palin’s service for less than a year on the Alaska Oil & Gas Commission:
“There are people who have worked in this field for decades. People who have spent their lives studying the complex issues of energy production and utilization. People who experimented, investigated, sacrificed, and sweated to make discoveries about energy. There are actually people who didn’t become “experts” by being handed a $122K / year appointment in an area they knew nothing about, spend a few months talking about their colleagues to the press, then quit when that press started to ask a few questions.
What Sarah Palin understands about energy would fit in a can of 3-in-1 oil and still leave room to fix a whole lot of squeaks.”
There’s going to be a lot of push-back on her cap and trade “article.”
Very funny comment from Wonkette -
Oh yea, Sarah? I’ll see your Aristotle and raise you a gloss on Shakespeare:
But woman, proud woman,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what she’s most assured,
Her glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
Also, Aristotle did boys up the b**t. So there.
#117 @blue moose Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
As an Alaskan I believe it is in the best interest of ALL that Sean Parnell make the appointments currently needed.. ASAP after his swearing in. then they can call a session for confirmation. (I bet he has some old friends from high school who need a better job???) We need RESULTS and he should choose who he needs to help him, He needs no be his own MAN. If he is one??? Not so sure?? he has allot of taint to overcome..
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Perhaps a diplomatic letter-writing campaign to Lt. Gov. Parnell to encourage him to create his own administration as is his right (and duty I believe under your Constitution). If not, he can just expect more of the same with regard to very close scrutiny of his actions and policies and difficulties with the Legs possibly extending to the national level. Perhaps even citizen blogger articles in the ADM and Juneau Empire and other publications with the premise that Alaska looks forward to a new broom sweeping clean in Alaska politics?
Liz I – great KOS article.
Here’s another snippit (written by Devilstower)
“Nope, her energy expertise comes from being appointed to an oil and gas commission, a job she quit after less than a year.
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairwoman Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning amid frustration that she is being forced to keep silent about ethics allegations against Republican Party of Alaska chairman Randy Ruedrich. … Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski appointed both Ruedrich and Palin to the state commission last spring.
That’s it. That’s freakin’ it.”
Actually the diary goes into a lot more intelligent info, that I hope not to diminish by posting the snark!!!
UKLady – that is CLASSIC.
SMR–got the e-mail, just haven’t had a chance to respond (but will today); also, thanks for the HU on my forum box–I cleaned out a bit so there’re room there now!
wwsc: For your seasickness, try ginger capsules. They work. My DP turns green on the water, and it helps him a lot. Also, don’t stare at the horizon when you’re on a boat.
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I cried louder when she jiggled my baby bed was because it made me sick.
When I used to take the ferry from Seattle to Juneau, I would be flat on my back moaning for a … I would just lie in the bottom of the boat, a lovely shade of green, and moan.
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DO NOT LIE DOWN!
DO look at the horizon, DO actively keep your balance.
Passivity guarantees the boat will move you.
By ACTIVELY keeping balance & keeping the spine vertical you -reduce- motion. (Read that 3 times)
People with motion sickness are IMO very very un-intuitive about this and do exactly the wrong things, and get the -worst- results.
My green seasick friend used to insist on:
holding himself tight to the boat, – Wrong
leaning against chair backs. Wrong
Leaning his shoulder against walls- Wrong.
Lying down. Wrong!
Experienced sailors get “sea legs” which means they orient themselves to the steady earth, not the rocking boat. They actively move their bodies (relative to the boat) in the opposite direction of the boats movement .
It -looks- like motion, but it actually reduces it. <- (Read that 3 times)
Ever try balancing on a “Bongo Board” ?… like that.
Even while sitting, you will need to be moving (relative to the boat), you appear to be rocking and swaying, to compensate for the motion of the boat.
Also you might want to stand in the center of the boat on the axis from bow to stern, and -amidships, ( halfway between bow and stern ).
That will reduce, but not eliminate the need to actively maintain a vertical posture.
If you’re doing it correctly the boat looks like its moving, and the horizon looks still. Eventually, you can sense the motion of the boat, compensate for it successfully, and not need to visually reference the horizon.
Happy sailing!
JRC–someone should pass this info on to the women on to yukonbushgrma so she can nominate Andy B. who is doing so much for Eagle but not getting much federal help…
DrChill–good advice. Funny thing for me is I used to get carsick (had to sleep to get away from it), but I’ve never been seasick.
Wonkette is especially acerbic regarding the Twit:
queeraselvis v 2.0 says:
Oh yea, Sarah? I’ll see your Aristotle and raise you a gloss on Shakespeare:
But woman, proud woman,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what she’s most assured,
Her glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
Also, Aristotle did boys up the butt. So there
@InJuneau–go for it!
I’m in Massachusetts so I have no idea.
I see that Celtic Diva has received a few ‘pieces ‘ of the email puzzle already. Stop by there and take a look. Going back and putting a time line together as to what happened first or who said what to trigger a response will take a whole crew of Sherlock Holmes’s to put it together and see what parts of the puzzle are missing. Because with a BIG jigsaw puzzle you always have a few puzzle pieces that are dropped on the floor and go missing. Or will Linda Perez use the old expression ‘ the dog ate my homework ‘ , those pieces are missing, so I couldn’t turn those over.
Hopefully she will be able to put some of them on the webpages for evaluation because there are so people her like CG, Canadian Neighbor and about 20 others here that are always able to dissect and be able to dig through the steaming pile of cr*p that $arah dumps out there and expose what is underneath.
I can already see “The 3 Ladies of Alaska” with all these papers spread out on the kitchen table, some chocolate, a few bottles of wine and saying..
” Lets put this puzzle together ! ”
Just my guess… I’ll bet $arah hates puzzles.
I’ve been going through some older articles. I’ve decided if they didn’t release the emails during the campaign and still have not released them, there MUST be something damaging in them.
I think in all fairness to the citizens of Alaska, that judge should order their release! There should be no cover ups or evidence destroyed. Which Judge do we write to.
The McCain campaign controlled all information coming out of Alaska as soon as Taylor Griffin and others came to town.
http://www.norcalblogs.com/mainstream/2008/09/mccain-campaign-running-alaska-1.html
“Even Palin’s lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, said keeping in touch has been difficult. And since hackers broke into Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account last week, he said, it has dropped off entirely.
“Until she was hacked, we were communicating just about daily. Now I’m talking with her chief of staff,” Parnell said. “I saw her in person when she came home about a week ago, but I haven’t spoken to her since.”
In Palin’s absence, messages left with the governor’s office are usually returned by the McCain campaign. A recent request for information was answered by a governor’s spokesman with a sad smile and a shake of the head.
Even a message left on the cell phone of a hometown friend of Palin was returned by a McCain campaign staffer. The friend agreed to be interviewed by a reporter only after she was reassured the campaign had given its approval.”
Todd Mecklem says at wonkette
Ensign’s no quitter–
He’s aping Vitter.
The voters aren’t mad,
nor ol’ mom & dad.
Senpubes never quit!
(Palin just wouldn’t fit.)
From – http://wonkette.com/409844/john-ensign-is-not-a-quitter#more-409844
Another funny political slogan/bumper sticker I saw online this week:
Sarah Palin 2012—the world is going to end anyway.
I’ve posted a paragraph-by-paragraph look at Palin’s WaPo op-ed:
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-20-raise.html
Quote for Sarah- ” It’s better to say nothing and let people think you are a fool, than to speak and confirm it.”
Anybody read Sarah Wordsalad’s op-ed in WaPo? If you believe she wrote that you are dreeeeeeminnnn! No way she wrote that. No “also”, “you betcha” to be found.
JRC–I’ve just e-mailed her your blog post. Hopefully someone will have the time to follow up on it. Thanks for the HU.
new poll out……it seems more than half of Dems and Indys don’t buy Scarah’s excuse for quitting.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_Palin_071309.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody
The problem with the snarky Palin bumper stickers is that her current and future supporters are incapable of determining that they are satirical and anti-Palin stickers.
new cnn poll indicates that most Republicans do not view Palin as competent to be president. nyah nyah
@ KateinCanada,
An interesting thought you had at comment 100, so I created you your own forum topic to follow up with. http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,7607.new.html#new “Sarah’s ecstatic resignation?”
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Donna Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
new cnn poll indicates that most Republicans do not view Palin as competent to be president. nyah nyah
LOLOLOL!
HI
Even if If you have voted for someone else already,
I just threw my hat into the ring for a netroots scholarship, at the last minute.
I hope you’ll consider voting for me…
A closer look at the rules indicates that after the most popular candidate (Shannyn Moore) the rest are selected on merit.
So, your vote has more meaning if you have something you’d like to say.
The statements can be edited too.
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/641-drchill
Thanks.
I’ve seen the comments and I am very very grateful and thankful. Mudpuppies are the best !
Okay thats the last of that.
My application will have to stand on its own …
Wrist bands for seasickness/morning sickness:
I wore wrist bands you can get at a drugstore that work with acupressure on a point on the wrist that stops the sick feeling.
Really worked for ME!
Did you see the ghost writer that Sarah Palin hired for the WaPo piece?
http://girldujour.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/sarah-palin-hires-a-ghost-writer-for-op-ed-in-wapo/
Make sure to listen to the song in the video in my post.
KateinCanada @ 100
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (SP’s hometown paper)
“Let’s be fair in rush to judgement of Governor Palin” By Howard Bess
Religion Views Published on Thursday, July 9, 2009
“I do not want Sarah Palin to become the President of the United States. I do not want her political convictions to become the law of our land. I do want her to be treated fairly and to be understood as the deeply religious person she is.”
Allen Tesche just passed away.
AKM, 5am seems a bit early to be up taking pictures but obviously worth it. Thanks for sharing that beautiful scene!
GA Peach a/k/a Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 9:29 AM
InJuneau Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 9:05 AM
womanwithsardinecan–you might see if you can also find the Altoids Ginger and Altoids Licorice candies to supplement your other ones. They’re STRONG!
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watch the licorice if you have blood pressure issues. licorice makes it go UP! also, licorice should not be used on a daily basis for more than 7 days. it can result in high bp even in people with normal bp.
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Yes, I do have bp issues, which is why I only eat licorice for road trips now, even though I love it.
Philip Munger–wow, what a shock. I assume this was somewhat unexpected, or was it known that he ws having heart problems?
Good luck Dr. Chill. Another vote added. I hope that you make it and that you are inspired, informed & educated thru the process!
New thread up…
Another comment about the WaPo article.
http://iamsoannoyed.com/?p=2192
GINO reminds me of the gopher in “Caddy Shack” that kept poppin’ up everywhere much to Bill Murray’s chagrin! The gopher was outsmarted eventually.
I guess the Dems had better open their eyes to this underground religion stuff before they’re blindsided by Scarah in 2012……..ah run for the hills, here comes the “Constitution Party”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/media-gives-palins-strang_b_182295.html
Media Gives Palin’s Strange New Global Christianity a Pass
“We also found extensive evidence that Palin is in a religious movement founded in 2001 that has coalesced out of Third Wave Christianity; the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR).
The NAR is bent on radically reinventing Christianity, and is fast becoming the vanguard of the global Christian Right.
As I’ll be describing in upcoming Religion Dispatches installments, Sarah Palin’s novel new Christianity is rapidly moving to achieve dominance in the GOP, but few Democrats appear aware that Palin’s rapidly growing new Christianity even exists.
Because of that, there exists the danger that the Democratic Party will be blindsided in the 2012 presidential election, as the New Apostolic Reformation / Third Wave Christianity gambit – of peeling away ethnic constituencies that have traditionally voted for the Democratic Party – comes into play.”
Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
I’ve been going through some older articles. I’ve decided if they didn’t release the emails during the campaign and still have not released them, there MUST be something damaging in them.
I think in all fairness to the citizens of Alaska, that judge should order their release! There should be no cover ups or evidence destroyed. Which Judge do we write to.
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Say No, do you remember the brou-ha-ha after Sherry’s bust? A trooper came out and said after it was found out who they were investigating…The investigation “was out of out their (troppers) hands” and he complained, I think to his union. The next day he recanted his story.
McCain/RNC operatives were RUNNING Alaska, and doing damage control threatening to sue anyone who dared write anything(in the MSM) but “she’s farting rainbows!” Alaskans should speak up, Who was running Alaska while she campaigned? She should of turned the reigns over to gov. LT but she didn’t. Why? I think Alaskans and the Leg better get on the ball, they have let enough slide. I like Kajo’s idea (I reposted on #111 on other thread)
Remember ‘ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW’ and Alaskan’s aren’t dead fish!!!!
Progressive Alaska has a great dissection of the rumored-to-be ghostwritten Palin op-ed that WaPo farted out yesterday.
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/
It’s a good read, worthy of getting on HuffPo in my humble opinion.
a lot of the modern day licorice candy doesn’t really contain licorice. Check the ingredient label.
While I’m at it Hall’s cough drops are named something like menthol-lyptus. That’s because they do not contain eucalyptus, only menthol. However, the store brand cough drops still (like rite-aid or CVS) still contain menthol AND eucalyptus.
Another example of big businesses doing all they can to increase profits at product quality expense.
Dr Chill,
You’re now tied in 11th!
Seagull Junker Palin reminded us of sarah at the debate with Biden saying ” I do. I do” when asked if she supported capping carbon emmision.
ThinkProgress just posted the following with video. Comments are funny.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/palin-carbon-i-do/
Thanks Austin – I was hoping to find the actual video.
Most liars have a chance of getting over sometimes. $arah just has the worst luck.
Happy Bastille Day!
Half-Baked Alaska: Samantha Bee Defends Palin’s Choice To Resign As Mother Of Her Children (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/half-baked-alaska-samanth_n_231330.html
This is quite funny and I found this comment there……..just cracked me up!!
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bushgirlsgone
In late 2007, approximetly three weeks before her daughter Bristol became pregnant, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin initiated a public service program called “Sarah Palin”s Tips for Teens”. The idea was to offer guidance to Alaskan teens about the problems they may face protecting their “Last Frontier”.
The first issue, entitled “The Real Bridge to Nowhere: Teenage Pregnancy” listed Palin”s contraception advice for teenage girls.
Let”s take a peek, shall we?
“Young ladies, these are three simple rules to go by if you want to remain pregnant-free. Trust me, I”ve used them for many years, and if I hadn”t, by now I”d have six or seven children instead of only five.
Rule 1: Never trust artificial contraceptive devices such as condoms and birth control pills. They cause stomach cancer. Instead, don”t have sex.
Rule 2: If you”re going to have sex, use natural contraceptive techniques such as standing up during sex, having sex just one time a month (hopefully during that time of the month when you receive your woman”s curse from God), or eating lemons during the filthy act.
Rule 3: Never use the Anchorage Public Swimming Pool.
tweet tweet
DC plan for Cap & Trade (huge tax) hurts AK’s potential to supply more than 20% of US energy incl nat gas pipeline, see WashPost OpEd today
about 4 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Guess all sarah’s pipeline buddies in Giddings told her to keep preachin’…….
They did not give money to the PAC for nothing……..
Seagull Junker Palin
Most liars have a chance of getting over sometimes. $arah just has the worst luck
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You might be on to something else here. “Sarah just has the worst luck” — hmmm
That could possibly be the answer for her numberous wardrobe malfunctions.
Her bad luck stemming from all the cracks, the breaks, the missing pieces and the outright shattered glass mirrors.
There is no place left for her to see her full profile in her “House of Mirrors”.
John Kerry responds to $arah’s op/ed piece….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/what-gov-palin-forgot_b_231892.html
#186
austintx Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
tweet tweet
DC plan for Cap & Trade (huge tax) hurts AK’s potential to supply more than 20% of US energy incl nat gas pipeline, see WashPost OpEd today
about 4 hours ago from TwitterBerry
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Is this the SAME (cough…phony) 20% that Bittercup was referring to in the election as it referred to about how much Oil Alaska provides or can provide to the lower 48..? The REAL actual number was less than 4%..?
$296,000.. = 2 Million. Sorry….I heard this Fairy Tale story before.
Sarah Palin’s Top 10 Anti-LGBT Moments:
http://www.bentalaska.com/2009/07/sarah-palins-top-10-anti-lgbt-moments.html
michigander Said:
July 14th, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Stewart was hilarious last night. I fell asleep during Letterman though. I vaguely remember he said Palin’s name early on but I was exhausted.
Anybody watch and have a recap of jokes?
BTW – NY Dem, love the bumper sticker (o:
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I didn’t catch all of Letterman but he did have a little segment (which makes me think this may become a regular thing each night at leas for a while?)that was called something like Ringing Endorsements of Sarah Palin, then it showed McCain answering someone that she was qualified to be a leader, blah, blah. Then it showed clip of McCain being asked if he would publicly endorse/support her if she ran for President and McCain’s answer is uh, well uh, mmmm, well, uh, listen, uh, well……………..then it ended.
Seagull Junker Palin Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 12:05 PM
John Kerry responds to $arah’s op/ed piece….
You beat me to this! Kerry wrote a devastating response to Palin. He wrote it very well, I thought, without getting lost in the weeds. Don’t miss it. It is best to reread Palin in WaPo, then read Kerry for full effect.
I see Golden Sacks is still the world’s biggest money-making machine. I trust they will refund the American people all those billions …..
# 188
Seagull Junker Palin Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 12:05 PM
John Kerry responds to $arah’s op/ed piece….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/what-gov-palin-forgot_b_231892.html
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Thanks for the link. And one of the first comments there refers to the fact that AK in the summer gets like 21 hours of daylight. AKM pointed out that the Brenda pics were taken around 10:45 pm.
Asking a question to the people living in AK….
Are there any companies up there that are taking advantage of this FREE resource and using ‘ solar energy ‘ rather than paying for the high price of fuel and the costs to refine it…?
It won’t work in the Winter but as apart of the year round costs… it would bring it down. Maybe some of those ‘ Federal weatherization dollars ‘ that $arah turned down could even go for that.
There are Companies like the link I will provide that make ‘ converter boxes’ that turn solar energy into electricity and if you are hooked up to a ‘grid ‘… your surplus energy not used in your home or business can even be sold back to the electric company as a profit.
( free energy + extra money)
I have no idea if once the equipment is installed… whether it can stand up to the Winter weather though. From what I understand….It is usually used in States or location like CA or Arizona. Worth checking out.
BTW…. I even briefly worked for this Company last year and so have some background on them. German Tech Co. who has been around about 26 years. Very big in Europe. Make a good product.
(People in other states might want to check them out as well)
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/sma-america-inc-2081
Sorry Moderators… I forgot to remove the Huffpo link before I submitted my # 198 post. Wasn’t thinking. I ” pulled a Palin”
Oh boy….here’s another take on $arah’s WaPo piece. There are ‘flatters that will be interested. I’ll post a quote from $arah & then a quote from the diary (written by proseandpromise)
“if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil.” – Sarah Palin
Quote from the diary:
“I believe that God gave us oil and coal to use. If we start to run out, he’ll give us more. We find more and more of it all the time, and it didn’t get there by accident. And I don’t think we can destroy the earth. We’re not that powerful. God won’t let us, because he is the one who decides when the earth gets destroyed.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/14/753375/-Palin-was-speaking-Christianese-to-her-Creationist-base.
Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
I’ve been going through some older articles. I’ve decided if they didn’t release the emails during the campaign and still have not released them, there MUST be something damaging in them.
I think in all fairness to the citizens of Alaska, that judge should order their release! There should be no cover ups or evidence destroyed. Which Judge do we write to.
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It would be inappropriate for a judge to receive out-of court communications about a case they are presiding over, let alone to respond to them. For this reason, I doubt you will find public email addresses for any judges in AK. If you were to write a letter, it would be intercepted by the court clerk/ staff. Judges are well-insulated. There are better uses for our collective energy.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10725630
New ethics complaint from Andree.
I wonder if Willow Palin was at basketball camp in Italy during Palin’s resignation speech? Piper seems too young and Bristol has baby chores so Palin’s twit “Daughter just returned from NBC basketball tour in Italy ” today seems to be about Willow. (sorry if this has been discussed, I’m getting behind in reading).
I do not know if this is already posted…………….but……….it is a hat tip to all!
Media Matters
Saradise Lost: How Alaska bloggers dethroned Sarah Palin
9 hours and 29 minutes ago
I’m not suggesting that homegrown bloggers alone were responsible for Palin’s “no más” moment, but there’s no question that the online activists played a key role. That with their shit-kicking brand of frontier citizen journalism, they drove Palin to distraction and changed the way voters nationwide thought about the governor. So if conservative bloggers get credit for driving Dan Rather out of the anchor chair in 2004 following their Memogate campaign-season tale, then the band of scrappy liberal bloggers in Alaska ought to be allowed to bask in a bit of glory, because they made their own history when Palin announced her exit.
Brandishing dogged reporting skills and wonderfully insightful, entertaining writing, Alaska bloggers turned the 49th state (and a very, very red one, at that) into a hotbed for plugged-in citizen journalism and showed the rest of the liberal blogosphere, as well as media elites, what’s possible when passion and creativity are harnessed online.
Just ask Palin.
And the phenomenon can all be traced back to that morning in late August when word first broke about Palin’s ascension to the national stage. That morning, liberal bloggers at sites like Alaska Progressive, Mudflats, Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis, Just a Girl From Homer, Kodiak Konfidential, Own The Sidewalk, What Do I Know?, Alaska Real, AndrewHalcro.com, and Immoral Minority began tapping away at their keyboards, wearing the same stunned expression that Munger had stuck to his face. They didn’t realize it right then, but within just a matter of days, Alaska bloggers would emerge as one of the most important local newsgathering sources of the entire election season. (Their hit counts also zoomed into the stratosphere.) And collectively, they wrote a new chapter in campaign journalism.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200907140005
John KerryU.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Posted: July 14, 2009 03:47 PM
What Gov. Palin Forgot
Writing in this morning’s Washington Post, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote, “many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges.”
Unfortunately, her promise to roll up her sleeves and tackle serious issues is followed by a column that focuses on everything but the single grave challenge that forms the basis of all of our actions: the crisis of global climate change.
Yes, she manages to write about the climate change action in Congress without ever mentioning the reason we are doing this in the first place. It’s like complaining about the cost of repairing a roof without factoring in the leaks destroying your home.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/what-gov-palin-forgot_b_231892.html
antiAnti, I think you have solved the mystery of the invisible children!
On Andrew Sullivan’s blog there’s a “view from your window” from Juneau!!
A Mudflatter per chance???
antiAnti–pretty sure it would be Willow; she plays basketball.
Illinois Mudpuppy – Blinking heck, another one from Andree, I’m confused though, thought she already did this one.
anti-Anti – Yes, I read that earlier, the poor wee mite escaped for a bit and had some fun I hope.
Well – I guess sarah read Kerry’s piece and had to pop off.
Obama’s Cap & Tax is huge threat to AK economy, my op-ed published in WashPost attached: http://tinyurl.com/lkbqrx
# 205 the problem child Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 1:33 PM
antiAnti, I think you have solved the mystery of the invisible children!
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We were all wondering why the two older Girls were not there. It makes sense now when you connect the dots. Good common sense.
However…. with Bittercup never missing an opportunity to put her children INTO a story or a photo-op for some positive press… Why didn’t she Twitter that Piper was going..? ‘ Progressing ‘… her International resume experience and how she pulled it off.
Illinois Mudpuppy Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 1:13 PM
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10725630
New ethics complaint from Andree.
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Ah, the 3rd predicted ethics complaint, that Dennis had said…next up *Iceberg*
Sue Me!
That explains why Willow wasn’t at the QUITTING, but not why Bristol wasn’t. There is a RUMOUR that Bristol had a big bust up with $P the day before.
Van Flein – SUE ME
I guess that since Sarah has decided to quit, she is going to make the most of her last weeks in office. I love how she is getting a paycheck to write opinion pieces.
LOL Crystalwolf
Seagull Junker Palin–I know</b. what building that was taken from! It’s possible, though I’m not sure what point he’s trying to make… It’s not his window, and there’s no text with the post…
The comments section is becoming an amazing research engine! Thanks to everyone for all the great links to $P’s recent conversion to cap and trade opposition! And the PAC stuff! And all of it!
Especially thanks to Say NO to Palin in Politics (#67) for that LA Times story and its FABULOUS photo of the Diva holding that HUGE lipstick!! OMG, you don’t need to be Freud to figure that symbolism!
Oops, html error; apologies…
UK Lady–oh please, she must have been inside taking care of her baby and then the other one when Piper wasn’t holding him anymore…
In Juneau – people email Andrew S. the photos from their windows. He selects & posts the ones he likes. I’m just wondering who sent that one in. Not you I guess!
Seagull Junker Palin–ah, I understand now. Nope, not me, but I do know which building it is.
Maybe somebody noticed here already, but the ADN has taken down that vile anti-Shannyn Moore op-ed, and removed the author from their list of contributors. I never linked to the article, and have erased my history, so I can’t tell if it is still cached somewhere.
Philip Munger–I tried finding it based on links in my History file on IE, and it takes me to an error page, just like noted in the Forum thread on it, where it’s been being discussed since yesterday I think.
Phil…
Google the story title “I heard a rumor about Shannyn Moore”. It will bring up the link to the story on the ADN, and although if you click on that link it will take you to an error message, underneath is the cache of it, and it will open and show the hate filled rant in all it’s glory, including the photo of Grimes.
Just to remind us that there are differences within religions — I just drove past an Evangelical Christian church. On the billboard, “Is there a cure for homophobia?”
sandra in oregon–wow…
caligrl –
Did you say “iceberg” ??
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/beac_bucket/?action=view¤t=palinberg.jpg
Work by mudpuppie Bea.
Here is a Baptist church sign. Ironical ??
http://imgur.com/izjKG.jpg
Thank you for that reminder, sandra.
UK Lady, I’m not sure, but I think Andree’s complaint may be a reworked complaint based on the investigator’s hint’s about how it should have been presented.
Phew!, thanks problem child, thought I was going Palin.
Oooh, “discussion” this week in Unalakleet! Get ready, guys, she’s comin’!
Meeting energy needs. This is excellent.
“Also this wk:Unalakleet sign PCE for rural energy challenges. Discussion there: state’s part in mtg enrgy needs incl conservation/renewables”
about 22 hours ago from TwitterBerry
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“Daughter just returned from NBC basketball tour in Italy full of Coach Fred Crowell’s inspiration; may we all grasp what they learned like:”
about 15 hours ago from TwitterBerry
Oooh, endorsing AND promoting Christian commercial enterprise, as the Governor of Alaska on state time.
Fred Crowell Life Skills and Northwest Basketball Camps (NBC)
“NBC Camps believes vital components for athletic and life development are leadership, forgiveness, gratitude, and faith. NBC Camps values personal freedom and is founded on Christian principles including a belief in Jesus Christ. “
“As good a man as [my high school basketball coach] was for me, I still needed more. As great a head coach as he was to me, there was another head coach waiting to be discovered one who could lead like no other, one who could provide for my needs like no one else could…I needed a coach, a really good one. And I found this person, ultimately, in Jesus Christ.”
Review
“For the non-Christian, Meet My Head Coach will provide convincing evidence that Jesus Christ is truly ‘the way, the truth, and the life’ as He claimed (John 14:6). For the Christian, it will kindle anew a desire to use his or her life to the maximum for the glory of God, which, after all, is the purpose for which we were created.”—Dr. Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ International
Crowell founded Northwest Counseling Services in Spokane, Washington in 1971. [Note - there is no evidence of a counseling practice by that name in Spokane. There is an accounting and tax prep firm by that name.]
With a medical model combining psychological and spiritual principles, over 1500 families received counseling in a five-year period. Over 5000 people participated in the Institute for Family Living conferences he co-directed. The 12-course conference was designed to equip parents with the necessary skills to have a successful marriage and provide an environment for training successful children.
[Note- there are no hits on google for "Institute For Family Living", nor any resource for such a conference. You'd think a 12-course conference attended by 5,000 people would have a reference somewhere. You can pay him $60/hr for "mentoring". And his resources page lists only his own for-profit products for sale.]
God’s Basketball Team
http://www.slate.com/id/2110667
Visiting coach no stranger to Juneau December, 28 2006 – 12:00am
… dozens of young strangers to Juneau, but Fred Crowell isn’t one of them. Sound off on the … on a cruise ship; we got to fly in,” Crowell said. It wasn’t all that simple, however. Crowell received an invitation just two weeks ago …
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122806/loc_20061228012.shtml
Review
“For the non-Christian, Meet My Head Coach will provide convincing evidence that Jesus Christ is truly ‘the way, the truth, and the life’ as He claimed (John 14:6). For the Christian, it will kindle anew a desire to use his or her life to the maximum for the glory of God, which, after all, is the purpose for which we were created.”—Dr. Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ International
Crowell founded Northwest Counseling Services in Spokane, Washington in 1971. [Note - there is no evidence of a counseling practice by that name in Spokane. There is an accounting and tax prep firm by that name.]
With a medical model combining psychological and spiritual principles, over 1500 families received counseling in a five-year period. Over 5000 people participated in the Institute for Family Living conferences he co-directed. The 12-course conference was designed to equip parents with the necessary skills to have a successful marriage and provide an environment for training successful children.
[Note- there are no hits on google for "Institute For Family Living", nor any resource for such a conference. You'd think a 12-course conference attended by 5,000 people would have a reference somewhere. You can pay him $60/hr for "mentoring". And his resources page lists only his own for-profit products for sale.]
God’s Basketball Team
http://www.slate.com/id/2110667
Visiting coach no stranger to Juneau December, 28 2006 – 12:00am
… dozens of young strangers to Juneau, but Fred Crowell isn’t one of them. Sound off on the … on a cruise ship; we got to fly in,” Crowell said. It wasn’t all that simple, however. Crowell received an invitation just two weeks ago …
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/122806/loc_20061228012.shtml
Bet them I-talian boys loved those Daisey Dukes……….
CG –
Whatever happened to “The Promisekeepers” ?? They used to fill up stadiums.
Phil, “that” column is still cached. I emailed you a link to it.
@228 austintx — I imagine those folks think irony has something to do with steelmaking.
@234 austintx — I heard a rumor they’re all an the Appalachian Trail somewhere.
Dr. Chill was up to 70. I changed my comment to something more substantial.
vote him up mudpups.
Oh my (have I typed that before? – YES)
$arah the twit just twittered specifically re: Andree & ethics charge
“Are these constant, wasteful thumped-up ethics charges result of not caving when the filer begged for job? More frivolous chrgs filed today:”
She needs to LEAVE THE OFFICE today if she is going to forgo the dignity of being a Gov. and descend to this personal attack against a constituent. AGAIN.
Interesting side bar. There’s a woman from New York that’s in Alaska on a whirlwind tour to stump for Sarah Palin. Sarah in what capacity, is unclear…
She was a guest on Eddie Burke’s radio show, and interviewed by New Yorker and Time at the Wasilla Teabag Party last week.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/07/nathan-thornburgh-a-new-yorker-for-palin.html
In the middle of all this stood a thirty-eight-year-old middle-school teacher from Hudson, New York. Adrienne Ross, the media director and New York organizer for the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee, had been in Wasilla for only two days. But she said she had already “witnessed history,” had a salmon bake—using Palin’s recipe—with the Governor’s hairdresser and confidante Jessica Steele, and, just that morning, met Palin’s parents and joked around with Piper. It was like going to Sarah Palin fantasy camp, and, regardless of Palin’s next move, Ross said, “I am exactly where God wants me to be.”
She’s blogging continuously, promoting Sarah’s presidential movement – ’2012 Draft Sarah’. And prayer…and stuff…she’s an “Intercessor Prayer Warrior”.
And apparently Trig was named for a volcano in Bristol Bay? Who knew?
“Daughter Piper hovered over her baby brother Trig, who shares a name with one of the volcanoes on the far side of the water. ”
Here’s some bits and pieces from the voluminous blog:
http://www.motivationtruth.com/
I didn’t share this before, but two days after coming to Wasilla, I attended a church service for prayer intercessors of Alaska, intercessors from all over the state. This was just two days after Sarah announced her resignation. Dutch Sheets was the guest. He led us in prayer for Sarah and had us pray in groups for her, as well.
[Dutch Sheets, Reclaiming the 7 Mountains. His slogan - "Awakening in our day, Reformation in our lifetime".]
“A core tenet teaches that the Church can’t go it alone with only the Gospel message. The Church must take over the spheres of society and enlist the State in this effort to transform/reform the nations of the world. (Herescope, Seven Spheres of Influence)”
We at Dutch Sheets Ministries are committed to helping you become all that you can be in the areas of prayer and breakthrough. We also are devoted to sound the alarm to pray for our great nation, the United States of America.
Our prayers do make a difference in our personal lives and in the lives of
others. An effective intercessor is one who is committed to prayer and equipped with the right resources. You are that person.
We are also dedicated to passionate prayer and world-changing revival. America stands at a precipice. The future of our country and the destiny of our children’s lives and ours are before us. Let us embrace the challenge to move forward in prayer as never before.
Winston Churchill once said, “I am not afraid of what history will say about me because I intend to write it!”
Through our prayers, let us all write history and be History Makers!
February 6- 8th, 2009 – Atlanta
Change agents from 13 countries and 30 US states came together for the 2009 Church in the Workplace – Reclaim 7 Mountains of Culture International Conference. The purpose of the conference was to help men and women understand how Christian marketplace leaders can be catalysts to influence culture for Jesus Christ in 7 strategic cultural mountains where culture is shaped – whether it be the mountain of business, government, arts and entertainment, media, education, family, government or religion. One attendee wrote: “I believe it was the highlight of my Christian faith journey. The Holy Spirit’s power was evident and real in each and every session that I attended.”
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Sarah Palin loves God. God loves Sarah Palin.
And that is why they hate her…and Him.
And why she — and He — will be back.
God is not done with her. Nor is he done with a nation that has brought freedom and opportunity to hundreds of millions around the world.
I’m not much on prophesying, but I’ll take a turn: They’ll be back.
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Would we expect anything less from the woman from Wasilla, Alaska, who will go down in history as a born-again Christian, high school basketball champion, wife, PTA and hockey mom, commercial fisherman, city council member, mayor, governor, VP nominee, and, oh yeah…President of the United States? What better example of hard work, determination, and a calling is there than someone who’s gone from catching fish to Commander in Chief?
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I spent some time Wednesday night with my new Alaska friends, Ivy and Tracey. To give a little plug, we ate at Wasilla’s own, Evangelo’s.
Um, would that be state employee Ivy Frye?
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thumpted-up
gotta lot it…
ooooops – sorry – hit enter way too fast
meant to say:
thumped-up
gotta love it…
okay, here goes her spin……she did a phone interview, the day after her campaign aide arrived. They got work to do, WashPo articles, interviews to explain her, loads of work to clean up the fall out, get damage under control.
this should be fun to watch, LOL…..who wants to guess what the aide gets her to do next? shall we keep a list?
why do they have it dated July 20, 2009 ?
The Rebranding of X-Scarah Palin:
we have tweet “quotes” (someone get the list going, lol)
1 “understand me” phone interview,
1 cap and trade article
churchy tweets
signing bills like mad
threw in 3 supreame court judges
tried to shoe in Campbell
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000%5C000%5C016%5C708gpxia.asp?pg=1
Out of Alaska
Sarah Palin on why she resigned and what it means for her future.
by Matthew Continetti
“One thing you quickly learn about Sarah Palin when you study her career is that she never, ever does things by the book. The lady knows how to make a splash. She specializes in surprise announcements.”
anybody up for a little live chat?
From a guest blogger at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish:
What Palin’s Op-Ed Didn’t Say
by Conor Clarke
Just one more point about Sarah Palin’s op-ed in this morning’s Washington Post: Derek Thompson and others have pointed out to me that the piece does not contain the words pollution, emissions, carbon, or global warming. As Derek says, this is a bit like an op-ed on health care that doesn’t contain the words spending, costs, coverage, or medicine, or a high-school paper on Catcher in the Rye that doesn’t contain the words, um, Catcher in the Rye. . . . .
austintx Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 2:49 PM
caligrl -
Did you say “iceberg” ??
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/beac_bucket/?action=view¤t=palinberg.jpg
Work by mudpuppie Bea.
good work bea!
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Palingerg, lol!
Phil: I have a screenshot of the “hit” piece by grimes in case you can’t bring it up
Just let me know!
austintx Says:
July 14th, 2009 at 2:49 PM
caligrl -
Did you say “iceberg” ??
http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/beac_bucket/?action=view¤t=palinberg.jpg
Work by mudpuppie Bea.
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Palinberg, lol! good work bea!
Phil: I have a screenshot of the “hit” piece by grimes in case you can’t bring it up
Just let me know!
austin, I know very little about this stuff. It’s hovered in my periphery for about 20 years.
I forget very little that I hear and see, and every once in awhile, I say to myself: “Self, where’ve I heard that before?” Then I take it out and have a look. I can only stand so much of it.
It seems to be mostly secrety and subtle. Little hints that you can identify only if you know about it.
Example – Youth group at Assembly of God in Soldotna – “Third Place Youth”, a direct reference to the Third Wave and led by a youth pastor trained up in this ‘Todd Bentley’ crap in Washington state. And yes, they are talkin’ the talk. A bunch of snarky, superior, barely civil, self-righteous home-schooled adolescents and early 20s. None of ‘em have high school diplomas, but they’re all very knowledgable about politics.
They indulge and engage in all the mainstream secular behaviors that are right on the edge of unacceptable, but whitewash it with Christian paint, so then it’s okay. The pastor calls his wife “hot” publicly and plays head-banger electric guitar. But it’s a Christian guitar…
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.
CG #246
Would that be the church attended by Chuck Kopp?
Give $arah her severance package and kick her out the door.
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?”
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.”
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.
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!!!
Saw a great bumper sticker today:
January 20, 2009
The End of an Error
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
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?
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
I plagiarized this, by the way. Not my composition.
: )
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.
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
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.
New post on ethics complaint
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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.
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????
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
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)
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.
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.
I just want to remind everyone to go to Democracy for America and cast a vote for Dr. Chill.
Dr Chill has my vote..I think I was 31
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.
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….
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.