Got a shot of this handsome guy sailing past Ester Island, near the salmon hatchery. There must have been more than a dozen mature bald eagles and as many immature ones with brown mottled looking feathers.
The first book regarding Palin tells the story of siblings who ‘compact’ to lie in order to manipulate situations should the occasion arise: This, I assume is to trump the parents. Do have a read because this book , most definitely,
helps the student understand the subject of Sarah Palin.
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Sarah Palin-kaylene Johnson-2008 Rare 1st Edition Book-new Hardcover
Hardcover book, Sarah, by Kaylene Johnson. FIRST EDITION – APRIL 2008! … Sarah is the first biography of Governor Sarah Palin, and covers her childhood, ….
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Thousands of dollars per person/per day to keep everyone housed in Anchorage, while homes go empty, vandalized, property and heating fuel stolen, pipes frozen. And families waiting…
The energy stimulus money that Sarah refused on our behalf will mitigate some of the needs, through qualifying programs.
We NEED that stimulus package, Alaska State Legislators.
Stunning pic AKM! What a handsome guy!
Don’t know if this article from ADN was posted already, from a couple of days ago….
“Palin trotting out her ‘poor little me’ campaign strategy yet one more time” http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/861704.html
Pretty spot on in light of her most recent ethics complaint (s)
Gotta love Lil’ Miss Sunshine’s new Republican favorability numbers as revealed in Monday’s CBS News poll. Only 33% of Republicans feel she is qualified to be President. Ouch.
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html
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This is disgusting! I guess if you are old and not “iconic” you don’t have a right to life!
WTF has she done for Alaska…for its people? I see article like this, Rural problems galore, a possible serial killer of homeless in Anchorage???
She does nothing, but Photo Ops along her Lake! She is utterly disgusting!
EPIC FAIL!
Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.
From the twit: “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 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry ”
What.a.hypocrit.
And spending state money to fly and house your hubby and children around the country is NOT frivolous? Give me a break. You blew any credibility to be called ‘fiscally conservative’ and any sort of ‘Watchdog of Waste’ when you allowed, nay, ORGANIZED that wasteful spending.
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.
“Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It’s thick and dark and “gooey” and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department.
[snip]
“From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it’s kind of blackish stuff … (and) has hairy strands on it.”"
And very funny comment from Hunger Tallest Palin, Wonketteer:
“Gosh darn it! The evil LIEburuls at the Communist Post changed her RealAmerican op-ed to make her look like a hypocritical glory hound with the attention span of a stunned marmot.
Plus, mean old John McCain who wouldn’t let Sarah be Sarah wrote all that stuff. Also. Sarah would have done something completely different if she were president. Like leaving Jesus in charge and then going to the beach.”
Anyone else get the feeling that Palin’s new role will have something to do with representing big oil?
She was in Texas before she quit.
She called Cheney before she quit.
She and Cheney (from what I have read) chatted before she was even a VP pick.
Her first OpEd would seem to support big oil.
I think that piece was designed to try and make Palin “appear” to be an energy expert and she may be the new mouth piece for Right against global warming and drill baby drill.
Sarah obviously didn’t write that piece by herself. It does have some of Sarah thrown-in for good measure (like another veiled attack on the media) but someone else is pulling the strings here. Wonder who?
Did Sarah quit “servin’ the people” and sell out to big oil?
From Toronto Global Mail: ” In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed” http://bit.ly/TC7Xj
“Some Republicans admit that, if they’d bothered to give the pin-up girl from Alaska 1 per cent of the grilling that Judge Sotomayor is going to get, they’d be a lot better off today. But Alaska was so very far away. And Sarah was so fetching in her running shorts. They did less vetting than you’d do to choose the family dog. And then, when she peed all over the carpet, they forgave her. After she bizarrely quit her job as governor of Alaska, two-thirds of registered Republicans said they’d still vote for her for president. ”
Just out of curiosity, what is the very worst thing that could happen to $arah if she was found to have committed all of those ethics violations? The Legislature did find that she acted inappropriately in Troopergate, and I guess that her knuckles are still stinging from the sharp rapping that they took. So she’s guilty; she’s leaving. Repay two months salary? Since it is illegal for an official to use their office resources for political campaigning, it applies here. $arah misused Alaskan state employees. So, she’ll also have to pay back their salaries, too.
I also think that sleazy lovesick Gov.Sanford walked away from his duties when he planned a 10 day trip to see his Argentina Sweetheart. They didn’t have the muscle to remove him. Now we heard that Senator Ensign plans to run again– after bribing, I mean gifting, his lover’s family to keep it quiet. None of these selfish people belong in public office, not Ensign, not Sanford, not Palin!
What a handsome bird. I’ll never forget standing on the high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Iowa watching eagles soaring at eye level. They truly are majestic.
I think it’s only extraordinary arrogance and hubris that allows these politicians to expect that they will be forgiven by their constituents no matter what they do.
Hubris (/hjuːbrɪs/) or hybris (/’haɪbrɪs/) (ancient Greek ὕβρις), mythology is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
Great picture! I read with interest Andrew Halcro’s blog and then followed the link to the Newsminer editoral about Palin’s lack of involvement in the Alaskan media. EXCELLENT!
The managing director makes some very valid points about media coverage in that past Alaskan governors were very willing to meet with the various editorial boards (ADN as well) and discuss how they felt their coverage are inaccurate, and didn’t just play the “media victim” card the way Palin does.
Oopps – I hit the “submit comment” button too quickly! Also read the comments on this editorial. It seems that most of the comments (I think you can guess which group they are from once you read a few of them) are along the lines of “Well, why should Palin talk with you since you are so mean to her?”
Boy it’s amazing to see just how many brainwashed people are out there who couldn’t think their way out of a damp paper bag in relation to Sarah Palin.
Lovely Eagle, and I do not see him whining about anything, either.
Open Thread, so here goes:
I found Lindsey Graham to be the most condescending little white man just in his tone when he called Sotomayor “Ma’am”, notwithstanding the rest of his ridiculous words. I think I detected in her some well-justified contempt for him.
Gosh we need many more Sotomayors and many less Lindsey Grahams amongst our leaders.
Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.
Eleven more days and then she is gone. This was in an earlier thread, but I can’t help putting it here to for those who missed it http://www.cafepress.com/Palin_error I’m getting a bumper sticker and a button.
OMG if they don’t get of this “Wise Latina” hoopla soon I’ll rip my ears out. Note to self stop watching CNN :S
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From a “Wise Latina”.
If they weren’t racists it wouldn’t be a problem, but they are old white racists. If it were winky up there, they would of confirmed her and her naughty red monkey’s in a hot second, someone dumb as rocks but “white”
That is the DUMB GOP for ya.
I looked up NBC basketball camps…..as mentioned in GINO’s twitter. I will assume this is where Willow was instead of at resignation event. Italy tour is listed as from June 29th through July 12th. Mission statement is ‘Christian’ in tone, emphasis on self esteem, spirituality, Jesus Christ……but say they are not affliliated with any particular church. Apparently not any particular Christian church, that is–not sure how they’d feel about some Jewish or Muslim or atheist kid coming along. The write up for the Italy tour includes Vatican visit, religious-y descriptions of Peter being crucified upside down, yadda yadda.
But I dunno, I think the Y has some Christian-y mission statement too.
So, anyway, that’s where WIllow must have been.
Bristol’s absence at resignation still unexplained.
Oh, and Dear Lord, let’s hope the Palins paid for this Italy trip with their own money!!
crystalwolf aka caligrl i totally agree , it is sickening !
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I agree! I’ve never seen a Judge grilled so much! Or so disrespectful! Perhaps b/c she smarter than all of them, a woman and Hispanic/Latina???
Prediction: based on her pattern of copying whatever the President does (writing and oped, visiting troops etc) she will soon be seen in the commentators box at some big ball game, just like Barak did at the All Star Game.
Who wants to lay a bet?
Or should we just start a pool on WHEN?
Palin may be “honest” in that she wants women and their reproductive rights to be under control, she wants to drill for oil anywhere god put it, but her behaviour is totally dishonest.
But I can see how they think she is “honest.”
Just depends on how far you want to take it.
I love it around Ester. We sold our boat last year, gas was 400 a weekend and we decided to be more environmentally conscious. We’ll move into a sailboat again. I can’t imagine how spectacular the sound must be this summer.
EyeOnYou Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 3:15 AM
Feds halt Alaska health programs
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Palin should consider herself lucky — I don’t live there. If there was an issue that I go ballistic about — this is it. The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I read your post — hadn’t even got to the adn article which I have now read too.
What it is, I think, is that the old white men racists do not think that a Latina, wise or not, could ever be the equal to them, and, given the “passes” that so many white guys have gotten to get where they are, simply because they are white and privileged (See: George W. Bush) they are afraid that their hold on power is being “taken” from them, because they think they are better than women and other minorities, and do not see that diverse life experience is a good thing amongst our leaders.
I think the fact that being white in this country will soon no longer be the majority position has lots of (racist) white people scared, and I think that is what GINO tapped into during her campaign against Barack Obama–that “our country”, meaning “Our white country” is going to be taken over by “the blacks”, “the Latinos”, and if that were to happen, it would be a disaster of the most dire nature, given that God ordained this country to be Christian, and Jesus was white. Or something like that.
So, anyway, I think, unfortunately, this racism stuff is going to keep coming to the surface more and more as the population gets more and more diverse (See: inner city kids coming to “white” pool scares a bunch of white parents who pull their precious children out of pool lest they be contaminated (?) ) But, for those of us in this country who love that it is becoming more diverse, I guess we can only hope that those who THINK they are better than the rest of humanity learn a little compassion and humbleness–Christian values that seem to be in short supply amongst those who most loudly call themselves “Christian”.
A survey of syndicators reveals that they believe that Palin, while certainly mediagenic, “does not have the skills,” “appeals to too narrow of an audience” and overall is too polarizing. Not one syndicator indicated a whiff of interest in doing a show with her.
It’s written by Bob Gillam, who opposes Pebble Mine, and has been targeted for supporting the No Pebble Mine campaign. Please go over and read what he has to say and give him support. This is truly such an important subject for the Bristol Bay area residents.
I think Sarah Palin needs to do a bible study on character and reputation because she sure is screwing hers up. She has lost her moral compass and doesn’t realize it. Someone please help her. She will never be president and most people know she should hold no political office. Please GOP stop enabling her and stop using her. I think it’s cruel.
“From this verse, we see that a good name (a combination of reputation and character) certainly should outweigh riches, prominence, position, and status. Conversely, a lack in either can leave us in a state of moral and/or spiritual poverty, seeking self-worth over godly worth.
An example of this can be seen in those who strive for political office or a promotion. They attempt to leave an impression of character with the public or a boss, but it is an impression built on a shaky foundation of duplicity. While they may have a “good” reputation, it is not supported by the real important ingredient, character, which is earned throughout our lives.
A starkly contrasting example of this is that of Jesus Christ as a man: “[He] made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7). Christ—God Himself—humbled Himself, surrendering His right to a godly reputation, yet still left the legacy of righteous character and reputation as a human.”
So while Buttercup has been spending all her time twitting and traveling, the state program that provides personal care assistants to needy people has been in such disarray that it had to stop accepting new clients. Maybe if she spent some of her time actually governing this wouldn’t have happened.
In Politico, just read “Palin campaigning for Democrats? Unlikely”. Boy, these conservative democrats interviewed about Sarah took cover, ducked into elevators and meetings pretty quickly, complete with deer-in-the-headlight looks.
This is an encouraging sign that tells us that she is not as popular as she seems to think and that oyster may be harder to grasp. I wouldn’t doubt that already Sarah is regretting surrendering, quitting, acknowledging defeat so soon. Have this gut-wrenching feeling she might try to return……yikes!
Greytdog Δ Says:
From Toronto Global Mail: ” In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed” http://bit.ly/TC7Xj
“Some Republicans admit that, if they’d bothered to give the pin-up girl from Alaska 1 per cent of the grilling that Judge Sotomayor is going to get, they’d be a lot better off today. But Alaska was so very far away. And Sarah was so fetching in her running shorts. They did less vetting than you’d do to choose the family dog. And then, when she peed all over the carpet, they forgave her. After she bizarrely quit her job as governor of Alaska, two-thirds of registered Republicans said they’d still vote for her for president. ”
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Almost feel there should be a contest to pinpoint the time the press release will be put out by Palin a la Megaphone as I’m sure something will be said to the reference of ‘pin-up’ girl and ‘fetching in her running shorts’.
crystalwolf“`i have not been able to watch the hearings. this kind of behavior by the racists who infect our senate has happened many times before and will continue as long as the people of their states continue to elect them. the problem for those spanish speaking people whose birth certificates state their race as being white and who have been wooed by republicans for many years are just now waking up to the fact that they have been had. the masks have come off and now they begin to see what the GOP really thinks of them. i wish i could be a fly on the wall in many a middle class cuban home in miami florida or hoboken new jersey. boy oh boy…bubs
Greytdog Δ Says:
From Toronto Global Mail: ” In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed” http://bit.ly/TC7Xj
“Some Republicans admit that, if they’d bothered to give the pin-up girl from Alaska 1 per cent of the grilling that Judge Sotomayor is going to get, they’d be a lot better off today. But Alaska was so very far away. And Sarah was so fetching in her running shorts. They did less vetting than you’d do to choose the family dog. And then, when she peed all over the carpet, they forgave her. After she bizarrely quit her job as governor of Alaska, two-thirds of registered Republicans said they’d still vote for her for president. ”
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This is a GREAT article! Really shows the stupid dumbasses the GOP is!
They are making a Federal case of Sonya, yet let Gov. grifter almost b/c VP.
Incompetent! And I hope everyone in Arizona doesn’t forget that when its time to re-elect JM!
60 Molly Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:44 AM
And, on the Wise Latina thing–
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I was just watching the hearings it was noted that, the first time this phrase was used was in 1994 in a speech, that Sotomayor provided to these hearings.
And then Sotomayor was asked “did this ever come up when you were before the senate in 1997 &1998 for your confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit?”
The answer was no!
Apparently the republicans did not have any problem with this statement then, but of course they do now.
It is the headline grabber and their justification for labeling her a bigot and a racist.
Republicans absolutely revel in their hate filled rhetoric and careless accusations.
crystalwolf“`i have not been able to watch the hearings. this kind of behavior by the racists who infect our senate has happened many times before and will continue as long as the people of their states continue to elect them. the problem for those spanish speaking people whose birth certificates state their race as being white and who have been wooed by republicans for many years are just now waking up to the fact that they have been had. the masks have come off and now they begin to see what the GOP really thinks of them. i wish i could be a fly on the wall in many a middle class cuban home in miami florida or hoboken new jersey. boy oh boy…bubs
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Bubbles I haven’t been able to stomach watching the hearings, have only been reading and hearing these past weeks and seeing snippets on KO & RM, I’m afraid if I did watch I would throw my TV out the window! This article is so true.. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/in-sonia-v-sarah-gop-is-doomed/article1216888/
These GOP are pure racist and beyond DUMB!
Now this is something I have personal experience with.
I have worked in both Home Health and extended care in Alaska.
We have a very large elderly population here because many people came here to retire due to far better benefits (in terms of dollars) for seniors than down south. Also, a lot of ex-military people return here to retire.
The aging of the baby boomers is compounding the issue.
I have mixed feelings because I have seen a lot of abuse of the system by both consumers (a lot of entitlement issues) and health care providers (greed). But there are also people adminstering these programs who don’t seem qualified to assess the needs from afar. They refuse services to some people who desperately need them and give way too many to others who are simply riding the system.
How to fix it? Well, I am all for universal health care (not just universal insurance coverage). The problem is the bureaucracy involved with providing universal health care. When I worked in home health I spent uncounted hours (not paid to anyone) doing an absolutely ridiculous amount of paperwork to prove that services were needed. Attempts to regulate the system have driven physicians and other healthcare providers out of the system because they spend more time pushing paper than actually taking care of people. This results in a shortage of providers. Professionals literally cannot afford to stay in business with the system that presently exists. My mother, who lives in CO and is elderly, has had difficulty finding a physician because many have just opted out of taking Medicare patients (due to the overwhelming paperwork).
Now I work in extended care and have trouble getting my patients who have been rehabilitated home because of lack of services at home. This is often a personnel shortage problem. Home care providers are few and far between and the turn-over rate is very high. The state does not provide care 24/7.
I could go on and on. Our system is so broken that I often just want quit. But I really love doing what I do and so those of us who care continue to struggle through it and scream at/or beg/cajole the people on the other end of the phone or we continue to write long letters (also time not paid for) to decribe the very human needs of the people we try to serve.
I wonder if the spotlight is on Alaska in this because we have had so much more in terms of services than other states or because it is truely being mismanaged. When I brought this up at work the other day (we’ve known about it before this story came out) I was told “It’s just because there is a backlog”. I know that there are people making a lot of money somewhere in the system. And there were, initially a lot of people who thought the money tree would bloom forever so they promised people the sky. I get exceedingly frustrated by the “case managers” who don’t return phone calls or e-mails but I have no idea what they are dealing with on a day-to-day basis.
Our system desperately needs fixing. But the fix is going to require those that feel entitled to suck some of it up. It also requires people to educate themselves on how the present system operates.
I could rant on for hours about this. I can’t do it before my second cup of coffee.
Very Nice picture. I miss those big beauties. There is nothing in the world like an Alaskan Eagle, though I know some people call them Alaskan rats. They are magnificent and amazing to watch.
I just looked at Huffington to see if Geoffrey Dunn has added the latest ethics complaint — which he has not.
I did note that upon reading a comment, I looked at his Huff Bio and the notation that he is writing a book on Palin is not there anymore. I have no idea when that was removed.
Oh Bill Ayers again…SOS! Don’t we have more Dems in the Senate? Why don’t we just confirm her? They are Liars, the party of No & Liars!
Pathetic & sickening! Racist bastards!
I come to it from the other side. I homecare my mother (6 yrs) – advanced Alzheimer’s, no mobility and non-verbal – and deal with homecare classified as Caregiver Relief but I call it Caregiver Stress. Due to circumstances last week, I had the person fired from the agency.
I am not sure that this is a Palin problem (although she most certainly should have been paying attention–not that I think for one minute that she is capable of multi-tasking like our president).
I think it is an American problem and just the tip of the iceberg that is going to crash down on all of us if health care isn’t reformed in this country. The situation with the nursing board in California is another indication…
Kennedy, Edward M. (MA) , Chairman
Dodd, Christopher J. (CT)
Harkin, Tom (IA)
Mikulski, Barbara A. (MD)
Bingaman, Jeff (NM)
Murray, Patty (WA)
Reed, Jack (RI)
Sanders, Bernard (VT)
Brown, Sherrod (OH)
Casey, Robert P. (PA)
Hagan, Kay R. (NC)
Merkley, Jeff (OR)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (RI)
SENATE Committee Members who VOTED AGAINST HEALTH CARE REFORM:
Enzi, Michael B. (WY), Ranking Member
Gregg, Judd (NH)
Alexander, Lamar (TN)
Burr, Richard (NC)
Isakson, Johnny (GA)
McCain, John (AZ)
Hatch, Orrin G. (UT)
Murkowski, Lisa (AK)
Coburn, Tom (OK)
Roberts, Pat (KS)
Finding good caregivers (particularly for Alzheimer’s patients) is incredibly hard. And oh so stressful for family members. Be sure to take care of yourself. My father had dementia (although not Alzheimers) and the only way I got through the last 3 years of his life was to talk with all of my friends who were going through the same thing. It wasn’t a formal support group (I just can’t hack that sort of thing-and who has time?) but no one else could understand all of the feelings that dementia brings up for the family members (esp the children).
With health reform being such a hot topic for our members of Congress right now, why haven’t we heard more about where they stand? Are there certain components of the legislation that are more important to them than others? What’s going to effect their vote in the end – and what can we do to make our health a top priority when voting?
Hi Mudpups. If anyone has it, sure would appreciate the link to a rare (believe me, I’ve searched) Photoshop of SP (in shades of gold and brown) where she’s in a medieval type gown, with a back of the head and neck headpiece w/ veil.
Thanks.
This could be a contest to suggest all the week long workshops and special guests!
It’s new! It’s the “hottest” rage! “Sarah Palin Fantasy Camp!”
Meet Todd & Levi, Bristol & Piper. Learn about abstinence, cessation, fashion, brake repair, home & ship building,
all about running (a city & state into the ground, that is.) Crash courses in geography, politics, and leadership. Worship services available.
From Salon article by Michael Madden:
(sorry, I don’t know how to post links)
“We’ve just learned two things here in the hearing room: number one, Sonia Sotomayor would not be permitted — under New York state law, at least — to go get a gun during the next break and shoot Sen. Tom Coburn; and number two, if she did, Coburn might deserve it.”
and
” The impression Cornyn and his allies have given is that the only people anyone ought to empathize with these days are white guys — and that Sotomayor is a big threat to them. But maybe that makes some sense. It is, after all, hard for a white man to make it in the white man’s world.”
lovemydogs,
I too cannot do the support group Pity Parties!!
I still have family that can’t grasp that I can’t go out — How, strap Mom to my back!!!!
Me – Pit-bull —–Palin – Appetizer!!!!
There is a new story posted on Huffpo about $arah’s Fundraising and references back to a small story on 538 with a graph. Nothing really New and not much meat to the story…. But it is out there. No big news.
“To become a symbol of this stature Ms. Palin has had to do the opposite of most public figures. Where others learn to take hostility in stride, she and her fans have developed the thinnest of skins. They find offense in the most harmless remarks and diabolical calculation in the inflections of the anchorman’s voice. They take insults out of context to make them seem even more insulting. They pay close attention to voices that are ordinarily ignored, relishing every blogger’s sneer, every celebrity’s slight, every crazy Internet rumor.
This has been Ms. Palin’s assigned role ever since she stepped on the national stage last summer. Indeed, she has stuck to it so unswervingly that one suspects it was settled on even before she was picked for the VP slot, that it was imposed on her by a roomful of GOP image consultants: Ms. Palin was to be the candidate on a cross.”
bubbles said: “this kind of behavior by the racists who infect our senate has happened many times before and will continue as long as the people of their states continue to elect them.”
This reminds me of some of the interviews with African-American voters in MS who were convinced that Trent Lott was on their side. Nothing could have been further from the truth, but something he said resonated with them, and of course, the white voters as well. I am tempted to say “so-called” white voters because there is probably not a snowball’s chance in heck that their lines are “pure.” I think the notion of racial purity is screeched the loudest by bigots who have skeletons in their closets…sort of like elected closeted gays who consistently vote against things like gay marriage and equal rights (think Larry Craig of ID and Jim West of WA.)
Having said all this, supposedly, I am white, but I’m not buying it.
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/sarah-palins-medicaid-scandal-letting-people-die-while-waiting/#comments
PALIN’S Medicaid scandal.
This happened on her watch and she knew about it when she resigned. Will she blame this on the socialists?
canadian neighbor.. i think of you often. my mom had dementia before her death. i still wake in tears sometimes because she was such a lovely lady and i miss her. you are doing all that you know how to do and although she can’t speak and tell you so, she knows and she you and blesses you. and so do i. take care of yourself…..bubs
Thank you for the awesome photos of Alaska, I often come here and keep up as much as possible, from what Levi said on TODAY it makes me think SP is addicted to the attention and can’t let go….one of my favorite shows, Kathy Griffin, said that fame is one of the worst addictions and one of the hardest to break…. I think SP has the shakes and is trying to get her fix….
I think people will get the chance to see who she really is…….
My dream is to visit Alaska and see all this nature up close….I tell everyone about this site..i
Sarah pales under Obama’s light. She has been trying her best since her resignation to emulate his words of hope trying to convince the political stage that she is somehow equal to him in ability and stature.
I listen to her attempting to change her image using new words with an upbeat message and it feels like a fraud, still unknown to itself.
She can mimic, pretend and try to show that she has grown, but that is what it is…mimicking and pretending to grow. Nothing has changed on the inside for Sarah Palin, except more anger and contempt for people who don’t think like she does.
True growth comes from acknowledging your own weaknesses and not from pretending to be someone you are not. Sarah has yet to confront her own ego. She needs to realize that in order to grow she must first find her own humility and accept her own failings and acknowledge them. She should be able to hear her oppositions words and accept their messages to her. What she is getting back is feedback of “who” she is. But Sarah can’t stand seeing herself in that mirror and instead fights back instead of taking it in and using it for her own growth.
Sarah’s biggest problem is her ego and her mouth. She just can’t let things go and she always needs to be right. Until she realizes that she is one of the most polarizing figures we have in politics, and that life isn’t about her version of “right”, she isn’t going to go anywhere other than into controversy and a constant stream of fighting and confrontations.
tbntjudy… yes i agree. very few of us are altogether what we seem or what we say we are. many black people in the south are easily swayed by politicians like sessions because they are accustomed to doing what they are told to do. they don’t believe they have a choice and in many cases they don’t.. sad but there it is.
Someone asked ‘why respond to Palin?’ – my take: when something’s flat out wrong and it’s part of the news cycle, you use the truth to crush it before it takes on a life of its own, and climate change legislation is way too important to topple under the weight of distortions from anywhere or anyone.
Well, now we know why Sarah Palin is quitting as governor of Alaska.
In a Washington Post column, she just announced her new focus: killing our
chance to build a clean energy economy, starting with the energy bill
currently in Congress.1
Her op-ed is a marvel of misinformation and outright lies. Just like
conservatives in Congress, Palin is trotting out the “energy taxes” scare
tactic, and arguing instead for more drilling and more dirty coal. This
bill already has too many giveaways to Big Coal and Big Oil, but it’s
still not enough for Palin.2
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused
by humans.3 The same Sarah Palin who is obsessed with drilling for oil in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And the same Sarah Palin who’s
looking for controversial issues to launch a 2012 presidential bid.
Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack
against clean energy, against the Clean Air Act–even against the creation
of millions of new jobs in solar and wind.4
But wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil.5
Clean energy is the only way to make America’s economy competitive in the
21st century.
The truth is we need a stronger energy bill in the Senate to combat our
economic and climate crisis, but Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes
for a clean energy economy. Can you chip in $25 to fight back against
Palin’s false claims?
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
lovemydogs, excellent posts @ 73 & 79. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Lee323 had an interesting post on the paper-pushing aspect (understatement) coming from a physician’s perspective. I wish I could find it, but perhaps he/she will weigh in again. I have some experience with the insurance companies since I am the office manager for a tiny practice. The amount of documentation required for reimbursement from some of the companies is unbelievable, and then they simply say they cannot pay the claim under one code so we have to resubmit under a lesser code. Ultimately, what we are paid is not enough to cover basic overhead of running the office. I am in the process of figuring out which insurance companies are the worst, and I am going to sever our relationship with them. We cannot afford to keep doing this.
We need universal health care. I know many are swayed by the insurance company scare ads. There was an article on HuffPo about this, and many Canadians commented. Almost 100% indicated they would not give up their system. There is not perfect solution, but what we have not doesn’t even begin to address the problems we have.
diana …………mrs palin is a narcissist and probably has several other personality disorders as well. these disorders make what you would like to see happen with her, impossible. these handicaps are real. they are What she is. there is no cure and no hope of improvement. the best her loved ones can hope for would be a moderation of her behavior and that she will not do unless forced by imprisonment or institutionalization. then she would agree to therapy so she could get out of that situation…b
It’s funny , Sessions was turned down because he is a racist. Now he calls Sonia a racist……..
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so true! i want her to just stop being so diplomatic and throw that right back in his face!! beyond hypocritical! and Graham, who defended Alito against attacks on his temperament and personality during his confirmation hearing, then going all snarky on Sotomayor yesterday. ack!
This is a little old, but since Buchanan (or “Butt-cannon” given his propensity for noxious outbursts) has been harping on Sotomayor’s self-taught English it is worth a reminder:
I also too hope that mccain doesn’t get re-elected…he’s a mixed-up old geezer, a has-been, and curses to him for opening up Pandora’s box…shame on him!…shame on him for getting even with the innocent rest of us by letting palin loose…country first my ass, what a liar! after hearing these other vindictive congressmen during the Sotomayor hearings, I say it’s time to clean house! if the voters of any region think this is ok, then boycott that state! I’m sick as hell of all of these dishonest, immoral, lying fools that fight tooth and nail to put their own skewed beliefs in place (religion and politics don’t team up in my book)…it’s a house of criminals without bars.
I tried posting this earlier but apparently I had too many links in the message. I thought all of you would be interested in the e-mail I just received from MoveOn.org. I also thought some of you may be interested in contributing to the cause.
Here’s the e-mail message minus the sources that have all the links to news stories we’ve already seen………………………………….
Dear MoveOn member,
Well, now we know why Sarah Palin is quitting as governor of Alaska.
In a Washington Post column, she just announced her new focus: killing our chance to build a clean energy economy, starting with the energy bill currently in Congress.1
Her op-ed is a marvel of misinformation and outright lies. Just like conservatives in Congress, Palin is trotting out the “energy taxes” scare tactic, and arguing instead for more drilling and more dirty coal. This bill already has too many giveaways to Big Coal and Big Oil, but it’s still not enough for Palin.2
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today, we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s attack. Click here to donate $25:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16582-12636216-l_Oh81x&t=3
This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused by humans.3 The same Sarah Palin who is obsessed with drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And the same Sarah Palin who’s looking for controversial issues to launch a 2012 presidential bid.
Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack against clean energy, against the Clean Air Act—even against the creation of millions of new jobs in solar and wind.4
But wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil.5 Clean energy is the only way to make America’s economy competitive in the 21st century.
The truth is we need a stronger energy bill in the Senate to combat our economic and climate crisis, but Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes for a clean energy economy. Click here to chip in $25 to fight back against Palin’s false claims:
“On this verse, the Jewish commentary, Soncino, says that a person’s good reputation, his name, is his most valuable asset. This is because of the integrity it took to produce it and the benefits it provides for one after he has it.
The Bible shows that God jealously guards His name and acts to ensure that it remains untarnished. His name represents what He is, and so it is with us as well. When we hear a name, images of what that person is immediately come to mind. In our mind’s eye, we might recall a person as tall or short, male or female, learned or ignorant, black or white, angry or passive, beautiful or plain, vocal or quiet, honest or lying, responsible or irresponsible. Many character traits may flash through our minds in a moment or two.
The same happens to others as they think of us. What we project to others has everything to do with what we believe and practice. What kind of witness are we giving? Is what we believe and practice as true as God’s Word?
Thus, if we want to have a good name in the eyes of God and man, we have to recognize truth, understand it and make it a part of us by submitting to it. This is where truth in a person’s witness begins. If truth does not form the foundation of a person’s life, the witness will reflect it.
…We keep lying to ourselves and others, thus our name is not good before God. It means that to have this good name, we…must face our vanities and stop deceiving ourselves that God will “just have to take us as we are.” We need to quit blaming our failures, problems, and shortcomings on others, providing ourselves with justification for what we are and do.
Conduct is the “stuff” of which reputations are formed. Good conduct has truth at its foundation and integrity as its constant companion. From these two, a witness is produced. God wants our reputation before men to be built on His truth. Are we honestly doing this?
From a Huffpo story written by Steven Waldman… who it says is ‘Editor in Chief of BeliefNet’.Story.. ” Why I am Bullish on Sarah Palin”
I have no idea what BeliefNet is but His opinion seems to be that her Christian or Religious following or followers is a strengh of her’s and the story has a positive slant.
(one quote )
“The sources of her appeal remain undiminished. Her popularity never came from her track record as governor, so failure to finish the term won’t matter that much to her supporters. She’s beloved largely because of who she is and what she’s accomplished as a person not what she’s accomplished as a governor. The most important fact for the religious conservatives who love her remains that she gave birth to a baby with downs syndrome rather than opting for an abortion.”
So he concedes she does NOT have a track record as a Governor… but people will support her…?
This is why all of us need to make sure everybody sees the REAL ” Grifter Palin” and that her ONLY base are these ‘ Religious wing-nuts ‘ who would put her in power for only 1 reason. To them … qualified… Who cares.
diana …………mrs palin is a narcissist and probably has several other personality disorders as well. these disorders make what you would like to see happen with her, impossible. these handicaps are real. they are What she is. there is no cure and no hope of improvement.
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bubbles, you are spot on. Many mental-health providers won’t even attempt to treat someone with NPD. Someone asked on one of these threads whether SP had ever once admitted that she had made a mistake, and I don’t believe she has..unless it was some sort of dissembling on her part. She believes she in invincible and always right. She thrives on adulation; witness how she was on the campaign trail; she was riding a huge high. Then remember how depressed she seemed after she came back to AK and the sea-change in her popularity there. One very sick woman and one to be pitied.
The thing about Sarah Palin is that love her or hate her, she is fascinating and commands attention. And because she is fascinating people tune in whenever she is mentioned. And when people tune in, whether it be to listen to “left” or “right” wing TV shows, to post on blogs, to call into radio shows or to read fluffy, meaningless op-ed pieces, the result is that ratings go up and revenues increase for whomever is providing the forum. For this reason and this reason alone, Palin isn’t going away any time soon – not as long as everyone is still ‘fascinated’ by her.
And let’s be honest. We all find Sarah Palin fascinating too. I admit I do. I can still remember the first day I had ever heard of Sarah Palin – the day she was picked for VP candidate. I was absolutely blown away that there was this woman who on the surface seemed to be such a ‘superwomen’ and I was briefly worried that Obama may have some competition. Here was someone with a compelling life-story. I mean between moose-hunting, raising 5 kids one who was special needs, running a state and taking on the VP nomination with a 4-month old DS baby in tow and being stunningly attractive at the same time, I mean – wow. Of course along with fascination comes curiosity and with curiosity for many, many people comes research and with research comes the truth. And the truth about Sarah Palin doesn’t come close to the ‘myth’ of Sarah Palin. In fact the truth about Sarah Palin is that just about everything about Sarah Palin is a big fat lie.
The truth of Sarah Palin has slowly chipped away at the myth of Sarah Palin until really all that is left is a mere caricature of that original ‘superwoman’ who was thrust upon the world last summer. And while a small minority of an increasingly shrinking political party may consciously choose to ignore all the facts and truths about Sarah Palin and cling to their original meme that this woman is ‘super’ because she is an pretty face for their increasingly delusional paranoia that America isn’t what they think it should be, the majority of Americans of both parties have seen behind the curtain.
And for all Palin’s complaining about the media, the fact is they have given her a free ride. They have never asked any hard questions or demanded accountability for anything from her, even when they have been face to face with her. And they haven’t done that because she is ratings-gold and no one wants to kill the golden egg layer.
So having a Down’s Syndrome baby somehow qualifies one to be in politics? I’ve known a lot of mothers of DS babies who are/were a million times more qualified. It isn’t about the baby, it’s about not aborting him. How dare they? And this isn’t using the children?
I have no idea who she is in her private life (other than vindictive, ignorant and mean which I assume because of her behavior in public) but I am absolutely certain that she is not taking proper care of her DS child. One cannot do that and do all of the other crap that she is (or is not) doing in Alaska and the US.
Once again-using Trig as a prop….she ain’t no Mother Theresa,
and I know that for sure…
From Salon article by Michael Madden:
(sorry, I don’t know how to post links)
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lovemydogs…. about posting a link.
It is very simple and there are only two steps.
(I hope I explain this correctly )
If you are on the page and reading the story you are looking at, in your browser window (at the top of the page ) you will have a http://... etc.
Use your mouse and ‘right’ click in that space. It will turn blue and become high lighted. Once it is highlighted use the mouse to right click and COPY.
Then use the PASTE function with the mouse to copy it into the text box here. Just two steps. Hope this helps.
The National Health Service in England whilst not absolutely perfect, it is pretty damn wondeful.
I can’t imagine how things would work without it. Nobody goes without good quality health care, even if they are an alcoholic homeless person without a penny to their name.
Nobody is stopped from buying private health insurance if they want it, but
it is purely a personal choice if the person can afford it.
I have read a lot of horror stories in blogs and news articles from the US in the last couple of years. It is shocking to me how people over there have to suffer financial ruin and distress due to the disgraceful activities of the big insurance companies.
The president is a wonderul man and I hope he can pass his health plan in spite of the self serving Republican party. No doubt they all have good insurance policies or enough money for it not to matter to them.
There are a lot of truisms there….but I’ve never been impressed with GINO’s “I am woman; hear me roar” persona. I’ve always felt that she was in way over her head and have kept my eye on her like one who is stealthily trying to kill a poisonous snake before it strikes again.
I too, have been baffled by the MSM, which she conveniently rails against…and yet, they continually provide her a platform to advance her cause by perpetrating a fraud.
What I deduce is that the only thing that would stop her (if only temporarily) would be conviction and imprisonment….and even that “appears” to be a tricky climax (no pun intended).
I see on Andrew Halcro’s website he is reporting news regarding Palin’s first Epic Fail……her very own dairy. You know….the one where her hand picked Board of Ag, headed by her best friend Kristan Cole funneled big money to 4 farmers, and two ex dairy farmers. They got $650,000 in Federal grants, most of the equipment out of Mat Maid, the State of Alaska also paid farmers for milk they dumped in their fields, another $630,000 in State loans. Well…..it seems due to milk quality issues they have been pulled out of Target and Kaladi Brothers, have a $20,000 Federal Tax Lien placed on them and that they have not been making any payments to the state? With the Palin Gravy Train leaving the station, will Mr. Parnell continue this subsidation?
I’m thinkin’ that Palin and big oil are about to get very cozy. I’m willing to bet they will be paying her to be the attack dog and “write” OpEd’s, do political ads, etc.
119 trisha Says: I’m thinkin’ that Palin and big oil are about to get very cozy. I’m willing to bet they will be paying her to be the attack dog and “write” OpEd’s, do political ads, etc.
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That sound really logical. Good observation. Her higher calling for Drill Baby Drill.
I never thought Palin looked like Tina Fey so was happy to find this from Psychology Today.
Excerpt:
Four Unpalatable Political-Psychological Truths — Guaranteed to Offend Liberals and Conservatives Alike
3. Tina Fey bears no resemblance to Sarah Palin. I pride myself on discerning resemblances that are not immediately obvious, but I cannot recognize Sarah Palin in Tina Fey, even (or especially) on the recent Saturday Night Live skit. Tina Fey conveys a self-awareness and consciousness that are entirely absent from the visage of Palin, who confidently sees the world as she – and her fellow Christian fundamentalists – imagine it.
98 Diana Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
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She can mimic, pretend and try to show that she has grown, but that is what it is…mimicking and pretending to grow. Nothing has changed on the inside for Sarah Palin, except more anger and contempt for people who don’t think like she does.
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You got it in one Diana, she is a Mynha [sp?] bird – that’s what all her ‘training sessions’ during the McCain campaign were for – stuffing her head with his/republican talking points (not all of which actually agreed with hers!) and she is pretty good at spitting those back out.
People said she was a ‘quick study’. Yeah, only in the sense of short-term memory, like cramming for an exam.
As you say, she has not LEARNED anything. This is what I find most galling about her, but it goes back to the saying I like (not sure whether I came up with this or stole it from someone else), but:
“The biggest hindrance to learning is thinking you know it [all] already.”
If you don’t come into the learning experience admitting you have a lack and that the persons around you can, if you follow their advice, supply what is lacking, there is no point in you entering that learning experience.
My experience as a student and as a Comm. Col. teacher is that learners are eager, interested, always wanting to go the extra distance, inquire further about the material than they have to for ‘the test’.
I can’t say I’ve ever seen Sarah Palin ‘eager’ about anything in particular, nor interested enough to be moved to much in the way of action – what bills did she write or sponsor to help Native villages, Special Needs children, victims of rape/incest? What ’cause’ has she consistently been a champion of?
As for going the extra distance, she couldn’t even finish the 4 year run that was her governorship.
And she has never seemed to be interested (re: Andrew Halcro – ‘you have all those facts memorized, wow, but does it really matter?’) in doing more than what she thinks it takes to GET votes, and appears to disdain the idea that she should need to learn anything new, take anyone’s advice, on how to actually DO THE JOB to which she would be elected if she succeeded in getting all those votes.
I recommend the following piece written by John McNamara: “Palin: Idiot? Genius or Something Else,” on the Palin Page in Huffington Post.
“She does not have the capacity or character to lead.”
“What she has is the need to amass power,” and seeking more more fame to make more fame…..you get the idea. He provides a very good analysis.
A question: I would have provided a link, but I have to admit, I do not know how to create a link in the “Leave a Reply” space. Help is very much appreciated. Thanks.
#109, I voted for John Kerry but never really had the enthusiasm for him like I did for President Obama. I know he thought he shouldn’t have to stick up for his military record but because of the scumminess of the swift boaters he did need to… Anyway, I’ve noticed throughout the past election & recently that he is a very effective “attack dog” He’s a smart man & not afraid to go head to head on things. I have a new respect for him & only wish he would have defended himself as staunchly as has the president.
I showed up (but she didn’t) for $arahs supposed bill signing in Valdez Monday with my “Bailin’ Palin.. If there’s a job to do she won’t quit until she’s halfway thru” shirt on.. There were very few people there and since $arah didn’t show up the local paper couldn’t really do a story about it.. So instead they just ran a picture of me sitting there in that shirt.. The way the photo is shot it appears as if I’m the only one that showed up for the event…lol
I think that this issue with the Medicaid/Medicare problem should be loudly shouted from the rooftops and the finger of blame placed squarely upon Palin’s shoulders. She has been the one in charge of the state. It is ultimately her responsibility. She loudly proclaims herself to be concerned about the welfare of people, yet her own state is in turmoil.
On the Trig issue, I pointed out in the other open thread, Palin who claims to be such an advocate of special needs children certainly only uses her special needs child when it might help her with a photo op, like the Runners World Article, but where was Trig when she went to Evansville to speak to the RTL crowd? Home with a babysitter. Where was Trig when she went to NY to “walk for Autism”? Home with a babysitter. She had no problem with traipsing all over the country with him (and a state paid babysitter) during the campaign, but now, suddenly she can’t be bothered to bring him along to events that involve special needs. Why is that? Inconvenient for her to actually have to take care of the little one? Can’t have as much fun if you have someone around that actually needs a little attention from you?
And one thing I would like to point out about the Kerry response in the Daily Kos piece (thanks UK Lady #100 for this) which strikes me as the heart of the matter that he seems to understand that so many in the media miss…..
When asked why he felt the need to respond to Palin’s Opinion piece he replied… when something’s flat out wrong and it’s part of the news cycle, you use the truth to crush it before it takes on a life of its own,
I showed up (but she didn’t) for $arahs supposed bill signing in Valdez Monday with my “Bailin’ Palin.. If there’s a job to do she won’t quit until she’s halfway thru” shirt on…
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Lol! that is hilarious!
Gov Iquitarod is a puppet for most likely those people in Giddings, TX and the surrounding oil patch. That’s why Kerry shouldn’t let it go. Weren’t some of those shmucks involved in the Swift Boat BS?
You MUST send the picture to AKM. Maybe she will post it–she can put the black thingy over your eyes so you remain anonymous.
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I’ll send the editor a note and have her email me the picture.. They don’t have it up on their website yet but they only post a few stories a week there
Flanders: What the press should do is ask her how the cap and trade plan that she supported in the last election is different from the plan the President and congress have?
this could be a good contest……..100 ways to say no to Scarah campaigning with you (100 ways to leave your lover). Govs and other politicians bess get their excuses ready. Reporters are going to start hounding them, lol.
And I’ll bet the ones who do take her on will do so only with arm turning pressure by big money power. This could be fun. But I’d still rather see her impeached.
I’m not clever enough say something witty or politician enough to handle it diplomatically.
100 ways to say no to Sarah:
“Hell No”.
“Thanks, but no thanks”.
“Sarah who?”
“Go home Sarah, serve your family.”
Thanks to you, the problem child. Maybe I should have given a little more info. The medieval gold/yellow/brown Photoshop of SP could be anytime from the get-go to end of May 2009. It’s about medium size. I searched Wonkette and Palingates. Seems to me the background of the website was light brownish.
Thanks again.
Mae…….do you know how to highlight, copy and paste? if so just put it in with your post, I think the website thingy is make your name into a link which if clicked on goes back the posters web site.
honestyinGov, Beliefnet is the largest religion site on the Internet. It represents all faiths and used to have a vibrant community of bloggers. This has lessoned a great deal and the quality has diminished after its sale to AOL.
Where I agree with Steve is that Sarah’s future is religion based, and because of the study that I do on the 7 mountains believers among Dominionists I find that very scary. The one thing this group has been lacking is a charismatic leader who has a broad appeal. A recent HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/john-ensign-linked-to-do_b_231272.html) will give you some idea about this new religious movement. But it is really worse than that because there is a connection with militias and groups collecting weapons for the end times. The Wasilla Bible Chursh is part of this and there is a connection to the AIP.
MSM really doesn’t want to report on what is going on in the darks corners of Christianity but I consider this the greatest threat to our peace.
Huffpo has all kinds of stories out there. This one titled…
Palin: Idiot? Genius ? or something Else.?
John McNamara- (Author and producer)
Wayyyyyy too many quotes to get them all but here is just one.
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“Because like Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin, more than anything else, is a weirdo.
Is she Jackson-level weird? Not yet. But Michael Jackson was famous for forty years. She hasn’t even been famous eleven months. And she’s plenty weird already. Which is kind of an achievement in itself. I’m hard-pressed to think of anyone in the public eye who’s shot this high, this fast, starting out a little odd and then, in mid-ascent, before all eyes, blossomed like a display of Fourth of July fireworks into a bursting full tilt, hi-def, fruit loop weird-plosion. ”
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Speaking of people begging for a job (according to Sarah’s tweet), Sarah herself appears to be begging Repubs and Dems for a speaking gig with no takers in sight.
Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
this could be a good contest……..100 ways to say no to Scarah campaigning with you (100 ways to leave your lover). Govs and other politicians bess get their excuses ready. Reporters are going to start hounding them, lol.
And I’ll bet the ones who do take her on will do so only with arm turning pressure by big money power. This could be fun. But I’d still rather see her impeached.
I’m not clever enough say something witty or politician enough to handle it diplomatically.
100 ways to say no to Sarah:
“Hell No”.
“Thanks, but no thanks”.
“Sarah who?”
“Go home Sarah, serve your family.”
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Get off my bus, hussy!
I’m abstaining from that, thanks.
Why would I want to abort my campaign?
@AKGovSarahPalin I’m not going to waste 140 characters trying to say “Hell, no” nicely. #tcot
You are not alone in being untechnical. I am going to email AKM and ask to have clear easy instuctions on how to do links and post pictures. I think they are the most asked for things that people don’t know how to do.
If AKM is amenable these instructions could go in the FAQ section (Frequently asked questions), which is situated in the black heading bar just under the Mudflats headline.
If you press your arrow on FAQ you come up with lots of answers to questions you may have.
Re: my health care in Canada. Look…I know we are not perfect. We need tweaking, but at the very least we are all insured…we all get care and we get meds and tests when needed.
Some of the scare tactics I heard on Morning Joe :
1> Govnt gets between you and doc…wrong
2> People get MRI” cat scans etc, whenever they ask….wrong. (Doctors do regular testing, and use those tests when warranted)
3. Wait times are far too long….perhaps sometimes. Usually for elective surgeries. My husband was diagnosed with heart problems 1 month ago, and he is having heart surgery on July 29. Not bad..huh?
4. We dont get to choose our docs—-wrong again.
There is more, but that was the highlights. My company is currently employing an American from Washington state. He is thrilled with his healthcare here…as well as his company paid benefit plan from work. That plan allows for him to have free dental…optomotrist-therapeutic massage, free prescriptions…and semi private hospital coverage. He is also covered for out of country travel.
He tells me, that the difference he pays in income taxes here, compared to his home state is negligble, and feels its well worth the benefits he is receiving.
I know other Canadians may have had various issues, because as I said, we are not perfect. However it feels good to know that everyone of my compatriots gets the same quality of care that I do.
I have never in my life been given a bill for healthcare….I never have to worry about getting sick and losing everything I have.
Folks…don’t let that fear speech get to you. Govnt. sponsored health care is a gift. Get behind your president on his health care plans. I can assure you, you will never be sorry.
The insurance companies won’t like it, but if they can spend billions lobbying your government…then why can they not pay for someone’s healthcare because there was a preexisting condition. That doesnt happen here.
Andrew Halcro has an interesting piece in his Wednesday Shout Out today about the state of that dairy company that $P takes credit for “returning” to the private sector. Doesn’t sound like anything to take credit for. But it reminded me of something. Kristan Cole, the Trustee of the trust fund, is STILL on the Board of Agriculture?
Lilybart is absolutely correct. She copies evrything thst she can that barack does. an that is what she is trying to do now runnibg for president. she plans to run for almost two years. She can’t wait to announce so she can get secret service. Thats what this is all about. She also thinjks that she will be able to fill arenas like obama did as well but will never happen.
Sorry about the bad spelling. It should read, Lilybart is absolutely correct. Palin copies everything that preseident obama does and did when he was running for president. In her own mind, she is quitting as governor to run for president and july 26 will be her first day. I dont think it will take very long before she announces. She will announce on the very first day a candidate can annouce they are running for president. She reallly liked having trhe secret service surround her with security. That in her mind makes her looks presidential. she thinks that she will be able to fill stadiums and arenas all over the country, but she is going to be sorely disaapointed. any bets?
“Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It’s thick and dark and “gooey” and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department.”
Oh, I just read this comment under the Daily Kos John Kerry article and I HAD to share it with a group who would appreciate it:
Re: whether Sarah actually wrote the WaPo OpEd (that looks really funny) piece:
“Actually, I Think She Did Write It (3+ / 0-)
The prose was streamlined a bit, no doubt, but it’s her work. Just as Johann Bernoulli recognized Isaac Newton’s anonymous paper on the brachistochrone problem (“tanquam ex ungue leonem” — “we know the lion by his claw”), any perceptive person can recognize Sarah Palin’s authorship of this bit of massaged word salad (“sic semper et tu betcha” — “we know the Caribou Barbie by her plastic”).
by stevemb on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 11:10:21 AM PDT”
MoveOn Fundraising Email Invoking Sarah Palin’s “Lies” Brings In $100,000 In One Day
Wow, it looks like Sarah Palin is one heck of a prolific fundraiser — for the left, that is.
A fundraising email that MoveOn blasted out yesterday afternoon calling for cash to counter Palin’s “lies” on climate change has brought in more than $100,000 in 24 hours, a MoveOn spokesman confirms to me.
MoveOn blasted out the call for cash in response to Palin’s Op ed in the Washington Post attacking Obama’s cap and trade plan as an “enormous threat to our economy.”
“This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused by humans,” MoveOn’s fundraising email read. “Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack against clean energy.”
“Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes for a clean energy economy,” the email continued, calling on members to chip in money to “fight back against Palin’s false claims.”
Palin’s political action committee raised some $200,000 for her in the ten days after she resigned as governor of Alaska. MoveOn’s claim of $100,000 in one day means her attacks on Obama’s cap and trade bill raised half that amount — for her opponents — in one day.
Says MoveOn’s spokesman: “It is still pouring in — at a good rate.”
(Thank you, Say No, I highlighted, it copied, pasted it, but I am waiting for something magical to happen to “underline” it and make it a link. Thanks).
I’ve written all this before, but let me make what I think is a fairly obvious point: There’s absolutely nothing wrong, much less “arch,” about criticizing Sarah Palin for being an anti-intellectual demagogue while simultaneously demanding respect for Sonia Sotomayor.
Laurie,
At one time, at least in Ontario, we did have a time where you could be charged for a portion of the fee over and above what the government paid. I’m talking 30 years ago as I received bills from the anesthetist and the oral surgeon. The anesthestist was $500 and surgeon was about $1,000. So our system has had changes throughout it’s life. This no longer applies.
Fortunately Santa was good to me that year and delivered an envelope around a 4 foot Smurf as my surgery was Dec 21 and was released from hosp Christmas morning. Santa must have known I was going to be home that day!!!
Here is a link to the Huff story dated June 13 called Americans Who’ve Used Canada’s Health-Care System Respond to Current Big-Lie Media Campaign — We Canadians jumped in providing information, answering questions and debunking CPR’s Ads, etc!!
Sarah is fighting for her political life right now and there is no doubt she is losing and losing big. She is too extreme for this country and her actions and behaviors just reinforce both conservatives and liberals, to dismiss her. She is the Paris Hilton of politicians, all smiles and coyness, with no substance or depth.
She is fascinating to so many, and yet most people don’t know why that is. However, isn’t it true that when you come across an accident you slow down, because you just have to take a look? There is something fascinating about a train wreck, a bridge jumper, or a person who is self destructive and doesn’t even know it. We are fascinated by Sarah’s incredible naïveté, her righteous world view and her over-inflated ego. Her actions are so extreme they defy common sense and it captures our attention. Yes, we are indeed fascinated by Sarah but for all the wrong reasons!
The reason why Sarah Palin and extremists like her are so fascinating for us to talk about and to watch is because their own understanding of life, has no intelligence in which to defend itself. It causes us to stop and stare, shocked with disbelief over statements or actions which make little if no sense.
Extremists like Sarah Palin want so much to be “right” that they render themselves unable to learn anything new. Their reasoning consists of mindless repetition of the same old antiquated beliefs. Even their old bullying tactics no longer work, and they ultimately end up feeling defeated and afraid. This fear drives them to extreme measures without any conscious understanding of the cliff they are about to jump off of. Well, it seems Sarah just jumped off that cliff.
This is not the rise of Sarah Palin or even the extreme right; rather, they are just reacting violently to their own political and social death. Their hatred of anything that challenges their own ignorance is a catalyst for their rage and it spills outwardly in the form of bigotry, intolerance and anger against those they hate and blame the most.
These are the death throes of the extreme right and no matter how clever they believe their plans to be, they are lashing out mindlessly and ineffectively. Sarah Palin is headed to the outer fringes of society where extremism can live quietly, and by the rules of the wild without a political following shocked and awed at her level of ignorance and ineptitude.
Whether Sarah Palin is a narcissist and or has a personality disorder, she certainly does not unite or attempt to unite anyone. All she does is polorize and and anger the very people she needs to draw in and win over.
No one in this country will ever elect her for any office, until she looks in the mirror and finds out the truth about who she really is. And I am pretty sure she will never do that!
Hey everyone – rush over to ADN and check out the latest that just broke re: the State of Alaska being disallowed from enrolling Medicaid/Medicare patients due to snafus that have led to approximately 200 DEATHS while people couldn’t get the are they need!!!
Appears that $aint $arah is allowing people to DIE due to mismanagement:
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she’s so weak, she often can’t even pop dinner into the microwave.
The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
@Canadian Neighbour…thank you for the link to that article. Good read…but some is hard on the blood pressure.
You know, 3 years ago, hubby and I were in Nova Scotia on holiday. We are from Manitoba. My husband nearly got his big toe cut off while cutting grass at one of the apartment buildings my SIL owns…and of course had to go to hospital.
Silly me, I did not remember to bring our Manitoba Health cards with us…and the doc on duty stitched him up…gave him a script…and said…”call us with your number when you get home…if you remember”.
It starts off with a quote from Bob Dylan’s “Sara”
Sara, Sara
Whatever made you want to change your mind?
Sara, Sara
So easy to look at, so hard to define.
I’m off in my own world, watching clips of the Sotomayor hearings. She’s very impressive. At the same time, I can’t help but try to picture what might be going on in the Palin household.
I see Sarah with her secret love interest watching the hearings and exchanging sly winks when Todd isn’t watching. Somebody has to take care of the kids, right? Sarah is going to keep an Alaskan native anchor named Todd? Hah.
Sarah thinks she could hang that Sonia person, Mexican or Puerto Rican or whatever she is, out to dry. A little help from Greta and she’d be over the top. Those pesky Scientology questions can be ignored like all her other lies. After all, she sold that jet on eBay, didn’t she?
Sarah could sell the hell out of used cars, I’d wager. Maybe she could start a chain of lots across the U.S. “Honest Sarah’s” Cars guaranteed until they quit. Just a small step in Naughty Monkey pumps from that car lot to the Supreme Court.
Sorry about the rant. She pisses me off.
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
The blobs in Alaska’s ocean are scaring me.A few weeks ago my DH got a movie from Netflix,a horror movie,but the idea of the movie was that nature was fighting back against all of the hurt done by man,especially the oil drilling.It was set in Alaska!! Maybe thats what this styuff is(I’m sure,in some way,it is)
this is an interesting Alaska site about cutting edge energy development. I just read an article about Exxon getting into the algae market to create fuel.
“The oil giant Exxon Mobil, whose chief executive once mocked alternative energy by referring to ethanol as “moonshine,” is about to venture into biofuels.”
One of the things I love about Mudflats and Mudpups is the humor, i.e.
#174austintx, #175 UK lady, and #177 austintx. What fun! And i missed #174 until UK lady. Way to go.
Little note from me…I just came back from a two day leadership conference. Out of the four presenters three at some point made a statement on leadership “unlike Sarah Palin…” . Sometimes I wonder if we are all the same 2 dozen people posting on the same websites with different names. It’s just good to know that WE ARE NOT ALONE! Many, many people feel the same way about her, maybe just not as vocal or all consuming
I keep going over to the forum to see if she is there. Haven’t seen a post or anything for a few days. If anyone has heard from her I would also love to know.
Mae, you are the Woman!! Internet hugs. The lynnrockets picture is the one! Thanks also for the second pic.
Thanks to London Bridges and to anyone else who searched.
LOL, congratulations Mae, you learned something new today, it’s fun isn’t.
Another neat trick if you are older like me and not real computer savy is that you can increase font size from the tiny tiny to huge, I like to sit back and read rather that get my nose up to the screen, lol.
okay, to do this you push and hold down “ctrl” tab and either tap the + sign to enlarge, tap – to reduce or if you have a scroll roll thingy on your mouse you can enlarge by rolling it towards the computer. I love this.
And, if you leave a web site, the next time you go back it opens at the font size you left it at. cool huh
mommom……..here’s another recent mysterious happening in AK…….If anyone has more pics I’d like to see them.
“Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down.”
Leave it to those smart aleck teenagers………this desktop I’m on has a bug that keeps tossing pop-ups……..ran the scan and all that………gonna have a geek come by and sweep it……..so I was cussing and 15yr. old walks by and says “Palinbot’s get ya ??”………..told me to stay off his laptop too.also.
Canadian Neighbour wrote – I know Snoskred posts information about it due to interest of some of us.
Hopefully in just under 29 minutes Shuttle Endeavour will finally launch!!
I thought about posting it but every other time I have, launch has been postponed, so I thought maybe I was jinxing it.
I also never watch olympians or sports teams compete live, because I can lose them a gold medal or games that way. Yes you heard it here first, Snoskred is the eveil Jinxmeister.
Watched the launch on NASA teevee and it was fabulous as always. yay!
and isn’t THIS why we have to pull our friggen heads out of the sand and move this country back to it’s cutting edge ability to lead and create. We’ve become dinosaurs. Thank god we have new leadership with a vision other than war, oil, padding big money pockets (sorry folks who work in the oil industry).
I’d bet majority of the people who live in the US have no clue how far ahead other countries are in using and manufacturing renewable energy. We are WAY behind, no thanks to the last 8 yrs of twat and thank GOD we didn’t get twit.
“BEIJING — When the United States’ top energy and commerce officials arrive in China on Tuesday, they will land in the middle of a building storm over China’s protectionist tactics to become the world’s leader in renewable energy.
Calling renewable energy a strategic industry, China is trying hard to make sure that its companies dominate globally. Just as Japan and South Korea made it hard for Detroit automakers to compete in those countries — giving their own automakers time to amass economies of scale in sheltered domestic markets — China is shielding its clean energy sector while it grows to a point where it can take on the world.”
lol, I guess the one good thing Scarah is leaving behind is that annually, every 4th of July, when people gather for picnics to celebrate our independance, they will say remember “that” 4th of July, our very own personal Alaska Independence Day. Gosh, I can see big old celebrations in the future. lol.
“The colonists’ catalogue of complaints against George III ranged from “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good” to “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”
“The Governor’s complaints against “adversaries” and “enemies” were more humdrum:
You don’t hear much about the good stuff in the press anymore, though, do you?
Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt.”
I don’t have time to read comments, so please forgive me if this has been posted. I normally would have noticed first thing, but have NOT wanted to open the local Juneau paper this week because I’m so SICK of Palin and her being plastered all over the paper sections (except Neighbors where folks do nice things for each other) in all of her glorious stupidity. But the opinion piece by the Fairbanks Daily News Miner is OUTSTANDING.
This is EXACTLY what everyone sounds like when they’ve finally had it with the twit. Then it just comes tumbling out – all the reasons she’s such a sh1t and how long it took before the “victim” figured it out. She really is like a vampire – seducing, using, abusing, and sucking out all energy around her. This is another Alaskan who has been had.
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
FYI – Paul McCartney is on Letterman tonight. Just saw a short clip that he & his band was playing on the marquis roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre. Kewl
Kathleen Sebelius is on The Daily Show.
Here is a link so you can see who is scheduled on Late Night & some Talk Shows. Shows you too if it’s reruns. I have it bookmarked.
Good post from Salon. com about Palin’s recent shallow op/ed in the WaPo. The comment I selected below from the Salon piece resonates strongly with me because “boldness” and “beliefs” don’t constitute good policy unless backed up by scientific evidence. Palin and many GOP’s try this tactic over and over…..throwing out statements which usually have fear and disaster attached to them, yet have no basis in fact or scientific evidence. Push them to defend their “bold” statements or withdraw them from the debate!!
See comment #213 above as a way to push back.
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“Palin completely overlooks the improved environmental impact that lies at the root of cap-and-trade. Even more tellingly, she does not rely on any scientific evidence to back up any of the bold statements she makes in the piece.”
A recovering liberal? lol Who has a past of being sadistically abused by her brother and ignored and left to fend for herself by her socialite parents. This woman is finding sympathy for Scarah? …….whoa, there is no way in heck that I would seek her help.
I think she’s found the lord….she supports Scarah and the Carrie Prejean. Do you think she was like unsupported at a critical point and lost something?
this person is…….”Robin of Berkley”, lol
“A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and psychotherapist in Berkeley”
“I rarely think of Tom, who disowned my family years ago. But when I reflect on what was done to Sarah Palin, I remember him and his sadism. And I look around and see more and more Tom’s, all grown up; but they haven’t grown up, actually; they refuse to grow up and use self control and restraint. And, alarmingly, many of them are in positions of power.
Let’s call them by their true name. When an actress calls for gang raping Palin, she’s a sadist. When people torch Palin’s church with children inside, they are sadists. When bloggers call her a c___t and scorn her disabled son, they are being sadists.”
Thank you to sfterrier & say no for the link to the New Yorker. Great article!!
From the New Yorker:
“Here’s Jefferson on political change:
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Here’s Palin on same:
Government’s supposed to serve from the bottom up and not move towards this top-down, big-government takeover, but rather will be protectors of individual rights, who also have enough common sense to acknowledge when conditions have drastically changed, and they’re willing to call an audible and pass the ball when it’s time so the team can win.
In Palin’s case, the government that she was declaring independence from is the one that she herself is governor of. She was therefore in the awkward position of having to argue that she has had “so much success in this first term” (e.g., “We took government out of the dairy business”) that “doing what’s best for Alaska” requires her to abandon her post. But the bulk of the Wasilla declaration, like the bulk of the Philadelphia one, was devoted to the enumeration of what the latter’s author called “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object”—the Object being, in Sarah Palin’s case, making things hard for Sarah Palin. ”
A few people had questions in the disparity of two recent polls regarding Palin. My last post on this got lost somewhere in the moderation process because of multiple links, so I will do it in two posts.
The wording of the actual questions in polls is important in understanding the polling differences.
The USA Today poll from last week showed that 2/3’s of Republicans would like to see Palin as “a major national figure” in the future. The vague term, “major national figure,” can range all the way from the position of POTUS…. to dear Sarah standing in the middle of the reflecting pool on the National Mall with pigeons perched on her head. (I’m personally leaning toward the pigeon gig for her).
USA Today poll link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-07-palin-poll_N.htm
I suspect that a good deal of credit can again go to our outstanding Alaskan bloggers with respect to the latest polling results. Even though there was a “sympathy bump” for Ms. Victimized Palin amongst GOP voters after her foaming-at-the-mouth-heart-palpitations-ragged-breathing resignation speech, the bloggers were immediately busy exposing the lies behind her spreadsheet farce and the alleged zillions of dollars that ethics complaints were costing the state…….not to mention raising questions about the REAL reasons she quit.
Yep, Americans reeeeally don’t admire quitters, especially ones that lie about their reasons.
On the other hand, it’s patently clear that the Alaskan bloggers are no quitters. Cheers.
Molly Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:11 AM
I looked up NBC basketball camps…..as mentioned in GINO’s twitter. I will assume this is where Willow was instead of at resignation event. Italy tour is listed as from June 29th through July 12th. Mission statement is ‘Christian’ in tone, emphasis on self esteem, spirituality, Jesus Christ……but say they are not affliliated with any particular church. Apparently not any particular Christian church, that is–not sure how they’d feel about some Jewish or Muslim or atheist kid coming along. The write up for the Italy tour includes Vatican visit, religious-y descriptions of Peter being crucified upside down, yadda yadda.
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WTH are they doing polluting the Vatican? These born-agains don’t even recognize Catholics as Christians! Catholics haven’t been dunked in some rusty old bathtub in some ad hoc church somewhere in the outer sticks and therefore are not Christians.
Willow and her fellow religious loonies ought to stick to their *own* shrines – the shrines to money.
The abrupt resignation and the bizarre speech on July 3rd really sunk $arah. First people felt sympathy, based upon reading the initial reports. Then they actually saw the speech & saw the rebuttals and realized that there is absolutely no depth to $arah. NONE. Throughout her career, she’s just been in the right place at the right time (albeit in a small state, where it’s easier). The McCain campaign elevated her to a place she would never be on her own. And they CANNOT admit they were wrong, it would destroy their credibility – John’s to run again, and any campaign worker for further employment.
Is it only politics where you can get away with this crap? In the real world performance & what you say counts. You’d be fired or not hired to begin with.
hey Snos, if you’re such an evil jinxminx I’d better not tell you that I heard on the ABC that there are plans for an Australian to take part in the next moon landing …..
From Skippy the Bush Kangaroo:
quote of the day
the nj star-ledger editorial page on why repubbb chris christie doesn’t want sarah palin to come help him campaing for governor:
why? because she’s a liability. christie knows what the rest of us know: on policy, she is about as deep as a birdbath.
oh, snap!
Another great column in Salon, this time from Gene Lyons, a National Magazine Award winner. Here are a few choice bits:
“In television interviews,” Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity.”
Palin’s authentic, all right: An authentic product of what author Charles P. Pierce calls the “Three Great Premises” of America’s decayed TV celebrity culture. First, “Any theory is valid if it moves units,” i..e. sells advertising. Second, “Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough.” Third, “Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is measured by how fervently they believe it.”
And my favorite:
President? Get real. Sarah Palin couldn’t manage a Wal-Mart. She has neither the management skills nor the capacity for detail.
Jessie Ventura just called Palin ‘A Quitter” — Love him!!
He on a segment of the Larry King show.
He said he’d never vote for her for higher office as if it got too hot, she would probably quit.
She signed on to Govern Alaska.
His kids were attacked when he was in office.
Nan,
I posted yesterday that Parnell signed a letter that will put Campbell into the Acting LG position as at the time Parnell is sworn into the Governor’s Office on the 26th until the Special Session for his confirmation.
Hey BigSlick. Watching GINO’s anthem at the link you gave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovTHWI3vE7A
reminded me of this quote of Joyce Meyers–”You can be pitiful or you can be powerful, but you can’t be both.”
Mad Dog Palin — The scariest thing about John McCain’s running mate isn’t how unqualified she is – it’s what her candidacy says about America
“Right-wingers of the Bush-Rove ilk have had a tough time finding a human face to put on their failed, inhuman, mean-as-hell policies. But it was hard not to recognize the genius of wedding that faltering brand of institutionalized greed to the image of the suburban-American supermom. It’s the perfect cover, for there is almost nothing in the world meaner than this species of provincial tyrant.
“Palin herself burned this political symbiosis into the pages of history with her seminal crack about the ‘difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick,’ blurring once and for all the lines between meanness on the grand political scale as understood by the Roves and Bushes of the world, and meanness of the small-town variety as understood by pretty much anyone who has ever sat around in his ranch-house den dreaming of a fourth plasma-screen TV or an extra set of KC HiLites for his truck, while some ghetto family a few miles away shares a husk of government cheese.”
Shannyn Moore has compiled a list of Palin’s excuses and blaming other people. Really stunning when seen all together in one list. Check it out if you haven’t already seen her post:
Managing a Walmart is probably a pretty tough gig. She couldn’t even manage Wasilla, for crying out loud! She had to hire a city manager. She should have been thrown out this past winter.
I just read the Time magazine article on Palin. What planet are they living on?
Palin is about partisanship–plain and simple. No leadership qualities there.
Great Picture! Love our national symbol! Did you get to hear him/her give a “call”?
Ok, ADN has a story on the Special Session in August and they are headlining it as considering overriding the stimulus rejection. They allude to the Lt. Gov. thing as a secondary issue. WTH? I thought there was a Constitutional Crisis and THAT was the reason for calling the special Session. Why are they spinning it?
@ Dr. Patois: Thanks for the article link! This is what people donating money to Sarah need to know from the article:
“Palin also clearly knows one of the most important lessons of the world she’s entering: the urgent need for people to give now. She opened a legal-funds account earlier this year, and in the midst of a recession urged people to contribute money to cover her purported $500,000 debt — while at the same time, she was cashing a book advance reportedly worth between $4 million and $7 million. She has also already raised more than $700,000 through her political action committee, SarahPAC, since creating it earlier this year.
Finding and exploiting that urgent need, or even creating it out of thin air, drives the industry.”
I call b/s on this. Not properly notarized and based on previous b/s ruling they just let it go? The Personnel Board needs to be replaced by a bi-partisan committee that is NOT appointed. It should be a committee in the Leg with no connections to the Gov.
“It was rejected in part because it was not properly notarized, the statement said.
In addition, the Personnel Board had previously determined that interviews do not violate the state Ethics Act. And the complaint offered no evidence to support the claim the governor was paid, the statement said.”
Well, she saved all her tweets for this evening. Tweet Tweet Tweet…..here are the latest!
# & mama bear doesn’t look 2 anyone else 2 hand her anything; biologists say she works harder than males, is provider/protector for the future37 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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protect & provide for her young;She sees danger?She brazenly rises up on strong hind legs, growls Don’t Touch My Cubs & the species survives40 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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Great day w/bear management wildlife biologists; much to see in wild territory incl amazing creatures w/mama bears’ gutteral raw instinct to43 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
Just got an e-mail alert this afternoon from my state senator’s office:
The special Session is set for Monday, August 10 in ANCHORAGE. The special session will be to Override Governor Palin’s rejection of certain stimulus funds and confirmation hearing on the attorney general
when is meghan mccain going to come out of the closet?
i also think its pretty bad that her dad was willing to ride joe the plumber all the way to the white house but now that they are done with him they just throw him out like garbage.
interesting…with all her ‘love’ for wildlife…she shoots and kills with cold and calculating disregard. I don’t want a grizzly sitting in any of MY political offices, including the Oval Office!!! another example of her hypocrisy…it NEVER ends!
Oh, WOW! That’s it, that’s all I can say – words fail me. So wonderful a picture. My kids from AK arrive today. Woo-Hoo!
Absolutly beautiful: Love eagles, that is an A++ photo, AKM.
What an incredible shot!
The first book regarding Palin tells the story of siblings who ‘compact’ to lie in order to manipulate situations should the occasion arise: This, I assume is to trump the parents. Do have a read because this book , most definitely,
helps the student understand the subject of Sarah Palin.
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Sarah Palin-kaylene Johnson-2008 Rare 1st Edition Book-new Hardcover
Hardcover book, Sarah, by Kaylene Johnson. FIRST EDITION – APRIL 2008! … Sarah is the first biography of Governor Sarah Palin, and covers her childhood, ….
great picture
Put my OH WOW in queue with all the others….
love the picture
love love love
Magnificent creatures aren’t they? Incredible photo, thanks so much for sharing!
Just heard a tsunami has been generated after an earthquake 100 miles off the NZ coast.
And there is nothing quite as majestic as an eagle, is there?
Feds halt Alaska health programs
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html
#11
Ha, there it is! I didn’t invent that on the other thread, kids.
Thousands of dollars per person/per day to keep everyone housed in Anchorage, while homes go empty, vandalized, property and heating fuel stolen, pipes frozen. And families waiting…
The energy stimulus money that Sarah refused on our behalf will mitigate some of the needs, through qualifying programs.
We NEED that stimulus package, Alaska State Legislators.
Please. Call a special session.
Stunning pic AKM! What a handsome guy!
Don’t know if this article from ADN was posted already, from a couple of days ago….
“Palin trotting out her ‘poor little me’ campaign strategy yet one more time”
http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/861704.html
Pretty spot on in light of her most recent ethics complaint (s)
Gotta love Lil’ Miss Sunshine’s new Republican favorability numbers as revealed in Monday’s CBS News poll. Only 33% of Republicans feel she is qualified to be President. Ouch.
You already know what the rest of us think.
-lynnrockets.com
EyeOnYou Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 3:15 AM
Feds halt Alaska health programs
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html
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This is disgusting! I guess if you are old and not “iconic” you don’t have a right to life!
WTF has she done for Alaska…for its people? I see article like this, Rural problems galore, a possible serial killer of homeless in Anchorage???
She does nothing, but Photo Ops along her Lake! She is utterly disgusting!
EPIC FAIL!
I just noticed this terrific spoof from Red State Update and thought I would post it for you. Enjoy.
http://www.redstateupdate.com/video/sarah-palins-resignation
-lynnrockets.com
Great pic. of the Bald Eagle.
rereridiculous says
This is a new low for American politics: she’s breaking campaign promises and she didn’t even win.
commenter @ wonkette
http://wonkette.com/409861/why-does-commie-sarah-palin-love-cap-trade-so-much
Youch !! KO tells it………….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/olbermann-slams-palins-en_n_232583.html
lynnrockets Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 3:46 AM
I just noticed this terrific spoof from Red State Update and thought I would post it for you. Enjoy.
http://www.redstateupdate.com/video/sarah-palins-resignation
-lynnrockets.com
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LOL!
caligrl –
Found something for you………….
http://imgur.com/TUn06.jpg
Absolutely incredible!
A writer and a photographer, what a great combination.
What tpe of camera do you use?
So $P is trying to get to the WH by whingeing, yeah! that’ll work
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761930140242533.html
Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping.
From the twit: “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 14 hours ago from TwitterBerry ”
What.a.hypocrit.
And spending state money to fly and house your hubby and children around the country is NOT frivolous? Give me a break. You blew any credibility to be called ‘fiscally conservative’ and any sort of ‘Watchdog of Waste’ when you allowed, nay, ORGANIZED that wasteful spending.
What an amazing shot. We saw one while snowshoeing this winter, but I wasn’t coordinated enough to get the camera out quickly to snap a pic.
thanks for taking this photo in landscape!
It pushed Brian (temporarily) off my desktop.
Yes site was just down, hardware upgrade, should all be good now.
Danny
Okay, this is just weird. And scary, if it is a result of global warming. Stuff detaching and floating up from the ocean floor, maybe?
http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.
“Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It’s thick and dark and “gooey” and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department.
[snip]
“From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it’s kind of blackish stuff … (and) has hairy strands on it.”"
And very funny comment from Hunger Tallest Palin, Wonketteer:
“Gosh darn it! The evil LIEburuls at the Communist Post changed her RealAmerican op-ed to make her look like a hypocritical glory hound with the attention span of a stunned marmot.
Plus, mean old John McCain who wouldn’t let Sarah be Sarah wrote all that stuff. Also. Sarah would have done something completely different if she were president. Like leaving Jesus in charge and then going to the beach.”
ROFLMAO
Now Palin is a flip-flopper (cap and trade) as well as a quitter. Seems she was for cap and trade when campaigning last year with McCain.
Anyone else get the feeling that Palin’s new role will have something to do with representing big oil?
She was in Texas before she quit.
She called Cheney before she quit.
She and Cheney (from what I have read) chatted before she was even a VP pick.
Her first OpEd would seem to support big oil.
I think that piece was designed to try and make Palin “appear” to be an energy expert and she may be the new mouth piece for Right against global warming and drill baby drill.
Sarah obviously didn’t write that piece by herself. It does have some of Sarah thrown-in for good measure (like another veiled attack on the media) but someone else is pulling the strings here. Wonder who?
Did Sarah quit “servin’ the people” and sell out to big oil?
From Toronto Global Mail: ” In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed” http://bit.ly/TC7Xj
“Some Republicans admit that, if they’d bothered to give the pin-up girl from Alaska 1 per cent of the grilling that Judge Sotomayor is going to get, they’d be a lot better off today. But Alaska was so very far away. And Sarah was so fetching in her running shorts. They did less vetting than you’d do to choose the family dog. And then, when she peed all over the carpet, they forgave her. After she bizarrely quit her job as governor of Alaska, two-thirds of registered Republicans said they’d still vote for her for president. ”
Good writing, good good good!
Just out of curiosity, what is the very worst thing that could happen to $arah if she was found to have committed all of those ethics violations? The Legislature did find that she acted inappropriately in Troopergate, and I guess that her knuckles are still stinging from the sharp rapping that they took. So she’s guilty; she’s leaving. Repay two months salary? Since it is illegal for an official to use their office resources for political campaigning, it applies here. $arah misused Alaskan state employees. So, she’ll also have to pay back their salaries, too.
I also think that sleazy lovesick Gov.Sanford walked away from his duties when he planned a 10 day trip to see his Argentina Sweetheart. They didn’t have the muscle to remove him. Now we heard that Senator Ensign plans to run again– after bribing, I mean gifting, his lover’s family to keep it quiet. None of these selfish people belong in public office, not Ensign, not Sanford, not Palin!
What a handsome bird. I’ll never forget standing on the high bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in Iowa watching eagles soaring at eye level. They truly are majestic.
OMG if they don’t get of this “Wise Latina” hoopla soon I’ll rip my ears out. Note to self stop watching CNN :S
I think it’s only extraordinary arrogance and hubris that allows these politicians to expect that they will be forgiven by their constituents no matter what they do.
Hubris (/hjuːbrɪs/) or hybris (/’haɪbrɪs/) (ancient Greek ὕβρις), mythology is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
Great picture! I read with interest Andrew Halcro’s blog and then followed the link to the Newsminer editoral about Palin’s lack of involvement in the Alaskan media. EXCELLENT!
The managing director makes some very valid points about media coverage in that past Alaskan governors were very willing to meet with the various editorial boards (ADN as well) and discuss how they felt their coverage are inaccurate, and didn’t just play the “media victim” card the way Palin does.
Here’s the link http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/jul/11/palin-dodged-open-discussion/?opinion
Oopps – I hit the “submit comment” button too quickly! Also read the comments on this editorial. It seems that most of the comments (I think you can guess which group they are from once you read a few of them) are along the lines of “Well, why should Palin talk with you since you are so mean to her?”
Boy it’s amazing to see just how many brainwashed people are out there who couldn’t think their way out of a damp paper bag in relation to Sarah Palin.
Lovely Eagle, and I do not see him whining about anything, either.
Open Thread, so here goes:
I found Lindsey Graham to be the most condescending little white man just in his tone when he called Sotomayor “Ma’am”, notwithstanding the rest of his ridiculous words. I think I detected in her some well-justified contempt for him.
Gosh we need many more Sotomayors and many less Lindsey Grahams amongst our leaders.
He is just ICKY.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/opinion/15dowd.html?_r=2
White Man’s Last Stand
an article by maureen dowd with a little something about buttercup
Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.
Online activism is the next step for Palin revolution
By: Marjorie Dannenfelser
OpEd Contributor
July 13, 2009
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Online-activism-is-the-next-step-for-Palin-revolution-7952889-50468942.html
Eleven more days and then she is gone. This was in an earlier thread, but I can’t help putting it here to for those who missed it
http://www.cafepress.com/Palin_error I’m getting a bumper sticker and a button.
austintx Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 4:13 AM
caligrl -
Found something for you………….
http://imgur.com/TUn06.jpg
Thanx!
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Austin…Very kewl!
Did hear about that 7.6 earthquake off coast of NZ. Hope it’s far off with no damage.
Recently could hear my son’s music in the background, Dire Straits (Money for Nothing). Couldn’t help but hear the lyrics and do a Lynnrockets.
“Now look at them yo-yos that’s the way to do it
You play the (people) on (Fox TV)
That ain’t workin, that’s the way to do it
Money for nothing, and (trips) for free.
Am on my second cup, so this is the extend of my creative highlight for the day.
you know things are getting bad when saras invades my dreams…i will never sleep again.
twain12 Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 6:06 AM
OMG if they don’t get of this “Wise Latina” hoopla soon I’ll rip my ears out. Note to self stop watching CNN :S
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From a “Wise Latina”.
If they weren’t racists it wouldn’t be a problem, but they are old white racists. If it were winky up there, they would of confirmed her and her naughty red monkey’s in a hot second, someone dumb as rocks but “white”
That is the DUMB GOP for ya.
rebekkah Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:02 AM
Recently could hear my son’s music in the background, Dire Straits (Money for Nothing). Couldn’t help but hear the lyrics and do a Lynnrockets.
“Now look at them yo-yos that’s the way to do it
You play the (people) on (Fox TV)
That ain’t workin, that’s the way to do it
Money for nothing, and (trips) for free
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Yep, that’s the way gov grifter rolls !
Am on my second cup, so this is the extend of my creative highlight for the day.
crystalwolf aka caligrl i totally agree , it is sickening !
I looked up NBC basketball camps…..as mentioned in GINO’s twitter. I will assume this is where Willow was instead of at resignation event. Italy tour is listed as from June 29th through July 12th. Mission statement is ‘Christian’ in tone, emphasis on self esteem, spirituality, Jesus Christ……but say they are not affliliated with any particular church. Apparently not any particular Christian church, that is–not sure how they’d feel about some Jewish or Muslim or atheist kid coming along. The write up for the Italy tour includes Vatican visit, religious-y descriptions of Peter being crucified upside down, yadda yadda.
But I dunno, I think the Y has some Christian-y mission statement too.
So, anyway, that’s where WIllow must have been.
Bristol’s absence at resignation still unexplained.
Oh, and Dear Lord, let’s hope the Palins paid for this Italy trip with their own money!!
twain12 Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:09 AM
crystalwolf aka caligrl i totally agree , it is sickening !
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I agree! I’ve never seen a Judge grilled so much! Or so disrespectful! Perhaps b/c she smarter than all of them, a woman and Hispanic/Latina???
I meant treated so disrespectfully! Need more coffee!
39 lyn Says: Online activism is the next step for Palin revolution
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Online-activism-is-the-next-step-for-Palin-revolution-7952889-50468942.html
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Scary stuff. After her resignation 30,000 people signed up in Sarah’s FaceBook. When CC was on the Ron Reagan show, a woman caller, said she loved SP, because she was honest. – People are being duped!
Prediction: based on her pattern of copying whatever the President does (writing and oped, visiting troops etc) she will soon be seen in the commentators box at some big ball game, just like Barak did at the All Star Game.
Who wants to lay a bet?
Or should we just start a pool on WHEN?
Oh sarah……..this door looks closed………
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24943.html
Palin may be “honest” in that she wants women and their reproductive rights to be under control, she wants to drill for oil anywhere god put it, but her behaviour is totally dishonest.
But I can see how they think she is “honest.”
Just depends on how far you want to take it.
I love it around Ester. We sold our boat last year, gas was 400 a weekend and we decided to be more environmentally conscious. We’ll move into a sailboat again. I can’t imagine how spectacular the sound must be this summer.
#51 Lilybart, I think your right about that prediction! She’s progressing to POTUS ,don’t cha know.
EyeOnYou Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 3:15 AM
Feds halt Alaska health programs
State programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life — taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom — are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html
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Palin should consider herself lucky — I don’t live there. If there was an issue that I go ballistic about — this is it. The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I read your post — hadn’t even got to the adn article which I have now read too.
Wow, great picture AKM!!! Our National Bird
Sure glad Benjamin Franklin didn’t get his way, lol, he wanted the turkey.
http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle9.html
Since this is an open thread, you may find today’s ADN article interesting.
As an Alaskan since 1975 (& use to bear stories), this one got my adrenalin going just reading it!
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/864535.html
Hello, nice eagle shot! As many times as I see them I never tire of them either. Thanks for posting that picture. Nice.
And, on the Wise Latina thing–
What it is, I think, is that the old white men racists do not think that a Latina, wise or not, could ever be the equal to them, and, given the “passes” that so many white guys have gotten to get where they are, simply because they are white and privileged (See: George W. Bush) they are afraid that their hold on power is being “taken” from them, because they think they are better than women and other minorities, and do not see that diverse life experience is a good thing amongst our leaders.
I think the fact that being white in this country will soon no longer be the majority position has lots of (racist) white people scared, and I think that is what GINO tapped into during her campaign against Barack Obama–that “our country”, meaning “Our white country” is going to be taken over by “the blacks”, “the Latinos”, and if that were to happen, it would be a disaster of the most dire nature, given that God ordained this country to be Christian, and Jesus was white. Or something like that.
So, anyway, I think, unfortunately, this racism stuff is going to keep coming to the surface more and more as the population gets more and more diverse (See: inner city kids coming to “white” pool scares a bunch of white parents who pull their precious children out of pool lest they be contaminated (?) ) But, for those of us in this country who love that it is becoming more diverse, I guess we can only hope that those who THINK they are better than the rest of humanity learn a little compassion and humbleness–Christian values that seem to be in short supply amongst those who most loudly call themselves “Christian”.
They were talking about this on Showbiz (HLN news) lastnight.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/Fates_Fortunes/18687-TV_Syndicators_Say_No_Thanks_to_Sarah_Palin.php
A survey of syndicators reveals that they believe that Palin, while certainly mediagenic, “does not have the skills,” “appeals to too narrow of an audience” and overall is too polarizing. Not one syndicator indicated a whiff of interest in doing a show with her.
Here’s another article from ADN…
http://www.adn.com/opinion/compass/story/864581.html
It’s written by Bob Gillam, who opposes Pebble Mine, and has been targeted for supporting the No Pebble Mine campaign. Please go over and read what he has to say and give him support. This is truly such an important subject for the Bristol Bay area residents.
I think Sarah Palin needs to do a bible study on character and reputation because she sure is screwing hers up. She has lost her moral compass and doesn’t realize it. Someone please help her. She will never be president and most people know she should hold no political office. Please GOP stop enabling her and stop using her. I think it’s cruel.
here Sarah start with this…….
Proverbs 22:1
http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/17017/eVerseID/17017
“From this verse, we see that a good name (a combination of reputation and character) certainly should outweigh riches, prominence, position, and status. Conversely, a lack in either can leave us in a state of moral and/or spiritual poverty, seeking self-worth over godly worth.
An example of this can be seen in those who strive for political office or a promotion. They attempt to leave an impression of character with the public or a boss, but it is an impression built on a shaky foundation of duplicity. While they may have a “good” reputation, it is not supported by the real important ingredient, character, which is earned throughout our lives.
A starkly contrasting example of this is that of Jesus Christ as a man: “[He] made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:7). Christ—God Himself—humbled Himself, surrendering His right to a godly reputation, yet still left the legacy of righteous character and reputation as a human.”
So while Buttercup has been spending all her time twitting and traveling, the state program that provides personal care assistants to needy people has been in such disarray that it had to stop accepting new clients. Maybe if she spent some of her time actually governing this wouldn’t have happened.
In Politico, just read “Palin campaigning for Democrats? Unlikely”. Boy, these conservative democrats interviewed about Sarah took cover, ducked into elevators and meetings pretty quickly, complete with deer-in-the-headlight looks.
This is an encouraging sign that tells us that she is not as popular as she seems to think and that oyster may be harder to grasp. I wouldn’t doubt that already Sarah is regretting surrendering, quitting, acknowledging defeat so soon. Have this gut-wrenching feeling she might try to return……yikes!
Greytdog Δ Says:
From Toronto Global Mail: ” In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed” http://bit.ly/TC7Xj
“Some Republicans admit that, if they’d bothered to give the pin-up girl from Alaska 1 per cent of the grilling that Judge Sotomayor is going to get, they’d be a lot better off today. But Alaska was so very far away. And Sarah was so fetching in her running shorts. They did less vetting than you’d do to choose the family dog. And then, when she peed all over the carpet, they forgave her. After she bizarrely quit her job as governor of Alaska, two-thirds of registered Republicans said they’d still vote for her for president. ”
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Almost feel there should be a contest to pinpoint the time the press release will be put out by Palin a la Megaphone as I’m sure something will be said to the reference of ‘pin-up’ girl and ‘fetching in her running shorts’.
Margaret Wente wrote a good, truthful column!!!
crystalwolf“`i have not been able to watch the hearings. this kind of behavior by the racists who infect our senate has happened many times before and will continue as long as the people of their states continue to elect them. the problem for those spanish speaking people whose birth certificates state their race as being white and who have been wooed by republicans for many years are just now waking up to the fact that they have been had. the masks have come off and now they begin to see what the GOP really thinks of them. i wish i could be a fly on the wall in many a middle class cuban home in miami florida or hoboken new jersey. boy oh boy…bubs
Greytdog Δ Says:
From Toronto Global Mail: ” In Sonia v. Sarah, GOP is doomed” http://bit.ly/TC7Xj
“Some Republicans admit that, if they’d bothered to give the pin-up girl from Alaska 1 per cent of the grilling that Judge Sotomayor is going to get, they’d be a lot better off today. But Alaska was so very far away. And Sarah was so fetching in her running shorts. They did less vetting than you’d do to choose the family dog. And then, when she peed all over the carpet, they forgave her. After she bizarrely quit her job as governor of Alaska, two-thirds of registered Republicans said they’d still vote for her for president. ”
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This is a GREAT article! Really shows the stupid dumbasses the GOP is!
They are making a Federal case of Sonya, yet let Gov. grifter almost b/c VP.
Incompetent! And I hope everyone in Arizona doesn’t forget that when its time to re-elect JM!
60 Molly Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:44 AM
And, on the Wise Latina thing–
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I was just watching the hearings it was noted that, the first time this phrase was used was in 1994 in a speech, that Sotomayor provided to these hearings.
And then Sotomayor was asked “did this ever come up when you were before the senate in 1997 &1998 for your confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit?”
The answer was no!
Apparently the republicans did not have any problem with this statement then, but of course they do now.
It is the headline grabber and their justification for labeling her a bigot and a racist.
Republicans absolutely revel in their hate filled rhetoric and careless accusations.
bubbles Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:58 AM
crystalwolf“`i have not been able to watch the hearings. this kind of behavior by the racists who infect our senate has happened many times before and will continue as long as the people of their states continue to elect them. the problem for those spanish speaking people whose birth certificates state their race as being white and who have been wooed by republicans for many years are just now waking up to the fact that they have been had. the masks have come off and now they begin to see what the GOP really thinks of them. i wish i could be a fly on the wall in many a middle class cuban home in miami florida or hoboken new jersey. boy oh boy…bubs
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Bubbles I haven’t been able to stomach watching the hearings, have only been reading and hearing these past weeks and seeing snippets on KO & RM, I’m afraid if I did watch I would throw my TV out the window! This article is so true..
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/in-sonia-v-sarah-gop-is-doomed/article1216888/
These GOP are pure racist and beyond DUMB!
Here is a video from The Speaking Channel which critiques Sarah Palin as a speaker, as an example of what to do and what not to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiGV8TVKxU
Provides some insight.
Here is an ad that the right started running yesterday against Sonia.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/sotomayor-cfj/
Canadian Neighbor@56:
Now this is something I have personal experience with.
I have worked in both Home Health and extended care in Alaska.
We have a very large elderly population here because many people came here to retire due to far better benefits (in terms of dollars) for seniors than down south. Also, a lot of ex-military people return here to retire.
The aging of the baby boomers is compounding the issue.
I have mixed feelings because I have seen a lot of abuse of the system by both consumers (a lot of entitlement issues) and health care providers (greed). But there are also people adminstering these programs who don’t seem qualified to assess the needs from afar. They refuse services to some people who desperately need them and give way too many to others who are simply riding the system.
How to fix it? Well, I am all for universal health care (not just universal insurance coverage). The problem is the bureaucracy involved with providing universal health care. When I worked in home health I spent uncounted hours (not paid to anyone) doing an absolutely ridiculous amount of paperwork to prove that services were needed. Attempts to regulate the system have driven physicians and other healthcare providers out of the system because they spend more time pushing paper than actually taking care of people. This results in a shortage of providers. Professionals literally cannot afford to stay in business with the system that presently exists. My mother, who lives in CO and is elderly, has had difficulty finding a physician because many have just opted out of taking Medicare patients (due to the overwhelming paperwork).
Now I work in extended care and have trouble getting my patients who have been rehabilitated home because of lack of services at home. This is often a personnel shortage problem. Home care providers are few and far between and the turn-over rate is very high. The state does not provide care 24/7.
I could go on and on. Our system is so broken that I often just want quit. But I really love doing what I do and so those of us who care continue to struggle through it and scream at/or beg/cajole the people on the other end of the phone or we continue to write long letters (also time not paid for) to decribe the very human needs of the people we try to serve.
I wonder if the spotlight is on Alaska in this because we have had so much more in terms of services than other states or because it is truely being mismanaged. When I brought this up at work the other day (we’ve known about it before this story came out) I was told “It’s just because there is a backlog”. I know that there are people making a lot of money somewhere in the system. And there were, initially a lot of people who thought the money tree would bloom forever so they promised people the sky. I get exceedingly frustrated by the “case managers” who don’t return phone calls or e-mails but I have no idea what they are dealing with on a day-to-day basis.
Our system desperately needs fixing. But the fix is going to require those that feel entitled to suck some of it up. It also requires people to educate themselves on how the present system operates.
I could rant on for hours about this. I can’t do it before my second cup of coffee.
Very Nice picture. I miss those big beauties. There is nothing in the world like an Alaskan Eagle, though I know some people call them Alaskan rats. They are magnificent and amazing to watch.
I just looked at Huffington to see if Geoffrey Dunn has added the latest ethics complaint — which he has not.
I did note that upon reading a comment, I looked at his Huff Bio and the notation that he is writing a book on Palin is not there anymore. I have no idea when that was removed.
austintx Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Here is an ad that the right started running yesterday against Sonia.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/sotomayor-cfj/
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Oh Bill Ayers again…SOS! Don’t we have more Dems in the Senate? Why don’t we just confirm her? They are Liars, the party of No & Liars!
Pathetic & sickening! Racist bastards!
lovemydogs,
Thanks for your comment
I come to it from the other side. I homecare my mother (6 yrs) – advanced Alzheimer’s, no mobility and non-verbal – and deal with homecare classified as Caregiver Relief but I call it Caregiver Stress. Due to circumstances last week, I had the person fired from the agency.
Poor, Persecuted Sarah Palin
The GOP embraces the culture of victimhood
July 15,2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761930140242533.html
To finish my rant:
I am not sure that this is a Palin problem (although she most certainly should have been paying attention–not that I think for one minute that she is capable of multi-tasking like our president).
I think it is an American problem and just the tip of the iceberg that is going to crash down on all of us if health care isn’t reformed in this country. The situation with the nursing board in California is another indication…
OK-NOW I need more coffee…
It’s funny , Sessions was turned down because he is a racist. Now he calls Sonia a racist……..
BREAKING NEWS MSNBC ~
Senate HELP Committee PASSES Health Care Reform Bill through Committee. It is the FIRST Committee to act on Health Care REFORM.
Read it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31921017/ns/politics-capitol_hill/?ns=politics-capitol_hill
Lisa Murkowski voted against.
Senate Members who VOTED FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM:
Kennedy, Edward M. (MA) , Chairman
Dodd, Christopher J. (CT)
Harkin, Tom (IA)
Mikulski, Barbara A. (MD)
Bingaman, Jeff (NM)
Murray, Patty (WA)
Reed, Jack (RI)
Sanders, Bernard (VT)
Brown, Sherrod (OH)
Casey, Robert P. (PA)
Hagan, Kay R. (NC)
Merkley, Jeff (OR)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (RI)
SENATE Committee Members who VOTED AGAINST HEALTH CARE REFORM:
Enzi, Michael B. (WY), Ranking Member
Gregg, Judd (NH)
Alexander, Lamar (TN)
Burr, Richard (NC)
Isakson, Johnny (GA)
McCain, John (AZ)
Hatch, Orrin G. (UT)
Murkowski, Lisa (AK)
Coburn, Tom (OK)
Roberts, Pat (KS)
Shannyn’s new blog post:
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/its-not-sarahs-fault-just-ask-her/
(((Canadian Neighbor))):
I feel your pain.
Finding good caregivers (particularly for Alzheimer’s patients) is incredibly hard. And oh so stressful for family members. Be sure to take care of yourself. My father had dementia (although not Alzheimers) and the only way I got through the last 3 years of his life was to talk with all of my friends who were going through the same thing. It wasn’t a formal support group (I just can’t hack that sort of thing-and who has time?) but no one else could understand all of the feelings that dementia brings up for the family members (esp the children).
Hang in there.
With health reform being such a hot topic for our members of Congress right now, why haven’t we heard more about where they stand? Are there certain components of the legislation that are more important to them than others? What’s going to effect their vote in the end – and what can we do to make our health a top priority when voting?
Hi Mudpups. If anyone has it, sure would appreciate the link to a rare (believe me, I’ve searched) Photoshop of SP (in shades of gold and brown) where she’s in a medieval type gown, with a back of the head and neck headpiece w/ veil.
Thanks.
This could be a contest to suggest all the week long workshops and special guests!
It’s new! It’s the “hottest” rage! “Sarah Palin Fantasy Camp!”
Meet Todd & Levi, Bristol & Piper. Learn about abstinence, cessation, fashion, brake repair, home & ship building,
all about running (a city & state into the ground, that is.) Crash courses in geography, politics, and leadership. Worship services available.
From Salon article by Michael Madden:
(sorry, I don’t know how to post links)
“We’ve just learned two things here in the hearing room: number one, Sonia Sotomayor would not be permitted — under New York state law, at least — to go get a gun during the next break and shoot Sen. Tom Coburn; and number two, if she did, Coburn might deserve it.”
and
” The impression Cornyn and his allies have given is that the only people anyone ought to empathize with these days are white guys — and that Sotomayor is a big threat to them. But maybe that makes some sense. It is, after all, hard for a white man to make it in the white man’s world.”
worship services mandatory
lovemydogs,
I too cannot do the support group Pity Parties!!
I still have family that can’t grasp that I can’t go out — How, strap Mom to my back!!!!
Me – Pit-bull —–Palin – Appetizer!!!!
There is a new story posted on Huffpo about $arah’s Fundraising and references back to a small story on 538 with a graph. Nothing really New and not much meat to the story…. But it is out there. No big news.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/sarah-palin-fundraising-d_n_233558.html
Nice find, lyn! I think this part of the article will ring true to a lot of mudpups who have observed the other side.
from the article at wsj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761930140242533.html
“To become a symbol of this stature Ms. Palin has had to do the opposite of most public figures. Where others learn to take hostility in stride, she and her fans have developed the thinnest of skins. They find offense in the most harmless remarks and diabolical calculation in the inflections of the anchorman’s voice. They take insults out of context to make them seem even more insulting. They pay close attention to voices that are ordinarily ignored, relishing every blogger’s sneer, every celebrity’s slight, every crazy Internet rumor.
This has been Ms. Palin’s assigned role ever since she stepped on the national stage last summer. Indeed, she has stuck to it so unswervingly that one suspects it was settled on even before she was picked for the VP slot, that it was imposed on her by a roomful of GOP image consultants: Ms. Palin was to be the candidate on a cross.”
bubbles said: “this kind of behavior by the racists who infect our senate has happened many times before and will continue as long as the people of their states continue to elect them.”
This reminds me of some of the interviews with African-American voters in MS who were convinced that Trent Lott was on their side. Nothing could have been further from the truth, but something he said resonated with them, and of course, the white voters as well. I am tempted to say “so-called” white voters because there is probably not a snowball’s chance in heck that their lines are “pure.” I think the notion of racial purity is screeched the loudest by bigots who have skeletons in their closets…sort of like elected closeted gays who consistently vote against things like gay marriage and equal rights (think Larry Craig of ID and Jim West of WA.)
Having said all this, supposedly, I am white, but I’m not buying it.
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/sarah-palins-medicaid-scandal-letting-people-die-while-waiting/#comments
PALIN’S Medicaid scandal.
This happened on her watch and she knew about it when she resigned. Will she blame this on the socialists?
@Diane you beat me to it but here is a link!
Sarah Palin’s Medicaid Scandal: Letting People Die While Waiting
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/sarah-palins-medicaid-scandal-letting-people-die-while-waiting/
canadian neighbor.. i think of you often. my mom had dementia before her death. i still wake in tears sometimes because she was such a lovely lady and i miss her. you are doing all that you know how to do and although she can’t speak and tell you so, she knows and she you and blesses you. and so do i. take care of yourself…..bubs
@naughty monkey — are you looking for this one?
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/11/open-thread-sarah-palin-book-contest-winner/
Thank you for the awesome photos of Alaska, I often come here and keep up as much as possible, from what Levi said on TODAY it makes me think SP is addicted to the attention and can’t let go….one of my favorite shows, Kathy Griffin, said that fame is one of the worst addictions and one of the hardest to break…. I think SP has the shakes and is trying to get her fix….
I think people will get the chance to see who she really is…….
My dream is to visit Alaska and see all this nature up close….I tell everyone about this site..i
Sarah pales under Obama’s light. She has been trying her best since her resignation to emulate his words of hope trying to convince the political stage that she is somehow equal to him in ability and stature.
I listen to her attempting to change her image using new words with an upbeat message and it feels like a fraud, still unknown to itself.
She can mimic, pretend and try to show that she has grown, but that is what it is…mimicking and pretending to grow. Nothing has changed on the inside for Sarah Palin, except more anger and contempt for people who don’t think like she does.
True growth comes from acknowledging your own weaknesses and not from pretending to be someone you are not. Sarah has yet to confront her own ego. She needs to realize that in order to grow she must first find her own humility and accept her own failings and acknowledge them. She should be able to hear her oppositions words and accept their messages to her. What she is getting back is feedback of “who” she is. But Sarah can’t stand seeing herself in that mirror and instead fights back instead of taking it in and using it for her own growth.
Sarah’s biggest problem is her ego and her mouth. She just can’t let things go and she always needs to be right. Until she realizes that she is one of the most polarizing figures we have in politics, and that life isn’t about her version of “right”, she isn’t going to go anywhere other than into controversy and a constant stream of fighting and confrontations.
tbntjudy… yes i agree. very few of us are altogether what we seem or what we say we are. many black people in the south are easily swayed by politicians like sessions because they are accustomed to doing what they are told to do. they don’t believe they have a choice and in many cases they don’t.. sad but there it is.
John Kerry is not letting this go -
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/15/753745/-The-Debate-Gov-Palin-Is-Ducking
Someone asked ‘why respond to Palin?’ – my take: when something’s flat out wrong and it’s part of the news cycle, you use the truth to crush it before it takes on a life of its own, and climate change legislation is way too important to topple under the weight of distortions from anywhere or anyone.
From my inbox:
Dear MoveOn member,
Well, now we know why Sarah Palin is quitting as governor of Alaska.
In a Washington Post column, she just announced her new focus: killing our
chance to build a clean energy economy, starting with the energy bill
currently in Congress.1
Her op-ed is a marvel of misinformation and outright lies. Just like
conservatives in Congress, Palin is trotting out the “energy taxes” scare
tactic, and arguing instead for more drilling and more dirty coal. This
bill already has too many giveaways to Big Coal and Big Oil, but it’s
still not enough for Palin.2
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16581-11182389-.UxN1cx&t=12
This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused
by humans.3 The same Sarah Palin who is obsessed with drilling for oil in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And the same Sarah Palin who’s
looking for controversial issues to launch a 2012 presidential bid.
Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack
against clean energy, against the Clean Air Act–even against the creation
of millions of new jobs in solar and wind.4
But wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil.5
Clean energy is the only way to make America’s economy competitive in the
21st century.
The truth is we need a stronger energy bill in the Senate to combat our
economic and climate crisis, but Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes
for a clean energy economy. Can you chip in $25 to fight back against
Palin’s false claims?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16581-11182389-.UxN1cx&t=13
Thank you for all you do.
–Anna, Eli, Noah, Carrie and the rest of the team
From Move On
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16581-11182389-.UxN1cx&t=12
lovemydogs, excellent posts @ 73 & 79. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Lee323 had an interesting post on the paper-pushing aspect (understatement) coming from a physician’s perspective. I wish I could find it, but perhaps he/she will weigh in again. I have some experience with the insurance companies since I am the office manager for a tiny practice. The amount of documentation required for reimbursement from some of the companies is unbelievable, and then they simply say they cannot pay the claim under one code so we have to resubmit under a lesser code. Ultimately, what we are paid is not enough to cover basic overhead of running the office. I am in the process of figuring out which insurance companies are the worst, and I am going to sever our relationship with them. We cannot afford to keep doing this.
We need universal health care. I know many are swayed by the insurance company scare ads. There was an article on HuffPo about this, and many Canadians commented. Almost 100% indicated they would not give up their system. There is not perfect solution, but what we have not doesn’t even begin to address the problems we have.
What say you, Canadians, Brits, Aussies, et al?
diana …………mrs palin is a narcissist and probably has several other personality disorders as well. these disorders make what you would like to see happen with her, impossible. these handicaps are real. they are What she is. there is no cure and no hope of improvement. the best her loved ones can hope for would be a moderation of her behavior and that she will not do unless forced by imprisonment or institutionalization. then she would agree to therapy so she could get out of that situation…b
@#80austintx Says:
It’s funny , Sessions was turned down because he is a racist. Now he calls Sonia a racist……..
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so true! i want her to just stop being so diplomatic and throw that right back in his face!! beyond hypocritical! and Graham, who defended Alito against attacks on his temperament and personality during his confirmation hearing, then going all snarky on Sotomayor yesterday. ack!
This is a little old, but since Buchanan (or “Butt-cannon” given his propensity for noxious outbursts) has been harping on Sotomayor’s self-taught English it is worth a reminder:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/22/misspelled-english-buchanan/
ha! we gotta speak englush, but we don’t gotta know how ta spell it!
I also too hope that mccain doesn’t get re-elected…he’s a mixed-up old geezer, a has-been, and curses to him for opening up Pandora’s box…shame on him!…shame on him for getting even with the innocent rest of us by letting palin loose…country first my ass, what a liar! after hearing these other vindictive congressmen during the Sotomayor hearings, I say it’s time to clean house! if the voters of any region think this is ok, then boycott that state! I’m sick as hell of all of these dishonest, immoral, lying fools that fight tooth and nail to put their own skewed beliefs in place (religion and politics don’t team up in my book)…it’s a house of criminals without bars.
I tried posting this earlier but apparently I had too many links in the message. I thought all of you would be interested in the e-mail I just received from MoveOn.org. I also thought some of you may be interested in contributing to the cause.
Here’s the e-mail message minus the sources that have all the links to news stories we’ve already seen………………………………….
Dear MoveOn member,
Well, now we know why Sarah Palin is quitting as governor of Alaska.
In a Washington Post column, she just announced her new focus: killing our chance to build a clean energy economy, starting with the energy bill currently in Congress.1
Her op-ed is a marvel of misinformation and outright lies. Just like conservatives in Congress, Palin is trotting out the “energy taxes” scare tactic, and arguing instead for more drilling and more dirty coal. This bill already has too many giveaways to Big Coal and Big Oil, but it’s still not enough for Palin.2
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today, we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s attack. Click here to donate $25:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16582-12636216-l_Oh81x&t=3
This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused by humans.3 The same Sarah Palin who is obsessed with drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And the same Sarah Palin who’s looking for controversial issues to launch a 2012 presidential bid.
Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack against clean energy, against the Clean Air Act—even against the creation of millions of new jobs in solar and wind.4
But wind and solar create more than twice as many jobs as coal and oil.5 Clean energy is the only way to make America’s economy competitive in the 21st century.
The truth is we need a stronger energy bill in the Senate to combat our economic and climate crisis, but Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes for a clean energy economy. Click here to chip in $25 to fight back against Palin’s false claims:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16582-12636216-l_Oh81x&t=4
Thank you for all you do.
–Anna, Eli, Noah, Carrie and the rest of the team
Diane # 93 & Cynthia, TX #94
” But we didn’t hear a peep out of Governor Sarah Palin about this scandal while she was explaining why she’s bailing.”
Is this the iceberg?
Re: http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/sarah-palins-medicaid-scandal-letting-people-die-while-waiting/
Good posts, lovemydogs.
#63 Proverbs 22:1, also from your link:
“On this verse, the Jewish commentary, Soncino, says that a person’s good reputation, his name, is his most valuable asset. This is because of the integrity it took to produce it and the benefits it provides for one after he has it.
The Bible shows that God jealously guards His name and acts to ensure that it remains untarnished. His name represents what He is, and so it is with us as well. When we hear a name, images of what that person is immediately come to mind. In our mind’s eye, we might recall a person as tall or short, male or female, learned or ignorant, black or white, angry or passive, beautiful or plain, vocal or quiet, honest or lying, responsible or irresponsible. Many character traits may flash through our minds in a moment or two.
The same happens to others as they think of us. What we project to others has everything to do with what we believe and practice. What kind of witness are we giving? Is what we believe and practice as true as God’s Word?
Thus, if we want to have a good name in the eyes of God and man, we have to recognize truth, understand it and make it a part of us by submitting to it. This is where truth in a person’s witness begins. If truth does not form the foundation of a person’s life, the witness will reflect it.
…We keep lying to ourselves and others, thus our name is not good before God. It means that to have this good name, we…must face our vanities and stop deceiving ourselves that God will “just have to take us as we are.” We need to quit blaming our failures, problems, and shortcomings on others, providing ourselves with justification for what we are and do.
Conduct is the “stuff” of which reputations are formed. Good conduct has truth at its foundation and integrity as its constant companion. From these two, a witness is produced. God wants our reputation before men to be built on His truth. Are we honestly doing this?
John W. Ritenbaugh
The Ninth Commandment (1997)
BREAKING NEWS MSNBC ~
Senate HELP Committee PASSES Health Care Reform Bill through Committee. It is the FIRST Committee to act on Health Care REFORM.
Read it here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31921017/ns/politics-capitol_hill/?ns=politics-capitol_hill
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thank you for that i was looking to find something on this after i seen a blurb on CNN and didn’t catch it all
From a Huffpo story written by Steven Waldman… who it says is ‘Editor in Chief of BeliefNet’.Story.. ” Why I am Bullish on Sarah Palin”
I have no idea what BeliefNet is but His opinion seems to be that her Christian or Religious following or followers is a strengh of her’s and the story has a positive slant.
(one quote )
“The sources of her appeal remain undiminished. Her popularity never came from her track record as governor, so failure to finish the term won’t matter that much to her supporters. She’s beloved largely because of who she is and what she’s accomplished as a person not what she’s accomplished as a governor. The most important fact for the religious conservatives who love her remains that she gave birth to a baby with downs syndrome rather than opting for an abortion.”
So he concedes she does NOT have a track record as a Governor… but people will support her…?
This is why all of us need to make sure everybody sees the REAL ” Grifter Palin” and that her ONLY base are these ‘ Religious wing-nuts ‘ who would put her in power for only 1 reason. To them … qualified… Who cares.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-waldman/why-im-bullish-on-sarah-p_b_233356.html
UK Lady Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 9:15 AM
John Kerry is not letting this go -
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It’s about time we smack this lying-quitter down, continually!
So simple sayrah: “Why the long face?”
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bubbles Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
diana …………mrs palin is a narcissist and probably has several other personality disorders as well. these disorders make what you would like to see happen with her, impossible. these handicaps are real. they are What she is. there is no cure and no hope of improvement.
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bubbles, you are spot on. Many mental-health providers won’t even attempt to treat someone with NPD. Someone asked on one of these threads whether SP had ever once admitted that she had made a mistake, and I don’t believe she has..unless it was some sort of dissembling on her part. She believes she in invincible and always right. She thrives on adulation; witness how she was on the campaign trail; she was riding a huge high. Then remember how depressed she seemed after she came back to AK and the sea-change in her popularity there. One very sick woman and one to be pitied.
The thing about Sarah Palin is that love her or hate her, she is fascinating and commands attention. And because she is fascinating people tune in whenever she is mentioned. And when people tune in, whether it be to listen to “left” or “right” wing TV shows, to post on blogs, to call into radio shows or to read fluffy, meaningless op-ed pieces, the result is that ratings go up and revenues increase for whomever is providing the forum. For this reason and this reason alone, Palin isn’t going away any time soon – not as long as everyone is still ‘fascinated’ by her.
And let’s be honest. We all find Sarah Palin fascinating too. I admit I do. I can still remember the first day I had ever heard of Sarah Palin – the day she was picked for VP candidate. I was absolutely blown away that there was this woman who on the surface seemed to be such a ‘superwomen’ and I was briefly worried that Obama may have some competition. Here was someone with a compelling life-story. I mean between moose-hunting, raising 5 kids one who was special needs, running a state and taking on the VP nomination with a 4-month old DS baby in tow and being stunningly attractive at the same time, I mean – wow. Of course along with fascination comes curiosity and with curiosity for many, many people comes research and with research comes the truth. And the truth about Sarah Palin doesn’t come close to the ‘myth’ of Sarah Palin. In fact the truth about Sarah Palin is that just about everything about Sarah Palin is a big fat lie.
The truth of Sarah Palin has slowly chipped away at the myth of Sarah Palin until really all that is left is a mere caricature of that original ‘superwoman’ who was thrust upon the world last summer. And while a small minority of an increasingly shrinking political party may consciously choose to ignore all the facts and truths about Sarah Palin and cling to their original meme that this woman is ‘super’ because she is an pretty face for their increasingly delusional paranoia that America isn’t what they think it should be, the majority of Americans of both parties have seen behind the curtain.
And for all Palin’s complaining about the media, the fact is they have given her a free ride. They have never asked any hard questions or demanded accountability for anything from her, even when they have been face to face with her. And they haven’t done that because she is ratings-gold and no one wants to kill the golden egg layer.
honestyingov@108
OMG; Gag me.
So having a Down’s Syndrome baby somehow qualifies one to be in politics? I’ve known a lot of mothers of DS babies who are/were a million times more qualified. It isn’t about the baby, it’s about not aborting him. How dare they? And this isn’t using the children?
I have no idea who she is in her private life (other than vindictive, ignorant and mean which I assume because of her behavior in public) but I am absolutely certain that she is not taking proper care of her DS child. One cannot do that and do all of the other crap that she is (or is not) doing in Alaska and the US.
Once again-using Trig as a prop….she ain’t no Mother Theresa,
and I know that for sure…
#87 lovemydogs Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
From Salon article by Michael Madden:
(sorry, I don’t know how to post links)
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lovemydogs…. about posting a link.
It is very simple and there are only two steps.
(I hope I explain this correctly )
If you are on the page and reading the story you are looking at, in your browser window (at the top of the page ) you will have a http://... etc.
Use your mouse and ‘right’ click in that space. It will turn blue and become high lighted. Once it is highlighted use the mouse to right click and COPY.
Then use the PASTE function with the mouse to copy it into the text box here. Just two steps. Hope this helps.
TBNT Judy
The National Health Service in England whilst not absolutely perfect, it is pretty damn wondeful.
I can’t imagine how things would work without it. Nobody goes without good quality health care, even if they are an alcoholic homeless person without a penny to their name.
Nobody is stopped from buying private health insurance if they want it, but
it is purely a personal choice if the person can afford it.
I have read a lot of horror stories in blogs and news articles from the US in the last couple of years. It is shocking to me how people over there have to suffer financial ruin and distress due to the disgraceful activities of the big insurance companies.
The president is a wonderul man and I hope he can pass his health plan in spite of the self serving Republican party. No doubt they all have good insurance policies or enough money for it not to matter to them.
We all saw and read AKM’s story about the last Ethics complaint last night but it is also a thread on Huffpo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/another-ethics-complaint-_0_n_233001.html
Diane # 93 & Cynthia, TX #94 lyn #106
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/07/15/sarah-palins-medicaid-scandal-letting-people-die-while-waiting/
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And did we not just lose 2 of our top people in the AK Dept Health and Human Services.
So while this is going on Gino has been focusing on abortion.
What do you suppose that this is not the only department in Alaska that is in a complete total mess due to lack of executive leadership.
It is time for a complete state audit. (if such a thing exists)
OCLib~
There are a lot of truisms there….but I’ve never been impressed with GINO’s “I am woman; hear me roar” persona. I’ve always felt that she was in way over her head and have kept my eye on her like one who is stealthily trying to kill a poisonous snake before it strikes again.
I too, have been baffled by the MSM, which she conveniently rails against…and yet, they continually provide her a platform to advance her cause by perpetrating a fraud.
What I deduce is that the only thing that would stop her (if only temporarily) would be conviction and imprisonment….and even that “appears” to be a tricky climax (no pun intended).
I see on Andrew Halcro’s website he is reporting news regarding Palin’s first Epic Fail……her very own dairy. You know….the one where her hand picked Board of Ag, headed by her best friend Kristan Cole funneled big money to 4 farmers, and two ex dairy farmers. They got $650,000 in Federal grants, most of the equipment out of Mat Maid, the State of Alaska also paid farmers for milk they dumped in their fields, another $630,000 in State loans. Well…..it seems due to milk quality issues they have been pulled out of Target and Kaladi Brothers, have a $20,000 Federal Tax Lien placed on them and that they have not been making any payments to the state? With the Palin Gravy Train leaving the station, will Mr. Parnell continue this subsidation?
Don Young voted NO, American Clean Energy and Security Act.
http://support.edf.org/site/VoteCenter?page=voteInfo&voteId=9337
I’m thinkin’ that Palin and big oil are about to get very cozy. I’m willing to bet they will be paying her to be the attack dog and “write” OpEd’s, do political ads, etc.
TBNTJudy,
I am one of those who posted many times on the Huff article explaining Cdn healthcare
The eagle photo took my breath away. Simply stunning!
119 trisha Says: I’m thinkin’ that Palin and big oil are about to get very cozy. I’m willing to bet they will be paying her to be the attack dog and “write” OpEd’s, do political ads, etc.
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That sound really logical. Good observation. Her higher calling for Drill Baby Drill.
Polly:
Of course Murkowski and Young voted NO. They are toeing the party line.
ARGH.
Mudpups – via Wonkette, proof that Snowbilly was FOR cap and trade before she was against it. AKM, please investigate! Thanks~
http://www.seethroughthepodium.org/issues/climate/environment_mccain.pdf
I never thought Palin looked like Tina Fey so was happy to find this from Psychology Today.
Excerpt:
Four Unpalatable Political-Psychological Truths — Guaranteed to Offend Liberals and Conservatives Alike
3. Tina Fey bears no resemblance to Sarah Palin. I pride myself on discerning resemblances that are not immediately obvious, but I cannot recognize Sarah Palin in Tina Fey, even (or especially) on the recent Saturday Night Live skit. Tina Fey conveys a self-awareness and consciousness that are entirely absent from the visage of Palin, who confidently sees the world as she – and her fellow Christian fundamentalists – imagine it.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/200809/four-unpalatable-political-psychological-truths-guaranteed-offend-l
Yeah, about $P and oil -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/15/753724/-Palin-ensures-Bush-admin-presence-in-Alaska-oil-decisions
Senator Franken will be up next for a 30 minute Q&A of Judge Sotomayor.
98 Diana Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
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She can mimic, pretend and try to show that she has grown, but that is what it is…mimicking and pretending to grow. Nothing has changed on the inside for Sarah Palin, except more anger and contempt for people who don’t think like she does.
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You got it in one Diana, she is a Mynha [sp?] bird – that’s what all her ‘training sessions’ during the McCain campaign were for – stuffing her head with his/republican talking points (not all of which actually agreed with hers!) and she is pretty good at spitting those back out.
People said she was a ‘quick study’. Yeah, only in the sense of short-term memory, like cramming for an exam.
As you say, she has not LEARNED anything. This is what I find most galling about her, but it goes back to the saying I like (not sure whether I came up with this or stole it from someone else), but:
“The biggest hindrance to learning is thinking you know it [all] already.”
If you don’t come into the learning experience admitting you have a lack and that the persons around you can, if you follow their advice, supply what is lacking, there is no point in you entering that learning experience.
My experience as a student and as a Comm. Col. teacher is that learners are eager, interested, always wanting to go the extra distance, inquire further about the material than they have to for ‘the test’.
I can’t say I’ve ever seen Sarah Palin ‘eager’ about anything in particular, nor interested enough to be moved to much in the way of action – what bills did she write or sponsor to help Native villages, Special Needs children, victims of rape/incest? What ’cause’ has she consistently been a champion of?
As for going the extra distance, she couldn’t even finish the 4 year run that was her governorship.
And she has never seemed to be interested (re: Andrew Halcro – ‘you have all those facts memorized, wow, but does it really matter?’) in doing more than what she thinks it takes to GET votes, and appears to disdain the idea that she should need to learn anything new, take anyone’s advice, on how to actually DO THE JOB to which she would be elected if she succeeded in getting all those votes.
AKM – Love the bird, by the way … magnificent
re: mental health of sarah
Why do you think her “Medical Records” consisted of a one page letter on election eve ??
I recommend the following piece written by John McNamara: “Palin: Idiot? Genius or Something Else,” on the Palin Page in Huffington Post.
“She does not have the capacity or character to lead.”
“What she has is the need to amass power,” and seeking more more fame to make more fame…..you get the idea. He provides a very good analysis.
A question: I would have provided a link, but I have to admit, I do not know how to create a link in the “Leave a Reply” space. Help is very much appreciated. Thanks.
austintx – Good Point. I hadn’t thought of that and always imagined it had something to do with babies.
#109, I voted for John Kerry but never really had the enthusiasm for him like I did for President Obama. I know he thought he shouldn’t have to stick up for his military record but because of the scumminess of the swift boaters he did need to… Anyway, I’ve noticed throughout the past election & recently that he is a very effective “attack dog” He’s a smart man & not afraid to go head to head on things. I have a new respect for him & only wish he would have defended himself as staunchly as has the president.
I showed up (but she didn’t) for $arahs supposed bill signing in Valdez Monday with my “Bailin’ Palin.. If there’s a job to do she won’t quit until she’s halfway thru” shirt on.. There were very few people there and since $arah didn’t show up the local paper couldn’t really do a story about it.. So instead they just ran a picture of me sitting there in that shirt.. The way the photo is shot it appears as if I’m the only one that showed up for the event…lol
I think that this issue with the Medicaid/Medicare problem should be loudly shouted from the rooftops and the finger of blame placed squarely upon Palin’s shoulders. She has been the one in charge of the state. It is ultimately her responsibility. She loudly proclaims herself to be concerned about the welfare of people, yet her own state is in turmoil.
On the Trig issue, I pointed out in the other open thread, Palin who claims to be such an advocate of special needs children certainly only uses her special needs child when it might help her with a photo op, like the Runners World Article, but where was Trig when she went to Evansville to speak to the RTL crowd? Home with a babysitter. Where was Trig when she went to NY to “walk for Autism”? Home with a babysitter. She had no problem with traipsing all over the country with him (and a state paid babysitter) during the campaign, but now, suddenly she can’t be bothered to bring him along to events that involve special needs. Why is that? Inconvenient for her to actually have to take care of the little one? Can’t have as much fun if you have someone around that actually needs a little attention from you?
And one thing I would like to point out about the Kerry response in the Daily Kos piece (thanks UK Lady #100 for this) which strikes me as the heart of the matter that he seems to understand that so many in the media miss…..
When asked why he felt the need to respond to Palin’s Opinion piece he replied…
when something’s flat out wrong and it’s part of the news cycle, you use the truth to crush it before it takes on a life of its own,
@#134hawk Says:
I showed up (but she didn’t) for $arahs supposed bill signing in Valdez Monday with my “Bailin’ Palin.. If there’s a job to do she won’t quit until she’s halfway thru” shirt on…
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Lol! that is hilarious!
Molly–as I said yesterday, Bristol was prob. inside taking care of one and then two babies…
Gov Iquitarod is a puppet for most likely those people in Giddings, TX and the surrounding oil patch. That’s why Kerry shouldn’t let it go. Weren’t some of those shmucks involved in the Swift Boat BS?
Also, I know some of you think she cares about her kids like a regular mom, but when she says BS like “Bristol can be used,”
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/bristol-can-be.html
what makes you think she cares about Trig? Her actions speak way louder than her scripted words.
@#134hawk
You MUST send the picture to AKM. Maybe she will post it–she can put the black thingy over your eyes so you remain anonymous.
@#134hawk
You MUST send the picture to AKM. Maybe she will post it–she can put the black thingy over your eyes so you remain anonymous.
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I’ll send the editor a note and have her email me the picture.. They don’t have it up on their website yet but they only post a few stories a week there
When something’s flat out wrong and it’s part of the news cycle, you use the truth to crush it before it takes on a life of its own. ~ John Kerry
I believe this could easily be The Mudflats Motto. : )
Flanders: What the press should do is ask her how the cap and trade plan that she supported in the last election is different from the plan the President and congress have?
I hear sputtering and then topic change.
this could be a good contest……..100 ways to say no to Scarah campaigning with you (100 ways to leave your lover). Govs and other politicians bess get their excuses ready. Reporters are going to start hounding them, lol.
And I’ll bet the ones who do take her on will do so only with arm turning pressure by big money power. This could be fun. But I’d still rather see her impeached.
I’m not clever enough say something witty or politician enough to handle it diplomatically.
100 ways to say no to Sarah:
“Hell No”.
“Thanks, but no thanks”.
“Sarah who?”
“Go home Sarah, serve your family.”
Don’t know if it was already posted, but The Nation has the video of KO discussing the resignation with their editor:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/palinfacts_video
Thanks to you, the problem child. Maybe I should have given a little more info. The medieval gold/yellow/brown Photoshop of SP could be anytime from the get-go to end of May 2009. It’s about medium size. I searched Wonkette and Palingates. Seems to me the background of the website was light brownish.
Thanks again.
curiouser –
Well – the non-pregnancy also.too.
sarah skated last time. Not gonna happen next go around if she thinks she is going POTUS.
austin““one page health report. probably said ‘please commit this woman in the nearest maximum security booby hatch in alaska’…hee hee…b
nswfm,
I wrote about the “Bristol can be used” statement back during the same week Andrew Sullivan wrote about it:
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/11/saradise-lost-book-2-chapter-11-bristol.html
Mae…….do you know how to highlight, copy and paste? if so just put it in with your post, I think the website thingy is make your name into a link which if clicked on goes back the posters web site.
Really fun article on Palin at Huffpo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-frank/poor-persecuted-sarah-pal_b_233494.html
I’d like to see her poor, prosecuted Palin.
honestyinGov, Beliefnet is the largest religion site on the Internet. It represents all faiths and used to have a vibrant community of bloggers. This has lessoned a great deal and the quality has diminished after its sale to AOL.
Where I agree with Steve is that Sarah’s future is religion based, and because of the study that I do on the 7 mountains believers among Dominionists I find that very scary. The one thing this group has been lacking is a charismatic leader who has a broad appeal. A recent HuffPo (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/john-ensign-linked-to-do_b_231272.html) will give you some idea about this new religious movement. But it is really worse than that because there is a connection with militias and groups collecting weapons for the end times. The Wasilla Bible Chursh is part of this and there is a connection to the AIP.
MSM really doesn’t want to report on what is going on in the darks corners of Christianity but I consider this the greatest threat to our peace.
sayNOtoPIP
That’s a fun idea, 50 excuses to get out of having $P on your patch
1. You KNOW I’d love you to come, but my wife would feel so jealous and unnattractive next to you.
That sort of thing?
Huffpo has all kinds of stories out there. This one titled…
Palin: Idiot? Genius ? or something Else.?
John McNamara- (Author and producer)
Wayyyyyy too many quotes to get them all but here is just one.
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“Because like Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin, more than anything else, is a weirdo.
Is she Jackson-level weird? Not yet. But Michael Jackson was famous for forty years. She hasn’t even been famous eleven months. And she’s plenty weird already. Which is kind of an achievement in itself. I’m hard-pressed to think of anyone in the public eye who’s shot this high, this fast, starting out a little odd and then, in mid-ascent, before all eyes, blossomed like a display of Fourth of July fireworks into a bursting full tilt, hi-def, fruit loop weird-plosion. ”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcnamara/palin-idiot-genius-or-som_b_233653.html
Can a Canadian donate? If so…count me in.
Sorry Paula…my previous post was directed to you.
Speaking of people begging for a job (according to Sarah’s tweet), Sarah herself appears to be begging Repubs and Dems for a speaking gig with no takers in sight.
Say NO to Palin in Politics Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
this could be a good contest……..100 ways to say no to Scarah campaigning with you (100 ways to leave your lover). Govs and other politicians bess get their excuses ready. Reporters are going to start hounding them, lol.
And I’ll bet the ones who do take her on will do so only with arm turning pressure by big money power. This could be fun. But I’d still rather see her impeached.
I’m not clever enough say something witty or politician enough to handle it diplomatically.
100 ways to say no to Sarah:
“Hell No”.
“Thanks, but no thanks”.
“Sarah who?”
“Go home Sarah, serve your family.”
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Get off my bus, hussy!
I’m abstaining from that, thanks.
Why would I want to abort my campaign?
@AKGovSarahPalin I’m not going to waste 140 characters trying to say “Hell, no” nicely. #tcot
mae lewis
You are not alone in being untechnical. I am going to email AKM and ask to have clear easy instuctions on how to do links and post pictures. I think they are the most asked for things that people don’t know how to do.
If AKM is amenable these instructions could go in the FAQ section (Frequently asked questions), which is situated in the black heading bar just under the Mudflats headline.
If you press your arrow on FAQ you come up with lots of answers to questions you may have.
Re: my health care in Canada. Look…I know we are not perfect. We need tweaking, but at the very least we are all insured…we all get care and we get meds and tests when needed.
Some of the scare tactics I heard on Morning Joe :
1> Govnt gets between you and doc…wrong
2> People get MRI” cat scans etc, whenever they ask….wrong. (Doctors do regular testing, and use those tests when warranted)
3. Wait times are far too long….perhaps sometimes. Usually for elective surgeries. My husband was diagnosed with heart problems 1 month ago, and he is having heart surgery on July 29. Not bad..huh?
4. We dont get to choose our docs—-wrong again.
There is more, but that was the highlights. My company is currently employing an American from Washington state. He is thrilled with his healthcare here…as well as his company paid benefit plan from work. That plan allows for him to have free dental…optomotrist-therapeutic massage, free prescriptions…and semi private hospital coverage. He is also covered for out of country travel.
He tells me, that the difference he pays in income taxes here, compared to his home state is negligble, and feels its well worth the benefits he is receiving.
I know other Canadians may have had various issues, because as I said, we are not perfect. However it feels good to know that everyone of my compatriots gets the same quality of care that I do.
I have never in my life been given a bill for healthcare….I never have to worry about getting sick and losing everything I have.
Folks…don’t let that fear speech get to you. Govnt. sponsored health care is a gift. Get behind your president on his health care plans. I can assure you, you will never be sorry.
The insurance companies won’t like it, but if they can spend billions lobbying your government…then why can they not pay for someone’s healthcare because there was a preexisting condition. That doesnt happen here.
Andrew Halcro has an interesting piece in his Wednesday Shout Out today about the state of that dairy company that $P takes credit for “returning” to the private sector. Doesn’t sound like anything to take credit for. But it reminded me of something. Kristan Cole, the Trustee of the trust fund, is STILL on the Board of Agriculture?
I am sure that is legal, but . . .
Lilybart is absolutely correct. She copies evrything thst she can that barack does. an that is what she is trying to do now runnibg for president. she plans to run for almost two years. She can’t wait to announce so she can get secret service. Thats what this is all about. She also thinjks that she will be able to fill arenas like obama did as well but will never happen.
Watchin MSNBC and saw Lisa Murkowski! I guess I didn’t know she was on our side, she was up there standing with Nurses, and The President!
Sorry about the bad spelling. It should read, Lilybart is absolutely correct. Palin copies everything that preseident obama does and did when he was running for president. In her own mind, she is quitting as governor to run for president and july 26 will be her first day. I dont think it will take very long before she announces. She will announce on the very first day a candidate can annouce they are running for president. She reallly liked having trhe secret service surround her with security. That in her mind makes her looks presidential. she thinks that she will be able to fill stadiums and arenas all over the country, but she is going to be sorely disaapointed. any bets?
you guys there is some mystery goo floating in the ocean, lol……
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/environment/story/71842.html
“Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It’s thick and dark and “gooey” and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough’s Planning and Community Services Department.”
Oh, I just read this comment under the Daily Kos John Kerry article and I HAD to share it with a group who would appreciate it:
Re: whether Sarah actually wrote the WaPo OpEd (that looks really funny) piece:
“Actually, I Think She Did Write It (3+ / 0-)
The prose was streamlined a bit, no doubt, but it’s her work. Just as Johann Bernoulli recognized Isaac Newton’s anonymous paper on the brachistochrone problem (“tanquam ex ungue leonem” — “we know the lion by his claw”), any perceptive person can recognize Sarah Palin’s authorship of this bit of massaged word salad (“sic semper et tu betcha” — “we know the Caribou Barbie by her plastic”).
by stevemb on Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 11:10:21 AM PDT”
from: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/15/753745/-The-Debate-Gov-Palin-Is-Ducking
Sic semper et tu betcha!
Schuster and David Corn are beatin’ up sarah pretty good on MSNBC.
MoveOn Fundraising Email Invoking Sarah Palin’s “Lies” Brings In $100,000 In One Day
Wow, it looks like Sarah Palin is one heck of a prolific fundraiser — for the left, that is.
A fundraising email that MoveOn blasted out yesterday afternoon calling for cash to counter Palin’s “lies” on climate change has brought in more than $100,000 in 24 hours, a MoveOn spokesman confirms to me.
MoveOn blasted out the call for cash in response to Palin’s Op ed in the Washington Post attacking Obama’s cap and trade plan as an “enormous threat to our economy.”
“This is the same Sarah Palin who doesn’t believe climate change is caused by humans,” MoveOn’s fundraising email read. “Now she’s positioning herself as the face of the conservative attack against clean energy.”
“Sarah Palin’s lies could sink our hopes for a clean energy economy,” the email continued, calling on members to chip in money to “fight back against Palin’s false claims.”
Palin’s political action committee raised some $200,000 for her in the ten days after she resigned as governor of Alaska. MoveOn’s claim of $100,000 in one day means her attacks on Obama’s cap and trade bill raised half that amount — for her opponents — in one day.
Says MoveOn’s spokesman: “It is still pouring in — at a good rate.”
To: naughty monkey: here’s a picture of $arah Palin as queen:
http://lynnrockets.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/palin-queen.jpg
(Thank you, Say No, I highlighted, it copied, pasted it, but I am waiting for something magical to happen to “underline” it and make it a link. Thanks).
Andrew Sullivan today -
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/why-we-beltway-elites-like-sotomayor-more-than-palin-.html
I’ve written all this before, but let me make what I think is a fairly obvious point: There’s absolutely nothing wrong, much less “arch,” about criticizing Sarah Palin for being an anti-intellectual demagogue while simultaneously demanding respect for Sonia Sotomayor.
Mae
Bravo!!
Laurie,
At one time, at least in Ontario, we did have a time where you could be charged for a portion of the fee over and above what the government paid. I’m talking 30 years ago as I received bills from the anesthetist and the oral surgeon. The anesthestist was $500 and surgeon was about $1,000. So our system has had changes throughout it’s life. This no longer applies.
Fortunately Santa was good to me that year and delivered an envelope around a 4 foot Smurf as my surgery was Dec 21 and was released from hosp Christmas morning. Santa must have known I was going to be home that day!!!
Here is a link to the Huff story dated June 13 called Americans Who’ve Used Canada’s Health-Care System Respond to Current Big-Lie Media Campaign — We Canadians jumped in providing information, answering questions and debunking CPR’s Ads, etc!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/americans-whove-used-cana_b_215256.html
hawk; would also love to see the tshirt pic. LOL!
Laurie: I am guessing they’ll take $ from anywhere. Looks like their anti Palin findraiser is doing better than boneheads pac
Hehohumha!
To Naughty Monkey, a second picture of Queen Sarah, with Thanks to Say No
http://iflizwerequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/queenone.jpg
(It really doesn’t look like $arah, but it’s a lovely costume).
Great pictue AKM..I like to walk a lot in the hills with my dogs, soo enjoy the piece and quiet…Love taking pictures also…Thx AKM for sharing…
Thanks again, Say No, Now I’m like a kid with a new toy. Here is a picture for everyone. I think that it must be from November, 2008:
http://www.worldart.com.au/images/mccain-sarah-palin-the-morning-after-painting1.jpg
Sarah is fighting for her political life right now and there is no doubt she is losing and losing big. She is too extreme for this country and her actions and behaviors just reinforce both conservatives and liberals, to dismiss her. She is the Paris Hilton of politicians, all smiles and coyness, with no substance or depth.
She is fascinating to so many, and yet most people don’t know why that is. However, isn’t it true that when you come across an accident you slow down, because you just have to take a look? There is something fascinating about a train wreck, a bridge jumper, or a person who is self destructive and doesn’t even know it. We are fascinated by Sarah’s incredible naïveté, her righteous world view and her over-inflated ego. Her actions are so extreme they defy common sense and it captures our attention. Yes, we are indeed fascinated by Sarah but for all the wrong reasons!
The reason why Sarah Palin and extremists like her are so fascinating for us to talk about and to watch is because their own understanding of life, has no intelligence in which to defend itself. It causes us to stop and stare, shocked with disbelief over statements or actions which make little if no sense.
Extremists like Sarah Palin want so much to be “right” that they render themselves unable to learn anything new. Their reasoning consists of mindless repetition of the same old antiquated beliefs. Even their old bullying tactics no longer work, and they ultimately end up feeling defeated and afraid. This fear drives them to extreme measures without any conscious understanding of the cliff they are about to jump off of. Well, it seems Sarah just jumped off that cliff.
This is not the rise of Sarah Palin or even the extreme right; rather, they are just reacting violently to their own political and social death. Their hatred of anything that challenges their own ignorance is a catalyst for their rage and it spills outwardly in the form of bigotry, intolerance and anger against those they hate and blame the most.
These are the death throes of the extreme right and no matter how clever they believe their plans to be, they are lashing out mindlessly and ineffectively. Sarah Palin is headed to the outer fringes of society where extremism can live quietly, and by the rules of the wild without a political following shocked and awed at her level of ignorance and ineptitude.
Whether Sarah Palin is a narcissist and or has a personality disorder, she certainly does not unite or attempt to unite anyone. All she does is polorize and and anger the very people she needs to draw in and win over.
No one in this country will ever elect her for any office, until she looks in the mirror and finds out the truth about who she really is. And I am pretty sure she will never do that!
Sic semper et tu betcha!!! LOL – thanks for that Wannabe!
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd just reported that PO had Lisa Murkowski at the WH today.
austintx – You may want to rephrase that
Hey everyone – rush over to ADN and check out the latest that just broke re: the State of Alaska being disallowed from enrolling Medicaid/Medicare patients due to snafus that have led to approximately 200 DEATHS while people couldn’t get the are they need!!!
This could sink her little ship.
UK Lady -
Ok……..smarty pants.
PO invited LM over to have a talk at the WH.
Appears that $aint $arah is allowing people to DIE due to mismanagement:
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.
No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
In the meantime, frail and vulnerable Alaskans who desperately need the help are struggling. One elderly woman is stuck in a nursing home, for lack of care at home. Another woman, suffering from chronic pain and fatigue, said she’s so weak, she often can’t even pop dinner into the microwave.
The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.
A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.
MORE at ADN
@Canadian Neighbour…thank you for the link to that article. Good read…but some is hard on the blood pressure.
You know, 3 years ago, hubby and I were in Nova Scotia on holiday. We are from Manitoba. My husband nearly got his big toe cut off while cutting grass at one of the apartment buildings my SIL owns…and of course had to go to hospital.
Silly me, I did not remember to bring our Manitoba Health cards with us…and the doc on duty stitched him up…gave him a script…and said…”call us with your number when you get home…if you remember”.
I think we are very lucky.
Breaking News! Governer Sarah Palin has just authorized the hunting of medicare recipients from helicopters. Bounties will be paid on a sliding scale:
Septuagenarians – $300
Octogenarians – $200
Nonagenarians – $100
To claim your bounty bring the left forearm of the medicare recipient to the Anchorage governor’s office.
http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/864670.html
Meghan McCan has spoken out to identify Joe the Plumber for what he is in an interview in OUT magazine. This quote is from the story on Huff: (LOL)
“Joe the Plumber — you can quote me — is a dumba$$. He should stick to plumbing.”
sorry austintx – couldn’t resist
Basheert – What a terrible situation. No need for an iceberg if this is due to mismanagement, as it would appear.
Diana – hope you are right.
The New Yorker magazine has an insightful piece on the mysterious soon to be x-gov of Alaska,
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/07/20/090720taco_talk_hertzberg?yrail
It starts off with a quote from Bob Dylan’s “Sara”
Sara, Sara
Whatever made you want to change your mind?
Sara, Sara
So easy to look at, so hard to define.
I know Snoskred posts information about it due to interest of some of us.
Hopefully in just under 29 minutes Shuttle Endeavour will finally launch!!
LOL, Freakout!
If you are still wondering about those mysterious “blobs” in the ocean , wonkette has the answer.
http://wonkette.com/409885/the-day-sarah-palin-scraped-off-her-makeup
Here is the Plum Line story about how $arah fund raised for Move On.
$100,000 plus ( better than $arahPAC )
I hope someone here can give the Twit a Tweet and tell her what a great Op Ed she did…. and how much money it raised. ( Please….. somebody?)
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/climate-change/moveon-fundraising-email-invoking-sarah-palins-lies-brings-in-100000-in-one-day/
I’m off in my own world, watching clips of the Sotomayor hearings. She’s very impressive. At the same time, I can’t help but try to picture what might be going on in the Palin household.
I see Sarah with her secret love interest watching the hearings and exchanging sly winks when Todd isn’t watching. Somebody has to take care of the kids, right? Sarah is going to keep an Alaskan native anchor named Todd? Hah.
Sarah thinks she could hang that Sonia person, Mexican or Puerto Rican or whatever she is, out to dry. A little help from Greta and she’d be over the top. Those pesky Scientology questions can be ignored like all her other lies. After all, she sold that jet on eBay, didn’t she?
Sarah could sell the hell out of used cars, I’d wager. Maybe she could start a chain of lots across the U.S. “Honest Sarah’s” Cars guaranteed until they quit. Just a small step in Naughty Monkey pumps from that car lot to the Supreme Court.
Sorry about the rant. She pisses me off.
NEW THREAD ALERT
Also in that Google search about the Move On Fundraising ( by $arah)
Huffpo has linked to the Plum line article as well about an hour ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/anti-palin-fundraising-e_n_233978.html
From Move On
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16581-11182389-.UxN1cx&t=12
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I donated. Total is now $107,458 – 85% of goal.
The blobs in Alaska’s ocean are scaring me.A few weeks ago my DH got a movie from Netflix,a horror movie,but the idea of the movie was that nature was fighting back against all of the hurt done by man,especially the oil drilling.It was set in Alaska!! Maybe thats what this styuff is(I’m sure,in some way,it is)
this is an interesting Alaska site about cutting edge energy development. I just read an article about Exxon getting into the algae market to create fuel.
http://akenergyinventory.org/
this is from the article….
“The oil giant Exxon Mobil, whose chief executive once mocked alternative energy by referring to ethanol as “moonshine,” is about to venture into biofuels.”
One of the things I love about Mudflats and Mudpups is the humor, i.e.
#174austintx, #175 UK lady, and #177 austintx. What fun! And i missed #174 until UK lady. Way to go.
weaver57
Little note from me…I just came back from a two day leadership conference. Out of the four presenters three at some point made a statement on leadership “unlike Sarah Palin…” . Sometimes I wonder if we are all the same 2 dozen people posting on the same websites with different names. It’s just good to know that WE ARE NOT ALONE! Many, many people feel the same way about her, maybe just not as vocal or all consuming
Has anyone heard from JHop?
I recall seeing a much less flattering Queen pic of Sarah, more medival looking, but don’t know where.
Lilady
I keep going over to the forum to see if she is there. Haven’t seen a post or anything for a few days. If anyone has heard from her I would also love to know.
Mae, you are the Woman!! Internet hugs. The lynnrockets picture is the one! Thanks also for the second pic.
Thanks to London Bridges and to anyone else who searched.
LOL, congratulations Mae, you learned something new today, it’s fun isn’t.
Another neat trick if you are older like me and not real computer savy is that you can increase font size from the tiny tiny to huge, I like to sit back and read rather that get my nose up to the screen, lol.
okay, to do this you push and hold down “ctrl” tab and either tap the + sign to enlarge, tap – to reduce or if you have a scroll roll thingy on your mouse you can enlarge by rolling it towards the computer. I love this.
And, if you leave a web site, the next time you go back it opens at the font size you left it at. cool huh
mommom……..here’s another recent mysterious happening in AK…….If anyone has more pics I’d like to see them.
http://www.homernews.com/stories/070809/news_1_002.shtml
“Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down.”
Leave it to those smart aleck teenagers………this desktop I’m on has a bug that keeps tossing pop-ups……..ran the scan and all that………gonna have a geek come by and sweep it……..so I was cussing and 15yr. old walks by and says “Palinbot’s get ya ??”………..told me to stay off his laptop too.also.
Canadian Neighbour wrote –
I know Snoskred posts information about it due to interest of some of us.
Hopefully in just under 29 minutes Shuttle Endeavour will finally launch!!
I thought about posting it but every other time I have, launch has been postponed, so I thought maybe I was jinxing it.
I also never watch olympians or sports teams compete live, because I can lose them a gold medal or games that way.
Yes you heard it here first, Snoskred is the eveil Jinxmeister.
Watched the launch on NASA teevee and it was fabulous as always. yay!
and isn’t THIS why we have to pull our friggen heads out of the sand and move this country back to it’s cutting edge ability to lead and create. We’ve become dinosaurs. Thank god we have new leadership with a vision other than war, oil, padding big money pockets (sorry folks who work in the oil industry).
I’d bet majority of the people who live in the US have no clue how far ahead other countries are in using and manufacturing renewable energy. We are WAY behind, no thanks to the last 8 yrs of twat and thank GOD we didn’t get twit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/energy-environment/14energy.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“BEIJING — When the United States’ top energy and commerce officials arrive in China on Tuesday, they will land in the middle of a building storm over China’s protectionist tactics to become the world’s leader in renewable energy.
Calling renewable energy a strategic industry, China is trying hard to make sure that its companies dominate globally. Just as Japan and South Korea made it hard for Detroit automakers to compete in those countries — giving their own automakers time to amass economies of scale in sheltered domestic markets — China is shielding its clean energy sector while it grows to a point where it can take on the world.”
What an incredible shot! Just a geat picture
Take a look!
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It’s 21 Ethics Complaints, Not 18 … But Who’s Counting?
http://threebrain.blogspot.com/
After all, what are a few more ethics complaints among self-appointed cronies, anyway?
Snoskred,
You may have seen the info already but in case your didn’t – just read Miles O’Brien’s twitter:
as many as 9 tiles damaged on sapce shuttle.
repairs of tiles never been done before in space. unclear if they are warranted
sally
I’d lost count but that article sets them all out nicely. Thanks.
lol, I guess the one good thing Scarah is leaving behind is that annually, every 4th of July, when people gather for picnics to celebrate our independance, they will say remember “that” 4th of July, our very own personal Alaska Independence Day. Gosh, I can see big old celebrations in the future. lol.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/07/20/090720taco_talk_hertzberg?yrail
“The colonists’ catalogue of complaints against George III ranged from “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good” to “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”
“The Governor’s complaints against “adversaries” and “enemies” were more humdrum:
You don’t hear much about the good stuff in the press anymore, though, do you?
Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt.”
I don’t have time to read comments, so please forgive me if this has been posted. I normally would have noticed first thing, but have NOT wanted to open the local Juneau paper this week because I’m so SICK of Palin and her being plastered all over the paper sections (except Neighbors where folks do nice things for each other) in all of her glorious stupidity. But the opinion piece by the Fairbanks Daily News Miner is OUTSTANDING.
http://juneauempire.com/stories/071509/opi_463957431.shtml
This is EXACTLY what everyone sounds like when they’ve finally had it with the twit. Then it just comes tumbling out – all the reasons she’s such a sh1t and how long it took before the “victim” figured it out. She really is like a vampire – seducing, using, abusing, and sucking out all energy around her. This is another Alaskan who has been had.
@ LiladyNY #192
From Move On
As ridiculous as Sarah Palin’s lies are, they’re getting attention, and
they’re a real threat to clean energy. If we can raise $125,000 today,
we’ll run a rapid response ad to counter these lies and stop Palin’s
attack. Can you donate $25?
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/palin_energy.html?id=16581-11182389-.UxN1cx&t=12
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Thanks, LiladyNY. When I donated, the goal was 90% met. Jump in, Mudpups….take it to 100%.
Message: Palin’s lies will not be tolerated nationally. Period.
Lynnrockets doesn’t need to change a word of this one.
GINO’s anthem – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovTHWI3vE7A
But she might have fun making a special verse as a get-outta-town present to GINO?
FYI – Paul McCartney is on Letterman tonight. Just saw a short clip that he & his band was playing on the marquis roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre. Kewl
Kathleen Sebelius is on The Daily Show.
Here is a link so you can see who is scheduled on Late Night & some Talk Shows. Shows you too if it’s reruns. I have it bookmarked.
http://www.interbridge.com/lineupsdate.html#6/16/09
Martha UYS @212
Wow. That was some article. The worms are coming out of the woodwork now alright.
Good post from Salon. com about Palin’s recent shallow op/ed in the WaPo. The comment I selected below from the Salon piece resonates strongly with me because “boldness” and “beliefs” don’t constitute good policy unless backed up by scientific evidence. Palin and many GOP’s try this tactic over and over…..throwing out statements which usually have fear and disaster attached to them, yet have no basis in fact or scientific evidence. Push them to defend their “bold” statements or withdraw them from the debate!!
See comment #213 above as a way to push back.
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“Palin completely overlooks the improved environmental impact that lies at the root of cap-and-trade. Even more tellingly, she does not rely on any scientific evidence to back up any of the bold statements she makes in the piece.”
Read the whole post at link:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/14/palin/index.html?source=newsletter
okay, this is flat out weird…….
A recovering liberal? lol Who has a past of being sadistically abused by her brother and ignored and left to fend for herself by her socialite parents. This woman is finding sympathy for Scarah? …….whoa, there is no way in heck that I would seek her help.
I think she’s found the lord….she supports Scarah and the Carrie Prejean. Do you think she was like unsupported at a critical point and lost something?
this person is…….”Robin of Berkley”, lol
“A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and psychotherapist in Berkeley”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/sarah_palin_vs_the_marquis_de.html
“I rarely think of Tom, who disowned my family years ago. But when I reflect on what was done to Sarah Palin, I remember him and his sadism. And I look around and see more and more Tom’s, all grown up; but they haven’t grown up, actually; they refuse to grow up and use self control and restraint. And, alarmingly, many of them are in positions of power.
Let’s call them by their true name. When an actress calls for gang raping Palin, she’s a sadist. When people torch Palin’s church with children inside, they are sadists. When bloggers call her a c___t and scorn her disabled son, they are being sadists.”
Thank you to sfterrier & say no for the link to the New Yorker. Great article!!
From the New Yorker:
“Here’s Jefferson on political change:
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Here’s Palin on same:
Government’s supposed to serve from the bottom up and not move towards this top-down, big-government takeover, but rather will be protectors of individual rights, who also have enough common sense to acknowledge when conditions have drastically changed, and they’re willing to call an audible and pass the ball when it’s time so the team can win.
In Palin’s case, the government that she was declaring independence from is the one that she herself is governor of. She was therefore in the awkward position of having to argue that she has had “so much success in this first term” (e.g., “We took government out of the dairy business”) that “doing what’s best for Alaska” requires her to abandon her post. But the bulk of the Wasilla declaration, like the bulk of the Philadelphia one, was devoted to the enumeration of what the latter’s author called “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object”—the Object being, in Sarah Palin’s case, making things hard for Sarah Palin. ”
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/07/20/090720taco_talk_hertzberg?yrail
In addition – thanks to Mae for the photoshop laughs, and to AustinTx for the problems with my computer/kid’s eternal logic laugh.
A few people had questions in the disparity of two recent polls regarding Palin. My last post on this got lost somewhere in the moderation process because of multiple links, so I will do it in two posts.
The wording of the actual questions in polls is important in understanding the polling differences.
The USA Today poll from last week showed that 2/3’s of Republicans would like to see Palin as “a major national figure” in the future. The vague term, “major national figure,” can range all the way from the position of POTUS…. to dear Sarah standing in the middle of the reflecting pool on the National Mall with pigeons perched on her head. (I’m personally leaning toward the pigeon gig for her).
USA Today poll link:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-07-palin-poll_N.htm
In contrast, the CBS poll this week actually asked the respondents if Palin had the ability to effectively serve as President. Only 33% of Republicans would say that she has the ability to serve as President.
CBS poll link:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/14/poll-majority-of-republicans-dont-think-palins-qualified-to-be-president/
I suspect that a good deal of credit can again go to our outstanding Alaskan bloggers with respect to the latest polling results. Even though there was a “sympathy bump” for Ms. Victimized Palin amongst GOP voters after her foaming-at-the-mouth-heart-palpitations-ragged-breathing resignation speech, the bloggers were immediately busy exposing the lies behind her spreadsheet farce and the alleged zillions of dollars that ethics complaints were costing the state…….not to mention raising questions about the REAL reasons she quit.
Yep, Americans reeeeally don’t admire quitters, especially ones that lie about their reasons.
On the other hand, it’s patently clear that the Alaskan bloggers are no quitters. Cheers.
Molly Says:
July 15th, 2009 at 7:11 AM
I looked up NBC basketball camps…..as mentioned in GINO’s twitter. I will assume this is where Willow was instead of at resignation event. Italy tour is listed as from June 29th through July 12th. Mission statement is ‘Christian’ in tone, emphasis on self esteem, spirituality, Jesus Christ……but say they are not affliliated with any particular church. Apparently not any particular Christian church, that is–not sure how they’d feel about some Jewish or Muslim or atheist kid coming along. The write up for the Italy tour includes Vatican visit, religious-y descriptions of Peter being crucified upside down, yadda yadda.
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WTH are they doing polluting the Vatican? These born-agains don’t even recognize Catholics as Christians! Catholics haven’t been dunked in some rusty old bathtub in some ad hoc church somewhere in the outer sticks and therefore are not Christians.
Willow and her fellow religious loonies ought to stick to their *own* shrines – the shrines to money.
Lee323 thank you!
The abrupt resignation and the bizarre speech on July 3rd really sunk $arah. First people felt sympathy, based upon reading the initial reports. Then they actually saw the speech & saw the rebuttals and realized that there is absolutely no depth to $arah. NONE. Throughout her career, she’s just been in the right place at the right time (albeit in a small state, where it’s easier). The McCain campaign elevated her to a place she would never be on her own. And they CANNOT admit they were wrong, it would destroy their credibility – John’s to run again, and any campaign worker for further employment.
Is it only politics where you can get away with this crap? In the real world performance & what you say counts. You’d be fired or not hired to begin with.
rant over…
hey Snos, if you’re such an evil jinxminx I’d better not tell you that I heard on the ABC that there are plans for an Australian to take part in the next moon landing …..
Aussie – they did not get an audience with the Pope!!! (I’m assuming).
Wondering if they were there at the same time as our President?
Did anyone see my post last night of Pres. Obama at the All-Star game? It was from Kos – and the photos were GREAT.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/14/203026/510
From Skippy the Bush Kangaroo:
quote of the day
the nj star-ledger editorial page on why repubbb chris christie doesn’t want sarah palin to come help him campaing for governor:
why? because she’s a liability. christie knows what the rest of us know: on policy, she is about as deep as a birdbath.
oh, snap!
Another great column in Salon, this time from Gene Lyons, a National Magazine Award winner. Here are a few choice bits:
And my favorite:
Jessie Ventura just called Palin ‘A Quitter” — Love him!!
He on a segment of the Larry King show.
He said he’d never vote for her for higher office as if it got too hot, she would probably quit.
She signed on to Govern Alaska.
His kids were attacked when he was in office.
from ADN
Legislators call special session for Aug 10, re stimulus and for confirmation of Lt Gov (apparently)
Nan,
I posted yesterday that Parnell signed a letter that will put Campbell into the Acting LG position as at the time Parnell is sworn into the Governor’s Office on the 26th until the Special Session for his confirmation.
Rachel Maddow was discussing $carah on her show tonight, Washington Post Op-ed/Flip Flopping. Rachel put the dummy in her place.
Hey BigSlick. Watching GINO’s anthem at the link you gave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovTHWI3vE7A
reminded me of this quote of Joyce Meyers–”You can be pitiful or you can be powerful, but you can’t be both.”
Noonan and Mike Murphy called it back on Sept. 3rd………..oh those open mics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg
austintx
Matt Taibbi called it on Sept 3rd, too, also …
Mad Dog Palin — The scariest thing about John McCain’s running mate isn’t how unqualified she is – it’s what her candidacy says about America
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin
Shannyn Moore has compiled a list of Palin’s excuses and blaming other people. Really stunning when seen all together in one list. Check it out if you haven’t already seen her post:
http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/its-not-sarahs-fault-just-ask-her/#comment-7305
Managing a Walmart is probably a pretty tough gig. She couldn’t even manage Wasilla, for crying out loud! She had to hire a city manager. She should have been thrown out this past winter.
Mental Health Break from Wonkette
http://tinyurl.com/ngczjh
Paul McCartney on Dave Letterman tonight.
I just read the Time magazine article on Palin. What planet are they living on?
Palin is about partisanship–plain and simple. No leadership qualities there.
Great Picture! Love our national symbol! Did you get to hear him/her give a “call”?
Ok, ADN has a story on the Special Session in August and they are headlining it as considering overriding the stimulus rejection. They allude to the Lt. Gov. thing as a secondary issue. WTH? I thought there was a Constitutional Crisis and THAT was the reason for calling the special Session. Why are they spinning it?
http://www.adn.com/news/government/legislature/story/865748.html
Also on ADN, another complaint dismissed, (paid for interviews), no proof attached and not properly notarized.
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/865856.html
Something to lighten up the mood…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0OzxvClwoU
(Palin Quits at approx 1 min in)
i think there is a video somewhere of SP debating herself {flip flopping}
i’m trying to find it, its from last year, maybe someone will update it with new material now?
This may have already been posted but OMG! Please, where is the iceberg?
http://tinyurl.com/ln4aa5
@ Dr. Patois: Thanks for the article link! This is what people donating money to Sarah need to know from the article:
“Palin also clearly knows one of the most important lessons of the world she’s entering: the urgent need for people to give now. She opened a legal-funds account earlier this year, and in the midst of a recession urged people to contribute money to cover her purported $500,000 debt — while at the same time, she was cashing a book advance reportedly worth between $4 million and $7 million. She has also already raised more than $700,000 through her political action committee, SarahPAC, since creating it earlier this year.
Finding and exploiting that urgent need, or even creating it out of thin air, drives the industry.”
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/865856.html (Thanks Dr. Patois!)
I call b/s on this. Not properly notarized and based on previous b/s ruling they just let it go? The Personnel Board needs to be replaced by a bi-partisan committee that is NOT appointed. It should be a committee in the Leg with no connections to the Gov.
“It was rejected in part because it was not properly notarized, the statement said.
In addition, the Personnel Board had previously determined that interviews do not violate the state Ethics Act. And the complaint offered no evidence to support the claim the governor was paid, the statement said.”
Well, she saved all her tweets for this evening. Tweet Tweet Tweet…..here are the latest!
# & mama bear doesn’t look 2 anyone else 2 hand her anything; biologists say she works harder than males, is provider/protector for the future37 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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protect & provide for her young;She sees danger?She brazenly rises up on strong hind legs, growls Don’t Touch My Cubs & the species survives40 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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Great day w/bear management wildlife biologists; much to see in wild territory incl amazing creatures w/mama bears’ gutteral raw instinct to43 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
And the most recent Sarah Palin tweet bragging that another ethics complaint has been dismissed.
Just got an e-mail alert this afternoon from my state senator’s office:
The special Session is set for Monday, August 10 in ANCHORAGE. The special session will be to Override Governor Palin’s rejection of certain stimulus funds and confirmation hearing on the attorney general
From the WSJ no less! It is spot on.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124761930140242533.html
Seattle Fan @ 257
Mama bear doesn’t have a Fund Trust?
when is meghan mccain going to come out of the closet?
i also think its pretty bad that her dad was willing to ride joe the plumber all the way to the white house but now that they are done with him they just throw him out like garbage.
how lucky are we that obama won?
Mama Bear needs to tell cubs they grow up to be couch decoration for a Governor
Did Mama Palin see a bear today, or what?
lexky -
And Lindsey Graham also.too.
interesting…with all her ‘love’ for wildlife…she shoots and kills with cold and calculating disregard. I don’t want a grizzly sitting in any of MY political offices, including the Oval Office!!! another example of her hypocrisy…it NEVER ends!