Open Thread – Ghost Forest
There is an interesting phenomenon visible in the coastal areas of South Central Alaska called the “ghost forest.” You’ll be driving along, and all of a sudden you’ll notice stands of old spruce trees, denuded of branches and bark, standing there like pale sentinals. I’ve heard different terms for these trees, but I like “ghost forest” the best. You hear stories all the time from indigenous cultures that speak of the ancestors that are present all around us, and it seems that way with the ghost forest, that still exists so close to its living counterpart.
The ghost forests came to be after the Good Friday earthquake in March of 1964. Those who were here at the time remember it well. A whopping 8.4-8.6 on the Richter scale, the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America. The epicenter was only a few miles from where this picture was taken, just north of Price William Sound. The devastating quake caused 131 deaths, many from tsunamis. Large sections of the ground shifted vertically, and several coastal areas sank down many feet to much lower levels. This put the roots of the spruce trees far down enough to reach salt water, which eventually killed the trees where they stood. Eventually they will decompose, but for now they still stand, eerie and beautiful – a reminder of the power that lies beneath us.
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beautiful trees. Our swamps have similar trees. Hope you all had a good weekend.
This is an excellent tear down by John V. Santore (mediamatters)
of the upcoming TIMES, “The Outsider: Where is Sarah Palin Going Next?”. However, it needs that Mudflats insight that only AK can do so well and the comments from those who “know” (that made me shudder) Palin.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200907180004
Pallin’ around with the liberal media
July 18, 2009 1:13 pm ET
On Monday, Eric Boehlert highlighted Time’s upcoming cover story on Sarah Palin, titled, “The Outsider: Where is Sarah Palin Going Next?” While Palin has certainly received her share of bad press, a great deal of it has been the inevitable result of her own statements and actions. Interpretive articles like this one, however, are different and provide journalists with the chance to use their judgment to put past actions and ongoing trials in a broader context that will help readers better understand the subject at hand.
Which is why this article is so problematic. In it, Time’s David Von Drehle and Jay Newton-Small go to immense lengths to create a story out of thin air. In this case, it’s “The Renegade,” a tale about an unconventional politician making waves with her unpredictable behavior. The piece is deeply flawed, advancing conservative narratives without challenge and ignoring obvious realities about Palin, her home state, and the problems she faces. It’s an account that flies in the face not just of progressive criticisms of the governor, but of a growing chorus of conservative ones as well.
And it is exactly the kind of ratings-driven journalism that is, ironically, making magazines like Time less and less authoritative at a time when serious journalism couldn’t be more needed.
gorgeous picture…the swamp/lake area where i walk my Dogs has some ghost trees. They serve as great perches for Eagles , Hawks and other Birds.
Saw this on our visit to alaska years ago, I think on the road from anchorage to seward. Very scary, yet beautiful.
My sister in law lived through that quake…said her dad yelled to all the kids…get out of the house QUICK this is a big one. Fortunately their home was not destroyed.
Was this caused by the sea water coming in?
@redwoodmuse: An open thread comment: What good news! With neurological things, you never really know, but once you’ve got positive movement, it can just keep getting better. Hugs.
Shannyn Moore knocks it out of the park in this article.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/its-not-sarahs-faultjust_b_240687.html
Always love your pictures AKM.
Sarah’s meltdown is reminiscent of the meltdown of Brittany Spears. Perhaps she modeled her meltdown after Brittany’s. Will Sarah’s father, soon, be named her legal guardian?
She may be planning to try to fill the void after Michael Jackson’s death. Sarahland? The word salad rap. Sarah makes CD’s and music videos. The music video: Bristol, Willow & Piper are the chorus dancers with Raggedy Ann dolls in their arms. Todd sits on his snow machine grinning into space revving the machine with the beat. The question is how well can Sarah sing & dance?
Will she turn the reins over to Sean Parnell with a newly shaven head, and wearing oversized Elton John glasses?
Maybe she’ll announce she is being cloned in order to save the world. and in 18 years, she’ll have enough votes to be elected potus, and take over the world.
Is the Governor’s picnic open to the press? If so, It could be one of the biggest press parties in history. Just in case it turns more bizarre.
Martha
AWESOME article! Thanks for posting that! It is a good read and really delves into how so much of what we hear from Palin and her fans is just accepted as fact without anyone actually looking to see if it is true.
As always with Palin, when you just dig a little deeper the truth comes pouring forth and it is never like she has claimed it to be.
We should never be afraid to question, dig deeper, and find the truth!
This article was in the Sunday NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/us/19alaska.html?_r=1
Actually I have heard the Good Friday earthquake has since been reclassified to a 9.2 on the richter scale after they made some adjust the scale itself. And yes, the trees were swamped by sea water when the land in that area (Turnagain Arm, I believe) sank anywhere from 10 to 20 feet.
-Laz
(stoopit built in spelling checker in my brain…)
it should say “adjustments to the scale itself”…
-Laz
I see Mrs Palin’s hairdresser is all over the internet saying, “Waaaaaah, I never said her hair was thinning!”
IMO the hairdresser should be sobbing and apologizing for doing such a cheap, lousy and incompetent job with the hair extensions. Yeuucchh!!!
Went to WebMD this morning and looked up (delusional disorder) UNBELIEVABLE, she and her followers have ALL the symptoms of this disorder, really freaky!!
Such sad news about Frank McCourt. He was a teacher at McKee Vo-Tech High School here on Staten Island. Such a fine, sweet man. Slàn dear boyo.
So many of the familiar figures of my past are dying just now. It is a hard thing to ponder their passing. I weep for the loss.
Is Palin the new Hitler? Think about how he rose to power….seems a bit similar to SP. I’ll have to mull that over.
Martha….your comment: …”making magazines like Time less and less authoritative at a time when serious journalism couldn’t be more needed.” I couldn’t agree more! It’s sad there seems to be no real journalist left…except for Jon Stewart:)
264 Crayons: Have you seen a movie called A Face in the Crowd? Andy Griffith plays an aw-shucks entertainer who gets a taste of fame and goes for it, it’s all an act but he plays it well and rises on his folksy wise charm. VERY SCARY when you think about it in context of Miss Wasilla and her followers.
Also, the classic, It’s Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis of a takeover of America by fascism: “when fascism comes to America it will be carrying a cross covered wrapped in the flag.”
The Ghost Forest reminds me of “Boneyard Beach” on Bull Island, South Carolina. On Bull Island, the bleached trees on the beach look like bones. The island is only accessible by ferry, so when you go, there’s only a few people on the whole island. It’s very cool!
http://www.coastalexpeditions.com/index.php?page=bull-island-ferry
13 winkwinkWA Says: went to WebMD this morning and looked up (delusional disorder).
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winkwinkWA, I think delusional disorder, has uncontrolled hallucination type episodes that resemble peyote, LSD, and mushroom highs. I found this article in Psychology Today last fall that seems to peg her behavior best:
Lowen characterized psychopaths as seeing life in black and white, with their internal motto being “kill or be killed.” They see the world as attacking them, so they meet life in an aggressive manner, always fighting for what they believe is “right.” ….They are apt to be charismatic communicators who seek and enjoy positions of power. They are usually attractive, commanding, and confident.
Apply this description to the little we know about Sarah Palin. In her speech at the Republican National Convention last week, she was full of spunk and vigor, sure of herself, smiling through her attacks on her opponents. She’s a warrior—afraid of nothing. After all, this is a woman who doesn’t hesitate to tackle a demanding job while raising five kids, including a newborn. A woman who has killed the meat she eats. A woman unafraid of firing anyone who crosses her in some way.
However, with this type of personality, all that outward bravado is frequently masking a deep sense of distrust and insecurity.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mining-the-headlines/200809/sarah-psychopath
You don’t have to have been there to remember that earthquake. I remember seeing the pictures on the front page – the pavement gone all wonky and jigsaw-ed, cars that had slid across the road and into other cars, buildings or whatever. I was a kid, but it sure made a huge impression on me.
That’s one awesome picture.
Will all her HS buddies suddenly find themselves unemployed when Parnell steps up?
samper~
Not a chance! Parnell is going to be exactly the same as Palin. Wait and see if I am not right.
Okay, maybe not exactly the same, but close enough. He is keeping all of her people on isn’t he? He has already made his position pretty clear about the stimulus, and somehow I get the feeling that Palin left with her goals for AK well covered with the people she has positioned in the administration. Schmidt leaves? No problem, she declares Campbell a replacement, and who just goes right along? Parnell.
Mark my words, he is Palin lite.
Lilybart @17 wrote
Also, the classic, It’s Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis of a takeover of America by fascism: “when fascism comes to America it will be carrying a cross covered wrapped in the flag.”
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Sinclair Lewis is timeless! I had actually been wondering how John Dos Passos would have written about her since his mini biographies in the Big Money trilogy are written in seemingly random phrases. The difference between his style and Palin’s is that HIS works to paint a picture of the real person. Hers serves to merely confuse.
“Wars, fires and the stock exchange
Machinegunfire and arson
Good growing ground for the House of Morgan.”
oops, hit too soon. The quote is from “House of Morgan” from the book 1919, part of the Big Money trilogy. (I am doing this from memory, but I am pretty sure that was the book.) I’d love to see what he would have done with the House of Palin.
EyeOnYou -
Ck. pm please.
Austin…done and back at ya!
“The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.”
-John Dos Passos
Yup, Dos Passos would have understood Palin (Q) and her lies. “Inventing an ethical setting for (her) behavior” has been her priority, and she is certainly spinning a web of something.
austin… check pm
VERY short article at Huffpo… maybe because there just isn’t much to pack at the Govenors Mansion… but the COMMENTS are hys-terical!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/19/palin-starts-packing-to-l_n_240205.html
Hope all you pups had a great weekend… I’m here for my fix!
Anyone need a new car and an AK-47?
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/19/1529238
Heard this story while running errands this morning. The BBC interviewed this guy and I thought their interview was better, but unable to find it on the web. This guy’s motto is God,Guns,Guts and American pick-up trucks.
I guess this is the “real America” Sarah Palin is always referring to in her comments. “Our laws come from God and not man,” says this car dealer. Last year his dealership gave away handguns with the purchase of a truck. Nothing says America like assault weapons and pick-up trucks.
pearl89 -
Bet they put truck nuts on those pick ‘em ups too. also.
Lovely photo. Driving along that part of Turnagain Arm is a little eerie, but beautiful.
40 years ago today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4
One of those life moments that I will never forget.
Check this out from an Austin American Statesman blog:http://www.statesman.com/sitelife/content/sitelife/persona.html?newspaperUserId=9641060&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckUserId=9641060&plckPostId=Blog%3a9641060Post%3a431f3455-03a3-403b-b3a9-7c8792d7f7ad&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest
I’ve read in various places that Palin is moving close to Manhattan, NY. The family “vote” was probably about moving to an upscale neighborhood out of Alaska. They’ve outgrown Wasilla. Makes sense. (if true) Sorry NY.
Wonder if that means Bristol is moving, and will that mean Levi has to move too?
Sorry, my paste didn’t work right. Anyway, you can go to Austin American Statesman and then to the recent reader blogs in the middle of page. Open the one by Grillz “Palin around with snake handler”
I thought the Palins would move to Texas. It being “real America” as opposed to NY.
PARTY: Saturday night, July 26 in the chat room to celebrate Palin’s quitting. It is strictly BYOB. Since we can’t all be in Ak for the happy event, I think we should have a virtual parteeeee!
HistoryGoddess
I have heard Hitler characterized many times as being an atheist, yet there appears to be much evidence to contradict that. I stumbled onto this website (linked) one day while looking into the story of Nazi belt buckles bearing the inscription “”Gott Mitt Uns”, which I found translated by many sources as “God Is With Us”. A rather odd thing for an atheist to dig into his treasury for, don’t you think?
While our Constitution forbids a religious test for public office, it is clear from the 2008 campaign that conservatives have managed to create one, and it sent chills up my spine to see Huckabee’s viability as a presidential candidate remain unaffected by his statements that our Constitution needs to be brought into line with “God’s Law”. If those of us who care to protect the secular quality of our nation and our government aren’t quick to establish our own religious filter for political candidates, we may find out too late that it’s later than we realized. While we were laughing at the fundies for playing rock LPs backward at half speed and shrieking about Satanic messages, they were already busy building a base from which to infiltrate American politics, and thanks to Ronald Reagan, the neocons, and George W Bush, they have made a disturbing amount of headway.
Hitler’s Christianity
To deny the influence of Christianity on Hitler and its role in World War II, means that you must ignore history and forever bar yourself from understanding the source of German anti-Semitism and how the WWII atrocities occurred.
By using historical evidence of Hitler’s and his henchmen’s own words, this section aims to show how mixing religion with politics can cause conflicts, not only against religion but against government and its people. This site, in no way, condones Nazism, Neo-Nazism, fascist governments, or anti-Semitism, but instead, warns against them. … by Jim Walker
http://nobeliefs.com/Hitler1.htm
Remember her infatuation with her idol Ivana Trump? (I’ve posted links to Ivana’s photos, and found it ironic that Palin’s hairstyle is the same.) I can see NY being her next stop, rather than Texas.
if the palins come to new york they will not be very happy. i will not be happy. our governor won’t be happy and as limpballs found out when the governor of nys is unhappy new york taxation and finance will happily audit the palins until Jesus comes or they move on to somewhere else.
LOL bubbles — how will they ever manage in a place with property taxes and building permits? And lots of journalists.
Closet Mudpup: Current White Supremist movements are “Christian.” don’t they call themselves, Christian Identity movements? God loves WHITE ANGLO Christians, and only them it seems.
Polly: whoa there!! Bristol can’t move across the country without custody issues being addressed. Levi??
Ewwww. Noooooooooooooooooooooo! We don’t want her here!
And in Manhattan? She’d be just another face in the crowd, no one special. We have celebrities up the wazoo (that’s the technical term). You can’t walk down the street at lunchtime in Midtown without tripping over some TV personality or other “notable”. Here she’d be a very teeny tiny minnow in a very big ocean. I don’t think her ego could take it.
Yuck, keep her. Surely there must be some small pocket of “real America” that is just dying to have her and her “interesting” family reside there.
Pearl189
I’m in Missouri (misery) and really am getting tired of the idiocy coming out of this state, from the AK-47 reward for a new car all the way back to Ashcroft.
oh, ‘scuse me, should read “reward for a new *pickup* I guess.
humpf
Nice pic AKM- you do have quite the eye for good shots
AustinTX
Thanks for the link to the NYT article.
The gal from Palin Radio on meeting Palin:
(“She complimented me on my shoes,” Ms. Curzon said.)
Well, heck yah, lets vote for her, she knows good shoes when she sees ‘em. Or she’ll make you feel good even if she really thinks your shoes are dumb or would look better on her!
BahstinBoyo
one of the comments about the packing up mentions the refurbishing-remodeling recently done at the Gov Mansion in Juneau. That would have been the time to check, seems like . I vaguely remember reading the dude was on the payroll for some of that –
(caveat: I vaguely remember, I have not verified, this is not a statement of fact, just my admittedly flawed memory speaking. Better?)
need caffeine to drown the snark, sorry
sarah sure has alot of friends in Giddings………could move there……..
austintx…who are these friends in Giddings? My parents live there.
kallie,
Is this guy for real? Does he check out as really being her speech writer or is he just a total fruit?
Blind Hockey Leagues. Great idea. I don’t know maybe it IS a good idea, but I wouldn’t want my insurance co to find out
I’m not sure, probably not real. Creative youtube video nonetheless.
AKM said above in the thread intro, “There is an interesting phenomenon visible in the coastal areas of South Central Alaska called the “ghost forest.”
I know of a phenomenon resembling AKM’s coastal ghost forest, too, down in Washington State in the foothills surrounding Mt. Rainier. They’re ghosts for a water-related but different reason.
Kautz Creek was flooded with a glacial mudflow in 1947 after some kind of ice dam on Kautz Glacier on the mountain slope burst open after heavy rains, and the resulting mudflow inundated the trees along the course of the creek, and flooded the access highway.
The Park Service built a rest area at the site once the road was repaired. It was a popular stopping spot for tourists and locals alike for many years because the ghost trees were a spectacular sight.
In the last 20 years or so, the seedling firs have grown up to a point where the ghost trees appear only as occasional spires amongst the green.
http://www.jeckels.com/photoDetail?PhotoId=724&ReferringCategoryId=165
43 Lilybart Says: whoa there!! Bristol can’t move across the country without custody issues being addressed. Levi??
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I know! If rumors are true, then Levi would have to approve. I can’t see him wanting to leave hunting, AK, his mom, sister and friends…Maybe “the family” will continue in AK, and Sarah plans to spend a lot of time in NY?
(darn, I wish I bookmarked the blogs where I’ve read about it.- sorry)
Nan… no apologies necesary!
From ‘nothingmusic42′… one of my favorites…
“obama was in russia last week. he said it was kinda cool, he could see palin packing up from there…”
One can only hope they had someone taking inventory both before AND after the packing session! If the OTHER murmors are correct, how will they all make it in NY? And once ‘civilianized’, she tweets that she will be able to speak more freely. Does that also mean the REST of the country is free to speak to her as well without fear of legal entanglement? Or will it be non-politics as usual? She KNOWS the spotlight will be all over her on that fateful last day… or at least the next one. ‘Obscurity’ is not found in her
word salad bowl. I believe the circus will stay in town for quite a while yet… just under a different tent!
Just rambiln’ !
ramblin’… I need another cup o’ joe!
Oh brother………..
http://wonkette.com/409956/palin-hairdresser-corrects-terrible-smear-rumors-about-balding
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the problem child Says:
July 20th, 2009 at 7:04 AM
LOL bubbles — how will they ever manage in a place with property taxes and building permits? And lots of journalists.
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And some of those ‘ journalists ‘ tape their Shows right there in NY.
Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert…… AND Letterman.
Why move to NY when you have ONLY 15 RABID Fans as your support base..?
austintx…who are those friends in Giddings?
Thanks, Martha, for the link to the Media Matters article by John Santore on the Time piece on Palin. Santore hit a home run with his analysis — and it was very helpful that he provided multiple links to background information.
Loved the comments, too — with the responses to the wingnut counterpoint provided by “proudamerican”. Zing!
shannyn has a great article on huffo, about nothing is crazy Palins fault (NO accountability there). lets see if we cant give it enough veiws to get to the front page folks..
It makes sense that Miss Wasilla would move to NYC. ALL the Real Americans who just hate the East Coast Elite, live in NYC: Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, BillO, she would be right at home here. LOL
I read this and almost choked on my coffee, do nothing Palin??
from her Twitter feed
http://wonkette.com/409843/sarah-palin-found-some-list-of-famous-quotes
What an airhead
What’s up with the Buy American tweets today?
Has she become the Spokesperson for Buy American?
Another Hat Tip to AKM from Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish.
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Quote For The Day
by Chris Bodenner
“Nobody should have hurt feelings. My goodness, this is politics! Politics is rough-and-tumble, and people need to get thick skin – just like I’ve got,” – soon-to-be-ex Gov. Sarah Palin, in a Nov. 5, 2008 interview recently uploaded to Vimeo.
(Hat tip: Mudflats)
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And a 2nd shout out as well to Jay Ramras
Quote For The Day II
by Chris Bodenner
“It’s wonderful for her to go pursue adulation in the far corners of Alaska and do precisely what she said she wasn’t going to stay in office for — which is to spend state money to go around and be a lame duck,” – state Rep. Jay Ramras (R), in an ADN piece entitled, “Palin wraps up term with bears, bills, travel and tweets.”
from wonkette, too funny:
So, yes, she is Twatting her way through some collection of Inspirational Quotes, probably from an airline magazine article or the tag on her yoga mat, and she makes zero f***ing sense, as always, and the ultimate question is, really, why do only 23% of Americans support her? Seems like she could hit 60% or 70% — closer to the actual percentage of legally stupid people in this country
Re: Palin moving outside AK
First, I hadn’t even thought about Bristol moving with them and taking the baby! That’s a whole other ball of wax!
I somehow think that SP will lose a lot of her “maverickiness” if she does move out of state. There is a certain mystique about Alaska, the hardiness, the independence, the creativity of those living in the Last Frontier. If she leaves, she will lose this, and become just another Lower 48 politician, albeit an appealing one to some of her ilk. What do others think?
I think she will never leave Wasilla permanently. She could barely bring herself to go to Anchorage, nevermind Juneau. Gallivant around, yes, but actually move? Nope.
that article I read about $arah moving to NY was a satire, and quite funny too. I don’t see her moving anywhere. And according to everything she said, she’s not moving, so if she does move anywhere, she’ll have to add lieing to her resume.
DSCC links Palin to GOP Senate hopefuls
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/17/dscc-links-palin-to-gop-senate-hopefuls/
How can she “pack up” and “move out” of the Governor’s mansion in Juneau, when she never lived there? Isn’t that just a burglary?
Here is another little blurb on The Daily Dish.
Since it is in Vimeo (and those NEVER work for me ) someone tell me if it is any good.
Mental Health Break
by Chris Bodenner
Claymation and violence go together like Palin and the Dish (don’t miss the man-eating piano at the end):
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/mental-1.html
Polly: The article about Palin buying property and moving to NY is a joke site, do not worry.
pearl89 Says:
Anyone need a new car and an AK-47?
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/19/1529238
“Our laws come from God and not man,” says this car dealer. Last year his dealership gave away handguns with the purchase of a truck. Nothing says America like assault weapons and pick-up trucks.
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In the interview the dealer used the Florida couple who were killed recently as an example of why he’s right to hand out gun vouchers with car purchases. He said that they would have been better off to be armed when those people invaded their home.
Since I am not a gun owner myself, I have a question for those of you who know more than I do. I have a number of family and friends who own guns (police officers, hunters and people who live in mountain lion and coyote country) and also have children in the house. They all have their guns securely locked away when not in use. If the Florida invasion happened as quickly as it seemed, would this man really have had time to access a weapon, load it and use it before he was killed? If you have that many children with autism and developmental disabilities in your home, would you really want easily accessible, loaded guns around? Or is this just a stupid example for the Missouri car dealer to use to promote his special ‘deal’?
Closet Mudpup @38 wrote
“While our Constitution forbids a religious test for public office, it is clear from the 2008 campaign that conservatives have managed to create one, and it sent chills up my spine to see Huckabee’s viability as a presidential candidate remain unaffected by his statements that our Constitution needs to be brought into line with “God’s Law”. If those of us who care to protect the secular quality of our nation and our government aren’t quick to establish our own religious filter for political candidates, we may find out too late that it’s later than we realized.
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Had to walk the dogs and give your post some thought. I, too, have been increasingly troubled not so much by candidates spouting religious doctrine, but more that it is considered OK. While I am fine with a candidate being of a particular faith, I don’t want to hear it in an evangelical manner or as a justification for pubic policy. I resent the use of code words. The Huck crossed the line on the God’s Law quote. (On a positive note though, he and Jon Stewart had a very good discussion on pro/anti choice not long ago, showing that people can have faiths and beliefs, but we can also listen.)
I have heard it both ways on Hitler’s religion or lack thereof. Bottom line, his actions were not Christian, or at least not part of Christianity that I admire. I didn’t know about the buckle. Interesting.
It is frightening to me, and I don’t use that term lightly, that if one learns the code words, a person can sell himself as a Christian and it is rarely questioned by the supporters. These fakes seem to get away with a great deal in the name of God (or as that Murthee voice keeps echoing in my head, “In the name of Jeeezus…”) They are claiming a higher calling defined by man as a justification for ignoring the far higher road one should be taking according to the Bible. (You know, that high road one takes by washing the feet of others.)
Palin is an idiot, but she is dangerous in that she is also loudly justifying criticism of her as an attack on her faith, and she may be thinking she is going to get holy extra credit for this (Matthew 5:11) I would think Hitler did this, too, as a justification, but I would have to study up on that part.
I’ve recommended Thomas Frank’s book “What’s the Matter with Kansas” several times as a good insight into the rise of the religious right. I’m heartened by the increase in people calling BS on the hypocrisy of these types of people, though. Christianity is NOT the enemy, it is the mis-characterization of it by fearful people who selectively read the Bible in order to justify their own selfish actions. The same can be said of fanatics of any religion. We do need to watch out for them, but more importantly, I wonder why more of the truly faithful aren’t stepping up to denounce these types of fanatics. Instead, we get a Fox News report on how many Sundays the Obamas have missed church.
Thank you for giving me some “stuff” to chew on. I will check out your link.
Lilybart
I remember the Aryan Nations movement that settled into northern Idaho in the early seventies before I left there – the Aryan Nations Church and their leader Pastor Richard Butler. Since Obama’s election, it seems to me the conservatives have made it clear that white hegemony is still an underpinning of their hyper-religious ilk – an inalienable right from God if I read them correctly. Pat Buchanan reinforced my beliefs last week. And when that hegemony informs the world view of our politicians, it is not a good thing for us or the world.
Yesterday morning I sought refuge on the porch at daybreak to enjoy the early morning when even the desert is comfortably cool, and put on an old Bob Dylan album. I had completely forgotten about this song. (I love Youtube!)
With God On Our Side
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don’t count the dead
When God’s on your side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmDVyBceEv4
Ramble away, me boyo… er BahstinBoyo.
Lordee, was just thinking how that family would go over in Boston. Ouch. At least it would be quite a show.
Yes, re the tweets. I think she really thinks she’ll be able to say anything she wants to once out from under that pesky PC-while-in-public-office mantle. I hope she does!
If what we’ve seen so far is SP on her “good behavior” (pc correct – ha) then who knows what we’ll get when she removes all restraint. One thing sure, it is bound to be riveting.
We’re Not That Stupid has a good post on Sarah’s being called out by a former fundamentalist. The cartoon with it is sadly, very true.
http://tinyurl.com/mryvog
PLEEEEEEEEZZZE let the reports about the Palin clan moving to NY be just a cruel joke. We have enough problems in our state already!
So true that she would soon become a teeny, tiny, itty-bitty, little fish in an ocean-sized pond. She would never fit in with the real movers and shakers in NYC, and the rich celebrities in the Hamptons would eat her alive. I also wonder, with all the legal debts her family have supposedly incurred, how she would expect to be able to afford anything on LI. The housing costs make even Alaska’s high house prices look like a bargain. Here’s hoping that the story was just a hoax (closing eyes and crossing fingers).
How can she “pack up” and “move out” of the Governor’s mansion in Juneau, when she never lived there? Isn’t that just a burglary?
THAT is funny!!!
thought it should be repeated.
tigerwine Says: July 20th, 2009 at 8:02 AM “Re: Palin moving outside AK What do others think?”
I think Palinbots like Rebecca Mansour and John Ziegler might offer convincing reasons why the Palins should locate part of the year in LA — opportunities for frequent on-air exposure with Ziegler, perhaps a 2 hour segment of her own, and Mansour probably has already offered to write a screenplay based on Palin’s life…
Of course Todd may have to spend some of that AFT money to fly back to Alaska on behalf of Arctic Cat — mustn’t give up the racing gig — and the girls may want to stay in Alaska with their friends until they graduate.
$arah Palin on her own in LA? Wow, the freedom! The opportunities! The adulation! A chance to walk the red carpet!!! Wear designer gowns!!!! Borrowed jewelry!!! Bodyguards!!! Importance with no responsibilities!!!
Palin won’t leave Wasilla – it’s her “power base”. She loses all of her stolen Alaskan mystique if she leaves – believe me, she won’t EVER leave permanently. You almost have to live here to understand why she won’t go…wish she would, though. Antarctica might be nice this time of year. But you know she would just harass those cute little penguins!
How can she “pack up” and “move out” of the Governor’s mansion in Juneau, when she never lived there? Isn’t that just a burglary?
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Hey – I asked yesterday if someone was watching the “packup”. With sarah’s over the top sense of entitlement , she could , in her grifter mindset , justify taking an item or 3. You know , thanks for a job well done……….. I would trust her as far as I could throw a grand piano.
Some info about the 1964 earthquake
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1964_03_28.php
“Landslides in Anchorage caused heavy damage. Huge slides occurred in the downtown business section, at Government Hill, and at Turnagain Heights. The largest and most devastating landslide occurred at Turnagain Heights. An area of about 130 acres was devasted by displacements that broke the ground into many deranged blocks that were collapsed and tilted at all angles. This slide destroyed about 75 private houses. Water mains and gas, sewer, telephone, and electrical systems were disrupted throughout the area. ”
This area at Turnagain Heights is now called Earthquake Park and is a fascinating place to visit (bring bug stuff – ALWAYS!) if you are in Anchorage.
Yep, that’s what I said yesterday austintx. Somebody should keep an eye out on the wasilla self storage units, probably where the clothes & emails are stored too, also….
I just caught a news item that is sure to make Sarah do a monday morning happy dance, to be filed under the ‘Wow…just, Wow’ category. To paraphrase:
“Ireland criminalizes Blasphemy … making offending religious belief a criminal offense … the courts may now issue a warrant authorizing the police to enter, using “reasonable force,” premises where they have grounds for believing there are copies of “blasphemous statements.”
The article goes on to state that offenders may be charged a $25,000 fine (down from 100,000, which the govt. originally wanted). Read the whole story here: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7171/
I don’t she could move here anyway. Our newspapers are too mean. Not that she would actually read them or anything. But her briefings would include notations like:
NYT = media elites, use smartness for meanness, do not try to decipher; Daily News = lots of pictures, but mean, do not confuse with NYP; NY Post: You betcha! The maverickiest paper in NYC, read twice; Village Voice = likes gays, too mean, wrote about those evil “rumors” and questioned my house-buildin’ mayor-discount, light on fire; WSJ = confusing, with numbers, but seems not mean, keep on desk to look smart; Newsday = mean liberal views from those suburban elites on Long Island, not real Americans, do not read.
i don’t think*
The absolutely best book I’ve ever found that “puts you right there” in the 1964 resulting tsunami is called “Highliners”. It’s historical fiction about commercial fishing in Alaska, and chapters in between the story are dedicated to describing different species of fish sought after by those fisherman.
The story revolves around a young man who works summers in Alaska. In the spring of 1964, his skipper from Kodiak asks him to come fishing over the young man’s spring break at school. And guess what happened that March? The account is absolutely terrifying and puts you on the edge of your seat while reading. I highly recommend this book!
I read it while my husband was incommunicado while commercial shrimp fishing, and I spent hours after reading this book trying to locate him on the radio by calling different boats in the area where he was supposed to be. The book was so real, I was in a panic! This is one of those times where listening on the VHF was probably a bit interesting – the panicked wife calling all boats in Southeast Alaska looking for her husband who she was sure was heading for a tsunami and would be lost forever. Or maybe he’d gotten pulled overboard by the shrimp pot skates. Or washed overboard by a wave. You get the picture.
http://www.amazon.com/Highliners-Classic-Commercial-Fishermen-Alaska/dp/1585740284
It’s entertainment factor will draw you right in…
Well, in the ADN, when SP was in Unalakleet, she told the Associated Press in an interview, that “I am an Alaskan, I’ve grown up here and I’m going to remain in Alaska.”
But does she really mean what she says?
She can’t move. Her hairdresser is in Wasilla, and who else is going to speak up and protect Sarah’s reputation?
We just got back from a short driving vacation through Michigan and there are ghost forests there in many of the coastal communities. Some of them are regrowing, but the old dead trees still stand taller amongst the new growth like guardians (or warnings).
No time to waste: teach US youth to avoid idleness;they can lead new American Industrial Revolution w/WORK & embrace “Buy American” mission about 23 hours ago from TwitterBerry
is she really the one to preach about idleness and work? i mean, she just quit her job for no apparent reason.
Knowing how much Pat Buchanan loves $carah – will he have her as a guest often ?
Monica Crowley Teams Up With Pat Buchanan
July 19, 2009, 11:15PM
Buchanan & Crowley will debut on Faux News on August 1st at 2:00 am, sandwiched between repeats of Glenn Beck and Ask Dr. Manny.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/sweetmolly/2009/07/monica-crowley-teams-up-with-p.php
This Web Exclusive is really good, especially for those of you who are proficient writers.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907
Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version
If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, , together with representatives from the and departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.
WEB EXCLUSIVE July 20, 2009
JHop@90
Hahahaha.
Check your e-mail.
Palin reminds me more of Martin Sheen’s character President Greg Stillson from the movie The Dead Zone.
Hallelujah.
She called the captured soldier a “WARRIOR” on her last tweet, and that really really really annoys me. He is a soldier. Just because he is a soldier doesn’t mean he thinks he’s on a holy mission for God–which he isn’t.
I’m wondering too if she is wondering now if having Track (allegedly) enlist rather than (allegedly)face the music with local law enforcement about the (alleged) involvement in tire-slashing has changed her mind about that being a good idea, given how soldiers can be killed by IED’s, shot at, wounded for life, captured, videotaped, and sometimes beheaded, ya know? Does she have any guilt about covering up for him? (Again, allegedly on that whole subject) Who’s reputation was she helping? Track’s? Ha! (Allegedly)
Also, recent tweets on how people should just WORK HARD and stop complaining and whining. Oh the irony.
And, also, GINO’s hair was NOT THINNING and her hairdresser NEVER SAID THAT and it’s a VICIOUS LIE. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
I so can’t wait for July 26th.
“Fascinating talking to JNU’s overwhelmed tourists just tasting a nibble of AK’s bounty,knowing AKns are never bored;so much to do & discover” 9:25 AM Jul 19th from TwitterBerry
ironic that she says boredom doesn’t exist in AK. so what exactly caused her to quit job after job, college after college? i always thought it was boredom, but maybe it really is just incompetence.
and rob, i think the hairdresser would hitch a ride on sarah’s falling star, no matter where she goes – new york, d.c., the rainforest, or the moon.
OK. Just when I think I am anywhere close to understanding anything in AK-
Bill Sherwonit wrote an AK Voices blog today on Sarah Palin and Bears. (His last blog was the one about “What ever happened to Joanne Grimes.) I learned a lot of information about bear hunting, but I knew very little beforehand. I thought the article was well written, and he was definitely trying to prove a point, but the comments so far aren’t very nice. He is being called a bleeding heart librul (you know the rest…) I didn’t take his writing as necessarily anti-hunting, but more on how it is done and the numbers being harvested. Of course, the hook has to do with Sarah’s hypocrisy in her bear tweet.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142450?pageNum=2&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container
AKM’s photo is of the estuary below Billings Glacier, on Passage Canal. When Judy and I lived in Whittier, we often boated over there, summer and winter.
If you could draw a line from five miles south of Valdez to the NW edge of Perry Island, then a line from Perry to the eastern shore of Day Harbor (east of Resurrection Bay), you’d get the line between where land went up in the great AK earthquake (the area south and east of the line) and the area that went down (the areas north and west of the line.
At Billings, it appears that the coastal intertidal zone to about 50 to 100 feet inshore didn’t subside much in the quake, but that in the next hundred yards inland, there was a lot of subsidence That’s where those Sitka Spruce in the picture are situated.
Sally: Thank you for the VF mark up. It was a good review for me of how good writing can be lost. This from a journalism major?
Re: the VF markup
Edited or not, it still a big steaming pile of BS. The editing was entertaining though.
RE: Palin’s hairdresser getting up on her hind legs and roaring like another Mama Grizzly about thinning hair!! and slamming the NY Times for “lies” when all they did was tell the world that Palin’s friends were worrying about her losing weight, etc. and that she needed emergency help from the hairdresser.
I unearthed this older NY Times article from last fall that makes some interesting reading about the hairdresser and her relationship with Palin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/fashion/14hair.html
I wonder if it was one of the “Beehive Beauty Shop girls” who spilled the beans about thinning hair, and Jessica Steele is just throwing herself down in front of the rumors to distract everyone.
And then, there’s that other rumor: Mrs. Steele’s fourth pregnancy overlapped with Mrs. Palin’s fifth. “She kept it quiet,” Mrs. Steele said. “But I remember her hair was acting different. And I thought, ‘Something is going on!’ ”
Yeah, right. Most likely, menopause…
If the hairdresser REALLY said Sarah’s hair is thinning, she won’t be hitching a ride to WalMart, much less the lower 48….
I’m just reading the ridiculous hairdresser story now… back in a few with some of the more funny comments…
There’s only 250 or so of them… could it BE that no one gives a beehive about Sarah’s coif?
Silly $arah….the hair thinning mention and the NYT article was to HELP YOU JUSTIFY your big quit.
But NO, it ventured into the realm of your vanity, so you must attack!
(I am sure Ms. Beehive got a call from Meg or Sarah about that)
Looks like Campell’s confirmation as Lt. Gov. is almost a done deal. I find this upsetting. He needs to be vetted! Alaskans, can you call or e-mail your Legislators? It seems he is being rushed in without testimony?
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142469
Her follicles are QUITTING!
uh…akm is that your eye looking at me from the facebook entry? it is without a doubt a beautiful eye. the eyebrow and lashes are stunning but where is The Moose? our icon, our mascot,our BRIAN?
just kidding akm. i already know you are drop dead gorgeous. i can tell these things….bubs
If there was that much subsidence, those trees did not have to wait for salt water to kill them. That earthquake provides many lessons for aspiring geology students; soil liquification being one of the most impressive.
As for Palin moving, don’t believe a word of it. She’d never survive a month in NYC, and only a little longer in Westchester or Putnam Counties. Can she afford something similar to what she currently has? I looked at one almost 2500 square foot lakeside house (she has 3500 sf) on a half acre just 30 minutes north of the city just last week and it was priced at $1.7 million. Does she have that type of cash? Can she afford the taxes? What’s The Dud going to do with his sorry arse? Those NY’ers will mock him to tears.
But who knows… maybe a house on Clinton’s street in Chappaqua will be up for sale real soon. Bill will surely enjoy all those girls so close… especially Sarah. Maybe he’s got a few extra ceegars hanging around.
samper – I saw your post way back re: car pooling and I can’t commit to anything yet. Not positive we are going.
Will try to talk more later – sorry but been swamped
And AKM – I absolutely love the picture!
103 samper Says: July 20th, 2009 at 10:26 AM
could it BE that no one gives a beehive about Sarah’s coif?
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I certainly do not give a rat’s beehive about her hair, but I am dead certain that a large number of her C-peers want to know the answer to the ultimate 7th grader’s question: do the drapes match the rug?
KaJo, thanks for the article @ #101!
So is there no one in The Inner Circle who is NOT a sworn member of the Wasilla Bible Church? ( C St. North?)
Maybe all those appointed cronies, who are derided as mere Wasilla High pals, are more significantly members of this Wasilla congregation.
Praise the Lord and pass the Clip-In eXtensions (TM)!
Samper and sauerkraut –
You both keep me chuckling, and I admit to a few second delay until I “got” the 7th grade joke.
For added humor to those fully admitting to wasting time-
On HuffPo there is an article on a Gov X (married) and a prostitute. Now, it is not credited, highly speculative and really shouldn’t be reported. But, that didn’t stop the commentators. Last night I was in stitches over the investigative skills of the commentators. Lots of snark. The more recent comments, made by those who go to bed at night, were not as funny and a bit more critical of the stupidity of reporting without a confirmed name.
sauerkraut @ 111
ROTFLMBAO!!!
sauerkraut –
I vote “landing strip”
David Shuster and Tameran Hall (MSNBC, 12:20 PST) had a Palin Chronicle segment. A guest (didn’t catch his name) talked about what all she needs to do and what she can do from here. He mentioned that she could sit out the next 6 elections and still only be the same age as McCain was. He said she has plenty of time. Mentioned TV guest spots, books, speaking as $ makers. He also said she does not have good staff working for her and that is a real problem. All agreed with that! (Sorry Meg and Ivy- no kudos for you two.)
David then read her “Packing house in JNU…” tweet. Both were quiet. Tameran tried to explain/ translate it as showing she is still balancing motherhood (re: Piper’s K papers) and working. Quiet again, probably kicking each other under the table.
Then Shuster says maybe she is trying to make her time in office seem longer, “X flies, Piper in K..now 3rd grade in fall…)” For the finger counter crowd: K, 1, 2 almost to 3, but at least that 4th finger is twitching. Tricky. Very astute of the Shuster. I had wondered why he had chosen that tweet to read out of the many choices he had.
Maybe Sarah’s “palin’ around with hairorists!
SP’s hair is neither a quitter nor a dead fish going with the flow!
What are we supposed to attack if we can’t attack her fading looks? That’s all she’s got going for her for krist sake!
Even her hairdresser flip flops
At the end of the week, we get our state back from ‘the ex-thrilla from Wasilla whose now just a quitta on twitta.’ (I really like that one)
HistoryGoddess -
I saw the other day when they did the first chronicle , and they said they were gonna do it everyday………
austintx (at 9:00 AM) says: I would trust her as far as I could throw a grand piano.
Someone better be there doing an inventory; they might take the grand piano! And there are lots of items in that house that are the property of the Alaska State Museum, so I’m hoping they are sending someone over…
This is SOOOOOOO funny! Almost as funny as seeing that “blingie” picture of Peggy Noonan that you see every once in a while at Wonkette…
Anyway, take a gander at what The Hairdresser did:
http://akbeehive.com/GO_SARAH.html
24 hours Palin tweet free – maybe some one intervened
KaJo–OMG, that is just about the scariest thing I’ve seen in ages! (Is there an eye bleach station around here somewhere?)
Have Sarah Palin twit about the victory of her administration over big government “manifested” by the “Feds” pulling Medicaid? It is one of her achievements.
If anyone is still interested in $arah’s thinning hair, IM has an interesting link: http://tinyurl.com/lxjb6g Her hair could also be thinning due to hair color chemicals, and maybe stress. (Don’t bother with article; it’s the photo that we care about).
Can stress do that to someone? You betcha! When my neighbor’s son married the worst-daughter-in-law-in-the-world, she had hair and teeth problems. The girl was gone in 11 months; the dental work took 2 years.
Kajo @123
My golly, that Beehive is something. I somehow think there is a Precious Moments display there somewhere. (Not that PMs are bad, just sayin’)
Having seen now the shop in question, the tweets and accompanying punctuation make more sense. I agree with you, Injuneau, eye bleach in order.
Sally – loved the edited version of Palin’s resignation!! Thanks for sharing.
Kajo @104
And then, there’s that other rumor: Mrs. Steele’s fourth pregnancy overlapped with Mrs. Palin’s fifth. “She kept it quiet,” Mrs. Steele said. “But I remember her hair was acting different. And I thought, ‘Something is going on!’ ”
The hair was acting different……… only noticeable sign of a pregnancy as Palin stretched on the shampoo chair?
Introducing Sarah Palin’s former speech writer — Lee Stranahan.
1:38 – Paid with building supplies and windows?
Video@ http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/open-thread-12
No twitters for a whole day?
Has she had a twittevention? did Taaahd wrench the blackberry from her sweaty palms? Did Bristol finally crack and smash it with a hammer?
Has she realised 80% of the followers were laughing their heads off and waiting for the train crash?
The last time she went this long without twitting was just before she QUIT, when something really bad went down. Hhmmmmmm………………..
BTW, I think this is a joke. But with $carah…who knows? #131
I found out a little bit about Palin’s obscure-to-the-general-public-but-not-to-her-cronies-and-friends Tweet about “Daughter just returned from NBC basketball tour in Italy full of Coach Fred Crowell’s inspiration; may we all grasp what they learned like: 12:20 AM Jul 14th from TwitterBerry”
http://www.nbccamps.com/sites/pages/italia.htm
Fred Crowell used to coach a vagabond post-collegiate Christian Athletes In Action team in the 60s, has written “faith” books, and now runs a Christian basketball camp, “Northwest Basketball Camps” in Spokane.
Apparently the Palins sent Willow off to one of Crowell’s basketball camps, an overnighter in Italy between July 5th and 11th.
That’s why you didn’t see Willow faithfully standing by her mother and father, holding the baby instead of Piper struggling with him…
Gah! spoke too soon ……
Yesterday’s presser on Ft.Rich soldier: http://tinyurl.com/lv8gev
3 minutes ago from web
Very subdued, just like the ones after she went silent last time, just before she QUIT.
Hmmm…….he’s a soldier now, perhaps someone had a word about using the term ‘warrior’. About time.
UK Lady – I’m sure the Pentagon is on her case to STFU about the captured soldier.
UK Lady – notice how Campbell got in his quote on that release?
Jumping on that band wagon.
Hi SJP, was getting fed up with talking to myself. Yes, it cetainly looks like someone had a stern word doesn’t it.
I’m here. Like the open thread best actually!! I love to find out new links etc. Love that VF editor take on the resig. speech.
I like open thread best too SJP. It is so easy to go OT on the other threads just by answering a question or something and then the whole thread goes sort of organic. It is obviously a big problem for AKM and the mods, although they are doing their best to be polite and tactful about it.
mae lewis (127)
http://tinyurl.com/lxjb6g Her hair could also be thinning due to hair color chemicals, and maybe stress. (Don’t bother with article; it’s the photo that we care about).
Can stress do that to someone? You betcha!
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Here’s a thought, see what you think?
In that photo, it looks as if she’s frosted the heck out of her hair, right? (asking because sometimes my monitor has issues).
When I first started going noticeably grey (in my early 20s), I was told that I should frost my hair because it camouflages (sp) the grey so very well. I never did do it, but it does kinda make me wonder about the frost job in that picture.
I’m just sayin’
Nan, I can’t get tinyurls on my pc. By frosting do you mean she has a lot of highlights/streaks in her hair?
I believe a lot of dark haired women do that to disguise grey roots. There is no way that a 46 year old has no grey in their hair. A lot of colouring will completely knacker your hair.
NY Times sticks by its version of the great wispy hair controversy:
(HuffPo article )
UPDATE: The New York Times has defended its story quoting Palin’s hairdresser, saying the woman in question praised the article.
Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty told Editor & Publisher:
“Kim Severson, the reporter who interviewed Jessica Steele at some length in her salon for the article, received an e-mail from her early on July 13 saying, ‘Thank you so much for the article!! It was perfect!’
“In several later conversations, she confirmed that view. Therefore, we believe our reporting is accurate.”
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First the hair issue, now the former Miss California got a book deal. All this news about absolute bullsh*t.
Has Sarah released ANYTHING about the federal gov’t stopping the medicare issue in her state under her watch?
Aaargghhh!!! she Tweeted…..?
I thought maybe someone with a Brain helping with the packing dropped that BlacKberry in a box and sealed it up tight.
Good try Piper….better luck next time.
History Goddess – YAY!!
I swear $arah or Meg got on Ms. Beehive’s CASE, albeit a week or so later!
Nothing on the “feds” (I lower case that to match how $arah does it) taking over in AK, nothing.
But the hair? That’s Monday’s big story!!!
I still want the photo of the movers taking the tanning bed our of the Juneau Gov. house.
Nan #141: I forgot to mention the other important thing about the photo (link at Mae Lewis #127): Frosted hair– lots of people have that kind of look. It’s the contrast with the much-too-dark hair extensions underneath. It’s only lately that Sarah has been wearing that girlish extra long shoulder length hair. The frosted hair shows just how thin it really is, regardless of the Best Friend in the Beauty Shop’s remarks,
Yeah… I saw the story about ‘ Miss Pre-Judge ‘ getting the book deal on the Huffpo.
Maybe she will use $arah’s advice and ‘ pass the ball ‘ halfway though writing it and quit.
$arah could invite ‘ Pre-Judge ‘ to Wasilla and they can write their books together.
Seagull JP- I am thinking that maybe Jessica the Hairdresser is a tad afraid of tire marks on her backside. It would be nice is the NYT author would do a nice little picture of that e-mail. You know, things like that make the day of the chattering classes.
Maybe Greta will be all over this, except I think they are moving on past $ on the Wire. I am heartened that I am watching Chis Matthews and he hasn’t mentioned her once, not even as an upcoming story.
I really think Sarah should say SOMETHING about the medicare issue. Does she think if she ignores it, it won’t stick to her and her leadership.
Ha-ha. Sarah and leadership in the same sentence. I crack myself up!
Not sure quite what’s going on with Greta van Suckup and her hubby at the moment. They may be under the bus, or she may be under theirs.
John Coale has been talking about the defence fund and I have heard that $P is no longer following GVS on twitter although I cannot confirm as I have no twitter account.
$arah’s stock is dropping dramatically. Basically the quitter speech did her in. That’s what sticks in everyone’s mind.
UK L – that would be so typical of High School $arah if she stopped following Greta on twitter. Wonder…?
SJP – maybe someone with a twitter account will check for us later and confiirm one way or the other.
Hi, Mudpups, arrived in CO travel weary but wanted to get caught up on your posts. Is she melted yet? Please forgive if I seem brain dead, lol.
I think this article should go viral, after listening to Steel (gah) press conference this am in motel room, I think it applies perfectly. Please help it get out there. I didn’t want to cut and past too much, follow link to read more good stuff.
Sen. Barbara Boxer.Democratic U.S. Senator from California
“Clean Energy Action Will Jump Start Our Economy”
“Sarah Palin’s “cap and tax” opinion piece printed in the Washington Post this week reminds me of every naysayer who has spoken out against progress in cleaning up pollution.
Whether it was the debate over the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Superfund law or any of our other landmark environmental laws, one pattern has always been clear:
Time and time again, pessimists — often affiliated with polluting industries — predicted loss of jobs and great costs to taxpayers. And time and time again, our environmental laws have cleaned up the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the communities we live in at far lower cost than expected.
Take the acid rain program established in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
The naysayers said it would cost consumers billions in higher electricity rates, when in reality the opposite happened, and electricity rates declined an average of 19 percent between 1990 and 2006.
The naysayers also said that cost to business would be more than $50 billion a year, when in reality the health and other benefits of the program outweighed the costs 40 to 1.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer/clean-energy-action-will_b_235382.html
UKLady
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Online-activism-is-the-next-step-for-Palin-revolution-7952889-50468942.html
sorry about the tinyurl; I just quoted the whole comment
Mae lewis
That’s what I mean! My hair was almost black, so every single white hair just jumped out at ya. For me, it seemed my hair was SO dark that frosting would just be too-too. Never did do it.
As for SP, I think she was wearing a “fall” some of that time. (see the pic as she walked across the stage at the Repub dinner – right at the crown of her head). The extensions, mostly in NYC, you’re right, they were two shades darker at least.
I think they’re gone though. Her hair was shorter again when she was on the fishing boat.
Wild.
you might check out a photographers blog on my blogrole(under fred) he’s from alaska..lives in nyc and does great nyc photographs…but he’s home for school reunion and taking some excellent pictures of his beloved alaska..
a good visual…..
http://threebrain.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-fun-with-photoshop.html
I checked Twitter and Greta is not being followed. Meow- hiss. Regular Fox News is, and the Hannity show, but that’s it.
I did notice she is following DHSS. Checked their tweets. Mostly they are flu related, but I did find this from Jul 7th.
“Heirloom birth and marriage certificates must be ordered by July 13 to be signed by Gov Palin. Plan ahead! http://tinyurl.com/PalinHeirloom ”
Isn’t that special. Nothing says special moments like a flourished Sarah signature.
as for the thin hair issue, stress and peri menopause thinned my hair for years, at least it was still coming in new. I don’t imagine the harsh hair chemicals would help.
Thanks Nan.
History Goddess @ 143
LOL, if the NYT say they got an email from the hairdresser (and why would they say that if they can’t back it up), this just goes to prove nothing that comes out of that camp can be believed. I know there are more important things to worry about, climate change, clean air etc., but this sort of thing just proves what tabloid fodder $P is.
That hairdresser is going to have some wide ol’ tyremarks down her back.
Thanks for checking on $arah & Greta on twitter HistoryG.
Waiiiiitttt till it’s official and $arah is not the Gov. The stories will start to appear, and she can slam the writer in her politically incorrect way!
History Goddess
Well she WAS following GVS, so wonder why she stopped? Hmmmmm…..
http://twitter.com/AKGOVSarahPalin
click on following and it takes you to her list.
Probably an easy answer – Coale offered good advice, $arah got pissed.
Is a picture worth a thousand words? I think this pic says it all. Taken within days of her resignation.
http://pa.photoshelter.com/image?_bqH=eJzzLYsqSA8OCijNz89LNApOKQ9wqSpwdi.IKsu2MrQwM7YyMrWy8ox3CXa2LU4sSszQLkjMycxTi3d0DrEtTk0sSs5QA8vGO_q52JaoFRSk2xqZAgDV.hv5&_bqG=66&I_ID=I0000sh1j_4DnBx0
I found this comment on the Huff Po under the “hair” article. Google Ish Kabbible, I haven’t heard this phrase in a long time!
This just cracked me up, so I thought I would share……….
MinnesotaPurple
Sarah Palin is perfect. She never makes a mistake – esp with regards to her hair.
When she does make a mistake, it is always someone elses fault. God praise her! God condemn the liberal biased media!
- Ish Kabbible
I think we all agree that lying about the little things taints everything. Because she has lied and deflected so much, I can’t believe a word she says. I’m sure she has told some truths, but who knows?
Ed Shultz Show today- health care/bad Congress for wanting to dismiss for summer break, Obama after 6 months, Blue Dog Dems better be listening to BO, OpEd on Congress staying in session until business on health is done, and HURRAY, no Sarah story!
ooh- Shannyn just tweeted that another 80 pg ethics complaint filed!
I think I may be liking this twitter update stuff
Maybe Greta VanS blocked Sarah.
Newest ethics complaint- from Shannyn
http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71277_ethics_fail.htm
austin: your PM box is full. Please go do some housekeeping!
162 Empish Says:
July 20th, 2009 at 1:38 PM
http://twitter.com/AKGOVSarahPalin
click on following and it takes you to her list.
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Followed your link, these two stand out:
Time DOES fly! Work hard so u can genuinely enjoy every recreation minute! Avoid time spent tearing down, whining, complaining;WORK & ENJOY
11:52 AM Jul 19th from TwitterBerry
From sealife near lush wet rainforests to energy housed under frozen tundra atop permafrost,God most creatively displays His diversity in AK
9:13 AM Jul 19th from TwitterBerry
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So Alaska’s energy is in a sandwich between “frozen tundra” and “permafrost”?
WTF?……over?
oops, didn’t mean to imply Shannyn filed the complaint. Andree did. Shannyn was passing on the information and I was trying to give her the hat tip. Sorry.
Hitler finds out Palin resigns! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos
ROFLMAO
this is an intersting article on our electric grid system……Murkoski weighs in and security issues are raised.
‘Smart grid’ – power lines move into digital age
“Sadly, if Edison were alive today, he’d be all too familiar with the current system we rely on. Not that much has changed” in 127 years, said Carol Browner, the White House adviser on energy and climate. At a recent energy conference, she described that system as congested, disjointed and out of date.
Others compare the hundreds of thousands of miles of power lines that crisscross the country to a river flowing down a hill: an inefficient one-way movement of electrons from power plant to consumer. It uses primitive technologies – cables, meters, circuit breakers, fuses and rudimentary monitors. But there is little way to provide any feedback of information to the power company running the system or those buying the electricity.”
http://tinyurl.com/o5qeep
Very interesting that Greta and Joan Coale are part of the basis of this new ethics complaint. Free legal advice. Greta’s own words are used as proof.
Bye bye Greta!!
Skimmed quickly through the ethics complaint. It has to do with unreported gifts. Interesting that we were just commenting on Greta because G and hubby are names several times. I’ll bet that is why Greta didn’t come to AK for the Fishy Final Farewell Explanation Interview Marathon. I thought that was SO weird. Fox that morning kept giving a teaser that they would be showing an exclusive interview, but as of noon (PST) they hadn’t. “Technical difficulties.” The AK Standard had already posted their link for “Fox gives balanced account of Palin’s recognition,” yet the link was a file not found. Too funny. I don’t know that it ever aired.
What’s that sound? More R’s eating their own?
Thanks for the link on the power grid, Say No to Palin in Politics. That is very interesting.
History Goddess
Oh Yeah! I had forgotten about that. I don’t think they ever did the segment. very weird.
samper –
Yup-Yup.
Thanks for the link to the newest ethics complaint HistoryGoddess.
This will send the Palin fans into another tizzy that’s for sure. You watch, there will be tweets flying back and forth about how horrible Andree is. I’ve already seen calls for a restraining order against her from these people, so things will no doubt get worse. Heck yesterday someone on the ADN had posted her personal information (address and phone number) over and over again on several different Palin topics. It was sickening.
This will also hopefully force people to confront the fact that a) gifts have been held for 6+ months without being reported, and b) that there are numerous questions regarding this Legal Defense Fund, like if it is frozen due to a pending ethics complaint, how can it be used to pay off the bills?, and also perhaps expose who is lying about this fund and the legal bills Palin claims to have.
I wonder if John Coale and Greta regret getting involved with Palin now?
For anyone who happens to care, Greta does not follow the Twit Queen. She does follow John McCain. The others are mostly the cast of Fox with a few others thrown in.
I did notice, though, when I signed up, it is possible to do “private” setting so no one really knows you are out there unless you invite them. It looked to me as if it were all or nothing. All open or all private w/ invites.
I think Twitter is silly, but fully admit Sarah’s are a source of humor. I am finding that our president’s twitters are a bit informative, and there are some history ones that send some “this day in history” tweets. They can go to the computer, phone, or you can just go to your twitter page and read them.
Good example – Shannyn is a good tweeter. Just sent one on Begnich trying to fix Sarah’s mess regarding Medicaide. Calls on her to get involved.
Story in the newsminer
http://bit.ly/yc8Ue
I like TwitPic. I can take a photo with my cell phone and send it directly to TwitPic for all to see. I figure it may come in handy if I’m ever in a right place-right time sorta situation.
EyeOnYou @79 said
a) gifts have been held for 6+ months without being reported,
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Gosh, does that mean thank you notes were not sent out? That doesn’t seem like good gubernatorial manners are being shown.
UK LADY: I’m 46, brunette. Only a few singular gray strands in my hair. Few enough to pluck out when they rear their heads!
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It IS possible… my family has exceptional hair genes, especially on dad’s side. Dad and Grandpa both with full heads of hair (Dad is 72, but of course, Gramps is gone). The women, too. Lots of hair and graying quite late in life.
The “stress” in SP’s hair is probably from OVER activity! Constantly dying, and combing out the hairspray after her cheerleader photo shoots, etc. It’s probably chemically induced.
HistoryGoddess
Gosh, does that mean thank you notes were not sent out? That doesn’t seem like good gubernatorial manners are being shown.
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Oh a few people have reported receiving hand written thank you notes, but naturally those were the people who had donated to the Legal Defense Fund!
That is WAY more important than worrying about 80+ boxes of mail sitting waiting to be opened doncha know!
According to the ethics complaint, all immediate members of the “subject” fall into this reporting of gifts. Does that include any baby gifts sent to Tripp? Sarah’s dad had made a comment about all the presents, then had to backtrack a bit when Levi morphed into the deadbeat dad role.
Samper
Wow, you are lucky with those good hair genes, and very unusual. I thought I was pretty good, brunette and starting to go grey in late 30s.
austin: You’ve got mail!
Say No (with apologies to the gents out there): I’m doing the peri-men thing now for about 4 years! Night sweats, shorter and shorter time between cycles, inexplicable weight gain (it couldn’t have ANYTHING to do with being sedentary for hours at a time bloggin’ with you fine folks!), etc. NO mood issues, thank God!
But no hair issues, either. In fact, I’m having better hair days than EVER! Right out of HS and through College into young adulthood, I was BLONDE, though. My hair was like straw and broke off from all the chemicals (it was long). Much nicer to go “natural” and not fuss with it while having my nice thick, shiny, healthy hair back.
When will this peri-men STOP already and throw me head first into the real thing? I can’t wait!!!!! Just get it OVER WITH already!!!!!
Again, sorry, guys!
Samper
Sympathy and empathy coming your way. don’t wish the full meno thing on, it’s a nightmare.
Sorry also guys.
UK LADY: OTOH: My best friend was freaking out at 20 with SIGNIFICANT gray. She’s been attached to her bottle of L’Oreal ever since!
What??!! No thank you notes for all the gifts? What a b*tch! Especially if a lot of them were for the Babies. That’s just out and out bad manners and Emily Post is probably rolling around in her grave trying to get out and write an article about how important thank you notes are. And then, she’d be mapquesting Wasilla to go tell SP how to be a GRACIOUS grifter (as opposed to an UNgracious grifter!).
My mom used to make us sit down on Xmas afternoon to write ours. They were in the mail on 12/26. Same with our birthdays. It stuck. I send TY’s out the minute I open the gift if it’s sent, and the minute I part company if given in person. ALWAYS.
Theory on the lack of twitting. $arah got grief from the Feds (and maybe the family of the soldier, who want privacy) for using warrior one too many times, now she’s sulking.
Read her twitter again – she still said warrior:
Monitoring capture of Ft.Rich soldier in Afghanistan, Pentagon confirms;hearts & prayers are w/AK-based warrior/his fellow troops/his family
12:28 PM Jul 19th from TwitterBerry
ds55- Thanks for the tip regarding TwitPic. That would save time sending pictures to my kids.
To the mudpuppies that shared the (Firefox) Ctrl+ and Ctrl- to change size of screen font- much thanks. I shared that at a workshop and all were impressed since it is sometimes hard to show students internet items in a large enough format for all to see. I have always had to mess with the magnifier on my mouse. It has been much easier for me to now read small fonts on the laptop as well.
to samper- you are too funny!
michigander
That was yesterday, today he is a soldier
UK LADY: I’m tough. Bring it on. If I can take Palins idiocy without my head exploding, I can take a few hormonal imbalances. Luckily, mood has never been a symptom of my “womanhood”. No PMS or anything like that. The worst of it was in HS… bad cramping and horrific back aches. Not as bad now, but still get them.
ANYTHING is better than waking up drenched in sweat, having to change all the linens and take a shower at 2AM. And, ANYTHING is better than a 2.5 week cycle (sometimes stretching out to 3 or even 3.5). I used to be able to tell the tides with my cycle (very dependable). Now, it’s like I’m 14 with erratic “surprises”.
Gee… why aren’t the guys jumping into this discussion???
Typo Alert: Palin’s, not Palins!
D’OH!
samper–I think you scared them off!
Re: The electric grid thing: Anyone here go through the “Great Black Out of 2005(?)”? I think it was that summer. It was downright creepy here in Detroit! It was a HOT and STICKY night… We (me and kitties) slept on the 3-season porch, which was creepy, too. Too quiet and too dark.
As soon as day broke, I packed up the kitties and all our perishables and headed for BF’s house 1.5 hours away (luckily, had a full tank of gas and some rarely used cash on hand (I’m a debit card girl all the way!). Word was they had power west of Detroit at about Ann Arbor. He’s a little further west than that.
My phone would only dial 800 #’s, so I called my rep and good friend at Carnival Cruise Lines and he called BF to announce our pending arrival.
On the way: ZILLIONS of cars that tried to get off the freeways before running out of gas. Didn’t make it. OFF RAMPS littered with gasless vehicles, as were shoulders. Without traffic control lights, no one was moving off the freeway. Gridlock.
Mom had called from NC in the middle of the day to see if I had electricity. It was weird how SHE knew what was going on and I didn’t.
NEVER want to see grid problems again! A city like Detroit completely in the dark? Unimaginable!
Didn’t know a new thread up- newest ethics complaint.
The Twit is making up for time; She is HOT, Here are the last 4. Read bottom to top. Another should be coming through any minute to finish veteran thought.
# BUT if there was a suit to end public waste of time/funds to constantly address false allegations I could see perhaps a veteran filing it…2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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it costs political critics NOTHING to file/play their wasteful game;They should debate policy in political arena,not hide w/process abuse…5 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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Some ask why not sue abusers of Ethics Act bc state wastes 1000′s hrs/millions of tax dollars to fight (and win!) frivolous charges, tho….13 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
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In violation of Ethics Act more allegations were filed today by serial complainer;gave to press be4 we could respond;ridiculous, wasteful…20 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
She cracks me up. What other Governor reacts like a teenager when official complaints are filed against them? Only Sarah. What a gal.
In Juneau: Guys are such babies!
Little do they realize that these “issues” are all connected to the continuation of the human race and their own BIRTHS.
They should be a lot more sympathetic and should come bearing MANY more gifts for our sacrifice!
LOL!
HistoryGoddess–Yup, there’s a whole fun thread up about the ethics stuff: http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/20/new-ethics-complaint-filed-against-sarah-palin/
UK LADY and samper: I just wanted to throw this out there, speaking of exceptional hair genes…
My age is yours, reversed, samper — I’m 64 headed for my next birthday around Thanksgiving…
About 10 years ago my hairdresser and I had a heart-to-heart talk, and I gave up perming my hair but decided to stick with the frosting for a while. Anyway, I gave up on the coloring too, about 2 years ago.
To my surprise the frosting/”weaving” wasn’t hiding much gray at all. I have about 20 white hairs sprouting just above my bangs, and that’s about it. Even my younger sis, who’s 55, and has near-black hair, has only about 30 white hairs.
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Palin’s hair could have been thinning because she’s having some thyroid imbalance in addition to stress and/or menopause. What’s the big deal about that? I think her hairdresser’s tizzy is just hilarious.
samper–well, yes they should, but I don’t think you or I should hold our breath waiting!
KaJo–couldn’t a thyroid problem result in lots of weight loss too?
Samper,
6 years and counting. It gets worse before it gets better, they say…
What do ethics complaints have to do with Veterans?
She is SUCH a whiner!
FEW of the complaints were “frivolous”, as her CLEARED $8K check might attest to. They are LEGIT.
Just because the folks whom she could FIRE ruled in her favor doesn’t mean that violations didn’t happen.
I love it when she says “wearin’ a coat with a logo on it” instead of “head to toe neon walking billboard”. Talk about MINIMIZING the truth!
Yeah, menopause will be WAY easier than deciphering/dissecting this moron!
booboodog: The peri thing? SIX years? I’ll shoot myself. I will. I really will. I’ll borrow that nice new AK-47 from SP! She won’t have a problem cleaning up the blood. She loves field dressing dead things.
I can’t imagine it being worse. I’m 46, dammit, and have the “accidents” of a 13 year old who hasn’t established her routine yet.
In Juneau: I’m far from breath holding. Gave that up at 6 when Mommy told me boys are thoughtless.
(Present company excluded, of course!)
Thyroid – always connected it with weight issues. That, also too there, runs in the family – mom’s side.
Kajo: AWESOME! I bet you look like you’re 30!!!!
PS: Not to belabor my stunning youth or anything, but if you look at some good close ups of SP, you’ll notice her crow’s feet.
Not a wrinkle to be seen here and I have the WORST ritual ever! I use a buff puff single (love these!) after my shower and that’s it. No creams or potions to ward off aging. Mom goes through a battery of steps before going to bed each night. I leave my make up on and after brushing my teeth, just flop into bed… GASP!
Again, good genes. There is ONE furrow between the eyebrows, but I attribute that to my intense “thoughtfulness”.
Samper,
Peri phase can go on for approx. 10 years. Not for everyone, of course.
Lucky me! I think I am near the end (I almost said the end is near-another
symptom?) Good thing is the last phase is you just don’t care about the petty stuff of youth; just happy to be alive and enjoyin’ things we gave little thought to in our youth. Like shaving… just kidding
Anybody a Twitter expert? …I opened an acct to get ready for the ‘unrestricted’ palin tweets. I have followers already…ppl I don’t know. How does this happen? …how do they know where to find me? anyone? anyone?
Vanity Fair actually found enough red ink to edit Palin infamous July 3 Duck and Run (resignation) speech.
Vanity Fair hater defaces Sarah Palin’s iconic leaving speech.
http://tinyurl.com/my7xah #palin
Lainey, people can ‘search’ for your email address if they already have it. Also there are some people selling stuff on Twitter, so if you don’t know ‘em, reject ‘em.
Lainey
I opened an acct before the Iran election and had the same experience with quickly getting lots of followers once the protests started. I think it’s just people cruising unknown accts hoping for nuggets. It’s easy to block them.
212 ds55 &
213 Closet Mudpup
thanks…I will reject/block…….kinda creepy that they find you right away.
I agree with just blocking people I don’t know. The day I set it up, I had 4 followers. Trollers, I think. Blocked them. Only one other since then. Clipped it in the bud.
Something I did do, though. I did not use my HistoryGoddess since it is something my students also know me as. There were already a few so I was going to have to add a number or two. I know people can find stuff on google, but Twitter takes not long at all to see the tweets written and followers, and all their tweets. I was going to have to mind my mouth way too much.
Bottom line, I used a completely different name for Twitter. It is one my kids would be able to remember, but I feel a bit more protected.
Back to the twitter thread. Did you all know Sarah already changed one? Thank heavens for screen shots! That makes her look even stupider.
Rachel very good tonight. I missed the first bit, but joined in when Paul Reikoff? the Iraqi and Afgan Vet guy; He’s way cool and got all over the former military guy on Fox that called the ID soldier/captive a traitor. She ends the show with a talk about where Pat Buchanan was absolutely wrong the day he was on. She did it very respectfully. She is SO cool.
Just watched Rachel’s show on MSNBC, and it seems perhaps her unlikely love affair with Uncle Pat might be over–she was pretty harsh! Factual, of course…
VF said the complainers violated the confidentiality provision??? Is this a true statement?
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…This is the fourth ethics complaint filed against the Governor since the announcement of her resignation on July 3. In every case, the complainers violated the confidentiality provision of the Ethics Act in making their complaints public knowledge.
THOMAS VAN FLEIN—Personal Attorney for Governor Palin
I haven’t read comments here (so many threads/comments and too little time) but I wanted to comment on the anniversary of the lunar landing. Since this is the open thread I thought it would be ok.
I remember clearly watching the landing live in my parent’s living room 40 years ago today. It really seems like yesterday. I was a young teen at the time and I was completely blown away with what I was seeing. I will never forget the feeling. To this day, I don’t think there has been a more magnificent milestone accomplished in science/technology.
Just wanted to comment and share. I’m a “space bug” and dabble in astronomy so today was special to me.
Back to current events……
What the heck does that last tweet about not having the right to drive down the street if you can’t walk? I must be missing something. ????
Oh….and Rachel was awesome tonight on Pat Buchanan. She is so subtle yet sharp. Loved how she “corrected” all those mis-facts. What a classy woman. She made her points with clarity and it was a beautiful thing!
@ seattlefan: It’s probably about undocumented immigrants not being allowed driver’s licenses. Just a guess.
@ds55: That would be a good guess! Thanks.
I am going to shamelessly promote my own blog as I wrote about my Mom’s death when she did not have health care – and since it was tough to write about, hope many of you will read it. Just click on my name – it will take you to the site. Thanks – I will probably put this up on the next open thread also as this one is about done for.
It seems to me, given Governor Palin’s outgoing favourability numbers, that every ambitious politician in Alaska will wish to be associated with her legacy. And if i am reading the runes correctly, no ambitious politician will wish to be associated with failed ‘ethics’ complainers. Still less will they wish to be associated with Alaskan ‘progessives’. It would be the kiss of death.
seattlefan @ 08:27, so there are other ‘geeks’ here (no offense intended). I have been a “space bug” since about 12. Your post struck a cord with me. I have been peering out at the Cosmos (as Carl Sagan would have said) for a very long time
. It has always been a search for truth. It has gotten more mysterious as I have gotten older. But it sure is fascinating to watch.
Better late than never…
InJuneau Says: July 20th, 2009 at 4:04 PM KaJo–couldn’t a thyroid problem result in lots of weight loss too?
Depends on which kind of thyroid problem it is. Hyperthyroidism, yes. The kind I had, complete shut-down of the thyroid, probably not. The kind I had (now with artificial hormone replacement) if it goes far enough, you are listless, your face gets puffy and rounded (some Cushing’s Disease folks show this), and untreated, you die. I had to change doctors to get it diagnosed; I had a really stupid doc who also misdiagnosed a heart condition that I really didn’t have.