Backlog of Snippets!
22 07 2009Spotted in Juneau
Rupert Murdoch’s ginormous two-masted, gadget-ridden yacht.
Also Spotted in Juneau
Rupert Murdoch’s ginormous personal private 737.
Also Spotted in Juneau. Also.
A moving truck parked outside a certain governor’s residence. Who knew there was actually stuff in there? Must have needed it for the tanning bed.
[h/t to 2 Juneau Mudflatters who sent me pictures - Mudflatter "D" and Mudflatter "D"....also]
Alaskans are RINOs?
Numbers guru Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com tells us that Alaska’s golden girl, Lisa Murkowski is the 63rd most conservative member of the Senate. So, if middle-of-the-road is 50th….then…. looks like Alaskans may not be as Republican as they think they are. (Shhhhh….)
Overheard in My House
“If Sarah Palin had been as smart as Liz Cheney, we’d have been in big trouble. Fortunately, she’s an idiot.”
News from the Tubes
According to Rasmussen, 35% of Americans think that the internet is a more reliable source of news that network TV.
Congratulations!
Hooray for Mudflatter Ian on his scholarship to Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh!
“I would like to thank all of you for your votes and encouraging words. I doubt I would have been able to win the scholarship without the support I received from all of you. I am very grateful to have this opportunity, and I hope to meet many of you at Mudstock in Pittsburgh.”
Mudflats in Song…
Check out the latest from lynnrockets, master of Palinized song lyrics. I liked this part to the tune of “The Boys Are Back In Town”:
Friday night we’ll be dressed to thrill
Down at the Mudflats Bar & Grill
If barracuda looks could kill
Man, Caribou would chew us up and spit out
I could hang out there, I think… A round for all my friends!
How Will He Govern???
Do not panic, folks… but it appears that Lt. Governor Sean Parnell does not…I repeat, does NOT have an active Twitter account. We could be heading to lawlessness and anarchy in four short days! Who’s gonna be running this thing?!
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 AM
I’m probably the last one to see this but wanted to share anyway.
Hitler finds out Sarah Palin has resigned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 AM
@InJuneau: You may be right that Palin bought the used tanning bed herself. (They can cost tens of thousands of dollars.) We have no way of knowing, and I have my own opinions, which involve a sweetheart deal.
Al Giordano broke the tanning bed story last fall. In his article, “Palin’s Private Tanning Bed in the Alaska Governor’s Mansion–
One of Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s First Actions as Alaska Governor Was to Equip the State Building with a Tanning Bed”
http://www.narconews.com/Issue54/article3191.html
Here is a relevant snippet from his most excellent article:
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Alaska has a very strict ethics law governing public officials. In the case of the governor, the Alaska attorney general, who oversees the state’s Department of Law, enforces the ethics laws.
Judy Bockman, an Alaskan assistant attorney general who administers the states ethics act, says the governor is mandated to disclose any gift exceeding $150 in value if that gift is in anyway connected to her official position or if it is intended to influence the performance of her public duties. And a gift is defined, she says, “as the transfer of property to a public official at less than full value.”
Bockman says she was not aware of Palin’s tanning bed. That fact would seem to indicate that the governor did not list it as a gift, since such disclosures are to be filed with “a designated supervisor,” which in the case of the governor is the state’s attorney general.
Wetherell of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities confirms that fact as well, indicating that he was informed by the Governor’s Office that Palin purchased the tanning bed “with her own money, so there was no need for an ethics disclosure.”
Wetherell says that Palin bought the tanning bed from a health club, adding that it was not a brand new machine. The fact that the tanning bed was acquired from a business also seems to indicate that it was a commercial model — which can command a hefty price tag as Wiese and Mensik point out.
Wetherell was not able to provide the name of the health club, the model of the tanning bed, nor the price Palin paid for the machine, which means there is no way of verifying, at this point, if Palin did, in fact, purchase it with her own money, and if so, whether she received a discount off market value exceeding $150 in deference to her position as governor.
If, in fact, the tanning bed was donated to Palin or her family, or provided at discount exceeding $150 as a favor due to her position, based on Bockman’s explanation of the state’s ethics law, it would have legally had to appear on her state ethics disclosure filings.
Bockman also explained that it is incumbent on a public official to disclose a gift in any case where that official suspects he or she received special treatment.
“There is an absolute bar against taking any gift that is inappropriate,” she says.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 AM
I think $arah just invented a new word: Frivfilers.
“friv filers r held accntble&press reports accurately”
Wow, the blackberry has allowed Palin to mangle the English language in ways never though possible.
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Speaking of her tweets (forgive me if someone already mentioned this) but this a.m. there was an article on twittering (Yahoo). Guess who was mentioned? Not in a good way either. I think someone needs to tell her that she just makes herself look more ridiculous & she should just cut out the tweeting.
Of course, it does give us all a good laugh so maybe she should continue. I bet her former professors are just too embarassed for words!
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:06 AM
To add to my above comment. It is no longer on the Yahoo main page but if you do a search (in Yahoo news) it is under “TMT: Too much Twitter?”
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Any info on if/when Hays Research will be releasing another poll? Given Palin’s falling-off-the-cliff popularity rankings, how could Parnell think that “keeping Palin’s legacy alive” not to mention keeping the same staff and appointments is going to endear him to Alaksan voters?
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 AM
as for SP twitting country music lyrics, don’t forget this recent twit of hers:
Riding 2 Kenai;writing last Govs speech on way;country music streaming & countryside screaming inspiration 4 pro-developmnt + pro-enviro msg12:52 PM Jul 21st from TwitterBerry
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Re: Sean Parnell & whether he is going to carry on the whole Palin legacy in his administration… He’d better man-up & assert himself or we will have to start calling him PIP instead of GINO (that would be “Palin in Pants”)