Open Thread – The Juneau Maverick Officially Dry Docked?
27 07 2009As reports and pictures continue to pour in from Mudflatters in Fairbanks, I’m compiling them all. While you wait, here’s an open thread.
You may be wondering why with the Wasilla Governor’s picnic, and the Anchorage Governor’s picnic, and the Fairbanks governor’s picnic….there’s no Juneau Governor’s picnic? It is the state capital after all.
Maybe they don’t want to answer the question, “What if you threw a picnic and nobody came?” Or maybe the governor is supposed to actually be in Juneau enough so that people actually feel like they have some face time. Since that’s obviously not the case with this particular governor, we’ll have to go with theory #1.
And what’s to become of Alaska’s most infamous maverick? A mavericky Juneau Mudflatter sent this lovely metaphorical photo.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:21 PM
………hell is..waiting for a tweet:
CruelaDev, July 27, 2009 1:47 PM
Just got word that Sarah’s new twitter page is being worked on and is not quite ready yet…but it’s coming!
Lakerfanalways, July 27, 2009 1:53 PM
@CruelaDev How did you find out this info..AWESOME news, is she gonna create a new twitter page or is she gonna change her user name and keep the same followers? I think it would be a shame for her to start all over again with 0 followers and work her way up again. She can just change her user namd to AKSarahPalin or whatever and keep the same followers
LadySam, July 27, 2009 1:56 PM
CruelaDev So tell us…how do you know about her new twitter info??
Robert_Paulson, July 27, 2009 2:20 PM
Lakerfan — there are legal problems with her keeping the same page. It can be argued that the AKGOVSarahPalin twitter identity and following was created using state resources. That despite the service being free, the identity and all that goes with it don’t belong to her. I think that to be on the safe side, the Gov is doing the right thing by creating a new identity. Believe it or not, she’ll probably get lots of help from the media in advertising it.
CruelaDev, July 27, 2009 1:58 PM
A person in the “know” over at TS reported it.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I knew there were a lot shredding and scrubbing going on. Yep!!
July 27th, 2009 at 8:26 PM
nswfm: LOL!! Thanks for the info. The offer still stands just in case. I’ll be the one with the big red nose. LOL!!
July 27th, 2009 at 8:28 PM
From there also
I think this is about the sourdough vs the other bread.
CCRWM, July 27, 2009 2:03 PM
I can’t beleive that everytime I watch her speech I learn something else…
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me too lol, that’s why I can’t possible follow her.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
239 lynnrockets Says:
July 27th, 2009 at 7:07 PM
@ nswfm CA, Fawnskin, Lori in LA and Califpat:
Inasmuch as I’ll be bringing all my props along (i.e. joy buzzer, squirting flower
after seeing the Palin vs crazy Santa Cruz lady video, maybe you should come here…I’m 9 miles north of Santa Cruz, you’ll fit right in with the rest of us !!
July 27th, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Alaska Fund Trust is still up. Is that illegal?
July 27th, 2009 at 9:37 PM
@ Ginger: Yes, it’s illegal.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Taking FULL advantage of the Open Thread…
My folks lived in the Yukon (Whitehorse) and AK (Fairbanks) in the mid-40s, mid-50s; 4 of us 5 kids were born up there. Ah, the stories they tell…
Anyway, fast-forward half-a-century… My eldest brother was in Iraq (w/ US State Dept), where, about 8-months ago, he met a young soldier from AK who had heard, apparently, that my family had spent some years ‘up north.’ Young soldier approached my brother and said that his grandparent’s wedding photo (one he’d looked at daily, growing up) had “Bennett” written on it…could my brother possibly be kin to *that* Bennett? Yup, he *was* kin – my brother was “that” Bennett’s son.
[Back story: To make a bit of extra money, Mom and Dad made and sold mastadon ivory & gold nugget jewelry. (As had my Mom's Dad, before her.) They also turned Dad's hobby, photography, into a source of extra income - they took portraits of babies, brides, bridal couples, and of any one else who wanted to have their picture made. They made, literally, hundreds of portraits while 'up there'.]
It just struck me as such a neat, “it’s a small world” moment that my brother and this ‘kid’ from AK should meet in Iraq and have, in common, a wedding portrait of the young soldier’s grandparents! I mean, what are the odds?
So, my question to Mudflatters: Do any of you happen to have a portrait -of yourself, sibling(s), parent(s), and/or grandparent(s)- made by “Bennett” in the mid-40s, mid-50s?
My Mom (now 92) was tickled hearing about the young soldier’s grandparent’s photo; I’m sure she’d be *really* tickled to hear about any other ones [portraits taken by my Dad] still out there. Do any of you happen (or know of anyone who happens) to have one, and if so, would you be kind enough to share your info about it with me so I can pass it on to her? [I'm at beth.renots at yahoo dot com] Thanks, beth.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Just catching the end of Letterman here on the W Coast feed. During the commercial they told who will be on tomorrow….???
Katie Couric… It will be fantastic. Dave and her always joke around and have a lot of fun and I would BET… that the subject of $arah comes up.
You know he is going to ask. tune in.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:46 PM
This may have been posted already, I saw it on Gryphen’s blog –
William Shatner reads Sarah Palin’s farewell speech as a poem – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdqRbWYWbU
And now it makes actual sense to me! lol! She should get him to read all her speeches..
July 27th, 2009 at 11:20 PM
About 3 hrs ago on Twitter:
Celtic Diva says: “Update 7/27/09: Team Sarah has been told Gov’s new Twitter account will be unveiled at a later date.”/No un-PC tweets today!
July 27th, 2009 at 11:43 PM
I just watched Sarah do her speech, when she licks her lips it reminds me of a snake because she kinda sticks her tongue out quickly or something, I don’t know but snake came to mind. You know how you can sometimes meet an attractive person but the minute they open their mouth they become ugly, her facial expressions are sometimes quite scarry. What is this woman and who are her followers? She has such beautiful children, I just can’t imagine what they must go through. Ok I will stop now.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:47 PM
I was sort of curious to see if SarahPac had the verbiage Gov. of Alaska on their webpage. There is nothing that refers to her as Governor.
There is this little statement in a text box at the bottom of the page.
“Visit The Alaska Fund Trust at www the alaska fund trust.com, the official legal defense fund for Governor Sarah Palin and family.”
Someone might want to do a screen capture seeing as how the Pac is directing people to the AFT site to give money for a ” legal defense fund ” and the purpose ( legality ) of the Trust is still in question. And it shows a connection or link to the Pac.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Scrubbing of the State of Alaska Website!!
While I am not surprised that Palin would go to these lengths to keep her hate undercover I must say I am really surprised that the State is ALLOWING this scrubbing to occur! This is absolutely dishonest and a deliberate attempt to keep things from the people.
I am absolutely appalled that this is sanctioned by the State!
July 28th, 2009 at 12:27 AM
I wonder if Sarah will try to get govt info from her staff (er friends) that stay on in the Govs administration. They seem to be pretty loyal to her. Ex-gov’s don’t have the right to access state business after they are gone, do they?
July 28th, 2009 at 12:45 AM
honestyinGov Says
Someone might want to do a screen capture seeing as how the Pac is directing people to the AFT site to give money for a ” legal defense fund ” and the purpose ( legality ) of the Trust is still in question. And it shows a connection or link to the Pac.
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Done with date and time attached, and I have done the same with the AFT so we can show that she is still soliciting funds for it, and doing so using her title to do so (although she might be in the clear using that title since technically she could still be considered “Governor” as she did hold that title, not sure of the “rules” as far as that goes).
July 28th, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Ginger Says:
I wonder if Sarah will try to get govt info from her staff (er friends) that stay on in the Govs administration. They seem to be pretty loyal to her. Ex-gov’s don’t have the right to access state business after they are gone, do they?
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She has plenty of people in the administration that are loyal to her. She hand picked most of them & Parnell is keeping them all, and while it isn’t legal for her to be able to access state government business now, all it would take would be to do a copy & paste onto a private email account and send it along to her and she would still be “in the loop”.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Eyeonyou, Unless Parnell decides to pull a Sarah and our state government is suddenly populated with Anchorage East High School alumni.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:58 AM
For anyone who is interested, there is more info on what the people in Eagle need on the Eagle Disaster thread under Alaskan Lodge on the Forum. we will be leaving the Peninsula and driving up through Anchorage next Wed. PM me if you want to send anything and I will meet you to pick stuff up (if you are in Alaska that is)…
July 28th, 2009 at 1:05 AM
bucfan Says:
Eyeonyou, Unless Parnell decides to pull a Sarah and our state government is suddenly populated with Anchorage East High School alumni.
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True, but since he has already pretty much confirmed that he will be keeping the same people that Sarah appointed/selected, I would doubt he’d go back on that now, but since he’s the Governor and she isn’t any longer, who knows what will happen. Personally, I think he’ll keep the same people at least until this term is over, and then if he wins in the next election, he might replace people who would be more loyal to him. Time will tell.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:56 AM
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/did-sarah-palin-ramble-meander-and-blath……/article1230742/
Palin’s speechwriter seeking new position. From Toronto’s “national” paper.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:11 AM
Palin’s old twitter page is still picking up followers even after the “last post”. It is 123,000+, just before the lakeside quit it was around 44,000+.
http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin
No sign of a new twitter page that I can find this morning
July 28th, 2009 at 8:22 AM
151 it’s true! If you eat, you hunt! For instance, yestereday I was out in the middle of no where. Lot’s of road kill around from bambi’s to squirels. I started to get hungy, and began hunting for a fast food joint to get something to eat! I am often hunting in my local supermarket for what to fix for dinner. Never carried a gun in there, as it freaks folks out.
July 28th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Lynnrockets new lyrics to the Addams Family are perfect.
July 28th, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Governor (and Presidential) web sites disappear the day the new person takes office. It happened with Knowles, Murkowski and now Palin. In each case the Alaska State Library has preserved the Governor’s websites. Before Palin, this was on CD/DVD, but the Palin archive is available online at http://www.archive-it.org/collections/1200. Press releases can be found at http://wayback.archive-it.org/1200/20090726150205/http://gov.state.ak.us/news.php.