Sarah Palin’s Quit Day concided with the annual Red Green River Regatta in Fairbanks. Contestants created contraptions that floated down the Chena River, and are must follow these criteria: * Every vessel must contain at least ONE roll of duct tape in its construction. * Each person on board all vessels must wear a USCG [...]

Whoever came up with this needs to retire now, because they will never ever surpass the magnum opus that is William Shatner reading Palin’s crazy quit speech… as poetry.  This is not comedy gold.  This is comedy platinum. We now know what will assure Palin’s sucess in the future.  It’s not a translator.  It’s not a [...]

I was very pleased to have some great “boots on the ground” in Fairbanks for Sarah Palin’s big Quitspeech at Quitfest on Quittyday.  Thank you to Mudflatter Alaska Don who did a fabulous job reporting! There are also more pictures coming to entertain you later from other Mudflats “photobloggers.”  Truly this was a day and [...]

Quick!  Shannyn Moore is on Keith Olbermann in minutes.  She should be in the first part of the show.  Live blog here and I’ll put up a link when it becomes available after the broadcast.

As 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 [...]

Sunday July 26, at 3pm Alaska time, Governor Sarah Palin stepped down from her position as governor.  This is the transcript of her farewell address. Yup, I took one for the team. It took three hours, but I made it. I’d been meaning to transcribe her rambling crazy “I’m not quitting, I’m just leading in [...]

    It’s Quittin’ Time here in Alaska.  Yes, according to our almost former executive-in-chief, we’re yesterdays news.  Tossed like an old banana peel on the compost pile of past political ambition.  Cast off like an old peep-toe pump with a broken heel.  Jilted.  So, why are we so happy? It’s kind of like being dumped [...]

Well, today was the second-to-last stop on the Quitter Tour.  It was Abdication Eve here in Alaska.  Today at 2pm Alaska time, the governor will officially hand over the state, and all it’s unresolved problems to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.  He’s known to us here as Caribou Ken, The Empty Suit, Sean Who? and Captain Zero.  What is he [...]

It’s been a non-stop busy day since early this morning. I’ve been working on a wrap-up post about the governor’s picnic, but I’ve nodded off twice while typing it, so it’s going to have to wait until tomorrow. It’s Abdication Eve here in AK, and at 2pm, the clock will strike, and we’ll begin a [...]

It’s Screen Door Saturday (as in “don’t let the screen door hit you on the way out”) for Sarah Palin.  She’s winging her way to Fairbanks for the final stop in her farewell, Lame Duck Tour, and I’ll be with Shannyn Moore on The Shannyn Moore Show! The number is 907.274.5297. The toll free number [...]

Well, it was an interesting day at the zoo. And what a zoo it was! I showed up at the Governor’s picnic a little bit early, and was quite amazed at the number of people who were there to bid farewell to the soon-to-be-ex governor. The thing I hadn’t counted on, I realized as I [...]

This is an image I used waaay back in the third week of July of last year.  It made me laugh because it just shows how wrong you can be.  I used it with the heading “Palin’s VP Prospects are Circling the Drain.”  She had’t been tapped yet, and Troopergate was hitting the fan.  “Who,” thought [...]

AKPetMom did some great “boots on the ground” video reporting from The Governor’s Picnic in Wasilla. What was on the menu? A whole lotta patriotic word salad with God bless America croutons!  (That means anything but politics) I thank everyone for coming out today on this beautiful Alaskan day. Thank you for celebrating the military, [...]

She’s getting ready to shake the dust of this old town off her shiny black clothes, and hit the road to somewhere. What’s next for Alaska’s almost-ex-governor? Some have speculated a third party run for the presidency. Never one to pass up the opportunity for a good poll, Mudflats asked the question. Last week Mudflatters [...]

Hey, everyone! Not sure where you are, gentle reader, in this big wide world, but on the Last Frontier, it’s…. “Quittin’ Time!” Not “quittin time” like when you’re the governor and you say you can’t deal with people picking on you, and you really don’t want to give back gobs of ill-gotten money…the other kind! [...]