Chapter One – The Last Frontier
God is mentioned twice before the first word of the first chapter. Once in the dedication and once in a quote.
Page 1
The second sentence of the book is a rollicking good piece of prose for William Shatner! “With the grey Talkeetna Mountains in the distance and the first light covering of snow about to descend on Pioneer Peak, I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier.” Awesome.
Page 2
The Alaska State Fair -People stop her and ask “When are they gonna ramp up drilling?” Piper is literally the poster child for the Right to Life booth. A picture of her as an infant with fluffy pink wings is their poster.
Page 3
Griping that Piper was good enough to be on their poster, but she wasn’t “politically connected” enough to get the RTL group endorsement in her early campaigns. The people at the booth have to put up with jeers of protesters.
Muses about state spending, political corruption in the state and “government growing as fast as fireweed in July.
Intrigued by politics and journalism because of her “passion for the power of words.” (Ha!)
Pages 4-5
Decided to run for governor. She didn’t necessarily get into government to become an “ethics crusader”. It just sort of happened. She fought corruption regardless of party and the GOP distanced themselves from her which was fine with her because she’d “always been without a political home.” This gave her freedom and she was only beholden to the people of Alaska. (Hmmm. Third party candidate in her future perhaps?)
Page 6
88% approval rating. No more business as usual. “Changing state government and changing diapers.” Dropped money in the Right to Life can and didn’t care who was watching. Got a phone call and prayed to the Lord asking for just one hour without politics. Call was from John McCain asking her to “change history.”
Page 7-18
Born in Idaho, moved to Alaska. Tried to fly when she was 4, but fell down and then got up. Father came from a dysfunctional family. Mother didn’t. She loved saying the pledge of allegiance in school. She loved reading from an early age, and her passion for reading distinguished her from her siblings who were all better looking and more athletic. Her dad read her “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and she loved it. (Ironic considering I just heard about how it was a commentary on ….Socialism!)
Page 19
“I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals – right next to the mashed potatoes.”
Pages 20-25
God’s creation all around. God knows what He’s doing. Her mother became an evangelical. She quotes Blaise Pascal saying that everyone has “a god-shaped vacuum” in their heart. God had a plan for her. She put her life in her Creator’s hands. God blessed her and fulfilled his promises. She’s grateful that her parents forced her to go to church. Quotes Plato.
Page 26
At ten years old she’s riveted by Watergate and Nixon’s resignation and Gerald Ford. Speaking of Ford she notes while looking at a picture of him in a Scholastic magazine, “He’d been America’s vice president then, sitting parade-style atop the backseat of a convertible, waving at the crowd. Now he was our president!” (Exclamation point! So, it’s quite clear that when she “didn’t blink” about accepting the VP nomination, she was saying yes to the presidency, which would have to be great with all that waving at the crowd stuff.) Her clearest childhood memories involve politics.
Page 27
Back to debunking the “she doesn’t read anything” meme. “I would put down one book just long enough to pick up another.” One of her dad’s friends said every time he came over they were all reading.
She started running in the 1970s. Taught her resolve and working through pain.
Page 28
Always ran for some school officer position. One year was sent to be the representative to the School Board and her rival school in Palmer sent “a dazzling and brainy cheerleader” Kristan Cole. Participated in Fellowship of Christian Athletes. “At least sixty of us met in public school classrooms for Bible study and inspirational exchanges that motivated us to focus on hard work and excellence. In those days, ACLU activists had not yet convinced your people that they were supposed to feel offended by other people’s free exercise of religion.” (AAAAAGH!)
*********coffee break**************
Page 29
Benefitted from Title IX and participation in sports. Didn’t subscribe to the “radical mantras” of “so-called women’s groups” like NOW (Ahhh! Here’s the obligatory jab at NOW for not endorsing her candidacy.)
Page 30-31
Her Dad was the coach of many of her teams. He made her work harder than the other kids. She would be hurt because he was nicer to them than her. But there were advantages. He knew she hated playing in the pep band after a game, which was required for everyone. So he’d tape her fingers together and she’d lie and say they were sprained so she didn’t have to play the flute. (Niiiice. Great teachable moment.)
Dad told her she had a choice between “boys and sports” and she couldn’t have both.
Page 33
In her senior year she prayed to God for a boyfriend, and got Todd.
Page 34-36
When she met Todd she actually whispered “Thank you, God.” Not only did he have a car, he had a TRUCK! And two snowmachines! She loves Todd’s family. He has seen the hardship and despair of Native rural life. (And yet she basically ignored these issues as governor!)
Page 37
Pre-emptive strike! “We weren’t into fancy clothes.”
“When he told me he had become a Christian and had been baptized at a sports camp a few years earlier, that was the clincher for me.”
Page 38-39
She snuck chewing tobacco from Todd. She saw her first PG-13 equivalent movie with Todd. He tried to kiss her and she didn’t know how. He told his friends. She was mortified. Even “the good ones” can act like jerks.
Basketball
Page 40-41
Basketball
Page 42-43
The college years.
Hawaii was too perfect. Too much sunshine.
Idaho was more like Alaska.
Home for the summer. Friend convinced her to do the Miss America scholarship pageant.
She kept her hair short in high school because she “didn’t like wasting time primping.” (So, what the Hell happened?) She felt self-conscious after “packing on the Freshman 15″. She was uncomfortable when she allowed her butt to be compared to other cheerleaders’ butts.
Page 44
Judge asked her if she thought a woman could be vice president, citing Geraldine Ferraro. She said a woman could be president. Judge asked her what are the best attributes of Alaska? She says natural beauty but “some Outsiders don’t understand Alaska’s potential in developing our vast natural resources.” (I’m sorry, I’m going to have to see the tape to believe that one.)
Page 45-46
Loved poli sci classes. Worked her way through college. Studied Reagan. Wondered why Carter hadn’t “acted more decisively” in the Iranian hostage crisis. “Why did he allow American to be humiliated and pushed around?” (Umm. Could it be that Reagan had an arms for hostages deal with Iran which is why they were released before his hand was even off the Bible? Could THAT be the story??) According to her it was because he radiated optimism and the bad guys took notice. He had a “steel spine.”
************cold water on face break***********
Page 47-48
Nauseating Reagan love fest.
Page 49
She worked at a sports desk. She worked on a slime-line. Todd got busted for a DUI and it changed his life for the better. They got married at the courthouse. Found witnesses at the old folks home across the street.
Page 50
Todd gets a job with BP. “As Todd slimmed down, I porked up, pregnant with our first child.” (Didn’t pork up with that last one though.)
Page 51
Went into labor. Her dad stayed close because “Sarah’s going to calve.” She hated labor and prayed for death.
Page 52
“What I really wanted was to scream bloody murder and beg for drugs. Blessed Mother of Jesus I finally got them!”
Page 53
Named Track because it was track season. If it had been wrestling season – Mat. If it had been basketball season – Court. Hockey season – Zamboni. (I’m hoping and assuming the last one is a joke, although…)
Page 54
Fish picking
Page 55
Pregnant again and had a miscarriage. Felt devastated. After the D&C, they typed “abortion” on the form and refused to type up a new one, but only used a thin layer of whiteout and then wrote “miscarriage” on it which felt like “salt in the wound.”
Page 56
Pregnant with Bristol.
Page 57 (I did a whole post on this page that you can read HERE)
The gist? See, I did name Bristol after the home city of ESPN, even though Todd tackled me to get to the birth certificate so he could name her with no input from me. Bristol has been begging to babysit since she was a small child. It’s her calling. And another “I love to read” reference.
Page 58
She worked at the Frontiersman as a proofreader. (What, not a copy editor?)
She read the newspaper from beginning to end while firing balls of wadded up duct tape at Track who would hit them with a hockey stick.
Page 59
Exxon Valdez – Heartbreaking. How will it ever be cleaned up, everyone wondered? Most people think of oily otters, but it was an economic and social disaster too. Todd knew immediately that it would affect the seafood industry statewide because people would assume all the fish was bad. Sound unfishable. Jobs lost. Boats reposessed. They know lots of people who were affected. Alaskans got frustrated with Exxon when they refused to pay. Nobody in government held them accountable.
Then she goes on to say that under her guidance, Alaska achieved victory in the case. This is utterly unaddressable in a couple lines. So it’s a good thing that Shannyn Moore wrote a whole post on this unbelievable statement. You can read it HERE.
And that’s the end of the first chapter. It’s unfortunate I decided to take a lunch break at this time, because I seem to have lost my appetite. Off for some deep breathing exercises.
The book is 400+ pages long!!!
Next to AKM’s recapping of Going Rogue, the next best thing I’ve read all day from CQ:
The Problem with Palin’s Comeback
Marc Ambinder: “The key to making a political comeback is to have somewhere to come back from — and somewhere to return to. Sarah Palin can’t make a comeback because she didn’t go anywhere. Not up, not down. Not sideways. Aside from a brief and totally artificial post selection bounce last year, Palin remains a fixed political commodity.”
I thought I was a quick reader…but I have to give you kudos.
“Page 47-48
Nauseating Reagan love fest.”
Note that this is in the entertainment section of the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-rutten-palin17-2009nov17,0,4412944.story?track=rss
For that reason, first Hollywood and then history made Ronald Reagan a leading man. The ambitious politician who emerges from the pages of “Going Rogue” seems destined for a career of character roles.
Father came from a dysfunctional family.
no sh|t!
Just for laughs.
LEVI….
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/17/2009-11-17_catch_a_sneak_peak_at_levi_johnstons_upcoming_playgirl_magazine_photo
(note: link to page 57 blog entry is broken)
P57 is a personal fave – “rent me a baby”
Check out NewsWeek….. (smile)
Thank you AKM!!
Sarah holds a hard grudge. You’d think that her whole universe revolved around “what do you read?”
Love your summaries. absolutely the only way I can take this stuff in is to experience the gagginess with your humor.
Wow, I don’t blame you for losing your appetite after reading one chapter. It’s full of crap.
I don’t think the last link worked.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/17/2009-11-17_catch_a_sneak_peak_at_levi_johnstons_upcoming_playgirl_magazine_photo_shoot.html
My goodness AKM, you can read fast. I just refunded you for buying Sarah’s garbage. Good Job. We need million smart people like yourself in this country.
You are simplifying the work for Mudpuppies.
Kudos to you AKM. You saved my eyes from reading Sarah’s crap.
AKM, are your eyes bleeding?
Couple of images coming to mind : AKM , seasoned free diver, breaking back thru the water’s surface, taking in needed draughts of air, she’s well trained but, she knows this many dives might be tough. Gawd bless her, she’s goin’ back. (and in a rogueish way)
or: Long distance runner – she’s pacing herself, she’s ready for swig of water , a bit of cool down , she passes by the mudpups cheering her on, grabbing a water bottle (which we’ve spiked with adult beverage) and an iced towel to put on her neck. The run continues. We cheer ( and then selfishly pour ourselves a drink and head to the treehouse )
or: AKM drives maniacally to Wasilla, muttering to herself in ways we’d never be able to decipher and thwapping every so often at “that book”. She pulls in to the Palin “End Times” Compound, slows just long enough to lob the 413 pg evil tome (set aflame of course) through whichever turret window is closest and then races back towards home while reaching in to the back seat for her comfort quilt .
Off to read the first set of comments. Wanted to check in with a big, “We’re thinking of you!” first.
Does she jump around like this thru the whole book?? She doesn’t even get around to being born until pg 7? I guess she doesn’t know what chronological order means. Maybe she just wanted to get that 88% approval rating and reference to a third party in before everyone died of boredom.
Irishgirl – It must be a lot of work posing in the shower like that, talk about tough duty. He should get double pay for having to work in such harsh conditions, also too!
You crack me up….I don’t think that last link worked either, alsooooo toooooo!!!hahahaha
Thank you AKM, for reading, so we don’t have to! You are the BEST!
P. 55—Why did she have a D&C? Sounds kind of odd to me.
Umm, between this and other things I’ve read about daddy Heath, I don’t think we should be surprised SP turned out the way she did.
From AKM: “He knew she hated playing in the pep band after a game, which was required for everyone. So he’d tape her fingers together and she’d lie and say they were sprained so she didn’t have to play the flute. …
Dad told her she had a choice between ‘boys and sports’ and she couldn’t have both.”
I always knew that ‘love of music’ and “James Galway is my favorite flautist” spouting from the pageant was a crock of sh!t. She’s never, to my knowledge, tried to encourage ANY other activities in her children except sports. What, go into drama club or art, gonna make you all ‘Efete’? She claims Bristol is ‘such a good scholar, going to college” (she may well be), but you, as a parent, are NOT being a role model, the most important job of a parent, when you take you kids out of school for touring purposes!!!!!!!!!
The message you send is “Mommy’s tour and comfort level on that tour is more important that your education”. Period.
Lessons those two younger girls are getting from their mother:
1) sex sells, so use it to your advantage. And clobber anyone who tries to claim you are using your sex to your advantage.
2) education is actually unimportant. See! I got to be Gov. of Alaska without an advanced degree and next to no experience in the undergraduate degree I did get.
3) having babies is the most important thing in the world
4) don’t have sex, though
And that comment (supposedly – can we trust Sarah to have remembered what he said accurately?) about boys and sports? That’s downright child abuse – mental child abuse. In my opinion.
Not that I am feeling in any way tender about her, but I believe that Sarah Palin is a product of a very dysfunctional family, and as such is, to some degree a victim.
I do not feel sorry for her, however, for not taking responsibility of being an adult and working past her ‘disabilities’ and seeing to it that the harm does not get passed down to HER kids. From the BW interview, SP made in plain and clear that she never had an actual talk, real discussion with Bristol, about sex and birth control. From what I can remember, Levi and Bristol had been ‘going steady’ (or whatever the kids call it these days …) for a year. 16-17 year-old-daughter? Year-long steady relationship with hockey hunk? In a community where there’s not exactly a lot to do? You had NOOOOOOOOO IDEA they were having sex, or that she might be contemplating having sex? (And yes, Levi and Levi’s parents are not off the hook here. He did what he did, and who knows what counsel he got – if any – from his parents.)
All that rant from one short paragraph. No wonder I am not going to read that … pile of steaming …. anteater droppings!!!
Thank you AKM for reading the book for us!! If you change your mind, we won’t blame you at all.
Levi is doing an excellent job with the modeling. A lot of being really good at it, is conveying emotion/feeling into the camera lens to capture. (use to be with a modeling agency when I was a young thing in CA).
Here’s what Tank said-
According to Us, Johnston was none too pleased with Palin’s sit-down and said he “knew that it was all fake, even the laugh.”
“This young man wants to let this go, but, if she wants to keep it going then let’s roll,” Tank said. “We’re trying to move past this, but, she keeps bringing stuff up.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/17/2009-11-17_catch_a_sneak_peak_at_levi_johnstons_upcoming_playgirl_magazine_photo_shoot.html#ixzz0X9uQOWM6
Once again, totally distracted at work… between reading the blogs and reading Going Rouge, totally Palin nearly all day long. It’s enough to make me cry. HOWEVER, Going Rouge is the best of the best and sort of an antidote to reading the Going Rogue “nuggets” and it has helped considerably! Thanks so much, AKM, I just don’t think I can read Going Rogue and it’s so delightful to read your commentary!!!!!!
Don’t hate…but I just had to buy a copy to read her words for myself. AKM is doing a great job, but not quite the same as holding a big, old shiny covered book with SP’s picture on the front. Went to Wal-mart to get my copy, also. Didn’t go until late afternoon, and was wondering if they would be sold out. Not only were they not sold out…there were tons of copies on the shelf and not a soul in sight.
I haven’t gotten nearly as far as AKM. I could hardly make it past the liner notes without wanting to scream.
“As chief executive of America’s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: Energy independence. Ethics reform. And the biggest private-sector infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public-school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also beat the political “good ol’ boys club” at their own game and brought Big Oil to heel.”
This paragraph is so full of obvious lies, I won’t even bother to point them out.
The lies start before you even get to page 1. I only made it to page 3 before needing a break…had to read some sentences more than once to figure out what-the-heck did she say…only to realize she said nothing.
Would also like to say, it does not appear that this book was proofread. Lots of inappropriate use of periods, commas, etc. Sentences beginning with Buts, ands. Cases where just 2 or 3 words are used as complete sentences…Cotton candy and foot long hotdogs (this is not a sentence).
I don’t want anyone else to spend money on this book, I hope you will read it when it is posted online. This would be a good book for teaching writers, how not to write.
I’m dying to know if she set the record set that she was 2nd (and not 1st) runner up for Miss Alaska 1984 and that she was Miss Bear Lake the next year but without even any congeniality recognition.
Liz in AZ – Quite often when a woman has a miscarriage, there’s still tissue left behind and she needs a D&C to clean out her uterus. Otherwise the tissue can go septic and the woman can die.
In this, at least, Palin is merely reporting things. Especially the “abortion” written in; lots of women with m/cs are very very unhappy with the medical term being used.
Hmmm… you made me wonder Pearl89 how long it will be before the whole book can be downloaded… not that anything like that would happen or anything, also, too.
I do believe my brain is bleeding.
AKM –really, you don’t have to do this.
Did you train for this?
“Hockey season – Zamboni. (I’m hoping and assuming the last one is a joke, although…) ”
Could have been Puck.
Just sayin’.
I have brain freeze. Nite all.
re p. 57
I hate to say it but they may actually have really named Bristol for that reason — in 2000 several boys were named “Espen” after the ESPN network which was just picking up steam at that point — the Palins may have read about it and found the female referent. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=1829996
$P’s self-aggrandizing story of her dream of sportscasting fame and fortune may well have been tacked on later.
Ok – Still reading the live blogging and the comments but, I just had to jump down to add my own reaction for this one:
**** Page 42-43
The college years.
Hawaii was too perfect. Too much sunshine. ***
She’s blamed just about everyone on earth for just about everything but – is she now actually blaming the State of Hawaii for having too much sunshine ?? Even if she was trying to say something nice, it comes out as a poke in the eye. ( there’s serious guffaw here at the desk . )
Minor point about Watergate… SP would have been 9 when the Watergate trials were on the TV.. May until August, 1973.
Palin was Born in Feb. 1964.
Nixon resigned August 1974.
Ohmigosh. How funny is this! ;D
I so don’t want to read or buy this book. Thank you for helping me out and making me laugh at the same time.
There is vomit in my mouth.
Help!
I caught the tail end of the Chris Matthews show were he showed a snipet from the Barabara Walter’s interview. Barabara was asking Sarah if she would like a talk show whereas Sarah said she would rather write than talk. Chris called Sarah Palin “daffy” cause they know she had a ghost writer write her book and a woman on the show said it was all “illusion” and “delusion” on Sarah’s part thinking she is a writer.
OMGWTF and any other capital letters referencing unbelievable thoughts some possibly bad word and would type them if I knew them….
That is it, now is the time for all good mudflatters, both men and women to write our own revised life stories.
This is all so silly; I mean, well, I expected fluff, but it’s getting downright silly now. What the heck is this woman doing to herself?
I have no words and I usually have more than plenty, but really, I don’t even know where to start…I just saw a cute pic of levi looking sexy though, so that is my only palate cleanser so far….Levi, help me purge the stupid book text from my mind with your glaring and sexy smoky looks….yep that is it.
Polly Says:
Here’s what Tank said-
According to Us, Johnston was none too pleased with Palin’s sit-down and said he “knew that it was all fake, even the laugh.”
“This young man wants to let this go, but, if she wants to keep it going then let’s roll,” Tank said. “We’re trying to move past this, but, she keeps bringing stuff up.”
At this point of time after a year of this Palin train wreck obsession of mine it is losing my interest quick. I fine this book so far boring as hell and full of lies. And here we go again SHE is getting away with it. I have been waiting for something or someone to have a back bone and call her out. I do believe Levi could bring her down but now I’m beginning to think that I’m like a horse with a carrot being dangled in front of my face and I will never get that carrot. Sorry for the rant. Please forgive me its bad enough I had to share my Birthday with Palin’s book of lies release day.
Once again, thank you AKM! You rock!
“Page 29
Benefitted from Title IX and participation in sports. Didn’t subscribe to the “radical mantras” of “so-called women’s groups” like NOW (Ahhh! Here’s the obligatory jab at NOW for not endorsing her candidacy.)”
Where the H… does she think Title IX came from?
The pinok commie, librul, leftist, feminists of the 60′s and 70′s, and government interfereing in state control, and bigger government to implement the program.
AAAAArrrrrrrrrrrgh.
The book’s chronology is a little hard for me to pick out – too many pages scraps around the net and in my head. Please give a shout out if anyone stumbles my favorite election season scene, the towel clad Palin greeting campaign staff.
“Page 30-31
Her Dad was the coach of many of her teams. He made her work harder than the other kids. She would be hurt because he was nicer to them than her. But there were advantages”
Ah. Daddy was a coach. And we all know what quality of science and history teaching you get from coach.
Gotta love revisionist history…
“Studied Reagan. Wondered why Carter hadn’t “acted more decisively” in the Iranian hostage crisis. “Why did he allow American to be humiliated and pushed around?” (Umm. Could it be that Reagan had an arms for hostages deal with Iran which is why they were released before his hand was even off the Bible? Could THAT be the story??) According to her it was because he radiated optimism and the bad guys took notice. He had a “steel spine.”
I don’t know I don’t think she can be as “wacky” as she sounds,she has to know a lot of what she said could be shown to be untrue or embellished.Maybe this is a way to keep her name out there,you know keep people talking about her.any news about her Good or bad keeps the name front and center.A lot of people vote on name recognition instead of looking at a persons credentials..I know I once voted for my rep and now find out just how rabid he can be.He was republican but no one ran against him so he would have won anyway.
p. 26 Ford became president and got to wave from top of convertible … I got nauseous – really.
p. 27 BS
p. 30-31, so, is this when the lying began? Or is this when it got validated by dear old Dad (Chuck Heath)?
hmmm boys or sports … and then Todd (p. 33)
p. 44 – more BS
p 47-48 – Reagan fest – Thanks AKM for NOT giving us details.
p. 51 – Does Chuck Heath like watching all the babies pop out?
p. 52 – does she really say “Blessed Mother of Jesus” in the text?
p. 53 – NOW I need a cold-water-on-face-break.
p. 57 – justifies her volunteering Bristol to Tina Fey to babysit. In fact, pretty much defines her relationship to Bristol, doesn’t it?
Leota2: there is no training for this.
This entry in Baram’s unofficial index intrigues me:
Arguing with a nun that the letter E was too “naked”: 9
Not quite enough to make me go out on a dark, rainy night looking for a bookstore. But if anyone should happen about a scan of p.9 let me know.
Apparently she decided that an E should have many more horizontal lines than just the three. AKM
“Mama Bear rising up” = becoming more vicious and self-protective.
It describes Palin’s political ‘style’ to a T.
Hawai’i had too much sunshine? She’s kidding right?
She was at UH-Hilo, which is in one of the rainiest urban areas in the United States — 120 inches a year, on average — and left mid-semester because she was going stir-crazy because of the rain. Then she went to Oahu, where she couldn’t handle the responsibility of doing coursework in nice weather…..
Hey, AKM! thanks for the hilarious “Cliff’s Notes” on the $P book — better than wanting to jump OFF the cliff from reading the “real” thing!!
On that “animals and mashed potatoes” joke from Page 19: here is a link to the original Canadian billboard, from which she plagiarized the joke (more business-as-usual for her, eh?) http://www.howdudodat.com/pics/billboards/
I’m really curious about her sisters and how they feel about her. Maybe a lot of sibling rivalry there, daddys girl? Is there any thing about her sisters in the book?
I find it amazing that out of the sea of lies, one actually stands out to me. And waves.
On page 26 AKM paraphrases that Sarah’s clearest childhood memories involve politics. Funny…. because I distinctly remember an interview with Chuck Heath (one of the ones where he was bad-mouthing Levi) where he stated that the family didn’t know where Sarah’s interest in politics came from because she was never interested in politics while growing up.
AKM, I’m sure you can easily find the video.
Seriously, is there not even one accidental mention of Levi in the book?
How can you compare this book to. Dreams from my Father.
A story of Race and Inheritance. By Barack Obama.
No ghost writer involved.
AKM what you have read so far I can find nothing compelling in it to keep reading.
Good luck and keep the Asprin handy.
AKM–It’s time to stop. Put down the gun and walk slowly to the corner. You gave us the juicy parts yesterday in the page 200′s. No need to start at the begining and try to bring things up to speed.
I would almost go out right to the local Barnes & Noble and come back and take up the baton if you would stop.
Short of someone reading a footnote and discovering that she acknowledges being the Spawn of Satan there is nothing new to learn here.
The substance of the book doesn’t matter at this point. What will be interesting to watch is how the crazed crowds react to the book signing events. And how they’re portrayed in the right wing media.
Time to rest.
Marnie@38: My thoughts exactly!
Those of us who didn’t benefit from Title IX but had mothers who went to the wall with NOW and other organizations to get their daughters more opportunities, as well as the grandmothers who marched and went to prison to get the vote want to strangle her. How DARE she?
Oh-I forgot. She’s SP and making babies is what all women should be praying for. Puke.
I went by our local bookstore today. There were 2 copies on the counter. All other copies were in boxes with people’s names on them (as they had been special ordered). The copies on the counter were 25% off (already). My friend who works there said she had to take her anti-nausea meds before coming in today because she had to line out all of the “special orders”. I’d buy her a drink but she is still at work. She asked me (jokingly) if I was going to buy one of the on sale copies…I told her “not just no but h**l no”.
Thanks for plowing through the dung for us AKM. Is Brian OK? I’m not sure how he must feel about the “place for all of Alaska’s animals” part.
I will never forgive this woman for making us (Alaskans) look like a bunch of whack jobs…although the teenagers driving fast on ice in their pickup with not just one but 2 full size Confederate flags flying in the back and the bumper sticker I saw yesterday saying “I’ll keep my guns and my money and you can have the change” really make me wonder why I am living here. I’m sure that both of these people have a copy with their name on it in the “special order” box.
Sorry ment to say. How do you compare this book.
With all respect to those of you who do live in small towns, I really don’t get how politicians like Palin claim that small towns are “real America”. We’re ALL real America, we just live in a variety of places.
This sounds like a cheesy romance novel. Don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing wrong with a romance novel, but that’s what they are. They don’t come out in hard back. They’re meant as escapist reading. They have hunks you wouldn’t divorce because they’re hunks. They aren’t great literature and aren’t meant to stand the test of time. But they also have plots that hold a reader’s interest and a sense of structure so the plot can be followed. Maybe she needed Barbara Cartlan (sp) as her ghost writer.
“With the grey Talkeetna Mountains in the distance and the first light covering of snow about to descend on Pioneer Peak, I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier.”
Hilarious!!
The reason they wrote “abortion,” Mrs. Palin, is that the medical term for a miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion. Your body aborted a non-viable fetus. I am so sorry for your loss, but abortion is quite natural!
RE P.26:
Gerald Ford sitting parade style atop the backseat of an open convertible? Didn’t our presidents and vice presidents stop doing that kind of thing in 1963? Just wondering.
Eugene Robinson, who is a regular on Olberman, has a very insightful column about “Our Evita” that ran in yesterday’s Washington Post. About why so many (well, maybe not SO many) people seem to like and support her. Read it here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602632.html
(Umm. Could it be that Reagan had an arms for hostages deal with Iran which is why they were released before his hand was even off the Bible? Could THAT be the story??)
To be accurate, the arms for hostages deal was part of Iran-Contra, which was a completely different illegal negotiations between Reagan and the government of Iran. The release of the hostages when Reagan took the oath of office was probably the result of James Baker’s trip to Iran in October 1980.
As for Palin’s support of Title IX: This appears to be another example of a Republican supporting a traditionally liberal platform as long as it benefits her personally. It is in the same category as Nancy Reagan supporting stem cell research or Cheney being surprisingly supportive of gay rights. It’s like they have no conception that real people would be helped by these positions unless they happen to know someone personally affected