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23 11 2009
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November 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 PM
got my palin’s just plain nutz today!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Got my copy of “Going Rouge…Nightmare” today – can hardly wait to start on it as soon as TRMS is over and everyone gives me peace and quiet.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 PM
In honor of her birthday…..my cyber-impression of Bubbles from her many posts over the last year:
champagne bubbles moving effortlessly upward;
not earthbound although grounded;
giggling, laughing JOY;
peaceful.
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and Lovemydogs!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 PM
This was from an artical on Political Carnival
The way she misrepresents herself: So daily…
Last week, while in New York City, Palin dined at Serendipity 3, a restaurant in one of Manhattan’s swankier sections. [...] It’s famous for the “Frrozen Haute Chocolate,” a sundae composed of edible gold and 28 different cocoas from across the globe. This treat, which costs $25,000, holds the Guinness world record for most expensive dessert. [...]
Not only was she in one of the more expensive corners of the Big Apple (a city she promised ‘true’ Americans she would not visit during her book tour, on account of its elites); she was dining at a restaurant where just one item costs more than what many of her supporters will make in a year. Maybe more than twice what some of them will make.
There now. That should appeal to all those regular folk who Barbie claims to adore pallin’ around with, except when she abandons them.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 PM
My husband was telling me tonight that queen esther’s speech in Redding Ca. in Dec. is $75.00 a head..Sheesh people are nutz…Also, too wording was that they can’t wait to see her…Yuk..Redneck country!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:08 PM
S. Carolina Sanford gets called on the carpet (37 ethics violations) for purchasing the wrong kind of airline ticket…not in trouble for disappearing to Argentina. WTF! …and palin gets a new house, abuses power against trooper, and gets “away with murder” (sort of speak)…I DON’T GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Happy Birthday Bubbles I hope you had a glass of wine for.
Sarah got a “D”.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Birthday greetings to Bubbles and Lovemydogs!! (and to anyone else out there who may be celebrating a B-day!)
Going Rouge arrived on my doorstep this afternoon. Amid all the insanity it was a welcome sight. I’m looking forward to reading it over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Hah! I just saw a clip where Martha Stewart totally bashes Ms. Palin. It’s funny to hear Miss Prim & Proper “go rogue” on THE Rogue.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 PM
There are already 100 autographed “Going Rogue” books on eBay.
Some are leather bound signed and numbered. Those came from the publisher. Others are from dumb schmucks who stood in line figuring they’d make a profit for their time. From $3.25 to $67. Some are including extras like list of rules, wristbands and photographs.
One just sold for $121 but there was also a copy of Mike Huckabee’s autographed book paired with it. Hard to tell which book brought out the big bucks.
Wonder if she’s bringing the big, spiffy “governor’s” chair with her from event to event.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Going-Rogue-by-Sarah-Palin-AUTOGRAPHED-see-photos_W0QQitemZ110461622441QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b80698a9
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 PM
How funny! I lived on the same street as Serendipity. There was Dylan’s Candy Bar on the corner, so she could have gotten all those carbs Schmidt thought her brain needed.
Nah, it wouldn’t have helped!
If I remember correctly, some Southern gay men helped make Serendipity famous. Like Truman Capote. Wonder what her fan base would have to say about that!?
Happy birthday, also, too!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Re: book sales
I still have some connections within the NY publishers scene, and am attempting to get real live numbers about who bought the book in bulk & how much was bought.
The way it was described to me over the weekend was that Murdoch himself, thru other business entities was the prime buyer: when he saw poor pre-sale numbers thru the Friday before the release (yes, Friday the 13th!) he ordered each of his businesses to order mega-amounts to boost the opening day sales numbers.
This person did not know the numbers angle, only that the word came down from Murdoch himself to ‘buy, buy, buy!’ (thinking about Trading Places where, at the end of the movie, the now poor Duke boys pleaded with their trader to ’sell, sell, sell!’).
If I ever get any definitive info…I’ll certainly pass it along. Should be good for a major guffaw.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:53 PM
I’m late to the Birthday party – but best wishes to bubbles & lovemydogs!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:53 PM
#111…….sounds EXACTLY like something they would do…nothing is EVER honest with palin or fox or the right….:D
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Not kidding,
See SP’s clueless followers. This is no joke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/palin-supporters-struggle_n_367800.html
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Bubbles and LoveMyDogs: A very, very happy birthday and many happy returns! Hope to see you in the treehouse, where you’ll be toasted and celebrated.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 PM
#114
isn’t that something!?! I saw that! those people could be your neighbors!!!yikes (well, I don’t think they’re MY neighbors, but…)
how can one support a candidate they no nothing about except the fact that they’re attracted to their color and their cosmetics.?..yep, she’s a qual eee feyed! …ain’t nobody else I’m a likin’
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Wow, , Aussiegal77, I have posted here a few times about Pauline Hanson.
The parallel is uncanny.
Who just about destroyed her, no other than Rupert Murdoch.
He told his paper The Australian to go get her.
Google
Her name and his for the story.
Hope you have a lovely trip back here Aussiegal.
What state do you come from? I am in QLD.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Happy Birthday to Bubbles and LoveMyDogs!”
I thought I read that she pulled her children out of school and was home schooling them now!!!!
Mr Heath it is you and your daughter that scare the heck out of this country.No one wants a civil war or a third world war but those who think like her!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Couldn’t believe Sarah had Trig in her lap while being interviewed for Channel 2. What professional person brings their child to sit on their lap for an interview. This even proves more than she is using that precious child as a prop and it makes me sick. Wonder how much time she really spends with him…..again she is soooo obvisously phony.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Thank you soooooo much for all of the birthday wishes. You guys are awesome! Don’t know how to get to the treehouse.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:28 PM
The funniest thing was the man who said he did not know much about palin and did not need to now what her policies were he would vote for her anyway.
My Gosh I hope some of those people see themselves and how they appear to others LOL Hopefully after they read this book they will realize this woman has nothing to give to people but a mean, vindictive book.Has anyone noticed how palin puts words in her childrens mouth.I notice in one interview where
Piper.poor little thing,said it was hard missing school and she missed her friends,them palin had to break in and call her sis and get her to say she would do it again.Think the work sis meant Piper should watch what she said and agree with her mother.I have watched Pipers face and that girl is going to need help,the look on her face when they left Todd behind was like filled with hate.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 PM
@ lovemydogs: treehouse=Chat
to get to the “treehouse” (Chat) just click on the Forum (it’s over there on the right). Then up at the top you will see Chat. Click on that. Put in your user name (instead of the midbit #) and click and you will be there! Hope that helps.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Last night David Letterman had Robin Williams on…. and they talked about Sarah some.
Robin had some funny zingers. He mocked her about those ‘ Gotcha questions ‘ she had with Katie.
Paraphrasing, he said… Sure they are gotcha questions… If you don’t read!
He also said in her High School Yearbook she was voted as the person MOST likely to burn some books… not write one.
He had some other funnies about her as well. The clip can probably be found in the Letterman archives.
November 24th, 2009 at 12:21 AM
most of the attention given to palin is equal to that of the OJ trial
November 24th, 2009 at 5:45 AM
Redding CA is a very depressed area. No work. Winter coming. No food. High unemployement. If these people fork over 75 bucks a head,instead of buying food and paying rent, they get what they deserve, and don’t ask me for help.
November 24th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
I’m not vindictive, mudbug, or maybe I am just stupid… but if people need food, I’m one of the first in line in trying to get some to them. Hunger knows not politics.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:51 PM
Bless you for enduring the swirling read. I love your reportage, very original . This is a great site.
The book is a try-out for an insulter-in-chief at some media outlet…and a good “talking point guard” willing to “pass that buck” & “make that point” quickly, as directed.
Those pointy fingers of her’s mean things come “quickly off the tongue” and apparently – quickly through the typist and through the Editor and into the book stores. She must make haste to get to the signings during the weeks before everybody has read said book and then…THUD.
Interesting to hear that the acknowledgments were short on last names, don’t want to give anyone a bump up…unless they paid sumpin sumpin?
There has to be a sequel, why would she quit now?
Her enemies list grows exponentially so there will be plenty of fodder to exercise her developing Ms Nastyself. She’ll hobble us with her so original new insults, we’ll be laid waste.
There is a strange poet inside her begging to be let spout…and if she understood this gift, she could actually become likable, like a clown, redeeming herself…while she sits in the slammer and re-aligns her life for a few years.
Now she has moola to pay for a defense lawyer, who knows, she may walk.