Whoa! I agree with Kathy the Scrappy! We had twenty-one inches of snow (Charlottesville, VA) the Friday before Christmas and that was ENOUGH to last me for some several years. At the moment it’s 12 degrees outside, and I’m bitching about THAT.
Sorry, I don’t think winter has any redeeming qualities. It’s dangerous, uncomfortable and expensive. Yuk!
Finally, someone other than Bristol Palin is blaming Levi Johnston for pulling a quickie … and this time it’s cops in Alaska.
We’re told an Alaska State Trooper nailed Johnston for driving 63 in a 45 back in October — and fined the accidental Palin extended family member $155.
The good news: Levi has finally learned to use protection … he was wearing his seat belt when he was pulled over.
An excellent piece that is a follow-up on Weigel’s last week–the more clicks the better to draw attention to this (by putting it in the “most read” catagory).
The Polar Express is leaving our area again. We had negative degrees before Christmas, right after that the temp went up and it rained. The river broke up, (one of the funniest books I ever read was “Break Up” by Dana Stabenow) and ran wild. The ice has caused an ice jam further down the river. Then the Polar Express came back for a few days . . .
River is almost frozen again. Last night wind chill factors were -21. But today? Going to be 20!!!
I remember one year when the kids were young we had -10 for a high two and a half weeks running. When the temps hit 20, the now NYC struggling actor, was out in short sleeves and saw nothing wrong with it!!
We had low for Florida temps the last few days – evening temps dropped into the mid-to-high 30s (which is cold in Florida) & mid-day temps only reached 60. Ocean breezes meant wind chill factor. So folks have had their heat on, fireplaces roaring, arctic gear on, and so forth. Kind of weird. But the cold did affect the Miami/Wisconsin game – those poor Florida players couldn’t get warm enough to play football. Waahhh
Just want to let everyone on here know that http://www.change.org currently has petition to “Tell Sarah Palin and the Republican Teabaggers to stop lying!”
“Has America gone stark raving mad? Palin comes in second (with 15%) to Clinton (with 16%) in “most admired woman” poll”
I have a feeling that there’s a “worst contestant” contingency like on American Idol, who vote every week for the worst contestant just to keep ‘em coming back.
Beautiful photo. I always hated the cold, but loved the hoarfrost when it happened!
The weather here is awful. Raining and very cold. Temperatures are expected to drop at night to between -5 and -10 C over the next few days. This is very cold for Ireland.
My 19 year old son had planned to drive with friends to County Kerry to go surfing for a few days. The roads in Kerry are impassable in some places due to snow and ice. We have told him he cannot go…..so it’s great fun in our house at the moment!
OMG — After watching Palin and people’s reaction to Palin for over a year now, I find myself hoping she is the Rebiblican candidate in 2012. As cool as the left has become toward Pres Obama, the Dem’s tradition of apathy could be the biggest problem they have to overcome – and Palin is the perfect antidote for Progressive apathy. She can’t open her mouth w/out raising money for Dems and inspiring opposition voters, and that’s exactly what the Dems most need. I say, “Go, S’arah. We need you.”
What a beautiful picture AKM. You and Bill Hess amaze me daily with your fine photography…always nice to wake up to. We had a lot of frost snow when we lived in the mountains for 39 years. Now out on the plains, and don’t see it as often…..very few trees. Old age and cancer made it necessary to move as we couldn’t climb the stairs anymore, but your lovely pictures give me good memories of our past. Been unusually cold here in CO too. The skiers are happy!
Have kids, grandkids and great grand here so feel so warm and happy having all my chicks home for the holidays. Having a few quiet moments reading the Alaskans blogs as I have the first cup of brew and your threads are always so delighful to start the day. Then the fun begins as the Palins start to keep us entertained thru the day! Thanks for all you do to keep us sane.
#10 Ladybirddeb Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Lovely photo.
Just want to let everyone on here know that http://www.change.org currently has petition to “Tell Sarah Palin and the Republican Teabaggers to stop lying!”
You beat me to this. I hope everyone signs!
From the email I received…
Several of these lies almost derailed health reform. Among other things, Palin and the tea partiers were responsible for spreading the following two lies:
* Health care reform will include “death panels.” No health care reform plans ever included anything remotely resembling so-called “death panels.” Politifact.com called this Sarah Palin claim a “Pants-on-fire lie.”
* Democrats are trying to cut Medicare. AARP calls this claim a scare tactic aimed at America’s seniors. Health reform would help save Medicare by cutting waste, fraud and abuse.
We can’t afford to have a political environment in which propaganda and extremism rule. If we want to have honest debate on the serious issues we as a country face, we must fight back against lies and misinformation.
Desert Mudpup: You are right. Who else could bring us all out to vote but her!?
Yet, Americans are so polarized that they will vote for the person on their party’s ticket no matter who, because they can’t vote for the OTHER EVIL SIDE.
Thanks for the “shiny new gift” AKM….and as we prepare to close yet another year, may you all be blessed with good health, be of good courage and may all your dreams come true!
Desert Mudpup and Lilybart…My fear about having Palin at the top of the Republican ticket is that in bad times Americans usually vote for change. Let’s not forget that Clinton was elected under the “it’s the economy stupid” banner (the continued recession destroyed Bush senior’s earlier high approval rating). If the economic meltdown had not occurred in 2008 McCain might have been elected (at least according to the polls). Palin did not help that ticket, as we all know, but if the economic picture had been rosy people would have been reluctant to vote for change and we might have had to watch Palin sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America.
As far as I’m concerned, President Obama is doing the best job that anyone could possibly do given the horrible mess that has been handed to him. But most of the voices out there are not singing his praises. Instead, even his former fans are now critical of anything and everything he does.
Palin’s continued popularity is as mind boggling as it is frightening. If the economy is as slow to recover as predicted and/or if there is another attack made against America by terrorist organizations then many in the country will once again vote for change. And with Palin at the top of the Republican ticket it is conceivable that this fraud could be elected under the vote-for-change banner. And that is something that the world simply can not afford.
Politico leans very far to the right and they have been having a love-fest for Sister Sarah for quite a while now. These kinds of polls are notoriously unreliable. I would be concerned if Nate Silver at Five Thirty Eight published this poll.
I think this is a better indicator of her popularity:
A comment from Gryphen’s site ~
Chris said…
That was awesome…Keith has done it again.
In the past week or so she’s been dubbed Liar of the Year, Douche.b*g of the Year (she’s currently #1), Worst Book of the Year (also currently #1), being called vindictive and meddlesome in documents filed in your grandson’s custody suit, and now this–how much more humiliating can her life get?
I don’t know how she’s even able to get out of bed every day.
Ahhh, the beauty of Raureif, “Rough Frost”, in German, hoar frost in English!
Cannot read the comments on the reality of the news just yet. Let me linger in the dream world of memory a bit longer. No matter how cold, the Raureif always brought out a sense of wonder. I remember looking up at a birch when a magpie flew in to settle upon a branch, and sent a shower of frost down on me. Still vivid after more than 60 years, it makes me smile and shiver all at the same time!
I thank you, AKM! You have my very best wishes for a healthy and successful new Turn around the Sun!
Now to the news of the day and another kind of shudder! Keep us posted!
I’m sitting here thinking about oh, I don’t know, should I bake more cranberry nut bread? will it warm up enough to take the dogs for a walk? where will I meet my sister for brunch on Sunday? I wonder what Scarah is thinking about…what lies do we need to cover up? who can we trust? do I have enough dirt on so-and-so to buy their silence? who’s reputation do I want to attack next? It must be a very sick, twisted way to live. I wonder if the glamour and “power” is worth giving up your peace of mind.
Amy #16- I attended a meeting here on health care reform. One of the things targeted to be cut are the Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurance that were pushed by the republicans. While traditional Medicare takes around 3% of every dollar for administration, the private Advantage plans do what all the other private insurance plans do and take somewhere around 20% out of every dollar paid in. After the administration costs, the rest is profit used to pay CEO’s and lobbyists.
I can understand that some seniors will be upset by the elimination of these private plans. But I believe that traditional Medicare will cover more things with no cost to the insured (like annual visits, certain screenings). More importantly, eliminating these plans that cost the taxpayer more will help Medicare survive in the long term.
I have heard the comments that Sarah could win the Iowa caucuses because the most seriously right wing Republicans are the ones who participate. But, could Sarah run for president in 2012? We know that Sarah does not think things through ahead of time, so I’ll have to do it for her.
The road to the White House involves standing on a stage with all of the other Republican candidates and participating in a debate. This time, I don’t think they will let her get away with that “I’m not answering your questions; I’ve got my own answers” routine. And, unlike her race for governor, I don’t think that they will allow note cards, either.
Another feature of the endless two year campaign (gad, we have to reform elections!) involves answering questions in town hall meetings and sitting for interviews. So far, Sarah has twisted everyone in the media around her finger and she only does soft-ball interviews. We have seen how George W. Bush controlled town hall meetings, and he only encountered friendly crowds with friendly questions.
Sarah needs Serious Big Money. I know that she attracts many donations; the question is whether the big business interests will see her as a viable choice that will be on their side.
The other thing necessary for to get into the White House is appealing to more people that just the very far right wing of the Republican Party. Sarah is polarizing, and has already split the GOP. I remember how she sided with the ultra-conservative candidate in NY23, forcing out the moderate Republican. A Democrat won in a district that had not seen a Democratic representative since the Civil War. Ronald Reagan won because of the broad base of independents who came over to his side, the Reagan Democrats. We saw in the last election that Sarah scared away moderate Republicans and Independents. That is the most important reason why she cannot win, no matter how pretty the clothes and makeup.
The final reason that Sarah cannot sustain a campaign is because Sarah cannot finish anything that she starts. She is a poor manager; she did not get along with McCain’s professional staff. She has a proven record of quitting when the going got tough, and her management style is a la Dictator, rather than someone who can lead.
I left out Sarah’s fatal flaw; it’s personal. She is still so angry that Obama won, that she sees him as orchestrating every failure in her life. She has a score to settle, and that kind of emotional get-even-at-all-costs thinking will insure that she makes decisions from the gut and not from the head. Sarah is reactive, not proactive. Any criticism of her will set off an emotional outburst- not a great quality for a head of state.
Daily Kos said it best when they said that Sarah is the gift that keeps on giving. Happy New Year, Everyone!
Irishgirl
Why do teenagers think they are invincible?
..because they don’t know anyone (ie, their friends) that have had bad experiences yet…
As the father of 2 daughters, 18 and 26; I sometimes despair that they will ever heed the voice of experience…. chuckle..MY Dad use to say you have to get their attention like you would a mule’s…with a 2×4 between the eyes!
To Amy & Zyxomma:
Thanks for the extra info and specific link to the change.org petition. The goal of The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — the sponsor of the petition — is 5,000 signatures. They are already, in a matter of mere hours, up to 3,112 signatures! Awesome!
In watching some of Scarah’s highlights from ’09 I noticed she says “you are naive” quite a bit. I wonder if she’s been told that, or is she afraid of being naive? I’m convinced every word she says is a clue to her pathology.
As to her being a serious candidate for POTUS, no way, she could never handle it. Although I would LOVE to see her fellow Rethugs chew her up and spit her out in a debate. I’m saving a good bottle of bubbly for that
laprofesora Says:
As to her being a serious candidate for POTUS, no way, she could never handle it. Although I would LOVE to see her fellow Rethugs chew her up and spit her out in a debate. I’m saving a good bottle of bubbly for that.
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Oh hell yeah !! sarah won’t be skatin’ on a wink in any more debates. If Romney is in , he’ll make quick work of the nitwit.
@laprofesora: Thanks, I’ve noticed how often “you would be naive….” is one of Sarah’s much used opening remarks. I find it confrontational, meaning, that if you having a differing point of view, then you are stupid, simple or foolish.
Another person who did this was Condolezza Rice. As a diplomat, she was anything but diplomatic when she began a sentence with, “What so-and-so must understand….” When she inserted names such as “What the Saudis must understand….” or “What the Japanese must understand…” I don’t think this went over too well with cultures that usually don’t respond well to a woman speaking to them in that way.
My husband used to make an opening remark, “I don’t care what you say” which also closed out opposing points of view. He really didn’t mean it; it was something that people in his family said as an opening phrase, rather than just jumping in and making their point.
Sarah is the one who has shown us just how naive she was when it came to being informed on world affairs and politics. I cringe when I hear her lecture “you must be naive to believe…” when more people have done the reading and the homework than she has. We’re not that naive.
I would worry about Miss Wasilla in 2012 except that she has not done anything yet that shows she understands a National campaign and what it takes and how long you have to plan ahead.
She has not gotten any good advice from any professional, at least not any advice it seems she is taking. She has no organization, not in relation to what you need to run a national campaign. Her book was not exactly Dreams of My Father in terms of substance.
Her only chance at anything is a Third Party. That way they could crown her Queen TeaBagger and she wouldn’t have to debate or give interviews.
Beautiful picture and a treat for a cold weather lover from Florida (60 right now). Thanks for sharing.
About Sarah who always wants privacy while using her family as props, and wanting to impose her views on all the rest of us etc., I was just sounding off to someone about the nonsense on the Rove divorce/privacy issue after hearing about it nonstop on the news last night and now this morning and getting ticked off at the hypocrisy of it all, and came here thinking what “birds of a feather” she and Rove are. Same old, same old. Some things never change.
Lilybart Says:
Her only chance at anything is a Third Party. That way they could crown her Queen TeaBagger and she wouldn’t have to debate or give interviews.
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I hear ya , but I don’t think sarah can keep her trap shut when the media and other potential candidates taunt her. She won’t get a free ride IF she waltzes out on the national stage again. sarah will be all rogue and s^*t and crater quickly. Be fun to watch !!
Andrew Sullivan and maybe others, have noticed in Butler’s filings that he refers to Sarah’s privacy request as being typical of the “scion of the elite.”
Tripp is indeed a scion (grand scion?) of a now elite, rich powerfull person.
I wonder if Sarah’s head will finally explode when she reads that line.
Of course this also infers that Sarah is involved in the custody dispute.
Hello, hello! We are in Key West thawing out. I am sitting by the pool incognito in a St. Louis Cardinals’ visor.
It is a beautiful day, and I’ve spent a lovely morning talking with people from France, Germany, Iceland, England, Japan, several US states, and a lovely couple from a little town in Alaska the name of which I can not remember, but all of these people are Cards’ fans! How cool is that?
Sarah doesn’t have to win the WH to control the government. She can do it the same way Lieberman, Snowe, the Blue mongrels, Nelson etc. have done.
If she is the Queen of Tea Bagging and the baggies Split the Republican seats they can control close votes and get everything they want, majority be damned. And they only need to do that in one house of Congress.
If that happenes hopefully some moderate RepoTaliban will remember they are Americans, and start working with Democrats to do things like outlaw filibusters, and holds on appointees and in getting some sensable legislation passed.
Let’s see if Scarah joins the crowd, right up her quitter alley……(from move on site).
I signed the shut up Scarah petition. 3, 799 signatures
“But hey, Rove isn’t necessarily starting a new trend here. There have been enough politicos condemning gay marriage but divorcing up a storm to fill the Titanic. Take Newt Gingrich, who has been married three times. Or Rush Limbaugh who has done the same. And who can forget some of the adultery stars of 2009, like Gov. Mark Sanford or Sen. John Ensign. All were quick on the draw to blast gay marriage as an affront to traditional values. And all have watched their marriages dissolve to the point of divorce (or in Ensign’s case, complete chaos that could threaten his political future). Talk about family values with a “Do as I say, don’t do as I do,” chaser.”
mae lewis – Your comments are right on and very well thought out. Of course, the thought of Sarah as president is just beyond the pale. I simply cannot let my mind even go in that direction. It’s just too scary.
Cold here in New Mexico today, but better than yesterday when we had snow. It was beautiful and I do miss the snowy days in beautiful Alaska. But I am willing to settle for a warmer climate and Alaskan memories.
Lovely photo, but I’m glad it’s not outside my window. It’s not that cold here, which is good. The rain has returned and as long as the temps are above freezing, we won’t have a repeat of snow like we had last December/January. Looking at the photos are enough for me.
I wonder if SP ever listens to Keith Olberman. He is rather merciless with comments about her. And some of his guests (one comedian whose name I can’t remember) really goes too far, IMO. Well, he did where it concerned Carrie Prejean anyway.
I worry that SP is still in the news and that there are people who adore her and think she is the best thing around. But she is such a distraction that I would hate to see her get anywhere on the national stage again. We need to hear what real candidates have to say, not more bile from the Queen Quitter who just stirs things up and then walks away without a real solution to all our problems.
About those Tea Baggers…….somebody should fact check the bio she’s passing around.
It’s going to cost $349.00 a plate to listen to her lies. early Feb. at the ‘NATIONAL’ Tea Party Convention. you know the one where they are going to ‘train’ delegates who can go back to tea party groups so they can train how to sign up voters, organize, lead, gah.
Gee, are they going to have a media black ball list at the door just to appease paranoid Scarah and her paranoid speaking contract?
“This event is planned for our tea party movement people to have the most representation from across the nation by design. We want local tea party groups to select their best to meet with their peers from across the nation. The local tea party’s themselves know who will best represent them, bring the best ideas, and have the most desire to move this process of organizing to the next level.
Though this event is geared toward representatives of tea party groups, anyone who supports the tea party movement is welcome to attend.
What we have to share with one another face to face is the true value of holding this convention though the program agenda will be dynamic and action packed in its own right.”
9 OMG Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 5:53 AM
Has America gone stark raving mad? Palin comes in second (with 15%) to Clinton (with 16%) in “most admired woman” poll:
It looks like the Gallop poll asked voters to “name” the woman most admired. HRC and Palin were the only two to be mentioned by more than 10% of respondants.
Considering Palin is in the news virtually every day and HRC apprears only every couple of weeks in passing, that 16% actually isn’t all that bad.
Michelle and Oprah get less than 10% mention as well.
That Sarah the constant liar came in higher than Michelle is pretty awful.
Oh lookie, Michelle is gonna show up to start off the day with a good serving of hate.
“Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.
Rep. Michele Bachmann has just confirmed that she will be one of the Breakfast speakers at the convention. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore will also be speaking at the convention.
Other participants include: Phil Valentine (Nationally Syndicated Conservative Talk Radio Host), Bruce Donnelly (President, SurgeUSA), Ana Puig, Dr. B. Leland Baker (author of Tea Party Revival), Mark Skoda (The Memphis Tea Party), Keli Carender (aka Liberty Belle), Dr. Rick Scarborough (author of “Enough is Enough”), Lori Christenson (The Evergreen Conifer Tea Party), David DeGerolamo (NC Freedom Tea Party), Walter Fitzgerald (Tea Party Nation – Emergency Preparedness); Judicial Watch, The Leadership Institute, FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), SurgeUSA, National Taxpayers Union, American Majority and Smart Girl Politics.
Topics to be covered:
How to Defeat Liberalism via the 2010 Elections (Panel Discussion with Q&A)
Where Does the Tea Party Movement Go From Here? (Panel Discussion with Q&A)
Correlations Between the Current Administration and Marxist Dictators of Latin America and How to Stop it
Grassroots on the Ground
Using New Media for Conservative Activism
How to Do Voter Registration Drives and Where to Find Conservative Voters
Women in Politics
Fundraising
How to become a Precinct Committee Chairperson
Collaboration in the Cloud-Applied Technology in the TEA Party Movement
“And then lastly, you have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it’s much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly.”
Say No to Palin in Politics – Did you ever stop to think that maybe with so much ignorance and negativity in one place, they’ll all just implode? Nature does abhor a vacuum, you know.
Say No to Palin in Politics…..
You just mentioning that Convention already has me laughing already.
How many ‘ banned names ‘ ( and pictures ) could they possibly have at the sign-in desk? S’arah has set the precedent…. will they follow HER rules.
And since this is a ‘ Convention ‘, Jon Stewart ALWAYS send his Reporters to THOSE. He even had that one come to S’arahs last Quitter Picnic last year.
I’ll bet they are already getting their ‘ incognito disguises ‘ in place so that they will blend in.
Daily Show reports from this convention will be hilarious.
Reminds me of my mothers evangelical nutcase friend who spent 1999 stocking up on bread crumbs and bottled water. Not canned fruit or noodles or spam, bread crumbs!
jimzmum Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Hello, hello! We are in Key West thawing out. I am sitting by the pool incognito in a St. Louis Cardinals’ visor.
It is a beautiful day, and I’ve spent a lovely morning talking with people from France, Germany, Iceland, England, Japan, several US states, and a lovely couple from a little town in Alaska the name of which I can not remember, but all of these people are Cards’ fans! How cool is that?
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Hope you blacked out that visor or everyone and their brother will know who you really are………..oh, and take off that giant nametag!
So true and really well said. There is no way this woman could sustain a presidential campaign. Even GWB, unqualified as he was, had more of the necessary traits like self-discipline and management skills required to survive such a grueling task. As someone who has always flown by the seat of her (flaming) pants, relying on a wink and a smile to suffice for hard work and substantive thoughts, there is no way that Sarah could ever suck it up enough to “get with the program” of a presidential campaign.
You are so right about her fatal flaw. Her biggest problem is not the word salad or myopic world view (both of which Bush was also afflicted with), but her inability to separate the personal from the bigger picture. She does not appear to be capable of even differentiating between the two. It has always been about her and always will be, because she is cannot function any other way. When she talks about being wired a certain way I think she realizes this, but believes it is a positive trait, because her reactive nature has always seemed to get her what she wanted in the past. This may have been the case when she was a big fish in a small pond, but she will not be able to adapt to real world situations which require stepping outside of the bubble.
That said, I am not in the camp of those who think it would be great fun to watch a Palin vs. Obama match. Elections (and world events) are ALWAYS unpredictable, no matter how obvious things may seem to some people. It was bad enough that she had the good fortune to be thrust on the national stage the way she was, and we are now dealing with the fallout. I think it would be foolish to take even the slightest risk of the unimaginable happening. Just because we dodged a bullet once, I wouldn’t take anything for granted.
She is such a piece or work, I hadn’t heard about her chatting with Eddie Burke on his radio show, she said she’d have a PUBLIC book signing, it came out of her own mouth. Then she tries to later say it was private?
from ADN…..
“Palin planned to follow the Anchorage signing with a stop at Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks later in the day. She had described the events on her Facebook page as the finale to her month-long book tour. But during a surprise appearance on the Eddie Burke radio show Friday, Palin vowed to hold another Alaska signing that everyone could visit.
“Yeah, military called that shot, decided that there on the Air Force bases they’re only going to have military personnel, or I guess if you’re a friend of military personnel, you’re invited on,” Palin said on the radio show.
“We will have a public book signing. Some guys are trying to organize that now as we speak, and I promise we’ll do that,” she said.”
I just noticed that Bree had posted a link to the many photo galleries from
The ” Ghostwriters Book ” Tour.
For fun… you might look for a relative there..?.. and hope you don’t find one .
And for those in AK… can you trudge through the snow and see Who is sitting behind Your ‘ Governors desk’..?
All those photo gallery pictures say ” Governor Palin participates in a book signing..etc”
I remember this speech… and then there was a picnic later…..
If you haven’t voted yet, please click the link below to sign an online petition to tell SP and the Tea Partiers to stop lying! The goal is 5,000 signatures.
*** ….. the idea of severing ties to a dad who doesn’t want to be a deadbeat has become anathema to policymakers. States have uniformly replaced the “tender years” doctrine with the directive that judges should award custody based on the best interests of the child, a standard that is gender-neutral. Alaska was part of an initial wave of states to favor joint custody explicitly as long as it didn’t collide with a child’s best interests. In 1982, the legislature amended its custody law to read: “It is in the public interest to encourage parents to share the rights and responsibilities of child rearing. While actual physical custody may not be practical or appropriate in all cases, it is the intent of the legislature that both parents have the opportunity to guide and nurture their child and to meet the needs of the child on an equal footing beyond the considerations of support or actual custody.” ****
KateinCanada,
I have bought the next two books written by Stieg Larsson. Finished the first one in two days. Family was lucky to be fed.
They are in trouble now. I have over a 1,000 pages of reading in front of me. Mashing the potatoes whilst reading is difficult.
Refusing to discuss Mrs Palin tonight. She affects my spelling.
19 year old still in a snot about not being allowed to go surfing in Kerry, his one act of resistance was leaving the fridge door open and shrugging when I asked him to close it.
Oh, BTW, I just returned from my local Barnes & Noble and sitting there on the bookshelves all sad and lonely (and dusty) were the same 18 copies of Going Rogue that had been sitting there since before Christmas! I thought it strange since (while I do live in New York City) my little island home is staunchly conservative and we have our cute ol’ teabaggers too. Them there books should have been flyin’ off the shelfs like somebody’s busy Quitter Twitter fingers.
If he’s anything like mine were, you’ll ask him to go to the store or do some other minor errand for you and he’ll reply, “No, the roads are far too treacherous, remember?”
A shout out to those who will be celebrating New Years Eve and just might happen to see Brian out partying too. If you do see him, try to get a photo! I understand he’s going to be giving Santa himself a run for his money on getting around the world tomorrow night in less time than it take Rudolph to polish his shiny red nose.
We’ve set up a thread on the forum where any pictures of Brian or Brian and Brenda caught partying on New Years can be posted.
Austintx…..It is freezing in this neck of the woods. Why do kids think you want to stop their enjoyment. We are just trying to keep them alive. I’ll have a sullen teenager here for the next few days. But at least he will be alive.
Why do teenagers think they are invincible… google “primal teen” if you want a good read on that topic.
As for s’error palin… don’t sweat the small one. If she gets into Iowa, she’s gonna get her bell rung. But after that happy horsebaloney she pulled last week with Zaki, I’ve got a feeling that she’s just posturing at this point. She’s done politically. All that is left for her is being famous for being famous.
I ordered The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from walmart ( paperback $6.00 ) should be here tomorrow or Monday .Walmart does have The Girl Who Played With Fire , hardcover only for now for $ 12.00 . According to B&N the third one is for pre-sale order only for May. I can not wait to start the first one . Thank you Mudpups for the referral.
59 Paula Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Emergency Preparedness?
As in end times? Civil war? What?
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Was wondering about that myself. Around these parts, there are a bunch of teabaggers. But when the fire horn goes off, they stay on their butts while swigging down right-wing yeungling beer and stuffing their faces with last month’s potato chips. They aren’t much for giving financial contributions to the community’s “emergency preparedness” units either.
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GA Peach a/k/a Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramblesays:
sauerkraut…I do hope you’re right. But so far, every time someone says that Sarah’s done, she comes back stronger than ever. Everything that she has done so far, that would bury someone else, (quitting, lying, failing) is forgiven by her fans. She embodies Friedrich Nietzsche’s “what does not kill me, makes me stronger”.
The GOP has a definite problem in Palin. Some in the party worry that ultimately she is not electable. Others, with a real love of their country, those with different political agendas but who have a conscience and know the difference between right and wrong, worry that she is.
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GA Peach a/k/a Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramblesays:
Oh another thing, sorry I’m getting forgetful these days. LOL
If you can’t post them to the thread, either don’t have an account on the forum or don’t know how to post, etc.
You can email pics to me and I will post them for you. Make sure you include your mudflats nickname and where in the world you saw Brian.
Just leave a message on the board, or let one of the mods know in chat that you have a photo you’d like to have posted and we’ll figure it out! Thanks all.
81 sauerkraut Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 1:42 PM
As for s’error palin… don’t sweat the small one. If she gets into Iowa, she’s gonna get her bell rung.
I think your right. The people of Iowa take their politics and themselves seriously, and will expect answers to their questions. I think they will find word salad insulting. At least I hope so.
Beautiful picture! But if that happens here in NC, branches start falling, and the electricity goes off for hours. We had an ice storm a few years ago, and had to use a small kerosene heater for warmth in the open living area with the BRs closed off (the heater worked so well I even fried an egg on top of it). And then, there’s the matter of having to put a light in the well house to keep it going, too. We’re just not used to single digits in NC. But the ice-scape was gorgeous, even though you took your life in your hands just trying to navigate the front porch. : )
Do you live in the mountains there? My friend lives outside of Asheville and says it really does get “chilly” in the winters. I love it there. We were in Hot Springs a few years ago. It was like stepping into a time warp to the 60s. I kept thinking of Brigadoon. LOL
56 austintx Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
I never have liked this peckerhead.
“And then lastly, you have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it’s much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly.”
I read somewhere today that one of the bobble heads has decided that the fact that Obama is going on “Vacation” in Hawaii proves he wasn’t born there.
I think that peckerhead is nothing but a lot of worm holes
If you haven’t voted yet, please click the link below to sign an online petition to tell SP and the Tea Partiers to stop lying! The goal is 5,000 signatures.
Was in BJ’s today, and in the past, almost 1/3 of a table of hardcover books were SP’s. They are all GONE today!!!!!!
I asked a manager in the store what happened to the approx 50+ copies that were there the weekend before Christmas? The reply was they were boxed up for shipping BACK to HC’s distribution service.
Interesting part of the JPG list and in reading the TPM article:
“this is a private rental of the facility with a public invite and access limited list provided by renters”
Okay…so this was a PUBLIC invitation to attend at a PRIVATELY rented facility, but only accessible by those who were on a PRIVATELY developed list so as to keep it PUBLIC?!?!
Kinda reminds me of the old “CHAOS” theory of mine: Disorganized, organized chaos. No matter how you look at it, it’s still chaos.
#27, mae lewis Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 7:46 AM
I have heard the comments that Sarah could win the Iowa caucuses because the most seriously right wing Republicans are the ones who participate. But, could Sarah run for president in 2012?…
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I don’t know if you will be back to read this, but I thought your analysis was SPOT ON!! Thanks for the great read.
Pretty picture AKM! But it makes me need to crank up my thermostat another notch.
Whoa! I agree with Kathy the Scrappy! We had twenty-one inches of snow (Charlottesville, VA) the Friday before Christmas and that was ENOUGH to last me for some several years. At the moment it’s 12 degrees outside, and I’m bitching about THAT.
Sorry, I don’t think winter has any redeeming qualities. It’s dangerous, uncomfortable and expensive. Yuk!
DOONESBURY continues with “Sarah the mis-speekin’ doll”. Enjoy…
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
Happy New Year!
From tmz this am.
Levi Johnston Doesn’t Like to Take It Slow
Finally, someone other than Bristol Palin is blaming Levi Johnston for pulling a quickie … and this time it’s cops in Alaska.
We’re told an Alaska State Trooper nailed Johnston for driving 63 in a 45 back in October — and fined the accidental Palin extended family member $155.
The good news: Levi has finally learned to use protection … he was wearing his seat belt when he was pulled over.
Baby steps
In today’s Washington Post: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/the_medias_sarah_palin_problem.html
An excellent piece that is a follow-up on Weigel’s last week–the more clicks the better to draw attention to this (by putting it in the “most read” catagory).
Egads…just saw this on Talking Points Memo: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/rep-steve-king-thinks-palin-has-a-shot-at-2012-iowa-caucuses.php
Palin’s free ride with the media has brought her dangerously close to a place that (as a total fraud) she does not deserve to be.
What an absolutely gorgeous photograph. Our trees looked similar for a few days, but high winds have sent it all swirling off.
Beautiful picture AKM!
The Polar Express is leaving our area again. We had negative degrees before Christmas, right after that the temp went up and it rained. The river broke up, (one of the funniest books I ever read was “Break Up” by Dana Stabenow) and ran wild. The ice has caused an ice jam further down the river. Then the Polar Express came back for a few days . . .
River is almost frozen again. Last night wind chill factors were -21. But today? Going to be 20!!!
I remember one year when the kids were young we had -10 for a high two and a half weeks running. When the temps hit 20, the now NYC struggling actor, was out in short sleeves and saw nothing wrong with it!!
Oh, did I mention that one is ADHD?
We had low for Florida temps the last few days – evening temps dropped into the mid-to-high 30s (which is cold in Florida) & mid-day temps only reached 60. Ocean breezes meant wind chill factor. So folks have had their heat on, fireplaces roaring, arctic gear on, and so forth. Kind of weird. But the cold did affect the Miami/Wisconsin game – those poor Florida players couldn’t get warm enough to play football. Waahhh
Has America gone stark raving mad? Palin comes in second (with 15%) to Clinton (with 16%) in “most admired woman” poll:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31058.html
Too many people admire this lying witch (feel free to replace the first letter of that word).
Lovely photo.
Just want to let everyone on here know that http://www.change.org currently has petition to “Tell Sarah Palin and the Republican Teabaggers to stop lying!”
Isnt the Alaska Fund Trust frozen? I know site is still asking for donations, but can they use that money for legal fees yet?
“Has America gone stark raving mad? Palin comes in second (with 15%) to Clinton (with 16%) in “most admired woman” poll”
I have a feeling that there’s a “worst contestant” contingency like on American Idol, who vote every week for the worst contestant just to keep ‘em coming back.
Beautiful photo. I always hated the cold, but loved the hoarfrost when it happened!
The weather here is awful. Raining and very cold. Temperatures are expected to drop at night to between -5 and -10 C over the next few days. This is very cold for Ireland.
http://www.rte.ie/weather/
My 19 year old son had planned to drive with friends to County Kerry to go surfing for a few days. The roads in Kerry are impassable in some places due to snow and ice. We have told him he cannot go…..so it’s great fun in our house at the moment!
Why do teenagers think they are invincible?
OMG — After watching Palin and people’s reaction to Palin for over a year now, I find myself hoping she is the Rebiblican candidate in 2012. As cool as the left has become toward Pres Obama, the Dem’s tradition of apathy could be the biggest problem they have to overcome – and Palin is the perfect antidote for Progressive apathy. She can’t open her mouth w/out raising money for Dems and inspiring opposition voters, and that’s exactly what the Dems most need. I say, “Go, S’arah. We need you.”
What a beautiful picture AKM. You and Bill Hess amaze me daily with your fine photography…always nice to wake up to. We had a lot of frost snow when we lived in the mountains for 39 years. Now out on the plains, and don’t see it as often…..very few trees. Old age and cancer made it necessary to move as we couldn’t climb the stairs anymore, but your lovely pictures give me good memories of our past. Been unusually cold here in CO too. The skiers are happy!
Have kids, grandkids and great grand here so feel so warm and happy having all my chicks home for the holidays. Having a few quiet moments reading the Alaskans blogs as I have the first cup of brew and your threads are always so delighful to start the day. Then the fun begins as the Palins start to keep us entertained thru the day! Thanks for all you do to keep us sane.
#10 Ladybirddeb Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Lovely photo.
Just want to let everyone on here know that http://www.change.org currently has petition to “Tell Sarah Palin and the Republican Teabaggers to stop lying!”
You beat me to this. I hope everyone signs!
From the email I received…
Several of these lies almost derailed health reform. Among other things, Palin and the tea partiers were responsible for spreading the following two lies:
* Health care reform will include “death panels.” No health care reform plans ever included anything remotely resembling so-called “death panels.” Politifact.com called this Sarah Palin claim a “Pants-on-fire lie.”
* Democrats are trying to cut Medicare. AARP calls this claim a scare tactic aimed at America’s seniors. Health reform would help save Medicare by cutting waste, fraud and abuse.
We can’t afford to have a political environment in which propaganda and extremism rule. If we want to have honest debate on the serious issues we as a country face, we must fight back against lies and misinformation.
Desert Mudpup: You are right. Who else could bring us all out to vote but her!?
Yet, Americans are so polarized that they will vote for the person on their party’s ticket no matter who, because they can’t vote for the OTHER EVIL SIDE.
Thanks for the “shiny new gift” AKM….and as we prepare to close yet another year, may you all be blessed with good health, be of good courage and may all your dreams come true!
Desert Mudpup and Lilybart…My fear about having Palin at the top of the Republican ticket is that in bad times Americans usually vote for change. Let’s not forget that Clinton was elected under the “it’s the economy stupid” banner (the continued recession destroyed Bush senior’s earlier high approval rating). If the economic meltdown had not occurred in 2008 McCain might have been elected (at least according to the polls). Palin did not help that ticket, as we all know, but if the economic picture had been rosy people would have been reluctant to vote for change and we might have had to watch Palin sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America.
As far as I’m concerned, President Obama is doing the best job that anyone could possibly do given the horrible mess that has been handed to him. But most of the voices out there are not singing his praises. Instead, even his former fans are now critical of anything and everything he does.
Palin’s continued popularity is as mind boggling as it is frightening. If the economy is as slow to recover as predicted and/or if there is another attack made against America by terrorist organizations then many in the country will once again vote for change. And with Palin at the top of the Republican ticket it is conceivable that this fraud could be elected under the vote-for-change banner. And that is something that the world simply can not afford.
Politico leans very far to the right and they have been having a love-fest for Sister Sarah for quite a while now. These kinds of polls are notoriously unreliable. I would be concerned if Nate Silver at Five Thirty Eight published this poll.
I think this is a better indicator of her popularity:
A comment from Gryphen’s site ~
Chris said…
That was awesome…Keith has done it again.
In the past week or so she’s been dubbed Liar of the Year, Douche.b*g of the Year (she’s currently #1), Worst Book of the Year (also currently #1), being called vindictive and meddlesome in documents filed in your grandson’s custody suit, and now this–how much more humiliating can her life get?
I don’t know how she’s even able to get out of bed every day.
Ahhh, the beauty of Raureif, “Rough Frost”, in German, hoar frost in English!
Cannot read the comments on the reality of the news just yet. Let me linger in the dream world of memory a bit longer. No matter how cold, the Raureif always brought out a sense of wonder. I remember looking up at a birch when a magpie flew in to settle upon a branch, and sent a shower of frost down on me. Still vivid after more than 60 years, it makes me smile and shiver all at the same time!
I thank you, AKM! You have my very best wishes for a healthy and successful new Turn around the Sun!
Now to the news of the day and another kind of shudder! Keep us posted!
I’m sitting here thinking about oh, I don’t know, should I bake more cranberry nut bread? will it warm up enough to take the dogs for a walk? where will I meet my sister for brunch on Sunday? I wonder what Scarah is thinking about…what lies do we need to cover up? who can we trust? do I have enough dirt on so-and-so to buy their silence? who’s reputation do I want to attack next? It must be a very sick, twisted way to live. I wonder if the glamour and “power” is worth giving up your peace of mind.
Amy #16- I attended a meeting here on health care reform. One of the things targeted to be cut are the Medicare Advantage plans run by private insurance that were pushed by the republicans. While traditional Medicare takes around 3% of every dollar for administration, the private Advantage plans do what all the other private insurance plans do and take somewhere around 20% out of every dollar paid in. After the administration costs, the rest is profit used to pay CEO’s and lobbyists.
I can understand that some seniors will be upset by the elimination of these private plans. But I believe that traditional Medicare will cover more things with no cost to the insured (like annual visits, certain screenings). More importantly, eliminating these plans that cost the taxpayer more will help Medicare survive in the long term.
You’d have to have a mind in order to have peace of mind to give up, laprofesora. I think hers was lost long ago.
I have heard the comments that Sarah could win the Iowa caucuses because the most seriously right wing Republicans are the ones who participate. But, could Sarah run for president in 2012? We know that Sarah does not think things through ahead of time, so I’ll have to do it for her.
The road to the White House involves standing on a stage with all of the other Republican candidates and participating in a debate. This time, I don’t think they will let her get away with that “I’m not answering your questions; I’ve got my own answers” routine. And, unlike her race for governor, I don’t think that they will allow note cards, either.
Another feature of the endless two year campaign (gad, we have to reform elections!) involves answering questions in town hall meetings and sitting for interviews. So far, Sarah has twisted everyone in the media around her finger and she only does soft-ball interviews. We have seen how George W. Bush controlled town hall meetings, and he only encountered friendly crowds with friendly questions.
Sarah needs Serious Big Money. I know that she attracts many donations; the question is whether the big business interests will see her as a viable choice that will be on their side.
The other thing necessary for to get into the White House is appealing to more people that just the very far right wing of the Republican Party. Sarah is polarizing, and has already split the GOP. I remember how she sided with the ultra-conservative candidate in NY23, forcing out the moderate Republican. A Democrat won in a district that had not seen a Democratic representative since the Civil War. Ronald Reagan won because of the broad base of independents who came over to his side, the Reagan Democrats. We saw in the last election that Sarah scared away moderate Republicans and Independents. That is the most important reason why she cannot win, no matter how pretty the clothes and makeup.
The final reason that Sarah cannot sustain a campaign is because Sarah cannot finish anything that she starts. She is a poor manager; she did not get along with McCain’s professional staff. She has a proven record of quitting when the going got tough, and her management style is a la Dictator, rather than someone who can lead.
I left out Sarah’s fatal flaw; it’s personal. She is still so angry that Obama won, that she sees him as orchestrating every failure in her life. She has a score to settle, and that kind of emotional get-even-at-all-costs thinking will insure that she makes decisions from the gut and not from the head. Sarah is reactive, not proactive. Any criticism of her will set off an emotional outburst- not a great quality for a head of state.
Daily Kos said it best when they said that Sarah is the gift that keeps on giving. Happy New Year, Everyone!
@#2 Megacephalus – ahhhhh Doonesbury. Love it.
That elite east coaster who has been giving it to the politicians for decades.
David Levine has died.
Best political character portrait, ever:
http://www.nybooks.com/gallery/3677
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_sarah_palin_and_the_tea_partiers_to_stop_lying?alert_id=vigBVeJVdb
is the thread to tell Scarah & the tea partiers to stop lying!
mae lewis I completely agree.
I think she should run for President, of the local chapter of Liars Anonymous…
oops — didn’t see that this was already posted above. Have a lovely day, wherever you are. Health and peace.
Irishgirl -
Aw come on………Santa even surfs this time of year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAbFWE1cruk
Irishgirl
Why do teenagers think they are invincible?
..because they don’t know anyone (ie, their friends) that have had bad experiences yet…
As the father of 2 daughters, 18 and 26; I sometimes despair that they will ever heed the voice of experience…. chuckle..MY Dad use to say you have to get their attention like you would a mule’s…with a 2×4 between the eyes!
To Amy & Zyxomma:
Thanks for the extra info and specific link to the change.org petition. The goal of The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — the sponsor of the petition — is 5,000 signatures. They are already, in a matter of mere hours, up to 3,112 signatures! Awesome!
In watching some of Scarah’s highlights from ’09 I noticed she says “you are naive” quite a bit. I wonder if she’s been told that, or is she afraid of being naive? I’m convinced every word she says is a clue to her pathology.
As to her being a serious candidate for POTUS, no way, she could never handle it. Although I would LOVE to see her fellow Rethugs chew her up and spit her out in a debate. I’m saving a good bottle of bubbly for that
3,243!
Votes from Alaska residents are sorely needed on this petition. I know, it’s still early there, but WAKE UP AND VOTE!
laprofesora Says:
As to her being a serious candidate for POTUS, no way, she could never handle it. Although I would LOVE to see her fellow Rethugs chew her up and spit her out in a debate. I’m saving a good bottle of bubbly for that.
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Oh hell yeah !! sarah won’t be skatin’ on a wink in any more debates. If Romney is in , he’ll make quick work of the nitwit.
@laprofesora: Thanks, I’ve noticed how often “you would be naive….” is one of Sarah’s much used opening remarks. I find it confrontational, meaning, that if you having a differing point of view, then you are stupid, simple or foolish.
Another person who did this was Condolezza Rice. As a diplomat, she was anything but diplomatic when she began a sentence with, “What so-and-so must understand….” When she inserted names such as “What the Saudis must understand….” or “What the Japanese must understand…” I don’t think this went over too well with cultures that usually don’t respond well to a woman speaking to them in that way.
My husband used to make an opening remark, “I don’t care what you say” which also closed out opposing points of view. He really didn’t mean it; it was something that people in his family said as an opening phrase, rather than just jumping in and making their point.
Sarah is the one who has shown us just how naive she was when it came to being informed on world affairs and politics. I cringe when I hear her lecture “you must be naive to believe…” when more people have done the reading and the homework than she has. We’re not that naive.
I would worry about Miss Wasilla in 2012 except that she has not done anything yet that shows she understands a National campaign and what it takes and how long you have to plan ahead.
She has not gotten any good advice from any professional, at least not any advice it seems she is taking. She has no organization, not in relation to what you need to run a national campaign. Her book was not exactly Dreams of My Father in terms of substance.
Her only chance at anything is a Third Party. That way they could crown her Queen TeaBagger and she wouldn’t have to debate or give interviews.
Beautiful picture and a treat for a cold weather lover from Florida (60 right now). Thanks for sharing.
About Sarah who always wants privacy while using her family as props, and wanting to impose her views on all the rest of us etc., I was just sounding off to someone about the nonsense on the Rove divorce/privacy issue after hearing about it nonstop on the news last night and now this morning and getting ticked off at the hypocrisy of it all, and came here thinking what “birds of a feather” she and Rove are. Same old, same old. Some things never change.
Lilybart Says:
Her only chance at anything is a Third Party. That way they could crown her Queen TeaBagger and she wouldn’t have to debate or give interviews.
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I hear ya , but I don’t think sarah can keep her trap shut when the media and other potential candidates taunt her. She won’t get a free ride IF she waltzes out on the national stage again. sarah will be all rogue and s^*t and crater quickly. Be fun to watch !!
Andrew Sullivan and maybe others, have noticed in Butler’s filings that he refers to Sarah’s privacy request as being typical of the “scion of the elite.”
Tripp is indeed a scion (grand scion?) of a now elite, rich powerfull person.
I wonder if Sarah’s head will finally explode when she reads that line.
Of course this also infers that Sarah is involved in the custody dispute.
Go Rex!!
13 Irishgirl Says:
http://www.rte.ie/weather/
Why do teenagers think they are invincible?
Sometimes it the challange of getting there, or at least trying. Especially when we’re young it an “adventure.”
Let’s make a difference. I already have my money and my mortgage with a local bank. I feel pretty good about that.
http://moveyourmoney(dot)info/
Hello, hello! We are in Key West thawing out. I am sitting by the pool incognito in a St. Louis Cardinals’ visor.
It is a beautiful day, and I’ve spent a lovely morning talking with people from France, Germany, Iceland, England, Japan, several US states, and a lovely couple from a little town in Alaska the name of which I can not remember, but all of these people are Cards’ fans! How cool is that?
austinTX: true, she can shoot herself in the foot anyway.
Of course, she might have to fight Michele Bachman for the title of Queen of the Teabaggers now. THAT could get interesting.
26 mae lewis
Sarah doesn’t have to win the WH to control the government. She can do it the same way Lieberman, Snowe, the Blue mongrels, Nelson etc. have done.
If she is the Queen of Tea Bagging and the baggies Split the Republican seats they can control close votes and get everything they want, majority be damned. And they only need to do that in one house of Congress.
If that happenes hopefully some moderate RepoTaliban will remember they are Americans, and start working with Democrats to do things like outlaw filibusters, and holds on appointees and in getting some sensable legislation passed.
Lilybart -
Actually the rumors are out there that the two idiots are gonna run on the same ticket.
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/media/S-PalinBachmann2012.gif
Let’s see if Scarah joins the crowd, right up her quitter alley……(from move on site).
I signed the shut up Scarah petition. 3, 799 signatures
“But hey, Rove isn’t necessarily starting a new trend here. There have been enough politicos condemning gay marriage but divorcing up a storm to fill the Titanic. Take Newt Gingrich, who has been married three times. Or Rush Limbaugh who has done the same. And who can forget some of the adultery stars of 2009, like Gov. Mark Sanford or Sen. John Ensign. All were quick on the draw to blast gay marriage as an affront to traditional values. And all have watched their marriages dissolve to the point of divorce (or in Ensign’s case, complete chaos that could threaten his political future). Talk about family values with a “Do as I say, don’t do as I do,” chaser.”
mae lewis – Your comments are right on and very well thought out. Of course, the thought of Sarah as president is just beyond the pale. I simply cannot let my mind even go in that direction. It’s just too scary.
Cold here in New Mexico today, but better than yesterday when we had snow. It was beautiful and I do miss the snowy days in beautiful Alaska. But I am willing to settle for a warmer climate and Alaskan memories.
Lovely photo, but I’m glad it’s not outside my window. It’s not that cold here, which is good. The rain has returned and as long as the temps are above freezing, we won’t have a repeat of snow like we had last December/January. Looking at the photos are enough for me.
I wonder if SP ever listens to Keith Olberman. He is rather merciless with comments about her. And some of his guests (one comedian whose name I can’t remember) really goes too far, IMO. Well, he did where it concerned Carrie Prejean anyway.
I worry that SP is still in the news and that there are people who adore her and think she is the best thing around. But she is such a distraction that I would hate to see her get anywhere on the national stage again. We need to hear what real candidates have to say, not more bile from the Queen Quitter who just stirs things up and then walks away without a real solution to all our problems.
About those Tea Baggers…….somebody should fact check the bio she’s passing around.
It’s going to cost $349.00 a plate to listen to her lies. early Feb. at the ‘NATIONAL’ Tea Party Convention. you know the one where they are going to ‘train’ delegates who can go back to tea party groups so they can train how to sign up voters, organize, lead, gah.
Gee, are they going to have a media black ball list at the door just to appease paranoid Scarah and her paranoid speaking contract?
http://www.nationalteapartyconvention.com/home.aspx
“This event is planned for our tea party movement people to have the most representation from across the nation by design. We want local tea party groups to select their best to meet with their peers from across the nation. The local tea party’s themselves know who will best represent them, bring the best ideas, and have the most desire to move this process of organizing to the next level.
Though this event is geared toward representatives of tea party groups, anyone who supports the tea party movement is welcome to attend.
What we have to share with one another face to face is the true value of holding this convention though the program agenda will be dynamic and action packed in its own right.”
9 OMG Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 5:53 AM
Has America gone stark raving mad? Palin comes in second (with 15%) to Clinton (with 16%) in “most admired woman” poll:
It looks like the Gallop poll asked voters to “name” the woman most admired. HRC and Palin were the only two to be mentioned by more than 10% of respondants.
Considering Palin is in the news virtually every day and HRC apprears only every couple of weeks in passing, that 16% actually isn’t all that bad.
Michelle and Oprah get less than 10% mention as well.
That Sarah the constant liar came in higher than Michelle is pretty awful.
Oh lookie, Michelle is gonna show up to start off the day with a good serving of hate.
“Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.
Rep. Michele Bachmann has just confirmed that she will be one of the Breakfast speakers at the convention. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore will also be speaking at the convention.
Other participants include: Phil Valentine (Nationally Syndicated Conservative Talk Radio Host), Bruce Donnelly (President, SurgeUSA), Ana Puig, Dr. B. Leland Baker (author of Tea Party Revival), Mark Skoda (The Memphis Tea Party), Keli Carender (aka Liberty Belle), Dr. Rick Scarborough (author of “Enough is Enough”), Lori Christenson (The Evergreen Conifer Tea Party), David DeGerolamo (NC Freedom Tea Party), Walter Fitzgerald (Tea Party Nation – Emergency Preparedness); Judicial Watch, The Leadership Institute, FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform), SurgeUSA, National Taxpayers Union, American Majority and Smart Girl Politics.
Topics to be covered:
How to Defeat Liberalism via the 2010 Elections (Panel Discussion with Q&A)
Where Does the Tea Party Movement Go From Here? (Panel Discussion with Q&A)
Correlations Between the Current Administration and Marxist Dictators of Latin America and How to Stop it
Grassroots on the Ground
Using New Media for Conservative Activism
How to Do Voter Registration Drives and Where to Find Conservative Voters
Women in Politics
Fundraising
How to become a Precinct Committee Chairperson
Collaboration in the Cloud-Applied Technology in the TEA Party Movement
How to Unite State Tea Party Groups
How to Organize a Tea Party Group
Emergency Preparedness
How to stop Illegal Immigration Legislation
*topics subject to change”
I never have liked this peckerhead.
“And then lastly, you have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it’s much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/30/madden-hawaii-vacation/
Say No to Palin in Politics – Did you ever stop to think that maybe with so much ignorance and negativity in one place, they’ll all just implode? Nature does abhor a vacuum, you know.
Say No to Palin in Politics…..
You just mentioning that Convention already has me laughing already.
How many ‘ banned names ‘ ( and pictures ) could they possibly have at the sign-in desk? S’arah has set the precedent…. will they follow HER rules.
And since this is a ‘ Convention ‘, Jon Stewart ALWAYS send his Reporters to THOSE. He even had that one come to S’arahs last Quitter Picnic last year.
I’ll bet they are already getting their ‘ incognito disguises ‘ in place so that they will blend in.
Daily Show reports from this convention will be hilarious.
Levi has no speeding tickets, he has no list of offences, unlike Sarah, track, Brisitle, and Todd.
http://www.courtrecords.alaska.gov/pa/pa.urd/PAMW6500
Emergency Preparedness?
As in end times? Civil war? What?
Reminds me of my mothers evangelical nutcase friend who spent 1999 stocking up on bread crumbs and bottled water. Not canned fruit or noodles or spam, bread crumbs!
jimzmum Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Hello, hello! We are in Key West thawing out. I am sitting by the pool incognito in a St. Louis Cardinals’ visor.
It is a beautiful day, and I’ve spent a lovely morning talking with people from France, Germany, Iceland, England, Japan, several US states, and a lovely couple from a little town in Alaska the name of which I can not remember, but all of these people are Cards’ fans! How cool is that?
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Hope you blacked out that visor or everyone and their brother will know who you really are………..oh, and take off that giant nametag!
Mae Lewis @26 –
So true and really well said. There is no way this woman could sustain a presidential campaign. Even GWB, unqualified as he was, had more of the necessary traits like self-discipline and management skills required to survive such a grueling task. As someone who has always flown by the seat of her (flaming) pants, relying on a wink and a smile to suffice for hard work and substantive thoughts, there is no way that Sarah could ever suck it up enough to “get with the program” of a presidential campaign.
You are so right about her fatal flaw. Her biggest problem is not the word salad or myopic world view (both of which Bush was also afflicted with), but her inability to separate the personal from the bigger picture. She does not appear to be capable of even differentiating between the two. It has always been about her and always will be, because she is cannot function any other way. When she talks about being wired a certain way I think she realizes this, but believes it is a positive trait, because her reactive nature has always seemed to get her what she wanted in the past. This may have been the case when she was a big fish in a small pond, but she will not be able to adapt to real world situations which require stepping outside of the bubble.
That said, I am not in the camp of those who think it would be great fun to watch a Palin vs. Obama match. Elections (and world events) are ALWAYS unpredictable, no matter how obvious things may seem to some people. It was bad enough that she had the good fortune to be thrust on the national stage the way she was, and we are now dealing with the fallout. I think it would be foolish to take even the slightest risk of the unimaginable happening. Just because we dodged a bullet once, I wouldn’t take anything for granted.
Austin – thanks for the peckerhead reference. Haven’t heard that one in a long time LOL.
So, how does the GOP feel about Palin being the keynote speaker for the teabaggers? In private, I’m guessing it doesn’t sit well.
She is such a piece or work, I hadn’t heard about her chatting with Eddie Burke on his radio show, she said she’d have a PUBLIC book signing, it came out of her own mouth. Then she tries to later say it was private?
from ADN…..
“Palin planned to follow the Anchorage signing with a stop at Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks later in the day. She had described the events on her Facebook page as the finale to her month-long book tour. But during a surprise appearance on the Eddie Burke radio show Friday, Palin vowed to hold another Alaska signing that everyone could visit.
“Yeah, military called that shot, decided that there on the Air Force bases they’re only going to have military personnel, or I guess if you’re a friend of military personnel, you’re invited on,” Palin said on the radio show.
“We will have a public book signing. Some guys are trying to organize that now as we speak, and I promise we’ll do that,” she said.”
I just noticed that Bree had posted a link to the many photo galleries from
The ” Ghostwriters Book ” Tour.
For fun… you might look for a relative there..?.. and hope you don’t find one .
And for those in AK… can you trudge through the snow and see Who is sitting behind Your ‘ Governors desk’..?
All those photo gallery pictures say ” Governor Palin participates in a book signing..etc”
I remember this speech… and then there was a picnic later…..
4,227!
If you haven’t voted yet, please click the link below to sign an online petition to tell SP and the Tea Partiers to stop lying! The goal is 5,000 signatures.
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_sarah_palin_and_the_tea_partiers_to_stop_lying?alert_id=vigBVeJVdb
An article/review I mised last month:
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/11/20/sarah-palin-wwe-star/
Darn, missed. New Yewar resolution- I WILL proofread.
Article over at Slate dot com – Why Bristol Palin Shouldn’t Get Sole Custody
http://www.slate.com/id/2240259/
*** ….. the idea of severing ties to a dad who doesn’t want to be a deadbeat has become anathema to policymakers. States have uniformly replaced the “tender years” doctrine with the directive that judges should award custody based on the best interests of the child, a standard that is gender-neutral. Alaska was part of an initial wave of states to favor joint custody explicitly as long as it didn’t collide with a child’s best interests. In 1982, the legislature amended its custody law to read: “It is in the public interest to encourage parents to share the rights and responsibilities of child rearing. While actual physical custody may not be practical or appropriate in all cases, it is the intent of the legislature that both parents have the opportunity to guide and nurture their child and to meet the needs of the child on an equal footing beyond the considerations of support or actual custody.” ****
Here’s something that super funny (in my humble opinion) and totally off topic. Enjoy!!
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2009/12/04/funniest-email-conversation/
KateinCanada,
I have bought the next two books written by Stieg Larsson. Finished the first one in two days. Family was lucky to be fed.
They are in trouble now. I have over a 1,000 pages of reading in front of me. Mashing the potatoes whilst reading is difficult.
Refusing to discuss Mrs Palin tonight. She affects my spelling.
19 year old still in a snot about not being allowed to go surfing in Kerry, his one act of resistance was leaving the fridge door open and shrugging when I asked him to close it.
Maybe NSFW? Sorry
#70 @Seagull Junker Palin ~ That was hysterical! Thanks for the laugh. 8 )
Oh, BTW, I just returned from my local Barnes & Noble and sitting there on the bookshelves all sad and lonely (and dusty) were the same 18 copies of Going Rogue that had been sitting there since before Christmas! I thought it strange since (while I do live in New York City) my little island home is staunchly conservative and we have our cute ol’ teabaggers too. Them there books should have been flyin’ off the shelfs like somebody’s busy Quitter Twitter fingers.
@72 Irishgirl
See my note at #74 re B&N. I bought the next book in the series (hardcover) The Girl Who Played With Fire. I’m going to start it tonight.
I take it you liked The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo???
Did the young Immortal close the fridge door? You know you’ve ruined his life like mad totally and he’s going to be therapy forevah! LOL
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Seagull Junker Palin
omg! Thank you! I can’t quit laughing! I stop and then start all over again. That was great.
Irishgirl
He gave you the cold shoulder.
Irishgirl
If he’s anything like mine were, you’ll ask him to go to the store or do some other minor errand for you and he’ll reply, “No, the roads are far too treacherous, remember?”
A shout out to those who will be celebrating New Years Eve and just might happen to see Brian out partying too. If you do see him, try to get a photo! I understand he’s going to be giving Santa himself a run for his money on getting around the world tomorrow night in less time than it take Rudolph to polish his shiny red nose.
We’ve set up a thread on the forum where any pictures of Brian or Brian and Brenda caught partying on New Years can be posted.
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9096.0.html
We’ll be taking those pics and making them into a I Heart Mudflats post too.
If anyone doesn’t want their Brian pics to be on the post, just say so when you add them to the thread!
Cheers all and here is to hoping that we get to see exactly how Brian celebrates New Years Eve and the end of the crazy decade!
I have started it LiladyNY…….Great so far.
Austintx…..It is freezing in this neck of the woods. Why do kids think you want to stop their enjoyment. We are just trying to keep them alive. I’ll have a sullen teenager here for the next few days. But at least he will be alive.
Why do teenagers think they are invincible… google “primal teen” if you want a good read on that topic.
As for s’error palin… don’t sweat the small one. If she gets into Iowa, she’s gonna get her bell rung. But after that happy horsebaloney she pulled last week with Zaki, I’ve got a feeling that she’s just posturing at this point. She’s done politically. All that is left for her is being famous for being famous.
#71 @ Irishgirl @ KateInMT also LiladyNY
I ordered The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from walmart ( paperback $6.00 ) should be here tomorrow or Monday .Walmart does have The Girl Who Played With Fire , hardcover only for now for $ 12.00 . According to B&N the third one is for pre-sale order only for May. I can not wait to start the first one . Thank you Mudpups for the referral.
59 Paula Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Emergency Preparedness?
As in end times? Civil war? What?
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Was wondering about that myself. Around these parts, there are a bunch of teabaggers. But when the fire horn goes off, they stay on their butts while swigging down right-wing yeungling beer and stuffing their faces with last month’s potato chips. They aren’t much for giving financial contributions to the community’s “emergency preparedness” units either.
@ Irishgirl & LiladyNY
I devoured those books and can’t wait for the 3rd in January (?). Makes me so sad that there won’t be any more by him.
sauerkraut…I do hope you’re right. But so far, every time someone says that Sarah’s done, she comes back stronger than ever. Everything that she has done so far, that would bury someone else, (quitting, lying, failing) is forgiven by her fans. She embodies Friedrich Nietzsche’s “what does not kill me, makes me stronger”.
The GOP has a definite problem in Palin. Some in the party worry that ultimately she is not electable. Others, with a real love of their country, those with different political agendas but who have a conscience and know the difference between right and wrong, worry that she is.
@ sauerkraut #83
December 30th, 2009 at 1:49 PM
………….swigging down right-wing yeungling beer ………..
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yeungling’s right-wing? $onuvabi*ch. I hate that.
Oh another thing, sorry I’m getting forgetful these days. LOL
If you can’t post them to the thread, either don’t have an account on the forum or don’t know how to post, etc.
You can email pics to me and I will post them for you. Make sure you include your mudflats nickname and where in the world you saw Brian.
Just leave a message on the board, or let one of the mods know in chat that you have a photo you’d like to have posted and we’ll figure it out! Thanks all.
The National Journal has listed the top 6 dysfunctional states. Amazingly my Texas is not in it, and Louisiana is given a pass.
Not surprisingly Missy Sarah puts Alaska on the list.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20090713_1397.php
81 sauerkraut Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 1:42 PM
As for s’error palin… don’t sweat the small one. If she gets into Iowa, she’s gonna get her bell rung.
I think your right. The people of Iowa take their politics and themselves seriously, and will expect answers to their questions. I think they will find word salad insulting. At least I hope so.
#70, that was funny!
Here’s my contribution to rogue emails: I got this, but after it had been sent 42 times before it hit my in box.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0110351/stories/2002/09/17/rogueEmail.html
I had people from PriceWaterhouseCoopers who were doing work for me a few years before who confirmed this (unfortunate) woman was for real.
********Always watch what you are doing when you hit the buttons on email.********
Seagull -
Funny !!
@ladybirddeb – Ok, thanks for the link. I did sign the petition.
Beautiful picture! But if that happens here in NC, branches start falling, and the electricity goes off for hours. We had an ice storm a few years ago, and had to use a small kerosene heater for warmth in the open living area with the BRs closed off (the heater worked so well I even fried an egg on top of it). And then, there’s the matter of having to put a light in the well house to keep it going, too. We’re just not used to single digits in NC. But the ice-scape was gorgeous, even though you took your life in your hands just trying to navigate the front porch. : )
@Granny68
Do you live in the mountains there? My friend lives outside of Asheville and says it really does get “chilly” in the winters. I love it there. We were in Hot Springs a few years ago. It was like stepping into a time warp to the 60s. I kept thinking of Brigadoon. LOL
Oh la la – The movie is coming out March 2010! Wow.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/12/04/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-exclusive-clip-from-the-new-movie-and-an-interview-with-the-director/?mod=rss_WSJBlog
56 austintx Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
I never have liked this peckerhead.
“And then lastly, you have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it’s much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly.”
I read somewhere today that one of the bobble heads has decided that the fact that Obama is going on “Vacation” in Hawaii proves he wasn’t born there.
I think that peckerhead is nothing but a lot of worm holes
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I just voted and the tally is up to 4,520 votes!
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Happy New Year’s Eve blue moon to all. Next New Year’s Eve blue moon is in 19 years.
The moon has been beautiful over the slough this week.
Sarah Palin: America’s Trojan Horse
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/virginia-bell/sarah-palin-americas-troj_b_407285.html
And the PLOT thickens re: Gryphen & ban-gate!
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-blogger-book-banning-take-two.html
O-oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh!
A “Hmmmm” moment, courtesy of BJ’s…
Was in BJ’s today, and in the past, almost 1/3 of a table of hardcover books were SP’s. They are all GONE today!!!!!!
I asked a manager in the store what happened to the approx 50+ copies that were there the weekend before Christmas? The reply was they were boxed up for shipping BACK to HC’s distribution service.
Again…I live in Redneck-Ville, Cobb Cty, GA!
More on Ban-gate, or Palin-banned as some have called it:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/revealed_banned_list_at_going_rogue_book_event_dra.php
Interesting part of the JPG list and in reading the TPM article:
“this is a private rental of the facility with a public invite and access limited list provided by renters”
Okay…so this was a PUBLIC invitation to attend at a PRIVATELY rented facility, but only accessible by those who were on a PRIVATELY developed list so as to keep it PUBLIC?!?!
Kinda reminds me of the old “CHAOS” theory of mine: Disorganized, organized chaos. No matter how you look at it, it’s still chaos.
Shannyn has posted a new article on HuffPost. The Palinbots are out and not pleasant. Let’s get some good comments going for her!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/palibanned-per-todd-palin_b_407760.html
Not sure what’s going on with the comments at HuffPost, but the negative ones have been scrubbed under Shannyn’s article. Hmmmmm
Love the pcture… Makes me think how cold it must be..We never see this in my tiny little part of the world….Thx AKM
Cough, cough, gaga kind of news…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/30/rush-limbaugh-hospital-ta_n_407869.html
UPDATE: Local TV station KHON2 is now also reporting on the incident:
KHON2 has learned that conservative radio host, Rush Limbaugh was taken from the Kahala Hotel in an ambulance just after 2:40 p.m. Wednesday.
Sources say the 58 year old was suffering chest pains before the ambulance arrived.
EMS confirms a male was taken from the hotel in serious condition.
Who was in the room with Rush ?? Any pill bottles ??
austin…that’s all that’s out there on the innertubes on Limpy.
You should read some of the responses. Many are not kind at all, some are mixed, and others are just trashing Obama (as usual).
Best one was the first one there just now (likely buried back a bit now):
Courtney Cobb, 10:50PM:
Must be nice to have health insurance too.
PepperzMom -
Yup………I went searching and only the news you reported was out. This could get interesting.
yeppers karma..
Huffinton is running the 23 dumbest quotes of the year- GB has 3, SP has 2, and all the rest one apiece.
#27, mae lewis Says:
December 30th, 2009 at 7:46 AM
I have heard the comments that Sarah could win the Iowa caucuses because the most seriously right wing Republicans are the ones who participate. But, could Sarah run for president in 2012?…
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I don’t know if you will be back to read this, but I thought your analysis was SPOT ON!! Thanks for the great read.
Awwww, one of my picks, HarperCollins, is sinking to the bottom.
My number one choice, however, is going strong!
“Right-wing yeungling beer” — I forgot who said that on pg 2, but Yeungling Beer is definately not ‘right-wing”
Its fabulous!
(If you live in PA, you definately have to tour their brewery )
Just in case anyone wants some uplifting images of President Obama.
A slideshow of his travels:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/obamas_travels_a_behindthescenes_look/obamas_travels_a_behindthescenes_look.html
Been loving the winter pictures..