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7 02 2010Sarah Palin ate my brain, and now I’m going to bed.
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Tomorrow’s a new day.
Think of all the things you can accomplish! And then write them on your hand.
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February 7th, 2010 at 7:33 PM
I haven’t laughed this hard in a looong time! A cheat sheet! I’ve taught middle school, and one of the things you look for during tests is students reading their palms! That was so hilarious. Did her daughters tell her about this, or has she been using this trick since she was 12? Is this how she got through Potato U?
When you can’t remember what your top 3 or 4 talking points are without pointedly reading your palm, and then waving it around so people see the print, you aren’t prepared for your 2 minute class speech. I can’t bear to listen to her or read transcripts, but she is worth a million laughs.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Hey Bea !!
Just scrolled the thread and saw another couple of fine examples of your work. Love it !! Thanks.
And yeah baby on da Saints !! Brees be from Austin.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Can you imagine her as president, visiting foreign dignitaries and some poor schlep having to TRANSLATE her word salad? That she is reading off the crib notes on her hand?
February 7th, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Like someone on Palingates said, she threw Trig under the bus to cover for Rush. She’s such a loving mother too also. Disgusting!!!!
February 7th, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Tim Shriver talked to Rahm Emanuel because of Palin and the retard comment. I read he wrote Rush a letter. Now Sarah says it’s okay for Rush. Wonder what Shriver thinks of Palin now that it is okay for Rush to say retard. She did throw her baby under the bus. A loving mother wouldn’t be selective in allowing insults.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:06 PM
from Barb D at Palingates………..
“From the Branchflower report on Troopergate, the “Mr. Wheeler” being asked questions was part of her security detail:
Officer Wheeler testified that Todd Palin spent at least 50 percent of his time in Governor Palin’s office. Although he did not have his own office, he would routinely use the governor’s office, sitting at the conference table that had a phone on it. I asked Officer Wheeler whether he had an opinion about Todd Palin’s level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the Governor’s office:
MR. BRANCHFLOWER: Do you have an opinion about his level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the working of the governor’s office?
MR. WHEELER: I — I think that he — that he had a significant influence, in that he was always interacting with the — the employees there. That any time I needed to get information to the governor, I would always go through Todd, because he was the only one I could — could talk with, either via the cell phone or in person.
He — I know that he got e-mails and stuff that he was in the loop on — on activities. Because if — if the governor was required to leave and go to Juneau or something, that Todd was always the one that would call me and let me know where they were and that they’d be five or ten minutes out.
So he — yes, he was — he knew a lot of the stuff that was going on.
MR. BRANCHFLOWER: How would you compare his level of involvement with the level of involvement in the day-to-day affairs of the governor’s office by the spouse of former governor Tony Knowles or Frank Murkowski? You worked for them as well, correct?
MR. WHEELER: I did. I would say that the first ladies from the two previous administrations, while they were involved in state business, it was primarily in functions and non — or — I can’t think of the word right now. Private — things like breast cancer awareness and, you know, representing the state in these — in these nonprofit organizations. They all had an organization that they took to heart.
And I never saw that from Mr. Palin. You know, I basically saw where he was involved more with the day-to-day things than — than going out and attending these specific things, or specific organizations.”
February 7th, 2010 at 8:11 PM
If I were the GOP, this is what I’d do.
I’d go ahead and put Palin on the ticket in 2012. They should know they’re going to lose to Obama no matter who they run. Why taint a potential, future candidate with a sure loss?
Palin is their token candidate. A seat filler.
They can use Palin as a placeholder and they can get rid of the Teabaggers once and for all. With Palin as their figurehead, the Teabaggers will be relegated to the lunatic fringe. And the GOP can say “Hey, we gave you a shot and you blew it. Now we call the shots. Tow the line or get out.”.
They can go through the motions of supporting her while in reality hanging her and the teabaggers our to dry. Then after the election make a big deal about hearing the voice of the voters, turning over a new leaf, new direction, etc. And dumping Sarah, the Teabaggers and the Talibangelicals.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:20 PM
aha @136
No they did not give Celtic Diva a discount. She sent in the check for the full amount she was quoted, so I think she deserves a refund considering the charges that MSNBC paid and got vs what Celtic Diva got and paid for. It is quite ridiculous that Diva had to pay over $5,000.00 for emails when the charge for MSNBC was less than $400.00 and they got so much.
I know that it was the first week of December 1st & 3rd (those are the dates of the posts she made about it) that she got the notification that the records request was ready, but had been partially denied due to so many being classified as “privileged” and she wrote about the list of privileged email list on Jan 25.
http://www.divasblueoasis.com/diary/946/transparency-in-public-recordsthe-ak-legislature-is-our-only-hope
I know she said she got over 2,000 pages of information so I am not sure what it is she got as that last discussion in Jan was about what she didn’t get (the emails that were marked ‘privileged’).
February 7th, 2010 at 8:28 PM
HAHHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!! See – I TOLD you there is a God =) And He’s got quite the sense of humour.
Could you have ever imagined that the day would come when a potential Presidential candidate would:
- Bash a sitting President and imply he is not a commander-in-chief
- AND have notes written on her hands during a this bashing for all to see AND
- Sit thru a softball on stage interview with the SAME notes on her hands again for the world to see AND
- Admit on national TV that as long as you are a well known Republican who can help her politically, you are WELCOME to make fun of people with disabilities AND she will laugh WITH you.
This is freaking awesome. Seriously – anyone who tells me from now on that she is a serious contender for President, I will LAUGH until I can not breathe. Thank you, Jesus.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:29 PM
To Nan (aka roswellborn)
Yes, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were Federalists who wanted a strong, central government. Jefferson and Madison were strong Democrats who wanted decentralized, small governments.
Palin is such an illiterate idiot.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Here’s one of her crib talking point that she needed to be sure to plug………. “Allowing America’s Spirit to Rise”, again, is that from the downtrodden? or from the dead? ashes? calling it forth from our founding fathers out of some cave? inviting the Holy Spirit to indwell America? and it’s government of course.
Divine intervention of course would be her as the answer to all our ills, gag.
So is she saying the American Spirit has got to be Christian, why yes she is.
Oh dear………
“I think, kind of tougher to, um, put our arms around, but allowing America’s spirit to rise again by not being afraid to kind of go back to some of our roots as a God fearing nation where we’re not afraid to say, especially in times of potential trouble in the future here, where we’re not afraid to say, you know, we don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again. To have people involved in government who aren’t afraid to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness that you know — they have to be afraid of what the media said about them if they were to proclaim their alliance on our creator.”
February 7th, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Our President is not going to back down from Health Care, he just said a large provider out of CA plans to raise it’s premiums by 39%.
My spouse just lost his job a week ago, Cobra for two adults in their mid 50’s with no serious health problems will cost us $1364.00 a MONTH! it was costing us 360.00 through his employer, which my husband never used except for teeth cleaning 2 times a year, and I for mamo, pap and bloodwork.
Who can afford that without a job? We decided to pay as we need treatment, and hope nothing big comes up.
I would encourage those who have health benefits to GET IN to your docs and dentists, eye exams etc. and use them while you’ve got them. I will now not have a mamo or pap since last years.
Make those appointments, get it done.
Andrew Sullivan has Katie Curic’s interview with the Pres. 14.5 min
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/02/couric_interviews_obama_–_and_he_makes_news.php
February 7th, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Aussiegal #257 – amen. Just brought me to do a little research on lying too.
Proverbs: These 6 things doth the Lord hate, yea 7 are an abomination to him: a proud look, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood; a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
My mother used to say when I was little, that once one starts a little lie, and gets away with it, they get addicted to lying, and of course it ruins lives around them. I can’t imagine how any family could live daily while making outrageous lies about other people, and on national tv, heavily critiquing leaders on and on so deviously; it would impact children, make them unstable and feel isolated. This makes one get a headache just reading about it.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:12 AM
CribNotesGate Part Deux:
http://tilt-o-rama.com/palinnuke.jpg
February 8th, 2010 at 1:09 AM
Tried to email you this
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Palin_beats_drum_for_Perry.html
both of my emails could not recognize your email. ?????????
February 8th, 2010 at 4:25 AM
bb-
I cannot imagine Texans being happy that she called Texas Alaska’s “little sister state”!!
6000 people showed up for a venue that seats 9500. Thats probably not what Perry was expecting to happen. I bet he thought that with Palin and free music from Ted Nugent,there would be overflow.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:35 AM
253 merrycricket Says: February 7th, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Can you imagine her as president. …
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No. No, I cannot.
btw – as to those emails… yanno… someone could get the same pile of documents released to the media by putting in an request for “any and all documents requested by and released to [name of news organization here].”
February 8th, 2010 at 6:53 AM
It cracks me up that her stupid cult followers are defending Palin for writing notes on her hand. They are saying there is nothing wrong with her writing notes on her hand….people have done it for years,etc.
First of all, I challenge them to name “people”. Are they talking about junior high school “people”?
Secondly, I guess those gosh darn high tech teleprompters are bad, but taking a sharpie to your palm or reading notes is good. Sheesh.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:23 AM
#265 bb, good article. Noticed there wasn’t one positive comment for goodhair & lady blah blah in San Antonio. That’s interesting, I have a good friend down there, we don’t talk politics as he’s a rabid republican….
February 8th, 2010 at 7:51 AM
My post with (video) times of left palm forward frame-by-frame shots went into moderation – too many links, I believe; my bad.
In any event, the bottom line of the post was:
…we see SOMETHING on the palm of her left hand. [Pretty good pic of 'it" @ minute 5:31 on C-Span: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9_kkIEq-hg&feature=related ]
But what? What is that “something”?
Within the videos I watched, there were also a good dozen or so shots of her left palm that showed absolutely *nothing* at all on it -it was bare nekkid …I attributed that ‘nothingness’ to the rapidity of her hand movement and/or to the lighting [out of deferrence to what seems to be the prevailing line of thinking: SP *did* have words written on her hand.] However…
In all the frames where I did see ’something’, there were only 5 – maybe 8- frames where anything even remotely resembling the layout of ‘the list’, showed. All the rest of the left-palm-forward frames showed different combinations of heavy/light // long/sort // thin/thick “smudges’… none of the frames showed a consistent ‘layout’. Surely IF there had been ‘a list’, the frames showing it would have had some consistency, no?
I also find it extremely odd that out of all the media present, with all the cameras trained on her, only *one* photographer noticed the ’something’ on her left palm and got curious enough to zoom in on it to see what it was? There were no other camera operators/photographers in the room with any curiosity and no other cameras in the room with that zoom in capability? I think that highly unlikely.
Think of it from the financial standpoint of the photographer…can you imagine the amount of money a photo of SP with a ‘crib sheet’ written on her hand, would bring? And you think any photographer would pass up the opportunity to get a photo of that “money shot”? Wouldn’t have heart racings with the anticipation of hawking it to the highest bidder? I don’t.
I’d be interested to find out when the photos were given/uploaded to AP from the photographer who ‘captured’ the “money shot” — was it before minute 6:35 of the Q&A, or after; and, *if* after, how long after? Long enough after, that the photographer (or someone) could’ve found a pic to ‘enhance’ as a ‘companion’ to SPs weird staring at her palm?
Call me skeptical, but the ‘facts’ of the one, lone, “money shot” just don’t add up [for me]. I sure do wish there were SOME –any– corroboration of/for the picture; without one, I think, ‘we’ are just accepting as ‘truth’ what ‘we’ want to see. And that’s a real pity. beth.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:05 AM
There were also enlargements of video frames and you could easily see it was the same list as in the picture, as well as the video of her reading off of her hand. I noticed that long before the photo surfaced.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:15 AM
so, I’m reading the Dallas Morning News and Good Hair Perry and Sarah (aka lying b**ch) are on front page..there is confetti flying every where and Sarah is holding hands with her little girl Piper(looks like they were running for President) and the caption says:”Honey, we’re in Alaska’s little sister state.”
Holy sh*t!…yeah, that’s what us ego driven a–holes in Texas want to be called…Alaska’s little sister…heads will roll.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Does anyone recall posting that the Texas Governor offered the Palins the Texas State Jet to return to Alaska on that momentous day in April 2008 when Sarah Palin says she was leaking amniotic fluid.
Anyone from Texas, who knows someone who could shed some light on this?
February 8th, 2010 at 8:16 PM
I firmly believe that if the reporting and pictures of notes written on SP’s hand were not true—we would have all been hearing from the woman.
She follows a pattern—-deceit -deceit-deceit in all she does and says.
Someday, sometime, she is going to dig a hole deep enought that she can’t crawl out. I am waiting for that day.
February 8th, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Me, too Lacy Lady. I think she’s creeping closer to that day by day. Naturally, she has no earthly clue that’s what she’s doing. As if the “tele-palm-ter”, disastrous wig, extreme nonsensical screeching, mini-skirt, and leg-rubbing weren’t cringe-worthy enough, now she referred to Texas as “Alaskas’s little sister state”? OMG! I hope every soul in Texas hears about that monster insult. You CANNOT say that about Texas!! I can almost see the posses forming as we speak. Proud, red-blooded Texans won’t cotton to her idiotic comment at all…them’s fightin’ words.