Open Thread – America By Heart
You know him, you love him. Here’s another from the man of mystery and head of the Mudflats Art Department, the one…. the only… flyinureye on Whatsername’s second book due out just before Christmas.
Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics
Love it.
Sorry to say this, but I think Rachel Maddow made an on air mistake tonight.
Her show included a segment on ‘magic’ as a tool used by the CIA to further their interests.
The segment included two ways for a person to secretly drop a drug into the drink of an enemy spy. It was a playbook for how to administer a date rape drug undetected, since women are now being told not to let go of a drink in a bar.
I am in Alaska, and there have been several articles about women as date rape victims here. This is the state with a very high rape and domestic violence rate.
I am sure that RM did not intend for this segment to be anythig but a satiric commentary on cold war tactics.
But it may turn into a “how-to” for predators.
They’d figure it out, anyway. This kind of stuff just alerts the rest of us to present tactics.
I heard you’re suppose to put a saucer, coaster, or napkin over the top of your glass, if you can’t stare right at it or if a distraction comes along.
Love the dress–and the spike is so apropos . . . . . Another one hit out of the park flyinureye!
So . . . one of Sarah’s endorsements went down in defeat last night.
Speech and policy stealing, geographically ignorant and all around clueless guy Ward got beat by a tea bagger. (Can anyone tell the difference between these people anymore?)
Ahhhhhhh, the Queen of Dark Hearts sure can pick ‘em. lol.
Wow, I didn’t even think of that when I was watching. I was just thinking how interesting it was and that all the spy movies where people did things like that weren’t so far-fetched after all. The only thing is, maybe if women see how easy it is, they will pay even better attention and not let someone distract them that way. Kind of like the way I pay a lot more attention to my surroundings when I’m walking to my car from the mall because of the way women were being targeted.
Good morning! Hope your birthday was the bomb-diggity, AKM. I have a full day of waiting around for our air conditioning guy. The unit for the first floor of this house went kerput on Sunday, of course, and today is the day for a fix. Hope he gets here early. Heat index is going to be over a hundred again, and I have too much to do to just stay upstairs and sort linens and stuff.
Thank you, flyinureye, for yet another perfect representation of Mrs. Palin. I just know she has on those Naughty Monkey shoes under those hoops!
What is air conditioning? None of my neighbors here in Alaska have been able to explain it to me.
LOL!!!
Something I DON’T have in my elementary school.
With the temps pushing 90 today, the 5th and 6th graders coming down the hall after PE class are something to be given a very wide berth!
flyinureye – you just gave my day a great start! Thanks.
fishingmama and Pat, Washington state, you both make great points. Underscores the need for everyone to be educated on these issues, techniques, and how to take care of ourselves and the ones we love.
Have a great day, everyone – particularly jimzmum. Whew – I know what it’s like to be in the heat. We have only one window air conditioner and a fan right now (the others are not working), and the heat and humidity are upon us with a vengeance. You’d think Sarah was outside talking with all that hot air blowing in.
that’s a good one. a great TMW today: http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/05/25/this_modern_world
If you, like me, sometimes send emails to your Representatives and Senators discussing disagreement with a particular policy or vote, you might want to be aware of the danger into which you might be placing yourself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/bruce-shore-unemployed-ph_n_588798.html
Any unemployed man in PA wrote to several people in Congress voicing his frustration about the inability of Congress to extend unemployment benefits. It was an email he wrote to Senator Bunning, someone who specifically blocked the bill from coming to a vote, that got him in trouble.
Apparently, Mr. Shore did not use threats or abusive language, but nonetheless FBI agents showed up to interview him and a few weeks later, US Marshalls showed up to arrest him. He’d been indicted on charges of harassment and has to travel to KY this week to face charges that, if he’s convicted, could land him in prison for two years with a quarter-million dollar fine.
Granted, Mr. Shore has a record, having been convicted of burglaries in the 90′s, but since then he rose to become an office manager until his lost his job during the recession. It was when he discovered Bunning was blocking unemployment benefit extension that he became angry enough to write emails about his situation that the problems began.
Bunning’s office says the Senator had nothing to do with the arrest – just that it, like other offices routinely turn over angry emails to the Capital Police for further investigation.
Mr. Shore’s real crime? Seems he signed the email as Brad Shore instead of Bruce shore. Whether or not Brad is his nickname is unclear, but that did the trick. My feeling? Given Senator Bunning’s reputation, I have to wonder if he isn’t made of the same vengeful cloth that Sarah Palin is. Disturb him, call him out at your own risk.
This is a sad day when people cannot vent their frustrations to their elected officials. I don’t mean we have the right to be hateful or violent or disrespectful – because that’s not right – but from the article, there is no indication that Mr. Shore made any threats. He just signed it using an unofficial first name.
that is seriously disturbing. thought police anyone? i’ll keep writing.
Well, Bunning did have a reputation in Baseball for throwing directly at people…
And this is exactly why when the conservatives yell about dictatorial powers and government overreach, I ignore it because it is basically hypocrisy. Given the chance, they would take as much power for themselves as they could stand and cut down anyone who would object or dissent.
They don’t believe in democracy – their actions bear that out.
Lets face it privatizing departments of the government and military and trying to privatize Medicare and Social Security does take the power to control those entities away from the public and puts it in the hands or economic dictators like Anthem Blue Cross, BoA and others.
As per usual what the Republicans say in their PR is the exact opposite of what that really want.
Oh, one other point of interest to those of us who write comments to blog posts. A prominent civil liberties attorney, Harvey Silverglate, is quoted in the article as saying “Half of the anonymous Internet comments would” be illegal.”
I wonder if our monikers are regarded as a form of being anonymous? Good grief, one can only hope that someone such as Palin never makes it to an elected office again, because I can honestly see her using the statute used against Mr. Shore against all those who disagree with her, can’t you?
Why would anonymous comments in blog posts be illegal? What a twit this lawyer is. Makes no sense at all.
Does he also propose that protesters write their real names and address on their protest signs? So there is no alleged legality issues? Ok fine, if that’s what we’re gonna do then let’s start with the Tea Party protesters!
=)
I think he was trying to make the point that the statute is vague enough to make anonymous comments illegal. After all, this guy was hauled in because he hadn’t used his proper legal name. The lawyer is against the statute, and he’s written a book in which he says Americans unintentionally commit three felonies a day because of such badly-written and construed laws.
I apologize if I did not make that clear before.
We do already have to sign our names, addresses and zip codes when submitting emails to members of Congress. One of my Senators, Pat Roberts (argggh), will not accept anything unless you also add the proper form of salutation (Mr., Ms. Mrs., et cetera). Many Representatives will not accept emails from anyone outside their districts. That may be to avoid having their staff swamped, but really, their decisions and votes affect us so I think we should be able to contact any member of Congress to express our support or disappointment.
if you really have a beef or a point to make… you can go to member’s home page, see city & zip code of their district, then plug it into your email…voila!
My Senators (Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell) require the proper form of salutation as well. I’ve never really gotten the point of why it matters, but I always go back and add it.
There are some outside of Washington state that I have sent e-mails to, but not the ones that require my address and phone number. I don’t need to be on that many mailing and phone lists.
This blog is the one where I actually use my first name, although it is my nickname. Almost everywhere else I use some form of Eeyore. I wonder if the lawyer is referring to the tone of some posts that really do sometimes cross the line with references to what we’d like to see happen to some of these nitwits out there. See there? I’ve called some of them a name that’s not very nice. I won’t, however, go father than that. But some people do, even though it’s usually said as a joke. The internet is great but does not always reflect the sarcastic tone of voice or a smirk or a raised eyebrow. And when all you have are the words, then the tone might be read differently than the way the writer intended.
Funny, there is a similar picture of Bristol in the new Harpers, complete with kid eating every sort of sweet and junkfood (can’t keep them teeth past age 12 and look all elitists now) and an article where she talks politics -Obama sucks & her retard mom should run for POTUS, and a bonus about what a dang hard worker she is and how proud of herself she is.
I continue to be thrilled about Joe. Her blather has assured a multitude of free PR for the book, I would not doubt if the rental was arranged by the publisher for that very reason. LOL. Great marketing plan!
20 foot fence… why not a mote to match the castle theme?
What fun it must be to live in a house with a 20 foot fence around it. I’m dying to see a photo of the new addition!
It’s sure to be ugly & tacky.
Chateau FDC Seatac perhaps?
Hmmmm…..and Todd could be the dragon…..drag-on? Hey I just made a funny.
Not enough room.
Of course the lake is alrady on one side.
There are motion sensor recordings of vicious barking dogs. Or maybe grizzly bears grizzling. It would keep the deer, moose, elk and hares away from her small garden. also too.
Wouldn’t want Joe raking out the blueberry patch come the end of summer.
A 20 foot fence would be against building codes in my town. We are limited to a 6 foot fence and it has to be back from the road so many feet – not sure how much because our fence is only around our backyard.
This is a great column in the WAshington Post: Palin’s fact-free diet:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/25/AR2010052503970.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
article out that Sarah’s fee plus expenses is $93k and counting at CSU… methinks some university people are gong to the unemployment line when this is all over…
As they should, especially because of this:
http://www.americablog.com/2010/05/w.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog%29
She went full ret@rd there–who in education would want to have any link to this lying, grifting psycho fraud? Everything she touches goes to moosesh:it.
O.k.. The struggling teen mom is now pictured in a photo shoot for Harper’s. Along with the child that Levi was not supposed to be exploiting! A teen mom wearing thousands of dollars worth of clothing.This poor, poor family just cannot get any privacy!
And serving him nothing but sugar. And bragging about how proud of herself she is. And how bad Obama is. And more designer cloths…
I just saw that, then clicked on the link there and read the whole article. Gag. I mean really!
Doesn’t this undermine the Candies Foundation message she is supposed to be promoting?
Seems to be she is sending a message to teens “get pregnant, be a single mom, look how glam I am!”
Don’t the Palin women ever think about consequences of what they say and do? I guess Bristol is just following in her mom’s footsteps down a path leading nowhere. Oh, they will get money, but really, is that what they are supposed to be after according to their faith? What a messed-up family. Say one thing, do another.
“Don’t the Palin women ever think…?”
Not often, and never deeply.
You are assuming that anyone wants to follow their footsteps.
Wait a minute. Is she posing in front of….MUDFLATS??
PS The Moore show just MUST have Joe as a guest. MUST!
Palin endorsement works its magic? Palin endorses front-runner – he loses.
This is the district in which the Dem incumbent has been endorsed by the Tea Party Express.
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho state Rep. Raul Labrador won the Republican nomination Tuesday in the state’s nationally targeted 1st Congressional District, pulling an upset over rival Vaughn Ward.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/vaughn-ward-palin-endorse_n_589888.html
So, Tea Partier primary candidate Vaughn Ward is out, and the other Republican guy, Raul Labrador, moves on to run against the Democratic candidate in November.
Gee, Palin’s support = kiss of death? Or, maybe it was because her candidate plagiarized Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention speech? Or that Ward didn’t know that Puerto Rico is part of the United States?
Whatever it was, I have new respect for Idahoans.
Can’t help but wonder if S’error via Bristol’s political consulting business sold that speech to Vaughn Ward. Seeing how S’error uses ghost-writers.
Good one Wolf
Apparently some law enforcement officials don’t realize Puerto Rico is part of the US. Did you read about that poor guy who was arrested and detained for three days as an illegal immigrant until a Congressman intervened on his behalf? This wasn’t in AZ, it was in Illinois!
Gosh, the country must be dumbed-down even worse than I thought.
Lets face it Latinos all over this country, or any one resembleing a Latino needs to carry official id. for their own protection and peace of mind.
Actually we all should, you never know when you may inadvertently be caught up in a situtation that involves police needing to know you are who you are.
And any cop in any state can already do what Arizona has always done which is to check Latinos, or Asians, or Arabs, or anybody with a thick accent for proof of citizen ship or a passport and assume they are illegals if they don’t have id on them.
The Arizona law is still offensive, racist and most probably unconstitutional.
Perhaps the most telling part was that the police wouldn’t accept his paperwork proving he was an American citizen b/c they suspected the papers were forgeries. The basis of their suspicion – he was Hispanic.
That was the funniest thing I’ve ever heard on KO. He played a lot of the guy’s speech against Obama’s 2004 speech. In most cases, Vaughn used the same lines, word for word. And I guess he also did the same with other people’s speeches. Clearly he has no original ideas of his own. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Palin would support him – she’s the queen of repeated sound-bites and slogans.
“Off with her head!” said the Red Queen.
We’re finally getting more detailed information on the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Some of this has circulated before, but here’s confirmation that the well was signalling trouble but eventually someone decided to replace the heavy mud with sea water over objections by some of the drillers. This article says all the arguing was done on the rig- but the way I heard it was the arguement was betwwen the rig personnel (warning of trouble) and the onshore offices (go ahed with replacement). Big difference in responsibility if so.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/us/26rig.html?th&emc=th
My husband (who works in the oilfield and has also been educated in process technology) has been studying some of the oil workers’ blogs (like oilrum.com) and he came to the same conclusions. He looked at some of the pressure readouts and said “why didn’t they stop everything right there when the pressures were rising?” In hindsight, it looks pretty obvious when they should have stopped. However, hindsight is 20/20 and who knows what orders were given or by whom. Generally, any oilfield worker can order something to stop at anytime he/she sees a safety problem (kind of like a ref with a red card), however, he/she can be overridden by someone higher up (and there is always the fear of losing one’s job–husband says “rather lose my job than my life”). Knowing what happened is just as important to knowing how to prevent future occurrences as it is in assigning blame. There is an awful lot of energy being put into anger and finger pointing at this stage. This energy would be better spent in coming up with solutions to stopping the flow of oil out of that well, cleaning up the mess (like I have any idea how that can be done *snark*) and being sure that all the people on the clean-up have proper safety gear. So many people up here were exposed to extremely carcinogenic stuff during the Exxon-Valdez nightmare, and here I see shrimpmen on the news pulling up oil-soaked booms with no gloves, no safety gear whatsoever.
This whole thing has made me so sick that I find it hard to write. However, I surely do wish that Shannyn and the other talk-radio folks would quit suggesting putting explosives down there. I asked my husband about this and he responds “anyone who suggests that has no idea what they are talking about”. There are companies that respond to above ground blowouts with explosives but that is to put out fires (by robbing the fire of oxygen) so they can cap the well. This is not the case underwater. if they ignited explosives down there (with the extreme pressures), it could potentially cause fissures in the seabed above the oil reservoir and cause it to leak everywhere (making what we are looking at now a million times worse with holes that don’t have pipe in them and can never be plugged). I wonder why they don’t just crimp the pipe like the BOPV should have done? Doesn’t seem like it would be that hard (although I am no engineer). Maybe it is a solution so simple and “commonsense” that all of the engineers and high powered scientists just haven’t thought of it. Sort of like the oversized truck stuck in a tunnel–just let the air out of the tires—problem solved.
I watched an interview on 60 Minutes last week of an engineer who escaped from the rig after the explosion. His explanation of what happened sounds very much like what your husband said.
There were several blatant mistakes made (and not corrected), incorrect or faulty equipment used, and safety procedures ignored or skipped, all to save BP some money. Warnings by the professionals on the rig were ignored and the problems increased exponentially until the rig finally exploded. I was sickened as I listened to what this man said and how greed and disregard for the safety of the workers and the soundness of the rig were directly responsible for the disaster.
Thanks for the info Lovemy dogs. It’s very helpful. I’m so discouraged and angry about this incident and the way BP has handled it. On the other hand, I get upset when people rag on the President so much, as if he was a magician who just needs to wave a wand and the problem will be solved. I do believe that there are a lot of smart people putting their heads together to determine what needs to be done, and I’m finally on board with the notion that BP is stonewalling any but their own solutions. So I now agree that the Pres. should take control and bring together the best and brightest with ideas as to how to stop the leak. In the meantime, go full court press with clean up options: do everything, unless they get in each other’s way: scatter hay, use Kevin Costner’s boat, bring in the flotilla like they did in Australia, etc. etc. Allow the people of LA to build the barrier island they need to have permitted. The political risk is huge for the administration, but after 36 days BP can no longer be trusted (and probably never could be). Saying all that, we still need to make sure our conservative brethern don’t ascribe to PO fantastical powers that he is refusing to invoke. I thought $P was the one for magical thinking; perhaps she has a solution? Nah, didn’t think so.
I’ll admit I really take a bad picture, but Flyinyereye’s “Sarah face” on the queen is pretty wicked! LOL It says, “all in good time, my pretty”, with a cackling look.
I like the one that Keith Olberman always uses – she looks like the Wicked Witch of the West, or Northwest, as the case may be.
I love this one for so many reasons but the main one being when I saw Helena Bonham Carter’s portrayal of the Red Queen – it reminded me of Palin all the way!
The casual malice, the uncontrolled rage and the vicious obsessive vengeful nature driving the Red Queen’s every decision – who else in real life comes to mind other than Palin? Anne Coulter comes very close but Palin blows away the competition when it comes to being the mean girl.
She sure does!
Coulter comes close, but I get the sense that she doesn’t really believe all the cr*p that she says… Colter just says them to sell books.
Palin, on the other hand, seems to believe all of the stuff that she shovels.
The only thing Palin is dividing at present is herself. You know, it has been said that Hitler often gave two different people the same job to see which of them could outdo the other: witness her simultaneous endorsement of Tea Party and Republican candidates.
How’s that politically schizophreny thing workin’ out for ya, $arah? Judging by the “success” of Rand Paul, not so good I’d say.
US citizen arrested and detained for 3 days even though he showed proof of citizenship (he was born in Puerto Rico which means, despite what a certain Palin-endorsed candidate from Idaho seems to think, is a US territory, that he is a natural born citizen):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/25/deportation-nightmare-edu_n_588788.html
Happened in Chicago (to my eternal shame but not surprise) – so what’s to say it won’t happen in Arizona? And yes, the Feds didn’t believe his papers were real because he looked Mexican. Outstanding. Do we need any more proof that the law in AZ is just a massive civil rights infringement waiting to happen?
I’m not surprised by the location, either. Sad. Sad. Sad.
I mean, seriously, how embarrassing.
Good job, flyinureye. “Divide and conquer” is definitely in her play book. Even when I’m peeved at our President’s actions/lack-of-action, I am still extremely grateful that he was elected and she’s still a long way from the White House. I know I made the right choice.
What do we think of this, you guys?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/ground-zero-mosque-overwh_n_589894.html
I think it’s a step in the right direction. The tragedy of 9/11 should be used to highlight just how much division and bigotry hurts us ALL. It shouldn’t be used to further marginalise a community just because of fanatics among them, who are in the minority.
I understand the 9/11 families are upset and I don’t for a second discount their grief. But I hope that we can all move on from 9/11 together and come together in a stronger bond. If we let the terrorists divide us, then their purpose has been achieved.
I agree. This is hopeful. I hope the critics realize they sound as extreme as the terrorists who did the deed.
Why is it so difficult for people to simply live and let live and to celebrate the things we have in common?
You are so right!
It is obvious that almost all Muslims are NOT terrorists because otherwise, NYC and Detroit would be on fire with bombs!! And I live in NYC and we are pretty much fine.
Except for the fire your burnin’ on the dancefloor! Woot!
Ahem. Sorry.
=p
your = you’re.
UGH.
Safe to drill? Anywhere? Really?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/alaska-oil-spill-trans-al_n_589974.html
Poor Alaska. This is an ongoing sadness, isn’t it?
This spill doesn’t have anything to do with drilling.
Palin’s candidate, Vaughn Ward, lost the Idaho Republican primary yesterday. Hey Palin, how’s that endorsement thing working out for ya? Her new bff in the SC governor’s race isn’t doing too well either.
GOOD!
With Bristol as the role model, I’m just not seeing the downside to teenage pregnancy. It seems have worked out pretty well for her.
She is now seen “serving tea” and posing in high end designer clothes. She says that she bought a condo, vehicle, leather furniture, TV,etc….all on her own. Not only that, but she get to travel to fancy red carpet events, pose for magazines, be on TeeVee. Imagine that.
Essentially, she is rich and famous because she got pregnant as a teen. Wow…..sound rough.
How exactly is she a role model against teenage pregnancy?
BTW, is Bristol the new “IT GIRL” for the teabaggers? What exactly is that photo shoot saying? Seems like it’s saying, I got pregnant and the teabaggers made me rich!!!
That Harpers photo spread was ridiculous beyond belief. Sarah Palin just allowed her daughter to make an even bigger ass out of herself than she already is.
I, for one, can not wait for the Bristol Palin tell-all memoir because at some point, Bristol is gonna realise that Mummy Dearest played her like a fiddle so she could make more money.
Forget about the fence, Palin needs to think about what the children might say one day =)
Oh boy, this is gonna be good. I’m beside myself with anticipation of Mrs. Palin’s response to Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Is Sen. Murkowski ‘Palin-worthy’? Is Sarah gonna smack her around publicly? Is she gonna embarass her with international scornful diatribe and profound opinion pieces? Will Lisa issue statements responding to the all-important Sarah Palin?
Senate Standoff on Spill Liability — By Kate Sheppard
|After a third Republican block of a Democratic bill to raise the liability on oil spills, the GOP put forward its own bill on Tuesday afternoon. This one would eliminate the cap only for the current spill, but not change the cap set under the Oil Pollution Act for future spills, which stands at $75 million.
The new bill comes from Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and David Vitter (R-La.), and also contains provisions that would expedite the claims process for Gulf residents. Vitter said on the floor that their measure would hold BP to its pledge to cover all costs related to the current spill. “That’s a contract offer,” he said on the floor Tuesday. “We’re saying we’ll take it.”
Murkowski blocked a first effort from Democrats to bring up a bill that would have raised the cap to $10 billion. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blocked the same measure last week as well as a revised measure that would eliminate the cap outright on Tuesday. Murkowski said in a statement that she thinks the standard liability should be raised, but that “Congress needs to carefully consider what the appropriate cap should be” before proceeding.
Robert Menendez (D-NJ), cosponsor of Democratic effort to remove the cap, in turn blocked the Murkowski-Vitter bill Tuesday. “What happens when, God forbid, this happens again and the company doesn’t make this kind of offer,” Menendez said.
Both parties have accused the other of grandstanding on the issue. Meanwhile, oil is still gushing into the Gulf at an unknown rate and the liability cap remains a measly $75 million. Our Senate at work, folks! Never letting a good environmental disaster get in the way of partisan squabbling!
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/05/senate-standoff-spill-liability
So basically they’re saying that the Gulf states that are being damaged by this specific spill are more important than, say, the coast of California, or Oregon, or Washington, or Alaska, or Maryland.
God forbid a similar explosion and leak happened off of their coasts…oh well, too bad, so sad!
Amazes me that Murkowski would be in favor of this bill, considering how vulnerable her own state is to this kind of accident (and, last I heard, was NOT located in the Gulf of Mexico!). But then again, Alaska’s well-being does not seem to be her first priority.
this is what the abstinence only crowd needs to read
Teen pregnancy rates falling fastest in Canada: Study
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Teen+pregnancy+rates+falling+fastest+Canada+Study/3072616/story.html#ixzz0p3qSyHVz
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When it comes to teen sexual behaviour in Canada and the U.S., he says the research is clear that the decline in teen pregnancy can be attributed largely to more sexually active young people using reliable contraception such as condoms and birth control pills.
“By and large, the Canadian teenager today is not more or less likely to be sexually active than the Canadian teenager from a decade ago,” McKay says. “But what is different is that the sexually active teenager today is more likely to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.”
I salute Canada!
viva Canada!!
Okay, Canada…first you show us up with your universal health care and now this?????
A declining teen pregnancy (and I assume STD) rate due to comprehensive sex education leading to correct and consistent use of reliable contraception. I wonder how the conservatives will spin this to make it a bad thing.
Mercy Maude! According to IM, the fence is up. Guess Mrs. Palin doesn’t need permits and stuff. Wonder if it is one of those 12 foot tell chain link numbers?
… and thus guaranteeing that the author’s version of the incident will be included in the book. Every detail from the Facebook screed will be either confirmed or debunked.
Congrats to the property owner for getting a new free fence!
… oh, and her public Facebook screed will surely result in the fence being inspected (I would hope!) by the city code enforcers or whoever. Whereas, had they just quietly built the fence, no one would probably have thought a thing about it.
When, when, when will she ever learn? The worst thing to do is get indignant in public, especially now that her Facebook public is not just national but probably international (she does realize that a number of her Facebook followers are only there because she provides them with just this kind of laughable entertainment, and not because they believe in her message or want to see her in public office again, right? Please say yes …. please?)
No? OK, what again is the definition of ‘deluded’?
Chain length wouldn’t afford privacy. It would only keep out those giant writer cooties, don’t ya know?
Nope…the giant writer cooties slip right through the holes. They’re sneaky little devils, dontcha know!
ks, I know. But, I was trying to think like a $arah. And, that was hard.
You betcha, you have to lose brain cells to do that. Take care jimzmum, we need you around here.
BTW – IM has a photo of the fence up —– ugly, very, very ugly – mostly because it looks like it’s been hobbled-together and there is huge gap at the bottom.
I wonder if the gap at the bottom will enable the family to sneak underneath in stealth spying missions on Joe.
Now if only the BP well was spying on her…..
OMG, I just saw the pic. What a disaster!
They have a photo, which they got from gretawire!
Can hardly wait to overlook SP’s next book at the bookstore.
nice one Brian….teehee.
LOLOLOL!!!
O.K., Alaska, we’re impressed by your bears and all – we know they’re big and we know they’re bad – but are they any match for the Asian Kung Fu bear?
http://jonathanturley.org/2010/05/25/kung-fu-bear/
Oh, Sarah? Just notice. Is Joe blogging away about what your’e doing? Has he put any picture up on the internet? Has he made any press releases to the newspapers? Is he responding to you in any way about this matter?
It’s making you crazy, isn’t it? Guess what? That’s his plan! So, if you want to enjoy your time at home with your family, which you deserve, simply don’t engage him or any one about. Just put up you fence and have a happy summer.
When you rant and vent, he wins. You give him more juicy and true, verifiable stuff for him to put in his book and give him free PR to boot. Calling him a stalker on TV, radio and/or in print is a really bad move because he may right now be filling out the papers for a libel suit. Or is it slander? Or by now, both? The guy is a major author who knows the news business, undoubtedly in much more detail than you do. He’s done nothing illegal and nothing threatening. And he won’t because he’s smart enough not to.
You, your husband and your ‘bots? I’m not so sure.
Once again, Sarah is desperately trying to bait people to come out swinging so she can blame them for throwing the first punch. I gather that that was basically her strategy in basketball – shove the other players just barely enough to not get a foul called on her (SP), but enough to anger the other players into fouling SP. A disgusting, sleezy and incredibly unchristian tactic.
Joe’s best defense – and I think he knows it – is to keep mostly quiet until the book is about to come out.
Applauding wildly. You get it. She doesn’t.
Actually, after listening to the Beck interview today, Beck was crazier about it than she was.
But I did transcribe this little bit, from our Sarah:
“If I find out that Random House is actually renting this place for their author to be able to sit here over our shoulder for the next 5 or 6 months that would be pretty disturbing too, but a classless thing that happens …”.
Know what that tells me? Tells me her publisher HarperCollins picked up the tab for her and her family’s stay in, was was it, San Diego while she was writing her book? Sure hope all that was correctly recorded on their tax returns and that she didn’t try to claim that as a deduction from her book income. ‘Cause that would be lying, fraud, unAmerican and unchristian.
Oh yeah, and illegal. So far Sarah, you have zero evidence that JM has done anything illegal. Get back to me when you have some facts.
She brought her kids into that again. What kind of a feckin’ sick individual is she? She is grossing me out. By the look of the LSM, they are beginning to cotton on. There were a few very interesting articles today.
It’s just eating her up that Joe M is ignoring the fuss she is making. Attention whore fits her nicely.
You’ve reminded me of the quote that’s taped to my computer desk:
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
- Herm Albright
I suspect that Joe McG may have read the same quote!
meanwhile the Palins and everybody who can is getting rich writing about Sarah ‘cept us pups. we got to rectify the situation. just sayin’.
Interesting point. This is America, after all, aren’t we free to make a buck however we can, as long as it’s legal?
If the Palins and Becks and Hannitys and Limbaughs suggest Mr. McGinnis is only being a slimeball making money off of Palin’s good name, then aren’t they all condeming the whole genre of unauthorized biography? When did they go after Kitty Kelly and her publisher? When did they boycott other unauthorized biographies?
They make a big deal about Sarah’s first book getting on the New York Times bestseller list, but then discount Joe McGinnis’ literary record going back far more decades than Sarah’s and labeling him as a ‘stalker’.
I hope he’s filling out lawsuit papers right now. Quietly. Without fanfare or facebook screeds.
I know this is a bit rambling but take from it what you will.
My point, I suppose, is that the Glennies and Rushies etc all seem to work under the ‘if it makes money, its a good thing’ banner.
They’ll defend Wall Street financiers for knowingly selling for usurious profits things they know are worthless, saying, “well, it’s not illegal”.
Well, what Joe McGinnis is doing right now is also not illegal. So you either defend his right to make money the way he is doing it, or you defend the governments’ (fed, state, county, city) right to regulate, curtail, or restrict his money-making activities.
Take your pick but you really cannot have it both ways. Just ask Ran Paul.
Yes Bubbles, we can rent the house next door when Joe is done with it. We can all wear bump-its, naughty monkey pumps and get our hair done at the Bumble Bee or whatever you call it. We can experience Sarah’s life, except I am not shooting any living creatures, sorry!
We can call it “The Rise and Fall of Sarah Palin”. Cause you know it’s coming!
B in Co….LOL…mother used to say “God doesn’t like ugly.” then she would pause and say “He doesn’t think much of pretty either.” Sarah P. has been acting pretty ugly for a lot of years now so we won’t be surprised when someday she gets what she has been dealing out.
I wonder how much of this is because Sarah FERGUSON is so much in the news right now?
S’matter, Sarah… ?
wow …great picture of the twitt….LMAO
I think this is a cute, funny and snarky little way to pay tribute to our new hero… Joe McGinniss with a song.
I guess it could play both ways as well. Joe COULD be saying it…, But I thought Sarah’s response would
be the one where it fits the best. The lyrics seem very appropo as well. Enjoy.
( YouTube has other versions as well ) You can find your own favorite.
” David Byrne- Don’t Fence Me In ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14l75vz-R9w
Tough (feminine) Toad and Sarah built their own Wasilly border fence. Ew, so powerful.!
When are we going to see palin’s head on top of a pink elephant?
I really love it when Palin and Beck reaffirm the notion that it is THEIR vision of America that best reflects restrictions on freedom of speech and vengeful governance.
David Weigel pins down exactly why it is despicable that Palin went after McGinniss the way she did and ho boy, how the Palinbots have responded! As far as they are concerned – freedom of the press is ONLY for those who agree with them. Lovely.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/sarah_palins_strange_unprofess.html?wprss=right-now
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/inside_my_palin_mailbag.html?wprss=right-now
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/palin_mcginniss_can_do_what_he.html?wprss=right-now
How much longer will the MSM let her smack them around like punks and continue to give her the attention she craves? But maybe I’m being naive – it’s a 2 way street here. She gets attention by acting like the moron she is and they get ratings. WIN. Except for those of us who would like our Media to do their job.
His article was spot on.
let us hope they didn’t build it on the neighbor’s property being that their house is just a few feet from what i assume is the neighbor’s property line. i imagine said neighbor is set to make a whole bunch of cash from either renting to interested parties or selling it to the Palins for a cool million or so. either way it is like manna from heaven. heheh. life is like a bowl of cherries and Sarah and Tawd are the pits.
Here is the link to the full article and a short video clip on Bristol’s photo and article for Harper’s.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/bristol-palin-interview-0610
Whoa – the language she uses in places. Not so grown-up after all.
Don Young play-of-the-day: http://www.newsminer.com/view/full_story/7672733/article-Young-introduces-bill-to-delist-polar-bear?instance=home_news_window_left_bullets
Palin will be with Beck 8/28. 8/28/68 -MLK’s “I Have A Dream” speech. She is disgusting–intruding everywhere she can.
HMMMM…Palin’s careful language during Transcanada talks:
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/05/26/palin-transcanada-emails.html
hahahhahahah excellent flyinureye!!
If there is a BBQ at Joe’s. I’ll be there. Seriously. Just give me some notice!
Well, well, well…collusion much?: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/sarah-palin-natural-gas-transcanada_n_590981.html
Noticed the Bristol Palin photo from upcoming Harpers, link follows:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/bristol-palins-harpers-ba_n_590278.html
first , i think the photo is ridiculous and has, appropriately, a lot of mixed messages.
but it took me about 5 seconds to grok the overriding , clear message of that photo, which , is:
“Let Them Eat Cake”
I don’t think Bristol is aware of it, but that’s what it says, loud and clear.
I agree.
Unlike ‘her’ first book, the title of her upcoming book makes no bones about *who* is ‘writing’ it… I’ve always thought Blondie was pretty good with song lyrics, but I’d no idea she and her band were up to writing a whole book! Good on them — and kudos for $P for *finally* giving credit where credit is due. beth.
PS – I wonder how Heart’s “America” will compare to the versions of “America (The Book)” by Jon Stewart, “America” by Stephen Coonts, and/or “America” by Alistair Cooke…
Yeah Joe McGinniss! It would not matter if the Quitter Queen’s fence was 100 foot tall…..wanna know why…..Joe McGinniss will occupy space in her brain for every second of the next 5 months rent free!!!! He moved in quietly wanting to be a good neighbor. Who took HIS photo and plastered it all over her Facebook? Who lied about being out in her shorts and tank top with a 45 lb toddler strapped to her back while mowing the yard? Who implied he is a sexual pervert who would have been leering into Piper’s window? Who built an ugly fence in one day? Paranoid much $arah? Whattcha hiding? Todd doesn’t live in the red house anymore? You don’t run 5 miles every day? Trig doesn’t live at your house anymore? Track is mysteriously not in the military anymore???
Joe will want to thank you for all the extra exposure you sent his way to sell his bestselling book….AND for providing him some privacy….I guess now you won’t see who is coming in and out of his driveway while he is writing his final chapters on you. You also have now made very public where Joe is located should some of the folks you have thrown under your big high centered yellow bus want to come forward with the truth.
It’s a great day in Alaska! Thank you Sarah! PS…..how is that email disclosure thingie workin’ out for ya?????
Is this more of the $P endorsement kiss of death? Sorry TX Mudflatters, but I’m glad to see $P’s pal Perry is having Texas-sized budget problems.
“Myths About California’s Deficit by: Robert Cruickshank Wed May 26, 2010 at 13:00:00 PM PDT Well, well, well. For years now we’ve been hearing that California’s budget problems exist because we “overspend.” Others claim it’s because our taxes are so high that companies and jobs move to low-tax states. Texas is often held out by those making these claims as an example of what California should emulate – a low-tax, low-services, low-spending state that supposedly has government figured out. Except they don’t. California faces a budget deficit of about $18 billion. And how much is Texas’s budget deficit? That’s right. $18 billion: But as the state’s budget shortfall widens-to as much as $18 billion, or about 20% of the next two-year budget, according to the state legislature’s latest analysis released earlier this month-critics are complaining that Mr. Perry’s policies have left the state with little room to reduce spending. “There is no way that they will be able to come up with $18 billion in cuts,” said Eva DeLuna Castro, a senior budget analyst at the Center for Public Policy Priorities, a nonprofit that advocates for low-income Texans. “They would have to shut down our prison system.” Suddenly Texas doesn’t look like such a great model for California. They don’t have an income tax, yet their revenues have collapsed just as California’s have. Texas spends a lot less per resident, with a much smaller level of public services, yet they are still facing a budget deficit about the size of our own. This news should put to an end once and for all the lie that California’s budget deficit stems from overspending, or that we should cut our income taxes to “stabilize” revenues, or that we should follow Texas’s model of low services.”
And the rest of the country is forced to buy their stupid textbooks. Brilliant, just brilliant.