Sarah Palin Takes Up Fencing.
It’s been a few days since the Palins learned Joe McGinniss moved in next door. Love thy neighbor as thyself, then build a fence.
“Fences make good neighbors,” promised her Facebook blog. Not sure at which of the five colleges Palin studied Robert Frost’s Mending Wall, but I think she missed the point. Perhaps it was the, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” part.
Within a few hours Sarah had launched a “Joe The Stalker/Pervert” campaign. Glenn Beck called for a boycott of Random House publishing, and Random House held their ground. The Paliban swarmed with comments of “stalker”, “reload”, “let’s burn it to the ground”, and “get ‘em, Todd”. The following morning the Palins super-sized their fence. The “waterin’ hole” must be defended.
Joe the Neighbor should have told Todd he was writing a book about Russia and heard he could research from his porch. He didn’t.
But why the outrage now?
The home Joe McGinniss is renting used to be an Oxford House from 2005 until 2008. The tenants were men recently released from prison who were recovering addicts. What? No fence to protect sexy Sarah in her tank top? Dear God! Who was lurking in that house watching her children play?
The Palins themselves rented the home McGinnis is staying in for six months in 2009, but weren’t interested in purchasing it. They didn’t want to spend the money. Last October they were “done with the house”. During the election, the Secret Service guarded the Palin home from the backyard now occupied by Mr. McGinnis. Here’s a hint, Sarah – if you want to dictate who lives in the house, you should have probably bought it first.
It’s predictable Palin.
Sarah has a habit of shooting down hill. One of my daughter’s friends has a black eye from shooting down hill while bear hunting. It’s not just a proverbial lesson, it’s a literal one.
Last week, she attended a funeral with her youngest daughter. I called her daughter a “human shield”. Sarah validated my metaphor with her attack on Joe McGinnis. She evoked provocative images of herself, then accuses a respected journalist of “peering” at her young daughter. “I’m hot! He’s a pervert!”
Ask David Letterman how accusations of pedophilia work out. Initially, Dave looked like he’d gone too far with his tasteless joke. But her strike back about having to protect her fourteen year old daughter from David Letterman? No one was buying her manufactured outrage. She quit a three weeks later.
This week, the New York Times quoted Todd Palin, “What goes around comes around”.
I’m looking forward to Joe McGinniss’s book.
She did not squawk when it was a drug addict half-way house???
If someone were writing the story of Sarah the-nut-case Palin as fiction, there is no way you could come up with these absolutely perfect details because who would believe it? Editors would tell you to “tone it down, make it realistic.” What a hoot!
What a shallow, stupid woman. Screech here, screech there, all empty air.
Goodness, she needs to get a grip.
Hey, those guys were patriotic real americans just trying to make it while the government kept interfering and making them do stuff like talk to parole officers and take drug tests instead of just gettin’ out of their way and letting them succeed and progress and make and sell stuff so they can live the american dream of having an SUV and a really big TeeVee and just have a good time like all real Americans who aren’t elitists and liberals do and also some of them were probably heroes being veterans and they were good neighbors. Todd had some good times over there in their garage just talkin and being guys like real guys do, too.
Your comments are a hoot, too. Thanks for the smile.
“letting them succeed and progress and make and sell stuff so they can live the american dream”
Yeah, they were doing good, following the Dead, selling grilled cheese sandwiches in the parking lots. Then the stupid Feds showed up and Jerry died.
I love how all the modest Christians support her and we turn around and see that she is drawing attention to herself in short shorts and a tank top.
She is not o the fabric of the people she wants to represent.
She wasn’t Sarah-the-VP-candidate then.
IM and PG both have excellent posts on this topic w/ other details about the form addict renters, as well as how the owner OFFERED the rental to Joe.
She could have rented to the NI, hope she does just that in 5 months. They’ll peep over that fence 24/7 with camera, video, everything.
Palin’s latest hissy fit has the attention of many in the media…let’s hope that more of them react the way that this writer has:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/023991.php
Good one OMG… when will they ever get it?
“…By most reasonable measures, Sarah Palin represents the very worst American politics has to offer — a dim-witted, right-wing, demagogic liar, worshipped by misguided millions. This would be far less painful if media professionals had the courage to stop playing stenographer, and start scrutinizing the substance — or lack thereof — behind her vile, child-like gibberish.”
Joe is a genius. No more advance publicity will be needed to make his book a best-seller. All he had to do was rent that house for a few months, an SP will be whining until everyone on the planet buys a copy of the book. Genius, I say!
Oh, brother. She is such a tool.
ahhh..The fence isn’t touching the ground.LOL
Yes, all the better for the kids to sneak under so they can spy on Joe, don’t ya know? Also, too. Sarah has mandated it.
Or, maybe for poor Piper to get stuck under only to be saved by the really mean man next door! I know the odds are pretty much zero for that to happen, but, so, has most stuff involving Sister Sarah.
She still wants him to be able to see her stilletto’s.
Now, this I believe! (hehe)
It’s so the hawt faux Sarah can sneek under it and peer on Joe!
I know it is Wasilly but is there no code or rule about huge bags of trash thrown in the corner instead of being in a container? Is the gap under the fence so the bears or rats can more easily get to the trash? Oh, just a thought,/snark on, perhaps she did not object to the “Oxford House” tenants cause they were old highschool boyfriends? /snark off
I don’t think that’s trash…I think it’s a couple of Toad’s toys…looks like covered up snowmobiles…but still, don’t they have a garage? I mean I know he gets four or five freebies each year, but still…
Nuthin says real American like a motor or two in the yard along with some old cars. Real Americans are thrifty people who know that you just never know when you might need a spare part or get around to making the old junkers work even if they smoke a lot and are kind of loud. And who’s got the right to tell you what you can have in your yard, anyway, too?
I think this photo is from Joe, not the Palin’s, right? I’m sure every house in that area has snow machines, just in case.
No, it’s by Palin, sent to her friend Greta who posted it on her blog. It’s taken from the Palin’s side of the fence. Palin and Greta, two 12 year olds.
Photo appears to be taken from the Palin side. If you stop the ABC news clip at 29 seconds, you can see both houses and the fence, showing how the fence follows the roofline of the rental home.
Immoralminority has the news clip here.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/05/shannyn-moore-discovers-that-joe.html#comment-form
I think it is the RNC clothes!
lol. wouldn’t fit under the bed
I think you are right!
Win.
I believe AKM said a one time that there is a shead for the snowmachines on the property they own at the other lake with its two houses, also two. Probably more like show plows and they have at least one ATV
I’m trying to remember which side of the fence means it’s on the fence owners side. The plain side or the side with the stringer rails… I bring this up because if the view in the above photo (showing the stringer rails) is on the owner’s side, then that would mean Todd and his crew would have had to trespass in order to put up the fence (they would have needed to nail the fence slats from the neighbours side).
Because Sarah clearly made the claim to Glen Beck on his radio show that she’d tried to buy the house but hadn’t been able to reach the owner for several months. Without the owner’s permission to be in the yard erecting a fence, this is trespassing – isn’t it?
If the view in the photo is the other way around, if we’re looking at the neighbours side of the fence with the Palin roof behind the fenceline, then whoever is taking this photo is standing in the neighbours driveway, aiming their camera into the neighbours backyard – and again – trespassing?
(Also – there’s no middle stringer rails. That means the wood’s going to buckle and warp and fall apart in a couple of seasons. Nice work Todd!)
Oh, yeah – great work. Makes you wonder about the houses, doesn’t it?
As to trespassing – I cannot imagine anyone in Wasilla having the spine to nail the Palins on that, though, I do believe you are right.
guess tawd didn’t have his buddies that helped him build the house (with building materials found on the side of the road to the sports complex) help him with the fence. all that’s needed now is several older model large “beater” type cars on blocks in the front yard. Add several large appliances and a barcalounger with the stuffing coming out on the front porch. Voila, a castle fit for “valley trash”.
Todd and his buddies built that red house and had the remarkable ability to build that slipshod fence. How in the hell did the red house make it through the AK winters, given his buddies and his abilities to build that pathetic fence?
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Note to self: Never piss off the neighbors.
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Note to Mr McG. Don’t eat anything from the other side of the fence. If it has anything to do with the Palins, their family or their friends it’s likely poisoned, as is their dear poisoned “swimming hole.”
Swimming hole, my a$$. Or some that of some Marine who tattooed her face on his rear end.
Looks to me like it was taken from Palin’s side – you can see the corner of the overhang that is over their side door on the right side of the fence photo.
My guess is that they used the existing fence and simply nailed the new fence on top of it, overlapping by a couple of feet so that the lower part of the upper section can be supported by the top rail of the old existing fence. The horizontal rails nailed across the top part of the fence provide a bit of stability (and maybe allowed them to construct panels of fencing on the ground and lift them into place in sections) but there’s no sign of any new taller posts having been added. I wouldn’t want to stand near it in anything more than the gentlest of breezes, myself.
Looks like that gap on the bottom was there was already part of the old fence; maybe they wanted the part alongside the house to be level but the ground sloped away.
They just nailed extra fence boards on, didn’ t they? Good lord, that looks like something I would do.
If the original fencing is not plumb the thing will fall over from its own weight.
It’s from the P side of the fence; yes, the posts are on the wrong side if the fence belongs to the Ps…
No fence is going to keep a determined bear away from trash.
Oh, and there are no rats in Alaska. At least no four-legged ones.
Entertainment at it’s lowest. Sarah makes “everything” about her. Maybe Joe just wanted a nice place with a water-front view ( or a view of Russia?).
Is this another attempt to stay in the liberal media’s cross-hairs?
As Keith Olbermann says nightly “That woman’s an IDIOT!”
The problem is: she is a dangerous idiot and has some pretty powerful folk in the background. ABC is playing up her current “poor me” line. She is out to destroy Joe, no ifs, buts, or maybes.
Joe probably has a high powered agent who probably has a high powered lawyer on call.
Plus Random House has probably paid a advance so they have an investent to protect, and they are a bigger power than Sarah and probably have better and more lawyers that van Flein.
I am sure van Flein knows that Random House will protect their investment if they have to.
I suppose it’s too late (even for Alaskan winters) to hope for a sending of the “frozen ground swell up under it.”
PS – Measure Twice, Cut Once?
Too late for that, but I’m eagerly waiting for the first strong Wasilla wind.
Mrs. Palin’s facebook entry apparently has her write “Fences make for good neighbors,” which is even further from the actual line written by Frost , “Good fences make good neighbors”–a sentiment the poem actually shows to be an invalid philosophy.
And the name of the poem, as the link correctly shows, is “Mending Wall,” not just “Mending,” a slight difference but a significant one in light all these Wasilla shenanigans and structures.
Perhaps just as important in this situation are two other lines from the poem:
“He moves in darkness as it seems to me–
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.”
I’m thinking that if I made close to 12 million…I’d have a pretty fence. This is why homeowner’s associations get out of control…
And ruin that tacky, hillbilly image thing? Never!
Heck, even I have a brick-type wall at my place. I am not anywhere close to being a millionaire. I suppose when it falls down, she will sue the owner of the other property for making her build it in the first place.
Once all is said and done, I would love to hear what the owner of that property thinks of Sister Sarah.
I think since she rented the house to a guy investigating Scarah, we have a pretty good idea.
They don’t live there and apparently haven’t for a matter of years. Their house was there first. Then Mayor Sarah got the laws removed so she could build that hulking house virtually on top of them. Next dear Sarah, buys more property and turns the neighborhood into an overlarge, ugly buildings piled together look. So much for a quiet, lakeside, modest homes neighborhood. I’d say they are right now laughing their heads off at dear Sarah’s panic.
So, let me get this straight… The rental was there FIRST, Palin buys the lot next door, gets rid of the building codes so SHE can build her big oversized house right in their laps, and SHE’S offended by who they rented to? If I were the owners, I would do the same thing. She should have been more neighborly to begin with. I hope the owners are laughing their butts off. Yes karma is coming home to roost! I hope the owners NEVER sell the house. Maybe Barack and Michelle could come visit for a week.
OMG!!! Merrycricket…please make it stop!… it is too late!! now i have a picture in my head of Michelle Obama’s reaction to a week living next door to the Palins. i think i need a sedative.
Let me guess, the fence looks just like one used at the Wasilla sports complex?
If “Fatal Attraction” were to be re-cast today, Failin’ Palin would get Glen Close’s role. She plays the part of a scorned psycho mistress well in real life, too.
p.s. — regarding “the fence doesn’t touch the ground”: I understand she “traded out” the job in return for letting Willow have all her friends over for a weekend of debouchery . . . apparently, the kids built the fence for her that Sunday afternoon
You’ve done it again, Shannyn. Perfect. Now the entire world needs to know the facts about the Oxford house–it just completely puts her nutjob response in perfect perspective.
Is this on HuffPo yet???? Have you called Keith yet???
Dear God, this woman is an idiot.
I spotted it on HuffPo earlier.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palin-takes-up-fenc_b_591499.html
“If Sarah Palin took to her Facebook page tomorrow and posted a note that said, “well, whaddya know, I’s'a jus’ out trawling’ for catfish with my ol’ hubby Todd, and a neighbor tol’ me that he saw Rahm Emanuel crushing an endangered tropical frog to death while saluting a portrait of Mao, and also the sky is green,” you can bet that the next day’s “Fox & Friends” would treat the greenness of the sky as a self-evident fact, and Glenn Beck would ask Sarah why Rahm threatened Willow like that,” – Alex Pareene.
YAY! The media now gets it. They understand she throws around accusations of pedophilia every chance she gets!!
Apparently ABC news would headline it too.
Classic spite fence. Since it blocks the windows of the rental house, preventing light from entering. it may well violate the local building code. Raising the fence off the ground to block the topmost window means that it doesn’t even function as a fence. Petty, mean-spirited, and grossly exaggerated for effect–in other words, business as usual.
Yellowdog.. i don’t think there are local building codes. don’t forget this is Sarah’s lake, according to her, therefore no codes of any kind.
The fence is so tall and so weird with it rising up like that, I think she made a mistake publicizing it.
People not her loonies will take one look and wonder what the Palins had been snorting.
Sarah has set herself up perfectly for this type of paranoia. If she thinks it’s bad now, just wait until she tries to make a run for the presidency. Her opponents are going to be scraping every inch of her life for ludicrous details like this…and they will find them. She has pretty much put herself in self-destruct mode.
Nice going, lunatic.
While I now Wasilla may have limited by laws, etc., but it would be awesome if for some reason the fence is illegal or doesn’t meet codes and has to be taken down. Is anyone researching this?
No one will. The hangar might be too big and it may have gotten a wink from the fire/codes department.
There needs to be a federal law that states that local politicians have to abide by the laws of where they live. The Palins have too much weight in Wasilla. They need to GTHO of Wasilla and move to Houston, which is closer to now-where.
The Palins have too much weight in Wassilla.
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yes they do. which is why they probably won’t want to leave. they may have property in Texas or in some other place where their doings would be appreciated. someplace like Pleasant Grove Alabama but i don’t know that they would be able to control their environment as well as they do in Wasilla where they have law enforcement and the judiciary in their pockets.
i remember several years ago there was a story about a town in New Jersey where federal agents swooped in and arrested the entire police department, the mayor and several judges.
damndest thing i ever did see.
Couldn’t happen in Wasilla soon enough, bubbles.
This is good news. Should be forever, but something is better than nothing:
Escalating his administration’s response to the disastrous Gulf oil spill, President Barack Obama plans to announce Thursday that a moratorium on new deepwater oil drilling permits will be continued for six months while a presidential commission investigates, a White House aide said.
Controversial lease sales off the coast of Alaska will be delayed pending the results of the commission’s investigation, and lease sales planned in the Western Gulf and off the coast of Virginia will be canceled, the aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a midday Obama news conference.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/27/moratorium-on-deepwater-d_n_591560.html
Yay! Better late than never.
That’s the Obama I voted for. I hope it is permanent too.
Somebody orient me please. What side of the fence are we looking at? From Palin’s side, Joe’s side? Which house is that peeking out over the top?
My next door neighbor did the same thing to her fence in the back. Her original fence was a 6 foot privacy fence. Then she added boards on the back side so it’s about 10 feet tall. On my side, she added four feet of plastic lattice fencing that she takes down every fall. On the other side she left the fence alone and added 10 feet of lattice inside it closer to her deck. She has an above ground pool and a neighbor clued me in as to why she built up the fence. Apparently, she and all her friends are skinny dipping. Funny thing is, I didn’t care until that fence got added on to, THEN I felt curious about what she was hidding. LOL
Sounds like a beautiful fence, not! Although, I might prefer it to seeing any of my neighbors skinny dipping.
We have a six foot fence around our backyard – that’s according to code. I’d love to have a taller fence on the backside of our yard. Our neighbor behind us used to stand at his window in his altogether and once he was on his back porch, all of which lines up directly with my kitchen window and back porch. I probably should have reported him, but figured he’d like the attention.
Since then we have let the branches of the fir tree droop lower there and the bushes on that part of the fence are much taller than I’d like. But it gives us the privacy without a hideous illegal fence that would likely blow down in a good storm.
We have fences also but most don’t do the job one neighbor can look in my bedroom window.I have curtains and shades and the one in back doesn’t do anything but prevent kids from taking a short cut thru yards as our back yard slopes down and ya can see everything going on from my kitchen window.Don’t get me wrong we get along with the neighbors and the fences were up before I moved in,as a child living here their were only barbed wire fences.
I can’t believe this story was mentioned in the first few minutes of GMA this morning? It is going to be awfully hard for Miss Victim to convince anyone she is presidential material when she spends so much time crying about people who don’t like her.
Can you image her being president. She won’t be governoring because she’ll be to busy getting revenage on people to disagree with her. Snowbillies in the white house. What a hell of a thought.
I’m almost tempted to say that would be a good thing – too busy to govern, considering her views on almost anything. Still, I know what you mean.
If she declares, and goodness forbid, she win the primaries, I think we will all be too busy to write much because we will be out and about drumming up the vote to ensure she’d lose the general.
Arrgg – every time I think of even the remotest possibility of her in office, I shudder.
Isn’t it ironic? The press has been giving her a pass on pretty much everything but that wasn’t good enough for Scarah. She had to crazy it up until they couldn’t ignore the crazy anymore. I see her calling a press conference, but what is she going to quit from now???
It wouldn’t last long. She’d quit because she couldn’t stand the pressure, not to mention she wouldn’t really have a clue what the issues are.
that fence is ugly. Super Todd and his friends did a crappy job on that monstrosity.
Typical Palin – no concern at all for her daughters about recovering addict ex-cons looking into to piper/willow/bristols rooms….but one old writer? now thats another story. BTW wouldn’t the girls have been left home alone at times in 2008 while mommy was governor and then candidate?
1), the Palins are idiots for not buying the property next door. 2) they knew it was a rental, and the possibility of someone not favorable to them could move in, 3) the palins built their house on top of the smaller house next door….I mean those houses are CLOSE.
Just idiots…
So much for Bristol’s claim that they live in the woods far aways from everyone else – lol. Too bad these photos weren’t out there before the kid’s trial.
It is more than a concern. If one of Sarah’s loonies torches the rental, the houses are so close together there is a good chance that the Palin’s house burns as well, with the kiddo’s bedrooms right next to the flames.
So maybe, Sarah, you want to tell your loonies to chill. Arson is illegal, Murder is illegal. Inciting to violence is illegal. Colateral damage happens. In a small place like Wasilla somebody will know who set the fire.
“Good Morning America” ran the fence news this morning and did it poorly. Once again, the MSM missed the point.
The caption was ” Palin’s Peeping Tom ? ” and the spin was against Joe. They even had a news crew go knocking on Joe’s front door. I couldn’t tell if they went knocking yesterday or this morning as they were running the piece at 4am AK time. Either way, Joe’s response was to ask them to leave and ABC’s take on it was something to the effect that even tho Joe moved next door to Palin it seems that he doesn’t care for having his privacy invaded. Then they had clips of some locals saying that they thought it was creepy.
ABC never went in to the fact that he’s a respected author, has been a journalist for many years ,etc. And they certainly didn’t point out the fact that Palin had no problem when the previous renters were recovering addicts. Once again …. a freakin’ free pass.
It’s been very effective control of the media by Palin on this story. The perv angle has worked to her advantage.
She will always get a free pass – which in the end will lead to her thinking that she can run in 2012.
I hope it does – she will be shredded. You can’t hide behind Facebook forever. Plus – think of ALL of these antics as ammunition against her judgement, her temperament and her ability to work with those who disagree with her. Used effectively – all of these media stunts show how inept she is.
It’s disgusting. It wouldn’t even be a story if Palin hadn’t publicized it – a guy moves into a house, that’s the story.
Palin turns it into “He’s a peeping Tom, watching me in my short-shorts and looking into my little girl’s bedroom window – that one right there!”
Around here, ABC and Faux news are on the same stations. The local ABC affiliate news is dreadful! I used to call it the sex offender news. EVERY top news story was about a convicted sex offender who was living in some neighborhood RIGHT NEXt DOOR TO YOU! The only reason they were doing these stories was to scare the general population, whip up hysteria and harrass people because they could.
Oh, no, I am sorry to hear that.
ABSURD!!! That’s really lame – with the economy the way it is, the Gulf drowning in oil, those bozos fly to Alaska to knock on the guy’s door? That’s so FOE NEWS of them! It’s creepy? TIT FOR TAT SARAH!!!
That fence says it all about Palin. Immature, no thought, no restraint. That picture should be the centerpiece of the first campaign ad against her. “Do you want a woman who would do something like this in the White House?”
Or “Do you want a President who would limit the freedom of the press simply because they were critical of her Administraiton? Where does it end? What other civil rights would President Palin restrict for her opponents?”
I think Glenn Beck was clever to ask his viewers to boycott Random House, which sells books. It’s easy to boycott something you were never going to buy anyway.
I checked just a little on Random House they publish O’Riely and Coulter which I thought was funny
Don’t you know Bill and Ann are sooo pleased with little Glenn right now.
It’s no wonder that the MSM always gets it wrong. It’s no accident – people in the media are not as stupid as Palin is (or her supporters). “Peeping Tom” in relation to a child (especially a Palin child) garners more shock and ratings than merely “Palin freaks out about….nothing. As usual.”
We saw the same issues with Letterman – he absolutely made a tasteless joke – but hello, he does that EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, yet the 1 time it is about Palin then it’s outrageous? Please. Gimme a break. They must think Americans are as dumb as Palin hopes they are.
Which is why I no longer get my news from any of the MSM outlets. CNN is particularly useless.
I hope Joe sues her and wins. A big fence. I meant about 12 million dollars.
All in due time, Mz. self-destruction will undo herself and have to hide away in her Alaskan dump binge drinking, going on drunken rants about how unfair her life is. Boo hoo into the bottom of a glass.
I hope Letterman has Joe on his show.
I agree about CNN, though in some time slots MSNBC is useless as well. If it weren’t for Rachel and Keith, I wouldn’t watch it at all.
I only watch Maddow on MSNBC and occasionally, Olbermann, I like him but he can over the top sometimes for me. But at least he sticks to the facts. Chris Matthews is too annoying to watch to be honest.
don’t forget Ed Schultz. I love Ed. he is one of the good guys Sunflower.
I agree with Andrew Sullivan here – the MSM and all other media forms should cover Palin aggressively cuz like it or not, she is the leading contender for the GOP nominee in 2012. I know – INSANITY – but still, it would be a mistake to underestimate this woman.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/05/how-much-should-we-cover-palin.html
An illustration to my point:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/05/quote-10.html
Fox won’t cover her with an ounce of integrity or truth telling. No surprises there.
I have a question about Andrew Sullivan. Is that all he does? Quote some other person and then add a one-liner comment? Every time I wander over to his website, I see the same kind of thing. Where does he actually write cogent arguments on the issues of the day? Am I going to the wrong place? Sorry for the OT, but the above link just sparked the question again for me.
Palin will have an embolism wondering what Joe is doing on the other side of that fence!
So much for rural, northern hospitality!
Maybe Palin just wants to keep the Mexicans and Canadians out.
Why does SP hate Scottish people? (McGinniss, I’m guessing, is Scottish)
And the Russian, also, too, though.
Not being a fence expert, but being pretty familiar with gravity, does it look to anyone else that that fence has a good chance of just falling over? What is supporting it? It just looks very unstable to me, like it’s just nailed into the bottom part.
Can we all hope for a really strong wind to come and knock the thing over?
I hope the Palins have good home insurance because if that fence does fall over and cause any bodily or property damage, they will be liable. On second thought, the insurance probably wouldn’t cover it considering how badly made it is.
Most homeowners policies only cover things that meet local building codes and have the requisite permits and inspections. So the Palins’ insurance probably wouldn’t cover the fence — if they even HAVE an insurance policy — except keeping Van Flein on retainer.
They only need it to last for about five months. I think they just used cheap, prefab sections of fence, and probably don’t really care how it looks.
The Palins never care how anything looks. They get away with it because nobody really wants to believe that they’re really doing what they’re doing.
BuffaloGal,
How disappointing the angle ABC news took, but I’m not surprised.
I would guess that Mr. McGinniss is not surprised in the least, either, if he has come to know HRH as we have.
The “news” today is so superficial and ill-researched, and SP takes full advantage of that. She should keep in mind, though, that the news people, and the public, just LOVE it when a hypocrite is exposed, especially one who claims to be all for ‘famiy values’ and ‘honesty’.
Like AKM, I am looking forward with much anticipation the publication of Joe McGinniss’ book. And Geoffrey Dunn’s, also, too. And Levi, if he can get his act together….or maybe he can just give all his info, anonymously, to McGinniss.
I also, too, think the part of the reason for the fence is so that Bristol can come over without anyone seeing her recent pudginess that may, perhaps, even be increasing in the near future. You never know. That’d just be icing on the cake, though. Schadenfreude, indeed!
The ABC reporter is walking around in Joe McGinnis’s yard in that segment, right up to the fence. That footage was either taken prior to their knocking on the door, or after they had been told to leave, either way it’s trespassing.
Stupid.
So, it’s not OK for Joe to rent the house next door to Palin, but reporters can wander all over the rental property and knock on his door and ask him questions, sticking a camera in his face and hound him in general?
What kind of radio or TV would let her run to them with their problems, just proves they have nothing else to say.
What kind of news report makes the private lives of its reporters new items?
More analysis of just how ridiculous Palin has to get before the Media stops covering her – good read, very good points:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/023991.php
I say cover her because it is important to expose her as much as possible but cover her with a degree of integrity and thoughtful analysis – the public deserves that at the very least from our Press.
Or at least freaking fact check what she says and then PUBLISH the results of the fact checks and conclude what Palin is saying is or isn’t false.
Hint: 99% of the time it is false – but fact check anyways please!
This is why Sarah Palin will avoid Rachel Maddow. I keep hoping that Sarah will make the same mistake loony-bird Rand did. He must never have watched her show or he would have known she does her research, and she does follow-ups (as if I have to tell anyone who reads this blog that, eh?). I thought I’d mention this in case Sarah reads the comments (someone says she does just to torment herself) or has someone do it to see what the “haters” are thinking.
I wish she would go on Rachel’s show, but I think Sarah knows deep down – deep, deep, very deep down – that she isn’t intelligent enough to handle even the simplest questions Rachel would ask because Rachel doesn’t suffer fools – or liars – lightly.
Now Chris Matthews – boy, howdy – he drools over women. Sarah could come off looking almost as good as she does on Fox with dear old Chris. Of course, it would help if she wore a blond wig. Has anyone else noticed, Chris loves those blond babes.
Palin can’t avoid Rachel forever. You know all the candidates for President have to appear on Meet the Press. Rachel always makes the ratings go over the top. What a power combo for ratings that would be: Rachel v. Palin. Who-ha! They could sell tickets for that. Wait – I’d be even more interested in Rachel’s follow up – you know, where she exposes the wild lies with tons of evidence. I think I am getting way too excited just thinking about it – must go for a walk soon.
Yeah that would be the interview to end all interviews.
Anyone who has seen the Couric interviews and still think she is a qualified candidate is completely bonkers.
A Couric interview is….come on…..pretty easy. For all her “accomplishments” she couldn’t handle an interview with Katie freaking Couric? And she couldn’t have at least made up something to answer the now infamous newspaper question? Come on – if anyone made a fool of themselves it was Palin that day. Seeing Russia from her house so therefore make her the VP?? OMG, it is beyond stupid.
So yes – she jumped the shark almost as soon as she came out onto the national stage. I just hope to heaven the nation wakes up to her. She just needs to be removed from any list of Presidential hopefuls. To paraphrase Andrew Sullivan – she should have just been dismissed out of hand at the beginning.
Sunflower i wish you were nearby so we could take a walk together. with reminds me. there are some New York pups i have to meet soon now that the weather is nice.
Looking forward to our next Mudstock, Bubbles! You’re on the LES, I’m in the East Village, and I’m always up for a nice walk on a beautiful day. Email me when you’re in the mood; I’m game! Wish you’d made it to Anthony Weiner’s meetup/mashup at Grassroots Tavern. Next time …
Zyxomma…yes we are close. i too am looking forward to meeting and hanging out with pups from the east coast. we will see how it falls out.
She had another interview with Hannity on radio & really went ballistic. “He’s infringing on our freedom” is the latest screech & Hannity set her up perfectly to go even farther. She did. Said “He just doesn’t fit in here” in the freedom luvin’ state of Alaska. Continued quite awhile with the freedom stealing rants. I only listened to the Joe part of the interview but she was going to talk about the oil spill next & I just couldn’t take it anymore. My ears were bleeding.
Joe will fit right in – he knows more about the State of Alaska than most Alaskans living here now. Don’t let your ears bleed over Palin’s whines – it only happens when you aren’t laughing your head off. Just keep laughing at the dim bulb panicking all over Wasilla and you’ll find the whole thing pretty do-able!
what is all that trash at the gate? nevermind!
Oh, wait, I didn’t see any of the Palins standing there? Did I miss something? (sorry, the snark overtook me)
Someone on another thread said it was the clothes for the RNC. Brilliant!
The photo is taken from the Palin side of the property line — the snow*mobiles* are on her side. [Either that or the mobiles are the neighbor's and she's cut their (the neighbor's) access to them with the fence.]
I can’t help but notice the top of the monstrosity follows the roof-line of a TWO-story house; that’d be how many feet high? Wouldn’t a structure of that height require *extra* footers and stabilizers?
—I’m figuring –by judging the height of the gate to be a *sane* 5-feet high– the new fence is at *least* 10-feet [at the apex of the neighbor's roof-line]; if those are, in fact, covered-up snowmobiles [4.5-feet 'tall'] in the photo, then the gate would be about 9-feet tall and the new fence would be at least 18-feet high! Either way –10-feet or 18-feet– the support for the thing doesn’t seem adequate. I’m sure Norm Abrams (and the rest of the “This Old House” gang) would NOT be pleased with the potential safety issues resulting from the construction.
I see a major lawsuit should the whole thing tumble over (hopefully not on a person!) due to the haste with which it was erected and the seeming lack of proper [read: building code-required] support for it. Wouldn’t it be delish if the code-enforcement folks made $P retro-fit it to make it safe?
It looks, to me, as if it might be a picture of some of the damage resulting from a *major* earthquake…how moving/shifting ground buckles footers of structures and leaves them ‘high and dry’. beth.
Photo of the proximity of the two houses: http://www.themudflats.net/wp-content/uploads/neighbors-500×327.jpg.
Let’s hope your comments are absorbed by Todd et al. They really need to rethink their design.
Tell me he and his friends didn’t build their houses or cabins, please! I’d worry about that a lot (well, maybe a little).
Todd doesn’t absorb anything but cheap beer and Mystic oil. Living with a voice like Sarah’s, he probably dreams of stabbing his eardrums for pleasure!
A sad irony would be if that sh:tty fence fell and hit P:per or Tr:g. Where is child protective services or whatever they call it in AK? Maybe there was a reason for building codes….
But, but,they would blame McGinness. He made them do it, blah, blah, blah. You know the Palin tribe. It is always someone elses fault.
If I were McGuiness I would leave, but allow them to think I remained. Timers on the light, cars coming and going. A dog barking tape. Carmeras activated by activity on the property in case of arson etc.
With all the death threats I would not sleep well. I doubt McGinnes has a death wish.
bwahahahahaaha. (((((((((MARTHA)))))
too true.
Note the rental is about half a story lower than the Palin’s. The fence doesn’t need to be 18′ high.
Assuming that the gate and fence to the right, and the tacked on portion, are made of standard six-foot fence boards, I’d put the vertical extent of the new fence at 8-9 feet, although where it leaves the ground(!?!) it might be ten feet above grade.
Does the wind blow at all during the summer? At least they did put the extension boards on their own side, so if they blow off they’ll fall into the Palin’s yard.
Thank you AKM. You have very politely but truthfully put this whole thing in perspective. What she is doing (and I now hear ABC cooperated in showing Joe’s action in a bad light?) is beyond the pale. She is so sick and why we are still being subjected to anything to do with her is ludicrous. I hope that the people in Alaska can do something to get the crazy woman put behind locked doors or bars, I really don’t care which.
Shannyn wrote this!
I hope those who saw the ABC segment e the network and the producers of the show. I’d love to write, but I didn’t see it myself.
Does anyone know if there’s any research out and about that has traced the ownership of the various networks in detail? I’d like to know just how diverse ownership is. You’d have to trace the ownership of the owners, mind you because of all the holding companies and affiliates populating and complicating the corporate universe.
Could be we are just seeing the same old same old because only a few people are pulling the policy strings. Just wondering.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/sarah-palin-expose-author-joe-mcginniss-moves-door/story?id=10757484
has the video
Thanks.
ABC is owned by Disney. When they bought the network, I half-joked that the news readers should wear mickey mouse ears. Now, I see it was no joke. I do watch local news on ABC at noon, mostly because I like the anchor, Lori Stokes, and their meteorologists do a good job, and I like knowing the weather before I go out in it.
this fence says: I live in the Valley b/c there’s no dad-burn rules here!
Interesting that she has suddenly got so much modesty. During the campaign she greeted two of McCain’s consultants wearing nothing but a bath towel and had them wait in the hotel living room while she got dressed.
BTW…not being a bear hunter – I don’t get the meaning of “shooting down hill.”
I remember that incident. VP Candidate Palin being all sexy for the media.
Utterly inappropriate and a degrading insult to women who take their professions seriously. She is so far removed from being a real feminist it’s beyond understanding – what self respecting woman would act like common trash?
I had forgotten. Thanks for the reminder. “So much modesty” indeed.
Nailing 8 foot fencing boards onto a 6 foot high fence to extend its height to what appears to be 13 feet without additional foundation/bracing is so hillbilly-tacky and unsafe in any wind it should be condemned as an eyesore, also clear and present danger to inhabitants of both properties.
Thank God it isn’t around the White House!
I, as a parent, would be more concerned about the ex-con addicts than an author, but then I’m not a narcissist! How come this new tidbit about the previous renters hasn’t been heard (well-circulated)before?! somebody should let Joe McGinniss know so he has a defense against this crazy palin. she needs an old-fashioned beating with a switch! …I’m not a violent person, but she has never been taught!
She’s got no modesty – a real lady does not advertise what she is wearing to a public forum like Facebook especially in such a provocative way.
Who feels compelled to SPELL OUT that they are wearing SHORTS and a TANK TOP other than someone aiming to titilate? Or someone working a 1800 sex line? Let alone greeting people in a towel – shameless hussy!
It’s a wonder why so many so called “christians” overlook these points about her. She is not a modest or gracious woman, in fact, she is perverse and addicted to attention – ANY attention.
I can guarantee you that if it was anyone other than Sarah Palin – a woman going around greeting people with nothing on but a bath towel would raise eyebrows and IMMEDIATELY be judged by “church ladies” to be brazen and forward.
So why the blind eye towards Palin? Is she the kind of example Christian women should uphold? Not THIS Christian woman, thanks very much.
great question! “why the blind eye” indeed…I’ve been puzzled by her teflon-coated wickedness for a very long time.
Some people have “it.” What ever “it” is.
There were at least three men who were in his administration or his election team who admitten that the basically had fallen in love with him at first sight.
A semi articulate drunk and then went queer for him. (translate queer any way your choose, it still works)
Sarah obviously has “it” and a lot of her” it” is comming off as being in estrus ALL the time.
Don’t forget Going Rogue’s account of her in the shower while taking a phone call from Rick Warren where he prays with her?
I think a swell practical joke would be to send a very big box to Joe McGinniss that says “Secret Spy Cameras” on the side in big letters. But, oops, address it to the Palin’s address “mistakenly”.
lol!
Don’t forget “Acme”. Acme Secret Spy Cameras!!
beep beep
I wonder what happens when one of her riled up moronic followers bombs the wrong house?
For all of Sarah’s preoccupation with deviant sex, I am surprised she did not focus on basic sex ed precautions with her daughters – and I do not mean that in a snarky sense because Bristol is an unwed mother. I say this because of what Bristol said in her Harper’s interview.
“Though Bristol was well-informed about sex education, “it’s not like we sat down and were like, ‘All right, here’s the birds and the bees.’ Truly, my parents just assumed that I wasn’t doing anything. And it was a shock for us all.”
I don’t get it. First, Bristol “was well-informed?” Does that mean she knew what she was doing when she had sex and decided unprotected was the way to go? Did she decide to get pregnant – would seem so if she “was well-informed.”
Then, the statement “it’s not like we sat down and were like ‘All right, here’s the birds and the bees.’” Why not – I don’t mean actually saying birds and bees and pollen and stuff – but why not sit down with your children, son and daughters, and have a full and frank and age-appropriate discussion. Certainly Bristol was old enough to understand about birth control by high school?
Very odd considering how focused Sarah is on “peeping Tom’s” and the like.
Lastly, as much as I love and trust our daughter, I never assumed she wouldn’t try sex or have sex forced on her. Good grief, we taught her the basics of how to protect herself against unwanted advances and why she should. Most loving parents do and they also want their children to understand that while sex can be one of the most beautiful of life’s experiences, it can have unintended consequences and have a dark side as well. If you don’t teach your children, you cannot be surprised or “shocked” at the outcomes.
Why did Bristol include herself in the ” it was a shock for all of us?”
I only bring this up because Bristol has gone public with it and is now past the age where her reputation needs to be protected – plus Sarah has repeatedly shamed her own daughter directly and indirectly for this so speculating about sex ed in the household is not off-limits.
Mostly, though, I bring it up because I am struck once again how Sarah Palin can be so blind to a positive side of an issue (sex education to protect her children) and be so drawn to the dark side of an issue (sexual perversion). Just like with having a new neighbor – even one you perceive as being an “unfriendly” – she could have taken the positive path of welcoming him, of showing herself to be something other than what he expected. But no, always true to form, Sarah goes after the dark side, painting details like tank top, shorts, bedroom window, peeking (what an emotionally-laden word), et cetera just to make sure we knew that as mama grizzly, she’d protect her young at any cost from all those perverts.
Seems to me the only pervert in the neighborhood wear designer glasses and bumpits.
pervert wears – not wear. Sigh.
Seems to me, that I need to get glasses and use them to avoid these slips.
In my mind, there are red flags flying all over the place when it comes to Sarah and a preoccupation with the dark side of sex. There is something in her past. What that something is, I don’t know. In many cases I would guess Daddy because of some of his behavior. But with Sarah’s personality disorders, her love of histrionics, and attention seeking, I wouldn’t rule out that the genesis is literally all a fantasy in her head. As we can see with Joe, it could be very dangerous for an unwary male. She is good at projection and getting people riled up. Joe needs to be extremely careful.
But I think even with all her personality disorders, this kind of obsession with perversion doesn’t just arrive out of a clear blue. There must be something that triggered it.
I could speculate about Daddy, and I could even speculate about finding out why you’re the only dark-haired child in a family of blondes… I could ponder about the possibility of a mother being “forgiven” by her husband who never stops bringing it up… why, if I wanted to, I could even bring up a comment I once heard made by a senior citizen, “you know how kids are always losing their underwear.” I could speculate that all of that might play into a child who somehow knows she’s different but not why, and how it might affect her development as a personality.
But then I come down to the fact that the Palins are just trashy people, and the why doesn’t really matter.
And it could be, like it is for so many ultra conservative religious groups, an obsession born of repression based on the presumption that sexual desire is evil, particularly in females, and all non belivers are sexual animals because they are not repressed, and are then constantly stalking any Christian virgin.
But I agree she is a very sick person Question arises what role does the Dud and her parents play in, or with, her sociopathy.
we don’t know the psychological health of bristol either…she could’ve become pregnant intentionally to have somebody in her life love her back, substituting the lack of closeness in her family. I’ve heard this reasoning from teens through other sources…so this could be bristol’s story.
Waylon Jennings – “Lookin’ For in all the Wrong Places.”
Sadly unloved children often to look for it in bed and end up in trouble.
“was well-informed”
She’s having a “tea party” in that Harpers Bizzare spread. Since she wants a PR career and seems to like the Tea Baggers, I think that sign where one of the tea baggers had it misspelled “infromed” will explain her ability to get pregnant while thinking she could be an “abstinence only” spokes airhead.
Insulting to anyone with 3 functioning brain cells.
Ok photo shopper heres your chance.
Darth Sarah.
Light saber?
Grizzlie?
Tank top?
Piper as human shield
Luke/Bristol
Exploding Death Star
Princess Leah (ooo don’t go there)
Go for it.
And may the farce by with you
Of course, it could be that she’d planned to put up the fence all along…but couldn’t bring herself to announce (or have it found out) that she was going to construct/constructing a *very* high wooden structure on her property line.
Having ‘Joe the pervert’ move in next door gave her the *perfect* excuse to construct the monstrosity — recovering addicts are to be encouraged in their return to rill Amurican life and fencing her land off would’ve been seen as very un-neighborly; ‘perverts’, on the other hand, stalk her and her young daughter(s) with horrific and unspeakably evil intentions in mind…
If it *is* the case that she’d planned on putting up the fence, anyway, Joe sure gave her the *ideal!* opportunity to, once again, play the ‘victim’ card to her personal advantage (albeit detriment to her young daughter’s sense of well-being, security, and psyche).
Odd, though, I’ve not found one set of instructions for fence construction that does *not* recommend the footers for it be left to ‘cure’ for at *least* 24-hours…ideally, even longer**.
Equally odd, it looks almost as if the ‘base’ of the fence [where it veers upward to follow the neighbor's roof line] is a truss made for and used in constructing roofs. I wonder if Master-Carpenter-’Have you seen‘-Todd’, cut corners and expense by using one of the left-over trusses from the W-illa sports complex [/snark]? beth.
** “Allow the posts to stand several days and settle firmly in position before adding the fence.”
Read more: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/h2woodfence#ixzz0p9A2iJQX
Beth – great point. Had Sarah put up the fence when the recovering addicts were there, it would have made he appear less Christian, less supportive. Good catch. Hadn’t considered that.
I was thinking that if she had the fence up before, it would have been harder for to get her smack.
…Just saying…
Just agreeing.
Sarah picked the wrong quote.
The Frost poem known as “good fences make good neighbors” is actually about a man who doesn’t like the fence.
Maybe she should have gone Biblical.
Love they neighbor as thyself.
But you have to be a real Christian to know that line and to live it.
Andrew Sullivan has picked up the story.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/05/palins-fence.html
I love the line “threatening to commit journalism in the vicinity” ! Joe is definitely guilty of that: a real journalist.
I posted this earlier but it didn’t make it through the span filter (don’t know why). It’s a great smack down of Palin’s relationship with the media and her most recent controversy:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/023991.php
Thanks for reposting this link. Excellent points. I especially liked this :
*** By most reasonable measures, Sarah Palin represents the very worst American politics has to offer — a dim-witted, right-wing, demagogic liar, worshipped by misguided millions. This would be far less painful if media professionals had the courage to stop playing stenographer, and start scrutinizing the substance — or lack thereof — behind her vile, child-like gibberish. ****
‘zactly !
What would you say if this was all in a script somewhere? Some Karl Rove or Bill Kristol or Dick Cheney gamed scenario to keep SP in the news no matter what else was going on? Never mind
the Gulf of Mexico or the Dow under 1000–something or other must keep SP in the media eye
every day. A lousy fence construction can only prolong the nonsense. Shannon’s report of the
Oxford tenancy will add another day or so of gossip. Bristol’s outrageous getups in Bazaar will
fill out the week. What’ll come next??
oooh this is good..I’d like to share this on my facebook account…can you email me and let me know if that is ok…don’t want to steal your words..but they need to be seen by everyone..cause this one is terrific..ydg
Sure
There is an old adage that says you get what you pay for since the Palins never pay (they bartered for the fence), it’s no wonder the thing is so shoddy looking. Wonder what they bartered…peeks into Piper’s window?
I sincerely hopes Joe gets some type of protection. Sarah has blown this so far beyond the pale, I do worry about his safety.
Two things:
1) Please pass this ad, as well as the message around.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/oil-spill-response-new-ad_n_590870.html?ir=Green
2) If you saw the dairy abuse video on HP yesterday, I want to (as a retired dairy farmer) remind everyone that these things rarely happen on small family farms where animals are bought, paid for, cared for, named, loved, etc. by family members. If you choose to eat/use animal products, please be sure to eat locally, buy locally & get to know the farmers raising the food you desire. Walk the walk.
I chose NOT to watch the video.
Those that did, I hope they understand the video was “the exception – not the rule”
Farm / Ranch animals are generally well cared for, protected from the elements and vet care when needed. These are the farmer/ranchers inventory, their potential profit.
Having grown up on a family farm, I couldn’t agree more. Our dairy and beef cattle were always treated with respect, given plenty of healthy food, and provided us with safe, wholesome food in return. I buy beef, chickens, pork and eggs from small local farmers. Having seen the way animals are raised and processed by commercial operations, I’d go vegan rather than buy their products.
Ella over at PG just posted this from Ben Smith at Politico:
Sarah Palin’s next-door neighbor sought out author Joe McGinniss as a tenant, McGinniss’s son said.
“No one is stalking anyone,” Joe McGinniss, Jr., a novelist whose father is the non-fiction writer, wrote in response to an email from a Palin supporter who confused his email address and his father’s. (He shared the email with me.) “A woman was renting her house and sought out the author because the Palins had crossed her (owed her money for renovations she had done at their request and never paid her for). So she knew McGinniss was writing the book and found him and offered him the house.”
The neighbor “turned down more lucrative offers from the National Enquirer who wanted the house so they could ‘stalk’ and take pictures, etc… She said no,” he wrote.
McGinniss, Jr. wrote that Palin is “inspiring a lot of hate in people, appealing to so many of people’s worst instincts. Sad and scary.” And he defended his father’s decision to rent the house:
And the plot thickens…………
Ohh wheee!. It would have been fun to have the Enquirer there. Jackpot.
OoooooOOOoo – this little turn of events deserves its very own fresh batch of popcorn ! This movie just writes itself, doesn’t it ?
Incredible. Owing money to a neighbor for renovations she had done at THEIR request? Need to go out and get fat-free buttered popcorn.
Now we know what the neighbors think! I think it should have been the National Enquirer– that would have really been popcorn time. Sarah would have really been ballistic. And the National Enquirer has goooooood lawyers.
Sister Sarah better be careful. If she drives Joe out, the neighbor just might decide to rent to the National Enquirer after all.
If Gov. Palin doesn’t enjoy being in the spotlight or being a public figure, then I suggest that she step away from the cameras…
One paragraph from the article I posted at 42:
” By most reasonable measures, Sarah Palin represents the very worst American politics has to offer — a dim-witted, right-wing, demagogic liar, worshipped by misguided millions. This would be far less painful if media professionals had the courage to stop playing stenographer, and start scrutinizing the substance — or lack thereof — behind her vile, child-like gibberish.”
Let’s hope that the rest of the media takes note.
ha! thinking alike again ! just posted the same quote on your earlier post,
The link @42 really does deserve a read. It just makes you feel better when someone can capture the $P ” aaaAAAaaargh !!!” that you’re feeling and put it in to words. And well written ones at that!
She said on Beck Radio that they had been trying for a year to find the owner, so they could buy it. Chronic liar. Someone should make an annotated list.
There’s a blog for that called PGates, where her last name is spelled out. They have quite a list of her BS. Great collection for anyone running against her Royal Lie-ness.
Todd said “what goes around comes around”? Maybe that’s what they are so worried about. They know all the stuff they have done to others and they are afraid it really is going to come back to them.
Great post, btw. I wonder if the time will come that Piper realizes just how much her mother has used her and how public her life is becoming because of her mother.
I’m kind of astounded that they had a half-way house with male residents next door for that long and they didn’t complain or build a big fence. Organizations like that are really good in trying to help people change and fit back into society. However, I’m not sure I’d want to be their neighbor either, especially when my kids were younger. I would have had a lot of questions for the organization about their oversight. So I see her outrage-of-the-day about an author living next door for five months as somewhat odd and misplaced.
And exactly what is going to come around?
Sarah’s ghost writer is going to write a bio of McGinniss.
The Palins are going to move in next door to McGinniss and do nothing offensive.
I hope Joe had a tape recorder on when the Dud came over, it sounds like he was threatening McGinniss.
Tresspassing, threatening, photographing without permission, publishing without permission, allowing personal informatin addresses, emails, phone numbers of McGinniss and his girl friend to be displayed on her FB.
Nice day’s criminal activity for the Palins but I guess they are used to it.
“What goes around comes all the way back around”…(Timbaland)
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. Quyana AKM, for saying it first.
So I’ll just take it a little bit farther.
Dear Joe,
I hereby extend a open invitation to park your arse out on my back 5 acres, just incase living next to “the fence from nowhere” gets to crazy.
The accomondations include a truly Alaskan one room rustic cabin, with a 54 foot nature trail to your own private bath. Loaded with birch trees, ferns, wildflowers, singing birds and birds of prey, the nature trail does have fantastic views of Pioneer Peak and Mt. Mcklinley. Both, the private bath and cabin are nicely appointed with huge decks, including fire pits, tables, chairs and hammocks. Additionally the decks present themselves to 16+ acres of open field. The Robins are numerous this time of year!
Free WiFi, solar powered electricity, wood stoves (wood provided) and clean, fresh H20 spicket available in all buildings.
And only 4.7 miles away from the City of Wasilla and the poluted Lake Lucille.
Joe, you are welcome anytime to my little slice of wonderful Matanuska – Sustina Valley, where we don’t need no stinkin fences, cept’ around the garden, cause of the moose…
Love
tallimat
Were I live we have a building code that allow for a residence fence to be a maximum of 6 feet high. This fence of Sarahs musts be at least 10 feet high. I’m wondering if there is any code for fences were Sarah lives.
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. Quyana AKM, for saying it first.
So I’ll just take it a little bit farther.
Dear Joe,
I hereby extend a open invitation to park your arse out on my back 5 acres, just incase living next to “the fence from nowhere” gets to crazy.
The accomondations include a truly Alaskan one room rustic cabin, with a 54 foot nature trail to your own private bath. Loaded with birch trees, ferns, wildflowers, singing birds and birds of prey, the nature trail does have fantastic views of Pioneer Peak and Mt. Mcklinley. Both, the private bath and cabin are nicely appointed with huge decks, including fire pits, tables, chairs and hammocks. Additionally the decks present themselves to 16+ acres of open field. The Robins are numerous this time of year!
Free WiFi, solar powered electricity, wood stoves (wood provided) and clean, fresh H20 spicket available in all buildings.
A mere 4.7 miles away from the City of Wasilla and the poluted Lake Lucille.
Joe, you are welcome anytime to my little slice of wonderful Matanuska – Sustina Valley, where we don’t need no stinkin fences, cept’ around the garden, cause of the moose…
Love
tallimat
Truly a heavenly place. Just reading the description is a delight.
Quyana antiAnti,
The cabin is where we stay while in urban Alaska. Joe is more than welcome to relax without any close neibors. Plus we are kinda absent landlords, cause we live way off the road system. So, from what I’ve read about Joe, he might be a pretty good renter.
If we do visit urban Alaska there is always the converted bus to stay in. Someone left it behind in the late 60′s, early 70s and resided across the field. Five summers ago, my sweetie had a old college buddy visit and he restored the thing! It is now raised about 6′ and sits on a really cool deck. There is a viewing tree or mini tree fort with swings. I kinda think the bus is more magical than the cabin cause of the tiny creek and pond.
Anyway… JOE, YOU ARE WELCOME ANYTIME!
I, LIKE AKM, WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU AS A NEIBOR/RENTER.
hugs
tallimat
Tallimat…please check Open Thread. there are replies to your post there….love Bubs
Here’s a chilling thought: With that fence in place, the Palins can’t see anything going on at the house next door. So if someone was to commit some kind of crime against the neighbours, it would be plausible that they were not witnesses, even if they were at home.
Another great Palin smack down! (Sorry, I should have posted on the open thread because it’s not specifically related to this thread but I didn’t want anyone to miss it.)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/the-palin-brand/?emc=eta1
Thanks for the link – that was a great article that exposes Sarah for what she really is – just concerned about Sarah and money.
Could it be the Palins had those fence rails stored away to install for their new house? And, they used them to, like AKM says, “supersize” this one? Maybe they didn’t have to jump in the truck and rush out to Home Depot like we thought. This temporary bandaided fence is a PROP. A stage prop, just like everything else in the Palin’s public life. It garners sympathy for the moment.
It isn’t for practical use, or for privacy. It’s not even stable. It could fall in any strong wind. It was slapped together so she could send photo to Greta and show Fox viewers how the Palins live like ordinary folks, that their home is like everyone else’s, positioned on narrow lots and a 15-foot gap between homes. Notice no one mentions the monster home. No one talks about the options they had. No one mentions they will be probably be moving into the new home very soon.
Having built a number of red wood fences, this fence shows no sign of support. It looks as if the new part of the fence is nailed or screw to the older fence below. I agree, the first good wind is going to present a hazard. I can not believe the height of it and the construction is not violating the a building code.
I believe they don’t actually have a building code in Wasilla.
Nope. We do have some pretty good wind storms on occasion though
In defense of Oxford House, the at the end of our block has been used by Oxford House for coming up on ten years and they have been good neighbors in that they are quiet, keep the yard up, don’t cause any problems. All I know is that they are in recovery from drugs and/or alcohol. Families visit them often and the men all seem dedicated to turning their lives around. They have never given any cause for worry.
no defense necessary. in my neighborhood we have housing like that. we also have shelters for abused women and their children. it’s all good.
two or three years before her death Princess Diana came to visit the shelter. she came early in the morning. no fanfare. no closing streets. she wore a pink suit i remember. she got out of the limousine. looked around and smiled at the few folks who were there and walked into the shelter where the women and children waited. i will never forget her. what a love of a woman she was. i still grieve for that lost life.
Gate-gate.
clever lol
Sarah’s just sooooo defence ive
That crack is another of Martha’s mandations. It has to be said.
What a cluck! I think if i ever ran into her I’d just stare pointedly at her and then burst out laughing.
Seems like Joe knows what he is doing – refusing to engage her. He apparently started getting hate e-mail, he quietly suspends his account and will set up another one.
Let her go on all the shows and call him a stalker – he’ll have more true stuff to put in his book that makes her look incredibly petty and very non-Presidential, coming out …. when? Fall 2011 you say? Just a year from a major presidential election?
Someone needs to learn to think before flapping her yap. Yeah, like that will ever happen.
Joe McGinness is something Mrs. odd Palin can’t understand…..a Professional.
Thanks, Shannyn! I was wondering about the history of the house next door. It was also helpful to reread the post on Sarah’s misplaced outrage targeted at David Letterman. Previously, I thought her reaction to new neighbor Joe was paranoia but it seems to be just vileness. I hope it’s not to difficult as he waits for this wave of craziness to pass. His efforts will surely be worth it for all of us.
Can anyone explain ‘shooting downhill’? I’m missing the full understanding of the metaphor.
(Time to turn on the Shannyn Moore show.)
that fence looks like it will fall over the first thunderstorm!
This is really getting good
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/27/sarah-palin-erects-border_n_592086.html
It is beeing alleged that the neighbor sought out McGinniss to rent the house to him to get back at the Palin’s
WHat comes around goes around!!
Because the made renovations that Palin requested when she rented it and then didn’t pay for it, so the owner thought, gee, who might want to rent this house…..
Apparenly the owner was offered more by the Inquirer who really did want to stalk and spy but for some reason did not.
May becasue the neighbor is a decent person.
I am with you on that one Marnie but you would never get palin to acknowledge that fact.
So, my question is: Is this fence (14′ in height ) allowable by the Building Department?
What is code compliance height? Is there some height restriction?? or does she bypasses those rules too?
Out is Wasilla, they don’t need no stinkin building codes. No planning commission, no land use codes. Warehouses next to million-dollar houses next to run-down trailor houses. It burns my eyes just to drive through that town.
Sorry. Out IN Wasilla…
this is what free market, no regulations gets you…hope she’s happy. (not really)
When Palin was mayor, she shredded the requirements for building permits. Since nothing needs to be inspected, why bother building to code?
A weekender family (they only reside in the house on weekends during the summer months) had a normal-height fence just like that ridiculous Palin fence built surrounding their house about 3 years ago. That November record-breaking winds hit the coast where the house is, and tore off roof shakes and comp shingles, uprooted small trees — and leveled this weekender family’s fence.
I’d laugh a lot if El Niño/La Niña has changed the weather patterns enough up there in Alaska for a similar wind to come roaring up Cook Inlet and flatten that fence…
If that happened, I hope the owner of the rental house confiscates the lumber.
That fence is backwards. The side with the supports showing should be facing inward toward the party that built it.
if that’s true, did the palin’s trespass to build this fence?
Sarah doens’t want to look at the ugly side.
She just lives in it.
The ABC news story link that anti-anti posted earlier up the thread is disgusting the way they portray Joe McGinniss. They might as well have let sarah and Faux NEWS comPILE that piece of C**P!
It’s a total slam with the way they portray him.
If anybody finds an email link to ABC News PLEASE POST IT… so We can all give then OUR opinion.
And ABC acted as if it was good clean fun. Considering the hate mail and threats, they will find out that it is anything but. Would they post a apology? Of course not. They are trashing mcGinnes as much as Palin. Given the no Trespassing sign they had no business trespassing.
Sarahs bots are nuts.
Here’s a link to the ABC article. You can leave comments or go to there contact form. I couldn’t find an email address.
there s/b their
and the link:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/sarah-palin-expose-author-joe-mcginniss-moves-door/story?id=10757484
Scroll all the way to the bottom on that link and look on the right side where it has a list under “About”. There is one that says “Contact”. If you click that you can send them a message (only 500 characters – I had to keep editing to make that fit). You do have to give them your name, email, state and zip code. I don’t always like to do that, but I wanted my comments to be in their in-box instead of a long list of comments.
I’ll let you know if I get a response other than a standard one.
So does the fence block the view of Russia? I still think Joe should invite Levi to move in.
Sarah really should give up quoting things she hasn’t read.
And doesn’t understand.
The speaker in Frost’s poem doesn’t like the fence, he mends it because he wants to keep on good terms with his neighbor who does like the fence.
The fence makes good neighbors becasue the neighbors, at least one of them, is willling to enter the gray area of his relationship with his neighbor and is will to accomodate him in order to maintain a good relationship.
Does any of that sound like Sarah?
Thought not.
It is a great poem and my mother’s, the English teacher, favorite.
Please note line one.
Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Thanks for posting the poem. I looked it up on the link earlier but didn’t have the time to read it. I love Robert Frost, but somehow I’ve never read this poem before. Yes, Sarah definitely missed the point. Or just didn’t understand it. My guess is that she never really read it and found a quote on that site she’s fond of and didn’t bother with the details of the meaning. Typical of her, that.
I bet the untold story here is that the homeowner rented to Joe McGinniss for the sole purpose of provoking the former-half-term-governor to build a fence… so HE (the homeowner) won’t have to look at the Palin’s tacky mcmansion.
omg, will the view block Sarah’s view of Russia?
Oh wait, she don’t have to worry about that anymore.
If that fence doesn’t say, Hillbilly trash lives here, I don’t know what would say it. Well, I guess that Gawd awful house with all the stuff in the yard would say it, also too. I am sure there is a truck up on blocks somewhere on their property. Yee-Haw
Fabulous investigative journalism Shannyn! Thank you for sharing.
Now I will share the greatest graphic link ever as it pertains to this story, courtesy of Wonkette. It tickled me in so many ways (apologies if others have posted this already)
http://wonkette.com/415683/the-view-from-her-window
Where I’m from, “Good fences make good neighbors” is often used, but in the context of keeping your kids, your dog, and your livestock in so they aren’t bothering your neighbors. Hopefully this fence will keep the Palin clan in and away from Mr. McGinniss, and he will have a nice summer here.
I’ve got a few spare locks, VI. Can we put the locks on the outside of that fence and keep her inside so that we can be safe?
Don’t I wish. According to the latest Frontiersman poll, a lot of other people wish, too.
http://www.frontiersman.com/
And in the movie version, Joe McGinnis is played by Hugh Jackson and SP falls mightilly in love, and they run off together into the Alaska sunset, live happily ever after.
Todd got a building permit mighty quick – or doesn’t he need one?
nope. the Dud don’t need no stinkin’ permit.
Nor a level.
Shoot. Doesn’t Sarah give him a big enough allowance to be able to pick up a lousy level at the dollar store?
Kinda reminds one of the little pig’s house made of sticks, doesn’t it. You know, the pig in lipstick.
now that you mention it. danged if it don’t.
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
Joe moved next to Sarah the little piggy and she went…
“Wee wee wee” all the way home…
She is a political Tila Tequila. On thing, she is laughing all the way to the bank. She is entertainment, pure and simple.
Maybe when the glory days of summer are over, Sarah can take her fence building skills to Arizona. I hear that they hate their neighbors too.
in most states anything over 6′ high is illegal and yuo have to get a variance which usually requires the neighbors approval
I am guessing this is an illegal fence which the palings put up without regard to the regulations
someone locally should look into the local ordinance
The fence says it all……WHITE TRASH!
First let’s look at the facts: joe McGinness moved to Wasilla to write a book on Palin. What better place to ask questions of people who actually know her? Palin’s issue, then, is how to make sure that no one talks to Joe.
Say he’s a pervert. Say he’s so vile you had to put up a gazillion-foot high fence to protect your innocent widdle children. Voila! Joe is Wasilla’s official unperson. Ew! Yuk! Nobody talk to Joe!
Brilliant!
That is, if you are a connosieur of high school mean girl tactics, of which this is a classic example.
Which begs the question: If you believe that the United States should be ruled by biblical principles, whatever happened to your adherance to Commandment #8?
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
Never though of that. You may be onto something other than her playing the victim once again