Joe Miller claims he’s a celebrity victim BEFORE he holds an office!
courtesy of Huffington Post
September 6th’s Anchorage Daily Newspublished an interview by reporter Kyle Hopkins with both Alaska US Senate Candidates Scott McAdams (D) and Joe Miller (R). In it, Scott McAdams said this about his opposition:
Speaking on a cell phone from Fairbanks, McAdams said “reasonable, independent and moderate people are frightened right now by the extremity of Joe Miller.”
…and…
“His [Miller's] campaign is about becoming the male Sarah Palin and becoming a national media celebrity. Our campaign is about asking Alaskan voters to support us in November,” said McAdams.
McAdams says he plans to run as a moderate and accused Miller of running a mean-spirited campaign against Murkowski.
Alaska knows all about “mean-spirited.” Palin’s “mean-spirited” lies and expressions of vindictiveness, victimhood and denial are now the stuff of legend:
–Regarding “Troopergate,” Sarah Palin used one slanted report from the Personnel Board to discount the wrongdoing found in the original investigation by the Legislature. Anyone who claimed otherwise was working in concert with Democrats to defeat her in the election (even though the mostly-Republican Legislature voted unanimously to accept the report).
–In “Travelgate,” Palin reached a settlement in an ethics complaint claiming that the State paid travel expenses for her children that they shouldn’t. The first paragraph of the Anchorage Daily News article summed it up perfectly:
Gov. Sarah Palin has agreed to reimburse the state an estimated $6,800 to cover assorted costs related to nine trips taken by her children in 2007 and 2008, but she’s not admitting that she did anything wrong.
(Of course, the fact that there were FORTY examples of the children’s travel and she only reimbursed the State for NINE shows who got the best deal in that “settlement”.)
–The settlement of the ethics complaint against her “Legal Defense Fund”…once again, Palin is allowed to claim there was “no wrongdoing” while at the same time having to pay back every penny. Even Thomas Van Flein, Palin’s attorney, stated at the news conference that he was the only attorney to express concerns about possible ethical issues when the Trust was formed. Of course, Palin and her people blamed everyone but themselves.
–While Governor, Palin frequently used State of Alaska time, employees and equipment to strike out at her enemies.
–Palin frequently blames the media for…well…everything …even claiming that “caught on video” behavior isn’t really what it seems.
–Finally, one of the best examples of Sarah Palin in full victim-mode was her interview with Oprah Winfrey last fall as the kick-off to her “Going Rogue” book tour…Sarah’s rewriting of history:
Over and over in her hourlong sit-down with the talk-show queen, the de facto leader of the Republican Party blamed handlers, staff, the media — even running mate Sen. John McCain — for the campaign’s missteps and mistakes last fall.
It would have been great if we could have seen all that coming BEFORE Alaska elected her Governor! Wouldn’t it be excellent if we could “read the signs” of another political disaster coming our way? Perhaps we can…
The same day they ran the McAdams/Miller article, the Anchorage Daily News published an update on a three-car accident which occurred in Fairbanks on August 24th…involving Senate Candidate Joe Miller.
Alaska State Troopers said Miller’s vehicle rear-ended a vehicle driven by Denali Park resident James Raisis, who then rear-ended a car driven by Mark Lewis of Fairbanks. Miller was cited last week with failing “to exercise due care to avoid a collision” in the Aug. 27 wreck on Geist Road.
Troopers said no one was hurt in the collision, although Lewis said he had some cervical stiffness and numbness in some fingers.
Lewis also was cited — with stopping on a highway.
I would have let this story go if it stopped there. After all, how many of us have been involved in accidents…some of which were our fault? It would be easy to imagine a distracted Miller driving down the road and not noticing that a car was coming to a stop in front of him with so much on his mind. Alaskans aren’t going to hold that against him…not even me! Most people would just be glad that everyone was OK!
All Joe Miller would have had to say for me to ignore this was, “Gosh, I’m sorry it happened and let’s move on, OK?” Heck, if he’d said nothing I would have ignored it.
But, Mr. Miller could not apologize NOR could he leave it alone…nope, not at all…
Miller told the Daily News on Monday he hasn’t seen the $160 citation yet, but doubts he’ll challenge it. He said troopers only cited drivers in the accident after learning a U.S. Senate candidate was in one of the vehicles.
So, let me get this straight…according to the article (and I called to verify its accuracy) Miller was the FIRST TO HIT ANOTHER VEHICLE (driven by Raisis) who was stopping behind the car making the left turn (driven by Lewis). Miller’s rear-ending of Raisis caused HIM to rear-end Lewis.
As a matter-of-fact, Mr. Lewis shared with The New York Times that Mr. Miller and he share the same insurance company. That company determined that Joe Miller’s policy should pay for the accident!
Yet, Joe Miller is the victim here? And, not only is he the “victim,” but he is basically accusing the Alaska State Troopers of bias?
I’ll be the first to admit that the accident itself is a trivial matter. However, in light of all that we now know about Palin, you can see where a Senatorial-hopeful feeling the need to blame our Alaska State Troopers for his behavior set off some warning bells.
Plus, what we already know about Miller makes the Palin comparison even scarier:
–Joe Miller touts that he is “pro-life” and “pro-family.” Yet the campaign for this divorce attorney from Fairbanks called SOMEBODY (either a sitting U.S. Senator or the Alaskan Libertarian Party) “a whore” during the primary.
–Joe Miller is a Yale law school graduate, yet completely ignores the most basic tenets of law…both STATE and FEDERAL…to toe the Tea Party line.
–Joe Miller is “loose with the truth”when it comes to his bio…unnecessarily so.
–Joe Miller QUIT his job with the Fairbanks Northstar Borough because according to his resignation letter they told him he had to miss “an elk hunt” in order to prepare for a court case.
And for me, the most damning comparison of all:
–Joe Miller has held at least six different jobs in 15 years:
“Private lawyer, magistrate, acting judge, federal magistrate, assistant borough attorney, private attorney…and this person wants a job that requires at least six years of hard work. Multiple six year terms to acquire seniority. On the evidence, candidate Miller’s attention span is about 2.5 years.”
Golly, 2.5 years sounds awfully familiar…
Sounds to me like Scott McAdams hit the nail on the head.
Little Ms. McCain is now speaking out… thime bomb is the word she uses. More tonight on Leno. Yow. What fun. Go Megan.
What I find interesting about the McCain thing is that a trickle of negative is coming out. However, it is cautious. Wonder what she really “really” thinks?
When it serves them (McCain camp) well, will it blow? The problem with that time bomb is that Palin has a base. So, when they decide to “tell the truth the entire truth.” How many people will listen? It just may be a dud. They should have fired her on the campaign trail.
I think she’ll let things out one juicy detail at a time, after all Megan has a book to sell, too. Slow and steady asures we’ll keep watching and listening to her…
I stayed up late to watch the interview because I thought she might have some informed bits to add to the conversation. She was vapid, at best. “I DID say that Mr. Obama was sexy, but that was BEFORE he was a front runner.” When asked whether she would vote for Mrs. Palin should she run in 2012, Meghan replied “I would never vote for a Democrat. I would hope that we would find a better Republican. Right now I’m in the Romney camp.” IOW, yes, she would vote for Mrs. Palin if she got on the ticket.
Poor, Joe. Somebody call him a waaaaahm-bulance, eh?
I hope Alaskans take a close look at the candidates rather than vote the party line. Miller cannot hold up to serious scrutiny. He is not good for Alaska or America. Please send him packing!
I think somebody is angry
Somebody posted in the ADN comments section last week that Joe Miller was discharged from the military after 3.5 years of service, but the agreement that a person makes is to commit to 5 years of service after graduation from a Federal military academy (Miller attended West Point on our nickle we are told). Is this true? If it is true does anybody know why Miller was discharged before his term of service was up? I have not looked into this, perhaps Miller did five years, perhaps five years is not required; just asking.
Miller would have been serving under contract “Active Duty Service Obligation” (ADSO) so his terms of service would have been spelled out. As I understand things he could not just resign his commission he would have had to have been relieved of his commission if, in fact, he failed to fulfill the terms of the ADSO he would have been obligated too after attending a USMA. I just love research.
As of 2009 ADSO for USMA is 5 years Prior to ??? ADSO for USMA grads was 6 years; not sure when that changed.
see:
http://www.career-satisfaction.army.mil/pdfs/AR%20350-100_Officer_Active_Duty_Service_Obligations.pdf
So Joe Miller graduated from West Point in 1989 and enrolled in Yale Law School in 1992. Perhaps he was granted reserve status while he attended Yale Law School and then resigned his commission. I’ m just speculating here. Did we pay for him to go to Yale Law School?
One thing I know for sure- If you defer your active duty to attend school (law, medical, dental), you are still obligated to pay your time to the Gov. after your schooling. If you decide you don’t want to go back to active duty, then Uncle Sam wants his money back PLUS interest. West Point is verrrry expensive, add interest to that, and I imagine it’s upwards to 1Million. I highly doubt he was given a deferment.
I think you are to something worth discovering, CityKid. I think voters would like to know if he took advantage of those nasty taxpayer-supported government programs to get his degree and professional license. My goodness, wouldn’t it be terrible if those were some of the same programs he wants to cut — good enough for him to use, but not good for anyone else to use to get ahead.
Plus, I think we should know if what the reasons were for his early discharge – were they benign or not. Keep digging. Perhaps you will spur people closer to him to ask for answers.
These are the kind of questions a good investigative reporter should ask of people wanting to serve the public and particularly of those who want to radically change programs that benefit a large portion of our society. Thanks for thinking of and sharing them. I hope we get answers. Not that I am hungry for dirt; I just think we deserve to know. After all, he is applying for a very lucrative and powerful position, and Alaskans hire him through their votes. He owes them complete disclosure.
I’ve been wondering about that particular item too. I knew the minimum obligation after any service academy was 5 years, so even a modification for West Point to 6 years is not out of the question. For having apparently been awarded a Bronze Star during the 1st Gulf War, his departure from the Army within a year is intriguing. It does not appear that he was wounded, otherwise he’d be listing a Purple Heart of course, so precisely what are the circumstances of his ‘career?’ Inquiring minds want to know…
The military does pay people to go to law school. But you are expected to serve as a JAG officer after that.
Yes, noting that he received a Bronze Star does make me wonder why he isn’t flashing his military career around. The only reason I can think of is that he has something to hide. It’s just a bit too odd. Everything about Miller just seems a little off.
This guy sounds like he has LOSER tattooed on his forhead.
Sounds like the perfect tea party candidate.
Isn’t interesting they are only getting their candidates on the ballots by infusing large amounts of Out-of-state cash. Who is supplying this? Follow the money!
Was talking to a friend today. He thought Joe might get a wad from outside. I think that may be the case, but it will probably come in the final weeks of the campaign.
My prediction, is that Joe Miller will get a bit pile of money from outside just after the cut off date for the last financial report that candidates are legally required to be file before the election – is filled. That way, Joe can launch a barrage of campaign advertising using outside money just before the election, when advertising is most effective, and nobody will know where the money came from until after the election. Just a hunch.
BTW – I think the election laws suck – candidates should be required to file a financial report 48 hours before the election is held. No doubt both Dems and Rethugs will say this kind of reporting would be a burden and “impractical.” Hey, I’ve got a bridge you can buy for cheap.
Wow, this is lots of fun – try to figure out when candidates for Federal office have to file their reports. Lots of obstacles.
good luck with this:
http://www.fec.gov/info/report_dates.shtml
Think I’ve got it. The last date, before the election that candidates have to be accountable for is October 13 (I’m not a lawyer so I might be reading this wrong). If I’m right all hell will break loose in the McAdams/Miller Senate race on or after October 14.
http://www.fec.gov/info/report_dates_2010.shtml#primary
Hey, good work, Kid! Amazing what one can research these days from a laptop, eh?
Thank you for taking the time to dig into this. May some of the rest of us moles can help out a bit here, too…
The ONLY way that regular people have a chance anymore, is if we know who is funding whom. The court says that corps can spend all they want. Ok, but we get to know WHO.
otherwise, democracy is over in america
It’s got to be “grass roots”. Here in CA one of the big utility company spent big time to put proposition on the ballot. We had no money for opposition but a strong word of mouth campaign was used with the radio shows and letters to the editors. Local press also wrote about it. It was defeated handily despite a 16 million dollar lie campaign.
And in Florida we have Rick Scott trying to buy his way in with his millions. This is what one blogger is saying.
“As CFO of the state of Florida and a citizen who takes financial responsibility seriously. especially in these trying times, I can’t trust a person who would spend $80,000,000.00 to get a job that pays $120,000.00. Why does he really want to be Governor?”
And this one:
“Rick Scott says he wants to bring jobs to Floridians. He certainly employed a lot of advertisers for his campaign. Wait. The companies he hired are from New York. I guess there will be plenty of new Florida jobs they’ll just be in another state”.
In Alaska, for state and local elections, candidates have to file a full financial disclosure when they sign up to be on the ballot.
Didn’t the Republican Party bring in outside money for Murkowski too? The ‘party of no’?
It wasn’t just the Miller side.
Didn’t the TPE (Tea Party Express) give him $500,000? The Koch boys are the money bags behind the TPE
But that was the primary jfap – he has been claiming that the outsiders have cut him off for the general (what chance is there of that happening?). After all the Koch boys (Koch Alaska Pipeline Company LLC) are one of the controlling interests in the Alyeska Pipeline; a major source of revenue and recently a major polluter. Why would Koch and co. want to spend any money up here? hehe. If you’ve got some money honey – I’ve got a bridge
Koch’s share of TAPS is tiny. But it does own Flint Hills, aka North Pole Refinery. KOch has a big stake in what happens in Alaska.
They spent $600,000 in negative advertising in the week or so before the election, with the expected result.
A good article on the maniacal Koch brothers. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
I hate to post something that I am just recalling, but I will. My recollection is that Miller got over $500,000 via the Tea Party Express, which got the donation from Americans for Prosperity, and which ultimately came from the Koch Brothers, owners of Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the US. Koch Industries are primarily oil and gas, but own some other brand names, like Lycra.
Google is my friend, but I am a little too tired to chase down a link tonight.
Follow the money, as you said. BTW, the Koch Bros. are hardcore libertarians. As Meghan McCain said, loosely quoting, about Rand Paul, “Libertarianism sounds good in the classroom, but doesn’t work very well in real life.”
I don’t live in AK, not even close, and I have already donated twice to McAdams. You AK-ers should be doing the same. Not really telling you what to do, just hoping you guys can make this a real election. If Murkowski goes as an Independent, I may even donate to her campaign.
The Koch boys claim to be libertarians but the people they fund are just hyper-greedy ‘Christian” Republicans on steroids. The true libertarian has a live and let live philosophy. These Tea Bag libertarians have a live and I’ll take your living too, while I control your private lives philosophy. I actually think they are closet Dominionists.
I understood that after the gulf war , soldiers were able to opt out early (to go to school) but still remain active in the reserves.A lot of soldiers apparently did.
This site is so refreshing in that hyper-links are prefaced with so much common sense. It has become one of my first stops.And thanks for the reminders of why we should not repeat our mistakes.
Early opt out does not apply to Academy Grads. They sign a contract. Actually the Army can force them to meet their obligation through enlistment rather than Officer Corps. Remember all the hoopla when one of them wanted to go pro sports early? The Army most certainly would not have paid for his degree at Yale at that point in his career because he had not met his obligations. The law degree would have required MORE time in the service. However, it would be rare for them to pay for a law degree anyway. I would guess he was out for “convenience of the Army” and indicates some sort of behavioral or legal problem.. This calls for some serious research. It really can’t be hidden. The Democratic Party needs to pay for some oppositional research and find out. I guarantee it isn’t pretty.
Thanks for the info, is this site great or what?
This site is great. AK bloggers are great. ‘Flatters are great.
George Bush hid an awful lot of his records. I expect Miller can also.
The more Megan McCain condemns the quitter, the more unfit her father appears to be a Senator.
We need real campaign reform…so that all are on an equal playing field..and we the voters chose our candidates based solely on the issues…and NOT the money
by the way…this article makes me want to make another donation to McAdams…will do…Thanks
What I’m most curious about is Miller’s claim that he is a disabled combat veteran. There have been so many high profile abuses of military service records in the past few elections cycles that it begs more vetting, since Miller seems to be as casual with the truth as Sarah Palin.
I read a fascinating account of how Joe McCarthy beefed up his ‘combat’ record and wartime injuries, escalating its heroism in each new campaign. What was hilarious in the expose is how his fellow service members wrote a big banner re: McCarthy’s trigger/bomb-happy M.O. – “SAVE OUR COCONUT TREES, SEND JOE BACK TO WISCONSIN!”
And I thought Theresa Obermeyer was a ludicrous Senatorial Candidate against Senator Stevens in 1996. However, she holds a PhD and even served two elected terms (with the Anchorage School Board) before her obsession with her husband’s failure to pass the bar (33 times?) as some sort of conspiracy led to her serving jail time.
We don’t know anything about Joe Miller, and what we know isn’t good or promising for the State of Alaska.
That’s interesting, particularly since most states will only allow you to sit for the bar exam about five times, unless there are special circumstances and you get approval to take it one more time. I knew a couple of guys in California who took the bar five times and failed, so they both went to work at Bank of America. One I knew fairly well, and he definitely walked by a different drummer.
Lest we forget, Rush got out of military service via claiming disability… he had a boil on his butt!!!
Wow, “Theresa Obermeyer” is she still around? Was looking at some old videos the other day and she popped up at a Steven’s press conference of yore. She took a swipe at Stevens and he nailed her.
The armchair psychologist in my wants to to put Miller in the same camp as Obermeyer… certifiably nutters. They should both be hauled out to the funny farm.
Whoops, typo city there, sorry.
I saw her at the grocery store a few weeks ago. Paid slowly by check. Still looks the same. Drove really fast out of the parking lot. On the Palin-Drama-Scale she was only a three or four, though, and probably only on a very slow news day.
What is it about Tea Party people that renders them incapable of thinking things through?
Joe Miller gets in an accident which his insurance company and the state police say is his fault. At this point he has two choices. Which is the better choice: a. make a statement apologizing to the other people in the accident saying he was glad his inattention hadn’t created a worse accident and moving on. or b. make a public stink about unfair state troopers, blame the other guy for the accident and try to weasel out of responsibility.
Vanity Fair writes an unflattering article about Palin. She, too, has two choices: a. ignore the article and Twitter something positive and encouraging about what she is accomplishing or b. call up a BBF, ask them to smear the author of the article on one inconsequential point, which they do but in doing so the BFF reveals that Palin uses other people’s DS kids as props on stage as a stand in for Trig.
Glenn Beck wants to wind up the crowd into a patriotic fervor. He can: a. say something dramatic about the grandeur of our unique Constitution or b. claim he held the Constitution in his hands. A statement that doesn’t add anything to his speech, is a fact that could be easily checked and used against him by the opposition media to call him a liar.
These are not stupid people. God gave them all a pretty good set of brains and they apparently won’t read the users manual. Now if you gave someone a really, really nice gift, something that could be used to change the world for the better and they refused to use it properly, what would you do?
“These are not stupid people” – but their followers are…
Spot on frsbdg! You have hit the the nail on the head!
Yeah, that comment by Beck that he held the Constitution in his hands. . ., well, maybe a souvenier from the National Archives Book Store. We were there in October 2008 and there were guards to make sure you didn’t even touch the glass. No one I saw was getting the special privilege of holding any of those documents. I wonder how many people in that crowd thought about his lie – surely some of them had been to the Archives themselves and would know what he was saying wasn’t possible. Well, maybe not.
I’m like you, janet, I don’t understand why these people are so willing to turn off their brains or to throw away any actual knowledge they had before they joined the Beck/Palin adoring crowd.
P,Ws – I believe it was Geo Washington’s inaugural address (“written in his own hand”, said the ‘Honor Restorer’) that The Bekster was boasting having held in *His* own hands.
Bald-face, unmitigated, out-and-out Llie…but lapped up –with flag-waving zeal and gusto!– by the adoring fans and ‘patriots’. Complete fools and jackadzes, all.
Below is what _Mother Jones_ had to say about it. beth.
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Glenn Beck’s George Washington Whopper
The Fox host says he held the inaugural address of the famously truthful founding father. Yeah right, says the National Archives.
— By Stephanie Mencimer
full article here: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/glenn-beck-george-washington-restoring-honor
It was estimated that the tea party gave Doug Hoffman over $500,000. in cash last year in the NY23 race. Bill Owens was the eventual winner after the tea party/turned on their candidate Dee Dee and she withdrew from the race.
Democrats took that seat after republicans had held it for over 100 years.
Interesting living through that. People were angry that outsiders were bussed in and hundreds of thousands of dollars of outside cash was poured into the race.
As an outsider the fact that people like Ron Paul and Joe Miller might be able to affect how I live and affect the quality of my life scares me.
I have done something I never have done before. I have made a donation to a candidate outside my state and donated money to Scott McAdams.
I urge others to look about the country and see how the possible election of these extremists may affect how you and your children live and consider donating to candidates outside your state.
With only 100 members, each Senator can affect our lives. If we had more Progressive Dems in the Senate we would have passed more important bills and better bills.
We, as a nation, voted for Change 2 years ago. Let’s not drop the ball when we have barely gotten started.
A Fan in CA & Diane: Thank you. I agree wholeheartedly and have made donations outside of my state. BTW, I am a former Californian, have lived in Alaska since 1975.. so keeping up with news on Fiorina.
Great advice. Every Senator counts. We have to keep Miller and Angle and others like them out of the Senate. If our own Senators are not up for a vote this year or if their races are not endangered, we need to send contributions to McAdams and others to ensure progressives and moderates get and stay in power.
A Fan in CA: Good point. Imagine the horror of the senate having to deal with teabagger-supported lying liars who lie should any be elected. Teabaggers financed by earnest (religiously godly and/or dominionist inspired) teapeople is a thought too awful to contemplate.
Of the 100 senators who make decisions for all Americans (‘rill’ or not ‘rill’), the teabaggers have little to contribute other than forcing the regular obstructionist GOPers farther right and more intensely nutball. I have no clue how this horrid scenario will affect the blue and yellow dog democrats.
Lord help us all.
Already have quite a few times Diane.I give to certain canidates
Didn’t Mr. Miller call for the troopers to monitor the count of the absentee ballots recently? Now, he disses the troopers.
Seems as if he learned that Palin under-the-bus thing pretty well.
In answer to is this site great or what?????Yes and yes and yes. Go Shannon and Joe McGinniss. Also Scott McAdams.
Tea baggers could care less about the truth. They know if they pour enough money into promoting themselves, they will win. Case in point, Murkowski.
It’s all about the money. Too bad most Democrats are too busy trying to keep up with the economy to pay attention to politics.
The old white people who are supporting TBaggers don’t realize that with the Baggers, they may lose their Social Security & Medicare, then they won’t know what hit them.
It’s bizarre that people will vote against their nest interest.
You are sooooooo right!!!!!!!!
Sometimes I think that voters are trained chickens who have been taught to clap for Col. Sanders…
My point exactly: they don’t seem to think things through.
Tea Party thought process: Oooo I’m so mad. Say, Isn’t Palin cute. Sarah hates those Democrats, I hate them too. Ooooooo look at Glenn, he looks so ‘christian’ he’s for free enterprise, I’m for free enterprise, too. You say Republican corporations like Koch want to cut Social Security and Medicare? Well they fund Palin and Beck they must be OK. I’m voting for the Tea Party Republicans. Yes siree I want to protect myself from those liberal Democrats that want to take away my Social Security and Medicare
Totally irrational
Read ‘Deer Hunting With Jesus’ by Joe Bageant, 2007. Interesting observations on why low to moderate wage earners, low-information, and poor whites vote against their own best interests.
Sounds good. I’d love to try to understand the Tea Bag mind.
The article below covers predictions for the Senate seats up for grabs in November. Looks as if we’d better get busy and not take anything for granted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/08/poll-update-senate-remain_n_708783.html
“Joe Miller is a Yale law school graduate, yet completely ignores the most basic tenants of law…both STATE and FEDERAL…to tow the Tea Party line.”
A “tenant” occupies premises. A law has “tenets”.
At the beginning of a race, one must keep one’s toes behind the line. On a parade square or a deck, or in a barracks, people are sometimes required to put their toes on a line, to keep the formation orderly. In each context, the line is typically made with paint or chalk, and is not susceptible to being “towed”–which would in any case defeat its purpose.
I wouldn’t have commented, but two in one sentence…
When I entered the comment I’m replying to now (no use in citing its current number) it became number 15. When Tom the Bunny entered a similar comment forty minutes later, it became number 16. Now they are—at least for the moment—numbers 17 and 19 respectively.
What’s the use of having numbers on the comments if the numbers are subject to change?
Miller is Sarah expect he’s got the literal cojones she lacks. They can wrap themselves up in Jesus and the Constitution all they want but they still give off one god-awful malignant stench. I can smell it from my porch.
Don’t mean to be the grammar police, but please substitute “tenet” for tenant, and “toe the line” for tow the line.
//backs away slowly
Don’t mean to be the comment police, but it’s a good thing to refresh the page and see what’s new before entering one’s own comment. Cheers!
Don’t mean to be the Reply button police, but you could click on it to actually make a comment of your own in response to someone else’s, and it will show up immediately after that comment. It will also be indented. Cheers!
Don’t mean to be the Time police, but you can start a reply/response and by the time you finish typing and submitting it, someone else might have already made the same [or similar] comment. Cheers! beth.
Don’t mean to be the Time police 2.0, but you can read an article, see an error in it, and not having time to read all the discussion, quickly pop in a comment about the observed error so it can be brought to AKMs/mods attention. Cheers! beth.
Ah! I was wondering whether the comments were depth-limited. I see that beth’s (16.1.1.1.1) has no reply link, so I’m replying to her (16.1.1.1). Before I entered my comment (15) I refreshed the page and scanned for “tenet” and for “toe”. But your point is well taken—not everybody has a max 7.5 Mbps Internet conenction, and page refreshes can take time.
But my comment (15) was most likely not on Tom’s copy of the page when he entered his comment (16)–hence my comment (16.1) suggesting that one do a page refresh just before commenting. So Tom was not in a position to follow your advice (unless he were to refresh the page first).
I’m assuming, btw, that your advice was intended mainly for Tom (16), even though you entered it as a reply to my (16.1), which was entered as a direct reply to an earlier comment.
[["your advice" ... with the "your" being Tom the Bunny, MinNJ, or me, beth?]] Personally, I just got a chuckle out of the ‘variations on a theme’ and, ‘sides, kinda like the way the responses look as they slowly meander off to the right. beth.
–from when I first started this response, I’ve gotten 2 phone calls [from long-winded kinfolk, so it's been at least 35 minutes -- see: 16.1.1.1.] I could, I suppose, copy what I’d written, hit “refresh” to make sure no one *else* had written the same [or similar] to the 16.1.1.2, but…nah! – I just kept right on a-typin’ and shortly, now, I’m gonna hit: “Submit Comment.” It’s not that my browser is slow to refresh, it’s just that I’m bone lazy when it comes to the whole selectall-copy-refreshpage-read/checkforredundancies-paste-submitcomment thingie.
b.
..i’m lost !! …can yu guys start this thread over again ????
Allow me to ‘splain for you, Benlomand, mah love:
Tom & Ted had a race. Tom loped, Ted sprinted. Tom won anyway. Various officials made an appearance. Hilarity ensued. Lessons were learned.
Teh End.
Someone ought to inform Joe that the rest of us would be happy to let Alaska secede and hold back it’s $1 in Federal taxes for every $1.89 they take back. Who the hell gets an 89% return on their investment dollar? Our state takes a 15% hit every year. He and The Turd can arm wrestle for the kingdom.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr139.pdf
A male Palin..see that McAdams wins.
Great essay/ comparison AK, wonderful!,,,keep up the watchdog journalism.
Forewarned is forearmed , Alaskans KNOW the last thing the need is a male version of $arah.
I hope that McAdams can polish himself up a bit to make a better presentation on camera.
It would be criminal to see Miller get in because of the old smoke and mirrors that $arah is so good at.
I will NEVER forget what she said to Halcro about him being so knowledgeable, but the people don’t care about that.
I hope Alaskans don’t shoot themselves in the foot this time.
That might be a campaign slogan.
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot and elect a another Palin.
North Star Borough needs some attention
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/04/us/politics/04alaska.html?_r=1
Even as Mr. Miller vows to drastically scale back the size and spending of the federal government, he has spent much of his life in some form of government employment or service. The military helped educate him. At one point in 2002, he worked simultaneously as an acting state district judge and a part-time federal magistrate.
For seven years, until last September, he worked part time as a salaried assistant attorney for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, roughly equivalent to a county government. One of his biggest cases involved successfully extracting higher tax revenues from the companies that own the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
“I would certainly regard the work I did as successful with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline cases,” Mr. Miller said in an interview at his law office here.
His work with the borough allowed him to complete a master’s degree in economics from the University of Alaska. “We paid his tuition,” said Rene Broker, the borough attorney who first hired him and later accepted his resignation.
He worked 20 hours a week for the borough, enough to receive health care benefits for his family of 10, though he drew the bulk of his income from his private practice.
Because Mr. Miller is married and has eight children, his family is eligible to receive 10 dividend checks each year from the Alaska Permanent Fund, an account that pays dividends from state oil revenues to residents of Alaska. The amount changes yearly and is often between $1,000 and $2,000. In 2008, the last full year Ms. Palin was governor, she pushed through a one-time increase to $3,269. That would have meant more than $32,000 for Mr. Miller’s family.
“It’s not coming from taxpayers,” said Randy DeSoto, a spokesman for Mr. Miller who graduated in the same class at West Point. “It’s coming from the resources.”
Mr. Miller said he spent about $100,000 of his own money on his Senate campaign.
“I have no money from family,” he said. “It’s all been self-earned.”
Mr. Miller resigned from the borough on Sept. 1, 2009, citing what he said in a letter to Ms. Broker were differences of opinion over legal matters. Ms. Broker would not comment on what she said was a personnel matter. Mr. Miller would not elaborate. He does not cite his seven years working there in his campaign biography.
Wow. Thanks for the link. He sure knows how to play the system, doesn’t he? No wonder he wants to run for senator; it’s the only life he’s known. living off the government….such a crock.
Thank you so much for directing me to this article! You may see it in a later post
Go GET HIM, Linda! What a GREAT lead for ya!! YOU BETCHA!!
Not a person to be trusted. He’s tricky with his words and meanings. You can’t take anything he says at face value. He thinks he is better than you. Not a person to be trusted.
I just want to say Linda, I appreciate your analysis, writing and am glad you are posting here. (Your blog was sometimes hard to work with, but I also appreciated the personal things about your garden and family.)
I suspect this has already been mentioned, but virtually any time someone hits a car that is in traffic in front of them (didn’t run a stop sign or pull out of a blind driveway) they are going to get a ticket for following too close and or for not paying sufficient attention.
It doesn’t take a lawyer to figure out that is logical and is the law. Miller is supposed to be a lawyer. Even if he can’t quote the citation, he should know enough about torts to figure this one out.
Why are Republicans and their mutant offspring the Tea Baggers so whiney?
I haven’t been able to find out whether Mr. Miller was an Infantry officer, or was commissioned in another branch (such as Armor, Quartermaster, Intelligence, etc.). I haven’t been able to find out what action he received a Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for, or whether it was a BSM with “V” device for valor, or a “plain” BSM. His website refers to him as having been ” …awarded the Bronze Star for his leadership in combat”. Does this mean that he led Soldiers in direct action against enemy personnel? Or does it mean that he provided leadership in a combat zone?
Please understand, I am not by any means denigrating the service of support troops. I was one of them. I had a desk job in Iraq. I did a good job with the work that was given to me to do. But I don’t ever let anyone think that I served on the front lines, was under fire (aside from the daily mortar attacks in Mortaritaville) or led troops against the enemy in combat action.
I just want to know the plain truth. Maybe Joe Miller led troops in actual combat. His supporters have referred to him as a “war hero” – I believe, as my father does (WWII USMC veteran) that the heroes did not come home alive. But maybe Joe miller has not corrected that idea because he really did engage in heroic acts. Or maybe he’s not aware that some have called him a hero.
Surely he wouldn’t let exaggerated ideas about his military service stand uncorrected, would he?
Anyway, I wrote to his “contact” email on his website, asking what branch he was commissioned in, and what action resulted in the awarding of the BSM. I have so far only received a “thank you for contacting us” reply. I will certainly post when my questions are answered.
Miller has a video endorsement on his website from a person who identifies himself as “Ed Savage”. He is wearing BDUs in the video, with Sergeant First Class (SFC) rank. While BDUs are no longer authorized as uniform wear (indicating that this person is no longer actually in the Army), I think this still violates the intent of Department of Defense Directive 1244.10, which prohibits service members from certain political activities while in uniform.
But even if this is legal, it brings up the question of whether Mr. Savage intends viewers of the video to think that he is still in the service. If not, why not do the video in civilian clothes, and state that he served with Mr. Miller? And Mr. Savage does not specify what the unit’s mission was – so we still don’t know if this was an actual combat mission.
Just read through the previous posts on Joe Miller. Way too much hanky-panky. Not much transparency. What is it abut those “mutant off-spring of the Republican party” (great phrase, Marnie) that they never seem to be quite honest about anything. It’s so counter productive, they eventually get caught in their own lies usually by people that suspected something was “funny” and started digging. “Hoist by their own petard” comes to mind
NO doubt Joe Miller is a clone of Palin type. if one thinks well..that alone should tell you do not
vote this guy in. interesting just read side note. the pastor in Florida..who wants to burn the
Muslin holy book..went to high school with Rush L. in the same Missouri town..Cape Giradeau..
as we have lived in quite a few places as distributor owners of major newspapers..places..we
know this town as to their background and political views. This town is very pro Republican
regardless of any issue..the local paper is the same. Rush L..has family members there that
are very much in Republican political circles..one is in the today state goverment in Missouri..
they are also very much the social elite of this particular town. connect.. Palin of Alaska
who she picks for election in Alaska ..