Open Thread – No Shooting
Going through a bunch of photos tonight and came across this one – one of my all-time favorites. I snapped this in Eagle River which is about half way between Anchorage and Wasilla.
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Going through a bunch of photos tonight and came across this one – one of my all-time favorites. I snapped this in Eagle River which is about half way between Anchorage and Wasilla.
Woo hoo!!!
WOR radio in NYC has cancelled the Glenn Beck show due to low ratings.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/01/04/2011-01-04_glenn_beck_dropped_by_new_yorks_wor_radio_station_over_poor_ratings_replaced_by_.html
(singing “Iiiiii Love New Yorrrrrrrk”)
Yee Haw….I’m awake , don’t ask.
That is very good news Leenie!
terrific news Leenie.
“This raises lots of questions about what constitutes accepted banter in the Palins’ Wasilla manse.”
I don’t for one minute believe they even banter. That family does not sit around a table (do they even have one) and converse with each other in any shape or form. What I suspect they do is throw around insults freely with no one stepping up and saying “hang on now…what about this sort of situation?” Discussion would be a foreign word to these Wasilla eedjits.
Having spent 3 weeks free of Palin and the internet, I really have lost patience with this idiocy. There was an article in the NYT today or yesterday about Palin and her use of the word “refudiate.” A number of comments appeared about Palin’s latest pregnancy and I decided to comment about the failure of the MSM in America to vet this woman. I pulled no punches and said the rest of the world was aghast at the failure of the US press to do their job and that no one in their right mind in any other part of the world would even consider this woman as presidential material.
They published the comments about her pregnancy, but didn’t publish my comment about the failure of the press to do its job. So much for “free speech” in the US of A.
I did call her an ethically challenged dimwit and accused the media of being willing to tout her as a serious candidate in order to garner more readership, so maybe that is what upset the NYT.
This column is a reminder about what true leadership is and another example of why Palin is not a leader. (Sorry for posting the column in its entirety but I could not link it.):
Sarah Palin fails to lead on gay equality
By Jonathan Capehart
Sarah Palin is getting some mileage out of retweeting a pro-don’t ask, don’t tell repeal message from Tammy Bruce. “I’m focused on economic issues, and you may have noticed I was being quiet about DADT because that’s not our most pressing issue,” the openly gay radio host tweeted Monday. “…But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. [Enough] already — the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed.”
So, I guess we’re supposed to presume that Palin supports the repeal of the ban on gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military. And I suppose by extension we should presume that she is down with gay equality. But it’s easy to support something that has already happened and costs you little to speak out about — even if it is in the form a retweet. DADT was repealed with 65 votes in the Senate on Dec. 22.
Palin had a chance to take a stand last November when her daughter Willow apparently unleashed the f-bomb (the one that rhymes with drag) on someone criticizing the premier of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on Facebook. Bristol Palin seemed to step up with an apology of sorts. But the former governor, reality television star and self-proclaimed Mama Grizzly remained mute. This raises lots of questions about what constitutes accepted banter in the Palins’ Wasilla manse.
Leadership is about staking out positions when it’s difficult, not just when it’s easy. Once again, it seems, Palin has taken the easy route.
Sarah’s always one to show up after the decisions have already been made, then smile pretty.
http://wonkette.com/434096/republican-national-committee-candidates-unfamiliar-with-books
I’m sorry, I’m technically challenged and can’t insert a link, but you can copy this into your browser. This is absolutely hilarious. I don’t know which is better; the woman’s answer, or Michael Steele’s.ThatCrowWoman, the librarian in you will be amused and appalled.
Enjoy.
The GOP keeps getting weirder.
bubbles—-forgot to say, we carry a lot of insurance. If someone gets shot while hunting, we would probably get sued. Just not fair!
Sure those dings aren’t from thrown cameras?
I think they might be from thrown canned goods. Anybody checked the pantry at Casa Palin?
The GOP takes another step towards total conformity as evidenced by the lack of disagreement in the RNC debate:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37835_What_I_Learned_By_Watching_the_RNC_Debate
Since each candidate for Chairman does not support gay rights, you’ve got to wonder how they would respond to Sarah Palin’s re-tweet (referenced in post #6).
OMG if you want to scream and bang your head on your keyboard read this. if not just pretend not to see this link. i read it and am now writing this under my blankie. i plan to spend the rest of the day playing Bejeweled and pretending ain’t nobody home and i didn’t read ’nuffin’. no nuffin at all.
http://recoveringfundamentalists.com/sarah-palin-warrior-princess-for-god-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-1391
Right there with you, bubbles. Ick! Some of the comments.
All I can say is OMG!
thanks bubbles… I bookmarked it so I may re-read it. Too scary to take on in one session.
Here is a significant magic number to remember: 651.
651 is the number of votes that Sarah received when she defeated John Stein to become mayor of Wasilla. J. Stein got 440 votes that fatal day on October 1, 1996.
651 votes and there are nearly 308 million people living in America as of the 2010 census.
Sarah became a minority governor in 2006 with 48% of the vote. She received 114,697 votes to become governor, fewer votes than the population of many American suburbs.
114,697 that is all.
amazing isn’t it?
It truly is amazing, especially when so many on the right point to her credentials. I had a discussion, only a couple of days ago, about how she had to hire a city manager to manage the small town of Wasilla. Granted, many small municipalities have city managers, but it just goes to show that Palin was not qualified in administration and had to hire someone to do the job of city administrator. I guess the manager did the actual management and Sarah got to play queen.
…and now most of those people (well over 60 percent) would not vote for her at all.
This sign looks like the “NO HUNTING” signs we have posted on our farm land. Full of holes!
Not much we can do about it, since we don;t live on the farm. So they hunt, fish , and gather mushrooms like they own the place. Guess it is less expensive than owning land, and paying the taxes.
some folks got all the nerve in the world. unbelievable. what happens when someone gets hurt or picks the wrong ‘shroom and dies. do they get to take you into court and sue you? some people are just awful.
Today was the new moon, the ideal time for prioritizing and affirming your goals. Here’s a guide to great and not-so-great celestial events for the year 2011:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/solar-eclipse-and-meteor-shower-to-launch-2011-skywatching-season
“June 1 – A partial eclipse of the sun: The zone of visibility for this eclipse covers parts of northeast Asia, where the largest eclipse occurs over Cheshskaya Bay and the Bolshezemelskaya Tundra of far northwestern Russia. Here, the upper three-fifths of the midnight sun will appear bitten away.
The eclipse will also be available to the northern two-thirds of Alaska (an early afternoon event), as well as northern and eastern portions of Canada, where viewers will see the eclipse during the course of their afternoon, as the sun slowly descends toward the west-northwest horizon.”
Hmmm, maybe June 1st would be a good time for mudpups to visit our Alaskan friends living in the northern 2/3 of the state!
First lunar renewal past the winter solstice… my tree stays up until the next one at the first cross quarter, around Imbolc. I consider it my winter tree. Decorations are neutral and though the lights are electric, they are in the form of candles. It lights up dark days, even though they are lengthening, and gives me a feeling of warmth.
nice Diagonal. sort of like my decorated ficus tree. i put real looking berries i got in Amsterdam and little round lights wrapped in yarn i got in Chinatown. i like to put it on when it’s dreary outside or i am in a celebratory mood. glad to know i am not alone in liking stuff like that.
… misfits of the world, unite?
I always make sure the full moon is noted on my calendar at school so I can be mentally prepared to face my classes. Anyone who has ever worked in an elementary school can attest to the fact that the kids are always a little extra wacky during a full moon!
I don’t know much else about celestial events, but I do enjoy watching meteor showers and eclipses. They make me feel very insignificant but also part of a very large universe at the same time. Not too many things can do that!
Mama Grizzlies?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/John-Hughes/2011/0103/Mama-Grizzly-mating-habits-The-WikiLeaks-cable-you-won-t-see
What will the Reactionary Party do now that they’ve got some people in Washington?
http://www.mybiblelesson.com/mybiblelesson/portal_7803.jhtml
Sorry, couldn’t read the link without registering.
But as for your question. I thought it was interesting this morning when one of the new tea partiers was talking about not trusting the people who work in Washington, DC, and I wondered if it occurred to him that he’s now one of them. How long is it going to take for them to figure out that the voters expect them to actually work and not just sit around throwing tantrums and disrupting the business of the government. It’s going to be a long two years if they don’t learn how the govenment works soon.
But don’t forget that an overwhelming majority of the public sent those TPers to Washignton to fix things, right?
Oh, sorry, it was a small percentage of the even smaller percentage of people who actually bothered to show up to vote in November. They don’t REALLY represent a giant, humongous, enormous, colossal majority of people after all.
Never mind!
I dunno — maybe they should have just tried hollowing out the Os on this sign. I think there are five of them. O, Alaska …
I remember seeing a TV special many years ago of a Willie Nelson birthday special. It was one of the “big” years – maybe his 60th? Texas Governor Ann Richards filmed a spot where she planned to present Willie with a road sign from the state dept,. of highways with the name of his home town. After picking it up, she looked at it and said “Hmm, this doesn’t look right.” The next scene was of her blasting away at it with a big pistol. When she awarded it to Willie, sure enough it was full of bullet holes. I guess that’s just the way it is in the wild west, or wherever that mentality lingers.
I adore Willie and Ann Richards…both ..!
Any guesses as to why Palin re-tweeted another’s support for repealing DADT?
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/01/sarah_palin_sup.php
Does she actually support gay rights? Or, more probably, did she misunderstand the comment that she re-tweeted?
There was talk of this on PG and my thoughts are :
When asked recently, she said that DADT should not be repealed at this time. So why did she decide to backtrack from that by retweeting a post with the word “homos” included but with no context ? The person that originally wrote the tweet is a gay conservative talk show host ( and someone who seems to have an online friendship with Mansour ). Tammy Bruce was making the comment that those in the Repub party that keep complaining about the homos might have something to hide. But her tweet came in reference to other tweets about the topic on her show. Palin retweeted only the “homos” post with no explanation and no link back to Bruce’s page or podcast. It was completely bizarre.
If she wanted to show support for gays or for the repeal or for Bruce she could have done it any number of ways. This was just plain ridiculous. That word is not one to be thrown around lightly. It’s bad enough her daughters are out there lobbing about ” gay” and “fagg*t” .
Over on PG I wondered if perhaps RAM was bouncing manically between her own acct and Palin’s and perhaps thought she was retweeting Bruce’s post from her own personal account. She follows Bruce pretty closely and resends many of her tweets. I have my PalinTruthWatch acct and also my business twitter account and have more than once forgotten which I was on.
Whatever the reason, it comes down to it being a ridiculous move and they’re going to take heat for it. Remains to be seen if they decide to stand by it and blame everyone for taking it wrong.
Great post…from the look of things, if the media lets the whole thing drop, so will Palin.
ha! I replied to your post OMG but I see you were smarter and knew enough not to use the words from the Palin tweet. I was not as bright and am now in moderation.
ah well….. it’ll surface eventually.
I’ll watch for it.
OMG
Does she actually support gay rights?
I don’t think she does. However, if she does, she will have some explaining to do.
Or, more probably, did she misunderstand the comment that she re-tweeted?
I am voting for misunderstood!
Me too. It will be interesting to see how she (or her ghost tweeter) plays this. She’ll either stand firm in support of gay rights, much to the disgust of her base (just take a look at the stance of every RNC Chairman contender) or she’ll have to back track. Could be interesting.
Nice..real danged nice! If we had that sign..posted between the road I live on..and any place..betwixted the river..half a mile north..it would have looked like that..from about 12 hours after it was posted. Good ol boys of the kind..who are nothing like the truely GOOD ol boys..yuppers a nest of them n buddy group..and the group..seems to only grow. Where they seldom shoot anything that falls in a safer ..arc..they do all ahve ..longrange rifles..but the good news? They used to ..ammo-up..and shoot for half an hour at a time..sometimes more. The ordinence I picked up from the sneak trips they made to the orchard I watch over..could weigh in..at a pound or two, easy. Now..they have modified their shooting..to fast trips..7 to 12 min.and they rotate back onto their own lands. They didn’t much cherish dealing with then but now that I am 73, dealing with breats cancer for the new year..they be scuttlin! I think any woman on this board, and man who has ..girded-up for battle..can tell ya..DON’T..be messin with US! We be ..12 months of ..Pissy-In-A-Can!! 😉
I more than ever appreciate that where I live, the signs read “No Rock Climbing Within 50ft. of the Road”. I live where guns are, but we don’t yet need signs on the Highway for the folks using them.
Thanks for the fun shared photo and idea of other ways of living.
The litter and shot up signs along our highways is disgusting. In Alaska, the shot up road signs are soooo stupid. The mentality behind doing such.
So I started photographing all those shot up signs. The album is a favorite with my grown up kids.
At least a dozen signs show a progression of bullet holes. Same sign, same mountain range behind, just more holes as the seasons changed.
I appreciate a place where the signs are not abused by those with a gun.
As in..where this thread started with a photo..and now your comments..could we not..all around the states we live in..some of those who have the skills and equipment, craft a ..photo essay..which could be used in our various schools, and start the younguns off with a solid visual..as to things which must change..idea at a time. 50 states..where might this..go..and more importantly..how fast? In 24 hours, could there be a youtube film..with ideas like this? Are there..some already..of this idea? Hmm..off to search the ‘intertubes’ now… 😉
Be careful now… some urban, petro sucking monster truck owner, with way too many bullets can claim it is art.
Can shooting up signs be considered graffiti?
http://www.graffiti.org/
A cheap, lazy form maybe… In other places I’ve seen a peace sign crafted with bullet holes on the side of a stucco building.
I do feel all the shooting of Alaska’s highway signs is closer to trash.
I do sit back and wonder why some signs are even there. Like the one posted be AKM. Like it is inviting a couple of shots from one of those urban petrol sucking monster truck owners.
I liked the pumpkin-carving with a shotgun video at Halloween – that took real skill; road signs, not so much. Except for $P as has been pointed out.
My favorite shooting-from-the-road-next-to-the-No Shooting-sign story was in Washington:
Two buddies see a deer at the side of the road, pull off, in their excitement of getting out of the truck, loading, aiming, firing, the one didn’t see his buddy coming ’round the other side, and boom, got a two-fer.
I think it happened in 2005 – I was visiting my Dad, near Port Angeles.
My favorite shot-up No Shooting Sign is down at Twentymile River, the pullout where the hooligan fisherpeople park.
It has that great view of the glaciers – park the motorcycles in front and you have mountains, water, bikes and humor.
Actually, a road sign is not legally enforceable unless it has bullet holes. Alaska Statutes. Legal Eagle could probably cite the number for us.
Did I read this aright?
A road sign mentioning ‘don’t shoot’ or any road sign? Like speed limit?
That same gang of sign-shooters has hit down in south Mo…..our signs are shot- up too…they also like to entertain theirselves by bashing mailboxes………
Well, shoot, er…. howzabout sugarfoot…er fiddlesticks!
Gotta quit that quick glance thing…saw No SHOUTING when I first looked. You’d think the librarian could read, eh? My body is back from Winter Break, but my mind? Not so much, apparently.
Off to the high schoolers in my library…see if I can learn something today. 🙂
Also, too, trying to ignore the fact that Governor Crook will be sworn at, er sworn in, today here in the Sunshine State. Do you detect that Disturbance in the Force?
*shudder*
*gathering my sage and salt and candles*
Grey skies on the Suncoast… when are you lighting them? I’ll add mine to yours.
Maybe together we can lighten up our pessimism.
Once again, it comes down to this: Never underestimate the stupidity of voters.
Scott bought his way in, and will recoup his investment on short notice.
Actually I am adding wine into the goblet for my request (and no, I am not drinking it):
Salt of the Earth
Dissolve in Water
Fire and Air
Be Here!
Air and Fire
Water and Earth
Elemental Powers Guide Us
So we may be worth your Blessings.
Do As Ye Will
And Harm It None!
Would there were more to follow the Path of Universal Respect.
I’m in, also, too. ‘Tis a good thing to do approaching the old moon.
In gratitude.
Well, Bretta and thatcrowwoman… Scott has probably been sworn in, and the coastal areas of the Suncoast have fogged in around noon. How appropriate!
Now I am hoping that there will be some rain later, just to know that the skies cry for us.
(Metaphorically speaking, of course!)
That’s lovely….thank you….
Don’t forget some good cheese.
Dagian… of course, there will be food after a ceremony!
After all, the Old German saying goes: Food and Drink keep Body and Soul together..; .-)
I heard he’s still having a huge and elaborate inaugural ball. Now, that’s the way to be fiscally responsible, eh?
That’s what $Palin did here – we thought it was good then to have the different balls around the state so all could meet her. Prolly the last time we had accountability from her.
… typical conservative… I got mine… up yours.
The new Governor here in NY, Andrew Cuomo, made a point to have a simple and bare-bones ceremony for his swearing-in because of the economic woes in our state. One of his first acts was to cut his salary and those of his top staff members by 5%.
I realize that we have a VERY long way to go to rescue NY from the pit it’s been wallowing in, but it was nice to see that his administration is starting out ‘walking the walk’!
Just home from the Board of Directors meeting for our local teachers’ union, and the world is still turning after the swearing in of Governor Crook…
but we certainly have our work cut out for us. Universal vouchers for private/parochial schools? Attacks on our retirement system? De-certification of union locals with less than 50% membership in this right to work state? Loss of payroll deduction for union dues? That’s just a bit of the poop on the poop coming out of Tallahassee…
Oy, vey.
Many thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement. That’s one of my favorite parts about the mudflats…I’m always in good company!
*lighting candles and checking the elastic on my big girl britches*
But, but, but…
Dontcha know that ALLLL the problems in this country are caused by them damn unions and public employees?????
And them overpaid, underworked teachers should be willing to do all that teachifyin’ for free ’cause it’s so durn easy to do! If them teachers wood just be quiet and accept a minimum wage like everybody else, we could fix our budget right quick! Cut out all them un-nessuh-ssary benefits too! Just ’cause bein’ around all them kids makes you catch things all the time when they come to school sick ’cause their parents won’t keep them home, don’t mean you should actually have good health care or sick time. A little projectile vomit never hurt anybody! And pink eye isn’t REALLY all that contagious….that’s just an excuse to take a day off. Suck it up and buy some more tissues, you whiners!!!
And stop complainin’ about all those extra degrees and classes and training and workshops and professional development you have to pay for out of your own pocket…what else are ya gonna do with all that money we give you anyway???
(Okay, TCW, did I cover all the RWNJ talking points??? 😉 )
Good job, leenie, you betcha.
hugs from your “union thug” sister, who just won’t quit agitating and advocating
You trouble maker, you!
(Keep it up…I’m right behind ya!)
I hereby authorize you to write speeches for both major political parties and then write the other partie’s response to the original speech. You can dazzle them with brilliance or………..and get paid both ways.
Evidence that Stupidity is alive and well.
At least we know Sarah didn’t shot this sign. She couldn’t hit it with five or more tries.
Every time I see something like this, I imagine a little kid stomping his or her foot, saying “you can’t tell me what to do.” Such maturity and intelligence, eh?
Reminds me of a story told by our late gov. Jay Hammond.
Once he was guiding a rich dude who was constantly bellyaching about anything and everything. “After having hauled him to a mountain top where he’d emptied his rifle at a fine Dall ram (which escaped unscathed, to my secret satisfaction), he demonstrated once more how often the hunted out-nobles the hunter, and launched into a profane litany of all things Alaskan, ending with the assertion, “Alaska’s the last place on earth I’d ever want to live!” I said “You know, I agree. Alaska’s the last place on earth I’d ever want to live too. And with luck at all, it will be!”
Thank you….I feel that same fondness for my woods….they are dark and not so deep….and my little house in those woods….I’m planning on my ashes continuing the journey right here.