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Hey, Lady! Get a Blog, Already.

Is there such a thing as too much blog material?  Back in the old days before Sarah Palin was on the national scene, I’d cruise around the internet to see what was happening, and when I was stricken with inspiration, I’d create a post.  Sometimes they were long, sometimes short.  Sometimes inspiration came right away, and sometimes I had to look around a while.  I’d hit the Anchorage Daily News, and then maybe Daily Kos or Huffington Post, I’d look at what the other Alaskan Bloggers were doing… I’d zip down my blogroll,  I’d check my email to see what nugget had been dropped in there.  Then maybe cruise the Juneau Empire and the Daily News Miner.  Some legislative newsletters…  and eventually something would hit me.

Now, it’s like one-stop shopping.  Go to the governor’s Twitter page, and it’s like trying to take a drink from the Sarah Palin fire hose.  She just never stops.  Tweets come at all hours of the night, they come from TwitterBerry and from the web, they come in hilarious abbreviated versions, and lately, since that 140 character rule has become just too burdensome, she does what she does with all burdensome rules.  She breaks it.

A couple days ago, she posted a Twitter trilogy.  Today, it’s a seven-part series.  What set her off?  Another ethics complaint, of course.  See, the governor hasn’t been declaring gifts she’s received because she doesn’t consider that she’s received them until they are opened.  So we can now envision some storage facility out in Wasilla, piled high with unopened boxes of who knows what perishable food items now covered with green hair, or baby clothes that no longer fit Trig or Tripp or whichever baby they were for. Maybe a pile of gold bars, or some mysterious white powder.  We just don’t know.  She may have signed for those boxes, and they may be in her house under the bed, or in a storage room, but she hasn’t actually received them yet, you see.   Yeah.  Tell it to the post office when you try to claim that case of moldy oranges.

But nevertheless, the ire of the soon-to-be-politically-incorrect-tweeter has been aroused, and from her fingertips has come a behemoth tweet of epic proportions that took more than an hour to arrive in completion.  At least we think it’s completed.  There’s no punctuation at the end, so we’ll have to wait and see.

  1. In violation of Ethics Act more allegations were filed today by serial complainer;gave to press be4 we could respond;ridiculous, wasteful…
  2. Some ask why not sue abusers of Ethics Act bc state wastes 1000’s hrs/millions of tax dollars to fight (and win!) frivolous charges, tho….
  3. it costs political critics NOTHING to file/play their wasteful game;They should debate policy in political arena,not hide w/process abuse…
  4. BUT if there was a suit to end public waste of time/funds to constantly address false allegations I could see perhaps a veteran filing it…
  5. someone who’s put their life on the line protecting even opponents’ right to speak & protest, was willing to die for freedom of press but…
  6. knows it’s shameful 4 valuable time& public resources to be diverted frm needed causes to deal w/this abuse of govt accountability system…
  7. Hopefully these political critics filing this stuff (& some in press perpetuating it) appreciate the freedom to do so, protected by our vets

(rubbing temples)

So what we are supposed to gather from this, if I am correct, is that she is whining and complaining about the complaints, and is rounding up some veteran to file a complaint against the complainers to tear them down for complaining.

Just for fun, let’s see how this latest round of projectile Tweeting stacks up with her Tweet wisdom of  oh, say…. last night.

Time DOES fly! Work hard so u can genuinely enjoy every recreation minute! Avoid time spent tearing down, whining, complaining;WORK & ENJOY

And while part of me thinks that when your medium of choice has a 140 character limit, and what you want to say is pushing ten times that many, it’s time to get a blog.  But then again, another part of me (the part that sort of thinks it’s fun to try to drink from a fire hose) doesn’t want anything coming between my soon-to-be-ex-governor and her Blackberry.

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268 Responses to “Hey, Lady! Get a Blog, Already.”
  1. GTirebiter says:

    I believe she has a great future writing labels for Dr. Bronners Pure Castille Soap

  2. samper says:

    ds55 Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 8:08 AM

    Do any of the other 49 state Governors abuse Twitter accounts this way?

    ====

    I’d slit my wrists from embarrassment if MY gov pulled such a thing!!!!!

  3. LisanTX says:

    These chilling tweets bring to mind what I believe are Palin’s personality disorer(s).

    One mental health professional has begun to identify people who are both narcissists (feels overly entitled) and sociopaths (no conscience) as “narcissiopaths.”

    http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2009/07/16/the-narcissiopath/

    Do the following quotes remind you of anyone?

    At root, the narcissist is an overly entitled personality. He feels entitled to be accomodated on a pretty much continual basis. This begs the question, on what basis does he accord himself this right—to expect, that is, the continual accomodation of his needs and desires? The answer is, on the basis of his sense of himself as “special,” and his expectation that others—indeed, the world—will also recognize him as special.
    ****snip*****
    The narcissist is infamously inept at managing his disappointment. He feels that he should never be disappointed, that others owe him protection from disappointment. When disappointed, he will find someone to blame, and will quickly de-idealize and devalue his disappointer.
    ***snip****
    But the sociopath’s dead conscience isn’t per se what makes him sociopathic. Many people have weak consciences who aren’t sociopaths. It is his dead conscience in conjunction with his orientation to exploit that gets to the heart (really, heartlessness) of the sociopath.

    The sociopath is variously a manipulator, liar, deceiver and violator of others; and he is these things less to regulate his unstable self-esteem than, more often than not, to enjoy himself, amuse himself, entertain himself, and take what he feels like taking in a way he finds optimally satisfying.

    The sociopath, as I have discussed previously, is an audacious exploiter. His lack of shame supports his imperturbability, which enhances the experience of his audacity. The sociopath leaves one shaking one’s head at his nerve, his gall. One imagines that to venture the deception and outrages the sociopath pursues with his famous, blithe composure, he must possess a chilling callousness and coldness beneath what may otherwise be his veneer of “normality.” One imagines correctly.
    ****snip****
    Now sometimes we find ourselves dealing, as I’ve suggested, with individuals who seem, at once, to be both narcissist and sociopath, as if straddling, or embodying both disorders.

    These are the individuals I’m proposing to call narcissiopaths.

    ********

    The author uses O.J. Simpson as an example of someone who is both a narcissist and a sociopath. In the future, I think the author will have more examples to write about.

  4. rylly says:

    Her twitters will do her in. She has the wrong idea of what she could or should do with her tweets. How is she going to make headway with her flying fingers after the 26th if she is devoid of ideas already?
    She’ll try harder and harder and get deeper and deeper in her own web until she “has to quit” “because liberals won’t stop bashing” her and she is just going to “not let them have Sarah to kick around anymore.”
    That’ll serve them right by gummy also, ” I’ll just withhold my wisdom for my wealthy country club set at my paid-for-speeches and they’ll be sorry, na na.”
    All of Alaska should wear Maroon at the week end parties in recognition of “What a Maroon” . Break out the dyes.

  5. tm68 says:

    @ 235 Gardenslug

    I agree with you- her tweets are unprofessional. SHE is unprofessional and amateurish. But, that’s her base and she’s pandering to it.

  6. girl du jour says:

    Her blogs would probably look like her tweets. I doubt the woman can spell.

  7. tm68 says:

    I didn’t follow the veteren comment at all. What is it she wants a vet to do for her exactly? File a complaint against the complainers? Why does it have to be a vet? I don’t get it. Someone explain this madness to me.

  8. Lilybart says:

    I just checked and my Gov, who is blind, has a twitter. But funny, there was nothing personal at all. No whining about the NYPost tearing him a new one every day, nothing about where his kids might be hiking, not famous quotes. Not fair to New Yorkers!!!

  9. Chris says:

    This is a hilarious article, the Vanity Fair editors correct Sarah Palin’s resignation speech.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907?currentPage=1

  10. Maria says:

    Disorganized on the job, disorganized at home. That’s Palin for ya. You’d think by now they’d have done something about all that clutter.
    If it weren’t for tweets coming out of Iran, I’d consider Twitter a complete waste of time. Who cares about anyone’s random thoughts unless they were Confucius, Socrates, Buddha, or the like?

  11. Candy Knight says:

    As the daughter, wife, and mother of veterans, it royally irks me the way $arah acts as if veterans and their families are all her personal, pocketed supporters. We’re not!

  12. mlaiuppa says:

    I’ve thought of another reason Sarah would never survive owning a blog.

    Can you imagine the time she’d spend going back and editing her past posts? Every time there is a criticism or exposure, she’d go back and “fix” her post so that whatever it was would “disappear” like it was never there.

    It would drive her nuts. Well, more so than she already is.

    No, twitter is her perfect medium. It’s for those that don’t have the original thoughts or attention span to support a blog.

  13. WalterNeff says:

    ds55: I looked into this a few weeks ago when I was compiling my Quitters Hall of Fame. Average Gov. tweet rate is about one per day and they are almost always links to policy papers or speeches. She’s nuts.

  14. Gardenslug says:

    Palin’s twitters are so pointless and confusing. They serve only to highlight her lack of depth and professionalism. So, please don’t let her start blogging because that would just lead to more of the same, in longer, more befuddling form.

    I do think Levi Johnston should consider twittering.
    Ashton Kutcher said, “It’s really about everyday people having a voice,” and Levi could be a voice for young fathers dealing with custody, paternity, child support, and other parenting issues.

  15. ds55 says:

    Do any of the other 49 state Governors abuse Twitter accounts this way?

  16. Pat in MA says:

    she could see a veteran filing suit to stop the complaints? reminds me of Biden’s quip about Rudy Guiliani – everything he says is always a noun, a verb and 911… Sarah doesn’t always have nouns and verbs (or periods for that matter) in her sentences, but she never fails to mention the troops no matter what the topic.

  17. debinOH says:

    The Vanity Fair Palin Speech Edit is a classic. I have always wanted to do this to one of her speeches but quite frankly after looking at them I decided it would take way too long:)

  18. WalterNeff says:

    Her tweet rate is so high it’s likely that by pure accident, like chimps with typewriters, she’ll hammer out the complete works of Shakespeare within the year.

  19. overthemoon says:

    incentivizing. I know others have mentioned this, but I think the downfalling of America will be due to the nonsensical verbilating of nouns.

  20. Lighthouse says:

    I haven’t spent a lot of time on Twitter, but reading those posts makes it seem incredibly unprofessional for someone in their state’s highest office. (Not to mention all the whining!)

  21. leenie17 says:

    samper Says:
    who’s stupid enough to send cash through the mail?
    —————-

    These ARE Cee4Pee-ers we’re talking about!

  22. leenie17 says:

    The Rubber Room Hotel Says:
    Am I correct that only gifts of a value of $150.00 or more must be reported.
    And is that just in Alaska would there be a different standard for the IRS?
    —————-

    Don’t know what the rules are for Alaska or for someone in the position of governor, but when I worked for NY State years ago we were required to report any gifts over $25. I’m sure the amount is higher now since that was a while ago and there are probably different standards for someone in that level of government (I was merely a peon!). It will be interesting to see how this plays out since the IRS isn’t nearly as willing to overlook things the way the Personnel Board is!

  23. Mudbug says:

    Perhaps she can send all the boxes and letters up to the remote villages she refuses to support? Then, they keep the cash and put on E-bay the rest so they can buy food and heat this winter?

    Hey, a graceful way out. It’s win win for everyone. Tweeterhead gets to claim she was ‘charitable’ and the villages get what she refused them.

  24. greatgrammy1 says:

    I haven’t read all of the responses but I think she is either drinking or high on drugs, maybe meth, cause’s up typing this crap thru the night.

  25. LiladyNY says:

    #143 Seagull Junker Palin Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 7:56 PM

    Such an embarrassment for an elected leader.

    $arah – either you FILED THE REQUIRED REPORTS or you DIDN’T.

    Even your Attorney won’t address that fact. Instead you attack Andree. That may fly in a small town, but it’s not going to fly across the USA.

    Here is a link posted in the last thread. Thank you note received by someone from Staten Island. It was a package, and the note was written in May.

    http://www.sodahead.com/blog/84939/governor-palins-thank-you-letter-to-ron-devito/?link=ibaf
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Speaking of embarrassments, Mr. DeVito is a member of the Sarah Palin Adoration Fan Club. On behalf of all Staten Islanders who do not share in his adulation, I apologize for his unbecoming gushing and fawning.

    And note to Ron DeVito: Other governors have, throughout US history, written thank-you notes. You can use Teh Google to find them. And, after viewing his MySpace page, he Really needs to stop drooling over Sarah like a teenage boy. It’s very unbecoming. She is so not interested in him.

    I need to take a shower now. These kinds of people make me feel soiled.

  26. Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

    Y’know, with that much mail that arrived, there really should have been a handful of people hired just for the purpose of opening that mail. You’d think that the campaign would have covered it, but once the election was over, I think McCain was done, then they were all done! Kaput, finished, the end, you’re on your own, lady.

    Well, we know how well that works…

  27. womanwithsardinecan says:

    I have kept my sanity by creating barbie photo shoots of the Twit. Laughter is indeed the best medicine.

  28. DrChill says:

    Lee323 Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 12:15 AM
    AKM: “Hey, Lady! Get a Blog, Already.”
    ———————————————-
    This phrase is very reminiscent of the scenario of two people engaging in a public display of affection
    ===================
    Reminds me of a guy driving by and yelling to the pedestrian: “Hey! get a job already!”

  29. Karen says:

    Why doesn’t Sarah try…..just being ethical?

    It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize that mountains of gifts being sent to your teenaged mother of a daughter are going to add up to a significant amount (especially since it was probably bristol’s second baby and the poor kid got rooked on the gifts the first time around!). So as you open them, you catalogue and value them. Willow could have done it. Even a borderline intelligent person could have put that 2 + 2 together, and understood that NOT declaring the mountain o’ loot would likely cause problems down the road.

    Just sayin’.

  30. mocha says:

    She has veterans on her mind because the crabby conservative veterans/white supremists at americangrandjury.org published an open letter to Palin about Obama birther conspiracy and now they’re all ‘yeah, let’s get Sarah to get on Obama about the birth certificate since she’s going to be politically incorrect anyway next week.’ God help us if she does.

  31. KayInMaine says:

    I bet Sarah has been dreaming of opening up those boxes for months now and this is another reason why she quit as Governor: SO SHE CAN OPEN THE BOXES! I hope she’s never able to. It will drive the woman mad…more so than last night. 😆

  32. KayInMaine says:

    I’ve said for months now that Sarah Palin is one of those white women who yells in a crowd of white men, “That black man raped me!”, just so she can watch the black man get the snot beat out of him. She was doing the same thing last night by mentioning our veterans. She truly wants our soldiers to come to her defense by beating up people for her!

    She’s insane, she’s dangerous, and if she thinks we are going to shut up about her, she’s got another thing coming.

  33. samper says:

    Any IRS investigation would include bank statements. If there is anything much more than her salary being deposited, it will be PAINFULLY obvious.

    That would include compensation from ARCTIC CAT, “gifts” from her adoring public, etc. Sure, she could pocket the cash (but who’s stupid enough to send cash through the mail?), but checks have to be run through SOME kind of account, unless she’s cashing them at the local liquor store or through Piper’s account.

    For all that, however, I’d bet that Piper’s account would be scrutinized as well. Just in case, mind you!

    No worries there!

    Numerous deposits that may or may not count in taxes will prove one thing: She DID open the gifts and DOES know what was received (but not reported).

    Oh, and receipt of something = taking possession of it. Whatever she does with it after that is moot. If she received it, but didn’t open it, it’s still received. I believe the federal custom is to observe the federal stamp via the USPS (a federal agency)… the POSTMARK.

    I can see her madly shredding even ENVELOPES now!

  34. pennygirl says:

    oh one mo’ ..sorry
    Like Ive blabbed before she wont get a blog..she can’t ..she killed that road with her blog hater rant

    and as for tweeting on a roll about not complaining and then complaining..
    I listened to a well known radio guru’s show (health nut guy) once talking about mental health and people that just go on and on saying negative things on and on… Well, 1/2 hour into the hour show I had to turn it off.. HE was the one going on and on and on and on negatively about these negative people going on and on

    She is used to doing what SHE wants and evryone else acting like SHE wants them to act.. no Biblical Golden Rule here.. and that’s a basic Christian foundation.. witchy poo church lady I say

  35. pennygirl says:

    I’m sure hearing her nonchalantly and with a “whatevah” that she hasn’t even opened hundreds of boxes… makes her little fans that sent her something feel swell

    I mean there has to be some hand knit something in there for the baby, some inspirational poem someone wrote her,.. stuff like that

    It’s like a slap in the face saying yeah well hello.. I haven’t even OPENED them! but I got plenty of time for photo ops and lemonade stands.. oh and when I am home for any given period of time and could be going in there to see what someone painstakingly sent me.. NOPE I’d prefer to sit here on this couch here and twitter

    People of the PalinBot world heed…. she is using you guys….
    Did she once stop and Tweet a thanks about the Trust Fund thingy you spent a week doing? But she has time to say who scored highest in a hockey game..
    hrmmm…. classy lady

  36. Lee323 says:

    AKM: “Hey, Lady! Get a Blog, Already.”
    ———————————————-
    This phrase is very reminiscent of the scenario of two people engaging in a public display of affection that borders on near completion of coitus….prompting embarrassed and annoyed onlookers to say “Hey, you two! Get a room, already.”

    It’s not far off actually: Palin’s tweets are embarrassing public displays of ignorance and weirdness which are challenged by the limits of 140 characters. A blog just might be the answer to give her enough room for completion of her…….thoughts.

    Okay…..Gag! A whole blog of ignorance and weirdness…….perish the thought. Sorry, pups. Forget the parallel about two people, PDA, onlookers etc…… Again I say, Gag! Very unfortunate visuals here. I take full responsibility.

  37. ds55 says:

    The ethics complaint mentions one specific gift. It only takes one to make a case stick.

    “Unclaimed gift: White hand-crafted beaded vest received in 2007
    In response to my January 22, 2009 public record request for a copy of a
    completed and signed gift disclosure form claiming receipt of a white
    hand-crafted beaded vest Sarah Palin received while attending the
    September 2007 Institute of the North Alaska Dialogue conference in
    Talkeetna, the office of the governor replied on February 20, 2009 that
    they were working on generating an estimate of its value. I have yet to
    receive a completed and signed disclosure form that claims Palin’s receipt
    of a white hand-crafted beaded vest.”

  38. The Rubber Room Hotel says:

    Evening mudpups!
    Wow! Took me 2 hours to catch up with the last 2 posts.
    OK here is my question maybe belongs on earlier post but.
    Am I correct that only gifts of a value of $150.00 or more must be reported.
    And is that just in Alaska would there be a different standard for the IRS?
    How many 20 or 15 dollar checks do you think she has received, man that stuff could really add up. Also little gifts she could in turn turn around and sell.
    Seems to me the little ones could really add up to some serious money.

  39. ds55 says:

    Grandpa Heath talks about unopened pieces of mail.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/15/sarah-palin-will-be-a-gre_n_151195.html

    “Bristol Palin is expecting her first child, a son, on Dec. 20 — and her grandfather says their family has been receiving support and gifts from all over the world.

    “In Sarah’s mailroom, there’s 87 boxes — big boxes of mail that haven’t even been opened,” Sarah Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, 70, tells the Web site Grandparents.com. “I’ve been answering letters all day, all week. We figure there’s over a hundred thousand pieces here.”

  40. Lainey says:

    185 Tealwomin Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 10:18 PM
    Lainey..yes it’s how they catch most ppl…someon reports them!
    ————
    so b/c McLeod filed a complaint with the AK AG office, the IRS would know about her unreported gifts? Is this correct?

  41. seattlefan says:

    lovemydogs: I was just laughing and funnin’. My guess is if we are really ot someone would come in and scold us. Your vision could be the poster of her new blog should she create one.

  42. AKjah says:

    I will post this again in the moro. go to Cabinfeverfanatics.net
    fun is to be had.

  43. lovemydogs says:

    I don’t think we are OT-isn’t this thread about Get a Blog Lady?

  44. CRFlats says:

    bucfan, would you mind if I borrowed this idea for my costume at the Bon Voyage party? Would be easier to put together than the “Wasilla Warior” point quitter guard outfit I was going to wear.

  45. MAJOR MURPHY says:

    I am putting my money on WAR. Wayne Anthony Ross is lining up the suit that will teach the serial ethics complainant what happens when you finally push the quitter twitter too far.

  46. seattlefan says:

    LOL! @ bucfan! Personally I think the red naughty monkeys could be somehow superimposed onto the waders. That would be a hoot! Boy, are we way OT now. Sorry AKM. Lol!

  47. califpat says:

    Always knew it, you Mudpups are crazy creative and I love it!

  48. lovemydogs says:

    OMG: Now I’m going to have to go to bed with that in my head. What have I done???

  49. califpat says:

    What wonderful visions. Oh, Please Dr. Chill, please draft it up! Yeppers!

  50. lovemydogs says:

    bucfan: LOL!!!!

  51. lovemydogs says:

    Feel free to add whatever you want to the “salad” and maybe AKM will forward it to Dr Chill or someone who can draw it. There have to be some “strings” and god opening doors in there somewhere too.

  52. bucfan says:

    And of course she would have to be tossing the salad while wearing waders

  53. bucfan says:

    Lovemydogs, I agree. I would love to see that picture. Of course some of the leaves would have to say, “troops” or “warriors”

  54. lovemydogs says:

    Seattlefan:

    Absolutely! Gotta love that pork.

  55. seattlefan says:

    187
    lovemydogs Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 10:31 PM

    Oh–and the salad MUST have twitter salad dressing–it can be poured on with a flow of tweetweetweet.

    Ah- the picture just gets better and better.

    **************

    Can we add some bacon bits (PORK)? 😀

  56. lovemydogs says:

    Oh–and the salad MUST have twitter salad dressing–it can be poured on with a flow of tweetweetweet.

    Ah- the picture just gets better and better.

    There’s got to be some VanFlein and Stapletongue salt and pepper shakers on the side.

    Where oh where is Dr Chill?

  57. rocket says:

    Sarah Palin is a total freaking moron.

    She is, without question, the most immature 45 year old woman in America.

  58. Tealwomin says:

    Lainey..yes it’s how they catch most ppl…someon reports them!

  59. Lainey says:

    does the IRS follow filed complaints of private citizen to a state?

  60. Lainey says:

    Will the IRS automatically audit her? or are we counting on them to read this blog? unless she reports it, how will they know?

  61. lovemydogs,

    What a great set of images. It does need a visual!

  62. seattlefan says:

    Kath the Scrappy….you are so right. This is one issue she cannot control or manipulate. She is backed in the proverbial corner and she can’t do anything about it or fix it. The IRS will surely be descending down on this and there is no escape. That is why we saw a mental breakdown live on twitter and witnessed the “twitter tantrum”.

  63. seattlefan says:

    lovemydogs #165: Perfect! I can visualize it with the words flying and 2 blackberries on hand. Great idea!

    E in New England: Welcome to the club. No one can figure out what she is talking about. It is disgraceful.

  64. ds55 says:

    @ nswfm CA: Okay I found a genealogy webpage for Sarah Palin. I don’t know how accurate it may be, just Googled it. It says SP’s father and grandmother were from California.

    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/heath.htm

  65. Kath the Scrappy from Seattle says:

    I think the reason that THIS Ethics challenge put a burr under $P’s saddle blanket and tripped her trigger was that most likely all the boxes/gifts have been opened. Who would let them keep piling up & maybe have to hire a Storage Shed (or 10?) to stash the loot – while she has bored little girls sitting around looking for activities.

    When this came out today, probably the first thing that crossed her mind was: “Gack, how could I even possibly remember all the loot that came in, much less account for it now for the State OR for IRS? Why won’t those mean people just forget about it since I will be resigning and doing the martyr thing on behalf of Alaska?”

    Also, if there were small checks coming in & signed off would the bank even track it? I know the bank does track it if in the $thousands?, but if it’s small checks & money orders how would anyone actually have any accounting? Although, I’m sure IRS would have the ability to see her personal checking acct statements if they were ballooning. Input anyone?

  66. bucfan says:

    Hawk, Last September six Republican legislators sued the Legislative Council to stop the Troopergate investigation. The six were Mike Kelly, Fred Dyson, Tom Wagoner, Carl Gato, Wes Keller (Who by the way, she appointed into a vacant State Senate seat) and would you believe it, BOB LYNN. And now he is trying to change ethics rules and do other things to protect her.

  67. Kath the Scrappy from Seattle says:

    @ lovemydogs Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 8:51 PM

    JHop: Are you still out there? Does this complaint hold any water?
    – – –
    Jhop was here earlier, she’s 3-4 hrs ahead of us here in WA & AK. I believe it was Pg4, perhaps Pg3 of “New Ethics Complaint Filed Against Sarah Palin” where Jhop was offering insight. Sounded rather positive IMO.

  68. bucfan says:

    I could do a doctorate thesis on her. But I don’t think they give one out for Crazyology

  69. AKraven says:

    She claims to have revamped the ethics rules, but they don’t apply to her. She is above them. If she were a responsible person who cared about her supporters, she would have had an assistant open all those boxes of mail in a timely manner. She would have claimed the gifts and answered the correspondences in a timely manner. Her ignorance of the basic rules of etiquette is appalling. She holds herself up as the elite of the elitists! She thinks she is superior to everyone else. None of the rules apply to $arah, not even the ones she made up.

  70. bucfan says:

    E in New England, first, where are you? I have a sister in law somewhere in New Hampshire. And as far as her popularity, yes, there still people who approve of her, but remember even Bush still had a thirty per cent approval rating. You would have to go back and see how she came to power mostly because we had the most unpopular sitting governor in history. And as far as using the troops, I hate to say it, but that is a typical Republican ploy. George Bush perfected the photo op using our troops. And Democrats are weak on national security, and on and on.

  71. hawk says:

    I remember a few months ago someone scanned and posted a thank you note on C4pee they had received from Bristol for some gifts they had sent to Trigg.. I first thought it was interesting that Bristol was sending thank you notes for Triggs presents but that’s a whole different topic.. What was very interesting in the note was Bristol saying they had received “thousands” of gifts so far and were busy sorting thru them.. So it sounds to ME like they went right ahead and opened everything that was sent and I’m sure NONE of it was ever reported

  72. mlaiuppa says:

    ocliberal said: “Wouldn’t the proper and intelligent response have been for Palin or her attorney to have issued a statement that simply said, “Governor Palin has reported and disclosed all gifts received by her by the proper deadline as required by the Ethics laws of the State of Alaska.””

    Yes, that would be the proper response. But they use the attack and name calling response because they cannot use the proper response. Because Palin hasn’t reported the disclosed all gifts. She hasn’t opened them. And according to her until she opens them, they’re not “received”. She’s admitted as much.

    You must remember Palin doesn’t have to follow the same rules as everyone else. She can do whatever she wants.

  73. mlaiuppa says:

    Well, you know she’s not going to declare *everything* she gets. Checks will be returned as they’re too old to cash anyway. Cash will be discretely pocketed and overlooked on the declaration. So will any really nice jewelry. Anything else she wants will be undervalued to the extreme. And she’ll overvalue the junk she’s going to donate to charity.

    If you’re sending pajamas, make sure you not only get a delivery confirmation but also keep the receipt to prove value of item. (It’s too bad we don’t have the means to waste income sending her dozens of sets of silk pajamas valued well over $100 a piece. I have two sets of Nordstrom that were expensive even on sale. And no, she’s not getting them.)

  74. hawk says:

    I think the “veteran” she is referring to is this clown..

    http://alaskadistrict31.blogspot.com/

    You’ll notice a ways down the page him bragging about (amongst other things) introducing legislation to keep ethics complaints private.. Rep. Lynn has had his head stuck so far up $arahs butt since day one he can’t even see his front porch, say much less Russia.. He’s one of the few legislators that has supported with her shenanigans all along and of course still thinks she’s the second coming

  75. nswfm CA says:

    Didn’t the Heaths live in So Cal in the 50s or 60s before moving to Idaho?

  76. ocliberal says:

    Seagull Junker Palin Says:& Samper
    ========
    $arah – either you FILED THE REQUIRED REPORTS or you DIDN’T.

    AMEN! She either DID it or DIDN’T do it… which is it??????
    —-
    Double Amen! Either you are ethical or you aren’t. If you are ethical and obey the laws of the state you swore to serve, you don’t worry about ‘frivolous’ ethics complaints or better yet, you don’t get 21 of them filed against you.

    Sarah Palin is the Queen of the Ad hominem attack. Do you notice how she never addresses the actual complaint, she only personally attacks the person who filed the complaint?

    Wouldn’t the proper and intelligent response have been for Palin or her attorney to have issued a statement that simply said, “Governor Palin has reported and disclosed all gifts received by her by the proper deadline as required by the Ethics laws of the State of Alaska.”

    —-
    Regarding Palin’s SoCal roots, I think I read once that the Todd’s parents (or maybe that was step-parents) have a vacation home in Palm Springs (or maybe that was Palm Desert). Sorry don’t care enough to look but if those are her SoCal roots that’s really stretching the connection.

  77. Bretta says:

    LOL love to send pajamas!!

  78. lovemydogs says:

    JHop: Are you still out there? Does this complaint hold any water?

  79. lovemydogs says:

    Dr Chill, where are you?

    This is a picture that just begs to be done. SP over a big bowl of salad. Each leaf of lettuce has a word on it (i.e. “also”, “too”, “progressing”, “incentivizing”, “therefore”, evil media”, “liberal bloggers”, lots of “me”, “me”, “me” etc-you get the picture) and she is madly, madly tossing the salad causing “a blizzard of words” around her head. That is how I picture a blog being done by her.

  80. E in New England says:

    I know I’m a newbie in terms of posting around here (though I’ve been reading since before the election), but I can I just say: THANK GOODNESS for AKM and the rest of you guys!

    My friends think I’m nuts when I try to explain why SP is such a disgrace (to her state, to her political party, and to her gender). Maybe it’s because we don’t live in Alaska, I don’t know. But if it weren’t for the rest of you, I might think I was losing my mind. How is ANYONE still snowed by this woman? It’s beyond my comprehension.

    I also have to ask: Why does EVERYTHING seem to come back to soldiers/veterans with her? I mean no disrespect to those who have served and are currently serving our country, but it’s like she throws them in wherever possible, even when totally irrelevant. Why would it make any difference as to who would file a suit against “constantly false accusations” (which they are not, but that’s not the point)?? She’s basically saying she wants someone who has fought to protect our right to free speech to file a lawsuit to… quash someone’s right to free speech?

    There’s not enough time in the world for me to type out the number of questions that come up every time she opens her mouth. My forehead has become permanently flat from the Palin-related number of times I’ve smacked it against my desk. She’s not even MY governor (or soon-to-be-ex, as it were), and she’s practically driving ME to drink!

  81. Bretta says:

    GBless you John @ #23!! you said exactly what I think.

  82. bucfan says:

    Samper, and I don’t see why she has all those “unopened” presents and packages lying around. Isn’t that why Ivy Frye is for? to open them and write nice thank you notes. What do they pay Ivy for?

  83. mlaiuppa says:

    Oh, come on. No one can guess what veteran that is fighting for freedom will return to Alaska and as a dutiful Alaskan Son rise up to defend his Mommy from those mean ol’ bloggers and ethics complaints abusers?

  84. booboodog says:

    I was down for the last half hour or so, anyway missed the rest of the conversation. I’ll have to read all tomorrow. Nite

  85. Physicsmom says:

    (sorry for OT guys)
    Samper – I haven’t been to the forum in ages and don’t remember exactly how. I have a cheat sheet somewhere, so I’ll try to contact you tomorrow eve. I’m fried tonight and need to get some zzzzzz’s. Thanks.

  86. samper says:

    pdx: MUCH better idea!

    EVERYONE! Send SP FRUIT FROM YOUR HOME STATE!

    I’ll start with a case of MI Cherries!!!!

  87. samper says:

    Gotta check in with DVR… Stewart and Letterman might be good tonite!!!!

    ‘Night all… and remember to REST UP for next weekend. Take LONG NAPS all week!

    Plenty of fluids (water as well as the adult kind), smart food choices (chocolate, pizza, carbs in excess), exercise (those fingers will be on overload for the live blogging)!

    We’ll need to be in shape for the Screen Door/Yahoo Email Marathon.

    I hope the servers are ready!!!! Snoskred? You listening? We have a marathon coming up and can’t be bogged down!!!!!!! 😉

  88. bucfan says:

    Norwegian Blue said the parody Palin site was shut down for strange activity. This begs the question, why is the real Palin site still operating? I think what is going on there definately is strange activitiy. And I keep waiting for the Twitter police to show up in Wasilla “Maam, put down the Blackberry and slowly back away”

  89. pdx mb says:

    Haven’t read all the posts, so don’t know if anyone has dastardly thoughts like me… Instead of PJs, I think gifts of stinky perishables are in order…

  90. samper says:

    Seagull Junker Palin Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 7:56 PM

    Such an embarrassment for an elected leader.

    $arah – either you FILED THE REQUIRED REPORTS or you DIDN’T.

    Even your Attorney won’t address that fact. Instead you attack Andree. That may fly in a small town, but it’s not going to fly across the USA.

    ========

    AMEN! She either DID it or DIDN’T do it… which is it??????

    If she did, then dismiss the complaint.

    If not, then INVESTIGATE and come to a REASONABLE conclusion.

    No more of this “It was just a logo, just like everyone else wears” crap like in the head to toe, neon, walking billboard issue.

  91. mommom says:

    A link to a story on a right-wing website

    http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/07/is_palin_uniting_or_dividing_r.php

    An excerpt–

    In the same column Mr. Frank writes, “Indeed, if political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about. It is her brand, her myth. Ronald Reagan stood tall. John McCain was about service. Barack Obama has hope. Sarah Palin is a collector of grievances. She runs for high office by griping…She is known not for her ideas but as a martyr, a symbol of the culture-war crimes of the left.” Disappointingly, Mrs. Palin focuses on the criticism and insults directed at her instead of concentrating on articulating solutions for our country.

    Is perhaps the real devotion and connection the Palinette’s feel for Governor Palin due to their feeling a kinship with a fellow conservative being persecuted? Many Christians and conservatives rightly believe themselves to be the target of the media, popular culture, and even some Republicans. Is Mrs. Palin just a symbol of the real victimhood that is occurring, or is she an agent for change to promote the values which have become so forsaken?

  92. I’m still thinking about the nightmare that would be Sarah Palin blogging. I love blogs. But nothing she says or writes makes any sense. I can’t imagine how she got that journalism degree, unless they were sick of her and gave it to her so she’d go away.

    When I was in high school, I took every English class offered, because I enjoyed it. So, I had one year of journalism that included working on the school newspaper. It was fun and great training. To be a journalist, one must organize information and write about it without a lot of editing. Not that I’d have made a good journalist, but the training has been useful. I just don’t see any of that coming through in Sarah’s speeches and can’t imagine her writing coherent blogs.

    That Vanity Fair editing job was great. It shows just how awful and inept her use of the English language is. I especially liked the part where whole paragraphs were crossed out – not reworded, just deleted. Message to Sarah? If what you want to say doesn’t fit with the theme, then leave it out. You can’t cram every talking point in every speech you make.

    Really, as goofy as her tweets are, she’s better off sticking to that instead of trying her hand at a blog. Will she still have her blackberry, or does that belong to the state?

  93. samper says:

    Physicsmom: I don’t know that booboodog is from MI.

    That said, some of us Michiganders are thinking of hitting Netroots Aug 16 in Pitt (shannyn and akm will both be there).

    Looking at carpooling to Pitt and such.

    Where are you in MI? I’m in Warren (Detroit ‘burb)

    You can PM me on forum @ samper to discuss!

    Sorry, OT… just answering a post! 🙂

  94. leenie17 says:

    CG Says:
    Let’s all send pajamas to Wasilla…
    ——————-

    Make sure you ask for Return Receipt so you can prove when the gift was received! 🙂

    Her tweets do seem to be getting more and more frantic. The press releases coming from her office are usually inaccurate and unprofessional enough, and those are presumably written by someone with some small amount of PR training and edited before release. Her tweets, however, are released immediately in her typical incomprehensible style with no way to edit or pull them back.

    She responds to everything with such a knee-jerk reaction that one of these days her tweets will get her in some serious trouble. That’s the danger of having no ‘filter’ on your thoughts or words and having a method of immediately sharing those thoughts with everyone!

  95. Seagull Junker Palin says:

    History – it’s still there. Under news on the left side, down in the middle of the page. Not listed as a top story anymore.

    The juvies are out too in the comments.

  96. samper says:

    booboodog: It’s all good, then! I couldn’t exactly get your meaning.

    Let’s see… we have the Screen Door Party on the 26th.

    Then, we have the kid in TN’s continuation on the yahoo email “scandal” on the 27th.

    I’ll need to put together a grocery list to keep the explosion to minimal clean up.

    What do you recommend?

    OH! Also found some muscle relaxers from an old back injury (never, NEVER mix nocturnal kitties in “playful” mode while walking down a staircase. EVER!). Those might help during the 26th-27th marathon.

  97. mlaiuppa says:

    Palin will *NEVER* get a blog.

    She wouldn’t be caught dead in her parents’ basement in a pair of pajamas blogging on the intertubes.

  98. Physicsmom says:

    @samper – you and booboodog are getting together on the 27th (of July?) in Michigan? I’m in MI too and would like to meet up with Mudpups (although July 27 doesn’t work for me, having surgery on the 23rd). Sorry for butting in, but if there is going to be a MI Mudstock coming up in Aug or later, I’d sure like to know. Thanks!

  99. ds55 says:

    @ austintx: I checked Wikipedia on the “family roots in southern California” and found nothing. Maybe she made it up to make them like her.

  100. sandra in oregon says:

    I hope she is not alone tonight. This woman is in serious trouble.

  101. Kevpod says:

    Two things:

    She’s tweeted herself into oblivion in terms of presidential prospects. The twitter prose would be inscribed on the walls of her presidential library.

    What’s it like to go fishing with someone who’s constantly fiddling with a cell phone, firing off spite?

  102. HistoryGoddess says:

    I went to ADN to read the new comments regarding today’s ethics violation complaint, and I can’t find it. It had been there with a pdf of the actual complaint. Am I crazy? Was it removed?

    Something calmed her down to a normal range of strange.

  103. austintx says:

    JHop –
    Thanks for the link. Through all the tripe , this jumped out :

    We are celebrating a golden anniversary (our charter)…and it is the 50th anniversary of Alaska’s statehood. Sarah Palin loves Alaska and she has a huge following in California. (Her family roots are in southern California.)

    Family roots in southern Ca. ??

  104. seattlefan says:

    To: #122
    ocliberal Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 7:27 PM

    So in case anyone missed it or hasn’t seen it this article is absolutely priceless. Vanity Fair’s executive literary editor and reps from the research and copy departments go through and edit Palin’s resignation speech with colored pens.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907?currentPage=1

    I particularly like the ‘green’ comments – that’s the research department – correcting a few of Palin’s ‘facts’.

    _***************************************

    Thanks for posting this. I would not have the stamina to read her written words. Funny how when her spoken words (painful enough to hear) are transcribed, the result is 10 X worse than having to listen to them. I loved the “green” comments, but also savored the “red” ones. Her thought processes (or lack thereof) reflect in her diction and her logistics of delivery.

    If she is truly writing a book, I pity the editor and ghost writer who has to clean it up like the VF guys did her speech. Lol!

    Great find!!

  105. Tealwomin says:

    $ar’ra’ra don’t knoe JACK! Much less the laws of Alaska…what a waste of a perfectly good position (Guv)

    Call the Alaska Dept. of Waste Management…she’s trashed!

  106. Seagull Junker Palin says:

    Such an embarrassment for an elected leader.

    $arah – either you FILED THE REQUIRED REPORTS or you DIDN’T.

    Even your Attorney won’t address that fact. Instead you attack Andree. That may fly in a small town, but it’s not going to fly across the USA.

    Here is a link posted in the last thread. Thank you note received by someone from Staten Island. It was a package, and the note was written in May.

    http://www.sodahead.com/blog/84939/governor-palins-thank-you-letter-to-ron-devito/?link=ibaf

  107. Tealwomin says:

    $ar’ra’ra will never be able to work well with others…this is the guv, tweeting about a resident of Alaska who is holding da’ guv to her own promises…and she is M.A.D.

    Her daughter is going to the 3dr grade in the coming school year…but $ar’ra’ra is still stuck in per-school.

    …can’ wait till she is in time out…since her brain already is…

  108. Sourdough Mullet says:

    I see that one of Palin’s Twitters says:
    “Re more frivolous ethics allegations today; shame good law is being abused for politicking”-
    So my first thought was: if she admits that the Ethics Act is a “good law”, why doesn’t she just go ahead and comply with it?
    What a slimeball she is.

  109. lynnrockets says:

    It’s off to bed folks.
    Tweet dreams!

  110. booboodog says:

    Samper,
    I am just pulling your hind leg; I can’t wait to see you on the 27th-you are going to explode!!

  111. ds55 says:

    I trust the Repub elders are watching SP and shaking their heads.

  112. She’s just not happy because there are still ethics rules that she has to follow. Does she think that once she quits no one can file something against her? Does the chance to do so end when she isn’t governor if the complaint is about the time she was in office? I would think people could still go after her. I hope they do, if there’s something that she hasn’t had to account for. And once she’s out of office she probably won’t have access to those millions of state dollars or thousands of hours from the state lawyers. Ooops, Sarah – you should have played by the rules and then none of this would be a problem.

    And why, oh why, does she always have to drag the military into whatever she is talking about? Good grief. SHE wasn’t in the military. I wonder if it’s too late – maybe they could knock some sense into her about what it means to follow the rules and not try to write your own.

    She’s a lunatic, first class. The more she tweets the more evident it is. And with every tweet she is giving all of us more ammunition in case she ever rears her ugly head again on the political stage. Watch out, Sarah, honey – we’re all watching and we’ll be ready for you.

    And thanks AKM, for following the biggest tweeting twit for all of us. I can’t make myself read it more than a couple of times a week.

  113. SS says:

    Looks like she is trying to warm up Rep. Lynn for going into battle for her!

  114. the norwegian blue says:

    sadly, the hilarious parody twitter site exgovsarahpalin has been “suspended due to strange activity” despite the WSJ article quoting Twitter as allowing such parodies (if obviously fake) http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/06/sarah-palin-goes-after-fake-sarah-palins/

  115. austintx says:

    Rep.Lynn’s good HB3 Visa/Drivers Lic law:”If u dont have legal right to walk down AKn street, why should u have right to drive same street?”
    12 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

    Do what ??

  116. samper says:

    No soymilk in the house.

    I have: Rum, diet coke, flavored water, regular water, and valium. And Pizza!

    Obviously, must do some grocery shopping soon.

  117. Karyn says:

    Sarah needs an editor, her comments are even more confusing than her resignation speech. I’m getting a migraine just looking at them!

    Does she think this helps her image at all? She has enough smarts, & it seems she’s playing victim, sending tweets for diversion.

    Think about a child getting into trouble, of course they have a million excuses, & lots of charm. The parents, & the public with Sarah, we just want the truth. Dang, she’s good at lying, gotta give her that.

  118. samper says:

    booboodog: Are you being snarky with me or in agreement?

  119. booboodog says:

    Samper,
    Soymilk helps…

  120. samper says:

    Seriously, guys… I need a Valium or something. The rum ain’t doin’ it for me on this one. I am so over the top outraged for ALL decent AKn’s, R and D alike.

    There ARE some respectable, decent, thoughtful, smart and NICE R’s, btw!

    Shout out to those folks!

    I have a cousin who was blown to bits at Khe Sanh, Vietnam. Much empathy and understanding to all military service folk and families being “used” by SP to invoke patriotism when she actually has none or even knows what it means.

    God, she turns my stomach sour tonite.

  121. SS says:

    ocliberal
    She needs to be home schooled.

  122. booboodog says:

    Samper,
    I think it was written in that way very much on purpose; complainers is almost
    used in an accusing way, where complainants is just another legal term.
    Much in the same way you used AKA: A-HOLE. See?

  123. ocliberal says:

    I’m sure this has been posted already but I’ve been gone a couple of days and haven’t had time to read all post.

    So in case anyone missed it or hasn’t seen it this article is absolutely priceless. Vanity Fair’s executive literary editor and reps from the research and copy departments go through and edit Palin’s resignation speech with colored pens.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/07/palin-speech-edit-200907?currentPage=1

    I particularly like the ‘green’ comments – that’s the research department – correcting a few of Palin’s ‘facts’.

    AKM: Are you sure you want this woman to blog? I don’t think any of us have the mental fortitude to withstand a full out assault of Palin unleashed, unfettered, unabridged, unplugged and scariest of all, unlimited! At least I know I don’t…

  124. honestyinGov says:

    I havn’t even tried to read the comments yet because I just got home.

    All I can say is Wow…(head hitting the desk) W o W..(head hit the desk AGAIN )

    I thought the 3 tweets to get a message out was ” ridiculous & STUPID “… BUT….

    ‘Someone’ has reset the bar again…. VERY high… or VERY Low…. Take your pick.

  125. samper says:

    He forgot to include the part about Andree’s job application. Isn’t that standard for Press Releases against her?

    I can just see SP madly dialing up Van Flea… GET A PRESS RELEASE OUT NOW! NOT IN 10 MINUTES! DEFEND ME, DAMMIT!

    I can’t believe this garbage is published on the state site. I’d be mortified if MY gov did any such thing.

    Jenny has class, though. She’d never do that, no matter the circumstances.

    The Pee’ers must be having quite a time with this release from a NOBODY! Except that they have to have another beg-a-thon to pay for it.

    Does she really think that because it comes from this idiot attorney that it holds more proverbial water than what she says herself.

    I’m going to barf. Back in a few.

  126. rebekkah says:

    John (Canadian Mudpuppy); just sharing something we have in common. My uncle was in the Cnd. Armed Forces, with an infrantry(?) (am going to get the specifics from my cousin soon), on D-Day, invasion of Normandy. Don’t know if they were the “first” wave. He did survive, came back and suffered greatly with depression, alcoholism until he died. Am proud of our Canadians who fought alongside Americans for freedoms.

    And, it stands to reason that we get frustrated – with an individual who practices insentivity (SP) with every word that comes out of her mouth. So, did your father survive too?

    So, if the Gov keeps twittering, or does write a blog, won’t be long before she has possibly insulted every facet of society. The pen is mightier than the sword; in her instance, her pen may be her political end.

  127. Lori in Los Angeles says:

    Van Flein thinks if you say it often enough and loud enough it will become true. NO LAW against making complaints public for the executive branch, GOT IT VAN FLEIN?? I agree with Phil – I am tired of these criminal acts being called ethics complaints. There is an urgent need to get some of these “complaints” to a higher court – or better yet, to “the feds.”

  128. WakeUpAmerica says:

    First of all, I don’t believe the gifts have been sitting around unopened. I’m guessing they are around the Palin’s house or have been re-gifted. Second, if she were telling the truth about them being unopened, why doesn’t she do her job and open them, catalog them, and declare them? How hard can it be? It is interesting that nobody has mentioned how DISRESPECTFUL it is to the people who sent her gifts. What a sleeze she is! Gimmee, gimmee, gimmee!!!

  129. samper says:

    PRESS RELEASE WITH MY COMMENTS IN PARENTHESIS:

    Another Ethics Complaint Filed Against the Governor
    July 20, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Once again, an ethics complaint has been filed and publicly released in violation of state law (WHAT LAW? IT ONLY APPLIES TO THE COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE LEG, NOT EXECUTIVE BRANCH!). This is the sixth complaint filed by Ms. McLeod. (SO WHAT? SHE HAS LEGAL AND VALID POINTS!) In addition, she has filed a lawsuit against the Governor’s office and multiple public records act requests. (AS WELL SHE SHOULD, IF THEY ARE NOT COMPLYING WITH REASONABLE REQUESTS!) All of her prior complaints that have been ruled on have been dismissed. (BECAUSE PERSONNEL BOARD WANTS TO KEEP THEIR CUSHY JOBS!) The Ethics Act serves important state interests in ensuring ethical state government and was intended to prevent the various forms of corrupt misconduct (LIKE SP’S) that had plagued the Legislature in prior years and which resulted in the prosecution of legislators and others. It is unfortunate that the law has been abused and trivialized in the current manner. (TRIVIALIZED? HOW SO, MR. BIG SHOT?)

    Today’s complaint, filed just six days before the Governor leaves office (SO WHAT? SHE IS STILL GINO. WHAT DOES TENURE HAVE TO DO WITH IT?), alleges (PROVES) that Governor Palin violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act by failing to submit complete gift disclosure forms in a timely manner, and obtained “free” services. The apparent primary goal (SAYS WHO? YOU? YOU’RE AN IDIOT! WHAT DOES YOUR OPINION HAVE TO DO WITH ANDREE’S ACTUAL GOAL?) of this complaint has been achieved, namely, an effort to keep the complainant’s name in the paper. (YEAH, RIGHT! ANDREE LOVES THREAT TO HER WELL BEING!) We anticipate another dismissal of this complaint as with the complainant’s other complaints. (WHY? BECAUSE GINO MIGHT FIRE THEM OTHERWISE? SORRY! THIS MIGHT NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR HER TO THREATEN DISMISSAL!) This is the fourth ethics complaint filed against the Governor since the announcement of her resignation on July 3. (BECAUSE SHE IS UNETHICAL!) In every case, the complainers (COMPLAINANTS, YOU DOLT!) violated the confidentiality provision of the Ethics Act in making their complaints public knowledge. (THERE IS NO SUCH PROVISION FOR THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH COMPLAINTS!)

    THOMAS VAN FLEIN—Personal Attorney for Governor Palin (AKA: A-HOLE!)

    My blood is BOILING!

  130. I feel more uncomfortable with the term “ethics complaint” every day.

    What we call that is merely citizens using the only avenue open to the to clarify our poorly thought out and poorly written executive ethics code. It is one of the least restrictive in the USA. If one approaches the state ombudsman to answer questions like Andree is once again raising, you are referred to the process she is engaged in. If one goes to the Department of Law, one is told to do what Andree did.

    The same held true for Ray Metcalfe, when he complained about stuff Veco cronies were doing. The FBI took a deeper interest in Ray’s concerns.

    Palin should have been indicted for stealing almost $10,000.00 from Alaska to fly her kids to events they weren’t wanted at, staying in pricey hotels, one of them overlooking Park Avenue and Central Park – for a friggin’ week!

  131. ds55 says:

    SP needs to switch to decaf.

  132. curtisemayle says:

    redwoodmuse says: “yep, a blog with the comments blocked.”

    More likely, only selected and edited comments shown. Nah, maybe you’re right, she doesn’t have the patience for consistent discrimination.

  133. austintx says:

    Can you say “manic” ??

  134. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    Well, I have to say Goodnite MudPups, 6 comes early. One last post. I want to thank all the Mudpuppies who spoke tonite on behalf of all military families. Our generation grew up knowing what sacrafice our fathers, mothers,grandfathers and grandmothers made for our world. They are the true heroes of our world. God keep and take care of all our service men and woman who are now serving. To all who have lost loved ones, in our countries conflicts. No fallen soldier is ever forgotten. We will always remember and give thanks for the brave sacrifices. God Bless all of you

    Nite Mudpups, I love you all.

  135. austintx says:

    Reading Rep.Lynn’s informative/clever constituent nwsletter,see his “That’s Incredible Award” re Washington’s nonsensical missile defnse cut
    4 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

    She is all over the board………….

  136. ds55 says:

    Who ARE these people? Since when does an attorney take pot shots at a private citizen who just filed an ethics complaint?

  137. samper says:

    I agree with way previous poster (forgot who, sorry!).

    Let’s all find the most ridiculous jammies we can and send them to Wasilla as a “gift” to SP’s future endeavor as a blogger!

    Fuzzy wuzzy slippers, and coffee mugs should also apply.

    Can one twit in jammies?

  138. austintx says:

    Our fair,competitive oil/gas appraisal system(ACES)assists gasline,incentivizing new explorers to get up here & tap domestic energy sources
    2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry
    **************************************************************************
    Yeah , thats right sarah.You did some “incentivizing” in Giddings , didn’t you ?? Lot of money got dumped in your PAC from your pipeline buddies in Giddings.
    So , when do we get to see the list of 15 that you tweeted about ??

  139. the problem child says:

    Thanks John, fellow Canadian mudpup. My own grandfather was at Normandy Beach. And he was fighting for France as much as for the US, I believe.

  140. antiAnti says:

    there’s a press release for the ethics complaint

    http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/VFpr-July20-2009.pdf

  141. booboodog says:

    trish,
    I think she confused twitty and witty. And yes, we will have to follow her wherever she goes just to make sure she will only become comic relief and not anything even close to a political figure ever again.

  142. samper says:

    Cassie @ 91: ROFLMAO! 🙂

    lynnrockets: Without Wooba Gooba with the green teeth (PW), It ain’t nothing but a house party. Man, I miss those days!!!!!!!!

  143. Rob in Ca says:

    Prof Geezer…you nailed it. I am no psychologist….but I bet when she finally quits, she won’t sleep for 48 hours. She is on a huge high. Don’t want to be around when she falls, though….

  144. HistoryGoddess says:

    Doesn’t she have a facebook? Doesn’t that have space for blogs. Or, would not enough people see it. She isn’t using her press releases much. This is it for yesterday and today:
    Palin Offers Support to Family of Captive
    July 19, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin offered her support and encouragement to the family of a Ft. Richardson soldier captured in Afghanistan. Details >

    She tweeted more than this. Maybe tweeting will be her own Sarah way of doing things. Real mavericky. Rules, schmules.

    And Canadian John- loved your comments. (My grandfather fought in WWII as part of the Regina Rifles.) You spoke from your heart, and I thank you for that.

    Whoever said the last tweets showed a manic turn. I agree. This is all too weird. I hope McCain is squirming. He should hang that head real low.

  145. Rob in Ca says:

    Sarah, instead of spending money on that attorney that is going to sue Andree McLeod for exercising a right that is clearly stated in ALASKA LAW…

    WHy don’t you just spend a couple of bucks on some flunky…say Mansour or Ivy Frye for example…so go through all those boxes your Dad says you have and list your gifts?

    Everybody saves money, you comply with the ethics law, and your fans might finally get those thank you notes! And the many thousands of us that, like Andree, are waiting for an answer…will finally get it!

  146. Lainey says:

    sorry posted twice

  147. hahaha, your soon-to-be-EX-GINO is an endless source of giggles, whenever I find the time to follow her twitty tweets!

  148. Lainey says:

    88 John(Canadian MudPuppy) Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:44 PM
    I just wish this iceberg that is suppose to be heading her way would hurry up and run the Palin Express down. Put an end to the whinning and shrill voice I can’t stand much longer.At least it would shut her up and keep her off the political stage.
    ——————
    I hear ya…me too (also too)

  149. lynnrockets says:

    @ sauerkraut #83

    Close but no cigar. Double or nothing?

    Just thinking, can you folks imagine how time consuming it would be for Sarah inasmuch as she would feel compelled to respond to every single comment on her blog? Especially the critical ones from the “Mainstream Blogosphere.”

  150. antiAnti says:

    To…. John(Canadian MudPuppy)

    no need to apologize. It needed to be said. I knew an ex-paratrooper who would have said the same although not as restrained as you were.

  151. SS says:

    @Cg

    “She seems to go back and forth between computer and Blackberry…sometimes at the same time.
    I think Ivy Frye or Todd is doing some of them.”

    Very interesting

  152. samper says:

    Is “incentivizing” a word?

    Journalism degree, anyone?

    At graduation, I got a beautiful dictionary and thesaurus from a dear friend to carry me into adulthood.

    I thought EVERYONE got one of those!

  153. Suchanut says:

    Elaborate, Cassie Jeep 🙂 What are you thinking?

  154. Lainey says:

    88 John(Canadian MudPuppy) Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:44 PM
    I just wish this iceberg that is suppose to be heading her way would hurry up and run the Palin Express down. Put an end to the whinning and shrill voice I can’t stand much longer.At least it would shut her up and keep her off the political stage.
    ——————I hear ya…me too (also too)

  155. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    ..get a blog and use ALL of your fingers!

  156. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    “…by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

    This is my take.

  157. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    lynnrockets Says:Barbie and the Twits” HAhahahahahahah,,,I like that one

  158. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    I just wish this iceberg that is suppose to be heading her way would hurry up and run the Palin Express down. Put an end to the whinning and shrill voice I can’t stand much longer.At least it would shut her up and keep her off the political stage.

  159. lynnrockets says:

    @ Samper #67

    Yes, in fact 2 of the members, J. Geils and Magic Dick played locally just last weekend. no sign of Peter Wolf though.

    Perhaps Caribou Barbie could start a new band. Maybe “Barracuda and the First Dudes” or ” Barbie and the Twits”?

  160. Star says:

    $arah is soooo out to lunch….She couldn’t handle the bloggers…he he WTG Canadian John…:)

  161. Scarlet..Oregon says:

    To…. John(Canadian MudPuppy)

    Thank you for the excellent comment!!

    Only Ms. Palin owes an apology…….many, many apologies.

  162. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    76 samper Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:36 PM
    John (Canadian Mudpup): Thank you to you AND your family for the service and sacrifice that makes our ENTIRE continent a peaceful place!

    Thank you all. My dad and uncle were like many of your countrymen and woman. They had on thought. Feedom for all. Thank God for people like them.

  163. sauerkraut says:

    Lynn… my guess is MHD. Not too many “you’ll work for us” from Reveah.

  164. CG says:

    She seems to go back and forth between computer and Blackberry…sometimes at the same time.
    I think Ivy Frye or Todd is doing some of them.

  165. FedUpVet says:

    As a vet I can see a meathead doing her bidding. This sucks on so many fronts, I’m shocked at her stupidity and fearful of Sarah unleashed. I did find a theme song for the crazy b**ch.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI

  166. Lainey says:

    74 BooBooBear Says:
    Now…MudPuppies…we must remain vigilant in keeping an eye on her comings and goings……..we need to keep the lower 48 informed of her TRUE character flaws. She is dangerous and has no business even thinking about the White House!
    ————words of wisdom…please do!!!

  167. booboodog says:

    MonaLisa, Also, too a Blackberry!

  168. BodieP says:

    What makes this particularly remarkable is that this woman, who is the queen of obfuscation, has chosen as her medium one requiring clarity, and above all, brevity. I can just imagine the press releases, issued via twitter. We’ll know when they’re done because we’ll get a twitter that just says ###. News folks will then print out the twitters, cut them out, and assemble their very own, do-it-yourself press release. Gives a whole new look to the editing process. I wonder if she’ll put her most important info in the Lede twitter–the first one? Or will it be like a novel, that only delivers its payload after one has consumed the entire epistle, slept on it, and consulted the relevant authories and critics? And twitter tech takes a sharp left turn into the Twilight Zone…

  169. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    Canadian MudPuppy <~~~~~~~~~~ God, How easy it would be to shut her Blackberry down,,,,,, sssssshhhhh.

    Maybe send her some corrupt service books…..Hahahahahahaha

    <~~~~~~~~~~ Starting to think evil thoughts
    ROFLMAO

  170. It would be the world’s first speaking-in-tongues blog!

  171. samper says:

    John (Canadian Mudpup): Thank you to you AND your family for the service and sacrifice that makes our ENTIRE continent a peaceful place!

  172. lynnrockets says:

    @ sauerkraut #53

    Boy, are you hitting close to home, although I actually grew up in a bordering town. Any guesses?

    BREAKING NEWS: The official costume for Palinween consists of absolutely no clothing (because the Empress wore no clothes) with exception of rimless glasses and Naughty Monkeys.

  173. BooBooBear says:

    John (Canadian Mudpuppy)-

    I LOVE you! You have just said what we all feel! Such a whiny 2nd grader. She is getting worse…..is her Narcissitic Personality Disorder peaking? She seems to be getting more desperate and frantic, don’t you think? Sheesh………thankfully she will be out of Alaskans hair.

    Now…MudPuppies…we must remain vigilant in keeping an eye on her comings and goings……..we need to keep the lower 48 informed of her TRUE character flaws. She is dangerous and has no business even thinking about the White House!

  174. CG says:

    She’s on something! What is her deal!

  175. SS says:

    Looks like someone finally broke down that bathroom door, got the blackberry away and is trying to make her tweets more professional. (She will wait till there not looking and lock herself away again to tweet soon.)

  176. Lainey says:

    2 Sue Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 5:41 PM
    Palin running a blog? One word: IRONY
    ———–ain’t that the truth!
    with as much and as often as she criticized pajama-clad bloggers, wouldn’t that be more hypocrisy on top of all the rest attached to her? I’d like to see her succumb.
    Does anybody know her “average citizen” Twitter name?

    26 John(Canadian MudPuppy) Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:04 PM
    I apologies to all MudPuppies. This woman pisses me off so much it boils my blood. The never(nerve) of that crow bait. arrgggg
    ———–no apology necessary…she boils everybody’s blood who can see right through her. I concur with your last statement on #23…and to all of #23…you go John!

  177. CG says:

    We’re waaay off-topic now. Last violation.

    Canadian John. We’re as proud of Canadian affiliation as we are of being Alaskan. [Which is hard to even imagine.]

    All kidding aside – my kid travels a lot. Every continent. She’s very young and “ethnic” in appearance. We decided that it is genuinely safer for her to “be” Canadian. First it was Bush, then it was Sarah.
    With an Alaska passport, everybody buys it. Unofficially, of course.

    Canadians rock!

  178. seattlefan says:

    Seems like someone grabbed her blackberry out of her hands and gave it to the ghost writer. The last 2 tweets have a different tone and higher level of vocabulary. LOL!

  179. antiAnti says:

    @63 Professor Geezer Says: July 20th, 2009 at 6:31 PM

    I think it might be she’d planned out a day’s worth of tweets, then put them on hold for the tweet-burst, and never one to waste a tweet is dribbling out the pre-planned tweets

    just a guess

  180. samper says:

    lynnrockets: Hilarious!

    Any J.Geils sightings in your neck of the woods? So sorry to have missed them here in Detroit. Tix were RIDICULOUSLY over the top when we paid $10 back in HS to see them at a major venue here.

    OOOPS! A little OT. But then, SP is OT ALL THE TIME!!!!!

  181. LibertyLover says:

    Since I am a visual person, I am picturing Palin hunched over her Blackberry while Piper tends to Palin’s youngest child while Palin madly gets cramps in her thumbs trying to hit the right keys with myopic eyes…

  182. zyggy says:

    sounds like Piper got back to tweeting, she must had to wrestle the bb from $arah.

  183. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    If she, Heaven forbid, starts her own blog, everyones going to need a translator to make sense of the word salad. It takes me reading it 4 or 5 times before I can even make some sense out of it and then it isn’t actually clear on what the hell shes saying anyway.Someone should invent the “Palinese Dictionary.”

  184. Professor Geezer says:

    Is Palin in a manic phase?

  185. antiAnti says:

    YIKES – she tweets on

    Our fair,competitive oil/gas appraisal system(ACES)assists gasline,incentivizing new explorers to get up here & tap domestic energy sources
    2 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

    This wk meet w/TransCanada-Alaska Execs & AGIA team;good progress on natural gas pipeline;clean domestic AK energy w/private sector project
    15 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

    Re more frivolous ethics allegations today; shame good law is being abused for politicking. See http://tinyurl.com/mrtwcv
    20 minutes ago from web

  186. GreatGrey says:

    Lynnrockets,

    Did you mean “Trig or Tweeting”

    {{{ runs for cover behind Willow’s skirts}}}

  187. CG says:

    That’s good, lynnrockets. It’s all fair on the playing field.

  188. MonaLisa IS MY NAME! says:

    Booboo: Red heels, $700 glasses and stolen … uh… ‘borrowed’ clothes are the official Palinween holiday garb!

    Maybe also a lil’ egg on the face, too.

    You betcha!

  189. lynnrockets says:

    @ CG at # 42

    I probably shouldn’t post this as it makes me look like a smug elitist, but I went to a rather exclusive and pricey New England college with a darned good hockey program. When playing on the road against a team from a school with less prestigious academic credentials our fans had a show-stopping taunt. When the other team scored against us (which I’m proud to say wasn’t often), our fans would wait for the home fans’ cheering to die down and then they would counter with this: “That’s alright, that’s OK, You’re all gonna work for us someday!”

    Cruel, but effective.
    -lynnrockets.com

  190. Yes – I predict a blog – I agree with AKM.
    How difficult do you think it may be for her twitter followers to make sense of partial sentences especially if there may be tweets from other people between Sarah’s transmissions? The installments and continued tweets must be hard to follow!

    But, seriously – there are some really important issues out there that we should be keeping our eye on and not getting totally distracted by our soon to be ex-gov. I am sure you have your favorites, so I won’t make a list – (hint – health care)

  191. ds55 says:

    SP’s Twitter account is more like a bullhorn than a blog. “You stop it! Stop it right now!”

  192. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    This sorry excuse for a human would use anyone and anything to further her career. She has the unmitigating gall to make herself out to be the victim while breaking every ethical rule in the book. I just wish just one person in American politics had the gonads to speak out and voice what this woman is.Chiseller,Fraud is too easy a word for this woman who abuses her position of power.Talk about a corrupt politicians. When you open a dictionary and see the meaning of the words BLUNDER, you will see the picture of John McClain. Thanks for nothing John.

  193. CG says:

    You’ll have to be a marmot.

  194. sauerkraut says:

    lynn lynn the city of sin
    you never go out the way you went in…

    remembered that last week… went in on 129, came out on 1A.

  195. sauerkraut says:

    VO is NOT active military.

  196. booboodog says:

    Lynnrockets,

    can we dress up for Palinween?

    Canadian Mudpuppy – Thanks so much on behalf of the veterans in my family.

  197. Amy says:

    John(Canadian MudPuppy) Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:04 PM

    I apologies to all MudPuppies. This woman pisses me off so much it boils my blood. The never of that crow bait. arrgggg

    John,
    No need to apologize. I think she hits a nerve with most military families. I have to just walk away from the computer most of the time. It was still fun reading her meltdown, even if it did make me mad enough to spit. I called several vets tonight and they laughed when I thanked them for preserving my free speech and $arah’s right to twit. She.has.no.clue.

  198. CG says:

    That could go with Marmot Day (Feb 2) and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day (March 31).

    Really, it is. Not a joke.
    http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=932&type=6

  199. mae lewis says:

    If $arah really needs a place to vent, she only has a few days left to use that pretty State of Alaska website. They are going to have to take down her picture, the First Dude, all the family doings pretty soon. More places to vent: she still has that FaceBook Thing. You’d think that her friends in the Sea of Pee would be delighted with a guest blog (they will have to hire an editor to tune it up, just going by the tweets that we see). $arah had better hurry up; the State of Alaska Blackberry has to go back after the picnic. Bye Bye Blackbird, Bye Bye.

  200. GreatGrey says:

    Magnum Staplegun blames KTUU for the turkey video, and Palin didn’t give a single interview to KTUU after that.

    Thick skinned? NOT.

  201. lynnrockets says:

    BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin has just announced that her last official act as Governor of Alaska will be to sign an executive order which creates a new holiday to be celebrated each July 26th. The holiday will be called PalinWeen. Seems Sarah would like to go “Twit or Tweeting.”

    I think we’ll have a new Palin Twitter song posted tomorrow.

    Hello to everyone.

    lynnrockets.com

  202. CG says:

    Let’s all send pajamas to Wasilla…

  203. GreatGrey says:

    GreatGrey – I think the KTUU series is called “The Wild Ride.” How could they NOT know that the term carries different meanings for some “troofers?”

    Well it wasn’t fluffy at all 🙂

    Seems they have a grudge against her, this could be fun!

  204. Gryphen says:

    Dammit! I KNEW she wanted to be a blogger!

    She just wants to sit at the cool kids table for a change.

    Well maybe I will be magnanimous and send her a pair of pajamas. Just to get her started.

  205. CG says:

    By the way, a little known fact, in honor of our Canadian compadres, eh:
    The purchase of Alaska was to get in front of the British strategically. Great Britain was negotiating for Alaska, in order to extend British Columbia and the Yukon and lock in the Pacific Northwest.
    BC, baby! Mass quantities of beer and chips all around!

    I’m pretty happy as an American, but I could go for teaming up with BC and the Yukon. Yukaska. No…Alaskon.

    Lots of Canadian buddies, dual citizenship, etc. And you know the hockey taunts between University of Alaska and the North Dakota Fighting Sioux – “our Canadians can beat your Canadians!”

  206. Seagull Junker Palin says:

    Oh my….she LOST it on this one.

    Hey $arah!
    Just declare the gifts why dontcha!
    Like you are required to do!

    Then there wouldn’t BE an ethics complaint.

  207. benlomond2 says:

    uuuhhhh…….what specfic causes in Alaska are resources being diverted ?? Gravel deliveries ? Fuel for winter heating ? ah wait!!! counting up all the unopened packages that say “Wait until after July 27 to open”!!!

  208. Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

    Zackly, naughtymonkey

  209. austintx says:

    John(Canadian MudPuppy) –

    No apology needed. Good job.

  210. naughtymonkey says:

    Twitter is suited to the short length of Palin’s attention span. She’d never keep it together long enough to complete decent blog posts.

  211. justafarmer says:

    but he doesn’t live in Alaska

  212. sally says:

    John(Canadian MudPuppy) Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:00 PM
    Mrs Palin, I have something to say to you and I haven’t mentioned it much in my 55 years on this earth, not to my child of my late wife. Those words you apoke tonight and the remarks about someone who has given his all for our freedoms….
    ******************************************************
    Well said and thank you! (insert smiley face)

  213. justafarmer says:

    Lori, that would be VO

  214. Lori in Los Angeles says:

    ummm, there IS a “columist” in the sea of pee who is active military – cannot remember his name. He posts as much as man sour. He would gladly answer the call of his damsel in distress – and he would proudly DIE for her.

  215. Carol.Seattle says:

    And using Twitter is how SP is spending her time and energy during her last days of earning a paycheck as governor? About as productive an activity as taking cookies out to communities in need.

  216. sauerkraut says:

    I don’t believe she will ever have a blog. She is barely coherent using abbreves and junks trying to meet the twitter limit. She may be able to read but I suspect she can’t write worth a steaming pile of road apples.

  217. Lori in Los Angeles says:

    GreatGrey – I think the KTUU series is called “The Wild Ride.” How could they NOT know that the term carries different meanings for some “troofers?”

  218. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    nerve

  219. sauerkraut says:

    Amen to that, John. And if the bittertwitterquitter needs an American to tell her deliver that same message, count me among the many willing to do so. Palin just dissed every person in uniform with that series of twits, including her own son. She wants a veteran to help her fight off those who want her to follow the law? Holy moly but that woman is (*^&)&^# stupid.

    Maybe she can find some secessionist in her own house to do her dirty work. Leave the vets alone.

  220. jc in co says:

    Bravo John, well said.

  221. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    I apologies to all MudPuppies. This woman pisses me off so much it boils my blood. The never of that crow bait. arrgggg

  222. GreatGrey says:

    Oh dear, KTUU starting their week long series on Palin, How “fluffy” will it be?

  223. Non Sibi says:

    A seven-part tweet.

    Dating myself, but it seemed like it was missing part 8 – “Burma Shave.”

    That, and there wasn’t a punchline to it.

  224. Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

    (((((( John – Canadian Mudpuppy )))))

    You rock, hon 🙂

    Nan

  225. John(Canadian MudPuppy) says:

    Mrs Palin, I have something to say to you and I haven’t mentioned it much in my 55 years on this earth, not to my child of my late wife. Those words you apoke tonight and the remarks about someone who has given his all for our freedoms….
    “”BUT if there was a suit to end public waste of time/funds to constantly address false allegations I could see perhaps a veteran filing it…
    someone who’s put their life on the line protecting even opponents’ right to speak & protest, was willing to die for freedom of press but””

    Let me tell you something lady. My uncle and my father both fought in WW11 and my uncle gave his all for the exact freedom you so belittle. Freedom of speech and the right to question question our elected officials in how they conduct themselves on our behalf. In your country and mine, many have given their all. I was named after my uncle and I am above all else proud of what he did for this country and yours, including the rest of this world. He and many others died so you can have the right to whine about a citizen of your state applying her Constitutional Rights as am American. As a Canadian,I have the right to tell you to “SHUT THE F ___ UP” ang live with it Buttercup.

  226. ds55 says:

    Sarah needs a video-blog because her grammar and spelling are awful. That’s why she likes Twitter. She can always say a mistake was just an abbreviation.

  227. NY Dem says:

    Can’t wait to see her try and respond to the IRS in “140 characters or less” !

  228. benlomond2 says:

    ..are you NUTS !! It’s hard enough to figure out what she’s saying with Twitter’s 140 words,,,,and you’d wanna see her BLOG ?? OOYYY VAY !!

  229. 0whole1 says:

    She better ask herself what happens if she gets her way? She got her way in getting her lawyer to send a threat to Shannyn — that got her extra scrutiny from the press. She got her way in quitting — that got most folks thinking she’s half nuts, and gave the GOP establishment a way to acceptably criticize and marginalize her. What happens if she gets her way and has some crony/dupe that’s served file suit? Welp, (wealthy and politically connected) Sarah Palin will be going after a (middle class, non-connected) private citizen who was just exercising her legal rights to speak truth to power and participate in her own government.

    I will bet you that a) pro bono lawyers will come out of the woodwork, and b) she will publicly paint herself as petty and vengeful, which will cover up her patina of victimhood toot sweet.

  230. the problem child says:

    Nebraska Native, if she is reading, she has a lot to catch up on, and I’m betting she is a slow reader. 😉

  231. the problem child says:

    Nebraska Native, if she is reading, she has a lot to catch up on, and I’m betting she is a slow reader. 😉

  232. califpat says:

    If she started bloggging, we would have to call in a translator. You betcha!!

  233. califpat says:

    If she started bloggging, we would have to call in a translator. You betcha!!

  234. the problem child says:

    She doesn’t need a blog she already has a couple oof blog fan clubs that get advance notice on everything she is up to except her own twits.

  235. the problem child says:

    She doesn’t need a blog she already has a couple oof blog fan clubs that get advance notice on everything she is up to except her own twits.

  236. SecretShopperforHungryChildren says:

    Sarah’s using Twitter for hate-mongering.

  237. SecretShopperforHungryChildren says:

    Sarah’s using Twitter for hate-mongering.

  238. Nebraska Native says:

    Sarah, sweetie… stopping the tweets for the moment? Oh, do tell… you are among friends (heh heh heh)

  239. Nebraska Native says:

    Sarah, sweetie… stopping the tweets for the moment? Oh, do tell… you are among friends (heh heh heh)

  240. Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

    can’t you just see someone asking her in a comment if she has her footie jammies on or the Scooby-doo jammies?

    Ouch, just imagining it makes my ears hurt lol

  241. Nan (aka roswellborn) says:

    can’t you just see someone asking her in a comment if she has her footie jammies on or the Scooby-doo jammies?

    Ouch, just imagining it makes my ears hurt lol

  242. Anna says:

    A blog? On the one hand, she’d still be utterly incomprehensible. On the other, I guess it’s not strictly because of Twitter that I’ve started thinking of her as the Twit Who Quit.

  243. Anna says:

    A blog? On the one hand, she’d still be utterly incomprehensible. On the other, I guess it’s not strictly because of Twitter that I’ve started thinking of her as the Twit Who Quit.

  244. Nebraska Native says:

    Oh AKM… you are the person!!! Amazing post. BTW, did someone snatch the blackberries away or is she reading here?

  245. Nebraska Native says:

    Oh AKM… you are the person!!! Amazing post. BTW, did someone snatch the blackberries away or is she reading here?

  246. redwoodmuse says:

    Lori in Los Angeles Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    I think a blog IS in her future. She needs a format where she can “speak” and spew without having to answer questions from commenters.
    ———
    yep, a blog with the comments blocked.

    redwoodmuse

  247. redwoodmuse says:

    Lori in Los Angeles Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 5:44 PM

    I think a blog IS in her future. She needs a format where she can “speak” and spew without having to answer questions from commenters.
    ———
    yep, a blog with the comments blocked.

    redwoodmuse

  248. zyggy says:

    is anyone sure she got a degree in journalism? Did it require English classes?

  249. zyggy says:

    is anyone sure she got a degree in journalism? Did it require English classes?

  250. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    I remember the days of waiting forever for the text pages to load, shoo-ing the teenagers off the internet at 2:00 a.m., and waiting for 7 hours to get the results from a soccer game daughter #2 played 500 miles away. You’d think $P would have some respect for what the internet has become.

    …and some fear for what it keeps FOREVER!

  251. Cassie Jeep Pike Palin says:

    I remember the days of waiting forever for the text pages to load, shoo-ing the teenagers off the internet at 2:00 a.m., and waiting for 7 hours to get the results from a soccer game daughter #2 played 500 miles away. You’d think $P would have some respect for what the internet has become.

    …and some fear for what it keeps FOREVER!

  252. Lori in Los Angeles says:

    I think a blog IS in her future. She needs a format where she can “speak” and spew without having to answer questions from commenters. Yes, a blog is the answer. I picture it looking like RedState or FreeRepublic, but with no back and forth discourse except when posts appear from mansour or ziegler.

  253. Lori in Los Angeles says:

    I think a blog IS in her future. She needs a format where she can “speak” and spew without having to answer questions from commenters. Yes, a blog is the answer. I picture it looking like RedState or FreeRepublic, but with no back and forth discourse except when posts appear from mansour or ziegler.

  254. MO Inkslinger says:

    Afraid her brand of journalism might give blogging a bad name. Her tweets are the ramblings of teenage girl.

  255. MO Inkslinger says:

    Afraid her brand of journalism might give blogging a bad name. Her tweets are the ramblings of teenage girl.

  256. Ripley says:

    Maybe she wants McCain the POW to make the complaint for her…hmmm???

    And I hope nobody sent her a turtle or some other perishable thing.

  257. Ripley says:

    Maybe she wants McCain the POW to make the complaint for her…hmmm???

    And I hope nobody sent her a turtle or some other perishable thing.

  258. justafarmer says:

    this is just too funny for words

  259. justafarmer says:

    this is just too funny for words

  260. 264 Crayons says:

    it would be kinda hard to blog from a blackberry, eh? because i don’t imagine her sitting down long enough at a computer.

  261. 264 Crayons says:

    it would be kinda hard to blog from a blackberry, eh? because i don’t imagine her sitting down long enough at a computer.

  262. Sue says:

    Palin running a blog? One word: IRONY

  263. Sue says:

    Palin running a blog? One word: IRONY

  264. austintx says:

    A blog huh ?? I dunno , I think she has hit the ceiling with twitter.

  265. austintx says:

    A blog huh ?? I dunno , I think she has hit the ceiling with twitter.