Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 19, 2013 · 36 Comments
Today, I walked into Barnes & Noble on a mission. A horrible, horrible mission. “Hahaha,” you say, “Did you buy Sarah Palin’s new book?” And then you wait to hear what I was really doing there. Awkward pause. That IS what I was really doing there. I had a tough choice, once I found myself actually holding her book. Because, to be honest “The Zombie’s Guide to the Holidays” in the impulse buy section by the register seemed like it would be a better read. And it had a cute little snowflake bookmark. But then it hit me… “A Zombie’s…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Good Tidings & Great Joy - the Book, Headlines, Humor, Nation, Republicans, Roll your eyes into it, Sarah Palin, Shake it, Todd Palin, Your Head · Tags A Zombie's Guide to the Holidays, Canton ginger, Canton Ginger Cognac, Eskimo bingo, Good Tidings and Great Joy, Palin Christmas book, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Christmas, the war on Christmas
Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 8, 2013 · 12 Comments
So, insane flesh-eating bacteria is tied to BP spill tar balls, Fukushima radiation should be hitting the West Coast in the next year or so, and a SuperTyphoon that is perhaps the strongest storm EVER, just made landfall in the Philippines. So, last night I decided to go out and listen to a Republican Senate candidate bloviate about how federal overreach is destroying the country. SPOILER ALERT: This ends with drinking. Mead Treadwell, Alaska’s Lt. Governor, who in that capacity oversees elections, is running for U.S. Senate. Any time a Lt. Governor runs for something in the state (like Current…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Bang it, Barack Obama, Election 2014, Elections, Environment, Headlines, Health, Mead Treadwell, Nation, Native issues, Oceans, Pebble Mine, Rallies and Events, Republicans, Resource Development, Roll your eyes into it, Rural Issues, Sean Parnell, Shake it, Ted Stevens, Vitamin Democracy, Voting, Your Head · Tags Alaska climate change, Arctic shipping, Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell, Mead Treadwell, Spenard Roadhouse, Sullivan for Senate, Ted Stevens, Treadwell for Senate, Treadwell Obamacare, Treadwell voting rights, University of Alaska, Voting Rights Act Alaska
Posted by Jeanne Devon on November 1, 2013 · 16 Comments
ConocoPhillips makes a lot of money. This seems like an obvious statement, but its one that Governor Sean Parnell, and his oily ilk in the Alaska legislature are hoping you and everyone you know will forget when it comes time to vote on the repeal of SB21. So they run around with their hair on fire yelling things like “Incentivize production!” and “It’s complicated!” and tell us that if we don’t start sobbing and throwing cash at the big 3 oil producers, and if we repeal SB21, well… they’re going to leave us for someone else like Libya or North…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Bill Wielechowski, Headlines, Make it explode, Oil & Gas, Republicans, Resource Development, SB21, Sean Parnell, Shake it, Skulduggery · Tags Alaska oil and gas, Alaska oil profits, Alaska oil wealth giveaway, Alaska republicans, Alaska resource development, Alaska SB21, Big 3 oil Alaska, BP Exploration Alaska, ConocoPhillips Alaska, ConocoPhillips profits, Sean Parnell
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 31, 2013 · 31 Comments
The reason we are launching ourselves a couple pages ahead on the calendar to talk about Christmas, is to celebrate one of those very special holiday events – an event that has only happened twice before, and of which this blog has felt compelled to comment. That’s right kiddos, our former ex-half-governor has written another “book.” She’s figured out that politics is kinda hard, so her books have gone from fantabiography, to fantahistory, and now to that despised and maligned holiday that’s about to go the way of the dodo because of liberals and communists, and “politically correct Scrooges,” and…
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Category Alaska, Bang it, Good Tidings & Great Joy - the Book, Headlines, Humor, Roll your eyes into it, Sarah Palin, Shake it, Your Head · Tags Palin book, Palin Christmas, Palin eskimo bingo, Sarah Palin book, Sarah Palin racism
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 27, 2013 · 3 Comments
Clearly feeling overlooked in our recent “marketing fails” coverage, British football club Manchester United decided that what would best accompany its already big brotherish “new order” marketing tag is a logo evocative of a swastika. History buffs may recall a certain someone calling for a “European New Order” in 1941. United spokesman David Sternberg has issued a statement acknowledging that “the creative is completely inappropriate; we apologise unreservedly and are taking appropriate internal action.” Regardless of whether “the creative” being thrown under the bus is an ad agency or an internal marketing team, don’t people up the organizational food chain in…
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Posted by Shannyn Moore on September 29, 2013 · 9 Comments
We’re just a few days from launch for critical portions of the Affordable Healthcare Act. Republicans in Washington, D.C., are so freaked out they’ve taken the economy hostage and threatened to shoot it. Conservatives with “support the troops” on their car bumpers have no problem cutting off paychecks to soldiers in a doomed bid to “protect” Americans from affordable health care. I’ll bet the list of things they want before they’ll agree to pay the nation’s debts was made by cutting words out of magazines and pasting them on a piece of paper. In case I’m being too subtle, this…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Barack Obama, Ethics, Headlines, Health, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Nation, Republicans, Sean Parnell, Shake it, Strategery, Teabaggery, Veterans · Tags Affordable Healthcare Act, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Obamacare, Sean Parnell, Ted Cruz
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 6, 2013 · 19 Comments
The world is going to Hell. And there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. But, do you know what we can do? We can mock bad campaign literature, that’s what. And at least it will make us feel like we’ve done something. I anticipate doing a lot of this during the next year, because many candidates have Print Shoppe Deluxe™ on their e-machines. And some of them even have the 16-CD set of “1,000,000,001 Clip Art Images You Can Use.” It’s still early, but let’s trot out our first example before the class. You’ll be glad to…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Humor, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Republicans, Shake it · Tags Alaska Lt. Governor, Dan Sullivan Anchorage, Lt. Governor Dan Sullivan, Mayor Dan Sullivan
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 3, 2013 · 11 Comments
Remember that guy? The one with the hair, and the teeth, and the blonde wife, and the dog? Starts with an R… Give me a minute, I’ll get it…Don’t tell me, don’t tellll meeeee…… Romney! Remember when Mitt Romney was running for President, and then that thing happened, and he was speaking at a fancy private, closed-door fundraiser and told his fellow second and third-generation hand-me-down elites that 47% of the country were a bunch of good-for-nothing lazy freeloaders who didn’t do anything, and just mooched off the system? And then that guy videotaped it and released it to that…
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Category Alaska, Bang it, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Rallies and Events, Republicans, Roll your eyes into it, Shake it, Teabaggery, Whackjobbery · Tags Anchorage Federal Overreach Summit, Don Young, Don Young 47%, Don Young federal employees, Don Young federal overreach, Don Young gaffe
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 13, 2013 · 24 Comments
The “Congressman for All Alaska,” Don Young (R) was a featured speaker today at the Federal Overreach Summit in Anchorage. Young, who has a reputation for being outspoken, outrageous, and often politically incorrect was in rare form. After railing on what he perceives as the intrusion of the federal government into land and resource issues in Alaska, and into our personal lives, he castigated the EPA, the DEC, the National Parks Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers, saying they “do nothing.” He also had a harsh message to federal employees in general who number 22,887 in his state of only…
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Category Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Don Young, Headlines, Labor, Republicans, Roll your eyes into it, Shake it, Whackjobbery · Tags Congressman Don Young, Don Young, Don Young federal employees, Federal overreach summit alaska, federal overreach summit anchorage
Posted by Jeanne Devon on August 13, 2013 · 15 Comments
Yesterday, a “Federal Overreach Summit” began in Anchorage. For two days, lawmakers and administration officials will gripe about the “feds” and what is described as intrusion into Alaska’s affairs. But the federal overreach discussed on the first day of the summit didn’t touch on Stand Your Ground law, or issues of reproductive choice, or gay marriage, or even voting rights which have been so much in the news as of late. This federal overreach is quite specific, and gets to the heart of what this administration considers important. It’s all about land use and resource extraction. A Department of Natural…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Barack Obama, Chuitna Coal, Environment, Headlines, Nation, Pebble Mine, Republicans, Resource Development, Roll your eyes into it, Rural Issues, Sean Parnell, Shake it, Strategery, Tongass · Tags Alaska DEC, Alaska EPA, Alaska federal overreach, Alaska SB27, Bristol Bay Watershed assessment, Chuitna coal, Ed Fogels, Federal Overreach Summit, Michael Geraghty, No Pebble, Pebble Mine, Randy Ruaro, Sean Parnell, Shannyn Moore, Wishbone Hill mine