Hey, BT! If so, I’m sure glad they picked someone who is already under investigation; that’ll save a lot of time and energy!

Nice strategy. McCain loves him some fairy-tale disaffected Hillary voters.

T-

who has only been governor for a little over a year, is GOP Presidential candidate John McCain’s choice for Vice President,

Oh, please Dawg make it so.

“McCain/Palin ‘08 - Insanity AND Incompetence!”

Lordie. Talk about lack of experience and gravitas.

Halperin, for once, would be correct, IF Palin is indeed the selection.

It does not however, negate Obama’s “it’s the judgement not the experience” theme

Statistically, what are the odds that McFriends could pass away during his presidency?

CNN confirming it’s Palin.

YES!!!!!

good

And credentials! I think we will find many holes in her resume!

Wow, an ex-beauty queen…

NBC just confirmed it’s Palin.

Mornin’ Blue Texan,

saw some other Halperin quote from last night lauding both the occasion and the speech . . . now properly chagrined for pulling his pants down on national teevee last Sunday

Palin is confirmed as the Veep choice - NBC News.

I think this is a disasterous choice for the repubs. I feared they would choose a woman and get some positive energy from that, but a gov with so little experience? Hell, I wanted a woman badly, but a qualified one.

oh jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze this is going to be
OBAMA Tsunami

She looks perky. Brings to mind the wag who said the also-rans would be the happiest today.

Anybody else expecting affair rumors at any moment?

I’m sure glad they picked someone who is already under investigation; that’ll save a lot of time and energy!

McCain/Palin ‘08 - Insanity, Incompetence AND Indictments” !!

How is that not a winner?

hahahahahahahaha
this is great

oh crap Blue Texan - your Senator Hutchinson on CNN right now inadvertently concern trolling the shit outta Palin pick

“don’t know too much about her . . .maybe that’s the good news”

not exactly the Cheerleader Kay we all know and loathe - bwaaahaaaahaaaaa !

707…..spitting up tea

Good Gawd. The second in command less experienced than Obama, and under investigation? They must WANT to lose. But, if true, it will be fun to watch them all find their note cards from the Meirs-for-SCOTUS campaign. Popcorn acquisition time.

Palin?!? Alaska is already likely to go to McBush. This is an attempt to get the PUMAs over to his side. Might work, IF Palin can avoid indictment until November.

Boxturtle (Betting the McBush got the inside word from DoJ that she can)

Total meltdown of the McCain campaign to make such a disastrous choice.

Palin confirmed, Cindy in Georgia. Vicky Iseman will be jealous…

What?

An a-Palin choice?

Does Mc$ame apparently calculate to Palin-ate the PUMAs?

The answer is: I don’t know but Alaska …

Nobody mentions that she is under investigation for abuse of power. They’re talking about attracting women voters; easily corrupted women? They’re saying this choice means that Joe Biden is going to have to be careful in a debate.

I like her better than Short Ride. Sexist Republican voters will be inspired to just stay home. That would be most of the males and some of the females.

Republicans are not ready for a female VP candidate. This won’t happen. It’s a Karl “Hang” Rove Hat Tip to women and younger Republicans and a grande Head Fake.

Maybe she can teach the country how to carpool the kiddie winks to their athletic events.

What does this say about the Ol’ Geezer’s tactics. And judgement?

Or as Mr. Sunshine said, this has got to be a joke.

And then he said, if he thinks the Hillary voters are going to let another woman upstage their Hillary, he’s got another think coming….

They must WANT to lose.

They’re going after the disaffected Hillary voters.

Who, when they look at Palin and compare her with Hillary, will be at the polls at 6:00 A.M. on November 4, pulling the Obama lever.

. . .wont Cokie find her exotic ?

yup…..the mask has fallen off

This must blunt the GOP’s ‘experience’ attacks.

And what is the date for the Vice-Presidential debate?

Got a party to schedule….

Yes, sports fans, the TalkLeft commenters can be very smart when they feel like it and they know how to read. They were discussing this pick excitedly the day of Clarkgate.

I can hear her acceptance speech even now: “I’ll simply die if I don’t get that recipe.”

Boxturtle (Betting the McBush got the inside word from DoJ that she can)

THAT worked out well for Pete Domenici.

Gawd, where are the Mods when we need them?

Boxturtle (The pun is mightier than the sword)

Excellent. Now all that needs to happen is the ethics investigation to bear fruit (or just contaminate the campaign) for weeks and months.

A YOUNG VP with an ethics cloud over her head, from the state that is overcast with ethics clouds top to bottom.

Biden will clean her clock.

well i guess they can NEVER say Obama is in experienced

Republican talking point: Every 20 years Repugs pick an outside the box Veep candidate and they win. Waht bullshit, are they going to start tracking success based on The Zodiac now?

oopsie owe you a coke

Buchanan: Biggest risk in political history.

Exactly. Will be interesting to see if this comes up at all in the breathless media reporting.

Let’s also remember, she can’t even get a retribution firing of some low-level cop done right.

As reported earlier this month by TPM, here, she tried (through a cutout who wasn’t nearly competent at hiding tracks) to get her sister’s ex-husband fired from his job as a state trooper. Only it didn’t and hasn’t gone as planned. An excerpt - the original at TPM has links to the Alaska media and elsewhere:

In a press conference this afternoon, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) conceded that someone inside her administration pressured the state’s Department of Public Safety to fire State Trooper Mike Wooten, Palin’s former brother-in-law, who is now embroiled in a bitter custody battle with Palin’s sister.
Palin’s statement is the latest in what has come to be known around Alaska as “Wooten-gate.” The scandal began on July 11, when Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was fired from his post with little explanation, a move that quickly raised questions in Alaska.
A few days later, Monegan came forward, stating that he had been pressured by those around Palin to fire Wooten — but had refused to do so — a choice that he believes led to his sudden dismissal. Palin denied Monegan’s accusations, and a Legislative Council has appointed a special commission to probe the matter.
In today’s conference, Palin said that state troopers had taped a phone call from Frank Bailey, Palin’s director of boards and commissions whom she appointed last August, in which Bailey inquired about having Wooten fired.
At the press conference today, Palin distanced herself from Bailey’s actions claiming that he acted alone, but the recordings suggest that he was acting at her instigation.

She hasn’t even learned lesson one of Watergate - “burn the tapes, you idiot.” What McCain’s picking her, from the universe of Republicans available, says about his judgment is striking - and bad.

But, I guess a fondness for wiretapping puts her in good stead with the current Rethugs.

What you have here, if she is appointed, are a couple puppets of the Cheney regime, sitting there being marionettes while Deadeye Dick and his co-conspirators continue really running things.

I know, I know, lay off the Fox News cbl . . .

but their “reporter,” Carl Cameron continued to introduce her as
Susan Palin - must…stop…giggling :D

Thinking about it, how many folks do you suppose turned down McBush before Palin said yes? She CAN’T have been on his initial top ten list.

Boxturtle (She’s not going to help in Ohio, Penn, or Mich. Good)

oh MEDIA SPINNING themselves silly

Bwahahaha…Kay B-H just said that they’ll all be introduced to mooseburgers…

I don’t think she’s pleased, even though she has that smile stuck on her face.

Hey from Denver airport

If they wanna have us talk about the corrupt Alaska Republican Party, bring it on baby.

Ok, I was wrong. This is a gift. How many of the Republcan Base are going nuts right now? Many Right Wing Religious Voters will also be super pissed. Many (including the women themselves) believe that women are only good for making babies and sweeping floors (serving the men).

Having youth and vigor and likeableness and coming across as a regular person who is trying to break through the ossified Alaska Republican Party are all positives.

So Rs can claim to be the “change” ticket. A Maverick™ and an “outsider.”

Even more important now to dispel the impression of McSame as a maverick.

Where’s Edwards Teller. I want the dirt on this one.

Pat Buchanadana - “This is the decision of a fighter-pilot landing crashing on a small carrier-deck”

I went ahead and fixed it for him. *g*

She’s already under indictment! What kind of vetting is that?

I think they should call her into Congress for hearings…hahaha

McCain’s actuarial chances mean that this woman will be President if he actually were to win the election.

I suppose he only “qualification” for the ticket is she is ALL about drilling in ANWR and mining the shit out of Alaska.

Is she also on the board of Halliburten?

What you have here, if she is appointed, are a couple puppets of the Cheney regime, sitting there being marionettes while Deadeye Dick and his co-conspirators continue really running things.
——————
ive been saying that for 6 months…deadeye AINT leaving his powerhold

Her Republican Majesty Anita Bryant II

you make me laugh

Is she?!?

I know why McBush piked Palin……. SHE is THE only one who said yes when asked…

Think about it….. after last night…. in a stadium of over 84,000 screaming Democrats and even the TeeVee talking heads were swooning over it…… ALL the contenders decided it would be suicide to be McBush running mate…..

Isn’t Palin in trouble for getting her ex brother in law fired for no cause from some law enforcement job? McCain I think is trying to pick up the still angry Hilary voter.
That And plenty of big oil money also is McCain that desperate to keep Alaska red?
EdwardTellar a late nite commentor from Alaska should have the inside story on her.

Joe sez….McGiggolo is a big GAMBLER …and he is
14hr crap table player

Heh!

Damn near 100 percent. Cancer-boy isn’t getting any younger and since ol’ Ian Welsh said it too, McCain’s an asshole.

yup…Ridge musta run away

Told to me by a friend who is an OLD Ohio Shawnee:

Before White Man come, Shawnee run the world.
No taxes, no national debt, and women do all the work.
And White Man thinks he can improve on a system like that.

Boxturtle (Unsure if it’s original, but his delivery made up for it in any case)

From the Michelle Bachmann wing of the Republican Party, Sarah Palin, according to Pat Buchanan, was one of his major “Buchananites.”

What does this show about the ol’ geezer’s judgment?

Can you hear the sound of the big money Re=thug’s wallets snappin’ shut?

go check mine at 47 on this thread, and the link therein.

So what did McSame offer Shortride, who’s probably shut the door and refused to talk with anyone (like he supposedly did with Chris Dodd back when)?

Hi again, John McShame sure has shown some judgement, 1 1/2 yrs experience as governor, under investigation, guess she hasn’t had the “opportunity” to get to know McShame. Wonder if she will get her hair dyed blond so she can fit in.

the media has NOT MENTIONED the indictment

I wonder when he’s gonna send her to Georgia to straighten out that mess…oh yeah, he already sent Cindy….

hahahahahahahahahaha

It would be very funny if this pick was meant to help Ted Stevens against Mark Begich.

Make sure you ask ET all about this. Report in the morning. Heh!

Yes but…Pawlenty was probably looking for a way out of Minn. he is not liked by his folks and will probably be a one termer.

all he EVER really wanted
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Noone can save Ted Stevens from himself.

It’s official — McCain is playing the Death card. “Hey, you broads! Vote for me and you’ll probably get the first female president!”

I would bet Lieberman has been offered State.

SPIN SPIN SPIN

He’s got that. Remember Harry Reid bragging about a quarter of a million dollars, then backtracking about how important the “vote” was?

anyone else sense a political resemblance to lurita doan in sarah palin?

oh this is gonna get good! thanks for the delicious meal that will just keep on giving these next 2 months john

Ugly political retaliation gone awry. Reminds me of the Bush/Rove attorney scandal and the Bama Governor kneecapping. Does this kind of behavior appeal to Republican Voters?

nagonahappen

Palin is not under indictment

wiki

BTW. I loved the choice of intro music for Al Gore’s speech.

you dont know these peeps..thats chicken scratch….Haddasah wants 12 houses like Cindy…”g”

So, if McBush has to leave office a couple of months into his *cough* presidency, can you just see this Palin with the bouffant beauty queen hairdo negotiating with Pootie and Maliki, etc…

Gawd…if he gets elected we are surely dooooomed.

The media MUST be pushed to mention facts: indictment, investigation.

The VP pick of McCain is as dirty as all other GOPers in Alaska (or in the entire country).

She IS purty…maybe John has in mind another fling?

The stake for women in this election is SCOTUS.

It’s a strange choice…has that “Spiro Agnew” quality, doesn’t it?
Carly Fiorina would have been a wiser choice, more of a fit, experience managing, etc.
This is off the wall in the extreme.

Msnbc has the fact that she is under investigation on screen since it broke.

gotta give McCrazy credit - he has absolutely and completely stolen the news cycle from the D’s glorious night last night.

CNN reporting on the investigation.

In light of her being under state investigation, maybe the former beauty queen can help sway enough PUMAS to last just through November. Then when she gets indicted, she can step down so McCain can reappoint….wait for it….Dick Cheney.

I’m pretty sure the bragging was done by Chris Dodd. Latest from Reid is that John McCain is not a nice person.

I have to say. This news makes me giddy. I feel like laughing. Laughing a lot.

As I said on the thread downstairs, this is all about McCain’s “maverickiness” just like the “classy” congratulations speech.

Expect McCain to show up regularly on all three late night shows, as well as SNL. This is the “Ah-nold” strategy - go for all the low information voters and hope and pray people are stupid enough to think that McCain looks like that nice guy who make jokes with Jay.

Palin fits in this mold - she’s a so-called maverick, plus no one has ever heard of her so they can paint said narrative. Rove (and don’t tell me that anyone else has been running the campaign since Schmidt came on board) likes images, that is what things look like on the TeeVee with the sound turned off. That Palin is supposedly a looker makes it even better for him.

What I am hoping is that subliminally, enough women get the creeps for a mid-40s married lady hanging out with a 72 year old guy. It makes me shudder and I’m a WASP male…..

They’re doing the announcement in what appears to be the size of a high school gym relative to last nights mile high extravaganza

Well, this pick should make the “social conservatives” in the GOP happy. Pro life, anti gay marriage and smart enough to know it’ll take an amendment to do it. Also may help McBush with his closeness to Big Oil, she is not known as their friend.

Boxturtle (Betting Holy Joe would get State in a McBush admin as well)

It’s a good thing, because if they were bored, they’d be picking at it and trying to change the reality of the glory that it was.

Next week, it will be all about Gustav and then Hanna, which will throw the GOP convention right off the teevee..

What’s the difference between a PUMA and a Cougar?

So anyone think that the Veep debate is going to be funny…… Biden will clean the floor with Palin….. on foreign policy and world events….. OMG….. does Palin even know what the Bay of Pigs is?

former beauty queen

damn - we’ve lost the former-Beauty-Pageant-Contestants vote….

yeaaaaa i forgot about her…mebbe she turned it down

MSNBC graphic 44 YO, 80% approval, under investigation.

No, well him. But I don’t know if Dodd bragged about it. Reid on the other hand was caught on video on one of yesterday’s posts? Just watched it. He looks like the Wizard of Oz with no curtain. Just a sleazy salesman.

CNN just talking about the troopergate investigation.

And, for you business folks, a business political analyst on CNBC just had a complete meltdown and called this pick completely insane!!! Went on and on and the hosts were trying not to laugh.

Exactly. Rove may like images, but the main image here is that McCain is really old. They must be planning campaign images without McCain in them.

We’re talking about short ride holy joe lieberman, not McCain.

What’s the difference between a PUMA and a Cougar?
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I don’t know, what ?

Good Analysis. She is very pleasing to the eye. I guess Fiorina didn’t have the look Rove wanted.

Cougars are gettin’ some.

this also would kill the CIC creds for the pukes

Per the Wikipedia:

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and the presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate for the November 2008 election.[1] She is the second female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party (the first was Geraldine Ferraro). She is also the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and the 1984 runner up in the Miss Alaska contest.

Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[2] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.

Palin will be the second female major party nominee for Vice President (the first was Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984) and the first Republican.

Emphasis mine.

Yep.

BTW, not that it really should be a quality or not, but either that picture is not flattering or someone needs to interview those judges of that beauty contest to see what they were smoking 25 years ago.

Very bizarre pick. She was a mayor two years ago, fer chrissake. It’ll be interesting to see the bounce in the polls…for Obama.

McGiggolo…is a BIG GAMBLER ,no?

for what it’s worth, the folks at redstate seem ecstatic: “it’s palin: epic. Win.”. Saying that this is a head fake sufficient to neutralize Obama’s post-speach media boost. They don’t seem to mind that she’s a corrupt, inexperienced hockey mom… But then again, consider the source.

Palin is definitely in the McBush type. She has contempt for judicial process.

Networks are reporting she’s married to a BP executive. They may not be “friends” but they are in bed together.

check out wiki

Hahaha… The GOP has drunk its own Kool-Aid. They’ve convinced themselves of their own propaganda regarding disaffected Hillary PUMAs, and in so doing anchored their candidate to a pretty VP who’s long on corruption and oil industry ties.

The GOP is welcome to what few fringe PUMAs remain following a highly successful Democratic Convention. Meanwhile, let the investigations into Sarah Palin’s links to Ted Stevens and abuse of office begin!

Also, in a first, Bill Kristol was finally right about something - he mentioned Palin on Fox Noise Sunday 3 or 4 months ago.

The source is stated as this from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI.....index.html

and btw, fuck Chuck Todd - saying that Joe Biden will now look like a bully if he beats up on her in the Veep Debate.

Right, Chuck. Being absolutely and utterly unqualified and fit to lead is a fucking *huge* advantage going into a Debate.

One of the 10 backstage guest winners for Obama’s speech last night was a young evangelical woman from North Dakota.

That vote’s already been split…if McCain wants to make this campaign all about ideology…Obama is “ready to have that debate.”

At a time like this, can no one spare a moment for Joe Lieberman, the bitter tears, the gnashing of teeth?

His name is Greg Vallierre, and he’s saying that McCain has just totally neutralized the “lack of experience” meme,which was his strongest message. And that she’s incapable of replacing McCain who’s old and sick.

oh Andrea Mitchell just hit it

is she ready to be CIC?

How about this: the population of Alaska is 670,053. 80% of that is 536,042. Most mayors of large cities have to appeal to more voters than that. That’s the kind of experience it takes to be President?

ya, he thinks he can get some hillary supporters to flip, not likely…this might drive away some of his anti black voters too, that’s good for us

man, I wonder who came up with this idea, is this girl a babe or something?

big oil…peeps no likey

More than that, Fiorina’s a cast-iron pain in the behind who won’t be controlled. A lawyer colleague once represented her and had only two words to say afterward: “Never again”.

That, and she ran her company pretty much into the ground.

Can you say “Hockey MILF?”

In 1984, Palin competed in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year.[2] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Details of Palin’s personal life have contributed to her political image. She eats moose burgers and rides snowmobiles.[3] She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[4]

…but does serve to explain her moose burger jones.

Kay Bailey Hutchinson looks like she just swallowed something awful.

No, check that, she looks like she’s reporting the death of a close friend.

And how! If I were –*god/dess forbid* *shudder*– a repuke presidential candidate, that’s how I’d want to steal the Dem’s thunder. I’d choose an indicted ex-beauty queen, less-than-half-term governor from a state that’s more in the news for corruption than anything else these days it seems.

Oh, that Maverick McCain!
Thinking outside the box, when no one inside it would agree to the next few months of self-destruction.

PUMAs get their jollys by posting on Larry Johnson’s site while Cougars get theirs by….. oh this is a family site - I’m not going there, it’s too easy.

her ego was shot through the heart,and is DOA

McCain’s campaign all smug about being the “story”…hahahaha…not a very good story…

Thom Hartman states that per some of his callers Palin is called the “Wolf Killer” in large areas of Alaska….. the AK legislature has passed twice a bill to stop hunting of wolves from bush planes and Palin refuses to sign the bill into law. The bill is overwhelmingly supported by tons of environmental & animal rights organizations….

Nice title there……

At a time like this, can no one spare a moment for Joe Lieberman, the bitter tears, the gnashing of teeth?

I can do that, just as long as I’m not expected to keep a straight face….

What does this say about the judgment of insane McCain…

Keep coming back to the prime directive, all the rest is chaff.

Boo Hoo! Is it too early for a celebratory drink? I think McCain would’ve been better off picking Holy Joe’s old foe, Alan Shlesinger from Derby (forget the card counting problem.)

her ego was shot through the heart,and is DOA

Well, she sure as hell is giving off that inside-the-funeral-home vibe.

Was George H.W. Bush a bully for saying this:

George Bush, the elder debated Geraldine Ferraro, then bragged, “We kicked a little (EXPLETIVE DELETED)).”

Posted this downstairs as well, my source, who has the inside scoop within one of the “7 Sister” foundations, says that this is big negative within the Wingnut powers that be - that she has no “CIC” cred - they are reportedly “livid” about the choice.

This is to be ignored, however, since the [wealthy] base would vote for a 10-year old boy as long as he promises to lower their taxes and has (R) behind his name.

Actually, Todd’s right in a way. Biden has to come off as strong and decisive, ready to step into the Oval Office, without beating up a girl in the debate. Palin’s utterly unprepared for what’s about to hit her over the next eight weeks, let alone one debate.

By the way, who’s running the ethics investigation, and can Rove fuck with it?

commented on that waaay upthread

detected a whiff of “ickiness” beltway creatures evince about outsiders

oh yeah, ringing endorsement

This is great! She’ll be too busy with McLame to attend to her day job.

The Texas thugs will love that!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Now, when Obama is elected and we have 58 or 59 seats in the senate (60 would be lovely but you’d actually need 61 because Fuckhead Joe would vote with the ‘pukes, so it’s not a realistic expectation) the dems can strip him of his committees (not just the chairmanship) and the people of CT can elect ol’ Ned in ‘12.

I may not live to see it but it’d be cool.

Nobody mentions that she is under investigation for abuse of power.

I actually believe this party is so incompetent, they might not even know this fact

that is the only reason I can come up with that he would announce a target, or this is a deek

I think the fact that this women is being investigated leads me to believe this candidate is a deek, a set up of some kind so they can get rice in or so they can somehow make the media look like fools

because somebody is looking like a fool, either the media for getting it wrong, McCain for picking this women, or the governor for not making it known about her investigation

I guess they look at it as OJT

Maybe this has already been said but the Repubs can’t be happy. Even Repub women don’t think women are equal. This is going to play very badly.

Sorry - it’s now been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal as well.

I just turned on the news to hear, according to the reporting, John McCain has picked a woman that has been Gov of Alaska for about 12 months, before that she was a mayor raising taxes, she had a trooper (brother in law) fired that was having a dispute with his wife, her (sister). And that she has no foreign experience and that she would be a step away from the presidency and that this vp pick is ludicris. Oh, rove says she can say drill, drill, drill cause she is informed abt that issue and some one else said that the group of women some thing like 45-60 aren’s going from Clinton to Obama and they think this will attract them.

Except he’s already in his second term.
Narrowly won reelection IIRC.

From the WSJ:

Aug. 29, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain ended months of speculation about his running mate with the surprise selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to a senior strategist. The 44-year-old mother of five made a stand on ethics early in her career and has vowed to clean up a long-cozy Alaska political system that had been sullied by FBI corruption probes. The Arizona senator’s pick comes less than a week after opponent Barack Obama selected Delaware Sen. Joe Biden and slightly more than two months before the general election.

Anyone else noticing squirrels gathering ’round?

Appears they’ve surrounded the place …

They have kind of a wild look in their eyes.

If you find this note, please tell my

That, and she ran her company pretty much into the ground.

Re Fiorina, running a large company into the ground would seem like a good dry run for being a Republican President (or Vice President) and doing the same to the country.

Write to the WSJ:

While the WSJ introduces Palin thus:
“The 44-year-old mother of five made a stand on ethics early in her career and has vowed to clean up a long-cozy Alaska political system that had been sullied by FBI corruption probes.”

You fail to mention the fact that she is herself now a target of an ethics violation investigation. Just another Republican politician: corrupt to the core.

What’s Dan Quayle doing these days?

FWIW, WaPo says she has an infant child with Down syndrome.

McSame’s rally on c-span now.

Is she related to Michael Palin?

Pither (voice over) August 23rd. Fell off near Budleigh Salterton.
A brief shot of an unindentifiable animated Gilliam monster looking over the top of a hedge. Cut to a woman gardening. Behind her we see Pither’s head peering over the hedge.
…and the pump caught in my trouser leg…(she carries on digging trying to ignore him) …and that’s how they were damaged…(no reaction)…the eggs…you remember…the hard-boiled eggs I was telling you about…they were in a tupperware container, reputedly self-sealing, which fell open upon contact with the tarmacadam surface of the road…. (she goes on digging)…the B489…the Dawlish road…(again no reaction) That shouldn’t really happen to a self-sealing container, should it? What do you keep your hard-boiled eggs in?
The lady gardener goes back into house. Pither waits for a few moments.
Pither (shouting) I think in future I shall lash them to the handlebars with adhesive tape…this should obviate a recurrence of the same problem…well I can’t stop here all day…I’m on a cycling tour of North Cornwall. Must be off.
Cut to hedgerows again. Pither’s head bowling along. Theme music. He dips out of sight. Crash and a cow moos.
Pither (voice over) August 26th. Fell off near Ottery St Mary. The pump caught in my trouser leg. Decided to wear short trousers from now on.
Another brief shot of the animated monster peeking over a hedgerow. Cut to another hedgerow. Pither’s head bowling along. Short burst of music. Crash.
Pither (voice over) Fell off near Tiverton. Perhaps a shorter pump is the answer.
Another monster peeps briefly. Cut to a tiny village high street, deserted save for an old lady. Pither cycles into shot. He is in shorts, but still has his bicycle clips on. He approaches the old lady.
Pither Excuse me, madam, I wonder if you could tell me of a good bicycle shop in this village, where I could find either a means of adapting my present pump, or failing that, purchase a replacement?

Ah, she is under investigation for firing some one who wouldn’t fire her bro in law. Andrea thinks that can be explained away.

Rep Wasserman says I know Hilliary Clinton and Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton.

You go girl!

Yeah, because it’s perfectly all right to abuse your power in government if you’re retaliating against someone who hurt your family.

Whow woulda thunk it? Wasserman-Shultz ripping Palin a new one.

He’s alleged to be a manager of a mult-billions hedge fund, the highly leveraged vapor paper repositories.

Actually she is a good government type. But the rest of the Alaska Republican Party? En route to prison. Hope ET chimes in.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants to know what makes Palin qualified to be Comander in Chief? and says Alaska has a culture of corruption they need to clean up.

Reporter from MSNBC said Kay Bailey Hutchison measely said McCain made a good pick. And I did hear Kay measely say she had not seen McCain be angry or lose his temper in the past year. I wonder if she is mad for being past over.

Palin just recently had a baby MSNBC reporter says.

Any word from Holy Joe?!?

She exposed the fissure in the Alaska Republican Party starting with Randy Ruderich. In Alaska, there are the two kinds of repubs - the criminal and the not so criminal. Otherwise, she just been undoing former gov Frank Murkowski’s crap.

This recent todo with the exbro-in-law fits with the lowdown on her vindictiveness. It’s her first major screw up in 2 years but a big, leggy one.

she gained respect for stopping “fbi probes”

are they batty?

that’s how she cleaned up politics?

There’s more coming out -
she’s a creationist, or at least of the “let’s allow both in the classroom” variety;
she’s sued the government over the endangered species listing of polar bears - to get them taken off the list;
she’s perhaps the strongest advocate there is for drilling in ANWR (that might be another family thing - her husband is a “production operator” for BP on the North Slope. “Production Operator” means “glorified roughneck”.);
she’s a global warming denier;
she wasn’t bright enough to burn the tapes of the conversations re firing her ex-brother-in-law.

This gets better with each passing hour!