Thud

G’thud, Dr Bong!
Hey, Teddy!
FunnyWheelieDiva

Arkansas: Jim Guy Tucker resigned after being convicted of mail fraud, to be succeeded by Republican Mike Huckabee who continues to delight as a FOX News talk-show host.

And Huck plays a mean bass

I recall reading at the time of Jim McGreevey’s resignation that like Palin, he was under investigation for various allegations of corruption and that was his actual incentive for stepping down. The rest was a cover. A tad ironic if he is instructing others on the subject of ethics.

In any event, Palin will be remembered first and foremost as a quitter.

Hey Doc, happy Fifth of July

hi Diva, did you get a Wheelie in yer name?

The Quittah from Wasilla

teddy!

What is the sound of one shoe dropping?

my money says we find out by the end of the month

Self Immolation Barbie (TM)!

Does it show?

;~P

Oohh, Oohh!!!11!!

I put it there to support Marcy. I was and am disgusted with the president, so I dropped the “Hussein”.
It’s kinda a joke-ish thing…

FWDiva

The Quittah from Wasilla with her future in the shittah.

Quitta-cuda!

Remind me not to run for anything evah.
Maybe dogcatcher. I likes me some dogs.

OK, now I’m going to have Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn dancing in my head! Evil Dr…Dick!
FWDiva

I wish my governor would leave office:

“Someone else might walk out of here every day depressed, but I don’t walk out of here depressed,” Schwarzenegger said. Whatever happens, “I will sit down in my Jacuzzi tonight,” he said. “I’m going to lay back with a stogie.”

http://www.calitics.com/diary/…..the-crisis

hahahaha

Aw…I think you’re tougher and more realistic than CaribouBarbie!
And you’d have a boat-load of DFH left-wing bloggers on your side!
FWDiva

OMFG.
Marie Antionette much, Governator Asshat?
FWDiva

Frankly, Harry Truman said it best, if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen. Whatever unwanted or unflattering publicity and prying she has experienced, she brought on herself.

But it is really cold in Alaska.

The day after Sean Parnell takes office at the Governor’s Picnic, a big whopping pardon ceremony in her name?

Sara Palin bit off more than she could ruminate.

But can you catch them?

I dunno, Teddy. Most people don’t quit a job like governor without some kind of compelling reason, but Palin…
I don’t know – she’s just so wacked she doesn’t seem to consult reason (if, in fact, she has the faculty) for much of anything she does.

I mean, I’m kind of expecting something, too, but if ever there was someone who might do something on a whim, it’s gotta be this nutso.
Anybody else agree?

[Geez– weather boy reporting we have now had 17 straight days of 100 degrees plus - I believe today hit 104. It was too freaking hot even to walk the half-block from the parking lot to the pool - better inside the a/c.]

Why do repugs always go free? It ain’t cause they are innocent.

Yeah get a clue Arnie from the Far North, already.

If she does run for president her Republican opponents will destroy her long before the primaries. If being governor of the least populated state in the country was too stressful, you aren’t going to find being president much of an improvement.

Yep. Me and animals and small children get along quite well. Throw some adults into the mix and things get, well, ….
adult.

Political Toast Barbie (TM).

fuck

Oh, you mean you’ll be staying outta ALASKA politics? And CALI, too, no doubt.
FWDiva

I don’t know. Something about the way Palin’s resignation was handled makes me think of the early stages of this, but with better firearms. I’m not completely kidding, either. If a proximate cause (an indictment, a new scandal, a pregnancy) doesn’t show up in the next few weeks, I’m going to be a little concerned.

Oh, speaking of wheelies…
I was just south of Seattle, comin’ home in moderate post-holiday traffic, and a couple of motor-cyclists go tearing by, zipping in and out. Couple miles later, I look up, and one guy is riding a forkin’ wheelie at 70mph in the fast lane, right in front of a car. Man was I wishing for a way to call 911. How stupid can you be? The whole death-wish, 20mph faster than anything else zipping in n out is bad enough.
Teh Stoopid–keep it to yerself please! I don’ wanna share yer forkin’ Darwin award, OK?!!
FWDiva

I, Sean Parnell, pardon Sarah Palin for being extra stupid.

The problem with small children is they turn into teenagers. There ought to be a way to skip that.

oh shit. You are so right. I lived in SF then. Crap.

It’s because they fix the game

I would think it is more these folks going Galt and trying to take the state with them.

I wonder how hard it’s been for Mitt Romney to sit back and drink a nice cold beer this weekend. He’s earned it.

I’m not worried about Palin doing something violent, although clearly some of her supporters are capable. Of course you know who would be to blame, could it be… SATAN? Or bloggers. BTW, does Satan have a blog?

Uhhhh. He’s Mormon. Doesn’t even get a nice glass of iced tea. Poor boy.

I know this is petty but it’s bugging me, who in the hell would wear nylons under running shorts.

Yeah. It’s called RedState.

Well, Mormons aren’t s’posed to drink… prolly cause their magic underwear to shrink.

an idiot – i hope runners world selected that photo just to show how forking outta touch she really is.

Are you suggesting I should wear them on top?

lol…. I would suggest ditching them alltogether.

He must be laughing his ass off. Three of his toughest rivals for the GOP nomination have just blown themselves to hell in the space of three weeks. First it was John Ensign, then Mark Sanford, and now Sarah Palin.

I’d say that it sounds almost like a remake of And Then There Were None, except I can’t see Romney offing himself the way Wargrave did.

She was especially quavery, almost tearful, and near the end of her rope.

Heat, kitchen, etc.

The Republican Presidential primary as Last Man Standing.

I forgot a not.

They must be doing highfives in their magic underwear in MittWorld.

OMG. Hadn’t thought of that. He was full-on backing her this morning. I wonder if she promised him a job in her future administration if he played his cards right??!

Doing the secret handshake, I am sure.

Strap yer dog to the roof of the car we’re goin’ to Disneyland!

Is there a doctor in the house?

I had to go look up otter, Teddy. Interesting that Butch Otter has both sides of Rainbow Street covered.

There can be butch otters, actually. I know a few.

Doesn’t that come under the heading obstruction of justice?

I have a master’s degree…in science!
How’s stuff, BCT?
FWDiva

I guess butch can apply to both gays and lesbians, then?

can a sitting gov pardon on a federal offense? i sure as hell hope she is facing a federal indictment because i think federal stuff has to be pardoned by the prez

Intriguing that the few two rivals who fell out of Romney’s path were for sins of the flesh, something no Mormon would ever find himself entangled in. We don’t know yet what brought Sarah low, but it might be something similarly sinful and if so, that makes Mitt look so righteous, especially to the fundies who think he’s in a cult. If they can’t trust their own to stay on the path, maybe they’ll look to a Momo?

The last excuse cited is my favorite.

In 1992 Otter was pulled over on the Interstate-84 outside of Meridian, Idaho for driving under the influence. He claimed the arresting officer saw him swerving as he was reaching for his cowboy hat, which had been blown off by the wind in his open car.

Otter offered many excuses for failing the field sobriety test including: his stocking feet were stung by weeds and gravel, he ran eight miles and his knees hurt, he was hungry, and that he soaked his chewing tobacco in Jack Daniels.

Unfortunately not. Part of the prerogatives of office. Ask Gerald Ford or George H. W. Bush.

No, according to The Village, it’s called Healing a Nation. Ask any cable gasbag commentator during the Gerald Ford funeral.

Yup

Nope only on a state offense. Unfortunately the FBI is out today saying there is no ongoing federal investigation.

I thought I read somewhere today that the FBI said MooseEater wasn’t under investigation.

I doubt it. Most of them hate Mormons more than Catholics, Jews, and secularists.

I don’t think a state governor can pardon a federal offense
WHICH OF COURSE NO ONE ON THIS BLOG IS EVEN SUGGESTING OCCURRED OR IS IN THE OFFING.

By the FBI

I don’t know much about Shannyn Moore, but this is a fantastic example of how to respond to bullies like Paylin:

Governors don’t just quit. But Governor Palin did.

The governor’s massive overreaction -on the Fourth of July no less- should make any reasonable person wonder what’s wrong with her. The Lady protests way too much. Eventually we’ll all find out why she really walked off the job.

Sarah Palin is a coward and a bully. What kind of politician attacks an ordinary American on the Fourth of July for speaking her mind? What’s wrong with her? The First Amendment was designed to protect people like me from the likes of people like her. Our American Revolution got rid of kings. And queens, too. Am I jacked-up? You betcha.

Sarah Palin, if you have a problem with me, then sue me. Shannyn Moore will not be muzzled!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..25817.html

And she gave the press conference in front of the Gov’s office. Beautiful!

I got a “Get Out of Jury Duty Free” card in the mail Friday. I missed it, actually, Mrs. BC found it this morning.

The weird part about it is that I didn’t apply to be excused. I tried that the last time I was called for jury duty, and I had a much more reasonable request (Please defer me to the summer panel, ‘cuz I be teaching …). I got a very politely worded FU letter from the judge. When we finished our time on the panel, we were told we had a Get Out of Jury Duty Free excuse good for three years. The SCoNM changed the rules…

When I turned my juror questionnaire in, I gave the clerk an earful. She tried to get me to write a request for excuse. I told her I have better ways to waste my time.

So this official “Get Out of Jury Duty Free” postcard shows up in the mail… which means I can come out to California and visit my family after all.

True. And as I recall, they specified ongoing. Did not say anything about completed investigations.

After our discussion yesterday about education levels in relation to political orientation I thought of the North Shore Chicago suburbs. Affluent, educated, and VERY Republican. As you pointed out, there is no direct correlation. I’d been thinking more of the Joe the Plumber demographic.

Citizen Teddy Partridge:

Maybe a pardon but maybe not…the new Governor can’t pardon FEDERAL crimes.

I guess I learned something today.

Excellent. What part of Cali is your family in?
FWDiva

What about fashion crimes?

I’m thinking the agreement to issue the pardon rather than the pardon itself.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/20…..questions/

Bakersfield and Fresno.

Buck Owens country.

I live in Clovis, right next to Fresno.

I still don’t think that one resigns AHEAD of an indictment or other scandal disclosure. The office confers a degree of political immunity, notoriety and protection that you don’t want to give up if you know you’re about to go down (the Blago scenario). The only thing that makes sense to me is this: that she was forced to resign as a price of somebody NOT disclosing a scandal or perhaps as part of a deal under what charges would not be filed against her. That’s the only thing that really makes sense to me.

Same with DuPage County. The Republicans are really much more demographically concentrated than the Democrats who capture a much larger segment of the population. Those we mentioned are their core constituency: Affluent, white, and college educated (but not too much). They have also captured a large segment of the white Southern working classes. Where the issue of more education inclining you to be a Democrat is when you get into advanced degrees. Most PhDs are Democrats, but even there it depends on the discipline. Engineers tend conservtative.

Anywhere near Clovis Point?

Crystal Palace and all…

I’ve been here for 25 year never heard of Clovis Point?

That would be hard to prove. See my two previous examples.

Okie country!

Unless the resignation was part of a deal to spare a family member from prosecution and save her family’s home from seizure as ill-gotten gains, he speculated.

Mathematical sciences tend Democrat, almost as heavily as Soc/Anthro.

Jane said the other day that this smells of plea deal. She seemed to think Palin was protecting someone else. Hubby would be my guess.

Sorry, I threw that out there for the anthropologist(s) in the group. More info if you are interested.

an anthropology/archaeology joke, I think.
FWDiva

I sensed she was in that condition right after the election.

OR investigations of the Toddster.

I remember about 2-3 years ago leaving several comments here about how concerned I was about Mittmo Romnutz. Notice how the Violent Right (Limpbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, etc.) came out hard for the Tax Whisperer.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0125.html

I was shocked that the Repub base rejected him for McInsane, but I think they may be now thinking that they should give him a second chance after the various Repub freakshows have played out.

He’ll be the Repub nominee in 2012. I would suspect Obama would be able to beat him easily though, provided fellow Liberals support the President who has already passed some of the most Liberal reform in at least 30 years, and consistently states he wants to do much, much more.

These are what he is talking about. They were first discovered near Clovis, New Mexico. Embedded in a mammoth bone.

Heh, I got it.
But you ’splained first, so I guess I owe ya a beverage.
FWDiva
Charter Member: Clovis Point Yacht Club

Yeah… read some of the Wiki

it would be irresponsible to not speculate teddy

Unless they’re stupid enough to put it in writing, impossible to prove. But it would be fun to prosecute.

And the pardon do-si-do makes sense of one of the GSLF’s (S is for Someone, I wouldn’t want to have coffee with her) comments. She rattled on about tens or hundreds of millions for a lame-duck governor.

Travel’s not cheap, but you can buy a lot of travel for $10M. Criminal investigations, on the other hand, can consume money like a power plant consumes water.

My sense is that the more you know about the world and how it works, as well as our human limitations, the more you tend toward progressive politics. As Colbert said, the facts have a well known liberal bias.

Down south we call those Ya’ll Clubs. My parents belong to the Southern Ya’ll Club.

Thanks, you were only off by a second so I’ll let you off the hook. If you still want to buy I’ll take a Diet Pepsi. I’ll get the next round.

I’m also a member of the Toast Point Y’all Club.
FWDiva

I’m not sure if we’re going to get up to Fresno this trip. My folks and my brother are in Bakersfield, my sister and remaining auntie on Dad’s are up Fresno way. Auntie is a Mormon, BTW.

Prettier than fossilized scat, although both can be very informative.

Hmmm. I seem to recall Jerry Clower pronouncing it to rhyme with ratchet. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me what the h*** he was talking about.

Scat actually can be much more so. Points only tell you a small part of what they ate…..

Coprolites?

I have a bolo tie of dinosaur dookie…

We have an astonishing number of Mormons in these parts.

I read there is a theory that Clovis technology contributed to the extinction of the megafauna. The residents of Tokyo should bear that in mind the next time Godzilla stops by.

That’s pretty cool. I like the way he used the corn for texture…

Should come up here to the northern Rockies. We even have some of the polygynists just south of here..

Too bad it isn’t an astonishing number of parts of Mormons.

I’ve noticed. What’s up with that, anyway? Auntie’s been trying to convert me for ages. She even told Mrs. BC that she was a wonderful wife, tho’ I’ve no idea how auntie would know that.

Mrs. BC saw way too much of mormonism when she was a paralegal working in domestic relations.

You really only see that on the Grate Plains.

I’ve been kind of wondering who’s been spiking their bottled water (coffee, etc.)?
Course I read too many spy novels…

Agreed!
Right before the election my husband completely told several of them where to go for suggesting we put a yes on 8 sign in our yard.

Maybe in all the FBI investigations up there they got her voice on tape talking about something she oughtn’ta be talkin’ about.

That has been floating around for about 40 years now and is pretty dubious. About the only thing to support it is timing. All the megafauna go extinct in the Americas at about the time that Clovis points start showing up. Unfortunately for the theory, they also start going extinct everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere at the same time. The theory also assumes a much more rapid dispersal and radical population growth than has ever been documented in humans (or seems reasonable under the circumstances).

need…inhaler….damn that ratfood! lol

Trouble is, they’re still trying to figure out WHAT the hell she was talking about.

Time for bed. Take care all.

The GOP almost always gives the “next guy” his turn.

Explains Bob Dole’s nomination. And McCain’s.

Will they decide Mitt or Huck is the “next guy” though?

Night, Dr…Dick
FWDiva

Not sure why. It’s a small town with top rate schools, family oriented but founded by cowboys. There is a huge Pro Rodeo stop here once a year. Oh and a shit load of Mormon churches.

We had a couple of those little creeps come up to us on their bikes and try to engage us. We told them we didn’t talk to people who actively tried to take rights away from American citizens. They got really red in the face.

What might be a more likely alternative?

G’night Dr. D.

Republicans like to fall in line, Democrats like to fall in love.

G’nite.

I should likely head out too. Wishing a splendid evening to all.

g’nite dr dick

g’nite ratfood

“It’s gotta be some kinda kooky code, boss. The words are English, all right, but these combinations just ain’t makin’ no sense at all!”

FWDiva

When they stop to talk to me, I just say, “I’m a homosexual and I recruit too.”

Strange how the experience of having been a persecuted minority didn’t soften them up any.

Night ratfood.

unless, of course, there is an argentinian hottie involved

how funny would it be if it was Todd… for terror charges (or for seditiously plotting the mutinous secession of Alaska)? ;-P

Guess it’s different when doG is on yer side…
FWDiva

It’s probably a combination of things. Climate change was going on in a big way, and that puts stress on megafauna more than smaller critters. Also, the isthmus of Panama closed up about the same time, which means imported predators and competitors.

Suffice it to say that hunting-by-stampeding-off-cliffs didn’t help matters at all.

Disease or climate change (which we know was happening at that time).

At that point you should offer them some informative pamphlets.

hahahahahaha you are evil (no wonder we get along)

Great minds…

I’m drinking Talisker.

Palin-Perry ‘12, campaigning for president on a platform calling for the dissolution of the Union.

I love it. Wouldn’t work for me, though…

“I’m an Evolutionist, and I recruit, too!”?

FWDiva

This is a great question. The answer will show whether the thugs are sticking with the pretense of representing the goddies (Gatti’s?) via Huckaby or backing the Mormon Mitt. The differences are too stark to straddle.

I could carry out my copy of Gould’s Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Then I could tell them it’s more fact-filled than the Book of Mormon and the King James Bible together. (Not to mention weighing more!)

They skeddaddle, too. Shame, really — some of them are cute

LOL!

BBL, pups.

FWDiva

the cute ones always get away

Re: wolf hater Butch Otter: I have been told that long, long ago there was a dead call girl in Garden City, with several names of prominent ID R’s in a little black book. The case has never been solved. Butch’s was said to be one of those names. DNA is needed.

Quiet tonight — how was everyone’s fourth?

funny diva and i watched the seattle lake union fireworks on cable – they forking rocked. we then switched over to the boston pops and their fireworks sucked.

If you’re into that sort of thing, let me turn you on to a real, documented political scandal. Paula Moore, Cricket in the Web.

Hiya Pups!

So, will GuvGILF look good in an orange jumpsuit too? Just wondering? :-)

how was your fourth teddy?

Sorry for the delayed reply; off making dinner.

What me think of Dan White was the apparent impulsiveness of Palin’s resignation; White’s resignation came seemingly out of nowhere as well. I recall the statement he gave when he quit the Board of Supervisors was largely a pity party, like Palin’s speech.

Like Palin, White was a political outsider from a lower-middle class background. In San Francisco, most successful politicians are also successful lawyers or businessmen/women. Many of them have family connections to S.F.s political establishment (Gavin Newsom, DiFi, Angelina Alioto). A few got there by being community organizers, like Harvey Milk and, yes, Willie Brown, who fought for housing integration in the ’60s. Dan White probably fit in with this crowd about as well as Palin would fit in with the Skull and Bones Society.

I’m pretty sure that we will eventually find out that a new (or old) scandal, an indictment or a deal with a prosecutor is behind her quitting. If, on the other hand, she asks for her job back next week, maybe David Letterman ought to invest in some body armor.

Shortly thereafter, he started writing an online column for Slate, proving that not all bloggers work in their pajamas

Funny, I thought Spitzer worked without pajamas – just kept those black socks on.

Some new series are in development for television this fall:

“CSI: Wall Street”

“CSI: Goldman Sachs”

“CSI: AIG”

“CSI: GITMO”

“CSI: Sarah Palin”

“CSI: The Republican Party”

and

“CSI: The Bush/Cheney Years”

Blagojevich’s trials, travails and quirks don’t stop there. See a developing and complete Rod Blagojevich Timeline.