This is rather standard fare for politicians.
Yawn……

Well somebody has to by that shit paper or it’s going to clog every sewer in the country.

Watertiger!

Sarah Palin is a giant? Oh yeah, she is a giant alright. A giant idiot who still doesn’t have a clue. Her and the tea-baggers are a match made in Republican heaven.

“Godawful piece of shit.” Heh. Oh, wait, you were talking about the book.

I encourage all wingtards to give all campaign contributions to Wasillabilly. That keeps Todd in snowmobiles and fundage from republicans. Go Sarah!

Funniest story of the day, also too.

Have to admit I don’t like the term “snowbilly”. There might actually be someone in Alaska, just maybe, who can actually be given the benefit of the doubt, right?

Speaking as a “hillbilly”, I think this reference is quite specific and not generalized to everyone in Alaska.

As an Okie, I have to put up with the term, “Okie,” and can be lumped in with Inhofe and Coburn. Oh well.

Howdy pups.

Typically, author contracts provide the author with a certain number of personal copies, and provides for the purchase of additional copies at something near the publisher’s marginal cost of production.

In other words, it’s unlikely that Sarah Plain [sic] paid even $10.00 a copy for Going Rogue. Or, if Sarah did pay full retail it was intended to launder donations into her personal accounts.

I know the feeling. At least I have the cover of living in Montana now.

I think we are talking the ol’ suds and duds here.

With this and the outing of her FB writers, how does anyone still fall for this turkey? Ahhhhh, the power of marketing.

I went by Barnes and Nobull [sic] during the holiday shopping season. It was part of my intent to move some copies of Going Rouge into Going Rogue dust covers.

Sadly, The Nation apparently didn’t see fit to produce a hardcover version of Going Rouge. I was so disappointed.

I’m looking forward to her sequel, Ethics, Schmethics.

Would you call Blanche Lincoln a “hillbilly”? She’s a corrupt, shameless politician from from Arkansas, to be true. But I don’t think anyone would just throw out “hillbilly” at her. I wonder what makes Palin so easily a target in comparison for what are really just slurs against people who live in Alaska?

My sense is that Palin was greeted by the national media when she got on the stage with a very ugly, ugly character assassination campaign carried out by a lot of liberal and left commentators, journalists, and chatterers and that the degree of personal attacks on her – the denigrating of her religious views, her family life, and most frequently of all, her personal background as a non-rich, non-elite figure from a smaller community in Alaska – was therefore blessed for a lot of us here.

I don’t think Palin belongs in any high office, because she is a lightweight media celebrity, and she might have some seriously bad character flaws as well, but I just don’t see “Caribou Barbie”, “Snowbilly”, or any of the myriad terms hurled at her. Just because she is a lightweight doesn’t mean she and her heritage should be denigrated. That’s the wrong thing to do to all the people who live in Alaska and are a lot easier to respect than Palin.

Hoss, you obviously did not grow up with folks like that. I did.

Any highly absorbent paper is like brown gold in Alaska.

I think it was the true Alaskans that gave her that moniker. She isn’t so popular with most of the natives there.

I don’t claim to have great experience with people in interior or non-urban environments, to be sure.

Yes, the other side is much more respectful of the Kenyan Usurper Obomba. Even though one is President and the other is the Twitter Quitter.

The sad part is Obama takes her seriously and turns her Fecesbook Facebook postings into policy.

I’ve heard that she was unpopular … but she was a governor by majority vote, right? Perhaps she got unpopular after she got into the governor’s role and people realized she didn’t have any business in a powerful public office?

That’s MUSLIM Kenyan Usurper Bomber (with a mean terrorist fist jab) to you.

Two wrongs don’t make a right!

(I am completely exhausted, and signing off.) Have a goodnight people.

Buck, it looked to me like Sarah Plain [sic] was given more than one chance to show the electorate that she wasn’t a lightweight. She flunked every test, and it wasn’t even close.

The derisive terms (Caribou Barbie, etc.) didn’t take hold until after she proved to the nation (and the world, for that matter) that she needed waterbags to make it up to lightweight.

You really should treat yourself to the utopian splendor that is Bartlesville, OK sometime… :-P

Ah, but when all choices are wrong, we must choose the path that is less wrong, Grasshopper.

I’ll have to make point of somehow having Bartelsville as a destination … somehow … ;)

OT I just saw this headline over at the NYT

Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
By DAVID E. SANGER 40 minutes ago
Projections suggest there is virtually no room over the next decade for new domestic initiatives for President Obama or his successors.

The deficits mantra is getting really loud. It makes no sense economically but it increases the likelihood of depression. Truly we live in the Age of Stupid.

I grew up in northeast Oklahoma and spent most of my life in the state. There are lots of great people there, even a lot of folks you could call hillbillies. There are also a lot of butt ignorant, intolerant, bigoted assholes (see Oilfield guy’s comment). I do not hate hillbillies, my mother was the real deal from the Missouri Ozarks, but most of them are people who do not deserve a national platform and anyone who promotes ignorance and intolerance as “authenticity” as Palin does deserves all the derision she gets..

Would you call Blanche Lincoln a “hillbilly”?…I wonder what makes Palin so easily a target…

Quote from I forget who, inside the McCain camp:
“…the Wasilla Hillbillys, looting Neiman-Marcus from coast to coast.”
The name stuck.

Evenin’, all.

When you do tell everybody I said, “Hi.” :-)

My home town.

Howdy, RonD.

Go figure… The Pope is decrying the UK’s recent legislation demanding that the Catholic church can not discriminate against Teh Gay in hiring in the UK…

He said: “Your country is well-known for its firm commitment to equality of opportunity for all members of society.

“Yet, as you have rightly pointed out, the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.”

“In some respects it actually violates the natural law upon which the equality of all human beings is grounded and by which it is guaranteed.”

Huh…?

Trust me on this, don’t.

Yep, that’s why I mentioned it. Suburb of Jamestown, as I recall.

Tell them I said, “Fuck you.”

Don’t expect the pope to make sense; he just makes dogma.

Hello pups!

For the Middle Ages…! D’oh…! 8-(

Actually more of a suburb of Ochelata or Ramona.

Get T. Boone Pickins to be the tour guide. I was driving through Bartlesville early on September 11, 2001.

I’m not from Oklahoma, though my Dad was born in Calumet. I have spent some time in Oklahoma, though.

As burgs go, there are lots of worse places than Bartlesville. Bartlesville has at least one nice art museum and a really good regional symphony. Compare and contrast Bartlesville with places like Poteau and Chickashaw and Altus.

I guess the moral is that if Phillips Petroleum is headquartered in your town, you get some nice cultural amenities.

WT, another truly hilarious take, also. Thank you.

You really should treat yourself to the utopian splendor that is Bartlesville, OK sometime… :-P

and when you’re done there, I invite you to the twisted, bizarre little pool that is Gibsonton, FL.

“In some respects it actually violates the natural law upon which the equality of all human beings is grounded and by which it is guaranteed.”

“

That would be the natural law that says some are more equal than others, I think. Interesting use of an Aristotleian argument considering Aristotle was a pagan and all.

You guys don’t know nowhere suburbs.

Bakersfield has (in no particular order): Oildale, Pumpkin Center, and Weedpatch. And others whose names I have conveniently forgotten.

My grandma and her family moved to OK during the land rush. They lived in Chickasha, and I have visited there a few times in the bygone days.

Who’s saying these things about all of the people of Alaska? How many people in Alaska claim to be qualified to be President with a BA? Please.

Yeah, but they bailed when they merged with Conoco. The town was not a bad place to grow up 40 years ago when I left, though very boringly middle of the road white bread Republican then, and had great schools (which have declined considerably since). They were, however, Republican when the rest of the state was Democratic. Hard to imagine what it is like now. I never talk politics when I visit my son.

About the hillbilly thing…I was saying back in 2008 that Dems should read this book “Deer Hunting With Jesus” by Joe Bageant

In fact, I think he’d be a terrific Book Salon guest author.

The populist message is winnable with these folks and why the Dems don’t own winning on the messages that actually really count with hilbillies is political malpractice if you ask me.

Brilliant!

When did academic achievement become a requirement for the Presidency, Loo? Believe me, I’ve got a bunch of colleagues with doctorates who are nowhere near qualified to be President. And I’m one of them.

Damn, that sounds like some my relatives might gotten lost and wandered off.

The derisive terms (Caribou Barbie, etc.) didn’t take hold until after she proved to the nation (and the world, for that matter) that she needed waterbags to make it up to lightweight.

And Neiman Marcus.

Yeah, poor woman, victimized by the liberals and their damned liberal press and them gotcha questions like, oh:

“So, what papers do you read?”

Set up and victimized!!!!!

Gettable, yes. But you have to at least ask for their votes (something Howard Dean was uniquely suited for).

That’s too bad. Conoco never did for Ponca City what Phillips did for Bartlesville.

Never underestimate the ability and willingness of hillbillies to vote against their own interests. I cannot count how many rabidly anti-union rednecks I have met who thought they had a better deal making barely over minimum wage, when the union would have gotten them at least double or triple that.

If Palin keeps hanging around being the queen bee it will make life much more difficult for the Republicans as a whole. So if she is happy making her party and tea party look like idiots far be it for me to tell her otherwise. The Rethugs deserve her. She is like a Reagan zombie only she is really walking and talking.

Right. Which means yo’ud at least have to pretend to care about them, and you know, wanted their votes.

I sure miss Howard being out of party leadership.

Ditto.

Great post WT. Call ‘em like you see ‘em, please.

I have been through Weedpatch on the way from Arvin to Bekersfield!

Ah yes, the on the underside of America’s whang, which I suppose makes Alabama America’s taint (no great surprise there).

Palin was greeted by the national media when she got on the stage with a very ugly, ugly character assassination campaign

The difference between this and the total lack of any character assassination campaign against Obama is very suspicious.

Art and symfonies?? No way can Bartlesville compare to Poteau, which has the Worlds Tallest Hill.

When Catholic Priests from the Vatican start telling us what’s natural, it’s time for them to do an inner look-see.

No, but when they both moved to Houston after the merger it hurt both communities (my sister lives in Ponca City). They still maintain a presence in both, but not what they had before.

I expect the same result for any set of downtrodden people continually fed mis-information.

Change the info stream and the people change too.

The Aleutian Ablution

So Palin has been laundering PAC money through book purchases and she only gets a small author’s cut of the purchase price?

Very odd, indeed. Apparently, she’s never been to Tom DeLay’s Academy of PAC Ripoffs.

The other problem was outlined by Frank Rich in What’s the Matter With Kansas?: the Righty-tighties have convinced socially conservative blue-collar people that the social issues they have no intention of addressing trump the economic issues.

Ya’ll really should visit me at 121 Banyan Drive…! Speaking of the wiki…! ;-)

Gibsonton sounds kinda cool, actually.

If you blinked you missed Weedpatch…

Doc, I played in the house band at a club in Gibtown for three years, and consider myself very lucky to have gotten away with only psychological scars.
Like nowhere else I’ve ever been.

Yes, but to truly capture the true flavor of the state, you need to spend some time in Antlers or Wewoka.

One good Huh deserves another…Huh!

Not that place with the fine meshed chicken wire between the band and the audience?

Aided and abetted by the Democratic leadership’s unwillingness to address those issues in any meaningful manner for the past 35 years. The corporatists took over in the late 70s and it has all been downhill from there.

Damn, I haven’t thought about Banyan Drive in dog’s years. I’ve got to get back to Hilo one of these days.

A BA from four or five different colleges? Let’s please not disagree that any POTUS must be a brilliant, highly educated person. (W excepted!)

On that little peninsula in Reeds Bay, just a stone’s throw (if you have a REALLY good arm) from Coconut Island. I know it well. Look out your window and you might seem me waving. :-)

I’ve been saying for a while we could use a real liberal party in this country.

Hey, newt!

That describes half the bars in rural Oklahoma.

*heh* You won’t believe your eyes from when you were last here…! ;-)

Believe me, chicken wire would have been better than nothing.

Me, too, but I am a socialist.

“Where it’s Halloween every night and the circus never leaves town.”

Like the Blues Brothers, or that recent NPR story on Iggy Pop’s comeback.

Can I come over and feed Bob…? ;-)

I think the count is four, Sarah Plain [sic] had two go-rounds at Idaho.

But, yeah, you can read a transcript and make reasonable inferences from it. One of the things a transcript demonstrates is persistence, and Sarah Plain proved in July that she doesn’t have that in any appreciable quantity.

The last Rhodes Scholar and the latest Harvard Constitutional Scholar presidents aren’t very wonderful past their rhetoric.

Not knockin education in the least, but certainly it isn’t the absolute measure of what good leadership and character are made.

Perhaps sometime in the NEXT 234 years.

Good evening, ma’am.

Like the lady with a complaint who called the manufacturer in Broken Arrow, OK only to be told she needed to call the office in Broken Bow, OK. “Shit, don’t you damn Okies even have a town that works?” she is reported to have complained.

That was 1967, when we lived there. My brother and sister have both been back. I’ve been back to Oahu and Kauai, but haven’t made it back to the Big Island yet.

Heh. Back in my misspent youth I had a bad habit of hanging out in bars where if you did not have a gun and a knife, you were under dressed.

You don’t credit Eleanor Roosevelt? I do.

Shore, better put on your waders first.

I’m guessing they wouldn’t allow Bob to visit Hilo, he wouldn’t even be welcome in Tennessee, which has a law against importation of nanday conures.

Have you ever seen Shakes The Clown? That would be the town for me.

That’s better than hanging out in bars where guns and knives aren’t fashion accessories.

LOL!

Do you know that Caribou Barbie spent less than one semester at UH-H…! ;-)

Very suspicious indeed.

They weren’t there either. Got real good at diving under tables and over bars.

Well, at least you got some exercise while you were carousing.

Checking Mr. Paul’s Website, and looking at his previous political pronouncements one discovers the following about Mr.Paul.

a) He is his father’s son. Republican in name, constitutional libertarian in philosophy.

b) He has not held elected office.

c) He believes that military action overseas that is sustained and requires significant resources must be ratified by a formal Declaration of War by the U.S. Congress. For this reason, he was opposed to the War in Iraq, to the War in Afghanistan and to action in Yemen.

d) He is opposed the Patriot Act as overly invasive in citizens lives.

e) He is opposed to the Federal Reserve and would not have endorsed the bailout of the Securities and Investment, and Banking relief/bailout acts.

f) He supports significant smaller governments and balanced budgets, but he does provide explicit cuts in the budget that he would make. He does advocate the complete elimination of earmarks and a requirement that bills be limited to spending only on the subject of the legislation.

g) He favors term limits for all politicians. He has spoken of three terms for members of the House, and two for members of the Senate.

h) He is pro life.

i) He is opposed to gun controls on the federal level.

So like his father, Rand has some strong points in his appeal to the GOP (Pro Life, No Gun Control). But, both father and son have spoken of the dangers posed by industries and investment corporations whose livelihood depends on a large military. Not a GOP position. No Patriot Act? Not GOP. His positions on the Fed, big business relief and no earmarks would not be popular with almost any member of the Congress, especially the GOP. Term limits? What other member of the House or Senate thinks this is a good idea.

There is a reason why Ron Paul did not have the endorsement of his own party in his run for the presidency. Paul is not really a Republican. That is true of Rand.

So Sarah has backed a non-Republican That may have been her plan, but it will not make her beloved by the Party. Paul’s opponent, Trey Grayson, has the backing of a large number of GOP leaders in the state. He is not a great candidate, but he is an office holder and fits the GOP groove better.

Sarah, being mavericky again.

I knew she was a stupid b****. Go to college in Hilo, or go to college in Moscow, Idaho. I’ve been to both places: gimme Hilo any (and every) day of the week.

$2000 for Paul’s run. Her PAC is worth $2 million plus.

Go to the FEC and see her PAC’s self report at http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00458588/449901/sb/ALL.

It lists $45,000 in contributions to political campaigns. $19,000 in contributions to political organizations. There are $900,000 in expenses related to the PAC. The big items are office expenses, consulting, jet rental, book purchases, fundraising costs, staff, and her legal expenses.

By percentage, the PAC has spend 5% on supporting conservative candidacies, less than 1 percent on other contributions and 94% on itself.

HER WEBSITES SAYS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE PAC IS TO SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS, CHARITABLE CAUSES, AND THOSE WHO SHARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES AS SARAH.

Absolute no brainer.

THOSE WHO SHARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES AS SARAH
Grafting and grifting?

Please let’s not shout.
Check your caps-lock key before you type.
Thanks.

She might have been big-boned but I wouldn’t call her a party…

Eleanor was cool.

Don’t look a gift pony in the mouth

Uhmm – the less Palin spends effectively supporting other conservative candidates, the more she steals for herself, the better off the country will be.

What instrument did you play?

Sorry — #116′s headline should read:

Don’t look a gift horsehead in the mouth

Time for me to toddle off. No classes tomorrow, but i still have to put in an appearance in the morning. Especially since I am planning to take the afternoon off for my birthday.

a) He is his father’s son. Republican in name, constitutional libertarian in philosophy.

The acorn rarely falls far from the oak.

c) He believes that military action overseas that is sustained and requires significant resources must be ratified by a formal Declaration of War by the U.S. Congress. For this reason, he was opposed to the War in Iraq, to the War in Afghanistan and to action in Yemen.

d) He is opposed the Patriot Act as overly invasive in citizens lives.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then. Looks like he found two.

e) He is opposed to the Federal Reserve and would not have endorsed the bailout of the Securities and Investment, and Banking relief/bailout acts.

Because depressions are such fun…

g) He favors term limits for all politicians. He has spoken of three terms for members of the House, and two for members of the Senate.

He wants to turn Washington into Sacramento. There’s a really great idea, because California is so well run…

h) He is pro life.

And fails to note the conflict with his libertarian belief structure.

Though some would take exception to a description of what I do as “playing”, it usually involves an electric bass guitar.

Early happy birthday!

Sleep well, give Smoke a hug from me.

‘night, Dick. And happy b-day in advance.

Is an electric bass anything like an electric eel? Never saw one play guitar. Guess that’s why they talk about musical scales.

(slinking away in shame)

Goodness, people!

‘night, Dr. Dick. When I get on Millionaire, I want you for my phone-a-friend.

be back later

That’s some low hanging fruit there, buddy. You are hereby sentenced to be driven across the country in the back of a cargo van while being forced to listen to Twisted Sister on an endless loop.

I know, must be tired so I’ll go into self-imposed exile. Splendid evening to all.

It has some high points that aren’t topography.

(I got a few snickers from the water tanks at US 75 and Adams. There’s some nice-looking parks. And, less interesting for most people, the house my grandfather built is still there, enlarged by some amount. It’s on Adams also, east of US 75. Big lot, big house.)

A splendid evening to you also, and soft landings to Bob.

Benny the Pope is clueless about most of the world. He’d prefer something more like the world used to be, when the Pope said ‘Boo’ and everyone jumped.

Happiest of Birthdays, DD!

I’d give you my father’s opinion on Phillips in B’ville, but it isn’t printable. He was there before they bought it.

Fun! How’s the teaching going?

Benny isn’t much of historian. The closest it ever was to that was pre-Reformation, and then it was more like, “The Pope says, ‘Boo’ and most everyone we know for-sure for-sure about jumps.”

Sleep well.

Rosedale.

Things always look different to insiders, and company towns are rarely worker-bee friendly places.

And Fruitvale. My folks live in Rosedale, although Rosedale doesn’t exist as a USPS-recognized place any more.

Weedpatch and Pumpkin Center still do.

Not teaching this term. I am a full-time student again, for one last semester. How was Puerto Vallarta (sp)?

Grapevine? Mettler?

(Knowing where they are comes with my job.)

Not to mention Buttonwillow, the one town in Kern County that I-5 actually helped.

I’m headed to bed, folks.

Good night, all.

‘night, BCT.

Good luck with the studies and jumping through the hoops. Puerto Vallarta was wonderful. Such a beautiful city…thriving and jumping even in these times. Probably one of the most beautiful spots on earth, and such a friendly city. Bummer was that my dad has sciatica and had been perfectly healthy the first few days, then boom…

Nighters.

I LOVE Sarah Palin. I think she is great. She has shown us that you can invent substance, convince many that it is substance with valid content. And with a smile and all sincerity, regurgitating every thought as fact, she hooks another believer. What a leader!

Now do the Sarah:
Make up stuff,
lie to your left,
lie to your right,
stand for nothing real,
fight, fight, fight

Now follow her lead,
And spin round and round,
When you’re as dizzy as she is:
All fall down
Repeat
Chorus:
Sarah, Oh Sarah,
please if you will,
Give me some.
Thoughts if you will.
I’ll do anything,
to be part of you.
I won’t do no thinking.
I’ll leave that to you

Hey, Palin is an expert on energy, dohn dis her. She tells us how the way to get off of bad fossil fuels is assuredly not to make them scarcer and more expensive. Colleges around the country right now — particularly with her new found book sales success, are asking her to come and completely rewrite the whole supply demand aspect of economics 101 everywhere.

Also, definitely worth repeating, Palin is also an expert on the Supreme Court and its history — not to mention, bonus material — great news stuff to read. So she knows all about that stuff, thus she knows a good read when she sees it — hence why she is buying more of her book!

Speaking of experts, whats it like when these two top experts — one being Palin, actually, get together; Heres what its like, its enough for Abraham Lincoln to get a raging freedom boner over , thats how exciting it is.

I’d also point out that she’s supporting a person with diametrically opposite positions to her own in debate and on the stump.
c) Palin was unapologetically pro-War, and had no qualms about Bush using an “authorization” to wage them.
d) She had no issue with the Patriot Act or even the illegal expansion of it.
e) Given her position on the campaign trail she supported the bailouts
f) While Alaska’s government is “small” and it maintains balanced budgets…the reason for this is largely due to the socialistic Alaska Permanent Fund which in 2008 was able to not only fund a wide range of government services (hospitals, schools, and even free college educations to all qualifying Seniors) but also remit over $3000 to every Alaskan. The source of this were taxes and fees accrued from energy companies.
g) Earmarks. We all know Sarah’s position on the Bridge to Nowhere.
h) Term limits for all politicians. She ran with a Senator who came in about the time when this was a mantra by Republicans. She hasn’t peeped a word about how any of the “Class of ’92″ should keep to their promises and get out of politics after two terms.

Palin is pro life and opposed to gun control. So she has some links to Rand there…but so do most Republicans and many Democrats. I’d say that he support is mainly opportunism and “branding”.

As I recall, Ronald Reagan was regarded as a dim-bulb, has-been actor as he went about raising money and endorsing his Republican pals.
Rather than dismissing and scorning her, I view Palin with mounting alarm.

Palin’s contributions to her PAC are a fascinating collection…although there are some in the list that I really wonder should be giving repeat donations, day-after-day. Someone needs to check on the exploitation issue here.

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00458588/449901/sa/ALL/

Progressives need to realize, Even though you say this and that about her, she is a force. She is a conservative woman, for limited federal govt. With the deficits we have, her message she has resonates with the majotity. Now you can bash the people she is resonating, but that will not go over to well either. Progressives will never like Palin, she is not trying to win them over.

Check out the book “Idiot America” by Charles Pierce, a great read, a real page turner for anyone hooked on politics or marketing. Thats important because there is little difference between the two in 21st century USA.

It gives great insight, albeit scary, as to why a majority of Americans by an large are mental midgets with no critical thinking skills and continually fall for this clap trap coming from the “snowbilly”.

It also lays the ground work for understanding why the rethuglicants keep using (and winning!) the election strategy using the “Fear, smear, mock and lie” theme and it’s various manifistations. It also lets you understand why a spinmeister like the rethug wordsmith Luntz is so successful in making up shit that makes the dems look like pussies and incompetents – Although the dems are really helping him along these days…

“Sarah Palin is a giant in American politics.”

We’re fucked!

And those cross burning crackers in KY will just eat this shit up…

The problem the Progressives have is thinking the American people are stupid. People have common sense. People do not want or need, someone trying to tell them how too think. People are not stupid, they are awake. Limited government speech is what will resonate. People are sick of Govt. in general. That does not make them stupid, it makes them right. Govt. is as low in popularity as it has been. I contend the people are right. Being right does not make one stupid.

Reagan was not a dim bulb. He was well read. He had his hand in political life long before he rose to prominence. He had a guiding and generally consistent philosophy and a certain integrity that shone through.

NONE of this is true of Ms. Palin. Yes, she frightens me as well but that is because she is a dim bulb attracting even dimmer bulbs. The stupid are inheriting the earth.

your filty choice of words displays a producent whose prodigious ignorance is pathetic.
we alaskans don’t take kindly to dullards as you using profanation to disesteem a person you have no clue of. i am quite certain you still believe she stated that africa was a country [a hoax interview done by a fictitious interviewer that the new york times has already apologized for doing.]…
sarah was a great governor; doing more in her two years than other governors do in years and years in office.
but,clearly either laziness, ignorance,or plain stupidity [or all the aforementioned] obnubilates just how clever and shrewd a politian sarah is; having been governor of a state a bit larger than iran; one with vast amounts of resources. and, being the only governor that needed to deal with foriegn countries trying to steal american resources. [the chinese and japanese trying to dredge our seas with nets literally destroying all valuable seafood resources…dealing with the canadian government on oil dilling rights, and mother russia. russia made numerous attempts to invade american waters to drill for oil and natural gas only to have sarah stop them without federal assistance.
she is a gem that american people as you are allowing to slip away.
rather, you belove the ersatz president of whom is ruining this country.
and simpletons as you seem incognizant to what is happening.

oh..! and, yes, there ARE places in alaska that you can actually see russia.
but, not from sarah’s living room. likely you believe sarah actually said she can see russia from her living room.
sarah never said that. a comedian named tina fey said it.
please educated yourself.
and, alaskans are very friendly people; but do not kindly take to those as you making us out to be simian cretans.
so, if you ever wish to visit our beautiful state, we welcome you warmly.
maybe you would love to go fishing, or hunting; almost 100% of alaskans are well armed.
;)

~~~ModNote: Welcome. We like to keep it civil between commenters, authors, etc. Flaming others here is not a topic.~~~

so, using profanation is fine in drawing conclusions about people; while evidence is ignored.
ok….i understand the slant to this site.
as long as you agree …then..ok.
right?
disagree, then not ok.
i am “inflamed at all the negative erroneous stereotypical comments made of Alaskans..
but?
that is ok..
right?
i get it.

Sarah Palin is an idiot, and a grifter, and so intellectually ungifted, and unsuited for governance, that she makes Michele Bachmann look cogent.

And Rep. Lynn Westmoreland is similarly ‘blessed. But saying this about Westmoreland doesn’t tar his fellow Georgians.

Also.