Sarah Tweets her frustration at Paprazzi and flees for home to spend Christmas with children she tried to leave behind.

AK has18"new powder!So cut sunny vacation short(thanks, desperate paparazzi)Back early2enjoy AK snow&sparkle&Christmas prep!It all works out

about 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Stupid desperate paparazzi! And look how excited Sarah is about 18" of new snow. Because everybody knows she is just as much of an avid skier as she is an avid runner.

(If Palin stays true to form some photographer should head up to Alyeska Ski Resort and get pictures of Sarah proving me wrong.)

Countdown less thn wk 2 go b4 Christmas hope youll make time to get outdoors,stretch legs,breathe winter air&find peace/joy n seasons beauty

about 6 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Yes sadly they will have to breathe the pungent winter air of Wasilla, instead of the Hibiscus scented air of tropical Hawaii. Darn those Paprazzi that Palin notified but who refused to take only the posed pictures of her and Trig!

I can just hear the "discussion" in the Palin family kitchen.

"But Mom, you said we could join you in Hawaii just as soon as Willow finished school and I got time off from my two jobs to bring the cute baby!"

"Bristol, quit being selfish! I told you, they were taking pictures of my LEGS! I cannot have a vacation with the Paparazzi taking pictures of my legs! I spent ALL of that time getting surgery and applying my make up with a trowel and they take pictures of my stupid legs! God I could go for a Taco Bell Crunch Wrap Supreme right about now! Where is that boy that used to live here and run errands for me? Oh that's right he has that porn career now. Ungrateful little bastard!"

BTW since I am on the topic, I just received this e-mail this morning from one of my sources.

Sarah recently got a new ride...a shiny Black Caddy Escalade with lotsa chrome and fancy wheels. She is just one of us!

I have not independently confirmed this so if you live in the Valley keep an eye out and let me know if you see Palin and her posse cruising around in their snazzy new ride. NOTHING spells Wasilla class like a shiny black Escalade!

Update: It looks like Sarah WILL have a public book signing.

AK book signing is Dec22, 11-2@local Sports Arena...very excited about this bc we'll get 2see old&new friends&share holiday cheer@same time!

15 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

December 22nd? You know I think I am free that day. See you soon Sarah!

Just in time for Christmas.

You can run Sarah, but you cannot hide from the Immoral Minority.

(Click the title to visit the website where I borrowed this photo. Thanks CC!)

Seriously? I write a post about Sarah not being a runner, and she decides that jogging around Hawaii, will demonstrate that I am wrong? Do you really think it is that easy?

Well since you are clearly reading this blog then perhaps I should make more important suggestions to you.

Don't run for just the sake of appearances, run for your health.

Don't treat Trig like a prop, make sure his needs are met and he is getting the therapy that he requires.

Don't drag poor Todd around in an effort to prove you are a happy family, just let him go and move on with your life.

And finally get out of politics. You are not helping.

Thank you for your visit Sarah, now put down that damn Blackberry and focus on enjoying your vacation with your family. (Oh, and get Trig's glasses, and a hat on that kid! Seriously that should be your first priority!)

Update: Okay well now I feel kinda bad.

Diane Benson announces run for Lt. Governor.

I just received a call from Phil Munger that Diane announced her candidacy for Lt. Governor at the Bartlet Club meeting jsut a few minutes ago.

I find this to be wonderful news.

I am a big supporter of Diane's and have been badgering her for months to run for Congressman in this next election cycle.

At the Cook Inlet Keepers Muckrakers Ball she took me aside and said that she was going to make an announcement at this meeting. Sadly I could not make it, but I am stoked to hear the news.

Diane Benson is a very strong advocate for woman's rights and has done much to educate people about the history and challenges of the Alaskan native people.

She will be a powerful antidote to the poisonous aftertaste Sarah Palin left in the mouth of the country concerning female politicians in Alaska.

Santa Claus, not Jesus, is the great symbol of unity and peace for Christmas.

It's recently been reported that an atheists' group has planned an advertising campaign for this Christmas, featuring a photograph of smiling people wearing Santa Claus hats. The caption: "No God? . . . No problem! Be good for goodness sake." Whatever you might think of this message, the ad does contain a grain of historical truth: the modern image of Santa Claus was invented in the 19th century by New Yorkers, as a secular myth meant to unite the city's diverse and growing population.

No common observance of Christmas existed in New York at that time, other than a holiday from work. Many Protestant churches frowned on elaborate Christmas celebrations, which they associated with Anglo-Catholicism and the aristocracy. The city's free laborers, who often suffered from unemployment in the dark days of winter when shipping and industry slowed down, were only too willing to gather in the streets at Christmas, turning the holiday into an excuse for drunken caroling. As for the laborers in the city's large enslaved population, they used this rare time off for celebrations that often included customs with roots in Africa.

There's little wonder that some leading citizens would have welcomed a symbol that encouraged peaceful, domestic celebrations, of the sort that most New Yorkers might share. They found that symbol in Santa Claus, starting around 1810.

The thing I used to love about Christmas is that people seemed to go out of their way to be more pleasant to each other, more gracious, and less selfish. And immediately after that observation I would always think "Why can't we ALWAYS treat each other with this much respect?"

Now I used to think that way back before the battle lines were drawn and the "War on Christmas" began back in the 1990's. (Or perhaps even earlier.) Now days I have to listen to new reports of vandals stealing the baby Jesus from Nativity scenes, and Christians yelling "The Reason for the Season!", and the endless discussion over who is trampling on whose religious freedoms.

And suddenly the season of love and acceptance, turned into the season of selfishness and recriminations. The Christians demand that Jesus feature prominently in Christmas displays in store windows, and television commercials, and holiday decorations on public property. And non-Christians demand that they be able to celebrate an American holiday without having a religious belief that they do not share thrown in their face every time they turn on the radio, watch television, or drive to the mall.

The truth is that NOTHING about Christmas has its origin in Christianity. From the pagan origins of the Christmas tree, the borrowed Saturnalia custom of gift giving, to even the assimilation of the Winter Solstice celebration, Christmas is a potpourri of borrowed customs and traditions. And is THAT really so bad?

I have to applaud the 19th century New Yorkers for attempting to create a holiday that brought all kinds of citizens together. What a wonderful idea!

And it worked great too! Right up until people started getting greedy and saw an opportunity to stir up some self serving controversy. Not much Christmas spirit in that is there?

Perhaps this year, instead of slapping each other's hands away from the holiday and trying to take it for our own, we should adopt the philosophy that St. Nicholas espoused so eloquently and offer to share this season of giving with our neighbors, despite our religious, ethnic, or political differences.

So the next time you turn on Fox News and see Bill O'Reilly yelling about the "attacks on Christmas" in a desperate attempt to gin up controversy and boost his ratings, just turn it off and hold your children, and thank Santa Claus for representing a season that ALL Americans can enjoy regardless of which religion they embrace, or to which God they direct their prayers.

Has the Republican brand become so damaged that they are looking to the Teabaggers to give them credibility?

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"The Tea Party has become a very legitimate grass roots movement in this country."

When the hell did THAT happen?

NOT the legs of a runner.

I got into a very civil disagreement (argument) not too long ago with a fellow blogger about whether or not Sarah was still a runner.

I was told that indeed she DID run, only now she did so indoors at a gym.

I beg to differ, I said, but I have a number of friends who are runners, and I sometimes train people to get back into shape, and SHE does not have a runners body.

I also pointed to her pictures in Runner's World, and said her legs were too thin and shapeless to be doing much running, and that the nylons she was wearing were undoubtedly hiding something.

So, Ta-Da! I think we can put that whole "I am a runner" B.S. to rest now. She has no defined hamstring muscle in the back of her legs, no shape to her quadriceps in the front, and a virtually non-existent gastrocnemius (calf muscle). Those are the legs of somebody who does a hell of a lot of sitting and not much else.

I would like my apology in writing please. And you know who you are.

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment about why the Senate Health Care bill should be abandoned. This one hurts.

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What is wrong with the Democrats? Can they not recognize that they are in charge? The Republicans march in lockstep as if in a parade before the Fuhrer, and the Democrats scramble around like school children hopped up on Halloween candy.

This was our moment. This was what we had campaigned our asses off for. And what we get for our trouble is a bill that will only add to the health care burden that Americans face, and do nothing to provide for those who cannot afford quality health care insurance. Nothing that is except force them to dig deep and pay for substandard health care insurance, and face a stiff fine if they fail to do so.

I cannot imagine that even the most unethical political puppet of the health care insurance industry could have done a better job of ripping off the American people. Well done Senate Democrats, you have once again proven your detractors right.

Republican political advisor Mark McKinnon picks the GOP's next best hope for 2012. Yep she is on there!

Sarah Palin came in at number two, right behind Mitt Romney.

Here is McKinnon's Sarah Palin write up.

2. Sarah Palin

Palin cruises around like she has a political jet pack on: powerful, fascinating, and crazily erratic, and you don’t know if she’s going to fly up into the stratosphere or hit a building. But, she is a force to be reckoned with. She says she looks for “open doors” to plot her political path. Well, alleged cop-killer Maurice Clemmons, granted clemency in 2000 by Mike Huckabee, might have just given her one to walk through for 2012—because Huckabee and Palin would clearly be fighting for many of the same voters, and the Clemmons incident could drive Huckabee from the race. Just a couple of weeks ago, Huckabee was leading the prospective field and polling within four points of Obama. Republicans primary voters are notoriously law- and order-obsessed, so Palin has virtually an open field in Iowa, South Carolina, and other primary states dominated by Christian conservatives.

Hot off her book tour, and the darling of the tea party crowd, Hurricane Sarah is blowing toward the 2012 shore.

(Just click the title to read the entire list.)

TMZ has pictures of Sarah and family in Hawaii

I know many of you were concerned that there were no corroborating sources for my post the other day. But have no fear, I do not post stories that I am not pretty damn sure are accurate.

And that goes for other stories that have still not had corroboration. I have complete confidence that all will be revealed someday.

By the way, that cap on her head? That is a McCain/Palin campaign cap that she is wearing in the home state of our President. Because she is just that much of a bitch.

By the way I have a Sarah Palin story from way back that I should be posting sometime tomorrow, or the next day, that will absolutely make your jaw drop and your opinion of miss quittypants sink to even lower lows. Stay tuned!

(Photo courtesy of TMZ by the way and clicking the headline takes you to their site which has many MORE pictures of Sarah, looking especially frumpy.)

Chair of the Anchorage Assembly, Debbie Ossiander, receives her holiday lump of coal in the form of a dismissal from her leadership duties. Buh-bye!

After months of battles over the budget between conservative and liberal members, Assembly Chair Debbie Ossiander was voted out of her leadership role in a surprise move.

The move was very much a surprise. Even some on the Assembly say they didn't know about the move to kick out Ossiander as the Assembly leader until it happened at the end of the meeting.

Ossiander has voted with the conservative minority on many crucial budget votes.
The six liberal-leaning members say removing her as Assembly Chair better reflects the Assembly's overall vision.

Assembly member Matt Claman, who brought the motion to reorganize, said it's typically expected for the majority on the assembly to elect a chair that reflects its views. "The period of time in which Ms. Ossiander was chair is best viewed more as an anomaly," Claman said.

This is LONG overdue, in my opinion. LONG overdue!

Debbie Ossiander has played the spoiler repeatedly. Consistently siding with the minority, and our morally crippled mayor, time and time again in direct opposition to the will of the majority now in power.

Perhaps the worst example of her incompetence and lack of ethics was during the summer when she allowed people bussed in from the Valley to argue against an equal rights ordinance that would have protected the LGBT community from discrimination in Anchorage. Ossiander, against all logic, allowed people who DID NOT EVEN LIVE HERE, to tie up the Assembly for 20 weeks as they waved their bibles in the air and talked about how the homosexuals were going to corrupt their children and force the city to have unisex bathrooms. (Complete bullshit!)

In case you missed that episode, my daughter and I made this little video of the madness that engulfed our city during that time.



Did you see the hate? Well so did we. For months we were subjected to that kind of uneducated, simple minded rhetoric, from people who DID NOT EVEN LIVE IN ANCHORAGE!

And that was directly because Debbie Ossiander allowed them to participate. Which slowed the process down to a crawl.

And then, after all of that, the ordinance passed! However Ossiander, doing the bidding of Jerry Prevo and his minions, had slowed the testimoney to go on long enough for the new mayor, Dan "slimeball" Sullivan, to be sworn in and he, of course, immediately vetoed the ordinance.

And that is how Jerry Prevo, Dan Sullivan, and their trained monkey Debbie Ossiander continue to allow the people of Anchorage to be oppressed despite the will of the majority.

I have a number of friends in the LGBT community, and I can honestly tell you that they are still suffering PTSD from the unfiltered hate they were subjected to during that horrible summer of 2009, and THAT is directly the fault of, the now dethroned, Debbie Ossiander.

So my only question is, what in the hell took so long?

You can read my friend, and fellow PTSD sufferer, Shannyn Moore's take on this reorganization here. And AKMuckraker has much to say about it right here as well.