I got very excited, for just a minute, when I saw this headline.
Sarah Palin is scheduled to speak to loggers.
I thought, "Oh my God! Sarah is going to speak to us? I never imagined she would have the guts to do that!" But then I reread the headline and realized it was missing a "B".
Sarah Palin is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a Northern California logging conference early next year.
Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference executive director Nadine Bailey said Palin will kick off the weeklong timber industry gathering Feb. 8 in Redding.
Bailey said the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has not settled on a theme for the speech but would be stopping in Redding in part to promote her book.
May I be so bold as to suggest a theme? How about "wood"?
She could give a whole speech about wood. She could say that some of her favorite things are made of wood. Like the stages she tries to give concession speeches from, or the heels of her Naughty Monkey pumps, or all of the wood she wasted to write that crappy book of hers.
She could then engage in a Q&A with the loggers.
"What is your favorite kind of wood?"
"Is your wood hard or soft?"
"Do you all wake up so early to take advantage of morning wood?"
Oh, come on! What in the hell is Sarah Palin going to talk to lumberjacks about?
I mean for crying out loud! She cannot possibly talk to them about anything important, she is currently on a freaking "woe is me" book tour! I am not sure that she will still be hawking her book by February, but the loggers that I have met in my life do not have a lot of sympathy with whiners.
Now if she wants to have a substantial conversation she needs to slap a "b" on loggers, and get ready to explain herself to people who may actually be interested in her side of events.
What are you all laughing about? WE would listen.
Come on Sarah! Where is the Sarah-cuda that you bragged about from your basketball days? You cannot be afraid of a bunch of insignificant bloggers can you? Well, can you?
She's only going to (maybe) do it because she was able to con a six figure speaking fee out of them.
ReplyDeleteWood (snark) Sarah do anything at all that would benefit the public good and for free?
No. Hell no.
Yes, Alaskans have welcomed many new "Alaskan bloggers" from around the world to join our Palin fact checking cause. The media is so far behind it's laughable. Many of you stood with us after her failed VP bid and watched her manic behavior within our state. You even understand that her entire past is based upon her meme perception of herself, not reality at all.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, also too from a very forever grateful Alaskan
Alaskan Sisu / XangoXango
Love this quote found on Kodiak Konfidential in reference to $150,000 clothes for the Palin "working class couple."
ReplyDelete"From Jon Stewart "she's a grifter who hasn't had to buy her own drink in a bar since whe was 15.'"
This speech is for getting logs (or wood) for her new house.
How about "Earth First ! , We'll clear-cut the other planets later"
ReplyDeleteGuaranteed there will be no questions fielded, as there are many loggers way more astute than she.
Maybe she can discuss how the timber corporations fired all their union crews and contracted
the work to "gypo crews"--ones that give the lowest bid mostly using undocumented immigrant workers?
And how the corporations use "transfer pricing" to escape paying U.S. taxes? And how that exemplifies "Great American Patriotic Values" ?
Nah, she'll probably rant about how restrictive the environmental laws are and how the timber companies should be set free to moonscape for profit.
It clearly follows that the more books Sarah sells, the more trees that will have to be killed to make paper. She's just out there trying to create a few jobs for real American--don't ya know.
ReplyDeleteOh I'm sure Scarah will come up with some sexy humorous logging material to woo them into her support group. She can be tough and rough yet school marm sexy. It's mostly women and very smart men who see through her fake act. The others are naive and think with that other brain.
ReplyDeleteGah.....she just wants the speaking fee. Gimmie more money......
I am sure she supports cutting down old growth forests, since she only cares about the animals if they are on her plate next the mashed potatoes.
ReplyDeleteand they have the $100,000 apparently
Northern California LOGGING conference?? This is the level of the "thousands" of speaking requests?? Oh dear, the Harper Valley PTA must be next...
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is a COMPLETE FRAUD.
ReplyDeleteWe know, Sarah, we know.
"I'm a Lumberjack and I'm okay...."
ReplyDeleteShe's being punked by Monty Python. Michael Palin finally gets his revenge!
OT: I just watched a clip on the Oprah website, http://tiny.cc/BYLrd, where Palin says one of the most hurtful things that happened during the campaign was a story about her banning books when she was Mayor of Wasilla. She says the story came from an Alaskan blogger who was "just making things up". I can't remember the whole story surrounding that. Could someone fill me in, please?
ReplyDeleteAlso, too, this same clip has her sad story about her "personal" emails becoming public. Oh, woe...
Don't let her near our wood!
ReplyDeleteWite-Out Palin on busy doing 'porn'
I have been loving seeing Levi grow on The Insider. Lara Spencer has taken a liking to him. The astroturfing armies of google bombers aren't slowing down and I hope Levi's publicitist is effectively countering their lies. Once the public sees his side without Wite-Out's jaundice eye it will be a new day.
Has Mary Hart seen the Spongebob Squarepants video and photos? That is one of my favs. It's a must see for anyone who wants to learn more about Wite-Out.
Is Sarah Palin’s New Book Fact Or Fiction?
Willow is a pretty girl. I do wish her the best.
SP will be a hit with the loggers - they are MEN. Short skirt, red pumps, bumpit in place and she is a success! Doncha know?
ReplyDeleteDo you think she will talk out of her Ash?
ReplyDeletewoodn't it be funny if she oaked on her words?
When will she leaf all of us alone?
I wood think the aundience might get board with her.
Has Meg approved this appearance?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Gryphen, I am afraid that she would have plenty to say to loggers, and environmentalists, animal lovers, and tree huggers like me would not like it one damn bit!
ReplyDeleteGryphen!
ReplyDelete??????????????????????????????????????????????
Just saw this at Alkaskan Report. I know they've updated their page because they've added that new Going Ghost cartoon and the pics from the Presiden't visit, but this isn't what was there last week!!!!!!!
http://www.alaskareport.com/
Rumor Central:
An Alaska politico's unmarried, and underaged, daughter is pregnant. Oh, and her mom's a "Family Values" Repub. To be continued...
Confusion Alert:
In Sarah Palin's new book she claims she's NOT divorcing Todd and her family is doing just fine. If that's true, why is Todd and Willow living in Palmer and why is Willow attending Colony High School in Palmer?
Why am I now picturing Sarah Palin and a bunch of burly woodsmen up on stage doing Monty Python's 'Lumberjack Song'???
ReplyDeleteLMAO you are too funny.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking that perhaps Scarah should get a small taste of her own medicine. Forget the Trig story, let’s all work on showing the world that she and Beck have a lot in common when they pall around with secessionists, supremacist, advocates of slavery etc.
From the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/16/becks-guest-list-included_n_359120.html
Beck has hosted, and even occasionally praised, a renowned white supremacist, a devout southern secessionist, a defender of slavery, and a 9/11 skeptic.
She is always praising him and the crazy Rush Limbaugh. Perhaps we need to dig deeper into this Looney group of fruit loops and expose more than a mystery child.
Understandable mistake, she thought it was her opportunity to tell off those "pajama clad bloggers".
ReplyDeleteYou know it suddenly dawned on me that Palin might be better equipped to talk to this group than most. I mean I KNOW she can at least see trees from her back porch.
ReplyDeletePlus with all of the time she has spent with Fred Malek, John Mccain, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Eddie Burke and Rupert Murdoch I am sure she has a fundamental understanding of how disappointed some men are about their wood. Don'tcha think?
AKPetMom & I appear to be on the same wavelength today! (No comments had yet been approved when I wrote mine and I chuckled just now when I saw you'd beat me to it by an hour.)
ReplyDeleteEVERYBODY SING!:
"I cut down trees, I wear high heels
Suspendies and a bra
I wish I'd been a girlie
Just like my dear Sa-Rah!"
Andrew Halcro is not happy with the quitter/twitter queen.
ReplyDeleteLibel was one of the words he used.
What a pathetic "speaker" she is.
ReplyDeleteShe's only had two speeches since she quit last July! It's friggin November, people.
Wow. LOSER.
And we all know how she'll show up to this event: Her tacky red patent leather hillbilly sandals/stripper heels with glitter on her toes and a skirt way too short for a "conservative". Or wait, she's BFs with Carrie Prejean, so maybe she'll show up naked.
And pass out videos.
Ew....
Sorry, but I don't find her attractive in the least. Refund, anyone?
I'll tell you what our dear old Sarah is doing in Northern Calif.....she's her to woo the redneck loggers up north. I can already hear the speech now. Socialism, terrorists, gov. takeover etc. I tell you it's part of the devious plot to take over the country. Although, her schedule seems strange I think there is reasoning behind it. Stay in the boondocks & stay out of trouble. No reason we can't spread the paranoia around a little. When is that old battleaxe going to realize she's not all that hot.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the Wasilla Library and book-banning. Hop on over to The Mudflats. AKM has a new topic up and the book-banning is included.
ReplyDeleteI hope Earth First shows up at the speech to the loggers. You know she favors logging. She's for everything destructive. I suspect she would feel quite a home with this group. Scary fundamentalists.
ReplyDeleteWonder if the media has finally noticed (okay, I can dream) that the phoney Campaign accent disappeared long ago along with the ad nauseam 'winks'?
ReplyDeleteI'm still questioning when it became an acceptible format endorsed by the media for Facebook as a political forum without investigating who writes it as the words written are not anything like how Palin speaks.
WOW! I can hardly wait until she shows up at the Indian casino in Lincoln City. Oregon.
ReplyDeleteI can see it now Paul Bunyan and Sarah the Babe, the blue ox. She will start her speech mentioning she read the Paul Bunyan series and is an expert on the logging industry.
ReplyDeleteI might just have to drive the three hours to Redding to protest her idiot speech. I was born and raised in logging country in northern Cali, and damned if I want that witch in our neck of the woods.
ReplyDeleteThis is what they really think of 'the trees'. Disgusting! I get VF every month, best investigative mag on the plane.
ReplyDeleteBohemian Tragedy
Members of the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club—2,500 of America’s richest, most conservative men, including Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, and a passel of Bechtels, Basses, and Rockefellers—are known to urinate freely against the ancient redwoods that cover their 2,700-acre property. Have they been chopping down the trees as well? According to one former member turned whistle-blower, the San Francisco–based society may have logged some of its old-growth forest. Drawing on his own Ivy League ties, the author investigates, with a daring sortie into the ceremonial kickoff of the Bohemians’ annual encampment.
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/bohemian-grove200905
"I didn't really want to be governor of Alaska after all. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
Mrs. Tarquin Biscuitbarrel
walkaboutstory....do go...scare up some of those old Bohemian protestors & bring them with you. No, we don't need her in No. CA stirring up shit.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 1:18
I also get Vanity Fair & have been amazed by their articles. They were onto Dick Cheney years before MSM.
Wow - Palin speaking to lumberjacks is just crazy. What idiotic thing will the Palin clan do next? Bristol campaigning for Abstinence? Oh, what ...... never mind.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is she will dress up like a lumberjack and leave the naughty monkey shoes behind. She is such a tease.
ReplyDeleteGot Wood? ha ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteSomeone apparently would, if she could, for "the perky one with the microphone"...
I'm sure she loves the lumberjack industry- Makes it easier for her to hunt prey from low flying airplanes.
This is my home territory too. Grew up in a small lumber town north of Redding. One of my sons and various other relatives live in Redding so I regularly read the home town paper to keep up with things. A couple of days ago, I was shocked to the core to read that Palin was "maybe" going to give a "motivational" speech there on an unspecified date if they can get her. It was put out as a teaser to the community. Let me tell you, she'll fit right in there - red neck heaven! They have two tea party groups - the tea baggers & the somewhat more reasonable tea patriots. Reading the comments to the story was like reading comments in the ADN when the Palinbots are out in force. A couple of stalwart detractors, but mostly like reading her FB or sea4pee. Gag!
ReplyDeleteThe evangithug Rebiblicans are in Redding big time. They have a food bank named Loaves & Fishes who recently turned down a huge donation of food (boxes of it) from a legal medical marijuana clinic because the director prayed and received direction from above that he could not accept food coming from sinners. And the thugs praised him for it. Now the city council is trying to shut down the clinics even though it goes against State Law. Reminds me of Sullivan, Prevo & their storm troopers. I could go on & on but have already made myself sick just recounting this much.
I doubt that $P will get $100,000 for the speech unless a big donor is footing the bill. They're selling the tickets for $54. The area is so depressed, they'll probably have to sell their pick ups to go, but wouldn't put it past them. The loggers will LOVE her. The shorter the skirt, the naughtier the shoes, the more she winks she'll bring down the house.
Maybe SP is just going to do further research on some of the questions she couldn't honestly answer in the Couric interview:
ReplyDeleteKC: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
SP: Oh, lots, Katie! When I was growing up in Alaska, my father always cut his own wood to heat our home...in Alaska. You know, before he retired, he was a Science teacher, an avid hunter, fisherman and a lumberjack...so, you know, I'm an expert on woodchuckin' and lumberjackin'.
Kat@2:31,
ReplyDeleteI hear you. We still have plenty of redneck types here on the north coast too, though I'm in the bastion of liberalism in Arcata. Makes me mad to hear that she is anywhere near our logging communities. We've spent decades trying to strike a balance between sustainable logging and protecting what is left of our old growth forests. PALCO thought they owned us and all of our forests. You know where they can shove that idea.
I drive through Lassen National Forest a lot and have been impressed in the last couple of years to see that whoever is in charge of that forest seems to be focusing on forest health and sustainable logging. More thinning, less clearcutting. Here on the coast we have the constant struggle with sediment influx from logging on steep slopes. Hurts our already stressed fisheries. My husband used to do stream restoration for Redwood National Park. The heavy equipment operators were old loggers. Hubby said they still tended to drool over the big trees, but were mostly just glad to have a decent paying job.
PS, I'm a Kat too.
High five walkabout story Kat! I sure know and agree with everything you're saying. I worked on a FS District (McCloud) on the Shasta-T National Forest during the Reagan years when the Dept of Ag, under rethuglican rule was mandating huge quantities of the "cut." Even responsible managers had to scrounge for new locations for timber sales, no matter how sensitive or destructive to the environment it was. If they didn't comply, their careers were ruined. Clear cut everything, no sustainability. Most of us HATED it and tried to fight against it to no avail.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to "talk" with another North Stater! Best wishes & congrats for living in Arcata. Beautiful country. I live in Maui now.