Stupidest idea EVER!

So there is this new website that has decided that the best chance for Obama to win a second term is to organize Democrats and Independents to help elect Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee in 2012. 

The group is call Primaries for Palin, and this is their Mission Statement:

PrimariesForPalin.com aims to nominate Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate by encouraging Democrats and Independents to purposefully vote for her in state primaries. In head-to-head polls with President Barack Obama, Palin consistently fares worse than other possible Republican candidates because of her divisiveness. If Palin is nominated, Obama has a much better chance of winning reelection in November 2012.

Now either the individuals behind this group are suffering from a terminal case of "head-up-our-ass-itis" or they are some Pro-Palin group using this transparent half-assed excuse to convince Independents and Democrats to vote for Palin in the primary. 

You know they DO seem a little overly defensive about this second scenario.  This from their site:

Are you secretly a pro-Palin organization?

No, but we recognize that some may see us as supporters of Palin through “reverse psychology.” We are a group of liberal individuals that wishes to have Obama reelected in 2012. We routinely post highly critical stories about Palin. While a pro-Palin organization could also post anti-Palin stories, thus using “reverse psychology” deception, we also post numerous poll results that show she would be severely trounced by Obama in the general election. If anything, it is these poll results that should prove our intentions: Numbers don’t lie.

Uh huh.  Well if this movement is NOT some Palin panty sniffers pathetic attempt to trick liberals into backing Palin, than it is some spineless Obama supporters pathetic attempt to stack the deck in our President's favor because they lack confidence in his ability to win the election in 2012.  Either way these imbeciles should be ignored and marginalized until they get a clue and shut down their ridiculous enterprise.

Look Obama is going to destroy ANYBODY the Republicans put up against him in 2012. Believe it!

When people start to use deception to win an election, THAT is when a sure thing suddenly becomes a near miss.  Obama will win, count on it, but we can fuck that up by trying to game the system or attempting to outsmart the Luddites who still support the Republican party.

There were progressives who pulled that crap in Alaska, and they damn near delivered the vaguely bearded Teabagger candidate Joe Miller right onto the Senate floor.  And as others have pointed out, there was another Republican candidate that the Democrats felt would ensure an easy victory for their sitting President as well.

In late 1978, Ronald Reagan, himself a former governor and media star, was considered a has-been politician who had tried for the presidency in 1976 and had fallen short. Reagan was ridiculed, like Palin, for his alleged lack of intelligence and his alleged extremism. Yet, in 1980, Ronald Reagan beat President Jimmy Carter and became the 40th President of the United States.

Now Sarah Palin is NO Ronald Reagan, but my point is why take the chance in allowing the worst possible candidate imaginable to get THAT close to the White House.

Obama's amazing list of accomplishments will serve him well in the 2012 Presidential contest, and the memory of the last time a Republican President sat in the Oval Office will hang around the neck of their next candidate like a rusty anchor.  That should be enough to give the Democrats confidence in their President.

Sarah Palin has lost virtually all of her credibility with the American people, so why give her even the semblance of electability by faking a groundswell of support.  Remember the lesson of Dr, Victor Frankenstein and Senator John McCain.

Sometimes, the creature gets loose.

I'm grateful for President Obama.

I had somebody e-mail this to me a while ago and ask if I would post it today.

I am not a DJ and do not always take requests, but this one seemed very appropriate.

See if you don't agree.



Happy New Years Eve my friends.

What if Snowdrift Snooki met up with the REAL Jersey Shore Snooki?

Apparently yesterday Snooki Polizzi, form the Jersey Shore cast, tweeted this message:

Sara Palin has a reality show? ....I'm bored..maybe ill come stir up some excitement in that alaskan home..
29 Dec via ÜberTwitter

Personally I find the idea of Snooki and the Grizzled Mama meeting up in the wilds of Wasilla to be a compelling idea for at least ONE of their reality shows. And you have to admit it would be a hell of lot more entertaining than watching Kate Gosselin bitch about the weather.

Could you just imagine the mind numbing conversations that the two could engage in?

They could compare bumpits and fake tans all day long. And it would undoubtedly TRIPLE the ratings from  last week's episode of SPSAFTVFT.

While she was in Alaska Snooki could even give Palin some lessons on more effective attention whoring.  I don't know if Palin has done ANYTHING as potentially humiliating and hard to ignore as what Snooks has coming up for tonight.

Don't worry, I'm still gonna be your fricken' NYE hamster ina ball...I wish NYC would focus on digging out ... http://tmi.me/4Q8uj
19 hours ago via ÜberTwitter

Perhaps it is just me, but he idea of putting Sarah Palin in a glass ball and dropping her from a great height has a certain appeal.

My favorite political candidate of 2010.

There were a LOT of choices in the category of self destructive political candidates like Joe Miller, Sharron Angle, Alvin Greene, Ken Buck,  Rich Iott, to name but a few, but the most entertaining train wreck of them all, at least in my opinion, was Christine O'Donnell.

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O'Donnell was by far the candidate who seemed the most determined to fix everything that was wrong with her campaign and reputation, by getting in front of the camera and making it worse.  Not since Sarah Palin has there been least self aware person in the political arena. (And yes I do agree that Alvin Greene might be a candidate for that title, but I think he might actually have a mental health issue so I am going to give him a pass on this one.)

I do not think that ANYBODY except Christine O'Donnoll could have actually made a political commercial this hilariously bad.



Oh I am so going to miss her!

Perhaps somoebody should start a "Draft Christine O'Donnell for President in 2012" campaign website.  I mean if Sarah Palin can be convinced she has a shot at winning the Presidency, surely O'Donnell can be fooled just as easily.

Lisa Murkowski certified the winner of Alaska's Senate race. Gee and it only took 56 days!

From Huffington Post:

Sen. Lisa Murkowski was officially named the winner of Alaska's U.S. Senate race Thursday, following a period of legal fights and limbo that lasted longer than the write-in campaign she waged to keep her job.

Gov. Sean Parnell and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, who oversees elections, signed the paperwork certifying her win in the hotly contested race.

"It's done," Treadwell said after penning his last signature in front of cameras in Parnell's office.

Well thank goodness THAT is finally over!

Now Sarah Palin's butt-boy can finally go out and pursue his hobby of walking through the woods and gathering up moose antlers full time. Won't that be fun?

I'm sorry what did the Miller camp say?

"Miller will address his plans moving forward, including whether he will pursue a federal appeal or state election contest," according to a statement from his campaign.

The press conference will be at 2 p.m. at 607 W, Northern Lights Blvd. in Anchorage.

His "plans moving forward" better be plans to move the hell out of our state, because we could not be MORE over his vaguely bearded ass.

"America by Heart" is only selling one fifth as well as "Going Rogue" did last year. Oh yeah, somebody jumped the shark!

I was fortunate enough to receive an e-mail with this message this message attached yesterday:

I work in the book publishing industry and I have access to Nielsen book sales data. Nielsen compiles book sales information from every major retailer (Amazon, B&N, Borders, Target, Costco, indie stores...). Every retailer of any significance is included in their data except (no surpise) Wal*Mart.

I can compare sales for SP's book from this time last year for her first book vs the same time period this year (data is from the exact same group of retailers in 2009 and in 2010). I think these numbers tell a pretty interesting story...

GOING ROGUE - sales through Dec 27th 2009 - 1,255,963 units

AMERICA FROM THE HEART - sales through Dec 26th 2010 - 232,344 units

These are units sold through the cash register at all of these retailers combined.

I think that says it all when it comes to the state of Ms. Palin's popularity (or lack thereof).

(Just for clarification, Going Rogue was published on November 17, 2009, while America by Heart was published November 23, 2010.  So, adding in the one day difference in the above information, Going Rogue has seven more sale days than ABH.  I am sure to the Palin-bots that explains everything.)

I think this, plus the information about how many viewers that "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the first time" has lost since its debut are impossible to ignore indicators that Palin is indeed failin'.

By now it is crystal clear that Snowdrift Snooki has proven her point that the more people see of her, without the filtering by the "lamesteam media,"  the more they will understand the REAL Sarah Palin. Sadly nobody seems to like the REAL Sarah Palin.

Good job Sister Sarah!  The media could NEVER have done a better job of revealing your inadequacies and lack of ability than you have done yourself! 

Reality show turns out to be a stinker,

Senate candidate gets his ass handed to him.

Book sales in the toilet.

Republicans turning against her en masse.

Yep it looks like Sarah Palin is certainly showing all of us that the more the American people know her, the more they loathe her.

BTW the person who sent me this e-mail also sent along a couple of screenshots to prove their claim, and according to what I saw everything that is written above is absolutely correct.  If any of you are also in the publishing industry perhaps you can independently confirm this for yourselves.

Joe Miller is going to need an even BIGGER "donate" button on his website.

I have to pay how much in court costs?

From the Fairbanks NewsMiner:

The state of Alaska plans to seek nearly $16,000 in legal fees from Joe Miller's team over litigation surrounding the U.S. Senate race.

The Department of Law says its attorney fees related to Miller's challenge in state Superior Court totaled $79,722.50. The department says it is allowed to recover 20 percent of the fees and is seeking $15,957.55.

This absolutely makes my morning.

In my opinion it would be perfect if these costs forced Miller to file for bankruptcy. 

Check out his website.  Is it just me, or is that "Donate" button getting bigger with every visit?

You know the really shocking thing, is that after all of this Miller STILL believes he has a future in Alaskan politics.

"I have run for office at both the state and federal level, in both primary and general elections, and am likely to do so in the future," Miller told a federal court judge in an affidavit Monday, one day before the same judge dismissed his case.

I cannot imagine anybody supporting Miller in the future. The guy is an asshole, a sore loser, and a coward who requires his own security staff to make him feel safe.  That is NOT somebody who Alaskans can respect.

Are Right Wing trolls paid to sabotage on-line conversations and defend certain causes and political figures? You betcha!

This from Alternet:

Reading comment threads on the Guardian’s sites and elsewhere on the web, two patterns jump out at me. The first is that discussions of issues in which there’s little money at stake tend to be a lot more civilized than debates about issues where companies stand to lose or gain billions: such as climate change, public health and corporate tax avoidance. These are often characterized by amazing levels of abuse and disruption.

Articles about the environment are hit harder by such tactics than any others. I love debate, and I often wade into the threads beneath my columns. But it’s a depressing experience, as instead of contesting the issues I raise, many of those who disagree bombard me with infantile abuse, or just keep repeating a fiction, however often you discredit it. This ensures that an intelligent discussion is almost impossible - which appears to be the point.

The second pattern is the strong association between this tactic and a certain set of views: pro-corporate, anti-tax, anti-regulation. Both traditional conservatives and traditional progressives tend be more willing to discuss an issue than these right-wing libertarians, many of whom seek instead to shut down debate.

So what’s going on? I’m not suggesting that most of the people trying to derail these discussions are paid to do so, though I would be surprised if none were. I’m suggesting that some of the efforts to prevent intelligence from blooming seem to be organized, and that neither website hosts nor other commenters know how to respond.

For his film (Astro)Turf Wars, Taki Oldham secretly recorded a training session organized by a rightwing libertarian group called American Majority. The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to “manipulate the medium”. This is what he told them:

“Here’s what I do. I get on Amazon; I type in “Liberal Books”. I go through and I say “one star, one star, one star”. The flipside is you go to a conservative/ libertarian whatever, go to their products and give them five stars. … This is where your kids get information: Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster. These are places where you can rate movies. So when you type in “Movies on Healthcare”, I don’t want Michael Moore’s to come up, so I always give it bad ratings. I spend about 30 minutes a day, just click, click, click, click. … If there’s a place to comment, a place to rate, a place to share information, you have to do it. That’s how you control the online dialogue and give our ideas a fighting chance.”

Over 75% of the funding for American Majority, which hosted this training session, comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of the alliance’s money came from a single donation, of $3.7m(13). A group which trains rightwing libertarians to distort online democratic processes, in other words, was set up with funding from a person or company with a very large wallet.

Now I have no idea if the trolls that come here have any affiliation with the "American Majority."  But if one company like that exists, it stands to reason that there are undoubtedly others.

What I do know is that there have long been some EXTREMELY dedicated Palin defenders coming to this site who seem to have little more to do with their time than to leave comments here, and on other blogs, that attempt to refute what I say in my posts, attempt to hijack the conversation and change the subject, or viciously attack the people who regularly comment here.

They use an interesting variety of methods:

There are the concern trolls:  "I have been a fan of this blog for years, but THIS time Gryphen has gone too far and I am NEVER coming back here again. GOOD-BYE!"

There are the trolls who always attempt to change the subject to their percevied failings of Obama: "Sure Sarah might not know much about foreign policy, but at least she is not going around the world and apologizing to Europe on America's behalf like the man-child currently in office."

There are trolls who try to make the comment thread seem an unwelcome place to visit: "You know obviously Anonymous at 3:45 is an ignorant inbred moron who probably wishes his mother had aborted him because he doesn't even respect his OWN God given right to exist.  Communist liberal, Christian hating scum!"

There are trolls who might let a criticism of Sister Sarah go, but simply MUST defend her family at all cost: "While I agree that Sarah Palin will never be President, there is NO evidence that Track did anything illegal," or "I personally know the Palins and they are a closed knit loving family, and you are all jealous." or "I hate Sarah Palin just as much as ANYBODY but her children should be off limits.Come on we are better than this!"

Then there are the messages that are just to me, and the commenter knows I will probably not post them: "So Jesse is this another one of your icebergs coming?  You are so pathetically jealous of Sarah's success that you can't stand it!" or "Boring!  When are you going to post something new?  This is the same old crap everyday." or "You secretly want to have sex Sarah don't you, you gay Nazi bastard?" (I seriously have received that last message at least three times now. Except I softened the language because it is early.)

Do any of those examples sound familiar to you?

Now another favorite technique is when I REALLY write something controversial, such as my posts about Bristol moving to Arizona, and the trolls see that I am being confronted by the REAL commenter's and simply pile on.  So what might elicit a handful of negative responses now brings in dozens, making it difficult to figure out who is really upset, and who is just taking advantage of a perceived weakness.

Now you might believe that the idea of paid internet trolls is a little far fetched, but don't forget that John McCain himself set the precedent during the 2008 campaign.

The reason that I have long suspected that there are trolls paid to visit this site, is because of how quick they are to jump on a story that they don't like, and how often similar phrases or words (like man-child) show up in different threads. (I once posted a story and noticed a spelling mistake.  In the twenty to thirty seconds it took me to correct that mistake, somebody had left a comment disagreeing with me which contained a LINK to help refute my position.  They literally had a link ready for when I made a post on that topic!)

So the next time that you read a comment that seems rather aggressive or hateful you have to ask yourself, is this simply somebody who disagrees with Gryphen?  Or is this somebody who is paid to start trouble over here?  And what does THAT say about the impact that this blog must be having on certain people?

I remember when I was the King of my castle just like it was yesterday. In fact it WAS yesterday.

Now after several months of living here my daughter has finally decided to REALLY live here, which means that she is not going to simply stay in her room and out of my way (Like I want), but that she is going to redecorate the house to suit her needs and begin putting a little of her personality into the place.

Oh yippee!

So the other day she e-mails me pictures of three different couches she wants and asks which one I think would look best in the living room. 

I of course e-mail her back and say "None of them, we don't need a couch!"

However that is not good enough and she makes me choose. So I tell her that two of her choices are fine but that the third one sucks ass.  "Okay" she says and goes out that day and buys one of them and a matching loveseat.

The night before last she tells me that she needs my help to pick the couches up and bring them home.  "Okay" I say, "no problem."  All the while thinking to myself, "See she still needs her daddy."

So yesterday I go into her room to wake her up so that we can pick up the couches together and she springs out of the bed wide awake like some sort of jack-in-the-box. (My daughter NEVER springs awake.  IN fact last week she slept for one entire day, not getting up once even to go to the bathroom.  I went in around one o'clock in the afternoon with a mirror to check if she was still breathing.  She was.)

So when she sprang up like that it startled me, and I am not embarrassed to say I took a step back. I didn't run because that would have been pathetic, but I did drop into a half assed fighting stance just in case it was a ninja or zombie in that bed  instead of my daughter. (I have been watching a lot of bad Netflix movies lately.)

Not only did she spring out of bed but she started talking a hundred miles a minute.  I could not catch all of it because it was too fast for human ears to intercept, but it went something like this:

"So much to do....had an espresso last night.....couldn't sleep.....let's go...wait I need to brush my teeth....are you ready?....I like espresso.....have you showered yet?....Let's go!...Wait did I brush my teeth yet?...Have you still NOT showered yet?.....I like espresso....need to pick up the couch....espresso...like...."

All of that took about a half second to say.  I calmly told her to settle down and I would be showered in a few minutes and we could go get the couch.

I quickly showered, and as I left the bathroom still brushing my teeth she was standing outside of the door with her coat on and bouncing from one foot to the other asking if we could go yet?  "Seriously who the hell are you?" I asked through the toothpaste in my mouth.

As we backed out of the driveway my daughter suddenly tells me that we need to go to U-Haul and rent a truck in order to bring the couches home.  So as we drove to the U-Haul place I tell her to let me do the talking because sometimes these people will try and take advantage of a young girl.

We walked in and I happened to notice that there were some cool combination locks for sale.  I swear I am only distracted for a minute or two, but when I look over my daughter is at the front counter and she is swiping her credit card and filling out the form. I walked up only to have her breeze past me and say "Come on Dad I got it."

I was left just kind of standing there feeling completely unnecessary, and wondering what in the hell just happened.

I walked outside only to find my daughter sitting behind the steering wheel. She's driving too?

As I climb into the passenger side I casually ask her if she is sure she can handle a vehicle this big and cumbersome.

Then she gives me the look.  My look.

It is the look I have practiced my entire life.,  The look that says "Do YOU have any idea just who the fuck you are talking too?"  That is MY look, I give it all of the time to shut people down, and now I am on the receiving end.

I cannot believe she stole my look!  And then she has the audacity to fling it right back at me to boot! 

"You do remember that I just drove a motor home all the way up the ALCAN from Georgia don't you?"

Actually you know what?  I kind of forgot about that for a second.

So sufficiently chastised I sat in the passenger side providing valuable driving tips that she completely ignored as we headed off we go to pick up the couch.  We arrived at the store and when we walked in I saw that the couch she bought was the only one of her choices that I did NOT want her to buy.

Now apparently she thinks I will not yell in a crowded store. Wrong!

But before I can get up a real head of steam and begin to send the locals fleeing for the door, my daughter starts to tell me how she got it on sale, and how she negotiated the price down even further, and how she saved three hundred dollars on the purchase.

"What?  Three hundred dollars?  But this is not the...but we agreed...three hundred dollars?"   I quickly realize that I've got nothing to say back. I know when I'm beat, so all I can do is to help the furniture store employees load up the couches for the trip to our house.

Once we get to the house we begin to unload the couches.  We get the first one up the stairs to the front door and BAM!  It will not go through. Hah!  I knew there would be a problem.

So I start my rant about if only she would have listened to me and bought the couches that I approved instead of some oversized ugly ass furniture like this we would not have to load it up and take it right back to where we got it, but nooo, she never listens to her father even though he.....

"Dad! Why don't we try turning it and seeing if we can work it in at an angle?"

Yep you guessed it, that worked perfectly. Crap, and I had such a good rant going.

We got both of the couches into the living room and I was finally able to get a good look at them in the sunlight.  You know what?  They were not really all that hideous.

After we returned the U-Haul (And yes my daughter got a good deal and did not even drive it far enough to have to buy gas for it.), she asked if we could stop by Fred Meyers and buy some more things for her to spruce up the house.

Aha!  So THIS is where she gets me to spend a bunch of my money on things I don't want in my house, I thought.

"Look" I said, "I will drive you to the store, but don't think I am going to spend a bunch of my money on things that I don't think are necessary just because you want to them."  Ha, I certainly told her.

I looked over and saw that same look of mine staring back at me again! "Did I ask you to buy anything?" She said.

"Well, no but.."

"Didn't I pay for the U-Haul?"

"Well yes but..."

"Didn't I figure out how  the get the couches through the door when YOU wanted to just give up?"

"Well I never said I was exactly giv..."

"Don't worry DAD, I will handle it.  Geez!"

"Sorry" I said. In order to make it up to her I offered to buy her a coffee.  The one from the night before had started to wear off so she agreed.  She ended up choosing a Peppermint Mocha with, and I quote, "As much peppermint as humanly possible."

I swear in three sips she was bounding around the store like Tigger from the Winnie the Pooh stories.

We chose a cart and began to move through the store.  I found a Blue Ray DVD that I wanted and threw it into the cart exclaiming to everybody within earshot that IT was all I was buying today. As we progressed through Fred Meyers my daughter's verbal interactions with me began to speed up.  Soon she was barely coherent and talking so fast that all I could do was nod my head once in awhile to let her know I was paying attention.

I was trying to watch carefully to make sure she did not put too many expensive things into the cart because I knew she did not have a great deal of money left.  But my eyes started to dry out and I had to blink.  When I did I noticed that three more items had miraculously found their way into our shopping cart.  What's more I believe the three things came from three entirely different areas of the store.  I literally had no idea how she got them into the cart so damn fast.

I tried to ask her, but now she was in such a caffeine induced state of hyperactivity that her words were coming so fast they gave my eardrums wind burn.

The cart was soon full and so we decided to head to the check out so I could buy my Blue Ray movie and she could apparently spend what was left of her life savings.

We went to the U-Scan and I scanned my Blue Ray movie and got out my wallet to pay, but then my daughter reached over and scanned one of her items on my scanner too. WTF?

When I looked over she said "Remember?  Over there by the shelves you said you would buy this for me?"

'What?  No I didn't."

"Yes you did, remember I said I really wanted it, but could not afford it, and when I asked if you would buy it instead you nodded yes."

Oh crap!  Was THAT what she was saying?

"Look honey you cannot hold me accountable for anything I nodded to back there, hell only dolphins and fruit bats could make out what you were saying."

"Dad!  People are waiting for us, and I really need these shelves because your house does not have enough closet space for all of my stuff! Please!"  I knew I was being scammed but she had turned on her Bambi eyes and I was powerless to argue.  As it turned out I had apparently nodded quite a few times and ended up buying most of the things in the cart.

Long story short, my Blue Ray movie ended up costing me $159.83.  That better be one hell of a good movie!

Mental note for the future, do NOT buy daughter anymore mochas, and do not nod your head to anything that you do not see in writing!

P.S. Before I went to bed last night I caught my daughter in my bedroom with a measuring tape.  When I asked her what the hell she was doing she said she was just seeeing how much extra space there was in my room compared to her room and suggested that it might be a good idea if we switched because she could really use the extra space that I have in my master bed and bathroom.

"This is MY house!" I explained defensivly. "I pay the bills, and MY name is on the mortgage. And that means I get the biggest room and most luxurious bathroom. Got it?"

"It was just an idea." She said, and then smiled in that way she smiles right before she totally gets her way.

Oh god, she is the devil!

I slept with my door locked last night.

Here she is with what I THOUGHT would be the most expensive thing I would be buying for her.

Looks innocent doesn't she?  Yeah, I have been known to fall for that too.

Update:

Since you demanded it.  Behold, the couch!

"Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the very first time" continues to lose viewers.

From TV by the Numbers:

Well outside the top 25, Sarah Palin’s Alaska averaged 2.49 million viewers, down from the previous week’s 2.56 million.

I would love to see a breakdown of the demographics of viewers for this program.

My instincts tell me that a large number of them are probably people who simply cannot stand Sarah Palin and are watching her reality show/political advertisement in order to prove to themselves that she is a fraud and a ridiculous person. 

Then there are the middle aged conservative males who are watching it with their hand in their pants, the teabaggers who believe she is  the second coming of Jesus, a handful of nature buffs who are waiting for Sister Sarah to get the hell out of the way so they can see the beautiful scenery, and of course the fans of snuff films who are waiting to see what the Grizzled Mama will kill THIS week.

Next week is the two hour finale.  Typically finale's get a larger audience share than other episodes, but at 120 minutes I am not sure how many viewers will be able to make it to the end.

However one thing is clear, despite what her ego initially told her Palin did NOT manage to attract more viewers by allowing America to see more of her as she undoubtedly believed would be the case. As many predicted, the MORE people saw of her, the less they found her interesting or engaging enough to waste an hour of their Sunday watching on their televisions.

I mean let's face facts, only about half as many people thought her program was as interesting to watch as the Pawn Stars.



THAT is what is kicking Sarah Palin's show's ass. And they say America does not have good taste.

Now if Sarah Palin opened a pawn shop in Wasilla, she might actually have a shot.

Stick yet another fork in him, Joe MIller is done! Again!

From ADN:

A judge on Tuesday dismissed Republican Joe Miller's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the Nov. 2 election, clearing the way for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski to be sworn in for another term.

U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline issued a 14-page order in which he said Miller wasn't raising any federal issues that he needed to resolve.

The judge ruled without waiting for the state to provide its defense of the election. He said state lawyers didn't even need to respond to Miller's latest filings. He ordered Miller's entire federal case dismissed

I am beginning ot think it was easier to stop Jason from the "Friday the Thirteenth" movies than to make this guy see that he is finished.  But surely he gets that now, don't you think?

Miller said in a statement that he was disappointed by the ruling and was contemplating what to do now.

An appeal would go before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His lawyers contended the U.S. Constitution puts authority for regulating elections with the Legislature, not election officials.

"Specifically, should the courts be required to follow the legislature's standard for the selection of U.S. Senators or create their own?" Miller said in a written statement. "My legal team believes that the clear language of the Election Clause as well as precedent support our claims. Thus, we are evaluating the ruling and determining what our next step should be."

Seriously?

I am amazed that even the Teabaggeers would be willing to continue throwing money at this doomed legal battle.  Let's face it Joe, eventually you are going to have admit defeat and go out and find a real job.

And hey, good luck with that.

The unlikeliest rumor about Bristol's move to Maricopa, Arizona has been shot down.

From AZ Central:

Despite widespread rumors to the contrary, Bristol Palin will not be attending the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

It is true that Bristol, the eldest daughter of Sarah Palin, recently purchased a home in Maricopa, the outlying Valley suburb in Pinal County.

Exactly why she purchased the home - investment? quiet winter getaway? - remains such a mystery, that apparently rumors were necessary to make sense of it all.

So TMZ.com reported that Bristol was "telling friends" that she may enroll at an Arizona college. And because Maricopa is "just miles" from the Cronkite School, the website connected the dots and reported that Bristol would soon be a Sun Devil.

The problem, of course, is that it was never the case.

"She is not a student. She hasn't applied. It is pure fiction," the dean of the Cronkite School, Chris Callahan, said Tuesday morning. "If anybody had called and asked me that, we would have been glad to tell them."

Of all of the rumors swirling about this home purchase (And seriously when was the last time you saw so much speculation?), THIS one was the least believable.

Let's face it, the Palins do not work hard nor study hard.  Bristol would be more likely to start smuggling illegals over the border than to start attending a real a college, that expected you to show up to class and study hard to pass the classes, and where her mother could not buy her diploma for her.

I am going to respect the wishes of my visitors and try to be a little more charitable toward Arizona. I realize I was a smidge harsh in my last post.

Actually my father was raised in Arizona, and even went back when I was a boy and worked as a sheriff's deputy there in the late sixties.  And yes he hated the place.

 My problem is not really with Arizona, but rather with the idea of taking this Alaskan child out of a place where he is surrounded by fresh air,  gorgeous scenery, and ever present wildlife and putting him in a place where the temperatures can be in the hundreds and there is hardly a green living thing in sight.

Update: More bad news about Maricopa. And even more.

Look I know Alaska is far from perfect, and Wasilla even less so, but seriously?

Palin's former staff ask for FIFTEENTH delay in releasing her e-mails to the media.

From the New York Daily News:

On Monday evening, Palin's former staff in the Alaska governor's office asked the state's attorney general for their 15th postponement to requests to release nearly 25,000 emails exchanged by the former governor, her husband and her staff, MSNBC reported.

The requests were made by several news organizations, including NBC News, MSNBC.com, The Associated Press, Mother Jones, Pro Publica and the Juneau Empire, in 2008 after Sen. John McCain picked her as his vice-presidential candidate.

State regulations allow the attorney general to approve a delay if information released in public records would hurt the office of the governor, and three different attorneys general have received requests from the office to delay the release of the emails since Palin was in office.

This time, the governor's office has asked for a delay until May 30, 2011.

At that point, the former governor's office will have put off releasing the emails for 986 days, 20 more days than Palin's term as governor, according to MSNBC.

This is unbelievable.  Obviously Palin left people in very important positions with instructions to make sure that information which might damage her would be kept out of the hands of the "Lamestream media," and so far it has worked like a charm.

It is becoming increasingly clear that these e-mails might be the key to the end of Palin's influence.  The fact that after all of this time they are STILL fighting like crazy to keep them secret should raise anybody's red flag, even those who were not convinced that Palin had engaged in any wrong doing.

Innocent people do not work this hard to keep their records secret.

P.S. There is a good chance that all of this will be a waste of time for Sister Sarah's supporters.  There might be a leak about to take place that will bypass this e-mail logjam and get the information out into the public arena despite the Grizzled Mama's best efforts.

An ugly, desolate family, headed to an ugly, desolate location.

Get a load of the shitpile that Bristol purchased in Arizona.

Ugh! Are we sure this is not a halfway house for recovering drug addicts instead of a home for the mother of a young boy? 

Just check out this backyard.  I would not allow my dog to play in that craggy looking sand pit.

She better have a lot of band aids on hand, because Tripp is going to be hemorrhaging blood from his knees everytime he stumbles or loses his balance.

I have heard from a number of people living in Arizona who are defending their state, and I respect your decision to live there, but you cannot possibly compare this barren wasteland to the beauty of Alaska.  My state is breathtaking and chock full of endless possibilities for fun filled activities and opportunities to commune with nature.  Arizona is the place we send our prisoners when our jails get full.

And even the Arizona real estate agents believe that Maricopa is the dingleberry on the anus of the state.

From Gawker:

Today we checked out the swanky new stucco digs — fresh out of the foreclosure mill — that college-bound Bristol Palin bought in Maricopa, Arizona. Our Arizona real estate experts then weighed in: Is Maricopa a "good" place to settle?

No! Maricopa is all sadness and dirt and plastic chain-store malaise, according to every commenter. The entire exurban shitbath should just be burnt to the ground. Because what if future people dug up its remains? How embarrassing would that be?

Maricopa is one of the many examples scattered across AZ and Calif. of overspending and overgrowth during the housing bubble. The city is in the middle of nowhere, connected by a under-serviced highway. It's at a minimum 30 minutes from Phoenix by car.

Living out there is for people who want too much and cannot afford it or trashy people who think living in a stucco subdivision in the middle of the Senoran desert is classy.

Now I have no actual proof that Bristol is planning on moving herself and Tripp down there, though we HAVE been hearing about her plans to move for quite some time now.  (And of course we know that Palin family attorney and Sarah's favorite lap dog Thomas Van Flein packed up and made the move recently.) Nor do I know for a fact that Sarah or any of her family are planning on following Bristol out there if she does go.  However a recent poll might suggest that the Grizzled Mama in particular is not exactly feeling much warmth up here in our coldest state.

We've polled Palin's favorability in ten states over the last couple months. In Alaska just 33% of voters have a favorable opinion of her to 58% with a negative one. The only place where fewer voters see her positively than her own home state is dark blue Massachusetts.

Democrats hate Palin in Alaska but they hate her everywhere so there's nothing newsworthy about that. What makes her home state numbers unusually bad is that Republicans see her favorably by only a 60/30 margin. In most places she's closer to 80% favorability within her own party. Also while independents don't like her anywhere their level of animosity in Alaska is unusually large- 65% unfavorable to only 25% with a favorable opinion.

I guess news like that would be enough to make anybody to want to run and hide in the middle of the desert. And as far as  I'm concerned GOOD RIDDANCE! 

But why do they have to drag that sweet little boy with them?

BTW I also have no idea if Levi has been paid off or not.  I know that Sadie and Sherry have not, and I don't THINK Levi has, but I am far less convinced about Rex and Tank.  From what I have gleaned it is bad advice that has kept Levi from believing he has a chance of receiving a fair court hearing and having more access to his son.

Levi Johnston still has rights.

From TMZ:

A rep for Levi tells TMZ ... Johnston is "aware" Bristol purchased a $172k home in AZ ... but the two have not had any discussions about relocating 2-year-old Tripp.

According to court officials in Alaska ... in order for a parent with primary custody -- like Bristol -- to relocate a child, she would need either consent from the other parent ... or she could file a motion for approval from a judge.

This is true.  When my ex-wife wanted to move to Georgia I took her to court and we had to work out a new custody deal.  If we had not done so. she could not have taken my little girl because in Alaska the courts seem to side with the parent who is staying in state.

And it is important for Tripp in the long run l that Levi fight for him to stay.  I cannot tell you how many times my daughter brings up the fact that I refused to let her mother take her away from me, and that I spent ALL of my money to fight for her.  For her it is a reminder of how much I love her and that I desperately wanted her in my life.

Regardless of the outcome it is very important that Levi not simply roll over and let Bristol take advantage of him. Remember Tripp will be looking back on his life someday and he NEEDS to know that his Dad wanted him.

Which is why I hope this next part is not true.

But there may be hope for Bristol -- Levi's rep tells us, "Levi is not at all upset that Bristol is going to Arizona" ... adding, "After the holidays, Levi and Bristol will get together and discuss plans for Tripp."

Obviously this must come from Rex or Tank, and since it is a legal matter I would imagine that it would be Rex.  However in my opinion this kind of defeatist attitude is wrong, both in the short term meaning that Levi will have substantially limited time with his son, and in the long run meaning that Tripp may someday think his dad did not care about him.

We're told the two have to work out the details with Levi's visitation rights -- with one major factor being ... who's gonna foot the bill for Levi to travel to AZ to see the kid???

Yeah no kidding, flying from Alaska to Arizona ain't cheap. Right now flights are being offered anywhere from $760 to $1268 round trip. How many of those a year do we really think Levi can afford?

I have to say that this issue really frustrates me as it seems that Levi has never stood up to the Palins in any real way.  He has talked like he is ready for a fight, but when the fight came he caved almost immediately.  And after his brief reunion with Bristol it seems he just gave up.

I will send this to Mercede and see if she has any information, but sadly I will not be able to post it here.  If I were to blog about it then Levi would stop talking to her again. Levi still does not talk to me, but from what I understand he has no problem with the things I have written about Bristol or his situation with her.

So I will try to get a message to him through Sadie.

I just don't want him to believe that he has no options. But if Bristol successfully moves that baby down there, he won't.  So if he does not stand up for his rights now, then it is pretty much all over.

New tool to convince suspected terrorists to confess will be out in April. "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the very first time" to be made available on DVD.

From the TV Zone:

TLC’s hit series “Sarah Palin's Alaska - Season 1” will be coming out on DVD on April 5.

The 2-disc set (all 387 minutes of it) will sell for a suggested retail price of $19.98. But if you want more, Discovery's online store is selling a 3-disc “special edition” version for $10 more that will be available a month earlier. That disc features additional documentaries about the 49th State — but they do not involve the Palin family.

Can you imagine?

How much would you have to hate somebody to give them this is a gift?  Hell I don't even dislike Sarah Palin enough to make her watch this mooseshit.

Wait! I thought of somebody. John McCain!

John McCain should be forced to sit through this entire series, "Clockwork Orange" style, while somebody whispers in his wrinkled old ear "Do you SEE what you inflicted upon America?"

Now THAT would be justice!

Palin is caught in yet ANOTHER lie!

On Palin's crappy unreality show yesterday the Grizzled Mama tried to engage in a little revisionist history by claiming that she had accidentally tweeted the word "refudiate" when she had "accidentally" hit the "f" instead of the "p" and that "repudiate" was really what she was trying to tweet. 

Speaking of cell phones, in the car Sarah follows by BlackBerry the aftermath of her "refudiate" mis-Tweet (which she says happened when she "pressed an ‘f' instead of a ‘p'"). She makes a disgusted-sounding noise as she tells the story. "Now we're saying ‘No no no no no! The English language is a moving, breathing, evolving art," she says in a mock-artistic-sounding voice that seems to indicate she thinks this is a namby-pamby response to the kind of thing that will inevitably happen to someone who issues public communications without running them by an editor.

See?  Sarah's not such a dipshit, she just hit the wrong letter.  That could happen to ANYBODY.

Except, that is not exactly how things happened.

You see the FIRST time we heard Sarah use this word it was NOT on Twitter.  No, no it was on July 14, on Sean Hannity's show.  You can see for yourselves in the video below. (The word appears around 2:35 in the video.)



In fact I even wrote about it the very next day.

It was a few days LATER that Palin then used the word on Twitter. 

Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate

Which my friend Geoffrey Dunn called her out on with an article he wrote on Huffington Post.

So that was TWICE Palin used the word, only THIS time it received much more media attention so Palin's people convinced her to act like she did it intentionally.

"Refudiate," "misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up." English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
18 Jul via web

So as you can see Sister Sarah used "refudiate" more than once, and seemed in fact to be very comfortable using it as if she had NO idea that she was using the wrong word.  In fact I would bet big money that if somebody were to interview one of her family members in a weak moment they might admit that Sarah had been using the wrong word for years.

So nice try Snowdrift Snooki, but you keep forgetting that MOST Americans are not as ignorant and easy to fool as the people who support you, buy your stupid books, and believe your reality show is anything more than an eight part political advertisement.

You see we don't write notes with paper and "pretty little pencils" made from trees.  We use this thing called the "internet" which keeps track of every stupid and ridiculous thing you say, so that we can dig it up and throw it right back in your face.  Which we have just done. 

Don't you just hate us?

Fox News finally figures out that the Grizzled Mama uses ghostwriters. Gee no kidding!

Boy you sure can't put anything over on these guys. Sheesh!

Fast forward to the 2:35 mark to hear Dana Perino call Palin out.



Courtesy of New York Magazine:

"It doesn't sound like her when you read the materials," she said. "And authenticity matters almost more than ever, and I think that's what mattered in 2010, and people wanted not to just hear the message, they wanted to hear the authenticity of it."

Gee how long ago did WE figure out that Palin was not writing her own op-eds and Facebook messages? Pretty much the first time we read one wasn't it?

Of course I am not insinuating that WE are smarter than the Fox News crew....well actually yes I am.  As a matter of fact the IM community has been way ahead of the curve on almost everything Palin related for almost two years now.  We stumble now and then, but for the most part we are pretty damn sharp, if I do say so myself.

Here is Sister Sarah at her snottiest from last night's "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the very first time" courtesy of Politico. Update!

From Politico:

"Conservationists write me these nasty letters because I support an industry like this," she told Todd in the car on the way back to the camp. "They write me these nasty letters using their pretty little pencils on their pretty little stationary not realizing. Where do you think your pencil and your piece of paper came from, people? It came from a tree that was harvested."

And yeah, much of the rest of the show was JUST like that.  If she was not bitching at the conservationists, she was bitching at Piper or Willow. It was a Sarah Palin bitch-a-palooza.

Update: You have to read this blistering review of last night's episode from Salon.  I loved this part:

We ended the day with a trip to Frasier Lake to watch Kodiak bears fish for salmon. Right off the bat Sarah's hippie detector was triggered by the guide who explained that he preferred bear spray to a firearm when she asked him how he protected himself. "Bear spray is more effective anyway," he explained, prompting a scoff from Sarah as she performed her own eye roll for the documentary cameras. Apparently there are Alaskans out there not sticking to the "kill anything that moves" script.

Actually there are a LOT of Alaskans like that.

Joe Miller blinks.

From ADN:

Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller announced late Sunday that he would continue his challenge in federal court of the write-in election of rival Sen. Lisa Murkowski, but added he would not oppose certification of Murkowski's victory by state election officials.

U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline, who is hearing Miller's federal challenge, had already said he would probably lift his order staying certification, allowing Murkowski to assume office Jan. 5 without losing seniority or leaving the state short a U.S. Senator. In a prepared statement e-mailed to the media about 10:20 p.m., Miller said he planned to go ahead with his federal lawsuit "for the sake of the integrity of the election."

I swear that Miller is only continuing with this fight because he knows he does not have to get a real job as long as he can still rely on money from Teabaggers to support him and his family while he tilts at windmills. (Miller's website is still up and running with a giant "Donate" button prominently displayed to solicit funds for his "Senate Defense Fund." Nice work if you can get it.)

And believe me the ONLY reason he is not continuing to challenge certification of Murkowski's win is because he knows he does not have a snowball's chance in hell of stopping it at this point.  I think the legal system in Alaska is just about done with his vaguely bearded ass.

Well at least ONE good thing might have come from Miller's campaign.  Though I hold out little hope that it will continue on much past January 5th, at least for a little while Lisa Murkowski was finally someone that I could proudly call MY Senator.  If she has the guts to continue playing the role of the moderate she could actually get a lot done for this state, and make a name for herself that would finally put to the rest the criticism that she is simply "daddy's little girl" serving as his surrogate in Washington.

Some things can ONLY happen in Alaska.

So this guy living in McKinley Village, a place just as far off the beaten path as you can get, discovers that his outhouse is...uh...occupied by a snowshoe rabbit. This is not exactly something that most Americans have to be concerned about before they take their early morning "constitutional."

Here is the video of the rabbits rescue and release. (Warning, some of the language is NSFW.)

As you can see, despite what Sarah Palin's Alaska might suggest to you, Alaskans do NOT kill every living thing that they run across.

(H/T to the Alaska Dispatch.)

I will once again provide live Tweeting during tonight's episode of "Sarah Palin sees Alaska for the very first time."

It worked out pretty well last week so I thought I would give it a shot this time as well.

Here is a link to the preview for tonight's episode.

As you can see Snowdrift Snooki has run out of varmints to kill so she has turned her hatred of Mother Nature to a victim that she will not have to waste five bullets to take out, a tree.

Come along on another Alaskan adventure as we profile amazingly hard workers in the timber industry. Loggers are hearty and hardy, and the ones I know are true conservationists. I can’t wait for you to meet these lumberjacks!

In the interest of full disclosure my grandfather was a logger.  In fact he lost the middle finger of his right hand in a logging accident. However I don't remember him EVER referring to himself as a conservationist. In fact his opinion of conservationists, "tree huggers" he called them, was rather colorful and would undoubtedly have been even more so but for the loss of that missing finger.

And as for tonight's family prop we have.........drum roll please........ Willow Palin!

In addition, come see Willow’s eyes open to a new rugged and rustic lifestyle. Her driving skills improve (?) before she undertakes a family’s rite of passage with an upcoming driver’s license test. Any parent can relate.

Willow Palin with a driver's license? Oh THAT can't be good.

Here is the link to my Twitter account.  Like I said I will be tweeting during the show, and then later posting them here with some added details to explain what happened for those who did not subject themselves to the moosecrap.

Here are the tweets as promised.

Jesus that SPA theme song is all kinds of terrible!

Smart Tripp. Refuses to kiss Sarah. Good for him!

Tripp was snuggling up to and loving on Willow, but when Gramma Grisly came up for a kiss he immediately turned his head away. And another Johnston disses Sister Sarah!

The Palin kids cannot even PRETEND to give a crap anymore!

Both Willow and Piper could not look less thrilled about being filmed and having to listen to their mother's screechy voice telling them to "wake up" or "join in" or "at least don't roll your eyes."  I always get the feeling that there are book publishers watching these episodes and planning exactly how to lure one of the kids away from the Palin pack to sign a book deal.  "Do you want to REALLY piss your mom off little girl?"

Oh God Palin is celebrating her stupid "refudiate" mistake.

Snowdrift Snooki is being driven to go kill a tree when she looks up from her Blackberry and exclaims that her word "refudiate" is the most Googled word since she tweeted it accidentally.  I am not sure it is a badge of honor to have people turning to Google in an attempt to make sense out of what the hell you just said.

Logging IS quite dangerous. But we know Sarah survives so no suspense.

That was just mean of me and I apologize. I certainly do not want Palin to come to any harm.  That would mean she could not be prosecuted, and that would be MUCH more fun to watch.

No way is she cutting that tree by herself. I have used a chainsaw to take down trees, it requires substantial upper body strength.

She had two guys right next to her while she was using a monster chaninsaw to cut through a tree.  I have to imagine that THEY did the majority of the cutting.  Like I said it requires too much body strength for Palin to make it very far into one of those big ass trees.

Look for that chainsaw to show up on E-Bay sometime soon.

She signed the guys chainsaw.  Hmm I wonder if it will sell any faster than this did?

Todd is about as vaguely bearded as Joe Miller.

Todd usually has a much fuller goatee, but in this episode it looks like he shaved it of and it is just growing back. I don't really have a snarky comment, I just happened to notice it.

Willow can't hear Sarah talking? She should bottle that. She could make a fortune!

Palin remarks that it seems Willow only hears her when she wants to, and I could not help thinking that there are millions of people who would be willing to pay to have the ability to block out that annoying voice of hers.

What else would Willow do if she did not learn a skill? The same thing that Sarah does. Grift!

Sister Sarah remarks that she feels it is important for Willow to learn to be self sufficient and to learn a trade because, "what is she going to do if she doesn't?"  And yes, she said it with a straight face.

A swinger reference? That was for the horny male Palin-bots.

Sarah said she is not a swinger when she was told to swing a log onto a pile of other logs using a giant crane. I was wondering when the unnecessarily gratuitous sexual reference was coming, and there it is.

Sarah edits this program, and leaves in all of the parts of Willow back talking and ignoring her? Perhaps that is all she had to work with.

I swear that EVERY time the camera showed Willow she was rolling her eyes, smirking, or ignoring her mother's pleas to participate.  I kind of think that was the only footage they had of Willow so they did the best they could. This might endear Palin to a few mothers of teenage girls, but to me it just seemed like she had no control or influence in her family.

I don't think Palin has any idea how long it takes for a tree to reach maturity.

Harvesting trees and then planting seeds to reforest is the common practice, but Palin made it sound as if it would only take a short while before the trees they just cut down would be replaced with new trees.  In fact it will take decades.

Palin made new friends. By giving them a bunch of gifts. Undoubtedly paid for by the producers of her show. Can you say "tacky?"

For some odd reason Todd and Sarah brought out gifts and then played a game they called "Eskimo Bingo" (which I have never heard of), in which each person rolls the dice and, if they get doubles, they get to choose a present.  Even though she brought the gifts Sarah participated  as well, cackling at her luck when she got to choose a present.  I have no idea why they put that segment in, if not  to have the opportunity to film the people out in the logging camp interacting with the Palin family. Which I guess meant they had to bribe them with gifts.

I hope that they are explaining to Willow that stock car driving is NOT the same as driving on the highway.

I have to admit that the stock car racing looked like fun.  But once again Willow was a little hesitant to participate. I think Track would have enjoyed this part of the episode much more, but I guess he had HIS time in front of the camera already.

Really? Suspenseful; music? Are we supposed to think that Willow was injured? This show is aimed at the lowest IQ viewer imaginable.

Willow wiped out and drove into a dirt mound in the middle of the track.  It was not much of an impact and I could see Willow moving around, but they played suspenseful music and then cut to a commercial to draw out the "drama." It was a poorly contrived attempt to add a little excitement to what was a painfully dull episode.

Only one more episode? A TWO hour long finale? I may start drinking now.

Next week's episode is the finale (Thank God!), but they are planning to drag it out for two hours.  Can you imagine? TWO hours of the Grizzled Mama screeching at her family as they all try to ignore her?  Why isn't this show being used to scare off terrorists? ("If you try to bomb us we will stick you in a room with Sarah Palin for two hours!"  That's right, run home!")

Why is there an ambulance sound in the background? Seriously?

Now they return from the commercial and show people running to see if Willow is alright, and there is the sound of an ambulance in the background. This part actually made me laugh out loud.  It was almost too stupid to be believed.  (By the way, Sarah was NOT one of the ones running out to see if Willow was alright. Now THAT I had no trouble believing.)

The Mama Grizzly is going to look at ACTUAL Grizzlies. You know what my Christmas wish is? Never mind we know it did not happen.

Once again I was being mean, and I take it back.  I mean a bear could get serious indigestion eating somebody who was chick full of diet pills and Red Bull.

Those bears are eating salmon and do not give a crap about Palin, anymore than Obama does.

And yet Palin squealed about the bears as if she was terrified of them.  She asked their guide if he had a gun, even though the bears wee completely disinterested in them. (He replied he only had pepper spray but that they were fine.) I guess she was upset because the only thing that got killed in this episode was a tree. (And her political credibility of course.)

Sarah is confident that Willow will find her path just like Track and Bristol did. Poor Willow.

Mama Palin seems to think that Willow will do just as well as Bristol and Track have done.  Could that bar be set any lower for this poor kid?

I think Willow could do MUCH better than either Track or Bristol.  But first she needs to get the hell away from her family, and go to college.  I think she still has a chance to be her own person.

I am interested in what the ratings will be for this snoozefest. I will be very surprised if it has even two million viewers left.

Arizona vice-mayor thought that Todd and Sarah were the ones moving to Maricopa, but ex-homeowner is happy to have an advocate against underage drinking moving there instead. Wait, what?

I don't think you have to be much of a conspiracy theorist to get a whiff of something stinky about Bristol's home purchase in Marcopa, Arizona.  Especially since it seems that the Palin myth makers are working their magic and attempting to spin this story to make it appear that Bristol is the best thing to come to Arizona since the invention of air conditioning.

According to the New York Times Maricopa's vice mayor was pretty sure that it was the Grizzled Mama and her house eunuch that were moving to their dusty little town,

Edward Farrell, Maricopa’s vice mayor and a fourth-generation resident, gave Todd Palin, Ms. Palin’s father, a tour of Maricopa earlier in the year and was under the impression that he was looking for a house for the entire family.

“I left the meeting thinking that maybe he and Sarah were looking for a place to live,” said Mr. Farrell, who was surprised when he learned that Ms. Palin was listed as the buyer.

According to vice-mayor Farrell Toady was sniffing around in the spring.  Hmm what was happening in the spring?  Probably just a coincidence. (Of course isn't it Snowdrift Snooki herself that always claims that she "does not believe in coincidences?")

Well for whatever reason, the final papers were signed, not by Ma and Pa Palin, but by everybody's favorite reality show dancer Bristol. And that is fine. I mean clearly the young woman wants to be as fa way from prying eyes as possible.  One can only imagine why.

Now the woman who owned the place right before Bristol purchased it, completely on her own with NO help whatsoever (wink, wink), seems thrilled that Bristle is moving into the neighborhood.

Cynthia Smith, the home’s former owner, said she was happy to have Palin as a neighbor in town.

“I think it’s wonderful,” Smith said. “I didn’t know Bristol was going to buy it, or I’d have paid more attention” to renovating the home.

“I appreciate the fact that she’s standing up against underage drinking – she raising her own child, and she getting an education, and going out on her own,” Smith said. “I admire her for being 20 years old and doing what she’s doing. It can’t be easy.”

"Standing up against underage drinking?" WTF?

I have NO idea where this lady gets this idea.  Saying that Bristol Palin is "standing up against underage drinking" would be like saying that Sister Sarah is standing up against inciting violence, or that John Boehner was standing up against blubbering like a little girl on television, or that Willow was standing up against home invasions. 

It is essentially the height of hypocrisy. Which of course is EXACTLY what one would expect from the Palins.  However there is some chance that this Cynthia Smith woman is somehow making up HER OWN mythology on behalf of the Palins. It kind of sounds like this woman is a fan (“I think it’s wonderful,” Smith said. “I didn’t know Bristol was going to buy it, or I’d have paid more attention” to renovating the home.), so perhaps she has some ulterior motive for giving Bristle a little more credibility. 

Hell maybe she just saw her and could not imagine that she was a spokesperson for abstinence. ("Surely THIS girl is not telling other young woman not to have pre-marital sex! She must be a spokesperson for something else.  Hey maybe it's underage drinking!")

According to this last article there may be other factors drawing the Palins to Arizona other than the large population of Teabaggers, the opportunity for the kids to find headless bodies in the dessert, and knowing that their underwear needs will be met by Sherrif Arpaio.

As Farrell drove Sarah Palin’s husband around for 3 1/2 hours, Alaska’s former self-proclaimed “first dude” drew comparisons between Maricopa and the town where Sarah Palin started her political career.

“He compared it a lot to Wasilla, [Alaska] – it was a major boom town itself,” Farrell said.

That statement alone should scare the hell out of the people of Maricopa.  Remember Wasilla was just a glorified truck stop before Palin got her mitts on it.  Now it is virtually bankrupt, overrun with Teabaggers, and essentially a favorite punchline of late night comedians.

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Sarah Palin wins "Worst Mother in America" award.

This video is actually about eight months old, but with Palin recently winning all kinds of awards for some of her crazy, I just thought it was fitting to revisit this one as well.

Personally I would like to see an updated version that included making Bristol dance while pregnant on DWTS, Willow's Facebook gay slurs, and polishing up her family and forcing them onto the nation's airwaves in her crappy "reality" show. (Betty? Are you listening?)

In case you did not notice, I took yesterday off from talking about the Grizzled Mama.  It was Christmas and I wanted to focus on positive things instead.

But I am well rested and today ain't Christmas! So let the games begin!