Palin-bots come up with the lamest, and possibly most dangerous, protest ever!

Apparently these paint chip eaters have decided that the best way to support their retarded leader, and really stick it to that Muslim in the White House,  is to take their cars out onto our nation's highways and suddenly pretend to run out of gas. Then they are planning to pull over to the side of the road and sit in their cars honking their horns like imbeciles for up to an hour.  Brilliant isn't it?

I know, you think I MUST have made this one up.  However such is not the case, here you can see for yourself by visiting this  crappy little pro-Palin blog that has not yet recognized that their idol is a laughingstock:

Here is what is planned:

• Sunday, March 13th, 2011 – 4 PM Eastern, 3 PM Central, 2 PM Mountain, and 1 PM Pacific time;

• We want everyone to get into their cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, Semis, box trucks, and any other vehicle, and drive to your nearest highway or main route;

• Don’t go far, just enough to get in a safe position to pull over to the shoulder, and park, engine running, headlights and flashers on;

• Why? To take a cell call, or make one or several. After all, law enforcement recommends that you pull over to the side to take your call or text.

• Once pulled over to the side, place calls or texts to your friends, take pictures, send tweets, flood Facebook with messages and photos, along with several million others on other highways across the land.

• Stay one hour if you can, get your friends to do the same, line up all your vehicles in a safe manner as far off the side as you can, and hit your horns.

• One hour gives the media a chance to react, a chance to get footage. Imagine the traffic reports!

Yes just imagine the traffic reports. "Uh this is chopper 91 reporting on some ruckus occurring on I-5.  It looks like a bunch of cars have pulled over to the side of the road all at the same time and started honking their horns.  It is so idiotic that my guess is they are Sarah Palin supporters. I suggest that the police call the tow trucks and send the bill to Alaska."

But don't worry the simpleton who thought up this little gem does not want the low hanging fruit to do anything unsafe (You now like suddenly pull over and park on the shoulder for no good reason.), so he has offered a few guidelines.

• Be respectful, and patriotic to a fault; (What?  There is a limit to how patriotic they can be? That is not very wingnutty of them.)

• Be courteous to your fellow “Stoppers”; (Catchy name, "Palin stoppers." Hey that sounds like MY job!)

• Do not do anything illegal, and do not get out and walk, Observe and obey all laws; (You mean like the law that says "never stop on the shoulder of the highway unless it is an emergency?")

• Be the PATRIOTIC icon of virtue that you are! (Because NOTHING says "patriot" like putting yourself and your fellow Americans in danger don'tcha know.)

You know the really funny part of this is that only about a few dozen or so people are ignorant enough to actually do this, which essentially means that nobody will even notice.

But if, on March 13th, you happen to see a car stopped by the side of the road waving and honking like a crazy person, don't bother stopping and trying to help. They are most likely a Palin-bot and there is simply NO help for those people.  Believe me, I have tried.

(You can also read Wonkette's very funny take on this story.)

Frank Bailey's manuscript and how it helps to prove that Sarah Palin did NOT give birth to her fifth child.




See? I was too pregnant!

  As all of you are aware I have bitten my tongue and refused to write about what is revealed on the leaked pages of Frank Bailey's hopefully "soon to be published manuscript."

However as I have played by the rules, and respected the authors right to control their intellectual property, others have not demonstrated such restraint.  Which has led to some unfortunate assertions having been made without an appropriate challenge.

There are a few to choose from but the one that I want to focus on with this post is the assertion that Bailey's book "Quashes gossip about Trig Palin's birth,"

Shushannah Walshe writer for the Daily Beast, and occasional Palin kool-aid drinker, wrote the following:

Although most of the tell-all is incredibly scathing, Bailey—who was not only an administrative staffer but also booked personal travel for the Palin family and worked around the clock to please his boss—aims to put the gossip about Bristol Palin giving birth to Sarah's fifth child, Trig, to an end. He writes that he visited Sarah Palin at the hospital just hours after Trig was born and spotted Bristol sitting in the waiting room. There is absolutely no way Bristol had just given birth, he says.

While factually accurate, the statement fails to mention how conflicted Bailey was by what Sarah Palin was saying officially, and what his own eyes were telling him.

Now I am not going to cut and paste to make my point, or quote directly from the manuscript, but since this assertion is out there let me give you a little more information about what IS in the manuscript, and what is NOT in the manuscript.

When Bailey learns of this "pregnancy," it is only ONE DAY before Palin announces it to the world.  And as we have heard numerous times before, from numerous sources, according to Bailey NOBODY knew she was with child. Nobody.

Even the closest members of her inner circle express absolute shock at the news, and gossip to each other that she is not showing AT ALL. Now once again this is not news to those of us who have followed this story closely but it does reaffirm the impossibility of this pregnancy. (In fact there is a conversation that Bailey had with Sarah back in 2006 which should give pause to anybody who believes that Sarah gave birth to Trig.)



Sarah Palin on March 14, 2008

 Frank goes on to talk about seeing Sarah Palin during her pregnancy , and even describes visiting their infamous cabin on Safari Lake in March, and seeing how carefully Todd treated her as proof she must be pregnant.  Bailey also talks about his multiple sightings of a "skinny" Bristol as proof that Sarah must be Trig's mom. (Remember back in those days the only two choices ever discussed were that ether Bristol or Sarah MUST be the child's mother. So in Bailey's eyes if Bristol is clearly too skinny to be pregnant, then ipso facto Sarah MUST be the mother!  Tah Dah!)

Now let's talk about what is NOT in Bailey's manuscript.

Nowhere does Bailey talk about Sarah suffering with morning sickness, a constant need to pee, or any of the discomfort that ANYBODY who has been pregnant, or worked with pregnant women (like I have), know all to well is a constant part of the "beauty of childbirth."

Also missing is any reference to any of the staff "feeling the baby kick," or talk about a pregnant Sarah struggling to get into a car, or out of an airplane, or into a chair.  Now perhaps Frank is a little dull on these points, though he does have children of his own, but these little descriptions would do much to support his personal belief that Palin gave birth to her fifth child.  Yet they are not there, why?

Well in my opinion they are not there because Frank never saw any of that. None.

Now let's address some of the other leaks from the book and how they support the seemingly absurd idea that the sitting Governor of Alaska would fake a pregnancy. 

And once again let me apologize to the authors, but this information is now out in the blogosphere and really must be taken into consideration to truly understand this topic.

As revealed, once again by Shushannah Walshe, Sarah Palin had her staff write glowing letters about her job performance and policy decisions, and then convince supporters to let them sign their names to them.

Now roll that around in your mind a little.  When Palin, and her staff, did this they knew full well that the people whose names appeared on the letters could easily reveal the truth about them, yet they did not seem to be worried in the least that it would backfire on them. And up until now it hasn't.

Okay you say, that is kind of unethical and deceptive, but it does not rise to the level of actually faking a pregnancy while holding public office.  And to that I say you are absolutely right.

Take a moment to ask yourself this, "What is the most defining Sarah Palin trademark?"  In other words what do you immediately visualize when you think of this famous icon?  Did you say her glasses?  I bet you did.

From Wonkette:

One of the “friends” on the dearly departed “Lou Sarah” Facebook account, Kermit Ketchum, is mentioned multiple times in former Palin advisor Frank Bailey’s leaked book. Who is Kermit Ketchum? According to Bailey, he’s an elderly man and longtime friend of the family. Bailey’s manuscript describes Ketchum as the one who saw a (presumably doctored) pornographic photo of Palin sent by email to the campaign. Later, Ketchum allegedly repeats gossip from Sarah’s mother saying that Sarah had Lasik surgery and just wears glasses for show. They’re not a prescription — they’re there to make her look smart.

Okay now, did that send you reeling?

Just think about what kind of a person wears glasses, virtually all of the time, JUST to appear more intelligent even though she does not need them. In other words, she wears them for the sole purpose of creating an illusion.

Does THAT seem like a person who might consider faking a pregnancy, JUST to create an illusion?

Remember she only had to wear that fake stomach for a couple of weeks, but she has worn those damn glasses for much of her life. (At least in public.)

Now at this point you have to be asking "How?" As in "how" does anybody mange to keep all of this quiet. "How" does anybody sleep at night knowing that somebody might spill the beans at any minute?  "How" does a person become such a chronic liar that all of these deceptions seem reasonable to them?

You know there was a time when Audrey, from Palin's Deceptions, and I would have long talks in an attempt to understand what would have compelled Palin to fake her own pregnancy.  And every once in a while Audrey would stop and say "But Jesse, that is just crazy!  Nobody would ever do something like that!"

And I would respond with, "We are not talking about a regular person.  We are talking about Sarah Palin.  And considering what we KNOW for sure about her, is there really ANYTHING that we could disregard as being too crazy?"

And after learning this new information from the Bailey manuscript, do any of YOU believe there is anything too crazy when it comes to Sarah "fake glasses, fake letters to the editor, fake baby bump" Palin?

So are you all caught up to where I am now?

Good, because we are about to take a trip a little further into the Palin rabbit hole.

Now you all know that I hear rumors. (Lord how I hear rumors!) And sometimes those rumors pan out, sometimes they don't, and sometimes they are just too crazy to even consider.

At least at first. 

Now about a year or so ago, I heard a rumor that fit into that last category. It was a doozy, but I realized that even if true, there was just NO way I would ever be able to prove it. No way! (I even had a person who swore that it was true in an e-mail, but back then I considered it a waste of time to pursue it.)

However, just recently this rumor has reemerged.  And with the information that has leaked out about Bailey's book, I am much less apt to consider that this particular rumor is false, because it fits in well with the established pattern of Sarah Palin's bizarre behaviors.

Some of you have already read the back and forth discussion in the comments section. But for the rest of you here it is in its unedited form.

FYI -- I read this 'comment' a couple days ago:

"Whoever gave birth to Trig, it couldn't be Sarah. Remember, she had said that she 'not only had her tubes just tied, she had them cut, and the ends burned - or some such measure to make SURE she wasn't going to be having more babies.

"Didn't she have it done during the delivery of piper??

"All of us who have kids that went to school with Sarah's kids know to be absolute factual gospel truth: Sarah Palin had a tubal ligation after her last baby (Piper) was born.

"She then took several days off work- more than she took when she "had" Trig. She bitched at Todd afterward saying HE should have gotten the snip since it was so much easier for men."

"Trig may actually have BEEN born at 7.5 months....but he wasn't born in April '08, and he sure as HELL did not issue forth from the tied, cut, and burned fallopian tubes of Sarah Louise Heath Palin."

10:17 PM

10:17PM is right on the money.

My two were in the same school as two of Sarah's at the same time. She volunteered for revolving carpool and bailed every single time. She called one morning saying she'd be unable to drive her planned day the next morning because she'd had "a tubal". I remember her saying it in that whiny fake accent she used to elicit sympathy: "Well, I've had a two-bull". I just rolled my eyes and got someone to fill in.

Two weeks after that when her next shift came up, she called again and this time it had gone from "a two-bull" to "my surgery". "I'm sorry, I can't make it 'cause yaknow I had surgery recently..."
I remember some of the other moms and I joked that when her NEXT shift came up, she would be calling saying "I can't drive due to the recent double AMPUTATION of my tubes..."

As for why I won't go on the record...and I think the other people in my position feel the same way: basically, it's fear.

We have all seen someone become unemployable and/or pariah in their community because they "crossed" one of the Palins. Most of us still have one or more kids still in school or college, and we all know Sarah goes for the jugular...which for most of us, is our kids. I know it seems unlikely that Palin would still have power given that she quit, but trust me when I say the "long arm of Palin" is still reaching very far in Wasilla these days.

I do hope Sarah's insane fake pregnancy will be revealed in national media soon. But I have a hard time believing that my going on the record about her tubal will make a difference. She would instantly brand me a "wee wee'd up" librul who just wanted to spread an ugly rumor. She would play the victim and claim I was "attacking her special needs baby". (do you notice how she keeps calling three year old Trig a "baby"? It's to foster the "young mother with sweet babe in arms" image. She did the same thing with Piper, saying "my baby is sick" or "I have to go, my baby needs me" when Piper was four years old. She even let Piper have bottles and sippies well past the appropriate age, in pursuit of this "image")

Anyway, she would say I was lying just to try and make her look bad. She would sanctimoniously sneer "prove it! Put up or shut up!" knowing that only her medical records would prove what I was saying.

Most of us in the valley are scared for CBJ, as she knows EVERYTHING...and Sarah doesn't like loose ends. But if CBJ ever DID decide to pitch her license to the wind and tell the truth about Sarah, Trig, etc...Sarah will be done. Even the most hardcore, ironclad, koolaid-dipped bot will abandon her.

8:08 AM

I am the person who posted about Sarah talking her "tubal" to death. There's one other detail I'd like to add: Sarah talked about breastfeeding and pumping ALL the time, but I don't think she nursed any of her kids for long, if at all. She bought giant tubs of Enfamil and I remember Piper smelling of that foul stinky formula (nutrammigan? I'm sure I spelled that wrong)

Anyway, my point is that Sarah has been trying to foster a certain image long before she hot the national stage. I really do think she has a mental disorder. I cannot adequately describe the way she used to go on and on and on about how breastfeeding was so rewarding, it was the most amazing job a woman could do, my nipples are sooo sore but it's worth it because I'm providing my child with the best...blah blah, etc etc. And she'd have a tub of formula RIGHT there in the diaper bag!

Not only that, she had the nerve to chastise other moms who formula fed. THAT is the Sarah we all know- "let me tell you what a bad mother you are for formula feeding while I sit here and give my baby a bottle of formula".

I remember once with Piper she actually said something like "I hope Pipe takes the bottle I pumped...she's been my pickiest about wanting her milk straight from the tap!"

Meanwhile, as she takes the bottle out, Piper goes after that thing like a grizzly after a gimpy salmon...LOL. She could hold it herself and everything.

Just another example of how it is vs. how Sarah SAYS it is. And the two shall never meet on common ground.

4:05 PM

I am the person who posted about Sarah's tubal. (Gryph, you were saying you wanted ME to email you, or the person who quoted my post..?)

Ok I'd like to address a couple of points. For the person who asks how I sleep at night: how DARE you presume to know what it's like to be in this position. You have NO CLUE how far Sarah still reaches in the valley. Look how many of us are from Wasilla (based on Gryphen's logger counter thing) yet so few speak up about living here because everyone suddenly thinks we "hold the key" to finishing Sarah Palin.

But hear this, friends...and Gryph can back me on this..MANY of us HAVE reached out to journalists or authors about things we know...and they are not, repeat NOT interested.

Instead of questioning US on our ethics or devotion to America...try to think of the view from here: we've seen Gryphen's "two babies" post...and we all thought....WHEW. It'll be over now. The media simply can't ignore THAT..

And we see others who have tried to speak up about Sarah suddenly seem to have a LOT of "bad luck".

Gryphon knows for a fact that Sarah Palin is infertile via her own choosing- a tubal legation and burn. And that she has been that way for far longer than Trig has been a gleam in anyone's eye.

If GRYPHEN knows it and hasn't been able to get this bombshell news picked up by the right people...then why would I- a stay at home mom with NO media connections- risk my family's well being?

I'm just saying...think about us before judging us so harshly.

8:58 PM

For those of you unaware of what the term "tubal ligation" means it is usually referred to as "getting your tubes tied" and it is a MUCH more reliable form of contraception than being 45 year old woman whose husband consistently sleeps on the downstairs sofa.

Now a couple of things t consider about these comments.  They COULD all be from one person.  They COULD all be a bunch of BS.  They could even be a red herring thrown out there by a Palin-bot trying to get me off of the sent of a real scandal.

However read them again, and ask yourself if they seem legit. Because they kind of do to me.

So here we are at a potentially defining moment.  After all of these years the true Sarah Palin is being revealed to a skeptical public by at least three major books, her supporters are fleeing like flaming rats from a sinking ship, and she is being openly mocked on network television.

She has never been this vulnerable, so the time for the proverbial fork is now.

Let me once again appeal to the women from Wasilla who spoke out so passionately in the comments section. Please contact me via my e-mail at gryphen2009@yahoo.com.  As hard as I have worked this has never been a one man operation in the strictest sense.  I have always relied on input form you, my visitors, and right now I am asking you to take the plunge and possibly someday be able to tell your children that you helped to remove a poisonous blot from the landscape of American politics.

Believe me your identities and locations will be protected. All I need is about two or three of you to tell your story.  I will edit out anything which might reveal your identity to the Palin family, or supporters, and I will make sure that your information gets picked up by the national media.  (Currently there is a lot of interest in finding out new bits of scandalous information concerning Sarah Palin, so there are a lot of perked up ears in the media.)

And while you are thinking it through, consider this;  The whole country blames Alaskans for helping to unleash Sarah Palin on the world, and not doing anything to stop her while she bullies the American media into submission.  How great would it feel if we Alaskans finally stood up and defeated this Frankenstein monster that we helped to create?

Like I said, I can't do it alone.  But with your help we might be closer than ever to putting all of this in our rearview miror. Come on Wasilla!  The world is counting on you!

Wisconsin proving to be almost as hostile toward Fox News reporters as Egypt.

By the way there is no "harassment of reporters" in Wisconsin.  There is only the outing of Fox news propagandists by the protesters who are tired of seeing themselves portrayed as thugs by a cable news station owned out right by the Republican party and their corporate masters.

Having said that I really don't condone that person striking the Fox news reporter.  I understand the desire, believe me I do, but it is still does not help their cause to give in to their emotional impulses and reinforce the Fox News meme that they are uncivilized antagonists.

(You can read more on this over at Mediaite.)

Republicans believe their path to future victories leads through Wisconsin.

Image borrowed from Keith Olbermann's new FOK News Channel

From Politico:

Looking over the wreckage of the 2008 elections, Tommy Thompson, the state’s former four-term GOP governor, reacted with amazement.

“I’m sort of shellshocked,” Thompson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The whole thing is blue! Wisconsin is the bluest of the blue!”

No one says that anymore.

After a midterm election that turned the state’s congressional delegation upside down and delivered the governor’s office and the state Legislature back to the GOP, Wisconsin Republicans are serving as the national party’s vanguard, spearheading the assault on the Democratic Party in both practice and spirit.

Thompson no longer laments the political direction of his home state.

“You have to understand, this is the biggest Republican victory the state of Wisconsin’s ever had,” Thompson told POLITICO in an interview. “It really has been a Republican year for Wisconsin and a Wisconsin year for Republicans.”

So now that the GOP has a little power to wield they have decided to start destroying the oppositions chances of taking back Wisconsin by destabilizing the unions and undermining their ability to organize voters for 2012. And this, they seem believe, is the GOP blueprint for gaining control of other states as well.

Of course that is not to say that the unions and progressives are giving up without a fight. In fact if this Flickr slide show is any indication their momentum is beginning to build to a level that the GOP may not have been prepared to deal with.

Oh and by the way, new GOP hero Scott Walker may have some serious problems of his own.

And if all of that was not enough to put a little worry into the Republican party, perhaps the knowledge that the battle has been joined by union supporters from as far away as Poland as well as by an unexpected, and rather powerful new participant might.

Dear Citizens of the United States of America,

It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch--the billionaire owners of Koch Industries--have long attempted to usurp American Democracy. Their actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin are the final straw. Starting today we fight back.

Koch Industries, and oligarchs like them, have most recently started to manipulate the political agenda in Wisconsin. Governor Walker's union-busting budget plan contains a clause that went nearly un-noticed. This clause would allow the sale of publicly owned utility plants in Wisconsin to private parties (specifically, Koch Industries) at any price, no matter how low, without a public bidding process. The Koch's have helped to fuel the unrest in Wisconsin and the drive behind the bill to eliminate the collective bargaining power of unions in a bid to gain a monopoly over the state's power supplies.

The Koch brothers have made a science of fabricating 'grassroots' organizations and advertising campaigns to support them in an attempt to sway voters based on their falsehoods. Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth and Citizens United are just a few of these organizations. In a world where corporate money has become the lifeblood of political influence, the labor unions are one of the few ways citizens have to fight against corporate greed. Anonymous cannot ignore the plight of the citizen-workers of Wisconsin, or the opportunity to fight for the people in America's broken political system. For these reasons, we feel that the Koch brothers threaten the United States democratic system and, by extension, all freedom-loving individuals everywhere. As such, we have no choice but to spread the word of the Koch brothers' political manipulation, their single-minded intent and the insidious truth of their actions in Wisconsin, for all to witness.

Anonymous hears the voice of the down trodden American people, whose rights and liberties are being systematically removed one by one, even when their own government refuses to listen or worse - is complicit in these attacks.

We are actively seeking vulnerabilities, but in the mean time we are calling for all supporters of true Democracy, and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries' paper products. We welcome unions across the globe to join us in this boycott to show that you will not allow big business to dictate your freedom.

Anonymous.

So send your good thoughts and prayers toward Wisconsin my friends, because it appears that all of our futures may depend on the outcome of this battle between the forces for corporate America and the armies representing the every day REAL Americans.

Chris Matthews broadcasts Funny or Die clip poking fun at Snowdrift Snooki's need for media attention.

Personally I thought this Funny or Die skit with Gina Gershon was BRILLIANT. (Which is why I posted the original Funny or Die clip back on the February 8th.)

And I don't know how the rest of you feel but seeing a Sarah Palin lookalike saying, "Of course Trig wasn't mine!", on national television kind of makes the hairs on the back of my arms stand up.

Someday I hope to hear the REAL Grizzled Mama have to admit that exact thing on national television.  But for now just hearing Gina Gershon, playing Sarah Palin, say it will have to suffice. 

Keith Olbermann's FOK News goes live!

On February 25, Olbermann tweeted the following:

Greetings, Earthlings: my website/blog FOKNewsChannel.Com will go live at 9:30 PM Eastern this evening. Three flavors of FOK will be served
25 Feb via web

So now Olbermann has finally seen the light and determined that the REAL cutting edge of journalism and raising social awareness can only be found through blogging.

Welcome to the blogosphere Mr. Olbermann sir, and if you ever need any help embedding videos, or cutting and pasting, or finding the most comfortable pair of pajamas, I'm your man.

You can visit FOK News for yourself by clicking here. (You can also find it on my blogroll.)

Tim Pawlenty is at it again, channeling action director Michael Bay while making advertisement in support of Wisconsin's Scott Walker.

As some of you may, or may not, remember Tim Pawlenty, 2012 Presidential hopeful and action movie geek, made a rather derivative commercial essentially hinting that America is doomed if it does not elect him in 2012.

Well apparently completely immune to the ridicule inspired by that choice Pawlenty is at it again, this time on union busting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's behalf.



Does that pounding music and fast paced editing seem a little familiar? Yeah it did to me as well.

Compare it to this trailer for "The Island" directed by Michael Bay.



At this point I believe it is safe to say that Pawlenty has himself a little "man-crush" on Michael Bay.  And perhaps he should realize that politics may not be his true calling.

Somewhere a young Shia LaBeouf is just waiting for future director Tim Pawlenty to tell him to look scared at something just off camera and to be prepared to run like he is being chased by giant robots as soon as he hears "Action."

Because I have to say that supporting a Governor who takes phone calls from a fake Koch brother, and seems to be trying to destroy the middle class, may NOT be the best choice for somebody looking for the GOP nomination in 2012.

Come on Tim, do it for movie lovers everywhere. Do it for the kids. Do it.....for America.

Palin foe Andree McLeod receives restraining order against Palin-bot after receiving death threats.

From ADN:

Anchorage citizen activist Andree McLeod has obtained a six-month protective order against a woman who threatened her life over her public records requests for former Gov. Sarah Palin's official e-mails.

The woman, Clare Goodchild, also of Anchorage, admitted making the threats and apologized in court to McLeod. Goodchild said she "meant no harm" when she said she had the cross hairs of her gun scope on McLeod's head and that McLeod had "used up too much oxygen."

"I find it very offensive that Andre Mclead (sic) is asking the state for every e-mail written or received in ANY account maintained by Palin and her husband," Goodchild said in the e-mail to the Daily News, signing it only as "Clare."

"Where does this b*tch get off thinking the public should shell out for her revenge for the Palin family. I've heard enough from this, and I would like to use stronger words to express my feeling for Andre (sic). Well... I think Andre (sic) has used up to (sic) much oxygen. So I have my scope cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her last!"

Let this be a reminder to those of you who wonder why more people don't come forward with information about the Palins. 

However as I have said many times in the past if there were more of us willing to tell what we know, and to stand up to this kind of threatening language and bullying from the Sister Sarah and her crazed followers, we could finally end her reign of terror and send her back to the obscurity from which she emerged.

I have to add that this case with Andree is very uncommon.  Most of the threats we receive are from Palin flying monkeys living out of state.  For somebody up here, who should know better, to still be this delusional is very sad. As well as a little frightening.

(Please click the ADN link and read the entire article.)

Fox's Megyn Kelly hosts debate over whether or not the Tea Party is racist. Wait, there's still a debate?

From Mediaite:

Unless you are a fan of CBS drama The Good Wife, you are most likely unaware of the plot line in this week’s episode which was “ripped from the headlines” of six months ago. The show featured a “Sarah Palin supporter“ played by actor Gary Cole named “McVeigh” who is also affiliated with the Tea Party movement. He is impugned by a bad guy opposition lawyer for standing near someone holding a racist sign. That’s a very short version of a much deeper context to today’s fiery debate hosted by Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

Let me get this straight.  The character is a teabagger, who supports Sarah Palin, and is named "McVeigh?"

Damn how did I miss this?

Here watch this so-called debate for yourself. (In my opinion the "liberal" was told to take a fall before he could win the argument.  Get a real progressive on there and the outcome would have been much different.)



Is this idiot suggesting that Hollywood went after Sarah Palin to show she was "stupid or ignorant or dumb?" Sarah Palin did that all by her lonesome WAY before Hollywood started taking shots at her. 

So does he also suggest that Sarah looked like a complete ignoramus, that couldn't hunt, care for her own children, or resist being a spiteful bitch on her very own reality show because of "Hollywood?"

Kind of hard to prove that Hollywood was at fault when Palin herself was the executive producer with final say over the editing now isn't it?

2011 is just not a good year to be a Palin as Tyler Huntington and Chris Olds win this year's Iron Dog.

From KTUU:

As she does more often than not, Mother Nature dictated the terms of the 2011 Iron Dog snow machine race. But the team of Tyler Huntington and Chris Olds came prepared and won the trophy this year.

A tight race between team 10, Huntington/Olds and team 11, Todd Palin and Eric Quam ensued, with the lead changing hands several times down the icy river on a picture-perfect day.

Look sometimes every thing is coming up roses for the Palins and other times everything they touch turns to dogshit.  Iron dog shit.

I do have to wonder if Todd would put out that extra bit of effort to win if only his wife could have sucked it up and forced herself to provide some physical contact to show her support at the beginning of the race.

You know maybe he just wasn't in that big of a hurry to finish the race and get home to that refrigerator denting shrew he lives with? Just a thought.

Behold, the mother of all Obama conspiracies! You might want to have a potent beverage handy while you read THIS one.

From Mother Jones:

In the past few years, paranoid conservatives have cooked up all sorts of conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama. Some have claimed he has a secret plan to confiscate guns. Others have said he has a secret plan to confiscate IRA accounts. Still others have contended he's setting up clandestine FEMA concentration camps. And, of course, there's the big one: Obama's is an undercover socialist purposefully trying to wreck the US economy so he can implement a dictatorial takeover. But here's the mother of all right-wing conspiracy theories: Obama is scheming to bring tens of millions of Muslims—perhaps up to 100 million—from the Middle East into the United States in order to turn this country into an Islamic nation by the end of his second term.

This week, (American-born Israeli named Avi) Lipkin and Special Guests sent an email to television and radio bookers pitching the biggest story of all time:

According to Arabic language broadcasts intercepted and interpreted by Lipkin and his team, "The Moslem world is saying that President Obama wants amnesty for the current Hispanic 12 million illegal immigrants in the US in order to pave the way for the next wave of tens of millions of illegals from the Middle East to the United States, leading to 50 to 100 million Muslims living in the US before the end of Obama’s second term, which will be brought forth by these new US citizens voting for their savior, Obama."

Lipkin, who also goes by the name Victor Mordechai, claims to have "a source with a senior United Nations official" (whatever that means) who says that the United States "will be a Muslim country by the end of Obama's second term." This grand plan is so organized that it even has three parts. Phase One: Obama foments unrest in "each Middle East country" so that these regimes are toppled and replaced by "fanatic" Sunni Mulsims, who go on to "overthrow the competing Shiite regime in Iran without involving American troops." Phase Two: A massive exodus of Muslims heads toward Europe, Canada, and the Unites States, turning all of these Western nations into Muslim countries. Phase Three: The nations now controlled by Islamic extremists "march on Israel in an effort to destroy it" and Obama "keeps his promise…to destroy Israel."

Holy crap, can you believe this bullshit?

This is becoming ridiculous, and will only serve to panic those whose repressed racism and low level intelligence make them highly susceptible to this kind of propaganda.

If you have the stomach for it, try to get through this intellectually insulting video which seems to be aimed at making this Avi Lipkin guy appear to be Glenn Beck 2.0.



By the way the President who was "in the White House to represent Saudi Arabia's interests" was George W. Bush.  Not Barack Obama.

And unlike this manufactured bullshit about Obama we have plenty of real evidence to link George W. with the Saudis.  Including photographic evidence.

This is not a case of both sides manufacturing conspiracies about the other, this is about REAL verifiable facts and something pulled right out of this Avi Lipkin's ass.

But you just watch and see how long it is before this guy is invited to share his theories on Fox News, or some Right Wing talk radio stations.

Remember how confused we all were that New York Congressman Chris Lee resigned after some relatively tame shirtless photographs of him turned up on Craiglist? Well guess what!

From Gawker:

Lee's sudden exit took many people by surprise. Hadn't other members of Congress admitted to worse than an unconsummated, PG-13 flirtation and managed to stay in office? It turns out Lee may have had good reason to step out of the spotlight so quickly: It wasn't just women that the Craigslist Congressman was hunting for on the Internet.

In the past two weeks, two D.C.-area transgender women contacted us, each with a separate story about exchanging emails with the ex-congressman. One sent us an ad that Lee allegedly posted on Craigslist in search of trans women; the other sent us a never-before-seen photo that she says Lee sent her after they started chatting by email. Taken together, they present a possible explanation to those who have wondered why such a tame "sex scandal" forced Lee's hand so quickly.

Wow! Counting David Vitter's penchant for prostitution in Louisiana, Ted Haggard's totally "non-gay" gay sex and methamphetamine use with a male prostitute in Colorado, Senator Larry Craig's "wide stance" concerning male on male bathroom sex in airports, and Todd Palin's luring of impressionable young women into prostitution in Alaska, I would say when it comes to sex scandals and hypocrisy the conservative males have their more liberal counterparts beat by mile. And I was not even counting the $2,000 the RNC spent at an S&M club last year.

So clearly the Conservatives preaching "family values" is akin to Charlie Sheen preaching about the perils of drugs and alcohol or Bristol Palin talking about abstinence.  Oh wait, that last one actually happened.

Joe Scarborough on Glenn Beck: "He's bad for the Conservative movement, he's bad for the Republican party, and he's bad for Fox News."

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You know it seems obvious to me that Fox News is turning into a parody of itself right in front of our eyes.

Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, cannot even write anything as brutally damaging to their credibility as what they actually broadcast into the homes of cable news viewers every day.

Personally I could not be more pleased.

Remember THIS is the network that Sarah Palin touts as the most trustworthy, that the GOP Presidential hopefuls flock to in order to get their faces and messages out there, and is the "go to" place for corporations to send their talking points to help fight potential legislation which might impact their ability to make even more obscene amounts of money.

You know someday we may all herald Glenn Beck as the hero who destroyed Fox News.

Now THAT is a headache inducing proposition.

Republican led federal probe finds no misuse of data by climate scientists.

From Raw Story:

A Republican-led federal probe of climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found no evidence that they manipulated data, after leaked e-mails in 2009 sparked the "climategate" controversy.

The investigation was conducted by the inspector general of the Commerce Department. It reviewed the 1,073 leaked messages, particularly the 289 that were exchanged with NOAA scientists, and interviewed NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and her staff about them.

"We did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data," the inspector general concluded in a recent report. It also cleared Lucbhenco for testifying before Congress that the e-mails did not weaken the science of climate change.

The probe was requested by Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the environment committee, who has called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."

Well good.  Now can we finally stop denying that this planet has a serious man made problem and DO something about it?

I am so tired of having to refute false conspiracies made up by the GOP in an attempt to slow down our ability to solve real problems facing this planet because it might cost their corporate overlords money if we do so.

Let's take a break from our usual topics to enjoy a uniquely Alaskan experience.

Here are some pictures that my friend Dennis Zaki sent me to shae with all of you.

These are from the Fur Rondy Sled Dog Races.

You literally NEVER see these dogs happier than when they are pulling a sled.  It is literally in their DNA.

And here is  video that Dennis made as well.

Thanks Dennis.

The art of surviving your birthday.

Do you remember when you were a kid and the only day better than Christmas was your birthday? And the reason for that was because, unlike Christmas where you got toys that you HAD to share with your stupid brother and your sister always received TWICE as many presents as you did (Because she was a girl and your single mom LOVED shopping for girl stuff.), on your birthday the presents were ALL for you. Which meant that your brother and sister could just suck it!  Hah!

Or was that just me?

Well anyhow at some point in your life, after you have passed all of the big milestones like turning thirteen and FINALLY becoming a teenager, and turning sixteen and finally getting your driver's license, and turning eighteen and knowing you were now an adult and the other adults had to treat you like a peer (Except your parents who never seemed to get that memo.), and then turning twenty-one and finally being able to legally drink in a bar, you kind of stop anticipating your birthdays and start dreading them. And the further away from the beginning of your life you get, while slowly inching closer to the end, the more birthdays become something you simply have to endure. 

Kind of like getting a prostate exam, only without the foreplay.

So yesterday for my fifty first birthday I treated it like I was on a damaged aircraft hurtling toward earth.  I knew there was nothing I could do to stop it, but I just hoped that once it happened I could walk away from it with all of my body parts still intact. Which is essentially how I have felt about most of my birthdays since around the age of thirty five or so.

However this year I have my daughter living with me. And she had her own ideas.

My daughter felt that I should do something fun and memorable. Which, oddly enough, in her mind meant I needed to get a tattoo. Yes, you read that right, a tattoo.

Are you asking why?  Yeah I did that as well.

As it turned out there really wasn't what one could characterize as a good reason. Not to say she didn't try.

"Because Dad, just think how cool it would be."

Yeah, do YOU know what is cool when you are fifty-one?

Getting out of bed without making that old man noise your dad used to make.

Having a pretty girl look at you in the gym with a face that says she thinks you are kind of attractive, and not one that says "Is that my dad?"

Taking your glasses off for a second and being able to find them without having to go get your back up pair first.

Getting a new tattoo was nowhere, and I mean NOWHERE,  on my list.

"Are you offering to pay for it?" I asked.

"Well no, but I would totally help you pick it out.  Hey we could get one together! Oooh we could get the SAME one!"

Matching tattoos with my daughter?  No that is not cool, that is creepy.

"Are you paying for yours?" I asked, already knwiing the answer.

"Well no, but you could pay for it because you LOVE me, and it would be so cool to both have the same tattoo.  Don't you think?"

No I didn't actually, and I told her so. Needless to say my birthday ended with no, hard to explain to new girlfriends,  father/daughter matching tattoos.

Instead my daughter, now disappointed in her father's complete lack of "cool," went off to run errands.

Good.  Peace and quiet is EXACTLY what I wanted on my birthday.

Later that night, right before I went to bed, she finally came back home.

"Close your eyes I have a surprise."  Uh oh!

However when I opened them, she had simply placed this on my desk.

"See Dad it it's a coffee cup because you love coffee!  And it has the periodic table on it, because you are so smart, and smart people like that kind of thing.  And it has all kinds of candies with nuts because I remember when I was little that you ate those all of the time. Do you like it?"

"Of course I do. Thank you sweetheart." And then she gave me the REAL present...a hug.

When she left to go watch a movie with friends, I sat staring at the cup full of candies that I have not had any desire to eat in the last fifteen years, and somehow I thought that it was exactly what I wanted.

Not because I needed yet another coffee cup.  Nor because I needed a bunch of candy that I don't ever eat anymore.  But because SHE gave it to me out of love, and having her tell me she loves me is really the only gift that my 51 year old self really wanted this year.  I just did not know it.

But now I do.

So this was not a bad birthday after at all.  I survived with all of my limbs intact, and with a warm feeling in my heart placed there by the most important person in my world.

As my mom would say, "You can't beat it with a stick!"

Scott Walker ad as directed by Charlie Sheen.

This comes to us from the brilliant mind of DC Douglas.

Audience member at Teabagger town hall asks "Who's going to shoot Obama?"

From Salon:

Here's the latest evidence that nothing has changed in post-Tucson America: A person at a Tuesday town hall with Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., got up and asked, "Who is going to shoot President Obama?"

The exact wording of the question is not clear because, the Athens Banner-Herald reports, there was a lot of noise at the event.  (The exact wording has now been confirmed by Broun's press secretary, and my headline is indeed accurate.) Perhaps more significant than the question was the response of the crowd and Broun, who is a member of the Tea Party Caucus and one of the most right-wing members of Congress.

The question prompted a "big laugh" from the crowd, in Oglethorpe County, Ga., according to the Banner-Herald. Broun, for his part, did not object to the question. He said in response:

"The thing is, I know there’s a lot of frustration with this president. We're going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we'll elect somebody that’s going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare."

The proper response to this question should have been to tell the person who posed it that such talk was against the law and then reported his ass to the Secret Service.  However this Teabagging tool decided to pander to the most hate filled members of his party by essentially expressing his solidarity with the sentiment.

In my opinion if, God forbid, anything DID happen to our President these public servants should be charged with promoting sedition and fanning the flames of violent rhetoric against the leader of this country.

The individuals using this kind of language are certainly old enough to remember what happened in the 1960's when words were followed by actions and we lost our President, his brother, and our most famous icon in this nation's battle for equal rights.

Protest song for Wisconsin.

Here are the lyrics courtesy of likala.

Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Sarah Palin works for multi billionaires
American workers vs multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

Can main street get a bailout
Tell the president our checks weren't mailed out
Tell the house of representatives and senate
And whatever business got the stimulus and spent it
Now they getting record profit that's tripling with no limits
But they cutting jobs and unemployment benefits have ended
How we gone live with no income coming in
And the little help we get is cut from the budget then
What's the role of government
Do workers stand a chance if multi billionaires are running it
Oh now you worried bout the deficit and cutting it
But when them banks needed billions you had enough for them.
Them car companies you had bucks for them
2 wars rebuilding 2 countries guess we stuck with them
the average citizen just ain't lucky then
cause we be getting pimped so I guess we getting fucked again

Rush Limbaugh works for multi billionaires
Bill O'Reilly works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Sean Hannity works for multi billionaires
Crazy Glenn Beck works for multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

When did the American worker become the enemy
Why is wanting a living wage such a penalty
What happened to justice and liberty
These billionaire haters wanna crush us literally
On the box is Murdoch and his foxes
And if you watch it you might as well be an ostrich
They terrorists cause they hold facts hostage
24 hours straight of we hate what Barack did
If you want to unionize your a communist
But if you buy a congressman they just call you a lobbyist
It's so obvious but here's where the problem is
they act like regular Americans but they sloppy rich
Why you think they wanna cut taxes
cause every single one of them in the higher brackets
This ain't white or black it's class warfare time for action
Just look at wide the gap is

American workers vs multi billionaires
The middle class vs multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Rupert Murdoch is multi billionaires
the Koch brothers are multi Billionaire
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

By the way it looks like the Madison police chief has some real concerns about what Governor Walker said to that fake Koch brother:

"I spent a good deal of time overnight thinking about Governor Walker's response, during his news conference yesterday, to the suggestion that his administration 'thought about' planting troublemakers among those who are peacefully protesting his bill," Wray said in a statement." I would like to hear more of an explanation from Governor Walker as to what exactly was being considered, and to what degree it was discussed by his cabinet members."

"I find it very unsettling and troubling that anyone would consider creating safety risks for our citizens and law enforcement officers. Our department works hard dialoging with those who are exercising their First Amendment right, those from both sides of the issue, to make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure they can demonstrate safely," he said.

A Washington Watchdog group has some real concerns as well:

The Public Campaign Action fund alleges that this represents an effort to coordinate spending with an independent entity, which may be illegal under Wisconsin law. The group also alleges that such a call may not be received on or made from state property.

It appears to me that Governor Walker may have quite a lot on his plate.  Perhaps trying to bust the unions was not quite as good of an idea as his corporate overlords told him it was. Ya think?

Move over Sarah Palin because the "King of the Birthers" has just thrown his hat into the ring for 2012.

Wow!  I had no idea that Orly Taitz had a sex change.

This guy was a batshit crazy Obama hating racist back when being a batshit crazy Obama hating racist was still cool.  You know before all the GOP kids started doing it.

Check out this article from 2008 courtesy of the New York Times:

Though he is not a lawyer, Mr. Martin went on to become a prodigious filer of lawsuits, and he made unsuccessful attempts to win public office for both parties in three states, as well as for president at least twice, in 1988 and 2000. Based in Chicago, he now identifies himself as a writer who focuses on his anti-Obama Web site and press releases.

Mr. Martin, in a series of interviews, did not dispute his influence in Obama rumors.

“Everybody uses my research as a takeoff point,” Mr. Martin said, adding, however, that some take his writings “and exaggerate them to suit their own fantasies.”

As for his background, he said: “I’m a colorful person. There’s always somebody who has a legitimate cause in their mind to be angry with me.”

You know now that I think about it this guy pretty much encompasses the modern day GOP in one one crazy ass little nutshell.  If the Republicans were really honest with the American voters THIS would absolutely be their nominee in 2012.

Among GOP Presidential hopefuls Sarah Palin polls best when it comes to National Security and Foreign Relations. All together now, "WTF?"

From Gallup:

Although Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Sarah Palin lead the field of potential Republican presidential candidates among all Republicans nationwide, there are significant differences in candidate preferences when Republicans are divided by the issue they think is most important.

Former Alaska Gov. and vice presidential candidate Palin does slightly better among those focused on national security and foreign policy than on values issues and business and the economy. She performs much less well among those focused on government spending and power, despite being one of the leading public supporters of the Tea Party movement.

"Palin does slightly better among those focused on national security and foreign policy."  Does THAT make your head hurt as much as it does mine?

I have asked this again, but I guess I need to ask it again, "Just HOW stupid, are GOP voters?"

Foreign relations? This woman did not even realize that Africa was a continent (I actually used to think this was fake, but I just learned recently that it is for real.), believes she has foreign relations experience based on the proximity of Alaska to Russia, and frequently insults the worlds second largest religious group on Twitter, on Facebook, and on NATIONAL TELEVISION!  If Sarah Palin has foreign relations experience based on these examples than I should be able to teach a class in animal husbandry based on the fact I once turned the hose on to dogs copulating in my front yard.

As for National Security, besides having a kid who decided to join the military to avoid going to jail,  and spent his time in Iraq drivinig officers around to avoid the possibility of somebody shooting a big nasty hole in him, the only connection that Palin has to national necurity is her tourist stop in Kuwait back in July of 2007, where she got this "Ooh look at me hold a gun" picture to give erections to the military fetishists in the GOP.

Look I get it Republicans, you have NOBODY of any value in your 2012 Presidential lineup. Yep it sucks to be you.

However if you are actually so incredibly desperate that Klondike Kardashian rises to the top as an expert in foreign relations and national security then, for the good of the country, perhaps y'all might want to sit this next one out.

I mean seriously!

Only in my dreams did I think I would ever see this.

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Wow! Did you ever think you would see Jon Stewart interview Donald Rumsfeld?

Can somebody please explain to me why Shep Smith still works for Fox News?

Obviously he has stopped drinking the Kool-aid, and does not seem to be working for the GOP, or their corporate overlords, so just HOW is he still at that network?

Sarah Palin's Alaska named worst reality show. Gee ya think?

From TV EYE:

She lost the vice presidency and quit the governorship, but Sarah Palin can count herself as a winner as her one-season reality travelogue "Sarah Palin's Alaska" was named worst reality show from the Hollywood Temp Diaries, bumping last year's winner "Jersey Shore" as well as such deserving nominees as "Bridalplasty," "Bad Girls Club" and "16 and Pregnant."

In addition, Palin won worst female in a reality program, edging last year's Snooki, as well as Kim Kardashian, Camille Grammer of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and Shanna Moakler, host of "Bridalplasty.

Finally, Sarah Palin gets the recognition she deserves!

That show was so bad it actually made me hate Alaska for agreeing to co-star with her in that televised abortion.

And do you know the worst part?  You know aside from Palin's high pitched scrotum shrinking whiny voice?  That the makers of that disaster screwed Alaskans out of 1.2 million in tax credits. Gee no wonder Alaskans can barely stand the ungrateful prima donna.

Palin headed to India. Because apparently those poor people have not suffered enough.

From the Politico:

Sarah Palin is traveling to India next month to rub elbows with Indian politicians and Bollywood stars.

The former Alaska governor is scheduled to speak at the India Today Conclave in New Delhi on March 19.

Palin aide Rebecca Mansour confirmed the details by tweeting a link to the organization’s website, writing only “Gov. Palin will be traveling to India next month.”

It’s unknown if Palin is getting paid for the appearance, but the $1,850 price tag to attend the two-day event makes it seem likely that she got her quote – reportedly $100,000 per appearance.

Palin aides have been weighing a foreign trip for months, but had only previously disclosed that they were planning a still unannounced trip to England and Israel sometime later this year.

The conference’s choice of Palin is an odd one. She will be the only American politician attending the conference, which is stacked with Indian and Pakistani officials, business leaders, public figures and entertainers.

Gee I wonder if Snowdrift Snooki realizes that she is flying to India and NOT Indiana? You know India, home to many, many brown people, who are probably relatively unimpressed with a skinny inarticulate failed politician from Alaska.

I also wonder if her people realize that currently the country is in political turmoil and there is no guarantee that the people in charge today will STILL be in charge come March 19?

And has anybody told Klondike Kardashian that India is home to the second largest number of Muslims in the world, while only about 2.3% self identify as Christians? That is certainly something that a person well known for saying negative things about Muslims should have probably thought through.

Oh what am I saying?  The people of India are very peace loving, after all that is the birthplace of both the Buddha and Gandhi.

I mean unless Sarah Palin tries to smuggle a weapon of mass destruction into the country she should be fine.

Oooh, that's right. 

Well knowing her if anything DOES happen she will just throw up one of her children as a human shield and then blame President Obama for any injuries they might receive.

At least we know Trig is safe since she would need his birth certificate to get him a passport. But if I were Piper I would run and go hide in an aunt's house or something until April. Just to be safe.

Rachel Maddow broadcasting from Kansas talks about Governor Scott Walker and the now infamous prank phone call.

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This tape is even BETTER when you listen to it with an audience of people from Kansas in the background cheeering, booing, and laughing along.

Obama administration says DOMA unconstitutional, will NOT defend in court.

From the New York Daily News:

In a major reversal, the Obama administration said Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act – which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman -- is unconstitutional.

And to make that point, the White House has instructed the Department of Justice to stop defending it in court.

"The President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.

He added that the law "fails to meet that standard and is therefore unconstitutional.

Jesus, This is huge!

We knew that getting the homosexual community the same rights enjoyed by every other American would take time, but THIS has certainly moved that chess piece forward in a big way.

I have said it before, but it bears repeating. THIS President will go down in history as the most pro-gay rights President in American history. 

And don't forget he is a REALl Christian with bible based concerns about same sex marriage. However he is doing the right thing despite his personal religious beliefs and I think that permitting same sex marriage on a national level is just around the corner.

No nonsense 5 year old girl has her future all figured out. Hysterical!

Boy I did not have my stuff together this well when I was twenty five years old, much less only five years old.

McGinniss lawyer responds to the leak of Frank Bailey's book.

From All Around Philly.com:

Dean Steinbeck, an attorney for Bailey and writers Ken Morris and Jeanne Devon, alleged that McGinniss received a copy of the manuscript between Feb. 16 and Feb. 18. In a letter to McGinniss, he said the matter "appears to be no more than that of a jealous author sabotaging a competitor via unlawful and unscrupulous means." A copy of the letter was posted on Devon's blog.

The Anchorage Daily News has reported that it received copies of the manuscript from multiple sources, including McGinniss.

McGinniss' attorney Dennis Holahan, in a letter to Steinbeck dated Tuesday, acknowledges that McGinniss sent a copy of the manuscript "to a few people and media outlets in Alaska, advising them that they should not reproduce any of the manuscript before contacting the authors for permission."

Holahan said the manuscript McGinniss received by e-mail had already been widely disseminated within the publishing world. He said the book agent for Steinbeck's clients, in sending the manuscript around, included no request for confidentiality. Holahan balked at any claim of copyright infringement or alleged attempt by McGinniss to derail a rival project.

"Mr. McGinniss is one of the top investigative journalists in the United States," Holahan wrote in the letter, a copy of which was provided to The Associated Press late Tuesday. "He does not waste time trying to eliminate the competition, especially in this case, where the competition does not appear to have the right to publish the material that forms the strongest appeal of the manuscript."

This is not my fight, especially since I have friends on both sides of this conflict, but since I posted the Ken Morris article from Mudflats the other day I felt that I should give both sides the same opportunity to explain their position.

Personally I want all of this resolved so that we can move forward on revealing the truth about Sarah Palin to the widest possible audience.  After all, the true enemy of the Grizzled Mama is not liberals, the media, or book authors.  Her true enemy is simply the truth.

P.S. BTW I want to give a shout out to Regina over at Palingates for demonstrating the kind of ethics that make me so proud of my fellow bloggers.  Thank you Regina!

Senator Mark Begich to take on NCLB.

From the Alaska Dispatch:

Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, said Monday that he is introducing legislation to promote science, technology, engineering and math education, because the federal No Child Left Behind Act is not working for Alaska.

"The one-size fits all model of No Child Left Behind needs to be overhauled," Begich told the Alaska Society for Technology in Education at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage. "In too many cases it has tied teachers' and principals' hands and punished schools when they needed help the most."

It has been awhile since Senator Begich has done anything which really gave me a sense of pride for voting for him, but taking on No Child Left Behind certainly qualifies in my mind.

I absolutely hate NCLB and have been waiting for somebody to finally do something about getting it out of the Alaska public school system.  Our educational needs are truly unique and NCLB has NEVER been a useful approach in making sure our children, especially those living in rural communities, receive a proper education.

So I hope that this legislation which Senator Begich introduces will start addressing the problems facing the students sitting in our Alaska classrooms, and begins to see them as, not just a series of test scores, but as potentially well educated and capable young people who may someday be in the position to make a real contribution to their communities.

Glenn Beck seems to be suffering some kind of nervous breakdown right out in front of God and everybody.

From Mediaite:

“It is difficult to deny at this point, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Is it a little hard to deny that radicals, Islamicists, Communists, Socialists will work together against Israel, against Capitalism, and they’ll try to work together to overturn stability? Who in the media is telling you this? Who? Name them! Where are they? How can they possibly deny it at this point? And why wouldn’t they tell you these things? Why?”

Here let me take a stab at this.  "Why won't they tell us these things?  Because it's insane! And you need a long vacation in a tiny padded room."

Other Facebook account? I don't have no other stinking Facebook acount! You bunch of stupidheads!

The Grizzled Mama takes to Facebook to put down the vicious truth lies that she has a secret Facebook account:

On a side note, there’s always buzz about fake Sarah Palin Facebook and Twitter accounts. Please know that this is my only authentic Facebook account and SarahPalinUSA is my only authentic Twitter account. Pay no attention to the fake accounts and their fake messages.

Not "authentic?"  Methinks the crazy lady doth protest too much.

Besides does THIS look inauthentic?

And don't forget Wonkette originally found it by using Palin's actual e-mail account that they found by reading Bailey's manuscript.

Kind of hard to say an e-mail address does not belong to you if somebody sent to you, and received from you, e-mails while using it.

So I am afraid Snowdrift Snooki that THIS is yet another EPIC FAIL!