The Iron Dog is roaring into Anchorage.
After months of speculation about a move to the big city, the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night approved a resolution in support of establishing a ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage beginning with this winter's race. After the Feb. 20 ceremonial start, the 2,031-mile snowmachine race will start for real the next day on Big Lake.
In a press release issued Tuesday, Iron Dog executive director Kevin Kastner said the plan to bring the race to Anchorage has been in the works since 2010.
“With the addition of Anchorage, I believe we are making a great contribution to a refreshed legacy of winter tourism and starting a new chapter for motorsports and snowmachining advocacy,” Kastner said.
Of course much like the Iditarod, which has its ceremonial start in Anchorage and then starts for real in Willow, this Iron Dog race start is just for the cameras.
And you know what cameras mean.
And of course having it here means I will have no good excuse not to drive downtown to see the start of the race so that I can report back to all of you concerning any drama that might take place.
I highly doubt I will have any Sarah Palin sightings however, as it is well known how she usually views the start of the race.
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I have not heard anything officially, but when Levi first discussed the possibility back in March, he undoubtedly believed that his custody case would be over with by now. However such is not the case, and with attorney fees piling up Levi really does not have the kind of money he needs to participate.
That's too bad really, because if both the Palins AND the Johnstons were to show up at the same race I would DEFINITELY make it a priority to be there.
Which I will assume means that police will be on high alert in case one of the Palins wants to start another drunken brawl, like they did during their last family trip to my hometown.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laugh. LOL
I wonder if they will FINALLY show the junker baby at the big event.
DeleteWhat about the DWTS abstinance baby...how many are there....these people are creeeeepy.
DeleteDoes Bristol Palin spend all of her free time with her legs spread for Trial Daddies?
DeleteAnonymous9:20 AM
DeleteYeah...she does...in fact there was a photo posted while at junker's bed & she was eating pizza with her legs suggestively open. SICK!
but her mom's heart "soars with pride!"
Anon@92o: WTF else does she have to offer? Some other men's kids?
DeleteAnonymous9:48 AM
DeleteYes, and she posts the photos in FB to advertize. She's the other moma boo boo
That looks like a man next to Todd. If it wasn't for the "trademark" hair extension over the head & the old neck, I wouldn't have known it was Sarah.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that the custody case has not been settled. I wonder what the holdup could be. Also sorry to hear that you think Mama Grizzly will still be showing up at public events in Feburary and not in hiding after your revelations have been released. I was hoping it would be before the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she has enough shame to go into hiding. The only reason she might miss it is if she's behind bars. She can't pass up the chance for free publicity, and she has to make sure all the "h8ers" see her metaphorical middle finger. Hell, if Gryph's revelations are damning enough, she might show up with Rush Limbaugh and/or Franklin Graham and/or the entire Duck clan in tow.
DeleteMama "grisly" SHOULD be hiding with shame after the thongazy affair. I would be so ashamed. I think everytime those people show up, they should play the tapes & show the pictures.
DeleteBut, not $carah remember her "heart soars with pride!"
Hide your little girls if the duck commander shows up. Remember he thinks 13-year-olds are ripe for marriage!
DeleteWhy isn't anyone at faux news & repubs outraged.
The holdup is probably exactly that -- a money-stealing holdup engineered by the whole Palin clan, designed to outwait and outspend Levi Johnston.
DeleteYou can thank those POS Palinbots for having the stupidity to keep sending money to SarahPAC, which allows the Palins to do whatever they damned well please to anyone who gets in their way.
That includes that POS troll who keeps showing up here, who's probably a Palin herself.
Anonymous8:28 AM
DeleteI saw how Hannity was kissing the "commander's ass" and I was sickened. I have a 12-year-old & I coulnd't imagine prepping my daughter for such disgusting POS.
Someone should ask his granddaughter, the one that's now on DWTS at what age granddaddy took her for her first test run.
Deleteyeah Anonymous10:32 AM, cause the palin girls are over the hill for the "commander" standards....well maybe piper
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1AUGoo8Z4&feature=youtu.be
ReplyDeleteThis is how far palin has fallen.
Who would want your name associated with Raphael Cruz, ducks and homophobes. And facial hair!
hahah...she most likely thinks any attention she gets if better than none..
DeleteThanks for the laughs! The best part was NO PHOTO of "Bewigged", just a few honorable mentions w/cruz. Brilliant!!!!!!
DeleteNothing like snowmachine "racing" to highlight the beauty of the great Alaskan outdoors. I confess I don't understand the appeal of this "sport."
ReplyDeleteYeah how's that a sport & not to mention the pollution they create.
DeleteWhen you sit your fat ass on a lawn mower and ride around like a wimp, that is a sport in Alaska. Pathetic. I would wear a gas mask if I lived anywhere near Anchorage or where those machines go.
DeleteIron Pups and Doggies use a lot of drugs to have so much fun and family togetherness for the dumbest event of the year. Most of them are like the Palin family and proud. Any decent person would be shamed.
Shame & decency are not in the Palin vocabulary & Sally Sandusky hasn't covered those words in the "word-of-the-day."
DeleteBTW did you see her hubby sandusky was in the news again with more child abuse shit.
I'm telling you. NO SHAME
It's so smelly and loud. Thankfully, most of them have their own places to ride and most of our skiing trails do not overlap with their trails. On the other hand tere are those that like to ride them on the side of the road and through neighborhoods, renegade rednecks who also ride their ATV along the roads and tear up landscaping. This is a wonderful place to live, but sometimes these damn rednecks ruin it for everyone. There are a few places here in the valley where the idiots have crashed and offed themselves. Their families put up little cross shrines to their dearly departed. I like to let my dogs pee on their little shrines....
DeleteI think (hope) those stupid retards know they are not wanted in Anchorage.
ReplyDeleteBristol, Sarah, Todd & Track can keep their thong wearing hoohahs in Wasilla, Especially Bristol.
We don't want to smell fish in Anchorage.
Anchovies in Anchorage? Thonghazi!!!! Bring a clothes pin and hope the wind's blowing the other way.
DeleteGrowing up in Canada in snow-machine-land, I couldn't stand the noise and emissions. It was a very expensive hobby or sport, and it drove the community crazy hearing the screaming shrill buzz sound of the engines go past our back yards through trails in the woods. It just didn't appeal to me. That, and hockey, crazy, eh?
ReplyDeleteWell since you don't like snowmobiles and hockey, I hope you do like puffed wheat cake, Cheezies, chesterfields, toques and serviettes :<)
DeleteSnowmobiles is TOTALLY different than hokey. Honey is a real sport compared to just sitting on a machine & polluting the tundra.
DeleteProbably hated on pasties also!
DeleteI'm not a typist...here here is a *Correction:
DeleteSnomobile racing is TOTALLY different than playing hokey. Hokey is a real sport compared to just sitting on a machine & polluting the tundra.
Hmmmm.......interesting.......new Governor of AK, new Administration, and resentments in the Iron Dog September birthday party with the Palins, and NOW the Iron Dog Exec Director deciding to move the race's starting point in Anchorage?
ReplyDeleteDid the Iron Dog Association sigh a big sigh of relief when they heard that the last of the Palin influence is over? Maybe they can start fresh without the Palin stain on everything?
It's good for Anchorage business and economy. Who knows what could happen between now and then, maybe more scandals involving AK Government and National Guard will be uncovered.
Kevin Kastner is the creep that was fine with Todd cheating. Kastner is a jerk and stands for pollution and corruption. Is selling a bad product. Sure he distanced himself in the media from the idiots at the brawl but he knows the drug and sex problems that go on. He is a failure but promotes that scam as great family crap.
DeleteBitch keep your ass in the truck.
ReplyDeleteEspecially in Anchorage. I'm sure Sarah doesn't want another Palin Whoop Ass.
DeleteShe probably doesn't care about getting a Whoops Ass & For those people, any publicity they get is better than none & later they will twist anything to their favor to keep the money rolling in.
DeleteI thought that the case with Bar$tool and Levi was finally settled? I guess I was wrong. :/
ReplyDeleteEven if there is an agreed or court-ordered custody/support settlement in place, either party can repeatedly file motions to challenge it.
DeleteThat manly face won Miss Wasilla?
ReplyDeleteYou got to be kidding me!
i thought she was runner up
Delete@8:46 I think she was runned over and beaten with a sack of nickels. How else can you explain her swollen rock jaw?
DeleteWho knows. I thought the whole thing was disputed. Even then she was a known liar. here is what Wiki says:
Delete"finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant....One author reports that she received the Miss Congeniality award in the Miss Wasilla contest (but this is disputed by another contestant and classmate of Palin's)[20] and a college scholarship..."
See? the lies sarted WAY BACK THEN...So she's an expert on making up shit without care or remorse.
9:05am
DeleteShe has a face like the Dad on "American Dad". Now that she's losing her estrogen due to menopause she's gonna get even more manly.
She was runner up, the winner was a beautiful African American Lady. I imagine the fridge, cabinets, countertops and 'merkan flags got a whoopin from the canned goods cause wonkeye "Flute" couldn't focus through the tears and screaming.
DeleteThe woman is really showing her 50-something-age-old neck. The veins popping and wrinkly neck. You can't do much to the neck except surgery so i imagine she'll do that next. Poor lady also looks hard.
ReplyDeleteIt must be the life she leads & no to mention supporting the whole Klan by coming up with lies & other money-making-shit. It must be hard.
That's why she looks so hard. Poor sarah now has to grift more to do her face over
DeleteI'm a few years older than Grandma Gristle and my neck is fine. I think it depends on your diet, exercise, genes, overall health and getting lots of sleep.
DeleteSarah took the shortcut, fillers, juvederm, drain cleaner, snorting crack off oil barrels, alcohol and being ridden hard and put out to dry.
That being said, she'd make a FABULOUS Drag Queen or life sized voodoo doll.
I thought she came in 3rd being the runner up to the 2nd place runner up, or something like that. Their definition of 'runner up' was different then I always thought, but maybe since it's a beauty contest the judges wanted to make it sound better being in 3rd place.
ReplyDeleteSomeone who knows where she ended up in the contest needs to lets us know exactly what place she came was in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
DeleteHer wikipedia states that she won Miss Wasilla and finished third in Miss Alaska.
"Maryline Blackburn, who beat Palin for Miss Alaska in June 1984, said Palin, who competed as Miss Wasilla, earned at least $1,250 when she placed third and was named Miss Congeniality. The following year, Palin competed as Miss Big Lake and did not place, said Blackburn, a professional singer in Georgia."
Deletehttp://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/21/nation/na-palincollege21/2
Now she's "Miss Big Gulp" with the turkey waddle and hairdo to match. When does the Butterball Hotline open? Maybe they have good tips for Sarah instead of those worn out foam filled fodder bags.
DeleteWho's that pimp, I mean wimp, beside the manly jawed guy with the pink band around the head?
ReplyDeleteWho fking cares? it's not like it's a real sport. it's riding a motor vehicle.
ReplyDeleteprobably moved to keep tawwed from going by his hanger to wrench on slow snowmachine. its called the old switcheroo. better write down those serial numbers!
ReplyDeleteAt least Todd get's to use his new truck and trailer he got for his birthday!..oh sorry Sarah wants us all to forget about that! and besides no one will remember the "incident" once she finds the perfect black leather winter coat with lots of zippers on it and the strategically placed cut away! Why it's enough to make your eyes sore.Her fans are hoping she wears her hair up because that is a sign that she will run for President although it may be hard to tell since her hair will be under the awesomely cute fuzzy fur hat on her head complete with the skunks eyes still left in place.
ReplyDeleteEveryone should be prepared & literaly ready to "ROLL" upon their arrival. HOOHA!
DeleteFirst we'll need some snow.
ReplyDeleteBuffalo, NY would love to give you some of theirs! Poor things! (said with complete sympathy as after this next snowfall, they are facing a flood potential)
DeleteM from MD
DANG! Sarah looks hard & manly!
ReplyDelete$carah, get honest opinions before posting such "photo shoots."
It's no secret that Levi's wife is expecting a baby a couple of weeks before the Iron Dog. What kind of asshole would leave his wife and newborn and 2-year-old and go away for a couple of weeks of stupid man fun? "Money" didn't make that decision.
ReplyDeleteGood try Anonymous11:23 AM, if i were Levi I would go. Shoot yeah. It's not like he wuld be takign the wife on the ride and I'm sure he & his little family could use the money.
DeleteNow, let's not forget the kind of mother sarah and barstool are...hahahahahahahaha....let's not start there.
not the first time a man or woman leaves their family to go to work...remember toad, $carah and barstool...not to mention the abandoned barstool offspring.
DeleteYeah...what happened to to Arizona & Dineyland abstinance offspring, and what kind a man is junker or whomever to allow their "sacred" spawn to dissapear.
DeleteWhy isn't Bristol racing? What's juice for the goose is juice for the gander. lmao. Run Bristol! Get your nails done, a pedi, wear your best thong dress and bring your "Hail to the V" wipes for your "close up".
DeleteShow the world your true talent, independent, hard working, in and out puncher with a work ethic. You know Anchorage by heart, been working there since you were a teenager, right? LOL
So, the custody case is NOT over?
ReplyDeleteWill Bristol's behavior during the drunken brawl be part of hearing this time around?
Are you sure that's Sarah in the photo with the headband? It really looks like a man dressed as a woman, and I'm not trying to be mean. Even my daughter thinks the picture was photoshoped by her enemies.
ReplyDeleteThis is sort of off-topic but I wonder if Levi Johnston has considered starting a gofundme.com site for contributions to his legal fees for the custody case.
ReplyDeleteI think that would be highly inappropriate and Levi I'm sure knows so. These things are personal and I'm sure if you or I had a custody issue we'd not choose to ask other people for money to solve it. Levi is not a grifter, unlike the Palins.
DeleteInappropriate?! the woman made money of lying about how she got pregnant & then off being "abstinate" while shacking up & continues to change boyfriends & sleep with them more often than she changes underwear, and GETS PAID!
DeletePFT!
I just hope he has a good lawyer and isn't afraid to use Bristol's own words and deeds to show what an unfit mother (and human being) she really is.
DeleteI know in the past Levi has taken a more soft approach with Bristol. He probably feels sorry for her. But, now he needs to step up to the plate for the sake of his son.
A month ago, a very drunk Bristol (and her drunk family) brought Tripp along as they crashed a party and caused a ruckus that ended with Bristol punching the host in the face. And did I mention that Tripp was there, way past the bedtime of a kid his age and had to ride home with his angry and sloppy drunk mother, angry and sloppy drunk aunt, angry and sloppy drunk and bloody uncle, and angry and bloody grandfather?
I don't understand the idea of a 'ceremonial start'.
ReplyDelete12:28 They have a "start" right downtown so that people don't have to drive out to the Valley to watch the beginning of the race.
DeleteIt's cool, but really it's a marketing, attention-getter thing.
They ride the dogs (in the Iditarod), and I assume the snowmachines for several miles.
People get to cheer, watch the action, and feel like they had a part in the action.
I don't know of other events that have such a thing.
http://www.adn.com/slideshow/photos-2014-iditarod-ceremonial-start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race
By far Iditarod is TOTALLY so much better and a REAL sport compared to the Irondog.
Both of them are this weird Alaskan type thing that most of us don't identify with, but whatever, yeah, you people ride some dogs around, where as most of us have dogs that live in our houses and are part of the family, but hey, I get the dog people trying to keep that working dog thing alive in Alaska but it doesn't always work out so good for the dogs, as a matter of fact, it rarely works out well for the dogs.
Deletehttp://www.adn.com/article/20141113/animal-control-discovers-underweight-huskies-one-dead-girdwood
I thinking we should crowdfund levis legal fees. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhy would you want to do that unless he asked? Although I do love the fact that people jumped onboard the Eric Thompson crowdsourcing thing after he was fired by the McKenna Brothers after the brawl. He's been on vacation, and will remain so until March, he seems pretty chuffed with his paid for vacation and good for him, people are very nice, and niceness buys a lot of nice vacations.
DeleteEric Thompson is a VICTIM of the palin wrath & mafia. TOTALLY different than the Lazy Palin & Klan who HAVE been on vacation for YEEEAAARS & getting their FREE Stuff & CASH. They are the lowest of the low.
DeleteAnonymous3:45 PM
DeleteI doubt he would ever ask. He's a family working man.
Also you can't compare Thompson to the low-life-thug palin KKKlan who's been on vacation & free new homes on the people's dime.