Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
For those of you wondering, the Wordpress website went offline due to an overabundance of traffic.
My web designer, who builds websites for a living, told me that he has NEVER seen that happen before, and certainly never on the first day!
We have already hit numbers that make the performance here on Blogspot pale by comparison.
Not in the old days perhaps, but at least for the last year or so.
Having said that I want to thank all of you for your many years of support, and for the incredible success of today. Even with all of those setbacks.
We are still tweaking the new site, and hopefully you will soon come to see it as your new home, much like this has felt like home for so many wonderful years.
The #MeToo campaign has taken down predators from both the Right and the Left, from both Hollywood and Washington DC, and both famous and infamous journalists as well.
However while Sarah Palin has been all too willing to jump onto stories about liberal Hollywood or media figures, she has been largely silent when it came to allegations concerning predators on the Right.
Now yesterday we had her ghostwriting stand in for Bristol attempt to attract a little of that sweet #MeToo attention their way by writing up a sad little blog post suggesting that the Palin family has also been the longtime victims of sexual harassment.
This of course is nothing new as the Palin family has been blowing their rape whistles virtually from the moment that they burst onto the scene.
Bristol even had a book written for her that suggested Levi raped her in a tent. (I actually asked him about that directly, and let's just say her version in no way matches what really took place.)
In that post yesterday Bristol's paid ghostwriter went to some rather amazing lengths to prove that the Palins are long suffering victims.
For instance she wrote that this comment by Chris Wallace, in which he was asked by Don Imus if Sarah Palin would be sitting on this lap during their first interview, was an example of sexual harassment.
As you can see Wallace was called out for making a somewhat sexist remark by other Fox New hosts, and of course the interview that took place was purely professional, so to use this as an example of sexual harassment seems incredibly weak.
The Bristol ghostwriter then goes on to use the Letterman joke as a further example.
The actual joke, if you remember, was "Sarah Palin went to a Yankees game yesterday. There was one awkward moment during the seven minute stretch when her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
Of course Dave thought that the daughter she brought was the previously pregnant Bristol, and not Willow who was actually accompanying her mother and father to New York.
The joke may have been in poor taste (Made me laugh however.), but it was not a pro-rape joke which was the accusation made by the Palin family.
The next examples are Azeala Banks, who made some rather indefensible remarks about black men "running a train" on Sarah, and Mike Tyson suggesting that she needed a black man like Dennis Rodman to "push her guts up into her head," after learning that she had bedded the very gentlemanly Glen Rice.
Now yes it could be argued that these are tasteless comments, but this ghostwriter needs to remember that tasteless comments are constantly being made about public figures, and since they were not made directly to her that it is still a stretch to think of them as the same type of sexual harassment suffered by the victims of Matt Lauer, Bill O'Reilly, or Roy Moore.
However it is the last example that is truly remarkable in it tone deafness.
In this example Bristol's ghostwriter feigns outrage over the fact that former Fox and Friends couch warmer, Alisyn Camerota, asked Palin if she had had breast surgery after this photo started making the rounds.
Since everybody by this time had come to realize that Palin was essentially flat as a board up on top, as illustrated by this photo,...
...this was not really such an outlandish question.
After all Palin had clearly wanted to draw attention to her chest which is why she wore what we now suspect was a water bra, with a tight white top.
And then when somebody noticed, and asked her about it, they are suddenly sexually harassing her?
At the end of this pathetic post the ghostwriter suggests that there is a double standard, and that liberal women's accusations are taken more seriously than those made by conservative women.
To that I would respond with the fact that the Roy Moore accusers have stated that they are lifelong conservatives, and some even admitted to voting for Trump. (Al Franken accuser Leann Tweeden has also been identified as a conservative.)
No this is NOT a partisan issue, and all accusers should be treated equally.
However if they, like Bristol's ghostwriter, are going to try and compare the terrible experiences of those who have suffered actual trauma to incidences like those listed above, they are likely going to find that they are laughed at and dismissed as simple attention seekers.
It’s clear that Sarah Palin hates the Paris climate agreement.
What’s unclear is why she used a photo of Florida lawmakers to make her point in a Facebook meme.
"Don’t be fooled! The Paris climate accord is a scam," stated the headline at the top of Palin’s Facebook post June 6, 2017. (By June 7, the Facebook meme was no longer available but PolitiFact had taken a screenshot of her post, which had been shared at least 8,000 times.)
Beneath the headline is a photo of an unidentified group of mostly men cheering. The Facebook post doesn’t identify the people in the photo, but they are Florida House members at the state Capitol in Tallahassee.
Beneath the photo Palin shared is text that says: "They pretend it’s about fixing our environment ... But it’s really about stealing billions from the American people and giving it to foreign countries, governments and lobbyists!"
To be clear many of the folks in the photo are Florida Republicans who are certainly not fans of the Paris Climate Accords, and in fact many of who do not accept the conventional wisdom about climate change.
When Politico contacted them about this Facebook post, they had this to say:
Florida Republicans and insiders couldn’t stop mocking and laughing at Palin’s error.
“I’m appalled. … As the owner of a publishing company, I find it appalling that she would use a low-res picture like this when a high-res picture is readily available,” joked state Rep. Scott Plakon, who’s in the picture standing with his hands together as he claps with joy.
Plakon said, “I was almost in tears with laughter” that Palin got it so wrong with her 9:37 a.m. Tuesday post — which was shared nearly 8,000 times and generated hundreds of comments before it was deleted. “I’m not sure what she’s saying. Are we cheering for Paris or against it? I think she’s saying we’re celebrating Paris.”
You know making mistakes is simply part of blogging, but remember Palin outsources her Facebook posts and blog posts to a third party, who apparently gets paid for their work.
I mean if this were the work of some coffee swilling middle aged dude in his pajama bottoms, that would be one thing. But this is a paid professional posting on the Facebook page of a former D-list political celebrity.
I think one would expect better.
But then again this is Palin, so perhaps this is exactly what we should expect.
So that was Palin's tweet today which linked back to her crappy websites to overladen with advertising that you can barely locate the content. (And then once you do you wish you had stopped at the advertisement for "Thinner Thighs in Ten Days.")
However if you visit Bristol's ghostwritten blog (A place I visit so rarely these days I had to follow a trail of dried up breadcrumbs to locate it again.) you will find a cobbled together post attacking Kathy Griffin for her Donald Trump's severed head imagery, with several shots at Levi Johnston just for shits and giggles.
It reads like the Facebook post of a woman who has waited years to finally get back at the woman who stole her boyfriend and made her feel worthless and alone.
(Actually the weren't ever really dating, it was all for show, though apparently Levi never clued Bristol in on the ruse.)
At the end of this rant Bristol's ghostwriter adds this:
Her jokes have never been funny to me.. probably because the only ones I’ve ever heard – have been directed at me or my family. (Well of course, the Palins rarely care about anything that does not effect them directly.)
I’m with the rest of the world on her recent photo school, and can’t believe a grown woman would pose like she did – she really does look like the photos you see of Isis Terrorists – and now she’s trying to play some role of a victim? Blaming white men?? I don’t get how you can even try to turn the tables on this one. Our president didn’t break you; you broke yourself, and you’re continuing to break any sort of “comedic career” by blaming everyone else.
Kathy Griffin ain’t nooooo freaking victim in my eyes.
I actually understand this ghostwriter's phony sentiment since it echoes my very real sentiment concerning the constant victim playing of the Palin clan.
For the entire nine years I have been covering them they have constantly whined about stalkers, liberals, ex-boyfriends, the "lamesteam media," comedians, talk show hosts, book authors, bloggers, etc., etc., etc..
So for the Palin clan (And their ghostwriters.) to call out a comedian for playing the victim is laugh out loud funny.
As is the idea that Sarah Palin's ghostwriter just authored a post, congratulating Bristol Palin's ghostwriter, for ghostwriting an attack on one of their many, many enemies.
It is almost as bizarre as congratulating a woman for giving birth to a child that she simply adopted.
This is a story that was promoted by the Right Wing during the election which states that this young, a DNC staffer working on getting out the vote, was killed by a Clinton hit team because he had incriminating information that could derail her campaign.
The story further states that the FBI has the young man's laptop with proof of thousands of e-mails he sent to Wikileaks.
Interestingly enough this story was first reported to have been circulating within the Kremlin, before finding it's way to the Right Wing blogs and news sites in America.
Nothing suspicious about that, right?
For the record Snopes debunked this story way back in July of last year.
And Seth Rich's family also came out today to deny the story's validity.
And just to top it off, this was what NBC News reported today:
Meanwhile, a current FBI official and a former one completely discount the Fox News claim that an FBI analysis of a computer belonging to Rich contained thousands of e-mails to and from WikiLeaks.
Local police in Washington, D.C., never even gave the FBI Rich's laptop to analyze after his murder, according to the current FBI official.
And a former law enforcement official with first-hand knowledge of Rich's laptop said the claim was incorrect. "It never contained any e-mails related to WikiLeaks, and the FBI never had it," the person said.
So this is who Sarah Palin is these days.
Just another Right Wing shit poster desperately trying to provide cover for a deeply flawed GOP president who is falling apart right before our eyes.
Believe it or not this is actually even several steps lower than I predicted she would fall oh those many years ago.
Update: Here is a report from CNN looking into the story and documenting how the whole thing fell apart under scrutiny.
Just so you know I am in training today, which means there may be a delay before I can publish your comments.
It might be completely unnoticeable, but then again there might be an hour or two between times when I can check my phone.
I have to admit I really hate this particular training as it involves a lot of hands on instruction and requires a lot of up close and personal interactions with people I do not know.
I think I have taken this particular class around 18 or 19 times, so though it is not new to me it is still a huge pain in my ass.
I have held this job for twenty years this June and perhaps the worst part is the yearly re-certifications.
I also hate that this is happening on a Friday which is notorious as a news dump day, but if you see anything you think I should know about put it in the comments and I will hopefully get to it later on tonight or tomorrow.
I have already written multiple posts that will show up as the day progresses, so don't think I will not provide content for you to enjoy.
Have a great day, and thanks for making IM a priority to visit in your very busy lives.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, STATING THAT THE CITY OF HOMER ADHERES TO THE PRINCIPLE OF INCLUSION AND HEREIN COMMITTING THIS CITY TO RESISTING EFFORTS TO DIVIDE THIS COMMUNITY WITH REGARD TO RACE, RELIGION, ETHNICITY, GENDER, NATIONAL ORIGIN, PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION REGARDLESS OF THE ORIGIN OF THOSE EFFORTS, INCLUDING FROM LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL AGENCIES.
WHEREAS, A new administration is in power in Washington, D.C. without a popular mandate;
WHEREAS, During his campaign, President Donald Trump made statements offensive and harmful to the rights of women; immigrants; religious, racial, and ethnic minorities; veterans; the disabled; LGBTQ citizens; and the general public; and that such statements have continued since his election; and
WHEREAS, The President on numerous occasions has stated clearly his disregard for freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly; and freedom of religion, particularly with regard to Muslim Americans; and
WHEREAS, The President has not disavowed his intention to create a registry of Muslim Americans and now intends to ban Muslims from entering the United States; and
WHEREAS, The President now is following through on his promises to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, including millions brought here as children who have grown up to know no other life than that of an American; and
WHEREAS, The President now is following through on plans to build a wall on the border separating the United States from Mexico without apparent regard to its cost, its effects upon our nation’s economy, or its sociological ramifications, and to impose an ideological test for entry into our country; and
WHEREAS, The President has promised to repeal federal regulations protecting LGBTQ citizens; and
WHEREAS, The President already has issued executive orders to effect the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which provides tens of millions of Americans with health care insurance coverage; and
WHEREAS, The President has issued executive orders to rescind certain women’s reproductive rights; and
WHEREAS, The President has promised to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement and to remove other environmental protections instituted under the previous administration, and has begun a process to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency; and
WHEREAS, Before and especially since the election, some citizens have been emboldened to express overtly an intolerance of diversity that is opposed to the views of most Homer residents and most Americans; and
WHEREAS, The President’s cabinet nominees have expressed views similar to those laid out in the whereas clauses above and thus are largely out of step with the attitudes of most Homer residents; and
WHEREAS, The presidential election has exposed deep social and political divisions among Americans and these divisions threaten the general peace as expressions of intolerance rise; and
WHEREAS, The City of Homer recognizes that while the minority community here may be relatively small, it may be vulnerable, and that if those residents feel in any way threatened simply because they are minorities, the City should be on record as opposing all such intolerance; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Homer unequivocally rejects expressions of fear and hate wherever they may exist, and specifically rejects harassment of women, immigrants, religious minorities, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ individuals.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer embraces all people regardless of skin color, country of birth, faith, sex, gender, marital status, or abilities; and that the City of Homer will not waver in its commitment to inclusion and to continuing to create a village safe for a diverse population.
BE IT
FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer will resist any and all efforts to profile undocumented immigrants or any other vulnerable population.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer will cooperate with federal agencies in detaining undocumented immigrants when court-issued federal warrants are delivered.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer shall steadfastly defend the United States and Alaska constitutions, especially with regard to the former’s precedent-backed right of privacy and the latter’s specified right of privacy (Article 1, Section 22), and safeguard the rights declared in the Bill of Rights.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer will continue its staunch support of our local police in their ongoing efforts to enforce law and protect our community and its visitors in a just, unbiased and transparent manner.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer will declare itself a safety net for the most vulnerable members of and visitors to our community.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Homer calls on all its citizens to stand against intolerance and resist expressions of hate toward any members of the community, and thus to set an example for the rest of the nation, demonstrating that Homer residents and Alaskans adhere to the principle of live-and-let-live.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Homer City Council this 27th day of February, 2017. CITY OF HOMER
________________________ BRYAN ZAK, MAYOR
ATTEST:
______________________________ JO JOHNSON, MMC, CITY CLERK
Gotta love Homer.
And this is just another reminder that not everyone in Alaska is some conservative asshole.
Hmm, think I'll add Must Read Alaska to my blogroll.
It was a real life love story, almost on par with Sean Hannity's intense man crush and unwavering devotion to the orange real estate tycoon. Palin was Trump's gal, and she went to work activating the millions of mean spirited, intellectually limited Americans she helped rally for John McCain in 2008. Palin stuck with Trump through thick and thin, defending his pussy grabbing and going to bat for him when his campaign looked to be at death's door.
Sadly for Palin, the love story was short lived, and when Trump won, she was left out in the cold as ruthlessly as Trump's ex wives were when he found a newer, younger model. After stringing her along with the promise of a cabinet position, Trump dumped Palin for Rep. Ryan Zinke without anyInitially, Palin lashed out at Trump with a scathing op-ed accusing him of 'crony capitalism'. It was an astonishing move by Palin that almost certainly did not go unnoticed by Trump's people. Palin clearly realized she had miscalculated her influence in the radically transforming political climate, and went radio silent for a few weeks until re-emerging with a renewed sense of loyalty to her former sugar daddy.
The Banter then points out that Palin is essentially out of options since her political career drank itself to death years ago, her television career was short and brutal, and her books are now being used to wipe asses and prop open doors.
So Palin turned to having a website created for her which uses the Facebook algorithms to attract clicks and bring in ad revenue.
A cursory scroll through her newsfeed shows article after article after article with headlines like the ones above, all of them linking to poorly written puff pieces littered with cheap ads and with enough key words to show up in Google searches.
This business model, perfected by the likes of Buzzfeed and UpWorthy almost a decade ago, is fast running out of steam. Facebook and Google are moving to prevent the proliferation of clickbait, and Palin's websites will no doubt be feeling the effects. To combat this, Palin and the people she is working with are simply producing more of it, meaning fewer ad dollars per piece, but likely enough to cover the bills -- at least for now.
You might have noticed that I am no longer writing posts that link to Palin's website.
The reason for that is because like the Daily Banter points out it is just click bait.
Which might be forgivable if there was actually anything to the posts except exaggerated headlines and clearly ghostwritten garbage.
Let's face it, now that her future prospects look dismal at best, Sarah Palin is trying to reinvent herself as the very thing that she used to hate the most.
A successful blogger.
However she cannot even do that right because she has to have somebody else do the actual work for her, while she attempts to absorb the attention and make a buck.
Sarah Palin will of course fail at this because she is not willing to put in the hard work of building an audience and working to inform them and keep them up to speed on the news of the day.
That takes dedication and commitment.
And those are two things that Sarah Palin has NEVER had.
Feminists say they are all about “strength,” yet they’re always playing victim – it’s embarrassing and it’s setting women back decades! (If anybody wants to see who set women back decades, just take a look at this former politician.)
If today’s “feminists” only knew what real feminism is, maybe they could relax a little. Maybe be less angry; find a bit of joy in life. Feminism was founded by independent, hard working, capable women that were making a way in the world without whining, relying on government or anyone else.
(Okay THIS is what happens when people skip history class or their mothers do not do an adequate job of teaching them about the progress that women have made in this country.)
A few serious questions for the feminists who marched last weekend:
1. What rights do we as American women not have?
We can’t vote? We can’t bear arms? We can’t go to school? We can’t work? We don’t have freedom of speech? We have every single opportunity in this great country that anyone else has. (The "everybody else" are men, and they do not typically have to worry about unwanted pregnancies, spousal abuse, and being paid less than the opposite gender.) Wake me when you start marching in the Islamic countries that murder women for showing more than their eyes in public. (Oh yes, did you hear? Suddenly the conservatives are concerned with how women are treated in Islamic countries.) 2. What are you trying to prove by dressing up like “pussies”?
I’m embarrassed to be a woman in a generation like this. As a middle class working mom – wife – and independent woman – this is completely asinine. I’m telling you, dressing like a giant vagina and holding signs that say things like “Do my periods scare you?” is doing NOTHING to help women, and a LOT to hurt them. (Actually the march is only the beginning of an organizing effort that has already inspired 500 women to learn how to run for political office.)
3. What if the tables were turned?
Can you imagine if men dressed as giant dicks? Wore penis hats? And held signs like “don’t assume I cook?” .. feminists would freak out and claim they’d been harassed, no doubt.
(Please, men already dress like dicks. Hasn't she seen this guy?)
I can’t even believe the world we live in. My parents raised me to work hard, not to ever expect any handouts in life – and to treat people with respect – which is how I am raising my children.
(Says a blog post written FOR the person whose name is at the top, by a writer hired by that same parent she credits with teaching about hard work and not taking hand outs.) Our generation is screaming for “tolerance and equality” and “love for all” while still mocking our President for things like his hair – and igniting violence from uninformed – out of touch – celebrities like Madonna (“I’ve thought about blowing up the White House”), and screaming that someone else MUST provide them “free birth control.”
This ghostwriter's lack of knowledge about the history of feminism should be astounding to all of us, but in fact it is actually the norm these days.
The conservatives have put a lot of effort into mythologizing the actual feminist movement to suggest that it was started by hairy legged, bra burning, lesbians, and that REAL women should want no part of it.
After all who would make them a sandwich if every woman felt empowered?
In the meantime while Palin's ghostwriter attacks women for standing up to a misogynist asshole, that same misogynist asshole just reinstated a Reagan era abortion restriction.
What Sarah, Bristol, and this poor woman who I assume was paid to write this ignorant screed fail to understand is that things are about to get much, much worse for women, and those protesters that she so flippantly attacked were bravely standing up like the heroes we desperately need for HER rights whether she understands or appreciates them or not.
Just like the women at the beginning of the feminist movement did well over a hundred years ago.
If Donald Trump were still just a regular old billionaire and threw a party at Trump Tower in New York City, celebrities would be lined up out the door, and the most famous artists would be pining for a chance to perform. But because he will be inaugurated as the next Republican president in January, these same mega-celebrities, who would normally drool over an invitation to sing for the president, want no part of it. (Yeah kind of changes things when the thin skinned egotistical rich guy now endangers the country you love and the planet you call home.) Trump’s inauguration team sought out some of the world’s greatest musicians, but nearly all of them have refused for fear of backlash or to stand against him politically. (Does she really think that Elton John and Celine Dion refused for fear of "backlash?" These are entertainment icons, they refused because they have a conscience and cannot condone the idea of supporting a dangerous demagogue like Donald Trump.) Isn’t it amazing how “not cool” it is to be conservative in the public eye? Either Hollywood is that far off – or we have so many sissies we have in the spot light too scared to stand for what they believe in!
Odd use of the term "sissies" considering the fact that there are women named among the 11 celebrities that she is criticizing.
But then again I guess all men and women pale when compared to a Palin he-man like the girlfriend beating Track, right?
If only these talented, crybabies could drink them selves blind and stomp the shit out of a helpless loved one, THEN they might earn a little respect from the Palin hillbillies.
I almost feel it is not fair to criticize Bristol too aggressively for this post since it is quite likely that she does not even know that it has been published.
However since she continues to permit her mother to use her name to launch these kinds of attacks against her betters in the name of a pussy grabbing misogynist pig then I kind of run out of sympathy.
After all this is now a 26 year old married woman with a third child on the way, and an actual Medal of Honor winning husband, and she is STILL too much of a coward to stand up to her dried up old prune of a mother?
Well I guess she's right, you CAN call a woman a sissy.
P.S. I should warn you that Bristol's ghostwritten post requires that you read through several pages of insults hurled at the likes of Elton John, Celine Dion, Garth Brooks, and Justin Timberlake. Trust me, it is not worth the time.
Okay so ostensibly this post is about women breast feeding in public.
Which Bristol and her ghostwriter may or may not support. (Kind of hard to tell from the psycho babble on the blog post.)
However for some reason Bristol/Bristol's ghostwriter decides to add this:
Personally, I am so anti-breastfeeding in public. I just wouldn’t ever want anyone to see my breasts! There are plenty of ways to cover, and I feel it would be disrespectful to my husband.
Now I assume that this was included as a little tease for the men out there who, for whatever reason, still think there is some part of Bristol's anatomy that is not all used up.
After all thinly veiled sexual innuendo is kind of a family tradition.
But here's the thing.
Among the many, many pictures that I have been sent over the years from people who hate the Palins is at least one quite revealing picture of Bristol, and TRUST me nobody is going to be clamoring to see her boobs.
And as we know she never really was that into breastfeeding, except as a way of manipulating men.
Besides if you want to see Palin boobs here is a picture of a whole bunch of them standing in a kitchen.
For the record breastfeeding is both normal and natural and anybody who would shame a woman for doing so in public needs to reach down the back of their pants and yank that stick right out of their ass.
(P.S. Don't bother asking about those pictures of Bristol, I should never have received them and I have no intention of ever sharing them.)
I am at the gym right now working to keep my damn blood pressure under control.
I know that some of you are avoiding all election coverage today, sadly as a political blogger I do not have that option.
Hopefully when I wake up tomorrow the world will be a little calmer, the sky a little bluer, and our future a little brighter.
Update: Palin is packing up and preparing to participate in Trump's victory celebration. (Do you think we should tell her?):
Loading up this morning to depart for NYC.
Trump must have the strength of Samson to have kept up his campaign schedule!
Trump's travels, rallies, interviews, media outreach, greetings, etc., are absolutely unsurpassed in the history of American politics, indicative of the energy he'll bring to DC (needed to drain the swamp). The candidate has done his part on the trail, now it's our turn. Remind him with your vote that you have his back.
- Sarah Palin
Man I can hardly wait to read her Facebook freakout tomorrow.
(I know, I know, I'm evil.)
Update 2: Insecurity is not being sure even your own wife will vote for you.
"Donald Trump leads by example, closely poll watching as a suspected illegal immigrant attempts to vote." pic.twitter.com/dykNWdsUXx
This links to a ghostwritten piece on Bristol's barely remembered blog, that goes after Democrats for changing their minds to fit new evidence.
Courtesy of Bristol's ghostwritten, Sarah inspired, blog:
Remember when FBI director James Comey used to be the “paragon of virtue?” At least that’s what Democrats said, after he failed to prosecute Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information. But Comey, who was once so praised by everyone in the Democratic Party, now he is going against their grain – by doing the RIGHT THING.
Now, you guessed it, he’s suddenly being called corrupt?
(This next portion is apparently taken from some news source, but the ghostwriter does not identify it on the page. That is poor blogging etiquette.) The bureau boss is now the target of barbed Democratic attacks for his decision to notify lawmakers Friday that investigators were reviewing newly discovered emails related to the Hillary Clinton server case. And some of the same Democrats who over the summer defended Comey in the face of Republican pressure have emerged as his toughest critics.
Topping that list is Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader who fired off a letter over the weekend to Comey informing him his actions may have violated a federal law known as the Hatch Act, “which bars FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election.”
Reid accused Comey of a “double-standard” in his treatment of sensitive information, saying: “Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law.”
(This ends the plagiarized portion, now back to the ghostwritten stuff.)
Because he stood up and did the right thing! Crazy!!
Also, Nancy Pelosi called Comey a “great man” just recently, but now she’s saying “The public interest would be served by the FBI providing the facts, rather than allowing Republicans to stoke innuendo and falsehoods 11 days away from a presidential election.”
The blog then links to this tweet from the New York Daily News.
And as you can imagine that does not sit well with Bristol/Sarah/unnamed ghostwriter.
The hypocrisy is OUTRAGEOUS, but thank you, James Comey, for doing the right thing.
The important takeaway from this is not so much its content, which you can find on Right Wing sites all over the internet, it is that Sarah Palin felt the need to drag her daughter into this fight in a sad attempt to reach out to millennials and those who despise the very sight of her.
Nothing written on here relates to Bristol's life, or Bristol's poorly informed point of view, in any way.
Sarah Palin's world is falling in around her, and in her desperation to cling to relevance she is willing to use any one of her children grandchildren, or adopted children to attract attention and deflect criticism.
However it is hard to feel sorry for Bristol, after all she could have a life of her own and reclaim her identity if only she had any sense of self worth and dignity left.
Update: Speaking of wishy washy, this is how Palin responded after James Comey did not indict Hillary Clinton over her e-mails:
Letting Hillary skate today is no surprise when the team she's on has celebrated its administrators pleading the fifth, over and over again, sending messages to America that they're all above the law. From the IRS's Lois Lerner to Hillary herself testifying in front of Congress, they've all told Congress to kiss off, and Congress kissed off.
Today's FBI forgiveness of tyrants' illegal acts illustrate purpose in why I insist Americans rise up and tear down this tyrannical system that is destroying America from within. Truly, you're either with us or you're against us.
Yes her response was to call for folks to rise up and essentially overthrow the government.
Courtesy of Bristol's ghostwritten blog: My marriage is far from perfect. Dakota and I learn things about each other everyday. Our parents and friends weren’t lying when they warned us that it will be work! I think we both understand that now. Nothing has been more difficult, and yet rewarding, than marriage. It reminds me so much of parenting. It’s hard at times, but also the greatest and most precious gift!
Bristol then goes on to offer up some marriage quote pablum that really does not offer anything of any use.
Like this one:
Yeah anybody who thinks that marriage is only about three things has never been married.
Now look I recognize that considering my unfortunate experience with marriage I am the last person to give anybody any advice, however one thing I do know is that after only three months of marriage, you know NOTHING about being married.
And just in case you are wondering why Bristol is working so hard to give the impression that everything in her marriage is going perfectly, it is because the exact opposite appears to be the case.
According to the buzz in Wasilla the honeymoon stage has come to a screeching halt and the fact that they are now stuck with each other has caused more than a little friction between the lovebirds.
And apparently those Gino texts did not help matters much.
However much like Sarah and Todd, Bristol and Dakota are determined not to give any tabloids (Or know it all bloggers) the pleasure of spouting "I told you so's" so they are working to keep things on the down low in the hopes that everything will work out in the end.
Now before the inevitable trolls slither over here claiming that these are private people and should be left alone, let me remind them that this post is in response to Bristol's post about making a happy marriage.
If she does not want to be ridiculed and called out over her bullshit, then she should resist the urge to give parenting, abstinence, or marriage advice ever again. Because we know better.
Simply put you do not stand in front of your house encased in flames and give your neighbors fire safety tips.
Courtesy of some blog that I doubt Bristol Palin even reads anymore:
Last week, I was sitting at my desk, working hard (Let's all pause here to let the laughing subside.), when I came across Hillary Clinton’s latest campaign talking point. Her latest way to steal our freedoms and crush our businesses involved something near and dear to my heart – family and motherhood. (Take note that by "steal our freedoms" Bristol and her ghostwriter are referring to a family leave plan to benefit working mothers and fathers.) And I was blown away. I shook my head in awe of this stupidity. (Well we are all familiar with that feeling, aren't we?) Honestly, I’m not a political expert (Snort! Sorry.) but I do have common sense. (Okay if I keep choking back my laughter this post might actually kill me.) And motherhood, working hard, and small businesses are things that are key to my family and my life.
Hillary’s proposed plan guarantees 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave to care for a new child or seriously ill family member. Beyond this government mandate, it also mandates that the person taking leave get at least 2/3 of their current wages. It claims to impose no additional costs on small businesses. How is this even possible? (I am going to go with raising taxes on the wealthy.) It’s going to “make the wealthy” pay “their fair share.” (Ha! Knew it!) Whatever these words mean… (Pretty self explanatory actually.) which usually just means justifying socialist policies that harm hard workers.
Trump’s latest plan also would mandate six weeks of paid leave, but it has nothing on Hillary’s. I would love to see private businesses be able to voluntarily offer this tremendous, unheard of benefit, but never should we support government forcing this uneconomic, unrealistic boondoggle. (Boondoggle?)
Does Hillary Clinton plan to enforce this latest mandate on every single business? Even the small businesses that truly make this country great and employ most of our people?
How does she plan on putting all of this in effect? (Uh policy is kind of her thing. She has undoubtedly already figured it out.) I think of my husband, who owns a construction company, and how much that would affect his business. (Not much at all actually. The pay would come from a fund set up by the Clinton administration, and paid for by a tax hike on the wealthiest Americans, so all the company would have to do is hold the job for the returning employee.) I think of the small doctor’s office I have been employed by for the last seven years, and I think of how much something like this would change us here. (Once again, not much.)
My husband and I were talking, and figuring out the math and logistics behind this (Holy shit! Could you even imagine that kind of a brain trust tackling math? It would be like a blind person leading a mentally challenged person into oncoming traffic.), and here is a basic way to look at Hillary’s proposed plan.
If this was in effect – and say I make approximately $60,000.00 (easiest math) and I had a baby. That is AT LEAST $9,200.00 and 12 weeks off of work that I would be “guaranteed” to have with Hillary’s plan.
CAN YOU IMAGINE?????!!!!! Where is this money going to be coming from? (Clinton already answered this question on her website.)I know I will get bashed for this, but no one deserves that! I have been at my job for over seven years now (Once again, snort!), and I was thrilled to have even two weeks paid vacation time to use toward my month long “maternity” leave. Where is the common sense in any of these plans? Where is the connection to reality?
We should all be capitalists!! We need to get back to the basics. We need to work and not feel entitled to everything in life. We live in a world where everyone is looking for a crutch, where we compare everything to every other person and what they have, and trust me, I can be guilty of this at times too. (Yeah, just ask Sunny.) But when we keep up this “poor me” attitude and an attitude of entitlement, our country will go nowhere but down. (Actually we are WAY behind other industrialized countries, some of which offer as much as 26 to 40 weeks of paid maternity leave.) And we have been going down fast! I look at what my kids will be growing up with, and what their society will be EXPECTING, and it really does leave me speechless.
All of these people yelling everything from “free birth control” to “free college.” Do they not realize that when things are guaranteed, the prices actually go up, and all of our taxes go up along with it in order to pay for it? Where is the work ethic? Where is the incentive to do it on your own? (Says the woman who has literally had EVERYTHING handed to her.) This is just further proof that Hillary Clinton wants to continue to “spread the wealth” just like Obama’s main plan was – make us all EQUAL no matter what our work ethic really is. (What? No comment about "welfare queens?" I'm disappointed.) This goes beyond maternity leave plans, or medical leave plans. It’s a bigger issue than all of that. We need to get back to the basics as a country and we as Americans need to realize not everything in life should be handed to you.
SO MUCH BULLSHIT!
Okay so it looks like Bristol is once again lending out her name so that her mother can push these intellectually dishonest attacks against her political enemies.
I imagine that in her opinion this somehow makes it more palatable, but considering that Bristol is the spoiled rotten offspring of a nationally detested professional troll, who is constantly taking her baby daddies to court, that seems highly unlikely.
Besides are there really people out there who seriously believe Bristol can jot down a reasonably coherent grocery list, much less a long blog post like this one?
Courtesy of Bristol Palin's now back up and running blog: Like everyone else, I’ve made plenty of mistakes in life (Well no argument there.)– mine probably a little more public than most. One thing I am confident about, however, is my parenting ability. Recently, headlines have questioned my and my husband’s parenting acumen (Yeah, clearly a ghostwriter.), stemming from pictures posted of our kids in the proximity of guns. Do people forget what the Second Amendment is? We have a Constitutional right to bear arms! We also have a responsibility to protect our families. (From?)
Why are gun owners continually shamed – and proponents of the second amendment made to feel guilty – just because of controversy swirling around wackos who used guns in their evil attacks? (No that is not the reason. The reason is because 110 children die each year in what are termed "accidental shootings.") Do we shame car owners after tragic car accidents? Or demand all knife owners be punished with diminished rights after a knife is blamed for injury? Do we blame spoons for destroying lives by making us fat? (That is the same ignorant argument made by the NRA. The main purpose of cars is transportation, knives are for cutting things, and spoons are for eating, If ANY of those were designed and manufactured for the sole purpose of killing then that would be a viable comparison.)
I’m not ashamed to be a gun owner, and definitely not ashamed to teach my kids about gun safety at a young age. Firearms are a big part of my family’s life. (Yeah Track could not have threatened his girlfriend without them.) We’re armed for protection. My husband was a Marine sniper. We hunt; we live off the land in Alaska -keeping our freezers full with meat we’ve hunted and harvested. I grew up hunting and fishing – just like my husband did – and just like we’ll raise our kids to do. I usually ignore tabloids stories, they really don’t bother me. But I won’t let the latest headlines go unanswered: I can tell you, I’m proud to be a gun owner; I love our Constitution; I’m proud to teach my kids gun safety; and I know I’m parenting right when it comes to family, work ethic, values, and what’s really important in life. And I promise you, my kids are safer, and more protected and nurtured, in our own home than they could ever be anywhere else.
So clearly this was written by somebody other than Bristol, but as of right now I have no idea if Nancy French is back in the mix or if this is somebody completely new.
By the way from what I have been told Bristol did not do much hunting as a young girl. Much like her mother she was not terribly interested in those activities.
And as for gun safety, that is something that Levi has been teaching Tripp, not Dakota or Bristol.
Simply put the criticism that Dakota received was NOT about being a gun owner, it was about having his guns in close proximity to a child.
Every single day we seem to hear about yet another child losing their life due to a grownup not being careful with a firearm. The people who made remarks simply did not want to see Sailor Grace or Tripp lose their life for such an easily preventable reason.
A truly loving and caring parent would take that criticism to heart.
(I am going to go ahead and address these as if they were written by Bristol Palin, even though we all know that they were not, as indicated by the lack of the "F" word and the phrase "haters.")
1. Her husband’s scandal with Monica Lewinsky shows the character and morals of the family that would be leading our country.
(Is there not an entire book written about your father's pimping activities?) 2. Hillary is part of the same old “Machine” that got us where we are now which is – $19,400,940,249,000 dollars in debt.
(Well this is a completely ridiculous charge as Hillary had nothing to do with the budget while serving as Secretary of State. However if the slam is directed at the fact that she understands how Washington works, then that would be a positive and not a negative.) 3. Hillary’s stance on the 2nd amendment – We have a constitutional right to bear arms. Our constitution is what founded our country. It should be protected, not changed. Hillary thinks we should do what Australia did.
(Actually Hillary has never said we should follow Australia's example. But if she did I think a lot of Americans might see that as a positive.) 4. Hillary’s stance on pro life. This is what she said about it – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” today that “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
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You all know how pro life I am to the core. I want a president who will value life – who will protect all life.
(Pro-life to the core?)
November 24, 2010
(Sure about that?)
5. Hillary’s inconsistencies of her views. It shows her lack of a backbone – she has none!! She just says what people want to hear. “I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman” – that was Hillary Clinton in 2000. Here is more of what she said her stance on same sex marriage in 2004. It was only in 2013 when she truly changed her stance on this issue in particular.
(Yeah you know back in 2000 EVERY politician stood up for traditional marriage, including President Obama who is arguably the most pro-LGBT president in American history. It is called changing your opinion based on facts, something the Palin clan knows nothing about.) 6. She obviously can’t be trusted with confidential information – look at her handling the government’s confidential emails! As Secretary of State she should have been held to the highest standard. She should be treated like others who hold government positions and held accountable for her all of her actions. She (nor anyone else on any side of the political spectrum) should not be ABOVE THE LAW.
(She was treated like others, that is why every person in the State Department and in other branches of the government are not all being charged with the mishandling of confidential information right now. The use of non-secure e-mail servers is rampant in government and something with needs to be addressed moving forward.)
7. The last time she left the White House it was left a mess and missing over $190,000.00 in taxpayer’s property!
8. Hillary’s special interests. I saw the best quote the other day, that I think fits perfectly with Hillary; “Congress should wear NASCAR suits so we know who’s sponsoring them” – Hmm, nearly $22,000,000.00 in speeches in 2013-2015 alone.
(Just jealous that nobody want to pay your mother or you anywhere near that sum to hear you butcher the English language.) 9. Hillary can’t call it how it is – she is always pussyfooting around the facts. She doesn’t want to offend anyone – if it is an attack from ISIS – it needs to be called an attack from ISIS. Which brings me to her most corrupt actions…
(It's called diplomacy and not jumping to conclusions, two more things the Palin clan will never understand.) 10. Benghazi – Hillary let four of our American’s to die during the attacks in Benghazi. She wouldn’t send help to save Ambassador Stevens, or the three other American’s that died on September 11th, 2012. If my husband was overseas I would NOT want her to be our commander in chief.
Hillary Clinton has special interests, she doesn’t value our constitution or value life, for that I won’t be voting for Hillary Clinton for president.
And of course this final charge proves that Bristol, her insane mother, and the GOP have nothing.
I mean seriously, Benghazi?
Now I know what many of you want to say, "Gryphen you know Bristol did not write this so why are you even addressing it?"
Good question.
But the answer to that question is because I firmly believe that Dakota Meyer is being groomed for political office, and that part of that packaging is a newly politically active wife by his side.
So talking about this now, and addressing the hypocrisy and ignorance of both Bristol and her newest baby daddy, will be important in the long run.
So before we jump into any of the reams of information that Levi and Sunny shared with me over the last two and a half years, I thought I would clear up a couple of misconceptions.
First off they are both much better looking in person than they appear in photographs.
(No I am not kidding.)
Secondly they are deeply in love and committed to their marriage, despite numerous attempts to tear them apart.
Thirdly they are great parents.
That last one is kind of a big deal to me, as I often judge people by how they are with children.
Sunny is a devoted and doting mom, and Levi is a giant marshmallow around his daughters.
Even on Levi's first visit to my house, when he was sizing me up and trying to be all tough and stoic, around his little girl (There was only one at the time) he was a big puddle of mush.
Which in my world is the sign of a real man.
It might also interest you to know that Levi is not the barely coherent Jethro Bodine caricature that we have been led to believe that he was.
In fact he is quite articulate and intelligent, in his own way.
While Levi is not what you would consider an intellectual in the strictest sense of the word, he is an incredibly capable young man.
For instance right now Levi is building a house for his mother to live in.
Now I can quote Shakespeare and argue philosophy with the best of them, but if I built my mother a house the odds are good that the roof would cave in and crush her the minute she closed the door behind her.
I have also gone fishing with Levi, and the guy knows everything about fishing in Alaska.
Everything.
In fact he almost lives in the woods, hunting and fishing, when he is not working 12 hour days to support his family.
(Before you get any ideas I have already locked up Levi as my go to guy in the case of a Zombie Apocalypse.)
