Alaskans for Truth to hold rally this Saturday in Anchorage!

Time: Noon to 2:00 PM

When: Saturday, September 27th

Place: The Park Strip, 9th and I St. by the Veteran's Memorial

1) We demand that Governor Palin uphold her promise to us of open, honest and transparent government

2) We insist that Governor Palin join our demand for the immediate resignation through petition of Attny General Talis Colberg

3) We insist that Governor Palin join us in demanding that the McCain Campaign removes itself and its influence from our state government.

4) We insist that Governor Palin join us in demanding that the McCain Campaign remove attorney Ed O'Callahan's unlawful intrusion in the Alaska Department of Law.

5) We demand that Governor Palin cooperate fully with the independent investigation as initiated by the bi-partisan Legislative Council.

Many, many people have been asking Alaska bloggers and progressive radio personalities what they can do to help get the truth out about Sarah Palin and help wrest back control of our government from the McCain campaign who are, in effect, in charge of our state government.

So if you want to have an opportunity to stand up for your state and against what the McCain/Palin campaign is doing to it, then this is your chance. Come one on out and bring as many friends as you can round up. Everybody is welcome.

(This is cross posted over at Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis.)

NBC compares the Barack Obama tax plan to the John McCain tax plan. The Republican's claim that Obama will raise your taxes is a load of garbage.

I have lost a lot of confidence in the MSM over the last eight years, but NBC did a very good job with this story. I think it should be clear to anybody who bothers to watch it that a vote for Obama is a vote for economic stability and lower taxes and a vote for John McCain is a vote for more tax cuts for corporations and a higher deficit to pass on to our children.

That new website examining the questions surrounding Sarah Palin's pregnancy is back up.

I promised that if it came back on line I would repost the link.

Just click the title to visit the "Who is Trig Palin's Mother?" blog.

I am confident that we will have the answer to that question soon.

Reporters banned from Palin meetings with UN members.

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.

CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought.

The campaign told the TV producer, print and wire reporters in the press pool that follows the Alaska governor that they would not be admitted with the photographers and camera crew taken in to photograph the meetings. At least two news organizations, including The Associated Press, objected and were told that the decision was not subject to discussion.

How much longer can this woman expect to avoid having to answer questions from REAL reporters? This is simply becoming ludicrous and pathetic.

She is expected to be just one 72 year old heart beat away from being the President of these United States and yet she is incapable of even standing up to questions from reporters?

I certainly hope the voters take notice of these manipulations and realize what it says about John McCain and his Vice Presidential choice Sarah Palin.

Doonesbury's strip on Sarah Palin doll.

I love Doonesbury! I am so glad that we were able to provide him with so much comedy gold.

To learn more about this doll just go here.

The Daily Show was a rerun last night. So for those of you suffering withdrawal pains like I am I offer you this great interview from April 2007.

Part one.


Part two.


This is without a doubt the best and most revealing interview ever done with Senator McCain.

The genuine affection and sense of betrayal that Jon feels is evident in his questions and reaction to McCain's answers. This is John McCain carrying water for this administration and defending a war that almost all of us recognize as a monumental mistake.

This is the REAL John McCain.

Alaskans are asking for your help.

Please help us locate our Governor.

She has been taken prisoner by the John McCain Presidential campaign and they have left their operatives to run our state in her absence.

We have an investigation that requires her immediate attention, a gas pipeline deal with Canada that is not yet complete, and numerous rumors that we would like to have addressed.

So if you see Alaska Governor Sarah Palin could you please notify the proper authorities and have her delivered safely back home where she belongs?

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter.

(I must give a hat tip to my friend Celtic Diva for the use of this picture.)

Rachel Maddows is officially the favorite cable host of progressive Alaskan bloggers!

Okay honestly I cannot speak for ALL progressive Alaskan bloggers, but the ones I have talked to absolutely love Rachel!

Mainly because she is talks about "Troopergate" on every single show!

In the clip above she even has Alaska Senator Lyda Green on her show.

Progressive Alaska bloggers like her too.

The Treasury’s Financial-Bailout Proposal to Congress is another power grab by the Bush Administration! It is not a solution to the problem!

The problem with this massive 700 billion dollar bailout is that it bails out the wrong people!

It saves the giant financial institutes from taking a monstrous financial hit after they gambled with their money and the money of the people they talked into purchasing mortgages that they simply could not afford. But they SHOULD take a huge financial hit. That is how capitalism works.

The people who need to be rescued are the homeowners who trusted the advice of these criminals and purchased homes that they were not going to be able to afford. Sure we can blame them, but they only accepted the risk because they were told by trusted financial institutes that everything would work out fine. So now the financial giants still get to call themselves "giants" but the homeowners are just going to continue faulting on their loans. This is a temporary solution and will not solve the real problem.

And who is going to foot this 700 billion dollar bill you ask? Well you and your children will of course. It just gets added to the national debt. (According to the Star Tribune: To accommodate the bailout, the proposal would raise the national debt ceiling from $10.6 trillion to $11.3 trillion. )

If you click the title of this post you will find the actual proposal being put before Congress right now. If you read it carefully you will see that it gives absolute control to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson to do with this money whatever the hell he wants. If you are too lazy to click the link then you can read the most important and frightening part right here:

Sec. 8. Review.
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

So the Secretary of the Treasury will get TOTAL control over this money, and NOBODY will be allowed to oversee his decisions or provide any input. Does THAT seem like a good idea to anybody? I mean wasn't he and the Bush administration the ones in charge when this crisis occured?

Well Randi Rhodes, progressive radio personality, and out spoken critic of this bailout offers this alternative idea to the one offered by the Bush administration.

1. Give Homeowners the ability to negotiate home loans, car loans, credit card debt .
Set up a Resolution Trust Corporation to buy back homes we can't afford to keep with a Board of Directors to monitor all purchases and sales.
2. Immediately force Financial Institutions to stop paying dividends to shareholders.
Sell the hard assets of failed financial institutions, offices, buildings, computers, desks, any real property they owned.
3. Oversight on the entire Bailout process through a Board of Directors to oversee any auction of company assets.
4. Charge CEOs with fraud and levy huge fines on those who profited from Fraud and Misery.
Enact a law that states that a CEO can not make more than 144 times the amount the lowest paid worker makes.
5. Ban NO BID contracts with shadowy people who for a profit will price and sell assets, loans, banks

Yeah is it okay if we offer this Secretary of the Treasury job to Randi Rhodes? Because her idea makes a hell of lot more sense then Paulson's does.

If you missed the original broadcast(like I did), then here is the 60 Minutes interview from last night with Barack Obama.

Part one:


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Jury selection on the Ted Stevens corruption trial starts today.

The public corruption trial of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens begins in Washington this week, with the senior Republican facing charges that he accepted and concealed more than $250,000 in gifts from an Anchorage-based oil services company that benefited from his work as a senator.

Federal prosecutors allege that, in a nearly eight-year scheme, the 84-year-old Sen. Stevens received several gifts and favors from VECO Corp., including major home renovations, sweetheart car deals, furniture, tools and a gas grill.

I know that if this trial were held in Anchorage, that Stevens would be much more likely to be found innocent. And that is bad. But part of me really wishes I could spend a little time watching this jury selection process. I think it would be a hoot!

But on a serious note I also wonder if this constant flying back and forth to fight this trial in Washington and campaigning in Alaska is not going to prove too taxing on Uncle Ted's 84 year old body. These are the kind of stresses that could hospitalize a thirty year old man, I am not at all confident that Stevens will weather it without any physical repercussions.

And as much as I want to see Stevens face justice I certainly do not want him to suffer a fatality.

He is, after all, our Uncle Ted.

Would you like to venture a guess as to who wrote a letter of recommendation to get Mike Wooten of "Troopergate" his job?

Yep it was Sarah Palin alright.

Just when you thought this case could not get any stranger.

This is my favorite part of the letter:

"I wish America had more people with the grace and sincerity that mirrors the character of Mike Wooten...we would have a much kinder, calmer, trustworthy nation as a result"

I swear I could never have written a work of fiction with anymore twists and turns then this Alaska soap opera has in it.

John McCain really should have vetted Sarah Palin more carefully.

The more theocratic elements of the Religious Right have a disturbing habit, (more like a practice) of invoking "imprecatory prayer" -- a call for God to literally pour his wrath down on those they consider to be his enemies.

The most recent target of theoractic imprecations is none other than Republican presidential candidate John McCain. They hope that an act of God will make Sarah Palin president.

So is this the real plan behind the Religious Rights push for John McCain to add Palin ot the ticket?

They simply do not think that McCain adequately reflects their values, but they know that no regular Republican can beat Obama. So they help nominate McCain, make him add a young empty headed rapture ready hockey mom as VP, and then ask God to put out a hit on his ass?

Holy crap!!

These people are out of their ever loving minds!

Excuse me I have to go donate some more money to the Obama campaign.

(I have to give a hat tip to "Anonymous" who sent this link to my comments section.)

This is the most inappropriate Sarah Palin cartoon I have seen so far. So of course I had to post it.

Bad, blogger, bad!

I can't help it. It is just so damn perfect.

(I need to give a hat tip to Hillblogger which is where I located this bad, bad, really funny cartoon.)

This woman, who is seven months pregnant, has a question: Why can't I look like Sarah Palin?

It is my second child and admittedly I've popped out way beyond where I was with my 5-year-old son.

So that's why I don't understand how Sarah Palin possibly could have pulled off being seven months pregnant without anyone suspecting.

Many of my fellow Alaskan blogges have stepped away from this issue (There really is a LOT of other Sarah Palin scandals to cover), but it just keeps nagging at me.

So occasionally I do a quick Google search to see if anybody else is still stuck on it like I am. And that is where I found the website linked above.

She seems like a nice woman with no real political agenda. She just has a question she would like answered. And it just happens to be the same one that I would like to have answered.

If anybody has the information I seek, feel free to post a comment or send an e-mail.

Which brings me to my ongoing search for truth. Today marks day thirteen of :

The Immoral Minority's demand for the release of Sarah Palin's Medical Records!!

Top Ten Reasons the Investigation into Sarah Palin and "Troopergate" is Fair.

This post is borrowed from our resident hot new media phenom Shannyn Moore.

Now before you get all indignant I need to report that Shannyn sort of insisted that I post it. She said, and I agree, that this is important information that needs to reach as many readers as possible. So give it a read, stop by Shannyn's blog (just click on her name), and then tell your friends that you have something that you need to share with them.

The MSM and Republicans are telling you one story, but the Alaskan bloggers are giving you the facts!

So here you go: The Top Ten Reasons the Investigation into Sarah Palin is Fair.

1. It began with a 12-0 vote of eight Republicans and four Democrats.

2. The President of the Senate, a Republican, voted in favor of the investigation.

3. The Speaker of the House, a Republican, voted in favor of the investigation.

4. The investigation began in July, well before Governor Palin was placed on the national ticket.

5. Governor Palin pledged over and over to cooperate with the investigation. Here’s a quote from a KTUU story July 18, 2008. “We would never prohibit, or be less than enthusiastic about any kind of investigation. Let’s deal in the facts, and you do that via investigation.” And another from Sharon Leighow, Governor Palin’s press secretary in an Anchorage Daily News story from July 29, 2008. “The governor has said all along that she will fully cooperate with an investigation and her staff will cooperate as well.”

6. The Project Director, Hollis French, was not a member of the committee that started the investigation.

7. The Republican senator that supplied the crucial vote in favor of subpoenas has a John McCain for President sign in his yard, and he represents the area around Governor Palin’s home town.

8. At the meeting when subpoenas were issued, every member present from the House Judiciary Committee voted to support the Senate’s subpoenas, including the Chairman, a conservative Republican, and the vice-chair, a conservative Republican.

9. The investigator, Steve Branchflower, who is actually gathering the facts and writing the report, has no ties to either party.

10. Because filing a complaint against yourself, and then moving to have that complaint dismissed, is not a good way to get to the truth. (”Palin Calling for an End to Investigation She Requested”)

Do you want to see Sarah Palin morph into Dick Cheney? You know you do.

I have mentioned before that Sarah Palin is simply Dick Cheney in control top pantyhose. I looks like I am not alone in that assessment.

Keith Olbermann and Sarah Palin are giving the Alaskan Special Olympics Fund $3,700.00. Only Palin is doing it accidentally.

I have been a huge fan of Keith Olbermann's for quite some time now, but now the man is my absolute idol.

I don't share much of my real life here on this blog, but I will volunteer that I am quite involved in the Special Olympics up here, and that we are very grateful for Mr. Olbermann's wonderful generosity.

I would thank Ms. Palin as well but let's face it, the Governor has no idea that her ridiculous lies are helping our special needs community.

If she did know she might very well stop.

Best Anti-McCain ad ever!

This ad does not leave any doubt as to what John McCain has helped do to this country and what we can expect from him if he is elected President.

Local restaurant creates the McPalin Grilled Pig Sandwich. Clogs your arteries while smearing your good name.

Lion's Den restaurant in Midtown Anchorage has created its own specialty: the McPalin Grilled Pig Sandwich.

Lion's Den owner Dale Keefe says he normally keeps politics out of work conversation, but when he was making sandwiches with his crew last week, the big top news story was Barack Obama's comment, "You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig."

Obama's comment began Keefe's political food creation.

"I just kept thinking about that news story when I was making sandwiches and I just kind of had an epiphany," Keefe said.

The McPalin sandwich has grilled pork tenderloin on it, with caramelized apples, red onions, melted cheddar cheese, and crisp bacon.

And here I was wondering what to have for lunch today. Yum yum!

My heart is seizing up just thinking about it.