Bad timing, Sarah Palin!

A friend from France rang this morning with the news of Sarah Palin's resignation.

My friend doesn't read my blog and is not in the least interested in Sarah Palin, but she knew I would like to know about it. Her description of the announcement: "Sarah Palin is making a simpering speech about what's best for Alaska."

Trust the governor (ex) to do something spectacular the minute I turn my back! Had I known that taking a break would precipitate events, I would have done it sooner...

Seriously, though, I'm unable to blog as usual, so from my point of view, her timing stinks. I read all the Alaskan blogs, most of the others, watched the video, saw it on BBC and I'm still stunned! I'm on my third internet coupon and will have to purchase another one...

Of course I don't believe for a minute that she's passing the ball or any of the other BS. Something big is looming and she will be less embarrassed if she's not in office when it happens. We'll be watching developments between now and the 26th, hoping that whatever it is, it will hit the fan before then.

Congratulations to all Alaskans, it's a happy, happy day!

Sarah Palin, lying, quotes

Greetings from England! Here's a quick post about lying. Sarah Palin has been telling porkers, so it's quite topical...

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual. ~ Thomas Jefferson

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." ~ Arthur Calwell

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ~ John F. Kennedy

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. ~ Abraham Lincoln

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie. ~Author Unknown

How Lying Works
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Open thread. Taking a break

Dear friends,

We're off to England tomorrow morning to finalize the sale of our boat. I'll take the laptop with me, but will have to blog from an internet cafe.

I had planned to write some posts with the usual fancy graphics and lots of research and publish them one at a time, but the weather has been too nice and we've been doing other things, like having fun!

Here's a photo of what tight abs look like. Have fun discussing it. (H/T to Dianne)



I hope to comment on any interesting stuff that comes up, but I expect the posts will be brief. If push comes to shove, I'll pluck some posts from the archives and give some juicy stories a bit of an airing!

Things should go back to normal on July 14. (Bastille Day!)
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Sarah Palin lies, again and again and again...

Here's the full answer to the question about a memorable run during the campaign, the one where her thighs throb, but she also lies quite openly, as if Google didn't exist:

Tell me about a memorable run during the campaign that really stands out. Oh, my gosh, the one that really stands out I'm embarrassed to death to repeat. I went for a run at John McCain's ranch a couple of days before the debate with Joe Biden.My favorite thing in the world is to run on hot, dusty roads. I don't get enough of that in Alaska. So I was in heaven and there were plenty of hills so I knew my thighs were going to just throb.

I like running alone and having the Secret Service with me added a little bit of pressure. I'm thinking I gotta have good form and can't be hyperventilating and can't be showing too much pain and that adds a little more pressure on you as you're trying to be out there enjoying your run. Then I fell coming down a hill and was so stinkin' embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me. My hands just got torn up and I was dripping blood. In the debate you could see a big fat ugly Band-Aid on my right hand. I have a nice war wound now as a reminder of that fall in the palm of my right hand. For much of the campaign, shaking hands was a little bit painful.

I don't remember news reports about it. Heck no! I made those guys swear to secrecy. And I probably should have gotten a couple stitches. But I was insisting with these guys, "Absolutely not, let's just wash it out." I appreciated how much care they took to help me out. So anyway, I have a little scar on my hand, and I've seen a couple of pictures from the debate or of me waving to someone on the campaign trail with that Band-Aid and I think, nobody else knows about it.

So the Secret Service guys kept silent? They did! And I have this great respect for them that they've kept silent all these months later.

Here's a photo taken just before the debate, found on Getty Images:
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin waves with a bandaged hand as a result of falling while jogging, as she boards her campaign plane for the trip to St Louis, Missouri. She will face-off with her Democratic counterpart Joe Biden in the Vice-Presidential debate later on October 2, 2008. AFP PHOTO Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
(H/T to Bree Palin)

Liar, liar, jogging pants on fire!

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That's not all! Sarah Palin tweetered some lies about Emmonak. It appears her Rural Advisor, John Moller, has learned to lie as well. Further details:
Immoral Minority
The Mudflats
Progressive Alaska
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Sarah Palin sweats

I didn't comment on the Vanity Fair article because it didn't reveal anything we didn't already know. But I'll comment on the interview Sarah Palin gave to Runner's World, it's priceless!

Sarah Palin talks about running, sweating, throbbing and being crappy in an interview to Runner's World.

If you go a day or a week without running, what do you learn about yourself? I feel so crappy if I go more than a few days without running. I have to run. No matter how rotten I feel before or during a run, it's always worth it to me afterwards. Sweat is my sanity. A great frustration I had during the campaign was when the McCain staff wouldn't carve out time for me to go for a run. The days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.

(I'm crappy, but hey, I'm hot and sweaty...)

Tell me about a memorable run during the campaign that really stands out. Oh, my gosh, the one that really stands out I'm embarrassed to death to repeat. I went for a run at John McCain's ranch a couple of days before the debate with Joe Biden.My favorite thing in the world is to run on hot, dusty roads. I don't get enough of that in Alaska. So I was in heaven and there were plenty of hills so I knew my thighs were going to just throb.

(I'm really embarrassing, but hey, I throb...)

How long after giving birth before you're running again? It wasn't like the very next week, it would be weeks. With Trig, it was relatively soon because I felt so good throughout the pregnancy and so great recovering, it was just a couple of weeks later and I was running again.

(My pregnancy with Trig only lasted a month and as soon as I could get rid of the square padding, I was back there running.)

What has running taught you about politics?
Same thing it's taught me about life: You have to have determination and set goals, and you don't complain when something's hurting because no one wants to hear it.

(No one wants to hear my whining, but I do it anyway. I whine about the media, the bloggers, that perverted pedophile Letterman, the desecration of my iconic picture of motherly love for my special needs child. Name anything, I can whine about it, also.)

Our President, I'm told, is a runner. Would you ever run with him? I would, absolutely. I would and people have asked if I'd ever challenge him to one-on-one because we both love basketball. But look, he towers over me and I wouldn't be complaining about an unfair advantage there.

(Yeah, the President towers over me in every respect and yeah, I'm whining.)

What about in a race? Could you beat the president? I betcha I'd have more endurance. My one claim to fame in my own little internal running circle is a sub-four marathon. It wasn't necessarily a good running time, but it proves I have the endurance within me to at least gut it out and that is something, if you ever talk to my old coaches they'd tell you, too. What I lacked in physical strength or skill I made up for in determination and endurance. So if were a long race that required a lot of endurance I'd win.

(What I lack in intelligence and common sense I make up for in hotness. Look how I sweat, look at my tight abs and throbbing thighs, I'm hot! I'm hotter than the President. Ya betcha!)

Further comments on these photos and interview on Immoral Minority and Hypocrites and Heffalump Traps.
This stunt wouldn't be complete without a violation...

More pictures from Runner's World.
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