Sarah Palin gifts and some lapses

Sooo.... Sarah Palin has "disclosed" her stuff to APOC within the very generous deadline.

The garage full of gifts turned out to consist of a few books, some CDs and t-shirts. Some items are a bit more original, but nothing spectacular. Gun and religion related items seem to be popular with her followers.

Call me a cynic, but I think Van Flein's letter is the equivalent of a garage full of bullshit, including the excuses about Todd's Arctic Cat deals.

I wasn't expecting an honest disclosure, but what they came up with is worse than I thought.

Oh well, nothing ever changes...


Changing the subject a little bit, this came out:

Housing programs for the homeless received a $650,000 boost after it was discovered the money had been incorrectly deleted from then-Gov. Sarah Palin's budget proposal.

The board of directors for the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority approved the money and it was included in a budget forwarded to Palin's office.

There, the money was apparently compressed into a smaller sum with another pool.

David Teal of the Legislative Finance Division says the lapse escaped everyone's attention until after the session.

I wonder how many more projects will receive an unexpected windfall?

Call me a cynic again, but this also smells funny.
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Sarah Palin's transformation

Is Sarah Palin hiding because she had plastic surgery? Not healing fast enough? Did they remove her ability to wink?

These are very funny speculations, but as a matter of fact, Sarah Palin is not a natural winker. She only winked during the vice presidential campaign. I've watched footage from before and after the campaign and noticed that she doesn't wink at all.

Which means she was advised to wink.

I don't know what's worse: Sarah Palin left to her own devices, making a fool of herself with her own natural talents or this Sarah Palin created by the GOP, a lying, winking pitbull/hockey mom, now transformed into a lying, strident, ghostwritten phony.

If she had plastic surgery, that's was a stupid idea. She looked quite OK for her age. I suspect she had too much botox at one point, as in the interview with Glenn Beck. But if she altered her looks for good, well... it will backfire.

Unless she had plastic surgery on her brains, it won't make any difference...
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Sarah Palin, you're not funny anymore

I was trying to imagine Sarah Palin's twit - if she went back to it - about the APOC deadline to disclose Arctic Cat deals and the gifts from last year. (The deadline is today)

"Offered to pay massive amount of cash as goodwill gesture. No evidence of wrongdoing, as usual. I win again!" sometime ago from QuitterBerry

I really don't like her ghostwritten page on Facebook. It's too boring, without any entertainment value whatsoever. When Sarah Palin lied on Twitter, at least she used her own inimitable style and we were treated to William Shatner reading her twits as poetry every now and then.

She broke another promise. Where are the politically incorrect twits?

The only thing Sarah Palin is good for is keeping us amused. If she can't even have the courtesy of writing her own notes on Facebook, then she's good for nothing.

I'm very disappointed...

Celtic Diva has more details about the APOC stone in Sarah's shoe...
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Sarah Palin's toxic track record

I originally wrote this post on February 6. In the light of some of Sarah Palin's recent statements, leading people to say (yet again) that she was for something before she was against it, I decided to republish the bulk of the original post because it contains other examples of inconsistency in her approach to serious issues.

Sarah Palin's supporters see her as a champion of children with special needs. Her main credential in achieving this reputation is based on having a child with Down's Syndrome in her family. There are no known behavioural or environmental factors that cause Down's Syndrome. But there are environmental factors that do cause other birth defects.The incidence of such births is twice the national average in the state of Alaska and in the North Slope it increases to four times. Considering that Alaska has a more serious problem than the rest of the country in this particular area, it's very noble of the Governor to embrace the cause of children with special needs. Let's have a look at the initiatives of Sarah Palin's administration that reflect her passion for this cause.

* In February 2008 Sarah Palin's administration opposed legislation that would give parents 48 hours notice before schools were to be sprayed with pesticides and other toxic chemicals. Currently, parents get 24 hours, which the bill's proponents say is not sufficient for parents who want to arrange to keep kids out of school for a few days after the chemicals are applied. Palin's administration argued that the bill was too restrictive and would force schools to notify parents before cleaning toilets with disinfectant, which, supporters say, is not true. In the same month, members of Palin's administration testified against language in legislation that would have banned polybrominated diphenyl ethers - a flame retardant that, studies show, harms the developing brain.

* In the summer of 2007, Palin allowed oil companies to move forward with a toxic-dumping plan in Alaska's Cook Inlet, the only coastal fishery in the nation where toxic dumping is permitted. Permits could not be issued without Alaska's certification that the discharges met the state's water-quality standards. Bob Shavelson, executive director of Cook Inletkeeper, an organization founded to protect the area's watershed, said at the time: "Palin's Department of Environmental Conservation issued that certification based on the long-discounted notion that 'dilution is the solution to pollution', turning the federal Clean Water Act on its head and actually increasing toxic pollution."

* Palin next took on the Clean Water Initiative, also known as Proposition 4, which appeared on the Alaska ballot on August 26. The measure would have limited the runoff of toxic metals (known to cause developmental and birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) from all mining operations, but it was aimed at stopping the proposed Pebble Mine, a huge mining proposal that was controversial for its potential impact on Bristol Bay, the world's largest commercial wild salmon fishery (for which Palin's oldest daughter was named). The project had been in the works for years, and, when she ran for governor in 2006, Palin told the Alaska Journal of Commerce that, if the mine was green-lighted, "there will be remediation from now to eternity." Once in office, though, environmental concerns took a backseat. In a TV interview six days before the vote, Palin said, "Let me take my governor's hat off for just a minute, and tell you personally, Prop 4 - I vote no on that." Alaska's mining industry turned Palin's face and words into an advertising blitz and came from behind to defeat it. The irony of this stance is that the Palins have a commercial salmon fishing interest in Bristol Bay. How could the Governor support the interests of an organisation whose actions would hurt her own business? What could have made her support of their interests against her own so passionate?

* The Governor was pushed by environmental activists and Alaska Natives to pressure the military in its cleanup of one of the most contaminated sites in Alaska. Northeast Cape Air Force base on remote St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea closed its operations in the 1970s and left thousands of barrels of toxic waste, containing solvents, fuels, heavy metals, pesticides, and PCBs, a group of toxic organic chemicals that have persisted in the environment. For the past few years, the Army Corps of Engineers has been slowly cleaning up parts of the site and claims it will leave it safe. (One federally funded study still in progress by the state's premier watchdog on chemical pollutants, Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), tested the local water and got a reading that was more than one thousand times the level that the EPA considers safe. According to Pamela Miller, ACAT's executive director, Palin should have used her powers as governor to forge a better cleanup plan. "Her administration has done nothing to work with the military to avoid possible contamination." Scientists have also opposed the Army's plan, saying it will leave the area dangerous.

* Governor Palin is passionate about drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and in June 2008 submitted a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), copied to the President, Vice President, Secretary of the Interior and the Alaska Congressional delegation. If the drillig in ANWR is to be done as responsibly as in the North Slope (birth defects 4 times higher than national average) the impact among the Alaska Natives would contribute to the overall increase in birth defects in Alaska.

These are examples of Sarah Palin's record regarding environmental issues as Governor of Alaska. She left the title behind to be in a better position to fight for Alaskans and all children. In her July 3 quitter speech, she mentioned that she had asked her children: "Want me to make a positive difference and fight for ALL our children's future from OUTSIDE the Governor's office?"

Please don't, Sarah Palin, you've done more than enough!
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Sarah Palin and the art of interacting with young children

A reader suggested a comparison between how Sarah Palin handles Trig and how different people hold Trig or other babies. Body language is a great thing!





How other people hold Trig:




Interacting with other people's children:



A different approach:





Can you believe President Obama wants to kill Trig?

Apart from the footage of Sarah Palin bringing Tripp to Bristol in that "surprise" interview with Greta Van Susteren, I couldn't find any photos of Sarah Palin proudly holding her first official grandchild in a tender embrace...
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