George W. Bush and the Suppression of Truth

Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.
The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
more HERE

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...and Dubya was a self-proclaimed man of faith...wait, isn't 'do not lie' like, a mantra? ...aaah...ten commandments...bill of rights...it's all in the interpretation...

Lame Ass Duck

Sarah Palin quit on her stool as governor of Alaska Sunday night, talking about leadership as she did. She clearly imagines herself to someday be the next President of the United States, getting to tell guys like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad where to get off, yet leaves whining about a bad joke from David Letterman. You rarely get political farewells this funny outside the state of New Jersey.
Always with Palin there was this cockeyed idea, usually from the yahoos on the right, the frauds who treat her as being real, that if you attacked her, you were attacking working moms and the “real Americans” she talked about in her speeches, the ones who live far from big cities. Or that you were somehow threatened by this strong woman. From the start, there was as much substance to that as there is to her political thought, which you could fit inside a golf ball.
more HERE
The full transcript of her rambling, 2300-word farewell address is HERE

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Ups & Downs

As she packs up the Alaska governor's mansion and pushes back against the latest ethics brouhaha, Sarah Palin's got other problems: A more negative public image than she held during the 2008 campaign – and broader questions about her grasp of complex issues.
ABC News report HERE
Direct from Alaska:
Palin trotting out her 'poor little me' campaign strategy yet one more time
Palin legacy of quitting will leave a sour taste

U.S. stocks ended sharply higher on Thursday, as more upbeat earnings and housing data helped the broad market reach new highs for the year and led the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a close above 9,000 for the first time since January. more HERE
and...
World markets rise on improving data, earnings

The image of the United States has improved markedly in most parts of the world, reflecting global confidence in Barack Obama. In many countries opinions of the United States are now about as positive as they were at the beginning of the decade before George W. Bush took office.
Pew research data HERE

Mysterious Blob of the Arctic

IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow, Alaska.
Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters.
more HERE
video HERE

Mad Money

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In addition to the more than $700,000 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's political action committee raised during the first half of the year, an additional $200,000 came in since her July 3 announcement she's stepping down.
According to Federal Election commission reports filed Monday, the former Republican vice presidential candidate brought in $732,867 in donations through June 30.
Another $200,000 came in after the deadline - all of it in the days following Palin's July 3 announcement she's stepping down as Alaska governor.
more HERE

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...uhhh...we're pretty sure it's her tits...

Fox Fingers Fool

Even Fox News has started to turn on Sarah Palin. In the midst of a segment about the Alaska Governor's battle against "liberal" attacks, Liz Trotta went off-message.
Frankly, "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated," Trotta said, arguing that for once liberal criticism was "well-deserved."

...it'll be interesting to see what Fox does with Trotta now...

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Looney Logic

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says her decision to resign was 'tough,' but motivated by 'wasteful, expensive' ethics violations and lawsuits she says started when she announced her run as vice president on the Republican ticket last year.
She expressed herself in what seemed like a long, rambling run-on sentence filled with buzz words, colloquialisms, and pathetic conservative rhetoric that is difficult to understand and doesn't make much sense.

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Sarah Palin Unhinged

After crazily quitting her elected position as governor of Alaska, via an alarming backyard last-minute press conference void of any explanation , at the classic 4 p.m. hour of the Friday-Holiday news dump, Sarah Palin is now twatting on the twitter about how her Anchorage attorneys are going to SUE THE AMERICAN MEDIA.
The insane American quitter Sarah Palin posted a series of desperate grammar-challenged nonsense and vicious threats on her Facebook and Twitter pages. Really. And she still goes by Twitter name AKGovSarahPalin…uhhh...Sarah? ...you're not a governor anymore...
lots more HERE

WOW! ...she's not only dangerously stupid, she's outright insane!

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Palin's Perplexing Political Pull Out

It's not even safe to go to a July 4th weekend barbecue without a big news story breaking, in this case the surprising, some might even say bizarre news that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has up and quit her job in Alaska with a year and a half left in her term.
From her rambling remarks, Palin seemed to be saying she decided she wouldn't stand for re-election and when she decided that, she figured she might as well quit now so she wouldn't be a lame duck.
She said, "Many just accept that lame duck status, and they hit that road. They draw a paycheck. They kind of milk it. And I'm not going to put Alaskans through that."
HUH?
NPR report w/CNN video HERE

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Sarah Palin Is Still An Idiot

In a Friday morning television interview on NBC's "Today" show Alaska Governor Sarah Palin called on the public to rise up in opposition over David Letterman's "degrading" jokes about her daughter this week.
Letterman's explanation that he was referring to her 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, instead of her 14-year-old daughter, Willow, who accompanied her recently to New York, was met with derision by the governor. She called the remarks a "very convenient excuse"
ABC News report HERE
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Sarah Palin Crawls Up David Letterman's Ass

Sarah Palin lambasted late-night comedian David Letterman Wednesday for "sexually perverted comments" about one of her teenage daughters - and rebuffed his moves to make nice.
The funnyman joked Monday of Palin's recent New York visit that "...during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
Palin was incensed.
"Laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is ... disgusting," the obviously confused, humorless and mentally challenged Alaska governor said in a statement. Palin is the disgusting one...spinning the truth and manipulating the thoughts of the throngs of idiots that support her.
Letterman was referring to 18-year-old Bristol Palin, Sarah's eldest daughter who thwarted the teachings of her church, engaged in underage sex, was embroiled in a Republican presidential campaign coverup, rebuked the father of her child, became a poster child against abstinence then changed her mind and recently gave birth to a son.
Sounds like fair game to us...
more HERE

Alaska Groundswell

JUNEAU, Alaska — Global warming conjures images of rising seas that threaten coastal areas. But in Juneau, as almost nowhere else in the world, climate change is having the opposite effect: As the glaciers melt, the land is rising, causing the sea to retreat.
New York Times report HERE

Tormented Moose Committs Suicide

Eighth grade pupils of Palmero, Alaska, were penalized for scaring and abusing a moose to the extent that the unfortunate tortured animal inflicted fatal injuries to itself.
more HERE

Wasilla Hillbillies Update

Levi Johnston is in big trouble at the Sarah Palin household.
After talking about sex on "The Tyra Banks Show," Johnston – the 18-year-old father of Bristol Palin's baby – was hit with a blistering response from Bristol's mother, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
In the show airing April 6, Johnston tells Tyra Banks that he believes Sarah Palin knew he and Bristol, 18, were having sex when they lived under her roof. "I'm pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart," Johnston says.
more HERE
interview video HERE

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From the Irony Dept.: Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has taken his own life, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept.
Nicholas Hughes, 47, hanged himself at his home in Alaska.
story HERE

Mt. Redoubt becoming Mt. No-doubt

Big Boom Coming SOON...
Mount Redoubt erupts 4 times in 3 hours
A fourth explosion rocked long-threatening Mount Redoubt after three eruptions earlier sent an ash cloud an estimated 50,000 feet into the air, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported.
more HERE

Bristol's Baby Daddy Booted!

Bristol is a rebel!
And from the They Said It Wouldn’t Last File: Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of former GOP veep washout Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has broken off her engagement to Levi Johnston, the father of her 2 month-old son.
Isn’t this the same Bristol Palin who told Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren last month that her fiancee was a hands-on dad to their son, Tripp, and they hoped to marry after finishing their education?
Levi’s sis Mercede Johnston said that the couple actually split up more than a month ago. Bristol doesn’t attend school and rarely lets Levi see the baby.
more HERE

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Palin Apologist Produces Delusional Documentary

Former radio talker John Ziegler's documentary about the 2008 election, "Media Malpractice," which he's been teasing in various ways for months now, is finally coming out. Based on early coverage, including interviews Ziegler gave Monday, it seems like much of the movie will be an apologia for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and will blame the press for her stumbles during the campaign. In the first bit of actual news from the film, Palin seems to agree with that take.
In segments of an interview between Ziegler and Palin that were first revealed on Monday, Palin says the press decided, "’We are going to seek and we are going to destroy this candidacy of Sarah Palin’s because of what it is that she represents.’" She also seems to believe this mission was successful.
story w/video HERE

...these people believe their own bullshit...they must've read 'The Secret'...!

Advice from a Promiscuous Palin

In 2006, as a gubernatorial candidate, Sarah Palin filled out a questionnaire emphasizing her support for abstinence education. She wrote that "the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support." Alaska does not require sex ed to be taught in schools; Anchorage schools teach "Abstinence Plus," which emphasizes abstaining from sex.
Palin's views came under fire when it was revealed that her then-17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant. In her first public interview, Bristol told Fox News' chief Palin cheerleader Greta Van Susteren that abstinence is "not realistic at all".
video HERE

...no one is really paying attention to a naive/horny teen aged girl...are they?

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Sarah Talks Turkey

On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder.