July 6, 2009
AK governor-quitter Sarah Palin, having pitched a fit on national television/YouTube, is hating her some internet, librul media, news reporters, and small animals. She’s pretty much AWOL at the moment, but is speaking through her lawyers and Twitter, issuing threats, ginning up vendettas, whining, flinging non-sequitors, spin, word salads and heavily-capitalized shout outs.
I am not a psychiatrist, but after reading this, (also posted at Facebook) I have to suspect that Ms. Palin doesn’t have her stick on the ice…:
We have accomplished more in this one term than most governors do in two…
and can someone translate this for me?
Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again….
Somebody tackle her….please….
July 4, 2009
I was shopping for a heavenly mansion today and stopped by my rapture estate agent’s web site to see what was available. Not much that I would find attractive, though the prices are pretty good: free. Now, of course, one has to be chosen by God at Rapture Time, and be willing to associate with the most virtuous and devout Christians for all eternity.
I’ll pass.
July 4, 2009
AK Gov. Sarah is bailin’, on the same day that Manny Ramirez is returning to the LA Dodgers lineup from a 50 game suspension for banned substance use.
You don’t see the connection? Sarah’s daughter’s son’s fun-dad’s mother was arrested for illegal substances. Meanwhile, Manny reportedly winked at the television cameras. And what about the hair?
Has anyone ever seen Sarah and Manny in the same room? I thought not.
July 3, 2009
1. Lebowski bowling over the 4th of July weekend in Bangor, ME.
2. Milwaukee: Lakefront showing of The Big Lebowski.
3. Talking action figures!!!
Here’s a great Christmas gift that will keep on giving (available here):
Yes, He Does Say Nobody F***s with the Jesus
Talking Jesus 8-inch Figure:
* Speaks 7 phrases!
* Urban vinyl with real cloth!
The Jesus speaks 7 authentic phrases that include:
“Let me tell you something, p*****o. You pull any of your crazy s**t with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes…”
“…I’ll take it away from you, stick it up your a*s, and pull the f*****g trigger ’til it goes ‘click’.”
“You said it, man. Nobody f**ks with The Jesus.”
“What is this day-of-rest s**t?”
“What’s this bulls**t??”
“I don’t f**kin’ care! It don’t matter to Jesus!”
“You got a date Wednesday, baby!”
July 2, 2009
Sanford's vehicle photographed at Atlanta airport
Now, of course, there are a lot of men named Mark Sanford.
July 2, 2009
Howard Kurtz at WaPo:
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that [everyone found out that] marketing fliers offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress and Post journalists in exchange for payments as high as $250,000.
“Absolutely, I’m disappointed [that we got caught red-handed and the news people refused to go along]” Weymouth, the chief executive of Washington Post Media, said in an interview. “This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren’t vetted [and everyone found out]. They didn’t represent at all what we were attempting to do. We’re not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom [because the Post news staff refused, as documented next].”
the newsroom mutiny:
…an e-mail from Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli that’s been sent to the paper’s reporters and editors in response to Politico’s story about access-for-cash offers to lobbyists:
A flyer was distributed this week offering an “underwriting opportunity” for a dinner on health-care reform, in which the news department had been asked to participate.
The language in the flyer and the description of the event preclude our participation.
We will not participate in events where promises are made that in exchange for money The Post will offer access to newsroom personnel or will refrain from confrontational questioning. Our independence from advertisers or sponsors is inviolable.
There is a long tradition of news organizations hosting conferences and events, and we believe The Post, including the newsroom, can do these things in ways that are consistent with our values.
Washington Post
July 2, 2009
Reaction of the GOP to the several phases of the Mark Sanford fiasco:
Appalachian phase
Argentina phase
King David phase
AP interview phase
July 1, 2009
Sandy Koufax
After game of 7/1/09:
Career stats for Sandy Koufax (SK) as of 10/15/57, age 21y 9mo, and Clayton Kershaw (CK) as of 7/01/09, age 21y 3mo.
SK: IP 205.2 W 09 L 10 H 182 HR 26 ER 91 K 182 BB 108
CK: IP 195.1 W 10 L 10 H 172 HR 16 ER 85 K 188 BB 104
SK: ERA=3.99, WHIP=1.41, K/9 innings=8.0
CK: ERA=3.92, WHIP=1.41, K/9 innings=8.7
(Notes: Kershaw’s low HRs allowed this year may be due to the low HR totals of the Dodgers’ opposition..
Many of Koufax’s appearances were in relief.)
July 1, 2009
psst....Sarah....we all knew....
has a piece on Sarah Palin, documenting her many melodramas, including the fact that highly placed members of the McCain-Palin team questioned her mental status.
Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.
Perhaps in response/confirmation, Palin posed for a kind of “Tame Playboy for Old White Guys” puff piece in Runners World entitled “I’m a Runner: Sarah Palin”which included an interview and cheesy photo shoot, confirming Letterman’s joke the about the “slutty airline hostess” look. But the text is also interesting, as it illustrates Palin’s well-known disregard for the truth:
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.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.
except, actually, everybody knew:
Politico:
Sen. Joe Biden will face an injured Sarah Palin in tonight’s debate after the Alaska governor took a spill jogging around running mate John McCain’s Sedona, Ariz., home.
Palin reportedly hurt her hand while taking a break from debate prep Monday.
The Alaska governor arrived in St. Louis today wearing a bandage on the injured hand and is expected to sport it during the vice presidential debate.
…
Palin’s camp says the injury should not affect her performance.
maybe it did:
PALIN: Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the Office of the Vice President. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president’s agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we’ll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation.
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July 1, 2009
Politicizing the Justice Department wasn’t enough. Crippling regulatory agencies like the FDA wasn’t enough. Now we learn that, in a holdover from the Karl Rove era, the Republican Party has declared our election laws null and void by roadblocking any investigations or enforcement by the Federal Election Commission.
From TPM:
the three Republicans on the commission — led by Tom DeLay’s former ethics lawyer — have voted as a block against enforcement, preventing the commission from carrying out its basic regulatory function. As the normally mild-mannered Washington Post editorial board wrote recently: “The three Republican appointees are turning the commission into The Little Agency That Wouldn’t: wouldn’t launch investigations, wouldn’t bring cases, wouldn’t even accept settlements that the staff had already negotiated.”
Craig Holman of Public Citizen told TPMmuckraker the commission is currently “defunct.”
FEC watchers say the commission’s three Republicans — Donald McGahn, Matthew Petersen, and Caroline Hunter, each nominated by President Bush — are acting out of philosophical opposition to the very idea of regulating campaign money. “It’s the Republican caucus that actually believes there shouldn’t be campaign-finance regulation,” said Holman. “It is ideologic….”
