If you haven’t seen the SNL opener, you are missing a great skit. Go see it!
Flerge:
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1.) The state of a man’s penis when it is not erect.
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Sep 142008
Sep 122008
I realize everyone is good and tired of hearing about her, but some of her recent comments have come to frighten me. In her interview with Charlie Gibson on 20/20, Sarah, when asked about the Bush Doctrine, first responded by asking what Charlie meant by tat phrase…. I may not be a Poly Sci major, but even little ole I know what the “Bush Doctrine” is. I know how it was first presented, in a speech, as official policy of the Bush presidency as it related to foreign policy, and how it was modified and expanded over the years. I am smart enough to realize that even if you don’t know the major policy points of every single presidency, you should at least be basically conversant with the current policy, especially if you are trying to be but a heartbeat away from having to either defend or modify that doctrine. To not know that, is excusable if you’re an average Joe, or a elementary school student, but is completely inexcusable if you’re running to be V.P. Furthermore, trying to bullshit your way through an answer that has absolutely nothing to do with the original question shows a pretty deep intellectual weakness. She also, when queried about her qualifications as an expert on Russia, stated that her state’s proximity to Russia, provides her that expertise, by this rationale, my proximity to Kansas makes me an expert on growing corn, and if I lived in texas I’d be a policy expert on South America.
Now, another small point I want to make tonight is that as a race, Blacks are probably a lot more socially conservative than most people would believe. What forms the way we end up voting is that we believe that personal morality should never be enforced as public policy. We have something of a memory of that being the case in America’s past in a way that affected us rather adversely. it’s okay to be ant-abortion, anti-immigration, anti-homosexuality from a personal point of view. Maybe YOU would never have an abortion, maybe YOU would never be homosexual, that’s fine, you don’t have to have an abortion, you don’t have to go out and have a homosexual experience. But what you do and believe should not and cannot be forced on others. Every person’s morals are personal and private, and should never spring from legislation, but from personal belief. After all, there are large segments of America that believe miscegenation is immoral, should those laws be reinstated as well?, should a official national religion be defined? and if so, which segment? Baptist, Southern Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Lutheran, AME? It’s a slippery slope and our nation, and our children would be best served if we stayed on the even path, the center road, and stayed off the deges on EITHER side.
Sep 102008
The debate over government spending is heating up on the campaign
trail and raising greater focus on which presidential candidate will
really change the way Washington does business.
But will that sway the American electorate?
Sen. John McCain has been a crusader against so-called earmarks and
says his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, has asked for almost $1 billion
in pork-barrel projects for his state in just less than four years in
the Senate.
“Nearly a million dollars for every day that he’s
been in office! And that’s change? My friends, don’t be fooled,” McCain
said September 9.
Earmarks are requests for money by a
specific legislator, usually for her or his constituency, added onto
often-unrelated government spending bills.
According to the
nonpartisan watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, Obama has asked
for nearly $1 billion in earmarks during his Senate term. But the group
gives him credit for disclosing his requests, which most members of
Congress don’t do.
Obama
has not made any requests for the next fiscal year, and even when he
was asking for earmarks, he was far from the worst offender, the group
says.
“Just to put it into perspective, he got $98 million
worth of earmarks in fiscal year 2008. Sen. [Hillary] Clinton got more
than $300 million in earmarks, and Sen. [Thad] Cochran, Republican of
the [Senate] Appropriations Committee, got $800 million in earmarks,”
Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense said.
Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, doesn’t come close to
that. But Biden also has never disclosed what he’s asked for, until
this year. Biden’s office said he’s requesting about $300 million.
The Obama campaign points out that although McCain hasn’t asked for earmarks, his running mate hardly has room to talk.
“When you’ve been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and
then suddenly you’re the champion anti-earmark person, that is not
change,” Obama said Monday.
According to state records and Taxpayers for Common Sense, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has asked for about $450 million in federal money since she became governor. But she also gets some credit.
“As governor, she has, by all records, started to reduce the number of
earmark requests … so it’s a downward trajectory by our analysis but
still significant earmark requests,” Ellis said.
Palin also got into the earmarking
game early, before she became governor. According to state records and
Taxpayers for Common Sense, she helped get about $27 million, some of
which went to the small Alaskan town of Wasilla, during her second term
as mayor there, from 1998 to 2002.
The
watchdog group said one of the reasons was that she hired a lobbying
firm run by a former staffer for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, one of
Washington’s most legendary earmarkers.
Sep 102008
An Alaska judge warned Gov. Sarah Palin’s family against trying to
get her then-brother-in-law fired, according to court records.
That warning came long before the controversy over her dismissal of the
brother-in-law’s boss, the state’s public safety commissioner, records
show.
Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, is
battling allegations she and her advisers pressured Public Safety
Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her sister’s husband, State Trooper
Mike Wooten.
Palin’s sister, Molly McCann, and Wooten were in
the process of getting a divorce when the judge hearing the couple’s
case said McCann’s family appeared to be putting Wooten’s job at risk
at a time when he would be required to pay child support.
“It
appears for the world that Ms. McCann and her family have decided to
take after the guy’s livelihood, that whatever who did what to whom has
overridden good judgment,” Superior Court Judge John Suddock said
during an October 2005 hearing. “Aesop told us not to slay the goose
that lays the golden egg. For whatever reason, people are trying to
slay the goose here, and it tends to diminish his earning capacity.”
At the time, Palin
was a private citizen and would not become governor until 2006. In
complaints filed with the state police, she and other relatives had
accused Wooten of threatening her family during the divorce.
Suddock was in the process of settling the couple’s property and
child-support arrangements in the 2005 hearing. The judge said his
decision might have been different had Wooten’s continued employment
with the state police been more certain.
“The plaintiff’s table has created a situation where that is a very fragile outcome,” he said.
Wooten’s union representative testified that the trooper was the
subject of a “constant stream” of complaints from his ex-wife’s family.
“If things don’t change, Mike’s career is in jeopardy,” the union rep
said.
“My advice to Mike was to find another job,” said John
Cyr, now executive director of the Public Safety Employees Association.
“I think he needs, career-wise, to look for work elsewhere.”
CNN
obtained audio recordings of the hearing from the court clerk’s office
in Anchorage, Alaska. Roberta Erwin, the attorney who represented
McCann, declined comment on the case Wednesday, and other
representatives of the governor did not immediately return phone calls.
Wooten was suspended for five days in March 2006, after state police
commanders determined he had used a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson
“in a training capacity,” drove his patrol car while drinking beer and
illegally shot a moose using his wife’s hunting permit.
In a
February 2008 hearing over new custody issues, Wooten briefly
complained that “disparagement” by his ex-wife’s family was continuing.
Complaints about Wooten from Palin and her family have been under
scrutiny since Gov. Palin’s July firing of Monegan, whose duties
included management of the state police force. After his dismissal,
Monegan said he was fired because he refused to succumb to pressure
from the governor’s office to fire Wooten, and his allegations have led
to an investigation by the state Legislature.
Palin has denied
any wrongdoing, saying the commissioner was removed because of
disagreements over budget issues. Her attorneys have called Wooten a
“rogue trooper” and said no one in the governor’s family knew of his
suspension until after Monegan’s dismissal.
Spokesmen for Sen.
John McCain’s presidential campaign have said the legislative probe has
become a “political circus” since McCain tapped Palin as his running
mate in August.
Palin originally pledged to cooperate with the
investigation and disclosed that members of her administration had
contacted state police officials nearly two dozen times to discuss
Wooten. But last week, she asked the state personnel board to conduct
its own probe, and a string of witnesses has failed to show up at
scheduled depositions with the investigator hired by the Legislature.
Last week, Cyr’s union filed its own complaint against Palin and top
aides, accusing them of improperly attempting to use confidential
information from Wooten’s personnel files against him. The McCain
campaign says Wooten agreed to release his files during the divorce
proceedings, and the information was in the public domain.
Sep 092008
So Palin wasn’t able to ban any books. but she sure tried to test the waters…
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In December 1996, [city librarian Mary Ellen] Emmons told her hometown newspaper, the Frontiersman, that Palin three times asked her — starting before
she was sworn in — about possibly removing objectionable books from the library if the need arose.
When the matter came up for the second time in October 1996, during a City Council meeting, Anne Kilkenny, a Wasilla housewife who often attends council meetings, was there.
Like many Alaskans, Kilkenny calls the governor by her first name.
“Sarah said to Mary Ellen, ‘What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?” Kilkenny said.
 “I was shocked. Mary Ellen sat up straight and said something along the line of, ‘The books in the Wasilla Library collection were selected on the basis of national selection criteria for libraries of this size, and I would absolutely resist all efforts to ban books.’”
 Palin didn’t mention specific books at that meeting, Kilkenny said.
 Palin herself, questioned at the time, called her inquiries rhetorical and simply part of a policy discussion with a department head “about understanding and following administration agendas,” according to the Frontiersman article.
Sep 082008
Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
by Charley James
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Continue reading »
Sep 042008
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From:Â http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate
Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008
A note to all by {the Author}
Dear friends,
So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .
Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks.
Thanks,
Anne Continue reading »
Sep 032008
Let’s take a look back about 6 months…
“When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about the excess criticism or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn’t do us any good,” Palin told Newsweek magazine in March.
Thu Dec 09 06:07:27 1993
ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY
PLATFORM
Preamble
The Alaskan Independence Party is dedicated to ultimate independence of Alaska and its people by peaceful and lawful means under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people. We seek the vote we were entitled to in 1958… Three choices… to remain a state, to accept Commonwealth status, or to become a separate and indepent nation. This was due us as a non-self-governing territory of the
United States, just like Puerto Rico.
We pledge to exert our best efforts to accomplish the following:
- To effect full compliance with the constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Alaska and to enforce the provisions of the Statehood compact against the colonial bureaucrats in Washington D.C.
- To promote the confidence and pride of all Alaskans in fulfillment of the basic human rights of all peoples to self-determination and control of their lives, liberties and natural resources.
- To prohibit all regulations and rulings purporting to have the effect of law except that which shall be passed by the elected legislature.
- To support the right of the individual to keep and bear arms.
- To provide for the popular election of the Attorney General, all judges and magistrates.
- To foster a Constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting all property taxes.
- To re-establish the right of all Alaskan residents to entry upon all federal, state and borough lands under customary homestead, homesite and mineral location regulations and to recieve surface and sub-surface patent with minimal reservation of oil and gas royalities to the state.
- To affirm that all political power is inherent in the people; that all government originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the people as a whole.
- To affirm and assert every possible right-of-way established under RS2477 status of July 26, 1866, before its’ repeal by the Federal Land Management Policy Act of October 21, 1976.
- To seek complete “disposal” of the public lands held by the federal government to the state and the people of Alaska except for enumerated constitutional purposes.
- To provide for the development of a statewide surface transportation system.
- To require the Alaska State legislature to repeal the states’ “General Consent Law” which allows the federal government to “take” land without the consent of the legislature.
- To effect that the people control the legislature and its’ actions by requiring an effective clause upon all legislation passed, to wit “This act shall become effective if and when it’s ratified by the voters at the next election.”
- To call and convene a State Constitutional Convention.
- To support any action to defend and enforce those rights granted to the State of Alaska by the “Alaska Statehood Compact,” and those rights, collectively known as “States Rights,” as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Untied States of America.
- To support privatization of all government services to the fullest extent possible.
- To support the free-enterprise system and the rights of the individual citizen to own the land and minerals, to create wealth, to hire people and to buy and sell products and services of their choice.
- To oppose the borrowing of money by government for any purpose other than for capitol improvements.
- To support the wise and responsible use of our natural resources in order to promote and achieve a solid sustainable economy.
- To support “Jobs for Alaskans…. First!”
Adopted in statewide convention
February 16, 1992
Joseph E. Vogler, Chairman
PO Box 40
Fairbanks, Alaska
99707
1996 Alaskan Independence Party Platform
PREAMBLE
We affirm that all political power is inherent in the people; that all government originates with the people, is founded on their will only, is instituted to protect the rights of the individual; that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the rewards of their own ndustry; that all persons are equal and entitled to equal protection under the law. We stand on a firm constitutional foundation. We pledge to exert our
best efforts to accomplish the following:
To effect full compliance with the constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Alaska.
To support and defend States’ Rights, Individual Rights, and the Equal Footing Doctrine as guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States of America and the state of Alaska. To support the liberalization of initiative and referendum procedures to hold legislatures accountable to the will of the people.
To call and convene a State Constitutional Convention to address the flaws in the existing State Constitution. To amend the Constitution of the State of Alaska so as to re-establish the rights of all Alaskan residents to entry upon all public lands within the state, and to acquire private property interest there in, under fair and reasonable conditions. Such property interest shall include surface and sub- surface patent. To foster a constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting all property taxes.
To seek the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, of the federal constitution.
To prohibit all bureaucratic regulations and rulings purporting to have the effect of law, except that which shall be approved by the elected legislature.
To oppose with rare exception,any secret activities or expenditures of funds of any government agency, state, federsl or international.
To perserve and protect the Alaska Permanent Fund and individual Permanent Fund Dividends.
To provide for the direct popular election of the attorney general, all judges, and magistrates.
To provide for the development of unrestricted, statewide, surface transportation and utility corridors as needed by the public or any individual.
To affirm and assert every possible right-of-way established under R.S. 2477 of July 26, 1866, before it’s repeal by the Federal Land Management Policy Act of October 21, 1976.
To support the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. To support the complete abolition of the concept of sovereign or governmental immunity, so as to restore accountability for public servants.
To support the rights of parents to privately or home school their children and to provide them individually the right to access to a proportional share of all money provided for educational purposes as an unrestricted grant for such purposes.
To support the privatization of government services.
To oppose the borrowing of money by government for any purposes other than for capital improvements.
To strengthen the traditional family and support individual accountability without government interference or regulation.
To support “Jobs for Alaskans…First!”
To support the right of jurors to judge the law as well as the facts, according to their conscience.
The Alaskan Independence Party’s goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:
1) Remain a Territory.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party’s founding father, Joe Vogler, that Alaskans achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, and promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.
Alaskan Independence Party Press Release
April 1.2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dateline: Â Wasilla, Alaska
Today the Alaskan Independence Party held its bi-annual convention.
The following resolutions in support of were adopted:
A resolution in support of a constitutional amendment rescinding the State of Alaska’s legislature’s power to amend the state constitution And making Article XI sections 1, 2, 3, 4 Â the sole way to amend the Constitution of Alaska.
A resolution in support of Alaskan sovereignty.
A resolution in support of preferential voting.
A resolution in favor of the 10 mil tax cap.
A resolution in favor of a concurrent resolution to dissolve the federal government under certain conditions.
A resolution in support of property owners rights.
A resolution protection of students from violent students currently protected under Americans with disabilities Act and special education act.
A resolution in support of requiring AIP candidates to subscribe to high ethical standards.
An official subsistence stand was adopted.
Officers elected for new terms.
Mark Chryson, Chairman, Wasilla, (Reelected)
Vern Rupright, vice-chair, Wasilla
John Glotfelty, vice-chair, Big Delta
Paul Chizmar, treasurer, Fairbanks, (Reelected)
Bee Rupright, secretary, Wasilla
For more information please see our web site at www.akip.org
Mark Chryson
907-376-8285
Sources:
From: Morgoth <morg...@nome.net> Subject: Alaska Independence Party Date: 1996/09/02 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960902024102.2323G-100000@dwarf.nome.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 177963617 organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: alt.culture.alaska and From: m...@matnet.com Subject: Re: Alaska Independence Party Date: 1996/09/03 Message-ID: <927cc$143618.2ac@NEWS> X-Deja-AN: 178121930 references: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960902024102.2323G-100000@dwarf.nome.net> newsgroups: alt.culture.alaska and From: ma...@micronet.net (Mark Chryson) Subject: Alaskan Independence Party News Date: 2000/04/02 Message-ID: <38e77c4f.34702993@207.126.101.100>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 605695919 Organization: Alaskan Independence Party Newsgroups: ak.admin,ak.bushnet.thing,ak.config,alt.culture.alaska X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com
Sep 022008
In an interview with Alaska Business Monthly shortly after she took office in 2007, Palin was asked about the upcoming surge. She said she hadn’t thought about it. “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq,” she said. “I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe.”
Seven months into the surge, she still either had not formed any opinion on the surge or the war or just wasn’t sharing. “I’m not here to judge the idea of withdrawing, or the timeline,” she said in a teleconference interview with reporters during a July 2007 visit with Alaska National Guard troops stationed in Kuwait. “I’m not going to judge even the surge. I’m here to find out what Alaskans need of me as their governor.”
As to the AIP..
“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.” - Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaskan Independence Party
From Dexter Clark of the “Alaska Independence Party”:
“Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. There’s a joke, she’s a pretty good looking gal, there’s a joke goes around we’re the coldest state with the hottest governor. And there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town – that was a non-partisan job. But you get along to go along – she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership”
From Sarah herself:
“I’m Governor Sarah Palin and I am delighted to welcome you to the 2008
Alaskan Independence Party Convention in the golden heart city of
Fairbanks. Your party plays an important role in our state’s
politics. I’ve always said that competition is so good, and that
applies to political parties as well. I share your party’s vision
of upholding the constitution of our great state. My administration
remains focused on reining in government growth so individual liberty
and opportunity can expand. I know you agree with that. We have a great promise to be a self-sufficient state,
made up of the hardest-working, most grateful Americans in our nation.
So as your convention gets underway I hope that you all are inspired
by remembering that all those years ago, it was in this same city that
Alaska’s constitution was born. And it was founded on hope and trust
and liberty and opportunity. I carry that message of opportunity
forward in my administration, as we continue to move our state ahead
and create positive change. So I say good luck on a successful and
inspiring convention. Keep up the good work, and God bless you.”
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