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Check out this mini-doc on Sarah Palin’s mismanagement of Wasiila’s finances. Among other things it explores how Sarah used $50,000 meant for Wasilla roads to decorate her office and how she used city funds for her campaign expenses during her failed run for Lieutenant Governor in 2002.

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This is the first original, on-the-ground video report from inside the church where Gov. Sarah Palin was baptized and spent over two decades as a member, the Wasilla Assembly of God. The video features the only known footage of the man who publicly anointed Palin for higher office, the Kenyan witch hunter Bishop Thomas Muthee, during his return to Wasilla this September.

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In an ongoing attempt to prove that we have no redeeming moral qualities whatsoever, here’s Sarah Palin’s high school grades for you to peruse. After all, your soul’s safe— we’re the ones going to hell—so take a peek.

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Today all the blogs (that aren’t talking about the stock market) are a flutter with talk of a landslide this November— certain polls bear that out.

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You know the whole, “We can see Russia from Alaska” thing? Turns out Sarah Palin has never actually seen Russia from her home state of Alaska. Never. Not once. Nope. It’s just something she says, but isn’t actually true— you know, like telling people you sold your jet on Ebay or that you said “No thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere when you didn’t. Nice, but not true.

Check out the clip here.

From the Associated Press:

When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception— and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.

She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free “awesome facial” she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The “absolutely gorgeous flowers” she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home.

More on this story here.

We first featured this story here, but there’s new dirt. The National Enquirer has has completed their “exhaustive” probe of Sarah Palin and her back doorman, Brad Hanson. Here’s the skinny: apparently the affair went down in the 90s and Sarah Palin’s friends say that though the love flowed deep, Palin maintained (to her girlfriends, anyway) that the relationship was never “consummated” (think Monica, blue dress). Palin’s husband Todd and Brad Hanson were homeboys, who were in bidness together until Todd found out Brad and Sarah had been “bonding” over “shared interests”. (What kinda “bonding” would make a husband tell his wife she can’t talk to his friend no more?) The witness: Former brother-in-law of Brad Hanson, Craig Bratton, is the one spilling the beans. Bratton claims, “everyone knew Brad was having an affair.” and that word has gone down he family pipeline that if anyone comes asking to deny the affair was with Palin. However….

Bratton has been given a polygraph test and passed! with flying colors. Uh-oh.

More, much more, after the jump…. Read the rest of this entry »

During the 2006 campaign there was criticism that Palin was ducking debates and candidate forums.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

Last week, the Knowles campaign also pointed out Palin’s cancellation of a meeting with Alaska Native corporation chief executives Oct. 3, asking if she’s only attending events she’s comfortable with.

Palin said Friday it wouldn’t have been appropriate to attend the meeting out of respect for the audience.

“I didn’t know enough about tribal government and we did not have time to do all the research to give the subject its due,” she said.

Asked about the cancellation at the time, her campaign spokesman, Smith, talked about Palin’s hectic schedule.

“There’s always competing obligations,” Palin said Friday.

Knowles’ campaign manager, Leslie Ridle, said not being ready isn’t a good excuse.

Response from The New Republic:

If only I’d have thought of that back in high school: No ma’am. I didn’t do the assignment–didn’t know anything about The Great Gatsby and didn’t think it was appropriate to write the paper, out of respect for you and my classmates. It’s f***ing brilliant!

Sick and fucking tired of the Palin-McCain ticket railroading their coverage, the media has started to bite back (See here and here).

The Associated Press actually led with this sentence in this piece yesterday (wow!):

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Less than a week after balking at the Alaska Legislature’s investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire.

I seriously thought it was from the Onion at first.

Maybe you’ve seen this story already or maybe you missed it. But it’s too good to ignore. Palin stayed home 315 days during her time as Governor of Alaska, so not counting the weekends, she spent a total of 85 days in the state capitol during her entire tenure. Members of the Alaska state legislature, run by Republicans, actually had “Where’s Sarah?” buttons printed up.

So, that’s it. She can see Alaska from her house and has 85 days experience. What’s this say About McCain’s judgment to be commander-in-chief?

How will the prom queen spin this one? Her Road to Nowhere, a $25 million gravel road leading to the site of the bridge that Palin championed but now lies about, opened this weekend in Alaska. The road was built with federal tax dollars.

The 3.2 mile road will serve as a running track for 5k and 10k races and perhaps useful to hunters so that they need not trudge through brush during their attempts to kill things, but that’s about it.

See Palin was for the bridge before she was against, but even after she turned against the $400 million project, she sure the hell wasn’t giving any of the money back. That’s why she built the $25 million service road to approach the bridge (that doesn’t exist). So she was able to keep the federal cash. 

John McCain says he opposes pork barrel spending. His choice for VP seems to indicate that he places politics above principle.

This is seriously like shooting fish in a barrel.

The prom queen has repeatedly said that she “took a pay cut” as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Here’s Palin’s pay over her tenure as mayor of the meth capital of Alaska:

For me, and I’m just a stupid liberal elitist who can do third grade math, but “cut” signifies a reduction (i.e. “We’re cutting prices”, “he ‘cut’ his hair”, and yes, “I took a pay ‘cut’”.) But when you make more than you did before, it’s kinda hard to argue you took ‘cut’. Unless you’re Sarah Palin— then you just lie.

ABC News had discovered an internal document that shows that Sarah Palin is lying about her latest reason for firing her public safety chief in the “Troopergate” scandal.

Seems the prom queen has been saying her reason for firing the life long public servant is not because he refused to fire her brother in law, but because he had a “rogue mentality” and made “an unauthorized trip to Washing D.C.”

Here’s the good part: The document shows that Palin approved the trip to D.C.! So much for that reason… better think of new lie— fast!

Full story here.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

Gov. Sarah Palin has surrendered important gubernatorial duties to the Republican presidential campaign. McCain staff are handling public and press questions about actions she has taken as governor. The governor who said, “Hold me accountable,” is hiding behind the hired guns of the McCain campaign to avoid accountability.

Is it too much to ask that Alaska’s governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska’s governor?

Pitbull better think about her day job so she has something to go back to after she loses!

The Prom Queen, as I like to call her, has enjoyed a tremendous amount of GOP love since her unveiling by Big Daddy John McCain. Don’t ask me why, I can’t explain how GOP minds work. One day Obama’s not experienced enough, the next day they want the head of the PTA to be President. Who knows? Who cares? They’re all hypocritical nut-jobs, if you ask me.

However the interesting, and often over-looked thing about the GOP’s love for Palin, is that she is governor of Alaska. No shit, you say? Yes, but Republicans, every God damn chance they get, decry the perils of “Socialism“. They talk about it like it is the most un-American principle on the planet. You can safely bet that if they could, they’d include socialism in the axis of evil. You know it’s true. Anytime we want healthcare for every American, they comeback with some generalized bullshit about socialized medicine. Half these retards would be hard pressed to even tell you what socialism means. Socialism is a  ”system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community.”

So, to the point: Alaska is often described as America’s only socialist State. The reason why is because of the sort of joint ownership all citizens of Alaska have in their state’s natural resources. They are socialists ‘cuz they collectively own the state’s resources and allow every Alaskan to benefit from the exploitation of those resources. Every year each resident of Alaska receives a socialist check from their government in the form of oil-related royalties. This year it was over $2000. In fact, this year Socialist Mama Sarah Palin gave out an extra $1200 on top of the $2000 in oil-royalties. Sharing and re-distributing the wealth of big oil, that’s what Alaskans do. It’s a system by which resources and the distribution of wealth as a result of exploiting those resources are controlled by the community.

Now, if you’ve read this far, you’re thinking, what’s so bad about that? Nothing. It’s socialism. Wouldn’t it be great if every resident of California got cold, hard cash for every off-shore oil rig the GOP wants to set-up off our coast? Sure. Wouldn’t it be great if every resident of Washington state got a check for every tree the lumber industry cut down? You bet. But we don’t get those checks. Want to know why? ‘Cuz America hating conservatives, shilling for big corporations, would scream that’s socialism!

But hey, hypocrisy is the only lasting principle of modern day Republicanism, so they can scream Socialism on one hand and put a socialist on their national ticket with the other. They’re Republicans, they’re socialists, they’re defenders of corporate America. They’re whatever they have to be to maintain power. And that’s what they’re doing dry-humping Sarah Palin— socialist or not, she’s their solution on how to retain power in a year when they know they shouldn’t. The GOP, America’s newest socialist party.