SARAH PALIN SIGNED YOU UP FOR COLUMBIA HOUSE

That bitch.

SARAH PALIN DEFRIENDED YOU ON FACEBOOK. She won't be missed.

SARAH PALIN CALLED SHOTGUN BEFORE YOU. We're heading right for a tree.

SARAH PALIN DIDN'T TURN OFF HER CELL PHONE BEFORE THE MOVIE. It's OK. God was talking to her at the time.

Last edited by pALEPHx (2008-09-09 02:50:43)

I found this interesting. If it's already been posted, I like tall hats thank you.
   

Subject: About Sarah Palin by a resident of Wasilla

    Anne Kilkenny is a homemaker and education advocate in Wasilla,
    Alaska. She writes:

    ABOUT SARAH PALIN

    I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
    Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on
    a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
    father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
    first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
    City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
    residents of the city.

    She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular
    girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
    won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
    she is a "babe".

    It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret.
    She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and
    parents for seven months.

    She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby.
    There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

    She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

    She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
    there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

    Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
    champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin's kind of job is highly
    sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
    work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
    so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
    major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything like
    that of native Alaskans.

    Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

    She's smart.

    Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
    (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with
    about 670,000 residents.

    During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
    this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
    pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she
    had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which
    had given rise to a recall campaign.

    Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative" . During her 6
    years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
    33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
    City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
    (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
    regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
    promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
    benefited residents.

    The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
    weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
    money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left
    it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin
    encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure
    that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city
    lacked? or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for
    construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to
    build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear
    title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of
    the lawyers involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to
    the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she
    claimed it would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road
    projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

    While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
    redecorated more than once.

    These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

    As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
    in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
    make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
    proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the
    state.

    In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
    recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
    she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
    surplus, borrow for needs.

    She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside
    ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't
    generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren't evaluated on their
    merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

    While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly
    respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider
    removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City
    residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against
    Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and
    withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to
    oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

    Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for
    Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
    fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
    Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
    creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and
    eternally=20 grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of
    abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has
    acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop
    (see below).

    As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated"
    her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's
    top cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her
    pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty
    clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was
    because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper.
    Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that
    more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to
    the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her
    ex-brother-in- law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man
    who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this
    caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

    She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
    help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
    introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
    became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
    abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't
    like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

    Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
    publicly about her.

    When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah
    got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation
    Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best
    paid. She had no background in oil & gas issues. Within months of
    scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in
    the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job:
    the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that
    a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the
    Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy
    move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide,
    Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job
    she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of
    ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she
    dramatically quit, exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he
    was fined).

    As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
    Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
    politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the "bridge to
    nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

    As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
    guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
    projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
    action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
    because she was not aware of their importance-- but with the
    unobservant she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".

    She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
    leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
    them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
    fiscal conservative.

    Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
    They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and
    predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
    stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be
    made point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
    mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
    experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

    As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of
    package of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies
    to march to the beat of her drum.

    Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic Na
    tional Wildlife Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is
    linked to global warming. She campaigned "as a private citizen"
    against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected
    salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts
    all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to). She has
    pushed the State's lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's
    decision to list polar bears as threatened species.

    McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be
    a heartbeat away from being President.

    There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
    knowledgeable and experienced than she.

    However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
    regretting it.

    CLAIM VS FACT
    * "Hockey mom": true for a few years

    * "PTA mom": true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
    school, not since

    * "NRA supporter": absolutely true

    * social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
    that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex
    relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional) .

    * pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
    promote it.

    * "Pro-life": mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby
    BUT declined=2
    0to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
    legislation

    * "Experienced" : Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
    residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
    No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
    supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
    administrator to run town of about 5,000.

    * political maverick: not at all

    * gutsy: absolutely!

    * open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
    explaining actions.

    * has a developed philosophy of public policy: no

    * "a Greenie": no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
    and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.

    * fiscal conservative: not by my definition!

    * pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a
    city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
    streets to early 20th century standards.

    * pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden
    on residents

    * pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
    government in Wasilla's history.

    * pro-labor/pro- union. No. Just because her husband works union
    doesn't make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
    that she is pro-labor/pro- union.

    WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

    First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
    voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
    programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
    Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
    government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

    Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
    when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do
    because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

    Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
    of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am
    no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this
    will cost me somehow in the future: that's life.

    Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the
    100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against
    Sarah's attempt at censorship.

    Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
    say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

    CAVEATS
    I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
    spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
    from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City
    of 20 Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I
    adjust for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is
    impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall --
    they are swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.

    You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for
    the population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to
    9,000. The day Palin's selection was announced a city official told
    me that the current population is about 7,000. The official 2000
    census count was 5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was
    Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the
    mid-90's.

    Anne Kilkenny
    August 31, 2008

Well I know Sarah Palin, and she is no Jack Kennedy!

Let's see.  She billed per diem for 312 nights spent at home in 19 months.  Setting aside the apparent impropriety, even thought the state capital is Juneau and she lives near Anchorage, she was at home more than half of the time.  Now there are many jobs you can do from home, but being governor? 

It's a good thing she worked out such a good deal on the jet through Ebay.

The  jet was sold at a loss. I think  about 40% less then the state paid a few years before, a purchase of her predecessor, and less then assesed value.

I can't believe I am doing this...But in her defense, nobody in Alaska state government ever wants to live in Juneau. While a lot of the Maritime Southeast have mild if damp winters with more daylight then up north, because of the local geography of the fjords and the outflow winds coming off the frozen mountains, Juneau winters are bitter and miserable. Every summer I was there I met people who were quitting their jobs because they just could not take another season.

Throughout the years there have been numerous schemes to relocate the capitol and stick the rest of the US taxpayers with the moving expenses.  Meanwhile enriching the governer's friends in speculative real estate partnerships.

So I guess you could rightly say that paying Sara to live and work out of her own home is saving us all a bundle.

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2008-09-10 02:11:19)

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

The  jet was sold at a loss. I think  about 40% less then the state paid a few years before, a purchase of her predecessor, and less then assesed value.

I can't believe I am doing this...But in her defense, nobody in Alaska state government ever wants to live in Juneau. While a lot of the Maritime Southeast have mild if damp winters with more daylight then up north, because of the local geography of the fjords and the outflow winds coming off the frozen mountains, Juneau winters are bitter and miserable. Every summer I was there I met people who were quitting their jobs because they just could not take another season.

Throughout the years there have been numerous schemes to relocate the capitol and stick the ret of the US taxpayers with the moving expenses.  Meanwhile enriching the governer's friends in speculative real estate partnerships.

So I guess you could rightly say that paying Sara to live and work out of her own home is saving us all a bundle.

I could maybe see paying her to travel to her home, but paying her a per diem to live at home?  No fucking way.  A per diem  expense is for the restaurants and rental cars you have to get while you're traveling, not so you can buy groceries.  We already pay her for her expenses while at home; it's called a salary.

Oh, and just one more to add to the list:  Sarah Palin is going all around the country telling people that she laid off the chef at the governor's mansion because it was too expensive, but what she really did was change the chef's title and keep her on cooking food for her.

I don't know the rules in Alaska, but it is not hard to imagine what would happen to a federal employee, or even a member of Congress or White House staffer who claimed per diem for such costs.

That's one trick I don't think Tub Girl mastered.  Wait, was that baboon wearing lipstick?