For your reference as you listen, the cast of characters is:
Frank Bailey, Governor Palin’s chief of boards and commissions, who is making the phone call. He may remind you of the oily, heavy-handed supervisor in the movie “Office Space.” (”Uh, yeah, if you could take care of that, that would be terrrr-ific.”)
Rodney Dial, police lieutenant, […]

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Talk about putting lipstick on a pig, Sen. Barack Obama is begging former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton and other high-profile female surrogates, such as AZ Gov. Janet Napolitano and KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to hit the campaign trail in an effort to temper the fury of women voters who feel scorned when Clinton did not […]

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Whether it is true or not, that several high ranking democratic party insiders and senior Obama-Biden campaign staffers are privately expressing a sense of growing anxiety over the popularity of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. I speculate the deployment of Hillary Clinton to shore up support amongst women and independents who may account for some of […]

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Ms. Steinem: That chromosome AK Gov. Sarah Palin and NY Sen. Hilary Clinton share is the same one that you and Palin - and all women - share as well. But it is Palin – whom Cindy McCain described as a “reform-minded … hockey-mommin’ …  basketball shootin’ … moose huntin’ … fly-fishin’ … pistol-packing … […]

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In a bit of political skulduggery that would make Richard Nixon proud. Governor Sarah Palin tore a page from the Nixon administration’s election play book. She is attempting to delay the Alaska legislature from conducting an investigation into claims she violated ethical and personnel regulations, so much for her reformist claim of a transparent, ethical […]

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By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog
Wow … flying to St. Paul, MN, for the Republican National Convention. I still feel like I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole in “Alice in Wonderland” and the world is upside down.
Honestly, when 2008 started, I had a whole set of New Year’s resolutions just like everyone […]

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After John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential candidate and claimed to have known in advance that her 17-year old daughter Bristol was pregnant, I was having coffee with a Downtown Eastside friend and said, “What would Dr. Laura think?”. What Dr. Laura thinks matters, as the millions of daily listeners to this […]

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No grandiose staging for John McCain’s speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president. At his request, convention organizers had reconfigured the stage to build a sort-of fashion model’s catwalk that jutted into the audience so McCain could be amongst them when he addressed them – a more intimate “town hall” type conversation rather than […]

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Senator John McCain accepted the GOP nomination for President this evening with a speech that was as about exciting as a defensive driving lecture. The fellow who sided with President Bush 95% of the time now claims when he and his pistol packing side kick get to D.C they will shake things up, new sheriff […]

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The Repubs were in fine fettle Wednesday night, showing off their sense of humor in back-to-back speeches packed with biting barbs, alliterative jibes and irony-laden vocal inflections by erstwhile presidential candidate and former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (video) and vice presidential nominee AK Gov. Sarah Palin (video). Both speakers – especially Giuliani, who mugged his […]

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One of our relatives just came back to visit from Canada, and she is looking to recruit people to work with her in Alberta. I said no thank you, since my Hispanic (adopted) son already was working in nearby Alaska, along with other Hispanics and Filipinos, and he said if he changed jobs, he preferred […]

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I for one was impressed and excited By Governor Sarah Palins acceptance speech. Praise Jesus It hit all the patriotic points and touched all the right emotions. Problem is what she says is far different from how she behaves.
The gal eager to head to Washington and reform it talks a good game, but the facts […]

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From 1995 to 2002 Todd Palin husband of She who would be the next vice president was a card carrying member of the Anti-American Alaskan Independence Party. The smoking gun came in registration records supplied by the Alaska Division of Elections.
This same woman who wants to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency told the […]

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In a completely idiotic and incoherent rant (video; extremely vulgar language) titled “Diddy Blog #16 – ‘John McCain Is Buggin The F%^k Out’’!” so-called rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs puts on his political pundit hat to “analyze” presumptive GOP nominee John McCain’s choice of AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
From […]

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As a liberal Christian I was content to blog about the need to debate Governor Palin’s conservative ideals and leave personality and character attacks at the door. At first glance she impressed me as one of the few evangelicals in national politics who actually seemed to practice what she preaches. I may utterly disagree with her politics but I can respect her sincerity and accomplishment for having stood up […]

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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson notes that Spike Lee has taken to “grandiloquently divid[ing] American history into two epochs, “B.B.” and “A.B.” - Before Barack and After Barack.” With John McCain’s selection of AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, Obama went from making history to being history in the span of 12 hours.
The […]

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Forget trooper-gate for a moment, I think senator McCain will need to fire who ever vetted Governor Sarah Palin when details of the Lungdren affair become better known
In the beauty queens first stint as a public official. Mayor of the tiny Alaskan town of Wasilla, population some 8000 souls. Madam Mayor decided to use tax […]

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As a feminist, I’m pleased that Senator McCain has picked Sarah Palin for his choice as Vice president.
Actually, I’ve written about her before HERE, about when she decided to fly home to have her baby in Alaska when she started having signs of going into labor in Texas.
The pundits so far seem to have gotten […]

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David Schussler
With the imminent announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as The McCain VP choice, Hillary must be quaking in her pant suit. If Ms. Palin performs as well as vice president as she has in the rest of her life as a student, athlete, mother, mayor, and governor, she will without doubt eclipse Hillary […]

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When David Cuddy decided to run against Senator Ted Stevens for the Republican nomination for the US Senate in Alaska, he had no idea that Stevens was going to be indicted on federal corruption charges. He was simply tired of the excessive earmarks, the disapproval of Congress in general and that Stevens was not focused […]

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Early Sunday morning a 14 year old girl was bike riding on a trail in a 24 hour race sponsored by the Artic Bicycle Club in Bicentennial Park in Alaska when she was attacked by the bear. The area borders a national park known for it’s grizzly, and black bears, moose, wolves and wolverines.
When attacked […]

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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]

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Pregnant lady notices that she is leaking fluid, and promptly heads home to deliver her baby boy.
Except that she was in Texas at the time, and “home” is Anchorage, Alaska.
When asked why she chose to give birth at home, the father, who is best known for the Iron Dog race but who works along with […]

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A 6.0 Earthquake Hit near Wells, Nevada This Morning
Another of 9.2 in Alaska Occurred in 1964
Quake Could Have been “Catastrophic” if it Had hit Elsewhere
If 7.2 Earthquake had hit Oakland, CA–It would have “liquified” the City
Nevada One of the States Known for Large Quakes

State Lucky Quake hit in Largely Unpopulated Area
According […]

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February 5, 2008 may go down in political history as the day Rush Limbaugh lost his grip on Republican voters – and the day Ann Coulter may have lost her grip altogether.
Despite a concerted effort by the conservative chattering class to tar Sen. John McCain as a “liberal” or a “phony Republican,” and Fmr. Gov. […]

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Barack Obama won more than half of the 22 Super Duper Tuesday states (12 to Hillary Clinton’s  8) – but Hillary’s wins came from such delegate-rich states as her adopted home state of NY, as well as CA, MA and NJ. Overall, 49 percent of voters supported Hillary, 46 percent supported Obama.
Since none of the […]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]

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Mitt Romney has a message for evangelicals: Your choice is between the Mormon and the “liberal” McCain. Reports the Los Angeles Times:
Evangelicals can “vote for Mike Huckabee and feel good about their vote,” the former governor of Massachusetts told a Missouri TV station. “But they’re basically saying, ‘We’re going to give the conservative vote - […]

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No, I’m not talking about North Korea, Syria or even Iran. I’m talking about a small nuclear reactor so we have a reliable source of electricity when there are brownouts in town.
I first noticed that such power plants were available after spotting this article in the Speculist about Hyperion’s announcement that such a small reactor […]

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Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) have taken the lead among Iowans who say they “definitely” or “probably” will attend their respective party caucuses on January 3rd, according to The Des Moines Register’s latest poll.
This is the first time Obama has beaten Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the Register’s poll (28 […]

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