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Good find! Now THIS is what we should be talking about when it comes to Palin. Even the few hunters I know think shooting from an airplane is disgusting and a slap in the face to all hunters.

Sarah Palin: marketing the slaughter of wild wolves from an airplane to rich out-of-staters. It doesn't get more elitist than that.

I really think this is the one that could bring her down. What's needed is explicit footage of the slaughter that doesn't come from an "environmentalist" source. There should be lots around. Also unarguable proof of her involvement from non-partisan sources.

She's doing a pretty good pretense so far of being a frontier environmentalist type. Remember how polar bears don't need protection because here in Alaska we care about our environment? Now we'll see in bloody detail exactly how much she cares. Except when it comes to money, of course.

Thank you, Maryscott.  I can't think of anybody that has more right than you to hit below the belt.

I'm sure your Dad would be proud of the (much-admired) warrior you have become.

A few different things about Palin's bio stand out for me: she majored in journalism and she was a beauty contestant.  Sadly, television news favors winners of beauty contests for jobs over more highly qualified journalists.

rather than repost it; for more on her bloodsport predator control policies see this comment, in BooMan's Phantom Candidate post.

that was even better: he went from being a scoop of cottage cheese to looking like lex luthor.

how's this for a counter to her "wholesome female warrior...nuturing mother" image. here's palin's favorite bloodsport: aerial slaughter:

"Alaska is truly our nation's last frontier. It is also the last place in the U.S. where a few hunters still use aircraft to chase and kill wolves. They shoot these animals from the air or chase them to exhaustion before landing and shooting them point blank."

"Congress passed a law thirty five years ago to put an end to aerial hunting. But Alaska is exploiting a loophole in federal law to resume the practice, not only for wolves, but bears as well."

Sarah Palin recently offered 180 pilots and gunners $150. for each left leg from a fresh killed wolf. Another source states Palin spent $400,000.00 in taxpayer dollars in a massive PR campaign to promote aerial killing of wolves and bears...

 Republicans for Obama

and this video from gristmill:environmental news blog...The Truth About Aerial Hunting of Wolves in Alaska:

run them down, wound them with a shotgun, and then mutilate them...it's called bounty hunting were l come from, and it damn sure ain't sport.

Gov. Palin supports aerial hunting because the powerful Alaskan commercial hunting industry wants to eliminate nature's predators in order to inflate moose and caribou numbers so they can continue to cater to wealthy out-of-state hunters seeking a trophy.

care2 news

palin's an anti-intellectual, anti-science, pro oil, war, big business, reich wing, bloodthirsty fundamentalist; and l'm sure l left some out.

And just a spot of red:

...adding that Todd's business partner's emergency attempt to seal his divorce records just failed

The latest story the National Enquirer is working on is that Palin had an affair with Todd's ex-business partner in an Anchorage Car Wash venture. [snip]

Two days ago, Todd's ex-business partner filed an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Yesterday the motion was DENIED.

Someone get the Jiffy Pop, this is going to be fun!

These are animated gifs, so they shouldn't be bandwidth hogs.

I know they aren't red... sorry. I'll post a couple of reds in a few minutes.

This is my parents morphing from the present to their wedding day:

And this is McSame:

Ifill is too kind...

Gwen Ifill, a Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour will moderate the first vice presidential debate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri October 2. Ifill was also chosen in 2004 to head the vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards.

Which may be why they'll turn to sappy smileyface marketing bullshit as an escape from reality. Worked for Reagan, worked for Hitler, among others.

Cancellation is the best way to remove the possibility that Biden will kill her off, thereby avoiding an opening for the feminists, even the residual Hillary voters still living in hate, to come to her rescue.

The underdog wins. It's the American way.

Fair enough.  Somebody has to, surely.

OK, finally got through on Alaska.gov site. Palin's biz partner divorce papers confidentiality request. Everything moves along to a final resolution and then sundry child-insurance mods. Inactive from May until September 3rd (lots of stuff before 4/3, including final dissolution decree). Then a move to remove from the public record. Yup, nothing fishy about that timing, I'm sure. Not an RNC lawyer in sight probably. Nothing to see here, move along.......

09/04/2008 Order Denying Motion Case Motion #3: Motion to Make Case File Confidential 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Scott Alan Richter (Petitioner); Case Motion #3 0.00 0.00
09/03/2008 Motion for Expedited Consideration of: Motion to Make Case File Confidential Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #2 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Notice to Employer Re: Children's Medical Insurance Deborah Marie Richter (Co-Petitioner); 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Cust/Spprt/Visit Modified. Case Closed. (no motion link) 0.00 0.00
05/19/2008 Order Granting Stipulation Case Motion #1: Standard Motion 0.00 0.00
04/03/2008 Stipulated Agreement for Child Support and Parenting Agreement Attorney: Pro per (0100001) Case Motion #1

Obama is in the fight of his life. Booman has too much confidence in the American public to understand anything beyond what they see on their local TVs. Public financing of presidential elections is another farce, given the 527 opening for anyone to castigate the opposition, Obama, daily, likewise on local TV.

I opened my pocket book today, but my feelings is that the election will go the way of Gore and Kerry, with another last minute reprieve, for McCain.

This is the most naked hunt for the dumbass vote I've ever seen, at least on the national stage. They're counting on voters going for the Hallmark Moment and forgetting everything about issues, character, and credibility. They're basically going all in on playing presidential politics as American Idol.

It's become clear now that that was the game plan all along and Palin, or somebody like her, was the inevitable choice. Look at McCain's campaign: all weepy hokum about his suffering and his barroom patriotism, coupled with hate attacks on "elitist liberals" and the rest, total conversion to the whiny theocrat right, and a small and transient sprinkling of vague references to policy. Palin ramps up the sentimental showbiz while she broadens the hate attacks to include environmentalists, science, gays, advocates of reproductive liberty, poor people, the well-educated, and of course "liberal elitists". For that, she doesn't need media interviews that she doesn't control. They would just distract from the pre-adolescent appeal they are building out of second-hand emotion and wishful thinking.

Suddenly the campaign plan all falls neatly into place. I wish I felt surer that it couldn't work, but Red Bull Gives You Wings.

I don't need to go after McCain.  I need to counter the idea that Palin is a change candidate, a wholesome female warrior, and somehow qualified to be president.  Palin is McCain's greatest weakness and the Obama campaign isn't going to touch it.  That leaves us to do the job.

I agree. if she looks like she's hiding, it will not pass muster. the press will begin to smell blood.

meanwhile the alaska papers are starting to ask questions about trooper-gate, and wooten (the trooper) juist appeared on CNN.
drip drip drip, as they say.

I'll give Sarah Plain this: she has significantly improved my mood.  GOP scandals have a way of making me a smile, and Palin's a cornucopia:

Troopergate; Dairygate; her possible affair; it's OK for GOOPer teenagers to have children out of wedlock-gate; book-banning;  ebay-gate.

Have I missed anything? It's hard to keep up.

All we need now is for naked pictures to emerge.

OK, that was cruel.