I’m trying to get to the Microsoft.com website and it is not coming up. Did WikiLeak Cyber Warriors target? I’m so bad at conspiracy theories – this is the closest I get! I need the site dammit.
People of Alaska certainly have a bad viruis called SPD, BPD, it seems it continues to grow and distrupt the the minds of many. I simply refuse to support Palin family in venture they may undertake.
I have been searching thru Google and few other sites and many are saying that perhaps
Todd Palin is gay, good question,
Why would dWTS want him on the show, some are saying they think its all Sarah keeping her name in the media. this does not surprise me.
Bristol is suppose to be gong to Texas to see Mark Balles show, I bet that is a riot. I read he would marry her if she was a Democrat, LOLOL now that is BS
Bristol will not hook up with him , she will exploit
his friendship of she thinks it will give her added media attention.
How much longer does the American people have to listen to this bobble head Palin continue to rape the media and get rich doing it. What is wrong with people??????????
Bristol was a joke on DWTS and I am glad Cho and others spoke out I still contend that if Maks had not spoken out the little plot to have Bristol win would have come off. I hope the FCC invetigates this good, I understand people have filed a complaint with them about the voting fraud. I have always thought from day one Bristol was on it was a Sarah Palin Hack job, I will not watch DWTS in the future, ABC and DWTS better change some of their policies and stop this rating BS for it will destroy them.
We are sick of Sarah Palin family.
Gosh thse little boys sure do not have a mother, Bristol you are such a witch, like mother.
Sarah is goingto Hati now what deal to get her face in the media. God help us. Please…………
God is busy, we have to help ourselves. Do not despair – she’s a Twit. And she got voted most stupid person on the planet just today.
“In a crushing landslide win, Sarah Palin has won the popular vote at RudeOrStupid.com for stupidest person on the planet, beating out such noteworthy candidates as Brett Favre, Lindsay Lohan and George W. Bush.”
One of the best pics of the Twit yet! I love the Dispatch’s artistic bent, although unusual for traditional media. They continue to delight (and pick on the Twit).
I have kinda thought you would be in darkness for 6 months. What gives? And where do I find more factual information on Alaska than what’sherfaces programs? Any help would sure be appreciated.
By the time of the Winter Solstice, about December 21st, we have about five hours of daylight in Anchorage. Up on the North Slope (about 800 miles north of Anchorage) it is completely dark for about two months.
From December 21st the days will rapidly lengthen so that at the Vernal Equinox, about March 20th, we will have a good 12 hours of daylight. The days will lengthen in Anchorage to about 22 hours of light up until Summer Solstice, June 21st. The days then shorten until September 20th, the Autumnal Equinox, where the days are 12 hours long again. Etc.
The Sun’s rays are very far away and long, so even during daylight in winter it is difficult to get enough light for a photograph, although things are easier now with digital cameras.
“The Milepost” is a great travel magazine put out once a year for information about the road system and the towns along the way.
Mike — only the actual North pole has six months of night. The Arctic Circle marks the point where, on winter solstice, the sun does not rise. Most of Alaska is south of the Arctic Circle (including Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau) and even on the solstice, as Bretta says, can get hours of sunshine.
Way up north in Barrow, the sun set on November 19 and won’t rise again until January 24.
Mike- this blog will help help ground you , visually and with information. This post is about loss of a dear friend but Bill got photos of the “dark” Barrow lives with…
Take a long and leisurely look through the whole blog… it will be almost like you got to visit, before you get to visit…:-)
I watched C-Span for a while this afternoon and finally had to turn it off when they voted against DADT and then DeMint effectively blocked doing something for the families of the 11 who died in the Gulf oil rig fire. He is one heartless B&@%#rd if ever there was one. When asked if there were any objections to the bill, you could see the pres. of the Senate struggle to keep from rolling her eyes when DeMint stood up.
If this is the way things are going, then I am not so sure they will get anything passed again – ever.
What kind of expreience in their life makes people become so cold and callous that they can proudly stand up and prevent 9/11 responders from getting health care and claim that the unemployed are staying home and collecting insurance because they’re lazy?
He’s not only a heartless b@stard, he’s damn proud of it!
As regulars to the ‘flats are aware, this is one of “my” issues, although I am not and never have been a resident of Appalachia. Unlike a certain politician, I am a hiker of the Appalachian Trail, and have been since the age of seven. Many of the mountains I climbed as side hikes (because they were more challenging than the easy AT) have been clear cut, had their tops blown off, and then were strip mined. Mountains need their tops. And all of us need the fresh water that is so abundant in the Appalachian states. Moreover, one must visit a rain forest to find a more diverse ecosystem.
Fred Phelps and his vile group of monsters from Westboro are planning to protest at Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral. I’ve read that, in other towns where they showed up, community members assembled in great numbers to force the Phelps group far away from the families who were honoring their deceased relatives. I imagine that, in this case, it would be easy to gather thousands of people to drown out their hatred. But what a crying shame that the Edwards family is subjected to this disgusting display at a time of immense pain. Fred Phelps and his group are truly evil.
“There is a little ray of hope. There is a volunteer group called the Patriot Guard. They are motorcyclists to come and counter protest the WBC assholes. They generally just stand between the grieving and the protestors, holding up sheets to block the hateful actions of WBC. I don’t know if the Edwards family has reached out the Patriot Guard or not. They usually attend the funerals of service members who are being protested by the morons of WBC, so that might be an issue.
Still it is important to note that the bikers are doing it right. They are not there to confront the Phelps family church, but rather to asset their own First Amendment rights to assemble and protest. You might not think that a bunch of hard core bikers would be the ones to show us how to deal with the egregious behavior of the Phelps clan, but there it is.”
Apparently, that’s up for discussion right now in the Supreme Court. Limiting their right to assemble and protest is a very slippery slope as much as we’d all like to see them rot in he!! for the pain they’ve caused. They also subsist on the money they’ve collected from lawsuits against anyone who gets in their way or prevents them from showing up at these places. I believe one or more of the family members is/are attorneys who have become experts in First Ammendment law.
I have to believe that there’s a way to find a balance between permitting free speech and preventing harassment of families in their moment of grief.
Ok am I missing a beat? I saw the exchange on xoF (maybe if I spell it backwards I won’t go blind and become stupid) between Megan (sp) Kelly and Anthony Weiner about the estate tax. Aren’t these the same people who want others to pick themselves up by their boot straps and not rely on the government but it’s ok that mom and dad leave you millions if not billions of dollars which they in essence did not earn and they should not to have to pay the taxes on said money they did not earn. I can understand leaving a guardian money to care for your children when they are young and not able to fend for themselves should you meet your maker sooner then you expected. We all want to make sure our children are taken care of. But when they grow up and become adults shouldn’t they be self sufficient enough not to have to rely on an inheritance to sustain them through life. I have a sister and brother-in-law like this. They do work hard for what they have granted but are always in search of a hand out from someone else. Either his mother or my mother never seem generous enough to hand over to them over gobs of money just because they could use it. When the brother-in-laws father died he was very put out because they made the younger son executor of the will. He snapped that he didn’t care as long as he got his “share”. Where is it written that you get a share what your parents worked their entire lives for?? And never mind the rich Aunts and Uncles along the way whose money they cleave when they pass on. I would think it a wonderful thing if my mother remembered me in her will. Am I doing a death dance in hopes of attaining great wealth when she’s gone, No but you can bet your ass they are. But to listen to him he’s a self made man in charge of his own destiny. Yea right.
I know the feeling Bubs. Been alone most of my life. Mom gone a five months old, Dad gone a five years old. Five is not my lucky number. LOL Didn’t meet my REAL family till I was 18 the only bond to hold us together during that phase was my one brother who got sick and passed away in 94, so we are all estranged again.
Shadow’s Heart – my family exactly. I took care of my Dad his last six weeks. Vultures everywhere – it was crazy-making. My youngest sib (sister) is the executor and power of attorney for both parents but oldest sib (brother) is livid. True story – I had to go to court to kick out middle sister and her mooching-scum of a husband before Dad died. Then it took weeks and weeks to clean out nearly 16 tons of garbage – I have paid the garbage hauler over $2,000. Dad died in February and we finally got the house in shape enough to sell in October.
We had set up a Family Trust that (if/when) the house sells, the money is to go to care of our Mom, and only for her benefit, until her death. So the sibs are waiting for the house to sell, thinking they’ll get “their share,” as you said, but the joke’s on them.
I brought Mom home with me last March – couldn’t find housing for an elderly wheelchair-bound quadriplegic in Anchorage, so I bought us a house (left my husband and two teenage daughters) and we are doing pretty well with help from Hospice of Anchorage and a Home Health RN.
It’s creepy – people out there waiting for you to die so they get their stuff. I promised my daughters I would not leave them with the kind of mess my parents left us.
I’m so sorry to hear about your battle with the family Bretta. Being a family member only carries you so far in my book. It’s wonderful what you did for your mom, you’re such a good daughter. I told my landlord that if something happens to me they are not allowed in my home period. I told her I don’t care if she sells the stuff, takes it to the dump or has a bonfire in the middle of the yard, just make sure they don’t get their hands on it. I don’t have much and they probably wouldn’t profit all that much at the auction by selling my stuff but I didn’t struggle all these years to put money in their pension, savings or help them build their portfolio, they have enough people doing that already.
I can see the sun!!! Well, to be completely honest, there are lots of snow clouds overhead so I can’t actually SEE the sun, but it’s there…I’m SURE!
It’s the first time since Saturday that it’s bright outside and the snowflakes have stopped falling, at least for the moment. I’ve been home sick for the past few days so I get to enjoy the pretty view of the 2+ feet of snow in my yard without having to brave the 20 degree actual/11 degree wind chill temps.
Off to make a grilled cheese sandwich and heat up some of the tasty chicken soup I made yesterday (the best medicine in the world!) and watch the news before I head back to bed again.
Life is good (except for the barking-like-a-seal coughing, congested, can’t breathe, wicked sinus headache, overwhelming fatigue part!).
Enjoy the day, all you mudpups! 🙂 (Can ya tell I’m still on my prescription meds? Woo hoo…)
Leenie, the very last thing you should be eating is a grilled cheese sandwich! I realize I’m probably too late, but dairy increases mucus production, and therefore congestion! Skip all dairy products until you’re feeling better. Sorry I didn’t see this earlier!
Holy Cow, Palin claims that SarahPac has been hacked by WilkiLeaks?! But wait…didn’t she say the Obama should have prevented WikiLeaks intrusion into the US government emails and files? If Obama was responsible to that fiasco and she was ever so smart with her book being leaked, then how come she didn’t prevent the (alleged) attack against her?
HAHAHA Still down, too.
The thing about Anon is that I think they’re idealists who do what they do to out injustice as they see it. I’m not saying they’re right or wrong, just giving my opinion as to their motives. Reference they’re having a go as Scientology. I have a friend (love the guy, too) that I believe was involved with the Scientology stuff and I’d not be surprised if he were involved with this too. Very VERY talented, intelligent guy, who has a definite moral code. Sort of like Lisbeth Salandar, if you’ve read those books! (and probably why I’m so drawn to her character, now that I think about it) Anyway… I digress.
If someone wants to take Palin’s website out permanently, they can certainly do so, nothing is totally immune to the best of the best. At any rate, they’re cutting into her earning capability at least a little bit and IMO, that ain’t a bad thing. 🙂
It seems that they took the whole site down, yet forgot one page.
OR
They were password hacked and someone deleted it all but missed that one page?
Victim? Faking Victimhood?
Any normal website admin would restore from a backup and just go on like nothing had happened. Watch for them to scream and shout. Oh woe is SarahPAC!
Something is not right about this whole “Wikileaks terrorists hacked my PAC site” . I’ve seen word on twitter that the hacker group is saying they didn’t touch Palin’s site but are claiming credit for the others. ( No links tho so I don’t know how credible this is )
It’s waaaay too convenient for her. She gets to claim victimhood, gets to ride the front page wave of this wikileaks thing, gets to band the living crap out of her patriot drum and then has a handy dandy excuse if her SarahPAC reports have anything out of place. And Todd’s credit card was hacked also ?
I mean, sure – maybe it’s all on the up and up and maybe I’m to the point where everything coming out of that camp is suspect to me, but something doesn’t feel right.
That’s just very odd, to be sure. The thing that really bothers me, though, is bigger than Sarah (isn’t everything, really). And it’s bigger than whatever Assange is trying to do or what his real purpose is. I just don’t like it that someone, out of revenge because their leader/martyr/??? is under being held accountable for his actions is able to disrupt the websites of so many and get into the financial sites that affect people who really could care less about Assange. It doesn’t give me warm fuzzies about doing on-line shopping (and this is the season for it) or on-line banking. I feel like their freedom of speech has gone past the boundaries where it is infringing on our right to privacy.
As far as Sarah PAC, maybe the admin isn’t savvy enough to figure it out, and we’ll all be better off if the site is never back up. Too bad they left the donation page.
Maybe this will help warm you up,OT that it is. I found a Sipux City Journal newspaper from Nov. 17,1960,shortly after Kennedt defeated Nixon for Potus. The Journal has always had a RW slant to their editorials. Anyway,there is a short article from the Cedar Rapids Gazette saying political campaigns need to be shortened. …”it is ridiculous to put candidates through ten weeks or more of continuos barnstorming and to subject the people to the strident and repetitive harangue that accompanies it” This sort of thing may have been unavoidable a generation or so ago when transportation and communications were slower. One last little nugget. from Council Bluffs Nonparell- Kennedy’s voting record in the Senate is nearly identical to HHHumphrey. If he is elected president another big spending spree, higher taxes and more inflation will result. I would say Rethuglycans have their message down pat.
Proof is in the memo: Fox news brass circulated a memo requiring Fox broadcasters to influence the health care debate. If any people you know think that Fox is “Fair and Balanced” they need to see this as proof that Fox is far from impartial in political debate.
Posted at 6:00 AM ET, 12/ 9/2010
Joe Miller ended campaign with $900k on hand
By Chris Cillizza
1. Alaska Republican Joe Miller ended his general election campaign against Sen. Lisa Murkowski with nearly $1 million in the bank — a sum that almost certainly could have helped what is looking more and more like a lost race.
According to his post-election campaign finance report, Miller raised more than $3 million for the race, spending $2.2 million and ending the campaign with $980,000, as of Nov. 22.
Of the money Miller did spend, about $100,000 went toward repaying himself for loans he made during his GOP primary win over Murkowski. Following her primary defeat, Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate.
That Miller’s campaign only spent about two-thirds of its cash should be cause for pause, especially considering that it looks like he will only lose by a few points.
Miller isn’t the first tea party-backed candidate to commit what many will say is campaign malpractice.
Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell (R), turned some heads when she ended her campaign with nearly $1 million in the bank. O’Donnell, who raised about twice as much as Miller, reasoned that she wanted to be prepared for legal wrangling after the race.
That could be Miller’s defense too, given that Murkowski was running a viable write-in campaign, which has been the subject of a significant legal back and forth since Nov 2. But banking nearly one-third of the total amount you raised is highly unusual for any candidate in a close race.
Miller’s campaign did not dispute the numbers but had no ready answers late Wednesday for why it reserved so much cash.
Miller’s report shows $240,000 in receipts in the three weeks since Election Day, including money contributed by Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) Senate Conservatives Fund, which backed Miller’s campaign and is supporting his post-election challenge to the results. Miller also spent about $150,000 since Nov. 3, including $80,000 on his campaign and another $50,000 to repay loans Miller made to the campaign.
In total, the report, which covers expenditures and disbursements from Oct. 14 through Nov. 22, shows Miller repaid himself more than $96,000 worth of loans made during his primary with Murkowski, including paying off more than half of that total before Election Day.
All things considered, Miller had about $900,000 in his campaign account the day after Election Day.
After all write-in ballots were counted, Miller trailed Murkowski by 10,000 votes or about four percentage points. He has challenged more than 8,000 write-in ballots, but even if all those challenges are successful, he would still trail by more than 2,000 votes.
Miller is asking the state’s courts to call for a hand recount, even as many Republicans are urging him to give up the fight.
It’s so cold here too – was supposed to get down to 71 tonight. I’m as hardy as SP cuz I’m still sitting here in my shorts & bare feet. =)
I was born & raised in snow country & I must admit that occasionally I still miss it, especially when seeing the beautiful snow pictures. Great picture AKM! Thanks!
My favorite memories of it was setting off on my own, at night, for a walk when the rest of the world was sleeping, slipping silently down the snow covered streets with big flakes coming down on and around me. It filled me with peace & joy. OK – I am a little jealous. Thanks!
Okay. I am going to let this one pass. Probably. It is nasty cold here. And, my friends in Key West are hauling it to Rio to warm up! Bless their hearts. It was 60* in Key West and they had to put on long trousers and socks.
Oh, Miss Emily/thatcrowwoman. Miss Emily, how you do go on. I love you, and have even when I was so little I didn’t understand what the heck you were saying! Hope is a good thing, no? I have always thought her using birds was just brilliant. What better creature, aside from a dog sitting ohsoclose to a person eating steak, personifies hope in all its glory? Besides, I don’t think Miss Emily would have tolerated a dog sitting ohsoclose.
I was teaching some Emily to my students just today! Do you know that you can sing most of Emily’s poems to the tune of either “Amazing Grace” or the “Theme from Gilligan’s island?” Try it! My eighth graders were impressed, I can tell you – especially when I sang them a dozen or so!
It is cold here, too! I was contemplating warming Orson’s chicken livers this morning, but decided he is spoiled enough. I worry about him in this cold weather. The suet feeders are really getting a workout this morning. And, the finch feeder and regular feeders are mobbed. I love watching the birds. Gives one hope.
We have a dusting of snow in central ohio. I always get a bit melancholy in the winter time. That’s why you’ll never see me move to Alaska. I did receive a cheerful message of hope the other day at work though, we got our first delivery of flower and vegitable seeds! They will be stored until about Feb. Then out they come! Kind of like a message that spring will come again.
I bought a beautiful set of curtains for the loving room and put them up last night. They are white with a die cut patttern of plants and butterflies, with silhouettes of birds appliqued in green. When I got up this morning and walked into my living room, the light in those windows was so stunning, it stopped me in my tracks!
AKM – Your photos are always so beautiful and so serene! We are experiencing bitter cold here in KY, down to single digits, but no snow. I’d gladly take some of your snow to hide the ugly brown that is showing everywhere. There is a plump Colorado blue spruce outside my bedroom window and it would be a lovely start to my day to see it dusted in white as your trees are! DH tossed some bird seed around its base as he headed off to work and the Cardinals and Junkos are feasting – so peaceful to see.
Mark Putnam has a post “It’s about Alaska:Earthquakes,.Norwegians and Neckties” at huffingtonpost.com/mark-putnam.
It is about the AK Senate race and McAdams in particular and he’s asking for input. It’s an interesting article.
I’m trying to get to the Microsoft.com website and it is not coming up. Did WikiLeak Cyber Warriors target? I’m so bad at conspiracy theories – this is the closest I get! I need the site dammit.
What was down is now up. Yay!
People of Alaska certainly have a bad viruis called SPD, BPD, it seems it continues to grow and distrupt the the minds of many. I simply refuse to support Palin family in venture they may undertake.
I have been searching thru Google and few other sites and many are saying that perhaps
Todd Palin is gay, good question,
Why would dWTS want him on the show, some are saying they think its all Sarah keeping her name in the media. this does not surprise me.
Bristol is suppose to be gong to Texas to see Mark Balles show, I bet that is a riot. I read he would marry her if she was a Democrat, LOLOL now that is BS
Bristol will not hook up with him , she will exploit
his friendship of she thinks it will give her added media attention.
How much longer does the American people have to listen to this bobble head Palin continue to rape the media and get rich doing it. What is wrong with people??????????
Bristol was a joke on DWTS and I am glad Cho and others spoke out I still contend that if Maks had not spoken out the little plot to have Bristol win would have come off. I hope the FCC invetigates this good, I understand people have filed a complaint with them about the voting fraud. I have always thought from day one Bristol was on it was a Sarah Palin Hack job, I will not watch DWTS in the future, ABC and DWTS better change some of their policies and stop this rating BS for it will destroy them.
We are sick of Sarah Palin family.
Gosh thse little boys sure do not have a mother, Bristol you are such a witch, like mother.
Sarah is goingto Hati now what deal to get her face in the media. God help us. Please…………
God is busy, we have to help ourselves. Do not despair – she’s a Twit. And she got voted most stupid person on the planet just today.
“In a crushing landslide win, Sarah Palin has won the popular vote at RudeOrStupid.com for stupidest person on the planet, beating out such noteworthy candidates as Brett Favre, Lindsay Lohan and George W. Bush.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20101210/bs_prweb/prweb4873284
One of the best pics of the Twit yet! I love the Dispatch’s artistic bent, although unusual for traditional media. They continue to delight (and pick on the Twit).
http://alaskadispatch.com/dispatches/news/7773-sarah-palins-record-vs-sarah-palins-facebook
That was a good article – I skimmed it only – hope to read it again.
$owah PayMe is only going to Haiti to try to prove she’s not a racist. Too Transparent.
Sarah lives to lie, heckle and get high on hubris. It will always be something, until she’s not. That’s the day I work for.
A balanced, but my no means in depth, article about Palin and hunting.
I have kinda thought you would be in darkness for 6 months. What gives? And where do I find more factual information on Alaska than what’sherfaces programs? Any help would sure be appreciated.
By the time of the Winter Solstice, about December 21st, we have about five hours of daylight in Anchorage. Up on the North Slope (about 800 miles north of Anchorage) it is completely dark for about two months.
From December 21st the days will rapidly lengthen so that at the Vernal Equinox, about March 20th, we will have a good 12 hours of daylight. The days will lengthen in Anchorage to about 22 hours of light up until Summer Solstice, June 21st. The days then shorten until September 20th, the Autumnal Equinox, where the days are 12 hours long again. Etc.
The Sun’s rays are very far away and long, so even during daylight in winter it is difficult to get enough light for a photograph, although things are easier now with digital cameras.
“The Milepost” is a great travel magazine put out once a year for information about the road system and the towns along the way.
Mike — only the actual North pole has six months of night. The Arctic Circle marks the point where, on winter solstice, the sun does not rise. Most of Alaska is south of the Arctic Circle (including Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau) and even on the solstice, as Bretta says, can get hours of sunshine.
Way up north in Barrow, the sun set on November 19 and won’t rise again until January 24.
http://wasillaalaskaby300.squarespace.com/journal/2010/12/8/goodbye-warren-matumeak-part-1-a-gathering-at-his-house.html#comments
Mike- this blog will help help ground you , visually and with information. This post is about loss of a dear friend but Bill got photos of the “dark” Barrow lives with…
Take a long and leisurely look through the whole blog… it will be almost like you got to visit, before you get to visit…:-)
Many,many thanks to all who replied. As headed in for a closer look at darkness. I feel much more enlightened. Again,my thanks.
Now I know where the idea for Xmas tree lights came from… great lighting, lovely picture – thank you!
DADT vote failed. Guess who voted against it? Murkowsucky. All that crowing about how she might vote for repeal was horse*hit.
I watched C-Span for a while this afternoon and finally had to turn it off when they voted against DADT and then DeMint effectively blocked doing something for the families of the 11 who died in the Gulf oil rig fire. He is one heartless B&@%#rd if ever there was one. When asked if there were any objections to the bill, you could see the pres. of the Senate struggle to keep from rolling her eyes when DeMint stood up.
If this is the way things are going, then I am not so sure they will get anything passed again – ever.
It’s not over yet–a new ‘stand alone’ bill planned.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/09/dadt-vote-update/
Wake me when it’s over.
What kind of expreience in their life makes people become so cold and callous that they can proudly stand up and prevent 9/11 responders from getting health care and claim that the unemployed are staying home and collecting insurance because they’re lazy?
He’s not only a heartless b@stard, he’s damn proud of it!
yuppers…
is it too early for me to say i-told-you-so to people i know who voted for her…?
Please check out Rainforest Action Network’s report on which banks have stopped funding mountaintop removal, and which (few) are still at it:
http://ran.org/content/grading-banks-mountaintop-removal-report-card
As regulars to the ‘flats are aware, this is one of “my” issues, although I am not and never have been a resident of Appalachia. Unlike a certain politician, I am a hiker of the Appalachian Trail, and have been since the age of seven. Many of the mountains I climbed as side hikes (because they were more challenging than the easy AT) have been clear cut, had their tops blown off, and then were strip mined. Mountains need their tops. And all of us need the fresh water that is so abundant in the Appalachian states. Moreover, one must visit a rain forest to find a more diverse ecosystem.
… and the NRDC is still trying to stop Pebble Mine. Please visit http://www.nrdc.org or http://www.savebiogems.org and sign one of their anti-Pebble petitions.
This just about breaks my heart.
Fred Phelps and his vile group of monsters from Westboro are planning to protest at Elizabeth Edwards’ funeral. I’ve read that, in other towns where they showed up, community members assembled in great numbers to force the Phelps group far away from the families who were honoring their deceased relatives. I imagine that, in this case, it would be easy to gather thousands of people to drown out their hatred. But what a crying shame that the Edwards family is subjected to this disgusting display at a time of immense pain. Fred Phelps and his group are truly evil.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/elizabeth-edwards-funeral-westboro-baptist-church_n_794333.html
From Daily Kos:
“There is a little ray of hope. There is a volunteer group called the Patriot Guard. They are motorcyclists to come and counter protest the WBC assholes. They generally just stand between the grieving and the protestors, holding up sheets to block the hateful actions of WBC. I don’t know if the Edwards family has reached out the Patriot Guard or not. They usually attend the funerals of service members who are being protested by the morons of WBC, so that might be an issue.
Still it is important to note that the bikers are doing it right. They are not there to confront the Phelps family church, but rather to asset their own First Amendment rights to assemble and protest. You might not think that a bunch of hard core bikers would be the ones to show us how to deal with the egregious behavior of the Phelps clan, but there it is.”
leenie17, that is heart-wrenching. Can’t those people be arrested for disturbing the peace or some kind of stalker/harassment?
Apparently, that’s up for discussion right now in the Supreme Court. Limiting their right to assemble and protest is a very slippery slope as much as we’d all like to see them rot in he!! for the pain they’ve caused. They also subsist on the money they’ve collected from lawsuits against anyone who gets in their way or prevents them from showing up at these places. I believe one or more of the family members is/are attorneys who have become experts in First Ammendment law.
I have to believe that there’s a way to find a balance between permitting free speech and preventing harassment of families in their moment of grief.
Ok am I missing a beat? I saw the exchange on xoF (maybe if I spell it backwards I won’t go blind and become stupid) between Megan (sp) Kelly and Anthony Weiner about the estate tax. Aren’t these the same people who want others to pick themselves up by their boot straps and not rely on the government but it’s ok that mom and dad leave you millions if not billions of dollars which they in essence did not earn and they should not to have to pay the taxes on said money they did not earn. I can understand leaving a guardian money to care for your children when they are young and not able to fend for themselves should you meet your maker sooner then you expected. We all want to make sure our children are taken care of. But when they grow up and become adults shouldn’t they be self sufficient enough not to have to rely on an inheritance to sustain them through life. I have a sister and brother-in-law like this. They do work hard for what they have granted but are always in search of a hand out from someone else. Either his mother or my mother never seem generous enough to hand over to them over gobs of money just because they could use it. When the brother-in-laws father died he was very put out because they made the younger son executor of the will. He snapped that he didn’t care as long as he got his “share”. Where is it written that you get a share what your parents worked their entire lives for?? And never mind the rich Aunts and Uncles along the way whose money they cleave when they pass on. I would think it a wonderful thing if my mother remembered me in her will. Am I doing a death dance in hopes of attaining great wealth when she’s gone, No but you can bet your ass they are. But to listen to him he’s a self made man in charge of his own destiny. Yea right.
Silly wabbit!
“We earn our money the old-fashioned way. We inherit it.”
the only thing my parents left me was alone.
I know the feeling Bubs. Been alone most of my life. Mom gone a five months old, Dad gone a five years old. Five is not my lucky number. LOL Didn’t meet my REAL family till I was 18 the only bond to hold us together during that phase was my one brother who got sick and passed away in 94, so we are all estranged again.
But we love you Bubbles that’s all you need to know.
Yup – ya got a big, warm, fuzzy mudpup family right here!
Shadow’s Heart – my family exactly. I took care of my Dad his last six weeks. Vultures everywhere – it was crazy-making. My youngest sib (sister) is the executor and power of attorney for both parents but oldest sib (brother) is livid. True story – I had to go to court to kick out middle sister and her mooching-scum of a husband before Dad died. Then it took weeks and weeks to clean out nearly 16 tons of garbage – I have paid the garbage hauler over $2,000. Dad died in February and we finally got the house in shape enough to sell in October.
We had set up a Family Trust that (if/when) the house sells, the money is to go to care of our Mom, and only for her benefit, until her death. So the sibs are waiting for the house to sell, thinking they’ll get “their share,” as you said, but the joke’s on them.
I brought Mom home with me last March – couldn’t find housing for an elderly wheelchair-bound quadriplegic in Anchorage, so I bought us a house (left my husband and two teenage daughters) and we are doing pretty well with help from Hospice of Anchorage and a Home Health RN.
It’s creepy – people out there waiting for you to die so they get their stuff. I promised my daughters I would not leave them with the kind of mess my parents left us.
I’m so sorry to hear about your battle with the family Bretta. Being a family member only carries you so far in my book. It’s wonderful what you did for your mom, you’re such a good daughter. I told my landlord that if something happens to me they are not allowed in my home period. I told her I don’t care if she sells the stuff, takes it to the dump or has a bonfire in the middle of the yard, just make sure they don’t get their hands on it. I don’t have much and they probably wouldn’t profit all that much at the auction by selling my stuff but I didn’t struggle all these years to put money in their pension, savings or help them build their portfolio, they have enough people doing that already.
I can see the sun!!! Well, to be completely honest, there are lots of snow clouds overhead so I can’t actually SEE the sun, but it’s there…I’m SURE!
It’s the first time since Saturday that it’s bright outside and the snowflakes have stopped falling, at least for the moment. I’ve been home sick for the past few days so I get to enjoy the pretty view of the 2+ feet of snow in my yard without having to brave the 20 degree actual/11 degree wind chill temps.
Off to make a grilled cheese sandwich and heat up some of the tasty chicken soup I made yesterday (the best medicine in the world!) and watch the news before I head back to bed again.
Life is good (except for the barking-like-a-seal coughing, congested, can’t breathe, wicked sinus headache, overwhelming fatigue part!).
Enjoy the day, all you mudpups! 🙂 (Can ya tell I’m still on my prescription meds? Woo hoo…)
Leenie, the very last thing you should be eating is a grilled cheese sandwich! I realize I’m probably too late, but dairy increases mucus production, and therefore congestion! Skip all dairy products until you’re feeling better. Sorry I didn’t see this earlier!
Health and peace, Mudpups. Stay warm.
Zyxomma –
Thanks for the advice…I’ll stick to my chicken soup instead!
Dontcha just love how mudpups help out each other???? 🙂
Just getting ready to post the same thing, knowing I would be too late! Thank you Zyxomma.
Leenie, hope you are better by leaps and bounds!
enjoy the soup love. go back to bed and snuggle down with a good book or just snooze the day away. feel better soon.
And drink plenty of water, or some hot tea or hot cider – not the adult version.
enjoy the soup – check
go back to bed – check
snooze the day away – check
feel better – check
snuggle with a good book – wellll, can’t do that one because the meds I’m on make the letters go all blurry and wonky!
Funniest response on that thread:
She can be the harp seal of the 2012 election season for all I care.
Posted by: VoteFromTheRooftops | December 8, 2010 9:30 PM
Holy Cow, Palin claims that SarahPac has been hacked by WilkiLeaks?! But wait…didn’t she say the Obama should have prevented WikiLeaks intrusion into the US government emails and files? If Obama was responsible to that fiasco and she was ever so smart with her book being leaked, then how come she didn’t prevent the (alleged) attack against her?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/12/palin-says-website-and-credit.html#comments
It’s all about HER, you see. DWTS, WikiLeaks, etc.
Didn’t you get her tweet?
HAHAHA Still down, too.
The thing about Anon is that I think they’re idealists who do what they do to out injustice as they see it. I’m not saying they’re right or wrong, just giving my opinion as to their motives. Reference they’re having a go as Scientology. I have a friend (love the guy, too) that I believe was involved with the Scientology stuff and I’d not be surprised if he were involved with this too. Very VERY talented, intelligent guy, who has a definite moral code. Sort of like Lisbeth Salandar, if you’ve read those books! (and probably why I’m so drawn to her character, now that I think about it) Anyway… I digress.
If someone wants to take Palin’s website out permanently, they can certainly do so, nothing is totally immune to the best of the best. At any rate, they’re cutting into her earning capability at least a little bit and IMO, that ain’t a bad thing. 🙂
Things that make you go hummmmmm……..
All of http://www.sarahpac.com is gone. You get:
“The page you were looking for doesn’t exist.
You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.”
except for: http://www.sarahpac.com/contact
It seems that they took the whole site down, yet forgot one page.
OR
They were password hacked and someone deleted it all but missed that one page?
Victim? Faking Victimhood?
Any normal website admin would restore from a backup and just go on like nothing had happened. Watch for them to scream and shout. Oh woe is SarahPAC!
Something is not right about this whole “Wikileaks terrorists hacked my PAC site” . I’ve seen word on twitter that the hacker group is saying they didn’t touch Palin’s site but are claiming credit for the others. ( No links tho so I don’t know how credible this is )
It’s waaaay too convenient for her. She gets to claim victimhood, gets to ride the front page wave of this wikileaks thing, gets to band the living crap out of her patriot drum and then has a handy dandy excuse if her SarahPAC reports have anything out of place. And Todd’s credit card was hacked also ?
I mean, sure – maybe it’s all on the up and up and maybe I’m to the point where everything coming out of that camp is suspect to me, but something doesn’t feel right.
That’s just very odd, to be sure. The thing that really bothers me, though, is bigger than Sarah (isn’t everything, really). And it’s bigger than whatever Assange is trying to do or what his real purpose is. I just don’t like it that someone, out of revenge because their leader/martyr/??? is under being held accountable for his actions is able to disrupt the websites of so many and get into the financial sites that affect people who really could care less about Assange. It doesn’t give me warm fuzzies about doing on-line shopping (and this is the season for it) or on-line banking. I feel like their freedom of speech has gone past the boundaries where it is infringing on our right to privacy.
As far as Sarah PAC, maybe the admin isn’t savvy enough to figure it out, and we’ll all be better off if the site is never back up. Too bad they left the donation page.
Maybe this will help warm you up,OT that it is. I found a Sipux City Journal newspaper from Nov. 17,1960,shortly after Kennedt defeated Nixon for Potus. The Journal has always had a RW slant to their editorials. Anyway,there is a short article from the Cedar Rapids Gazette saying political campaigns need to be shortened. …”it is ridiculous to put candidates through ten weeks or more of continuos barnstorming and to subject the people to the strident and repetitive harangue that accompanies it” This sort of thing may have been unavoidable a generation or so ago when transportation and communications were slower. One last little nugget. from Council Bluffs Nonparell- Kennedy’s voting record in the Senate is nearly identical to HHHumphrey. If he is elected president another big spending spree, higher taxes and more inflation will result. I would say Rethuglycans have their message down pat.
Proof is in the memo: Fox news brass circulated a memo requiring Fox broadcasters to influence the health care debate. If any people you know think that Fox is “Fair and Balanced” they need to see this as proof that Fox is far from impartial in political debate.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-09/how-fox-news-spun-the-health-care-debate/?cid=blogunit
http://www.washingtonpost.com
Posted at 6:00 AM ET, 12/ 9/2010
Joe Miller ended campaign with $900k on hand
By Chris Cillizza
1. Alaska Republican Joe Miller ended his general election campaign against Sen. Lisa Murkowski with nearly $1 million in the bank — a sum that almost certainly could have helped what is looking more and more like a lost race.
According to his post-election campaign finance report, Miller raised more than $3 million for the race, spending $2.2 million and ending the campaign with $980,000, as of Nov. 22.
Of the money Miller did spend, about $100,000 went toward repaying himself for loans he made during his GOP primary win over Murkowski. Following her primary defeat, Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate.
That Miller’s campaign only spent about two-thirds of its cash should be cause for pause, especially considering that it looks like he will only lose by a few points.
Miller isn’t the first tea party-backed candidate to commit what many will say is campaign malpractice.
Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell (R), turned some heads when she ended her campaign with nearly $1 million in the bank. O’Donnell, who raised about twice as much as Miller, reasoned that she wanted to be prepared for legal wrangling after the race.
That could be Miller’s defense too, given that Murkowski was running a viable write-in campaign, which has been the subject of a significant legal back and forth since Nov 2. But banking nearly one-third of the total amount you raised is highly unusual for any candidate in a close race.
Miller’s campaign did not dispute the numbers but had no ready answers late Wednesday for why it reserved so much cash.
Miller’s report shows $240,000 in receipts in the three weeks since Election Day, including money contributed by Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) Senate Conservatives Fund, which backed Miller’s campaign and is supporting his post-election challenge to the results. Miller also spent about $150,000 since Nov. 3, including $80,000 on his campaign and another $50,000 to repay loans Miller made to the campaign.
In total, the report, which covers expenditures and disbursements from Oct. 14 through Nov. 22, shows Miller repaid himself more than $96,000 worth of loans made during his primary with Murkowski, including paying off more than half of that total before Election Day.
All things considered, Miller had about $900,000 in his campaign account the day after Election Day.
After all write-in ballots were counted, Miller trailed Murkowski by 10,000 votes or about four percentage points. He has challenged more than 8,000 write-in ballots, but even if all those challenges are successful, he would still trail by more than 2,000 votes.
Miller is asking the state’s courts to call for a hand recount, even as many Republicans are urging him to give up the fight.
It’s so cold here too – was supposed to get down to 71 tonight. I’m as hardy as SP cuz I’m still sitting here in my shorts & bare feet. =)
I was born & raised in snow country & I must admit that occasionally I still miss it, especially when seeing the beautiful snow pictures. Great picture AKM! Thanks!
My favorite memories of it was setting off on my own, at night, for a walk when the rest of the world was sleeping, slipping silently down the snow covered streets with big flakes coming down on and around me. It filled me with peace & joy. OK – I am a little jealous. Thanks!
Okay. I am going to let this one pass. Probably. It is nasty cold here. And, my friends in Key West are hauling it to Rio to warm up! Bless their hearts. It was 60* in Key West and they had to put on long trousers and socks.
Warm wishes from Florida, where it is 28 degrees this morning. If it’s going to be this cold, I want snow! just sayin’
Off to the library with a dreidel in my pocket on the last day of Chanukah. Still the dreidel Queen!
🙂
Oh, Miss Emily/thatcrowwoman. Miss Emily, how you do go on. I love you, and have even when I was so little I didn’t understand what the heck you were saying! Hope is a good thing, no? I have always thought her using birds was just brilliant. What better creature, aside from a dog sitting ohsoclose to a person eating steak, personifies hope in all its glory? Besides, I don’t think Miss Emily would have tolerated a dog sitting ohsoclose.
I was teaching some Emily to my students just today! Do you know that you can sing most of Emily’s poems to the tune of either “Amazing Grace” or the “Theme from Gilligan’s island?” Try it! My eighth graders were impressed, I can tell you – especially when I sang them a dozen or so!
It is cold here, too! I was contemplating warming Orson’s chicken livers this morning, but decided he is spoiled enough. I worry about him in this cold weather. The suet feeders are really getting a workout this morning. And, the finch feeder and regular feeders are mobbed. I love watching the birds. Gives one hope.
Birds and Hope, from Emily Dickenson (and thatcrowwoman, with love)
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
We have a dusting of snow in central ohio. I always get a bit melancholy in the winter time. That’s why you’ll never see me move to Alaska. I did receive a cheerful message of hope the other day at work though, we got our first delivery of flower and vegitable seeds! They will be stored until about Feb. Then out they come! Kind of like a message that spring will come again.
I bought a beautiful set of curtains for the loving room and put them up last night. They are white with a die cut patttern of plants and butterflies, with silhouettes of birds appliqued in green. When I got up this morning and walked into my living room, the light in those windows was so stunning, it stopped me in my tracks!
Have a good day everyone!
AKM – Your photos are always so beautiful and so serene! We are experiencing bitter cold here in KY, down to single digits, but no snow. I’d gladly take some of your snow to hide the ugly brown that is showing everywhere. There is a plump Colorado blue spruce outside my bedroom window and it would be a lovely start to my day to see it dusted in white as your trees are! DH tossed some bird seed around its base as he headed off to work and the Cardinals and Junkos are feasting – so peaceful to see.
Just when I think you’ve shared the ultimate photograph of Alaska’s beauty, you go and do it again!
Wow – that is gorgeous. Capturing the sunlight the way you did is just breathtaking.