No one just upped and id it for us..but we got it done by ourselves.

But I bet *YOU* paid for your own windows.

You know, one thing this incident has provided is a clear example of why certain people hold Fox News in such low regard. I was flipping through the channels at 10pm and ran across the following on the news channels:

Fox News' headline was something akin to "Palin will not run for reelection"

CNN's headline was something akin to "Palin resigns as governor"

Both of these headlines are factually correct, but the Fox News headline does not give the full picture. One might even call it a glaring omission of pertinent facts. I call it yet another appeal to emotions, which Fox seems to accel excel at. Emotionally, Fox's headline comes across as just another normal thing a politician does, sort of a "nothing to be concerned about and why are all those people saying it's odd?" ploy.

Maybe Palin's just trying to help get the heat off Mark Sanford.  Did Sanford ever say anthing about "hiking the Denali Trail"?

Fox News, as the official propaganda arm for the Repubwhigan Party, is trying to spin this into a positive.  

Shwaine, for one who loves to correct other people you really should proof your post before someone corrects you on "accel."

I, of course, would never do such a thing.

Really Nancy, such nastiness after I just gave you advice on the feral kitten. Or did you ignore that because it came from me? I also gave you advice on DTV converter choices when you asked and you seemed to ignore that as well. And I suppose you took my advice on the half blackout as arrogant ramblings of an inteligentsia because you never replied there either.

As for your comment on this blog, I've never been a "spelling nazi" on this blog site or elsewhere, because I realize people make typos. And, if I wanted to be a spelling nazi, I could have a field day with some of the typos you've made Nancy. You know what they say about people in glass houses? I'm thinking it applies here. I'm also thinking someone's got an axe to grind and that someone would not be me. Because if I really disliked you as much as you seem to dislike me, I wouldn't be attempting to help you when you ask for advice and I'd be following you around nitpicking everything you posted.

Edit: And I've fixed the typo but also left it in place, just for Nancy. Call it my little reminder of her pettiness.

Ah Shwain...using the wrong word isn't a typo.  Lord knows I make enough typos and certainly never claim not to.  As for being a typo nazi (deliberate use of lower case there) I save that for people who are always either correcting someone (corrections by people are not always for typos) or trying to explain to others what the other person meant.  Confusing huh?

As for me not responding, I don't always go back to blogs where I've posted and so I don't always see responses.  As for the converter box, that one got away from me.  Sorry I missed it and WILL look that one up because I'll be buying one soon.  When the blog has days where the responses might run 2-3 pages and I only check in once or twice a day, I'm very likely to have missed a response.  Comments or help I offer here often go without acknowledgment but then I don't keep track as you obviously do.

Now I AM going to get a little mean.  You put yourself out there like an expert on every topic that comes up.  Not just an opinion on every topic, we all do that, but like an expert.  It gets a little tiresome.  I understand that you're a bright girl, I understand you are educated, and it appears, you want everyone to know it.  FSG started out the same way but has really matured in his presentations on the blog.  Young, bright, new bloggers tend to post the way you do.  You're posts aren't neighborly friendly hints and offered solutions, their like reading a textbook.

I've been blogging a very long time and have seen all manner of people come and go.  Young ones, goofy ones, fun ones, happy ones,hateful ones, informative ones and insufferable arrogant ones.   Just be careful about the category you want to fall into.  Or the ones you will be perceived as being.

Now back to the response correction.  You'll VERY rarely see me correct anyones grammar (that's rude) punctuation or spelling (unless they're a stone idiot and need to use spell check.) but occasionally I  WILL mention something when people use a totally wrong word.  One of my pet peeves is people using "mute" for "moot."  Drives me nuts...but I never say anything to them.  Once in a while I let fly with a correction and you my dear, are the recipient this month.  Aren't you the lucky one?

Now that we have that out of the way, I hope you have a great fourth and now I'm off to hang my flag and look for, and thank you, for your suggestions or help.   PS, I HAVE been nice to you before, you just forgot.  :-)

She will either:

1. Have a show on FOX (radio and/or TV)

2. Pen a book deal, or

3. Run for prez in '12

For her it's all about capping on her publicity and making money. Nothing wrong with that. As messed up as the GOP is, I just can't imagine them falling in line behind her. She will have a lot of time to study up on issues, so she won't appear as dumb as she did, but she was and will be a liability.

I think she should take some time off - to find herself and decide what she rally wants to do in life.

She should go moose hunting !

Her spouse should build his own house - I heard that can be good therapy.

--virgil

Lessons learned from this:  If you attack a politician's children viciously enough, and relentlessly enough, you can get them to quit. 

I bet If her children had anything to do with it, she would not have even gotten started.

--virgil

I don't believe she quit politics.   To quote motopoet..."We'll see."

And she wanted to be president ...

--virgil

Pay for play and embezzlement scandal is why she resigned. She steered the Wasilla Sports Complex contract to one of her campaign contributors and personal friends, and in return she got a free house from the contractor.

Alaskans have known about the FBI investigation for months and now word from Alaska law enforcement is that the indictments are inevitable.

I know you'd like all that to be true and to be the reason she's resigning as gov but this is more likely.

http://www.foxnews.com/opin...

but this is more likely

But then again, maybe not.

Speaking on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell reported that, according to "people very close to Sarah Palin," she has "told her supporters that she is out of politics, period. She is fed up with politics. She doesn't like her life. She feels that she needs to raise her family. She's sick of the commute from Wasilla to the capital. And she really does not want to run for higher office, that this is not a case where she is stepping down in order to clear the way for a presidential run. In fact, she has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012, which of course opens new avenues for Mitt Romney, for Tim Pawlenty, for other potential candidates who are definitely in the running."

At this point it's ALL speculation.  We'll see.

Indictments after the holiday weekend ... !

--virgil

If Palin resigned to take a national spotlight position for the GOP, why didn't she come out and say so  or give a press statement that seem to point in that direction?

Watch her speech and look at the body language of her and the family. Something is weighting heavily on them and it's not her resignation.

Nor did she look like someone who a weight has been lifted from her shoulders as you would expect from her and the reasons she gave for resigning.

At this point it's ALL speculation

So you went from "this is more likely" to "it's all speculation".

LOL! You never fail to make he laugh, Nancy. Although probably not in the way you intend.

Crude,

Another proud Republican family photo.

Media deal me thinks.

Maybe the newest boat on Deadliest catch with Capt. MooseKnuckles?

"Media deal" in the form of a book by Levi Johnston?

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If Palin resigned to take a national spotlight position for the GOP,

Why do it in a rush on a no-news holiday weekend?  She's hiding from some dropping shoe.  But I wish her well in her national spotlight, dragging the GOP further down.

I'm surprised at how few people see the irony in forcing a state to stay in the union, against its will, on the Fourth of July. As the Civil War arguments go, we might've been better off today if we just had let them go.

If we let Texas go today it'll solve *LOTS* of problems. 

We can take Alaska back...it's got a population comparable to Kern County. 

In *LOTS* of ways.

I don't recall ANY politician who  was ever so villified, brutally attacked, lied about, family SMEARED the way it's been with her.

The lies told about Bill and Hillary Clinton.  Especially the one where they were accused of killing Vince Foster.  That trumps anything that has been said about Palin. 

In any case, I'd would like to know what, exactly, has been said  about her on these blogs  that wasn't true.  We don't like her because the things said on Bakersfield.com about her ARE true.

Yeah, and I remember when someone on these very blogs implied that Obama molests his daughters, reasoning that...well, it's too revolting to repeat. 

I remember when people were accusing Hillary of being a lesbian.  I remember that Jay Leno told about 4,000 cigar jokes after the Monica Lewinsky affair. 

I remember when people accused Biden of FAKING his sorrow over his son's death for publicity. 

And we can never have too many Kennedy jokes, of course.  Did you hear the one about how John Kennedy Jr crashed his plane?  It's a hoot.

But poor, poor wittle Sarah will rise like a phoenix from the ashes and declare her intent to run for POTUS in 2012.  And the people (both Republicans and Democrats) will rejoice. 

 But poor, poor wittle Sarah will rise like a phoenix from the ashes and declare her intent to run for POTUS in 2012.  And the people (both Republicans and Democrats) will rejoice. 

Republicans wouldn't be doing that much rejoicing after election day, though.

Some idiot actually kept a list of people Clinton had supposedly killed.  The Wall Street Journal, that paper-and-ink model of schizophrenia, pushed it on their editorial page.  And of course, Obama has the birthers, equally out of touch with reality.

The problem with saying all those things about Democrats, is that to Democrats, those things are resume enhancements that just add credibility to them among the Democrat electorate. 

From your keyboard to the FSM's screen, dril.  The country needs all the Democrats it can elect, and the bigger the Democratic electorate--something thankfully our man Michael Steele is working on under deep cover--the better.

Another chance to claim the moral high road, huh driln?

As I've said before,liberals take aim at individuals who have, demonstratively, done something wrong while conservatives use a shotgun to slander ALL LIBERALS for things that individuals have been accused of doing.  Regardless of how unfounded those allegations are.

 I'm surprised at how few people see the irony in forcing a state to stay in the union, against its will, on the Fourth of July. As the Civil War arguments go, we might've been better off today if we just had let them go.

There is no irony, because the American Revolution was spawned on the notion that England was an absentee landlord.  Levying taxes without proper representation was one of the main causes of the war.  The first colonies had been established a century and a half prior to the time period, and for the most part were autonomous regions with little major British control.  They elected their own assemblies and levied their own taxes.  In many ways, each Colony had been a separate country for quite a long time. 

It wasn't until after the French and Indian war (which was part of the larger 7 years war), which had pretty much bankrupted London, that the King of England began to take a real interest in the colonies - believing that they should pay for part of the war, since it had been in America that the fighting had taken place.  By levying the Stamp Act without proper colonial legislative representation (like Parliament in London), which thereby taxed almost anything made of paper, the King was thereby treating the colonies as lesser than the rest of England.  I'll spare you the details of the next number of years leading up to the war, but it all starts from this basic issue of the King treating the colonies as his personal treasure chest, when in reality, the British monarchy had not had such power on mainland England in centuries.

Interestingly enough, the majority of colonists were not in support of the war, even though British loyalists were outnumbered more than 2 to 1.

As our nation was founded and began to form a much greater bond, each State became more reliant on the others, as a collective whole, as it pertained to commerce & economy.  The southern states at the time were more agrarian based, whilst northern states were more industrialized.  There was a symbiotic relationship, that upon outbreak of the Civil war, was broken.  Regardless of how things actually played out during the U.S. Civil war, the Southern states were pretty much doomed from the start due to a lack of industrialization.  

I'm getting ahead of myself, though.  The main focal point of the U.S. Civil war came down to an argument between how much power the Federal Government should have over the individual State's.  The Federalist perspective came from the idea of "the benefit of the greater good of all," whereas the Statists perspective was one of "State's Rights."  The problem with the State's Rights mode of thinking was that the past 7 decades of coming together as a nation had formed extremely strong reliance's between all States - and for the Federation to succeed as a whole, it must remain whole.  Either way, you really cannot compare the southern secession to the American Revolution - as the South had proper representation in the Federal Government, and yet still had plenty of autonomy as provided by the Constitution of the United States. 

Upon the end of the Civil War, the 14th Amendment was specifically created to address this issue of inter-state reliance.  In order for any rebellion state to rejoin the Union, they had to first agree to the ratification of the Amendment, thereby admitting that the citizens of each State were also citizens of the Federation, and therefore, it was illegal for any State to take away the rights of it's citizens to be U.S. Citizens.  In other words, if the legislature of Alaska decided it wanted to break away, it would be violating the 14th Amendment by refusing to allow it's citizens to remain in the U.S. 

I'm originally from Florida, and now live in California.  I don't consider myself a Floridian, and I don't consider myself a Californian - I consider myself an American first.

As it pertains to your notion that the Southern States should have been allowed to break away, I can tell you with utmost honesty that to have allowed such a thing to happen would have destroyed the United States of America. 

In other words, if the legislature of Alaska decided it wanted to break away, it would be violating the 14th Amendment by refusing to allow it's citizens to remain in the U.S. 

Not that they'd necessarily let a little thing like the Constitution stand in their way.  Did you hear Palin was apparently trying to claim her husband joined the Alaska Independence Party--for seven years--by *MISTAKE*?

 Not that they'd necessarily let a little thing like the Constitution stand in their way.  Did you hear Palin was apparently trying to claim her husband joined the Alaska Independence Party--for seven years--by *MISTAKE*?

They'd be really stupid to do anything.. and I haven't really heard of any real credible or popular movement to seceed.  I've heard more coming out of Oklahoma than anywhere.

There are plenty of people who refuse to let the Constitution stand in their way.. but that doesn't mean that they'll get away with it.  Let's put it this way, if a rebellion did take place within any particular State, we would have all the justification we need to impose martial law. 

'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing,

From:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/...


"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

TSM..if I'd said "this is why she's resigning" and not "this is more likely" you might have a case.  But I didn't..I was "speculating."  Which after all, was my point.

You faied ths one buddy boy.  Glad you enjoyed the laugh..now it's on you.

Emphasis is mine.  This is a piece form an article out of Juneau Alaska. 

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a "higher calling" with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines.

A day after surprising even her closest friends by announcing she would step down as Alaska governor more than a year before her term was up, the controversial hockey mom was still keeping details of her future plans under wrap. But in a statement posted on Palin's Facebook account, she suggested that she had bigger plans and a national agenda she planned to push after she resigns at the end of the month.

"I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint," she said.

Palin also cast herself as a victim and blasted the media, calling the response to her announcement "predictable" and out of touch.

"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country," the statement said. "And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."

Palin's personal spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, confirmed to The Associated Press that the Facebook posting was written by the governor.

The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans has fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint what he calls fraudulent claims.

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."

.

And I should care because.........

thanks but no thanks...

Speculation boys, speculation.  The emphasis was because she is singled out for everything she does and when she fights back in the way that makes sense to her, she still gets attacked.  No one wondered why others who left their position to run for another office or to campaign wasn't criticized?  But she is?

No one sees that when obama dropped out of sight in his senate seat to campaign no one cared?  But when she did it she was maligned.  Now that she's made it pretty clear that she intends to work for the party without the world being able to hold her state hostage with allegations they can't prove, ANOTHER allegation of embezzlement rears it's ugly head.

And you guys can't see any of that?  As a presidential candidate I'm not even sure I'd support her,  but you'd have to be blind as a bat not to see that she has been marked by the Democrats and their party to destroy.  No one works that hard to destroy someone unless they have reason to fear them.  If she's sooo bad, and such an idiot, and such a drag on politics why do you really give a hoot what she does?  AND, up til she resigned, the Dems and Libs were the only ones bringing her name up incessantly here on this blog.  Why is that?

I understand Lings question but Jf...what does 'No thanks" in regard to?

So what are they saying over at that icon of liberal news, the Huffington Post?

Sick. 

Oh yeah comedy, that's a regular riot all right.  I rest my case.  (for now anyway)

Oh, and this in the LA Times:

Despite rumors of a looming controversy after the Republican governor's surprise announcement Friday that she would leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true." He added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.
 

Time for some Puff Ho bloggers to start spending all their time and money defending some lawsuits now.

It's about time lawsuits were filed.  I've NEVER seen this kind of behavior toward ANY candidate before.  Not just allegations, but outright lies.  And to what end?

Is this the sort of thing the libs and the media can be proud of?

And please, don't start with the "what abouts" there was NO foundation for this last attack

I agree that it's sick.  Hell, I don't even like Sarah Palin, and I'M offended.

Did you see that it wasn't real, though?  It's listed as "comedy" at the top. 

I'm not defending it.  Like I said, I think it's sick.  I'm just saying it's not a real editorial.  It's supposed to be more like The Onion, although I am sure The Onion would have better taste this.

I didn't completely read or comment here earlier because I had little people to attend to and didn't want the negative energy to affect them. As I often say, having said that, I will say this:

It takes a whole lot of discipline for me, right now, to not completely lose it and go off on those who religiously follow all those brainwashing, full of crap websites. I'm so pissed off at this "comedy" and "humor". Hahahahaha. Isn't it funny? Not.

One would never see this kind of venomous, hateful, disgusting, and completely tasteless commentary on any legitimate site. That the "left" here choose to use such a source again and again is telling. 

Honestly, I never read the Huffington Post.

That's just wrong.

One would never see this kind of venomous, hateful, disgusting, and completely tasteless commentary on any legitimate site.

Guess you don't count the Californian as a "legitimate site."   The right-wing does it here all the time, only with Obama as a target.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her,"

No one said the FBI was involved.

In fact, the rumor going around in Alaska is that the IRS is investigating her, not the FBI. That's always been the rumor.

And how odd is it to get a statement from a government agency on a holiday weekend?

"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement

As Moore said, bring it on. She has a long list of lawyers willing to work pro bono to be the one to depose Palin.

Palin's lawyer is an idiot. Moore stated very clearly, and twice, that it was a rumor.

 I wonder if they're gonna make her sell  the house her spouse said he built?

--virgil