I just read the news. It doesn't sound like she wants to continue in politics at all. I don't blame her.

Hopefully she will get a good job where she can continue to end favoritism.

I blame John McCain! I'm not a fan of Palin. If I saw her flying above me with a shotgun, I'd shoot first. Having said that, I have never seen such uncontrolled mysogyny by a group of male politicians ever in my life. I think the GOP have truly shown how backwards they are, with their uncharitable treatment of a hapless bumpkin. To ask for her wardrobe back was the biggest disgrace intended to sully her like some cheap whore that got thrown back on the sidewalk - but they were the ones who went out to get her, all blind ambition and dim witted. It was their mistake, one they had absolutely no grace in stepping back from. McCain is a twit, more insignificant by his lack of gentlemanness towards his running mate. I hope the GOP go back to soul search on their human and Christian values because they screwed up royally towards one of their own. I would personally extend a hand to a fellow woman who has been unnecessarily pulled out of obscurity into a role simply for political effect, only to be cast off unceremoniously when she didn't fulfill the simplistic, chauvinistic agenda of lame politicians. I wish her well now. I don't care for her politics. I hope she finds comfort somewhere.

Oh LouLou...you might not like her politic now but if I ever give you Alaska you will be very happy with them then. She has increased our state income several fold. She has made the big oil companies to pony up a larger share. Not just with oil, fishing, gold, uranium, timber. Financially Alaska is much better now than 4 years ago.

I do blame John McCain for allowing his folks to treat her so bad. I hate the media, but they fed off the McCain workers.

I personnel think she was not ready for prime time. She was correct for Alaska and the normal stage that an Alaskan governor plays on...dealing with Russia, S. Korea, Japan, Canada (especially Yukon Terrority, British Columbia and the Northwest Terrority).

I hope that after July 26th when she leave Juneau for the last time that she and her family can heal.

I'll get off my soap box.

i found this very interesting!! and a couple of stories linked at the bottom too. is this a big thing happening up there in our biggest state? or is this hpost fodder for the celebrity cult (or in her case... anti-celebrity). i'm really very interested in this story and would love "locals" feedback. i'm not throwing stones our gov just appointed a creationism proponant to the state education board (joke texas always progressive in education I know shannyn moore, she's the one palin accused of slander. she held a press conference and said "BRING it ON". no suit.....no slanderJMO there's another shoe to drop

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-m ... 30390.html

*quotes

*When Senator Bill Wielechowski came on my radio program this week, he dropped a bomb I wasn't ready for; in order for Alaska to avoid a constitutional crisis, "The real solution...is for the governor to say...'I will withhold my resignation until the legislature can meet.'"

Dead air...please explain, Senator.

Wielechowski pointed out that this was the first summer in years that the legislature was not called into a special session. Lawmakers made plans. Plans to fish, plans to visit friends and relatives Outside, plans to just enjoy an Alaskan Summer. Getting everyone together prior to July 25 (Palin's last day as governor) is almost next to impossible ("...we estimate we can (meet) first-second week in August...").

For some reason, nothing seems simple in Alaska. (Texas & Alaska got alot in common )It would seem with the governor's resignation, the Lieutenant Governor, Sean Parnell, could simply take his seat. The appointed third-in-line would then slip into Sean's chair and we could get back to business.

Sorry. According to both parties , Alaska sits on the edge of a constitutional crisis because of the "chain of command vacuum" created by the governor's abrupt resignation.

*Here is where the constitutional crisis has a head on.

With Palin's resignation, Joe Schmidt declining the Lt. Gov job, and Mr. Campbell not being confirmed by the legislative body...we are left with one leader, Sean Parnell, and no spares. According to the Constitution we have to have a spare. The only way to get a spare is to have a special session and confirm Mr. Campbell. Palin's newest attorney general appointee, Dan Sullivan, formerly of the Bush Administration, supports the un-confimed succession of Mr. Campbell. Mr. Sullivan has yet to be approved by the legislature.

Oooh, lucky us! An oh-so-special session! Wait!

Governor Palin's $28.6 million veto of federal stimulus funds for energy assistance and weatherization is on the desk waiting for next year's session to start. The legislature has 5 days to override the governor's veto, or forfeit it. The decision was made not to have a special session to flip her decision-not for the lack of votes, but because of the expense (OK now thats funny :lol: )

*Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers I've talked to see this "July Surprise" as an expensive constitutional train wreck

trade you my governer for either of yours

bbb, this is the first I have heard about the Legislature complaining about meeting for a special session. It sounds to me that they want to meet. They get overtime, full expensives, plus their regular salary, reimbursement for interrupted travel and work plans. They will get more money for one afternoon of work..estimated it will take them 4 hours total to do what they need to do, they they earn in a 90 day session or approximately $50,000.

Arctic coast plays host to huge blob of goo floating in Chukchi

"Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department "

the article has a video of the goo blob.

LOULOU..are you up to something?

I can't hide anything from you! When I was in Alaska on a secret mission to take it over, I flushed the wax I used on my legs when I was getting ready to leave since I didn't need fur anymore. (YUK!)

By the by, the video and photo links shut down my computer just now, warning: spyware.

The other theory, aside from my leg wax, is ALIENS!!! Maybe that's what Palin was really looking out for when she stood guard over Russia

I knew it!!. Gotten give you points for trying.

The link came from the Anchorage Daily Newspaper, would not surprize me at all if they use spyware.

I heard on the radio that the University of Alaska, Fairbanks has a research vessel up there studying how it is effecting whales, seals, walrus, swimming polar bears and sea birds. It came, they believe, from Russia. During the Cold War they used to try to distrub seasonal migration. There's a lot of wonder if they are behind this. They were upset because Alaska has claimed the sea bed under our water area..Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean area.

A country has sovereignty of waters up to about 250 miles off their coast. Russia is greedy for oil, remember they tried to plant their flag in my ice sheath in the Arctic Pole? Get real! They did it in advance of the effect of global warming who, should it melt, would release this resource. G-R-E-E-D-Y and no qualms! Putin, go have some poutine somewhere and chill

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534 ... latestnews

*That big, oily black blob floating in the Arctic north of Alaska? Perfectly natural, say scientists.

"We got the results back from the lab today," Ed Meggert of the state Department of Environmental Conservation told the Anchorage Daily News late last week. "It was marine algae."

I would say that too, after whipping their sorry butts covertly

The radio is saying it is a naturally created substance. The hairy portion is just normal. It kills birds who land in it. There is currently no living memory of this stuff coming to visit before. Hopefully it will leave as rapidly as it came.

Becareful LouLou it's heading your way.

I think I'm safe on the Great Lakes myself... unless an hydroplane flies over after landing up there in the stuff. Witness the neglect the longer I'm not reigning in Alaska!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/2 ... 46034.html

this is hilarious!!! shatner making poetry out of that disjointed, rambling WTF speech of palins. comedy writers sure are going to miss her crazy lady"ness"

Shatner I'm shocked to say not only has a building named in his honour at my alma mater (McGill) BUT he's actually a chanteur - not a singer - but a chanteur in the tradition of tone deaf celebrities (aka Carla Bruni)... His CD is called "Has Been" and I declare it IS a riot to listen to. I love the cover he does of the song "Common People".

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Not an ode to Palin but what the heck!

Alaska has had a lot of thunderstorms and lighting strikes last month..July. The lighting strikes have started a lot of forest and tundra fires. The largest one has been named the Railbelt Complex fire up in the interior. As of noon today it has burned 482,766 acres, with 457 fire personnel assigned to the incident. There are several other large fires around 100,000. I understand that all around the state right now there are over 300 fires some being fought and some being allowed to burn themselves out. Depending on the area and how close to a settlement fires are allowed to burn thus allowing the natural cleaning out of the underbrush and beetle killed trees to be moved out so that new life can start again. It's this new growth that help the moose, caribou and reindeer herds to find new food.

there are no 499 fires in Alaska, 80 that being monitored. The rest are out where no one lives. 14 of them are being fought. The estimation is that 2 1/2 million acres are currently in flames. Nothing close by me. The nearest one is still about 400 miles away.

MEMO TO ORGANIZERS...GET IT IN WRITING!!!!

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/912369.html

*Organizers of an Anchorage event that has been billing Sarah Palin for weeks as a star speaker were left scrambling Wednesday after learning that the former governor won't be there for tonight's event and claims to have never been asked.

*It would be at least the fourth time in recent months that an anticipated Palin speech has fallen through after Palin and her camp disputed they had ever confirmed it.

IMO she's probably stuck in her editors office working on edits after the first draft went through fact check department. JMOJMO

The magazine is not on sale yet up here in Alaska but it is down south. Several of the media types are commenting on the article of Levi Johnson talking about Sarah Palin and her family. For the first time it almost sounds like they could tolerate her. Here is the article from the Anchorage Daily News

Johnston: Creep or bearer of insight about Palin?

UPDATE: NPR's "All Things Considered" descended into the seedy underworld of celebrity journalism tonight and called Brendan Joel Kelley of the Anchorage Press to get the local take on the ongoing Levi Johnston media crusade.

The major-media pundits on the coasts have now had time to digest all of Levi Johnston's observations in Vanity Fair about the Palin household (the magazine won't go on sale on Alaska newsstands until Tuesday). Frequent Sarah Palin critics Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post and Gail Collins of The New York Times are among those harsh on Johnston. (Continued after jump)

(If you can't wait for VF's October edition to go on sale here, read the humorously "simplified" version posted by The Awl.)

Marcus calls him an "opportunistic creep" and writes, "Only in America can this be a springboard to a modeling and acting career." Regardless of the accuracy of his observations, she says, it's unfair to lay them out in Vanity Fair. "Would anybody's household look especially attractive if its inner workings were splashed on the pages of Vanity Fair by someone with every motive to accentuate the negative? I know mine wouldn't. ... Sarah Palin didn't deserve to be vice president -- but she didn't deserve this either."

"For the first time in my life, I feel sympathy for Sarah Palin," adds Collins. "Given the fact that Johnston is a 19-year-old high school dropout whose mother was arrested last year on six felony drug counts, it is conceivable that he is not the perfect arbiter of normal families. But even if he were an Eagle Scout with a scholarship to Harvard, can you imagine anything worse than discovering your daughter's teenage ex-boyfriend has been given a national platform to discuss his impressions of her mom's parenting skills?"

But Collins, like others, was intrigued by at least some of Johnston's observations. "I was fascinated by his claim that [Palin] doesn't know how to shoot a gun. Hunting is one of the very few matters in which Levi Johnston seems like a trustworthy source, and if he says she showed no familiarity with weapons, I want to know more. In fact, I think Palin should never be allowed to bring that moose stuff up again until she appears at a rifle range and gives us a demonstration."

Likewise, Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times advises taking Johnston with a grain of salt, but ... "Still, he did live with Alaska's first family and was privy to deeply private incidents and attitudes. And the details of what went on inside this apparently dysfunctional American family are juicy."

Alex Koppelman of Salon.com agrees some of what Johnston says he saw in the Palin household is "not uncommon in a family where two parents are working, especially where one of them has a high-profile, high-stress job like, say, governor." But he's still not convinced Palin is a totally innocent victim of a vindictive almost-son-in-law. "It does tend to put a little bit of a crimp in Palin's family values talk."


Brian Moylan at Gawker says Palin needs Johnston to keep her profile high among core fans: "How harmful is Levi? He's only riding Sarah Palin's coattails - VF gave her top billing - thus keeping her in the spotlight." And anyway, he says, the GOP and Palin brought this on themselves by trying to exploit Johnston during the presidential campaign: "Yes, Levi is shamelessly cashing in on his brief moment in the sun, but if it weren't for the GOP and their collective delusion about the realities of teenage life, he never would have had a platform to begin with." Robert Schlesinger of U.S. News and World Report jokingly speculates that "Johnston is a double-agent, a mole dispatched by Sarah Palin to stem her declining poll numbers and generate sympathy in the so-called mainstream media."

Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution agrees that Palin bears the greatest blame, but also advises Johnston to shut up and questions his intelligence: "Levi is old enough to take responsibility for his own actions. He may not yet be old enough to drink, but he is old enough to legally marry, sign a contract and join the military. He ought to have sense enough to know that he is doing nothing but harming his chances to have a role in the life of his baby boy. If the Palins won't let him see the baby now, how does he think they'll respond to his continuing tattle-tale interviews?"

Here's what Dave Letterman thought of it:

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