A novice's take on the local, state and national political scenes
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Palin chronicles
Amazing to me that some people think she's capable of being a national political figure. Her resignation/quitting shows that she really was never up to the job. Some GOPers are getting the idea, too.
27 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Where is the live blog of the Commission meeting Tuesday night?
Do you actually think before you write something down? You amaze me with your comments sometimes. Everyone who reads your comments knows you are about the most leftist person in the county> Let me see. Can you tell me Al Franken is more qualified to be a senetor than Palin a governor? Be honest.
It sounds like if she really did have her state's best interest at heart, then she did the right thing in resigning. It was costing the Alaska taxpayers a ton of dough to defend all the frivolous lawsuits thrown at her by liberals with nothing better to do.
I guess they must see her as a threat or they wouldn't be so afraid of her.
please. Bush didn't start the downhill slide we are in. Clinton did. Sure, W didn't help it any, but he didn't start it. It was the liberal thinking that anyone should be able to own a house, even if they can't pay for it, that started this. And that was implemented under Bill Clinton.
I was a hell of a lot better off when Clinton was in office! Oh and didn't we have a balanced budget???? I suppose that was because of Bush 1?? Anything good that a Dem. accomplishes is gladly accepted by the rep. as a previous administrations plus but anything bad has to be from the dems.
You are right we need more money, that's who I voted for, the one that told me all my wildest dreams would come true! Won’t have to worry about rent or gas or anything. Hallelujah!
I do see that the GOP leadership of Kansas is inundated with trifling traffic laws rather than offering anything of substance to regenerate the state's economy.
It's like they have no clue how to fix it so they think they can recover it off the backs of unsuspecting motorists (maybe all out of staters) who get caught driving in the left lane on the highway or by punishing someone who chooses to employ defensive driving rather than wearing a seatbelt so that they can crash into anything and live to tell about it.
Our GOP dominated legislature has not had one fresh economic proposal in nearly two decades. We have not celebrated a major industrial recruitment in over 10 yrs. The last thing we celebrated was Congressman Tiarht getting President Bush (R) Tx. to change his mind about closing the military base here.
That's not a gain. And, it wasn't even real. They announced the closing to the national media and but had already sent an internal memo to the congressman's office telling him that it would remain open.
That was done to give Tiarht an appearance of political clout and to give his constituents the impresseion that he rescued Ks.
On the other hand, how many generations will pass before we stop that pre-pubescent arguing that the economy and political landscape begins or ends within one administration.
Tell the truth folks. This economic quagmire is the result of the decisions of every POTUS since Carter, regardless of partisanship. Neither corporate or the poor have wanted or consistently paid their debts. One gets fed money and its called welfare and stigmatized. The other gets fed money and its called subsidy and it's handed out in obscene annual bonuses.
30 years ago, the federal government should have trampled on every corporate executive who took tax money for their business and then posted it as profit and handed it out a $million to their croneys on the Bd of Directors.
And they should have made capable people get up and get a job.
"someone who chooses to employ defensive driving rather than wearing a seatbelt"
Even people who practice defensive driving have wrecks. The seat belts keep you from getting killed or seriously injured when you do have a wreck.
"This economic quagmire is the result of the decisions of every POTUS since Carter, regardless of partisanship."
The economic "quagmire" is the result of Wall Street, international banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies and stock traders issuing credit default swaps on real estate mortgages without backing any of the "mortgage insurance" default swaps with real money.
They were effectively selling insurance without any backing and were selling it as an equivalent of an uncovered bet.
The collapse occurred when mortgages started failing and the companies selling the swaps were permitted to pay back the "bet" before dealing with the underlying mortgages.
Big surprise: It was not George Bush who collapsed the economy. It was Wall Street.
George's issue is that his administration was asleep at the wheel when it should have been regulating (or prohibiting) unsecured mortgage credit default swaps. That part is his administration's fault.
Anonymous said... "Even people who practice defensive driving have wrecks. The seat belts keep you from getting killed or seriously injured when you do have a wreck."
Actually, this affirms you do not know what isdefensive driving. People who are "DEfensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks. That is the point of defensive driving.
People who lapse from defensive driving have wrecks.
But, people who rely on the seatbelts saves lives motto have lots of wrecks because they know that even if they do, the seat belt will save their life.
It does not take into account the quality of life you may have saved - paralyzed, chronic back or neck injury, severed limbs, permanent brain damage from trauma to the head - but a life just the same.
Defensive drivers avoid accidents, watch out for inattentive drivers pay close attention to the safety features of their car - and they probably do wear seatbelts even though they won't need them because they practice collision avoidance.
Enough of the seat belt wearers who cut into traffic, pass unsafely or follow too closely. Seat belts don't save lives nearly as well as accident avoidance does.
So next time you crunch numbers, count the times that people simply left from point A and arrived at point B safely adn consider how simply being careful and cautious can save lives also.
Other comment - How do you absolve Bush but blame Obama before he even gets going good?
"People who are "defensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks."
I was at a stoplight and a drunk in a lead sled plowed into the back of the Chevy Vega stopped behind me. The Vega hit me (Sentra) and took my trunk and put it where the front of the back seat was and shot me through the 4 lane divided intersection, leaving metal dig marks across the asphalt.
I got out of the window and called 911, walked around and tried to see if there was anything I could do for the other drivers.
The moral? No seatbelt and I would have been dead. I had a terrible bruise across the left shoulder and one heck of a neck ache which lasted about 3 weeks, but not dead. I walked away.
How could I have applied defensive driving there? (true story)
Anonymous said... The moral? No seatbelt and I would have been dead.
and that's the myth that everyone has embraced. Do you know you would have been dead. What about people who have been in worse without wearing a seatbelt and walked away?
And, of course, there is the story about the person who was defensive driving and a comet fell on them. They were wearing the seatbelt and it saved their life even though the vehicle was reduced to ashes.
Is it possible that it wasn't your time? Few weeks ago, a man was driving his vehicle on the expressway in a metro area. He was wearing his seatbelt.
He suffered a massive coronoary. Was able to steer the car to the shoulder of the road and use his cell phone to call 911.
They arrived and started emergency repsonse. The man died enroute to the hospital.
It doesn't take a car wreck to end a life. All the seatbelts in the world won't save you if it's your time. And, most importantly, dropping $150 into a court fine box won't save you either.
Abother. That state trooper in Wichita who chased the motorist with the expired DL and no Prooof of insurance was wearing his seatbelt. The motorist who was being pursued was not. She was later arrested. The driver and passengers in the car that she slammed into on K96 East were wearing their seatbelts. All of them were killed on impact.
The motorist survived and was cited for a number of infractions and was convicted/sentenced for vehicular mansluaghter.
Maybe they save lives. Maybe they don't data points to both in crashes.
Not having a wreck should save more lives but the man (cited above) who had the heart attack discounted that evidence.
It's a great campaign. It's an even better revenue generator. But, it is mostly an attempt to try and save us from ourselves. Ks is a nanny state with no economic development vision at any level.
I rode on the floor board of the back seat as a child. I rode on the tailgate of an old pick up truck where the bigger kids would hang me off and let my little feet try to run behind when we went through those atrocious drainage dips along chestnut avenue.
I lived but than again, no one had a wreck. Go figure!
People who are "DEfensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks.
That is the dumbest thing I have read today.
As a former Police Officer and Deputy Sheriff, I worked many accidents that could not have been avoided by "defensive driving". The two that stands out in my mind are the one where the lady hit a black cow standing in the middle of the highway at about 2AM, and the second is a man who hit a tree which had fallen across the highway during a thunderstorm. The lady who hit the cow was wearing her seatbelt, and walked away shaken up, but relatively uninjured. The man who hit the tree did not have his seatbelt on, and did not walk away. His feet were in the engine compartment, mangled up in the engine. I'm not sure what happened after EMS got him out, but I bet his friends now call him "Stumpy".
I have more horror stories on the subject. Wear your seatbelts folks. They really do save lives.
"Anonymous said... People who are "Defensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks.
That is the dumbest thing I have read today."
Clearly not very well read than. But it seems that most folks concede that accident avoidance is a distant second to plowing into a tree or cow with a seatbelt on.
Who could't see a tree or even a cow for that matter regardless of the time. Wow!!
Best reason to where a seatbelt is to avoid being fined and/or tazed.
"Do you know you would have been dead. What about people who have been in worse without wearing a seatbelt and walked away?"
Nope. You're wrong. This one I wouldn't have walked away from. I would have gone through the windshield. The drunk was doing 80 and never touched the brakes when he hit the car behind me.
Here's the deal, whether you get it or not. If you are in a wreck, your survival chances are dramatically improved with a seatbelt. Even more improved with airbags.
Sure, it is best to not have a wreck. The highest skilled drivers in the world wear 5 point seat-belts. Why?
The only way to not have a wreck is to not drive. Before seat-belts, thousands of people died of had life changing head or spinal trauma disabilities from completely survivable 30 mile per hour wrecks.
It really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. How about seat-belts for kids? Even if you had your own opinion about your self preservation or lack thereof, wouldn't you want to give them a better chance? Unrestrained kids always do worse in a bad wreck. Think about it.
Car accidents are the number-one killer of American teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A recent six-year study from a doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia indicates that errors in judgment from inexperienced teen drivers and not wearing a seat belt contributed to nearly 10,000 deaths of young passengers in auto accidents between 2000 and 2005. Advertisement
According to the study, almost two-thirds of the young passengers killed were not wearing seat belts and more than half were riding with a teen driver.
Anonymous said... Car accidents are the number-one killer of American teens, " July 17, 2009 1:55 PM
Ok, all you kamikaze drivers out there have convinced me to strap on the seat belt. Never have I read so many posts about people hell bent on buckling up to go ram into a few people, old teens pedestrians, anything you find that won't get out of your way before you jam a radiator into it.
You are right. With all these smash em ups climbing behind the wheel, there is aboslutely no reason to think about the literally millions of motorists who go from point A to Bb and return to point A; mayeb even with additional points from C to ZZ in between without so much as a door ding.
If a crash wasn't a rarity, you folks wouldn't be all cranked up about the Traveler reporting every clanger out by the Casinos.
There have been many wrecks out there. Ask ODOT what the volume of traffic is for that one mile stretch of highway.
I am alarmed at the number of you who sound like you just climbed out of one collision and waiting for clearace to go out and cause another.
Whew! I will buckle up now that I know you all would rather wham a car than wax one. This has been an eye opener for me.
Now, what about the lady who got struck by lightening while standing in her kitchen. Should the state legislature mandate grounding straps to be worn in the homes at all times also? Some folks from Ponca City died when a tornado struck the lake side home they were staying in while on vacation. They drowned in the lake. Perhaps, all folks passing within five miles of a body of water should be required to wear life jackets.
Save us from ourselves. SAve us! Save us please!!!
27 comments:
Where is the live blog of the Commission meeting Tuesday night?
Don't start slacking off now!
Gop's are saying she's doing it for the good of her state, and that she's a savvy hero.
Do you actually think before you write something down? You amaze me with your comments sometimes. Everyone who reads your comments knows you are about the most leftist person in the county>
Let me see. Can you tell me Al Franken is more qualified to be a senetor than Palin a governor? Be honest.
Meth bust - scooped by the Cow yet again. How's that taste?
Iphone, text, I-card...there are ways to go wireless w/o using a local network.
It sounds like if she really did have her state's best interest at heart, then she did the right thing in resigning. It was costing the Alaska taxpayers a ton of dough to defend all the frivolous lawsuits thrown at her by liberals with nothing better to do.
I guess they must see her as a threat or they wouldn't be so afraid of her.
As a democrat, I pray regularly that Sarah Palin is the repubican nominee in 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, and for as long as she possibly can be.
OBAMA:
One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America
BUSH:
Biggest
Unprepared
Silly
Headache
We will pay for his incompetence for two generations!
please. Bush didn't start the downhill slide we are in. Clinton did. Sure, W didn't help it any, but he didn't start it. It was the liberal thinking that anyone should be able to own a house, even if they can't pay for it, that started this. And that was implemented under Bill Clinton.
LOL...the right wingers here are delusional!!!!! hee hee, they make me laugh with their justifications...and words ("frivolous"---yeah right)
I was a hell of a lot better off when Clinton was in office! Oh and didn't we have a balanced budget???? I suppose that was because of Bush 1?? Anything good that a Dem. accomplishes is gladly accepted by the rep. as a previous administrations plus but anything bad has to be from the dems.
Yeah, you dems are the smart ones. Too bad all your votes are wasted at the polls because the rebublicans always win Kansas. Why do you think that is?
Why do you think that is?
Probably the same reason we keep outlawing the teaching of science and the same reason we keep shooting doctors and protesting at veterans funerals.
Thats probably why it is.
12:"48
You are right we need more money, that's who I voted for, the one that told me all my wildest dreams would come true! Won’t have to worry about rent or gas or anything. Hallelujah!
I do see that the GOP leadership of Kansas is inundated with trifling traffic laws rather than offering anything of substance to regenerate the state's economy.
It's like they have no clue how to fix it so they think they can recover it off the backs of unsuspecting motorists (maybe all out of staters) who get caught driving in the left lane on the highway or by punishing someone who chooses to employ defensive driving rather than wearing a seatbelt so that they can crash into anything and live to tell about it.
Our GOP dominated legislature has not had one fresh economic proposal in nearly two decades. We have not celebrated a major industrial recruitment in over 10 yrs. The last thing we celebrated was Congressman Tiarht getting President Bush (R) Tx. to change his mind about closing the military base here.
That's not a gain. And, it wasn't even real. They announced the closing to the national media and but had already sent an internal memo to the congressman's office telling him that it would remain open.
That was done to give Tiarht an appearance of political clout and to give his constituents the impresseion that he rescued Ks.
On the other hand, how many generations will pass before we stop that pre-pubescent arguing that the economy and political landscape begins or ends within one administration.
Tell the truth folks. This economic quagmire is the result of the decisions of every POTUS since Carter, regardless of partisanship. Neither corporate or the poor have wanted or consistently paid their debts. One gets fed money and its called welfare and stigmatized. The other gets fed money and its called subsidy and it's handed out in obscene annual bonuses.
30 years ago, the federal government should have trampled on every corporate executive who took tax money for their business and then posted it as profit and handed it out a $million to their croneys on the Bd of Directors.
And they should have made capable people get up and get a job.
"someone who chooses to employ defensive driving rather than wearing a seatbelt"
Even people who practice defensive driving have wrecks. The seat belts keep you from getting killed or seriously injured when you do have a wreck.
"This economic quagmire is the result of the decisions of every POTUS since Carter, regardless of partisanship."
The economic "quagmire" is the result of Wall Street, international banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies and stock traders issuing credit default swaps on real estate mortgages without backing any of the "mortgage insurance" default swaps with real money.
They were effectively selling insurance without any backing and were selling it as an equivalent of an uncovered bet.
The collapse occurred when mortgages started failing and the companies selling the swaps were permitted to pay back the "bet" before dealing with the underlying mortgages.
Big surprise: It was not George Bush who collapsed the economy. It was Wall Street.
George's issue is that his administration was asleep at the wheel when it should have been regulating (or prohibiting) unsecured mortgage credit default swaps. That part is his administration's fault.
Anonymous said...
"Even people who practice defensive driving have wrecks. The seat belts keep you from getting killed or seriously injured when you do have a wreck."
Actually, this affirms you do not know what isdefensive driving. People who are "DEfensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks. That is the point of defensive driving.
People who lapse from defensive driving have wrecks.
But, people who rely on the seatbelts saves lives motto have lots of wrecks because they know that even if they do, the seat belt will save their life.
It does not take into account the quality of life you may have saved - paralyzed, chronic back or neck injury, severed limbs, permanent brain damage from trauma to the head - but a life just the same.
Defensive drivers avoid accidents, watch out for inattentive drivers pay close attention to the safety features of their car - and they probably do wear seatbelts even though they won't need them because they practice collision avoidance.
Enough of the seat belt wearers who cut into traffic, pass unsafely or follow too closely. Seat belts don't save lives nearly as well as accident avoidance does.
So next time you crunch numbers, count the times that people simply left from point A and arrived at point B safely adn consider how simply being careful and cautious can save lives also.
Other comment - How do you absolve Bush but blame Obama before he even gets going good?
"People who are "defensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks."
I was at a stoplight and a drunk in a lead sled plowed into the back of the Chevy Vega stopped behind me. The Vega hit me (Sentra) and took my trunk and put it where the front of the back seat was and shot me through the 4 lane divided intersection, leaving metal dig marks across the asphalt.
I got out of the window and called 911, walked around and tried to see if there was anything I could do for the other drivers.
The moral? No seatbelt and I would have been dead. I had a terrible bruise across the left shoulder and one heck of a neck ache which lasted about 3 weeks, but not dead.
I walked away.
How could I have applied defensive driving there? (true story)
Anonymous said...
The moral? No seatbelt and I would have been dead.
and that's the myth that everyone has embraced. Do you know you would have been dead. What about people who have been in worse without wearing a seatbelt and walked away?
And, of course, there is the story about the person who was defensive driving and a comet fell on them. They were wearing the seatbelt and it saved their life even though the vehicle was reduced to ashes.
Is it possible that it wasn't your time? Few weeks ago, a man was driving his vehicle on the expressway in a metro area. He was wearing his seatbelt.
He suffered a massive coronoary. Was able to steer the car to the shoulder of the road and use his cell phone to call 911.
They arrived and started emergency repsonse. The man died enroute to the hospital.
It doesn't take a car wreck to end a life. All the seatbelts in the world won't save you if it's your time. And, most importantly, dropping $150 into a court fine box won't save you either.
Abother. That state trooper in Wichita who chased the motorist with the expired DL and no Prooof of insurance was wearing his seatbelt. The motorist who was being pursued was not. She was later arrested. The driver and passengers in the car that she slammed into on K96 East were wearing their seatbelts. All of them were killed on impact.
The motorist survived and was cited for a number of infractions and was convicted/sentenced for vehicular mansluaghter.
Maybe they save lives. Maybe they don't data points to both in crashes.
Not having a wreck should save more lives but the man (cited above) who had the heart attack discounted that evidence.
It's a great campaign. It's an even better revenue generator. But, it is mostly an attempt to try and save us from ourselves. Ks is a nanny state with no economic development vision at any level.
I rode on the floor board of the back seat as a child. I rode on the tailgate of an old pick up truck where the bigger kids would hang me off and let my little feet try to run behind when we went through those atrocious drainage dips along chestnut avenue.
I lived but than again, no one had a wreck. Go figure!
People who are "DEfensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks.
That is the dumbest thing I have read today.
As a former Police Officer and Deputy Sheriff, I worked many accidents that could not have been avoided by "defensive driving". The two that stands out in my mind are the one where the lady hit a black cow standing in the middle of the highway at about 2AM, and the second is a man who hit a tree which had fallen across the highway during a thunderstorm. The lady who hit the cow was wearing her seatbelt, and walked away shaken up, but relatively uninjured. The man who hit the tree did not have his seatbelt on, and did not walk away. His feet were in the engine compartment, mangled up in the engine. I'm not sure what happened after EMS got him out, but I bet his friends now call him "Stumpy".
I have more horror stories on the subject. Wear your seatbelts folks. They really do save lives.
"Anonymous said...
People who are "Defensive drivers" do NOT have wrecks.
That is the dumbest thing I have read today."
Clearly not very well read than. But it seems that most folks concede that accident avoidance is a distant second to plowing into a tree or cow with a seatbelt on.
Who could't see a tree or even a cow for that matter regardless of the time. Wow!!
Best reason to where a seatbelt is to avoid being fined and/or tazed.
"Do you know you would have been dead. What about people who have been in worse without wearing a seatbelt and walked away?"
Nope. You're wrong. This one I wouldn't have walked away from. I would have gone through the windshield. The drunk was doing 80 and never touched the brakes when he hit the car behind me.
Here's the deal, whether you get it or not. If you are in a wreck, your survival chances are dramatically improved with a seatbelt. Even more improved with airbags.
Sure, it is best to not have a wreck. The highest skilled drivers in the world wear 5 point seat-belts. Why?
The only way to not have a wreck is to not drive. Before seat-belts, thousands of people died of had life changing head or spinal trauma disabilities from completely survivable 30 mile per hour wrecks.
It really doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. How about seat-belts for kids? Even if you had your own opinion about your self preservation or lack thereof, wouldn't you want to give them a better chance? Unrestrained kids always do worse in a bad wreck. Think about it.
Or maybe you are right, it *is* a conspiracy.
In other news, this post is about Palin.
Car accidents are the number-one killer of American teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A recent six-year study from a doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia indicates that errors in judgment from inexperienced teen drivers and not wearing a seat belt contributed to nearly 10,000 deaths of young passengers in auto accidents between 2000 and 2005.
Advertisement
According to the study, almost two-thirds of the young passengers killed were not wearing seat belts and more than half were riding with a teen driver.
Anonymous said...
Car accidents are the number-one killer of American teens, "
July 17, 2009 1:55 PM
Ok, all you kamikaze drivers out there have convinced me to strap on the seat belt. Never have I read so many posts about people hell bent on buckling up to go ram into a few people, old teens pedestrians, anything you find that won't get out of your way before you jam a radiator into it.
You are right. With all these smash em ups climbing behind the wheel, there is aboslutely no reason to think about the literally millions of motorists who go from point A to Bb and return to point A; mayeb even with additional points from C to ZZ in between without so much as a door ding.
If a crash wasn't a rarity, you folks wouldn't be all cranked up about the Traveler reporting every clanger out by the Casinos.
There have been many wrecks out there. Ask ODOT what the volume of traffic is for that one mile stretch of highway.
I am alarmed at the number of you who sound like you just climbed out of one collision and waiting for clearace to go out and cause another.
Whew! I will buckle up now that I know you all would rather wham a car than wax one.
This has been an eye opener for me.
Now, what about the lady who got struck by lightening while standing in her kitchen. Should the state legislature mandate grounding straps to be worn in the homes at all times also? Some folks from Ponca City died when a tornado struck the lake side home they were staying in while on vacation. They drowned in the lake. Perhaps, all folks passing within five miles of a body of water should be required to wear life jackets.
Save us from ourselves. SAve us! Save us please!!!
"Save us from ourselves. Save us! Save us please!!!"
Hamlet:
Madam, how like you this play?
Queen:
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
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