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The Discovery channel and A&E in frantic race to land Sarah Palin’s reality show. WTF?

Two cable networks are bidding on the reality show Sarah Palin is pitching about Alaska. According to Variety, it’s come down to A&E and the Discovery Networks, companies that recently butted heads over the launch of two shows on Discovery’s TLC that appeared to knock off A&E’s highly rated “Intervention” and “Hoarders.” You know

Levi Johnston ordered to pay $1,750 a month in child support to Bristol Palin. As mother and sister lose home.

According to ADN : The teen father of Sarah Palin’s grandson has been ordered to make interim child support payments of $1,750 per month to Palin’s daughter. The amount is 20 percent of 19-year-old Levi Johnston’s adjusted annual income, as set out in Alaska statute. Johnston’s payments are based on estimated income of $105,000 and are retroactive to May 2009. The payments are slightly lower for January through April 2009 because of Johnston’s lower income. Palmer Superior Court Judge Judge Kari C. Kristiansen set a trial date in the matter for Sept. 23. I have become very frustrated with Levi’s legal team lately.

Let’s take a moment to welcome two new websites to our Alaska blogroll.

The first one is a blog called Terminal Hypocrisy , and it’s first two posts are focused on our favorite granny grifter Sarah Palin.

Made a couple of changes to the old homestead.

It looks like I will need to start making my embeds a little smaller, and perhaps apply a few other tweaks, but for the most part this should be the

President Obama launches plan to overhaul No Child Left Behind. About damn time!

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy I have to admit I am more than a little apprehensive with the President’s plan. I ma definitely in the camp that sees NCLB as a steaming pile of shit, and it is hard to see ANY changes to hat bill as being bad, but I wonder if what Obama is planning will really do the job of reforming education in this country. Here are some of the features in the President’s education reform blueprint. — By 2020, all students graduating from high school would need to be ready for college or a career. That’s a shift away from the current law, which calls for all students to be performing at grade level in reading and math by 2014. Okay this sounds promising. — Give more rewards — money and flexibility — to high-poverty schools that are seeing big gains in student achievement and use them as a model for other schools in low-income neighborhoods that struggle with performance. I like the idea of rewarding good teachers, and more flexibility will really help teachers to use their creativity to address teaching challenges. — Punish the lowest-performing 5 percent of schools using aggressive measures, such as having the state take over federal funding for poor students, replacing the principal and half the teaching staff or closing the school altogether. No.

Celtic Diva is taking the trash out.

Just click the title to read how Linda is standing up for decency and exposing the pathology behind those who would attack Senator Reid as he deals with the horrible accident that injured members of his family. Before you visit I suggest you think a happy thought, because is a disgusting trip into a truly damaged psyche and I don’t want you to emerge with your mental health damaged by the visit.

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Ted Casablanca’s Awful Truth blind item is NOT the Palins. At least I am pretty sure it is not.

Okay I have been sent this post from Ted Casablanc almost a half dozen times. And sometiems people have becoem cranky wiht me for not puting it up. So okay here it is. The may not be swingers like Secretia Ohio and Chester Shorts-Off, but Henrietta Hard-Ball and her blandly good-looking husband, Elijah Schwad, have a convenient relationship when it comes to sex. Like so many famous couples. Henrietta’s allowed to pursue (with ferocious abandon, mind you) her high-powered career, as long as Elijah takes care of the family and the home. It’s an arrangement that’s served both spouses well, for many reasons. But ah, the only reason that causes us to really care about her is the one that makes Elijah happy. Can you guess what it is? A little bed-time dynamic that might make even Toothy Tile jump for joy? Yep, you guessed it (otherwise you’re reading the wrong column, really), Elijah lives to get it on with the dudes. But like so many selfish men—is there any other kind?—Elijah also wanted a happy home and a family, so he brokered a deal with the attractive, driven Henrietta, who’s about as interested in sex these days as Lindsay Lohan is in working. So both kinda fake-married folks get what they want—a career for her, a harem of hotties for him. What’s even more interesting about this scenario is the fact that Henrietta and Elijah don’t have your typical celeb following. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick they are not. Let’s just say that one of them works in a business that is mercilessly driven by what Middle America deigns right and wrong. If anybody in this corn-fed fanbase the kinky twosome so direly depends on ever got wind of the debauched details in the couple’s sex arrangement, life would be over for them both—in seconds. Hmmm. That’s quite a gamble, wonder why either of them are even taking it? Oh, that’s right, Henrietta’s never been known to see anything close to reason, completely forgot. AND IT AIN’T: Gisele and Tom Brady, Mo’Nique and Sidney Hicks, Michelle and Barack Obama Yes, I agree that the description of this couple sounds suspiciously like Todd and Sarah Palin. However unless Casablanca has uncovered something that has escaped the notice of every journalist and blogger up here, the description of this man having sex with other guys precludes him from being Todd Palin. Believe me I have heard almost every single kind of rumor that you can hear about the Palins, and I have never even heard a whisper of one like this. I could go down a list of all of the actual rumors I have heard, but I have no idea which ones have any validity, or which ones have been shared in confidence and nobody else is supposed to know. (I get a lot of those!) But for the record, as far as I know Todd likes the ladies. Believe me if I knew otherwise I would probably have hinted at it by now. Or I would just confirm that Casablanca is on to something. But I have no information that leads me to that conclusion. (By the way if you click the title and read the comments on the Awful Truth it is pretty clear they have little doubt that it is about Todd and Sarah. Gee I wonder who it’s REALLY about?)

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Ted Casablanca’s Awful Truth blind item is NOT the Palins. At least I am pretty sure it is not.

New Rules from March 12, 2010.

Watch how Maher addresses the mass firing of teachers in Rhode Island at the end. I think he expresses the same opinion that many of you expressed in the comments section last week. By the way, watch it quick because sometimes HBO makes YouTube yank the clip until later in the week.

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Minnesota to get a double dose of crazy!

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will hold a fundraiser for Rep. Michele Bachmann next month, the Minnesota Republican’s campaign announced Thursday. Palin will co-host the April 7 fundraiser with Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Minnesota GOP Reps. John Kline and Erik Paulsen. Donors to Bachmann’s reelection campaign can give more to attend a private reception with Palin prior to a dinner at the Minneapolis Hilton. Bachmann’s staff is also trying to organize a rally with the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, but has yet to settle on any specifics. Tickets will be $500.00 each. (You can read the rest of Politico’s article by clicking the title.) Just imagine paying five hundred dollars to see the Grifter from Wasilla and the Dingbat from Minnesota in the same room. I am just stunned that the circus freak show costs so much these days. I wonder if they will also trot out a bearded lady and pinhea…oh..never mind. Michele Bachman may be the only woman, this side of Orly Taitz, who can make Sarah Palin seem reasonable. What? Don’t believe me? Well then you need to take a few minutes to watch this compilation of her greatest hits courtesy of Countdown. Of course Michele Bachman is not the only politician who believes that the bright and shiny object known as Sarah Palin can attract the knuckle draggers and terminally ignorant to support their campaign. The Dr. Franken-Senator responsible for creating this monster has also humbled himself enough to beg for her support . Former Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be in Arizona the last weekend of March as part of Senator John McCain’s re-election campaign. Details of that trip are now starting to come into focus. McCain and his 2008 running mate will host a campaign rally in Tucson on the afternoon of Friday March 26th, before holding a high dollar fundraiser at the Arizona Biltmore later that evening. On Saturday the 27th they will hold another rally in Phoenix. For the fundraiser, $2500 gets you into the dinner as well as an hour-long pre-dinner VIP reception, including a photo opportunity with McCain and Palin. Tickets to the dinner alone run for $500, or $1000 for preferred seating. Can you just imagine how uncomfortable the small talk would be between these two losers? “Hey John remember how surprised you were when James Dobson made you choose me for your running mate?” “Yeah Sarah, remember how you destroyed my campaign, my reputation, and my sanity?” “Yeah I do. Do you remember how you wouldn’t let me burn Obama in effigy or let my supporters wear their white hoods? We could have won John! If you had just let “Sarah be Sarah”, we could have won John!” “I am getting too old for this shit.” Sadly for McCain he has no choice but to bring the Queen of the Teabaggers out to slap down his opponent JD Hayworth, who essentially is just posing as a teabaggger to get their support. I just hope he remembers how horrible he felt the morning after the LAST time he hooked up Sarah Palin.

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Finally somebody will get Sarah Palin on the witness stand!

Former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is expected to be a witness at a University of Tennessee student’s internet fraud trial next month. University of Tennessee student David Kernell, now 22, is accused of accessing Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) while she was Sen. John McCain’s running mate. Palin was governor at the time. Prosecutors contend Kernell answered some security questions, like Palin’s date of birth and where she met her spouse, then reset her password. He’s accused of posting the new password on the internet so others could look at her e-mail account. I doubt the defense attorney will ask Palin any of the questions that most of us are dying to hear her answer, but I know I will still be paying very close attention to this trial. Just in case.

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Finally somebody will get Sarah Palin on the witness stand!