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Sounds like she was off on a tangent about half a sentence after she started talking.
But a little further down on the HuffPost page I found this:
http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com..._n_245420.html
I think the guard who started the dancing program at that Filipino prison was definitely NOT the stupidest person ever!
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I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
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"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet
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Trust me nothing grown here is free.Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
What else are they growing out there that's free? I think she has taken advantage of the free harvest.
Of course youre not.I was beginning to think I might be alone when comparing the video referred to in this thread, to our dear Sarah Palin's speech(es).
And then, I happened to stumble on this :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_245779.html
I guess I am not alone in the comparison.
You and all of the Huffington Posts followers were led to a conclusion. You may not be a HP follower but you can say "Moo" or "Bah" along with them.
I invite you to "Moo" or "Bah" with the rest of the followers.That is a riot.I guess you were not alone at all.
THe Huffington Post doesnt hide their bias, and the bias in this thread isnt either.
The guard that started the dancing program in Filipino prisons is a genius. Tensions are down, fighting is down, overall conditions among prisoners improved after that program started. They recreated the dance today in tribute to the dead junkie pop star, as well as 3 other routines.
Even inferring the guard that started the program is stupid makes me shake my head.
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Oooooo...the conspiracy is growing!!!!
Wasn't that an interesting piece CM? What a creative guy. Imagine getting 1,500 convicts to not only agree but work together...heck...imagine getting 1,500 people who are NOT convicts to work together like that!
Quite an inspiration! Unlike......SP.....
Two words..teleprompter and speechwriter (unless you consider that three words!)
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Written by an Alaskan -
July 25, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor
In Alaska, Qiviters Never Win
By WILLIAM L. IGGIAGRUK HENSLEY
Anchorage
TEN thousand summers have come and gone here in Alaska and the village people are already preparing for another cold winter by drying and smoking salmon, rendering seal oil and drying the meat and hoping for a bountiful berry season. In the meantime, our governor has called it quits 18 months before the end of her four-year term. She leaves tomorrow, to be replaced by her lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell.
The Inuit have a word, “qivit,” that you do not want to have applied to you. It means to quit or give up when the going gets rough. In traditional times, and that was very recent, if you gave up as a leader you were jeopardizing yourself and everyone around you. It takes a lot of effort to maintain life in the bitter cold of the Arctic.
Things weren’t much different when Alaska became a state 50 years ago. It was you and your family out there, hewing a living from the land and what little cash economy that existed.
In fact, Alaska’s prospects looked dim just a couple of years after statehood in 1959. With a tiny population, inadequate tax receipts, almost no private property of any consequence and only a few thousand barrels of oil a day produced on the Kenai Peninsula, the state’s first governor, Bill Egan, was presiding over what increasingly looked like a failed state.
Three weeks into his first term, Governor Egan, humble and effective, was stricken with an infection after gall bladder surgery and hovered near death. After three difficult months of recuperation, he returned to lead Alaska through the early years of state building that the voters elected him to accomplish. He didn’t have enough revenue to pay for what little government we had, let alone do anything to meet the tremendous needs of its citizens for schools, health care, water and sewer lines, roads and electricity. All that changed in 1968 with the discovery of huge oil deposits at Prudhoe Bay in the northernmost part of the state.
We have had other governors resign, but that is not the same as “qivit.” When President Richard Nixon tapped Gov. Walter J. Hickel to be secretary of interior, he stepped down with the full support of Alaskans to help solve two of the state’s biggest problems — Alaska Native land claims and the construction of the oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. In time, the issue was resolved by Congress with 44 million acres and $1 billion for the Alaska Natives, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was constructed by the oil companies for $8 billion. With these problems behind him, Mr. Hickel ran for governor again in 1990, and won.
Finally, crude gold began to flow in 1977 and Alaska was on its way to becoming a full-fledged state, with up to two million barrels of oil a day flowing through the pipeline. Now, that oil is flowing at only 700,000 barrels a day and declining at six percent or seven percent a year. Without oil it is unclear what Alaska will look like in the next 50 years.
The great hope during the Palin administration was that a natural gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the Lower 48 would be built, creating tens of thousands of jobs and providing revenue to help fill the fiscal gap that will come sooner than later. In spite of much political motion, years have gone by with no commitment to build a pipeline. In the meantime, the global economy has soured and other parts of the world are filling the energy gap. The window of opportunity may have closed.
Just like other states, Alaska is faced with many problems that the governor was expected to resolve. But unlike chief executives of some other states, our governor is powerful and can appoint all judges and department commissioners and university regents, and can control the budget. With state revenues subject to the whims of the oil market and appropriations from Congress now uncertain as the country struggles with the recession, Alaska has serious, immediate challenges.
We have high suicide and school dropout rates, and problems of poverty and alcohol and drug abuse. The Anchorage area faces an energy shortage due to declining gas fields and the villages face almost insurmountable energy costs; key resource development projects are languishing, and there is no revenue sharing for Alaska for offshore oil development even though we have 33,000 miles of coastline.
In short, Alaska had a governor who had the stature within the state, nationally and internationally, to deal with our problems. She could have used her position to find solutions to the high costs and financial insecurities of our far-northern state. Instead, she abandoned her role as the state’s leader in midstream, making her the only governor in our state’s history to "qivit" in the true sense of the word, at a time when we need strong leadership. Good luck, Governor Parnell — may the great Arctic spirits be with you.
William L. Iggiagruk Hensley is the author of “Fifty Miles From Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People” and former Democratic state senator.
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LMAO@CM and ES. The link CM posted and ES quoted DOESNT work. THe real funny part is CM thought the guard was stupid and ES agrees with me about the program!
ETA: Sarah Palin is now a private citizen, feel free to show your unBIASed HATRED for a woman who has morals and religious beliefs, while showing how shallow you truely are.
If the empty shirts Boxer and Pelosi can be defended by some of you, I can only shake my head at why you would attack a good woman like former Gov Palin.
Last edited by blue; 07-27-2009 at 11:29 PM.
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Spoken like a true Democrat. Not Grace but the writer of the Op-Ed.
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Interesting perspective. I will never understand how deserting your post can be anything but...running.
If a general says to his/her troops..."this is too difficult. I don't want to be a lame duck general. I don't want to do soldiering as usual anymore" - they would be held in contempt.
I hope she is very happy and makes lots of money. But a leader does not cut and run....
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Pssst... Blue ... 5th word from the end ... NOT!?!
I agree with exactly what you said about the guard who started this program.
Praying for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine, and around the world.
I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!
"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet
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I apologise for that, your link didnt work and I just I ran with it. Again Im sorry.
Seeing how the link you posted still doesnt work on any of my computers I find it funnay that ES ran with it to insult former Gov Palin. A conspiracy indeed.
She is saving the state and herself money by stepping down. She has freed the AK GOV from fighting ridiculous and without merit ethics charges against her. If she is spending 80%, hell even if its 40%, of her time fighting these charges she should step down so Alaskans arent wasting time and money. This isnt Commiefornia where spending more time in court, then on state issues, is business as usual.
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Truer words, and all that.
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Yet another person who doesnt care about politicians wasting money on frivolous actions. Thank you for removing the context while quoting me.
You are correct in one respect though, Former Gov Palin is saving the state of Alaska probably another million dollars by stepping down. A million dollars may not mean much to you, or your state but it means alot to myself and my state.
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If it would make you feel better, you can rag on my Governor
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Rag on Palin all you like now, she is a private citizen again.If it would make you feel better, you can rag on my Governor
I dont get my kicks and jollies off by ragging on polititions, so thanks but no thanks.
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I totally agree with her. We should make a perfect pesticide for the crops but it's good for people and healthy and keeps the crops preserved too because we need the food because it's food and stuff.
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I used the wrong pronoun. Everyone makes mistakes. Please don't attempt to interpret my words and make them something for which they were never intended.Just love the THEY....
THEY must be one of those conspiracies....
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