Those small town values can add up. After quitting her job as Alaska Governor before the end of her term, Sarah Palin has raked in an estimated $12 million since July. Between speaking fees and her new reality show, Palin is becoming one of the wealthiest political figures in the country. In the meantime, questions are being raised about one organization that paid a speaking fee for Palin in California.
Pundits can debate the political costs and benefits of Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as Alaska governor, but the monetary advantages of leaving her $125,000-a-year public service post are beyond dispute.
This amounted includes $7 million deal for her first book and will earn $250,000 per episode for her new reality show.
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown has ordered an investigation into the shredding of documents related to a Palin speech by the Cal State Stanislaus foundation, here. A state legislator had demanded documents on the speech, which may have come with a hefty $100,000 speaking fee.
Man after smoking some really good shit we don’t think too much about nothing. We just sit and smile. Does that make me a Tea-Bagger? Although I have made Tea from the stems. Tried to built a fort one time with the stems, it didn’t work out too well.
Whelp, with that $12 mil and many more a’rollin’ in, the world is Sister Sarah’s oyster…and that makes many of us feel quite clammy.
What is sincerely troubling is that her views reflect a large and growing segment of our society wherein uneducated non-thinkers represent what could become the political majority.
I was thinking of having a party tonight. I have this contraption that has 8 hoses coming out of a gallon jar. I call it my group conscience meeting study aide. It takes about an 1/8th of an ounce of weed and someone to light it. We all inhale at once, then all listen to the daily news. Life is somehow better.
OFF TOPIC:
Welcome back Elaine and Mike. I hope things are going well with both of you.
Mike,
I picked up “Haiku” by Vachss book at the library last night, can’t wait to read it. If you (and Buddha) have some downtime, I highly suggest getting a hold of allthree of Vandermeer’s Ambergris books. Individually they’re good, as a unit they’re fantastic.
eniobob,
That’s a viscous slander! Of Delta house.
Elaine,
At the rate sister Sarah is going morphine isn’t going to cut it soon…
Slarti–
It IS disturbing that some folks take Caribou Barbie seriously! I suppose her mug’ll be all over the news tonight. We may need a higher strength drug than aspirin to help dull our political pain.
Elaine M:
I found that to be a very in depth interview, and besides we need that “eye” in the sky.ROLMAO!!
The “T” partys have a lot in common with this party:
Mike,
Why don’t we file that under “best case scenario?”
Elaine,
I nearly spit a mouthful of my strawberry-banana smoothie all over my monitor when caribou barbie shot the Russian bear at the end of the video you posted. Very funny. And disturbing. Now I need to get some aspirin…
Following up on my comments at 2:16 pm. Some Sara Palin prose for ya.
Empircookie, just watch and listen…and then take a bottle of aspirin.
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“Sarah Palin, the pseudo-pleasant shrew, and proof positive that truth is stranger than fiction.”
So true!
“I always get a searing pain in my frontal lobe when I listen to this snarky, effervescent, full-of-herself, not-too-bright bobblehead speaks–as if she has a clue.”
Oh thank goodness, I thought it was just me. We should think of a name for that. And thanks for the tips! Ah’m wahkin on the accent – but I heah that the Bahston accent is not just an accent, it’s a lifestahle.
Byron,
I accept your apology and your explanation (for you personally). President Bush, on the other hand, was being disingenuous (either deliberately or through ignorance). For various linguistic reasons the term ‘Democrat party’ is pejorative to most Americans while the term ‘Republic party’ is not. It has been used in this sense by many (most?) on the right wing for years (Rush Limbaugh in particular reinforces this meme every chance he gets). It has gotten to the point where I think that Republican (and other right wing) pundits use the term without even thinking about it – possibly unaware of the petty snarking that they are engaging in. Our political discourse suffers from an excess of name calling and a dearth of facts. I respect you because even though I disagree with you on just about everything (except buildings falling down as a result of airplanes crashing into them ;-)) you have always been willing to defend your ideas on their merits and the facts. Your response further confirms this and I appreciate your future avoidance of this annoying term.
Sarah Palin, the pseudo-pleasant shrew, and proof positive that truth is stranger than fiction.
Tea Partier Palin on Boston Common
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I always get a searing pain in my frontal lobe when I listen to this snarky, effervescent, full-of-herself, not-too-bright bobblehead speaks–as if she has a clue.
Have you ever read her responses to interview questions when they’re printed in the paper or on the Internet? They are bewildering…to say the least. I always have to ask myself, “WTF is that woman trying to say?” Her answers become meandering monologues. I doubt even she knows what’s coming out of her mouth.
She’s an insult to women with half a brain!
AY,
If your source is correct then it really must suck to be McCain for Palin will always be known as his legacy.
Slarti:
“When a conservative deliberately says, the “Democrat Party,” instead of the “Democratic Party,” s/he usually means that s/he does not think that party’s principles are democratic but rather are communistic, socialistic, authoritarian, dictatorial, or some other quality that runs counter to traditional American democratic, people-oriented values.
Sometimes, however, conservatives and even liberals whose speech patterns have been influenced by southern dialects will omit the “–ic” from Democratic when referring to that party. Much was made about President George W. Bush’s referring to the “Democrat majority” and “Democrat Party” in his 2007 State of the Union message. He made light of the issue by his self-effacing rejoinder, “Now look, my diction isn’t all that good. I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.”
Upper and Lower Case
The real distinction of meaning lies in the use of upper and lower case letters: the lower case “democratic” refers to the people/citizen-centered government that Americans so revere, while the upper case “Democratic” refers only to the Democratic Party.
Linguistically and by extension, if one disdains the use of “Democratic” for the party, then one should also disdain “Republican” for that party, but no one has yet to submit that the Republican Party should be called the “Republic Party,” that non-entity to which President Bush humorously referred.
The fact is that both political parties are democratic and republican—lower case. Both parties work within the American system of government, which is a democratic republic.”
my bad, I wasnt aware that it was a slight and found the above on line. So point taken and my apologies. But please accept that it was written in the spirit of the second paragraph. I am a Virginian after all.
empirecookie–
You mean you’re going to be in Bahston, don’t you? That’s wickehd! Don’t forget to buy a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Yankees Suck” while you’re in the Athens of America.
I subscribe to The Boston Globe–but that paper has grown much slimmer over the years.
Don’t forget to go the the North End, the old Italian section where there are lots of great restaurants and bakeries–as well as the Old North Church and the Paul Revere House (which I have never visited.)
Gyges,
Does that mean that if she becomes President she might resign mid term to become CEO of Exxon-Mobil?
Mike,
My take on it is that she’s the only one who’s taken the whole “run the government like a business” schtick to heart. She quit when a better job offer came along, and is willing to do the same again.