Comments on: The Dish Ran Away With The Pork

By: Doctorb

Doctorb — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:04:38 +0000

Nice liberry you got here. Lotta books. Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them. Or shoot them, like out of a airplane or somethin.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:41:15 +0000

Apparently I got the facts wrong: the librarian kept her job after the town’s residents came to her defense.

Nope. She was fired and immediately rehired after the town came to her defense, and then was subsequently fired again months later in a loyalty purge.

There was no banned books list. Palin DID ask, in what could be construed as a threatening way, a “what-if” question regarding banning books and how the librarian would react.

Sort of like how, when the Mob comes calling on you, they’d say “It would be a shame if something happn’d to dis nice car youse owns”

By: SamFromUtah

SamFromUtah — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:27:39 +0000

the librarian kept her job after the town’s residents came to her defense. Wasn't this cited by Palin or supporters as evidence that she's not some kind of fascist - that is, she tried to ban books and failed, then tried to fire the librarian out of spite and failed, therefore she isn't the kind of person who would ban books and spite-fire people?

By: OneMan

OneMan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:41:05 +0000

Ruthie:

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html

Apparently I got the facts wrong: the librarian kept her job after the town’s residents came to her defense.

Nonetheless, it’s a point that deserves to be emphasized by the Obama campaign.

By: J—

J— — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:29:42 +0000

Hey, thanks, Mo’s Bike Shop. I did totally miss it.

By: Dreamweasel

Dreamweasel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:11:29 +0000

And now I wonder who’s boss.And who he’s leavin’ behind…?

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:50:50 +0000

I’m guessing she wanted the road to nowhere to take us to the river and drop us in the water.

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:24:42 +0000

Talking Pants Memo has video of Palin talking about this and other federally funded projects. I think the laugh at the end is overkill, but I like the clips that precede it.

I can’t believe you missed the allusion. I got your laugh for you right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKEb4ZFfZx0

By: kiki

kiki — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:49:13 +0000

I can’t get sound on my machine at work so I’m not sure if this is actually the right song, but if it’s Tiny Apocalypse by David Byrne, it’s hte best (although also most cryptic) song about the Iraq war evar…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QVET-sxel8

By: lobbey

lobbey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:22:11 +0000

I actually worked up in Alaska in the mid-90s, on a boat out of Dutch Harbor.

Just think, if you had hung on a little longer you could have been a TV star on Deadliest Catch

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:51:57 +0000

MzNicky, I’m sending warm thoughts your way.

By: jcricket

jcricket — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:50:22 +0000

MzNicky~

Ditto re: best wishes for good news. Fingers and toes crossed – whatever it takes.

XXXOOO from the whole cricket household.

By: Jrod

Jrod — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:40:38 +0000

MzNicky, best wishes and good luck to you and your family.

By: Gary Ruppert

Gary Ruppert — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:45:52 +0000

The fact is, I just sharted.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:12:55 +0000

MzNicky:

Blogging is therapeutic. Here’s hoping for the best for you and Teh Spouse.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:10:08 +0000

I don’t think the librarian was fired — people supported her.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:03:05 +0000

OneMan @ 1:02

I want an ad asking Ms. Palin which part of her deep experience she’s most proud of: flip-flopping on the bridge to nowhere? Perhaps using her position to get a trooper or maybe a librarian fired? How about slashing funding for pregnant teens?

Just out of curiosity, what did the librarian get fired for?

By: bad person

bad person — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:55:53 +0000

i saw talking heads at the rainbow music hall and the warmup was Angry Jung Men. “first week, last week” with nouveau reggae beat. John C. O’Reilly was looking for this in his beat laboratory, when you know who rubbed his you know what on the snare. Where’s Freud when you need him?

By: El Cid

El Cid — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:55:06 +0000

“Now Governor Palin wants to sell a bridge to all America. We need to say, ‘Thanks, Governor Palin, but no thanks…”

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:54:12 +0000

I’ve been away for a week so I don’t know if anyone’s already shared this. An acquaintance in Alaska passed this along:

Barbarians for Palin:
http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm

(beware: tasteless photos of tacky Palin amid her kills, not suitable for viewing while eating)