Alaska Planning War With U.S.?

The GOP sure is good at turning out creepy ads with spooky music and ominous subtitles. Thankfully the Obama camp has chosen the high road. With the help of the internet we the people can do our own dirt digging and “ad” making.

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via WATCH: Alaska planning war with U.S. – 236.com – The Feed

Alaska Newspaper Endorses Obama

The top newspaper in the home state of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for president. Alaska’s largest-circulation paper, the Anchorage Daily News, said state governor Mrs Palin was “too risky” to be one step away from the presidency. More HERE…

Countdown to Troopergate

The investigation findings will be released today.

But that did not stop the “McCalin” campaign from pulling a Bush/Rove and releasing their OWN truth.

We spent 8 years being lied to, do we really want another 4? This is not the time for those that create their own reality.

 

“The Resentments of Sarah Palin”

Great article by Noam Scheiber from TNR. Money quote:

Palin, by contrast, may be the first conservative politician since Nixon to experience resentment so authentically. For her, it’s not so much a political tool as a motivating principle. A trip through Palin’s past reveals that almost every step of her career can be understood as a reaction to elitist condescension–much of it in her own mind.

‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally

The biggest political rally to date in Alaska occurred on September 14th and was organized by a small group of women who wanted to demonstrate that Sara Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. This was a real grass-roots rally, where flyers about the rally were posted around town, local media outlets were contacted, and home-made signs were encouraged. Organizers thought the rally would be a success if 100 people showed up. So how many do you think came out to voice their opposition to the Governor of Alaska? Over 1,400!!!

Read one participants blog entry and see more pictures here.

Alaska Women Reject Palin Rally

 

[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin Rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin does not speak for all Alaska women, or men. 

So, if you’ve been doing the math, Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage! 

Pictures of that rally (Click on images to see full size):

 

 

Lies, Lies, Lies

Over the last few days, and especially since the new and far-fetched (to say the least) ”Original Mavericks” McCain-Palin ad, the media is FINALLY starting to uncover the truth about Governor Palin and the situation in Alaska. Time magazine’s Michael Kinsley’s finally goes there:

Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 21/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska’s government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

Alaska is, in essence, an adjunct member of OPEC. It has four different taxes on oil, which produce more than 89% of the state’s unrestricted revenue. On average, three-quarters of the value of a barrel of oil is taken by the state government before that oil is permitted to leave the state. Alaska residents each get a yearly check for about $2,000 from oil revenues, plus an additional $1,200 pushed through by Palin last year to take advantage of rising oil prices. Any sympathy the governor of Alaska expresses for folks in the lower 48 who are suffering from high gas prices or can’t afford to heat their homes is strictly crocodile tears.

As if it couldn’t support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1.