http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2097Todd Palin says he will refuse to obey a subpoena from an independent investigator for the state legislature in Alaska. The reason: Palin claims he's too busy out on the campaign trail. What a limp excuse.
Investigators want to know how much involvement Todd Palin had in pressuring for the firing of either the commissioner or, before that, the trooper.
If Todd Palin continues to thumb his nose at the law, he can be found in contempt of the proceedings.
But he may win the battle obviously being waged now by the Palins and McCain's handlers.
They hope to keep the independent investigation from reaching a conclusion before Nov. 4.
Problem is, the longer this matter stays in the public view -- and the Palins not cooperating with it -- the worse it looks for McCain's image as a law-abiding do-gooder.
Self sufficient!
Your now failed system is being bailed-out with a TRILLION dollar government intervention.
The idiocy from all involved is going to cost your country for decades.
Sarah Palin, George W Bush, creationism, NINJA loans, War on Terror...
How sad a great country has been reduced to this.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/09/palin-linked-el.htmlThe pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.
Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.
In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: “As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way.”
“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”
I would have thought you might support people obeying the law, as a subpoena has the force of law behind it.I reckon it is quite reasonable for The First Dude to say he is unavailable for questioning because he is too busy on the campaign trail.
What is wrong with that.
Get real, women and men of the left.
gg
I reckon it is quite reasonable for The First Dude to say he is unavailable for questioning because he is too busy on the campaign trail.
What is wrong with that.
Get real, women and men of the left.
gg
In Wasilla, a dozen or more campaign researchers and lawyers have begun overseeing the release of any information about Palin's years as mayor. McCain staffers have even been assigned to answer calls for Palin's family members, who have been instructed not to talk.
"Why did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?" the Anchorage Daily News demanded in an editorial Saturday. "Is it too much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor?"
Democratic leaders say the bipartisanship that helped Palin win passage of ethics measures, a new natural-gas pipeline and an increase in the oil production tax -- in most cases over the objections of her own Republican leadership -- is essentially over.
"She would have gotten none of her bills passed without us, and to see her come in and attack us now the way she's attacking us, when it's completely unwarranted, is just tearing people up," said Democratic state Sen. Bill Wielechowski. "I think it's going to make it hard for her to come back and govern in this state."
Palin had welcomed the Legislature's inquiry and promised to cooperate.
But she now says the state personnel board, not the Legislature, is the proper venue to probe what happened. The board consists of three GOP appointees.
Palin's spokespeople have accused the Democratic chair of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, Hollis French, and others of turning the probe into a partisan attack. In a media interview earlier this month, French warned that the committee's final report might turn into "an October surprise" for the McCain campaign.
On Friday, French, who was Palin's point man in the Legislature on the oil production tax hike, waited for more than half an hour for subpoenaed witnesses, including Palin's husband. None showed up.
Several other witnesses had been scheduled to testify voluntarily but, on the advice of Palin's attorney general, also did not appear.
The resulting standoff has put Alaska on the verge of a constitutional crisis, as the legislative and executive branches each refuse to budge, and no one is sure who is in charge.
Legislators say they will consider holding in contempt any witnesses who ignore subpoenas, and they have challenged the right of the attorney general, who is appointed by the governor, to advise state employees on whether to testify.
Palin's spokespeople have accused the Democratic chair of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, Hollis French, and others of turning the probe into a partisan attack. In a media interview earlier this month, French warned that the committee's final report might turn into "an October surprise" for the McCain campaign.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5844710&page=1Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.
"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.
The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.
But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.
The document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's trip to Washington, D.C., "to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski."
Last week a legislative panel approved a subpoena for Nizich to be interviewed by Stephen Branchflower, the prosecutor hired to conduct the Alaska Legislature's inquiry into Troopergate.
The Attorney General informed the Legislature earlier this week that Nizich and other state employees subpoenaed in the matter would not submit to interviews.
On Friday, Monegan confirmed the travel authorization was to pursue funding for the anti-sexual-violence program. He said the travel authorization form was completed in a fashion consistent with practice.
The Barracuda:
Sarahmania!!!
(My daughter loves this video!!)
I have a guy in my office who grew up in communist China whom he hates.
When he saw this video he said "but that's propaganda like in China, they are using brain washing techniques".
I said that's America for you.
A couple of teenaged girls made that video up.
Geesh!!
Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.
Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.
—Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion
Sounds like the description of every speech Obama has given, and the MSM slavish devotion to the Messiah (Obama) to me. Now THAT'S propaganda.
The little video is a couple of teenaged girls making a video, putting it on youtube, and having fun with it. Why do you hate free speech my a couple of teenaged girls? They have no power - but are simply trying to promote "girl power".
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