Jerry’s Blog–Because Wit Happens

Ah, I wish I’d thought of this first. (This is an actual book being released on the same day as the, ahem, long-awaited “Memoir” written by somebody who, I assume, got paid part of Ms. Palin’s significant advance for, you know, writing a book. I think maybe she wrote the first 3 chapters and then, um, quit…)

What books does Ms. Palin read? You know: all of them.

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Bonus: Whitehouse site for explaining the health care issues: http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/

In case you missed it–the high points, as recited by William Shatner:

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The actual speech, in its entirety:

What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.

And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it’s the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn’t it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride.

And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in America with some seeming to just be Hell bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays. But as other people have asked, “How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the great proud volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?” Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we’re on the, um, on Ft. Rich the base there, the army chapel, and we heard the last roll call, and the sounding of Taps for three very brave, very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect all of our cherished freedoms, including our freedom of speech which, par for the course, I’m going to exercise.
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I hate pathological liars.

Absolutely hate them.

I’ve written about the phenomenon before in connection with Hillary Clinton.

So it is only “fair and balanced” to link to this article in THE ATLANTIC with a compendium of Sarah Palin’s odd little statements:

Some readers have asked me to put all the various odd lies of Sarah Palin that the Dish has compiled in one helpful place. So that’s what we’ve done. A couple of months ago, I asked an intern to re-fact-check all of them to make sure new details hadn’t emerged that might debunk some. And I also asked to get any subsequent statements by Palin that acknowledged that she had erred in any of these statements that are easily rebuttable by facts in the public record and apologized and corrected. She has not. Since this was a vast project over the last ten months, it’s possible there are some nuances or errors that need fixing. Please tell us if you find one and we’ll acknowledge and fix. But it has been put through the ringer a few times.

After you have read these, ask yourself: what wouldn’t Sarah Palin lie about if she felt she had to? [Rest of article]

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She’ll be missed…

Waaaaaaaaaah…:

We miss her…:

On behalf of wolves everywhere: “OOOOoooooooooooowwwwww”:

Been seeing a little buzz about this video, so thought I’d post it here for you. Haven’t even watched it yet myself. Maybe with the sound down…:

Thanks for the heads up, Uncle Rich!