Both Barrels

The worlds largest "Democracy" goes biometric

2012-01-12T20:56:00.000-09:00

Things that make you want to go Hmmmmmm

Kill them all and let the Fish and Game sort them out

2012-01-12T20:42:00.000-09:00

Highly qualified individual seeks work for the State...

Situationally Aware THIS

2012-01-12T18:48:00.000-09:00

Look at Janet Neapolitano, tell me if you sleep better at night, and then tell me how fricking wonderful the Chief Executive is and why he needs to be re-elected, the Republican circus notwithstanding.
Big Sis IS Watching!

Mitt Romney's great grandmother "shed tears of sorrow"

2012-01-12T18:42:00.000-09:00

And Fox News had this before Lawrence O'Donnell... in 2007!
Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree

This one goes out to...

2012-01-04T19:52:00.002-09:00

Welcome 2012

2012-01-04T19:51:00.002-09:00

2011 kinda sucked.

I appreciate nothing more than a double entendre, tastefully done

2011-09-14T17:07:00.002-08:00

"No room between the pillows," Iowa Repubs say.

"We can't fit with Singletons' head in there," they grouse.

Remarkable prescience at See Her Pee

2011-09-14T15:38:00.003-08:00

Best.Headline.Ever

It takes a lot to make me furious.

2011-09-13T11:51:00.000-08:00

But THIS did:
Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit
Happy September 11, America.

"This is a new type of war, that's what it is."

2011-09-09T10:17:00.001-08:00

Read the entire September 11 FAA transcript Here.

112. 1103 Cleared to engage

Controller: I told them our mission is to protect major centers and we’re goin’ to take you and drag you down to Pittsburgh, and do this, because I got a tanker comin’ now. But, ah, I just want to give them an ROE because it’s gonna’ be auto-ops once he’s down there. So I want to make sure I got clear concise words to him before he leaves. Granted they only got four turrets of guns

[Background] Unknown: If they don’t, ah, if they do not, don’t respond to divert to hand signals and divert procedures and are headed toward a major area then you are cleared to engage.

Controller: Wilco.

Controller: Cobra and Apex, this is Huntress.

Cobra One: Huntress.

Huntress: Okay, there is still a bit of traffic airborne, they’re not all completely down, I imagine it’s all low south of you, if you’ll hold two loops before the tanker gets, ah, Oh, shit, I need a check list.

Cobra One: Cobra Onecopies

Controller: OK, I have ah ROE instructions, are you ready to copy?

Cobra One. Stand by, Huntress.

Cobra One: This is, ah, Cobra One, go ahead.

Controller: Ok the, OK the direction ah protectin’ the major centers, when you’re overhead the major center, be it Pittsburgh in this case, you’re, you have intercept authority on any traffic in the area. And if, if the traffic does not respond to, ah, hand signals, divert procedures, anything like that, and they continue to press in a threatening manner towards the major center, you’re cleared to engage.

Cobra One: Cobra copies.

113. New type of war

Unknown: This is a new type of war, that’s what it is.

114. 0911 National terrorist day

Surveillance Tech 1: Is today like a national terrorist day or something that we missed out on?

Surveillance Tech 2: Actually, ah, this is a day (indistinct) for a long time.

Surveillance Tech 1: September 11th, 2001.

And she channels Nixon: "I am not a whore"

2011-09-03T23:20:00.001-08:00

"Like you, I am not for sale"Except through SarahPAC.

TWWWSTLIJ insults Alaskan athletes

2011-09-03T23:18:00.000-08:00

"polls (sic) are for strippers and Cross-Country skiers."btw, nice tits.

My thunder, what a whopper

2011-08-13T16:31:00.000-08:00

The new bumper sticker

2011-08-11T10:24:00.001-08:00

Thanks FOR NOTHING, FBI

VA Secretary Visits Bethel

2011-05-31T07:50:00.000-08:00

and Kwigillingok, to honor surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard.
In Bethel, at the City Office, Secretary Shihseki, hosted on his visit to Alaska by Senator Mark Begich held a listening session.
Not a big crowd, in fact the Vets there were outnumbered by VA and Senate staffers, but we certainly had the Secretary's attention.
The local VFW was well represented and questions included how to bring more village Vets into the VA system, especially since, as Buck Bukowski said, if a Veteran ISN'T collecting VA benefits, and they go tot he local hospital for services, then the cost comes off the top of IHS funding for the health provider.
Shinseki agreed and encouraged maximum enrollment in the VA - "Our budget is numbers driven," he pointed out.
I spoke up for Coast Guard LORAN Veterans and Navy guys stationed at Navy Radio Transmitting Facilities who, like Coasties, may have been exposed to dangerous levels of Xray energy from the final amplifier tubes in the transmitters we tended with such loving care. Shinseki promised to "get smart" on the issue.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY
It was pointed out to the Secretary and Senator that since the Alaska National Guard out here is now part of a Texas (yes, THAT Texas) airborne unit, and is being deployed to Afghanistan later this year, that the loss of a humvee full of Yup'ik soldiers could have a devastating effect on a single village.
Shinseki, General Shinseki agreed that while that is the risk of deploying Guard units, also said, "I don't see a solution."
Begich didn't respond.
I wanted to say...wait for it...
END THE WAR!

see her pee'ers nonplussed over tweets

2011-05-24T21:26:00.001-08:00

The fanboys and fangirls at the see her pee website are in full damage control trying to calm the passengers of the good ship lollipop as things continue to spin out of control for the woman who was supposed to live in juneau but now owns a mansion in arizona.
Sure, a LOT of Alaskans move to arizona. Nothing new there.
I just hope she invites her nickel and dime supporters (who, as one pundit put it, cut back on the grocery budget to send her more money) to an all you can eat buffet with cactus juice on tap.
She won't. It's gonna cost a max donation to get through the gate.

He Shoots, He Scores

2011-05-01T21:38:00.000-08:00

Why?

2011-03-02T15:22:00.000-09:00

Petraeus Apologizes for Deaths of 9 Afghan Boys

“As soon as we heard about the attack on the village’s children, all the village men rushed to the mountains to find out what really happened,” said Ashabuddin, a shopkeeper from Manogai, a nearby village, whose nephew Khalid was among those killed.

“Finally we found the dead bodies. Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets,” he said. “The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.”

A Pilgrims Progress

2011-02-26T21:11:00.002-09:00

State Secrets My Ass

2011-02-20T08:58:00.000-09:00

Once again the Federal Government invokes State Secrets to cover up incompetency and idiocy, not to mention spending a lot of Our Tax Dollars.

The damage control follies have begun

2011-02-18T22:54:00.000-09:00

As a prominent Alaskan blogger expresses her deep disappointment that anyone would even dream of pirating the book she helped write, before it hits the presses, the seeherpee'ers are calling the Frank Bailey tell some stuff manuscript hilarious.
Anyone want to hear how I made her cry one time?

Parse the piss out of this

2011-02-18T22:46:00.000-09:00

And don't forget that dear old T(g)odd was a United Steelworkers Shop Steward on the Slope, so he learned head busting and thuggery from the best of the Union Bosses his (ex?) Old Lady so fondly speaks of in her fwitterbook thinger.
Union Brothers and Sisters, indeed.
Notice the plethora of links in an otherwise off-the-cuff post...when did twwwstlij learn HTML?

I always said I wanted a Mutual Fund made up of defense contractors

2011-02-16T17:23:00.000-09:00

Apparently some in the Department of Defense agree!
If this story doesn't make you want to puke, I don't know what will.

Stay stupid, America

2011-02-16T17:02:00.001-09:00

Your leader Glenn Beck sez: don't Google nothin. If it isn't on my black/white/video board here on Fox, it JUST AIN'T TRUE.

Here's a blog I like

2011-02-15T21:10:00.002-09:00

Stonekettle Station

Warmonger Bolton's excremental oozings delight corprophagic CPAC'ers

2011-02-13T10:16:00.001-09:00

Bolton certainly served up a "hot plate" for the poo munchers at CPAC.

Meet Todd's wife's personal whore

2011-02-12T12:14:00.001-09:00

McCain Bundler, Booted Over Role In FCC-Fined Telecom, Now Staffs Palin

The Truth Is Out There

2011-02-10T19:56:00.002-09:00

Todd Palin's Hooker Speaks!

Portishead Radio

2011-02-09T21:12:00.002-09:00

It's kinda like naked Barbie

2011-02-08T22:51:00.000-09:00

but not quite...
the fanboys love it, though.

Let's hope so!

2011-02-03T09:40:00.000-09:00

Will Boner's be the shortest Speakership ever?
It might be if papermill workers in his district object to his apparent scrogging an industry lobbyist who wanted to buy Chinese paper!

Even if they used his song during the flipper burial scene

2011-02-02T09:02:00.002-09:00

Bethel Boy makes the Big Time

A Beautiful Gift to start your day

2011-02-02T08:57:00.001-09:00

"A beautiful gift"

Yaari Kingeekuk, formerly of Savoonga, now of Anchorage, talks about the blessing of being raised by her grandparents, the gift of a baby in her life and other experiences.

Oh OK

2011-02-01T15:27:00.002-09:00

Dirk is still alive!

Oh, Please...

2011-01-31T07:40:00.001-09:00

Sober Up
Note to the Universe: These folks in NO WAY represent the vast majority of Alaskans who remain utterly embarrassed and hang our heads in shame when you ask us about her.

Truer words were never spoken

2011-01-27T20:02:00.000-09:00

WTF

2011-01-27T16:28:00.000-09:00

Speaking of, where IS Dirk Diggler?

In which the seeherpee'ers say scientific achievement only increases debt and is a waste of money

2011-01-27T16:23:00.000-09:00

Sputnik sputtered Soviet strength

The best, some would say ONLY journalists in Anchorage strike again

2011-01-27T16:19:00.001-09:00

This one is for all my friends in Eagle

2011-01-25T10:47:00.000-09:00

March 2000 and May 2009 Versions of RM-9, The
National Park Service (NPS) Law Enforcement
Reference Manual

In which we see that the seeherpee'ers, obviously representative of Conservatives everywhere, believe there should be one voice and one voice only in the media

2011-01-22T11:15:00.001-09:00

Assholes.

There's too much here to excerpt

2011-01-21T10:34:00.000-09:00

So just read it yourself.

LEAKED! The Safari Club Speech

2011-01-20T18:56:00.000-09:00

From unidentified sources, we have received a copy of at least parts of the speech twwwstlij will deliver to that All-American organization, Safari Club International at their upcoming gun show.

"Thank you, Larry for that wonderful introduction. I especially appreciated your kind words about my daughters, and I want to share that one of the common phrases around our household- in fact my wonderful Dad Chuck first coined it many years ago when I was a small girl, and now Todd has taken it to heart, and its so good to hear you say it so often, git 'er done. Yes, its a favorite saying that is very meaningful to my family. Appreciate your patriotism, Larry. Dontcha love your freedom? So many of you here tonight. Carrying guns. Love it. Thank you, really.
During the private reception so many of you, so gracious, glad I made it. Yes, Todd is here. Todd, stand up. So pleased he could too be here tonight. He loves guns almost as much as I do.
You are such a wonderful crowd, reminded of an old saying, guns don't kill animals, hunters kill animals. And we are all hunters aren't we. Hunting is good, built America, noone more patriotic than the American Hunter, carrying his gun, dog along too lookin' for that food, that food for his family, to feed them and make them strong. And maybe, just maybe he might see a threat to his family or his community and what does he do? He uses his God given gun to protect them. Dog baying, coon treed, how American, that wonderful hunter doing his best for the country he calls home.
Now some of you know me. Yes, thank you, as you might know I was running in the Presidential Election a couple years ago. Thank you, God Bless You. And I ran, yesy I ran because I couldn't stand the thought of that sort of person trying to lead our country - and we all know which way this country is being led - and I knew that was how it would be and I wish, and I know you do too, that the election had turned out different.
Hunting is all about prizes, just like elections, and I repsect the wide range of prizes you give for catching famous animals and I just want you to know that of God opens that door for me I will be trying to catch a famous anmial myself in a couple of years.
I wonder of there is a Boone and Crockett prize for apes? 'Cuz I am gonna bag us one, for everyone, the biggest one I can find in a couple of years.
I can hear the coon dogs baying tonight, and it just gives me chills to think that I will be on that hunt.
You hunters have a lot to be proud of and I am proud to be one of you. I am sure you watched me shoot that caribou in Alaska. Have any of 'ya been to Alaska? Thank you, thank you, its a beautiful State and I hope more of you will get there soon. As Governor I did everything I could to help keep down the populations of wolfs and bears who as you know eat much more moose than people ever will, so more of you can come up to our beautiful State to hunt and fish. Believe me I saw plenty of bears when I was fishin' on my TV show. Aren't they magnificent creatures? And so warm when you walk on them as rugs on a cold winters day, too. Thank you. God Bless you.
I am just so glad to be here at your gun show, I just wish I had more time to spend there.
You hunters, your club, when you go on your hunts to places like the country of Africa, you do more for those people there than any foreign aid the government might send to them, When you go to Africa, you help Africans in their own country which is good, and President Obama needs to understand that the Second Amendment and your right to carry guns and to use them as you see fit does more for the African People than he ever will. Thank you. Thank you. Really appreciate it.

The term isn't "Can't Win for Losing," it's "Can't Win for QUITTING"

2011-01-20T07:38:00.000-09:00

Some people JUST DON'T GET IT

Oh Iowa, Ye hardly know her

2011-01-20T07:31:00.000-09:00

and you really don't want to.

Light Reading

2011-01-19T18:09:00.001-09:00

Here,
Here,
and
Here

We'd like to thank the generous contributors

2011-01-19T17:58:00.003-09:00

of In-Kind Services to the Campaign

Whose voice do YOU hear inside your head?

2011-01-18T07:40:00.000-09:00

I just hear my CIA controller.
Other people hear Glenn Beck.

She demonstrates her immense skill in crisis communications

2011-01-17T22:03:00.003-09:00

telling the tingly-legged Hannity that although reporters were calling her and T(g)odd within hours of the Tuscon shootings, she didn't feel it was appropriate to comment until they had "all the information. We didn't have all the evidence."
Well 'cmon. If you wanted to look like any sort of a leader you would have said you were shocked like all Americans were by the tragedy that is unfolding in Tuscon, that the prayers of you and your family, and indeed all Americans go out to the victims and their loved ones, and that you have full faith in the ability of law enforcement and the criminal justice system to do its work.
Thats all.
Would have shut a lot of people up, since any reporters calling you in all likelihood would have prefaced your comments with a "we asked xxx for her reaction..."

twwwstlij's "become radioactive" in some circles - Maybe even in Wassilla?

2011-01-17T21:54:00.002-09:00

Hannity says.
And she talks about Martin Luther King, Jr.
But, prescience?
She quotes Dr. King, "A lie cannot live."
Then she says, essentially, ...And i believe that its not just going to be providence that tells what the truth is. We have to do our part...
Gonna 'fess up, are ya?

First eyebrow raised-

2011-01-17T20:45:00.000-09:00

"We hear this talk" about civility

"I know it isn't about me personally"

2011-01-17T20:41:00.000-09:00

hahahahaha
Bet Hannity bought THAT whopper hook, line, and sinker.
Actually, it IS about you, personally.

She admits they are "crosshairs"

2011-01-17T20:38:00.000-09:00

telling Rupert Murdoch's buttboy Sean "Cutiepie" Hannity tonight that they were "crosshairs targeting" certain districts.
Funny, she didn't use the "S" word (surveyor) that I could hear.

REPEAT AFTER ME

2011-01-17T20:01:00.000-09:00

People with guns kill people, with guns.

She also liked Obama's Energy Plan

2011-01-17T19:44:00.000-09:00

It seems that twwwstlij thought highly enough about thinking logically and compassionately about our own ends that she signed a Proclamation (wswstblij)(when she was supposed to be living in juneau) as reported HERE.

This counts as torture under the Geneva Conventions

2011-01-17T19:41:00.000-09:00

Float Coats save lives!

2011-01-17T14:58:00.002-09:00

And white float coats make North Slope whalers look good.

The drumbeats begin

2011-01-16T15:50:00.000-09:00

From deep in the jungle of Alaska's last wild-er-ness, the Matanuska Valley, the tribal ritual of cannibalism, carried out by the light of the soon to be seen full moon is in preparation.
Seldom viewed by the general public, in fact NEVER documented by the erstwhile National Geographic, long-time friend of the pre-pubescent boy until savages around the world took to wearing American Eagle t-shirts, the soon promised takedown of twwwstlij by parties yet named by them who knows should put to rest, once and for all, the messianic status of the Matanuska Maniac.
Stay tuned.

Have I shouted out to.....

2011-01-12T20:33:00.000-09:00

the estimable Dirk Diggler yet?
If you haven't made the acquaintance, now is as good as any.

Yup, she shoulda kept her mouth shut

2011-01-12T19:35:00.000-09:00

I read both speeches. You can find them easily enough.
Why an ex-Governor would make a self-serving speech on the day of a Memorial Service is beyond me.
Oh, wait, she's twwwstlij. Thats why she made her "speech."
The President's speech was pretty good and proves, once and for all, that her fanboys can't read. Just look at their presumptuous rantings on the see her pee website.
What a joke they are. Half of them can't spell and the other half pick on them about it.

Good call by Alaska's new Attorney General

2011-01-11T16:23:00.000-09:00

Attorney General rejects abortion initiative

Probably made by the shooter; was his only faved YouTube

2011-01-08T18:53:00.000-09:00

America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!
From: Starhitshnaz | October 02, 2010 | 317 views =|
If there's no flag in the constitution then the flag in the film is unknown.
There's no flag in the constitution.
Therefore, the flag in the film is unknown.
Burn every new and old flag that you see.
Burn your flag!
I bet you can imagine this in your mind with a faster speed.
Watch this protest in reverse!
Ask the local police; "What's your illegal activity on duty?".
If you protest the government then there's a new government from protesting.
There's not a new government from protesting.
Thus, you aren't protesting the government.
There's something important in this video: There's no communication to anyone in this location.
You shouldn't be afraid of the stars.
There's a new bird on my right shoulder. The beak is two feet and lime green. The rarest bird on earth, there's no feathers, but small grey scales all over the body. It's with one large red eye with a light blue iris. The bird feet are the same as a woodpecker. This new bird and there's only one, the gender is not female or male. The wings of this bird are beautiful; 3 feet wide with the shape of a bald eagle that you could die for. If you can see this bird then you will understand. You think this bird is able to chat about a government?
I want you to imagine a comet or meteoroid coming through the atmosphere.
On the other hand, welcome yourself to the desert: Maybe your ability to protest is from the brainwash of the current government structure

Paul Krugman is way out of line

2011-01-08T16:19:00.000-09:00

and full of shit.
"Conscience of a Liberal" indeed.
He suggests an awful lot of influence on the part of twwwstlij and until we hear what this kid with big high school hair and an apparent belief in mind control has to say - lets hope they don't kill him, silently, like they did to the Oklahoma City bomber - lets lose the political overtones.
Look at his youtube channel (linked previously) and tell me what his politics are.
If he had shot up a school, or a grocery store full of just customers, or anywhere else, it would have been a blip on the news with no political ascriptions whatsoever. They guy gives every indication of being a nut, lets find out for sure, and back off the blame game.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I AM waiting to hear twwwstlij remark on the "Second Amendment Remedy" theme and express her proscription of violence towards anyone.
Wake me up when she does.

I just can't resist

2011-01-07T18:44:00.000-09:00

For your entertainment, the Both Barrels Editorial Board (BBEB) will be offering up our "Pick 'O the Day" from twwwstlij's fanboy website.
Todays topic was short and sweet:
twwwstlij Reportedly Passes on Second Season for twwwstlij's Alaska
Briefly reporting the obvious, that advertisers have abandoned the hack, well known journo site Entertainment Weekly spreads the holiday cheer and, in fine fettle, the fanboys respond.
My fave of the evening? This spot of wisdom from illegalpointofview:
"She has a country to save sorry TLC
Run (REDACTED) Run"
(Please note, redaction made by the BBEB in the interests of National Security. Or, as they used to say on Dragnet, "names have been changed to protect the innocent."

John Boner is pathetic and deserves whatever he gets in the next two years

2011-01-07T07:40:00.000-09:00

"It was good times in America for a while. A man could wait for his local congressman to get caught diddling a 16-year-old, make a run for his seat, and then spend the next 20 years getting hustled around the world on golf junkets and showered with campaign checks and apartments and corporate-jet flights, and nobody would utter so much as a peep of protest. Congress was an easy job for any man with a nice fairway stroke, a limited moral compass and a keen sense of bureaucratic loyalty; it was half an acting job and half clerical work, taking orders from industry captains and selling the resultant giveaway bills to your voters as principled blows for Adam Smith, the flag and the free-enterprise system. Back when America was still a feared international bully that was flush with borrowed Saudi and Chinese cash and could stand to blow a few hundred extra billion in public funds every year on budget-padding deals — back in the Bush years — John Boehner was the perfect candidate for congressional leadership, a lifetime company man who didn't give a shit about most Americans but could shed tears on national television on behalf of Jamie Dimon's bottom line.

Things are different now. America is so broke, there's no longer really any money in the Treasury to give away — the job of overseeing corporate handouts that used to belong to the leaders of Congress has now moved to the Federal Reserve, which itself is so broke that it has to invent dollars out of thin air before it can give them away to influential billionaires. This leaves congressional leaders with nothing to do but their ostensible jobs — i.e., fixing the country's actual problems — and few of the current leaders have any experience with that, Boehner being a prime example. The new speaker represents an increasingly endangered class of Beltway jobholders who know how to raise money and get elected, but not much beyond that. He now finds himself the party's last line of defense against millions of angry voters who, for the first time in recent memory, are at least attempting to watch what Congress is up to. The tee times are over."

Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner

I must confess

2011-01-06T23:00:00.000-09:00

no, it isn't hookers hahahahaha.
but I do spend far too much time on twwwstlij's fanboy website. Its hilarious.
There is a small group of Pee-bots that seem to not only worship her and her spiked heels, but would step in front of a bullet (or a pissed off massage therapist?) for her.
I suppose I could gin up a "best of" post but just for openers, you owe it to yourself to follow this "open thread" through all its iterations. I promise, cheap amusement.

Me and Todd have something in common!

2011-01-06T22:47:00.001-09:00

We both have made her cry!
All I did was ask her a question.
All HE did was...

twwwstlij says AMERICAN IDOL is America at its best!

2011-01-06T22:42:00.002-09:00

Really?

Merry Christmas from Quinhagak, Alaska

2010-12-22T07:51:00.000-09:00

And click

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This One

This is a good one

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Click This Link

The divorce lawyer is trying to run out the clock

2010-12-13T18:13:00.001-09:00

Hiding behind the "question" of "accurate write-ins" is the awful spectre of Jim "How did that nigger get elected" DeMint who waits in the the wings for Lisa Murkowski's seat on the Senate Energy amd Natural Resources Committee. DeMint has been shoveling money like it's K-Y Jelly and poppers at Miller in an effort to bribe him into maintaing legal challenges against the election until after the Senate goes into its next session. The result? In my view, if Lisa isn't certified the winner in time she very well could lose her seniority - and the seat DeMint covets so dearly.
The Fairbanks divorce attorney and apparent stud horse cares not a whit about Alaska. He is, I predict, gonna take all his chips and run back to Kansas (free tank 'o gas at Tok, on Me, for the Olds Vista Cruiser on the way out, Joe. Just don't forget those unconstitutional passports.)
The money keeps rolling in, and Joe and his tribe of idiots don't seem to want to budge an inch.

An Alaska Girl We Can All Be Proud Of

2010-12-06T21:33:00.000-09:00

She's from Wasilla. Her husband works on the North Slope. She has a national television show.
She say's she is a follower, but she is no quitter.
She rides a horse.
She drives truck.

Lisa Kelly proved that Alaska Girls Kick Ass on History Channel's IRT Deadliest Roads last night as she stepped up and singlehandedly delivered a load of jet fuel to a helo base midway up the Himalayas when her two fellow drivers decided they didn't have the time.
A couple of things were evident about driving conditions in Northern India. First, they suck. Second, the distances aren't exactly astronomical. The best way to look at it is the Taylor Highway washed out all the time without guardrails. It takes a lot - like 2 feet of snow, or a rockslide - to close those Himalaya highways. The distances - straight line - weren't that great. It's the hillclimb that counts!
I found the show pretty interesting, a lot more interesting, quite frankly, that the original IRT seasons. Except the Canadian shows do tell an important lesson - if anyone finds a Kimberlite Pipe in Alaska, KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT. We certainly don't want to become the new Republic of DeBeers.
Lisa showed the stuff we know Alasakn women are made of and we couldn't be prouder of her.

If you don't have the guts to vote, then don't bitch about the government

2010-12-04T10:06:00.000-09:00

from this morning's edition of her fanboy website comes this comment from an obviously Patriotic America:

Doug White, 42, of Covedale, said if ~~Palin~~ twwwstlij does run, it would inspire him to register to vote – for only the second time in his life. The first, he said, was to vote for President George H.W. Bush in 1992.

“I voted for Big Bush and didn’t check another name on the ballot – and haven’t voted since,” he said. “If she goes in 2012, I’ll do the same for her. She’s real. She speaks her mind. This country needs someone like that.”

Mmmmm, Arsenic...

2010-12-02T12:03:00.001-09:00

Well, it's not exactly earthshaking news, but nevertheless it does raise more than a few questions about how life might exist in places we might think would be inhospitable...
Not coincidentally (or maybe conincidentally) astronomers just increase the number of stars in the visible universe to a number that has 23 zeros after it: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Yeah, I am now utterly convinced that little 'ol Earth (or Urantia, depending on what you read) is the only life-inhabited planet anywhere.

Is this why Congress and the Administration can't keep a straight face?

2010-12-01T14:24:00.000-09:00

MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167 NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

Participants are:
- Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.
- James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

I wish I could write like this

2010-12-01T09:53:00.000-09:00

From our good friends right across the Bering Straits:
Spankin' Sarah Palin: A clown short of a circus

"I have already called Sarah Palin a pith-headed bimbo from the back of beyond, in this column. I shall now go one step further. By attacking the democratically elected President of the United States of America at a sensitive time in her country's history, she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral.
"If Sarah Palin is not some kind of a massive political joke in the USA, wheeled out to liven up the political scene from time to time with nonsensical and pastiche (one hopes) displays of sheer and utter ignorance, then it is worrying. It is even more so if anyone other than a manic depressive suffering from a chronic lack of lithium takes this...female...seriously.
"Hockey Mum Sarah ex-Governess of Alaska is famous for her shrill shrieking style, displaying a pitifully shallow persona which one hopes is stage-managed to give the rest of the world a good chuckle at the Americans' ability and unique quality to make fun of themselves, a real-life female version of Homer Simpson-cum-Belching Barney at Mo's, giving us ever-more hilarious soundbites as she sets herself up as the dumbest woman on Earth.
"Just occasionally, one encounters a bar-room idiot whose party piece is belching loudly before falling backwards off his stool, bouncing off the floor on his backside with a background provided by guffaws of laughter, yet who winks knowingly as he is carried out with his feet scraping along the ground and says "Don't worry son, most of it is an act".
"The act. It reminds one of Marilyn Monroe putting on the act of the dumb blonde. But an act it was, a character projected by a shrewd, intelligent and charismatic woman with the ability to invent a persona. Sarah Palin, however, is the real-life thing. And it is becoming patently obvious that it isn't an act.
"Sarah Palin, the one famous for ludicrous statements such as "I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree"; she is after all someone who "must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life", Sarah "We're all Arizonans now" Palin, cracking down on immigrants when the US of A is after all a country formed by...whom?
"And now she turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically-elected President, accusing him of being incompetent for not stopping Wikileaks. Where was she and where was her GOP before and during the 9/11 attacks? She accuses President Obama of not taking "steps" to assure the leaks were not published. What "steps"?
"Sinister Sarah Palin then goes on to insinuate that she is an advocate of cyber terrorism, questioning "Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to dismantle WikiLeaks?" Surely a more sensible question would have been why the material for the leaks was provided in the first place...and this has nothing to do with President Obama, but indeed speaks volumes about the State apparatus itself which goes beyond party politics. Her question also speaks volumes about her own inability to perform logical and strategic thinking.
"President Obama after all knows the difference between North and South Korea, he knows that Hawaii is the largest US island and not Kodiak and he does not use the expression "refudiate".
"If anything is a threat to the national security of the United States of America, it is this screaming, unrefined oaf with as much class as a searing release of flatulence followed by hysterical giggling at a state banquet. Is this what the people of the USA deserve?
"To attack the President of the country at a time when the USA needs to close ranks and stand together to consolidate the enormous strides his intelligent and respectful approach has achieved in building bridges, when her party's period in government bombed them, Spankin' Sarah Palin comes across as a pitifully inadequate anachronism from the times of the Far West.
"The United States of America has evolved. She has not."

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

The few, the proud, the moderated

2010-12-01T09:22:00.001-09:00

I tossed this off in Mudflats (knowing noone reads THIS blog) and to my suprise, and pride, it says. in italics, Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Mark Springer says:

If anyone really doubts that her fanboy website isn’t pure and deliberate satire should consider the following statement from this article-
“For practically everyone, the written word is noticeably more coherent than the spoken word. Undoubtedly this general rule is due to the fact that when writing, there is sufficient time to develop cogent arguments and weave them into a logical narrative.”
The article is a long-winded rant against some guy Scarbourough (honest, I’m not sure who he is but I guess he is on the teevee) but the opening graf seems SOOOOOO apropos.
Her fanboy website really deserves a look now and then just for a laugh at the fine conjunction of loyalty and insolence which becomes more apparent with each passing day.

Mark Springer
Bethel

Assassinate Assange, she says

2010-11-29T14:11:00.001-09:00

twwwstlij tells Obama, "Off the motherfucker".

I am not a number

2010-11-28T17:26:00.000-09:00

Meanwhile

2010-11-28T16:35:00.000-09:00

the New York Times rolls over on its tummy.

Hurrah, WikiLeaks!

2010-11-28T12:43:00.001-09:00

The United States has developed into a society of state secrets, and i won't deny that there is a past as long as mankind where governments and hierarchy's depended upon secret knowledge to maintain their power and position.
"The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community" Carl Jung
via Tony Gosling
I agree completely.
So, to WikiLeaks and its leakers, bravo for a job well done.
The New York Times, as usual, has breaking coverage of the now-public availability of this goldmine of US diplomatic cables.
Also, watch Cryptome for linked commentary and reviews.

Your Saturday night classic

2010-11-27T22:45:00.000-09:00

And the apologists view

2010-11-27T22:17:00.001-09:00

well, supporter (read drooler) for sure, if not apologist.
It seems the website to which I link has taken it upon itself to "represent" in some incomprehensibly "intellectual" fashion the wwwstlij's own feeble inability to appear even the least bit coherent on any topic at any time.

An opportunity missed

2010-11-26T07:27:00.000-09:00

Traditional Thanksgiving greetings from people a lot of other people listen to are usually of the uplifting sort. Despite the optimism shown in the retail sector, America still has plenty to worry about, and we often look to our leaders, and others, to deliver a message that will make us feel hopeful, or at least review a year fast passing.
Here is the FACE (tm pend.) book holiday message from twwwstlij.

A picture of diversity

2010-11-25T13:18:00.000-09:00

I am sitting here, turkey done and now I have to make everything else but while everyone else is out of the house I am able to skip the cartoons on cable and watch a little CSPAN.
To my delight, and I trust to the delight of many, the UK Youth Parliament is convened for debate in the UK House of Commons debating the war in Afghanistan.
If you get a chance to watch this on reruns, take a look.
It IS a rainbow of diversity, which England particularly has become over the decades, and the breadth and intellect of these young people is absolutely breathtaking.

Oh yes, she DID say it

2010-11-24T07:10:00.001-09:00

"A big middle finger"

It's like Mrs. Agnew's Diary all over again

2010-11-23T20:22:00.000-09:00

The latest from The Facebook

For all my TSA Doggs

2010-11-23T20:09:00.000-09:00

Don't Touch Me There

Third Place

2010-11-23T19:02:00.002-09:00

No disco ball for her

A cautionary tale for our times

2010-11-19T12:22:00.001-09:00

from Achewood

In a continuing effort to demonstrate her "intellectual curiosity"

2010-11-18T17:19:00.003-09:00

twwwstlij writes a book.

She was SHOCKED, I tell you

2010-11-18T17:14:00.001-09:00

"Mooooommmmmmm!"

It's just that

2010-11-17T20:08:00.000-09:00

she's a Yup'ik girl and it's winter.

Mommy's little girl

2010-11-17T19:57:00.000-09:00

can say fag all she wants.

Give it up, Kansas

2010-11-17T19:34:00.000-09:00

Listen to your Elder and pack up your game and go back home to securitycam-ville.

You got beat, admit it and hope there is no shortage of divorce cases for you in the Golden Heart City.

Gaining rank at a blistering pace

2010-11-16T10:27:00.000-09:00

Begich Named to Leadership Position

And THIS one's for the rest of us

2010-11-15T23:11:00.002-09:00

This one's for YOU, Lisa!

2010-11-15T23:05:00.000-09:00

This one's for You, Joe

2010-11-15T20:49:00.001-09:00