Oh, come on! She WINKED at me last night! She couldn't POSSIBLY be lying about this!

Big deal...so she was for profiting off of genocide before she was against it.

tnpir: Oh, come on! She WINKED at me last night! She couldn't POSSIBLY be lying about this!

Snark like that used to be funny in the days before I dealt with people who reason along those very lines. Now, it just leaves me saying, "Ow, my balls!", "biatch, buy a vowel... and a clue!", or, "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

In other news, your profile is half of why Pocket Ninja is on my favorites list, lol....

"The legislation is well-intended, and the desire to make a difference is noble, but mixing moral and political agendas at the expense of our citizens' financial security is not a good combination," testified Brian Andrews, Palin's deputy revenue commissioner, before a hearing on the Gara-Lynn Sudan divestment bill in February. Minutes from the meeting are posted online by the legislature.

Gara says the lack of support from Palin's administration helped kill the measure.

Palin just doesn't remember this because she's a Washington outsider Maverick.

tallguywithglasseson: Palin just doesn't remember this because she's a Washington outsider Maverick.

How can you expect her to answer those types of questions? She's only been doing this for five weeks!!!!

SchlingFocker: How can you expect her to answer those types of questions? She's only been doing this for five weeks!!!!

I blame the editing. By sexist, elitist, bastard libtard mainstream media editors.

tallguywithglasseson: Palin just doesn't remember this because she's a Washington outsider Maverick.

Jesus, man... I was drinking, last night, to the debate, and the word I drew was "maverick." My head still hurts.

Two Dogs Farking: I blame the editing. By sexist, elitist, bastard libtard mainstream media editors.

i think she said it just to shake things up. you know, ruffle some feathers. that's the way you do things when you're a team of mavericks.

If you read to the end of article, you find out that the Palin Administration did in fact support the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan. So it turns out that Palin's statement was correct after all.

tnpir: Oh, come on! She WINKED at me last night! She couldn't POSSIBLY be lying about this!



That was a stroke.

Come on guys, as a Maverick, you can't always expect her to agree with herself!

tnpir: Oh, come on! She WINKED at me last night! She couldn't POSSIBLY be lying about this!

No, She winked at ME!

I didn't know Sudan could be seen from Alaska.

FTFA
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been a strong supporter of Sudan divestment efforts, and has urged Americans to liquidate their holdings in companies who do business there. He was criticized for that position when it was revealed in May his wife Cindy held $2 million in investment funds owning shares of Sudan-linked companies. She sold those holdings following a reporter's inquiries.

Money for blood. Until you get caught that is. Go ahead, vote McCain. Let's have 4 more years of this. I'm numb to it anymore.

/not a democrat

SkinnyHead: If you read to the end of article, you find out that the Palin Administration did in fact support the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan. So it turns out that Palin's statement was correct after all.

"Two months later, at the end of the legislative session, the administration softened its position. Appearing before a Senate committee which was considering a companion measure to Gara's bill, Palin's Revenue commissioner, Patrick Galvin, stated the administration supported such a measure, though it hoped to amend the bill to allow for investments held indirectly, for example in index funds.

"At the last minute they showed up" and supported the divestment effort, Gara said. But by then the legislative session was almost over, and there wasn't enough time to get it passed.


The Alaska Permanent Fund currently holds $22 million in Sudan-linked investments, according to the non-profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. Divestment advocates say the fund does not need an act of the state legislature to divest itself of those holdings."

How does the end of the article support your statement?

Leave Sarah alone! She and John are mavericks!

newmoonpuppyhead: Leave Sarah alone! She and John are mavericks!

Holy, blameless creatures.

/bandwagon

skandalus: In other news, your profile is half of why Pocket Ninja is on my favorites list, lol....

Never really understood you people who look at (or fill out) the Fark Profile page.

biatch went full retard. Never go full retard.

skandalus: tnpir: Oh, come on! She WINKED at me last night! She couldn't POSSIBLY be lying about this!

Snark like that used to be funny in the days before I dealt with people who reason along those very lines. Now, it just leaves me saying, "Ow, my balls!", "biatch, buy a vowel... and a clue!", or, "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

In other news, your profile is half of why Pocket Ninja is on my favorites list, lol....

I seriously have no farking idea wtf you just said.

She's not winking. She's reminding us all that McCain is going to stroke out soon and she will become prez. Seriously, WTF is going on with his left eye?




She doesn't want that. She's trying to help us, to warn us!

HighOnCraic: SkinnyHead: If you read to the end of article, you find out that the Palin Administration did in fact support the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan. So it turns out that Palin's statement was correct after all.

"Two months later, at the end of the legislative session, the administration softened its position. Appearing before a Senate committee which was considering a companion measure to Gara's bill, Palin's Revenue commissioner, Patrick Galvin, stated the administration supported such a measure, though it hoped to amend the bill to allow for investments held indirectly, for example in index funds.

"At the last minute they showed up" and supported the divestment effort, Gara said. But by then the legislative session was almost over, and there wasn't enough time to get it passed.


The Alaska Permanent Fund currently holds $22 million in Sudan-linked investments, according to the non-profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. Divestment advocates say the fund does not need an act of the state legislature to divest itself of those holdings."

How does the end of the article support your statement?

When has SkinnyHead ever said something supported by reality?

SkinnyHead: If you read to the end of article, you find out that the Palin Administration did in fact support the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan. So it turns out that Palin's statement was correct after all.

You'd think with that GED in law you could read,

FTA:

"The legislation is well-intended, and the desire to make a difference is noble, but mixing moral and political agendas at the expense of our citizens' financial security is not a good combination," testified Brian Andrews, Palin's deputy revenue commissioner, before a hearing on the Gara-Lynn Sudan divestment bill in February. Minutes from the meeting are posted online by the legislature.

...

The Alaska Permanent Fund currently holds $22 million in Sudan-linked investments, according to the non-profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. Divestment advocates say the fund does not need an act of the state legislature to divest itself of those holdings.

From the debate (new window):

When I and others in the legislature found out we had some millions of dollars in Sudan, we called for divestment through legislation of those dollars to make sure we weren't doing anything that would be seen as condoning the activities there in Darfur. That legislation hasn't passed yet but it needs to because all of us, as individuals, and as humanitarians and as elected officials should do all we can to end those atrocities in that region of the world.

So she was against it before she was for it. What a farking maverick

HighOnCraic: How does the end of the article support your statement?

It says that the Palin Administration announced support for the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan, that's how.

Here's from the record: "...the administration supports SB 227. The bill properly reflects a proactive action against genocide in Darfur by divesting in companies that profit from those activities. The situation is an ongoing human tragedy and Alaska has an opportunity to take a stand against those atrocities..."

This is bad news... for Atbara ^.

HighOnCraic: SkinnyHead: If you read to the end of article, you find out that the Palin Administration did in fact support the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan. So it turns out that Palin's statement was correct after all.

"Two months later, at the end of the legislative session, the administration softened its position. Appearing before a Senate committee which was considering a companion measure to Gara's bill, Palin's Revenue commissioner, Patrick Galvin, stated the administration supported such a measure, though it hoped to amend the bill to allow for investments held indirectly, for example in index funds.

"At the last minute they showed up" and supported the divestment effort, Gara said. But by then the legislative session was almost over, and there wasn't enough time to get it passed.


The Alaska Permanent Fund currently holds $22 million in Sudan-linked investments, according to the non-profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. Divestment advocates say the fund does not need an act of the state legislature to divest itself of those holdings."

How does the end of the article support your statement?

Well, doggoneit bumdiggety, you betcha that's what the media makes it look like. Butchya gotta remember, John McCain and I take a real maverick approach to underhanded facts, and I promise ya, we're gonna ruffle some feathers when you give us that shout out in November.

DoWhatNowToWhat: I didn't know Sudan could be seen from Alaska.

Dude, Alaska's like at the top of the world. You can see everything from there!

SkinnyHead: It says that the Palin Administration announced support for the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan, that's how.

Right, but that's not what she said. She said that when she found out about the investments, she called for divestment. That was flat out untrue. She did not call for divestment, and in fact she initially did not support those who did call for divestment.

Did she eventually come around to supporting divestment? You betcha. Does that make her statement last night true? Nope.

El_Perro: Right, but that's not what she said. She said that when she found out about the investments, she called for divestment. That was flat out untrue. She did not call for divestment, and in fact she initially did not support those who did call for divestment.

Did she eventually come around to supporting divestment? You betcha. Does that make her statement last night true? Nope.

How do you know that it's untrue? How do you know when she herself found out about the issue?

I lol @ GED in law

skandalus: tnpir: In other news, your profile is half of why Pocket Ninja is on my favorites list, lol....

Holy crap, pocket ninja is the funniest farker ever.

Skail: Jesus, man... I was drinking, last night, to the debate, and the word I drew was "maverick." My head still hurts.

Be thankful you didn't draw "also"; apparently she said that fifty-something times.

This thread is much funnier if you read it in Palin's weird accent.

HighOnCraic: SkinnyHead: If you read to the end of article, you find out that the Palin Administration did in fact support the state senate bill calling for divestment from Sudan. So it turns out that Palin's statement was correct after all.

"Two months later, at the end of the legislative session, the administration softened its position. Appearing before a Senate committee which was considering a companion measure to Gara's bill, Palin's Revenue commissioner, Patrick Galvin, stated the administration supported such a measure, though it hoped to amend the bill to allow for investments held indirectly, for example in index funds.

"At the last minute they showed up" and supported the divestment effort, Gara said. But by then the legislative session was almost over, and there wasn't enough time to get it passed.


The Alaska Permanent Fund currently holds $22 million in Sudan-linked investments, according to the non-profit Sudan Divestment Task Force. Divestment advocates say the fund does not need an act of the state legislature to divest itself of those holdings."

How does the end of the article support your statement?


The man has a GED in LAW for God's sake! He doesn't need your stupid "facts" or "reading"!

Noun, verb, lie.

This disgusts me.

Palin Interviewed by Marge Gunderson (new window)

attackingpencil: The man has a GED in LAW for God's sake!

No, you misunderstand. He doesn't have a GED in Law, he has a GED in-law. As in a degree only indirectly related to a GED.

El_Perro:
Right, but that's not what she said. She said that when she found out about the investments, she called for divestment. That was flat out untrue. She did not call for divestment, and in fact she initially did not support those who did call for divestment.


She does this about just about everything on her resume.

-- "I'm an oil and gas regulator!" Alaska regulates the oil and gas industry. Palin has nothing to do with it, hasn't messed with it a bit.

-- Alaska, not Palin, is next to Russia. She's thousands of miles away. Alaska has negotiated trade with Canada and Russia in the past -- Palin has not.

-- Alaskan engineers are experts in the energy industry. Palin is not.

-- Alaskan citizens demanded the sale of the jet -- hell, they demanded it never be bought in the first place, and were ignored. She didn't sell it because she thought it was the right thing to do -- she did it because it was a mandate from the people.

-- Alaskans cleaned up the corruption in the AK Republican Party. Palin had nothing to do with it.

She seems to think that if someone in Alaska has ever done anything, then it was she who did it. We've had a lot of rapists and even a couple serial killers up there... wonder if she's *those* things, too....

SkinnyHead

My mistake. Silly of me to assume that a sitting governor is aware of policy positions taken by her own administration.

SkinnyHead:
How do you know that it's untrue? How do you know when she herself found out about the issue?

True.

Since she doesn't read the news (in which Alaskans were discussing our investment there for months before Gara, et. al., submitted the bill), she couldn't have known about it until the bill was introduced.

I'm sure this has been noted before, but I don't have the spunk in me to look through the debate comments.

Remember to pronounce 's' hard. Really, really hard. They'll love your for that.

Lenny_da_Hog: El_Perro:
Right, but that's not what she said. She said that when she found out about the investments, she called for divestment. That was flat out untrue. She did not call for divestment, and in fact she initially did not support those who did call for divestment.


She does this about just about everything on her resume.

-- "I'm an oil and gas regulator!" Alaska regulates the oil and gas industry. Palin has nothing to do with it, hasn't messed with it a bit.

-- Alaska, not Palin, is next to Russia. She's thousands of miles away. Alaska has negotiated trade with Canada and Russia in the past -- Palin has not.

-- Alaskan engineers are experts in the energy industry. Palin is not.

-- Alaskan citizens demanded the sale of the jet -- hell, they demanded it never be bought in the first place, and were ignored. She didn't sell it because she thought it was the right thing to do -- she did it because it was a mandate from the people.

-- Alaskans cleaned up the corruption in the AK Republican Party. Palin had nothing to do with it.

She seems to think that if someone in Alaska has ever done anything, then it was she who did it. We've had a lot of rapists and even a couple serial killers up there... wonder if she's *those* things, too....

To be honest, if you watch news from Connecticut, anything that happens to someone from Connecticut, happens to ALL of Connecticut. Someone has an accident, then all of Connecticut has an accident. A family mourns, then all of Connecticut mourns. UConn loses, then all of Connecticut loses. It's similar for Alaskans apparently...

This just in- (for me, anyway)

Palin on Fox News about here Supreme Court disagreement:

"And that's fair, right, and on that one, true, I shouldn't have been so flippant and just sort of brushed aside that," Palin said, "because it was an important question and I should have answered it, and yeah, I can cite a lot of cases that I absolutely disagree with the Supreme Court on."

Did anyone watching that interview see "flippancy" and "brushing aside" of that question?

hubiestubert:
To be honest, if you watch news from Connecticut, anything that happens to someone from Connecticut, happens to ALL of Connecticut. Someone has an accident, then all of Connecticut has an accident. A family mourns, then all of Connecticut mourns. UConn loses, then all of Connecticut loses. It's similar for Alaskans apparently...

Important distinction: Losing a house or mourning aren't the kinds of things that pad resumes.

It's more like this:

Someone gets a doctorate degree in CT, the Governor claims a doctorate degree.

Someone in CT wins the Nobel Prize, the Governor claims a nobel prize!

Someone in CT knows something about (whatever-the-hell people do in CT), the Governor is an expert on it, automatically....

Polyhazard: Did anyone watching that interview see "flippancy" and "brushing aside" of that question?

I saw "sputtering" and "ineffective flailing."

Close enough?

She went to 4 farking colleges in 5 farking years to get a farking 4 year degree until U. of Idaho finally threw a farking broadcast journalism diploma in her car and said get the fark out of here. That should be enough to disqualify her from city council, much less president of the farking united states of emerica.