Oh good, she's only keeping half a billion dollars. That seems appropriate for a state with a population of 700,000 people. It's not like they're sitting on a highly needed natural resource or anything.

And her state legislature can accept it whether or not she wants it.

She's never turned down a large package in her life.

Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Didn't she go to DC to beg for stimulus money?

Who cares? Damn, this woman is an annoying attention whore.

What? The half that would pay for rape kits and sex education?

co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Wow, my home state is on the bottom of that list ... color me surprised

she should reject it all. i dont know why we even offered alaska anything. they run a surplus every year and are still the biggest welfare queens in the country.

Asa Phelps: And her state legislature can accept it whether or not she wants it.

BUT the future talking point from this venture? " I refused all that money from those bureucrats down in Washington, I tell ya!"

Well, it's obvious they don't need any free SAE kits, since the victims can pay for that themselves.

co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Do you have a larger version of that?

co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Perhaps they're reactionary -

They live in a state with lots of folks living off of the system and they're seeing the effects first hand. They vote Republican to try to starve out the freeloaders around them, but the blue states that don't want the freeloaders keep voting blue to prevent an exodus from the red to blue states.

don't blame her, she's just a girl.

/tee hee

She probably refused all of the stuff that stimulates women. 'Cos women should just lie there and deal with it.

CougarJeff: co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Do you have a larger version of that?

I'll put it here in list form, listed from most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes to least:

NM $2.03
MS 2.02
AK 1.84
LA 1.78
WV 1.76
ND 1.68
AL 1.66
SD 1.53
KY 1.51
VA 1.51
MN 1.47
HI 1.44
ME 1.41
AR 1.41
OK 1.36
SC 1.35
MO 1.32
MD 1.30
TN 1.27
ID 1.21
AZ 1.19
KS 1.12
WY 1.11
IA 1.10
NE 1.10
VT 1.08
NC 1.08
PA 1.07
UT 1.07
IN 1.05
OH 1.05
GA 1.01
RI 1.00
FL 0.97
TX 0.94
OR 0.93
MI 0.92
WA 0.88
WI 0.86
MA 0.82
CO 0.81
NY 0.79
CA 0.78
DE 0.77
IL 0.75
MN 0.72
NH 0.69
NV 0.65
NJ 0.61

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A few of the states listed in the image as red have since gone blue.

/alternatively, right click and either "view image" or "save as..." if you want to ssee the image itself.

"Hero" tag on vacation this week?

CougarJeff: Do you have a larger version of that?

Here you go^{^}

CougarJeff: co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Do you have a larger version of that?

If I had a nickel for every time....

Who cares? She's still hot, right?

And-1: CougarJeff: Do you have a larger version of that?

Here you go^

Win.

EZ1923: And-1: CougarJeff: Do you have a larger version of that?

Here you go^

Win.

zing?

40below: Who cares? She's still hot, right?

Nah. Real conservatives don't like when government officials let retards suck on the tit just to stay alive.

burndtdan: don't blame her, she's just a girl.

/tee hee

Math is hard!!

40below: Who cares? She's still hot, right?

No...but her daughter is.

King Something: CougarJeff: co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Do you have a larger version of that?

I'll put it here in list form, listed from most federal spending per dollar of federal taxes to least:

...

A few of the states listed in the image as red have since gone blue.

/alternatively, right click and either "view image" or "save as..." if you want to ssee the image itself.

You should include DC on the list. It makes the "Taxation without representation" thing pretty amusing.

/I know it's not a state -- yet -- but it really, really wants to be.

gustakooka: 40below: Who cares? She's still hot, right?

No...but her daughter is.

The fat slutty one with no morals or the 15 year old one?

Deadhouseplants: gustakooka: 40below: Who cares? She's still hot, right?

No...but her daughter is.

The fat slutty one with no morals or the 15 year old one?

Duh. The eight year old.

Deadhouseplants: gustakooka: 40below: Who cares? She's still hot, right?

No...but her daughter is.

The fat slutty one with no morals or the 15 year old one?

both

According to TFA, nothing has been "turned down" yet. She's just letting the legislature accept the other half of the money. Later she'll try to say that she didn't take stimulus money.

co-conspirator: Alaska is near the top of the "welfare states" -- states that take in far, far more federal money than they contribute.

Florida is no longer a red state.

I am totally cool with this.

Well, it's obvious Trig got all the smarts in THAT family.

The GOP lost the presidential election, like, 5 months and one presidential inauguration ago.

Just a reminder. Like, maybe, it is time to look at more relevant politicians for your amusement, rather than keeping on Palinpalooza'ing around this horse that was already beaten to well beyond death before the election.

Whatever. Stay the course if you want. Just saying, is all.

Demetrius: According to TFA, nothing has been "turned down" yet. She's just letting the legislature accept the other half of the money. Later she'll try to say that she didn't take stimulus money.

"I said thanks, but no thanks."

More lies, and her Palintard groupies will eat it up, no matter how much evidence you show them...

fishrockcarving: Like, maybe, it is time to look at more relevant politicians for your amusement, rather than keeping on Palinpalooza'ing around this horse that was already beaten to well beyond death before the election.

They won't leave her alone. She's a threat.

Ever notice nobody calls Dick Cheney stupid? The democrat party speechmakers treat you entirely different if you're a conservative but have the decency to stay on your side of the old-boring-white-male fence. If you're a guy, you're straight, married, white, born before Pearl Harbor got bombed, they'll just call you a living embodiment of evil and call it a day...leave all those dimbulb-stupid-klutz jokes filed away (unless your name is Gerald Ford).

But be born during or after WWII...or be black like Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes, or female and good-looking like Sarah Palin or Condi Rice, or gay like the Log Cabins, or stray off the plantation in any other way...and out come the talking points. You're dim, you're dumb, you're stupid, you're reckless. While Jimmy Carter says "nukular" as often as he likes, and Obama mixes up his teleprompters and ends up thanking himself.

Palin isn't even asking for the publicity here. It's the democrat party trying to think up talking points against her, because she can't really be counted out of the game like their "polls" keep saying she can. If it was true they would have gotten busy ignoring her a long time ago.

Fact is, four years of Obama are going to make her look even more desirable. In a lot of ways. And they know it. They're terrified.

mkfreeberg: four years of Obama are going to make her look even more desirable

We definitely want her to be the Republican nominee for President, for the sheer amusement she'll bring us when she loses by 20 points.

/but it'd be more like 5 points or less based on the last few elections

mkfreeberg:
Fact is, four years of Obama are going to make her look even more desirable. In a lot of ways. And they know it. They're terrified.

Right. Put on your helmet - I see the short bus coming to pick you up.

mkfreeberg: Fact is, four years of Obama are going to make her look even more desirable. In a lot of ways. And they know it. They're terrified.

Wrong choice of words.

We're not "terrified," we're disgusted that our fellow Americans continue to give this nutcase the time of day, threatening to vote for her.

But be born during or after WWII...or be black like Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes, or female and good-looking like Sarah Palin or Condi Rice, or gay like the Log Cabins, or stray off the plantation in any other way...and out come the talking points. You're dim, you're dumb, you're stupid, you're reckless. While Jimmy Carter says "nukular" as often as he likes, and Obama mixes up his teleprompters and ends up thanking himself.

Nice bouquet of strawman there. Too bad it smells like shiat.

And congratulations, you just defended sexual harassment, warmongering, and people who would sell out their own sexual preferences to run with "the big dogs."

Mkfreeberg, the guy and his crappy blog have been wrong about everything.

OOooooOOooHHHhhh

she's so principled and steadfast

brainiac-dumdum: she's so principled and steadfast

I'm surprised she's still in office.

When does Alaska finally get the chance to boot her ass out of there?

mkfreeberg: fishrockcarving: Like, maybe, it is time to look at more relevant politicians for your amusement, rather than keeping on Palinpalooza'ing around this horse that was already beaten to well beyond death before the election.

They won't leave her alone. She's a threat.

Ever notice nobody calls Dick Cheney stupid? The democrat party speechmakers treat you entirely different if you're a conservative but have the decency to stay on your side of the old-boring-white-male fence. [snip a whole bunch of bravo sierra]

Nobody calls Cheney stupid, because he isn't. He's a lot of things--evil, corrupt, the embodiment of Satan on earth--but he's not stupid. I've noticed that speechmakers usually only call people stupid who are, in fact, stupid.

No one said GWB was stupid ONLY because he couldn't say "nuclear" correctly. He was stupid about a whole lot of other things as well.

brainiac-dumdum: OOooooOOooHHHhhh

she's so principled and steadfast

I like her, she's just like me. That's the kind of leader we need.

Nice of her to screw her constituents out of money everyone else will get just to maintain her own political viability.

/compassionate conservatism, I guess

EL_FABREZ: Oh good, she's only keeping half a billion dollars. That seems appropriate for a state with a population of 700,000 people. It's not like they're sitting on a highly needed natural resource or anything.

90% of the state of Alaska is unavailable to development. Between the Fed and interloping busybodies in other states we're not allowed to develop our resources.

Ed Grubermann: EL_FABREZ: Oh good, she's only keeping half a billion dollars. That seems appropriate for a state with a population of 700,000 people. It's not like they're sitting on a highly needed natural resource or anything.

90% of the state of Alaska is unavailable to development. Between the Fed and interloping busybodies in other states we're not allowed to develop our resources.

Well, that and a lot of the resources are under miles of rugged terrain, ice-covered mountains, and Arctic pack ice 19 months a year.

Sigh. I sincerely hope Dr. Rice leads the ticket next time. It would be nice to have a president who is brilliant and not a two-faced weasel. For once.

mkfreeberg:
Palin isn't even asking for the publicity here.

You're kidding right? Palin has probably spent more time outside her state doing GOP events this year than she's been in the governor's office. This whole thing is just more cheap publicity. She can decline half the funds and claim to be a "fiscal conservative" while the state legislature quietly accepts it later.