Open Thread – Oregon
Palin’s Promise to Alaska Falls Flat. Happy Anniversary.
It was one year ago today, when our ex-half-governor Sarah Palin stood in Fairbanks, Alaska and stepped down from the governorship. After first declaring herself a “lame duck,” and then decrying the inef[...]
Open Thread – Leave-A Las Vegas!
~Nevada from the air I am home. Landed at about 12:30am local time. The air is cool, the night is dark and quiet, the women are wearing clothes larger than folded dinner napkins, and there is water falling from the[...]
Sunday Humor: Video–Sarah Palin in CGI
I got the video link in an email from my good friends in Denver and then saw that Immoral Minority had posted it yesterday. This is the funniest YouTube I have EVER seen about Palin! Asian news has now added the CG[...]
Open Thread
Still no internet in my room… I am posting from my phone, so not even a picture today. I can’t wait to get back to green, cool Alaska and start catching up with everything I’ve been missing. Over and ou[...]
Ask the Speaker – Nancy Pelosi
There’s a full house this morning (and that’s saying something on a Saturday morning in Las Vegas) to hear Speaker Nancy Pelosi take questions that have been submitted online, and from the audience. Pelosi [...]
Open Thread – Vegas, Baby!
Hello, Mudflatters from unbelievably hot Las Vegas! Getting an internet connection today proved next to impossible, as the gentleman at tech support informed me that there was a “big conference” at the hotel [...]
Open Thread: Look what I got at the reunion!
While Jeannie and Shannyn are whooping it up in Vegas…oh…and doing important work with the Progressive Netroots from around the USA **nods** I’ll share with you just a bit of my summer. Here’s[...]
Speed Hump Consultant? The jokes write themselves…
There is a rumor out there…that in neighborhoods across Anchorage, some who have problems with speeding traffic and have been unable to get “speed humps” (a “traffic calming” solution) [...]
Open Thread – Lucky Moose?
Brian the Moose got to hang out at the Pai Gow table with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com and Mike Rogers of BlogActive.com this evening. It was decided after many hands that Brian is luck neutral, as he didn’t s[...]
It’s Alaska Day on the Nicole Sandler Show!
The inimitable Nicole Sandler (formerly with Air America) will be broadcasting live from Netroots Nation from 3-5pm local time. Senate candidate Scott McAdams will be in the house. He came to Las Vegas to network an[...]
OK…Is it Just Me?
Thoughts? Discuss… [...]
Open Thread
Shiny new open thread! What’s on your mind? Netroots officially starts tomorrow morning! We’ve had fun meeting up with old friends. And we’ve decided that Las Vegas is a long long way from Alaska. And [...]
Saying Goodbye to a Fallen Warrior
I found out last Wednesday, while I was in Soldotna for a family reunion, that my good friend Maurice Bailey had passed away the previous day. While he had suffered from Leukemia for awhile now, it still seemed to cat[...]
Happy Speed Hump Day! Hump of the Week!
I know what you’re thinking. Shannyn and Jeanne are in Las Vegas. They’re probably off somewhere being overwhelmed by all the Vegas-ness, and gearing up for Netroots Nation which officially starts soon. Ma[...]
Featured, Sarah Palin
“Refudiating” Palin’s Racist Tweet
It feels strange weighing in on a house of worship thousands of miles away, well, at least for me. A proposed mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has Palin tweeting on a Sunday afternoon. According to Politico: Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s City Hall hit back at Palin, first tweeting “@SarahPalinUSA mind your business.” The aide, policy hand Andrea Batista [...]
Capped?
Just coming in is news that the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, and that no more oil is flowing. This from the New York Times: “I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico,” Kent Wells, a senior vice president for BP said in a teleconference on [...]
