S'error Palin the non-energy expert

Sarah Palin, the self-styled energy expert, just used cuss glyphs in her latest FakeBook post:

"Sarah Palin: Passing The Buck Doesn’t “Plug the D#*! Hole”

http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/passing-the-buck-doesnt-plug-the-d-hole/393619003434

Yeppers, she sure does know about "passing the buck"...the buck stops at her bank account.

But, let's continue with her "expertise".

She claims she was all over the Exxon Valdez disaster when it happened...but she was waaaaay preggers with her first child. So, she lies.

She slams out President over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but never offers any real suggestions on how to deal with the disaster and subsequent cleanup (much like her grandstanding after the Exxon Valdez SCOTUS decision that she obviously didn't understand but for which she took full credit).

No where in her ghost-written FaceBook screed does she come up with ANY solution for the Gulf disaster.
But we shouldn't be surprised....she is still going with the "drill baby drill" nonsense in her FB post.

All bullshit and no real solutions.

ok...tea party peeps are just stupid...

and they are not embarrassed in the least...



I weep for my country if these are the people who will control elections...they are completely clueless except that they don't like the fact that there is a non-old-fart-white-man in the White House...
other than that...they can't come up with a single thing...
much like sarah palin when Katie Couric asked for a Supreme Court decision other than Roe vs Wade... it was {{crickets}} it was deer (well maybe moose) in the headlights....
and this is the person that some people still think is a contender for the White House.
sigh...

Thank you President Obama for the tax cuts!

My family is usually one of the "working poor"... rarely having gross income anywhere near $20,000. We're farmers and, even though I have a part-time freelance job and a survivor's spouse pension (but no health insurance, but that's another horror story), it's always a struggle.

Spouse is IBEW but the union hall only calls him when there is a wide-spread disaster, like Hurricane Ike and ice storms. When he works, he makes great money, but he's working 16-18 hour days (sometimes seven days a week) in very dangerous conditions. He's been unemployed since February 2009...I miss the great income but I'm happy to have him back here on the farm doing the heavy work.

When I finally got around to doing the tax returns this time around, I was stunned at the amount of our federal tax refund. Mind you, spouse & I both file W-4s as "single", just to make sure that our combined small incomes cover everything.

So you can imagine the gobsmack reaction I had to The Tax Policy Center's report that said "About 45 percent of households will owe no federal income tax in 2010, according to our estimates."

But then I realized the operative word was "owe"...

We're getting a refund, so we didn't "owe" any federal income tax but we certainly did PAY federal income tax (as well as state income tax, payroll tax AND self-employment tax...then there's the pesky sales tax, real estate tax, Kentucky personal property tax on every single on of our vehicles EVERY year, and so on and so on...)

In any event, please visit The Tax Policy Center website to read 5 Myths About Your Taxes, it's very enlightening to read the entire thing in context (a phrase of which tea party peeps are stubbornly ignorant).

Back to the paying federal taxes thing...I highly recommend the website The Other 95%, whose slogan I paraphrased for this blog post. We, the "Other 95%" do indeed pay taxes and the tax cuts for our 2009 returns are a great relief.

We got an $800 tax credit on our federal return because we WORK! And, since we don't have enough perk expenses to itemize deductions, we got an addition to the standard deduction relative to what we paid in real estate taxes for our primary residence (which also happens to be a farm the raises fruit & vegetables).

We've been trying to pay off a huge credit card debt that resulted from spouse being desperately ill a few years ago (no insurance so we had to pay every bit of the doctors & hospital bills ourselves)...we used the large part of his brief IBEW work to pay down that debt. The federal refund we'll get will pay off the last of that debt and leave enough money over to replace the leaky metal roof on our more than 160-year-old house.

So THANK YOU President Obama! And I really REALLY mean that from the bottom of my heart.

real Christians will agree...

Friday, the Alaska Legislature manned up and rejected Al Barrette, the wolf trapping, commercial skinning businessman that Alaska governor Sean Parnell (the goofy s'errer wannabe governor) for the Alaska Board of Game...that wolf trapping, shooting, got a business trapping and skinning wolves and that's how Barrette makes his living (and please note that he insists that his last name is pronounced Bar-rette...what little girls use to keep their hair outta of their eyes...)

speaking of barrettes and eyes... here's a video using Phil Collins' song "Take a Look though my Eyes"....and how lots of us love our fellow creatures who share our planet...
Wonder how Sarah can work this into her new Alaska wildlife show on TLC...

Jim Bunning, Mitch McConnell and clueless TP peeps

I am soooo sick and tired of my Kentucky senators who think that being obstructionist is in our best interests...
I watched CSPAN today and was sickened by the House Republicans hijacking the veterans resolutions to continue the LIES about HRC. ANd my House rep, Geoff Davis, was NOWHERE to be seen during that debacle.

and then we have these teabagger peeps who spout talking points but have NO FREAKIN idea what they are protesting against:


good grief and Jesus weeps...what the hell is this "tort reform" crap????

freedom for eegits...but the poor wildlife...

Open season on wolves by "sports hunters".

It's disgusting but no huge part of the populace has raised a ruckus.

Alaska killed and entire wolf pack this week, included TWO wolves...the Alpha male & female who both had radio collars as part of a long-standing biology study.
http://www.themudflats.net/2010/03/19/sean-parnell-is-killing-local-business-from-a-helicopter/

Palingates has a YouTube video that will make you weep and then get really pissed off:


good grief...these Republican talibanist claim they are stewards of the earth???? If this is their version of that, I don't want any part of THEIR theocracy.

Queen's lyrics for those who can't hear them clearly:

She keeps Moet et Chandon
In a pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A built-in remedy
For Khrushchev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation
You can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

Chorus:
She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, Gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?

To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
She spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China
Went down to Asia Minor
Then again incidentally
If you're that way inclined

Perfume came naturally from Paris
for cars she couldn't care less
Fastidious and precise

Chorus

Drop of a hat she's as willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild
She's out to get you

Chorus

weekend HCR crap on C-SPAN

good grief!!!!
John Boehner said that America is 24 hours away from Armageddon..

http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/20/boehner-its-armageddon-health-care-bill-will-ruin-our-country/

WTF????

why is affordable access to healthcare for Americans all of a sudden equated to the end of the world????

And WHY are some Americans more worthy of healthcare than the rest of us???

Armageddon...REALLY? Healthcare for ALL Americans is Armageddon?
I shudder to think what God's Armageddon would be...