weird politics

Smaller than Poughkeepsie

The 3 largest urban areas in Alaska are:  read more »

1. Anchorage (359,180)
2. Fairbanks (82,840)
3. Juneau (30,711)

The following was published by The Anchorage Press website on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 (way before she became a nominee for vice President of the United States). I wasn't able to retrieve it from there today; the following is from the Google cache of how the page appeared on September 10, 2008.

At this stage of Wootengate—eight days since the allegations started flying—an investigation by the legislature into conflicting statements between former Department of Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan and Governor Sarah Palin seems inevitable. Really, it can’t happen soon enough.

One of the two seems to be lying to the public. Last Friday, a day into the jousting, Monegan said that he’d been pressured by Todd Palin and members of the Palin administration to fire Trooper Mike Wooten, the Governor’s former brother-in-law. That evening, Sharon Leighow, the Governor’s spokesperson, emailed me, “at no time did Todd Palin or anyone from the administration pressure Commissioner Monegan to fire Trooper Wooten.”  read more »

I finally came across the ad that caused such a ruckus. Wow - a flat out lie, and McCain approves it. The television advertisement in question is a pastiche of unrelated soundbites; I guess it's possible to say that it isn't untruthful - the people shown speaking said the words they said, except for that the three soundbites are on unrelated topics run together to imply something different.  read more »

This just in ... presumptuous Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in prison. MoveOn.org is organizing to secure his release.