Pullin' a Palin

Found this on Urban Dictionary.

1. Quitting when the going gets tough; abandoning the responsibility entrusted to you by your neighbors for book advances and to make money on the lecture circuit.

2. Bizarre move that will damn ambitions for higher office.
I bet when people saw Jade they were convinced that David Caruso was pullin' a Palin.

Here's another definition.

To admit that you are quitting your job because your employers would be better off without you.

This is my favorite one.

Responding to direct questions with a barrage of pithy cliches and folksy colloquialisms to avoid admitting that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

So have at it: What's your definition for "Pullin' a Palin?"

Caption This

Found this at an ignorant fuck for ignorant fucks website. Really I am at a loss for what to say.

What The Hell Is Going On?

R.I.P. CHAMP!

AO PAULO (AP)—Former boxing champion Arturo Gatti, whose epic trilogy with Micky Ward branded him one of the most exciting fighters of his generation, was found dead in a hotel room in the posh seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas early Saturday.

Police investigator Edilson Alves told The Associated Press that the body of the former junior welterweight champ was discovered in his room at the tourist resort, where Gatti had arrived on Friday with his Brazilian wife Amanda and 1-year-old son.

Alves said police were investigating and it was unclear how the 37-year-old Canadian died.

“It is still too early to say anything concrete, although it is all very strange,” Alves said. He declined to provide any additional details.

A spokeswoman for the state public safety department said Gatti’s wife and son were unhurt. The woman declined to give a name in keeping with department policy.

“There were no bullet or stab wounds on his body, but police did find blood stains on the floor,” she said.

Unfucking believable. What year this has been.

Putting Cronkite's Quote In Context

Remember Yesterday Sarah Quoted Walter Cronkite? Well here is the part of the interview from Playboy magazine that Sarah quoted:

PLAYBOY: Implicit in the Administration's attempts to force the networks to "balance" the news is a conviction that most newscasters are biased against conservatism. Is there some truth in the view that television newsmen tend to be left of center?
CRONKITE: Well, certainly liberal, and possibly left of center as well. I would have to accept that.

PLAYBOY: What's the distinction between those two terms?
CRONKITE: I think the distinction is both clear and important. I think that being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncommitted to a cause—but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism.


As far as the leftist thing is concerned, that I think is something that comes from the nature of a journalist's work. Most newsmen have spent some time covering the seamier side of human endeavor; they cover police stations and courts and the infighting in politics. And I think they come to feel very little allegiance to the established order. I think they're inclined to side with humanity rather than with authority and institutions. And this sort of pushes them to the left. But I don't think there are many who are far left. I think a little left of center probably is correct.

PLAYBOY: Some critics believe that this left-of-center tendency produces a kind of conventional wisdom for liberals—a point of view that's common to most newsmen. During last summer's convention coverage, for example, George McGovern was repeatedly characterized as a likable but conniving bumbler and President Nixon as an unlovable but efficient manager running a closed shop. According to Richard Dougherty, Senator McGovern's press secretary during the 1972 campaign, the press never rests until it has found a convenient tag. Then, unconsciously, it edits its coverage to fit this preconception. Is this a legitimate charge?
CRONKITE: God, it worries me more than almost any other single factor. It's a habit that I justify to myself because of the time element. You quickly label a man as a leftist or a conservative or something, because every time you mention him, it's almost impossible to explain precisely where he stands on various issues. But labeling disturbs me at every level of our society. We all have a tendency to do it.

PLAYBOY: Doesn't the fact that the same labels tend to be applied to the same people by all the networks—as well as by the print media—imply that there's a bit too much editorial camp-following in the news business?
CRONKITE: Don't forget that in political campaigns those who cover a candidate are all living and working together in the greatest intimacy. I mean, there's a lot of cross-fertilization, and these reporters become kind of a touchstone for the rest of the press. That's inevitable, I suppose. But the idea that there's some elitist liberal Eastern establishment policy line is absolutely mad.

PLAYBOY: To the extent that there is at least a tendency to group-think, what do you think the effect of it is?
CRONKITE: To the extent that there is an effect. I think it's to be deplored. But I don't know that there's anything you can do about it. We're perhaps all conditioned by similar backgrounds, similar experiences. And you'll find. I think, that if we do, indeed, react in a knee-jerk fashion to news stimuli, so do people in every other business.

PLAYBOY: Isn't that the essence of Vice President Agnew's charge—that newsmen are conditioned by similar backgrounds and experiences?
CRONKITE: Again, he's thinking of the elitist Eastern establishment as our common background and experience. I'm thinking about covering the police station in Louisiana in Howard K. Smith's case or North Carolina in David Brinkley's case. That's the kind of experience I'm talking about—experience of America, experience with the people, experience with the burgeoning and overburdening bureaucracy, experience with those who have a tough shake in life. That's the experience I'm talking about.

PLAYBOY: How do you feel about advocacy journalism—the kind of reporting that puts the sort of experience you mention in the service of a newsman's own personal convictions? Is it possible that there isn't enough of this—rather than too much, as Agnew claims--in the media?
CRONKITE: I think that in seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. In fact, I don't merely think, I insist that we present both sides of a story. It's perfectly all right to have first-person journalism; I'm all for muckraking journalism; I'm all for the sidebar, the eyewitness story, the impression piece. But the basic function of the press has to be the presentation of all the facts on which the story is based. There are no pros and cons as far as the press is concerned. There shouldn't be. There are only the facts. Advocacy is all right in special columns. But how the hell are you going to give people the basis on which to advocate something if you don't present the facts to them? If you go only for advocacy journalism, you're really assuming unto yourself a privilege that was never intended anywhere in the definition of a free press.


I know act shocked Sarah cherry picked a quote and didn't bother to explain the context. That's why she loves twitter she doesn't have to and her brain dead followers just swallow it whole.

Open Thread Friday And Twitter

Jonathan since you put you twitter page on private it's asking for a password everytime I click on the page or do anything here. No big deal just annoying.

Anyway more to say later maybe. Either way Open Thread Friday.

Edit From The Count:

Man I have almost forgotten about what surely has to go down as man's greatest folly in the world of music the 8 track or super 8 tape until watching Stephen Colbert last night who reminded me of the horror.


How did these things suck let me count the ways.

First they were bulky as hell and the sound was sub par. A song would be on 2 tracks so it would stop in the middle of a song click to a new track and then resume the song in the middle. Songs often repeated before you heard new songs and the things were pieces of shits. They were always breaking down or getting ate in the machine. God these things sucked. Amazingly not only were these things popular they stayed popular for about 15 years.

Late Edit from Jonathan: This is hilarious. In honor of the new movie Bruno I present actor Sasha Baron Cohen at his best as Borat.

Over at Jonathan's Corner

I have a question brought about a revelation I learned about one of my former classmate/alumni from the class of 2008. Please, read and comment. To paraphrase Rachel Maddow: "I need a talking down."

Sarah's So Steamed She's Quoting Cronkite!

Miss Wasilla's Twitter



...."Most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not, by my definition, they can hardly be good newspapermen" W. Cronkite

Some More Nuggets...

Anxious for Fairbanks radio visit tomorrow re: 2nd Amendment! We have rockin' surprise guest. Candidly, I love radio vs some newspapers bc..

We move forward w/ smooth transition, Parnell keeps cabinet 100% intact http://tinyurl.com/m4mrmx

Vetted judge candidates today from Anch Office, 3 more judges to be announced soon to begin work for AKns interpretting law, not making law

Yes she misspelled interpreting. But I probably would have as well with out the red line.

1. Todd and I share the sorrow felt by so many as Ft Rich soldier makes ultimate sacrifice http://tinyurl.com/lror4q
   
   
2. So AK kids: take time to take your parents fishing: "You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" -Plato
3. Smilin' dipnetters fill freezers tomorrow- Fish & Game opens Kenai fishery; I'll be up North for 2nd Amendment legislation/policy in Frbanks

OK That's enough Sarah

Um...Yeah!

This is Early2it who posts on off topic. You know I may actually agree with him on some of this but just like his Newshounds posts I can't tell you because he rambles so much...he isn't making any sense.

The View From My Ass The Family Edition

I usually try and make it a point to not discuss too many of my family issues because well we all have them and since I hate listening to other peoples I figure they would hate listening to mine. We'll I am going to break the one my Cardinal rules this once and write about a family issue. I can write about this and feel fairly secure the person in question won't see it since he doesn't have internet or a computer for that matter and if somehow he does well so be it. First some background.

I have a different family situation than most folks my age. My Parents were both married before they married each other. From My Dad's first marriage came 4 children 2 boys 2 girls. From my Mom's first marriage came a son. They are the "his" and the "hers" I am the theirs. I am at least 10 years younger than all of them. So I have 3 half Brother and 2 Half Sisters. One of my Brothers is gone he committed suicide in 1989 and I do not have much contact with one sister and none with the other this leaves 2 Brothers. Now of my Brothers the one from my Mom's first marriage I am very close to. He's done well for himself yeah he's had issues like all of us and I don't always agree with everything he does but he's a good guy my other Brother is...well strange. No all of us are strange to some point, myself certainly included, he's got issues.

My Brother is 47 years old he has some severe mental issues he is a diagnosed paranoid Schizophrenic but the surest way to really get him mad is to tell him so. He's right to an extent people do laugh at him and make fun of him. There's a part of me that truly feels bad for him because I have been through it myself with the multitude of physical ticks that I have acquired over the years. But He also brings it on himself. It's one thing to swing your hands back and forth or rub your hands together when you are nervous and don't even know you are doing so it's another to walk down the street having a fantastic conversation with yourself laughing hysterically at your own jokes. My Brother works menial jobs such as dish washer at a restaurant which are about the only jobs he can get but invariably a confrontation with co-workers real or imagined ( usually they are a little of both) Will lead to him either being fired or quitting. Of all the emotions I feel for my Brother no question there is a little bit of pity and sympathy but it's offset by anger and apathy. I have gone through life having people laugh at somethings about me that I felt were unfair but I never quit a job over them. I either laughed along with the crowd and that almost always took care of the situation and I would become quite friendly with co-workers or I would say hey I have Cerebral Palsy what is your excuse for being fucked up? My Brother takes everything personally and to suggest to him that he could do things to help himself like...not tell himself jokes out loud and crack himself up would be to pick on him.

Anyway in 2002 he met a woman on the internet who lived in Seattle. I have no idea how he got access or how he met her but he met her and she talked him into moving out there. Now My Brother who struggles to find livable shelter in Omaha took a greyhound bus to Seattle. As most of you know the cost of living in Seattle is only...oh 3 times + higher than it is in Omaha and we tried to tell him that. First he bought a plane ticket but somebody told him not to go or so he claims, so he ate the cost of ticket. He still has the ticket and shows it to me when I see him. I suspect that somebody told him not go he then bought the ticket and got cold feet and then used what people told him as an excuse.

In April 2003 he called My Parents. he was homeless in Seattle the girl kicked him out and he was claiming he was robbed of everything but his bible certificates ( he's an uber Christian. A proud member of Kenneth Copeland ministries) and 3 Captain and Tenille albums. My parents who have helped him time and time again said we'll get you back but you can't live here, there is some jealousy between him and my other Brother so that was out and well my Sisters were as bad off as he was so he asked me to put him up.

Now let me digress here for a minute. My other Brother is doing pretty well financially and has been for a while. but unlike my Brother and myself he was blessed with athletic ability. He is about 6'2" played Quarterback in high school and has managed to turn his gift for carpentry into a nice living. There is a huge jealousy between my Brothers so they essentially don't speak to each other. My Brother can turn to me for help because...well he's "fucked-up" too and he'll understand what I am going through and he is more likely to help me. That's how he looks at it. Well in April 2003 I figured my life couldn't get any worse and I put him up. It was a disaster. I couldn't stand living with him and his strange behavior and I didn't have the heart to kick him out even though I always swore the next time he told me the shroud of Turin was real or show me is Mexican peso or his plane ticket to Seattle I was gonna kill him. Well in September of 03 with him having done nothing to move out I met the Contessa and it was while we were dating sometime in October she asked a good question to which I didn't have an answer: Why is it you're paying the rent and yet you are the one who has to get a motel when I am in town? I gave him till January to find his own place and a job and when he did I gave him some money and the bedroom furniture he was using at my place.

Sometime early in 2004 he sold the furniture I gave him and went back out to Seattle. This time when she kicked him out He called me first and I said no way no how. He called our aunt and told her nobody would help him and she payed to bring him back. Eventually he found another apartment and a job and was doing ok for a while. But the old demons came back. He got a girlfriend he met at church but she turned out to have 12 different personalities or so he said, His health started to fall a part, he doesn't eat well, smokes bargain basement cigarettes and has no health care and has never had any, hie mental health was never good and people were picking on him again. My Dad's death I am sure bothered him though my other Brother had to stop me from killing him when he fell asleep at the serivce then woke up let out a huge yawn and stretched his arms. And his Mother died this year and that bothered him as well.

Well He quit his job again, he claims to be in constant pain and now he says he can't pay his bills. The Last time I saw him was May I asked him to watch out Animals for a few days while the Contessa and I went to Denver. He did it because we pay him well ( we give him enugh to cover a month of rent for a few days work) and give him more food in a few days then he noramlly gets in a month. When we got back the house was empty of food. We we're gone from Wednesday until Sunday and a month's worth of food was gone. Now he can eat but no way could even he eat that much in such a short time. He packaged up the food and took it. Didn't ask if he could he just took it. If he had asked I would have given him some food. Not all of it but some of it. He didn't say thank you either he never does... to anybody who does anything for him.

He's been playing his little pity games now for a while. If he doesn't get help he's going to die. We get a letter or 3 from him a week saying the same thing. I do not read them BTW. The Contessa reads them and I just shake my head. ironically enough he writes these on the stationary we gave him for Christmas. We didn't know what to give him so we gave him a ton of paper, envelopes, pens and stamps. I am no longer the bachelor living alone spending my nights losing my earnings at Ameristar 4 nights a week. I can't put him up again and wouldn't if I could, you know once burned and all that. The one we got to day contained his apartment bill and a note that said if he doesn't get help paying it he was going to either commit suicide or go to Seattle if he had to walk. Well you know now that I re-act quickly and often harshly so it was best that the Contessa with output from me composed our response. We said we had bills to pay of our own and neither of us were thrilled with our jobs but we weren't quitting. We gave him phone numbers to inquire about food stamps, salvation army catholic charities and other numbers he could call for help with his mental and physical health. But no way would we put him up or pay his rent. I am sure I am on his shit list now. But i'll live and so will he.

This Man Is Pedophile

He is Mark Barnard You know him better as Houndwatcher or Blackflon.

Look at his picture

And put it together with these words from his own mouth...

Well, well. The Hounds are aghast at some pictures that children might see. Have any of you been to a middle or high school lately and seen all the cleavage hanging out?
Hound Watcher | 02.21.08 - 5:43 pm | # "

He's not helping himself

It's called teaching. I'm just trying to help the little devils get the leftist propaganda out of their mush for brains.
Hound Watcher | 02.21.08 - 6:28 pm | #


Ever hear of substitute teaching? You really don't have both oars in the water.
Hound Watcher | 02.21.08 - 6:46 pm | #