Hilary has decided to bow out of this election cycle and I can only presume anything she says now is for her run for the White House in 2012. Clearly she is saving her full-throated support for Obama, for after the election. While it would be useful to hear from her now it appears she is still holding a grudge. We will remember.

Lie 1. We have all heard her pronouncements about the bridge to nowhere “thanks, but no thanks”. Well after it had received its infamous name Sarah Palin was still supporting it. And the money, she kept it in the State budget, all $25.7 million. Where did it end up? In the Gravina Access Highway Project, a 3.2 mile road to nowhere.

Lie 2. She fired the Governors personal Chef Stefani Marnon. Or did she? It appears the governors personal chef was simply shifted around, while staying on the state payroll. First, she was assigned as a constituent relations assistant’ in the governor’s office and later to the state museum, finally at the Legislative Lounge where she went back to cooking.

Lie 3. The very down to earth and folksy governor told us this wonderful story about how this little old hockey mom sold the Governors plane, Westwind II on EBAY. Well, she didn’t. While it was briefly listed on EBAY, Palin hired a jet broker – Turbo North Aviation in Anchorage – which sold the jet for $2.1 million to an Alaskan businessman at a $600.000.00 loss, through Turbo North Aviation. Good work Sarah.

This was her first formal address to the American people, she is a disgrace.

In the well-crafted speech she polished her narrative, told jokes, and taunted Obama like a smarmy schoolmarm. She is a rightwing, religious ideologue who has a natural TVQ. She has put the republican party line in a package wrapped it with a bow and delivered it with a spunky smile. Be afraid; be very afraid because this woman is dangerous.

Never mind that she misrepresented Obama’s accomplishments and lied about her own. We underestimate her at our peril.

There is no medical reason, by any measure, that you would risk the health of the child in this way. It is clear that her actions were reckless and irresponsible. There may be one reason to go to a country hospital where you have a long-standing relationship. Could it be to cover up the parentage of the child?

This can all be settled easily. Lets see the birth certificate. It must be part of the public record. It would have the parents names, date of birth and weight of the child.

Alaska Birth Records

Karl Rove and the October Surprise, or Georgia on my Mind

Who would benefit from heating up the cold war three months before the presidential election? My guess would be McCain.

I first thought that the polor shift with all things Russian was just another example of the corrupt and incompetent Bush administration. After all this would be a perfect time for Russia to assert itself. Putin is no friend of the west, still angry at the way Russia has been treated since the fall of the Soviet Union. He dreams of restoring Russia’s past glory. What better time then three months before an election with an ineffective lame duck president at the helm? Added to that Saakashvili have given Putin the perfect excuse to walk into Georgia, considering his ill advised misadventure in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

Georgia is a country that we have no interest in. The Europeans do and the Russian do, because of the pipeline. More important it is within what we used to call, the “Russian sphere of influence”, what better place to poke a stick in the Russian’s eye then Georgia.

Since it is my job to see a conspiracy in all things, I’m looking east. In my crystal ball I see Karl Rove whispering sweet promises in Saakashvili ear. We are your friends, we will protect you, you are a sweet democracy and we love you, “we are all Georgians now’.