Summer 2017

Greetings!

Yes, it’s been awhile!

Summer 2017

Hello, I hope everybody is doing well and enjoying the summer sun and fun. We’ve been busy camping and jeeping with the family. Hubby has retired since I last posted and we’ve enjoyed a bunch of traveling. We have a bunch more planned. Heading on a European river cruise in October. Even though the world is going to hell in a hand basket, we’re going to go and do those wonderful things that we’ve always wanted to do! This has been my perspective for a few years now.

There’s a lot happening in our country & world. The way I see it there is not much that we can do to help the state of the world. Besides try to be a moral, helpful, thankful and hopeful person continuously praying for wisdom. The most important thing to me today is to share with our children and grandchildren in the way that they should go. That way is JESUS!

For I am the way the truth and the life no man can come to the Father but through Me! ~ John 14:6

It takes one to know one

The New York Daily News is becoming well-known for its political, controversial and not-so-subtle covers, especially when it comes to the Republican party. So when Sarah Palin endorsed GOP front runner Donald Trump, the Daily News certainly didn’t disappoint.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-york-daily-news-on-palin-trump-endorsement-im-with-stupid

Happy St. Patrick’s Day



Political hack! You know who you are!

Dedicated to all those misguided, inept, self righteous and unethical politicians and political hacks!!  You know who you are! 

“Overrated”

Worn out and faded

The weakness starts to show

They’ve created the generation

That we know

Washed up and hated

The system moves to slow

They give us answers

To questions they don’t even know

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

Used up and jaded

You’re thinking way to slow

So we’re creating

Answers on our own

We can’t relate

To what you think you know

And you create

The problems that will never

Go away

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

(Go away, go away, go away, go away)

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

You made it

You played it

Your shit is overrated

http://youtu.be/tbp9B1Sg1Ds
	

Iditarod Today! Alaska is not into Sarah Palin



Conservatives to Palin: We’re over you.

They’re over her.

Sarah Palin’s odd, rambling speech last weekend before an audience of committed conservative activists in Des Moines has many influential voices on the right saying that the time has come to acknowledge that the romance has gone cold and the marriage is dead.

There is also a tone of soul-searching and even repentance in some of the commentary, as pundits on the right reconsider their own role in stoking the Palin phenomenon.

“In hindsight I regret contributing to the premature deification of Sarah Palin,” columnist Matt Lewis wrote Wednesday in the Daily Beast.

He added that “maybe her early critics saw some fundamental character flaw — some harbinger of things to come — that escaped me.”

Among those critics had been Washington Post op-ed columnist Kathleen Parker, who also weighed in after Palin’s speech contending that the Republicans had themselves to blame.

“In the end, the story of Palin’s rise and fall is a tragedy,” Parker wrote. “And the author wasn’t the media as accused but the Grand Old Party itself. Like worshipers of false gods throughout human history, Republicans handpicked the fair maiden Sarah and placed her on the altar of political expedience.”

http://wapo.st/1EQd91S

Conservative bloggers who were once Palin fans, but have since moved on.. Finally!!

Has conservative genuflection at the altar of Sarah Palin finally come to a halt?

In case you missed it, her speech in Iowa this week was not well received on the right. The Washington Examiner’s Byron York called it a “long, rambling, and at times barely coherent speech” and National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke said she slipped into self-parody. And there’s more. The Examiner’s Eddie Scarry, for example, contacted several conservative bloggers who were once Palin fans, but have since moved on.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/28/you-betcha-i-was-wrong-about-sarah-palin.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page

Merry Christmas

Sarah Palin the joy of the Alaska Democrats

While governor, Ms. Palin jammed through a tax hike on oil profits as crude prices doubled between 2006 and 2008. Oil and natural-gas royalties and taxes account for roughly 90% of state coffers. Surging oil profits also helped prop up the state’s economy, personal incomes and tax revenues. While U.S. GDP plunged between 2006 and 2009, Alaska’s economy grew by a compounded annual 4.4%—the most nationwide.

Mr. Parnell, the former lieutenant governor, assumed office in July 2009 after Ms. Palin stepped down. The new governor inherited an economic crisis of Ms. Palin’s making. Oil profits subsequently plunged while drillers disembarked for Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota. Alaska’s crude production has fallen by 20% since 2009.

Last year Alaska’s GDP contracted by 2.5%—the only state to record negative growth. The Republican governor sought to stabilize volatile revenues and stimulate investment by reforming Ms. Palin’s progressive oil tax. Ms. Palin responded by throwing her weight behind the August referendum.

A slim majority of voters rejected the ballot measure, yet the populist furies fueled Mr. Walker’s rise. Although most people have made up their minds and or have voted already. Two weeks before the election, Ms. Palin formally endorsed the Walker-Mallott “Unity Ticket” on the pretext of encouraging political comity in Juneau. “This strong independent ticket represents an Alaskan-sized heart, putting people over party machine politics and Alaskans over egos,” she declared.

Ms. Palin is not overwhelmingly popular in her home state—a Public Policy Polling survey in August showed that just 36% of voters statewide view her favorably—but she does carry clout among anti-establishment conservatives. Given that the election appears to have been decided by fewer than 5,000 votes, and that Republican Dan Sullivan topped incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich by nearly 8,000.

Wall Street Journal

Palin’s Thanksgiving Massacre and Banquet of Word Salad