due to some craziness beyond my control in my life, there won't be a sarah palin fact of the day today. i will return with one tomorrow, i promise.

i will leave y'all with this, though:

(i heard about this on green960, but big thanks to pigri for reminding me about it!)

this one hits close to home, being a californian. a few days before it was announced that sarah palin would be mccain's running mate, she wrote a letter to my state's governor governator schwarzenegger, asking him to veto a bill which would cut pollution at some of california's major ports (oakland included. so yeah, really close to home for me). basically, she asked that he (schwarzenegger) veto a fee on cargo containers because "both consumers and the economy in california and alaska would suffer as a result of the fee."

talk about using her new found popularity on an issue that really doesn't involve her. she's not a resident of california (thank goodness). she's not our governor (again, thank goodness, though arnold isn't that much better). she has no business sticking her nose in california's environmental law. unlike her views on environmentalism, many californians work hard to protect what we have. and california is polluted enough already! anyone who has been to los angeles, the central valley, or long beach can attest to that.

unbelievable! this woman is scary, dangerous, and has a history of abusing her power.

source.

this is old news (as in earlier this morning), but just in case you missed it, sarah palin and her friends filed a lawsuit to end the "troopergate" investigation.

a lawsuit? seriously?

that is kind of extreme. it makes me wonder what else palin and her buddies are hiding deep in the alaskan tundra.

this one is random, but very interesting. it also goes to show that before just a year ago, sarah palin was not even a bleep on the radar of most republicans.

some of the neo conservatives first met sarah palin while the weekly standard's cruise was docked in juneau. in 2007. last year.

makes me wonder: if the weekly standard had chosen a caribbean cruise over an alaskan one, who would john mccain's running mate be?

palin was back in alaska yesterday before resuming the campaign trail for mcsame. now, while many alaskans love palin, the support for her isn't quite as strong as the republicans would like us in the lower 48 to believe. yesterday, a record number of protesters (for alaska) showed up in midtown anchorage to rally against palin.

it seems that conservative radio hosts are the same everywhere. eddie burke, a radio host in anchorage referred to the protesters as "socialist, baby killing maggots." later he took back the "maggots," but not the "socialists" or the "baby killers."

excellent.

you like cows? you can hold a top post in alaska's department of agriculture. and earn big bucks doing so. i guess sarah palin really doesn't look past likes and dislikes (and proximity) while determining who is qualified for what state job.

so the sarah palin fact of the day is palin is known to put her buddies into high paying positions in the state of alaska.

too bad "the barracuda" and i ain't friends. i think i'd make a fine upper-level department of transportation bureaucrat because i like to ride BART... (sometimes).

i was out of town all day yesterday, so i could not post the sarah palin fact of the day.

sarah palin fact of the day #7:

(big props to cacahuate for leading me to this one!) while palin was mayor of wasilla, the town was charging victims of rape for using the town's supply of rape kits...

yes, you read that right: charging rape victims if a rape kit had to be used to gather evidence. the alaska legislature had to step in and prevent a law barring this practice.

i don't care if palin put this into practice. but it was happening while she was the town's mayor, so, while she might or might not deserve to have to take full responsibility for this, she could have stopped it.

sarah palin fact of the day #8:

most of you have already heard this, but i think it's extremely laughable and deserves to be a sarah palin fact of the day.

since alaska is near russia, and from parts of the state, you can see russia, sarah palin claims to be an expert on russian foreign policy. she sure didn't seem to know much about the russian/georgian conflict for starters. and correct me if i am wrong, but didn't her stance on russia seem to be a bit, oh, 1980s fear-of-the-sovietsish?

i can see the bank from my apartment! i suppose that makes me well versed in banking, accounting, and financial services...

(this sarah palin fact of the day is coming at y'all a bit early as i won't be around to post one tomorrow)

sarah palin doesn't like cats. but more importantly, three out of four of her closest friends won't officially endorse her.

at least that is what a reporter for good morning america found out when she went to meet some of palin's friends in wasilla, alaska.

awesome.

the sarah palin fact of the day #5 is a simple one.

it's hard to do a verifiable fact of the day everyday because palin is being kept away from the media.

eventually she's going to have to buckle down and, uh, talk to the press. she is running as VP on a major party ticket... i wonder what else she's hiding.

running up the city of wasilla's debt was not the only thing that sarah palin did for her city while serving as mayor. she also tried to ban books like harry potter and the dictionary (yes, that is correct... THE DICTIONARY) from wasilla's public library.

here is palin's proposed list of banned books.

great, she wants a bunch of illiterates running around her town.

speaking of harry potter, doesn't palin remind y'all of bellatrix lestrange (though the good ol' death eater was much more intelligent than palin)?

this might be old news, but i realized that many people do not know this.

sarah palin attended five colleges in six years...

now, while i don't think that every elected official needs to attend an ivy league institution, i really do wonder if palin's education is advanced enough to be second in command of the us. as i've already pointed out, she has zero foreign policy experience; and no, living in a state that is on the bering strait, across from russia, does NOT constitute foreign policy experience. but aside from the obvious lack of firsthand knowledge in international relations, i'm concerned as to why she attended so many two year institutions in a period of six years. true, she finally (and i mean finally) did earn her BA from the university of idaho, a fine four year university (and i say that with zero sarcasm. really...), i still wonder why she changed schools so many times.

if she had an excellent record as alaska's governor and proved herself as a highly intelligent individual, i could look past the six year program. but sadly, palin has proven herself as neither.

sarah palin *probably* speaks in tongues.

source.

regardless of whether she speaks in tongues or not, the article linked above surely proves that she is a christian of the scarier variety (and of course her church does indeed promote converting queers into child-producing straight folk...) personally, i would love to hear palin break out into some tongue-speak at one of the vp debates. it would make my week year.

and y'all know you're getting these until election day.

sarah palin's favorite food is moose stew.

source.

now, i wonder what she's going to do on the road (during the campaign) if she can't find moose stew. plus i am guessing her favorite variety of moose stew is the kind she shot, killed, skinned, prepared, and cooked on her own. what if the moose stew in, let's say, mississippi, doesn't add up?

(and regarding the moose in my icon, i shot it photographed it myself in anchorage last summer. i hope for that moose's sake that he/she has never met sarah palin. because if it did, it's most likely in her stew. on second thought, if you look carefully you will see that the moose is drinking out of some dirty hole on the side of the road. that's gotta add some nutritional value to the moose stew...)