Oh, so much freude in my schaden.
Jul. 3rd, 2009 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehSo you know that whole rambly resignation speech Palin gave, seemingly out of nowhere, and for no discernible reason?
The reason just got discerned:
This kind of abrupt resignation doesn't happen because one needs to "spend time with the family": This just in my inbox, from a source connected sometimes to CNN: "Here's a quote I got from law enforcement here in Alaska yesterday afternoon regarding Palin--"a criminal indictment is pending authorization."Couldn'ta happened to a nicer gal dontcha know.
Ding!
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
ETA: Is there are store, either online or in meatspace, where you can create your own magnetic poetry? Like, you give them the vocabulary, and they create the magnets? Because I so want the "Sarah Palin Resignation Speech" kit.
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Date: 2009-07-04 03:26 am (UTC)Let's hope, anyway.
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:52 pm (UTC)(p.s. how goes the QI dls?)
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Date: 2009-07-04 05:33 pm (UTC)I have a few seasons dl'd, but for some reason S1 won't burn, and I have no idea why (I've been having issues with my burner, but the other seasons have burned fine so far, so I suspect it something with the coding). At least it's the season you said wasn't stellar.
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:06 am (UTC)Betcha it was a paralegal.
(Note: I have less than no inside information. But the feds have good taste in paralegals. ;)
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:11 am (UTC)Except there's still nothing in the news about any indictments, and the Palins have made vague statements warning they'll sue media outlets for defamation. So, crap, now I'm wondering if the info was wrong. :P
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:16 am (UTC)Speculation is fun, though. :D
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:37 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pR1f_DSoDg
Oh, John Green, I love you so.
::needs Nerdfighter icon liek woah)
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:54 pm (UTC)(okay, inappropriate response, I know. But. Mmmm.)
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Date: 2009-07-04 04:07 am (UTC)Mmmmm, Crow. Nummy
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Date: 2009-07-04 02:48 pm (UTC)Something's breathing down Palin's neck, though, I agree. *pops popcorn*
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Date: 2009-07-05 04:16 am (UTC)However, this site has a word template that can be used with printer-ready magnetic sheets such as Avery 3270 so that, with the help of scissors or a craft knife, one can make one's own. (Or hell, start a community project! :D)
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Date: 2009-07-06 03:19 am (UTC)Of course, Sarah sure can dish it out and not take it. Take a google for her comment about how
Hillary Clintonwomen candidates shouldn't complain about how they're treated by the press, because it looks weak and doesn't do women in the field of politics any good.Or, you know, ANYTHING ELSE SHE'S EVER SAID.