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Friday, October 10, 2008 12:00 AM

Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals

Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin's political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. "Her door was open," says Chryson -- and still is.

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Friday, October 10, 2008 04:22 PM

"We never sleep" was the slogan of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, founded by the Scot, Allan Pinkerton who was also a spy

He'd have had to get up very early in the morning to compete with some of the theories being bruited about on this board. Idaho must have been the place that all those Nazis - Eichmann, Mengele and co. - headed for after World War 2 - although historians seem to think that it was South America. We live and learn, all the same, and Sarah Palin's decision to return to Idaho is undoubtedly sinister, although confusing. She left it when she was a baby but she'd already imbibed a lot of Aryan Nation claptrap. Maybe she was breast-fed on it and did a goose-step when she first attempted to walk.

This woman was blessed by Bishop Thomas Muthee, a Kenyan clergyman who also asked that she'd be safe from "witchcraft". This might seem strange to sophisticated people but anyone who knows anything about rural Africa knows that a real fear of witchcraft still survives. There are also the "muti" killings in South Africa and they're not a figment of anyone's imagination. You can see about them on YouTube. Bishop Muthee was raised in a society where witchcraft and malevolence are synonymous. It's kind of hard to have it both ways: to imply, with no evidence, that Sarah Palin is a racist and also to scoff at her receiving of a blessing against witchcraft from an African bishop. People should check the facts before making dangerously defamatory suggestions based on little else but hate.

Friday, October 10, 2008 04:42 PM

Bash Sarah but none dare speak of Ayers...

...besides he's probably been "rehabilitated". Well, then, what about his wife? "Don't know, maybe her too".

Friday, October 10, 2008 05:12 PM

But Maureen, you know how the left likes to spew their venom unrestricted...

...and what's sauce for the goose is not necessarily sauce for the gander (we can do it but you can't) all the while casting blame for being those wascally Wepublicans.

Friday, October 10, 2008 06:21 PM

Here is a video proving Sarah Palin's membership in the AIP

See the video at Mudflats.com (excerpted below)

“Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. . . . She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town — that was a non-partisan job. But to get along and go along — she eventually joined the Republican Party . . . and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.“

Dexter Clark, Chairman of the AIP

“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag! I’ll be buried in Dawson, and when Alaska is an independent nation, they can bring my bones home.”

Joe Vogler, AIP Founder

Friday, October 10, 2008 06:36 PM

This here Saloon is full of hombres just spoiling for a fight;

Nobody should call into question their new Obamabot fealty to the next George Washington, Barraks K Obama.

You may have heard of Bernadette Dhorn and Billy Ayers. Nevermind the right wing nut propaganda, that they spent the best and sexiest years of their lives trying to bring this country down so it could be just like Hungary or North Vietnam. Now they are well respected professors.

We know that professors represent the best that is our American Dream (nevermind all the small contractors and distributors and dry cleaning establishments, without the wisdom of these professors, where would they be?)

So what's the big deal about that, my frems? It's just the corporate fascists making noise.

You may have heard of Jeremiah Wright. So what if he preached that Jew Doctors were spreading AIDS. We really don't know how this pandemic started, do we? Maybe Wright could be right, right? Maybe we'll never know for sure that them Jews didn't invent the AIDS. They invented just about everything else, didn't they? Remember that Einstein guy?

And you know that Sarah Palen's husband's ex brother in law may have tasered his step son, but nobody's proven it yet, and so now we know that Todd Palen may be even worse than Reverand Wright, don't we.

And, unlike the East Village, there are all kinds of nuts up there in Alaska, and we know where Sarah Palin is from, don't we.

So I am thinking of saying Adios to all you folks here.

This is one of them fights you can't win on this particular ground.

Think this post will get a star, boyz and girlz?

But there's no tellin' what I might be doin' and other people like me might be doin' while all you Obamabots keep on keeping on with your mutual admiration society.

You know, this here Saloon ain't normal. This ain't where I hang out with my many frems.

Friday, October 10, 2008 07:01 PM

watch your back johnny Mac

In Vegas, I understand you can bet on about anything involved in the Super Bowl:

winner of the coin toss, no. of turnovers, breast exposures,and so on. My question to Nevadans is, "Can you bet on wether McCain dies of natural causes or by coup during his first term. (if elected). I figure Pelosi is Palin's life insurance and Bidenzzzzzz is obama's.

Friday, October 10, 2008 07:09 PM

unfair and unbalanced

Hey Shookdaddy,

This is what's known in the Rupert Murdoch world as clear channel reporting. Irritating when it comes from Salon as opposed to Fox or Rush, huh? Watch O'Rielly or Sean sucks some night with a truly objective mindset.

Hey, it's 1984, I'm only 37 again. Yipee!

Friday, October 10, 2008 07:12 PM

Wasilla

If Palin and AIP are dedicated to small government and low taxes, what happened with her multi-million dollar sports facility that left Wasilla a huge public debt? Shouldn't these guys have given up on Palin for pushing that Big Government program?

Friday, October 10, 2008 07:20 PM

This is no way for us to conduct a rational dialogue. Especially the one who calls himself Zoltna (unless you're from Hungary)

What's Hungary got to do with this?

Hungary never fully supported the path toward freedom, equality and prosperity. And look at her now! All the best men are waiters in London hotels, and their best women are looking after American children on the upper West Side.

If only Hungry had not betrayed her own righteous Obamabots, The Great Soviet Union might still be standing, and sending right wing reactionary nuts like Lotus Toes to psychiatric programs to help them restore their collective perspective.

So, please, my dears, never forget that ACORN is a good organization (unlike those weird Alaskan outfits). ACORN knows what is best for all of us, and ACORN certainly knows how all of those dead people would be voting for Barracks 0 if they were alive today, if they just got the chance which they are now gonna get, thanks to organizations like ACORN and The Cook County Elections Authority.

So, Zoltan Newberry, good by to bad rubbish, as they say at Lotus Feet College at Oxford.

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