"Sarah" by Kaylene Johnson,Excerpts from new bio,160 pages of FLUFF!!!

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 6:43 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 06:43

New Biography of VP nominee debuted on NY Times Book Review Non-Fiction Best Seller list this week at No.6

Brief book review by me:

FLUFF,a fluffography written in 8 hours by a right wing religous fundamentalist wacko who dabbles in the Augsburg home churching movment described by JSTOR as "to alter the existing societal order on the basis of religion" (p. ... economic and political structures of Augsburg, home to capitalist banking houses

A boring portrait of a woman , who as a girl showed a combination of character traits marking her as a budding female version of an Abe Lincoln/George W. Bush.Raised in a "log cabin type environment,"read incessantly ,honest as the sky and stubborn as an ox. Gloryoski, Zero.!!!!

I am too angry to rationally pontificate about this piece of crap "literary effort" so I am just going to provide numerous excerpts from the book and then conclude with some background about the Author, Kaylene Johnson. Commenters invited to provide their own reviews.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 7:25 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 07:25

When a crisis such as the country faces this week suddenly shakes our confidence in our leaders we need to look back in history to see how the greatest banking crisis of all was handled.

My adult children have been asking me all weekend how bad the situation is and why Alan Greenspan called this crisis a "once in a century event." They know I grew up during the Great Depresssion.They particularly wanted to know if they should withdraw their money from banks today, before a possible complete collapse occurs.I told them what I could still remember,particularly of my mother going into her bedroom and reaching under her mattress for cash before we went to the market to buy food.

But the one vivid recollection I told them about was of our family gathering by the radio to listen to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fireside chats.The particular chat delivered at the height of the crisis is included below the fold.It seems timely today.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 4:59 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 04:59

Barack Obama has picked up 7 points in the just released Rueters-Zogby Poll. In the previous Zogby Poll McCain led 46-41. In today's poll Obama is favored by 47 % to 45%.

Zogby cited McCain's negative campaigning as a factor in the turnaround.
Here are the favorabilty ratings of the four major candidates as of today:

Candidate Favorability

McCain: favorable 62%, unfavorable 37%

Obama: favorable 59%, unfavorable 40%

Palin: favorable 51%, unfavorable 38%

Biden: favorable 44%, unfavorable 37%

http://www.zogby.com/

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 2:43 PM PDT

2008/09/15 · 14:43

There is a disconnect in America right now and I have a theory about it.
The disconnect shows up in the polling showing women switching their votes to Palin from Obama since her selection as the VP nominee.

The unlikely bond which has formed overnight continues to defy reason.
How can women who have the most to lose by the elevation of Gov. Palin to icon status, vote against their own self-interest?

I suggest we take a close look at the seriousness of the problem of battered women in our country. Some statistics first from the Family Violence Prevention Fund below the fold:

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 2:50 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 14:50

So now we have solved one mystery, why our resident bimbo wears Tina Fey spectacles. As she so artfully explained over and over to Charlie last night, the main qualification to be president is to never never BLINK! As many who have tried to wear contacts and failed know, incomplete blinkers cannot wear them. Their eyes dry out. Which explains also why Sarah never sheds a tear even when discussing very emotional topics such as her Downs baby, preg teen daughter and a patriotic son marching off to a war her boss tells us we have already won.

Sarah Palin IS the bridge to nowhere.This woman is not devious and we make a mistake by assuming she is. She is not devious, she is oblivious.
She is unbelievably self-confident as only an oblivious person can be. Great athletes are examples of people who achieve astonishing feats by rendering themselves oblivious to the risks they take. Tightrope walkers teetering across a wire from the Empire State Building to an adjacent roof never look down. By ignoring dangers we can immunize ourselves to them.

By being oblivious to the superpower status of Russia we can feed into the craving for wars of bored, demented souls. Why bother to negotiate with evil when we are carrying out God's tasks.

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 7:19 PM PDT

2008/09/11 · 19:19

Say what you will about Bush, at least he knows what the Bush Doctrine is.

The Sarah Palin era ended tonight. Her 10 minutes of fame is history. She will be an object of derision on talk shows for at least 20 years. She is now the female Dan Quayle. Thank God almighty we are free of this bimbo at last.

My biggest laugh though did not come from watching her squirm. That was funny, but nowhere near as funny as the reaction on the Repub blogs tonight. They literally want to hang Charlie Gibson, The comment of the evening in wingnut country is: "He would never have treated a male candidate like that." Poor Gibson is a sexist. Who da thunk it?

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Tuesday September 09, 2008 · 6:11 PM PDT

2008/09/09 · 18:11

The Dillington Hotel,Dillington, AK was the location of some mysterious shenanigans in January,1999.

A young woman,Deanna Griggs working at the hotel filed a complaint.Ms. Griggs last worked as a collections clerk for Dillingham Hotel/L&M from March 1998 through October 9, 1998. She worked Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and earned $10.00 per hour.

Ms. Griggs gave birth to a baby on July 12, 1998. Ms. Kallstrom gave Ms. Griggs permission to bring the baby to work for one month because she was breastfeeding the baby. Ms. Kallstrom requested in mid-September that Ms. Griggs find daycare arrangements for the baby because she believed it had gone on beyond the one month that she approved. Ms. Kallstrom also had heard a complaint that the baby was a disruption at the office. Shortly after Ms. Griggs spoke to Ms. Kallstrom, she spoke with Mr. Garner about her situation. Mr. Garner testified that Ms. Griggs was upset about not being able to continue bringing the baby to work. She mentioned that if it was a choice between her baby and work, she would stay home and take care of the baby.

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 4:52 PM PDT

2008/09/04 · 16:52

Hardly. And I will not either. I detest warmongers and am furious about how quickly we (the U.S.) seem to have lost our will to fight against the warmongers since the casualty figures declined.Where are the war protestors of past wars?.One hundred and five wars have been fought by this country since the Revolutionary War.

Some of these wars were minor and some major but just about all of them at some point ended when public dissatisfaction made itself too visible to ignore.John McCain and Sarah Palin, a marriage made in hell,have been beating the drums for war all week at the convention.He talks about his surge and she beams proudly about sending her son off to an old stale war which 75% of this country wants to end.

Two great men would not be pleased watching this travesty. Martin Luther King and Mark Twain are two of the most famous war protestors in history. I turn to them for solace as the warmonger justifies his jingoism by citing his POW experience. Why would a former POW be such a warmonger, unless he were absolutely insane?

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 2:37 PM PDT

2008/09/03 · 14:37

This diary is to provide information about Sarah Palin's mom, Sally Sheeran Heath.

If you are reading this diary to collect negative information about this woman, you may as well leave right now because there is none. If there were I would not be presenting this diary about her.

Sally Sheeran attended Richmond Hills,Washington in the early 1940's and graduated from the Richmond Hill (Bombers) High School in 1958. By a remarkable coincidence she is attending the 50th reunion of that graduating class this month.Another remarkable coincidence arose while I was gathering the material for this diary. Six years ago Sarah's mom at the ripe age of 60 participated in a 5k walk in the town three of my children reside in. When you consider they live on the opposite coast of the Sheeran-Heath family,it sure surprised me. I assume she was visiting relatives on this coast that year.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 6:04 PM PDT

2008/09/01 · 18:04

Bill is having a stroke. Laura Ingraham is telling Bill that we (the left) are cheering the event on. Instead of discussing the pros and cons of the event, they are almost blaming us for everything but impregnating the high school teenager.

They had some nice things to say about Barack's admonitions today but Laura hedged her praise by saying "he had no choice". If he makes one slip he is done, she added.

Bill called us gutter-snipes, the lowest of all the blogs on the web. Labeled Kos bloggers as "mentally incompetent." Juan Williams,the whiyte man's black man picked up the thread, "Daily Kos has become the voice of the far left in this country." Bill provoked him,"Juan you have been a reporter for 3 decades.have you ever seen anything like this in yourf life?" Juan refused to answer but shrugged.

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 8:13 AM PDT

2008/08/31 · 08:13

With the introduction of Sarah Palin it is obvious this election has been thrown into turmoil. Until the dust settles after The Repub. ugliness this week, I don't see how anyone can be certain of who now is the front runner. Conflicting early poll results have muddied the waters even more.

Throw in the disaffected supporters of Hillary,Condi,Meg and Kathleen. Also include the glass ceiling fanatics (which may be the most influential of all in a close election) and it's clear we are, as the song says, "blinded by science"

I see another another ingredient in this new mix.I herewith coin it as the "MRS.BRADLEY FACTOR."

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 1:05 PM PDT

2008/08/30 · 13:05

USA TODAY,GALLUP National Poll taken Friday says most Americans have never heard of her and are uncertain whether she is qualified to be President. However they seem very open to learning more about her this week at the Republican National Convention.

This is the lowest recognition factor since Dan Quayle was selected by George H. Bush in 1988. The actual numbers are as follows:
39% say she is ready to serve if needed
33% say she isn't and 29% have no opinion at all.

The WFLA-TV Tampa poll for the state of Florida is more favorable with 46% saying she will help McCain in Florida,16% think she will hurt his chances and 31%, of the opinion she will have no effect at all.

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