I just can’t resist it. I’m that scorpion that told the frog it can only be a scorpion. Everything inside of me finds it hard not to automatically dislike/despise/sting black people. And Obama is pure black. Because of his current important/historical status, we are now forced to see on the great stage or (sic) our times the most mundane of American scenarios—black scenarios, one of the main which is the fatherless black child.

Too bad everyone can't be as elite and citified as you Charles, you man of the people, you.....

What a windbag you are.......

How is it that country women always look hot even when their 40, 50 or 60?

I used to get CMT free on cable (before my apartment complex started charging for it) and its better than Playboy.

You're a real fucking asshole, Charles. Really.

One question about this potential scandal: What did Trooper Wooten allegedly do?

Following a prior Slog link to TPM, I saw brief mention—in defense of Gov. Palin—that Wooten had some sort of history of disgraceful conduct. This could present a complication because, as we are all too aware around here, the markedly superior "due process" the police receive in the face of accusations of misconduct is absurd, yet we cannot have someone arbitrarily suspending that due process. Still, though, in the public's mind, if he's a bad trooper, Palin's burden of guilt may be somewhat mitigated.

Maybe.

But what, exactly, is Wooten supposed to have done that would have given Palin or her staff any leverage whatsoever?

WHO HIRED YOU

When are you posting the nude shots of her and those two firemen in a hot tub?

Hm, so she hangs with furries?

It's the pelts.

She likes to rip them off and smell the blood before she tans them.

Not that I think anyone cares about reality at this point in regard to anything about Palin (She's not the mama! She's the grandma! Todd is both the dad and the granddad! She names her kids after witches!), but this is what Trooper Wooten was investigated for (note his stepson was 10 or 11 at the time):

"Troopers eventually investigated 13 issues and found four in which Wooten violated policy or broke the law or both:
• Wooten used a Taser on his stepson.
• He illegally shot a moose.
• He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
• He told others his father-in-law would “eat a f’ing lead bullet” if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce."

OK, I'll just come out and say it.... Charles, since you are from Africa, you are a bigger hick than ANYONE from a small town in the USA. Not only are you a hick, you are an arrogant hick that thinks a little city learnin' makes you better than anyone else. FUCK. YOU. Hick. When did you even get running water?

Uh... what is this "to whom her sister was involved..." business? A new prepositional relationship?

Or perhaps the reporter originally wrote: "to whom her sister was related"

Noun phrase: "a Palmer Alaska State Trooper to whom her sister was involved in a bitter child custody battle."

Well, it is the Anchorage Daily News.

@ 11, you obviously had a standard american education. i'm sorry that happened to you. it almost makes me feel guilty about my own education, which cost my parents such a pretty penny. There was the expensive private school in downtown harare, and the private english lessons (paid for by my mother, a professor at the university of zimbabwe) with an english lady who lived in a fancy flat in downtown harare (she was young, shapely, and always wore flowing floral dresses--indeed, the very source of my love of the language). And i must not forget that dashing indian gentleman (delicate scarf tied around his neck) hired by my father (a civil servant in the ministry of industry and technology) to teach me how to use and program a personal computer in 1986--his office was also in downtown harare.

how i wish you, @ 11, had had my rich harare education.

Uh... what is this "to whom her sister was involved..." business? A new prepositional relationship?




Or perhaps the reporter originally wrote: "to whom her sister was related"




Noun phrase: "a Palmer Alaska State Trooper to whom her sister was involved in a bitter child custody battle."




Well, it is the Anchorage Daily News.

What other country scenarios are going to appear on the present stage of world history?

By "other country" scenarios I would guess Iceland or one of those other Viking countries. Brunhilde on the right must shop at the same place as Madonna...

This is one of Charles' better slog posts in my opinion (and I am not usually a fan of Charles' slog posts).

A lot of towns in Alaska, especially Wasilla, are very much like any other small town in the U.S. The radio is all country music, oldies or conservative talk radio. Lots of cowboy hats, lots of "God bless our troops" car magnets, a hell of a lot of churches (esp. southern baptist, thanks to oil workers from Oklahoma, Texas, etc.) and guns. Can't forget the guns. Walmart is probably the most popular place to shop there.

Palin will appeal to conservative women who live in towns like this, and I think will appeal to people who voted for George W. because they liked him as a person. I was born and raised in Alaska, and got the fuck out as soon as I could, but every time I go visit my parents (they live in Wasilla now) I am reminded how much of a bubble I live in here in Seattle. And I am thankful for that bubble!

Note to 11: actually I would guess most people in Africa who do have access to education are more aware of what's going on in the world than anyone in small town U.S.A. My history classes never really went past WWII, and my literature teacher told us "most of the books I'm required to teach you are too difficult for you to understand, so we're going to watch a lot of videos and we'll read some excerpts of the books to get the language." Oh, and my high school banned the Utne Reader because it had articles that didn't condemn homosexuality.

Well, she is a woman who has fought sexism and misogyny to get to where she is today. So, i'm waiting for ECB to come to her defense, because ECB cares about ALL WOMEN, right?

ECB isn't gonna sit around and let these men use all of these sexist terms to define her, right?

ECB is an advocate for putting women in positions of power, right?

It would be a shame if ECB was the kind of "reporter" who uses women's rights issues only to defend women whom she agrees with. She believes all women should be equal to men, but it would be lame for her to believe that certain women should have more protection from cock-tyrants than others.

ECB isn't gonna stand by and let all of these mean, woman-hating, limp-dicked men make sexist remarks about this CUNT!!

Right??

ECB??

@10

PopTart, you are, as always, on to something. Yet I have to ask, if he was such a bad man, why didn't the Governor just throw him out on is ass? In the open, straight up? Why all the backchannel manipulation?

@13

Awesome.

@17

Since when did Erica become responsible for every leaf that falls at The Stranger? You might want to take this up with Tim Keck.

Fine. Did your harare education teach you to be an elitist asshole? Then I don't want it anyway. Cram that delicate scarf sideways and go back then. Spare us your "insights".

@19, let me enter your small area of understanding and introduce you to something you have never seen in all that is your life: my class. yes, i come from a class. it's not up or down, but horizontal. it is a class that does not recognize your borders or system of states. who are we? what's our place in the world's social order? for us, the space between harare and seattle or seattle and london or london and oslo or oslo and sydney or sydney and port elizabeth is perfectly smooth. (I have relatives in all of those cities.) when we need to move, we move. we don't have a passport, we have passports. when one country goes down, we do not blink, we just leave to another one. we do not worship states or flags, we worship air and water, because anywhere they are, we can go there. that sir is my class. the world is our space.

And the slog is your shitter.

Charles asks, "What other country scenarios are going to appear on the present stage of world history?"

Please allow me to reframe the question: If McCain wins, will Anheuser-Busch introduce a new product onto the market called "Cindy Beer," to be made available only in aluminum cans?

BTW, Mudede-haters: try writing something as revelatory as this, then we'll discuss the validity of your hateful little snarkbombs. If you can't, then do the SLOG a favor and STFU, SVP.

Fair enough, Jeff.
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART

Mr Mudede: What you call a "country" scenario looks to me like a human scenario. Let's assume what Mr Monegan says is true. We've then got a person in power abusing her power for the benefit of her family. This happens everywhere, everyday. By framing it as "country", you've done nothing but expose your own prejudices. That's not interesting, it's just ugly.