Tag Archives: Alaska

I think I’m starting to have a Mary Hart reaction just from the sound of her voice.

Sarah Palin has “written” a 400-page memoir titled Going Rogue: An American Life. HarperCollins will launch the book with a 1.5M hardcover initial press run, the same number as Ted Kennedy’s posthumously released memoir. SRSLY. Palin “collaborated” on the manuscript with a woman named Lynn Vincent.

Last week the mayor of Anchorage vetoed a gay rights bill that had passed the city’s assembly by one vote. And now it looks like there will be no attempt to override his veto. The Anchorage Assembly has less than two weeks left to override the mayor’s veto of the gay rights ordinance. But the ordinance’s author says it likely …

Anchorage, Alaska Mayor Dan Sullivan has vetoed the LGBT rights bill that his city’s Assembly approved last week. “My review shows that there is clearly a lack of quantifiable evidence necessitating this ordinance,” Sullivan said. “My review also shows that the vast majority of those who communicated their position … are in opposition. “As elected officials, we are charged with …

After weeks of often ugly debate, the Anchorage, Alaska city council has voted to approve an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Anchorage Assembly members fought back tears Tuesday night before a decision three months in the making — approval of a city-wide ordinance making it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. The 7 to 4 decision came …

Obfuscation Olympics gold medalist Sarah Palin demonstrates her amazing prowess. To thunderous applause, Palin asks the media, “How about in honor of our soldiers, you quit makin’ things up?”

The savior of the GOP just keeps digging a deeper hole. An independent investigator has found evidence that Gov. Sarah Palin may have violated ethics laws by trading on her position in seeking money for legal fees, in the latest legal distraction for the former vice presidential candidate as she prepares to leave office this week. The report obtained by …

Aspiring actor and model Levi Johnston says Palin quit to make more money and that he wouldn’t vote for her again. Johnston’s proposed stage name? Ricky Hollywood. SRSLY.

From Sarah Palin’s attorney: “To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation,” Van Flein said in a statement. “This is to provide notice …

GOP sources report that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will announce today that she will not seek re-election in 2010, setting the stage for an expected 2012 presidential bid. Tina Fey is going to have lots of work. UPDATE: The news is much bigger: Palin is resigning. Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be sworn in at the end of July. …

As a noisy anti-gay crowd outside waved signs saying “Truth is not hate!,” the Anchorage, Alaska city Assembly heard public arguments on their proposed bill to outlaw discrimination against gays for housing, employment, and finance. Opponents were dressed in red, which has become the signature color for anti-gay hate. Allison Mendel, an attorney, told the Assembly, “I want to be …

Pastor Ron Hamman writes in the Wasilla Frontiersman: Sodomy is the only sin for which God came down from heaven to destroy. Though God dealt with many other sins in various ways, there is no other for which he came down from heaven to verify and destroy. In the New Testament, sodomy is declared to be “against nature.” And of …

Alaska’s largest city is considering a gay rights bill prohibiting housing and employment discrimination, but as usual, a wingnut group with “family” in their name is fighting for the right to be bigots. The ordinance would also prohibit discrimination against military veterans, but opponents claim the measure tacked on vets to make it appeal to more people. “There isn’t really …

Oh, Alaska. If only this were an April Fool’s joke. The Justice Department plans to drop all charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens, the 85-year old Alaska Republican convicted last year of lying on Senate financial disclosure forms to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations from a businessman, according to a news report this morning. …

The nation’s favorite hillbilly broke his silence today in an interview with Good Morning America where he said, “Oh, I still plan on marrying Bris- hey, is that a titty bar? Bitchin! Laters dude.”

Gov. Palin is only going to use her shotgun to shoot animals from helicopters. Cuz not only is the wedding off, Bristol and Levi are broken up. In a new interview with Star Magazine, Levi’s sister Mercede Johnston says Bristol actually broke up with Levi more than a month ago, is not attending school and rarely lets her baby daddy …