Sarah Palin

[Boxlicker101]

And you call yourself a SMUT writer!?!??!!?

cum covered glasses site...

In some of my smut the woman is wearing glasses but this is not common and I don't usually make any mention of it. I don't believe I have ever written about a man who is wearing glasses. For one thing, he would have to take them off to go down on her.

Your link doesn't produce and pics, but there is an address there that I might try later.

 

[Liar]

In some of my smut the woman is wearing glasses but this is not common and I don't usually make any mention of it. I don't believe I have ever written about a man who is wearing glasses. For one thing, he would have to take them off to go down on her.

Nah, the chafing is extra stimulation. Now, if the man is putting on safety glasses before going down on her (or scuba goggles), there's a plot bunny wirth considering.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Nah, the chafing is extra stimulation. Now, if the man is putting on safety glasses before going down on her (or scuba goggles), there's a plot bunny wirth considering.

Maybe wear some kind of snorkel device and go down on her while they are skinny dipping. Unless you have some way of breathing, you would have to keep coming up for air, which would mean constant interruptions.

It would have to be something that fits fairly snugly over the nose, or it would get in the way. Maybe a cap that fits over the nose, and has the air hose going out of the top of the cap. The cap could have a soft rubber gasket and be held in place by a strap going around the back of the guy's head.

Going down on a man would be less of a problem because you wouldn't have to press your face tightly against him.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Roxy:

Don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining. I know what's going on in the banking industry. I know it better than you. Because I was there. And now I'm collecting unemployment checks because my bank was there too and needed to cut costs.

You want to talk about the real bullshit on the inside we can do that. To a point. That non-disclosure agreement kinda holds me back some. But while on most subjects we hold debate because we have differences of opinion, that's not this subject.

I know what happened here. And the seeds were sown a long fucking time ago. The problem in 1992 was they didn't go far enough. We thought we could handle it. We were wrong.

We should have learned from the S & L's. And while we did learn some, we apparently did not learn enough.

Especially when one of the fucking Keating Five is running for President and is somehow close in the polls.

Do you wanna know what really caused this crisis, Bel? It's the same thing that caused that electricity fiasco in California a few years ago. Legislators there, and Congress here, created a set of perverse incentives for the regulated industry, and then were shocked to discover that the players in those industries aligned their behavior with those incentives.

The goal here was to "encourage homeownership" in "underserved communities," and to accomplish it policies were enacted that encouraged lenders to abandon the prudent practices that had previously prevented them from making stupid loans. The fancy financing was devised by Wall Street to accomodate all that - they were indirectly responding to the same perverse incentives. Too-easy money from the Fed threw gasoline on the fire.

So now the political and media establishents are screaming for the heads of those rascals in banking and Wall Street who "created" the crisis. Bullshit. You don't think there were people telling Congress that if you incentivise lending to individuals who are poor credit risks you'll get more foreclosures? Of course there were. They were ignored, drowned out by a chorus of phony, "We have to help people." Worse, those same scumbags are demanding that because of the crisis that they created they be given even more power and control over our economy. Fuck that, and fuck them, and fuck the populist horses they rode in on, including all the dupes in the electorate and the media who cheered (and cheer) them on.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Do you wanna know what really caused this crisis, Bel? It's the same thing that caused that electricity fiasco in California a few years ago. Legislators there, and Congress here, created a set of perverse incentives for the regulated industry, and then were shocked to discover that the players in those industries aligned their behavior with those incentives.

The goal here was to "encourage homeownership" in "underserved communities," and to accomplish it policies were enacted that encouraged lenders to abandon the prudent practices that had previously prevented them from making stupid loans. The fancy financing was devised by Wall Street to accomodate all that - they were indirectly responding to the same perverse incentives. Too-easy money from the Fed threw gasoline on the fire.

So now the political and media establishents are screaming for the heads of those rascals in banking and Wall Street who "created" the crisis. Bullshit. You don't think there were people telling Congress that if you incentivise lending to individuals who are poor credit risks you'll get more foreclosures? Of course there were. They were ignored, drowned out by a chorus of phony, "We have to help people." Worse, those same scumbags are demanding that because of the crisis that they created they be given even more power and control over our economy. Fuck that, and fuck them, and fuck the populist horses they rode in on, including all the dupes in the electorate and the media who cheered (and cheer) them on.

Four years ago, my wife and I bought our present home. I am White and she is Asian, so we got no special consideration, nor did we deserve or want any. We had a substantial amount of cash for a good down payment and to buy the new appliances that we needed. Over the last two years or so, the value of the house has declined, but this has not been a problem. Actually, it's a plus, because our property tax has also declined. We make monthly payments for slightly more than the minimum and have never been late.

When we bought this home, there were other plans available, and some of them were really off the wall. I saw ads for 120% financing, no money down, interest only loans, usually ARM's. People who took out these kinds of loans were frequently not really credit-worthy, but they were approved anyhow. When the ARM's payments increased, as they always did, the buyers were unable to make payments and they were foreclosed. Because the homes were valued at less than the outstanding balances, the lenders took many baths.

Except that it wasn't the lenders who took the baths. They almost always sold the mortgages, frequently to Fannie or Freddie, and the holders in due course were the ones who got hosed. They almost always bought some bad paper, and their volumes were great enough they could handle them, but when tens of thousands of new borrowers were foreclosed, it was just too much.

Of course, the original lenders took their profits right away and laughed all the way to the bank.

I don't know how much the government was responsible for the debacle, but they did pressure the lenders and the secondary mortgage holders to make risky loans. Maybe "pressure" isn't the right word, but they did let the lenders know that too many rejections of loan applications from minorities would look suspicious and maybe even invite legal action.

Did you ever hear of a NINJA loan? That stands for no income, no job, no assets. People actually were approved for home loans with those lacks of qualifications. Of course, they were soon foreclosed, but that happened after the lenders had sold the paper. By the way, I'm not going to provide a source, because you can google NINJA loan if you need to know more.

 

[rgraham666]

Nice try, Rox.

Here's a couple of columns by an economist I have a lot of respect for on the California 'energy crisis'.

The Unreal Thing

The Real Wolf

Not that you'll accept them, of course. Since The New York Times is part of the MSM and so horribly biased.

 

[Pure]

rox's analysis.

Do you wanna know what really caused this crisis, Bel? It's the same thing that caused that electricity fiasco in California a few years ago. Legislators there, and Congress here, created a set of perverse incentives for the regulated industry, and then were shocked to discover that the players in those industries aligned their behavior with those incentives.

rox applies this analysis wherever Democratic legislatures exist. You will not hear her applying it to the Repn majorities, e.g. of Bushi's first eight years.

rox's idea of 'perverse incentives' to cover private dishonesty is something like the following. Law makers leave a loophole for so called 'investment banks' to lend FAR beyond their holdings; there are also loopholes for keeping losses off the main accountings furnished to shareholders.

a bunch of crooks use the loopholes, enrich themselves, and leave bankrupt companies and stockholders.

rox: blame the government. a crook just does his thing. 'greed is good' as the saying goes, so long as you stay out of jail. pursuing self interest is blessed by Ayn Rand and the Universe..

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Do you wanna know what really caused this crisis, Bel? It's the same thing that caused that electricity fiasco in California a few years ago. Legislators there, and Congress here, created a set of perverse incentives for the regulated industry, and then were shocked to discover that the players in those industries aligned their behavior with those incentives.

rox applies this analysis wherever Democratic legislatures exist. You will not hear her applying it to the Repn majorities, e.g. of Bushi's first eight years.

rox's idea of 'perverse incentives' to cover private dishonesty is something like the following. Law makers leave a loophole for so called 'investment banks' to lend FAR beyond their holdings; there are also loopholes for keeping losses off the main accountings furnished to shareholders.

a bunch of crooks use the loopholes, enrich themselves, and leave bankrupt companies and stockholders.

rox: blame the government. a crook just does his thing. 'greed is good' as the saying goes, so long as you stay out of jail. pursuing self interest is blessed by Ayn Rand and the Universe..

Oh bullshit, Pure. The architecture for this fiasco was a purely bipartisan phenonomon. And bullshit to the rest of your post - when Congress or legilsatures adopt activist policies that require managers in regulated industries to behave like "New Socialist Men" to avoid destructive outcomes, those legislators have no one to blame but themselves. Any law based on such a presusumption is folly waiting to be abused, and libertarians like me are always the first to say so - only to be chastised every time by sanctimonious socialists like you claiming that we "don't care about people."

 

[Pure]

palin a fiscal conservative? anchorage daily news

author says it's hard to tell with lots of resource based taxes and earmarks floating around.

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/530763.html


Palin, fiscal conservative
Unique Alaska finances helped her spend money while keeping taxes low

Published: September 19th, 2008 12:27 AM
Last Modified: September 19th, 2008 03:29 AM


Sarah Palin presents herself to the nation as a fiscal conservative. How does her record stack up? Alaska's unique financial circumstances make it hard to give a traditional assessment.


BIG TAX INCREASE, BUT ...
As governor, Palin presided over the largest tax increase in Alaska history -- but it was a tax increase paid by a handful of multinational oil companies. She took on the state's most powerful industry and ensured Alaskans get their fair share of income from oil development, most of which occurs on publicly-owned land.
Gov. Palin asked the Legislature to reform the state oil tax that was passed during Alaska's bribery scandal. The Legislature took her proposed $600 million oil tax increase and boosted it to capture even more of the windfall from high oil prices. The new tax netted Alaska an extra $2 billion last year compared with the old tax, even allowing for increased oil prices.


BIG STATE BUDGET, BUT ...
Gov. Palin presided over the largest state budget in Alaska history -- $9.8 billion for the current year -- but it was a budget fueled by those billions of dollars in oil money, plus more billions in federal funding. And that budget included setting aside $2 billion as savings.



The state budget would have been even bigger if she hadn't cut a half billion dollars worth of pork from the first two capital budgets the Legislature sent to her. Though she left the operating budget unscathed both years, she cut $230 million (about 12.5 percent) from the capital budget the first year and $268 million (less than 10 percent) her second year. The cuts were deeply unpopular with legislators of both parties.

To their credit, the Legislature and governor agreed to save, rather than spend, a total of about $7 billion of the oil windfall.

NOT MANY TAXES TO CUT

While Alaska's state budget is big -- about $9,900 per resident -- Palin can boast that Alaskans enjoy the lowest personal tax burden of any state. Since 1980, Alaska has had no state sales tax and no personal income tax.

This year, Gov. Palin persuaded the Legislature to suspend one of the few taxes that ordinary citizens do have to pay, the state's 8 cents a gallon gas tax.


MONEY BACK TO THE PEOPLE

With oil prices soaring past $100 a barrel, Alaska's treasury had plenty of money beyond what was needed to support government services. She persuaded the Legislature to pay each and every Alaskan an extra $1,200 from the windfall state revenues. At first, she wanted to issue the $1,200 as debit cards strictly for paying energy bills. But the mechanics of that approach were too complicated and so she switched to a straight cash payment as a "rebate" from Alaska's oil wealth.

That $1,200 comes on top of the $2,069 each Alaskan gets this year as a dividend from the state's $35 billion oil savings account. Total payout for each Alaskan: $3,269.

During Gov. Palin's tenure, high oil prices have made her job relatively easier. Her deeply unpopular predecessor, fellow Republican Frank Murkowski, had to deal with much more austere times, which added to his unpopularity. When he became governor, oil was selling for less than $30 a barrel, not $100.

While Alaska is swimming in oil money, a fiscal conservative does not need to slash government services. There's so much oil money, a governor can limit government by trimming the worst spending excesses and handing some oil money back to the people.

It's good for a chief executive's popularity, but it's not great training for running a government that has to tax voters for essential services.

THE WASILLA RECORD

Sarah Palin's fiscal record as mayor of Wasilla has some of the same unusual Alaska twists.

As mayor, she helped persuade Wasilla voters to approve the single largest government facility it has ever had: a $15 million indoor recreational sports arena. In 2002, voters narrowly agreed to raise the city sales tax a half percent to pay for it. They knew a good chunk of the bill would be paid by people who live in the rapidly growing areas outside the city limits.

Wasilla was then and still is the commercial center for the most rapidly growing area of the state.

Wasilla's sports arena was supposed to pay for itself, but last year, it still required an annual taxpayer subsidy of about $150,000.
When Palin was mayor, Wasilla's population was steadily growing, and she presided over steadily growing city budgets. At the same time, though, she was able to cut property taxes. That's because the city's sales tax collections grew as the area's record-breaking growth continued.

Wasilla's operating budget was $6 million the year Sarah Palin was elected (1996); the year she left (2002), it had grown by 50 percent to $9 million. The city's sales tax, thanks to purchases by residents outside the city limits, have allowed Wasilla to enjoy government amenities without big property tax bills.


It has been a happy arrangement for Wasilla residents. And it's another example of the special Alaska conditions that allow a fiscal conservative like Sarah Palin to deliver voters a relatively high level of government services with relatively low taxes.

BOTTOM LINE: Alaska's unique financial conditions complicate the assessment of Palin's record as a fiscal conservative.

 

[jomar]

Does a meet and greet with a few friendly foreign leaders mean Palin now has legitimate foreign policy experience?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

JOMAR

The question is relevant to Obama, too. One WE ARE THE WORLD tour does not a President make.

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

Does a meet and greet with a few friendly foreign leaders mean Palin now has legitimate foreign policy experience?

Well, she has more than she had a week ago. Does actual interaction with live foreign leaders constitute more experience than reading some professor's opinion? Even a highly respected professor.

 

[DesertPirate]

Does a meet and greet with a few friendly foreign leaders mean Palin now has legitimate foreign policy experience?

Puts her on an even footing with Obama

 

[jomar]

Does a meet and greet with a few friendly foreign leaders mean Palin now has legitimate foreign policy experience?

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if the heartland decides it does.

JOMAR

The question is relevant to Obama, too. One WE ARE THE WORLD tour does not a President make.

He's been in more countries longer than she has.

Well, she has more than she had a week ago. Does actual interaction with live foreign leaders constitute more experience than reading some professor's opinion? Even a highly respected professor.

Very true on the week thing. Not sure about the other, though I suppose a carefully scripted hello could be construed as a head start.

 

[jomar]

Puts her on an even footing with Obama

Sorry to miss you. The thing is of course, the Repubs brought it up, her living in Alaska across from Russia and all.

 

[Belegon]

Puts her on an even footing with Obama

Really???? How long did SHE live in a foreign country as a child? Which nation did she visit to find her father's grave? How many German's cheered her speech?

Really, DP. I mean, I know you're being flippant, but still...

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

Really???? How long did SHE live in a foreign country as a child? Which nation did she visit to find her father's grave? How many German's cheered her speech?

Really, DP. I mean, I know you're being flippant, but still...

Oh, c'mon. Living in Indonesia as a liittle boy can hardly be counted as foreign experience. I agree that the other things would.

Since John McCain has spent a good part of his adult life in foreign countries, including five years in Vietnam, should he be considered a true expert?

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Nice try, Rox.

Here's a couple of columns by an economist I have a lot of respect for on the California 'energy crisis'.

The Unreal Thing

The Real Wolf

Not that you'll accept them, of course. Since The New York Times is part of the MSM and so horribly biased.

Only the first article is on point, and it's interesting. Krugman does a creditable job of describing the details and the effects of the perverse California utility regulation incentives I referred to, and then in the very last paragraph states a conclusion that's completely unrelated to and a non-sequitor from everything that's come before.

 

[Belegon]

Oh, c'mon. Living in Indonesia as a liittle boy can hardly be counted as foreign experience. I agree that the other things would.

Oh please. The value of early exposure to all kinds of education is one of the least debated things in the world. Being exposed to a radically different culture at an early age helped create much of his world view and most definitely plays a role in how he treats people from other cultures. Therefore, it is perhaps the most crucial part of his foreign experience.

As to McCain, I don't think anyone is discounting that he is the most experienced candidate. We simply disagree on how wisely he will use that experience.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, c'mon. Living in Indonesia as a liittle boy can hardly be counted as foreign experience. I agree that the other things would.

You probably meant it didn't count for the type of experience needed for a nation's leader, but as a bald statement "living abroad doesn't count for experience abroad" is a real screamer.

To some extent even that counts in formation of attitude toward the world and one's place in it. I'm assuming you've never lived abroad--certainly more than being buried in Alaska and all of your "foreign" experience was down in the lower 48.

 

[sr71plt]

Since John McCain has spent a good part of his adult life in foreign countries, including five years in Vietnam, should he be considered a true expert?

Yes, I'd say McCain's upbringing and service abroad gives him good experience.

What's a true expert, though, here? Other than Joe Biden, perhaps?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The idea of being exposed to a foreign culture is to learn that not all people think and live like Americans, nor want to. Living as a child in a foreign land certainly gives you this perspective.

Had George W. Bush traveled to more countries than Mexico before becoming President, he might have been aware of the fact that the Iraqi's would not suddenly embrace democracy with the fervid joy he so naively imagined when we went in there, and we might have been spared these 6 years of bloodshed and intractable violence. Iraq is a classic example of the kind of stupid mistakes you make when you haven't been exposed to foreign cultures.

Vietnam was another example of a war that was brought about largely by cultural ignorance, because no one bothered to learn Vietnamese history or culture and we saw it as a war of Communist Aggression rather than as a war of National Liberation, which is what it was. 40,000 Americans died because of our leaders' ignorance of Vietnamese history.

Just as those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, those who don't know foreign cultures are doomed to misunderstand them, with disastrous consequences. You need a president who understands that all the world isn't the same as a small town in America.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Oh, c'mon. Living in Indonesia as a liittle boy can hardly be counted as foreign experience.

Counts about as much as seeing Russia from your house?

(I couldn't resist... and for the record - growing up in a foreign country counts much, much more than being able to eyeball a foreign land from a distance... k?)

 

[Boxlicker101]

Quote:
Originally Posted by SweetPrettyAss
Oh, c'mon. Living in Indonesia as a liittle boy can hardly be counted as foreign experience.

Counts about as much as seeing Russia from your house?

(I couldn't resist... and for the record - growing up in a foreign country counts much, much more than being able to eyeball a foreign land from a distance... k?)

Of course. Except for the skit on SNL, I doubt if anybody has ever even suggested that would be foreign experience.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Of course. Except for the skit on SNL, I doubt if anybody has ever even suggested that would be foreign experience.

John McCain, QUOTE:

"[Sarah Palin] knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. ... And, uh, she also happens to represent, be governor of a state that's right next to Russia." --after being asked about Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience, interview with WCSH-6, Portland, OR, Sept. 12, 2008

Here are a few more from McCain and his wife... just for chucks n giggles:

“Alaska is right next to Russia. She understands that. Look, Sen. Obama’s never visited south of our border. I mean, please.” [McCain, 9/3/08]

“You know, the experience that she comes from is what she’s done in government, and remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. It’s not as if she doesn’t understand what’s at stake here.” [Cindy McCain, 8/31/08]