Posted on 09/01/2008 6:30:44 PM PDT by mathprof
At the age of 10, Sarah Palin got her very own bunny rabbit. Which means to say that she crouched down in the grass outside her family home, aimed her shotgun and blew its furry little head off. That's how things work in Alaska. You kill stuff. You freeze it. You turn it into stew. Even as a pre-pubescent, the future Governor of Alaska - and now, perhaps, the future Vice-President of the United States - was able to fully exercise her Second-Amendment right to keep and bear arms. There's no doubt about it: even by the standards of the Deep South or the Wild West, America's 49th state is an intense place. It's absurdly big, for a start. Bigger than Britain, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark combined. Yet it has the population of Bristol. The capital, Juneau, isn't even accessible by land - which tells you everything you need to know about how much Alaskans enjoy other people's company. They'd rather be alone in the mountains, fully armed.
Strictly speaking, Palin isn't a native Alaskan, but she might as well be. She moved there from Idaho as an infant when her father, Chuck Heath, took a teaching job in Skagway, near the border with British Columbia. The family moved later to Wasilla, a town of 400 people, about an hour to the northeast of the state's biggest city, Anchorage. Until two years ago Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, which is why no one in their right mind expected John McCain to appoint her as his vice-presidential candidate - a job that potentially puts her second-in-line to the most powerful job on Planet Earth. To be fair, of course, Wasilla is bigger than it used to be. According to most estimates, all of 7,000 people call it home today.
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The UK doesn’t get the whole gun thing in the US.
They really haven’t since 1776.
It's head probably didn't come off.
Which is why we sent them running back home.......we continue to have and to know how to use those guns. This is now what scares the Dems so much.
Yep, the Brits really understand us don't they.
Upon reading this, my first thoughts were of the Scottish rabbit dinner in the movie Local Hero.
I wonder what they would say about a one-term House member that never won another office until he became president.
Love it. S*ck it ya Brit wusses.
Sorry if I offend anyone. Had it up to here with the Palin bashing.
She should challenge Putin to a target shooting match.
James Carville was on TV this morning ridiculing the size of Wasilla's city hall, and talking as if Palin's executive experience was limited to being mayor there. Up to his usual slimy tricks.
Sheeesh!
They still can’t get over that US ain’t no more their colony.
Go girl! Blow the RATs heads off!
Vote the bastRATS out into oblivion!!!
I would love so dearly to have a teleportation device and pull these poofters into the bush in the middle of January when its -85, give them a rifle and the proper clothes and let them try to feed themselves.
If you have a gun, you don’t have to bow.
Damn, can we get some freakin’ balanced coverage like this on the west side of the Atlantic??
At the age of 10, Sarah Palin got her very own bunny rabbit. Which means to say that she crouched down in the grass outside her family home, aimed her shotgun and blew its furry little head off.
Guess this rules out the PETA vote. Right now the libs are digging themselves a deep hole by invading the privacy of her 17 year old daughter. Barak is imitating a scene from Casablanca, "I'm shocked, simply shocked that they're invading this teen's privacy." Look at your campaign web site sir. As a poster aptly noted on another thread, these commentatiors are angering many women and will "be sleeping on the couch soon."
Palin By Comparison
Hugh Hewitt
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=0e02ad24-4382-4bb6-9881-293977917e54&t=c
“She came from nowhere.”
And she is heading to oblivion.
Off the ticket, Sarah! We want to win!!
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