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As I was writing this book, a friend forwarded to me a widely circulated e-mail that describes one ordinary citizen’s view of my governorship. It is so Alaska"I had to share. I hope you get a good laugh as well!
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A View from Alaska
by Dewey Whetsell*

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*After twent-eight years as chief of Fire/Rescue in Cordova, Alaska, Dewey Whetsell moved to Eagle River where he remains involved in disaster management. He is the author of Fire and Ice and Lazarus on a Spur Line, and is a familiar figure in the local music scene. Find him on the Web at www.deweywhetsell.com.
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The last forty-five of my sixty-six years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoretic, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.

1. Democrats forget when Palin was the darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the governor’s office away from fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republicans’ "Corrupt Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent it packing. Many of its members are now residing in state housing and wearing orange jumpsuits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti, and singing "La la la la" (well you know how they are). Name another governor in this country who has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.

2. Now, with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaska Politicians to protect the giant oil companies here. So Palin constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES." ExxonMobil (the biggest corporation in the world) protested, and Sarah told it, "Don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." It stayed, and Alaska residents went from merely being wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies fell meekly into line. Again give me the name of another governor in the country who has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is that she got the list of state requests for federal funding for projects known as "pork." She went through the list, took 85 percent of them out, and placed them in the "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the state vehicle issued to her (maintaining she already had a car), and dismissing her state provided security force (never mentioning"I imagine"that she was packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly” mannerisms, she managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built that will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it even if they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5. For thirty years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. It made excuses the entire time for why it couldn’t start drilling. In truth it was holding it as an investment. No governor for thirty years could make it get started. This summer, she told Exxon she was revoking its lease and kicking it out. It protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them she knew the way to the courthouse. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25 percent renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50 percent renewable by 2025. We are already at 25 percent. I can giveyou more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to Alaska after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

Dewey Whetsell
Alaska

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
Documented civilian deaths from violence

94,243 " 102,835

...

Monthly {and yearly} table

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Jan 3 569 1048 1433 2807 744 276
Feb 2 604 1203 1449 2536 1011 343
Mar 3976 957 786 1790 2616 1540 416
Apr 3437 1256 1026 1591 2436 1261 484
May 545 619 1226 2105 2771 761 333
Jun 593 833 1216 2427 2094 672 488
Jul 650 762 1444 3160 2572 586 395
Aug 790 823 2165 2744 2333 592 593
Sep 553 942 1330 2409 1225 536 299
Oct 493 947 1201 2925 1187 528 104
Nov 478 1532 1208 2982 1053 473 ?
Dec 529 907 996 2680 905 522 ?
12,049 10,751 14,849 27,695 24,535 9,226 3,731

TOTAL casualties 4,282

Al-Qaida in Iraq gains strength
by Ernesto Londono - Nov. 22, 2009 12:00 AM
Washington Post

As I was writing this book, a friend forwarded to me a widely circulated e-mail....

As I was writing this book, a friend forwarded to me a widely circulated e-mail that describes one ordinary citizen's view of my governorship....

Sarah Palin appears to be a fan of "widely circulated e-mails".

because, like most people, she's {Palin is}a "FW email moron", i delete any of that crap as soon as i see it

i bet she cuts and pastes too