Hello, everybody.
Well, Alaska under the Sean Parnell regime is now almost a week old, as he was appointed our 12th governor last Sunday afternoon during the annual Governor's Picnic at Pioneer Park here in Fairbanks. The turnout of course was immense: over 5,000 including countless media documenting the change in power.
The transition was seamless starting with Sarah Palin giving the crowd and millions more watching around the world her last words as governor. That would be be followed by Parnell being sworn in with Craig Campbell becoming Lieutenant Governor. And just like his speech as Lt. Governor in 2006 under Palin, Parnell's first one as Governor was very straightforward. And unlike Palin, he'll be taking his job very seriously...unless if he can find a way to see Russia from the Governor's Mansion in Juneau.
So...what's next for Palin? Back to private life (for now), she'll be making her first post-gubernatorial appearance next week when she speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California...or so we thought. Politico has now reported that Palin won't be attending the event. Also, rumors have spread that she may become the female Rush Limbaugh and do her own radio talk show based in Anchorage. Or maybe she could be at this year's Primetime Emmy Awards meeting face-to-face (or make that glasses-to-glasses) with her doppleganger Tina Fey. We're all waiting on pins and needles to see what her next move is.
On Wednesday, the White House became the place where everybody knows your name...well, minus the gang from "Cheers". President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden invited Henry Gates and James Crowley for the first ever "beer summit" in hopes to wither down the racial tensions between the two when Crowley arrested Gates outside his home in Massachusetts for disorderly conduct.
The brewskis of choice: Obama, Bud Light; Biden, Buckler (non-alcholic); Gates, Samuel Adams Light; and Crowley, Blue Moon. Now I've been "pouring" into this brew-haha, and noticed that Samuel Adams is the only American-owned main brewery left. Anheuser-Busch (which makes Bud Light) is now owned by InBev, a Belgian company; while Blue Moon is a Molson Coors product, and half of their owners are Canadian! By the way, rival Miller is owned by a South African company.
The next time the White House hosts another beer summit, they should try going for home-grown microbreweries. Silver Gulch is one of them, and I'm sure Senators Begich or Murkowski will try to FedEx those beers to Washington.
And last but not least...The fallout over those nude peephole videos of ESPN's Erin Andrews has slopped into its second week when the lovely sportscaster recently called 911 over paparazzi staking outside her house in Georgia. In her call, she also said she's been "treated like (expletive) Britney Spears."
The investigation continues as to who in their horny minds did this, and I said that the videos appear to be an inside job, that maybe an ESPN employee knew of Andrews' hotel room nearby and may have drilled a hole in it. I also said that Chris Berman's and Stuart Scott's hands are squeaky clean on this, so it may have been somebody off-talent like a crew member.
But to put it in perspective...this happens to be the biggest non-Michael Jackson celebrity scandal so far in 2009, and as far as those videos are concerned? I've been getting more pleasure from them than all of the other celebrity sex videos that have been making the Internet rounds for years (I'm talking to you, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian). To that I say, BOO-YA! So long and stay strong.
Well, Alaska under the Sean Parnell regime is now almost a week old, as he was appointed our 12th governor last Sunday afternoon during the annual Governor's Picnic at Pioneer Park here in Fairbanks. The turnout of course was immense: over 5,000 including countless media documenting the change in power.
The transition was seamless starting with Sarah Palin giving the crowd and millions more watching around the world her last words as governor. That would be be followed by Parnell being sworn in with Craig Campbell becoming Lieutenant Governor. And just like his speech as Lt. Governor in 2006 under Palin, Parnell's first one as Governor was very straightforward. And unlike Palin, he'll be taking his job very seriously...unless if he can find a way to see Russia from the Governor's Mansion in Juneau.
So...what's next for Palin? Back to private life (for now), she'll be making her first post-gubernatorial appearance next week when she speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California...or so we thought. Politico has now reported that Palin won't be attending the event. Also, rumors have spread that she may become the female Rush Limbaugh and do her own radio talk show based in Anchorage. Or maybe she could be at this year's Primetime Emmy Awards meeting face-to-face (or make that glasses-to-glasses) with her doppleganger Tina Fey. We're all waiting on pins and needles to see what her next move is.
On Wednesday, the White House became the place where everybody knows your name...well, minus the gang from "Cheers". President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden invited Henry Gates and James Crowley for the first ever "beer summit" in hopes to wither down the racial tensions between the two when Crowley arrested Gates outside his home in Massachusetts for disorderly conduct.
The brewskis of choice: Obama, Bud Light; Biden, Buckler (non-alcholic); Gates, Samuel Adams Light; and Crowley, Blue Moon. Now I've been "pouring" into this brew-haha, and noticed that Samuel Adams is the only American-owned main brewery left. Anheuser-Busch (which makes Bud Light) is now owned by InBev, a Belgian company; while Blue Moon is a Molson Coors product, and half of their owners are Canadian! By the way, rival Miller is owned by a South African company.
The next time the White House hosts another beer summit, they should try going for home-grown microbreweries. Silver Gulch is one of them, and I'm sure Senators Begich or Murkowski will try to FedEx those beers to Washington.
And last but not least...The fallout over those nude peephole videos of ESPN's Erin Andrews has slopped into its second week when the lovely sportscaster recently called 911 over paparazzi staking outside her house in Georgia. In her call, she also said she's been "treated like (expletive) Britney Spears."
The investigation continues as to who in their horny minds did this, and I said that the videos appear to be an inside job, that maybe an ESPN employee knew of Andrews' hotel room nearby and may have drilled a hole in it. I also said that Chris Berman's and Stuart Scott's hands are squeaky clean on this, so it may have been somebody off-talent like a crew member.
But to put it in perspective...this happens to be the biggest non-Michael Jackson celebrity scandal so far in 2009, and as far as those videos are concerned? I've been getting more pleasure from them than all of the other celebrity sex videos that have been making the Internet rounds for years (I'm talking to you, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, and Kim Kardashian). To that I say, BOO-YA! So long and stay strong.
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