All full of sound and furey, yet signifying nothing… Here’s the words favored by Biden and Palin at the Vice Presidential Debate.

Huh, looks like they both talked about McCain a bit. I personally thought “maverick” would have been a big word considering Miss Beauty Queen Alaska said it every five seconds.

Today’s topic: Troopergate, or in the non hyped-up media terms, Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Dismissal Investigation (APSCDI). As you probably know, our soon to be GILF Sarah Palin kinda messed up a little bit in terms of firing Walter Monegan, the said safety commissioner. The breakdown:

Palin, who later became the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election, said that she dismissed commissioner Walter Monegan because of performance-related issues. Monegan said that his dismissal may have been tied to his reluctance to fire Mike Wooten, an Alaska State Trooper who is also Palin’s ex-brother-in-law. At the time Palin dismissed Monegan, Wooten was involved in a custody battle with his former wife, Molly McCann, Palin’s sister.

Check out THIS fine piece of text for more on the issue, as it’s kind of like reading a really trashy novel complete with death threats, moose hunts, a ‘taser incident’ and alcohol fused allegations.

Palin has now officially hired Thomas V. Van Flein, an attorney to deal with the mess she created. The state has granted a private investigative team to research if Palin did, in fact, abuse her power whilst firing her ex–husband-stepson-brother-in-law.

On a semi-related note, there’s no doubt about it that McCain can’t use the internet to save his life (yet his council tried to credit him with being apart of inventing the Blackberry… huh…), but now Palin’s lack of tech might be getting her in some hot water. Because of the investigation, she and her council are being asked to provide a slew of missing e-mails regarding subjects pertaining to the issue. From some events taking place deep in the worst corners of the internetz, it has come to my attention that Palin’s use of Yahoo mail (opposed to a secure, encrypted government mail server) might makes these mails open to the public before the investigators see them. I’m not going to say much because frankly I can’t find too many details, but just remember the mantra of the internet: “Anon Always Delivers”.

Our Friends Portugal. The Man (who actually played one of our Live at Ryan’s acoustic sets are from Wasilla, Alaska which as everyone in America knows is also the hometown of John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick Sarah Palin. A recent (and really well written) blog post by John Gourley chimes in on the Palin situation:

Palin, Because We Don’t Need It

Here is a story from the younger pages of John Gourley (going by Johnny at the time)…

My first hunting trip.

All through my smaller years, from a boy through to a man, I have known true Alaskans. People who hunted for a living. By “a living” I should be sure to mean “for survival” or “as a necessity… Something along those lines… It was just a part of life growing up here in Alaska. People hunt, people work, people live, and fish and sleep and work and work and work and so on.
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Ironically named Alaskan rapper “Joker The Bailbondsman” has been sentenced to ten years in prison after he sold crack to a government informant. 3rd biggest mistake.

His 2nd biggest mistake was in 2004 when he was caught throwing 2 ounces of crack out of a car, while being chased by Anchorage police officers.

And his number one biggest mistake was thinking a name like Joker The Bailbondsman and rapping in Alaska was a thick enough disguise to get away with selling crack cocaine.

Check out the comments on the source.