Place your angel encounter story and pictures on Angel Book within Facebook
Loved Ones…. right now is the best time to go to Facebook and search out Angel Book.

Within Facebook is a global place for you to document your own amazing angelic encounter…at Angel Book.

Each of us at present has a Guardian Angel positioned on our right hand side…make them smile.

Many of us have had an exceptional encounter with the Angelic Realm which is most vivid and remains living in our consciousness….contribute that true story!

Loved Ones, if truth be told you really do need to share your photo and true angelic story with the rest of the world!

At this moment on Angel Book (located within Facebook) you can upload pictures and contribute your own particular Angelic Encounter.

Go to Facebook and search out Angel Book and contribute your accurate story on the Angel Book Wall.

This is an extraordinary opening for you to share your angelic encounter.

Use this magnificent opportunity to read and have the benefit of seeing pictures of true life angelic episodes currently happening all around this beautiful planet.

Go to Angel Book (within Facebook) and enjoy reading where multitudes of incarnated beings have been touched by those magnificent entities of unconditional love…those haloed beings of unlimited Love and Light…thee angelic messengers of from Mother and Father God.

Loved Ones…go to Facebook…and seek out Angel Book….go to the Angel Book wall and lay your special story down…contribute your photos…and add your own true story of how you were touch by your guardian angel…your own story of angelicinfusion.

True first hand records and images of physical healings, life saving episodes, incredible synchronistic happenings, and factual stories of emotional miracles…and much more.

Share your loving message about unconditional love and healing.

I promise you…… your guardian angel will in actuality be exceedingly thankful for it.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 6:56 PM 0 comments

 
critical intelligence techniques..more incentive to try to kill the story,
Loved Ones…you are led to feel as though you are not being monitored.

Loved Ones…you are led to feel your conversations are private.

Loved Ones…you are led to feel you have some amount of privacy.

However this feeling is only a cultivation of false emotions…a talented cultivation of false feelings…as your manipulation through the technologies you fund result with you being manipulated by behavior modification techniques…..behavior modification techniques sourced from those who control from a seed of greed.

Loved ones the disclosure of Rep. Jane Harman’s intercepted conversation with a suspected Israeli agent has created reactions on multiple fronts.

But one of the most overlooked angles has a deeper significance: Lawmakers who were supposed to provide oversight of the National Security Agency's warrant less eavesdropping program reportedly tried to keep the public from knowing about it.

Deep within The New York Times' follow up to a report about Harman's wiretapped conversation, the paper disclosed that in December 2005, Harman and other "congressional leaders" met with Philip Taubman -- then the chief of the Times' Washington bureau -- to urge the paper not to publish the story that revealed the NSA program's existence.

On the surface, that meeting could add credibility to reports that then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales intervened to stop an FBI investigation of Harman because he needed her help in supporting the NSA program.

But more broadly, the revelation of the Times meeting raises questions about the effectiveness of Congress' role as a watchdog over intelligence activities like the NSA program -- because the only lawmakers who would have known about it at the time were the ones who were supposed to provide oversight over the controversial initiative.

Before the Times broke the story of the NSA program in December 2005, the Bush administration's briefings to Congress about the program were limited to the gang of 8 a select group of lawmakers who are singled out under a 1991 law to receive briefings from the executive branch about covert activities.

The group consists of the Senate majority and minority leader, the House Speaker and minority leader, and the chairmen and ranking minority party members of the two Intelligence committees.

They're limited in many important ways: They can't have any staff in the room with them, they can't take notes, and they can't discuss what they've heard with anyone who wasn't there.

But given that the Bush administration wasn't briefing any other members of Congress about the NSA program, the Gang of Eight was the only oversight tool Congress had.

The Times didn't identify the other lawmakers who asked the paper not to publish its story about the program, and Taubman, now a consulting professor at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, e-mailed that "I don't have anything to add" to the Times' account of the meeting. Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for the Times, said only that "we got a great deal of advice -- solicited and unsolicted -- about the possible risks of publishing our story.

In the end, we made our own decision. We published."

But during the period before the NSA program became public, the members of the Gang of Eight would have included

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.; Nancy Pelosi, initially the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, and later the House minority leader; Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and later Harry Reid, D-Nev., the Senate minority leaders at the time; Senate Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., the ranking Democrat on Senate Intelligence; House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich.; and Harman, who replaced Pelosi as the ranking Democrat on House Intelligence after Pelosi became minority leader.

Most of those current and former lawmakers, including Harman, did not respond to inquiries about whether they attended the Times meeting, though a Democratic aide said Pelosi wasn't there.

As a vocal critic of the program, Pelosi would have had little reason to argue against the publication of the story, and Rockefeller later made his private concerns public.

Republican members of the gang would have had more incentive to try to kill the story, since most GOP lawmakers later said the Times jeopardized national security by running the story.

Harman, however, was caught between the two sides.

She scolded the Times for running the story, saying the disclosure of the NSA program damaged critical intelligence techniques…

But she also criticized the Bush administration for limiting its briefings to the Gang of Eight, writing that "as a general matter, Gang of Eight briefings do not provide adequate oversight…

Since then, Pelosi has suggested she might push to have the restrictions on the Gang of Eight loosened.

In February, she told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that the restraint on the gang's ability to object to covert operations "just isn't right ... because it gives all the cards to the administration and then if you say anything about it, you have violated our national security."

And in his February confirmation hearing CIA Director Leon E. Panetta vowed to give more briefings to the full Intelligence committees, saying the Bush administration "overused" and "abused" the Gang of Eight process.

Loved ones…the real question, though, is whether the full Intelligence committees will be any more committed to active oversight of covert activities -- and even a public debate, when possible -- than the Gang of Eight has been….as when you understand your private communications are used to manipulate you your own behavior will change…your own behavior will not include significant changes to your communications via electronic means.

Loved Ones…your mail…your black berry…your email…your telephone…and your spoke words are all AT ANY TIME susceptible to recording by those in power within this our own country….you do not need to fear others from outside our borders….you need to understand the threat to your freedoms are sourced from domestic groups….groups who you fund with your taxes….fund with your monies….

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 2:47 AM 0 comments

 
your taxes and health care dollars used to pay for guns for the Taliban
Loved ones…positive rewards are very very powerful…however not a potent as negative reward…negative consequences…not as powerful as real fear…

Loved ones those in the leadership roles in Washington during the last 8 years used fear to control you…those in Washington D.C. used fear to control the electorate and those elected by the same….that is why the myth of Ben Laden being alive is kept fronted upon you…and that is why we fund and armed those who are “called our enemies”….

Loved ones recently a 46-page report by the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress, said there had been no monitoring of a further 135,000 weapons donated by NATO allies to the poorly paid and corruption-rife Afghan army and police.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Pentagon had already taken action on the report's recommendations for tracking of serial numbers and physical inventories of weapons given by both the United States and allies.

"We take our responsibility with regard to accountability of weapons seriously," he told reporters. "I think the record will show that our performance on this has improved over time for any number of reasons."

Under-staffed US military officials neglected to record serial numbers or conduct on-site inventories once the weapons were delivered, the report said.
"Given the unstable security conditions in Afghanistan, the risk of loss and theft of these weapons is significant," said the evaluation, which was submitted to a House of Representatives hearing Thursday.

Asked if US weapons could already be under Taliban or Al-Qaeda control, GAO international affairs director Charles Johnson cited military reports about "the theft of weapons and weapons potentially being sold to enemies."

The chairman of the House subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs, John Tierney, gave an emotive summary of the problem.

"What if we had to tell families not only why we are in Afghanistan, but why their son or daughter died at the hands of an insurgent using a weapon purchased by US taxpayers?" the Democrat told the hearing.

"But that's what we risk if we were to have tens of thousands of weapons we provided washing around Afghanistan, off the books."

The report mirrored GAO findings in August 2007 that the Pentagon had lost track of nearly 200,000 weapons given to security forces in Iraq.
Having toured Afghanistan last August, GAO inspectors wrote: "Lapses in accountability occurred throughout the supply chain.

"This was primarily due to a lack of clear direction from Defense and staffing shortages."
Lack of manpower has long worried US commanders in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama is expected shortly to decide on a request from General David McKiernan for up to 30,000 extra troops to combat the resurgent Taliban.

Aside from M-16 rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and mortars, the GAO report found inadequate oversight of 2,410 night-vision goggles issued to the Afghan National Army.

The Pentagon waited 15 months, until October 2008, before it started monitoring the end use of the high-tech devices, which give a crucial edge on the nocturnal battlefield, and 10 remained unaccounted for.

The GAO said that at the Afghan end, corruption and illiteracy were major impediments to keeping track of the weapons.

Security was often risible, with just a wooden door and a miniature padlock guarding an arms room in one northern Afghan police station visited by the GAO inspectors.
At the Afghan army's central weapons depot in Kabul, the team found "guards sleeping on duty and missing from their posts."

A subsequent audit by the US military found 47 pistols had been stolen from the depot.

Loved ones…do you find this strange?…

Do you think our United States of America tax dollars should be spent to arm the Taliban instead of going to meet the dramatic domestic health care needs of you and I and all your loved ones?

Do you not think this is strange…?

Earlier this week Dick Chaney (the man who ousted Valarie Plame)stated publicly he expected the Taliban to be rearmed and even more willing to kill americans….strange!

At this time I petition for those elected officials and those contracted by our elected officials who purposefully purchased and shipped and distributed weapons to the Taliban …I petition that they learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers.

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 1:58 PM 0 comments

 
The moment of truth has come
Loved Ones….When we petition and pray for peace on this our small planet results occur….

We obtain these positive changes because we receive assistance from the “other side” because our petition intentions are for all people….all our brothers and sisters to learn their lessons with the least amount of pain…

…an example of this prayer power is the fact that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, once one of Israel's leading hawks, is leaving office an outspoken dove.

Olmert is saying something that used to be fringe opinion among Israelis — that to make peace with the Palestinians, Israel must make sweeping territorial concessions, including Arab parts of Jerusalem.

"We must relinquish ... parts of our homeland as well as Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and return to the seed of the territory that was the state of Israel up to 1967, with the necessary adjustments arising from the reality that has since been created," he said in one of two speeches this week in which he laid out his credo.

The ideology he once espoused, of keeping the territory Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, "will not work. It is already not working," he said in speeches Monday marking the 13th anniversary of the assassination of his dovish predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin, by a Jewish nationalist.

"We were wrong. We did not see the big picture," he said.

Unless the land was partitioned into Jewish and Palestinian states, it would morph into one country in which an Arab majority would mean the end of Jewish statehood, he warned.

"The moment of truth has come, and there is no escaping it ... if God forbid, we drag our feet, we might lose the support for the idea of two states. The alternative is inconceivable."

Never before has a serving Israeli prime minister spoken so forcefully for partitioning the land, and it was all the more striking given Olmert's background.
Raised in a staunchly nationalist home on an ideology that opposed any territorial concessions to the Arabs, Olmert went on to serve in the hard-line governments of his former Likud Party.

In recent years, though, he has come to publicly embrace a land-for-peace deal, but never the formula of complete withdrawal with border "adjustments." As deputy prime minister, Olmert helped lead Israel's 2005 unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. He was elected prime minister in March 2006 on a platform calling for a broad withdrawal from the West Bank as well.

His latest speeches go further, to the astonishment of the public. They sound close to what has long between the international formula for Mideast peace but is sharply at odds with past Israeli governments that demanded a substantial redrawing of borders to protect the country from surprise attack.

"It's amazing, but it is tragic," says Moshe Amirav, a childhood friend of Olmert's who recalls being expelled from Likud 20 years ago for saying what Olmert is saying now.

"But I am optimistic about the future," added Amirav, a political scientist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

"If he, a right-wing prime minister, is saying this, there is hope."
Longtime Israeli doves fault him for not speaking up sooner. Lawmaker Yossi Sarid said he found the prime minister's comments to be heartfelt but delivered publicly only when he had "nothing left to win and nothing left to lose."

"It's too bad he woke up so late," Sarid said.

Olmert confidants say he couldn't speak out so frankly as long as he had to hold a shaky coalition government together.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, her centrist Kadima party's candidate to succeed Olmert, quickly distanced herself from his remarks.

"I am not committed to the words of the outgoing prime minister," she told Israel's Army Radio Tuesday. "We can conduct negotiations my way without having to reach the points the outgoing prime minister presented yesterday."

Polls regularly show most Israelis support a two-state solution with the Palestinians, though not necessarily a withdrawal to the 1967 borders.

"I am saying what this nation truly needs, not what it wants to hear," Olmert said at Rabin's grave.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat praised Olmert for his candor and remembered their first encounter 20 years ago.

"The man I spoke with then is a totally different man than the one I see before me today," he said. "And maybe I am a different man now, too.

Loved Ones…include Olmert and all his loved ones in your prayers….

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers.

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 2:43 AM 0 comments

 
"He lied. He got us into the war with lies," Trump said.
Loved Ones…Business mogul Donald Trump told CNN Wednesday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should have sought to impeach President Bush when she had the chance.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Trump said the president and his administration deliberately lied about the Iraq war, and congressional Democrats missed an opportunity to impeach him when the party took control of Congress in 2006.

"I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said.

"It was almost — it just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing."

Pressed why he feels Bush deserved the punishment faced by only two other commanders-in-chief, Trump said the president misled the country in the run-up to the Iraq war, and that his actions were considerably more objectionable than those which led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

"He lied. He got us into the war with lies," Trump said.

And I mean — look at the trouble Bill Clinton got into with something that was totally unimportant.

And they tried to impeach him, which was nonsense.

And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true."

Loved Ones…George W. Bush is only a figurehead…

he is not the leader…

those who control this country lie in the darkest shadows…out of the eye of the public…

lie in the darkest caves….hiding their faces….

hypocrites hiding in fear

I petition for the citizens of our country to shine the light of truth upon these hidden individuals…

I petition and ask that in Mother and Father God’s Name.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 6:50 PM 0 comments

 
'Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.'
Loved Ones..While suturing a cut on the hand of a wise and experienced 75-year-old Texas rancher who caught his hand in a gate while working with cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old timer.

Eventually, the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a 1/2 a heartbeat away from being President.

The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.'

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.'

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain.

'You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, and she doesn't know what idiot put her up there.

Lets all say a prayer for Sarah and all her loved ones...that they learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 6:38 PM 0 comments

 
John McCain...is this american leadership?
Loved Ones…the spouse of the Republican presidential candidate who does not really have a real job made $10,958 every day last year…

that is over $4 million dollars…do you think she or her husband can relate to you?

Do you think there is any possibility he can either?

Loved Ones…I suggest you visit utube and watch these clips

John McCain's Rage is a National Security Concern
McCain Sings Bomb Iran, laughs
McCain Keeps Laughing At Bomb Joke
John McCain Losing His Cool
John McCain's ads are LIES. Here's the video proof

These United States in which we live are responsible for their own actions and the consequences which result…God help us

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 6:33 PM 0 comments

 
FBI was looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Loved Ones… The September 11 attacks inflicted casualties and material damages on a far greater scale than any other terrorist aggression in recent history.

Lower Manhattan lost approximately 30 percent of its office space and a number of businesses ceased to exist.

Close to 200,000 jobs were destroyed or relocated out of New York City, at least temporarily.

The destruction of physical assets was estimated in the national accounts to amount to $14 billion for private businesses, $1.5 billion for state and local government enterprises and $0.7 billion for federal enterprises.

Rescue, cleanup and related costs have been estimated to amount to at least $11 billion for a total direct cost of $27.2 billion….

and the Bush Administration called it terrorism…what about this …is this $700 billion worth of terrorism on domestic soil…by…whom?

Loved Ones…while the FBI scrutinizes the big four for potential domestic terrorist fraud …a terrorism of US$700 billion upon tax payers…people like you and me…republican contractors are shredding documents and erasing emails to protect themselves…

The FBI is investigating four major United States financial institutions whose collapse helped to trigger a US$700 billion ($1.04 trillion) bailout plan by the Bush Administration….love ones…G.W. is but a figurehead…he is not the leader of this republican agenda…

Two law enforcement officials said yesterday that the FBI was looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurer American International Group.

Lehman Brothers was also said to be under investigation. A senior law enforcement official said the inquiries would focus on the financial institutions and the individuals who ran them.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigations are in the very early stages.

The new inquiries are believed to bring to 26 the number of corporate lenders under scrutiny in the past year.

Last week, FBI director Robert Mueller put the number of large financial firms under investigation at 24.

He did not name any but said the FBI also was looking at whether any of them had misrepresented their assets.

Over the past year as the housing market cratered, the FBI has opened a wide-ranging probe of companies across the financial services industry, from mortgage lenders to investment banks that bundle home loans into securities sold to investors.

Mueller has previously said the FBI's hunt for culprits in the US sub-prime mortgage crisis focused on accounting fraud, insider trading, and failure to disclose the value of mortgage-related securities and other investments.

The FBI is investigating failed bank IndyMac for possible fraud and Countrywide Financial is under scrutiny as well.

The end goal was to pump up the numbers…lie to the public…so the bonus train could roll into the men at the top…while you and I get the shaft…a really big shaft…one at least $700 billion dollars worth.

At this time I petition for all those getting multiple millions of dollars in bonus checks…to learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain…and for the entity FBI director Robert Mueller to be protected by the White Light of the Holy Spirit.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,

Samuel Joseph Bell

www.angelicinfusion.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 11:46 AM 0 comments

 
“Sarah Barracuda”
From Alaska:
A note to all by Anne Kilkenny

Dear friends,

So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .

Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks. :)

You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .

Thanks,
Anne

[ Note by web_admin: This was already posted on Washington Independent
comments area and was meant by the author to be read by many, but
readers need sourcing. The NY Times has talked with Anne since. ]

ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a "babe".

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.

She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She's smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator. She had been
pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation
(1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she
promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they
benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it
with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
surplus, borrow for needs.

She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by
her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents
rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the
Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited. At the City and as
Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”
her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top
cop has the ring of familiarity about it. He served at her pleasure
and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that
an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper. Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to
replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded
for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid. She had no
background in oil & gas issues. Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job. In a gutsy move which some
undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all
her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens. Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork. Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness. Before she became so powerful, very ugly
stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made
point guard on the high school basketball team. When Sarah's
mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to
global warming. She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to). She has pushed the State’s
lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar
bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.

There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.

However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.


CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years
•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
•“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's
attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of
Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust
for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible
for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are
swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The
day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.

Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008
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“Sarah Barracuda”
Loved Ones...as you and I function within our country we depend on free and open journalism to direct our democracy...free and open journalism and free and open elections insure the strength of this our nuclear armed country...the biggest bully on this small planet...read the following letter and give thought to the actions of this individual...give serious thought to what she would/could/will do if McCain is gone...
From Alaska:
A note to all by Anne Kilkenny
Dear friends,

So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .

Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks. :)

You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts
with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on
any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .

Thanks,
Anne

[ Note by web_admin: This was already posted on Washington Independent
comments area and was meant by the author to be read by many, but
readers need sourcing. The NY Times has talked with Anne since. ]

ABOUT SARAH PALIN
I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a
first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her
father was my child's favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a
first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more
City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the
residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular
girl in middle school. Even men who think she is a poor choice and
won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because
she is a "babe".

It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret. She
kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents
for seven months.

She is "pro-life". She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby.
There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby.

She is energetic and hardworking. She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy. She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out
there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a
champion snowmobile racer. Todd Palin’s kind of job is highly
sought-after because of the schedule and high pay. He arranges his
work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or
so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their
major source of income. Nor has her life-style ever been anything
like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She's smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000
(at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about
670,000 residents.

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running
this small city was turned over to an administrator.

She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had
gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had
given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a “fiscal conservative”. During her 6
years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over
33%.

During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the
City increased by 38%.

This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a
regressive sales tax which taxed even food.

The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration
weren’t enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed
money was needed, too.

She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million.

What did Mayor Palin encourage
the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said
she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked? or a
new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a
multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece
of property that the City didn’t even have clear title to, that was
still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers
involved! The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the
community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it
would be. She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that
could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing.

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office
redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus
in Alaska. Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will
make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she
proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she
recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while
she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's
surplus, borrow for needs.

She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas
or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by
her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the
basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected
City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from
the library some books that Sarah wanted removed.

City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's
attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew
her termination letter.

People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the “old boy’s club” when she first ran for
Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys". Palin
fired most of the experienced staff she inherited.

At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people,
creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally
grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power
to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the
case of pressuring the State’s top cop (see below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla’s Police Chief because he “intimidated”
her, she told the press.

As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it.
He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't
fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper.

Under investigation
for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen
contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she
later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law.

She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew
her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in
help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town
introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council
became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor. She
abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn’t
like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything
publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got
the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one
of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid.

She had no background in oil & gas issues.

Within months of scoring this great
job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the
high salary. I was told that she hated that job: the commute, the
structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this
Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party)
engaged in unethical behavior on the job.

In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and
garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a
gutsy fighter against the “old boys’ club” when she dramatically quit,
exposing this man’s ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from
Senator Ted Stevens.

Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel
politics and publicly humiliated him. She only opposed the “bridge to
nowhere” after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget
guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing
projects, calling them pork.

Public outcry and further legislative
action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply
because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant
she had gained a reputation as “anti-pork”.

She is solidly Republican: no political maverick. The State party
leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated
them. Other members of the party object to her self-description as a
fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah.
They call her “Sarah Barracuda” because of her unbridled ambition and
predatory ruthlessness.

Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team.

When Sarah's mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and
experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.

As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package
of legislation known as “AGIA” that forced the oil companies to march
to the beat of her drum.

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.

She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming.

She campaigned “as a private citizen” against a state
initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from
pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the
state (depending on who you listen to).

She has pushed the State’s lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior’s decision to list polar bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a
heartbeat away from being President.

There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more
knowledgeable and experienced than she.

However, there’s a lot of people who have underestimated her and are
regretting it.


CLAIM VS FACT
•“Hockey mom”: true for a few years
•“PTA mom”: true years ago when her first-born was in elementary
school, not since
•“NRA supporter”: absolutely true
•social conservative: mixed. Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill
that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships
(said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism: mixed. Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to
promote it.
•“Pro-life”: mixed. Knowingly gave birth to a Down’s syndrome baby
BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life
legislation
•“Experienced”: Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has
residents. Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.
No legislative experience other than City Council. Little hands-on
supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city
administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy: absolutely!
•open & transparent: ??? Good at keeping secrets. Not good at
explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy: no
•”a Greenie”: no. Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores
and disconnected parking lots. Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR.
•fiscal conservative: not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure: No. Promoted a sports complex and park in a city
without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system. Built
streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief: Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on
residents
•pro-small government: No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city
government in Wasilla’s history.
•pro-labor/pro-union. No. Just because her husband works union
doesn’t make her pro-labor. I have seen nothing to support any claim
that she is pro-labor/pro-union.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?
First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed
voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting
programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny +
Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local
government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen
when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because
few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out
of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no
fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will
cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100
or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's
attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to
say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS
I am not a statistician. I developed the numbers for the increase in
spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor)
from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of
Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for: did I adjust
for inflation? for population increases? Right now, it is impossible
for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are
swamped. So I can't verify my numbers.

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the
population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000. The
day Palin’s selection was announced a city official told me that the
current population is about 7,000. The official 2000 census count was
5,460. I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to
2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90’s.Anne Kilkenny
August 31, 2008

Loved Ones...imagine what will happen if she gets in...forget the Bush Doctrine...just Imagine the Palin Doctrine!

Pray we all learn our lessons with the least amount of pain..

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
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