What Does 911 Have to do With Wasilla?

I am so frustrated having to drive around southcentral Alaska this week and see signs announcing "Rally to remember 911" at Wasilla sports complex. I have been in Alaska every year since 911 and nobody has given more than the occasional mini-speech or moment of silence up until now (sometimes not even that). Why the new interest in 2010?

As someone who actually was in the NY area during 911 I find this whole neo-concern obnoxious and suspicious at best. I don't know how many Alaskans were in NY then and saw the persistent smoke--(it went on for weeks), the strange smell in the air, the silence on the radio followed by excessive Enya songs for days on end....Not to mention the larger, more painful things--missing persons, knowing of a friend of a friend who was lost, or on their way downtown. The anxiety or phone calls from far away asking if you were ok, military jets flying overhead....

But now 9 years later Wasilla is all up in arms and going to show a massive graphic 911 slide show, supposedly with G. Beck and S. Palin in attendance--why? It doesn't sound like a vigil or respectable memorial service for the dead. The only thing a slide show will accomplish is getting people all paranoid again. Those images had to be stopped on the National media years ago, because they were scaring children!! Remember folks, all those ominous warnings--but yet nothing significant like this has happened in the 9 years since--so why get peoples panties in a bunch now?? I shudder to think what their real motive is to perpetuate this fear out of the blue.

In 2008 Sarah Palin Liked Government Bailouts!

Ugly hypocrisy. The most frustrating thing about American politics is the public's constant memory loss when it comes to political hypocrisy.
If anyone does a quick Google search of the 2008 election with "depression", Sarah Palin" and "bail out"- what you will find are her eloquent quotes about America heading for a Great Depression if we don't spend billions on a federal bail-out package.
Now fast forward to 2010, what are Mrs. Palin's favorite talking points?? How's that hopey changey thing working for you?? Well guess what Sarah--so we aren't doing super great--but Obama did prevent that other "great depression" you used to believe in, and how did he do it?? With Federal bail out money...just as your sweet lipsticked face suggested. Changey , right?

So now Glenn Beck and Palin are feeding on the public's short term memory loss and utter inability to think for themselves, about how the economy should have been 100% fixed and perfect, in what, like 12 months?? No thanks to Obama for preventing the Depression that she herself predicted.
How it's a good thing that folks like Joe Miller (running for senator of AK) will reduce Medicare (wait, wasn't Sarah all pro-Medicare just 6 months ago?) and other entitlement programs ruining our budget. Right then, that pesky military budget and those two little wars aren't bothering the budget at all. What about my pro-life stance (I am pro-American soldiers coming home alive)? Where are my constitutional rights, if I don't want to fund useless wars that just cause huge loss of life and limb?
Don't get me started on my constitutional right to happiness (and enjoy Alaska wildlife viewing) that Sarah and her cronies enjoy stomping all over on a regular basis with predator control... But that's another story....