BS: Can Palin see Russia?

Subject: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: kendall
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:26 AM

Did anyone ever see or hear Palin say she could see Russia from her home?

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: quokka
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:31 AM

I think that's a joke from SNL - Tina Fey answering The "foreign policy" question - watch the video posted in one of the Sarah Palin threads, or I think you can get there from NBC.

Cheers,
Quokka

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Alice
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:41 AM

Palin said you can see Russia from a place in Alaska.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Alice
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:42 AM

The most recent SNL skit from last night. Tina Fey is brilliant.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:52 AM

She has nailed it, hasn't she? (But as I have remarked again and again, any of these people who either question Palin or mimic her could in fact do a better job as VP than Palin herself).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 11:06 AM

She said directly in answer to a question that Alaska's borders were with "other countries', which helped her foreign policy expertise.

Someone else (I forget who) said that she could see Russia. Even after it was shown that she didn't claim to be able to SEE Russia, they are holding to the silliness that being on the east side of the Bering sea gives her some sort of aura in global expertise.

Sort of expertise by osmosis

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 11:13 AM

Great line though, isn't it?

what do you know about space reearch?

Well I have seen the moon on several occasions, from my house its quite visible. I look upon it as a neighbour, although we have to monitor its behaviour....one false move, and we nuke it!

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Alice
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 11:17 AM

The real Palin quote is: "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: bobad
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 12:31 PM

Sarah Palin T-Shirt (stolen from BillD on another thread)

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 01:09 PM

I can see clearly now,
                the rain is gone...

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 01:54 PM

DR. MARK
Could anyone among us
Have an inkling on a clue?
What magic feats, or wizardry
And voodoo you can do?
And who would ever guess
What powers you possess?
And who would have the sense to change his views?
And stop to mind his E.S.P's and Q's
For who would ever dream of hearing phones before they ring,
Or harrowing the earth to send you up a little spring?
Or finding you've been crowned 'The Queen of Lost and Found'
And who would not be stunned to see you prove
There's more to us than surgeons can remove?

So much more than we ever knew,
So much more were we born to do.
Should you draw back the curtain,
This I am certain.
You'll be impressed with you.

On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you'll see who you are.
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being outshines ev'ry star.

You'll feel part of ev'ry mountain sea and shore.
You can hear, from far and near,
A world you've never heard before.
And on a clear day...
On that clear day...
You can see forever and ever more!

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Peace
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 02:01 PM

That woman couldn't find her arse with both hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 02:21 PM

The view of Russia from Alaska...

http://www.webcamsk.com/index.php?option=com_bookmarks&task=detail&id=201

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diomede_Islands

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 04:38 PM

I can see Nova Scotia from my house.




yawn ... ok, I'm outta here.


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 04:46 PM

If I go about 5 miles, I'll be at the top of 16 St. in Wash DC, and could roll a bowling ball down to the White House....maybe that makes me an expert on negotiating with the president.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 09:05 PM

As long as she doesn't blink

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 28 Sep 08 - 09:42 PM

As super-human as she's proven herself to be, she probably has x-ray vision, and...

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:19 AM

...and she can fly?

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 07:25 AM

The response to the title question is yes.
The shortest distance between two islands you can see in Carol's post.

The Bering strait bridge is projected to be 103 km long, but the shortest distance from continent to continent, disregarding islands, is actually 86 km (53 ml). Since there are mountains on both sides, a direct line of vision is possible, given appropriate weather onditions.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 08:50 AM

"...and she can fly?"


            Well yes, of course, she can fly, but since the advent of cell phones, there aren't any telephone boothes anymore, and she has trouble finding a place to change her clothes.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: bankley
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:05 AM

Alaska used to be Russia.... no wonder the Czar was shot

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:55 AM

Wolfgang and Carol are correct: you can see Russia from Alaska.

During the Cold War Russian batteries and other "junk" was sometimes found on islands off the coast of Alaska; the islands were used to train the Soviet equivalent of the Special Forces. Aleuts and others have long traveled by kayak to Siberia to visit with their relatives over there.

Nobody really gave a shit then and shouldn't now. After all, CUBA is only 90 miles away....

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 12:31 PM

Can Palin see Russia from Alaska?

Do pig's ears fly?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:30 PM

The one time I was on St Lawrence Island in the Bering Straights, the weather was so crappy we had trouble seeing the next building, much less the next country. This area is not usually conducive to exceptional vistas. I'm hoping that the voters realize how inept and inexperienced Palin is before they decide to put her into the office of Vice President. But I don't hold out much hope, I've been disappointed too often in the past.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 09:34 PM

The real question should be, what will she see when she looks into Putin's eyes. Of course, she'd be looking down into them, but...

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:26 PM

I can see clearly now,
                my brain is gone...

Another one of The Great Mondegreens...

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:41 PM

The real question is why she'd want to see Russia across the Bering and/or Arctic seas at all. On a clear day I can see the mountains a hundred miles west of here, but other than the fact that I can it really means nothing except clear weather.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:43 PM

"On a Clear Day, you can see forever"

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:53 PM

I think she just wants to see Putin "rear his head".

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:15 PM

Ewwww.

"Bulls eye!"

I think she's soon outta here.

Mike, you gotta get lucky once in a while! Let's hope this is one of those times.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:21 PM

I was born and raised near the Canadian border; does that make me qualified to get into foreign relations? I can say "Ay"? and "There's a moos in the hoos and we cahnt get it oot."

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:47 PM

"I think she just wants to see Putin "rear his head"."


                      Rear his head?

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Sep 08 - 11:50 PM

Putin rears his head

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:01 AM

Wow! The news media needs to find something constructive to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:47 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94eV8kkFI3A&feature=related

The popular Russian view of Alaska. Sauna, vodka, harmony and salmon, goes the refrain. Don't play the fool Amerika, give it back, Catherine was wrong for leasing it, etc., etc..

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 09:41 AM

Here's a link from the "rears his head" page.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Bill H //\\
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 07:19 PM

Well, think about it---sometimes Putin flies over Alaska air space on a trip home. Sarah is alert to all that---along with SAC. Will she now be claiming to be in charge of SAC?   (if she knows what that means). Do you think she ever saw Dr Strangelove? She may well have absorbed her alleged foreign policy experience from the film. Now with the financial crisis she had best watch Its A Wonderful Life for a happy ending.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Bill H //\\
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 07:35 PM

One other thing---the Palin piece on SNL. WHile it was brilliant her actual appearance on CBS with COuric was even moreso---it spoke for itself.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 01:56 PM

Yes, her foreign policy is very much in the Buck Turgidson vein.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 03:51 PM

Some of the more hilarious portions of Tina Fey's impersonation/satire were exact quotes from Palin's interview.

It's almost unfortunate that the verbatim parts were mixed in with the exaggerations (e.g., "I can see Russia from my house!"). Most viewers don't realize that much of the script came straight from the interview, unedited, and probably should be so informed.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 11:03 PM

I think she said something to the effect--you can see parts of Russia from places in Alaska.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 12:24 AM

Problem with ridiculing her--admittedly a tempting target--is now the expectations for the VP debate are so low that if she is semi-coherent it will be counted a triumph for her. And in the debate she will do nothing but attack Obama.

So the headline Friday will be: " Gov. Palin Shatters the 'Clueless' Image; Pit Bull Is Back"

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 12:38 AM

I agree that Palin may well be deemed a 'winner' tomorrow night just on the basis of bright-faced, perky lines, never mind the winding words.

Tonight PBS ran a couple of previous vice presidential debates, notably the GHW Bush and Geraldine Ferraro. I can see why Bush was considered to have done better- he was energetic and decisive, she more soft spoken and almost tired.

They said tonight that no US presidential outcome has ever been affected by the second spot ticket. I can't imagine why, frankly. Nowadays the second spot is an important one.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 07:31 AM

"Some of the more hilarious portions of Tina Fey's impersonation/satire were exact quotes from Palin's interview.

It's almost unfortunate that the verbatim parts were mixed in with the exaggerations (e.g., "I can see Russia from my house!"). Most viewers don't realize that much of the script came straight from the interview, unedited, and probably should be so informed."

For the first 30 seconds or so, I was thinking this is dumb and not very funny, because I thought that it was Palin in person. Then I realised that it was Tina Fey and the brilliance struck me...

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 11:30 AM

"'So the headline Friday will be: " Gov. Palin Shatters the 'Clueless' Image; Pit Bull Is Back'"


                      And McCain's poll numbers will surge!

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 11:34 AM

Dream on, ya little puppy.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 01:17 PM

Well I've been called a lot of things, but...

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 06:00 PM

And the "surge" in McCain's numbers will last 17 minutes. Until somebody brings up the economy again.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 07:00 PM

MaCain, tonight, is kissing off Michigan, he's way behind in New Hampshire & Virginia, etc, by the time the debate's done he'll be down to carrying Texas where he can retire with "Lone Georgie".
She won't be considered a contender if she scratches her way through the cat fight tonight. Barack is seen as a Clark Kent, make him bleed & 'you bad' but attack him all you want, using spears, bullets or lollypops, he's indistructable, he can even fall or be thrown off tall buildings with out aquiring a single limp. She's toast.
Oh, she's attacking Biden, I don't think so.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 05:03 PM

"They said tonight that no US presidential outcome has ever been affected by the second spot ticket. I can't imagine why, frankly. Nowadays the second spot is an important one."

Well, Vice President Cheney is important to an unprecedented degree because he's been calling the shots all along, puppetmaster to Georgie-Boy's marionette. That hasn't been the case ever before, to my knowledge, and would certainly not be the case for the next administeration, regardless of which ticket takes office.

One of the more telling moments in last night's VP debate was when Palin was asked if she agreed with Cheney's idea that he, as veep, can decide at any given moment whether he's part of the legislative or the executive branch, and to switch back and forth as it suits his purposes.

Her response was alarming not so much because she seemed to indicate that she'd like to emulate Uncle Dick, but because she gave no evidence of understanding the question, or even realizing that there's been any controversy over Cheney's attempts to evade investigation.

Subject: RE: BS: Can Palin see Russia?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 07:44 PM

Palin can't even see Alaska from her home.

She needs to be up in a helicopter when she's not shooting wolves.

Bury the barracuda and stop McCloning.