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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:11 PM
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Is there any truth to this Track Palin story?
Sarah Palin"s son Track Palin has joined the army to avoid going to prison.Track Palin is not going to Iraq because he is patriotic but because he was arrested,for vandalizing the brakes of a school bus,in order to avoid jail he enlisted himself in the army.Track Palin will be performing security duties for his brigade"s top officers in Iraq starting on September 11, 2008

This is from a post to Huffington Post
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:13 PM
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1. I read a reference to Randi talking about this -- but either way,
we shouldn't touch it. It could come back and bite us.
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:14 PM
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3. This is one disfunctional family!
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:15 PM
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4. Yeah, like that "Obama is a Muslim" thing came back and bit the righties. /nt
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:20 PM
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8. If he'd been busted and sentenced, that would be one thing.
More of the Palin Family Values to question. But since he did enlist, and even more so that he's heading off to Iraq, I think this makes the subject too touchy. Just IMO.

And NOTHING ever comes back and bites the Righties it seems. Just us. :grr:
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:24 PM
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9. He tampered with the brakes of a school bus. How bad can it get?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:33 PM
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13. Do we know that's true? nt
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:14 PM
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2. Well, I've come across it in several places...
...but that doesn't make it true. It sure is believable, though.

I'm beginning to get a feel for what this family is like, and wow! It's pretty bad.
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ClarkBayh 2008 Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:15 PM
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5. I think we're all going to get sucked into her family
stories as a ploy by the GOP operatives to make the dems look bad in cohoots w/ the media.

DROP all interest in her family.
Stick with the fact that she is out of the mainstream, hasn't traveled abroad, wants rape victims to carry children,
is against birth control, and clearly has NO FP experience.

Don't get sucked into this family stuff - it's rope a dope.

She is going to try and get libertarian republicans. Stick w/ promoting Barr in CO, NV, NH, OH, VA.
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:17 PM
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7. This kid tampered with the brakes of a school bus?
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:35 PM
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16. NO. Nobody tampered with the brakes
whether it was Track or some other kid.

http://frontiersman.com/articles/2005/12/06/news/news2.txt

"The boys are suspected of deflating tires in 44 First Student buses, breaking mirrors and unplugging 110 buses from their engine-block heaters, which caused the buses not to start in subzero weather on Nov. 29."
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:17 PM
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6. Why was he sent to Michigan to attend high school?
Was he expelled for some behavior in Alaska? Did mommy ship her kid off to Michigan because she couldn't deal with it herself? The Palin family sure shows 'values.'
:eyes:
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:34 PM
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14. Why was Bristol moved mid-year to Anchorage West HS
Seems to be the family MO for avoiding public disgrace.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:26 PM
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10. I also heard that his average was too low to get into UofAlaska
He needed a C average in order to play hockey for UA. He didn't have it.
Less than a C average? Not a very bright bulb.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:29 PM
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11. Alaska bloggers have this to say about that.
Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 07:33 PM by Blue_In_AK
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/paradise-lost-chapter-thirty-three-what.html

I didn't hear any rumors at the time of this vandalism -- and I do remember the story -- that Track Palin was involved, and there doesn't seem to be any confirmation. I think it's best left alone.


Also, please note that the miscreants didn't cut brake lines in any event. It seems like the purpose of the prank was to get out of school for a few days.

"The boys are suspected of deflating tires in 44 First Student buses, breaking mirrors and unplugging 110 buses from their engine-block heaters, which caused the buses not to start in subzero weather on Nov. 29."
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 09:14 PM
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22. Looks like they were busy before the vandalism, also
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6977882&mesg_id=6980198
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CherokeeDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:32 PM
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12. This Just Goes to Show How Desperate The Army Is...
If this is true and I have heard it from other places as well, that this guy actually tampered with the brakes on a school bus...how pathetic the military recruitment must be after the * Administration destroyed our military. Maybe this isn't really true, one could only hope.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:34 PM
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15. NOT TRUE.
Please see my post above. Air out of the tires, unplugged engine-block heaters. Big, big difference. Nobody would have gotten hurt from this vandalism.
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:41 PM
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19. I agree. Big difference.
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backwoodsbob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:38 PM
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17. how much of this shit
Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 07:41 PM by bobbydem
are we going to do?

DAMNIT!!!!!

We are going to take a walk in the park win and piss it away doing this shit

When they play the *librul* media crap remember they are talking about us
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:40 PM
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18. I've read it before...all things considered it's probably true. Will it matter to MSM? Probably no.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:54 PM
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20. Scrubbed blog entry:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6977882&mesg_id=6978492
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 08:52 PM
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21. ......................
Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 08:58 PM by rainbow4321
http://www.zimbio.com/Track+Palin/polls/4/results/Think+Track+Palin+joined+Army+mother+political


http://whatdoino-steve.blogspot.com/2008/09/unraveling.html


http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/paradise-lost-chapter-thirty-three-what.html
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