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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 09:59 AM
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NYT: "Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser"
Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation

By JIM RUTENBERG and SERGE F. KOVALESKI
Published: July 12, 2009



Gov. Sarah Palin last week at a signing event, for legislation and other items, in the village of McGrath, Alaska.

Almost as soon as she returned home, the once-popular governor was isolated from an increasingly critical Legislature. Lawmakers who had supported her signature effort to develop a natural gas pipeline turned into uncooperative critics.

Ethics complaints mounted, and legal bills followed. At home Ms. Palin was dealing with a teenage daughter who had given birth to a son and broken up with the infant’s father, a baby of her own with special needs and a national news media that was eager to cover it all.

Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.

“Honestly, I think all of it just broke her heart,” Ms. Steele said in an interview at her beauty parlor in Wasilla, the Beehive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/us/politics/13palin.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:01 AM
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1. All I got to say
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:
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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:03 AM
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4. I'm sorry, Hobbit709, I have to disagree...
You forgot the :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

:-)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:21 AM
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17. Ditto
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:02 AM
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2. if this brought her to the breaking point,
it's really a good thing she's not Vice Prez right now. Too thin-skinned for politics.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:02 AM
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3. The Beehive!
:rofl:

call the EMT's (emergency mane technicians)
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virgdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:43 AM
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28. More like the rats nest!!!
n/t
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:03 AM
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5. Artist rendering of Palin had she become VP...
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 03:47 PM
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47. ah, the king of siam. Yul Brenner, consummate gentleman and
Kossak
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:03 AM
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6. what a strange picture
nt
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:09 AM
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11. I'll never forget the taped message that was played after his smoking induced
death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:09 AM
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35. At first glance I saw Khan but then I realized it was the King of Siam
What a disconnect since so often here I see this:
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:22 AM
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41.  a little off-topic...
I keep seeing the mock motivational pics like the one you posted. Is there a web repository for them? Where can I find this?
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 02:48 PM
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46. I just google until I find the image I like.
There are sites similar to the LOLcats (http://icanhascheezburger.com/) that are for making that sort of thing. The one I posted came from a British site - right click the picture, click Properties and you can copy the URL for the site. My personal non-political demotivational poster site is Despair, Inc. (http://despair.com/) - they were the first ones I remember doing parodies of motivational posters way before anybody else.
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amandabeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:31 AM
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42. In case you're serious about your question,
that's Yul Brynner in the movie musical "The King and I" from the 1950s or early 1960s.
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 04:05 PM
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48. The movie was first released in 1956
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 04:09 PM by Wednesdays
Yul Brynner won the Oscar for Best Actor.

That little trivia tidbit was brought to you by the letters D and U, and the lucky number 7.
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amandabeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 04:47 PM
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49. ? n/t
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:03 AM
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7. well, cry me a freaking river...
Sorry, no sympathy from me. If she didn't want all this attention, she shudda turned down the opportunity to run for VP...it's a simple as that, my dear Sarah...
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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:06 AM
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8. Clearly not fit for the office.
governor or Vice POTUS, she just don't got what it takes.
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:42 AM
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26. But she'll fit in perfectly
as the next FAUX news bimbo dittohead. Move over Gretchen.
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superduperfarleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:07 AM
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9. She's autographing someone's baby??!!!! n/t
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:17 AM
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16. Baby sure isn't happy about that. My gosh look at the grip the Mom has on that child's arm.
Poor kid.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:24 AM
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19. I think it is the baby's dress. The toddler looks like she might have Down Syndrome.
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 10:26 AM by Ilsa
The ears look low in that picture, and the face looks flat, like she might have a flat, wide bridge across the nose. The toddler looks like she might have micronathia (receded or small jaw), too. Palin should have refused to have that little girl placed in that position for a stinking autograph. No one appears to be supporting the child's head. Republicans sure have a sharing their stupidity and lack of concern.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:38 AM
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25. Good catch.
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zonkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:08 AM
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10. Every cluck that gave her the thumbs up... from McCain on down... thanks. The collective
Edited on Mon Jul-13-09 10:10 AM by zonkers
amount of minutes during which we have wasted listening to, or about this ignorant, dangerous nut are lost, gone forever.

I am so thankful we have a compassionate, bright and practical Commander in Chief. It could have turned out very different. Governer Palin would have been a heartbeat away.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:10 AM
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12. Geez, and the RW
was making cracks about Joe Biden's hair. :eyes:

It's sounds like Sarah still wants to be President, though. She just wants to get there without all the messy problems entailed in actually working for the job. Guess she figures she can do book tours and tv appearances (no hard questions allowed) and give prepared speeches to pre selected audiences and then just waltz right into the nomination.
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tishaLA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:14 AM
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13. Why her hairdresser? If my hair were falling out at an alarming rate
I'd turn to an endocrinologist first. And then a shrink.
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Kalyke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:23 AM
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18. I'd also call a nutritionist.
Underweight and hair falling out sounds like a nutritional problem.

But I completely agree on the shrink.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:43 AM
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27. She lives a public life. She needs to keep up appearances.
That she asked for help from the hair dresser doesn't mean that she didn't seek medical advice as well.
Just sayin.'
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:10 AM
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37. Some hairdressers have a better grasp on this issue than docs. But, in Sarah's
case, she was probably looking for a quick fix way of concealing the fact that her hair was thinning.

You've heard the expression "Still waters run deep?"


Well, Sarah kind of proves it, in a way. She is not still and not deep.
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Caoimhe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:17 AM
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14. what is she doing to that poor child? n/t
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Lancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:17 AM
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15. Reminds me of the old Phyllis Diller joke.
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go in for an estimate.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:32 AM
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20. She needs more protein
:evilgrin:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:34 AM
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21. Well, that's one of the side effects of meth
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:37 AM
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22. Maybe her teeth are falling out too
They do look false.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:13 AM
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39. Scurvy?
:rofl:
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:18 AM
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40. I think meth
judging by how she likes to talk and talk and talk and it only makes sense to her. I thought that from the beginning.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:37 AM
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23. Wow! A good article about Failing Palin being unrecommended here? Hmmmm
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:00 AM
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31. ALL of the Palin threads are being unrecommended...apparently the Sarahmaniacs...
are out in full force today
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:51 AM
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44. Bingo.
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FreeJG Donating Member (304 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:38 AM
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24. or cocaine?
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:46 AM
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29. Get a weave, Girl!
Sounds like even her friends are backstabbing if they narc on her hair situation.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 04:55 PM
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50. She may already have a weave ~ the tricks are so good now

From what I can see, her "hair " as we know it looks thick all over.

So ~ it may be a wig if her hair is that thin.
So many people can't tell a wig from real hair or a weave now.

One day Heidi Klum has hair down to her ankles, the next it is near her cheeks.

Can't happen unless you have lots of wigs ~ most weaves take hours to put in and if you mess with it everyday- it can thin your hair until you must wear a wig.

I don't talk bad about anyone that wears what ever makes them comfortable on their head.

They aren't going under the knife for plastic surgery and they are trying their best to look nice.

My Mom wanted to know why some men now cut their hair all off.

I told her that is their business and it makes them feel better.
She was OK with that ~
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 10:46 AM
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30. That poor child -
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crikkett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:02 AM
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32. The story reads like none of her problems are her fault n/t
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:03 AM
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33. My hair thinned when I thought about Sarah being a 72 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:08 AM
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34. Hmmm. Maybe her hairdresser uses Bumpits!



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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:10 AM
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36. I think she should drop out of public life completely and take care of herself
What happened to all that maver-icky in your face feistiness she so loved to brag about being? What a fighter!!

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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:11 AM
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38. Release your in skinhead,Sarah.
It will be so liberating.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 11:33 AM
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43. are they offering up the baby as some sort of pagan ritual????
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-13-09 02:34 PM
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45. I don't care. Thinning hair is no excuse for engaging in child sacrifice
as this photo clearly shows.





What are Republicans coming to?
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