video clip: sarah palin’s alaska (with bears!)

Sarah Palin’s Alaska debuts on TLC in less than a month!  It seems they may taunt us with these short clips to keep our interest piqued. 

On the one hand: thanks, TLC!  On the other:  no taunting needed…we’ll be watching!

For all the news about Sarah Palin’s Alaska:

    *Video clip provided courtesy of the best resource for media featuring Governor Sarah Palin.  It’s Palin TV - visit the site and stay awhile!

    - tdc

    From a British Conservative who loves his country, to Americans who still believe in theirs: Honor the vision of your Founders. Respect the most sublime Constitution ever devised by human intelligence.

    Never be afraid to speak to and for the soul of this nation; of which, by good fortune and God’s grace, you are privileged to be part.

    September 29, 2010 - Daniel Hannan, member of the Bristish Parliament, addresses the CATO Institute in Washington, D.C. to discuss the perils of socialist policies.  Mr. Hannan eloquently speaks to the future of the United States from the perspective of someone who, as he says, “has seen it.”

    This is a well-delivered talk that touches on the subject of Mr. Hannan’s new book, The New Road to Serfdom:  A Letter of Warning to America.  I urge you to see the entire speech at the link below.

    (h/t Cubachi)

    - tdc

    *VIDEO - Watch Daniel Hannan’s full address to the CATO Institute at Cubachi

    This clip includes Bristol Palin’s second performance on Dancing With The Stars - complete with judges’ comments, reactions from a proud mama…and lots of screaming from an enthusiastic younger sister.

    You read it here first:  Bristol Palin is a contenduh for the trophy!

    *BONUS FOOTAGE:  Bristol and Mark take a trip to Alaska to meet the family!

    - tdc

    Now that the show has finally aired in the really-western U.S. (a.k.a Alaska), let’s post this awesome video.  Well done, Team Ballin! 

    This was a first-performance to be proud of.  Bristol Palin was clearly having a good time; and her partner, Mark Ballas, seems to have made some good progress in coaxing the shimmy-ing abilities out of his student.

    Let’s hope millions of voters saw the potential in Ms. Palin and she gets to stick around for a few more weeks.  If tonight is any indication, there’s some skill there, just waiting to be unleashed!

    - tdc

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    How to vote for Team Ballin on Dancing With The Stars:

    • Via text - Text “VOTE” to 3407
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    *Note: You can vote up to 12 TIMES for EACH of those methods!

      BONUS:

      It seems there was a party in Wasilla!

      (via Sarah Palin - @SarahPalinUSA on Twitter)

      Bristol Palin on the Tonight Show:  a fun interview with lots of laughs…Enjoy!

      - tdc

      tdc returns: political odds and ends. and cojones

      Yes.  Tis true: tdc has been absent from the blogosphere for a few weeks.  You have my sincere apologies. 

      Despite the fact that you may have been feeling tdc had gone the way of an old Colorado mine - once productive and fruitful, now left abandoned to rot away in the elements - rest assured that I have been paying attention to the world of politics.

      Though every fleeting thought and errant rant is not dutifully recorded here, that doesn’t mean that said thoughts and rants don’t happen.  Indeed, the items noted below sparked some thoughts and rants…

      • Jonah Goldberg says the conservative movement should stop pining away for the good ol’ days of the Grand Ol’ Party.  tdc happens to agree.  As a new conservative (“new” meaning “as soon as then-candidate Obama unveiled his pretty little country-transforming logo in 2008”), I am not pining for the old days of the GOP.  In those days, I was: a) too young to care; and b) a Democrat-by-birth-and-environment.  Telling me how great William F. Buckley was back in the day, means little to me.  I wanna kick some electoral tail with today’s team!  Palin, Bachmann, Pence…Palin.  Old school exception:  Thomas Sowell. #thatisall
      • Whenever you can toss in the word “cojones“…it’s a good interview:
      • Politicians with large egos cause heartburn.  Mr. Tancredo is a fine gentleman and a nice guy, but…really?  It takes a bit of gall (as opposed to cojones) to enter a gubernatorial race on a third-party ticket, with a thundering ultimatum for the other two candidates:  get out or I get in!  Respectfully, tdc requests that you get over yourself, sir.
      • Rep. Charlie Rangel and Rep. Maxine Waters.  Perhaps that says enough.  Nonetheless, tdc hopes that perhaps you’ll learn a lesson about humility and honor and decency as a result of the investigations into your alleged misconduct.  tdc understands that lesson is unlikely.  What a shame.  Maybe the voters in their respective districts will send them home to ponder what they’ve done…far away from the halls of Congress.
      • tdc is headed back up north to the Last Frontier in the coming days.  It will be fun to meet up with new old friends, once again.  Hopefully, there will be more shootin’, a comfortably distant bear-sighting, a little design work (tdc IS a designer after all), and a moose burger on the docket.  And, hopefully, there’s a primary win for Eddie Burke in the race for lieutenant governor.

      A whole vocabulary has grown up among the intelligentsia to downplay or dismiss the achievements that create our standard of living and the longevity that allows us to enjoy it more fully. Where some achieve more than others, that is not seen as a special contribution to society that should be appreciated but as a grievance to be resented by others, in the name of equality.

      So, there ya have it - a synopsis of commentary for the last five weeks.  Told ya I was paying attention…

      - tdc