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cilecto
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Gov. Palin Says She Will Quit, Citing Probes, Family Needs
By Philip Rucker and Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 4, 2009Sarah Palin...announced her resignation yesterday...The announcement that she will step down by the end of July stunned the political establishment, fueling speculation about why she is leaving office with 18 months left in her first term...
I'll bet she quit to do "bedbug prep".
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Best explanation I've heard
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buggyinsocal
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Sat Jul 4 2009 13:51:12
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That would explain what one report I read mentioned as her unusually high emotional levels during the press conference.
I know that when I had an active infestation, I cried at the drop of a hat what with all the sleep deprivation. Although as a mother of kids, I would have figured she would be more trained for sleep deprivation than I am.
But then bed bug induced sleep deprivation on top of kid induced sleep deprivation? That'd do it.
Yep, more plausible by the second.
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cilecto
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Sat Jul 4 2009 13:58:29
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Dear Ms. Palin. Please don't get me wrong. After I wrote the above, I realized that you might not take this the way I'd intended. Please understand that in no way am I seriously implying that you are fighting a bedbug infestation, nor do I wish it on you or your family. It was just a commentary on the onerousness (is that a word) of bedbug fighting. Had my 'net access not been down, I'd have used this line on your buddy from SC. This is not an "East Coast Liberal Elite Thing", either. Had I been BB-aware a year ago, I'd have used it on Spitzer, D-NY (though on him, I'd wish a bedbug infestation. Trust me, I have my reasons.)
All the best in whatever you're doing. If it is BB-prep, then check out the deals at ziplocoffer dot com.
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Posted 4 months ago
Sat Jul 4 2009 14:14:43
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lol
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stricken
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Sat Jul 4 2009 14:50:36
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Wow, Cilecto, sounds like you you know something about Spitzer that the rest of us don't - inquiring-minded NYCers on this board may soon be clamoring for more!
Me, I've been thinking that I wouldn't wish this on Dick Cheney. And I'm no fan.
(He probably wouldn't do the prep himself anyway.)
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Sat Jul 4 2009 14:59:56
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I just curious, stricken, why wouldn't you wish bbs on Dick Cheney? Just asking?
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Sat Jul 4 2009 15:41:54
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Dear Just Itching:
Because they're THAT horrible.
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Sat Jul 4 2009 16:13:11
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LOL, ty for the laugh, I needed that!
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It reminds of the expression on the lawyers face when I asked him what it like being the one on the suckee end of the blood sucking for once.
He took great offence and went a rather red shade until I said worry not if you have taken offence at a simple joke I will happily apologise and leave. However if he wanted me to stay and finish the job a smile would help.
David
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Sat Jul 4 2009 18:20:21
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Suckee! LOL!!! That made my weekend!
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Just itching to get rid of them
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Sat Jul 4 2009 18:50:30
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Stricken, I get your point that bbs are so bad you wouldn't even wish them on Cheney but then I remember that Cheney is all for waterboarding which is considered by the Geneva Convention to be a form of torture. All things being equal, while I consider bbs to be one of the worse blights in my life, given a choice between keeping the status quo with my bbs or being waterboarded, I probably would keep the bbs as awful as they are. Cheney, himself, might prefer bbs to being waterboarded.
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Oddly enough waterboarding the bed bugs would kill them. I recently attending a workshop on the subject.
Waterboarding as a method of extracting information out of people who are held illegally to start with may be the straw that broke the Geneva conventions back but I hate to be the kill joy that points out that all UK internet traffic and mobile phone calls are monitored, not by our government but by yours.
They are very few governments in the world without shady human rights records at the moment but sadly its another area that people can't really stand up and shout about.
OK soap box set aside again before I get a utility van parked outside my apartment building again.
David
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American Independence Day is a good day to speak out.
I'll take bed bugs over waterboarding anytime.... I didn't last ten seconds personally
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Sat Jul 4 2009 22:10:58
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BBcoukHome - 35 minutes ago »
Oddly enough waterboarding the bed bugs would kill them. I recently attending a workshop on the subject.David
David, is this your dry British humor again or would waterboarding bb's really kill them?
Cilecto, that is a riot! Wish I had read that before dinner tonight as we were all discussing her resignation.
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cilecto
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Sat Jul 4 2009 22:12:55
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BBcoukHome - 36 minutes ago »
OK soap box set aside again before I get a utility van parked outside my apartment building again.
DavidIn your honor, the spooks in the van are swearing leather pants and sitting on shooting sticks.
I played the "Cheney gets bedbugs" scenario and imagine him calling some buds at DARPA and coming up with "Star Wars for Bedbugs".
Re Spitzer, I had a lot of $ in a company that Spitzer prosecuted. the stock tanked (my bad, should have sold sooner). Of course, meanwhile, he had a few skeletons in the closet, himself. That's all
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cilecto
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Sat Jul 4 2009 22:14:40
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MyWorstFear - 2 minutes ago »
Cilecto, that is a riot!Glad a little bedbug like me can make a human laugh.
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MyWorstFear - 6 hours ago »
David, is this your dry British humor again or would waterboarding bb's really kill them?
Cilecto, that is a riot! Wish I had read that before dinner tonight as we were all discussing her resignation.Hi,
Waterboarding would kill bed bugs, they are really bad swimmers in fact they drown extremely easily. The problem is however that the towels add to the washing, drying and bagging and the time to set up the interrogation suite between individuals means that its not very efficient.
Cilecto I know what you mean, these spooks are taught to try and blend in with the target so leathers and a shooting stick is considered basic camouflage but they always forget the smell of new leather is a dead give away so as long as they are up wind I can pick them out.
Have fun,
David
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Sun Jul 5 2009 23:27:35
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DougSummersMS, what you said yesterday that you didn't last ten seconds. Were you actually waterboarded? Is that what you meant?
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Actually, I thought many times how much having bedbugs IS very similar to the torture confinement technique. Remember the one where they confine the victim in the little box and tell him there is a bug in the box with him. There you are "trapped" in your bed unable to escape, waiting for the bugs.. your home may be a bigger box, but...the terror..not so different. I think the response is not so different.
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Yeah, I tried it voluntarily .... I won a bet, but didn't last the full ten seconds.....
Anybody that wants to say it isn't torture should give it a try ....
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buggyinsocal
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Mon Jul 6 2009 12:43:12
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I would think that threatening someone's family with bed bugs would be much more effective than threatening the person him or herself with them, esp. if accompanied by a PR campaign that only bad, dirty people got them.
I mean, if you're already being subjected to what NPR won't call torture but "enhanced interrogation techniques," a bed bug isn't going to be a horror show for you.
If, on the other hand, you're shown photos of a person with a vial of bed bugs outside your family's home, when the country is convinced that bed bugs are proof of people with low moral character in an environment in which such people are actively scorned, I would think that would be far more effective.
After all, people like Cheney have plenty of money to get rid of the problem. They just have to bring in thermal or Vikane, and for them, the cost would be chump change.
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Just itching to get rid of them
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Mon Jul 6 2009 16:02:45
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Very true, buggyinsocal, in fact we have no reason to presume that Cheney, or anyone else in the power structure hasn't already had bbs. They go to the same places that we all go to, and people come to their homes and offices. This is an epidemic. If there allegedly is 6 degrees of separation between you and anbody else in the population, then there is plenty of room for everybody to get bbs from each other. The only difference is as you say when those at the top get bbs they quickly bring in the best means to get rid of them while they stay in their second or third homes. They don't exactly worry how much it's going to cost to throw away the couch or the linens either.
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Fri Aug 21 2009 13:54:44
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bumping up for those of us whom need a laugh :D
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Fri Aug 21 2009 14:07:18
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LOL :D
Well no wonder. BB's are serious problem :D
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cilecto
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Sat Aug 22 2009 23:04:23
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Just itching to get rid of them - 1 month ago »
Very true, buggyinsocal, in fact we have no reason to presume that Cheney, or anyone else in the power structure hasn't already had bbs. They go to the same places that we all go to, and people come to their homes and offices. This is an epidemic.Disagree. People like "Cheney" (or Oprah, or the Obamas or Michael Bloomberg) live in bigger spaces relative to their "stuff", often have multiple homes and have staff to smooth over the rough spots of life. If "Cheney's" staff notice any sign of BB, they will quickly shuttle him to another of his homes, while the thermal or Vikane people come to do their magic (probably with a cameo from the Vikane product manager at Dow. BTW, I think Vikane and thermal are very "Cheney-esque" appreaches). If BB are a concern to "Cheney" (or Oprah, et. al.) they will have staff doing regular inspection of their premises. Even if Oprah were to get BB, her staff would be able to bag her stuff, leave it in middle of her walk-in closet and there would still be room to walk around. You would never notice the bags in the rest of the home. Oprah will have fresh clothes every day to go on with her business. And no question WRT to the neighbors getting treated. They are either getting treated or there are no neighbors.
So, "Cheney" can "get" BBs, but will never have to struggle with them the way most people do or will soon need to.
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