@-Scrixx-: MY EYES!

No really though she's a milf.

GreyFoxV1

"All Your Base Are Belong To Us"

God, I hope not.

Đipic

I'm surprised no one put up the Palinetta (Sarah Palin + Bayonetta) pic I've seen floating around.

banana_ridah

Personally, I find this way sexier:
[img530.imageshack.us]

Hamsfork

@TheBassKicks: And dog-gone.

PollockRoc

She almost makes me not want to like Metroid or Metal Gear anymore... :'(

MC Double Def DP

Owen fucking owns.

tzaketh

No Bayonetta = complete failure

Roto13

@Witzbold: Don't you "or whatever" us, I've seen the Master Chief standee in your room.

onidavin

The GTA one was awesomely hilarious. No joke.

Now we just need an equally inflammatory gallery of images: "What if Barack Obama was in..."

And this gallery would display Obama's head photoshopped onto any number of middle eastern or african baddies from video games getting smoked, or blowing away soldiers. Yeah, that would be cool.

AvidAbey

@TruthTruman:

I know. I CAN'T UNSEEN THESE. ;_;

-Scrixx-

@the_grimace:

Meryl one's particularly fitting as Meryl's relationahip to snake is eerily similar to Palin's connection to grizzled war vet McCain - She's too green.

only difference is I would actually vote for Snake.

frenchdestroyer

UUUUGH!!

The first one looks like a total transvestite!

mufasa95

[kotaku.com]

Found it

Kuroomu

The Metroid one is from a past Kotaku post of a cosplayer who did a sick-nasty job of Samus. Give me a couple minutes and I'll locate it...

Kuroomu

why do you hate us... srsly..

ittekimasu

haha awesome. now show me McCain as Count Dracula and then we'll really be doing it right

TheRiver

the lara croft one was scary. i was like..

"OMG, TEH BOOBZ!!!" *looks up* "AGHHHHHHHH!" *pukes everywhere*

the_grimace

The Zero Wing one is pretty good.

Wubbytoes

What a maverick.

ostrichdeity

looooool@the last one

The first one wants to make me claw my eyes out though.

Santa_Lock22

@TheIrishNinja: Cortana or whatever from Halo.

Witzbold

Oh, sorry. I forgot "straight talk."

TheBassKicks

#2 is a tranny

Firemane

Someone put her on Leblanc from FFX-2. That would be even more amusing. Good job otherwise.

formina

special needs babies maverick kitchen table say it aint so joe wasilla main street joe six pack washington insiders palling around abstinence only zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

TheBassKicks

Heeeeeeerrrreeeeeee weeeee goooo agaiaaaaaannnn!!!!

Acebuckeye13

I couldn't resist chuckling at the Meryl one.

YHWHMystic

Ha ha ha! This is too f'in hilarious. My favorite is the "All your base are belong to us" one. All too true if McCain ends up winning... :P :P

BelmontHeir

the GTA lolipop one is made of win.

Kreepman

MISSED OPPORTUNITY: Mega Man X.

Mavericks.

mercatfat

That's just humiliating. For the game characters ofcourse.

Ganonmaster

They make me want to cry vomit. Vomit tears. You are making my eyes throw up.

onidavin

i think metal gear and metroid are working best. what's the blue one of?

TheIrishNinja

I just threw up a bit in my mouth.

TruthTruman

Last one, just made my pants a twinkie

maskedaprentice

#2 is pretty distrubing

neoguyver

LMAO!

Morphine16

And this is why we love you, Owen.

Lyrai

That second one of Palin as a prostitute is some poor-ass cut n' paste Photoshop shit. Boooo!
I like the Metroid and Tomb Raider ones though.

But seriously... Number 7 FTL.

TheMurderer

People really think she's attractive?

boringjob2

'All you guys told me STFU this morning and post about video games, not politics. Well, suck it.'

Another relaxing entry to the lulzcon.

Defoliantonthemoneytree

Hillary clinton belongs to politics,condolezza rice belongs to politics.
Paling belongs to delta airlines as a stewardness.

Ace11

Will I be forgiven for thinking that fish was a boxing glove punching a bear when I first saw it?

Pezdispenser

Their ability to photoshop couldn't be any worse.

Shocky

lol this post is made of winning gold medals.

macr0planet

@Hamsfork: That is the worst thing I've ever seen. I... I have to burn this monitor now.

dowingba

Sorry she is hot. You girls need to let your boys drop so that you can understand.

orionzdrm

@XanderSan: Hit its weak spot for massive damage! Hurry!

dowingba

@frenchdestroyer: COMMENT. OF. THE. CENTURY.

I seriously laughed my ass off at that. Well done.

Also, I really don't get why people think she's so hot. I still think she looks like a quirkier Peggy Hill.

Thorax

@onidavin: this makes me want to wash my eyes out with your Vomit.

konohaJounin

I don't get it. Isn't she the one who ran the E3 conference for Nintendo?

No?

THEN SWEET CRAP THEY'RE MULTIPLYING!

XanderSan

plz dont tell me that you all Evil Obamaniacs?

DrugsXtreme

samus has been tainted :(

push eject

@TruthTruman:

Ughhh. Tastes terrible.

TF2Soldier914

@Lyrai:

Indeed!!!

dead_red_eyes

@redice: Sorry? This isn't a news site. This is a blog devoted to video games. You may not particularly care for this post but it is indeed relevant to video games.

Đipic

thank you for this.

bialia

No one was mad because you posted about politics, they were mad because you were devoid of clue.

exobyte0

So umn there's no actual gaming news? Didn't know this was the photoshop politics site.....

This is the dumbest post I have seen on Kotaku to date. First truly pointless post I have seen on Kotaku actually.

redice

@boringjob2: I'd hit it. Like the angry fist of God.

DorkimusPrime

@Acebuckeye13: He ain't black...you ever listen to him talk?

DorkimusPrime

Sarah Palin: Proving once again that no press is bad press.

TRT-X

Aren't Palin and Cammie Dunaway related?

arniejolt

uh....very awkward and unecessary

chaos_isnt_here

BEST. TAG. EVER.

DukeOfPwn

that cosplay samus is from pixel-ninja

logantrox

@Acebuckeye13: Hehehe. That just really reminds me of the Onion article...[www.theonion.com]

Maybe you were aiming for that? Regardless, it's a classic.

AvidAbey

@Pezdispenser: That would be an awesome game.

dowingba

Eurgh, I'll never be able to look at Samus the same again.

McCain/Failin 08'

MetalGearMax

At first, I thought this was just okay.

But, then I saw that tag, and I couldn't stop laugh.

Hilarious.

Ad-hominem

The MGS4 one is pretty darned good.

I like Palin. It's a shame she's stuck being McCain's parrot, cause she's a lot smarter than they let her be.

ca36gtp

@AvidAbey: that, or one of the dozens of sterotypical tough Black Sergents.
"GIVE ME CHANGE PRIVATE!"

Acebuckeye13

The Cortana one JUST ISN'T RIGHT!

robinandtami

That is an insult to Samus. Allowing such an airhead a 72 year old heartbeat away form nuclear launch codes is a colossal disaster waiting to happen, much less the genocidal capabilities of Samus's power suit.

paradox

Oh, that is so wrong.

That, until I remembered that Flesh Bot article a friend of mine sent to me.

>_>

90sKid

All your base are belong to us is the funniest. It seems like a loose interpretation of what politicians are really thinking.

sattarsoul

BEST EVER!

good job owen.

BigSt3ph3n

@boringjob2: Sure, she's attractive... for a politician.

Đipic

@onidavin: lol

Seiven

@redice: It's the weekend, it's game-related, it's funny, you've just been havin' a bad day friend.

PuppyGuarder

@dead_red_eyes:
Yep. Weekends at Kotaku.... love 'em!

ca$h

@PollockRoc: dog-gone! dog-gone!

Shockadin

@Witzbold: that whatever is bull!

Shockadin

Owen... STFU! Stop putting up your trash articles.

Ansaga

Fappable?! I throw up in my mouth a lil' every time I see that Alaskan freak of nature!

Kado

What about that game where that one girl is in the position she's in despite having no goddamn qualifications to be in such an important role in the first place, and if her partner dies it would be up to her to save everything and we'd all be fucked?

You know, Twilight Princess?

Mister_Jack

@YHWHMystic: they need to redo the scene with both snake and meryl, with palin as meryl and mccain as old snake.

islandknight

I can't find any humor in this stupid hole.

Sollus

She is such a MILF

LuciaWinecor

Haha! Like the Samus one. Rock on Palin. Rock on.

JokesJokes

I love reading all the ones on here about how much they hate Palin. They don't get the point of the pics. It's supposed to be funny. It wouldn't be funny if it was McCain or Obama, only Palin. Lighten the fuck up losers.

MadExponent

Her bizzaro Tina Fey is hotter....

jjammerzs

@Ansaga: Lighten the fuck up, dude. Sure it's belittles Palin, but it's funny, and you shouldn't expect anything else but denigration from Kotaku when it comes to politics.

It's part of their charm.

AvidAbey

@neoguyver: Very disturbing. Totally freaky. She looks like a man!

Metal_Slug_Solid

according to the 1st one she's got 6 fingers >_> <_<

epy0nkaru

Will never be able to look at Meryl again the same.

Thanks for that.

fecalchaos

@Mister_Jack: I lol'd at that.

J0hnny-Kickass

@DragonNinja: :/ I mean "You know"

DragonNinja

You, I reckon Chyna from the WWE a few years back would look at her jawline and cower in fear.

DragonNinja

Loved the Samus one. Would have loved the Tomb Raider one though...if only the make placed a more serious photo on Lara Croft

paulrenzo

The Cabela one is hilarious. The weekends here on Kotaku are always a blast when you have posts like these to look forward to from Owen. Always keeping it fresh.

kylo4

Please get her off the site; Kotaku is one of the few places I can visit without fear of being winked at.

adgeman

@Ansaga: Oh, sick. There's vowels everywhere. What a massacre.

Mister_Jack

I got smoked by a Palin look-alike in MGO this weekend. Then I saw her mount a REX and shoot a heard of caribou. Half true!

reximusmaximus

facepalm.jpg

PATSCRU

i too, approve of this fuckin' message

subterfunk

LOL at the lollipop one just horrible

Deathcrazy

@Lyrai: Seriously.

<3

.endejas.

Yeah the 2nd one is scary and I can't believe they put her face on Meryl from MGS4. They tainted MGS...so sad. lol but yeah the Alaskan Adventures thing made me laugh.

MGSchick

srly guys? she a total milf. hawt.

benihime

@generalsean:

Eh, the concept of memetics spread mostly through 4chan as well. As did "GTFO" and the original LOLcats.

Just because it originated in 4chan doesn't mean it stays there. I know plenty of people who understand Rick Rolls and don't know what 4chan is.

Though knowing Owen? I'd guess he's the /b/tard who got into Palin's e-mail and then he managed to blame it on that newfag what got caught.

Owen's the type of person that would be a major, major /b/tard.

tzaketh

@mercatfat: Agreed. Whenever the McCain camp brings up the Maverick angle, it's funny how my game-addled brain first thinks of President Sigma.

Kyouryuu

The samus one was fucking awesome lol. fappable indeed...

Moar_pr0nz

fappable?
So you do post on 4chan?

generalsean

Everyone talks about her being attractive. I just don't get it. My hatred for her LVL. 99 neo-con X-TREME beliefs must be blinding my penis or something.

TheGuilty1

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Lipscomba

I'd call her a MILF, but I would never hit that. Instead, to me she's a MINE. Mom I'd Never Elect.

Kenji-sama

@Frank:

McCain as Wizball.

Weirdwolf

How dare you corrupt Meryl like that?!....MERRYLL!!!!!!!

bennifer3000

What next, Joe Biden as Solid Snake?

Frank

@AvidAbey: Yes, because blatant racism is totally the same thing. A+.

EmpressInYellow

The Zero Wing one sucks, that joke is beyond played out.

Specter

@gassnake:

"fucking. reatards. "

Careful, everyone. That irony is so sharp that you might cut yourself.

EmpressInYellow

@jjammerzs: I second that. I'd much rather see Tina Fey doing Samus cosplay. Heck, I'd much rather see Tina Fey as the one whose the heartbeat away from obtaining the U.S.'s nuclear launch codes.

Erinaceus

What a fucking disgrace to video game culture.

fucking. reatards.

gassnake

@GreyFoxV1: So is her 17 yr old daughter.

BADUM BUM! PSHhhhh

MetaKz

@EmpressInYellow: Hi-Ooo!

[ZTF]

I'm feel I should point out that I actually like Palin as a candidate. I know I'm biased seeing as I'm from Alaska originally but I do like her.

Oh, and for all those who say she's too folksy. That's just how people from that part of the world talk. It's akin to an accent or a local mannerism. You could have an IQ of over 200 and be able to bend spoons with your mind and you'd probably still talk like that if you were raised in that part of the country.

WolvenOne

God do you really have to post this? I mean I see that idiotic VP wannabe enough as it is. Oh she is just so "folksy", of course for her "folksy" means you hide just how much of an unqualified dumb-ass you are behind a veil of "you betcha's" and *winks*. This woman was never meant for prime time, she was meant for 'Howdy Doody Time', now if only I could find a time machine and send her back to where she belongs.

WPack911

The goggles! They do nothing!

zyph

See, Owen, THIS is how Kotaku should post political stuff.

Unknown-User

Haha, well played!

HoxtonHero

@MetaKz: hahahaha...

Shykin

Hey, at least she's not a socialist.

Sam_Lowry

Hey, Owen, just wondering if you can make an article not brimming with 'fucks' and 'shits' and 4chan memes. I kinda have a bet going, so please get back to me ASAP.

R.C.Collins

The last one was impressive.

Zero_Beat

Samus can see Russia from her space cruiser.

incredibilistic

@Sam_Lowry: I honestly don't think she could tell you what "socialist" actually means.

EmpressInYellow

@EmpressInYellow:
Maybe not, but I bet Obama could: [www.fff.org]

I think people who claim they are talking to invisible men who live in the sky should be committed to a metal institution, but people who want to dictate a socialist / communist agenda, something that has FAILED every single time it has ever been tried in the history of human civilization, have no business running my country.

I'm not voting for McCain, I'm voting against Obama.

Sam_Lowry

I dont understand people who call Sarah Palin a MILF. Shes obviously not, more like a GMILF.

>.>

smeee

@Sam_Lowry: Oh, for the love of...

Look, if you honestly want to call Obama a Socialist, all you're really doing is betraying your complete lack of perspective. Obama is, by the standards of the REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD, center-right at BEST. Just because the American political spectrum has careened wildly into crazy right-wing territory over the past couple of decades does not mean that you get to simply redefine terms and make up what they mean.

Summary: "Social programs" and "Socialism" are not the same thing, despite both having "social" in them. If that's really the only requirement, I suggest you take a good look at those "social networking" sites like MySpace. Clearly, they're secretly planning a -workers' uprising-!

EmpressInYellow

I'm making a Sarah Palin Sim and drowning her. Any other suggestions?

antisniper

@minus_273: The worst part is where he forced you to read it.

EmpressInYellow

does kotaku have an option to block certain editors' posts from showing up when you are logged ? This is just sad.

minus_273

@Sam_Lowry: Check this out. There is this place in the world called Scandinavia, which has plenty of countries in it that are "Socialist Democracies". So get this, they have universal health care, free education and a bunch of other things to help its citizens compete in the global economy.

Well you wouldn't believe this.... most of the countries in this crazy insane place are actually ranked in the top 10 places to live in the world, isn't that CRAZY!? Total Failure seriously.

Patient

LO F'N L

Chewbenator

Wah wah wah, the pixels said something mean.

Grow up guys.

Theoban

Wow, Owen...great job proving that you are an a-hole...telling the readers of Kotaku to "suck it". How wonderful.

Kotaku, I second minus_273's idea...we really NEED an option to block certain editor's posts. I come to Kotaku to read about games and the industry...not some idiot's desperate try to link politics to games.

Until then, I believe Owen Good has no place on Kotaku...as proven by this pathetic so-called article on here that purposefully goes out of its way to insult the readership of this site. Please give us, your readers, a way so that we can block his pandering drivel. Thank you.

Graywind

@islandknight: WIN!

Weasel3689

Did I take a wrong turn at Albuquerque and wind up in /b/? "everyone's favorite fappable vice presidential candidate"? Really Owen? It's okay to be a shovenist pig under the guise of anonymity(Hell, I do it too), but that's something I'd probably choose to keep to myself, even if I WAS writing for a publication that's fairly laid back in terms of censorship. I just hope you don't have a significant other who's going to read this and get pissed.

TL;DR: You can't to that on the internet

Bigcats

@Graywind: Wait. He's insulting Kotaku readers AND pandering? Pandering to who?

That's an impressive balancing act.

EmpressInYellow

Dude! Her band has a downloadable track for Rock Band!

Band: Sarah Palin and the Straight Talkers
Song: Bridge to Nowhere

^_^

Knoxximus (XBL/PSN)

@Laser_iCE: FREE SPEECH!!!1

:/

Aflack: Likes slushies

@Bigcats: lol, I think she's totally fappable. If you think that he/we can't say that kind of thing then maybe you should move to China :)

Laser_iCE

@Bigcats:
You misspelled chauvinist while trying to criticize someone... might wanna be careful about that.

bobafett356

@mercatfat: Holy crap.

Me too. Probably because the first time I heard the word maverick used was in the Megaman X games.

topraman517

Just a quick question, how many people come to this site expecting up to date news that's totally accurate and reads like a Fox News article? Or how many people come to this blog to keep up on gaming news and gain exclusives and read articles written by editors with a personality? What the fuck has gone wrong when a simple news post like this can get so many people riled up? It annoys the hell out of me that you think because you don't agree with what he said on a public domain, that you're the censorship kings of the internet? Guess what -- you're not. Everyone's said it before but SERIOUSLY, I beg all of you -- if you don't like what you're reading, then STOP. Don't continue reading and getting even more pissed off, because then all you do is post comments that piss people like me off. In before the "but you didn't have to read the comments" -- that's shit, I did. I enjoyed the story and decided to read the comments from people who I thought were mature enough to keep their mouth shut, all because a vice president was photoshopped? All because Owen used a bit of language or decided to post something that doesn't float your boat?

Sorry, I've wanted to say something like this for a long time, and most of it probably doesn't make sense, just gets me so angry when everybody else seems to think they know whats best for me.

Laser_iCE

@Laser_iCE: Who wouldn't? It's a bitch filtering through comments like those to try to get to the ones that are actually worth reading.

FlameEye

@Graywind: It'll take a second or two of your oh-so-precious time to read the title and see the image to decide if you were going to click it or move onto the next. Maybe a few more seconds to breeze through some of the text, and decide if you are interested or not. So, you clicked it, for some reason, probably read the whole article and saw all of the images, and decided what it was not good for the internet.

Wrong. Quite a few people enjoyed it, and thus you fail. Not only that, but I fail to see your point in the "insulting of the readership of this site" - Kotaku being a site that frequently shows tits whenever it's even the slightest gaming related, or shows one of the thousands of versions of the Hare Hare Dance. Kotaku is not a site 100% dedicated to videogames, let me remind you. This is what makes Kotaku different from other blogs and a whole lot more fucking awesome, IMHO.

If you got a problem with the editor, don't read Kotaku on weekends, as he and Maggie are the one's in charge of running the whole thing. You can just filter it to show Maggie's posts. If you have a problem with the site, go and make your own, or go to another dedicated "gaming" blog - there's tons of them out there.

Like a good, caring mother would say to her kids, "If you've got nothing nice to say, STFU"

FlameEye

Great nightcap. Much chuckle.

PsycheE

@topraman517: Are you a bad enough Maverick to rescue the Presidency?

interim

My God, the amount of stupid people there are. Seriously, if don't like it, don't fucking read it. Is it that hard? For God sake, grow the fuck up, grow some fucking balls and shut the fuck up if you have nothing nice to say, which means I should right about now.

antisniper

So many disrespectful asshats about today.
If you don't like the post, then STFU and GTFO.
On the plus side at least now we have some good fodder for Spoony when he gets back in. The hammer must feed, and feed it shall.

VishusBurn

wow. Reading the comments here has made me very disappointed in my fellow Kotaku readers.

People get to riled up during election years. I thought this was amusing. I count on Kotaku to point me in the direction of amusing things that are game related. If this hadn't been posted, I would never have gotten to see and laugh at it. But just because you don't support the candidate doesn't mean you have to be, or even have a right to be, a jack-ass anytime something is posted about them.

I'm getting so tired of hearing people spew hate. The sooner the election is done, the better.

LittleBigGuy

Nah@Thorax: IMO she looks more like Peggy Bundy than anything.

Neer'mo

What about Emma Emmerich from MGS2? She kinda looks like her:

[image.com.com]

Musouka

Is there like a firefox plugin that automatically blocks images of Sarah Palin's head pasted onto random thing?

This woman's head is ruining the internet.

cordsie

@Kyouryuu:

I can't help but think of Top Gun.

Marlor

@imgoingtomakeyoubald: You have a conscience?

DorkimusPrime

I know that I should be amused, but why do I find myself feeling mortified?

imgoingtomakeyoubald

Meryl and Tom Raider was best lol, but want to see Obama win :D

Crippen

so Good

Barf#1

@undefined:

I sure hope a certain Romanian bisexual vampire pays her a little visit.

Mr. Tambourine Man

@imgoingtomakeyoubald: Something about seeing good game characters destroyed by Photoshopped politicians is enough to make even a grizzled, hardened Vietnam Vet cry.

BlackMage66652

Wow, this is really a great compliment to Sarah Palin. She actually fits quite a few of these scenes pretty well.
*Like the hunting game*

Metal gear solid, Samus, Tomb raider, those all look like pretty good match ups.

Whoever did that first shop though.. I think that is the mayor of NewYork with a wig. *Cringes*

--Core--

awesome.

E-Grizzle

@WolvenOne: I'm from Texas and I didn't vote for Bush either time, so your home state is neither here nor there.

My problem with Palin is 1) that she wants to take away my reproductive rights, 2) she become mayor of a debt-free town and left it with a defisit of 22 million, 3) she thinks shooting wolves and bear from a Helocopter is a good idea and cheated at the polls to have her way 4) is under an ethic investigation for a abuse of power (results due on the 10th) and is now trying to block the porceedings.

EmeraldDragon

@FlameEye: wait you end with "if you got nothing nice o say STFU"?? umm so you tell one person o say what ever they want then the other person to STFU. GG buddy GG

taftsearlobe33

@MadExponent: actually it would be just as funny

taftsearlobe33

most disturbing.

SUNster

GAFfers have everyone beat, as usual...

[www.neogaf.com]

twinturbo2

@Sam_Lowry: Just remember, it was McCain who pushed to deregulate Wall Street and caused this problem.

EmeraldDragon

ROFLMAO @ #2 !!

Axel

@TheBassKicks: Darn right!

Nekusagi

Perfect

tavora

@Graywind: Alternatively you could just stop visiting the site. Please?

Đipic

@Sam_Lowry: I find it incredibly hilarious that you have Sam Lowry as your icon and screen name when you're an anti-socialist, liberal hatin' conservative. You do realize that Gilliam is an unabashed liberal, right?

From CBS News, Oct. 6, 2006: "I'm thinking of suing George Bush and Dick Cheney for making the remake of 'Brazil' without my approval," he told a New York screening audience this week. "Their version isn't as funny, though." The 65-year-old native of Minnesota who emigrated to England in the 1960s and helped form the legendary comedy group Monty Python, held dual citizenship for three decades. (He married a British citizen and has three children.) This past year, though, he renounced his U.S. citizenship. He sees the current political scene in America - and its extension into the world - to be scarily similar to the Orwellian nightmare of his cult film."

mogaar

@Hamsfork: *covers her bleeding eyes* why! Oh why did you post that!? Have you no humanity?!

EmeraldDragon

@Thorax: I think it's a comparative thing. Like, if you were to compare her to just about any other republican politician, she's pretty hot--since she isn't a 70 year old man that's fat from tax payer dollars. Compare her to anyone outside that category... well, your comparison is apt. :)

DarkWolf7

Ahh glad to see we can hold politics aside and just ROFL at these! :)

Talryyn

Wow ... she is dumb and SCARY.

proust

@EmeraldDragon:

The ethics investigation you speak of is doomed to failure. Simply put, the investigation would need to find that in her heart of hearts she fired a state employee for reason X instead of reason Y. There is no way to prove that so the investigation is likely going to find nothing. As for blocking it, when the lead investigator goes on the record supporting Palins political adversary and claims the results of the investigation will be an October surprise, the objectivity of the investigation has to be called into question. So frankly I don't care if they're trying to push it back.

I'm going to be frank, by in large I'm anti-abortion. I'm sorry but no matter how I look at it, it comes across to me as preemptive murder. I can see why people wouldn't see it that way, but I have a right to have my own moral belief set and to vote based on it.

Actually Wasilla already had a fair amount of debt when she went into office. Yes the debt grew but the cities population grew significantly during her terms and the cities infrastructure had to be expanded dramatically.

Being an former resident of Alaska, I understand the practice of shooting wolves from helicopters and begrudgingly support it. Suffice to say that in some regions of the state, when the population of game animals decline, people die. I love wolves, but I love people more, so I can understand the practice as a means to control population.

WolvenOne

lol.......?

Honestly I am not understanding this whole Sarah Palin craze. Maybe I'm just too srzs bzns sometimes but I don't find anything funny about ruination of my country.

I'm thinking of moving to China, might as well be on the winning side before WWIII breaks out.

Killalaz

The Lola Palin looks more like Donald Rumsfeld dressed in drag.

Nephilim

@AvidAbey:

I could see Obama's head on Sgt. Johnson. Or... Agustus Cole.
Or, he could be Niko Belic and McCain could be Peligrino!
Granted, Niko's not black in any way...
but Sarah Palin isn't a cyborg or Chozo-blooded merc, so it all works out...

Or IS she?

SadSadSamus

@DorkimusPrime:

This just in: Black folk and articulate dictaion must remain 50ft away from each other at all times.
Repeat: Black people must all speak in a stereotypical fashion beffiting to their assumed intelligence level.

If any of them are found to be in violation of this arrangement their Kool's WILL be confiscated.
Repeat offenders will be found guilty of respectable vocalism and banned from all Kentucky Fried Chicken establishments, indeffinetly.

SadSadSamus

There can only be one word for this amount of hilarity.

ROFL!

Ursus-Veritas

@WolvenOne: If it is so very doomed, then why did the McCain people suddenly start trying to hard toblock it as soon as she was VP? This an investigation she agreed to cooperate with untill Aug 29th.

Let's be honest about abortion, it isn't about babies, it's about women. Through out history women have found ways to get rid of children they cannot keep for whatever reason. The only thing the anti-abortion movement will accomplish if they win, will be shutting down safe facilitices for these procedures to happen in. They won't stop abortion, it'll just move back into back alleies with coat hangers weilded by some one looking for a quick buck.

A town that size has no business having that much debt. I live in a town of 90,000 and we don't have 22 million in debt. It's called responcible spending.

When animal populations decline, it isn't the fault of the wolves. They are eatting the weak and the sick. It's the people who are over hunting. Here where I live in Texas, we don't have wolves any more, they've been hunted to exstinction. We do however have a massive over population of deer and hogs, to the point they are the health hazard. And you know what, we don't shoot them from helocopters. Furthermore, I saw the question that was put to a vote, and the court case for miss leading voters that followed. If she's was so sure her way would pass, she didn't need to go about it in such an ass backwards way.

EmeraldDragon

@EmeraldDragon:

Saying abortion is about women and not babies is naive. The truth is that it's about both women and babies, the two are intrinsically linked and cannot possibly be separated. Now I feel I should note that I do support abortion if going through with a birth will put both the life of the child and mother at stake but I do not support a person being able to abort a life because of sheer convenience.

Trust me, I've looked at this little, "ethics investigation," a number of different ways, and there's nothing to it. Even the person that was fired has come out and said that he was never put under any pressure to fire the trooper in question. On the other hand Palin and her staff contend that he was fired because he was seeking more federal funds for investigations than she approved of, there's a very clear e-mail trail going back and forth between the two parties arguing about this, so it's highly likely that this was indeed the reason for the firing.

Public Safety Commissioners in almost every state serve at the behest of the governer, and the governer has extremly broad rights to dismiss them. The only way this could be an ethics violation would be to determine that everybody is lying and in her heart of hearts she fired this guy for personal reasons.

There's no way to prove that, so the entire investigation is likely nothing more than an exercise in due process. Unfortunately it's become highly politicized since late August however, and I don't blame the McCain Palin team trying to shut it down.

Of the debt in Wasilla, which is actually a town of 10K not 5K, 15 Million went to a sports center designed to service both Wasilla and the surrounding communities. That might sound like a huge luxury but keep in mind that winters in Alaska last up to nine months long. Sports centers such as these are quite common that far north and towns without them tend to have large drug problems. By in large that makes it a justifiable expense for the 4th largest city in the state of Alaska.

Wait, so you're a biologist too, could have fooled me. It's stupid to say that wolves only go after the sick and the weak. Or rather I should say that after nine months of winter almost all game animals are sick and weak. During blizzards in Alaska game animals die out so quickly that it's not uncommon for wolves to come out of the mountains and eat house pets. I've literally stood by and watched as a pack of wolves unsuccessfully attacked my cousins Husky when I was about ten.

Again, I like wolves, I'm a blasted furry for crying out loud. However I like people more and there are many isolated villages and poor families in Alaska that rely on game meat to get them through the winter.

Yes I can see why you might think that people are to blame for declining animal populations but Alaska isn't Texas, it's several times larger, far less developed and has far fewer people. If the winters were normal and there were no wolves you wouldn't be able to kill Caribou fast enough. As it stands, the combined pressure of wolves, winter, and hunting is often too much and since we can't do anything about the winter we either have to choose between wolves or people.

Tough decision, but Alaska is a state where you have to make tough decisions constantly.

WolvenOne

@WolvenOne: I'm neither pro-life nor do I advocate abortion, but I don't believe it is as black and white as people want to make it. Hell, I'm all for full hystorectomies for anyone who's had more then one (with exception). If you don't want kids, then use proper birth control (and not that abstanince only crap either).

We aren't going to agree on the investigation, so I'll by pass it.

As for the sports center, I can't say I know much about cold. I probably haven't seen six inches of snow collectively in my entire life. But I do know about heat. We hit triple digits starting starting in late May and usually don't see anything in the 90s until September. Death through heat stroke is common, but all our sports a still played outside, usually in the height of summer. Playing football, in heavy padding, in the cold actually sounds refreshing all things considered.

Here's the thing though, Alaska's own biologists are saying it's the trolphy hunters causing the problems. You don't even need a basic degree in biology to under stand it.

Trolphy hunters take the biggest fittest bucks to mount on their walls, this leaves room for weaker less fit animals to pass on their genes to the next generation. Winter comes and these weak geneed animals die off, as is the principle of Darwinism. But because the weaker animals are the one breeding, the whole population is weaken as a result, and thus more animals dying off.

Animals survived billions of years without human intervention, despite winter and predation, if we stopped trying to "fix" things, they'd turn out just fine.

And on a side note, several countries in Africa decided it was a good idea of cull a bunch of Elephants because they felt the population was too large and they would eat all of the people's food. But they did not kill the babies. The result was a bunch of young bull elephants who did not know how to behave as elephants rampaging across the country side. Yay for the laws of unintended consiquinces.

EmeraldDragon

@undefined: They are all the best! Cabela's made me lol. And the mgs4 smile is perfect if you know how much of a nuisance Meryl's chosen attitude is~

mkat_tdc

@EmeraldDragon:

As you've said, you know nothing about cold. I've seen trees explode from the cold, and have seen buckets full of frozen anti-freeze. In the coldest months of the Alaskan winter unprotected flesh can become frost-bitten in the shortest periods of time. Schools keep their recesses short, about ten to fifteen minutes, specifically because any longer outside would be dangerous.

You cannot compare warmth to cold. In the warmest regions of earth life thrives, while in the coldest regions it hangs on for dear life.

As a child I spent scant time outside even when claustrophobia was driving me nuts. We even converted our garage into a small basketball court at one point just to alleviate the closed in feeling.

As for the assertion that trophy hunters are to blame, well I'm sorry but that's just a load of crap. As I've said before, Alaska is huge, there are regions where hunters cannot even access without being airdropped in. There are nowhere near enough hunters to affect population in those areas, yet game animals still periodically drop.

Why, why, because it becomes freaking cold in the winter months and animals drop like flies.

This isn't new either, the natives of Alaska have plenty of stories about winters where all the animals disappeared and they only go through it by the skin of their teeth. Alaska is an extreme environment where life simply struggles. This is the normal state of things for Alaska and has been for thousands of years, unfortunately we need to bend things a little to make things a little more friendly for human life because people die otherwise.

I'm sorry but I get extremly ticked off when armchair intellectuals a half a world a way try to manage or cast judgments on the affairs of a people who are struggling with their circumstances daily.

As a former Alaskan I can definitively say that most Alaskans just want everyone to leave them the heck alone so they can manage their affairs properly.

WolvenOne

@WolvenOne: We aren't going to agree. Palin in my eyes has proven herself untrustworthy. If I wasn't already not voting for McCain she would definitely swing me to Obama.

As for the people living in these remote areas, it may seem callus, but I have no sympathy for them. They have chosen their way of life and must live with the consequences of those decision. Likewise, I think anyone living in a Hurricane zone who flatly refuses to build a Hurricane house, forfits their right to complain when their houses get destroyed.

Life cycles, some years will be harder then others, and those not willing to adapt and prepare for those years, need not live so far from civilization. They bshould not be blaming wolves (or any other better equipt preditor) for their own inadequeces.

EmeraldDragon

@bobafett356:
I'm not criticizing anybody, I'm just giving the helpful tip that It's not a good Idea to apply 4chan mentality to any situation where you aren't anonymous, because it's going to rub everyone who isn't in on the joke the wrong way, and you've sullied your REAL NAME, so the feminists know what door to go to when they ride into town with their flannel shirts and steel-toed boots.

Also, that's not how hypocrisy works, if that's what you're trying to say. And don't even try to tell me you didn't have to google that to find the right spelling. I'm not even going to fucking TRY with french names.

Bigcats

@EmeraldDragon:

So, let me get this straight. You have no sympathy for people living in cold regions because they refuse to adapt, yet you oppose letting them adapt.

Uh huh, yeah, that makes a WHOLE lot of sense.

WolvenOne

This is horribly pathetic and immature. The angry left is nothing more than a bunch of chauvininst losers. Way to go with the "asshats", "fucks", and "shits". Keep on proving my point.

SantayaniAristaeus

I've actually played that hunting game..
My brother rented it...
wasn't too bad.

PSYCHE, it was horrid. :P

SailentFire

@WolvenOne: I'm not opposed to letting them adapt; but killing the competition from airplanes isn't adption, it's coddling.

And just so you know, we have hogs here that run 800+ lbs and they are mean as hell with 6 inch tusks they don't mind jabbing into your gut. And people hunt them with a pair of dogs and a bowie knife.

EmeraldDragon

Sarah Palin?
Fappable?

Get the fuck out.

yflow

@EmeraldDragon:

Great, good for them, but you should really know your history. Wolves are notoriously difficult to hunt, especially in heavily wooded areas. They're fast, can move very quietly, and generally don't like to be seen by people. When wolves were largely eliminated from the lower 48 in the early 20th century trappers made heavy use of poisons that were incredibly devastating to the environment, so ironically hunting them by helicopter is the more environmentally friendly alternative.

And how do you consider this coddling? People don't eat, they die. What exactly are they supposed to do, wave their hands and magically will food to appear?

I'm sorry but your statement reeks of naivete.

Oh, and quick FYI, Alaska isn't a very good climate for farming. the summers simply aren't long enough for most crops and the landscape is littered with rocks and permafrost. So no, isolated villages aren't going to be able to get through nine month long winters on a home grown vegetarian diet.

WolvenOne

@WolvenOne: If they aren't fit enough to care for themselves in lean year, then they don't need to be that far out in the outback. So yes, I do believe they should suffer to consequences of their choices. I'm sure it's a concept.

Yes, I know wolves are hard to hunt, they does not make it right to resort to cheating. Alaska wants to hunt their wolves, fine, but grew a pair and do it with some since of sportsmanship.

EmeraldDragon

@EmeraldDragon:

Yeah.... they live out far enough that they need to hunt to live, therefore they deserve to die during lean years. Uh-huh, yeah, that's a nice sensible position to have.

Great to know that you're on the side of all those native villages, poor families, isolated villages, and bushmen.

Look, wolves aren't endangered in Alaska and it should be clear to any reasonable person that their population needs to be controlled somehow. Regular hunting isn't effective and poison is environmentally unfriendly, doesn't exactly leave very many options.

Besides that, technically guns could be considered cheating too. So do you want to ban guns in Alaska and force people to stare down grizzlies with nothing but pocket knifes? Trust me, it's disconcerting enough when there's a gun right next to you.

WolvenOne

BANGIN!

Formula1

@Killalaz: Uhh, ruination of the country? All she does is advise the president and be head of the Senate...which isn't too bad considering how many improvements and awesome things she did for Alaska.

Bias really blinds the crap out of people. None of the candidates are idiots unable of running a country. That's their career, politics. Give it a break. These people are no doubt probably smarter than any of you.

Ryuk

@SantayaniAristaeus: You're completely correct. This is terribly immature.

Ryuk