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ATF: Accelerant poured around Palin's church
AP via Yahoo News ^ | Mon Dec 15, 2008

Posted on 12/17/2008 4:00:54 PM PST by Enchante

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An accelerant was poured around the exterior of Gov. Sarah Palin's church before fire heavily damaged the building, federal investigators said Monday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the accelerant was poured at several locations around the church, including entrances.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
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I was just searching the web on updates regarding the arson fire at Sarah Palin's church.

It is appalling, but not surprising, how little major media attention this fire has received..... aside from Dave Letterman attempting to "joke" about it of course.

Can anyone imagine such Mediascum indifference if Obama's "former" church or the church of ANY national Democrat had been torched????????

We would be getting Mediascum stories up the Wazoo about racism, evilllllll right-wingers etc. etc. etc.

Here we have the church of a gasp, conservative national candidate getting torched after months of Mediascum trashing of her religion, and the whole matter is just a big yawn.

Without knowing anything about who the perp(s) might be, we can only assume that it could not be a leftist sleazeball "inspired" by the Mediascum trashing of Governor Palin and her church, because of course leftist freakcases never do things like that.

1 posted on 12/17/2008 4:00:54 PM PST by Enchante
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To: Enchante

And the BATF would certainly know about accelerants.


2 posted on 12/17/2008 4:02:14 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Enchante

Just like the assaults on the elderly Christian woman by homosexuals in California as she was being interviewed for TV.

Nary a word.


3 posted on 12/17/2008 4:04:03 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Enchante

Hate Crime!!


4 posted on 12/17/2008 4:04:08 PM PST by jacob allen
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To: sam_paine

Bureau of Accelerants, Tomfoolery and Fluff?


5 posted on 12/17/2008 4:05:04 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Enchante

There were people in that church.


6 posted on 12/17/2008 4:07:12 PM PST by CindyDawg (Lord, please bless America)
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To: Enchante

Palin got more attention from a phony “Kill him” story than she will get for an arsonist trying the real thing.


7 posted on 12/17/2008 4:07:46 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: CindyDawg
There were people in that church.

Well, they were only Christians.

/s

8 posted on 12/17/2008 4:08:54 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: Enchante
the accelerant was poured at several locations around the church, including entrances.
The fires weren't set at "entrances." There were people inside the church.
The fires were set at the EXITS - in order to trap and kill as many people as possible.
9 posted on 12/17/2008 4:11:25 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Enchante

Obama Democrats: FEEL the love!


10 posted on 12/17/2008 4:13:01 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Enchante

Let's see... You slandered my daughter, you libeled me,
you threw me under the campaign bus, you torched my church,
and you expect ME to bail you out in 2012??
Keep all the hate in the lower 48,
and kiss my perfectly-formed ass!

11 posted on 12/17/2008 4:13:55 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: lonevoice

It is really getting ugly out there.


12 posted on 12/17/2008 4:14:39 PM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Enchante

Where was John McCain?


13 posted on 12/17/2008 4:15:05 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("A laurel, and hearty handshake ....")
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To: CindyDawg; Sarah Barracuda
>> There were people in that church.

Yes, there were -- apparently, some still joked about it

I'm done with John McCain #128
14 posted on 12/17/2008 4:18:08 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Enchante
You know, Pravda never covers her- unless there’s a squawking turkey in the background. My one cent: Sarah Nixes Book Deal
15 posted on 12/17/2008 4:18:09 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com (My amateur blog--www.wegotsarah.com)
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To: sam_paine

Amen to that.


16 posted on 12/17/2008 4:18:32 PM PST by combat_boots ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."Aldous Huxley)
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To: Paladin2

17 posted on 12/17/2008 4:18:56 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

He was too busy laughing with his buddies at the media, he laughed so hard he crapped his pants and calling whoever did it “My Friend”

The media doesn’t give a damn about a church that a Republican goes to, Republican churches burning are awesome in the minds of the media, if it had been Wright’s church, boy oh boy, call out the mob the media would have demanded whoever did it be hung in the town square. You would see David Letterman crying on his show demanding vengeance, but for Sarah’s church, he thinks its the coolest thing ever. Liberals make me so sick with their hypocrisy.


18 posted on 12/17/2008 4:20:08 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“Where was John McCain?”

At a cocktail party in Georgetown making fun of her perhaps?


19 posted on 12/17/2008 4:23:46 PM PST by redk
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To: sam_paine
This is good news for David Letterman! Now he is even more hilarious and wacky material!!!
20 posted on 12/17/2008 4:24:26 PM PST by wolf24 ("The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools")
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To: Enchante

What did that illiterate Litterman have to say? And please tell me the audience boo’ed him.


21 posted on 12/17/2008 4:25:33 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Wegotsarah.com

I didn’t interpret her words on not getting rich in office as a sign that she would reject a book deal. I have always suspected that she would take the book deal, and donate the proceeds to charity. Doing such a thing would stun the MSM since they are a greedy and value-free lot at best.

http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9540766

Palin rejects proposed salary increase

Gov. Sarah Palin at a press conference Monday announcing her budget proposals. (KTUU-TV)

State commission recommends pay raise for state officials

by Channel 2 News staff
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin says she would not accept a raise recommended by the State Officers Compensation Commission.

Palin spokesman Bill McAllister said Wednesday that if the Legislature submits legislation for a raise, Palin will not accept the money.

Instead, if the raise is approved, she will subtract the difference from her current salary and donate it to charity or find a way to redirect the funds for the benefit of others, McAllister said.

The comment comes in response to reports Tuesday that the State Officers Compensation Commission is recommending the governor’s annual salary be increased from $125,000 to $150,000.

McAllister says Palin never asked for a raise and that the review of top salaries is mandated by a recently passed state law.

The commission is also recommending that all lawmakers be paid $50,000. That standard would replace a variable compensation range and eliminate long-term per diem payments.

Return to KTUU.com for updates and watch the Channel 2 News evening broadcasts for a full report.


22 posted on 12/17/2008 4:26:42 PM PST by euram
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To: Enchante

Oh, that’s so hilarious!

For David Letterman.


23 posted on 12/17/2008 4:27:01 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: euram

I tell ya, what a woman. She deserves a raise but won’t accept it, doesn’t feel its right, if she does get it, she will donate it to charity or give the money back to the people of Alaska. Again and again Sarah shows me that she is the female Ronald Reagan, this America, this is why the libs hate her, show me another politician, or Governor who would NOT accept a pay raise because they wouldn’t feel right about it. I adore this woman, Ronny would be so proud, he is smiling from heaven right now


24 posted on 12/17/2008 4:30:28 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: CindyDawg
"while a small group, including two children, were inside."

No media concern about attempted murder, either.

25 posted on 12/17/2008 4:32:28 PM PST by Enchante (Was Jesse Jackson, Sr. the bagman for "Senate Candidate #5" -- JJJr.??????)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Didn’t ya get the media memo?

Christians are a HATE-GROUP more evil than Hitler!! A religion populated by stupid and gullible people!
(According to the Southern Poverty Law Center)


26 posted on 12/17/2008 4:35:34 PM PST by tcrlaf (You Voted DEMOCRAT-You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Enchante

It was just CHRISTIANS inside, and WHITE christians, at that!!

Now, if it had been a GAY gathering point, or a BLACK Church, there would be HELL to pay!!!


27 posted on 12/17/2008 4:36:50 PM PST by tcrlaf (You Voted DEMOCRAT-You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

She is quite a woman, and quite a leader. I think obama bought his Chicago Rezko mansion with his book deal money, I’ll bet little or none of it went to charity.


28 posted on 12/17/2008 4:36:59 PM PST by euram
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To: euram

Euram, that may be- Would not make a difference to our mutual point- she is not going to personally “cash in”—Just my opinion- wouldn’t blame her if she did- But, I think her sincere belief is that a public office holder shouldn’t get rich doing public business.


29 posted on 12/17/2008 4:40:28 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com (My amateur blog--www.wegotsarah.com)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I’ve started a list of politicians who would follow Gov. Palin’s example.

1.


30 posted on 12/17/2008 4:40:37 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (God helps those who help themselves. The government helps those who don't.)
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To: Right Cal Gal

I didn’t see it (don’t watch Letterman) but I heard that he made some crack about how “Joe the Arsonist” was responsible — yeah, big ha ha.

No way would the Mediascum or liberal entertainers “allow” anyone to get away with mocking an arson attack on a liberal church, especially a “black” church, especially with people inside!!

It’s incredible how severe the double-standards are when it comes to basic humanity — conservative Christians just don’t count as human for clowns like Letterman.


31 posted on 12/17/2008 4:42:58 PM PST by Enchante (Was Jesse Jackson, Sr. the bagman for "Senate Candidate #5" -- JJJr.??????)
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To: Enchante

Would be murderers....


32 posted on 12/17/2008 4:45:42 PM PST by onedoug
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To: tcrlaf; All
Your comment made me recall something very tragic..... this is from a long time ago but it is an example of how the liberal mindset operates when anyone offends the liberals' sanctified groups, gay-fembot-minority etc.....

Harvard's "Gay Nazis" Drive Freshman to Suicide (1986)

33 posted on 12/17/2008 4:51:11 PM PST by Enchante (Was Jesse Jackson, Sr. the bagman for "Senate Candidate #5" -- JJJr.??????)
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To: Pride in the USA
It is really getting ugly out there.

Not only Sarah is a target, anybody that socializes with her is as well is a target..

Not only ugly, it is getting sick as well.

34 posted on 12/17/2008 4:51:27 PM PST by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: Enchante

The reports rarely mention the most important fact: THE CHURCH WAS FULL OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN when the arsonist doused the exits with accelerant and lit it up.


35 posted on 12/17/2008 5:04:43 PM PST by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

McWho...?


36 posted on 12/17/2008 5:07:40 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

The fact that McCain would be all over the airwaves denouncing any comparable act against Obama’s “Trinity Church” shows how much McCain has absorbed the assumptions and outlook of the media. This arson against Governor Palin’s church, with HUMAN BEINGS INSIDE, simply is no big deal at all to our cultural overlords.

It doesn’t matter to the NY Times and WaPo, so why should it matter to the rest of us? /s


37 posted on 12/17/2008 5:14:56 PM PST by Enchante (Was Jesse Jackson, Sr. the bagman for "Senate Candidate #5" -- JJJr.??????)
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To: oh8eleven

Exactly


38 posted on 12/17/2008 5:20:27 PM PST by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job)
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To: Travis McGee

I believe the Weather Underground group at one time were accustomed to planting bombs, blocking entrances in homes with women and children in them! This sounds like a similar technique. umh! interesting.....


39 posted on 12/17/2008 5:22:30 PM PST by classified
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To: classified

Yes, very!


40 posted on 12/17/2008 5:31:07 PM PST by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com--)
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To: sam_paine

Aren’t those classified as Dangerous Devices, not Firerms?


41 posted on 12/17/2008 6:04:41 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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