Quotes of the day (Palin calls Perry out on crony capitalsim! Taking on her own party!)

HPV legislation in Alaska;

Policy Initiatives and Infrastructure (2008 Score / Cumulative Score (2005–2008)

Screening Requirements

There are no new screening requirements. (0 / 1)
Task Forces

There is no new cervical cancer prevention task force legislation. (0 /0)
Access to HPV Vaccines

There is no HPV vaccine activity. (0 / 0)
HPV Vaccine Information Programs

There is no HPV vaccine information activity. (0 / 0)
Miscellaneous

There is no new miscellaneous cervical cancer prevention activity. (0 / 0) Additional Notes: The Department of Health and Social Services will distribute more than 20,000 doses of Gardasil to public and private health clinics in the state; nearly two-thirds of Alaska girls qualify to receive the vaccine at no cost.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=HPV_legislation_in_Alaska

From what I can find there is NO official forcing or requirement in Alaska. Only free if the people want it but no mandate by Alaska.

I cannot understand that you do not see the Texas/Perry superiority mantra that froths from the Perry supporters like it is the Gospel.

The fawning for Perry and the over the top braggadocio for anything Texas has always made people think you are too in love with yourselves to notice how foolish it looks. If it was about a damned football game instead of our very lives, you could ignore it. This is the “how bout them Cowboys” Schtick, and ignoring every blemish instead of facing them realistically. It reminds me of the puke inducing Monday Night Color and Play by Play Commentary about Tom Brady last night, it was really sickening, and I expected better
from “Chucky” Gruden. I thought I was hearing a severe case of “Man Crush”. It does not help Texas or Perry.

Sarah can handle herself ,and I support whatever she does. I do not know what the hell you are talking about We won't let her be herself.

At one time I would have supported Palin/Perry ticket, even though he creeped me out from the rime he was GWB’s Lt Governor,but every day I learn more crap about him that makes me think he should be far away from Palin and The White House.

From what I can find there is NO official forcing or requirement in Alaska. Only free if the people want it but no mandate by Alaska.

You are correct that there was no mandate by Alaska. When they accepted the federal money, they were under federal regulations then and consequently did not need to write any legislation in Alaska.

To be covered (paid for) by Medicaid or any other government program, a drug must be considered necessary ie mandated by the government. Otherwise it is not covered by public funds.

When Texas would not accept tax payer money to pay for this drug, not permitting itself to be held by any federal regulations and opting instead to keep it local using the private sector funds, the same thing applied... for the drug to be covered by insurance, it would need to be listed as a necessary / mandated drug. Only doing it that way, Perry could have the cost covered locally instead of through the federal government (otherwise known as tax payers money), and he then also had the opportunity to include an opt-out.

I actually have a different problem with all of this. I say if the parents really cared about their children enough to begin with, they wouldn't put their children in a government run school where they relinquish some of their parental rights anyway and have to be subject to the rules of the government whom their children have been place with. It is a GOVERNMENT school, people! I refused to give up any of my parental rights and did not give my kids to the government to raise, even if it may have been only a partial loss of parental rights in the best of circumstances. Government schools are owned BY THE GOVERNMENT, duh, and if you give your kids to them, you are subject to them in many ways. If you don't like those rules, home school your children like I did. Then you are opted out of government overreach junk all the time.

At least Perry opted to handle this situation locally instead of forcing tax payers from around the country to flip the bill for Texas children, and he refused to allow Texas to become subject to the federal oversight for this which would have come from using tax payers dollars.

I don't like what he did, but honestly, I don't like the 18 states that simply took the federal money for it either.

So you are right... you won't find an Alaskan mandate on this at all. There was no need to have an Alaskan mandate since Alaska took tax payer money to have a Gardasil program and subsequently became subject to the federal government's policies.

Oh, and if you are interested, Alaska recommended Gardasil for 9 - 26 year old girls and women but kept the free-compliments-of-the-tax-payers-of-America vaccination age to what they were directly given funding for from the federal government, to girls and women ages 9 - 18. Alaska then recommended women ages 18 - 26 get their Gardasil vaccinations through Medicaid or if not qualified to receive the free vaccines, to get their vaccines through a special finance plan Alaska had set up with Merck & Co. Inc., the vaccine's manufacturer. (Talk about setting up sweet deals for Merck.)

http://hss.state.ak.us/press/2007/pr053107fed-funding-hpv-vax.htm

More recent:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2777712/posts

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/13/sarah-palins-alaska-took-federal-funds-to-increase-access-to-gardasil/

PS... I don't really blame ANY of the governors at that time, Palin included, for thinking Gardasil was a good vaccine. It was a national movement, all the states were starting to move towards getting it, and it was being heavily pushed by the CDC and other national health organizations. For those governors at that time in history, it was not whether Gardasil was good or not, it was HOW they wanted to go about getting it to the children in their states.

I don’t know how you would feel a need to describe Friday Night Lights when all I said to start this is that Sarah Palin was not her spunky self last night on Greta. I figured she was tired or did not want to be on Greta’s show... maybe she thought she would tone her actions for a calm. presidential appearance, and it was you who started screaming at me that I just saw what I wanted to see.

Yea, I really wanted to see her sleepy. I’ll tell you, I was JUST watching for her to have a hectic schedule so I could JUST pounce on her for being sleepy on some occasion!

And then you come to me with your outbreak proclaiming I am hurting her because I thought she was not her normal spunky self on Gretta’s show. She is allowed to get run down sometimes too you know.

Now I’ll tell you who I think did not help Sarah’s case at all.

Good grief.

Thank you for the nice reply.

I did not mean to describe her as SOOO bad. I just thought she looked a little down.

What my primary thought was that she was thinking “God, I really don’t want to be here sitting in this stupid studio... I’d much rather be someplace else... ANY place else right now!” :) I also thought she might just be tired, but I really thought she was just bored in there in that studio last night and had something much better on her mind.

I don’t think I confused the two times because when I saw her, she had the haircut. It wasn’t too terribly aweful, and I’m sorry if I came off that way. I am very sensitive with body language, and even the littlest thing is visible to me sometimes. It wasn’t a big deal. I just had responded to someone else who saw something... they saw something different... I just saw something.... It just wasn’t THAT big though, and again, sorry if I made it sound so.

Also, sorry for the Texas egomania. LOL I’ve only lived here since 2006, but I guess it grows on you. However, if I tell you where I lived for 25 years before coming to Texas, you’ll know why I like Texas so. I lived in a D.C. suburb in Northern VA. OK, so give me at least a little leeway for liking Texas some now. :)

I liked her haircut too, by the way.

Quite frankly I would much rather live around country people than two faced City Dwellers. I was raised in the Country and I am happily living in the Country. I do not blame you for thinking that Texas living is preferable to DC because outside of all the History in DC,it is a sewer of K streets,J streets,phony baloney,manipulative People.

I know a lot about living in DC because I lived in Oxon Hill MD, then NW Washington DC near Dupont Circle. I worked at the Pentagon and My Husband worked at Bethesda Naval Hospital. This was a long time ago, and even then it was not a great place to live.

Broward County is another undesirable place that I escaped from more than a decade ago.

Glenn Beck and others are leaving the dreaded Northeast for the sanity and relative safety of Texas, or Florida or any place South.

I think Sarah is trying to be less hyper,and calmer. Look at the Movie the Undefeated you see how much more hyper she has become and she may be toning it down. I noticed a huge difference in that Sarah in Alaska and the Sarah after all the crazies have been after her. I think she is getting the old Sarah back.

Got a North Stafford alumni here! LOL Well actually, that was our last place there. With housing in that area, we started out renting in Arlington. Then we bought a townhouse in Lorton. Then we bought a single family house in Lake Ridge. Then we bought a bigger home in the North Stafford area. My husband always joked that if we just kept going down 95 to buy bigger houses... that by the time he retired, we would be already living in Florida! LOL

My husband was at Fort Myer the entire time (25 years), so he knows the Pentagon pretty well (was there from time to time), and we share many of the same memories of that Baltimore - Washington area, I’m sure. :) You may have seen my husband around town, but I won’t say what he did here. :-) NO, he wasn’t a federal worker! (Thought I might want to clarify that.) :)

We ALMOST went the Maryland route when we first moved there. My husband is actually from Western Maryland and has family in the MD suburbs of DC still. However, I refused to become a Maryland resident because I would have to re-take the driving test to get my license transferred there whereas Virginia would only make me take the written test to transfer. So, our ENTIRE life there was based on the fact that I wanted the easiest way to get my driving licensed transferred!

It worked out well all in all though. Maryland is so liberal, and Virginia was at least tolerable. Plus we home schooled, and the home schooling rules and regs in Maryland were HORRIBLE whereas Virginia... not so bad. If I can say this without boasting, home schooling in Texas is absolutely awesome though. I won’t go into it here, but email me if you wanted to know about that for some reason. Too bad I was basically already done home schooling all of my kids when we moved here to Texas!

Talk about living amongst city dwellers.... I grew up on a farm in WV. Moving to the D.C. area was quite the feat for me. Except for Arlington though which may as well be DC, we took more kindly to the suburbs. Stafford is 40 miles out of DC, and that and Lake Ridge right before that is where we spent most of our time when we were there. We LOVED going to Fredericksburg, VA for our little city while we lived in Stafford. Not sure if you’ve ever been there, but it’s a fun little place.

Sorry I talked so much here, and it was all about me too. Guess I keep myself out of trouble talking campaign stuff anyway when I do this.

Nice to chat, and again, sorry for the bad start.

PS, Thanks for the insight as to SP. I hope she finds that inner strength that lifts her to her highest levels. Hope she finds.... herself again.

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