Not the nuts we were expecting...

Levi Johnston Busts a Nut
Literally. Dude is cracking some serious nut in an ad for pistachios. It's probably good Tank was on hand for the filming of this commercial, and he might want to stick around for awhile after. Todd Palin is going to try to run Levi's ass over with a snow machine if he sees this during the local news ...
The tagline? "Now Levi Johnston does it with protection." Unreal.

Levi Johnston recruited to sell nut
...... And don't think this is the last to be heard of Johnston. He told Vanity Fair that the former Alaska governor kept insisting they cover up her grandchild's birth by letting her adopt the baby in secret.

THE VIDEO

Levi and Tank go nuts
h/t gryphen

Levi and Tank's ad is fun and it's honest work. I hope they both get many more. I suppose there will be naysayers. It is no where near as disastrous as the Palin's example.

Who can forget: Role models | Sex, marketing and children | Bristol Palin and abstinence | Double Standards
h/t palingates

Other media is buzzing with the new "Get Crackin" from the wonderful world of pistachios:

Alaska Dispatch: Levi and Tank pimping pistachios

PR NewsWire: National Celebrity Campaign Features Eight Uniquely Humorous Ways to Crack Open a Pistachio - From Mobster to Newlywed Style

USA TODAY: Pistachio industry bets on 'sex sells' mentality with ads

Media Post: Pistachio Industry Hopes To Sell Nuts With Sexual Innuendo

Jezebel: Someone's Cracking Levi's Nuts — And It's Not Sarah Palin

Just Jared: Pistachio’s “Get Crackin’” campaign.The 19-year-old father of Bristol Palin’s baby is featured in the first-ever TV campaign for pistachios, which features eight celebs demonstrating how they crack open a pistachio, each in their own unique way.The commercials also include Olympic swimmer Dara Torres; Brady Bunch alum Christopher Knight and America’s Next Top Model wife Adrianne Curry; JackassWee-Man; The Sopranos gangster Vincent Pastore; Miss South Carolina beautyLauren Caitlin Upton; the Denny quintuplets; and a real-life dominatrix. prankster pageant contestantCheck out Levi’s nuts below! Visit GetCrackin.com for a chance to win $25K!

( Photo: I finally gave into my inner Blingee after missing out on all the fun at Palingates... it is addictive )

Lanesia Garcia earns a scholarship. Let's yank GOP federal health insurance

Republican politicians have no empathy
They only want government to intervene when they suffer personally

so let's yank their federal health insurance

Sept. 11, 2009 | In the lyrical conclusion of President Obama's speech on healthcare, he talked about the emotions and experiences that drove his late friend Sen. Edward Kennedy to work so tirelessly and passionately for universal coverage. He tried to describe what Kennedy must have felt as two of his children suffered through bouts of cancer. Ordeals such as those, said the president, had helped Kennedy to understand the "sheer terror and helplessness" of parents whose children are stricken by serious disease, and lack the means to save them.

Reaching out to his opponents, the president tried to emphasize that such empathy toward other human beings "is not a partisan feeling," but is instead an aspect of our national character. This kind of Americanism represents "our ability to stand in other people's shoes -- a recognition that we are all in this together; that when fortune turns against one of us, others are there to lend a helping hand ... and an acknowledgment that sometimes government has to step in to help deliver on that promise."

>> More Salon article by Joe Conason

CINDY MCCAIN
Perhaps the problem is that a certain kind of Republican -- often with a connection to the
White House or Capitol Hill -- will only endorse government action to remedy the adversity they have experienced for themselves. The most recent example is Cindy McCain, the wife of the Arizona senator, who announced the other day that she suffers from migraine headaches, which she considers a "disability." " She is outraged that the United States government only spends $13 million annually for medical research on migraines, and is bent on increasing that amount drastically. She is determined that a remedy will be found someday soon -- with federal money.

"I'm missing a large part of my life," she said. "I want to stay active. I want a cure."

NANCY REAGAN
Only after her husband began to disappear into the twilight of Alzheimer's disease did Mrs. Reagan perceive the value of the kind of government action they both had spent a lifetime denigrating. Government was the problem, not the solution, according to the Reaganite dogma. But then Nancy realized that federal support for stem-cell research might someday bring relief to patients like her beloved Ronnie, and anguished families like hers. Suddenly, spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on something other than Star Wars wasn't such a terrible idea.

*****

Yanking GOP health insurance is the best idea I've heard in a long time. It isn't connected to the Lanesia Garcia's scholarship unless you count her life long friendship with a GOP family that is front and center with "death panels." (Bristol, Johnny,Levi and Lanesia) I don't know if the cute baby is hers. Photo H/T to Lynn

Mat-Su Health Foundation Board Awards over $87,000 in Scholarships

Congratulations Lanesia.

Why Babygate Matters
More on Wasilla, Palin and religion:
"Pregnant teens, drug addicted teens, rape victims being victimized a second time to raise money for a hockey rink. A rape rate 2.5 times higer than in places like Los Angeles and NYC. Constant lies about everything." anonymous comment

Sarah Palin, faith-based mayor
How the vice-presidential nominee brought fringe biblical teachings to her work as the chief of Wasilla, Alaska.

All God's Children ~ Salon.com | Vyckie’s Story
The Quiverfull movement saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies. One mother explains how she embraced the extreme Christian lifestyle -- and why she left.

Wasilla church and The Gothard Teachings

Here is a little song celebrating our position at #37 in the world in healthcare.

"We're Number 37"

Come one, Come all

palingates: Healthcare around the world

There wasn’t much parenting in that house.

Mr. and Mrs. Palin: STOP MAKING THINGS UP.
Vanity Fair: “Me and Mrs. Palin”
September 2, 2009

Three days after Sarah Palin was announced as the Republican vice-presidential candidate, the
McCain campaign released a statement saying that her 17-year-old unwed daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. The baby’s father, an 18-year-old former hometown hockey star, was thus thrust into the national spotlight. In the October issue of Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston explains what happened behind the curtains of the campaign—and inside the Palin home.

For “Me and Mrs. Palin,” Johnston tells Vanity Fair his story about life with the Palin family—with whom he lived for two months after the election—over the course of his two-and-a-half-year relationship with Bristol. He turns a number of commonly held beliefs about the former governor

—the purportedly loving mother, devoted wife, and prolific hunter—upside down.

Levi Johnston:

"The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill."

Is someone in the kitchen with Piper?

WATCH:
Bree: . video .
You Can Take The Boy Out Of Wasilla But Can You Take The Wasilla Out Of The Boy?

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Sarah Palin Resigned Due To Marital Troubles

INTERVIEW: Levi Johnston Aug 10, 2009
RadarOnline.com then asked if Levi thought marital problems were the reason she stepped down from political office. Levi answered,

"Oh yeah I do."

Gryphen:
It took longer than I expected but confirmation of my August 1st post is starting to emerge

After "Death Panel" Claim, Palin Now Calls For Civility
Levi has his own Huffington Post Page:

• Levi Johnston

Levi Johnston's date with Kathy Griffinlevi johnston

Shocking! Levi blush!

If you wanna read something funny, Fox News totally took the as a face-value couple. As did, well, a lot of news sources who don't seem to get Griffin's confrontational sense of humor.

There's a new love in my life. Age is just a number people. http://twitpic.com/dbpbk3:12 PM Aug 9th from TwitterFon

AKMuckraker: Alaska Legislature Votes to Accept Palin's Rejected Stimulus Funds

Levi page one, Bristol Palin stuff

The father of Sarah Palin’s grandson embarks on another wild ride, on his terms
- The father of Sarah Palin’s grandson embarks on another wild ride, on his terms
The book of Levi By Brendan Joel Kelley (excerpts)

“We’ve never picked up the phone and said, ‘hey, come do a story,’” Tank says. “Everybody’s pursued him.”

And what Levi and his handlers are doing is trying to turn a bad situation into a net positive for the 19-year-old from Wasilla who knocked up the wrong girl at the wrong time.

“There’s so many misconceptions, like he wants to damage the Palins or hurt the Palins,” Tank says. “This is what he’s been left. He didn’t ask to be put in this situation. This is the card he’s been dealt and he needs to deal with it. He can’t change; that’s history.

“They know I know things. I can tell you [Sarah’s] not happy with me, but she can’t do anything about it.”
Levi has things to say that Sarah Palin would not want media or her donors to know. She can't do anything about Levi? That doesn't mean she won't try, she plays dirty and hasn't met a lie she won't behold. She has been in attack mode for the most insignificant nonsense, what on scorched earth will she do if Levi dares to tell the truth?

One of these days Bristol Palin's part will need to be brought up again.

Bristol Palin's MySpace File
Palin's Deceptions, a meticulous, obsessive blog devoted to proving that Sarah Palin is not the mother of Trigg, has published an exhaustive "analysis" of Bristol Palin's MySpace messages going back to 2005.
"The view of teen life in Wasilla Alaska gleaned from the *fifty or so MySpace pages that our researchers have followed diligently shows a sad, disappointing, in fact, very upsetting tale. If these are the family values that the McCain campaign hoped Gov. Palin would bring to America, all I can say is "no thanks." Drug and alcohol use is detailed, even boasted about regularly, by teens as young as fourteen and fifteen. Young women who are no more than fifteen discuss who is f***ing whom with the ease of a discussion about who will pick up the pizza. Bristol Palin, presented to the country by her mother as an honor student, at age 16 does not spell the word "decided" correctly."

Did Bristol Palin have anything to do with Sherry Johnston's drug bust?

*Fifty or so MySpace pages of Wasilla Alaska is the low number.

Team Levi!

My dinner with Team Levi

Click to watch and listen to Levi, Tank, and Rex together
Great slide show

More to come. Wish I had more time.

Palin Lawyer Will Take Complaint Straight To Some Blogger’s Kindergarten Classroom If Necessary

Sarah Palin has completely lost her bearings.

- part 2

Leave the Kids Alone!

Bristol Palin's other contender

Levi Johnston where are you?

• Sarah Palin morphs into Spiral T. Agnew and tells the media "Quit making things up"

• Pat Buchanan tells us "Babygate" did political damage. (see video below)

• The "birthers" in Congress, in their way, believe truth and birth certificates do matter.

VIDEO: 'Birthers on the Hill' Update: House just passed H.Res 593, which says "the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii." It passed 378-0, with 55 not voting. Michelle Bachman, who earlier tried to block the resolution, voted "aye." Sanity Rant: Sarah Palin Save Our Country and Lead the Birther's Cause

What is it? Does the truth matter? Sarah talks like she wants the media to be more accurate. She confuses all except a few crazed followers that send her money because they actually do believe she will run for President or has a future. When will she do her part to clear up the political damage? She is coming from deep seated anger, her perceived enemies are east coast, west coast media and the government. Isn't it time to clear up the mysteries?

Levi called a news conference to give us his perspective about why a governor would quit Alaska. The media came to support his reasoning, he makes sense. It is understandable that he has a lot on his plate, how much longer must we wait? The time is near to gut this rumor mill crap and lay out the facts.

HARDBALL VIDEO: with speculation on Sarah Palin's quitter speech and weird withdrawal (her Pbots have failed to successfully explain her Agnew regression) strategy:

HT ProChoiceGrandma
Sarah Palin is Spiro Agnew by Jonathan Singer

The quitter says: "Quit Making Things Up"

After days of picnics and food lines the long good-bye finally ended. Relief. What struck me the most is that she is a quitter. A 45 year old quitter that can't say it enough that she has no plans. Weird and the worst legacy to pass on.

July 26th, 2009 at 1:12 PM Thousands of people show up for an “I Quit!!!” celebration? She’s a great role model for all of those current and soon to be high school drop outs. When the going gets tough, quit, just look what it did for Sarah.

Gawd, I miss Hunter Thompson!!!

Above photo: Jobs are Alaska's future

VIDEO: Republicans call Palin a ‘Huge Mistake’ Coulter fails to make sense

AKM Palin’s Farewell Address - Full Transcript
As Sarah Palin steps down as governor, she joins Alaska's cast of schemers who gave up when the going got too tough
"People were willing to do so much, just to get a hamburger on a Wonder bread roll from Sarah Palin. How many of them were going to take 3 minutes to email, or call their Senators or Congresspeople about the most important issue of our day?" So Long, Sarah! AKM the money shot

PHOTOS from Adrienne, Sarah Palin's New York friend:
Motivation: Truth: I Met Sarah Palin Again (with pics & video)*******
Meeting Bristol and messing around with Tripp was great. And just for the record, I did not snap a picture of Bristol and her little one without first asking her if it was okay.

Maybe it's time to be grandma and help Bristol with her advocacy. The baby boys are truly precious and how nice to show them growing up in a healthy environment with needed theraphy and all.

Quit Pics from Anchorage

Celtic Diva photos money shot
Not everyone waited in a line hours long to just get their food.
Some folks waited to give Palin a piece of their mind.

Photos: Palin's too long good-bye

sunhusky quit photos

Stapleton disputed the notion that Palin is running for president or has media deals lined up."I cannot express enough there is no plan after July 26. There is absolutely no plan," she told The Associated Press. "The decision (to quit) was made in the vacuum of what was best for Alaska, and now I'm accepting all the options, but there is nothing planned."

Daylife Photos

Levi Johnston trips with Cindy Crawford as Bristol eats dog

Things could be much worse for Levi, like having to attend serial quit pics and eating dogs with the folks after a hard night of bingo. Instead, he's schmoozing with Cindy Crawford at the historic Monkey Bar between Park and Madison in NYC. Known for more fame then flame you can still get a decent meal. No C-list pit table for Levi's party, he could relax in a private booth.

His fate could have been worse, like caught In A Naughty Monkey Trap

Is Levi Johnston The Missing Link Between Graydon Carter and Mere Monkey (Bar)? Sat Jul 25 2009 Monkey Bar is Graydon Carter's Exclusive Lair of the Famous and Awesome. It's so exclusive, even NY Times dining critic Frank Bruni had a tough time getting in. You know who didn't? Levi Johnston. And two of his bodyguards. So says a Page Six item:
It is Bristol's turn...she left us here and we know she does take Tripp to events.

Levi in the City: Many called but few were seated

Levi Johnston, just a boy from Wasilla

I don't know whether to feel sorry for him or scream at him to move on. I'm moving toward the latter. It's not good to quit on Celtic Diva for the meaningless nonsense of a NBC Today show. The public can still remember a dead looking Tripp that most adults want to ignore even after Matt Lauer noted he was "out cold." Is there anyone that cares for the Palin/Johnston babies, or is that just rhetoric?

Click Thumbnails for Larger Images of mixed up media

Too bad about Sherry Johnston's situation, prescription drug addiction is hell. Secrets are toxic. What is happening with the families of Wasilla won't improve if it is kept quiet. People need to know if Sherry was set up to go down, it's too strange if an arrest was postponed for a candidate(McCain/Palin). With the recent likely OD of Michael Jackson people want to know what is happening with this growing problem. You don't have to be a teen mother to get on the bandwagon to "help" your baby sleep with a little pharmaceutical aid and begin the addiction cycle for another innocent child. Levi, you need to be talking about answers to the strange interview where your son was used to further the abstinence-only hype. It is not looking like Bristol was telling the truth on that one and she will exploit a baby.

Levi Johnston July 13, 2009 Today interview (video)

What's this about? A tease, a promo, more hype?
“Believe me, it’s a hell of a story.” Rex Butler.

( May 6, 2009: Bristol Palin on the Today show with Levi's son Tripp, *note how unusually still he is. Matt Lauer said "out cold" (for 6 min plus how long?)

Johnston family, you are all starting to look sad and like big time enablers. Can someone actually put the children first? Levi likes the Palins and still refers to "we" and "us." No mention of establishing his independence with visitation as a court would put the child's needs first. It's not about whatever the adults want to hide. Levi has had time to realize Sarah is a notable liar and Bristol didn't fall far from that tree.

There are consequences.
Dead man from Alaska overdosed on his 18th birthday.

Levi speaks

Levi Johnston talks about Gov. Palin's resignation

Associated Press - July 9, 2009 9:23 PM ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter says he believes he knows why the Alaska governor is resigning - concerns over money.

Nineteen-year-old Levi Johnston, whose wedding to Bristol Palin was called off earlier this year, says he thinks the governor is resigning over personal finances.

Johnston says he lived with the Palin family from early December to the second week in January. He claims he heard the governor several times say how nice it would be to take advantage of the lucrative deals that were being offered, deals that included a reality show and a book.

Johnston made his comments at a news conference Thursday at his lawyer's office.

He and Bristol have a son, Tripp, born in December.

Johnston has had a strained relationship with the Palin family and has gone to the national media before.

Stapleton snarks: "It is interesting to learn Levi is working on a piece of fiction while honing his acting skills," Palin family spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

update: Levi Johnston video July 9, 2009

My Dinner with Levi

I am sick of Sarah Palin but an interview with Levi Johnston is a delicious thought. I can only dream it is along the lines of a Hunter S. Thompson truth teller.

"And guess who Brendan will be having dinner with later? Imagine the wine, the food, the conversation!! The sheer Bacchanalia of it all!"

Could it be? A Saturday meeting with Levi and Brendan Joel Kelley, award winning ace journalist from Arizona and currently from the Anchorage Press ? Me and the Milkman * video: Ziegler rips Alaska reporter * no suck ups
IN BRIEF
John Ziegler, Todd Palin, and myself By Brendan Joel Kelley
Yeah, Ziegler, that big hollywood wastrel and one of the few silly fireletterman protesters, friend of Eddier Burke, Rebecca Mansour and Sarah Palin.

Ziegler comments here about local journalist Brendan Joel Kelley

Stay safe.

Tampering With the Drug Enforcement Agency?

The murder of an investigative reporter in Phoenix set off an important
investigation of the influence of the mob in Phoenix

UPDATE July 10, 2009: The losers who gave us Sarah Palin By Joe Conason

The GOP operatives who championed her should be held
accountable for endangering the country

Inside Levi Johnston to be revealed later?

Levi was an 'exclusive' on Inside Edition July 6, 2009. Nothing new in the interview, the book deal is a work in progress. He is supportive of Palin in politics and it seems to be going well with Tripp. Bristol? Who knows. It is alleged that she is in a photo with the Irish Twin stroller on the 4th of July in Juneau. Was it? If yes, she put on weight since her May media tour. Another theory was that the photo was not from last week end.

Johnston’s son Tripp is already six months old, but the proud papa already has big dreams for his little boy. "Maybe one day he'll be playing in the NHL, be bigger than I was. That's all you can hope for, that he's better than you were."

In the latest round of Levi vs. Sarah, as described by the NY Post, Levi Johnston may be looking to write a Palin tell-all. According to Page Six: "Until the tell-all is released, though, Johnston is considering "a leading role" in a movie and a possible upcoming TV "docu-drama."

BINGO! Levi Johnston is shopping a tell-all Palin book


Sarah Palin is also willing to die politically...' if I die, I die'

Levi Johnston

Whassup up with Levi? hmmm.... New York City! Is he hunting for that book deal or is Ricky Hollywood going to do Broadway?

Working for Candies and advocating abstinence-only makes Bristol a busy mama. How does she manage that family of hers? School?

The grizzly one is scaring the bejesus out of peeps around the world with her cryptic twitters. Is she feeling her end time is a coming? Rapture, 'essentially ignored by most other Christian faith groups.'
What has she said about her faith? She is a non-denominational Bible-believing Christian who is private with her take on the Charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit of Pentecostal tradition. She attends Wasilla Bible Church, in the news for an arson attack last December. It continues to be under investigation, there are no updates for any progress regarding the case. Wasilla is a small town with several unresolved arson cases.

Sarah Palin and religiongate is extensively explored here @ Palingate.
Palin's ties with Greta Van Susteren loops into another cult, Scientology.
Nailinpalinnow lays it out here.

Levi, your book can't come too soon.

UPDATE: this explains Levi's New York trip:
“I don’t like New York.”
“There’s too many people, I can’t wait to get home.”
Did he really say that?