10 Things You Didn't Know About Sarah Palin
1. Sarah Louise Palin (nee Heath) was born Feb., 1964, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her family moved to Alaska when Sarah was an infant. Her father, Chuck, is a retired schoolteacher.
2. She attended Wasilla High School where she played point guard on the state champion basketball team. Her nickname was "Sarah Barracuda."
3. Palin graduated in 1987 from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism. She worked briefly as a sports reporter in Anchorage.
4. She refers to her husband, Todd, as the "First Dude." He's worked as a commercial fisherman and as a production operator on the North Slope for BP. He enjoys snowmobiling and has won the Tesoro Iron Dog, billed as the world's longest snowmobile race, four times.
5. Palin and her husband have five children, Bristol, Piper, Track, Willow, and Trig. Trig, born in 2008, has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Her son Track joined the army in 2007.
6. Her favorite meal is moose stew.
7. She comes from a family of outdoor enthusiasts. Her parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, enjoy hunting and fishing, and have both completed marathons.
8. Palin was named Miss Wasilla in 1984 and was a runner-up for Miss Alaska. In 1996 she was elected mayor of Wasilla.
9. She's a lifetime NRA member and enjoys hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling.
10. Elected in 2006, she's Alaska's first female governor and the youngest governor elected in the state.
Sources:
- Anchorage Daily News
- Vogue
- Washington Post
- Almanac of American Politics
- Associated Press
- Washington Times
- Biography Resource Center Online
Reader Comments
News for Reaganite J. LaGoy
I worked to recall Gov. Reagan who favored church schools and damaged public education. As a regent of our Land Grant Colleges, he made them START CHARGING TUITION. He had pals who lend money. They're still getting trillions from interest paid on student loans. After grads become doctors, etc., they're still in debt so they raise their prices. A guard at a men's prison told me Reagan cut number of guards, so male rapes increased. Glass bottles were used in coolers then. A prisoner, ordered to re-fill a cooler, bled to death when a bottle broke and there were no nearby guards. Reagan cut number of state inspectors. There were trench collapses on workers. Some freeway sections had substandard materials and broke in earthquakes. He fired air control workers and DEREGULATED several industries, The recall failed partly because some crooked notaries refused to notarize them free. Precinct numbers had to be with each signature and many didn't recall theirs. Some county clerks closed offices at odd times to prevent presentation on time. A student borrowed my notes and wrote a paper that was used to change the law so since then precinct numbers are not needed.
Whitney says God has a plan for everyone
What was God's plan for sadists who turned the screws on Inquisition victims? And for the pope who put Galileo under house arrest, hindering advance of science all those years? And for Columbus who enriched Catholic Spanish monarchs with New World gold, killing off most of the natives in the process? And for priests who were too ignorant to tell Henry the Eighth that sperm determine gender? And for HItler, and the Watergate Crooks? Isaiah 7:45 has God saying "I create evil, I the Lord do all these things." Many comments are based on unquestioning endorsement of absurd stories told by Bible authors. I was stunned to learn that Palin accepted a photo of human footprints in fossil dinosaur tracks. How embarrassing. Maybe that one revelation of her reasons to accept Creationism could cause her to resign before other gaps in education came to light. I advise environmentalists to see what she does about who profits from Alaska oil.
Bet You Didn't Know She's the Queen of Wackos
With Palin resigning for reasons yet to be explained, no question none of us expected this latest weirdness from Wasilla's beauty queen Sarah Palin.
If the soon-to-be ex-governor of Alaska is trying to keep up with Mark Sanford, she just bested him as the wackiest republican.
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