Palin’s health plan focuses on ‘outdoor activities’ and consumption of ‘wild game.’
By on Dec 5th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Palin’s health plan focuses on ‘outdoor activities’ and consumption of ‘wild game.’
After inexplicably describing the September bailout of Wall Street as a package that would “help those who are concerned about health care reform,” Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) yesterday unveiled a patchwork of health care proposals to “improve Alaska’s health and education.” Palin’s initiatives include a greater emphasis on outdoor activity:
With amazing outdoor activities in fresh clean air and consumption of healthy clean protein in the form of wild game and Alaska’s sea food. We got berries, we’ve got Alaskan-grown produce and those things need to be promoted.
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How much longer do we have to be subjected to the idiocy that is Palin?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:01 amI’ll have the walrus tips with a glaze of 2-cycle oil, and the polar bear pie.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:03 amUh, Faiz…”forcus”?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:06 amForcus over some of that moose souffle, wouldja?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:08 amWho at TP has been dippin’ in the sauce this early in the A.M.?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:08 amEeeeeeeeesssssshhhhhhhh!
December 5th, 2008 at 10:10 amShe’s still dumber than a bag of rocks, but she’s right about kids needing to spend more time outdoors.
The future generation is nothing but TV zombies.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am“That plan there will really help those Alaskans desirin’ to progress their health. And it’s all about jobs, too, and gettin’ government out of our way. And doin’ something all mavericky and be reformin’ our drunkeness and drug usin’ and all that there.”
December 5th, 2008 at 10:12 amThey must have slaughtered all the turkeys before they could lay any more eggs. Oopsie!
December 5th, 2008 at 10:14 amDudes, chell speck is good 4 u.
That said, and despite the fact I have minimal respect for Palin, if she is doing stuff that will encourage kids to eat healthily and spend time outdoors, I applaud that.
This is not a substitute for universal healthcare, but it is something we should be favor of.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:15 amAfter the “bush depression” kicks in there won’t be any wildlife left…..for those of you who don’t remember, the wildlife was all killed for food during the first depression and had to be re-introduced so for those of you who plan on living off of the land, you better have a garden.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:17 amLet’s be fair. Encouraging people to spend more time outdoors and getting more exercise is never a bad idea (unless pollution has made being outdoors an unhealthy experience — unlikely in Alaska). Encouraging people to make better food choices isn’t a bad idea, either. Governor Palin shouldn’t be blasted for this. It’s not a substitute for making sure people have access to affordable health insurance, but it’s still good advice.
This is on a par with Obama recommending that people check their tire pressure. Good advice, but never intended to be the sum total of an energy policy.
Now, if Palin actually claims these recommendations are an adequate substitute for affordable health insurance, THAT deserves criticism.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:17 amThat’s what hungry Americans will need……get out in the wild and pick berries to live…..that will keep you healthy.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:19 amJeebus Igor, proofread your title!
December 5th, 2008 at 10:20 amOn topic:
Kids should be spending lots of time outdoors. I’ll give Palin that one.
The teevee machine is making Americans stupid.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:21 amOk, Alaskans would starve to death if they had to depend on what they have in their state to survive.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:25 amWhy be fair to this woman, you treat people the way you want to be treated…….she has earned scorn, not fairness.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:26 amHey, at least it’s a fun spelling error open to many possible punnies- “The Gov says to eat more wild game. Forcus over that orcus blubber souffle, woodja?”
Regarding the divine Sarah herself, Dorothy Parker comes to mind- once asked to use the word “horticulture” in a word game she responded, “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
The superfine RNC duds & makeup can’t disguise uh, shall we call them character flaws?
December 5th, 2008 at 10:26 amNever mind the typhos..er, typoes, er whatever. Listening to this just plain painful. Or in that palinful? My ears hurt and my brain thinks it is in Gitmo.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:28 amFred Says:
Why be fair to this woman, you treat people the way you want to be treated…….she has earned scorn, not fairness.
No, you’re right – because Palin is dick, and because she has advocated spending time outdoors and eating healthy food, I’m going to spend the rest of the year on the couch. And my only exercise will be to walk to door to pick up my pizza delivery.
That’s right, let’s all fcuk our own lives to make a point about how much we dislike Palin.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:33 amnothing like slaughtering wolves from aircraft to keep the doctor away!
December 5th, 2008 at 10:35 amGovernor Bullwinkle is that best thing that ever happened to Democrats. I hope she gets the GOP nomination in 2012. In fact, GOP moderates are quietly hoping for the same thing on the premise that she gets trounced and Dobson, Perkins & Bauer no longer run the Republican Party.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:39 amForcus? Forcme?
Forcu!!
Actually, I agree with Sarah here. Outdoor activities are always encouraged, especially with the amount of time children and adults watch television or play video games.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:39 amThat being said, hunting wild game is not always healthy. Just ask Dick Cheney’s buddy.
Dumb Fox the Average Golfer Says:
I don’t need her advice and she is disengenuous……..do as you please.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:40 amSarah Palin is the new Sanjaya of politics. I know that in a room somewhere the powers that be are trying to get her on Dancing With The Stars. I’d rather have a several grains of sand in my eyes than to be subjected to this whack-o-loon any longer.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:41 amAnd the hits just keep on coming.
What a mooseyak. yakking about nothing to nothing people.
OT — Bill O’Reilly to give up radio show HAHAHAHAHA
December 5th, 2008 at 10:47 amSomeone please, just Shut. Her. Up.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:50 amWell — early man was a hunter/forager. And the anthropological digression does fit in with the overall GOP image of them being Neanderthals. So taken in that context it all makes sense.
Just saying . . .
December 5th, 2008 at 10:51 amSounds to me like Alaskans need to prepare to the 19th century is the price of oil causing a bit of a hiccup in Utopia I don’t think the comments are against fresh air and a freshly slaughtered rabbit stew made with berries I think the simplistic bullshit might be the agenda
December 5th, 2008 at 10:52 amI have no inclination to be benevolent to sarah for any reason.
Her disengenuous remarks about health care are a slap in your face….
She has supported the kind of health care we have now…….
she gives lip service to healthy lifestyles and doesn’t even come close to addressing the real problems with our health care system and suddenly you want to say nice things about her…..sorry, I still remember her for what she has stood for and it aint health care reform that will help Americans.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:55 amHere’s a couple little Alaskan delicacies….
http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/1884270p-1998499c.html
http://www.dec.state.ak.us/spar/csp/sites/stlawrence.htm
Watch out where the militaries go, don’t you eat that glowing snow…
This is the legacy of Ted Stevens.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:56 amWhy are we even hearing anything from this idiot?
December 5th, 2008 at 11:02 amI guess the wild game is fresher because it’s raised in the cold unlike dirty cow who’s raised in warmer weather?
yeah, mooseyak talk about eating the animals that make Alaska beautiful.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:08 amShe should be one to give advise, by the look of her family it’s well taken.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:11 ammisshusseinmolly “but it’s still good advice”.
Oh please missmolly, you are being too, too kind.
Exercise and eating fresh food isn’t some brilliant new idea, it’s common knowledge!
And what does it take to go hunting for wild game? Wilderness for a start. The ‘easiest’ and best thing to ‘hunt’ inland is salmon–but only when they are returning to spawn. And you need a license. And you have to get to the spawning river. And how many salmon does it take to feed a family for say a week? How long does it take to get a week’s worth of salmon? And you have to compete with bears.
And because of Bush’s environmental policies which Palin supports the salmon are at risk because of climate change which in turn endangers the bears.
BEARS! License , gun, ammo, expertise and the time to hunt them. You’ll need a truck too to haul away the 500 pounds of meat.
MOOSE! Unless a Moose conveniently wanders into town you have to go hunting for them. You’ll need a bigger truck. Again there’s a season issue.
Mountain Goats? (they have them in Alaska). So first you climb halfway up a mountain just to get in range. Then you have to shoot them from about half a mile. Then you have to make that distance over rock and scree to get to the body before any wolves show up. Then you have to chop it up and make your way back down with a 100 pounds of meat.
What else? Rabbits? 4 per person. Set dozens of traps to catch them.
This is Palin’s HEALTH PLAN?!!! And you want to give her just a little bit of credit for saying outdoor exercise is a good idea?
Here’s my health plan: Don’t drink bleach. Wear kneepads and a crash helmet when mountain biking. Take a pogo-stick to work instead of driving. Throw away that stupid treadmill, go wrestle a moose to death—exercise and a week’s food shopping in one fell swoop! Follow my advice and you’ll never have need any medical attention ever again!
There! I ma now qualified to be a Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate!
Honestly, missmolly, I am a fan of yours and civility is a virtue but Palin doesn’t deserve your kindness.
She’s proposing some kind of statewide health-care policy (?) that is based on the advice on the back of a box of Wheaties!
(sigh).
December 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am“They’re living on nuts and berries.”
December 5th, 2008 at 11:24 amFirst thing Palin has said that made any sense to me. She is, or should be, a national embarrassment but this advice is good and the same advice I give my kids and live by.
Hunting, fishing, spear fishing, mushroom hunting, harvesting in general is good and cheap exercise and 75% of our food is stuff we harvested ourselves. Elk, deer, mushrooms (porcini, chanterelles, oyster, cauliflower, portabellas, morels), rabbit, trout, bass, catfish, crawdads, clams, scallops, sea bass, red snapper, blackberries, gooseberries….. it goes on.
No chemicals, no hormones…. and the exercise is the best benefit.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:30 amdon’t forget gleaning and bartering
December 5th, 2008 at 11:34 amWow. This is genius.
Governor Palin’s “Go Outside And Play” health care plan is ALMOST as good as Stephen Colbert’s “Walk It Off” plan.
ALMOST.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:37 amGleaning? As in grain harvesting?
Oh hell yes. Do you have any idea how much grain it takes to make a gallon of good rye whiskey?
I’ll trade four rabbit skins for just one bottle of that there Opus One. Five for the Penfold Grange.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:39 amnanlichi Says:
yeah, that’ll work great if you live in Chicago……just sayin.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:44 amGood point Fred.
And if it’s not readily accessible, it’s expensive. I am lucky enough to be within a 4 hour drive of some great diving and beach camping.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:49 amgleaning as in the retrieval of any post harvest remains
December 5th, 2008 at 11:49 am5th Estate Says
December 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Oh please missmolly, you are being too, too kind.
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Perhaps I am. It’s just that there are so many things one can justifiably criticize Palin for that we don’t have to bash her over the head just for saying that outdoor activity is good for you. Please note that I also said in my post that IF she is claiming that playing outside and eating Alaskan moose and fish is a valid substitute for a decent health insurance plan, she deserves criticism for that.
Remember all the grief Obama got when he recommended that we check our tire pressure, because the fuel efficiency of our vehicles improves when our tires are properly inflated? He got absolutely skewered by the “drill baby drill” crowd, and his detractors made a big deal out of that being “Obama’s energy plan”, even though it was no such thing.
All I’m saying is let’s not fall into that trap, especially when we don’t have to. We’re better than that.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:14 pmWell she is the governor. Why hasn’t she promoted mandatory physical education 5 days a week in school. And now she’s talking about getting more “local produce” in the school lunch programs. That’s great with the long growing season they have in Alaska.
Palin thinks she can talk her way through every crisis without any actual action taken or money spent.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:29 pmPalin’s get more exercise in probably a precursor to her cutting out all school buses and letting kids walk 10 miles uphill both ways to school through Alaska winters to make them healthier to save money for another Sportsplex.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:31 pmThe question was , How would you help those concerened with health care???
Being healthy and doing healthy things wont help the concerns of millions who are terified about getting sick even if they have health care coverage. Palin doesn’t get the point of the question!!! How will she ever run a country if she can’t even figure out a question. Let’s get real folks …get really real.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm#33 Nevar, Thank you for the post and link’s, very informing….Blessings
December 5th, 2008 at 1:05 pmDavidHart Says:
Governor Bullwinkle is that best thing that ever happened to Democrats. I hope she gets the GOP nomination in 2012. In fact, GOP moderates are quietly hoping for the same thing on the premise that she gets trounced and Dobson, Perkins & Bauer no longer run the Republican Party.
It will be a laugh fest. mooseyak unleashed.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:46 pmmisshusseinmolly Says: We’re better than that.
Aah yes, well, you are “better than that”. For myself, I guess not-so-much. :D
Please note that I also said in my post that IF she is claiming that playing outside and eating Alaskan moose and fish is a valid substitute for a decent health insurance plan, she deserves criticism for that.
Yes i did note that.
Of course she isn’t actually proposing ‘moose-wrestling’ (as it were–my characterization) as a complete health care plan. But she’s using common knowledge as a supporting argument for whatever the hell her ‘health care plan’ is.
Is she for example proposing a funded long-term program to get kids from Anchorage into the wilds (like an Outward-Bound/ Scouting/Summer-camp experience that gives them exercise and intellectual stimulation?)that might make them better citizens, more independent and self assured and that will condition them physically so that later on they will be inherently more fit and thus less likely in the future to develop the health problems typical of an inactive lifestyle that?
No she isn’t.
Is she addressing present health care issues, such as the affordability of prescription drugs? Is she proposing state legislation to change the terms by which health-insurance companies approve or deny health care coverage, or rates, or their ability to change those terms at will?
Is she even suggesting that, now that oil prices have dropped, the oil profit benefit might be redirected to statewide health-care costs rather than delivering a check to each citizen?
If health care is a major concern might that not be an idea she could at least propose? I don’t know whether such an idea would actually make economic sense, but it’s still an idea and I’d hazard a relatively ‘original’ one.
IMHO Palin is just flapping her gums, there’s no voherent thought behind anything she is saying, whatever ever she actually means she is incapable of expressing properly because she had the vocabulary and comprehension of a six year old and yet she is a State Governor and is still apparently a White House prospect!
I will allow that it’s not her entirely her fault that she is by general standards a ‘village idiot’ given nature/nurture dynamics that we are all subject-to, so yes she can be forgiven for being remarkably stupid.
But she’s not so stupid that she’s been consigned through nature/nurture to live her life as a lowly burger-flipper. She’s not totally stupid but rather she’s more like an “idiot savant” . The trouble is that unlike most idiot savants she is she has what might be described as social skills that appeal to a sufficient contingent of a select portion of the Alaskan population and the general US population that supports her because she is one iota smarter, though not necessarily better informed, than they are.
To summarise, I agree it’s not fair to attack a mentally disabled person for their disablement. But neither is it fair to ignore the relevance of an idiot who has been given power and through noble human kindness allow that individual the opppturntity to make idiot decisions and create idiot policies just because we feel even momentarily, more sympathetic to their particular circumstances than the circumstances of the masses of people that their idiot ‘intellectual’ processes and policies will affect.
So there you go, misshusseinmolly.
I’m now done with this rather subjective subject. I’m just arguing with you is all, and if we were doing this over a couple of drinks instead of here in the antiseptic comments section I’m sure we’d have moved on to something much more important, like the worst job we ever had or some such.
It’s just a difference of perspective that can’t be helped ( at least on my side, anyway). And I have to admit, without nice people in the world like yourself, life would be truly hellish.
So don’t mind me, and please accept warmest regards. :D
December 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pmFred Says:
I have no inclination to be benevolent to sarah for any reason.
Her disengenuous remarks about health care are a slap in your face….
She has supported the kind of health care we have now…….
she gives lip service to healthy lifestyles and doesn’t even come close to addressing the real problems with our health care system and suddenly you want to say nice things about her…..sorry, I still remember her for what she has stood for and it aint health care reform that will help Americans.
I agree with you.
Here are a few of her lies for the people who want to feel sorry for her dumbass:
she lies about selling the states plane on ebay, after it was proven she lied about it.
she lied about President-ELECT Obama’s character.
she lied about her clothing allowance, she even tried to steal some of the clothes, hiding them in the wheel well of the plane. snake!
she claim to have foreign policy experience because she can see Russia from our state of Alaska.
she lied on Katie, Gibson and youtube
she’ll use her children for political-self interest gains
she will kill a bear to make a bear rug
she is a closet-secessionist
December 5th, 2008 at 2:27 pmPlease, people, this is important; children frequently are deficient in the “shot from a helicopter” food group.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pmBetter make sure that wild game is properly cooked.
-AF
December 5th, 2008 at 3:37 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
Thanks Witch1, this is probably the most serious threat to Alaska fisheries at present:
http://www.bristolbayalliance.com/
I wonder if Saruhh even knows about this one.
December 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pmnanlichi Says:
First thing Palin has said that made any sense to me. She is, or should be, a national embarrassment but this advice is good and the same advice I give my kids and live by.
Hunting, fishing, spear fishing, mushroom hunting, harvesting in general is good and cheap exercise and 75% of our food is stuff we harvested ourselves. Elk, deer, mushrooms (porcini, chanterelles, oyster, cauliflower, portabellas, morels), rabbit, trout, bass, catfish, crawdads, clams, scallops, sea bass, red snapper, blackberries, gooseberries….. it goes on.
No chemicals, no hormones…. and the exercise is the best benefit.
What a new fangled idea. I’m glad mooseyak thought of it first.
December 5th, 2008 at 4:53 pmSo, people in Brooklyn and Queens should go out hunting for wild game to inmprove their diet? How about mandatory gun ownership laws like some towns in Georgia have? Where’s that article I had about lead in bullets poisoning your food?
Yes exercise and proper diet improve health, but Americans already do that more than the British, for example, and we have poorer health. Studies say it is because they have UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. Studies also say 18,000 die needlessly every year in the US due to lack of UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:29 pm@misshusseinmolly
It would be one thing if she said that we should have some form of universal healthcare and to not burden it too much, get out an exercise and stay healthy. But it seems like she is saying if you get out and exercise you won’t need universal healthcare.
I agree with the premise that exercise is good (in fact I just finished my daily elliptical session), but just because someone exercises and is healthy doesn’t mean that universal healthcare is not needed. And that is the point I pick with her, and why she deserves to be called out on it.
December 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pmThe idiots whose letters about Sarah Palin I have just read have no idea that they are discussing the greatest leader of the 21st Century and it is obvious to me that they aren’t worthy of mentioning her name.
Wait and see. She will be President of the U S and a great one.
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