While community managing (moderating) over at Mahalo Answers I spend a lot of great time reading peoples initial thoughts upon becoming new Mahalo users.

This is quite a unique perspective, not surprisingly we are getting a lot of users telling me they come from Yahoo Answers and look at Mahalo as a safe haven away from all the tom-foolery that happens over at Yahoo, new users appear to like the long professional responses and genuine help they are getting from the Mahalo community.

I think soon I'll be reading similar comments that people are coming from Wikipedia.

A good percentage of Wikipedians are nothing but uber-fans who have dedicated a lot of time into curating their page, because they know on Wikipedia, your page is the reference for the entire Internet. Mahalo wants uber-fans claiming Topic pages, all you have to do is be passionate about a topic and Mahalo gives you the resources to build the next Wikipedia style-reference pages for the internet.

Mahalo right now currently gets a majority of the traffic comes for "How To" pages, probably because Mahalo has a large Q&A orientated community. In the future I can see the Topic pages taking off. This Michael Jackson page for example is not only a great search result by giving the top results for links/news/images/videos/tweets and FAQs, this page has the potential of becoming a community hub on the topic and a future starting point for all Internet Michael Jackson needs.

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That's just Michael Jackson, every topic ever searched could have a results like this within Mahalo search. Mahalo Topic Archives can be built for rarely changing topics like World War II, this page can only be improved upon and as the years go I can only imagine how well this page will evolve into a timeless archive like the current Wikipedia page on the topic.

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On the flip side a page can be build for a Buzzy topic, this page might be popular and huge for 10 minutes, but during those 10 minutes the Mahalo pages gets all the net traffic and owner pockets a few bucks. Oh.. Did I mention Mahalo Pages could be the next blogging job too...geez, thats for another day.

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November 21 - Today in History.

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I guess I've been bored from not mocking Sarah Palin since she lost the election, so time to dig up a gem. Remember how she believed GOD would help her bring more oil money to Alaska, well turns out GOD was taking his damn time so she decided to sue to the Government to have Polar Bears taken off the protected animals list, in order to turn nature preserves into industrial playgrounds. She even went on Glenn beck to argue her case.



So she's suing because polar bear numbers are increasing? Where is she getting that fact? Everything I have heard has been that the Arctic is shrinking and hurting the polar bear population. CBS or Glenn Beck? hmmm..


Regardless, The New Scientist magazine looked into the facts, Palin was right that Polar Bear populations were rising, but she spun the story to meet her needs, Populations are rising in North-East Canada, but are dropping Alaska.

The two populations that are increasing, both in north-eastern Canada, were severely reduced by hunting in the past and are recovering thanks to the protection they and their prey now enjoy.

The best-studied population, in Canada's western Hudson Bay, fell by 22% from 1194 animals in 1987 to 935 in 2004, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. A second group in the Beaufort Sea, off Alaska's north coast, is now experiencing the same pattern of reduced adult weights and cub survival as the Hudson Bay group.

Read on..New Scientist. Busts the Myth

South park is the cartoon on television, end of discussion. They're legacy will probably last longer then that of the Simpsons and Family guy, I am not sure how they do it, but they keep getting funnier, every year. The November 5 edition was an instant classic picking up exactly where the November 4 election night left off.



Naturally, McCain and Obama were in cahoots, thus begins the Ocean's 11 themed South Park episode.


Obviously, Sarah Palin is much smarter then she appears.


Of course, after the heist is complete, Obama decides to stick around and give this president thing a shot.


Mahalo Archive is collecting news clippings about the event, if you have any, feel free to recommend them.

Reason number 74 out of 101. Palin has been preaching recently that Small town America is the best America...well... I've been to small towns, and I like 'em too, they have character. However after watching this video (and others), Wasilla Alaska is probably the exact opposite of how a "Small Town" should look, its a dive, the meth capitol of Alaska. Lets check out the "character" (or lack there-of) of Sarah Palin's small town, Wasilla Alaska.



Lots of crazy coverage from this crazy town is starting to surface thanks to Palin, the Wasilla Mahalo Archive is bulking up because of it, hopefully someday we'll have an in depth page like this for every small town.

1. Bought her 7-year-old daughter a $790 Louis Vuitton Handbag
2. Participated in a bizarre looking ceremony to be saved from witchcraft
3. Supports shooting wolves from helicopters
4. Can't name more than one Supreme Court case
5. Believes that dinosaurs and humans co-existed
6. Abused governmental power
7. Talks with a fake accent
8. Thinks the VP "runs" the Senate
9. Bridge to nowhere


10. How about the Road to nowhere, built and paved for the Bridge to nowhere


11. Tried to ban books
12. Belongs to a church that believes they can convert gays.
13. Believes that being gay is a "choice"
14. Mother of a pregnant high schooler
15. Thinks an valid question from an American voter is "Gotcha Journalism"
16. Thinks creationism should be taught in schools
17. Instead of proving superiority over political rivals with specific policies and examples, she brands them as terrorists
18. Female residents of her home state protested against her
19. Calls her husband "the first dude"
20. Admits she smoked marijuana, but does not want it decriminalized
21. Demonstrates confusion over the location of foreign nations
22. Her make-up artist is the highest paid staffer in the McCain campaign
23. Wore a "Vote Democrat" scarf to a republican rally
24. Is difficult to work with according to SNL staff
25. Believes that the government has a right to force girls who have become pregnant after being raped to carry and deliver their babies
26. Husband was a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party
27. Believes abortion clinic bombers are not terrorists
28. Thinks that the federal government should ban gay marriage
29. Started College in 1982 at Hawaii Pacific College, then went to North Idaho Community College, University of Idaha Matanuska Community College and finally back to Idaho to finish her degree...5 crappy Schools in 6 years, that cant be good.
30. Doesn't understand her party's foreign policy
31. Had tanning bed installed in the governors mansion
32. Vetoed funding for programs that assisted unwed teenage mothers
33. Doesn't pronounce the G's at the end of her words
34. Easily "annoyed" by journalists who ask questions rather than encourage her to trash talk her opponents
35. Wants to drill for oil in ANWR
36. Built a sports complex on land that the city didn't own
37. Not a fan of the free press
38. Has no idea how to run the economy as great as the USA's
39. Believed that God's will brought a pipeline to Alaska
40. Putin rears his head in Alaska's air space.
    
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41. Is against protecting polar bears
42. While the McCain campaign tries to fight earmarks, she set a record
43. She flew from Texas to Alaska after he water broke and is campaigning for VP as 44 year old woman with a special needs baby that is less then a year old
44. She allegedly reads "all" major publications, yet can't name any of them
45. Not only is she against solar and other alternative energies, she's used veto power to ensure others don't get funds to research it
46. Didn't know what the VP did just months before being nominated
47. After rehearsing a rap with SNL staff, she opted to let the pregnant Amy Poehler perform it live
48. Billed taxpayers for NCAA games and working from home
49. Supported charging rape victims for rape kits
50. Lets her teenage daughter dress like a handcuff-toting tramp for Halloween
51. Her most passionate supporters appear to be incredibly racist and ill informed
52. Thinks that the Iraq War is part of "God's plan"
53. Can't even keep her own views on the issues straight
54. She scares Matt Damon
55. John McCain needs to hold her hand during high profile interviews
56. Unable to name any regulation legislation supported by McCain. you betcha!


57. Endorsed Dianne Keller as the next mayor of Wasilla




58. When faced with the important decision of what to name her children, she chose...Willow, Track, Trig, Piper and Bristol
59. Believes an airline stop over constitutes foreign policy experience


60. Lied about speaking with a British Ambassador to boost her foreign experience.
61. Her "Christian Heritage Week" is weak.
62. Tina Fey doesn't want to continue playing Sarah Palin.
63. President Bush Endorsed Palin, and has already voted McCain.
64. Future Son in law is a Fucking Redneck
65. She cursed the St. Louis Blues
66. Gives a bad name to Hockey Moms
67. She was endorsed and supported by indicted coot senator Ted Stevens
68. Failed to condemn her radical supporters
69. Used a Madelaine Albright quote completely out of context
70. Trying desperately to divide the nation by telling her supporters that Barack is connected with "Terrorists" and that she is fearful for the country.
    
71. Despite claiming to be a "fiscal conservative" and openly mocking Obama's tax program, she increased government expenditures by 33% and taxes by 38% while in the Wasilla mayor's office
72. Wasilla is a dive, this doesn't look like any small town I have ever seen.
73. With a Finger on the button, is her priority the American people or her God? She could be having visions of Jesus's return while in office

    Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. "She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board," said Munger, a music composer and teacher. "I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, 'Sarah, how can you believe in creationism -- your father's a science teacher.' And she said, 'We don't have to agree on everything.'

74. Used a Yahoo email for official party correspondence.
75. 50Gs to Remodel her office in Alaska.
76. She seems to be pissing off an awful lot of staffers
77. Hypocrite when it comes to "sharing the wealth"
78. One heartbeat
79. In January 2004 she quit her job as the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairwoman out frustration.
80. July 3 2009 quit her job as the Governor of Alaska.
81. On the 4th of July Palin Twittered.
82. Before whining about unfair media coverage, Sarah Palin bashed Hillary Clinton for whining about unfair media coverage.
83. After the election she appeared in a documentary where she lashed out on "the media"
84. Called Ashley Judd's environmentalist group an "extreme fringe group"
85. Her husband and top aides were all held in contempt of court when they failed to testify.
86. After having becoming a teen mother, Bristol Palin speaks out against teen sex, abstinence not education.
87. Palin was forced to reimburse Alaskans after using state funds to pay for family trips.
88. As Gov. Rejected Millions of federal funds meant of Education and Special needs children, upsetting Alaskans.
89. NRA says Palin is one of the most pro-gun advocates in the history of the USA.
90. Got pranked by a Montreal Radio Station, for over 6 minutes she thought she was speaking to French President Nicolas Sarkosy.
91. Palin was so hated by McCain staffers that they told the press she didn't know Africa was a continent and that she was unaware what countries were in NAFTA. Although no staffer ever admitted, these guys decided to snatch up the credit.
    
92. Sarah Palin pardones a Turkey while another gets slaughtered.
93. After quiting as Gov. Sarah Palin sent blogger a legal notice to the author of blogspot blog who had mentioned rumours about Sarah Palin on her blog.
94. During her campaign for VP, she spent $290,000 on fashion, including $42,000 on a hair stylist and $68,000 for a makeup artist.
95. After Trig was born she emailed everybody and signed her email as if it were written by god.

    More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

96. After David Letterman delivered a bad joke, the Palin supporters protested.
97. Four months into Obama's presidency she went onto Fox News to say "I Told You So, USA is becoming socialist"
98. Warned Alaskan's of New World Order and a Government that wants to "Control People"
99. Palin: A terrorist is Bill Ayers who would bomb the Capitol. Brian Williams: What about somebody who bombs an abortion clinic? Palin: mumble
100. Hand picked by Rush Limbaugh as the Republican Figurehead. Calls her the most "articulate voice" of the Republican Party.
     
     
     
     
     

Sitting around waiting for the latest episode of Real Time... I found this clip older clip that helped pass the time



Thank God Future President Sarah Palin has been cleansed of all witchcraft..

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This video is Archived, it is certainly a turning point in history and will probably be analyzed and argued over by pundits in the year 2108.



This Video doesn't seem to get old... every time I watch it I see something new. Todd pointing out Alaska is funny, the bullet riddled moose is awesome. But watching how Sarah looks increasingly uncomfortable with each passing second is priceless.

I watch... I can see how hard Palin is trying to act, it's sad, but she tries. Her banter with Sudeikis is interesting, the role she chose for herself appears to be to act all cool as if she DID do the rap backstage, this doesn't help her case because by acting all cool and opting out of what was rehearsed makes it appear as if she's a bitch, by putting the 8 month pregnant Amy Poehler on the spot like that. Anyway I feel as if this is the Nail in the Coffin moment, if not, her $150,000 shopping spree will certainly piss off a few poor Joe Plumbers...Oh...she still doesn't know what a VP does either.

This is from Oct 21 Olbermann


The Young Turks also touched on this one.

Here is a portion of Today's Daily Show, I thought this segment needed its own Post.
Jon Stewart is really upset with some things that Sarah Palin said...lets listen to what she said first. Or just skip to the third clip down and you'll hear it straight from Stewart, along with his profanity laced response.



October 20, 2008: Pfriend or Pfoe?
Jon Stewart touches on Powell's endorsement, and Nancy Pfotenhauer..who I believe is only on the campaign because of her non google friendly name. Ah.. and Sarah Palin gets a good BOO from the crowd here. over her "Real America" comments. The scary republican woman trifecta is complete when Stewart touches on Michele McCarthy Bachmann.


You think Jon Ripped into here in this clip...he's got a big "Fuck You" for Palin in this sketchy clip caught on a cell phone camera as he spoke in Boston...Huffington Post provided the transcript.

"She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: [expletive] you," Stewart said to raucous applause.

Palin addressed a North Carolina fund-raiser Thursday night saying, "We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe...that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."

The comment was quickly picked up by media outlets and the Obama campaign, whose spokesman Bill Burton asked in an e-mail to reporters, "What part of the country isn't pro-America?"
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"I can't take it anymore...After eight years of this divisiveness, we're back to this idea that only small-town America is the real America," he said.

This clip caused quite a stir at the Weekly Standard, William Kristols publication, Jon Stewart addressed this controversy at the end of the show. Your Profanity meet My Profanity: "Fuck all of you!" Gotta love Jonny!

October 20, 2008: Governor Palin Clarification

Here is the latest Daily Show for October 20, 2008!

City boy Jon Stewart took great offense to Palin and Republicans dividing the American by talking about how small towns are "Real Americans". You can watch that segment here.



October 20, 2008: Intro - Eugene Jarecki's New Book


October 20, 2008: Quiz: Are You a Real American?


October 20, 2008: Understanding Real America in Wasilla
This is a Golden Clip, Jason Jones visits Wasilla, this is the Second Jason Jones Wasilla sketch, the last time it was to watch the VP Debate at a pub with Wasillians. This time he speaks with the current Mayor of Wasilla, Dianne M. Keller. A real bright one this lady is, Sarah Palin endorsed her as her replacement when here Mayoral term ended in 2002, NYT even has a photo of them and and article that tells you all about it.

Sarah Palin sided instead with Dianne M. Keller, a religious conservative and an ally on the City Council. Ms. Keller won.

October 20, 2008: Eugene Jarecki
Why We Fight director Eugene Jarecki on his new book.

The Daily Show for October 6.

October 6, 2008: Vice Presidential Common Man-Off
In this segment TDS takes on the 2008 VP Debate, the one in which Sarah Palin had to basically had to complete sentences to tie. Joe Biden did win, but the right wing pundits find that difficult to believe.


October 6, 2008: Debate Gaffes


October 6, 2008: Debate Analysis From Wasilla
This is a great segment, Jason Jones visits Palin's hometown of Wasilla, to see exactly which "Main Street" Palin is going to bring the White House.


October 6, 2008: Tim Robbins
More on Tim Robbins


October 6, 2008: Moment of Zen - Sarah Palin's Performance
And here are October 6th Historical Moments of Zen.

Tina Fey may have just ended Sarah Palin's post debate "thunder." Few comedic performance change history, perhaps this SNL Sketch will be one of them?

+The Guy playing Biden is Jason Sudeikis and he deserves equal credit for the hilarity of this clip, he does a timeless job, this clip is a solid from top to bottom.



This is of course Fey's third performance as Sarah Palin, the collection is archived here.

October 1, 2008: Gams & Gammer
Stewart just rips into Sarah Palin.


October 1, 2008: Schaal - Bee - Hosting Duties


October 1, 2008: Peggy Noonan
For more information on Peggy Noonan...


October 1, 2008: Moment of Zen - Pathetic Piece of Tape