In honor of their 10th birthday, Google is letting you go back and search their oldest index, dating from 2001.
Inspired by a smear piece about Obama - omg, he might have been a socialist! - I decided to poke around a little.
What I found isn't quite as confounding, but it's certainly amusing...
Edit: except maybe the quote alluding to global warming. That was kind of confounding. And the politician/weasel quote is pretty good. And Palin smoked pot - and inhaled - if you care.
Search: Sarah Palin Alaska
From Alaska Magazine, circa 1999:
"It was so Wasilla." Sarah Palin, Wasilla mayor, after officiating at a wedding at the local Wal-Mart store.
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"We still aren't sure if the bear was playing or trying to mate with it." Wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott, on a bruin that attacked a bear-shaped archery target.
Oh, Sarah...
No, this isn't a condemnation of the mayor of Wasilla, or anyone married in a Wal-Mart. I'm all in favor of individuals' right to choose their own paths.
But damn if it isn't funny.
There's a potentially interesting piece from The Frontiersman that won't allow archiving, unfortunately. If anyone can figure out how to probe that, it might be interesting. The page starts:
Alaska State Troopers sa... [Read full story] ... We were happy to hear that Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin has approached city council members about using ...
but
access to http://www.frontiersman.com/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.
If you've got some time, see what interest or entertainment you might be able to dredge from the depths of THE INTERNETS.
In the meantime, if you could suggest how to respond to the "New Party" socialist thing other than "Seriously? That's the best crap you can sling? You think that this is legit, and simply nobody's noticed it up to this point? Ah, I see, you're blaming the media... how novel..."
Ahem.
Search results and smear responses are always welcome.
Edit: More trivialities. Apparently, Sarah is the slowest in her family:
Below, the times are posted for the Wasilla route [5K race]: Jay Dearborn 22.14, Nikki Campbell 22.30, Michael Janecek 22.55, Jim Lieh 22.57, Todd Palin 23.24, Kent Meyer 24.32, Margaret Keene 24.54, Alex Hills 27.15, Ken Langlois 27.20, Diane Johnson 27.23, Jim Soucek 27.29, Nancy Campbell 27.30, Sammye Pokryfki 29.45, Austin Housen 29.57, Track Palin 31.49 [ed: I'd hope he did well; he's named after track season, ferchrissakes], Penny Jack 32.11, Faye Palin 33.00, Bill Jack 35.11, Bristol Palin 39.17, Lyndsey Haas 39.19, Karl Schleich 39.36, Sarah Palin 39.38, Corinne Schleich 50.33, Ley Schleich 50.37, Sharen Kenyon 51.41, Madelin Siedler 1.00.31, Genie Siedler 1.00.31, Clay Powell 1.03.02, and Sarah Powell 1.03.04.
Edit 2: Holy crap! For somebody who denies anthropogenic global warming... check this out:
"We used to have good, normal Alaskan winters here with tons of snow," said Mayor Sarah Palin. "But the last few years -- nothing."
Edit 3: Palin waffling on a tax cap
Just where does Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin stand on the statewide property tax initiative?
...But in Wasilla this week, where sentiment is usually pretty strong against government spending and taxes, Palin struggled to stay perched on the fence as she negotiated traffic during a car-phone interview.
''I'm certainly not wavering in my support of it being on the ballot,'' Palin declared.
Does that mean she'd vote for it?
''I still have five more weeks to make up my mind, like everybody's trying to do,'' Palin said. ''I wish it were not a statewide issue.''
Palin acknowledged that she was sounding quite the politician. ''I am so sorry I'm such a weasel,'' she said.
As it turns out, Palin's not the only big name to (at least in name) support the Tax Cap. So did did the AIP! List here. Admittedly, so did the Alaska Republican party, so it's less amusing.
On an oil spill, Palin's opposition to hemp, and Wasilla as Alaska's pot source, click here:
A former gillnetter, Young said she has crusaded for alternative fuels since the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill destroyed her commercial fishing business in Prince William Sound.
"The spill ruined my family," she said. "I want options. If I have to go to Washington, D.C. to get those to happen, I will."
She drove to Wasilla hoping to convince Mayor Sarah Palin that she was wrong to introduce a city council resolution opposing Proposition 5, which would legalize pot use in Alaska for adults in private places and also legalize growing industrial hemp for products such as fuel.
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Of all people, Palin should know the difficulty of enforcing current pot laws, Young said.
"I know where all the pot comes from," Young said. "I know where fishermen get their marijuana. They get it from Wasilla."
The group spent nearly an hour with Palin in her office.
They handed her brochures and pamphlets about hemp, and gave her gifts, including a pair of hemp gloves and a hemp necklace. They also handed out a box of hemp-flower candies made in Switzerland, which tasted about like one might expect a honey-flavored hemp lozenge to taste.
... The group spent nearly an hour with Palin in her office.
... Palin, who has admitted to inhaling as a young woman, said little.
That last bit is news to me. Do you think people care about it?