Turn Back the Clock: FENCE DAY was 1 Year Ago Tomorrow //UPDATE: FENCE DAY, 2011, in Scottsdale
May 24, 2011
How time flies. Already it’s been a year since Sarah Palin accused me of peering into Piper’s bedroom window, Glenn Beck first called me a stalker and Todd Palin had a work crew double the height of the ten-foot fence between the Palins’ property and the lot on which my rented house stood.
As I write in THE ROGUE about May 25, 2010:
“All day, I hear hammering and sawing. Todd has about twelve guys throwing up a new fence that’s roughly twice the height of the old one. I’m all in favor of the fence. Maybe once it’s up, Sarah will chill and we can both get on with our business. No one brings over a blueberry pie.”
Sarah had written on Facebook the night before, “Maybe we’ll welcome him with a homemade blueberry pie tomorrow so he’ll know how friendly Alaskans are.”
Not surprisingly, she didn’t.
In fact, as tweets leaked to The Daily Caller demonstrate, Sarah’s chief enforcer, Rebecca Mansour, had a quite different idea:
May 25, 2010 5:35:46: Time to find a way to go medieval on this McGinniss. Don’t be fooled by the light tone of the FB post. The BigBoss is so upset by this.
5:36:56: It quite broke my heart to get the emails from her about this. She feel like big brother is watching her & her family…
16:00:56: I was thinking…of mailing him a dead fish.
I never got the dead fish, either. But I’d say Mansour, no doubt smiling out of the other side of her face today, is a dead duck in Palinland.
Oh, by the way, the first strong wind last fall blew down the fence. Todd’s about as capable a builder as Sarah is a fisherwoman.
UPDATE:
It’s been rumored since last week that Sarah and Todd have bought a new home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
I believe it. Especially after seeing this photo, sent by commenter “Jewels” to whom I’m, of course, grateful.
Looks mighty like a new fence going up around the house, doesn’t it?
I hope Todd and the gang do a better job with this one. You think Wasilla gets windy? Check this Fox News story about wind damage in Scottsdale last year:
Winds Damage Cars at Auction: MyFoxPHOENIX.com
And remember, Sarah, it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good.
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Tags: big brother, blueberry pie, c4p, car auction, conservatives4palin, dead fish, facebook, fences, high winds, ill wind, neighbors, rebecca mansour, Scottsdale, twitter
76 Responses to “Turn Back the Clock: FENCE DAY was 1 Year Ago Tomorrow //UPDATE: FENCE DAY, 2011, in Scottsdale”
So glad you’ve kept your sense of humor, Joe.
It seems that the blueberry pie was just another empty Palin promise. Ditto for the dead fish delivery from Mansour and the flimsy construction of famous fence just makes you shake your head at how pathetically inept this group of misfits actually are. They put the keystone cops to shame.
I am guessing that means that Todd couldn’t possibly have built La Casa Palin as claimed. Do you go into “Housegate” in your book?
Fast forward one year to Arizona: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5hGZ76CWlbknR2_Na9wzZjzmgiccg?docId=fb610a13524c43afba8f3cbbaa979c9d&index=3
How timely is this post…Todd’ a busy bee at the new Taco Bell http://palingates.blogspot.com/2011/05/is-sarah-palin-hiding-in-her-new-house.html 🙂
Just wanted to tell you about the new fence being built in AZ, but Jewel got it first. 😉 (There 3 are more pics at that site if you click to go back to the article). This time, she is going with cast-iron picket fences, I guess.
Can’t keep out the helicopters and their spying cameras, though…
What, no gargoyles?
Joe,
I think when telling Sarah’s story, you’ll be able to repeat a line you’ve used previously in a book (Never Enough).
“It’s like it has been scripted for a movie, but the story is one you wouldn’t believe.”
That’s the house? I thought it was the Panera on Route 9 in Hadley.
Almost every house here has a block fence aground it. Even us peasants in the south of Scottsdale. But what’s weird is how close that fence is to the house given the size of the plot of land and that it’s a gated community.
That house still needs quite a bit of work. And can you imagine trying to furnish it? I wonder if Sarah has experienced the 115-120 degree days yet?? Of all the places she could have moved, why my town??
I don’t understand putting a wrought iron fence against a strong adobe wall…
While filling in for Chris Matthews on Friday’s Hardball, Michael Smerconish asked HuffPo
Contributor, Alex Wagner about the 2012 Republican field. She included Sarah Palin in the mix
by saying,
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
Alex is my hero of the week.
Huzzahs from Alaska to have the state’s biggest embarrassment outa here! Hopefully, the whole dysfunctional Paylin clan will also leave the Great Land forever.
I’d love to know John McCain’s reaction to having his $arah so near at hand! That is his penance forever for loosing this Abomination on the land. Now Paylin’s mug will be all over AZ to rub McCain’s face in his insanely calamitous “country first” choice for VP.
Karma anyone?
With all due respect, LeahJ, aren’t you at least glad that $P didn’t move to my neighborhood?
I live in Washington, D.C.
Go the whole route, Sarah. Dig a moat, stock it with man-eating crocs (weather is warm & sunny the crocs will love it) & have Builder-Bob-Todd & his buddies whistle up a drawbridge extending to the sidewalk
& life will be beautiful.
Patience Grasshopper……..they’ll be there in time & statues & fountains etc. Rome wasn’t built in a day. If all else fails I can see the large living room could be used for hockey.
I find it extremely interesting that Sarah has to build fences to keep everyone out BUT sticks her nose in everyone else’s world.
I always thought that whoever built the fence at the Palin’s house could not have built the house. The fence did not look professional at all. So, I had to laugh when you said it blew down. I am so hoping that ‘Housegate’ is in your book. How did the Palin’s afford such a house in the first place? And why is it that the house looks like a certain ice rink in Wasilla that was built right around the same time. Hmm……….it really doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out.
Now I see why Sarahpac sent out all those letters asking for money recently (remember last week when she lied to Greta and said she did not like asking for money – yeah right). That big old house is going to need lots of furniture and Sarah is not the type to spend her own money.
It will be interesting to read Mrs. Palin’s facebook posts without Ms. Mansour. Perhaps Sarah will write her own facebook posts. After all, she has two degrees according to her – one in communication and one in journalism. Certainly someone so accomplished can do her own writing.
Sorry about your bad day Sarah, but I can almost guarantee things will only get harder for you. You needn’t worry about ‘the left’; it is your so-called friends that are stabbing you in the back these days (that is called karma). The Dems are just standing back trying not to get in the way. You can’t keep things secret forever; the jig is just about up for you.
Glad to see your sense of humor is intact, Joe.
When will they install the gun turrets in this monstrosity?
Thank you! I was wondering the same thing!
Or the Macaroni Grill. : )
“I’d say Mansour, no doubt smiling out of the other side of her face today, is a dead duck in Palinland.”
I know this is kind of mean, but I can’t resist pointing out that Rebecca Mansour would look better smiling out of the other side of her face.
I vote your’s as the comment of the day!
to one up you on the “meaness” she’d look better smiling out her a$$.
Your remark gives new meaning to Tip O’Neill’s remark, All politics is local, meaning I’m within walking distance of that Panera’s.
She has upgraded from Cat House red flocked wallpaper to white walls and iron railings. I guess this will be her Spanish period.
I say, it, looks like a Palin House. The woman may have amassed a ton of money in her two years after the aborted Governorship, but that doesn’t seem to translate into taste.
A truly ugly McMansion Adobe Style. Reminds me of some of the motel-hotels I stayed in when I visited the southwest states.
You definitely make a good point.
A-flippin-MEN!
Do you think anyone told her about the rattlesnakes, scorpions, gila monsters yet, I hope not.
priceless!!
But, see, that’s what the fence is for. Sarah’s father, Chuck Heath, taught her in science class at Iditarod Elementary School that fences keep out rattlesnakes, scorpions, gila monsters, bedbugs, peeping toms, stalkers, alligators, bears, Democrats and agnostics.
But in case the fence doesn’t work, they are installing prayer shields–and claymore mines–around the perimeter. I think Track is helping with the claymores. With the prayer shields, Sarah needs no help.
–Joe
Todd not gonna be building this one, or at least not without all sorts of codes and regulations to follow. He won’t be able to slap up just any kind of trailer trash duct tape and baling wire fence in Scottsdale.
Will they put up the rolls of razor wire after the metal fence is finished? In case Toad wants to do it himself: http://www.academyfence.com/razorwire.html
i bet it’s going on top to keep anyone from climbing the fence in or out. Razor wire would be a nice touch don’t cha think? And that old mail box is sooo Palin.
I knew Palin would bed up in Arizona.
The move, of course, will correspond with her presidential aspirations announcement.
I doubt Palin will leave AZ even after she quits her campaign.
Alaska is glad to see her go.
Oh good grief, I thought the wrought iron was for a fence around the pool for safety, but it occurs to me they’re putting the wrought iron around the top of the adobe/block wall to add height to the fence just like they did in Wasilla. Can they do that? Certainly Scottsdale has standards that don’t allow a fence that tall. Besides, that will look like crap. I bet they don’t have a permit for that and the neighbors will howl. Anyone know what the fence building code is in Scottsdale? Doesn’t her area have any restrictive covenants. You can take the hillbillies out of Wasilla but they bring their hillbilly ways with them! Hilarious. Can’t wait to see the pictures of the finished product.
Joe, be greatful you never received the pie or fish. She might have poisoned you. You know she is that mean.
As the great Dorothy Parker quipped “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.”
I can’t wait until her first run-in with the HOA! Most of them have Palin-like Boards. teehee Hope they try to park that RV in the front yard!
“next thing you know old sarah’s a millionaire and kinfolks said tawd move away from here, said arizoney is the place you ought to be and they loaded up the truck and moved from old wasilly’
I wonder if she doesn’t win Kyl’s Senate seat, how long it’ll be before she does a full frontal attack on McCain. That would be entertaining, b/c he can be as vicious as she is.
Thank you I needed that laugh.
I’m no prize but, honestly, looking at Rebecca M gives the willies!
I’m almost dying of heat at 65 here in Wasilla today. I’m a sweat monster begging for A/C! I can’t imagine Palin adapting quickly to that kind of heat.
I just find amusement everywhere these days. Sarah really really really was upset when you moved in next door. RAM old her secret buddy who sold that news to the world. Wonder how she feels now that she knows that you and Ailes are friends and that you have talked about her. Smiling at the irony.
Lillibird, I was thinking that the barbed wire was missing. Razor wire would actually be more macho, though. More fitting for her image.
Scottsdale’s code limits fence height to 6 ft. An 8 ft fence may be allowed if you submit plans to the city. If they bolt the metal fence to top of the already 6 ft block wall, they will be in violation of the Scottsdale city ordinances. Are they inside the city limits? You think someone gave them a variance or did Sarah just do it?
http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/codes/walls/heights
“Front Yards in R1-7 Districts
Fences a maximum of 6 feet in height are allowed provided:
The yard enclosed shall not include more than 40 percent of the area between the front property line and the front setback line.
The fence shall be set back 3 feet from the front property line.
Corner lots must comply with the restrictions listed below.
Rear and Side Yards
Eight-foot fences and hedges are allowed on the property line or within the required side and rear yard. You can build a fence up to 6-feet in height with standard construction details provided to you by the City. Fences up to 8-feet in height may be allowed but will require engineered plans to be submitted and approved by the City. “
I would assume that the wrought iron will go on top of the adobe – giving it a true “compound” feel. She probably saw it in Israel and though it was a good idea!
And I’m loving the sun and heat in Wasilla. It isn’t often that we get such a beautiful WARM day. Maybe without the Wicked Witch we will have a decent summer? Last year was the pits.
What struck me as I viewed the online pics of this house is how much it looks like Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Higher fences will complete the transformation.
$arah got rid of the building codes in Wasiila in preparation for the monstrosity they built on the lake. Guess she thinks she can move in down there and do as she darned well pleases also, too; with no regard for ordinances. One of the reasons I have stayed so long in AK is the tangle of “DO NOTS” in the lower 48.
So, has Todd been promoted back to fence builder? For a while he was relegated to carrying her handbag.
Are we taking any bets on exactly who is going to be living in that fugly place?
Palin’s must know about helicopters. Will they put up a giant dome?
Which one is the dead fish?
I remember when the fence went up, and so many righties online were asking, “What can he learn by moving in next to her?” And I thought how OBVIOUS: you can learn what she does when she’s near to somebody she doesn’t trust. She posts snarky comments and puts up a huge, shaky fence that falls down in the first strong wind. Who DOES that? Why, an immature, psychopathic, insecure coward does that… and now we get confirmation from RAM that Sarah was “really upset”- we already knew that. We knew how upset she was because she had that fence put up… and because the really smart thing to do would have been to bring you that damn pie, shake your hand, express a hope that you enjoy your stay in Alaska, and keep to the high ground.
Sarah never met a low ground that wasn’t home to her.
Would that be the Drawbridge to No Where?
But I did receive a blueberry pie–hand-delivered, and the best I’ve ever tasted–from Anne Kilkenny, the Wasilla resident whose letter about Sarah went viral
in early September, 2008, thus giving Outsiders their first look at the maniac behind the mask.
Sounds like they are in violation. Doesn’t seem like they would have had time to submit plans and get the city to approve them. Neighbors there will not stay silent, like they do in Wasilla, even if they agree with her politics, they don’t want her trashing the hood!
Now she will know what it’s like to be hunted by helicopter!
As the Palin World Turns: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/25/palins_secret_weapon_new_film_to_premiere_in_june_109949-3.html
Palin’s Secret Weapon: New Film to Premiere in June
“It’s like it has been scripted for a movie, but the story is one you wouldn’t believe.”
This film should be treated as propaganda, similar to that used by the Nationalists under Hitler. Of course the idiots will eat it up, and even spend money to buy tickets to a movie about an empty skirt.
We all know Sarah gets cold very easily, as she demonstrated by all those scarves and indoor coat-wearing when she was “pregnant” with her “son” Trig.
My reaction: Bristol got a better deal for the money. I’ve seen pictures of some of the expensive homes in Scottsdale. They are beautiful, elegant. This one isn’t nice looking at all.
Particularly the scorpions. Oh, how I hated them when I lived there.
Give them 6 months and that place will look like the Davidian Compound in Waco…
only difference being the Davidian Compound was much more sane.
Don’t forget the scary ugly stinky javelinas.
It’s so great to see you keep that sense of humor after all you endured while researching your book. When I saw the first episode of the faux TLC “Look at ME!” series, seeing them cowering on the edge of a cement slab, dragging your reputation through the mud and including the obscured shot of you on the deck made me laugh, but it showed the true Sarah. “the government could learn a lot about securing our boarders by looking at Todd’s fence”
Knowing that it blew over is poetic justice, and a testament to the fairy tales Sarah makes up to make her look like a victim.
Don’t know what to make of Rebecca’s comments, kind of pathetic considering she’s Sarah’s “Domestic Policy Advisor”, but I do know it’ll take more wind to knock Rebecca over than it did the fence, wonder if she’s moving in the new compound, or will be “left behind”?
No matter what she does to the house in AZ, it will look tacky as Palin has NO taste whatsoever. Her house looked as cold and dark as her heart. You can bet when she’s finished decorating, there won’t be any magazine spreads on her new AZ hideout, unless she hires an interior decorator and I think she’s too cheap to do that.
Good grief. Is that a periscope on the roof?
Who will she get for household staff? She doesn’t trust anyone. I can see her scrubbing floors and making Todd clean the toilets. Poor Piper will have to do all the laundry.
One of my fave quotes. So apt for SP.
And here I thought that WAS where she was smiling from – my mistake. Never imagined it was her mouth. =)
I am wondering if that fence is actually going ON TOP OF the adobe fence – would be typical Palin, I guess, following their disastrous 14ft fence in Wasilla…
I guess she will have to get over her hate of ‘brown’ people and hire some non-English-speaking illegal immigrant from Mexico…
(No wonder BTW that she is going ballistic over Bri$tol supposedly having an affair with – GASP!!! – a BLACK person of all things!)
Sorry – I did not see your comment before I replied to someone above with the same thought re. the placement of the fence…
Nope! It is a turret for her machine-gun…
Did they get the house design from the guy who built Bin Laden’s abode in Abbottabad?