{"id":193359,"date":"2008-12-20T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/ok-this-is-a-story-of-a-celebrity-connected-drug-bush\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T02:29:00","slug":"ok-this-is-a-story-of-a-celebrity-connected-drug-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/20\/ok-this-is-a-story-of-a-celebrity-connected-drug-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, This is a Story of a Celebrity Connected Drug Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which generally means that I don&#8217;t write about it.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said about <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/this-is-paris-free-zone.html\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">She Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/this-is-oj-and-britney-free-zone-too.html\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\"><p>Absent some sort of political activity, such as endorsements, running for office (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">PLEASE GOD NO!!<\/span>), or their attempting to assassinate someone, she will not be mentioned here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why am I writing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1208\/16747.html\">arrest of Sherry L. Johnston on drug charges<\/a> that appear to be associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/news\/alaska\/matsu\/story\/628916.html\"><span>possession<\/span> or distribution of <span>Oxycontin<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I writing about a small time drug bust in the small town of <span>Wasilla<\/span>, Alaska&#8230;.Hold it&#8230;.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span>Wasilla<\/span><\/span><\/span>, where Sarah <span>Palin<\/span> comes from, and <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Johnston<\/span>, like the guy, Levi, who knocked up her teenage daughter?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Sherry L. Johnston is Levi&#8217;s mom&#8230;.And Levi Johnston and and Bristol <span>Palin<\/span> are still engaged to be married, and her baby is due <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">today<\/span>, though a quick scan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/\"><span>ADN<\/span> web site<\/a> shows that the birth has not yet been anounced.<\/p>\n<p>So, why am I mentioning it?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Palin<\/span> thought that it was significant that Obama worked on a community board with William Ayers, and now her future in-law is charged with being a drug dealer.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>So by Sarah <span>Palin&#8217;s<\/span> own standards, she&#8217;s involved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><span>Palin<\/span> was just the vice-presidential nominee, and shows every indication of wanting to run for president in 2012.<\/li>\n<li><span>Wasilla<\/span> was a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere when <span>Palin<\/span> became mayor, and by the time she left, it was known as the &#8220;<span>Meth<\/span> Capital of Alaska,&#8221; probably because she fired the competent police chief and replaced him with her own goon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, yes, this is noteworthy, particularly if your name is Jay Leno, Conan O&#8217;Brien, David Letterman, or Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which generally means that I don&#8217;t write about it. As I have said about She Who Must Not Be Named, and They Who Must Not Be Named: Absent some sort of political activity, such as endorsements, running for office (PLEASE GOD NO!!), or their attempting to assassinate someone, she will not be mentioned here. So &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1013,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-drugs","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}