The Newest Sarah Palin Attack: She Bought a Tanning Bed

The left is all spun up today about the latest non-story regarding Sarah Palin - she had a tanning bed installed in the Governor's mansion.  To put this shocking abuse of government power into perspective consider the following facts:

Given the relative inability to lay out in the sun, and the relative cost efficiency over time of having a tanning bed in residence as opposed to paying a monthly membership to a tanning salon, this doesn't seem eggregious. 

If they have a receipt that shows they paid 10 or 20 times market value for the bed, maybe.  But $2,000 grand on a tanning bed so your Governor doesn't look pasty when she goes on TV is not a stretch.

Let's find something real, huh guys?

 

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Yeah....but

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Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the world and its incidence is increasing at the highest rate of any type of cancer. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, more than 1.3 million new cases are diagnosed in the United States every year. Melanoma-the deadliest form of skin cancer-kills one person every hour in the United States and is the third most commonly diagnosed form of cancer among women ages 25-45 and second most commonly diagnosed form of cancer among men of this age group. Skin cancer is caused, overwhelmingly, by over-exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and from tanning beds. It is largely preventable. In fact, 95percent of skin cancers are preventable if we properly protect ourselves from UV rays. Eighty percent of one's lifetime sun damage occurs before age 18. It is imperative that we instill sun safety behavior among our children at an early age and thus incorporate sun safety education in our public educational system. The Cancer Crusaders Organization, an award-winning nonprofit skin cancer education facility and the proud home of the National Skin Cancer Awareness Symbol, strongly urges all Americans to become proactively engaged in efforts to protect children and young adults from this common, yet preventable, disease.

The Organization further asks for the enthusiastic and proactive support of our educators, health professionals and leaders to support initiatives and other such efforts to encourage sun-safe practices among our community, and thereby significantly reduce skin cancer incidence and mortality throughout the United States and thus improve the overall quality of life.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the State of Alaska, do hereby proclaim May 2007, as:

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in Alaska, and urge all Alaskans to become proactively engaged in efforts to protect our children and young adults from this common, yet preventable disease.

Dated: May 4, 2007

Jay: Tanning beds can

Jay:

Tanning beds can actually be beneficial for one's health, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning_bed#Benefits

Note the word "OVER-exposure" was used!

 

And is this really the best the Dems can come up with? This is supposed to make her seem "out of touch with the common folk"? A tanning bed? Perhaps they don't realize how popular these things are..

 

There might be a point to it if it turns out she used government funds to pay for an outrageously expensive one though

Tanning beds are good ones

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Isn't There A Good Health Reason For Having One In That Climate?

From what I understand, people who live in Nordic climates like Alaska have UV lighting because they get so little sunlight. People have issues with depression and lack of Vitamin D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy

Maybe that's why Sarah Palin seems so well adjusted

She's glad, not SAD.  Valid point, Sir.  Valid point.

So Palin needs a tanning bed

So Palin needs a tanning bed so she doesn't get depressed and she issues a proclamation for "Skin Cancer Awareness Month" and specifically calls out tanning beds as harmful?  Maybe McCain can use it for his melanoma.

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Re: Isn't There A Good Health Reason For Having One In That Clim

If you read the Wikipedia article carefully, you'd understand that tanning was listed as therapy for SKIN-related conditions, not Seasonal Affective Disorder.  Lightboxes, not tanning beds, are recommended by mental health professionals for SAD.  Lightboxes do not have ultraviolet radiation because it is potentially harmful for your skin... and tanning is caused by UVA and UVB (the "UV" standing for ultraviolet) radiation.  Wow, I am astounded by ignorance here.  Who knew that facts could be misinterpreted so easily?

You sort of have a point, but

You sort of have a point, but you shouldn't be such an ass about it. Especially since you obviously just skimmed one source and dismissed the others.

I'm by no means an expert on tanning beds and SAD (who is? :)), but if you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanning_bed , and check sources 26, 27 and 28, you will find that many SAD-patients use trips to the tanning salon as a cheaper alternative to expensive light therapy, even though one of the sources claims it does indeed do nothing for them. So I honestly still don't know if tanning beds have a positive effect (other than a placebo-effect) on the symptoms of SAD or not, and I really don't want to waste time doing research to find out for sure, but I will go on a limb and call you an ass because I doubt you have done any more research, yet you still have the nerve to come on here and call people ignorant instead of calmly presenting your opinion.

good to hear that you got

good to hear that you got tanning bed .  i did not knew that tanning is a therapy for skin . but yes beds play a crucial role for skin . organic skin care .

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There might be a point to it

There might be a point to it if it turns out she used government funds to pay for an outrageously expensive one though.
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I guess there is no bad if

I guess there is no bad if she bought a tanning bed, as long as the money that she used in buying that thing and the electricity she used on it, is her  own money, not the taxpayers money.  <A HREF=http://babyshowergamesetc.com/>baby shower games</A>

Well i think is too costly to

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This is pointless

Ok so we have herd a lot about the tanning bed. Some have said it was bought with her own money and some said it was with state funds. However, what we really need to know is: are there any pictures of Sarah using the bed? LOL

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I know tanning beds are

I know tanning beds are sometimes used in Sweden because of the lack of light during the winter months, and I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for putting a tanning bed in the Governor's Mansion ...but doesn't she live the majority of the time in her home in Wasilla? Why not install it there -- especially when she paid for it herself? menopauza

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Who incurred the cost?

Well although tanning beds may/may not be good for you but it seems point less to have it installed in a place where the average temperature is 47.2. I would have liked to comment further but I would refrain as the fact that who incurred the cost isn't made clear, was it from Palin's own personal fund or was it the government's? however I am not sure but it's likely to be the latter as there were a few cases before of her spending government funds for her personal expenses. If this was her personal funds then she has a right to do whatever she wants with it but if not then http://www.formationshouse.com/company_formation.htm strongly condemns the squandering of governments funds to fulfil their own greed.

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I would have liked to comment

I would have liked to comment further but I would refrain as the fact that who incurred the cost isn't made clear, was it from Palin's own personal fund or was it the government's? however I am not sure but it's likely to be the latter as there were a few cases before of her spending government funds for her personal expenses nys regents | regents exam | math b regents

I believe she spent

I believe she spent government funding on her outforms, I've heard almost over $1,000,000 through out the whole McCain campaign at the time.

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New attack

This attack can't be a pwerful one as in election

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she is just blowing up the tax payers money and she even goes scott free for doing such things. A memory foam bed would have a better option as compared to a tanning bed. But Alaska is a cold place so she might want to show us her tanning bed during the winters.

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