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THE BLOG--HISTORY
"Blue Oasis" began in 2005 in its Blogger format (now an archive) and became possibly the first Alaska Blog on Progressive Politics. At the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis was honored to represent Alaska as the state blog.
Transition--Community Blog
In September 2008, Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis moved to a Soapblox Community Blog format. Readers can become full participants by registering on the blog to comment and write "diaries." Diary titles appear on the right sidebar for folks to read and provide comments. Blog editors may choose to move some of these diaries to the front page.
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YOUR BLOGMISTRESS
My name is Linda Kellen Biegel and I am a former 15-year Federal employee. Thirteen of those years were spent working for the US Army Corps of Engineers. I am also semi-retired from the Alaska music scene (singer, sound tech, stage manager, logistics).
When the blog was chosen to represent Alaska in the DNCC State Blogger Pool at the Denver Convention, I attended with the help of Alaska Real blogmistress, Writing Raven and my daughter Morrigan. On August 29th, one day after Barack Obama's inspiring speech at Invesco Field , my life took another turn as it did for all Alaska bloggers when Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen to be John McCain's VP running mate. Since then, I've either assisted or have been interviewed by media from the UK, Italy, Australia and Germany as well as national media outlets such as Wall Street Journal, NY Times, ABC Good Morning America's Kate Snow, National Journal, Dallas Morning News, LA Times, and NPR.
Presently, I work as a freelance writer, PR, event coordinator, community organizer, wife to computer programmer Josh and mother to 11-year-old Morrigan. Our family especially enjoys our summers in Alaska where we get to subsistence set-net fish Sockeye salmon as well as halibut fish/whalewatch in the family's homemade aluminum boat, "The Neverdone" (when it's working). We reside in Anchorage, Alaska.
Origin of "Celtic Diva"
I've used "Celtic Diva" as a screen name since the early 1990's on Web TV.
"Celtic"
"Folks have asked about my Celtic heritage, especially in light of my name. What they don't realize is that I'm adopted. I was born Valerie Morehead of the Clan Muirhead. I was adopted at three-months-old by the Kellens. I always "knew" I was Celt even before really knew. I was drawn to all things Scottish, especially music. That's why my parents eventually told me at age 16."
"Diva"
"Linda is well-known in Alaska & beyond as the prominent progressive political blogger Celtic Diva of Celtic Diva?s Blue Oasis. But back in the day, the early 1990s, I knew her as Linda Kellen, a member of the local folk/rock band Sky is Blu, which amongst other things performed in at least a couple or so of the annual women?s show Celebration of Change, in which I also performed. And if you don?t already know, let me tell you: Linda is one fine damn singer."
I went on after the break-up of "Sky is Blu" to perform with various Alaska musicians and work with national folks like Bo Diddly, Coco Montoya, Debbie Davies, Taj Mahal, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Bad Company, Creedence Clearwater, Carny Wilson, etc...
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A bee on Dragon Tongue Stonecrop in my rock garden
August 2010
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Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 07:05:20 AM AKDT
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******************************UPDATE 2************************
In answer to Ivy's tweet, I said this:
@ivyfrye--Sarah Palin's babysitting hack tries to go all "Monty Python killer rabbit" in Twitter: http://divasblueoasis.com
Here was Ivy's response to me:
Ahh, thx! @celticdiva "Sarah Palin's babysitting hack" -- thx 2 all frivolous ethics filers checking out my PRO-PALIN pg! #spwbt #teamsarah
Here was my response back:
@ivyfrye --just following another unqualified Palin appointment who has no ethics; story here-- http://divasblueoasis.com
about 7 hours ago from Twitterrific in reply to ivyfrye
Amazingly, her tweets to me stopped and she blocked me from following her! I'll check regularly to see what idiocy she spews!
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Oh look, it's Palin's shopping buddy, babysitter and rabid attack bunny!!!!
Ivy Frye now works for SarahPAC--another quality Palin employee to work with Darth Stapletongue!
I saw this "tweet" from Ivy Frye this morning (that sounds like it came from a 5-year-old):
@SarahPalinLinks These are all bad: @AkSyrin @palin_deceiver (see his bio), @Emperor_Bob @celticdiva @Mudflats @GreatGrey @huge #spwbt
Oooooh...I'm so baaaaaaaaaaad...but as you can see, I'm in awesome company!
When I call Ivy a "rabid attack bunny" I'm actually being nice. There are other words I could use:
--Ivy Frye was known as Palin's overpaid babysitter:
Another confidante of Ms. Palin's is Ms. Frye, 27. She worked as a receptionist for State Senator Lyda Green before she joined Ms. Palin's campaign for governor. Now Ms. Frye earns $68,664 as a special assistant to the governor. Her frequent interactions with Ms. Palin's children have prompted some lawmakers to refer to her as "the babysitter," a title that Ms. Frye disavows.
--Ivy Frye as Palin's assistant and in the spirit of "openness" and "transparency," wanted to find out how to make State of Alaska purchased Blackberrys default to private Yahoo Accounts (therefore, very difficult/impossible to access through records requests). We know this because of an email to Anand Dubey, (Director of Enterprise Technology Services) from a record's request. We also know as the result of the email court case by Andree McLeod:
"There's a reason the governor should be using her own official e-mail channels, because of security and encryption," the lawyer said. "She's running state business out of Yahoo?"
On March 17, minutes after peppering a state official about whether e-mails about state business contained on a personal BlackBerry could become public, senior Palin aide Ivy Frye addressed a message to both Palins and two other aides: "In sum, it's just as I thought -- questions of confidentiality are still unanswered by law."
--Ivy Frye was the person who (again in the spirit of "openness" and "transparency") tried to intimidate blogger Ak Syrin (Sherry Whitstine):
And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor's career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.
"You should be ashamed!" Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. "Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!"
--Ivy Frye has demonstrated that she is willing to "give her all" for Sarah Palin. It appears from emails discovered between the two in records requests, that she was having a relationship with Alaska Associated Press writer, Steve Quinn.
He (Steve Quinn) is reportedly involved with one of her assistants, aka 'state babysitter' Ivy Frye. There are documented emails between the two that were released as part of the Troopergate investigation. I believe more were redacted. The AP needs to get Steve Quinn out of Alaska if it wants to restore it's reputation as an unbiased news source.
Soon after the revelation, Ivy was moved out of her job with Palin and Steve Quinn was whisked away from his AP job in Alaska.
--Ivy Frye is a lot like Palin in that she changes jobs like she changes clothes:
According to legislative sources, the governor has pardoned both Frank Bailey and Ivy Frye and plans on transferring them out of the governor's office over to the Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority (AIDEA).
Both Bailey and Frye have figured large in the operations of the governor's office and both have created more baggage for this administration than Louis Vittone.
Frye has held no fewer than four different positions since she was hired after helping on Palin's campaign back in 2006. Frye was originally in charge of Board's & Commissions until she made a mess out of that job and then she was transferred to the Department of Administration. That job lasted until the commissioner couldn't handle it anymore after Frye reportedly told her that she only reports to the governor. Then, Frye was moved into a position entitled special assistant to the governor, where among other things, Frye worked on ways to get around public disclosure laws by using her Blackberry.
I'd sure like to read her SarahPAC job description!
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Ivy has been spreading a number of lies about Andree McLeod:
Having been there, I was genuinely scared for Gov Palin when friv ethics filer andree mcleod stalked events/camped out in office
@C4P ethics filer mcleod "jumped" gov palin @ gop convent last yr-- a wk b4 trig was born! i distracted mcleod so gov could get to her suv.
None of that ever happened...but when has that bothered a Palinista?!
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