• Monday: Special guest, Ted Nugent. Description: Ted takes the ladies out in the Michigan backwoods to bow hunt bucks; Elisabeth models the latest in fitted camo pants.
• Tuesday: Special guest, Nancy Pfotenhauer. Description: Nancy teaches the ladies how to make a real American quilt.
• Wednesday: Special guest, Michelle Bachmann. Description: The best recipes for freedom fries on a budget.
• Thursday: Special guest, Judge Judy. Description: a rousing debate on the Supreme Court, polar bears.
• Friday: Special guest, Pastor Thomas Muthee. Description: on a very special episode of Mavericks in the Morning, Muthee helps the ladies bring Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston back from the grave using only a Ouija board, the power of Christ's love, and some fishing tackle.

Bonus! For an early preview of Mavericks in the Morning, check out this clip of Hasselbeck's continued obsession with Bill Ayers, which she claims is far more relevant than the totally sexist focus on Sarah Palin's $150,000 wardrobe.

[Image via Time]

Palin-Hasselbeck Chat With Fox News [Time]

Earlier: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Introduces Sarah Palin: Watch At Your Own Risk
Minnesota's Michelle Bachmann Doesn't Think All Liberals Are Un-American
Jon Stewart To McCain Advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer: What the Pfuck?
Comic Confrontations: Judge Judy vs. Sarah Palin

According to Talk Left, "Palin opposes subsistence protections in marine waters, on many of the lands that Natives selected under their 1971 land claims settlement with the state and federal governments, and in many of the rivers where Alaska Natives customarily fish." An unnamed lawyer says, "Palin’s lawsuits are a direct attack on the core way of life of Native Tribes in rural Alaska." Evon Peter, former Chief of the Neetsaii Gwich'in tribe from Arctic Village, whose wife is Navajo (from Arizona) is probably not voting McCain/Palin. He writes:

Palin chooses options that very well may result in the extinguishment of some of the last remaining intact ecosystems and original cultures in all of North America. Palin is also promoting off shore oil drilling and increased mining in sensitive areas of Alaska, all of which would have a lifespan of far fewer years than my grandfather walked on this earth and which would not even make a smidgen of an impact on national consumption rates or longer term sustainability. McCain was once a champion of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and it is sad to see, that with Palin on board, he is no longer vocal and perhaps even giving up on what he believes in to satisfy Palin's position.

Isn't it strange that the woman who claims to love the outdoors also chants "drill, baby drill" ? As Peter points out, "Palin also chose not to mention the connection between oil development and global warming, which is wreaking havoc on Alaska Native villages." And does it make any sense that the Governor supports hunting and fishing for sport, but not for subsistence and tradition?

Palin's Poor Record on Alaskan Native Issues [Talk Left]
An Alaska Native Speaks Out on Palin, Oil, and Alaska [Organic Consumers Association]

Photo via Field & Stream

As always, Anne Lamott has some good ideas. Go out and work for Obama, she advises, and talk about his strengths rather than Palin's (or McCain's) weaknesses. Drink a lot of water. Donate your old clothes to charity. But these are things we should be doing anyway, not because we're so poleaxed by the McCain-Palin ticket that we need some kind of coping strategy.

Lamott says Palin fills her with "such existential doubt, such a sense of impending doom and disbelief, that only the Germans could possibly have words for it." And that the Alaskan governor's ignorance "makes anyone of decency feel nauseated — spiritually, emotionally and physically ill." This seems like a classic case of what my mom would call "letting them get to you," which is exactly what you weren't supposed to do to playground bullies, younger siblings, or anyone you hoped to defeat. Or — and perhaps this is more important — anyone you hoped to get along with.

Thing is, Alaskans seem to love Sarah Palin — one poll put her approval rating at 80%. And one poll today has McCain getting 48% of the vote, while Obama gets only 47%. This means there are plenty of people — and plenty of decent people, too — who are thinking of voting McCain-Palin. If we want to change their minds, we can't act like their candidates are Lord Voldemort and the Wicked Witch of the West. We need to combat them as people, and to do that we need to call them by their names — even if Flack Gobbler and Claw Washout are funnier.

A Call To Arms[Salon]