Once is a slip up. Twice, definiely her fault. 4 times = strategy
Sarah Palin likes to describe McCain as her running mate. Interesting since the VP is usually the running mate. Palin knows that she’s going to be the next blundering President! Someone make this joke stop, it’s not funny anymore.
Not only does Sarah Palin get to avoid testifying in Troopergate (her very own Alaskan Governor abuse of power scandal), her husband gets to avoid court too. Although for Palin and palls, this desired optional sopena subjugation seems like the best way out of a sticky situation, mightn’t make bad president? Next time I am subpoenaed, I’m just going to not go too. I’ve already decided.
Can I avoid court? I don’t feel like it’s an appropriate part of my life either. I’d rather go to the gym, or on vacation… I’m sure I’d have better things to do with myself than testify in court if the situation arose.
Who else would avoid court if they could because they have more important things to do?
Dog, pick those suckers up!
When you’re subpoenaed and called in to testify for an investigation don’t you have to testify? Isn’t that the law? We have a legal system for a reason remember?
Sarah Palin disagrees.
Here’s a video clip from the Globe and Mail:
Yet another example of living above the law- a nice Republican thing to do… Maybe Palin’ll shoot her former brother in law in the face and get away with that too…
Just so you know, Sarah Palin, as Governor of Alaska, attempted to block a pro environment tax that would effect the shipping ports in the California. She appealed to the Governator to veto the proposed 60$ tax on containers passing through the ports in a letter, describing the potential negative impacts on the prices of goods in Alaska. And she insinuated that an added tax would drive traffic away from LA ports. (Yes, she thinks that trade will move *away* from Los Angeles, the biggest, baddest, most influential city on the west coast of the US…)
The tax bill, written by Democratic Senator Alan Lowenthal (Long Beach) wrote the legislation to fund the biggest pollution reduction effort in California of the year. The ports pollute more due to a lack of train tracks leading all the way to the boats, necessitating trucks to transport the containers from the boats to the trains waiting just a few miles away, incurring many hours of truck idling time (when the truck is hanging out with the engine on even while it’s not moving). Lowenthal noted that the aditional $400 million dollars brought in by the port tax would fund projects like cleaner-burning truck and train engines and enacting methodologies aimed at reducing the very polluting truck idling time.
Thanks LA Times for showing us that Palin’s attempt to block environmental legislation in the present will most likely carry over into the future unless she gets a message from God and the Almighty changes her mind. I think the odds of that happening are less than the odds of Sarah Palin becoming President in McCain’s first year in office…
According to CNBC the odds of Palin becoming President are the same as:
# Kobe Bryant hitting two consecutive three-point attempts.
# On your next try, pulling a red M&M out of the bag.
# A rainy day in El Paso or San Diego.
# That you will be delayed on two consecutive flights into Newark Airport.
# Escaping jail in Monopoly by rolling a double.
# That your birthday falls on a Wednesday.
# That a hurricane hits Louisiana in any given year.
Those are the odds – about 1 in 6 – that McCain will die in his first term.
Scared, yet?
Just in case you’re feeling down about all the crazy things that have happened in the political arena in the last few weeks, this video will make you feel better. It comes from Australia:
And if you’d like to thank the creator: visit his blog!
SNL finally put the Tina Fey Sarah Palin skit up. Here’s the link to another website:
My fascination with the solar industry began just after my plane touched down at LAX, the airport in Los Angeles. I’d never been there before. I didn’t know anything about the place. Surprised doesn’t quite cover the emotions I experienced that first day…
I believe that solar panels on every available surface in the city of Los Angeles will go far to improve the quality of life and effect the smog layer (some time in the future). Los Angeles should have been all over solar panels years ago. It’s amazing they’re not everywhere already. Finally, individuals in the city are moving in the right direction:
Los Angeles’ fantastic movie industry moves forward. Now lets get the studios, the CNN building, production companies and everyone else in on the solar panel craze! I urge all Los Angelenos who go to the movies to head on down the the Fairfax 5 movie theater to spend your money in an environmentally conscious way!!
Alternately: Screw you Arclight- I’m going to Fairfax.
I blog green. People read the blog and hopefully think green thoughts, if only for a second, after digesting a particular green tidbit. I think that’s a successful form of marketing. One of many successful forms of marketing available. Perhaps, if green bits and bites permeated cranial activity more often, channeling the plethora of many inputs available, green thoughts might germinate into green actions. Right?
The marketer’s biggest concern involves creating the possibility for green mental flashes to go off, exposing as many potential green activists to become/promote/join/involve/act…. right? Inclusion in a blog would be a great bonus for any company’s marketing team, yet another method of getting the word out. Right? Marketing = more people know what’s going on. Knowledge is power. Power is action. Thus, Marketing = action. That’s the point, right?
I’m particularly interested in this particular green company’s marketing team. Before I throw myself at them and ask to join their team, I’d like to know how the team works (in general). I just want to know how they’re doing their marketing. I want to compare this certain company with the other companies I’ve found who do similar things in different parts of the world. I think it’s an interesting study. So I emailed a questions and got a response: she send me letter to the appropriate party and she’ll get back to you. Yes! The wrote me back!
A week goes by, I email again, still hoping to learn about XY and Z from the marketing department, yada yada nada. A week goes by. A phone call. So you have some questions. Yes, I do. Phone call guy, an assistant marketer, asked that I send him an email of my questions so he could answer them.
Curious about the marketing of your company. Your membership growth from opening until now is X in 3 years: What’s your rate of new member acquisition? I’d love to hear about the process, do you go to them? Do they come to you? Do your members refer friends who become new members? Are they rewarded for that? Who were your first members? Did the company have a prior relationship with them before they became members?
The last question might be prying. But I wrote in the letter that that question wasn’t the important one. I’m just curious if the owner set up his membership based organization knowing who the founding members would be before hand. I’ve run a few membership-based businesses, stating in their 6th monthafter opening. I wasn’t there for the very beginning. I’m curious about the first month of operations…
A week later, the evening of labor day, wrote another note mentioning that I was still interested in my questions. I wanted it to be in the top of the email stack the next morning after the long weekend. A week now, still nothing.
The mid-term marks for this campaign and the marketing department gets an F in fulfilling their mandate. A green marketing team, it is not. How is the self-regulated Greenhouse gas emissions market going to develop if information about new members is withheld after such direct questioning? I would think that I was a bonus, an easy sell, a prey to be led down the path right into the jaws of awaiting organization, ready to inculcate me into their ranks and secure my continue membership for life. Or maybe I know someone who wants to join. Maybe my dad runs a giant toy manufacturing plant in China and I might have the connections to potentially break international borders on this idea. How are we supposed to grow if those individuals in charge of growth are not even putting their best efforts into informing the global community of all their possibilities. Maybe that’s thinking too big for some people, but ultimately, isn’t that the point?
Does anyone who markets for a living or is involved with spreading the word, the good word, the new word, the green word, or professional involved in communications, marking, sales etc basically anyone… How of/on base is this? When a question is asked of a membership-based business, or any business based on the new business practices of transparency and accountability (I know it’s funny that those are newish concepts…) isn’t getting an answer an important part of the connection making process? That might eventually lead to a sale/close/new member/ or spread of knowledge at the very least?
A piece of arctic ice the size of Montreal has disappeared. The “centuries-old ice shelf” melted, broke up and now there’s a giant river running through a chasm up there in the north. Climate change much? (Science uses EVIDENCE to prove the truth of things.) Experts predict that climate change reversal is no longer possible, check out the yahoo video. The experts point out that in the place of the giant pieces of ice, fresh water lakes filled with various microbes remain. Here are some potential end of world story for you triggered by the thought of unknown microbes: diseases, invasion, zombies…
I know American and Canadian news varies. I didn’t speak up during the 9/11 disaster when the information passed to Canadians and the news force-fed to the Americans looked completely different, so I vow to not let that happen again. Let’s be clear: Sarah Palin doesn’t think climate change is the fault of humans, she’s an evangelical expert, her evidence probably has something to do with an unprovable force that may or may not use fire and brimstone techniques to keep humans in line*. She wants to drill drill drill, get that oil, burn it up and doesn’t think that’ll effect any terrestrial bodies that we may or may not inhabit. And if she doesn’t get what she wants, she might fire you**! She fired everyone in Alaska who didn’t support her after she took office, so don’t naively think your job is safe. (There’s a character attestation for you, John Voight.) She scares me. I have no faith in the egocentric Conservative Americans because I know that they’re going to fall for all that Republican crap, again.
Some nice tidbits: *TIME Magazine did an article about when Sarah Palin attempted to BAN BOOKS in the PUBLIC LIBRARY. Thank you library blogger. The head librarian of the library “resigned.”
**Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska by a grand total of 617 votes. Her opponent received 413 votes. Total. Thank you to the Anchorage Daily News.
And by the way, all you Americans watching your American news and saying that you’re going to move to Canada if the Republicans get elected again, I know you’re full of crap. Canada doesn’t want you anyway. Well, I guess Alberta wouldn’t mind so much. Just don’t come to Quebec, it’s too awesome here to be polluted by American paunch… Actually, let’s spin this a bit more positively: America, you know what you have to do. It requires action and votes to make America become the country everyone always knew it could be- before it was hijacked. Go back to that happy place and you’ll once again earn the respect of the world. You can do it!
More on all this later…
This just in: another blogger posted these videos of Sarah Palin in her church in Alaska…. Is this election going to be a giant leap forwards into the future or a giant step backwards into the past? Americans will decide.
Here’s the link to the letter circulating about Sarah Palin. Holy balls.
From: http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate
Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008
Alright, some very cool news: I’ve just read about Dow Corning, a cool companyin MICHIGAN (hooowwhat?) that manufactures a new silicon material for solar panels. CHEERS!!
Do I hear JOB OPPORTUNITIES opening up in MICHIGAN?
Oh right- it’s still in developmental phases… But there’s a start!! Blow blow! Fan that flame! Dump some $$ (responsibly) and set up INCENTIVES! Tax breaks, grants, feed-in tariffs, send someone to Germany, do what they’re doing, COPY THEM! (I’ll go, I promise, I’ll learn, I’ll bring back the info. I volunteers. I’ll learn German tomorrow. I’m serious if you’re serious.) …
Actually, I’ve got some even cooler news. I know everyone thinks that synthetic silicon for solar panels is the biggest, baddest new thing. Cooler than even solar jobs beginning in Michigan is the fact that Timminco already started production right here in the province of Quebec! Yes, Bencancour, Quebec, home of the specialty ferrosilicon prodution facility. Their stock did very well with its IPO, according to my cousin in med school (illusion to authority). But it’s actually true, good money acomin in synthetic silicon.
There was a run on silicon in 1996 and solar panel production, uh… paused. I hope that doesn’t happen again. We need them. Yesterday. On every rooftop in Los Angeles (what a pit). Well, actually, we need them in New York too. And Philly. And other places with buildings and roofs. Put a system on a tree house and the tree-houses of tomorrow will become wicked ass club houses… I mean, if we have trees left…
