Palin and Cronies Won’t Testify September 18, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in economics, politics.Tags: law, Palin lives above the law, Sarah Palin, troopergate
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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…
Palin’s Preposterous Presumption in California September 18, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, development, economics, politics.Tags: Alaska, California ports, Democrat Alan Lowenthal, environment, pollution, Sarah Palin, shipping news, taxes
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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?
an elections Feel Good Moment September 16, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in family, politics.Tags: good news, McCain, Obama, RNC, Sarah Palin
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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:
Holy Shit America: Climate Change vs Sarah Palin September 5, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, development, green living, politics.Tags: 9/11, alberta, arctic ice, ban books, canada, climate change, evangelical expert, ice shelf, quebec, Sarah Palin, wasilla alaska
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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
America Again- Take Notes About Sarah Palin September 1, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in development, politics.Tags: hunting, oil drilling, Sarah Palin
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Another blogger posted this information about Sarah Palin… Then I lost his blog address. I’ll find it and post it shortly: (bigeye.com, moveon.org, langreport.com have all printed up the same article so I don’t actually feel bad pasting it here. If you google “who is Sarah Palin?” it’s all over the web already, It’s here so that anyone who accidently clicks on my blog will get to read it too, it’s important:)
Who is Sarah Palin? Here’s some basic background:
* She was elected Alaska’s governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.1
* Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.2 *****
* She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. 3
* Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.4 ****
* She’s doesn’t think humans are the cause of climate change.5 *****
* She’s solidly in line with John McCain’s “Big Oil first” energy policy. She’s pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won’t be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.6
* How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.7 *****
This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.
We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here’s a sample:
She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK
She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She’s a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK
As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK
Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK
She’s vehemently anti-choice and doesn’t care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK
I think she’s far too inexperienced to be in this position. I’m all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn’t done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain’s part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he’ll get our vote by putting “A Woman” in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK
So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She’s a global warming denier who shares John McCain’s commitment to Big Oil. And she’s dramatically inexperienced.
In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he’s made a very dangerous decision for our country.
In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain’s vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.
Thanks for all you do.
–Ilyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. “Sarah Palin,” Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
2. “McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate,” NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=1
3. “Sarah Palin, Buchananite,” The Nation, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=2
4. “‘Creation science’ enters the race,” Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=3
5. “Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science,” Huffington Post, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17517&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=4
6. “McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy,” Sierra Club, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17518&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=5
“Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past,” League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17519&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=6
“Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor,” The Times of London, May 23, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17520&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=7
7 “McCain met Palin once before yesterday,” MSNBC, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=21119&id=13661-9090174-fX.u6Cx&t=8
She hates animals, the environment, other women, science and lives in Alaska. She hunts, ran a government for a few months and looks really good on camera. The religious right, big oil, drilling companies all love her. This can’t be good… In fact, it’s bad. Eloquent, I know.
I surmise that the end of the green movement is upon us. Public funding for research and development will be cut along with scientific research using stem cells, if they cut funding to planned parenthood the country will be overrun with stupid unwanted babies who in 20 years will run amok and trash the country (thank you Freakenomics)… Where the sense in that? Prevention, forethought, sense, reality… all lacking among the republicans of America…
VPs and recycling Montreal August 30, 2008
Posted by sunlightmyfire in business, green living, politics, recycling.Tags: breakfast, green ideas, McCain, recycling, Sarah Palin, thinking big
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McCain’s VP choice- Governor Sarah Palin. Am I surprised he picked a woman? Nope. Called that already. Way to play on upset democrats’ female presidential candidate desires. What does a ridiculously old, set in his ways, Internet retard need to balance out his Presidential ticket? A young, malleable, connected wild card- a woman would be the only choice enabling McCain to stand a chance. Way to use the Democratic Party’s great idea and twist it. According to republicans, a woman in the supporting role to the male lead is appropriate- now that America has been sensitized to the possibility of a woman leading the country… It’s not at if they’re so forward thinking that they came up with that idea on their own…
Wait- is that Fox news update about McCain suffering a stroke? Damn…
New and equally important topic- Recycling: Breakfast joints in the village of Westmount (in Montreal) must pay $450 to get a recycling bin to use every month. So instead of coughing up the money to recycle, they throw out plastic bread bags, dozens of glass juice bottles, milk cartons of various sizes, pop cans, sausage boxes… the list goes on. Employees aren’t allowed to take home the recycling either. They can’t be returned for money, left out for homeless people to reclaim, or even separated to give some good sumaritan the oportunity to do anything about it.
*The restaurants on St Catherine could form a recycling consortium to jointly get the recycling box and use it as one entity.
*The employees, 7 or 8, could divide up the recyclables and each do a part.
*They could lobby the village of Westmount to create recycling incentives by removing the fee, giving a tax credit, counter balancing the garbage pickup fee.
Unfortunately, by making green suggestions, jobs go on the line… After one job disappeared for attempted unionization, I’m not going it alone. It’s become an organizing challenge, one to be approached with care… Business owners are such Neanderthals. What century do we live in again? Where does it say that bad ideas never change and good ideas might end in tragedy?
Shout out to employers everywhere- if you find an individual who thinks big, doesn’t believe in “we can’t” and is willing to put in the extra effort to make things happen- you’d better recognize.
