Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is scheduled to accept the GOP vice presidential nomination tonight in St. Paul, Minn.
Grist readers know that the governor sports a colorful record on environmental issues. So, for all you greens who plan to watch the big speech tonight, here's a way to keep score (and numb the pain):
Listen closely to Gov. Palin's speech. If she mentions any of the following, drink the corresponding number of gulps of your favorite beverage.
1 Gulp:
- There are more polar bears now than 50 years ago.
- Drilling in ANWR (add another gulp for mention of an immediate effect on gas prices)
- Offshore drilling (add another gulp for mention of an immediate effect on gas prices)
- Hunting
- Alaska oil pipeline increased caribou herds
- Moose stew
2 Gulps:
- Bridge to nowhere
- Windfall profits tax on oil industry
- Standing up to "Big Oil"
Chug-a-Lug:
- Mention of "God" and "oil" in same sentence.
- Expressing doubt about human contributions to global warming.
Other suggestions for the game? Chime in below.
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Erik Hoffner Posted 10:33 am
03 Sep 2008
LOL
LOL. Good list. How about "children are not a choice." That ought to come up a few dozen times. The right is swinging into top gear on this, and equating choice directly with abortion, when it's actually just, well, a choice.
Erik
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MClemens Posted 12:28 pm
03 Sep 2008
take another drink...
...if you hear "Washington elitist" or "big brother" or anything to the tune of "media bully". Take two drinks for a mention of "the old boys network" or "experience" or "Maverick".
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mreinbold Posted 2:14 pm
03 Sep 2008
LOL
kinda like slavery was a "choice"
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wiscidea Posted 11:21 pm
03 Sep 2008
hockey mom
You forgot "hockey mom".
Heard it for only a few days and I'm already tired of it.
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mreinbold Posted 11:51 pm
03 Sep 2008
Change
Yes, and it would be a real change not to hear "change."
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amazingdrx Posted 1:08 am
04 Sep 2008
Hockey mom tradition
Does this make Bristol a hockey mom too? Becoming impregnated by a hockey player?
Or would her child have to become a hockey player, before she is declared an official hockey mom?
Enquiring minds need to know. If the baby is a girl, will she still play hockey? Do they call the them "baby daddies" in Alaska? "Baby hockey daddies"?
Would it constitute "change" for the new baby to play soccer, instead of hockey? So many vital questions. Will a hockey rink be installed in the whitehouse when McBush keels over?
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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MClemens Posted 1:26 am
04 Sep 2008
I don't see
a hockey rink being built at the white house but I could see a ginormous sports complex being built at Camp David...with taxpayer funds of course.
MClemens
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mreinbold Posted 1:33 am
04 Sep 2008
amazingdrx
Sounds like hard-hitting journalism. Do you, by chance, work for US Weekly?
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amazingdrx Posted 1:52 am
04 Sep 2008
Thanks einy!
Do you read drudge? And listen to "drug" limboob?
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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mreinbold Posted 2:23 am
04 Sep 2008
amazingdrx
Don't read Drudge a lot, just now and then. Listening right now to "the most dangerous man in America." Tune in, if you want to be informed, with something more than MSNBC talking points. Yes, they are really objective journalists, aren't they?
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amazingdrx Posted 2:52 am
04 Sep 2008
Hangover cure
Getting back to the original thread:
Ride your bike down to the local party headquarters and volunteer for Obama.
Spaceship earth is in peril. Better read Bucky's "operating manual for spaceship earth".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Manual_for_Spacesh ...
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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mreinbold Posted 3:55 am
04 Sep 2008
Spaceship Earth?
Oh, my God! Drive your Hummer down to McCain/Palin headquarters and let it idle.
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amazingdrx Posted 4:06 am
04 Sep 2008
Hehey
I knew you'd like Bucky's point of view einy!
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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mreinbold Posted 4:12 am
04 Sep 2008
More on Spaceship Earth
According to this notion, "the sun is our energy source." Whoa, we're told the sun cannot be resposnsible for global warming. I am really confused. Help me out here.
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