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   mreinbold Posted 5:05 am
   05 Sep 2008

   Foreign policy expertiseObama? Oh yes, he gave a speech at a rock concert in Berlin, where he trashed America. You people know he is a lightweight. You are obsessed with Sarah Palin. I suggest you start wearing adult diapers because she is scaring it out of you. I can smell it.

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   Russ Posted 5:15 am
   05 Sep 2008

   Alaskan petrostateBut this principle doesn't exclusively apply to "bad guy" dictatorships. Business is booming in the pro-American Gulf monarchies. And also in Alaska! What for most of the world is the "problem" of sky-high energy prices is the solution for places like Alaska and Russia that don't have real economies but are seeing prosperity anyway thanks to skyrocketing oil and gas prices.
   Alaska should indeed be looked at as a petrostate, and as a resource plunder state in general (timber, fish and crabs, trophy hunting; not to mention how, with the blessing of the state government,  it's literally overrun by "vermin on machines", ORV riders).
   I'm not sure why it doesn't occur to Matt, this is a "bad guy" dictatorship!
   Alaska has little in the way of any legitimate, sustainable economy. Rather, its activity is based on looting, aggressive begging (the federal dollars cascade in for these welfare mooches), and buying off the citizenry by spreading around some of the swag (the oil dividends, pumped from public land, which actually belong to ALL the people).  
   Looked at in that light, it's not at all clear why you'd regard an Alaska politician as expert in "the" energy crisis. Alaska politicians never worry that energy may be getting too expensive and think about how to respond. They worry that energy might get too cheap! Alaska politicians don't develop expertise in energy conservation measures or alternative fuels, they develop expertise in fighting with out-of-state executives about how to divide the profits that come from expensive energy. That's the energy problem people think about in Alaska, Oklahoma, and parts of Texas and Louisiana but it's not the energy problem people worry about in Michigan or Ohio or Virginia or Florida or New Mexico or Colorado or most anywhere else in the country.
   This is a textbook example of the simple fact, there is no such thing as America, except in the purely nominal and legalistic sense. What Palin represents is in a zero-sum death struggle with the rest of the "country", and there can be no compromise because there is no common ground, even though people delude themselves with all manner of anodyne empty words derived from politics, religion, "patriotism", etc.
   
   

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   globetrotter855 Posted 5:29 am
   05 Sep 2008

   High gas prices affects us globallyJapan has seen a huge decline in automobile sales due to the horrible economy and high gas prices Source
   
   Just more proof that we must consider our actions in a global perspective and cut this offshore oil drilling.

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   mreinbold Posted 6:43 am
   05 Sep 2008

   Cutting offshore drillingwill lower gasoline prices? What am I missing here? Do you people know Econ 101?

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   amazingdrx Posted 4:23 pm
   05 Sep 2008

   Her speech writerKnows how to use Wikipedia.  That's the extent of Palin's energy, foreign policy, and abstinence education expertise.
   Plus, that Levi kid is a bunghole.  She doesn't seem to have instilled much of a positive self image in her daughter.  That's a shame.
   Word is she will never answer any questions from the press or general public, so we're pretty much left to guess on what she actually knows about, if anything.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   amazingdrx Posted 4:29 pm
   05 Sep 2008

   EinyDo you ever use that meat in your head to think, or is it just there to keep your skull from collapsing?
   Don't strain yourself trying to answer.  Check Wikipedia, like Sarah's speechwriter does.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   amazingdrx Posted 4:40 pm
   05 Sep 2008

   Expertrise?Can she install her own false eyelashes?  That would be something anyway.
   Otherwise the nuclear football may have to be hidden from her, lest "god" commands her to nuke the beauty queen who beat her in the miss Alaska pageant.  
   She has analyzed the Iraq war policy in a theological mode, claiming the whole thing is "god's" idea.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   mreinbold Posted 12:21 am
   06 Sep 2008

   amazingdrxWere you aware that for half of Sarah's speech the teleprompter had gotten far ahead because of breaks for applause. She was winging it, quite admirably I think. Look out when the Messiah is off the prompter. Uh...der..uh...duh. He makes an ass of himself. Oh, he is a Democrat, after all. Oh, tell me that the Messiah writes all his own speeches. Sure. I am going to hold onto my seat because there seems to be a vacuum in northern Wisconsin trying to suck me in.

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   amazingdrx Posted 2:46 am
   06 Sep 2008

   Do tell einy?Did you see Sarah haltingly reading the litany of McCain's torture story, yet again, off of a script in Cedarburg yesterday?  
   McCain looked tortured and embarrassed standing behind her.  How many times will McCain/Palin handlers make them repeat this exploitation of war hero McCain's pain?
   Will either of them ever go off script and honestly address american voters?  Will they realize that in order to vote for a president we need to see what that candidate is actually made of, rather than what handlers and speech writers think we ought to see?
   I doubt it.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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    mreinbold Posted 3:49 am
    06 Sep 2008

    amazingdrxThe media are on your side. They are in overdrive in their efforts to discredit her. They are making asses of themselves and are making her a folk hero with the American people. Talk about the law of unintended consequences.

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    wesrolley Posted 8:19 am
    06 Sep 2008

    Palin and the MediaThe best analysis was given by Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Bill Moyers' Journal last night. Examples where the media, in their haste to get the story out, blew it.. other examples where they got it out quickly and accurately.  
    All I look for in the media is a fidelity to fact, a term that Jamieson used.  Lacking that, all we have is a James Carville - Mary Matalin side show.
    
    Wes Rolley
    
    
    
    CoChair - EcoAction Committee
    
    Green Party US

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    wesrolley Posted 8:21 am
    06 Sep 2008

    The Community Organizer and the GovernorJesus Christ was a community organizer.
    Pontius Pilate was a Governor.
    Oh how we let politicians play with the language to work over our minds.
    
    Wes Rolley
    
    
    
    CoChair - EcoAction Committee
    
    Green Party US

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    Pangolin Posted 2:00 pm
    06 Sep 2008

    The media on whose side?There's a Jon Stewart clip on YouTube that shows quite clearly that the media is tying themselves in knots to sugar coat Sara Palin. The woman is an idiot when it comes to energy policy, raising children of political ethics. I guess she's great at getting other talking heads on her side but that doesn't heat the house in the winter does it?
    All the oil and gas in Alaska will not make us energy independent. Actually if the Earth were a thin crust of iron floating on a ball of petroleum burning oil wouldn't be sustainable. The only thing that changes is the date that we have to stop.
    The data is quite clear that we should have stopped burning fossil fuels several years ago if we wanted to maintain the climate that feeds us now. We have no idea what the changes we are going to get will mean for feeding ourselves in the future.
    
    Put the Carbon Back

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    saluki Posted 2:51 pm
    06 Sep 2008

    Gotta be some more dirt around here somewheremreinbold:
    
    "They are in overdrive in their efforts to discredit her."
    That became apparent when they came out with the story that her husband had had a DUI conviction.  Of course that conviction was 22 years ago - probably in his early 20s.  But when they published the story, they didn't mention that it was 22 years ago.  You can only imagine the muckraking that they are going through to find such stories.
    Ted Kennedy could probably be issued a DUI any time he gets behind the wheel.  But you won't find the media exploiting that fact.

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    saluki Posted 3:07 pm
    06 Sep 2008

    Only the left wing politicians are in the way."All the oil and gas in Alaska will not make us energy independent."
    Now that's a dumb assertion.  Who cares if it doesn't make us energy independent.  It can make us less energy dependent.  That combined with drilling in the Gulf, off the coast of Florida, off the coast of California, other places in the US interior, and using the 1.5 trillion barrels shale oil in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming can make us 100% energy independent.
    Get educated - please.
    http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/publicatio ...
    And I haven't even gotten into all of the new and extensive fields of natural gas that we are finding in the US.
    We have more than enough US energy to stop sending 500 billion to foreign countries every year.  And if we begin a steady, unhurried, program of nuclear construction projects we will never have an energy problem - ever.
    It appears that Palin has a much better grip on the energy picture than anyone on this forum.
    
    

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    saluki Posted 3:12 pm
    06 Sep 2008

    The petroleum ball"Actually if the Earth were a thin crust of iron floating on a ball of petroleum burning oil wouldn't be sustainable. The only thing that changes is the date that we have to stop."
    Yeah, that would be some time after the sun burns out.
    
    

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