huffingtonpost.com — Grist reports that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin strongly opposes the Alaskan gas tax, threw money at Alaskans to quiet their concerns over rising energy costs, and "recently sued the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species."
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Closed AccountAug 30, 2008
tell me why our tax dollars should be wasted on saving a dumb bear?
Closed AccountAug 30, 2008
oh yeah and obama has experience...give me a break
Closed AccountAug 31, 2008
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alaskanakidSep 4, 2008
As a 35 year resident of Alaska (in Alaska your opinions will only be considered if you've lived here for decades) I'd like to tell people about Sarah Palin and her apparent views on the environment. I've watched her in action for the past 20 months. As a wildlife biologist I vote for who I think is going to work hardest to protect our fish and wildlife.Sarah Palin may like to snowmachine and hunt for moose, but she is anti-environment when she has to choose between fish & wildlife and big polluting mines. Here is the proof. At the web site below, play the video on the left side of the page that reads “Governor opposes Ballot Measure 4”<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/6xa6pf">http://tinyurl.com/6xa6pf</a>Read more about the proposed Pebble mine in Fish Alaska magazine, a sport fishing magazine put out by Alaskans (it's long, but please read the whole article)<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/5senuq">http://tinyurl.com/5senuq</a>Gov. Palin recently came out against Alaska ballot measure 4, a clean water initiative. It is illegal for the governor to take sides on a ballot initiative, but she did anyway, probably breaking the law. Her Department of Natural Resources web site had an information page that was clearly against measure 4, and they were forced to take it down. Measure 4 was aimed at stopping the huge Pebble mine project, which scientists believe has a very high probability of polluting the watershed that drains into the largest salmon producing river system in the world. It will be the largest open-pit mine in the world. Palin's illegal stand against ballot measure 4, and the millions of dollars of misleading advertising by the two foreign mining companies behind the Pebble, who have a terrible track record of pollution, helped the initiative fail in last Tuesday's election. The Pebble mine, if allowed to proceed, will likely become Alaska's worst environmental disaster. The scope of this project is just unbelievable. Even the Juneau Empire (owned by a conservative Georgia newspaper chain) came out in favor of last Tuesday's ballot measure 4. <a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/6gbyvt">http://tinyurl.com/6gbyvt</a>Ballot measure 4 was an attempt to bring back the clean water regulations that were in effect before Palin's predecessor, former Republican governor Frank Murkowski, gutted them by allowing mixing zones in salmon streams.<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/644y69">http://tinyurl.com/644y69</a>I guess it's not unusual for someone who doesn't believe in evolution to not give a damn about the environment.<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/69ld67">http://tinyurl.com/69ld67</a>Sarah Palin has been on TV in the last few days using the term “environmental extremists”. That speaks volumes.I became a life member of the NRA when I was a teenager. Being an NRA member doesn't mean you are going to automatically work to protect sport fishing resources.And Palin is talking about Joe Biden voting against the Trans-Alaska pipeline way back when.<a class="user" href="http://tinyurl.com/5vnaz7">http://tinyurl.com/5vnaz7</a>She doesn't mention the fact that the original pipeline proposal was for 800 miles of mostly buried pipe, much of it through permafrost, which would have been an environmental disaster, and was an engineering folly. I was on the pipeline VSM (vertical support members) drill crew in 1975 that bored through ten-foot layers of crystal clear ice. We drilled holes about 20 to 60 feet deep from Franklin Bluffs all the way to Prudhoe Bay. We saw lots of ice, and the rule was we had to drill an extra ten feet deeper for every ten feet of ice that we encountered. The VSM's, which hung the pipe high above the ground, used passive refrigeration to keep the ground frozen. They were not part of the original proposal. The original pipeline proposal was irresponsible, and pure fantasy. Joe Biden's vote against the pipeline, as proposed, three years after environmentalists and Native leaders stopped the original plan, is not surprising. Why trust an industry that, only three years earlier, wanted to bury hot pipe in ice?Joe Biden favored a pipeline that would run from Alaska into Canada and join Canada’s pipeline system to the midwest US, giving us the oil instead of the Asian markets where the oil companies could make a little more money. He didn’t trust single-hull tankers to move all of that oil, so he voted no. He was right about those single-hull tankers; we got the Exxon-Valdez disaster. To this day the oil remains in the sediments of Prince William Sound, ruining the beach sediments and benthic sediments.
alaskanakidSep 4, 2008
Iphis said "I bet Exxon and Shell are lined up to buy her mansions after she gets out of politics."It's funny you should say that. In my 35 years in Alaska I've seen some state legislators make decisions that were so very one-sided in favor of the oil industry, and completely against the best interests of Alaska citizens, that I've always suspected that some of them were probably on the take, you know, secret Swiss bank accounts, that sort of thing. Palin raised the oil industries' taxes, so I don't think they are going to buy her mansions. She did, however, favor big dirty mining over clean water, and that project is worth 500 billion dollars....Makes one wonder.
alaskanakidSep 4, 2008
She was chosen because the "base" doesn't like McCain. McCain doesn't believe any of their whacky, extremist, stuff, like the world is only 6000 years old, lets teach creationism in schools, no abortions (hell, we need a few more billion people on this little planet), and believe in god or die. Palin DOES believe all of this nonsense, so here come da base. That the straight talk express will chose someone, one cancerous-weak-heartbeat away from the presidency, who is diametrically opposed to everything he believes in, shows how desperate he is to win. It's very sad to see.
Closed AccountSep 7, 2008
NO MORE REDNECKS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Closed AccountSep 7, 2008
y'all o'come all ye faithfullIs this how you want your president to talk like.NO MORE REDNECKS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
bradicalSep 9, 2008
Palin's record is hilarious. Comments that put them as "equal in my book" are hilarious. What would be really funny would be a video of people all over the world laughing at the fact that we may have another creationist as a president or VP. This article sums up her wonderful record well on lots of issues: <a class="user" href="http://re.meadial.com/home/2008/9/8/politics-sarah-palin-who-is-she.html">http://re.meadial.com/home/2008/9/8/politics-sarah ...</a>