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• Tuesday, September 2, 2008 02:27 AM

  Loyal and obedient - to BP, Exxon and Conoco.

  If you haven't ever read Belaqua Jones and his Letters to George, you're missing out: http://belacquajones.blogspot.com/

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  Why I Heart Sarah Palin

  Dear George,

  My heart palpitated when John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential choice. What excites me is that, if elected, she will be but a fraction of a heartbeat away from the presidency. At his age, the odds of McCain finishing out two terms are nil.

  When she ascends to the Oval Office, she will continue a tradition that you began: The Age of Airhead Leadership.

  You are living proof that the ill-equipped and unprepared can lead the free world because all a president has to do is what his corporate employers tell him to do.

  By God, if an ex-cheerleader can lead America, then an ex-beauty queen can do the same!

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  Here is a picture of tar sands - not a moose in sight, though:

  http://glendonrootsshoots.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/tar-sands-collage.jpg

  What does that have to do anything? Well, Palin's chief legacy is a $500 million state subsidy for a pipeline that will connect Alaskan natural gas (owned by Exxon, BP, and Conoco) to Alberta tar sands (owned by the same people).

  Tar sands are expensive to process as well as very polluting, but with oil well over $100, all of a sudden they are profitable to develop - as long as people are willing to put up with poisoned water and air and the destruction of vast areas of land.

  Natural gas should not be used to run tar sand extraction - it should just be used as is.

  —CargoCult Read CargoCult's other letters
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