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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Has anybody noticed that the S.S. McCain, is about to catch a torpedo?
McCain's biggest weakness (electorally speaking) is the relative apathy and demoralization of republicans. Look, we all know here what Palin is and how bad she'd be. But the more you harp on it, the more red meat you provide McCain to incense and rally his troops with. Let it go, focus on the issues. If you play the 'character' game, you're playing to McCain's strength.
Hoot owl said: "Heck besides "Klytus" logging on with his alternate alias and talking to himself and half a dozen other clowns is there anyone left that will even ADMIT to supporting the Obama! shipwreck?"
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Looks pretty close to me.
Unless Klytus actually has that much time and that many aliases to respond to all these polls...
Let's not forget, they belong to a church which preaches wives are to lovingly obey the will of their husbands. The wife is to serve the man, and cannot refuse him. Technically, according to the teachings of her cult-like church, she is Todd's property.
Explains plenty.
Odd that a story about Todd Palin would leave out that rather critical fact - the guy is a long-time employee of British Petroleum, who has great interest in seeing Alaskan natural gas (leases held by BP) shipped down to Alberta for tar sand processing - and no, Sarah Palin's pipeline deal is not intended for the lower 48.
Why can't the press bring themselves to cover this story? Palin's Pipeline to the Tar Sands is designed to benefit the wealthiest corporations and investors on the face of the planet, and will be an environmental disaster that will do nothing to ensure U.S. energy security.
In fact, now that the economy has tanked, there is a steep decline in demand for fossil fuel products (thus oil drops sub $100), and that means that there is no way that tar sands projects are going to be economically viable in the near future.
Please, go to the following links:
http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/pipeline/story/420067.html
Palin urges 'yes' vote on TransCanada pipeline plan
TRANSCANADA: Legislators told that rejecting plan would put state at mercy of major Slope producers.
Nice picture of the Palins consulting with one another during that meeting.
To fill its pipeline with gas, TransCanada would need to attract big customers -- chiefly Conoco, BP and Exxon Mobil. Those companies have been reluctant to produce their gas until they know for sure how the state would tax it.
This is hardly an independent pipeline - the suppliers and the customers are the same corporations! Exxon, BP and Conoco have gas leases in Alaska and tar sand leases in Alberta and have been retrofitting refineries to deal with heavy tar oil all across the U.S. (in the CA Bay Area, definitely).
That's the deal that Palin engineered for BP, Exxon and Conoco - and originally, she had intended to get in bed with Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy to build the pipeline, but they backed out due to concerns about corruption charges:
www.gov.state.ak.us/agia/PublicApplications/Declined/midamerican_letter.pdf -
Funny how the world works - Buffet appears to be backing both Obama and Palin...right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGE3cX3ZWQ
Well, I guess I'm really not at all surprised that this story is getting zero coverage, outside of the oil industry journals, that is.
PALIN: “And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources.”
I mean, are all press outlets in the U.S. under the control of fossil fuel interests, or what?
I mean, are all press outlets in the U.S. under the control of fossil fuel interests, or what?
So how did LBJ rise to power again?
Ok. The editors at Salon need to get some therapy to help them get over their Palin obsession.
Is Salon of all places critical of a first spouse getting involved in the business of government? It's not like Salon supported a candidate who claims 8 years of being a presidential first spouse as governing experience on her resume. Oh wait...
p.s. There's a little matter of a financial meltdown going on right now, a loom recession, and a stock market in turmoil.
I know, it's an annoying distraction from important issues like whether hunting wolves is a bad thing or whether the jet was actually sold on ebay (as opposed to put on sale there). Enquiring minds want to know.
Women who have families and husbands that earn less and take care of the kids. For starters.
Hmmm. As of 2002, the Alaska governor's salary was about 82K; Todd Palin was making somewhere between 100K and 120K at his "seasonal" BP job, before it occurred to someone that there might be a conflict of interest, what with the pipeline negotiations and all. Plus the money from his other seasonal job, fishing. Guess they took a pay cut for the prestige.
So yeah, she was the breadwinner for the last couple of years - unless he's getting paid while on leave of absence. And he's spending so much more time with the kids, that they don't have to have a nanny any more. Oh wait, they do still have a nanny, and Todd spends his time hanging around the governor's office - except for the 300+ days they spend at home in Wasilia, charging the state a per diem for the privilege of having the governor comfy in her small town instead of actually working in the state capitol.
Concern trolls for the lose.
I'm sure it would to you.
Now try spending some time pivoting the late up to date polling data from all polls, say on realclearpolitics.
It's bad. And not getting better.
Florida and Ohio are gone. 5-8 points McCain has held constant. Washington, Michigan Pennsylvania,Wisconsin, Minnesota dead-tie. Obama loses even one of those and it's all over.
Hell,Obama has a 2 point lead in New Jersey. Even New York is somewhat in play.
So yes, I can see why you WOULD want to hang out on Salon with the converted (all what, 30 of them) but you're in for some increasingly bad weeks ahead.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
