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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
...don't miss Sarah stomping Joe October 2nd. See what a fantastic vp she will be as she routes weasels from D.C.
Sarah Palen is running for president of the United States, period. This country is on the road to distruction and there are still people out there who haven't made a decision?!
Iraq strikes gas deal with Shell, 23 Sep 2008
Iraq has agreed to set up a joint venture with oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell to invest in developing the country's natural gas supply.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7631108.stm
Shell... they won Sarah Palin's bidding project for offshore oil leases, carried out in close cooperation with Randall Luthi's (Cheney's tool) corrupt mineral management service...
Athan Manuel, an offshore-drilling expert for the Sierra Club, said that the oil companies would be drilling "in an Arctic ecosystem that is frozen much of the time and, when it's not frozen, is full of other hazards such as huge floating chunks of ice that could be hazards to rigs and pipelines."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604451.html
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The U.S. Minerals Management Service said Wednesday it will offer oil and gas exploration rights next month to 29.7 million acres in the remote Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.
The decision to hold the February 6 lease sale, the first in the Chukchi since 1991, comes days before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether to list the polar bear as threatened and has drawn fire from environmentalists seeking to limit oil development in the area.
http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/28534
So Palin's "Old Boy Network" is the same network that Cheney is involved in - fossil fuel interests want access to whatever they want - Cheney got them into Iraq, Palin got them into the offshore Alaskan oilfields and brokered a Pipeline to the Tar Sands.
More to the point, the lying corporate-owned American press won't report on it. Instead, all you get is fluff - you don't get any analysis of the real issues.
And, of course, Palin will support Cheney's militaristic approach to controllign foreign oil resources, carried out under the cover of "anti-terrorism".
The two biggest deals that Palin engineered (Chukchi sea oil lease sales and the Pipeline to the Tar Sands) are being ignored by Salon.
Wonder why that is? Probably for the same reason that Salon has never published an article critical of PG&E, for example. Probably for the same reason that Salon ran this pro-oil drilling article:
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/12/offshore_drilling_and_mms_2/index.html
The truth is just too much for a liberal corporate paper to discuss, isn't it? Oh, we all know why, and Salon is no different from anyone else - advertising revenue issues mean you have to stick to safe topics. Nevertheless, you end up with lots of pulp, by default, since the real stories can't be touched.
We need independent journalists who are not beholden to corporate interests - but we have no financial model for supporting that. Dilemma, isn't it?
A couple of comments sprang to mind as I read this article (and others like it). One, it should not be a surprise that Sarah Palin and the mayor's wife were in the same aerobics class in a small town. That is, after all, the beauty and pain of small towns everywhere, that everyone knows everyone and everyone else's business. So framing the fact of being in aerobics class together as if it has some deeper, darker meaning in Palin's access to the mayor as a mentor is simple big-city bias. It means nothing in the context of a small town.
Two, as every feminist knows, not belonging to the old boys club means that you do not follow their rules. If you take advantage of any mentoring extended by a member, then do not follow the club rules and piss in the corner where and when told, you are bashed. If you also happen to be a woman, it was common 10 or 15 years ago to be called a bitch for this behavior. The representation of Palin as a traitor to her mentors actually signals that she does not accept the old boys club rules.
I do not want to see Palin as Vice President (especially not after Dick Cheney has set the precedent that the veep can do anything under executive privilege without having to bow to executive restraints). But I am against her for other reasons that ones implied in this first part of this article.
That Palin uses 'em and loses 'em comes as no surprise. That she's in the process of doing the same to her own family does. As a mother myself, I can't imagine leaving behind a newborn with special needs, a pregnant teen, and a son serving in Iraq behind so I can run for VP. She has enough on her plate in her personal life, and the country certainly doesn't need her. Sarah, don't buy the "I can have it all" mentality. You can, just not all at the same time.
This is the supervisor, man or woman, that we fear most in our lives.
The one that plays games with hard hardworking Americans. Games that destroy careers and encourage drama and duplicitous behaviors amongst co-workers. Their cheerleaders prance through the building and pounce on opportunities to babble about respect and leadership qualities.! Questioning your reality and challenging your work ethic.
The school headmaster or Dean that uses personality or prejudice to wreak havoc on our children's education and emotions.
The punitive Home Owner's Association official that makes everyone's life miserable with nit-picking or a blind eye when it serves their purposes. Causing neighbors to become isolationists
The military commander that disheartens the troops, using rank as a shield for vindictive power and control.
The police officer that handcuffs truth and the law because he/she is the one holding the weapon and the keys.
The family member that relishes discord and demands loyalty, often not earned, and typically without reciprocity.
True, everyone loves them and publicly says so, but it is an asterisk burdened love, hiding fear and shame. The feelings of hopelessness and frustration in dealing with this character....or lack thereof, has touched most of us in life.
Each of us know that nauseating drive to work.
That drive home from the office, palms wet with sweat, steering wheel choked with anger. The embarrassment of our impotence as we cave in, acquiesce, and begin hunting our co-workers.
Self preservation now our mantra.
It is that racing heart disgust, that will guide my vote.
If Sarah Palin could disembowel so many in a frozen community of Eskimos and Elk, imagine the unimaginable abuse possible when she has the tools of the Presidency. Of my Presidency!
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"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
