Drill, baby, drill: Palin spends last days in office Twittering about oil
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Posted By Rickster - Fri, Jul 24 2009 at 8:20 PM ESTpalin palin palin
I am glad to see her exit the stage. I am sure that no matter what she tries to do next it will be a failure and that her past misdeads will catch up with her.
I knew this woman was a fraud ten minutes after her name was announced. all I had to do was read an interview she gave up there in Alaska about the birth of Trig. Talk about a phony baloney story.
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Jul 24 2009 at 2:02 PM ESTWhat a train wreck.
Palin embodies the perfect example of political schadenfreude. Love it.
Posted By KarenJ - Fri, Jul 24 2009 at 11:50 AM ESTPalin should start up a blog
Most of the comment by "Eric" (Ericinmiami, is that you?) @ Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 6:16 PM EST is not true.
The ethics violation filed by Kim Chatman is alive and well, and the findings by the Alaska Personnel Board investigator is FINAL. How do we know this? Because the report went to the governor and to the complaintant July 14th -- which is the procedure AFTER interviews are done, and conclusions reached.
Palin sat on the (negative, for her) findings for a week, mulling over.... More
Posted By Kringle - Fri, Jul 24 2009 at 10:50 AM ESTPalin is a Puppet
Regardless of the science behind our global weather trends, it is clear to observe that petroleum-based products are bad for the environment. Those industries, through energy usage, through materials usage (plastics), through the petro-chemical usage (pharma), are lethal to life. Politicians are petroleum puppets and their corruptions are becoming more and more obvious to anyone with half a mind. Trace the money.
Posted By Stephanie Rogers - Fri, Jul 24 2009 at 8:54 AM ESTDear Anonymous 9:36pm
I know it's not clear from the article, but "guttural raw instinct" is actually a quote from Sarah Palin's Twitter stream.
Posted By genecar - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 8:45 PM ESTNonsence
Faced with a boom in oil prices, Governor Palin held down the Alaska State budget, and poured the surpluses into massive state savings accounts. And so, Alaska is one of the most fiscally sound states, unlike California which is broke.
Posted By Titletown - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 8:38 PM ESTPure bovine feces
Complete joke of an article, pure left-wing screeching.
- "Implicated in an ethics violation" - Which is ongoing with no final ruling, already have blown up in the face of her accuser
- "Cap and tax" - There's nothing pro-environmental about this garbage, global warming is based on false pretenses designed for government to exert more control over people's lives
- "Markey takes the Governor to task" - LOL! So a Mass. Congressman knows more about a state than someone who grew.... More
Posted By Eric - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 6:16 PM ESTSad...
Doesn't anyone else see the "apples to oranges" comparison logic you're making here? Doesn't anyone take "Critical Thinking 101" anymore?
Again, sad...
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 6:12 PM ESTi see idiots
Wow u just can't get over the fact that palin is a strong woman who hunts. By the way the only big game she hunts is moose n caribou, her father shoot the bear in her office. You got a problem take it out with the right person. Also if u havnt read alaskas procedures for killin wolves u should. They only shoot them in prb areas and a set amount and only a select few r allowed to hunt frm helicopters.I'm pretty sure the palins don't make the list.
Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Jul 24 2009 at 1:47 PM ESTu r the idiot
The wolf killing is not as "controlled" as yo make it out to be -- whole families and packs have been obliterated -- and for what? the professional guiding industry -- even tho there is NO correlation (sorry for the big words) between the wolf population and any perceived (but non-existant) reduction in big game populations -- and
ALL of the shootings have been done via aircraft -- fixed wing and helicopters.
Even the pilots involved have registered disgust at what is.... More
Posted By Lower48 - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 5:26 PM ESToil dividend
Is it true that Palin is proposing sharing the Alaska's oil dividend with all the states. As a conservative, I am usually opposed to this form of socialism -- taking money from capitalists and redistributing it to the people -- but if I get some, I can be flexible on that issue.
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 5:22 PM ESTMother Nature is mad at you 'Hon'!
But Sarah, even a fierce mother bear doesnt shoot ENTIRE wolf families from the air!
And 5:03? Better get some facts; The House of Saud has more stock in Enron and Conoco than anyone else! Do you think they CARE where the billions in profits come from?
Do you think they do not laugh as we destroy our environment because we are led by 11th-century thinkers like Sarah?
Thats like asking if Sarah cares about wildlfe! HA!
What a deluded, frightening and sick human Palin is..... More
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 5:03 PM ESTSo are the Saudis payin' you for this tripe?
The House of Saud prospers when fools like you spout your anti-oil, watermelon (green-on-the-outside, red-on-the-inside) tripe. Wussybamians drive up the cost of oil with their anti-oil machinations, which beneifts the Saudis and radical islamists. WTG!
Posted By Anna - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 4:26 PM ESTMy Name Is Sarah Oil...
I'm sure she'll make lots of $$$ working for the petroleum industry, since it appears she already is :) Drill more for the little that's up there, and destroy the environment. If she loves bears, maybe she should try and save some before they're gone, like polar bears. Never mind, she's up in a helicopter again....
Is she medicated??? That might explain her incoherency....
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 23 2009 at 4:18 PM ESTYou Betcha! (wink)
Mmm. Oil! Forget that entire communities in my state are having to relocate because of global warming and rising sea levels. Drill MORE. That's the ticket, baby. A healthy future for my babies' babies? They can deal with it when it gets there.
Drill, Baby, drill
Thank you for the lovely photos of Sensational Sarah. She will generate much excitement, and the usual commentary, during the nest 18 months.