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[DoctorShumway]

Yeah that was an awesome article by Savage. Totally, totally nailed it.

[glitterbot]

Women for Palin

[beefstew]

To add to the Palin and the pregnancy and pro-life stuff... I watched the "Sarah Palin Revealed" segment on CNN over the weekend and found out that she eloped with Todd to a courthouse in town, only to find out that they needed at least two witnesses... they went across the street to a nursing home and got their witnesses and bam, husband and wife. I thought it kind of peculiar that Track (their first son) was born around 8 months after they got hitched. Hmmm. I'm sure if they actually planned the wedding, she would have been showing too much or have had the kid by then. Interesting.

Since this is a McCain thread... watch this

Oh, and I read this great article today from scientificamerican.com. Here's the link

I thought from this part on was pretty important. It starts around the middle of page 2.

According to Phyllis Martin, a senior EIA energy analyst, Atlantic and Pacific oil fields tend to be smaller on average than those in the Gulf of Mexico, but it is just as costly to drill them, making the economics of drilling these areas especially tough to justify.

In fact, oil companies have yet to take advantage of the nearly 86 billion barrels of offshore oil in areas already available for leasing and development. So why are they chomping at the drill bit to open up the moratorium waters and survey them anew?

"Oil company stocks are valued in large part based on how much proved reserves they have," says Robert Kaufman, an expert on world oil markets and director of Boston University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Translation: just having more promising leases in hand would be worth billions of dollars.

So are promises of U.S. oil independence real—or rhetoric? The issue is not whether the U.S. can significantly reduce its reliance on oil imports with domestic, offshore oil, say both Kaufman and Nathan, but whether there is enough that is recoverable to significantly lower the price of a barrel of oil on the global market.

Even by 2030, offshore drilling would not have a significant impact on oil prices, according to Martin, because oil prices are determined on the global market. "The amount of total production anticipated—around 200,000 barrels a day—would be less than 1 percent of the total projected international consumption."

And disruptions to the global supply affect the price of every barrel of oil the U.S. purchases, whether it be from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela or off the New Jersey coast. "Suppose the U.S. got all its oil domestically, and the price was $100 a barrel. Then the Saudi family was deposed," disrupting that country's oil exports, Kaufman says. "The Saudis produce about 10 million barrels a day of the world's 85 million, so clearly prices would go up, because now there is this big shortfall of oil."

[Jacki O.]

Palin's closer quote from fascist writer Westbrook Pegler

[unluckycharm]

Have no fear everyone, Palin's been blessed against WITCHCRAFT

[degrae]

I have heard that Palin and McCain to varying degrees are both "Winger Fans".

[HaikuNoU]

Palin's town charged women for post rape exams:
http://www.cnn.com/2...xams/index.html

Palin hired cronies and crushed foes while in office:
http://www.nytimes.c...amp;oref=slogin

Palin used $50,000 meant for road repair to redecorate her office after election:
http://www.salon.com...17/palin_mayor/

Palin kicked me in the nuts and gave me AIDS:
well, not really. but she does look like a lil' antichrist waiting to happen.

[degrae]

It strikes me that if anyone reading this stole $50,000.00 large from our city, what would we get 7 to 10? Martha Stewart gets convicted of millions in fraud, goes to a resort for 8 months and, yep. I want $50,000 to redecorate my office too Sarah. and p.s., Winger is bad, try Stryper.

[HaikuNoU]

"Sarah's legacy as mayor was big-box stores and runaway growth," said Patty Stoll, a retired Wasilla schoolteacher who once worked in the same school with Palin's parents, Chuck and Sally Heath. "The truth is, Wasilla is just plain ugly, it's not a pleasant place to live. It's not thought out. And that's a shame.

"Sarah fouled her own nest, and I can't understand why. I hate to think it was simply greed or ambition."
http://www.salon.com...alin/index.html

If this article on their bad city planning and influx of crappy fast food chain restaurants and big box stores in alaska under Palin is true, it might be as bad as suburban PHX, LOL.

[brian mcphail]

Palin sent to debate "boot camp"

hahaha. This Thursday's debate is going to be so good.

CAMP TIME.

[glitterbot]

if she can't hold her own against KATIE COURIC, Biden will eat her for lunch.

[BornInCrimson]

I live in Anchorage, and even the ADN is running articles that are pretty much against her.

It's a bit strange to think of her as a VP candidate, a couple weeks before the announcement she was actually in the office here to sign a bill into law.

[eraser]

if she can't hold her own against KATIE COURIC, Biden will eat her for lunch.

That's going to be Biden's biggest challenge I think - dismantling Palin without seeming mean-spirited about it.

I'm not a fan of Palin politically, but I can recognize her appeal to some folks. She has the same appeal in that that Dubya had as the dude that folks would prefer to have a beer with (which is suitably disturbing for a lot of reasons). If Biden pounces on her, or makes a total fool of her, I think it'll reflect negatively with a chunk of undecided voters.

Then again, if she's not entirely crushed, the right will probably spin it as a good thing.

I think it'd be best to let her hang herself with her own rope as she's been doing, rather than aggressively attacking.

[mancopter]

Palin sent to debate "boot camp"

hahaha. This Thursday's debate is going to be so good.

CAMP TIME.

From the comments section:

Debate camp: It's kinda like band camp but the band campers usually know how to play the instrument.

[ladydemon]

if she can't hold her own against KATIE COURIC, Biden will eat her for lunch.