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Sarah Palin has angered the Blob

Shortly after Sarah Palin resigns the Alaska governership, an unidentified amorphous blob of mystery goo is seen floating near the Alaskan shoreline. Coincidence?

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Silly Flies

Todays PDI (Public Display of Ignorance) from Sarah Palin:

Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not

The newest "scientific study" to be ridiculed as an example of wasteful earmarks is fruit flies. I know at least one loyal reader would have taken the same high school biology class as me and might remember fruit flies being one of if not the best way to study genetics. Now that bears and planet-ariums have already been used, I wonder what the next scapegoat will be....

Never Again

Besides gushing about how they 'both love Israel', Palin made a slight reference to the country when she used the phrase 'Never Again', - historically signifying never to let another Jewish genocide occur- in reference to the financial turmoil we're seeing. Someone at the NYT points this fact out, though I would think it should garner a bit more attention than it has.

Pick a side

Sarah Palin put a lot of emphasis duting the debate tonight on reforming and dealing with corruption and wanting strong oversight. A few minutes later, she ranted about getting government out of the way and letting private industry thrive.

He and McCain are bouth talking the populist reformer talk but I would have a hard hard time believeing they would walk that walk, especially if you actually look at McCain's record and support for Bush and the republican's tax plans.

The twit energy olympics

When Joe Biden and Sarah Palin had a debate tonight the subject turned to energy, and climate change. Sarah Palin said she thinks climate change may be partially due to humans but also natural cycles but she doesn't care or think we should discuss the cause only deal with the 'impacts'. There was a lot of general talk about 'fixing our plant'. She mentioned energy independence and reducing emissions as some ways do do it but mostly she was vaguely talking about fixing our enviroment. She said she thinks we all should come together and work on 'the impacts' of climate change. Then 2 minutes later she pushed drilling in ANWR and offshore drilling. She bragged about a natural gas pipeline through Alaska bringing "clean, green" natural gas to hungry markets. Yes, drilling in those places will make us energy independant and natural gas has no carbon emissions, I also have a bridge to nowhere to sell you. Then clean coal came up, and they both gushed about their support for it. Palin jabbed at Biden quoting him as saying 'there is no such thing as clean coal', whichi he then denied. Now it does sound like something he could have said, and if he didn't say it he should have. There is no such thing as clean coal, it's a fossil fuel and burning it will have emissions, carbon and others. Besides emissions the mining of it could hardly ever be called clean, especially mountaintop removal mining. Now is it better then burning coal with no thought to limiting the pollution and greenhouse emissions? Of course it is, but it is not a 'clean' fuel and never will be. All Biden could think to respond with was yes, yes, yes, yes i support clean coal look at my record i support clean coal. His take on global warming? it is man made, man made is the cause. Oh well lets stop doing man-made then and it will be better. Let's boycott man-made. Who usues man-made anyway. The only semi intelligent energy related thing to come out of either of their mouths was when something Biden said that was so unintersting and standard political boilerplate that I don't even remember it anymore.

Double Standards