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Do we want another gun toting VP with lifelong membership of the NRA and an advocate of conservative policies favoring big oil (preference national Alaskan companies) … an AIP opinion.
Sarah Palin spent $400,000 of state money to “educate” Alaskans about aerial hunting of wolves and bears. State tax money was used to directly influence the outcome of proposition 2 which would have limited aerial shooting of predators. Since Alaskans had previously voted twice to ban aerial shooting of predators, Palin used state tax money to buy support for aerial shooting. Buying votes with tax money worked – proposition two was voted down on 8/26/08.
Read more about Governor Palin’s “predator control” policies and the use of state money to slaughter bears and wolves. This year the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game will exterminate 1,400 bears out of a population of 2,000 in an area west of Anchorage. The Alaskan Board of Game even approved the hunting of black bear mothers and cubs with the goal of killing 60 percent of the black bear population. Although biologists have known since the 60’s that predators actually keep prey populations healthy, Alaskan wolves and bears are being exterminated (using cruel practices such as baiting, trapping, and aerial shooting) to boost dwindling moose populations. Do we really want a vice president who doesn’t believe in science?
Sarah Palin sues the federal government over listing polar bears as a threatened species. Why? Because it could restrict the oil industry that fills her pockets. This is the same reason she wants to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. Read Governor Palin’s ignorant op-ed piece here. Palin believes that global warming is a myth.
Bear viewing in Alaska generates $100,000,000/yr.
yet Palin refuses to even learn about the industry
Palin has no federal or international experience. Prior to being appointed governor, Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, AK – a town of only 5,469! Her main “experience” before entering public office was running for beauty queen in Wasilla! Don’t be fooled by her young age – Palin is not progressive and works side by side with the oil industry. Her policies are ravaging the Alaskan ecosystem at a time when most people support going green.
Sarah Palin and the Vikings (Ryan McFarland)
First, let me just get it out of the way: I think she is a tremendously sexy woman. How this will effect the race, I have no idea, but it’s just got to. It’s not an issue of glamour so much as a kind of Paglian chthonic sexual power. Set in that context, her unabashed embrace of her fecundity and motherhood as a kind of qualification makes a lot of sense. Megan O’Rourke’s post on Palin’s political eros has it right, and I think she may even be on to something when she says we got a “glimpse of a novel problem for a presidential candidate: sexual tension with his VP.”
Palin exudes sexual confidence and maternal authority, which in a relatively conservative culture like ours is the most recognizable and viscerally comprehensible form of female power. It makes a lot of men uncomfortable, but that’s because it’s the kind of female power they are most often subject to, and most often fail to successfully resist.
I’d love to see a wildlife conservation debate between Montana Governor Schweitzer and Alaskan Governor Palin.
Sort of like a celebrity death match…
rather than repost it; for more on her bloodsport predator control policies see this comment, in BooMan’s Phantom Candidate post.
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(The Independent) Sept. 6, 2008 – Seen from the air, Sarah Palin’s state is an environmental wonderland. From Anchorage to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, there is a vast landscape of snow-capped peaks, fjords, crystal glaciers, coastal lagoons, wide river deltas and tundra.
The guardian of this wilderness – and Governor of Alaska – has, this week, become one of the most recognisable faces in the world. But behind her beaming smile and wholesome family values is a woman aligned with the big oil and coal firms that are racing to exploit Alaska’s vast energy reserves.
Governor Palin would also like to bring open-cast coal mining to Alaska’s Brooks Range Mountains, an act of environmental vandalism in the eyes of many.
The Palin administration has allowed Chevron to triple the amount of toxic waste it pours into the waters of Cook Inlet. This, even though the number of beluga whales in the bay has collapsed from 1,300 to 350 – the point of extinction – because of pollution and increased ship traffic.
On the Republican convention floor Palin said: “We Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas and take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: We’ve got lots of both.”
Alaskan village sues 24 energy firms for climate change
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."as impulsive and reckless as John Bush her running mate.
WSJ
Palin’s Hockey Rink Leads
To Legal Trouble in Town She Led
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In the address at the Assembly of God Church here, Palin’s ease in talking about the intersection of faith and public life was clear. Among other things, she encouraged the group of young church leaders to pray that “God’s will” be done in bringing about the construction of a big pipeline in the state, and suggested her work as governor would be hampered “if the people of Alaska’s heart isn’t right with God.”
IRAQ AND THE TASK FROM GOD
She also told the group that her eldest child, Track, would soon be deployed by the Army to Iraq, and that they should pray “that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that’s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God’s plan.”
THE MIRACLE OF CONVERTING JEWS TO CHRISTIANITY
Some Jewish groups have raised concerns since the announcement of Palin’s selection to the Republican ticket that discussions in the Wasilla Bible Church might go beyond conservatism. Last month, a leader in the group Jews for Jesus, which advocates converting Jews to Christianity — but which has been accused by some Jews of anti-Semitism — spoke at the church. The speaker, David Brickner, spoke enthusiastically about the “miracle” of conversions in Israel by the group’s missionaries.
David Brickner’s Sermon at the Wasilla Bible Church
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
Do terrorist attacks on Israel, as recently preached in Sarah Palin’s current church, amount to divine judgment on Jews for refusing to accept Jesus as “Lord and savior” ?
Does Palin concur with Jews For Jesus head David Brickner in this belief ?
Does she think Jews carry some collective spiritual taint ?
Or, does Sarah Palin agree with Wasilla Bible Church head pastor Larry Kroon – that God will punish America for rampant immorality ?
There are many types of empirical explanations to account for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the best of these acknowledge both Israeli and Palestinian culpability. But David Brickner’s explanation for Palestinian terrorist attacks-the explanation that was aired August 17, 2008 at the Wasilla Bible Church.
AUDIO of David Bruckner’s Sermon
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
According to the Alaska Divisions of Elections they only have the history as below … We have been in existance since the 70s and have run candidates before the state declared the AIP a “political party.”
Officers from the past: From 1992 through 2004
See article …
Website designed and hosted byLooking at the AIP web site is crucial to understand the seriousness of the situation for McCain and Palin. This is a group who is mainstream in Alaska but whose views are purely confrontational and very explosive outside of the 49th state. They push sort of a reverse Rev. Wright image of America; one where conservative whites should be able to do whatever the darn well please, like seceding from the United States.
And Joe Vogler, the late founder of the AIP, had a long history of bombastic statements relating to Alaskan independence an what he thinks of the U.S. and its government. The most shocking one is splashed proudly across the top of the “introduction” page for the party.
“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
– Joe Vogler
* PRO-LIFE * PRO-PEACE * PRO-ALASKA * PRO-CONSTITUTION * PRO-GUN
ELIMINATE UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL PROGRAMS
The IRS, Federal Reserve, No Child Left Behind, the Department of Education, the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, and FISA all make it increasingly difficult to describe our nation as FREE.
Bob will fight to eliminate these and many other unconstitutional programs.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."