Begich and Murkowski Erupt Over Jindal Gaffe.
Mt. Redoubt, Photo by J. Warren, April 1990
Remember when Sarah Palin simultaneously proclaimed herself to be an advocate for children with autism, and mocked fruitfly research at the same time? A quick Google search will reveal that fruit fly research has been, and continues to be important in trying to understand….autism. So why did Palin attack that science?
a) She didn’t bother to do any research on it.
b) It sounds funny.
c) Both a and b.
If you picked “c”, you are correct.
Now let’s play again with the NEXT next golden child of the Republican Party – Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal.
In his grand debut last night, in front of the nation, as the governor of a state that has suffered mightily from lack of preparedness in the face of natural disaster, and while several hundred thousand Americans (of which I am one) are currently living within sight of a volcano that is “code orange” and has at its base, a Chevron tank farm sitting at its base, right next to Cook Inlet, what does he do?
He mocks government spending on volcano monitoring. Excuse me…he mocks government spending on ”something called ‘volcano monitoring’”. Once again, a quick Google search will reveal what this strange and mysterious ritual that some call “volcano monitoring” is all about. I’m sure the folks at the Alaska Volcano Observatory will be happy to enlighten Governor Jindal. So, why did Jindal attack this science?
a) He didn’t bother to do any research on it.
b) It sounds funny.
c) Both a and b.
Once again, if you answered “c”, you are correct.
Let’s hear what Alaska’s Senators have to say about Jindal’s comments. Hint: They’re gonnan blow!!
First, a letter from Senator Mark Begich (D):
Dear Governor Jindal:
I write to take issue with your comments on national television last night following President Obama’s speech regarding federal spending on volcano monitoring.
Specifically, you listed “volcano monitoring” in a series of projects you consider ”wasteful spending.” Volcano monitoring is a matter of life and death in Alaska. The science of volcano monitoring and the money needed to fund it is incredibly important in our state and could affect the economic well-being of other states and countries because of Alaska’s key role in international commerce.
In December 1989, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt had a serious eruption that caused a Boeing 747 to lose power in all four engines with hundreds of passengers on board. Fortunately, the aircraft was able to restart and land safely, but damage to the airliner exceeded $80 million. Obviously, had the aircraft not been able to restart its engines, the result would have been catastrophic.
Alaska’s largest international airport in Anchorage is one of the world’s busiest cargo airports, with more than 600 wide-body cargo jets delivering millions of dollars of goods between Asia, North America and Europe each week. Any interruption of that traffic by a volcanic eruption could be felt in Tokyo, New York or even Baton Rouge.
Currently, the Alaska Volcano Observatory monitors 31 active Alaskan volcanoes and works closely with other federal , state and municipal agencies to ensure public safety and minimize disruptions. Eruptions often spew curtains of ash miles into the air that impact communities hundreds of miles downwind, causing severe health consequences for our citizens. When there is a significant eruption, those with respiratory challenges must stay indoors.
For Alaska and our country, monitoring volcanoes is important business. The more we know about what might happen, the better our citizens and industries can plan for the potential hazard. Feel free to contact my office so we can provide you with further information regarding this important subject.
Sincerely,
Mark Begich
U.S. Senator
Even fellow Republican Lisa Murkowski jumped on Jindal’s comments:
“It is absolutely appropriate for our federal government to spend money on volcano monitoring. A current example is Mount Redoubt. This active volcano, which is on the flight path into Anchorage International Airport, the third busiest cargo airport in the world, and Elmendorf Air Force Base, has been smoldering since the end of January. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has been on 24 hour watch since then.
A volcanic eruption at Mount Redoubt has the potential to bring down a jumbo aircraft flying over Southcentral Alaska. Alaskans vividly remember that volcanic ash from an eruption of Mount Redoubt nearly brought down a KLM Boeing 747 as it was completing its flight from Amsterdam to Anchorage in December 1989. The volcanic ash caused the failure of all four engines on the jumbo jet.
And it’s not just Alaska that’s fuming (pardon the pun). The folks who live in the shadow of Mt. St. Helen’s are not amused.
“Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard?” Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, said on Wednesday. “We have one that’s very active, and it still rumbles and spits and coughs very frequently.”
Pollard, a former Army officer who has served as Vancouver’s mayor for 14 years, said USGS equipment used to keep tabs on volcanoes is frequently damaged or destroyed. He said he wasn’t sure how many jobs the money could produce, but, “For us and the people who live closer to it than Vancouver, it’s important.”
“We lost lives the last time, and we could lose them again,” he said.
But Jindal’s office stands firm with their assessment of volcano monitoring calling it “just one example of wasteful spending” in the stimulus bill. His original comments stated that ”Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington.” Like the people who govern in states that actually HAVE volcanoes indicated – not funny. Perhaps Jindal would like to consider cutting all that wasteful spending on hurricane monitoring instead?
Of course not. That’s in his back yard. He’d much rather cut volcano monitoring. All I can say is, “Way to tick off the entire pacific Northwest, and Hawaii, Republicans!” May I suggest for your next trick, you mock corn, tornadoes, sweet tea, fishing, snow, dry heat, golf, the military and orphans? I think that covers everybody.
My guess is that he is opposed to the government spending money on cancer research too — unless of course it affects him in some way. What a loser!
I suppose Jindal thought he was being funny (like Palin). His words will come back to haunt him.
Alaska has 31 active volcanoes?? Wow, that’s a lot.
Louisiana only has three active volcanoes. Jindal, Negin and Jumpin’ Jive Jimmy Vitter.
Really puts things into perspective.
Is Sarah Palin among the active volcanoes? Or is she only considered an intermittent critter?
I was absolutely speechless. And like you, AKM, my first thought was, ‘Yeah, let’s cut hurricane monitoring while we’re at it, mmmkay…?’
Are Palin and Jindal seriously the best they got?
I bet he thought he was taking a swipe at Obama, thinking “volcanoes” are this exotic Hawaiian thingy, not something that exists in the “real” USA …
wow, and I am disappointed that our WA governor and 2 US senators did not bother to remind him and the rest of the country how devastating volcanoes can be. Next he won’t believe in so-called “earthquakes” either! what a douche.
The scariest part of this episode is that pundits are saying Jindal’s gaffe makes Sarah look smart. The dumbing down of America at its finest.
Monitoring earthquakes and hurricanes is a waste, too. Employing liberal scientists to save peoples lives! What will liberals want next? To grow food? Protect clean water? Cure cancer?
When I heard Jindal mock spending on volcano monitoring, I thought the same thing, and wondered how he’d feel about cutting spending on hurricane monitoring. I think he just picked that particular item because it was something he could work into his speech, enabling him to use the term “eruption” when talking about spending in D.C.
If this is the best the Repubs have to offer, I think the future of their party is in peril.
Party is in peril.
SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM SLAM
Thanks God
I wonder how Jindal would feel about not moitoring hurricanes.
I have been having fun with the Jindal speech all morning.
You know it may someday reach the same kind of cult status that the “Sarah Palin turkey pardon” video has achieved. And oh how we all loved that one.
I imagine that there is heavy drinking going in in Republican households all over this country.
Try not to spit out your coffie folks.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u34hEDcpPuE/SaXCAsw_PJI/AAAAAAAAAEM/We_cWn5AGWE/s1600-h/Jindal+on+Intrade.jpg
And not just volcano monitoring. What they are most likely doing is reading seismic activity. The same as earthquake watchers.
Think of New Orleans and the cities, docks, businesses, and farms along the lower Mississippi River and remember the St. Madras fault is due to slip again any ol’ day now. Or maybe a thousand years hence, so lets just ignore it.
The last time the St. Madras slipped there were very few Europeans living in the area of the fault, but there was considerable damage and loss of life – relative to the size of the settlements that were hit.
Now think of Louisiana and New Orleans again, and its levees and its below sea level existance, and the pumps that must constantly pump to keep the city dry, and think what can happen if severe upheavals up river should cause a temporary back up and then release of the Mighty Missisip.
This guy is a Rhodes Scholar?? Not any longer he’s a RepoTaliban set on thwarting the CEO of the largest economy in the world, and bent on destroying that leadership and by that the “business” that CEO runs.
Jindal is a member of a party that wants to destroy the United States of American through political insurgency so that they can Nation Build in their own corrupt image.
I’d read about Begich’s letter. Good for Murkowski, she’s showing some guts.
Poor Sarah, she probably doesn’t know what volcano monitoring is. Either that or she is sulking cause she wasn’t invited to read the response. All things considering it just as well for her she wasn’t.
Looks like Jindal’s read ‘most of’ those same newspapers and magazines Sarah’s read.
All I can say is, “One man’s pork is another man’s…well, something really, really necessary, like bread, or water, or potatoes.” Politicians often annoy me, but I don’t often want to just smack one upside the head. That speech did it to me–it was like the men used to talk to the women in my church–incredibly patronizing. To give him the benefit of the doubt, I think he wanted to sound friendly and as one commentator called it, “folksy.” When are our politicians goign to learn that WE DON’T NEED SOMEBODY ELSE TO SHARE A SIXPACK WITH. We need leaders who have BETTER ideas than we do, and who understand that sometimes the people are worth listening to, NOT leaders that sound like they think we’re idiot children.
Blue Idaho- glad to see something in the economy is working just right!
Poor Sarah, she probably doesn’t know what volcano monitoring is. LOL!
Where we go picken on those poor repubs again. Dumb and Dumber the best of the best. Bobby and Sarah could you imagine? No way, no day…
MarnieNo Gravatar (07:48:39) :
I’ve had the earthquake page bookmarked ever since I read 8.4. Fascinating that in 1811-1812, 3-5 earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault zone probably greater than 7.0 mag. The Mississippi appeared to flow upstream and church bells rang in Philadelphia.
Peaceful Granny- They just make it toooooo easy don’t they.
Spot on Marnie…. but I think you mean the New Madrid Fault.
Until Jindal’s speech I had never achieved an authentic spit take. But when he raised his rhetorical eyebrow at “Volcano Monitoring” (smug condescending pause……….)
my red wine hit the white carpet. I may bill the state of Louisana for the cleaning.
My only comfort is that I’m no longer envious of all those other states that got the good governors.
While I stare out my window at Augustine. (an active volcano ………………………………… last active just a couple of years ago).
Don’t forget the homeless, people with disabilities, people struggling with addiction and people with cancer.
He probably doesn’t want government to intervene there either – cuz you know, government = bad. Let’s privatise everything, let capitalism work its magic and let the free markets take care of everyone who deserves to be taken care of.
Great logic right?? Man, it’s getting so surreal around here with these Republicans!
When McCain & Gino were running mates, I excused him and his natter chatter, thinking, “it’s hard to teach old dog’s new tricks.” But you’d think these younger generation Repubs would catch a clue, those old natter chatter buzz lines just don’t cut it anymore. If you don’t have a solid idea about how to get our nation and the world headed in a positive direction, just shut up and go home. There are plenty of other people that need your job.
Well if volcano monitoring is a waste, the planes that fly into the hurricanes to monitor them should be grounded. The department should all receive pink slips that their employment is terminated effective immediately. And with hurricane season fast approaching once again, Jindal’s on his own, much like his speech to the American citizens — pull up your boots and work it out yourself as it’s not gov responsibility. Let him suck his finger and stick it in the air to see which was the wind blows, but that wouldn’t be hygenic knowing where that finger has been!! And by the way Jindal, you can return your paychecks and benefits to: American Taxpayers, c/o….. since they are on their own so there is no Governor job anymore, or senator job. Let me give you directions to the food bank. No sense giving directions to unemployment line — it doesn’t exist as you referred, it’s not gov’s responsibility.
As for volcano monitoring, there may be the chance of the Canadian Gov involvement in that Alaska is attached to Canada, not the lower 48. Get the Canadians peoples attention by way of stories in papers and on-line about environmental health hazards, etc., especially in the western provinces like British Columbia
Lay off sweet tea.
Wont you be my neighbor……..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/telnaes/telnaes02252009.html
Here is why we monitor Volcanoes:
Volcanic eruptions are one of Earth’s most dramatic and violent agents of change. Not only can powerful explosive eruptions drastically alter land and water for tens of kilometers around a volcano, but tiny liquid droplets of sulfuric acid erupted into the stratosphere can change our planet’s climate temporarily. Eruptions often force people living near volcanoes to abandon their land and homes, sometimes forever. Those living farther away are likely to avoid complete destruction, but their cities and towns, crops, industrial plants, transportation systems, and electrical grids can still be damaged by tephra, ash, lahars, and flooding.
Fortunately, volcanoes exhibit precursory unrest that if detected and analyzed in time allows eruptions to be anticipated and communities at risk to be forewarned with reliable information in sufficient time to implement response plans and mitigation measures.
From:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
You can monitor volcanoes from this site.
I live in WA and remember Mt. St. Helens erupting it caused devastation for the whole state. The ash removal alone was a monumental effort to get the state moving again.
Thanks for that, Blue Idaho. Ann Telnaes is great.
Yellowstone Caldera is one of the largest and most active calderas in the world. The spectacular geysers, boiling hot springs, and mud pots that have made Yellowstone famous–and even the strikingly beautiful Grand Canyon of Yellowstone through which the Yellowstone River plunges–owe their existence to the tremendous volcanic forces that have affected the region during the past 2 million years. Cataclysmic eruptions 2.0, 1.3, and 0.6 million years ago ejected huge volumes of rhyolite magma; each eruption formed a caldera and extensive layers of thick pyroclastic-flow deposits. The youngest caldera is an elliptical depression, nearly 80 kilometers long and 50 kilometers wide, that occupies much of Yellowstone National Park. The caldera is buried by several extensive rhyolite lava flows erupted between 75,000 and 150,000 years ago.
National Park and the area immediately west of the Park are historically among the most seismically active areas in the Rocky Mountains. Small-magnitude earthquakes are common beneath the entire caldera, but most are located along the Hebgen Lake fault zone that extends into the northwest part of the caldera. A magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred along this zone in 1959.
I bet he has not taken his kids to Yellowstone National Park. Oh that’s right, he’s in Disney World! Literally.
It is so typical of those that believe in Creationism as does jindal and palin to pan and ridicule science. Both of these governors have shown their ignorance of important science research. Why? Could it be that it interferes with their religious beliefs? If so, should they be considered as candidates for the highest office in the land?
I also commend Begich and Murkowski for taking a stand. It is a crying shame that the Gov. didn’t have enough hair you know were to take a stand against that address, the same for Washington state were are their leaders on this matter. I bet the citizens of Pompeii would have liked to have some kind of equipment for early warning signs.
I concur lets sacrifice the both Gov.’s to the volcano god.
What does Sarah have to say?
Does she agree with our senators, or with Jindal?
As someone who lived through both the eruption of Mt. St. Helens AND Hurricane Katrina, I’m all for any kind of disaster monitoring available! Too bad they can’t come up with a Corrupt and/or Ignorant Politician Alert monitor.
Jindal is one of the Republican Taliban group. Government is not for the people, but stands alone invincible to do what the Taliban wants. They strip a government to the bare bones, and keep the people subservient and poor. Let the churches and chairty take care of the people. They run over the land pillageing and rapeing, and are nothing but a bunch of hoodlums. Science does not exist. Education does not exist.
This my friends is what the GOP would make of America. The plan is to destroy her.
Now you all know Jindal doesn’t believe in cancer research. All’s you need is a little laying on of hands, a copy of the bible and a lot of praying. Of course he’s not gonna do the praying as it may draw that devil into his ol’ soul. Bless his heart.
Every day I think to myself, let’s not get so worked up over these crazy nut job rethugs. Then I go and read the paper, or turn on the news, or catch up on mudflats. I’m going need some prozac soon, or something. I wish I could find my happy place. I listen to Pres. Obama speak, and I hear an intelligent man speak of our troubles and our strengths, and our ability to work together to solve these crises and bring our country back to the greatness it was. But somehow, there is a large crazy-a$$3d minority of Fundie Nutjobs who want to destroy our country. “Things I don’t understand”. It pisses me off, because as the parent of a child with special needs, I really REALLY hate name-calling, but they bring bring. it. out. in. me. AIGH!!!
I’m going to find chocolate now.
Ratfish (08:25:02) :
What does Sarah have to say?
Does she agree with our senators, or with Jindal?
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She’s probably hiding in her bunker with her Hooked on Phonics attempting to translate the messages.
TewiseNo Gravatar (08:24:59) :
lets sacrifice the both Gov.’s to the volcano god.
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Instead of appeasing Redoubt, wouldn’t that really pi$$ it off?
The Reps setting Jindal up as their golden boy, also set themselves up for the same thing their extreme right did to Obama — question and demand the legality of his birth.
Maybe Palin & Bobby think “Lake of fire” is a reference to lava from a volcano … that would make volcanic eruption an act of God, wouldn’t it?
Maybe monitoring them would be messing with the end times plan?
The day before the speech news stories were talking about Jindal writing it himself.That same day several leaders in the Republican party,I don’t remember who,claimed variously that they helped,he wrote it and submitted it to them for changes,or that it was written by party leaders with his input.It seems to me that what became the final speech may have been much different that what Jindal wrote.I live in Louisiana,and while I dont agree with Jindal,I do respect his intellect and organizational abilities.He does not normally pepper his words with the types of snide,ridiculing comments in the speech.
Funny those same Repub’s who were trying to take credit for the speech the day before,are very quiet about it now.
@Blue Idaho (08:15:54) : Gee, Mr. Rogers is one of my heroes. I am incensed that that douche Jindal could ever be associated with him. Even in a cartoon. OT, but a friend of mine actually worked for Fred Rogers in Philly. He was the real deal. What you see is what he was through and through. He said it was his calling.
Back on topic: So stimulus isn’t stimulus unless the money is spent by R’s? Didn’t GWB put $600 in everyone’s pocket as “stimulus”?. GINO gave Alaskans $1200 as a rebate in cash. 2008 was the year R’s gave away money. Since when is giving cash fiscally responsible, and create jobs? Oh, right, when it’s an R doing it. The Dems actually appropriated money specifically directed, designed to be tracked and accounted for, and it’s “not stimulus”. Oh, please.
I’m hoping the American public can see through this.
Great post as usual.
aaaahhhhhhh… the stupid, it burns.
Glad Begich and Murkowski spoke out.
AKM – You were much too kind with your choices of reasons for both Palin and Jindal. They are both eaten up with a severe case of dumb-ass.
CRFlats- Sorry. I liked him too but my Mom says he usde to sort of hypnotize us kids with his calm sleepy way of talking.
@ Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble, oops thank you I forgot one of those pesky details such as it needs to be virgins, lol. Dang I looked him up to see is creds. and he has my birthday, that just won’t do.
You know basically if you look at his intent of that comment, the majority of the U.S should be offended. If you think of all the warning systems in place to save countless lives in numerous states, you have the volcano’s, hurricanes, tornado alley. Personally even if he didn’t write it doesn’t matter he must have approved it, he read to the nation.
Such hypocrites, they will never go away.
mommom, if Jindal had ANY balls he would have given his own speech. He read what he was told to read if he wanted to maintain his powerful pals. Now that the speech has labeled him a dope on a rope, they are deserting him left and right.
Do you think he NOW understands what being thrown under a bus means, because that is exactly what the GOP leadership did to him. They told him to read the speech so he would look like a stupid dumb ass. He did it and now he will have to retune his thinking. He may think he is their golden boy, but he is just the guy they do golden showers all over.
Fun watching them self-implode, eh?
Typical uninformed, uneducated, insensitive and stupid republican remark. That’s all they can do at this point is hunt through the stimulus and cherry pick it cause they got nuthin!
Marnie (07:48:39) :
And not just volcano monitoring. What they are most likely doing is reading seismic activity. The same as earthquake watchers.
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I think you hit on a -very- important point.
If the Republicans want to argue that volcanoes are so rare, and have killed so few that its just – gods will or something-, then we should argue that ALL tectonic studies help understand the dangers of volcanoes as well as earthquakes, and tsunamis, and will help predict impending danger, and save lives and reduce loss of property.
The comparison to atmospheric studies is very appropriate.
It was lack of an early warning system that killed 1-2 hundred thousand when an earthquake created a tsunami.
Jindal IS trying to make Palin look smart. Heh Heh.
oops bad editing . just mentally move the atmospheric studies idea away from the tsunami..
more coffee please!
Regards Photo:
You live near that and you stay so calm…. Gives me goosebumbs just looking at it.
For some reason, when I woke up Wednesday morning I looked at the clock and it said 2:15am. I laid back down and thought, hmmm, Obama should be having his speech about now. So I got up and after turning the tv on, realized, rats, I’m an hour early. I stayed up anyway and my husband joined me on the couch to watch the live broadcast of Obama’s speech. (We’re in Germany). Anyway, afterwards, Bobby comes on and I didn’t realize they did this all of the time. And about half way through it, I said to hubby, is he done yet? What a lame speech. Then he said that about gov’t being the problem and I just looked at my husband and we both laughed…and said, why are you a politican then? Too funny.
Jindal is about to get his public vetting ala Palin. When that is the best the R’s can do, I rejoice!
Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Rush Limbaugh and Joe the Plumber.
The best of the Republican Party.
I’ve lived within sight of Mount St. Helens (Vancouver) and am currently living about 40 miles from another volcano, Mount Baker. Mount Baker has been steaming for a few years now, and mini-quakes happen a lot. It is being monitored by quite a few people, although it is not expected to blow any time soon. BUT, you never know…
I’m going to follow up with my elected reps here to respond to Guv Jindals’ extremely weak attempt at seriousness. The silence from Washington’s delegation is not good.
I cordially invite Guv Jindal to give up the hurricane monitoring as others have suggested, and forgo any federal aid from here on out. He’s welcome to appeal to the private sector of course, but I have a sneaking suspicion he’ll not get many takers without the federal aid to ‘stimulate’ any rebuilding.
Way to disintegrate, Repubs!
@DonnaInMichigan (09:10:25) :
Well, there you go, I think you’ve just successfully identified the four horses of the (republican) apocolypse!
Kudos…AKM…
Maybe Jindal’s thinking that when the volcano blows…well, those people had to be removed from the land…look at all the money I saved. Anyways, those people would not conform. You know, the ones that have demons circling their heads keeping their prayers from reaching heaven; the ones that needed removing from the land. It’s part of our spiritual warfare cleansing.
Happened in New Orleans…only that time, levy system that broke. Hmmmmm
On the Fruit Fly aspect
Parents with special needs kids should run away from Sarah due to her own lack of knowledge on what is being done to help find cures and prevent the disease.
She found the fruit fly on a website such as this that lists it as the number 1 pork
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008Oinkers
Pig Book
“Oinkers” of 2008
In regards to the volcano issue and Jindal
What does he care about volcanoes they are far far away in his mind since they do not have them there. If it was a Hurricane fund then he would be for it not agaisnt it. Moron needs to learn there is more to the country then his little world.
Good Morning Everyone,
Paula,
No I didn’t get brain washed by Palin. ROFLMFAO
It’s just been crazy here in Nunam. We have been having a blizzard for 2 days now, finally cleared up this morning. Yesterday, CC had 4 immunizations and was feverish, whiny, grouchy, and just made it impossible for me to be online.
I am working on an update for AKM/MF’s. We haven’t had any planes due to the blizzard in fact our elementary school co-ed basketball team has been stuck in Scammon Bay since Saturday.
Don’t worry, I am still here, but due to the blizzard our phones have been going on and off and thus I was having internet issues since I have dial up.
I’ll get an update to AKM today.
Ann Strongheart
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Nunam Iqua, AK 99666
nunamiquayouth(at)yahoo(dot)com
http://anonymousbloggers.wordpress.com
Long time reader, first time poster…(like many nonAlaskans I found this blog when SP was announced as McCain’s running mate..I keep meaning to get invloved since there are so many cool, like-minded folks posting here)
I grew up in CT and now live in MA. I’ve never even been anywhere with a volcano. My experience with volcanoes is limited to seeing my sister once make a paper mache mountain and adding red food coloring to vinegar and baking soda to simulate lava.
And I still yelled at the TV when Jindal mocked volcano monitoring. What a jerk. How ignorant can you be? Or is he just heartless? That whole speech was a joke!
Those of you wondering whether Palin will side with her senators or Jindal are not likly to get an answer. Palin only seems to make a comment when someone in the liberal elite media “attacks” her by pointing out her unethical behavior. And considering she couldn’t name any Supreme Court case besides RvW, when part of her state was devestated by Exxon, she’s not likely to come down on the side of the reality that she has 31 volcanoes in her state. Are any of them near Wasilla? She might know about them if there are.
The 1980 erruption of Mount St Helen killed 57 people and caused widespread damage. It was mega-news, back then, but I guess since it happened almost 30 years ago, the Republican party believes nobody actually remembers it. Remember when Palin referenced small pockets in the US of people who are pro-American? I guess it only fitting that the GOP now apparently dismisses the five states with active volcano (and the four more with potentially active volcanos) as pockets of non-America, since evidently, Volcanos are mysterous, exotic, foreign sounding things that simply don’t exist in the real America.
Donna, you forgot Ann C. She’s very special, too.
Imagine them all in the same room… big red eyes afire, yikes, scary.
AKM, there are actually MILLIONS of people living within the fallout zones of recently active volcanoes – Mt. Rainier overshadows Seattle, Portland has Mt. Adams, Mt. Hood, and Mt. St. Helens – whose blast killed 57 people in 1980 and could have been even much more devastating without monitoring.
Seismic monitoring is not limited to volcanic events – the link between volcanic activity and earthquake activity gives us clues about where/when we can expect major earthquakes to occur in the affected region’s tectonic fault system.
Maybe Bobby Jindal wants to go back to using buoy measurements as his primary hurricane warning system?
Another resource Jindal didn’t bother checking — guess he can’t see it from HIS house – so it doesn’t exist
“”The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions encircling the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. “”
more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire
@Enjay in Eastern MT (09:36:42) :
He prob. thinks that’s what Johnny Cash was singing about!
off topic – C-Span is televising congress and the budget hearings
Here’s a great resouce to store in your “favorites.”
http://www.rtoonline.com/congress/list.asp?chamber=house&prefix=hm_
You may want to send a note to your congress person in support of the budget President Obama released today. You can check out the 140 page budget outline here:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/obamaforamerica/gGxhJ9
GOP TICKET –> PALIN/JINDAL 2012!!!
ANOTHER RNC EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!
COMING TO THEATERS NEAR YOU!!!!!!!
A thought —
Do you suppose the Repubs believe the internet is a Left Wing conspiracy since they don’t seem to utilize the easiest and most complete information data base?
I’m starting to think the Republicaliban has something else up its bourka. Like maybe since Palin is… well… Palin, the ‘base’ will continue to push for her; the more moderate / intelligent of what’s left of the party will be divided between Jindal and Rick Perry. No one will have enough of a majority to win in 2012.
I understand Perry plans to run for a 3rd term in 2010. By throwing Jindal under the bus NOW, come 2016 Perry will have a solid ‘experience’ angle to exploit (plus, he’s kinda’ purty also, too!)
Just thinkin’ out loud over here….
Typical rising star in the Repug Party…. dishonest and clueless.
@Enjay in Eastern MT (09:49:01) :
Did you see the interview with Meghan McCain a few days ago about how the Rethugs just don’t “get” the internet?
Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble
Thanks for looking it up. I was too lazy.
“I’ve had the earthquake page bookmarked ever since I read 8.4. Fascinating that in 1811-1812, 3-5 earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault zone probably greater than 7.0 mag. The Mississippi appeared to flow upstream and church bells rang in Philadelphia.”
OT? Thanks for checking in Ann, I’ve been thinking about you and the blizzard nice to hear things are not too bad….many blessings.
P. Jindal is a real Roads Scholar!
Ah, here’s the link about why the Rs don’t “get” the internet: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-19/republicans-suck-at-the-internet/
@Mommy Dearest
Somewhat shocking, isn’t it?
Candy Knight
“Too bad they can’t come up with a Corrupt and/or Ignorant Politician Alert monitor.”
No kidding. Orange alerts, Red Alerts. Red and blue dunce caps.
The internet did a pretty darn good job this last fall and hopefully it will get even better.
Enjay in Eastern MT (9:49)
Back in the late 70s early 80s there was a religious group that believed the number 666 was going to be linked to a huge computer in Denmark, I think….yep…and now, methinks that group merged into the New Apostolic Reformation . Yep…they were afraid their personal information would end up in that computer and thus, they would have the mark of the beast. Oh, no!
Any body remember anything about that computer…maybe it was in …?
OH NO —
I have the Mark of the Beast ???
What shall I do ?????
I Like the Alerts & Dunce Cap idea
The Republicans would love to put forth a candidate who is youthful, personable, doesn’t look like your every day, run-of-the-mill politician, knows what he/she is talking about, speaks clearly and concisely on the issues which concern Americans.
Someone very much like Barack Obama.
Unfortunately, they keep going at things backwards. Don’t just find someone who looks the part. Listen to them speak first!!!!
@Lighthouse (10:23:00) :
Oh, details, details!
Republican politicians have become accustomed to treating us as if we were all stupid. But who can blame them? Half way through the Bush administration, Rove was actively dreaming of a ‘permanent majority’.
Jindal will learn that he can’t treat all Americans in the same condescending manner which is evidently suitable for Louisiana swamp rats!
Enjay in Eastern MT
“A thought —
Do you suppose the Repubs believe the internet is a Left Wing conspiracy since they don’t seem to utilize the easiest and most complete information data base?”
No. It’s kind of like I just did, their too damn lazy to type the word into Google and hit Search.
OR
They just don’t want the facts ’cause facts mess up their message.
(I promise to do better next time I try to show off. As Shakespeare said “To Google or Not to Google… Tis nobler in the mind…)
There are many people in Louisiana that are angry with Jindal. But I wonder if that will translate into their vote. Why did they go Republican in the election? Why is the party so strong there? They are treated poorly and then vote the same people back in. What are they thinking?
Canadian NeighbourNo Gravatar (08:30:12) :
Ratfish (08:25:02) :
What does Sarah have to say?
Does she agree with our senators, or with Jindal?
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She’s probably hiding in her bunker with her Hooked on Phonics attempting to translate the messages.
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IMO…I think in her meeting with Sen. Murkowski the other day, I think the Sen told GINO to take a cup of STFU!!! Before that she was posturing about PO stimulus along with Jingleberry and the other nincompoop!
hmmm. thinking about that meeting with sen. murkowski…
wondering if the good senator told her she’d better get her affairs in order ’cause something was coming down the pike.
hasn’t it been since then that we’ve been treated to the circus of per diems and plane trips and food consumed?
Andree posted last night
Considering the open nature of this forum; what i can tell you is that hope springs eternal; stay the course: great days lie ahead; and, stay tuned!
Andree
Aslan coming to Alaska!!! WooHoo!!!
The volcano-monitoring sneer just make me stare. (And nearly choke on a mouthful of coffee.) I lived in So Cal for 26 years and was there for the Northridge earthquake. Seismic monitoring is used for volcanoes and earthquake preparedness – no one in a high-techtonic area mocks seismic monitoring, not if they have the brains god gave a guinea pig. And yeah, if the New Madrid fault lets go again, a whole lot of this country, including Louisiana, will be in a world of hurt.
Jindall may have gone to Harvard and be a Rhodes Scholar, but – I went to school with a lot of people who were able to pull a perfect 4.0 (straight A’s) average but still act dumber than dirt. Not to mention not having the common sense of your standard 5 year old. He may be one of those. And unfortunately, fundamental religionists seem to deliberately give up the ability to reason and think coherently. Maybe they consider it a gift to god…
SmallSteps – I know what you mean! Every time I think “okay, they’ve hit the limit for wackaloon nonsense,” hey, they find greater limits. My computer desk is by a window and I keep calm(er) by watching the birds at the bird feeders outside. Today we have goldfinches, house sparrows, downy woodpeckers, tufted titmice, cardinals, mourning doves and bluejays. And the occasional red squirrel that runs up and down the gutters and eaves, chattering like a crazy critter. (I live in a rural area in central Michigan.)
Lance – the image of Sarah and Bobby, in tropical flowers and feathers, being hauled up the sides of a volcano for sacrifice, is marvelous – thank you!
Dear Gov. Jindal,
Oxford called. They want their scholarship back.
“A thought —
Do you suppose the Repubs believe the internet is a Left Wing conspiracy since they don’t seem to utilize the easiest and most complete information data base?”…………..
More RNC fun -didn’t you get to read their twitters? They think it’s the new hiphop way to the American people. Yeah, Steel is taking the RNC hiphop. Good luck with that.
Why is everyone asking where Sarah is with her response to Jindal’s ABC 123 speech? We know darn well where she is – PARTYING her ass off, singing:
Fruit Fly, don’t bother me! Fruit Fly, don’t bother me.. Fruit Fly, don’t bother me, cause I now look like a celebrity!
There was mention of the Palin gaff on the “fruit fly research”
Even though it has been all over the Internet and on MSNBC, when I first heard of it i did a quick google
As much as I’d like this to be just another of her many “brain freeze moments” actually I think she was “right”. Grrr
But just mentioning as there are so many things to get on her about and it is good to keep it fact based
So there IS a France Fruit Fly “pork” .. it is for their olive groves
There is another “Fruit Fly” project that is for autism .. in the U.S.
I believe she mentioned the word “France” so she was most likely accurate and it is in reference to the Olive Grove research.. not the Autism one
NOW.. when I looked up “Governmental Pork” .. the very first google page that came up listed the France fruit fly research at the top.
All I could think of.. this strange woman.. probably trying to fit in a talking point did a quick google search and the first Earmark she came across she grabbed.. any 2nd grader could do that.
What was bizarre was her lack of Special Needs intellect that she claims she is a strong supporter of.. if that were the case.. she would of remembered the Fruit Fly research for Autism.. and at the Special Needs speech it probably wouldnt be very “tactful” to use the France one as an example.. people might confuse it. Perhaps she could of simply chosen another off the list instead. Now THAT is moronic to me.
pdx mb (11:16:30) :
Seems Jindal is busy at the moment. He has taken his family to Disney in FL. Guess it’s his way of trying to protect himself by surrounding himself with children.
I think it was UK Lady that mentioned Huckabee yesterday. Well, he must of heard you as he has surfaced from under his rock.
Jingleberries speech was awful, if he’s a scholar than I’m Einstein
He does remind me of a fruit fly, buzzing around and being annoying…!
And his “Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood…” was just pathetic. But hey his fans are rush, and AnnC , GINO, I guess he HAS to talk that way so they will understand?
OT Speaking of computers…the weirdest thing happened…
While visiting over at the immoral minority great blog, everything was fine until I clicked on the sidebar to go to The Alaska Standard; it worked, I read, and then closed out. Only…that page kept popping up, close after close after close, just kept popping up. I was able to get into my email, but it crashed when I tried to look at my inbox. I deleted cookies and temp files, but it kept popping up. Then I began having trouble with Google as well. I had two sites opened, the other latter one was okay for quite a while, til it crashed because of an IE error. I started getting an error saying that this file needed a file at that location, and it was shutting down. (Guess that was my fault deleting all those temp files, my bad.) Then there were errors that IE had errors. I went through fox and tried to update IE. I went to email and found in my in box a new message from CBS to update my information. I don’t think so…I had just read that viruses were going around like that. You are asked information and the message looks legit. I deleted the message and finished running a spyware; almost finished running McAfee, so far, nothing. And Google seems to be okay…but using the fox now. Guess you know by now I’m not very computer literate. What should I do first if it happens again? The popups?
Canadian Neighbour
Yes twas me, thanks for remembering, what has the Huckster been up to?
We just had 3 small earthquakes in my county in NJ! The first one lasted a few seconds and sounded like an explosion: windows rattling, air thudding…I thought someone’s house had exploded nearby, but the blast was longer. I have such respect for science and scientists, I just hope they all got bundles of money!!! The entire country needs their expertise!!!
anon blogger-Use firefox (link at bottom of page here) much safer and stops popups…I just had to get my whole computer wipe b/c of a trojan! I think it was from a application I had called “Accuweather dot com.desktop” when I tried to reload it, was showing as a Trojan by my TrendMicro.
When you computer starts acting weird shut it off immediately, that’s what the computer lady told me!
And good your doing a scan. Bet you will find something….
@ wayney
Her comment sounded even dumber to many scientists than to the public, who DID jump on her for what they thought was a dig at autism research. But she just didn’t use THE GOOGLE long enough – no wait! She pushed the I’M FEELING LUCKY button! If she was smart, which we know she isn’t, she would have looked a little further and not made such an ass of herself (again).
http://scienceblogs.com/evolgen/2008/10/they_are_not_fruit_flies.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Here’s another weird thing….nosey am I, I was checking out the sitemeter for Talk2Action (religious information) web site…and what do I see, a visitor from fdic.gov…from Arlington VA…looking at…the sitemeter…oh no…they see me!!! For over 20 minutes, last I looked…. And, I also saw a visitor from the va.gov and usgs.gov checking out the web site as well. Guess they’re doing research!
I bet GINO’s thinking “Another One Under the Bus.” Don’t kid yourself, she’s loving this negative press for rival GOP’er Jindal. I’m sure she thinks his supporters will be flocking to her now.
I think the GOP is suffering from “Foot-in-the-mouth Syndrome.” I don’t think there’s a cure for it and if there was the GOP would think it too was pork. After all, it might involve fruit fly research. (wink, wink)
I can’t help but wonder if Jindal was chosen due to the recent mega-success of “Slumdog Millionaire” at the Oscars. The GOP heads were thinking “Hey, we got our own slumdog! Call Jindal!”
BTW: It was truly a phenomenal movie so please don’t think I’m mocking the movie or persons from India.
@Ratfish — “What does Sarah have to say?”
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No, No, we don’t want to hear what ‘she has to say’ on this matter, really. No, no.
@Cabdy Knight — “Too bad they can’t come up with a Corrupt and/or Ignorant Politician Alert monitor.”
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Actually, they have one, it’s called mudflats, you’ve arrived!
@Tewise — “I concur lets sacrifice the both Gov.’s to the volcano god.”
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I agree. lol. Isn’t Sayrah already making animal sacrifices though? To which god I’m not certain, but aerial killings you know, also.
In the last post ‘Exorcist’ I posted [and commented] on a great link you may want to read… ‘Jindal: The Story They Don’t Want You to Read’ on TheDailyKingfish. I call it collective hysteria.
Paula said:
Donna, you forgot Ann C. She’s very special, too.
Imagine them all in the same room… big red eyes afire, yikes, scary.
My reply:
Oh I didn’t forget about Ann Coulter. I think the Republican Party, think of her as the “proverbial” crazy uncle, but in Ann’s case, their crazy Aunt. You know the crazy uncle that gets invited to family gatherings, but no one really takes him serious. They just humor him, and ignore most of his rantings.
Wow, I just can’t keep up with these long threads.
SP is still trying to decide if the Stimulus Money is worth the trouble. She has a one track mind, like that of a maverickly pitiful pitbull in heat.
She is trying to save her gas line dream that is going up in smoke, kind of like her political career.
oops, sorry about the bold…missed an html tag somewhere along the line.
Palin and Jindal sittin’ in a tree..
Oh, what a sorry sight we see..
Volcanoes, hurricanes, fruitflies too…
Oh what a good time, Democrats to be.
Don’t these supposed Senators/Congresspersons, understand when they keep spouting the Government is corrupted/evil, they ARE the gov’t for which they speak ill about??
Why are they such dunderheads?
OK, I have decided that I FINALLY do actually agree with a Republican principal. Too much government! Let’s get rid of governors first off, starting with Alaska and Louisiana. Too much middle management waste going on there, and for one, I’M putting my foot down NOW! Put their government salaries back into the budget to pay the salaries to those who might actually appreciate their government job and benefits.
@Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (11:42:25) :
@ wayney
Martha UYA, thank you for pointing that out. The issue with the $ for the study of the olive fruit flies in France is that the olive industry in California is huge, and they’re trying to figure out how to keep the buggers from devastating the California crop, should they ever get to the States. DUH, protecting our agricultural crops…
I think comparing Jindal to Mister Rogers (as Jon Stewart did last night- love him!) is an insult to Mister Rogers.
Mister Rogers is an icon.
Bobby Jindal is an idiot.
Mister Rogers was sincere and thoughtful.
Bobby Jindal is sincerely thoughtless.
Mister Rogers lived in the “Neighborhood of Make-Believe.” He knew it wasn’t real.
Bobby Jindal lives in the “GOP land of Make-Believe.” He thinks it’s real.
Mister Rogers liked puppets, and sung the song “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Bobby Jindal likes neighbors, and would sing the song “Won’t You Be My Puppet?”
Can you tell I have a soft spot for Mister Rogers??
Oops, Martha UYS
That’s my mayor! Let’s give a shout out to Royce Pollard of Vancouver, Washington, who said what needed to be said in the wake of Bobby J’s volcano monitoring bashing.
InJuneau (12:07:40) :
@Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (11:42:25) :
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Here’s a good Salon.com post explaining the olive fruit fly issue:
http://tinyurl.com/5mg8o2
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned here at Mudflats before, but Firedoglake has a blog entry reporting that there’s a live feed available on the CPAC wingnut gathering that Sarah Palin is, sadly, going to miss (sob). There’s also a live chat box accompanying the live video feed, and you can find the whole works at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/townhall-presents-cpac-2009
Rick Sanchez referring to the big conservative meeting in Washington said “THEY’RE ALL HERE!”
Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Steele and Joe The Plumber. Apparently Joe was on a panel about media bias. Had low key role but still got standing ovation.
Team Alaska @ 1:54
Ohhh….I don’t know. Methinks you’re giving too much credit to the governor. I bet she has a staff of people dealing with all that stuff. Why, she’s too busy reading those nasty pajama bloggers’ comments and those liberal newspaper blogs, books, magazines, and more bloggers. Probably hired blogger watchers to handle the overload. And then there’s all those diapers she has to stop and change through the day…and then the feedings…during the day. Why, I don’t see how the woman gets a minute of rest. Hope all the staff are pitching in to help with those diapers, poor thing.
Sorry for being ugly! But, her actions have spoken louder than words.
P.S. The blog entry at Firedoglake is entertaining in its own right:
http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/26/joe-the-plumber-michelle-bachmann-palin-video-everyones-already-seen-kick-off-cpac/
Wow just saw a website of a jingleberry fan and hater of Teamsara and GINO herself
Will we be seeing a TS and TBJ smackdown soon????
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/02/why_the_trashin.html
OH BTW I heard yesterday some TS were calling Jingleberry a Muslim!
Wingnuttery
An FYI Re: anon blogger (11:28:08) :
“I deleted the message and finished running a spyware; almost finished running McAfee, so far, nothing. And Google seems to be okay…but using the fox now. Guess you know by now I’m not very computer literate. What should I do first if it happens again? The popups?”"
our local internet service sent out some idea’s about Malware / Spy Ware Pop up ads :
“If a virus alert appears on your screen, do NOT touch it. Don’t use your mouse to eliminate or scan for viruses and DON’T use your mouse to close the window. Instead, hit control+alt+delete to view a list of programs currently running. Delete the “rogue” from the list of running programs”"
“”Keep your computer updated with the latest anti-virus and anti-spyware software and be sure to use a good firewall.”"
One time I traced down the file on my PC & renamed it to “HELL_NO” since it wouldn’t let me delete it. Didn’t pop up again !! lol
BigSlick – the movie will never make it to theatre…….it’ll go straight to video.
@ Secret Shopper
I read a lot about this when Snarky Sarah made this comment. Like I said, she just didn’t use THE GOOGLE a minute or two more (something about attention span?). She hit the pork page (CAGW) and went “AHA, now there’s PORK I can pick on!”. The actual study is in Montpelier, not Paris anyway. She can only read a couple of sentences at a time, and then it’s an overload. So her entire governmental style revolves around sound bites, and the I’M FEELING LUCKY button. She can’t really think much beyond that, it just hurts too much.
Enjay in Eastern MT:Instead, hit control+alt+delete to view a list of programs currently running. Delete the “rogue” from the list of running programs””
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Thanks for the great “tip”
Before I got my computer wiped there were several files and programs I couldn’t rename or delete b/c of the trojan…
Well the crazy Uncle is blabbing a CPAC, isn’t she?
As far as live feed, I’ll let Olbermann. Maddow, Stewart & Colbert do the honoros and give me the highlights.
I heard Joe the Plumber got a standing O. Go figure.
By 2010 he may be the best Republican standing!
Kojo- loved the comments over there. Especially:
“Stick An Ice Pick In Your Ear Or Attend CPAC … You Make The Call”
I did.
Off to the ER. Man that %^&$#ing ice pick HURT!!
UK Lady,
Huck is on Huff!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/huckabee-whacks-matthews_n_170285.html
ChiCat (09:24:00) :
Welcome , neighbor!
I baffles me how the republican party is so incredibly behind the times… science, social justice, medicine, education…hard to believe how far ahead the rest of us clear-thinking people are. We should be proud of ourselves.
Oh, and you forgot to add “queers” to that list.
found this rather interesting, lol…..wonder if Bobby got called into the priests office and had his knuckles slapped with a ruler.
http://www.dailykingfish.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=224
“Mr. Jindal was writing about a profound and transformational religious experience, but there is probably a good reason his campaign does not want people to read this essay. The essay raises more questions than answers, and many of these questions are uncomfortable.
The type of demonic possession described by Mr. Jindal is a rare phenomenon, and according to Canon law, the Rite of Exorcism can only be performed by an ordained priest. The intervention described by Mr. Jindal is strictly forbidden by the Catholic Church. (The Rite of Exorcism was practically abolished in 1999, and today, it can only be used in extreme circumstances and can only be performed in Latin). And there are other, important hermeneutical questions concerning Mr. Jindal’s own understanding of the Catholic faith—his misinformed notion of the hierarchy of saints, his expressed belief in the instant reward of personal prayer, his simultaneous acceptance and dismissal of people who pray to Mary as “idolaters,” his existential confusion between evangelical Christianity and Catholicism, and his failure to alert a priest to intervene in the Rite of Exorcism. “
I just emailed Jindal and suggested we cut out funding to monitor hurricanes and tornadoes. I admitted that this would result in greater loss of life, but that so would omitting funding for monitoring of volcanoes. Then I said that I guessed it made a difference if it was your own life or those of your constituents. : )
Well, Sue, the important thing is to have as little government as possible. Why not just get rid of all emergancy related stuff (hospitals, medivac copters), definately get rid of that pesky food safety department (we all know eating mad cow meat is fun), police and firemen need to go as well, a waste of tax dollars. Everyone will now have to homeschool. Sp ed services are a thing of the past. Cancer? too bad, those cure involve bad science, call Jindal, he’ll help you out no heatchcare needed. And get a damned canoe -do you know how much bridges cost? This socialism has got to go!
Enjay in Eastern MT @ 12:26
Thanks for the info!!!
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I just heard that Joe the plumber was at a book signing last night…think he sold 11 books, but I am not sure…heard the tv in the background, so I am hoping I relaying correctly.
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Saw on HuffPost:
Joe of Morning Joe said, “Before we yell at the Democrats for what they are doing… think about, when Republicans were in control we passed a $7 trillion liability to Medicare, a program that was already going bankrupt. That is not what conservatives do.”
And he also said…”We need to be moderate in our temperament. We really do… We are not going to win votes, we are not going to win elections, by calling Barack Obama a communist. If you think it, bite your tongue…. We will win votes.”
scroll down and read the comments, oh my, especially the one about strip joint visits.
http://community.adn.com/node/138359
“Young has long had an interest in Puerto Rico. (Although who doesn’t in February?) In 1997, he sponsored a bill to hold a vote in Puerto Rico on statehood, an issue also of interest at the time to disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Young has said he worked with local representatives, not Abramoff, on the matter.”
here I’ll save ya the trouble……what a creep
n0se wrote on 02/24/2009 05:59:33 PM:
John Bowe, in his book Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy cited an Abramoff organized Congressional visit to the CNMI.
It was a 27 person delegation that included Delegates to Congress from other US Territories, staff members and five Members of Congres, headed by the committee chair, Don Young (R-AK).
Hundreds of foreign contract workers were waiting to meet with them. They had hoped that these Representatives of the US Congress were coming to learn about the ongoing abuse. Instead, the Young delegation ignored and dismissed them.
Later that weekend, a group of at least three congress members took their fact-finding mission to a Filipina strip club called Orchids. The club, was popular with local government officials and visiting VIPs looking for a good time. Later, the gang moved on to another club, called Russian Roulette….. ttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/20/13330/6822/95/699619
Off Topic, but it made me wonder…
I read in the ADN today about Palin’s proposal to nationalize (What’s the state equivalent? State-alize?) the electricity in Alaska. And then I just read about her how she sacked & stacked the Dairy Board to “State-alize” the Dairy business in Alaska.
Both could be rational, cost saving endeavors for Alaskans…I don’t know…
But what got me giggling was the image of Clueless actually maybe doing something in the best interests of the people of Alaska, but (not surprisingly) unknowingly flying straight into the thresher of Republican hysterical jargon of Anti-Socialism.
Of course this is no big surprise as it is the same Sarah that boldly stuck her head into national politics and advised the President to veto the Stimulus and when it was passed is asking for more.
HA!! This is a riot!!
I pray you Alaskans can bring this brand of hypocrisy and self righteousness that we have suffered nationally under for the last eight years to an end sooner rather than later.
OT but i thought you all would find this amusing
http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/2009/02/secure_palinfre.html
MonaLisa (in CT):
it’s not looking too good for rick perry’s re-election. kay hutchison has a 49-33 lead over perry in current opinion polls
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2009/02/24/in_texas_hutchinson_leads_perr.html
Sarah Palin notes in a new right-wing propaganda film that the media employed search and destroy tactics against her: “We are going to seek and we are going to destroy this candidacy of Sarah Palin’s because of what it is that she represents.”
Palin is right that the media deployed a search and destroy strategy against her, and now those evil elitist media forces are sneaking up on Bobby Jidal who recently gave a passionate speach before a massive cheering crowd. But the liberal media -using all their wicked tactics- made it appear he was reading Dick and Jane to third graders in the stairwell of a mansion.
Folks, that’s how socialism works. It controls the media, and like a thief in the night, steals reality right from under your nose while you sleep.
Shall we pray now?
@karen marie (14:54:40) :
Well, except for the Saxby Chambliss win, I’d think her endorsement might be the kiss of death!
Paula…watch the speech again.
It was not “a passionate speach before a massive cheering crowd”.
It was an embarrassment, to teachers and thinkers whether Democrat or Republican and it was “in the stairwell of a mansion.”
If you continue to see what you had described before for more than four hours, call you doctor and seek immediate help.
Your delusions could be dangerous.
InJuneauNo Gravatar (15:01:22) :
@karen marie (14:54:40) :
Well, except for the Saxby Chambliss win, I’d think her endorsement might be the kiss of death!
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Yeah, I still can’t believe we reelected that person. Leave it to the Repubs to have a dog and pony show distracting our religious right from the truth.
Well I’ll be a humdingger karen marie. Palin ain’t magic after all.
Yes, east coast, it was passionate. The media elitist gotch socialist media devils changed it and make it look bad! I swear. Gulp, gulp, cherry koolaide. It’s true. I know it is! God said so! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh……………..
Lance,
Believe it.
“Yeah, I still can’t believe we reelected that person. Leave it to the Repubs to have a dog and pony show distracting our religious right from the truth.”
Bush won because of state wide gay rights initiatives in several states that got the evangelicals out.
Be Scared.
be scared of those “little” State initiatives.
Those “Repubs” know what they’re doing.
be scared of “dog and pony shows”
be scared of Republicans period.
Sorry Paula…your sarcasm coasted over my eastern head….
You are all so funny today!
InJuneau
Well, except for the Saxby Chambliss win, I’d think her endorsement might be the kiss of death!………………………..I know we are slow down here, some of us still can’t believe it.
Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble………………………Hey is you in Ga. too?lol, well bless your wittle pee-picking heart….
It’s okay eastcoast. I just like to have fun. Your either gonna laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh
Well Tewsie, well bless your own wittle pee-picking heart. Some of usins ain’t from Georgia but we’s here anyhow. Me ‘n that other eastecoaster, well, I think we’re feelin’ a might slighted.
TewiseNo Gravatar (15:23:13) :
Y’all, too? I do declare. Two progressive people living in Georgia. Who’d have thunk?
Question of the evening:
What kind of “god” is it that crafts so convoluted and twisted and vague a doctrine that its meaning is unclear?
@Tewise (15:23:13) :
Hey, I live in the state that elected HER; how do you think I feel? NO, I wouldn’t vote for her for anything, not even dog catcher (I shudder to think what that might result in for the critters).
Sorry AKM but I can’t help myself OT: It appears that one of your senator’s is pushing Bush’s legislation on endangered species. I received a letter from DOW wanting supporters to send a letter to their local reps. to push to do away with Bush’s legislation. For those interested.
OT:
Iam a huge fan of AKM and all you wonderful people on this site. You all never fail to brighten my days with your posts. Thank you.
Well Paula and that other eastcoaster ya’lls welcome to our happy little party, it is better than Palins pity party….hehehe…..even tho she supplies the whine….
We’re lsietnening to Zappa anti religion songs. Never knew he was an atheist until now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE2dq3YD0
check this out, prepare to pull your mouth shut and your jaw off the floor….http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/703736.html
Are Sarah and Bobby related? Or just two more Republican idiots? Not only does neither one have a clue what they’re talking about – they LIE LIE LIE !
@ InJuneau
Whew… I thought maybe your were going to say she would make an EXCELLENT dog catcher. They do have a vehicle you can drive around in all day and then take home for the night. You get to wear all kinds of cool pins and badges and shiny shoes! Don’t think they’d like the stupid plastic boots of hers, though because you really couldn’t run through yards chasing dogs very well while wearing them. She’d probably get hung up in somebody’s swingset and then sue for per diem and a new beehive hairpiece.
Besides, I love dogs and I’d get in trouble because I would be coaching them all to bite her. They have a lot of pent up dog anger over her ruining the reputation of the pit bull you know. They do bark about these things when no one’s listening.
Yes, appears Palin has now stacked the state supreme court in favor of religious liberties for teens. I mean not for teens. Suprised anyone? It’s part of the right wing agenda. She’s workin for brownie points now.
@ Tewise, our jaws aren’t dropping because we went through this not long ago. I personally think Palin HATES the AK Supreme Court due to many overturns of whackjob politics, like benefits for same sex partners. She’s pushin’ on that door hard – and has zero respect for justices unless she thinks they are in her pocket. I imagine that after hearing all the nasty names she comes up with for people she doesn’t like, that she has a few choice names for our justices. Remember, this is the woman who is afraid of science, and law only has a place in her world if it was handed down by God, or by her.
In all seriosness, this is an excellent read:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/carville.republicans/index.html
In part:
The Republican Party has just suffered a bad but not unprecedented defeat. The U.S. economy is in shambles. And the patch of ground some leading figures in the GOP have chosen to occupy to rally back is to oppose expanded unemployment benefits in the middle of a recession.
They could have chosen a stronger national defense and terrorism policy, personal responsibility or even market-based health care reform. Arguing that President Obama’s publicly-supported economic stimulus bill was full of wasteful spending (Rush Limbaugh termed it “Porkulus”) was not enough.
No, their cause in this time of crisis is to deny expanded unemployment benefits to tens of thousands of jobless workers by saying they would not accept added federal funding for them.
So my home state governor, creationism-toting Bobby Jindal, the newly-tapped spokesperson of the Rush Limbaugh-led Republican Party, and a handful of Southern governors, took their stand on expanded unemployment benefits which make up about 2 percent of the economic recovery package.
This, despite the fact that economists from all political ideologies concluded that extending the length of time that workers can collect unemployment insurance benefits would be one of the most effective stimulus measures.
InJuneauNo Gravatar (15:34:35) :
@Tewise (15:23:13) :
Hey, I live in the state that elected HER; how do you think I feel? NO, I wouldn’t vote for her for anything, not even dog catcher (I shudder to think what that might result in for the critters).
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OMG! I love Dogs!
I just got a horrible image….GINO hangin’ out a hummer with a AK-57 blastin’ dogs…..:!:
Palin hasn’t stacked the court, Paula. She made one appt. in 2007, and has two fairly liberal ones to choose from this year.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/703736.html
Ok, did she get a brain transplant or what? Too much Botox? What?
Why would she do this?
Southern Poverty Law Center, which Thursday released its annual hate group report.
The center’s report, “The Year in Hate,” found the number of hate groups grew by 54 percent since 2000. The study identified 926 hate groups — defined as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people — active in 2008. That’s a 4 percent jump, adding 38 more than the year before.
- No doubt helped by Palin.
Thanks Martha, glad to hear it. But even if she loses it’ll be another “blame liberal judges” brownie point. Urg.
Ok had to go back and READ it again…
The bill would revise the Parental Consent Act passed by the Legislature in 1997, which was overturned 3-2 by the Alaska Supreme Court in 2007. The court held that the parental consent requirement was unconstitutional because it infringed on a pregnant teen’s right to reproductive freedom.
I’m ashamed – as a resident of Louisiana I know understand how pained the Alaskans feel about SP because I feel that way about Jindal. Ewwwww. My first thought was Mr. Rogers goes Prime Time….it will take some time before I can ever say where I live!
@ crystal
I think you misunderstand – she can’t overturn abortion law, so she’s been trying like hell to push parental consent for the time being. You know EXACTLY what she’s like and how this pisses her the hell off since it’s ALL she can do at the moment.
Yes I read that too Paula about the hate groups
So if I understand this parental consent thing clearly, GINO is trying to take away teenagers rights to make their own decision on whether to carry on with a pregnancy or not, regardless of the circumstances.
Isn’t this the same woman who said that it was Bristol’s OWN choice to carry on with HER pregnancy?.
hey, wayney, sorry, la palin was NOT right on the fruit flies research.
it was widely acknowledged at the time that, yes, in fact the fruit fly/olive research is being done in france but it is funded in part by the US because it is important research to benefit olive growers in the US as well.
most of the US olive growers are in california but also georgia, arizona, new mexico and texas
http://www.oliveoilsource.com/scripts/producers.asp?p_let=all
when palin made the snarky remark she was ridiculing fruit fly research period. that this research is being conducted in france was, in her mind, bonus red meat for her followers against “limp-wristed, latte-swilling elitists.”
if you pay attention, you all will have noticed that this is a technique republicans/conservatives/fundagelicals use in attacking everything: they find something with just enough truth to it that the waters can be permanently muddied.
you’re right, wayney, the fruit fly research in france is about olives, not autism, but palin didn’t criticize foreign olive research, she critized US-funded fruit fly research that’s being done not just in a foreign country but america-hating, socialist-loving france.
another example of this gambit is the recent pelosi/mouse business. the charge by republicans is that there are millions of dollars in the stim bill directed to “saving the marsh mouse.” that is not in fact true, but there is money in the stim bill directed to wetlands preservation and there are marsh mice living in those wetlands. technically there is a chance that stim money will be spent on studying/preserving wetlands in which these mice live.
again, republicans argue says there is money directed toward mice in the stim bill. a state agency to which money is directed may spend some of that money in a way that will benefit said mice.
as a result, every time someone explains it the idiots making the false claim say “well, there you just said the mice will get funding!” and the whole thing starts all over again.
it’s like the high-speed rail (HSR) being built from disney land to las vegas. it only exists in their imagination. their goal is to try to make democrats look foolish so they turn something as important to this country as HSR into a joke.
you should read up on HSR. there’s a lot of it in europe and the far east. travel is a lot easier, a lot cheaper and is much less detrimental to the environment than motor vehicles and planes. HSR benefits much more than just the end points — there is significant economic benefit to areas all along the length of HSR lines.
but we’ll just snicker about fruit flies and trains from disney to las vegas, because we’re doing just fine here in the united states. who cares about smog and dead lakes and kids with asthma and people with cancer and lead poisoning. what do we need olive growers for? olives are for sissies who drink martinis. we’re americans, we hate trains, because we might have to sit next to someone we don’t know and — oh, my god — they might be colored or foreign or smell funny.
no, sarah palin was not right.
but in the end, they keep you doubting reality every step of the way, and that’s the way they win the debate, or used to. it is indeed getting harder because ordinary people like me can lay their hands on the truth with a couple clicks of the mouse.
Correction…Joe the plumber did not sell 11 books…it was 5. After 55 minutes, he left the book signing….per KO.
wayney (11:22:46) :
There was mention of the Palin gaff on the “fruit fly research”
Even though it has been all over the Internet and on MSNBC, when I first heard of it i did a quick google
As much as I’d like this to be just another of her many “brain freeze moments” actually I think she was “right”. Grrr
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From Huffington Post.
“The Olive Fruit Fly has infested thousands of California olive groves and is the single largest threat to the U.S. olive and olive oil industries,” said Thompson. “The research facility is located in France because Mediterranean countries like France have dealt with the Olive Fruit Fly for decades, while California has only been exposed since the 1990s.”
This is about crop protection – a study by the US Dept Of Agriculture.
Its not about curious scientists wanting to drink champagne in exotic places… not that there’s anything wrong with that … (ha ha ha)
Wait wait! You forgot flooding! We need to stop monitoring flood levels along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers. We also need to stop monitoring drought stages and fire levels in the midwest & South. And most of all, we need to re-appropriate the funding for the Army Corps of Engineers/NOLA, because we in FL certainly don’t need levees. . .
@ anon blogger
Well spelling Joe the Plumber for 55 minutes was probably torture – do you think he had it penned on his wrist?
Martha Unalaska Yard SignNo Gravatar (16:07:15) :
@ crystal
I think you misunderstand – she can’t overturn abortion law, so she’s been trying like hell to push parental consent for the time being. You know EXACTLY what she’s like and how this pisses her the hell off since it’s ALL she can do at the moment.
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Martha, yeah, I got that after I read again….this that she signed had been overturned, and now she got to sign it back into law.
I first thought she was getting too much botox to the brain or something getting mavricky and letting teens get abortions! Forget about teaching Birth control! We just had one(parental consent for abortion) to vote on here in cali, backed by “Fundy’s” and it lost miserably!
Here’s a link to the Office of the Governor of Louisiana:
http://www.gov.state.la.us/
Under “Interact, Contact Us”, you can email your comments. I sure emailed mine a few hours ago, and they weren’t very happy OR complimentary. And since I’m Alaskan, I took the liberty of pointing out the parallels of politics and anti-science between the two governors. Would have posted had I saved, but there is no danger of a shortage of words from this group!
@ Greytdog ?
Hello and welcome back, where or where have you been? You gotta stop leaving us like this, boo hoo.
Martha @ 16:36 – do you think he had it penned on his wrist?
LOL Probably so…hard to see all those block letters fitting on the sleeve…wonder who wrote that book for him?
I sure wonder why he is still around like he is a VIP…doesn’t seem to bring anything to the republican party. So, who is so impressed with him that they would send him to a war zone…or publish a book?
@MUTS
Joe the Plumber singed 5 whole books in 55 minutes?! Wow, that’s a book every 11 minutes! So glad his books are selling so well.
Who is going to take one for the team and read that one? Not me. He pisses me off more than all of ‘em combined.
Oops meant MUYS
Does anybody else wonder why of all the American Pork to choose from Palin picked French Pork to use as an example? That never made much sense. You are probably right she just googled it, about 5 minutes before the speech, and being lazy (boy what a journalist she would have been) didn’t look any further.
She did however set herself up for the autism/genetic research criticism. (The French research is probably for crop protection research, just like we do in this country, and so is not necessarily Pork.)
But since the topic has come up. What, if anything are the Palin’s doing to help their developmentally challenged infant. Early stimulation of brain and muscles are the best approach.
I assume they are doing nothing or she would be doing speeches about all the stuff she has learned about helping developmentally challenged children to help her PR image.
I really do feel for her children.
more on Olives & Fruit Flies
On Salon :
” …the olive fruit fly occurs in at least 41 counties in California,” adding that in other areas of the world where the olive fruit fly has flourished, the pest has wiped out 100 percent of some olive varieties. As Thompson knew, a 2004 USDA report did not mince words: “The recent establishment of the olive fruit fly … in California has threatened to destroy the U.S. olive industry.”
http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2008/10/27/sarah_palin_fruit_flies/
Google California olive and find 3rd from the top:
http://oliveoilsource.com/index.asp
The 1st thing you see is a fruit fly update.
@ anon blogger OT OT OT OT
That’s a stumper! I’m beginning to think that maybe JTP went to the same journalism school as Palin:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2009/01/joe-the-plumber.html
Asked about Israel’s ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip, Wurzelbacher made it clear he has no desire to see the front lines himself or to investigate both sides of the story.
He said: “To be honest I don’t think journalists should be anywhere around war. You guys report where our troops are at, you report what’s happening day to day, you make a big deal out of it. I think it’s asinine.
“I like back in World War I and World War II, where you’d go to the theater and you’d see our troops on screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them,” he said. “I think media should be abolished from reporting.”
How DARE journalists make a big deal of WAR! How COULD they!
Keep in mind, this guy used to live in Alaska, in the North Pole. He was NOT friends with Santa and in fact it was the elves that finally voted him off the island because he was just TOO STUPID FOR WORDS and they couldn’t get any work done (throwing up on the toys they were making caused a lot of extra work for those little buggers).
Sorry I’m so going off OT that I’m leaving now. Can’t wait to hear from Ann, since that will blow a fresh breeze through the stale and rotten stench hanging in the air after discussing Jindal Rogers and Joe the Dumber Plumber.
I know that we HAVE to talk about these morons constantly and expose their small minds and pinched hearts, but I can only take so much in one sitting.
hello karen marie
GOOD analysis.. I am too lazy to delve into “research”
The right part I meant.. wasn’t that she was “Right” in bringing it up as “Pork” .. well it is listed as “Pork” but that idealogy in itself I wasn’t calling “right”
Like you mentioned, the “right” part meant .. and I should of used another word.. was that she wasnt talking about the Fruit Flies in the Autism research, but rather the Olive Groves in France
.. she wasn’t making an “extreme” dinwit of herself..
But, definitly in looking at it.. either way it is spun.. was a pretty dimwitted remark on alot of levels
Enjay in Eastern MT:Instead, hit control+alt+delete to view a list of programs currently running. Delete the “rogue” from the list of running programs””
You need to go to the “Proccesses” Tab and it opens to a list of all the stuff that is on the computer and the changing numbers in the CPU column show what is running. The very last thing in the left column “System Idle Process” shows how much of the CPU capacity is free.
Martha Unalaska 17:06
You’re right…Well…I don’t think he was born before World War I or World War II…or Korean. So, I don’t understand the interest in promoting him, unless they’re trying to promote the dark ages. …. Heard my answer just now on KO…dork appeal. LOL
@ Enjay OT OT OT
Most computer users (and good for them) don’t know the names of services and tasks running that ought to be running, much less ones that shouldn’t.
I’ts much quicker to download a couple of good free anti-spyware tools and scan with those (even in addition to your normal anti-virus, anti-spyware). My two faves are from MalwareBytes dot org, and SuperAntiSpyware.com because they are no-brainers and do a good job, download and run both. I do this for a living, so I clicked on the same link you mentioned to see what was up, but zippo nada for me.
Karen marie
“It’s not looking too good for rick perry’s re-election. kay hutchison has a 49-33 lead over perry in current opinion polls”
He got reelected by a 30% plurality. I miss living in Texas big time by if Kay Bailey is elected I will be glad I do not have to share a state with her. She is as mean as a javelina with rabies. So even if the National RepoTalibans support her, Rick may sneek back in again.
Marnie – Rick Perry is mean too……….and he has serious backers with money. Dell loves him.
Hiya Martha – I’ve been laid a bit low by a run in with a dental bit – the most simplest of procedures landed me flat on my back looking up at tubes, IVs and such. Sigh. Very embarrassing actually
Oh and I followed your note on M&H with a bit of a snark. Has anyone seen the Kenneth the Page as Bobby Jindal skit from the Jimmel Kimmel show? I heard it was pretty funny.
As for fruit flies – considering the extreme soil temperatures cascading around the world, fruit flies are often our “first warning” of something awry in our agriculture – whether it be an “abundance” (da flies da flies) or a lack thereof. It’s the same thing with honey bees – some folks think spending money on the honey bees is wasteful spending, but that’s because we’ve forgotten a little thing called pollination. And just assume ALL of our produce comes from huge greenhouses
Paula
“Question of the evening:
What kind of “god” is it that crafts so convoluted and twisted and vague a doctrine that its meaning is unclear”
The wanta be gods that want us not to understand so that we are dependant on the ones who created a convoluted and twisted version of the God to define our faith to us.
The real God knows humans are not too bright, are lazy, and weak and quarelsome and easily confused – and that God would set out the ground rules real simple. Kinda like the parables in the New Testament.
Granted I am no more likely to understand God than anyother not too bright, easily confused H. sapiens. But I like the concept of a simple religion that can be easily accessed not matter where were are or what fix we have gotten ourself into.
Perhaps THIS is what Sarah and Lisa were meeting about:
Victims of Bush/Cheney?
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and other allies of Big Oil are opposing legislative provisions that could help save America’s polar bears and other threatened and endangered animals from extinction.
Urge your Senators to reverse the Bush Administration’s awful endangered species rules.
The Senate could vote on legislative provisions to reverse the Bush rules in the next few days, so please help us send 35,000 messages by Monday!
Fast Fact: Polar bears could disappear from America in the next 50 years.
The Bush/Cheney Administration has been gone for more than a month, but their eleventh-hour regulatory shenanigans are still threatening our polar bears and other threatened and endangered wildlife.
Before leaving office, the Bush/Cheney Administration rammed through a regulatory change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that threatens efforts to save polar bears, wolves, manatees and nearly 1,400 other species from extinction.
Speak out for America’s vanishing polar bears and other threatened and endangered animals. Urge your Senators to reverse the Bush Administration’s awful endangered species rules.
The Bush/Cheney regulatory changes eliminated scientific review by the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service of projects that could harm imperiled wildlife. These changes also block important conservation measures under the Endangered Species Act to help the polar bear.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed its omnibus spending bill, including provisions that would enable Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reverse the Bush Administration’s awful endangered species proposals. Unfortunately, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski — backed by her Governor, Sarah Palin — and others in the Senate are now working furiously to strip these provisions from the Senate’s version of the omnibus bill.
Please take action now. Urge your Senators to stand up to Murkowski and help reverse the Bush/Cheney assault on protections for polar bears and other imperiled animals.
The Senate is expected to vote on the omnibus spending bill in the next few days, and we need your help to show broad support for real action to protect polar bears and other imperiled animals. Please take action today and help us send at least 35,000 messages to the Senate by Monday.
If Murkowski and Palin are successful, polar bears and hundreds of other imperiled animals could be denied important help under the Endangered Species Act — protections that are increasingly important as animals like polar bears struggle to survive the effects of global warming.
Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that as many as two-thirds of the world’s polar bears could be lost in the next 50 years — including America’s dwindling polar bear population.
Polar bears need our help today. Please send a message to your Senators right now and urge them to ensure that polar bears get the help they need to avoid extinction.
A Senate vote on this bill could come soon, so please take action right now to help protect our polar bears and other wildlife.
With Gratitude,
Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife
P.S. Defenders of Wildlife is fighting hard in Congress, in the courts and on the ground to save our polar bears. Please consider adopting a polar bear mom and cub to help support these and other vital efforts to protect threatened and endangered species.
@ Say NO to Palin in Politics
yep, read my post above, that’s the same link I provided.
As for the ‘Church’ and it’s ‘rules’ for exorcism…please. All about control and brainwashing, is it.
What has the Vatican done lately… aside from sticking their collective heads in the sand regarding sexuality, communication, condoms, STD prevention, AIDS etc, in other words, uninvolved with those living in the modern day to day world.
NOTHING. Carry on the mediaeval, carry on.
From that same link, interesting to note how Jindal let Healthcare slip to its lowest point of all States in his care. Nevermind he was young, the fact he was given this post and FAILED says enough about those ‘in power’ that handed him the job.
@karen marie
Regarding High Speed Railway — the current tracks would need a serious upgrade. They were never built to handle high speed TGV trains et all. Maybe the airlines would cry foul, because short distance hops at 357 mph [574kmph] would shoot the short hop airlines’ business down… something to think about, who controls the reins.
Just becasue I can’t stand being serious. If Palin and Jindal were taken up the volcano wiih their Bibles and slapped the volcano and whooped and hollered to drive the demon of the volcano out – since God is in all things and all things are of God – wouldn’t that mean that they would be slapping God on the butt and yelling at him? Shoot, I’d rumble, pass gas, and spit if somebody did that to me.
OT…if anybody already mentioned this, I apologize.
Did you catch Janeane Garofalo on KO tonight? She said Limbaugh was narcissistic AND self-loathing…also that those who gravitate towards this conservative, republican party are those with human frailities (she was being polite)…totally makes sense to me. Compare ALL the repugs you know…there’s something deeply wrong with each one.
Dr. Patois, I think I signed two petitions today about that! B/c ya know I like paling around with polar bears other wolves and Brian!
MarnieNo Gravatar (17:59:38) :
Just becasue I can’t stand being serious. If Palin and Jindal were taken up the volcano wiih their Bibles and slapped the volcano and whooped and hollered to drive the demon of the volcano out – since God is in all things and all things are of God – wouldn’t that mean that they would be slapping God on the butt and yelling at him? Shoot, I’d rumble, pass gas, and spit if somebody did that to me.
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Marnie, good point, I say we just do what the Incas/Aztecs did and sacrifice both of their “servants hearts” to the volcano’s…
LaineyNo Gravatar (18:01:59) :
OT…if anybody already mentioned this, I apologize.
Did you catch Janeane Garofalo on KO tonight? She said Limbaugh was narcissistic AND self-loathing…also that those who gravitate towards this conservative, republican party are those with human frailities (she was being polite)…totally makes sense to me. Compare ALL the repugs you know…there’s something deeply wrong with each one.
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Lainey, oh LOL! I caught that, that was so kewl….but I keep waiting for someone to bring up Rush’s recent drug confiscation at the airport….na, not oxy….lol….a bunch of “little blue pills”….pity he didn’t get charged.
:-l
Oh – OT a bit here – but my S.O. gave me a Vermont Co Teddy Bear on Valentine’s day. Knowing my penchant for Alaskan politics and bears, he chose the Grizzly bear (with proceeds going to WWF) . . .said Bear is now known as “Walt” in honor of Walt Monegan. In turn, I sent my wundermom a “You Barack My World” Bear for her 89th birthday. okay, back to your regular programming.
@ Greytdog ?
Please don’t stay away so long next time and how DARE you get sick on us?
Your snark was excellent – no one does it better! We have been a little whiny over here – mixed in with great discussion – we can always use your cool scholarly humor anytime you feel like dropping in.
Greytdog ?- I gave my BF a wolf from DoW for valentines day…but he hasn’t named him/her yet???
Cute you named yours Walt!
UK lady
“So if I understand this parental consent thing clearly, GINO is trying to take away teenagers rights to make their own decision on whether to carry on with a pregnancy or not, regardless of the circumstances.
Isn’t this the same woman who said that it was Bristol’s OWN choice to carry on with HER pregnancy?.”
It was McCain the anitabortion man who, possibly in the 2000 in the primaries was asked by a journalist what he would do if he found out his daughter were pregnant would he oppose her decision to have an abortion. He said it would be the family’s decision of whether to have an abortion or not.
Funny how much difference there is between what’s right for me and and want’s right for thee.
Dr. Patois @ 17:56
Thank you! Will send emails and I will spread the word in my world. From the heart, I really appreciate all your good work.
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Marnie @ 17:59
LOL…Last time one of the spiritual warfare warriors climbed a mountain to run off demons so the prayers can reach heaven, the person claimed her actions probably killed Sister Theresa. Yep…yep, that’s what I read.
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Lainey 18:01
Saw her, enjoyed that interview.
@crystalwolf aka caligrl
could be viagra….ewwww. who would want him?!?
of course, Janeane said that he would attract women who like prisoners, etc.
priceless
Marnie @ 17:59
LOL…Last time one of the spiritual warfare warriors climbed a mountain to run off demons so the prayers can reach heaven, the person claimed her actions probably killed Sister Theresa. Yep…yep, that’s what I read.
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And Princess Di!
@Greydog
Vermont Teddy Bear Co is cool as hell. They are one of those liberal, and highly successful, companies that actually give back. Hmm…maybe JTP can learn something and WORK for a living instead of hitching his 15-minutes of fame wagon to the idiotic mooch parade.
Happy birthday to your mom!
About the only thing he didn’t do was make fun of hurricane preparedness and his own sorry state.
He was creepy to watch!
Mud Flatters. This has be a great discussion, but I’m on EST and it’s past my bed time.
….later.
I lost my comment in cyberspace somewhere…so I’ll send again.
anyway, those little blue pills could be viagra, but who would want limbaugh?
eewwwwwwwwww
Janeane said he’s the type that women who are attracted to prisoners would like. it figures. i still say eewwwwwwwwww
New thread!
oh i just found out my comment was zapped because i spelled out the drug that helps ED for limbaugh ….sorry Mudflatters
Yeah, I sort of did a “holy sh….” over that one too. Mt. St Helens is spitting distance from here. Mt Hood, Mt Adams, The Sisters down in Bend……
What a knucklehead.
@ anon bloggerNo Gravatar (11:50:58) :
Don’t panic about some of the government action over on Talk2Action. One of them was me on a break, getting my Mudflats sanity-fix!
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eastcoastNo Gravatar (15:06:45) :
Don’t panic. Paula was being facetious. She’s definitely a thoughtful, well-informed, Gold-plated Mudpuppy of the First Magnitude.
Thanks to all of you Mudpuppies, I _do_ still have my sanity! Jindal, on the other hand, maybe not so much!
karen marie (14:47:23) :
OT but i thought you all would find this amusing
http://badattitudes.com/MT/archives/2009/02/secure_palinfre.html
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Thanks for the laugh…had tears rolling down my eyes and my stomach hurting…..lol
thanks, wayney!
“right” is a very loaded word and should not be used without great thought, especially when using it to describe a statement or action by a republican, conservative or fundagelical. they have difficulty understanding nuance. when someone says, “you got 1% of it right and 99% wrong,” all they hear is “you’re right about everything 4evah!!1!”
makes conversation tough.
glad you enjoyed it, edie. bad attitudes is a great blog.
QuetzalcoatlNo, indeed the current tracks are insufficient. not just in quality but quantity.
jindal and the republicans think a train from LA to LV is a joke but it’s actually not as stupid idea as you might think. if you look at a map, a line straight through might not be the thing to do but to go from LA to phoenix, arizona to LV might be.
one of these days i’m going to start a series of reviews of various rail lines in europe and the far east. if we heard more about the benefits, perhaps the whining from NIMBYs would get less attention.
Here’s Rep. Don Young’s response:
“Alaska is facing a very real threat from Mount Redoubt right now and will face more threats in the future. These warning programs help keep Alaskans safe, and that is hardly a waste. While I understand his concerns about including this spending in a stimulus bill and not an appropriations bill, Governor Jindal should have been more sensitive in his remarks.”
Lainey – Saw her on KO……..is she spot-on or what !? Funny how for such a big mouth , Rush won’t debate or have anyone on his show……….Janeane would certainly kick his bisquit butt.
I read that only 10% of the amount cited is slated for Volcano Monitoring. The rest of the money is going to updating buildings and doing work on the government buildings in this agency… But who cares about the details? Begich needs to do a better job pointing this kind of thing out. Thanks for all he does anyway.
I am very late to this thread and had a couple of notes for a couple of people.
For the person who thought Sarah was right to criticize the ‘French” fruit fly study because it was for their olives:
Yes, olives are a very important crop here in the US as well. We are much newer at this and the particular research that was being done was on a variety of fruit fly and olive that have been in France for hundreds of years. We are now having the same problem. It makes sense to go to the source where they already have a lot of knowledge about a problem and do a collaborative effort (which this was) to learn how to control these particular flies so the crops in both countries do not get destroyed.
I noticed that Sarah didn’t complain about the ‘mating habits of crabs in Bristol Bay’.
About Jindal and curing cancer. Well, the gubmint doesn’t need to spend any money on that because he successfully cured his girlfriend’s cancer during the exorcism he performed on her. So as long as he is sure he won’t get hurt during the process, he’ll be happy to do the job for you. (Only if he’s sure he won’t get hurt)
Thanks for the updates on what is going on in the villages, and glad you are working on long-term solutions to the problems as well.
Something that nobody seems to be catching is the fact that Piyush “Bobby” Jindal is, by the GOP’s own definition, an anchor baby. How did he ever become a republican?