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Palin - Corruption starts early in her short governorship
« on: 2008-08-29 16:21:55 » |
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Investigation dogs Alaska governor
By STEVE QUINN – Aug 14, 2008
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sarah Palin, a rising young GOP star mentioned as a possible running mate for John McCain, could see her clean-hands reputation damaged by a growing furor over whether she tried to get her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.
A legislative panel has launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire the trooper, Mike Wooten. Wooten went through a messy divorce from Palin's sister.
full article at:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gWi6yTVfPyJeiTBsQ33SSUiobt8wD92I9NIO0
Obviously we will have to wait to see how this investigation progresses to make any final judgments. However in light of the Bush's administrations own scandal over firing career civil servants on innappropriate partisan grounds, it seems that McCain should have more sense than risking this.
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Re:Palin - Corruption starts early in her short public career
« Reply #1 on: 2008-08-29 17:31:19 » |
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'Creation science' enters the race
GOVERNOR: Palin is only candidate to suggest it should be discussed in schools.
By TOM KIZZIA
Anchorage Daily News
Published: October 27, 2006
Last Modified: October 30, 2006 at 09:40 AM
The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor's race this week when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms. . . .
full article at http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html
Probably not surprising considering her other religious-right credentials, but I thought it was worth noting for the CoV audience.
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Re:Palin - Corruption starts early in her short governorship
« Reply #2 on: 2008-09-01 00:49:44 » |
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[Blunderov] "Creation Science"? Now there's a thing to get the Blunderovian blood boiling! "Science"? These religious wingnuts really don't take no for an answer do they?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10545387/
<snip>"A six-week trial over the issue yielded “overwhelming evidence” establishing that intelligent design “is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory,” said Jones"</snip>
[Bl.] So now instead of "creationism" and "intelligent design" we have "creation science" so as to start the whole argument all over again. At least this seems to be what the (clearly brain damaged) proponents of all this nonsense seem to imagine. Give a dog a good name...
With regard to Palin, it seems to me the Republican party is only going through the motions in this election. It's hard to think of a more unelectable ticket. Yet more evidence that these supposedly different parties are in fact one and the same. The elite play good cop, bad cop and all the citizenry get to be the piggy-in-the-middle who never catches the ball. Whee. What fun.
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Re:Palin - Corruption starts early in her short governorship
« Reply #3 on: 2008-09-01 01:16:40 » |
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Just trying to cleanse the pallet ..... like our UNIX guru Sheila always reminded us "Ya Can't fix stupid"
Cheers Gentlemen
Fritz
PS: Looks like [Walter] and [Mo] may need to put the patio furniture away out of the wind and build an ark; keep safe ! 
Quote:"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."
----- Ray Mummert, creationist from Dover, Pennsylvania, 2005 |
Source: Creation 'Science' Debunked Home Page
Author: Lenny Flank
For most of the world, the controversy over creation and evolution was settled way back in the 19th century, after the theory of evolution was presented in a paper by Charles Darwin to the Linnean Society in July 1858. During the five-year around-the-world trip of the Royal Navy ship Beagle, Darwin had collected a variety of specimens from South America and across the globe, including the various finches that inhabited the Galapagos Islands and which now bear his name. Darwin's study led him to conclude that species were not, as was generally accepted at the time, fixed and immutable, but changed over time to become entirely new species, through the process of natural selection.
Darwin's theory of evolution was accepted universally by the scientific community. Conservative religious groups, however, particularly in the United States, were outraged by the idea.
The creationist movement surged into prominence in the 1980's, when the fundamentalist Religious Right took up the anti-Darwin cudgel, and allied itself with the conservative elements of the Republican Party to form a powerful political constituency that has dominated American politics for the past 25 years. During this time, anti-evolutionists, first under the name "creation scientists" and then later as "intelligent design theorists", waged pitched battles against evolutionary science, culminating in a series of Federal court fights in Arkansas, Louisiana and Pennsylvania.
In 2005, a Federal judge in Dover, Pennsylvania ruled that ID was nothing but creation "science" renamed, and was unconstitutional to teach.
This website has one very clear objective in mind -- to present a history of creation "science" and its latest reincarnation as Intelligent Design "theory", and to lay bare the political and social roots of this movement. There have been several excellent websites and books that have dissected the scientific distortions and errors made by the creationist/ID movement and the devastating effects they would have on science education -- this website, however, aims to go beyond that, and examine the underlying social/political aims of creationism/ID. It must be recognized that the evolution/creation debate is, at core, not really about science or education. The creationists/IDers are not concerned in the slightest about scientific questions, or about correctly interpreting data, or about forming better explanations and understanding of the natural world. Instead, creationism/ID is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the fundamentalist Religious Right -- it is a religious and political movement, not a scientific one, and its goals are entirely religious and political, not scientific. The ID/creationists are a part of a larger political movement with radical theocratic aims, and their anti-evolution and anti-science efforts are, as they themselves declare, simply the "wedge issue" which they have chosen in order to gain entry for their wider anti-democratic political goals.
It is my opinion that the ID/creationists (along with the rest of their Religious Right companions) represent, in their attempts to re-mold all of American society in accordance with their own narrow sectarian beliefs, the single greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the United States today.
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Re:Palin - Corruption starts early in her short governorship
« Reply #4 on: 2008-09-01 13:20:45 » |
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[Fritz]So here is what Canada's favorites "Born again Facist" is saying ....
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Source: National Post
Author: David Frum
Date:2008.08.29
David Frum: Palin the irresponsible choice?
Through this campaign season, John McCain has faced two ugly problems.
Problem 1: The Republican voter base is shrinking. In percentage terms, fewer Americans now identify as Republicans than at any time since 1980. The "rally the base" strategy of 2004 won't work in 2008. The only way Mr. McCain can win this presidential election is to appeal to independents and the political centre.
Maverick McCain might seem the perfect candidate for that assignment. He has defied Republican orthodoxy on issues from taxes to climate change, and his relationship with George W. Bush has long been famously tense and even hostile.
But that opportunity raises problem number 2:
Mr. McCain is widely distrusted within his own party.
By the time the nomination contests ended, 68% of Democrats expressed satisfaction with Barack Obama as their nominee. Only 52% of Republican expressed satisfaction with John McCain. Mr. McCain has to worry that too much outreach to independents and centrists could provoke and offend his right wing.
The obvious way to solve problem 2 was to pick a running mate who appealed to the right: a Mitt Romney, say. The trouble is that such a choice would alienate those all-important voters in the middle. But the candidates who might appeal to the voters in the middle were usually unacceptable to the right.
It's generally believed that if Mr. McCain had felt free to choose any running mate he wanted, he would have picked either his friend Joe Lieberman or former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge. Mr. Ridge was especially attractive because Pennsylvania will be a very important state this year.
Pennsylvania ties with Illinois as the fifth most lucrative lode of electoral votes: 21 out of the 270 needed to win. Pennsylvania has voted Democratic in the past four elections, and should have been a sure Democratic win this time. But this state has proved very inhospitable to Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton crushed him in the April 22 primary.
It was in large part to secure Pennsylvania that Barack Obama chose the Scranton-born and Catholic Joe Biden as his running mate. Mr. Ridge, a veteran, a Catholic of Central European origins, and a popular two-term governor, might have tipped the state to the GOP. But Mr. Ridge is pro-choice, and that fact would have triggered the party mutiny that Mr. McCain fears.
So Mr. McCain found himself playing a game of elimination. Ridge out. Romney out. Lieberman out. Giuliani out. Huckabee - way out.
Sarah Palin was the answer to his problem. The party right likes her fierce pro-life convictions. (She is the mother of five. Her youngest has Down's syndrome.) The right approves of her support for opening more of Alaska to oil drilling and her broad libertarian approach to public policy.
At the same time, she qualifies as a maverick because of her battles with Alaska's notoriously corrupt local Republican organization - and her very unusual background. She was a local basketball champion and a second-place finisher in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant. Her husband is a commercial fisherman, a member of the Steelworkers union and a champion snowmobiler of part-Eskimo background.
Most significantly of all, Ms. Palin reaches out to those working-class women who supported Hillary Clinton's candidacy - and who may not be reconciled to Barack Obama. In her statement on Friday in Ohio, she thanked Hillary Clinton for putting 18 million cracks in the hardest of all glass ceilings - and then pointedly argued that a vote for Mr. McCain was the surest way to smash that ceiling once and for all.
In politics as in life, however, you cannot have everything.
Ms. Palin's experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall. She served two terms on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000. She served two terms as mayor. In November, 2006, she was elected governor of the state, a job she has held for a little more than 18 months. She has zero foreign policy experience, and no record on national security issues.
All this would matter less, but for this fact: The day that John McCain announced his selection of Sarah Palin was his birthday. His 72nd birthday. Seventy-two is not as old as it used to be, but Mr. McCain had a bout with melanoma seven years ago, and his experience in prison camp has uncertain implications for his future health.
If anything were to happen to a President McCain, the destiny of the free world would be placed in the hands of a woman who until the day before Friday was a small-town mayor.
Mr. McCain's supporters argue that he is more serious about national security than Barack Obama. But the selection of Sarah Palin invites the question: How serious can he be if he would place such a neophyte second in line to the presidency? Barack Obama at least balanced his inexperience with Mr. Biden's experience. What is Mr. McCain doing?
Vice-presidents have historically made surprisingly little difference to the outcome of presidential elections. The elder Bush picked Dan Quayle in 1988 in hopes of wooing younger voters, much as Walter Mondale had chosen Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, in an effort to mobilize women, and George McGovern had hoped that Sargent Shriver would stanch his losses among Catholics in 1972.
None of these gambits worked. Ms. Ferraro did not deliver women, Mr. Quayle did not deliver youth, and Catholics defected to Nixon in 1972.
Where vice-presidents - and especially Republican vice-presidents - make an enormous difference is after the election.
Since the Second World War, 10 men have received the Republican nomination for vice-president. Three of those men - Richard Nixon, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush - continued on to win the presidential nomination for themselves, and two actually became president. (A fourth nominee, Thomas Dewey's 1948 running mate, Earl Warren, rose to arguably even greater power as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. And you could add a fifth case: Gerald Ford went on to the presidency after being appointed vice-president in 1973.)
Should John McCain lose in November, Sarah Palin has just pole-vaulted into front-runner status for 2012. Should Mr. McCain win, her grip on the next Republican nomination will become a lock.
So this is the future of the Republican party you are looking at: a future in which national security has bumped down the list of priorities behind abortion politics, gender politics, and energy politics. Ms. Palin is a bold pick, and probably a shrewd one. It's not nearly so clear that she is a responsible pick, or a wise one.
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Abusing governmental powers to settle a family feud.
« Reply #5 on: 2008-09-01 19:00:29 » |
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Abusing governmental powers to settle a family feud.
In the relatively short duration of her governorship, Republican Sarah Palin has
already shown a now almost ancient republican penchant for corrupting law enforcement
for petty partisan and now even personal concerns. A very able public servant was
thus replaced with a known sexual predator. Congratulations Sarah Palin on your
quick GOP learning curve. Nice job at cultivating incompetance. The people of Alaska
must be grateful, while the national GOP begins to quickly recongize you as one
of their own.
Love,
Mo
PS just of the news tickers, Palin just now hired an attorney to represent her on this issue. . . . heh, looks like the heat is getting to her. Seems to me that she and John McCain should have discussed this a bit more before he foisted her on the world. Apparently, ya see, John only talked to her once. And so its like that kid coming home to his family after a one night stand saying that he's getting married. Except John is really old and oughta know better. . . . .
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