Oh, hello. This is the pipeline she was talking about in her speech? Good luck, eh. Canadian environmentalists and First Nations groups have been stalling the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline since the 1970s. Pipelines don't get built quickly in Canada, certainly not in 10 years! If it's in the north it's almost certainly going to traverse First Nations land and access will have to be negotiated, which could literally take decades.

Does anyone know more about this? Would the proposed pipeline be hooked into the existing natural gas pipeline network once it hit Alberta?

This is one of her unsmearable accomplishments.

"Congress passed legislation to expedite a pipeline in 2004. Ms. Palin's predecessor as governor, Republican Frank H. Murkowski, attempted to negotiate a deal with the three oil companies that control the North Slope gas, Exxon Mobil, BP and Conoco Phillips. His plan would have awarded the companies a long-term tax freeze in return for relatively weak commitments to actually build the pipeline.

But even though Vice President Cheney and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) lobbied hard for Mr. Murkowski's approach, Alaska's public and legislature balked, viewing the proposal as stacked in favor of the Big Three oil companies.

Ms. Palin rode criticism of Mr. Murkowski's deal to victory over him in the 2006 Republican gubernatorial primary and then to the governor's office later that year.

She reversed Mr. Murkowski's strategy, asking the legislature to pass a law setting criteria for a deal, then throwing the project open to companies other than the Big Three.

The result was a commitment by an experienced pipeline company, TransCanada, to build the project, which may take 10 years, in return for $500 million in state seed money derived from Alaska's recent oil windfall."

--Source

robot monkey: This is one of her unsmearable accomplishments.

As the article points out, this is not much of an accomplishment if Canada doesn't go along with it.

Dinki: robot monkey: This is one of her unsmearable accomplishments.

As the article points out, this is not much of an accomplishment if Canada doesn't go along with it.

Let's hope for the best, aye buddy?

robot monkey: Dinki: robot monkey: This is one of her unsmearable accomplishments.

As the article points out, this is not much of an accomplishment if Canada doesn't go along with it.

Let's hope for the best, aye buddy?

He's not your buddy, guy.

robot monkey: Let's hope for the best, aye buddy?

Sym_pathetic: He's not your buddy, guy.

I hope you get cancer!

Sure, it is definitely an accomplishment on the Alaskan side, and it was a good decision to open the competition and allow a Canadian company to get in a bid, considering the vast majority of this pipeline will be through Canadian territory. I have no problem with it being a government-supported project either, although that does seem like a strange thing for a Republican to support.

What I'm saying is, knowing Canadian stalling on pipelines, I highly doubt this will be built within a decade. They might get approval by 2018... I also don't know the Canadian government position on this. It could be that they favour the alternate pipeline supported by the big three oil companies, who are of course major players in Canada as well, and in the Canadian government's base of support.

I was just surprised because it sounded, from her speech, like this pipeline was already operational and wholly within Alaska.

Gaboo: robot monkey:

Stay classy, guys!

bobbette: I was just surprised because it sounded, from her speech, like this pipeline was already operational and wholly within Alaska.

This pipeline is obviously God's will.

Mike Gravel knows a bit about pipelines.

Sym_pathetic: He's not your buddy, guy.

He's not your guy, friend.

kronicfeld: Sym_pathetic: He's not your buddy, guy.

He's not your guy, friend.

He's not your friend, pal.

"Subby: If she can nuke Russia she can nuke you Canadian bastards too"

Understandable not wanting to invade after what happened last time.

Um, Canadian bacon?

ExJerseyGirl: kronicfeld: Sym_pathetic: He's not your buddy, guy.

He's not your guy, friend.

He's not your friend, pal.

Call it, friendo.

"You all pray to God that we get that pipeline."

If she nukes us, I'll impregnate her daughter with my post-apocalyptic radioactive spawn.

You guys are forgetting that this woman said "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere and single-handedly thought up the idea of selling a Jet on e-bay.

Skleenar: You guys are forgetting that this woman said "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere and single-handedly thought up the idea of selling a Jet on e-bay.

And she was able to get her own town over $20M in Federal Funds. Proof that she can work the system without being a Washington insider. And by giving birth to a baby with Down Syndroe she has shown a commitment to the handicapped.

Sym_pathetic: robot monkey: Dinki: robot monkey: This is one of her unsmearable accomplishments.

As the article points out, this is not much of an accomplishment if Canada doesn't go along with it.

Let's hope for the best, aye buddy?

He's not your buddy, guy.

Har. Guitarist reference FTW!

ExJerseyGirl: And by giving birth to a baby with Down Syndroe she has shown a commitment to the handicapped.

You know, if she just had the courage to be crippled, she'd be damn near unbeatable!!


PALIN_/mccain '08

ExJerseyGirl: Skleenar: You guys are forgetting that this woman said "no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere and single-handedly thought up the idea of selling a Jet on e-bay.

And she was able to get her own town over $20M in Federal Funds. Proof that she can work the system without being a Washington insider. And by giving birth to a baby with Down Syndroe she has shown a commitment to the handicapped.

and she understands agriculture because she eats breakfast and understands renewable energy because her friend Shirley showed her a solar panel once and she understands history because she once watched "Conan the Barbarian".

Here's the tickets from an educational level:

McCain graduated with a BA at the bottom of his class (894 of 899) from a men's only military college. Palin has a Mass Comm... Read More BS from the University of Idaho that she finished after transferring schools 4 times.

Obama graduated magna cum laude as a Law doctorate from Oxford. Biden, while not the best student, still graduated with a double major in History and Political Science before also getting his Law doctorate from University of Delaware.

I was once in a Quebec-based dance troupe called Canadian Breakin'.

Why would you try to nuke your own Hat Subby?

.."Canada, America's Hat"

GurneyHalleck: "You all pray to God that we get that pipeline."

Sarah Palin: oh please precious Jesus let us build a pipeline
Jesus: in what respect, Sarah?

That's not even touching on the actual issues she supports - by not having any actual experience doing anything, she doesn't have a voting record to lay out specifics, clearly one of the reasons she was chosen is that she's unassailable on her record simply because it does not exist.

//new-kew-lur

Ooops.

Add that to the 'I can see Russia' Foreign Policy expertise, E-bay not-sale of the jet, reformer-yet-pork-barrel-queen, and a handful of other not really truth statements of Palin.

morgankingrocks: Read More...
poops - copying it off my facebook page, I wrote it, though...

morgankingrocks: Obama graduated magna cum laude as a Law doctorate from Oxford. Biden, while not the best student, still graduated with a double major in History and Political Science before also getting his Law doctorate from University of Delaware.

Elitists.

/Its easy to see the striking difference in the campaigns. Obama: thought out and reasoned. McCain: relying on the 2 hour memory span of the followers to spew complete lies.

morgankingrocks: Here's the tickets from an educational level:

Bush and Cheney both went to Yale (Cheney flunked out. Bush has an MBA from Harvard.

Jeez, she's outsourcing our jerbs to Canada

Sorry Dems. Sarah Palin is a cat that will never be returned to the bag. Irregardless, yes I said "irregardless", of her qualifications her nomination slapped the taste o' victory out of the Barack Obamao bin Biden campaign and no amount of name-calling will bring it back.

This is why the Republicans went second. He who laughs last beats the Democrat.

She's a complete failure and I really think that anyone supporting this ticket is simply voting against the democrat. That isn't really a problem, except for the fact that, outside of fundies, I get the impression that a lot of party line repubs will hold their nose, pull the lever for McCain/Palin, and hope each and every night that she doesn't do something monumentally stupid that could have adverse effects on the country.

Party liners would rather have a complete failure in their own party in one of the most important positions in the nation as opposed to competent leaders from the other side.

She has some strange ideas on what 'energy independence' means, like hiring companies from Israel to handle it:

Israeli media reported on Friday that Israeli geothermal developer Ornat Technologies has won the rights to explore the geothermal energy potential of a large active volcano in Alaska.

Ornat will pay $3.5 million to acquire 15 out of 16 tracts of land around the base of Mount Spurr, which lies just 75 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska.

Exploration is set to begin next summer, with the company's long-term goal being the construction of a large power plant at the site fed entirely by geothermal energy.

Ornat began probing the idea of geothermal exploration at Mount Spurr two years ago in talks with the administration of Alaska Governor and US vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin.

Palin is a strong advocate of developing the state's potential as a major energy provider, including oil, wind, natural gas and geothermal energy.

danlpoon: Sorry Dems. Sarah Palin is a cat that will never be returned to the bag. Irregardless, yes I said "irregardless", of her qualifications her nomination slapped the taste o' victory out of the Barack Obamao bin Biden campaign and no amount of name-calling will bring it back.

This is why the Republicans went second. He who laughs last beats the Democrat.

It took them by surprise because it changed the message of the McCain camp. Now heir refocusing, and quickly, off of McCain's old message of "experience" and on to his new one of "lunacy". I think the dems will be just fine thanks.

What about me? I'm the guy running for preznit!

This is my last chance at glory, and some biatch is hogging the limelight.

Blah blah blah.

Guess why this pipeline will go ahead whether or not environmentalist and aboriginal communites object?

Because the standard tar sands extraction process requires huge amounts of natural gas. (new window) This thing will sail through. Canada has binding contracts with China to deliver tar sands-derived petroleum, and producing it will take lots and lots of natural gas. I reckon Canada is obligated to accomodate the project due to NAFTA provisions, as well. This is a done deal.

Stupid article is stupid.

She did all that was reasonably expected of her and apparently performed well enough. Let's focus on something that's actually important.

Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's assertion that she believes humans play a role in climate change - made in her first major interview since joining the Republican ticket - is at odds with her previous statements.

Palin said she didn't disagree with scientists that the problem can be attributed to "man's activities."

"Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that," Palin told ABC News in an interview broadcast Thursday and Friday.

However, in the past Palin has said she does not believe global warming is caused by human activity. She has told the Internet news site Newsmax, "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. ... I'm not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made."

In an interview with a Fairbanks newspaper within the last year, Palin said: "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity." ABC cited the interview as being at odds with her statement.

Flippity floppity

She's an airhead who sets policy on opinion polls.

Some Bass Playing Guy:

Har. Guitarist reference FTW!

I'm pretty sure it's from Ocean's 11.

danlpoon: Sorry Dems. Sarah Palin is a cat that will never be returned to the bag. Irregardless, yes I said "irregardless", of her qualifications her nomination slapped the taste o' victory out of the Barack Obamao bin Biden campaign and no amount of name-calling will bring it back.

This is why the Republicans went second. He who laughs last beats the Democrat.

mtman900: Let's focus on something that's actually important.

I hear Obama called her a pig

Subby, I'd like to remind you that we (USofA) are 0-1 against Canada.

mtman900: Stupid article is stupid.

She did all that was reasonably expected of her and apparently performed well enough. Let's focus on something that's actually important.

Sounds like you think she's retarded.

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/The dems are blowing it because they are making such a big deal out of this woman...