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One Love
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| Posted 10/10/2008 8:04 AM (GMT -6) |   | | "I love you too, Brother Turtle!" says Brother Scissortail.
(sounds like a B kung-fu movie.  )
We good, bro.
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| Posted 10/10/2008 9:58 AM (GMT -6) | | | Palin: Here Comes The Report...
From the last one...
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by GOP presidential candidate John McCain as his expert on energy, seemed to have problems Thursday explaining whether the government bans oil exports -- especially from her state's North Slope fields.
A questioner at a town hall-style meeting in Wisconsin said he had heard that at least 75 percent of the oil drilled in Alaska was being sold to China and said, if true, he would like to know why.
"No. It's not 75 percent of our oil being exported," Palin said, suggesting some of Alaska's oil, in fact, may be going abroad but not that much.
"In fact," she added, "Congress is pretty strict on, um, export bans of oil and gas especially."
No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional Research Service.
And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports. Congress prohibited exports of Alaska oil in 1973 when the Alaska oil pipeline was built. But that ban was lifted in 1996 when there were large volumes of Alaska oil coming down from the North Slope and U.S. demand was soft.
The Alaska ban has never been reinstated.
"It's been discussed recently as part of talk about drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf," said Bill Wicker, a spokesman for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. But he said there's been no active legislation that would reinstate the Alaska ban or any thought on Capitol Hill of banning other U.S. oil or natural gas exports.
Natural gas exports must be approved by the Energy Department under a 1938 law, although such authorization for gas shipments to Mexico, Canada and Japan have been granted for many years. The Energy Department recently indicated it is ready to renew authorization for shipping Alaska liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to Japan.
There are no such restrictions when it comes to oil.
Between 1996 and 2004, about 95 million barrels of North Slope oil, roughly 2.7 percent of Alaska's production, was exported to South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, according to the Energy Information Administration.
There have been little or no oil exports since 2000, according to the Congressional Research Service. The EIA said there have been no Alaska oil exports since 2004.
The United States exports a relatively small amount of oil and petroleum production as Palin acknowledged as part of her answer, which largely focused on the need for more domestic drilling.
"It's not a huge portion of any domestic supply being exported," Palin said toward the end of her response, and seemed to contradict her earlier view that Congress bans exports.
Last year, the United States exported 523 million barrels of petroleum products, of which only a small amount was crude oil. That year it imported more than 4.7 billion barrels of oil and oil products.
The United States exported 822 billion cubic feet of natural gas, almost all by pipeline to Canada and Mexico, and a small amount of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to Japan and Mexico in 2007, according to the EIA.
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Uh...she's the Governor of this state...right? 
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| Posted 10/10/2008 1:38 PM (GMT -6) | | | 2008 America, y'all!
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| Posted 10/10/2008 1:52 PM (GMT -6) | | Check it, Corey. Let's go ahead and say that this is a total "setup", ok? Let's go all the way there. Let's assume that right now, ok?
Now...does it represent anything about this election season or the involvement of racial tension in this election? Anything at all? The very FACT that it's being talked about.
And I'm assuming you've read the article linked to it...and the articles above.
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| Posted 10/10/2008 7:55 PM (GMT -6) | | Branchflower: Palin abused power
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Investigator Stephen Branchflower has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired Public Saftey Commissioner Walt Monegan.
"I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch ethics act," Branchflower said in the 263-page report to the Legislative Council released Friday afternoon.
"Alaska statute 39.52.110(a) provides 'the legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust,'" Branchflower continued.
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| Posted 10/11/2008 2:06 AM (GMT -6) | | "(Palin) knowingly, as the term is defined in the above cited statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor's office and the resources of the Governor's office, including state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper (Mike) Wooten fired," the report stated.
"Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda ... She had the authority and power to require Mr. Palin to cease contacting subordinates, but she failed to act," the findings continued.
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| Posted 10/11/2008 2:11 AM (GMT -6) | | Alaska's Legislative Council.
7 Republicans
4 Democrats
And this was started BEFORE she was ever tapped for VP. Do you know the history of this case, Tom??
The Partisan argument is bull#$*& and everyone knows it...particularly the Council themselves.
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| Posted 10/11/2008 2:27 AM (GMT -6) | | | "The strong and demonstrated tendency to falsify even easily researchable facts for their own political ambition and gain...without taking responsibility (refusing to "own up" ) to the falsification when the falsification has been recognized by others."
Palin's got this on lock.
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| Posted 10/11/2008 2:38 AM (GMT -6) | | Palin's Reckless Abuse of Power -- A Lawyer's View
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What the Troopergate Report Really Says
Time Magazine
Some from the article...
Did Governor Sarah Palin abuse the power of her office in trying to get her former brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten, fired? Yes.
Was the refusal to fire Mike Wooten the reason Palin fired Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan? Not exclusively, and it was within her rights as the states' chief executive to fire him for just about any reason, even without cause.
Those answers were expected, given that most of the best pieces of evidence have been part of the public record for months. The result is not a mortal wound to Palin, nor does it put her at much risk of being forced to leave the ticket her presence succeeded in energizing.
But the Branchflower report still makes for good reading, if only because it convincingly answers a question nobody had even thought to ask: Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so.
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Neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin better say ANYTHING ELSE about "integrity", "truth-telling", and "transparency." Saying that Barack can't be trusted...but THEY can.
They need to shut all that #$*& up.
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| Posted 10/11/2008 2:49 AM (GMT -6) | | "Abuse of power"
Bush?
Cheney?
What change?
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| Posted 10/11/2008 3:03 AM (GMT -6) | | D: You are SOMETHING ELSE, man...
T: I try to be!
D: Does McCain's choice of Sarah Palin constitute "good, sound judgement"? Was she VETTED well?
T: It seems she was not vetted well, if at all. And it does reflect upon McCain's judgment.
What do say you of Obama's choice of Biden (and Biden's choice to accept the VP pick) given Biden's unambiguous declaration during the primaries that Obama was not prepared to be President of the United States? Does it show good judgment on Obama's part to pick a running mate who doesn't think he's even qualified to be President? That's sound judgment? And what's it tell us about Biden's integrity that he'd accept being VP for a man he doesn't believe is qualified to be President? Oh, wait, Biden's changed his mind. Oh well. I guess people do that sort of thing. Obama wasn't qualified to be President a few months ago but now he's the best thing since sliced bread.
Right.
Dude, when it comes to being disingenuous, Obama and Biden are right up there with the worst.
Both candidates suck, both are a mixture of truth/falsehood, both will fail to do what they promise and do what the promise not to do.
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For the record. I don't think the ethics report was partisan. Didn't say it was. And I'm not saying she DIDN'T abuse executive power. I'm saying there's something wrong with an ETHICS committee that asserts she BOTH "abused her power" AND "acted within the law" so that the law can't touch her. You can't say that. Yes, she can fire him if she wants to. Fine. BUT she can't abuse her power while doing so (motivation, etc.). That is, you can't abuse your power to do what the law otherwise allows you to do. If it's established that a genuine abuse of power is even PART of the firing (her motivation), then she clearly HAS broken the statute and acted criminally. You can't say she "abused power" and then NOT pursue the matter in court. I know our courts are f**d up and this wouldn't fly, but that's my take on it. I'm not offering an opinion on Palin. I'm offering an opinion on the Committee's failure to appreciate both ethics and the law. The law in this case REGARDS ethics. You can't fail her in the latter (which the Committee did) and not the former (they said she broke no statute--on the contrary! If you KNOW she "abused her power" then she HAS broken the statute). But that's what the Committee did.
It's ALL bullcrap, D, not just the half you're complaining about.
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