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Is drilling the #1 priority? Crickets in the room …

September 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Is drilling the #1 priority? Crickets in the room …

The Senate held a Bipartisan Energy Summit today with some of the nation’s top experts (from MIT, Google, CSIS, CERI, and Shell’s CEO). (Although, regrettably, the nation’s top energy expert, Sarah Palin, was unable to attend and bring her deep knowledge and wisdom to the table for conversation.) And, this hearing was reasonably (even very) […]

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Sleeping with a Secessionist …

September 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sleeping with a Secessionist …

My blogging beat and focus is Global Warming and Energy. And, the choice come November could not be starker in these arenas (that is, at least in fact not media framing). The contrast could not be starker … across a wide range of issues. Among these, John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin has added a […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · political symbols · politics · republican party

Bald-Faced Deception: McCain is McShameless …

September 11th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Will the nation reach a limit? Is there no limit to how far things will go? I will put aside, for the moment, McCain advertising lying to make Obama out to be some form of supporter of teaching unvarnished sexual education to kindergardeners (when, in fact, Obama was supporting efforts to teach young child how […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · john mccain · political symbols · politics

Sleeping with a Secessionist …

September 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sleeping with a Secessionist …

My beat is clear: Global Warming and Energy. And, the choice come November could not be starker in these arenas (that is, at least in fact not media framing). The contrast could not be starker … across a wide range of issues. Among these, John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin has added a searing issue […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Global Warming · politics

Sarah Palin’s Angry: Global Warming threatens “My Guy’s” hobby

September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Sarah Palin’s Angry: Global Warming threatens “My Guy’s” hobby

Beneath her warm and endearing facade, one could suspect that Sarah “Pit Bull with Lipstick” Palin is outraged at the audacity of Global Warming as it threatens the favored sport of Todd “My Guy” Palin.    “My Guy” has won the the “grueling 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog [Pit Bull with Lipstick?]  snowmobile race four times.”  The now […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · john mccain · politics

Republicans steal property? And, threaten the future …

September 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Republicans steal property? And, threaten the future …

The McCain campaign and Republican Party have both been aggressive in their use of music, clips from movies, etc without, it seems, even bothering to seek copyright permission despite the promise “to protect the creative industires from privacy.” They have gotten pushback, multiple times, for their unauthorized use (read “theft”) of intellectual property. In many […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · environmental

McCain could have gone Female, Light Green: instead he chose a dark future

September 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments

John McCain has made the choice. Already a hypocrite in talking the talk when it came to Global Warming, but taking the oil walk, choosing Sarah Palin put the nails in the coffin as to any shred of a claim that John McCain represents change in the Republican Party when it comes to acknowledging anthropogenic […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy · environmental · Global Warming · john mccain

Biden-Palin … Semi-Green vs Dirty-Black?

September 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tom Friedman has already declared the election done when it comes to energy and global warming issues, with Sarah Palin’s introduction as John McCain’s running mate sealing the deal. Care about a decent energy future and dealing with Global Warming, there is now only one ticket to vote for: Obama-Biden. And, let us be clear, […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · 2008 Presidential Election · Energy

Sarah “Energy Expert” Palin

September 4th, 2008 · 18 Comments

The Republican Party, the McCain campaign, and willing collaborators are trying to pass Sarah Palin off as a true energy expert, someone deeply knowledgeable in the arena of the nation’s greatest challenges. This attempt to create a resume item re Sarah “Energy Expert” Palin is, simply, an attempt to sell a fraud. Searching Palin “Energy […]

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Sarah Palin’s ballad for John McCain: “What a wonderful world it would be …”

September 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

The storm of revelations about Sarah Palin, post her joining John McCain’s campaign as the presumptive Republican Vice Presidential nominee with seemingly no serious vetting prior to the decision, might be equated to at least the equivalent of a 100-year flood. Where to start? Separtist? Serial pork barreler? Disgraceful and dirty campaign style? Disingenuous (lying) […]

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Tags: 2008 presidential campaign · Energy