Category — Politics

$150,000.00 wardrobe for Sarah Palin, Mrs. Main Street America, brought to you by Saks Fifth Avenue? Pocket change. How about a $7 million federal earmark to open a road to Bristol Bay, ah, to connect who to what?

Is there such a thing as an Alaskan Chameleon? On the surface Alaskan governor, wanna-be vice president Sarah Palin was against the Pebble Mine but peeling back a little tundra seems to reveal something a little different. My guess is that Sarah Palin’s commercial fishing for “Red Herring”.

So far we have the bridge and the road to nowhere coming out of the publics wallet. I guess we should be thankful that the RNC is spending its precious cash at Nieman Marcus remaking Mrs. Main Street instead of burying us with another misguided ad campaign.

They’re back. With the six month moratorium almost up, the DNRC is putting the same leases it withheld from last springs auction back on the block despite known environmental issues. All the leases were withheld because of their proximity to sensitive areas along the Rocky Mountain Front including a lease in the Blackleaf WMA. So, on Dec. 9th the oil and gas cartels get another crack at them. DNRC is out “dialing for dollars” again.

Drilling and dismantling our way to energy independence and a fast buck? Time to start writing letters again.

Senator Max Baucus

Senator Jon Tester

Governor Brian Schweitzer

Besides the distraction of earning enough money to pay the bills and help bail out Wall Street and it’s assortment of accomplices and fretting over the fish I should be catching before ice chokes the guides, I admit I am getting a bit distracted by the decent of the presidential campaign into the proverbial s**thouse. It was inevitable, in recent memory has any campaign actually abstained from playground tactics and stuck to the issues at hand?

In my distracted wanderings I happened upon a couple articles at the Rolling Stone site.

From the station that brought you Exxon, Northern Dynasty Minerals, and Nestle, the new wanna-be announcers, John McCain and Sarah Palin.

It just gets weirder all the time and only adds credence to the idea that instead of working harder to save more for a retirement that may never come or just puts water in the jacuzzi for an AIG exec, we should be spending more  time outdoors fishing with our friends and families instead of chasing the rabbit around the track.

If something smells dead, it probably is.

Thank god for “no child left behind”. At least we know it wasn’t the Mercury in the fish he ate during his early childhood.