Comments on: Politics: Palin is no secessionist

By: let them eat pinstripe suits

let them eat pinstripe suits — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:24:36 +0000

“Get rid of â€œcorporationsâ€ and their protections and put the liability on the investors/owners and they will very quickly expand ownership to employees to reduce their personal, individual liability. Then respect all individual rights. Little need for government ownership and control (the socialist part) if we respect individual rights and unions get their heads out of their butts.”
That’ll certainly shake out a lot of deadwood. however, you’ll then hear even more b1@tching und vinig about those knotty “trial lawyers”, proposals to limit class-actions etc the usual.

By: postsimian

postsimian — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:42:27 +0000

People made a big deal of the Ayers, Rezko and Wright things too. Maybe we should spread emails saying she’s a Muslim.

By: Anon E. Mouse

Anon E. Mouse — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:34:25 +0000

Holy cow. People are making a big deal out of this AIP thing?
Let me paraphrase:
Welcome to Fairbanks! I support out state constitution as do you. Our state has values and hard working people. Have a good convention. God bless you.

THIS is controversial?

I can’t wait until the press gets hold of her Girl Scout Cookie order history and they find out that she has a history of ordering extra boxes Tagalongs (TM) that the First Dude and her kids never see.
/ sarcasm

I suggest some alternative reading:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122044753790594947.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today

By: badasscass

badasscass — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:22:22 +0000

here’s a video where palin openly advocates and supports the Alaska Independence Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI&eurl=http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palin-secessionist/

By: badasscass

badasscass — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:21:59 +0000

here’s a video where palin openly advocates and supports the Alaska Indepence Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI&eurl=http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/01/sarah-palin-secessionist/

By: David P. Jordan

David P. Jordan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:18:53 +0000

cgiselle12,

Gov. Palin was talking about God’s plan for her son’s life, which included deployment to Iraq. She asked the congregation to pray for his safety. It is completely inaccurate to characterize her statements as being a call to some “holy war.”

By: cgiselle12

cgiselle12 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:42:49 +0000

not letting me post links Billy.

By: cgiselle12

cgiselle12 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:42:31 +0000

trying for the fifth time,

for video link on Palin’s Iraq mission from god comments, go to msnbc (dot) nbc (dot) com, and look for “Palin to take stage at convention” report by David Gregory.

it’s at about 2:35 in the video

By: postsimian

postsimian — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:40:36 +0000

The ol’ birds of a feather approach? Correlation does not imply causation, but I think it’s fair to say they have things in common.

I’m completely in favor or nationalizing a number of industries, including energy and health care, which I consider mandatory expenses no matter where you live. They work elsewhere. Isn’t that also what you were saying Alaska secessionists want to do? Nationalize their natural resources and have the ability to set prices domestically? I say why limit it to Alaska?

The idea of getting rid of corporations sounds good, but there are benefits to our current model and capitalism at large which I’d like to keep. Yet we ought to enforce both the protections for consumers and higher ethical standards that businesses damn well know they should be following anyway. The restrictions and regulation of anything you could point at and call a small business–which isn’t a subsidiary of a larger corporation–would be held to different standards and, yes, taxed less. I don’t see why we can’t have it both ways with a nuanced, gray-area, tiered approach. On the other hand, government spending ought to have more effective public oversight. I have a practical vision for that too. Either way, we ought to have a system that serves humanity, but primarily our own culture, before it serves the interests of the privileged few.

What must be prevented to maintain this is the subversion of our government to a moral authority, courtesy of fundie nutbags who want to make their twisted version of Jesus president, or authoritarian ideologues who fail to understand the human condition and suffer from a case of moral narcissism.

…maybe I should just blog it.

By: cgiselle12

cgiselle12 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:37:05 +0000

here’s the link to Palin telling folks at a Pentecostal church that her son’s deployment to Iraq is a mission from God:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26524974#26523711