Bristol? let me guess...bay?

If they smoke, they poke.

It's Ok to knock up a rich 17 year old with means. They make better parents...'cuz you know, they will be rich someday and a made CHOICE to get pregnant at such an early age.

Oh wait, Republican females don't have a choice. Sorry, I forgot.

But hey, it's OK if you have money.

One thing, if McCain is elected, Palin will be the first MILF in the administration since Kennedy. And I had no idea what MILF stood for then. And would have thought it pretty gross if I did.

I think that if you are calling JFK a MILF then, you still don't understand what it means.

That pic there is a keeper.

I wonder if Barak's going to borrow John Kerry's duck hunting gear this fall to show all the gun owners and hunters that he is "One of Us"?
It would be a shame to throw it away.
Sheesh.... it's only been used once!

RR, maybe you didn't think Jackie was hot. I did, and I was only 12. OK, I could have worded it better.

So if an Alaska State trooper threatened your father-in-law, do you think you could just call up the PSC and tell him to fire the guy?

No, you'd have to file a formal complaint and go through "the process" to have him canned.

And so should she.

Sure, everybody hates the process and wishes they could take things into their own hands. But try it and see what happens to you.

She's the Governor, not the Queen.

Well, it's not something I consider a huge issue, probably because I'd be apt to do the same thing.

I don't have any more tolerance for a state trooper abusing his power than a governor. But if we ask that the trooper be held accountable, shouldn't we also ask that the governor be held accountable?

What "held accountable" means, you can decide. I'd say in this case the firing of the trooper is appropriate, and in her case maybe a nasty note in her file.

Religion should stay in church where it belongs.

The State Trooper-gate seems to be the only thing getting attention lately. However, there is a pattern of abusive power in Palin.

As mayor she fired the city librarian because she wouldn't remove books from the library that Palin disapproved of. A book burner.

As mayor she also fired the Chief of Police because he supported her opponent during the campaign. Very cheney-esque.

She also set a policy requiring department heads to get her approval before talking to any reporter. A policy against the First Amendment?

As govenor she replaced the entire Board of Agriculture and Conservation because they wanted to shutdown a money-losing state dairy. Her newly appointed Board kept the dairy open, it continued to lose money, and when they finally did sell it it sold for half of what they originally asked for.

That's not the type of character I want a heartbeat away from a 72 year old president.

Left wingers aren't afraid of Right Wing Christian Nutjobs...we just think they're nutjobs...but when you put the nutjobs in charge of important things, they do insane things with them.

Like Iraq.

And that's why they should never even be elected to Library Staff, much less put in charge of anything important.

Fish on...

Todd

Crap.

Timing is everything.

Oh you mean the lies about WMD's?
These Lies Todd?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1q9Q0OtJ4g&feature=related

Is there anything about the democrat party that you guys dislike?

You mean like back in 1970 when Nixon formed the Environmental Protection Agency?

History of the EPA
By the 1960s, the United States was poisoning itself with pesticides. National parks and crops gave a false impression of healthy, vibrant agriculture but hid chemicals that were destroying the environment. Pesticides were killing insects and animals as well as threatening human health. In 1962, the naturalist Rachel Carson wrote a book that catalyzed the environmental movement. "Silent Spring," serialized in the New Yorker and eventually a New York Times best-seller, documented the detrimental effects of DDT, a synthetic pesticide, and other chemical compounds that caused harm to wildlife, especially to birds.

The book piqued the public's interest in environmentalism. Ecology, previously an obscure academic field, became a legitimate topic of public discussion. State and local governments enacted environmental laws, regulating polluters or banning the use of certain chemicals. But the mass of laws was confusing and often ineffectual. The United States needed a comprehensive environmental policy.


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President Richard Nixon formed the EPA in 1970.


President Richard Nixon was initially reluctant to create a federal agency that set, monitored and enforced environmental laws. In 1969, he formed an environmental council and advisory committee, but met with public charges that the organizations had no effectual function. But by January 1, 1970, Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which promised to institute a federal role in environmental protection. Nixon recognized that such federal legislation needed the attention of an exclusive agency. By the summer of 1970, he submitted Reorganization Plan Number Three to Congress, which called for a single entity to govern the United States' environmental policy [EPA].

The EPA inherited environmental charges that had been arbitrarily assigned to other governmental departments. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare no longer monitored air pollution, water hygiene and waste management; the Department of the Interior no longer had responsibility for federal water quality and pesticide research. Misplaced environmental programs were finally unified under a single agency.

With the reassignment of environmental programs and the formation of a comprehensive agency to deal with them, the U.S. was well on its way to effective environmental policy. In the next section, we'll learn about some well-known EPA programs

I'm curious what the pro-Palin crowd's definition of "Taking on Big Oil" is. I've done some research and it seems that term is really stretching things.