When Nancy Pelosi finally gets around to passing legislation to allow for more energy exploration, she says she is “giving incentives” to the energy industry.
When Republicans have done the same thing, Nancy calls it “giving tax breaks to Big Oil.”
Just more liberal double-standards and double-talk.
This is an astonishing list from the blog Explorations. I could not figure out how to post just a piece, so I pasted the entire thing and am giving the proper link at the bottom. I even included his internal links. WOW!
Socotra Island may be a real life example of the land that time forgot. Geographically isolated from Africa for over 6 million years it has developed unique flora and fauna that is not found anywhere else on Earth.
Situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen, Socotra has wide sandy beaches, limestone plateaus full of caves, and mountains up to 1525 meters high. The Island supports about 48,000 and only had the first roads installed in 2006 by the Yemeni
Socotra has been declared a World Natural Heritage Site.
Read more about the island – The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth.
Over 5 million homes are estimated to be without power in the wake of hurricane Ike – including my entire family and most of by childhood friends. Please continue to pray for safety and rapid recovery for people, pets, and property on the Texas coast.
Due to a last minute shift, Houston and Galveston were spared a direct hit. While that is wonderful news for millions, it is tragic for thousands just east of Ike’s path that bore the brunt on the storm surge. Gratefully, the wind speed did not strengthen to a Category 4 as many had predicted. The shear size of the storm was monstrous though. Ike was, literally, the size of Texas.
I have worked with Texas Baptist Men and their Disaster Relief Teams in the past. Make an Online Donation to help folks in need.
Here is a great photo gallery of the damage.
Stormlook has some good info also.
I am a tremendous of fan of highly crafted wit and sacrcasm. Jonah Goldberg’s article analyzing Obama’s recent attacks against McCain for not being able to use email are razor sharp.
Oh one last point for now: Lord knows I think the chicken-hawk arguments are stupid. And I don’t think the fact that Obama never served in the military should count against him in and of itself. But how stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can’t grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can’t understand first order national security issues because he’s never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting “send” on AOL or fighting a war?
The Corner on National Review Online.
While some have called Sarah Palin a rock star, others are just glad to have someone in politics that faces the same problems they do.
Susie Baron is a Republican, a mother of two and a home-schooler. She voted for Mike Huckabee in the Ohio primary, but now — because of Sarah Palin — she thinks she is part of something much bigger.“I wouldn’t even call it a Palin movement, I’d call it a sleeping giant that has been awakened,” Baron, 56, said at a rally here Tuesday. She described its members as a silent majority of women in Middle America who “are raising our families, who work if we have to, but love our country and our families first.”
“And until now, we haven’t had anyone to identify with,” Baron said, adding that traditional feminist groups such as the National Organization for Women do “not represent me.”
Since her rapid transition from obscure Alaska governor to GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin has reenergized the presidential race and also further polarized it, setting her instant fan base, which sees her as a pit bull with lipstick, against those who dismiss her as just another Republican who happens to be a woman and seems intent on rekindling a culture war.
Palin Energizing Women From All Walks of Life – washingtonpost.com.
I loved this article. Finally, a woman that can disagree with Sarah Palin and still admire her accomplishments
We hugged each other joyfully. Politics be damned, Palin was a woman and she was an Alaskan! Moreover, I had been impressed with her when I interviewed her – not for her politics (I’m one of those east coast liberals she doesn’t care about) but for the other things that people across the country are responding to right now:her warmth, her work ethic, her “can-do” attitude.
If life is simply a reprise of high school, Palin was the jock who attended church faithfully, ran the soup kitchen, and organised the bake sale. If her paper on the Lincoln-Douglas debate wasn’t the most nuanced, so be it. Something has to give.
In my article, I wrote about how hard it is for Palin not to smile. The American media has been dismissive of that beauty-queen smile, but Palin really did enter the Miss Wasilla contest for the scholarship money. (To make extra money, her retired parents currently shoo the birds off the runway at the Anchorage airport so the birds’ bodies don’t muck up the engines’ turbine.) Even then, Palin didn’t like the pageant and was appalled when they asked her to turn around and show the judges her behind.
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