Anybody see Couric interview Palin?

[Jim O'Bryan]

I'm guessing she's done a reasonably competent job of whatever a governor in Alaska is supposed to do. Now she is just in over her head.

Or even before.

Was reading Time Magazine at the eye doctor yesterday. They had an article about the pipeline being built and how she never even considered Native Americans, and Canadian Inuits. Both are suing to keep the pipeline from happening. Some of this is because they were never asked. One chief put the time of the lawsuits at 10 years minimum, and that he did not think they would ever be built.

NY Times write:
"The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipeline will not be completed for at least a decade. In fact, although it is the centerpiece of Ms. Palin’s relatively brief record as governor, the pipeline might never be built, and under a worst-case scenario, the state could lose up to $500 million it committed to defray regulatory and other costs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/us/politics/11pipeline.html


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[dl meckes]

This is Poutine:



Palin: the Disata' from Alaska.

[Danielle Masters]

So basically you are saying that Poutine is vomit?

[dl meckes]

It may look awful, but it's Canukistan comfort food.

[David Lay]

Poutine is quite tasty.

http://www.montrealpoutine.com/

[ryan costa]

I'm guessing she's done a reasonably competent job of whatever a governor in Alaska is supposed to do. Now she is just in over her head.

Or even before.

Was reading Time Magazine at the eye doctor yesterday. They had an article about the pipeline being built and how she never even considered Native Americans, and Canadian Inuits. Both are suing to keep the pipeline from happening. Some of this is because they were never asked. One chief put the time of the lawsuits at 10 years minimum, and that he did not think they would ever be built.

NY Times write:
"The pipeline exists only on paper. The first section has yet to be laid, federal approvals are years away and the pipeline will not be completed for at least a decade. In fact, although it is the centerpiece of Ms. Palin’s relatively brief record as governor, the pipeline might never be built, and under a worst-case scenario, the state could lose up to $500 million it committed to defray regulatory and other costs."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/us/politics/11pipeline.html


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I don't know if committing 500 million dollars is the same as spending 500 million dollars. She obviously didn't plan ahead and afield far enough.

Aborigines and Canandians use gas and oil too. The aborgines in Canada and the other Canadians will just hold out for a better deal. they'll end up settling for a deal as good as the ones alaskans and the alaska government gets from oil companies for Alaskan oil. all the revenue and taxes alaska gets for Alaskan oil.

That gas is needed to cook oil out of the tar sands in canada. cooking oil out of tar sands in Canada is big business.

the temptation of lawyers or groups of lawyers on either side is to draw things out as long as possible to keep collecting pay. yet they have a competing temptation to win big cases as dramatically and effectively as possible to gain bigger reputations and bigger clients.