Troubled species 2, Sarah Palin 0

Its obvious as to what kind of person this Palin is, knowing that why does anyone support her?

Thank goodness for the five environmental groups that kept at this to see the Cook's Inlet baluga whale (a genetically different variety from the other four Alaska populations), including the three specifically from Alaska.

In mulling over several articles for my blog post, it became evident that the Cook Inlet has serious environmental problems, among them barely treated muni waste going into the inlet, upstream pollution which enters the Cook Inlet from oil/gas exploration, oil drilling in/around the Inlet, and ships in the inlet along with gill net fishing. WHAT did they expect?.

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I think it's outrageous to suggest that a corporation be prevented from seeking maximum profit, or a locale prevented from seeking maximum growth when the only cost is the extinction of a species or two. Next you'll be suggesting that the corporations reduce their profits by stopping their polluting of the air we breathe and the water we drink!

You people are unbelieveable!

The Green Liberal Agenda blinds their ability to reason. Their obscure purpouse makes them forge their own destruction.

Sarah Palin has a deep dark hole where her soul should be. To suggest that Sarah Palin should be in any leadership role whatsoever is akin to suggesting that Ronald McDonald should be the head of the FDA. Her special interests are spelled out in bold, highly legible 72 point Times New Roman across her forehead. The appalling nature of her statements is surpassed only by the fact she is being taken seriously.

Yes things are so bad that the beluga population in Cook Inlet rose by 10% again last year and now stands at equal the number of 1998, up almost double from the low.

The Palin nomination is an insult to women, as it is to the Republican party. By nominating her, John McCain has proven that he only cares about winning, even if it places our Country in harms way (do you honestly believe she was the most qualified person available?) If this creationist beauty queen becomes President may God (whatever your beliefs) help us all. Please get over your prejudice and do the right thing. This joke isn't funny any more, and the oval office is not the place to test out America's next comedy/reality series.

Polar Bear populations have soared over the past twenty years. Suggesting they are in serious threat of extinction is simply not in-line with facts. Resist the urge to engage in this ridiculous, agenda driven, hysteria

These beluga whales are a genetically unique species of Beluga Whale. They should be protected. One of the reasons they're not gaining in population is that Palin allowed Chevron to dump excess pollution into Cook Inlet where these whales live, just as the city of Anchorage dumps barely treated waste there. Manmade pollution has a lot to do with their population not thriving. Palin's love of oil and gas exploration would be the final nail in their coffin.
phonyuser: To think a corporation has the right to do what it wants and kill off a species or two is not only barbaric, it is inhuman and inhumane. as well as ignorant. We don't have the right to carry on in such a way. Don't you realize that what those companies are doing is dangerous to the human population as well? If every single corporation took the viewpoint you suggested, we'd have no species left . There'd be no lions, tigers, pandas. grizzlies, bald eagles, salmon (which have also been on this governor's hit list with her blind love of mines, despite the fact that salmon fishing is a renewable and profitable resource and minig is a finite and polluting one), cougars, alligators, or any number of species that have been brought from the brink of extinction because there are laws that protect species from corporate greed. She still has no qualms about causing the extinction of polar bears. Corporations should be able to work without needlessly causing the extinction of an entire species. Only an ignorant savage would feel differently which is why there are no woolly mammoths or dodo birds left today. Fortunately, MOST of us have evolved beyond our primitive ancestors. Unfortunately, there remain a few people who have not.

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Awwww, poor polar bears...with all of the issues facing PEOPLE, it's soooo important to worry about a species that is obsolete. Face it, extinction happens to animals that do not evolve, that is a fact of nature. Elephants, polar bears, lions and whales WILL die out, it is just a matter of time. They are the dinosaurs of this millenium. The Globes hatred of Palin and Repubs in general notwithstanding, nature will take her course. Humans need to worry about preserving our own species.

Add to this, her support of the aerial slaughter of wolves in Alaska and the subsequent shooting of the motherless pups and you've got to wonder about this homo sapien. God forbid any species stands in the way of "progress" if she's elected.

idiot liberals: 10
logical environmental policies: 0

Palin should be asking, what would Jesus do, since she is so religious. Not to consider one of Gods creations, the Beluga, goes against her core religious principles. Who is the real Sarah Palin?

There's no doubt that balance must be maintained between economic development and environmental protection. It is the nature of politics in a democratic society that issues like this typically achieve compromise from positions argued at the extremes (by "extremes" I don't mean language like "idiot liberals" which hardly qualifies as argument; perhaps it qualifies as "idiocy.") In recent years, we have embraced the fiction that there is no place for law and regulation to protect the environment, or worker safety, or financial transaction, or health care, or education, and on, and on.

Clearly, there is an important role for public oversight and regulation. Although this role should not get out-of-hand, to allow untrammeled, unchecked private sector reign gets us -- well -- where we are today. There ARE public interests, and we elect governments to see that they are respected and protected from the rapaciousness of those heedlessly self-serving elements of the rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us in "pro-American" areas of the Country, which is to say all of it, yes, even Massachusetts.

The worst VP pick ever. She will be the reason John McCain loses.

One has to wonder about palin's alleged Christian values. Why does she pursue economic/corporate interests at the expense of humane interests? Render onto Ceaser Gov. Where in her Christian values (forgiveness, love, acceptance, etc...) do you see justification for vendettas such as the one you engage in with your former brother-in-law?

It is now time to question Sen. McCain's judgment; that is his judgment in regards to selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. We the people of the U. S. have the
right to demand that McCain lay bare before us Palin's qualifications to possibly
assume the high office of the U. S.
We want to know not only her educational background in national and inter-
national law, but her previous governing record; that is her social interaction and
acceptance by the people of Wasilla and the whole state of Alaska. What is her
record in regard to handling monetary and legal matters? What has she accom-
plished to further the advancement of living conditions in that part of our country?
Is there compassion in her handling the problems of the common ordinary people? WE NEED TO HEAR THE VOICES OF THESE PEOPLE.

This sort of pandering to extremist environmentalists is one of the reasons most of the people in the West hate Washington DC: listing animals as endangered based on phony science. It's no wonder there are groups that want to secede from the US.

The Palins are one step away from being felons troopergate, tax evasion, shooting wovles illegally, lawsuits against her for using her Yahoo account for Gov Business, refusing to release her medical records like all the other candidates and lord knows what else.

The worst VP Pick ever. This is how John McCain will be remembered.

If you look at Sarah Palin's horrible treatment of wildlife and the environment , her obvious stupidity, her nutty archaic beliefs and her role in Troopergate, she comes across as the most cruel, selfish, stupid and corrupt U.S. V.P. candidate ever!
Luckily, she's going back to Alaska in 2 weeks:)