Sarah Palin is booted from her scheduled speech at a Canadian hospital fundraiser.
Filed in Politics on Dec.18, 2009
Last week, it was revealed that Sarah Palin had been booked to deliver a $200,000 speech at a hospital fundraiser in Canada. ThinkProgress was the first to report that the event seemed odd given the fact that the hospital — which offers the same advanced directive service that Palin derided as “death panels” — is part of a “socialist” health care system Palin abhors. Now, the Toronto Sun reports that Palin has “been given the boot” and will no longer appear at the fundraiser for St. Peter’s hospital.
December 19th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
It makes me wonder how she is going to turn it around and deride them … for, as Linda S. Heard, says in her post, “US President Palin?” …
“Under that dazzling smile and apple-pie exterior lies a woman who is tough, egocentric, arrogant, ambitious, manipulative and determined; a mélange of Lady Macbeth, a hillbilly redneck, Miss USA and a Stepford Wife. If she manages to keep the façade from cracking for another three years, be afraid! Be very afraid.
link: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5394.shtml
timesr Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
@skyagunsta,
From Sky’s link
“Likewise, she has been making nice with big business in an op-ed urging Obama to boycott the Copenhagen Climate Summit. In it, she slams what she calls agenda-driven policies, which won’t change the weather but will adversely change America’s economy.”
Its not just about climate change
“When BYD Auto launches one of China’s first mass produced fully electric sedans later this year, it will be trying to conquer the world rather than save it. But such is the explosive growth of China’s car market and thirst for petrol that the two goals are likely to become ever more synonymous.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/02/china-e6-electric-car
“New Delhi, India (AHN) – The Indian government is keen on creating “green jobs” especially in the sector of wind and solar power generation. A major chunk of jobs will also be created from managing natural resources like water and land and through waste management.
An official release recently stated that, “The government has recognized the significant potential of an emerging global “green economy”. It is aware of the potential of ‘Green jobs’ that relate not only to renewable energy, biodiversity preservation, waste management, water conservation and treatment, and carbon management, but also to the change in employment patterns in favor of greener, cleaner and more sustainable employment.”
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017313384
In addition to making money and creating jobs is the benefit of living on a cleaner planet.
skyagunsta Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
@timesr, timesr … the links that you have posted, make me think of the world we live in (and all of its components, the environment, the climate, the economy, our sustainability) as if it were something akin to the human organism, (the heart, the lung, the liver, the pancreas etc …) and the way I see it is that our politicians, instead of being good to that which makes up our world, instead of trying to heal this world that we live in by taking care of each of its components … our politicians are acting as if they are trying to strangle any health or any promise of healing for our world out of it.
timesr Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
@skyagunsta, …”the world we live in (and all of its components, the environment, the climate, the economy, our sustainability) as if it were something akin to the human organism, (the heart, the lung, the liver, the pancreas etc …)”
Sounds like the Gaia Hypothesis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
skyagunsta Reply:
December 20th, 2009 at 5:33 am
@timesr, I hadn’t heard of the “Gaia Hypothesis” … but yes, that is exactly what I am saying… it is all an interconnected working machinery (just like our human bodies);if one part of the machinery stops functioning/working the way it should, it causes the other parts to overwork/underwork, or in general not work as it should.
thanks for the link to the Gaia hypothesis.