Won't someone think of the polar bears????

[Turn CO Blue]

It's Sarah Palin (RW gun-toting, tongue-speaking fanatic) versus the few remaining polar bears left on the planet.

I really think we're missing the boat with the focus and fascination of Wooten-gate.

I think Palin's bizarre and scary stance on polar bears, on actually being enfuriated enough to file a LAWSUIT to keep polar bears from the endangered species list -- as well as Palin having a stance actually in conflict with the Bush Administration of all things, is where we should focus some of our attention.

I'd love to see some creativity on here -- some Youtube videos and posters showing this whackjob pitted against images of polar bears.





Andrew Sullivan's take:

Palin vs Polar Bears

Sarah Palin and Hugh Hewitt are both enraged at the decision to list polar bears as an endangered species. I've followed Hewitt's bizarre Colbertian horror at protecting polar bears the way I usually follow him, with morbid amusement and fascination. Here's a classic column from May. Palin's opposition to protecting the species brought her into conflict with the Bush administration's Interior secretary:

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne last week made the listing decision and said it was based on three findings. "First, sea ice is vital to polar bear survival. Second, the polar bear's sea-ice habitat has dramatically melted in recent decades. Third, computer models suggest sea ice is likely to further recede in the future," he said...

Polar bear researchers fear recent effects of the loss of sea ice on Alaska polar bear populations. A 2006 study by the U.S. Geological Survey concluded that far fewer polar bear cubs in the Beaufort Sea were surviving and that adult males weighed less and had smaller skulls than those captured and measured two decades previously -- trends similar to observations in Canada's western Hudson Bay before a population drop.
A U.S. Geological Survey study completed last year as part of the petition process predicted polar bears in Alaska could be wiped out by 2050.

Kempthorne said last week he considered every point Palin made, and rejected them. However, he sought to limit the economic effect of the decision with the inclusion of "administrative guidance" that said the listing would not be used to create back-door climate policy outside the normal system of political accountability. He said that the threat to polar bears did not come from the petroleum industry.

<http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/palin-vs-polar.html>

This could be done with comedy, but actually, this is no laughing matter. No laughing matter at all:

Soon it could be the last remaining polar bear:

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Remember Jules and the Polar Bears?

[valerief]

2. If she has no qualms about shooting a moose in the face, then

I guess there's no problem shooting a polar bear in the face or an old man or facilitating all their deaths. That's the party of "life" after all.
:scared:

[Turn CO Blue]

5. Apparently Repub VPs like to shoot living things...just saying.

[onehandle]

3. Fuck her. Fuck the enemies of polar bears.

It would be a fucking Nightmare for this monster to get Anywhere near the Presidency.

Fuck, fuck, fuck her.

[CitizenPatriot]

4. god. this is so wrong.

could this extremist irrational uninformed person really be in charge?

it is the end of the roman empire.....

but i digress.

[Tejas]

6. you do realize that

you are advocating policing the world just like Bush is trying to do, don't you?

Really, plight of the polar bears in Norway?




So, invade Norway right after Iran? :sarcasm:

[Turn CO Blue]

9. The conversation is about the US endangered species list.

There are polar bears off the shores of Alaska and on the tundra.

[Tejas]

12. correct, so pics from Norway

I guess that explains you using a pic of a dead bear in Norway.


;)

[Turn CO Blue]

13. Here's one shot near Fort Yukon...dare I ask if that makes you

"happy"? That I've posted a pic of a bear shot and the pic is not from Norway...? I honestly can't figure out where you're coming from. Polar bears are obviously threatened by global warming. And from poachers. That's the conversation. We need to protect these bears. That's the conversation. You're the only one brining Norway into the conversation - and because I quickly chose one image from Google images over another.

Sarah Palin does not believe that the bears are threatened, and she filed a lawsuit because she's so furious that anyone wants to protect these bears. Likely Sarah doesn't want to protect the bears, because she is a very outspoken global-warming denier. And she likes to shoot animals.

[Life Long Dem]

7. Siding with Bush is not the best story either.

[AZBlue]

8. K&R!

Excellent post!

[MadrasT]

10. Proud to be the 5th rec.

Die hard animal advocate here.

:kick: and R

[nam78_two]

11. Thanks-K&R

Palin's virulently anti-environmental stances make her even scarier than even the average anti-science/anti-environment Repuke..

[AuntPatsy]

14. they are such beautfiul creatures,, we are so full of ourselves to believe

we do not need what nature has provided us in all its glory, our loss of empathy will be our destruction

[TwilightGardener]

15. I would crawl on miles of broken glass to vote against this woman

for nothing more than her attitude towards animals. She's a sick fuck.

[KittyWampus]

17. it's a thin line between the indiscriminate shooting of animals and human beings.

I understand hunting. And protecting ones property and livestock.

But having no concern for wildlife. Slaughtering wolves from an airplane.

[Cha]

16. I hate that there are people like this in positions of power ..

especially trying abuse our Awesome Polar Bears!