42 meth labs busted in Wasilia in one year. Just weird.

[lapfog_1]

on Randi Rhodes just now.

[cynatnite]

1. Wasilia sits in a valley that is the meth capital of Alaska...

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=22122&siteSection=1

[anigbrowl]

2. Wow, one for every 200 people?

I do keep hearing about how there's not much to do during those long arctic nights. I blame the fact that lots of merchants won't ship goods to Alaska, and propose that anyone with an old playstation 2 or ninetendo console send it to the city of Wasilla to prevent these folk falling into temptation.

[Bucky]

3. See, and you liberals keep saying they don't teach science as well in Red states.

[Blue Meany]

7. The Valley is also a center of pot-growing...

I guess the long days make for a powerful plant. Palin opposed legalizing hemp production for other uses, such as cloth and paper proudction, arguing tht it was pretext to allow more marijuana growing.

[Ashy Larry]

4. Sarah Palin does seem to have an unusual abundance of energy...

[Egnever]

5. perky is the word i think i saw used

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Not really that weird when you think about it.

They elected her mayor because they're all tweaked out on meth. Makes perfect sense to me.

[JVS]

8. That sounds like a lot of meth for a town of 5000

[Yavin4]

9. More Meth Labs Than Starbucks

With a population of 6,000, that's one Meth lab for every 142 residents.

Hey, no waiting.

[Stop Cornyn]

10. You didn't think that pipeline was ONLY for gas did you?

Palin said war in Iraq, gas pipeline are God’s will

The war in Iraq is part of God’s plan, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said in June in a speech at her former church.

Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate whose son will deploy to Iraq in a few weeks, told the students that “our national leaders, are sending out on a task that is from God.”

Building a natural-gas pipeline is also part of God’s will, she said, according to a video published by the Huffington Post taken from material posted on the website of the Wasilla Assembly of God. Read more.

Earlier, she exhorted the students to pray for pipeline, saying “we can work together to make sure God’s will is done.” She said God wanted to extract natural resources.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2008/09/02/palin-said-war-in-iraq-gas-pipeline-are-gods-will/




Palin on the Environment: Far Right

She opposes strengthening protections for beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet, where oil and gas development has been proposed, and she spent $500 million in state money to encourage the development of a 1,700-mile pipeline that would transport natural gas from Alaska's rich North Shore. When the Department of the Interior in May listed the polar bear as a threatened species due to warming—an action that could interfere with drilling in Alaska's coastal waters, where the polar bears live —Palin sued the Federal Government in response. "Our main concern with Sarah Palin's positions are that they are based on doing what is best for the oil industry, and not what is best for Americans," says David Willett, national press secretary for the Sierra Club.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837868,00.html