Sarah Palin: Governor Drop Out

White, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will drop out of her job one year and a half early and challenge black stay-in-office President Barack Obama in 2012. That's the message in her"..moving in new directions."statement yesterday.

She got a lucrative book offer from Rabbi Rupert Murdoch's HarperCollins and learned how to talk on Saturday Night Live. So what more does a spending and grinning monkey need to have or know about winning American elections? George Bush Sr. was accused of having a "Silver foot in his mouth."by the late Texas Governor Ann Richards. That's more than Palin has in her mouth.

In the interim, Palin will tour the country making speeches to pay her legal bills and to build a war chest for the 2012 presidential run. Palin wants to help the country move forward. So she quits her job!

Sarah Palin Looks Better In Comparison

Criticism by definition springs from a comparison to a somewhat accepted standard. The criticism can eclipse the standard postively or negatively fall short. How does Palin compare with our recent standard of George Bush?

Pundits claim that Palin lacks experience. Oh. She achieved the governship of Alaska on her own. Bush needed the schemes and lies of Karl Rove for his Texas governorship. Then there are the connections of George I that brought George II the chance for a run at the presidency . Rove created "a palace of lies" in Bush's presidential run and the rest is history.

Palin wasn't an alcholic like Bush. She liked herself and won the title of Miss Alaska. Palin actually lives her Christian religion by bringing a Down's Syndrome baby into the world.(I think that is wrong) . Bush wears the mantle of the Evangelical Christians only for political purposes as per the Rove playbook. A true Christian doesn't authorize torture or believe in preemptive war.

Palin's understanding of foreign policy couldn't be worse than Bush. Bush just did what he was told by Cheney, the American Enterprise Institute and the fifth column Zionists led by Elliott Abrams. Abrams may write a book on how gullable Bush was after he leaves office. Why not? Bush can't help Israel anymore and Abrams could use the money. Bush was no value-added in foreign policy except as a puppet.

Hopefully Bush was a U.S. low point. He lowered the bar to the level that anyone would look better .

Exxon, Valdez Captain Hazelwood Judgments: New Values Needed

What should be the penalty for the death and destruction of app. 500,000 seabirds, 5000 sea otters, 12 river otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, 22 Orcas (killer whales), billions of salmon and herring eggs and a toxic residue of oil in the sea bed that will linger for hundreds of years? The Supreme Court has decided to hear Exxon's appeal of $2.5 billion punitive damages award against it for it's 1989 spill of 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska's pristine Prince William Sound.

Years ago, Captain Joseph Hazelwood of the tanker Exxon Valdez which ran aground and spilled the oil was accused of being drunk while in command of the vessel. He was cleared of that charge. But he was found guilty of a " midemeanor charge of negligent discharge of oil". For this violation, he was fined $ 50,000 and had to serve 1000 hours of community service.

That's woefully not adequate to the damage that he was reponsible for. This paltry penalty points out the overvaluation of the human in comparison to the natural world. With that kind of legal logic, it's only a matter of time before our natural world is sacrificed on the alter of the human's wrongly inflated opinion of itself. New values have to be reflected in our laws that down grade the human and upgrade the increasingly dwindling natural world.