Palin the quitter

I am trying to figure out why Sarah Palin is resigning at the end of her term. A very common believe, before and after the announcement, is that she wants to run for president in 2012. From my vantage point this decision makes a 2012 run impossible. When you run for president you run of the record of your previous office… if you can’t complete a term of office, what do you have to run on.

It became clear to many Palin confidants that she was not going to run for a second term, well before this press conference. What surprised many was her end of month resignation. Palin tried to explain it by saying that she didn’t want to be a lame duck for the rest of her term, so she just quit. What boggles my mind is that she could have easily played a little politics and concealed her plans for the future until later in her term of office. It is just a very strange move to quit.

There has to be some other shoe that is going to drop here. If there isn’t, then Palin is simply a piss poor leader who quits when the going gets tough. Does anyone out there really believe that Palin could lead the nation. Would she quit in her third year of her presidential term because the press or congress was going to investigate her. Palin: you’re pathetic.

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Iran

God Bless the people in Iran. The human spirit is alive and well in an oppressive nation.
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Daytons on Sunday

It is rare, but we did go to church for Miles’ blessing.

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Clever Sign

I smiled when I saw this picture of a gay rights protest sign:
Jesus Had Two Dads

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MLMs Explained

Finally some insight into Multi Level Marketing! Thanks sister Dixon!

Posted by Paul in Christianity, Mormonism

Miles Eating

The latest video of Miles Jones Dayton

Posted by Paul in Personal

Star Trek was very good

Maybe it was the 7 year wait for a new movie that made me enjoy it, maybe it was just the Star Trek label, along with seeing a NCC-1701 prominently painted on top of the hull of the “updated Enterprise.” What ever it was, I enjoyed it.

A full review later.

Obama Spock

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Star Trek

I will be watching Star Trek in 1 hour and 37 minutes.

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One of those days

I am having one of those days where I can’t do anything right. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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Green is in, but are we doing any thing?

It seems as if there is almost universal consensus that environmentally friendly policy is the rage, are we actually doing anything about it? An example: Payless has a line of shoes that are “green,” in that they use materials that have less of a footprint on the environment. The Payless shoes are still made in China, a country that has policies that are focused squarely on economic growth in spite of environmental detriments?

I am watching Meet the Press, and I just saw some commercials for NBC’s programming. The NBC peacock turned green and there was a lot of talk about green things to do. That’s all nice and good, but does it really show us if or how GE / NBC Universal is green, as the green NBC peacock clearly implied?

Green awareness is a good thing, but we should strive to go the full distance with our green intentions. In our goal to be more green, we need to extend the dialog to more completely address what it means to a good steward of the environment.

Posted by Paul in Politics