Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Sarah Palin..wolf killer.......VP??????

Hi,
Have you ever heard of aerial hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then killed at point-blank range.
Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. We have to get the word out about this!
Please watch this powerful video, and then share it with every wildlife lover you know:












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If the above video isn't working, please use this link to see it.
http://actionfund.defenders.org/palinvideo

Sarah Palin and the Environment
Governor Sarah Palin has an extreme anti-conservation record on issues ranging from global warming, energy and drilling to wildlife and habitat protection.
Aerial hunting of wolves and bears
Governor Palin is an active promoter of Alaska's aerial hunting program whereby wolves and bears are shot from the air or chased by airplanes to the point of exhaustion before the pilot lands the plane and a gunner shoots the animals point blank. 
• Palin offered a $150 bounty for wolves to entice hunters to kill more wolves in certain parts of the state, with hunters having to present a wolf's foreleg to collect the bounty. 
• She actively opposed a ballot measure campaign seeking to end the aerial hunting of wolves by private hunters and approved a $400,000 state-funded campaign aimed at swaying people's votes on the issue. 
• She also introduced legislation to make it easier to kill wolves and bears and which would have also removed the aerial hunting initiative from the ballot and block the ability of citizens to vote on the issue.
• The Board of Game, which she appoints, has approved the killing of black bear sows with cubs as part of the program and expanded the aerial control programs.
• The media is currently looking into reports that state officials implementing one of the aerial wolf killing programs illegally killed five-week old wolf pups just outside their dens.
Global Warming
As recently as August 2008, Governor Palin questioned whether man-made fossil fuel emissions are responsible for global warming, defying worldwide scientific consensus (Newsmax 8/29/08).  And her drill-drill-drill approach to energy issues will do nothing to ease the causes of global warming, promote the use of clean, renewable energy sources, or break our addiction to foreign oil.
Endangered Species
Palin has repeatedly opposed the listing of endangered animals under the Endangered Species List despite overwhelming scientific evidence that such listings are warranted.
Polar Bear
The U.S. Geological Survey predicts that loss of summer sea ice - crucial habitat for polar bears - could lead to the demise of two-thirds of the world's polar bears by mid-century, including all of Alaska's polar bears. The Bush administration has proposed listing the polar bears as threatened under the ESA to help protect polar bear habitat from threats such as oil and gas development.
Governor Palin has actively opposed the listing of the polar bear despite the fact that Alaska's top marine mammal biologists agreed with the federal scientists who believed the bear should be listed. She wrote the Secretary of Interior urging him not to list the bear on the ground it might hurt the state's oil- and gas-dependent economy. After the bear was listed, she recently filed suit seeking to overturn the listing of polar bears. 
Beluga Whales
Alaska's Cook Inlet beluga whales are a unique group of white whales whose numbers have dramatically declined in the past two decades due to pressures ranging from pollution to increased ship traffic. Governor Palin opposes the listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whales, citing the listing as a threat to oil and gas development, despite their genetic uniqueness and the fact that their numbers have decreased from 1,300 in the 1980s to about 350 today.
Drilling
Palin is a strong supporter of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a vital wilderness area.  It is home to hundreds of thousands of caribou who use the refuge as a calving ground, more than one million migratory birds, and countless other wildlife. It's the most important onshore denning habitat for female polar bears. Senator McCain himself has repeatedly voted to protect this pristine wilderness area.  Palin is also a supporter of drilling in Bristol Bay and other offshore sites despite the risks to sensitive marine wildlife in the area, including the endangered polar bear and Beluga whale.
Clean Water and Pebble Mine
Governor Palin actively campaigned against a state ballot measure this summer aimed at protecting Alaska's Bristol Bay. The mining industry seeks to develop a gold and copper mine in the area that would pollute the Bay's headwaters and threaten the spawning grounds for the largest remaining wild salmon run. The initiative would have prevented large-scale mining operations from dumping waste materials into salmon watersheds.

Posted by Shana at 5:21 PM 3 comments

Thursday, June 19, 2008

What a day!


So yesterday the power was out from 8AM to 3PM. The electric company had sent out a postcard telling us about it. But naturally I forgot about it. 
My mac has had HD issues for quite awhile now.. it was fine when restarting usually, but shutting down was out of the question. I tried all of the troubleshooting tips. Nothing would fix my issues.
So yesterday it was shutdown all day..I knew it would probably be the end.
So when the power came back on.. I tried to get him up and running and tried everything - there was even a lot of trouble just starting up from the install disk. 
So, I tried my last resort. I zeroed out the HD and completely fresh installed tiger. (luckily I saved most of the updates to disk from the last time.) 
I read that that zeroing the HD will block out bad blocks, if this doesn't work I guess I will have to install a new HD. I do have my external with everything I had backed up, but I can't boot from it because it's not firewire. (nobody told me about the firewire thing..lol!!)
It makes me wonder if there's a usb to firewire adapter or something? 

The good thing is I got my working flash player back! LOL I won't be upgrading that again until I absolutely must. I have have to run permissions and check the disk for errors again. 
Other than that I shall be saving my pennies for a new mac or maybe slightly used. A mini maybe.... I have everything I need for a mini.. I just need a display..but I can use any TV for that.
ah well, maybe this will work and I won't have to worry about it for awhile.
Posted by Shana at 6:58 AM 3 comments

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Remember the Twiddlebugs???


Ha! I've been telling my kids about these guys for years. I thought they were so cool when I was a kid. Well I finally decided, "hey look on youtube dummy!" LOL
Oh and I read on google that Sesame Street is bringing them back but that was last year and I didn't see any of them yet.
So, anyway.. I found a few, here is one.


Sadly, I didn't recall them being quite so.. ummm... lame-brained. Honestly I don't know why I do this stuff, it's never as cool as it was back then. Land of the Lost was an exception, it was exactly how I remembered it..hmm wonder if there's any of those on youtube.
Posted by Shana at 6:27 AM 3 comments

Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Silence is deafening..


My kids went to my SILs for the weekend. This is the first time I have been away from both of my kids for more than a few hours at a time for at least 3 years..
Peace and quiet is Waaay over-rated! LOL
I was thinking this is going to be great, some serious 'me time'.
Well I ended up doing a whole lot of nothing..lol. heh.
Me and hubby did have some good adult time, watched some non-kid friendly TV.
LOL no, not THAT kind of TV.
We watched Grindhouse: Planet Terror, which By the way I thought was a fabulous bit of corny fun. Rose McGowan was.. hot. :) We played some Wii ( I whooped hubby's ass!).
But other than that, we didn't go out, didn't drink (WTH?), or do anything exciting.
I can't wait to see my kids this afternoon.
So next time I'm bitching about my kids driving me crazy, this will be a reminder of the more craziness I feel without them. :)
Posted by Shana at 8:32 AM 2 comments

Saturday, June 7, 2008

How'd that work for you Australia?


It has been 2 years since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms, which were destroyed by their own government at a cost to taxpayers or more than $500 million. Statistics from the first year indicate that, countrywide, homicides were up 3.2 percent, assaults were up 8.6 percent, and armed robberies were up 44 percent. In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms were up 300 percent!
It's apparent that while law abiding citizens turned in their firearms, the criminals did not, and now the public is really paying the price.


Think about that when voting this November.
Posted by Shana at 7:27 AM 1 comments
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