Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

[Ichingcarpenter]

Center for Biological Diversity


TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity today awarded Alaska Governor Sarah Palin the 2008 Rubber Dodo Award. Last year’s award, which inaugurated the prize, went to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne for setting a new record in refusing to add imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list. This year’s award goes to Governor Palin for fighting Kempthorne’s designation of the polar bear as a threatened species.

“Governor Palin has waged a deceptive, dangerous, and costly battle against the polar bear,” said Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “Her position on global warming is so extreme, she makes Dick Cheney look like an Al Gore devotee.”

Palin has waged a deceptive public relations campaign, asserting that the polar bear is increasing. But many populations (including Alaska’s southern Beaufort Sea) are in decline and two-thirds (including all Alaska bears) are projected to disappear by 2050 by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Palin has repeatedly asserted that Alaska Department of Fish and Game scientists found fatal flaws in the sea ice models used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine the polar bear is threatened. When challenged, Palin refused to release the alleged state review. Independent scientists eventually obtained a summary through the federal Freedom of Information Act, revealing that Palin had lied: The state mammalogists concurred with the Fish and Wildlife Service determination that Arctic sea ice is melting at an extraordinary rate and threatens the polar bear with extinction.

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http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/palin-09-17-2008.html

[rzemanfl]

1. She can have the rubber dildo award too. n/t

[RC]

3. I thought Dodo was a miss spelling and I thought like you.

[rzemanfl]

4. You have a dirty mind. eom

[RC]

5. Yeah, I know

:evilgrin:

[rzemanfl]

6. The good thing about them is they last. Mine is still going strong

and I am 61.

[RC]

7. I got you beat then.

64.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Her strident and enthusiastic support of aerial hunting of wolves does not exactly endear her to me

either. :puke: