Posted on 09/23/2008 7:29:25 AM PDT by CedarDave
Borrowing from the nickname for a federal earmark that would have built a multi-million dollar bridge for an Alaska town of 50 people, Newsweek's Mark Hosenball offers readers of the September 29 print magazine a look at "[Gov. Sarah] Palin's Pipeline to Nowhere."
Hosenball suggests that Palin's $500-million "principal achievement" as governor "might never be built after all." But while the headline evokes images of the "Bridge to Nowhere," this isn't a case of government waste as much as it is of the endless red tape of lawsuits.:
Approximately half of the proposed pipeline would run through Canada; native tribes who live along its route complain they haven't been consulted about it and are threatening to sue unless they are compensated. Representatives of the canadian tribes, known as First Nations, say Palin and other pipeline proponents are treating them with disrespect. The tribes' lawyers warn that the courts are on their side and say the Indians have the power to delay the pipeline for years-or even kill it entirely by filing endless lawsuits.
Yet rather than find critics of the potential job-killing litigation that may well crop up in Canadian courts, Hosenball cobbled together quotes from people suggesting the Palin administration was too "optimistic" about clearing legal hurdles to the gas pipeline.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Yes, lawyering, quickly replacing economics as the “dismal science”.
I laughed at the Newsweak editor on O’reilly last night indignantly insisting his magazine was not in the tank for Obama - hilarious.
Problem is with what the MSM has done to Palin with sexism, claims of incest, and wacky stories that they’ve later had to retract, no one pays attention to the negative stuff they run on her anymore.
If you can’t find news to report - make it up...
Total nonsense. The Canadian Indians are expecting a payoff for crossing their property. No different than anyone else.
Who cares what Newsweek has to say about anything. Have you seen how thin the rag is these days. Advertising is way down. Same for TIME and US News and World Report. They’re all running on fumes. Only chance they have of surviving is Obama in WH and imposition of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”.
Who cares what Newsweek has to say about anything. Have you seen how thin the rag is these days. Advertising is way down. Same for TIME and US News and World Report. They’re all running on fumes. Only chance they have of surviving is Obama in WH and imposition of the so-called “Fairness Doctrine”.
This is the same BS Libtard argument as “It’s not worth bothering to start new drilling, because we won’t have the oil for several years.”
Therefore, it’s not worth going to college, or starting a business, or ... because it will take years before any benefit is realized.
Therefore ... lib logic is just sit on the sofa and wait for someone to bring you something to eat. If there are any obstacles or a delay in receiving the fruits of your labor, then don’t bother ...
Actually, that pretty accurately sums up the Leftist view of things.
I’m voting for Sarah!
Yep, it's become too thin to even roll up to swat a fly without the fly escaping due to lack of "substance".
Newsweak: I would not call the lower 48 “nowhere”
Historical Highlights
Alaska Pipeline Project
http://www.transcanada.com/Alaska/pdf/HistoricalHighlights.pdf
See also:
TransCanada Home > About TransCanada > Projects and Initiatives > Alaska Pipeline Project
http://www.transcanada.com/company/alaska_pipeline_project.html
If you can't build a casino, get the white man to pay exorbitant ransom for crossing your land. Same difference.
But there are ways to bargain. I liked the scene in Robert Duvall's "Broken Trail" where the Indians wanted two horses for crossing their land. Duvall says only one. The Indian leader says two. Duvall takes a whittled carving of a horse out of his pocket, points to the herd and says "one" then to the carving and says "two". The Indian takes the carving and a horse from the herd and they take off whooping. In this case, maybe they could agree to hire workers for the project or send young men/women to school, etc.
Sometime soon, Newsweek will be history. There’s already evidence that the Washington Post is losing money on the weekly. Shortly afterward, Time will close its doors, too. Way back in the mists of time, there was a place for a weekly news journal but this function now arrives on Saturday with the weekend edition of the WSJ, which is superb.
The tribes better catch on that without America’s might that Canada is nothing. The rapid fall into communism in the world that threatens America also threatens Canada. A pipe line benefits Canada as well as the security need of America. Incidentally Mexico is the same way.
I got rid of them after the “koran in a toilet” fiasco.
They are guilty of fomenting murder.
Even the NewsMax writer doesn’t get it right.
>>>Borrowing from the nickname for a federal earmark that would have built a multi-million dollar bridge for an Alaska town of 50 people, Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball offers readers of the September 29 print magazine a look at “[Gov. Sarah] Palin’s Pipeline to Nowhere.”<<<
For starters, the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere” connected the 14,000 people in Ketchikan to the only area of nearby land into which they could grow on the neighboring island - which was about 300 yards away at the narrowest point. Ketchikan is built on the side of a mountain, and flat land is at a premium. The island just across the Tongass Narrows has lots of flat land. A bridge to get there would be appreciated for the community to grow. There are 50 people now living on that island; no doubt there would be thousands after the bridge was built.
Argue over the cost, certainly, but calling it a Bridge to Nowhere is like complaining the Golden Gate Bridge leads to nothing but cow pastures and poison oak.
The second so-called bridge to nowhere would connect Alaska’s largest city to Alaska’s fastest growing suburbs. Those suburbs are now 60 minutes away from Anchorage; the bridge to “nowhere” would cut that travel time in half, at least. Again, there’s also the issue of useable land. There is lots of good land on the other side of the bridge from Anchorage. Part that “nowhere” includes the home of Sarah Palin.
So... having smeared Alaska and our need to actually have a growing economy with some infrastructure, the media is now calling a pipeline from the North Slope to the Midwest “nowhere.” It’s hard to tell which end they’re calling nowhere - I’ve been to Chicago, and it’s just as bleak as the North Slope in places, so I’m a little confused about which end of the natural gas pipeline is “nowhere.”
This is just part of the effort to make Palin, and, by extension, the rest of us up here, look like slope-headed morons.
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