To start this off with a bit of a disclaimer, I know nothing about politics. I humor news articles/TV sometimes, especially with this whole election thing going on. I usually end up checking top digg articles, which always seems to be ‘the news that the man doesn’t want you to know’. Every once in a while, I’ll even talk to someone about politics. But that’s it. I don’t know much about the current candidates, what issues they support, or what they’re against. I do know, however, that Republicans scare me.
Whew. Quite a disclaimer. Anyway. Now the topic at hand. I like the environment. There. Done.
Okay fine. There might be a little more to it. I watched a bit of the RNC (how could I not see Sarah ‘Baracuda’ Palin in action for the first time?), and while a great deal has bothered me, I won’t talk about most of it solely for the fact that I can’t really back anything up (see disclaimer). BUT. There is one thing that pissed me off so much that, well, you’re reading about it right now..hopefully (please tell me someone is reading this). It hit me right in the middle of Palin’s speech.
I can’t remember exactly what she was talking about, but, all of a sudden, with her voice leading them, an arena full of people started chanting “Drill Baby Drill”. …What? I was in shock. I could not believe that a whole stadium, including many major important political figures, were openly chanting something that basically meant “Destroy our planet! Tear up our country! Killlll our annimaallssss!” Being led by one of the Vice Presidential candidates, nonetheless.
Then, while watching the Convention today, I saw a short interview with a delegate from Alaska. She had her construction vest and hardhat (it said Drill Now on it) on and basically told the reporter she wanted the US to dig in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because we need oil. Seriously? Is it really worth that much to these people? I mean, yea Alaskana are for it, cause, as The Simpsons Movie pointed out, the state gives out annual funds to its residents, basically for the ability to slowly destroy it. In fact, it seems as if the fine residents of Alaska will be getting $3,200 each this year thanks to oil invested dividends. Woo! That’s totally worth killing plant and animal life and adding to the world’s already out-of-hand pollution problems, right?
What is the deal with all these Republicans so easily willing to destroy wildlife habitats just to drill for oil? And before anyone tries to defend this with, well John McCain, the actual Presidential candidate, is against it, think about if he really is. He’s clearly been distancing himself from President Bush, a guy who’s consistently been pro-drilling, so that might be why. Yes. Technically he’s against it, but in an interview he did bring up the fact that he would ‘be glad to review’ it. What does that mean? “I love the environment now, but every vote for me on November 4th will come with a free drum of oil!”
Sooo. In response to these people’s desires to potentially destroy the wildlife refuge and displace many animal species, I have a proposal. How bout we take some of the cities in Alaska, maybe Wasilla to start (haha..get it?), and destroy them. Yup. Let’s bulldoze the towns, eliminating homes and businesses and displacing all the people without giving them a place to go. We can then clean up the debris and let nature take its course, slowly rebuilding the natural habitats of the areas. We’ll help the people who are opposed to the drilling, but everyone else is on their own. Oh! Did we crush your home? Did we leave you with nothing, freezing in the middle of nowhere? Did we ‘accidentally’ forget to wait for everyone to leave and ‘mistakenly’ kill half your family? Whoops! Oh well, I mean, it’s what you want to do in the Wildlife Refuge isn’t it? You should understand..
Two more quick things about Sarah Palin and her love of animals/the environment and her hate of oil before I finish my rant. She doesn’t think polar bears are correctly placed on the endangered species list and doesn’t think beluga whales should be placed on the list either basically because it would hurt potential oil and gas development. Wait..did I switch that first sentence up? Read more here.
Thus ends my little schpeil. I thought I could make it funnier, but I guess it just made me too mad that people who are staunchly pro-life can’t grasp the idea that life isn’t only meant for humans Americans. Oh well.
