more bags

More bags, more hours of sewing.

a quick peek inside the bags shows cute little pockets tied with ribbon.. of course this idea was dreamt up when I ran out of zippers but still wanted to provide a little coupon/goodie pouch.

Of course I'm saving these two for me :) Had this been an official stitch gift I would have felt morally obliged to give Sara to match her birthday bag.. sorry Sara, but I love the fabric too! :~j

I've got a little more fabric, so we'll see if I'm still inspired in 2009.

presents

Sometimes Christmas on a budget can be nice, for those on the receiving end especially. I enjoyed picking out these fabrics from my stash and creating the pattern using my Trader Joe's bags as a reference.

I used to be a part of a group of very creative women and we'd exchange presents each year along with a fabulous coordinated potluck dinner where the ground rules dictated that we spend only $6 or less on our gifts to each other; there once being 13 in our group! These were my favorite Christmases and gifts. I'd come home with 8 to 12 handmade gifts made especially for me. We'd each spend hours deciding what to make, often contemplating prototypes, then sometimes choosing colors specifically for each friend.

Alas, our group has fallen a part and though we all stay in touch, we don't celebrate like we used to. Note these photos were excitedly published prior to any ironing. These are round bags with 4 panel sides.

My cost?
Fabric: Free (paid long ago and hopefully on sale)
Zippers: $2.30 each
Handle cording: $0.80/yard I think.. each bag: $0.30

Bag costs:
$ 2.60 -my bank account cost this Christmas
$18.60 -had I purchased fabric & thread also
$ 1.99 -Trader Joe bag sale price
$ 1.49 -local grocery store reusable bag sale price

Fabricating tips:

• Create pattern with newspaper for size desired

• Use different color threads to match fabrics as desired. (note I didn't swap out my threads going for that rough hewn look.. but if your recipient wishes to use the bag for more than groceries, you might consider this.

• Use as many panels around the bag as desired.. the more the merrier. Note that my original Trader Joe's bag had two.

• Adjust circular bottom for final bag/tube shape when pinning

• Sew the handle cording right with the fabric handle tube to save time. Granted it won't look as pretty, but remember.. this is a grocery bag.

• Line the bag if you're so inclined, especially if recipient will use for alternative uses.

lake effect

Air temps 35 degrees less than the lake temperature = water vapor escaping into the air

Water vapor escaping in the air = lake effect snow

lake effect snow =

Merry Christmas!

or as they say in France, 'Mer-rie Krist-mous'!

almost a new house

You know how you know you should do the 'right thing' yet you are tempted to do exactly the 'wrong' thing? No, me neither. Yet as I talked with my insurance company, over and over again it became obvious that doing the 'wrong' thing would actually work in my benefit. Seriously, I need a new roof. I'd like a new kitchen, I could use a 2nd stall in my garage. and frankly I'd save a boatload in heating costs if my residence had to be temporarily moved to a hotel while my house was repaired. What the heck am I talking about? Let me recap with data:

$1,000.00 - my out of pocket cost to remove a split tree limb

$40,000.00 - minimum cost to rebuild shattered home structure, replace roof, kitchen, and other details destroyed from multiple heavy tree limbs falling on the house due to crack at base of branch. Cost may or may not include hotel stay due to not being able to inhabitant the house after incident and during the reconstruction.

$500.00 - my out of pocket cost for such a calamity as the above would be covered by my house insurance.

Of course being a good citizen, I removed the limb. Financially it would have been better for me to just let it fall. Why does it have to be this way?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

shoulda woulda coulda

I've been freezing ever since the sleet started on the weekend hardly leaving my house except when a meeting required it and trying to put off the meetings to boot. I think I'll run out of food in 5 days, but could probably stretch it to seven.

Things to do:

• Drop off snow-blower to get tuned for the winter (12 inches of snow has already fallen and I've already almost got stuck in the driveway)
  

Things I wish I had done while it was still summer:

• Replace my 1950 windows with double pane insulated newbies

• Insulate my basement perimeter

• Fix the loose tiles on my roof

• Fix the 4WD on my car

• Fix the fan (that blows the heat) on my car

• Plan a winter vacation away from here

• Dug my composting hole a little closer to the back door

second day of winter

then winter came

like a lion.

Views outside from inside my house.

This is where I spend most of my time:

it's a cake..

great, great car commercial!

purple food

Who knew that purple food could be so good. I just noticed this gem at the farmer's market Wednesday. It's a tad spicier than your typical cauliflower, but the purple is au natural.

Can we name all the purple food?

(this) cauliflower
Eggplant
Grapes
Potatoes
Cabbage


I also learned while looking up purple food that it can prevent breakdown of collagen and slow the wasting of muscles.. I think I'd like to eat more of it. Did you think of more?

Acai berry (maybe)
(Indian) Corn
Lavender (I eat it with goat cheese and honey on crackers..)


Excerpt from bee-young.com:

"Why are some fruits considered power fruits?

Power fruits are higher in antioxidants. Antioxidants protect plant tissue from damage from solar radiation and other environmental stressors. And when we consume that plant tissue, they protect our tissue from damage caused by free radicals. Free radicals are toxins produced by normal metabolism and present in other toxins such as tobacco smoke or car exhaust. So a diet higher in antioxidants protects us from these toxins and helps us stay healthier."

So, what other purple foods can we eat?

personal carbon footprint, part I

Check this out.. interesting presentation from recent Web summit in CA.

why Republicans have to go

This is only part of the story.

Peter Pumpkin Head

halloweening and the queening..

another night of debauchery..

"I don't think I look very pretty"
"Don't worry, wait 'till we get the boobs and hair on"
"I need the black mascara.. no, I need it"

ok.. so I went a little heavy on the white stuff..

why yes, that is a 'vote Barack Obama' pin on my sash.

two peas in a pod

How much do we like Marie anyway?

..and what will they win?

Let them eat cake and icecream!

will they ever learn?

Not to be overlooked in my annoyance with the writing of the WSJ article, isn't it curious that Chinese manufacturers are still using Melamine in food products after so many quick -and publicized- deaths?!

WSJ in a hen basket

I was worried when Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal this summer (see related article here), a newspaper I covet for global news and who I've trusted for many years. This is a man who owns Fox News for pete's sake.. and we all know what fluff they spew. He actually owns many news sources around the world which could play like a bad movie should he wish to create and/or control such news.

Slowly my paper began to change. In addition to seeing some articles that looked too tabloidish for the 'old' WSJ, I started to see more ads and my paper started to get thicker. There were also more color photographs where none were needed before to draw attention to various articles.

On October 21st, a clueless writer was revealed.. In the 'What's News' section of the front page, a snippet read like this:

Some 1,500 dogs in China
bred for their fur died after eat-
ing feed tainted with the chemi-
cal that contaminated milk, A12

Now.. I'm familiar as likely all WSJ readers and at least 1/2 of the world's population are that the chemical recently identified for contaminating milk in China is Melamine. I'm also aware that there are a myriad of chemicals that could contaminate milk. I'm sure the writer was just trying to make the link, but failing to recognize that we as informed readers could make the same link quickly.. is annoying and poorly executed.

Shouldn't it have read like this?

1,500 dogs in China
bred for their fur died after eat-
ing feed tainted with the chemi-
cal Melamine, A12

birthday blog

Birthday cake

Birthday bag

Birthday girl (no not me :~)

Birthday wish

more on Palin

Granted, Mrs. Palin did a great job not embarrassing herself during the debates last week. In other venues where she was not rigorously coached and forced to memorize long streaming sentences, she fared much worse showing her true colors.

Here is an excerpt from Bob Herbert in his 26Sept2008 NY Times article (and other reasons we should be scared of the Republican party):

"The United States has been lucky in terms of the qualifications of the vice presidents who have had to step in over the last several decades for presidents who either died or, in Richard Nixon’s case, were forced to leave office. Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson became extraordinary presidents in their own right. Gerald Ford successfully guided the nation through the immediate aftermath of one of the most traumatic political crises in its history.

For those who think Sarah Palin is in that league, there is no problem. But her unscripted public appearances would lead most honest observers to think otherwise. When asked again this week about her puerile linkage of foreign policy proficiency and Alaska’s proximity to Russia, this time by Katie Couric of CBS News, here is what Ms. Palin said she meant:

“That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land — boundary that we have with — Canada.”

She went on, but lost her way mid-sentence: “It’s funny that a comment like that was kind of made to — cari — I don’t know, you know? Reporters ...”

Ms. Couric said, “Mocked?”

“Yeah, mocked,” said Ms. Palin. “I guess that’s the word. Yeah.”

It is not just painful, but frightening to watch someone who could become the vice president of the United States stumbling around like this in an interview.

Ms. Couric asked Ms. Palin to explain how Alaska’s proximity to Russia “enhances your foreign policy credentials.”

“Well, it certainly does,” Ms. Palin replied, “because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there—”

Gently interrupting, Ms. Couric asked, “Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?”

“We have trade missions back and forth,” said Ms. Palin. “We do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to our state.”


Be very very afraid.

Actually, what I'm thinking.. is that the Republican party will have Sara step down on October 21st only to announce a new 'equally energizing' VP candidate that will be equally unqualified and where we'll have no time to discover anything about them (much like Dick Cheney).

Obama visits Yesterdog

ok, picture taken of picture already framed at Yesterdog..

yummmmmmm, ultradog

our first date to Yesterdog

plea to Palin

click to enlarge..

McCain reprint with video and links.. the real story

McCain’s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere

By FRANK RICH
Published NY Times, September 27, 2008

WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to get to the White House.

For all the focus on Friday night’s deadlocked debate, it still can’t obscure what preceded it: When John McCain gratuitously parachuted into Washington on Thursday, he didn’t care if his grandstanding might precipitate an even deeper economic collapse. All he cared about was whether he might save his campaign. George Bush put more deliberation into invading Iraq than McCain did into his own reckless invasion of the delicate Congressional negotiations on the bailout plan.

By the time he arrived, there already was a bipartisan agreement in principle. It collapsed hours later at the meeting convened by the president in the Cabinet Room. Rather than help try to resuscitate Wall Street’s bloodied bulls, McCain was determined to be the bull in Washington’s legislative china shop, running around town and playing both sides of his divided party against Congress’s middle. Once others eventually forged a path out of the wreckage, he’d inflate, if not outright fictionalize, his own role in cleaning up the mess his mischief helped make. Or so he hoped, until his ignominious retreat.

The question is why would a man who forever advertises his own honor toy so selfishly with our national interest at a time of crisis. I’ll leave any physiological explanations to gerontologists — if they can get hold of his complete medical records — and any armchair psychoanalysis to the sundry McCain press acolytes who have sorrowfully tried to rationalize his erratic behavior this year. The other answers, all putting politics first, can be found by examining the 24 hours before he decided to “suspend” campaigning and swoop down on the Capitol to save America from the Sunnis or the Shia, or whoever perpetrated all those credit-default swaps.

To put these 24 hours in context, you must remember that McCain not only knows little about the economy but that he has not previously expressed any urgency about its meltdown. It was on Sept. 15 — the day after his former idol Alan Greenspan pronounced the current crisis a “once-in-a-century” catastrophe — that McCain reaffirmed for the umpteenth time that the “fundamentals of our economy are strong.” As recently as Tuesday he had not yet even read the two-and-a-half-page bailout proposal first circulated by Hank Paulson last weekend. “I have not had a chance to see it in writing,” he explained. (Maybe he was waiting for it to arrive by Western Union instead of PDF.)



Then came Black Wednesday — not for the stock market, which was holding steady in anticipation of Washington action, but for McCain. As the widely accepted narrative has it, his come-to-Jesus moment arrived that morning, when he awoke to discover that Barack Obama had surged ahead by nine percentage points in the Washington Post/ABC News poll. The McCain campaign hastily suited up its own pollster to belittle that finding — only to be drowned out by a fusillade of new polls from Fox News, Marist and CNN/Time, each with numbers closer to Post/ABC than not. Obama was rising most everywhere except the moose strongholds of Alaska and Montana.

That was not the only bad news raining down on McCain. His camp knew what Katie Couric had in the can from her interview with Sarah Palin. The first excerpt was to be broadcast by CBS that night, and it had to be upstaged fast.

But even that wasn’t the top political threat McCain faced last week. Bigger still was the mounting evidence of the seamless synergy between his campaign and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage monsters at the heart of the housing bust that set off our current calamity. Most of all, it was the fast-moving events on that front that precipitated his panic to roll out his diversionary, over-the-top theatrics on Wednesday.

What we were learning — through The New York Times, Newsweek and Roll Call — was ugly. Davis Manafort, the lobbying firm owned by McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, had received $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac from late 2005 until last month. This was in addition to the $30,000 a month that Davis was paid from 2000 to 2005 by the so-called Homeownership Alliance, an advocacy organization that he headed and that was financed by Freddie and Fannie to fight regulation.

The McCain campaign tried to pre-emptively deflect such revelations by reviving the old Rove trick of accusing your opponent of your own biggest failings. It ran attack ads about Obama’s own links to the mortgage giants. But neither of the former Freddie-Fannie executives vilified in those ads, Franklin Raines and James Johnson, had worked at those companies lately or are currently associated with the Obama campaign. (Raines never worked for the campaign at all.) By contrast, Davis is the tip of the Freddie-Fannie-McCain iceberg. McCain’s senior adviser, his campaign’s vice chairman, his Congressional liaison and the reported head of his White House transition team all either made fortunes from recent Freddie-Fannie lobbying or were players in firms that did.

By Wednesday, the McCain campaign’s latest tactic for countering this news — attacking the press, especially The Times — was paying diminishing returns. Davis abruptly canceled his scheduled appearance that day at a weekly reporters’ lunch sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, escaping any further questions by pleading that he had to hit the campaign trail. (He turned up at the “21” Club in New York that night, wining and dining McCain fund-raisers.)

It’s then that Angry Old Ironsides McCain suddenly emerged to bark that our financial distress was “the greatest crisis we’ve faced, clearly, since World War II” — even greater than the Russia-Georgia conflict, which in August he had called the “first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the cold war.” Campaigns, debates and no doubt Bristol Palin’s nuptials had to be suspended immediately so he could ride to the rescue, with Joe Lieberman as his Robin.

Yet even as he huffed and puffed about being a “leader,” McCain took no action and felt no urgency. As his Congressional colleagues worked tirelessly in Washington, he malingered in New York. He checked out the suffering on Main Street (or perhaps High Street) by conferring with Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the Hillary-turned-McCain supporter best known for her fabulous London digs and her diatribes against Obama’s elitism. McCain also found time to have a well-publicized chat with one of those celebrities he so disdains, Bono, and to give a self-promoting public speech at the Clinton Global Initiative.

There was no suspension of his campaign. His surrogates and ads remained on television. Huffington Post bloggers, working the phones, couldn’t find a single McCain campaign office that had gone on hiatus. This “suspension” ruse was an exact replay of McCain’s self-righteous “suspension” of the G.O.P. convention as Hurricane Gustav arrived on Labor Day. “We will put aside our political hats and put on our American hats,” he declared then, solemnly pledging that conventioneers would help those in need. But as anyone in the Twin Cities could see, the assembled put on their party hats instead, piling into the lobbyists’ bacchanals earlier than scheduled, albeit on the down-low.

Much of the press paid lip service to McCain’s new “suspension” as it had to its prototype. In truth, the only campaign activity McCain did drop was a Wednesday evening taping with David Letterman. Don’t mess with Dave. Picking up where the “The View” left off in speaking truth to power, the uncharacteristically furious host hammered the absent McCain on and off for 40 minutes, repeatedly observing that the cancellation “didn’t smell right.”
In a journalistic coup de grâce worthy of “60 Minutes,” Letterman went on to unmask his no-show guest as a liar. McCain had phoned himself that afternoon to say he was “getting on a plane immediately” to deal with the grave situation in Washington, Letterman told the audience. Then he showed video of McCain being touched up by a makeup artist while awaiting an interview by Couric that same evening at another CBS studio in New York.
It’s not hard to guess why McCain had blown off Letterman for Couric at the last minute. The McCain campaign’s high anxiety about the disastrous Couric-Palin sit-down was skyrocketing as advance excerpts flooded the Internet. By offering his own interview to Couric for the same night, McCain hoped (in vain) to dilute Palin’s primacy on the “CBS Evening News.”

Letterman’s most mordant laughs on Wednesday came when he riffed about McCain’s campaign “suspension”: “Do you suspend your campaign? No, because that makes me think maybe there will be other things down the road, like if he’s in the White House, he might just suspend being president. I mean, we’ve got a guy like that now!”

That’s no joke. Bush has so little credibility he can govern only through surrogates (Paulson is the new Petraeus). When he spoke about the economic crisis in prime time earlier that same night, he registered as no more than an irritating speed bump en route to “David Blaine: Dive of Death.”
It’s that utter power vacuum that gave McCain the opening to pull his potentially catastrophic display of economic “leadership” last week. He may be the first presidential candidate in our history to risk wrecking the country even before being voted into the Oval Office.

Reader Comments
"Senator McCain, where have you gone? It's sad to see a man I admire - still - brought so low by whatever forces have driven him so madly, so destructively, these past weeks.... Whatever he has become, it certainly is not the stuff of which Presidents are made." Pennsylvania

what a week..

My boyfriend's friend from Versailles came to visit on Saturday. Coming from such a big city and well, coming from FRANCE, one might worry he got a little bored in our sleepy little town albeit one of the best kept secrets of the midwest. We kept him pretty busy.. even created a page for him on a single's website to see if he could get a date. Here's how his week played out:

DAY ONE: Arrive

DAY TWO:
Lounged on beautiful wild beach all day.
Swam for 1/2 mile along shore line.
Witnessed horses being ridden in the lake.
Ate BBQ ribs.
Bar hopping on a holiday Sunday night.
Danced with stray women.

DAY THREE:
Lounged on another beautiful beach all day.
Dinner party on the beach.
Set up on a blind date.
Watched sunset.
Experienced Meijer.

DAY FOUR:
Went canoing for the first time ever.
Camped in a US national forest.
Saw a naked man walking down the river.

DAY FIVE:
Paddled for 7 hours.
Went back to Meijer.
Ate corn on the cob for the first time.

DAY SIX:
Experienced typical summer rainy day.
Went shopping at Dunham's and tried on flannel.
Bought a 'butt-chicken' cooking apparatus.
Went to a micro-brew.
Tried seven beers; Ichabod was favorite (of course).

DAY SEVEN:
Biked 50 miles in mist and sunshine.
Cycled by 5 different lakes.
Happy hour at local bar.
Boys night out 'till 4am.

DAY EIGHT:
Slept all the day.
Drove scooter 12 miles in 55 deg F temps.
Invited to local family's house for dinner.

DAY NINE:
Toured a few mansion subdivisions.
Drove through a trailer park.
Dined at a 'Road House' chain restaurant.
Threw peanut shells on the floor for first time.
Ate a hamburger.
Was given a restaurant-wide 'yahoo' to celebrate his 'birthday'.

DAY TEN:
Watched short film: Peep Show.
Flew to Las Vegas.
(where they'll gamble, pine for show girls, fly over the Grand Canyon, and.. be good boys)

camping paddle adventure

ahh.. the benefits of living so close to remote places.. quite rivers, long paddles, and secluded places for camping.

..but not really all that secluded as this strolling couple discovered.

We paddled 9 hours in total covering 37 bending miles of river, though I suspect my canoe companions paddled a bit more as our guest had never paddled and while taking turns at steering attempted to cross the river many times.. picture this:

Poor guys.. we did have a great time, the only frowns coming in comedy as we considered our second day of paddling as it rained on us.

Our camp was well organized and we ate like.. well, as if we were at home.. marinated herbed NY Strips, baked potatoes with all the fixin's, heirloom tomatoes, bananas foster, oatmeal, coffee and various snacks.

We found our camping spot when the boys spied a rope hanging over the river from a tree. This of course provided our first hours of entertainment. No, I didn't' try it. Call it what you will!

remember this

Darn it all if I didn't miss the top asteroid shower of the summer! For me and you, I've copied here a schedule of showers over the year so you can prepare in advance.

perplexity and choices

Yesterday was John McCain's 72nd birthday. If elected, he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.

Huh?

Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

• She was elected Alaska 's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.¹
  
• Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
  
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. ³
  
• Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
  
• She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.⁵
  
• She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶
• How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.⁷

This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.

We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here's a sample:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK

She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK

I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK

So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She's a global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil. And she's dramatically inexperienced.

In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he's made a very dangerous decision for our country.

In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain's vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.

1. "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

2. "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=1

3. "Sarah Palin, Buchananite," The Nation, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=2

4. "'Creation science' enters the race," Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=3

5. "Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science," Huffington Post, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17517&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=4

6. "McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy," Sierra Club, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17518&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=5

"Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past," League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17519&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=6

"Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor," The Times of London, May 23, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17520&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=7

7 "McCain met Palin once before yesterday," MSNBC, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=21119&id=13661-9731126-QmSf5sx&t=8

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beach at sunset

Tonight was amazing on the beach. It was very still and there were only a few others when I arrived having the whole beach to myself after the sun set. Many clouds in the sky obscured the sun most of its setting but made for an incredibly warm sun and brilliant afterglow. I crave days like this and stayed a long time there.