In a YouTube video released Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama announced a ban on future oil and gas drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska by way of a Presidential Memorandum.
Bristol Bay is the most productive wild salmon fishery in the world, and is surrounded by sensitive tundra. Environmental groups and Native Alaskans have been working for years to secure protection for the area. “Bristol Bay has supported Native Americans in the Alaska region for centuries," Obama said in the video announcement.
"It supports about $2 billion in the commercial fishing industry. It supplies America with 40 percent of its wild-caught seafood." "It is a beautiful natural wonder, and its something that is too precious for us to just be putting out to the highest bidder," Obama said.
Apparently this does not extend to mineral mining so it will not stop the Pebble Mine, though it may not make a difference since the EPA is already on that case.
Well I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a certain half term governor/failed reality star is certainly going to have a rant about this in the next couple of hours or so.
However I will also say that Obama just made a lot of native Alaskans, commercial fishermen, and nature lovers very, very happy.
Was Sarah against the Exxon Valdez oils spill before she was for it? Or was it the other way around?
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Drill baby drill but just don't spill?
I just saw this story somewhere else, and included were some amazingly beautiful photos of Bristol Bay.
ReplyDeleteThank you, President Obama, for protecting this lovely area of our country!
Yay !
DeleteSo Palin quit because she didn't want to "just go with the flow" in her last 2 years as Gov. President Obama decided to continue working in his last two years. She's gonna need a new wig.
ReplyDeleteshe didn't want to "just go with the flow" in her last 2 years as Gov.
DeleteI think that explanation is not the truth, the whole truth or the real reason either.
#iceberg #sudden meeting #hastily written speech
yeah I hear that infamous email on july 2nd will be read in court...ouch...
DeleteHi Gryphen! Fuckin' right we will hear something asinine and garbled from the retarded half-baked dimwit! Probably that stupid "drill baby drill"shit! Someone should shove one of those drill rods up her ass! Thanks for all your perseverance Gryphen; the paranoid bitch is cowering in fear of being outed! Good!
ReplyDeleteThank you President Obama for preserving GODs work and protecting against MANS work( drilling for oil)
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DeleteThank you, President Obama for preserving that portion of our beautiful State of Alaska! I'm sure Senator Begich helped in this matter too! Thank you, thank you!
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DeleteHopefully now Bristol Bay can live vibrantly. Should make Sarah happy.
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Deletemaybe the crosseyed seditious skank will have up and had an aneurysm and gone tits up permanently and therefore won't be able to spew her useless fecal "opinion"...
ReplyDelete... fingers crossed ...
Her demise cannot come soon enough!
DeleteCan't wait to see Mrs. Mall Bangs on the teevee. If she can pay Fox enough to let her have a minute. Haaaaaaa!
ReplyDeleteWasn't Sarah Palin yelling "Drill baby drill", when Glen Rice was
ReplyDeleteworking her well?
That is a riot, 5:37 PM! I have a visual - Sarah Palin screwing a black guy - which is a fact! And, she's a known racist! Figure that out!
DeleteShe's probably never been serviced in her well, as well, since! Haha!
Just sarah and a black dude toad. She just wanted him for one night and not you toad.
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DeleteIt truly is one of the most scenic places I've ever seen. (And I was so perplexed to learn she named a child after such a beautiful place) So glad POTUS did this, imagine what it'll do to the fridge seller
ReplyDeletes in Wasilla and Arizona! Not to mention the Bay. I hope he does the same for Pebble Mine and the dead lake. In a way, it's his way of saying "Merry Christmas" without having to say a word to the loon.
Anita Winecooler,
Deleteactually the cross-eyed skank named barstool after bristol connecticut , home of espn headquarters , that's when she had an epiphany of being there in conn. when working as a sportscaster fill-in here in anchorage ...
her saying she named barstool after bristol bay came later ... kind'a sort'a the same as her having said she birthed trig out in the valley then later on here in anchorage ...
she's been makin' stuff up and lying for her entire fetid existence ..
Yup, thank you !
DeleteLet her rant all she wants, if the imbecile can't understand than the food supply/fishing industry and the environment are more important that greedy oil companies profits, who cares. Besides President Obama could "walk on water" and she would find something vile to say. Hope she raises her blood pressure so high it causes an aneurism... good riddance.
ReplyDeleteI hope his next course of action is to shut down the Keystone pipeline and just to add salt to poor sarah's wounds, also designates the Artic reserve off limits to drilling.
Too bad he didn't give her a "shout out" as he signed it. Maybe he will send her the pen he used.
ReplyDeleteIt should be delivered to Wasilla by someone from Washington D.C. and immediately shoved up Palin's ass!
DeleteHaha!
DeleteIt could be liquified and force fed to her anally as a "medical procedure."
DeleteI love it. And I expect one of Palin's impotent rants to follow. You know she always has two ready to go - depending on which position President Obama took.
ReplyDeleteHappy Merry Festivus!
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DeleteOh this has to get Our $arah's goat. Imagine that the President of the USA can, with a stroke of that pen, declare that no one can drill in Bristol Bay.
ReplyDelete$ee $arah, that's what happens when you get educated, work hard, don't quit, don't drunken brawl, don't pimp, don't fake pregnancies, win elections, have a title, and live vibrantly in the White House with your family of educated folks, and you are Commander in Chief.
$arah, what's your title these days?
Facebook ghost ranter?
Webcast harpy?
Duck Dynasty shill?
Ted Nugent's vibrantly aging boarish amanuensis?
Mary Glazier's failed Esther?
Muse of Cruz?
Teaparty bus tour hostess, smore maker, and rouser-in-chief?
And as some predicted, they C4pee koolaid drinkers are ranting about Jeb Bush, and swearing up and down, that they will NOT vote for a Rino.
They'll show the rest of us by staying home like faithful Teaparty lunatics and not voting Republican, to make sure that Hillary wins.
Vibrant HOOOHAHs $arah !
AJ BIllings = Hoohah Harrasseurre Extradordinaire!!!!
DeleteYay Obama ! Cripes ! It is our FOOD we are talking about here ...
DeleteYou are much nicer than I'd have been.. Thank you !
DeleteYou forgot -- Failed Brawl Stopper
DeleteWhen is Sarah inviting the Bush Dynasty up to The Dead Lake for her moose chili?
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And cue the Foxtard Whitesplainer Brigade in four, three, two, one....
ReplyDeleteTruly a Theodore Roosevelt for our day and age
ReplyDeleteBully!!!!
Delete( a great President...IMHO)
Just Thank you, Mr. President Obama. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteA great move on the president's part. I just read comments on the Alaska Dispatch article. There are really some dipshits commenting. Several with no understanding that the president didn't infringe on Alaska's rights. He simply said that federal off-shore lease sales were prohibited in Bristol Bay for the next couple of years. Not an Alaska call at all. In fact, Alaska would receive no revenue from federal off-shore leases...go figure.
ReplyDeleteYay Obama !
ReplyDeleteYou know, liberals can hypocritically criticize and say what they want, but they don't change reality. They don't change the fact that Sarah is Trig's loving mother who tucks him into bed, who helps him with school, they don't change family time and outings, past, present and future childhood sports and friends, and life goals.
ReplyDeletePeople can judge and smack talk all they want, but in the end, they're just jealous theyll never be in their victims lives as they think they are.
What the fuck does your retarded gibberish ass-kissing retort have to do with the topic at hand?? Still jealous of the President's achievements $arah? Still pouting that you and your pimp were not anointed to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?? Still pissed that Senator Liebermann cock-blocked you at the WHCD?? Still playing the "victim" card $arah?? The country is moving on without you and your postage-paid minions $arah! Go fuck yourself $arah!!
DeleteSarah will claim that, to the contrary, Bristol's Bay will be drilled aplenty. Drill babies drill.
ReplyDeleteI can only hope that this executive decision by our President will help this area be cleansed of the sour stench of rancid effluent form the various trial drilling(s) and the pollution that ultimately affects not just Alaskans, but potentially all living things on our planet. For too long that area has been a noxious reservoir of bacteria and filth.
DeleteOh, you're talking about a coastal area and ecosystem, not Bristol's Hooha? Never-mind:-)
Does Brissie spend any time at Bristol Bay? Well then I'm sure there's some drilling going on.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mr. President. Shove it up your ass, Sarah, you brain dead magpie.
ReplyDeleteWon't help if Pebble Mine is still going to endanger the bay.
ReplyDeleteWhat is going on with Pebble? Is it dead yet?
Of course, there is also the factory trawling by catch devastation to deal with, but one thing at a time.
At least Obama got one thing right. Now he needs to kill Keystone.
Did anyone notice that someone never mentioned hanukkah on their Facebook page, Jill Hadassah Palin must be disappointed.
ReplyDeleteOh, our President Obama is doing all kind of good things of late. Making amends with Cuba which even the Cuban- American (Republican) serving in Congress is hollering against - i.e. Rubio! He is saving the fish in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska. Outstanding! I would guess that Senator Begich helped him with the issue!
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be an interesting last two years for President Obama. The Republicans are going to try and block everything he does - but, what else is new? He's accomplished so much without their help, work or approval which I'm sure will continue.
President Obama's approval ratings are going up too which is really going to piss off the Republicans!
President Obama Outplayed Republicans Again
ReplyDelete...Once again, President Obama has out-maneuvered Republican plans to further wreak havoc on the nation, and although a clean funding bill would have been ideal, it was never going to happen because Republicans. Boehner once again miscalculated the President’s ability to see through a dirty devious plan to hold the country hostage every 60 days with government funding crises that were certain to last throughout the rest of the President’s term. With no shutdown threats to extract concessions the people would regret in the short and long term, the President not only saved the people a world of misery, he outplayed Republicans and eliminated their ability to use the budget process to enact the Koch brothers’ agenda.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/17/president-obama-outplayed-republicans-stop-complaining.html
...In any case, the man certainly looks like he's been set free. He doesn't have to worry about getting reelected or about losing Congress (done both), so he can go back to see what fell off the to-do list and do things that he's always wanted to, whether they were politically risky or not. This might be an interesting two years after all.
http://www.prospect.org/article/barack-obama-set-free