Palin has requested stimulus funds for an Alaskan launch facility. Palin going rogue state?

[Peacetrain]

Alaska wants private rocket launchers? Hello are all republicans going bezonkers



April 7, 2009

Palin has requested stimulus funds for an Alaskan launch facility.

(CNN) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s office reacted Monday to North Korea’s missile test with a statement that “reaffirmed Alaska’s commitment to protecting America from rogue nation missile attacks.”

Palin herself criticized proposed Obama administration cuts proposed to missile defense programs. “I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program which has clear potential of impacting Alaska, a sovereign state of the United States, with a potentially nuclear armed warhead,” she said in the statement. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we continue to develop and perfect the global missile defense network. Alaska’s strategic location and the system in place here have proven invaluable in defending the nation….

“Our early opposition to reduced funding for the Missile Defense Agency is proving to be well-founded during this turbulent time. I continue to support the development and implementation of a defensive missile shield based in Alaska. We are strategically placed to defend the critical assets of the United States and our allies in the Pacific Theater.”

The statement also stressed Palin’s request for stimulus funds for a commercial rocket launch facility owned and operated by a public corporation of the state of Alaska.

[FSogol]

1. She can see N. Korea from her porch! n/t

[firedupdem]

2. She just can't be quiet can she? n/t

[Peacetrain]

10. We are going to have to go into Salt talks with Alaska???

You cannot make this stuff up..

[hobbit709]

3. OK with me, as long as she goes on the first launch.

Putting her in a polar orbit would let her body catch up to where her mind resides.

[babylonsister]

4. Oh, my. Is this her attempt to change the subject again? How silly. nt

[Peacetrain]

11. I think I must still be asleep.. No one could be this stupid.. Could they?

[babylonsister]

13. I'm just hoping no one is stupid enough to actually allow rocket

launchers anywhere near this whack job.

[Clio the Leo]

5. Perhaps she can also house Newt's laser ... thingy. NT

[bluescribbler]

6. Candidate for Top 10?

Earl G, are you listening?

[nomaco-10]

7. I can't decide who's crazier...

Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman. I thought nobody could top Jean Schmidt til these two came along.

[Peacetrain]

12. She refuses stimulus money for the state, but wants it for a rocket launcher.. and Bachmann

sees re-education camps on the horizon.. Six of one, half a dozen of another on who is the craziest

[tanyev]

8. She wants to be ready next time Putin rears his head.

[Botany]

9. She is stupid on a stick

“reaffirmed Alaska’s commitment to protecting America from rogue nation missile attacks.”

We kinda already have military bases in Alaska and thank God Palin has no control over them.

[Brewman_Jax]

14. What happened to the repub's bootstraps?

or is it, like most repubs, money for social issues is unacceptable, but money for friends, big corporations, and bogus projects, like The Gravina Island Bridge, bka The Bridge to Nowhere, is just fine. :eyes:

I thought that she could see N. Korea from her back yard. :silly:

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. This idiot didn't know there was launching going on in her kid's bedroom.

Go away Sarah. Just go away.

[babylonsister]

16. Someone should tell silly sarah there's already a missile defense

system in Alaska:

A Missile Defense System Is Taking Shape in Alaska

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/10greely.html?fta=y

Eleven interceptor missiles are installed in underground silos here, buried beneath the snow and a former forest of black spruce. This summer, when North Korea signaled that it planned to fire an intercontinental ballistic missile, Fort Greely, which has never fired a test missile, was put on alert status, ostensibly ready to respond if necessary.

[acmavm]

17. She couldn't keep a 17-year old boy out of her daughter's bedroom,

how the hell is she gonna keep us safe from North Korea?