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FAscinating discussion at http://nancylebov.livejournal.com/414049.html

The feminists I admire are the women who play-fight right back at the boys: Hillary and Palin. Both grew up in families doing boy stuff. (There's a good bio online "Growing Up Rodham", literally hardball.)

It saddens me that a lot of women who in`theory put feminism first, seem to dislike H and P. Maybe it's cats disliking dogs?

Foxes meet henhouse

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledged Monday that the federal government doesn’t have the resources or expertise to deal with an oil spill 5,000 feet below the sea, and must largely depend on oil companies to deal with an incident of such magnitude.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/98209-offshore-drilling-agency-refuses-witness-for-senate-oil-spill-hearing

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I don't usually like conspiracy theories, but here's a nasty one. If the Gulf becomes an environmental lost cause, already too damaged for recovery -- then the oil companies have a good argument for Obama and Palin's drill baby drill there.