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I know it’s autumn when my house starts looking like a blood bath has occurred every day. Yep. It’s pomegranate season and each day my birds dive head first into the fruit’s red seeds and don’t come up for air until they have shaken all the juice in sheer joy all over my walls and floors. Ah the joys of being a bird mom.

Because Republicans know how to use public money to buy off the electorate. Come to mama, my beautiful PFD check…oh wait, look, you brought your cousin the energy assistance rebate…oh wow.  Wait, energy assistance…ohmygod…they think I’m going to hold on to this money to pay my heating bill this winter.  Silly people. I’ll have spent it on one of the bazillion PFD deals long before that. And then I’ll go back to bitching about my fuel bills and wondering again why the government doesn’t do something about it.

We kill bears when they get angry and attack us because we are standing between them and their food source,usually a salmon stream.  I wonder how we would react if bears stood between us and the snack food aisle at Carr’s? 

JESUS WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.

PONTIUS PILATE WAS A GOVERNOR.

When Sarah Palin ran for governor, if you voted against her and for her opponent, no one accused you of being any less Alaskan. Now that she’s running for national office, the atmosphere up here seems to be that you are either for Sarah because she is Alaskan even if you are vehemently opposed to her politics and positions, or you are simply a bad Alaskan.  Ah politics! Ah democracy! 

It’s hard for me to support a party that claims that morality is only found in small towns and mocks the community service of the other candidate. 

The real difference between HIllary and Sarah is that Hillary bothered to tell Chelsea about birth control. Can you just imagine how nuts the right wing, Christian conservative media and various religious leaders would be if it was Chelsea who came up 17, unmarried and pregnant?  It would all be attributed to her liberal parents and their no values lifestyle. But when one of their own gets caught, not a peep.

Here’s what I don’t understand. Why do people think that if Barack Obama were a Muslim, he’d have to keep it a secret?  Is there a clause in the Constitution that I missed that said that if you’re a Muslim you can’t be president?  Do people think Muslims can’t love America and be loyal citizens?  Can this level of ignorance really be so rampant in 21st Century America? I’d be a lot more worried about a political party that kept in its fold a politician who claims he just has a wide stance in men’s rooms than I would be

Do you sometimes get the feeling that the media has forgotten that it’s John McCain who’s running for president?

Anyone who ever wonders why I spent almost thirty years in Barrow simply doesn’t understand the pull of the tundra and Arctic seas on my soul. I think I must have been some sort of Arctic critter in my previous life.