Filled my tank today. Had 60 cents off per gallon from Safeway thanks to the vast quantities of medication I take each day. Brought the cost of a gallon of gas to $1.97/gallon. Wow. I know this hurts Alaska’s economy buy it felt good!
Is it just me?
Or does John Boehner strike you as the guy you dread your daughter will bring home and introduce as her fiancee?
Senior citizens are a valuable resource
I was a bit taken aback at the vehemence expressed by some commenters on my column last week towards seniors in this state. Who knew some viewed us with such dislike? According to these commenters, cutting senior benefits will cause us to leave the state, thus saving the state enormous amounts of money spent on our pensions and tax exemptions. Before kicking us all to the curb, however, let’s review some of the things seniors provide that would be hard to replace.
As I wrote last week, we should all share the pain of budget reductions. Seniors are not exempt
I think my dog is part cat
BuddhaBubba gets up in the morning long enough to get her pain pill. I turn the heating blanket on under her bed and she goes right back to sleep. About two hours later, after everyone else has gone downstairs to my office to get some work done, I hear her race madly across the floor upstairs. She doesn’t go anywhere. Just apparently jumps up off the bed and runs through the kitchen and living room. If I go upstairs to see what’s happening, I usually find her standing by the counter in the kitchen looking shocked, shocked I say, that
State of the Union
Do you have your beer chilling and your nachos melting? Are you ready for tonight, the annual Superbowl of presidential speeches? I do hope you’re planning to watch. After all, where else would you get to watch a man who deliberately makes himself orange preside over a house full of sound and fury and signifying nothing more really than the failure of today’s education system to produce anything that even resembles a statesman… or woman.
Things you don’t want to hear when you pick your dog up from doggie daycare
“When your dog came in from outside he was all yellow and wet. One of the big dogs peed on him. We gave him a bath.”
You find yourself just wishing that your dog would have been smart enough to move. But he apparently wasn’t. Thank god he’s cute. It’s obviously getting him further than his brains.
The only good thing about this Anchorage winter
At least it’s warm enough for me to leave the door open for the dogs to go in and out of the yard without being assaulted by a squadron of crazed mosquitoes.
Some thoughts on jihad
Hate is easy. Love is hard. Intolerance is easy. Tolerance is hard. Violence is easy. Non-violence in response is so hard as to be almost unbearable. So when Jesus told us to turn the other cheek, he was asking us to do something that most of us resist doing with every fiber of our being. When someone hits us, we want to hit back, and we want to hit back even harder. I guess that’s the part of being a Christian that truly tests just how deep your faith really goes.
In our memories, Dr. Martin Luther King and Gandhi
Kicking the can down the road
So if I understand the situation correctly, Alaska is deep in a financial hole due to the drastic decline in oil prices. We are therefore dependent on the moral strength and integrity of our legislators to do the right thing and balance the state budget no matter the political cost. I’ll pause here for a moment to give you time to laugh hysterically. Call me a pessimist, but I’m going to bet that legislators will find a way to make a few cosmetics cuts and then kick the rest of the pain down the road. After all, this is Alaska.
