Scribblings

Surely Alaska can come up with better senators than those we currently have. You know, people who would not be in the pocket of special interests. People who would vote their conscience and not vote based on their overwhelming need to be re-elected so that they can continue to fatten up at the public trough while denying everyday citizens even a small piece of that pie. People who would not let the NRA rule them like they were just little bitches.

Democratic former President Bill Clinton… goes on to found a global initiative to deal with world problems

Democratic former President Jimmy Carter… goes on to work for world peace and build homes for people

Republican former President George HW Bush… retired to his rich compound and played golf

Republican former President George W Bush… paints pictures of himself in his bathtub

Democrat former vice president Al Gore… works on issues of global warming

Republican former vice president Dick Cheney…. continues to scare the crap out of anyone with an ounce of sense or decency.

Hmmm…. 

Why doesn’t Begich just admit he’s a Republican and stop pretending he’s a Dem?  I mean, how much further up the ass of the Republican elephant can he possibly squeeze his head before admitting the obvious?

We read and hear about bombings in the middle East on a daily basis. A wedding shattered by a suicide bomber. A church service. Even a funeral for someone killed by a bomb can get bombed. Given the outpouring of grief we experienced over the Boston bombing, I have to wonder what amount of pent up grief and rage exists in those countries where bombings are a daily fact of life.

I look out at my backyard and see a solid mass of black sunflower seeds that have built up over the winter as I fed the redpolls and robins and with each inch of crap uncovered, I know spring is advancing.

Trying to give a family health history is always a challenge. In my family, the one thing we know for sure is that diabetes and heart disease are our personal choice by gene. Or, at least, we think they are. We know for sure about the diabetes because that’s been diagnosed multiple times. The heart thing is trickier. A lot of my relatives died by keeling over one day or by not waking up one morning. My family saw no reason for them to go to the hospital at that point because… well, they were dead. What use was a

The only difference between our “Democratic” senator Mark Begich and our “Republican” senator Lisa Murkowski is how they spell their party’s name. Both belong to the same party, the party owned by the NRA. Their negative votes on background checks for gun purchasing is simply shameful. If they glanced around, they would find they are living in the pocket of the NRA and that is not where most Americans live nowadays. I hope the next time we vote in this state, we keep this in mind and vote for a candidate with some comprehension of gun violence that is not

The young golden eagle that Bird TLC has held at the flight center since last fall is now ready to be released.

Please join us at Palmer Hay Flats Cottonwood Creek Trailhead this Saturday, April 20th at 12:30 pm to watch him return to his home in the sky.

In case of poor weather, we will reschedule for Sunday.