Now that the economy has tanked, is it possible we will stop getting e-mails from Nigeria telling us they have money in the bank just waiting for us to get it if we only send them….well, you know the game. Now that no one has any money, will this look more attractive to some people? Or will people figure no one has that kind of money left and just send the e-mail to their spam box? And seriously, who the hell still believes those e-mails?
Moose and Alaskans
I was on my usual walk with my dogs when the car pulled up, the lady lowered her window, and shouted out that there was a moose eating shrubbery on the corner I was approaching and she didn’t think I could see it from my angle until I was almost on it. I thanked her kindly and crossed to the other side of the street so as not to pass too close to the moose. She turned her car around and proceeded down the street in the same direction as I was going. She stopped at the corner. I thought
Arab or good family man
Someone at a campaign stop asked John McCain if it was true that Barack Obama was an Arab. He responded, “No. He’s a good family man.” Huh? So you can’t be both an Arab and a good family man? Someone put McCain in a retirement home, please. He’s obviously losing whatever brain functioning he once may have had.
I could not be sorrier
Upon hearing word that Sarah Palin has whipped crowds into frenzies that leave them screaming Terrorist and Kill Him about Barack Obama, I can only say how truly sorry I am that someone like that is representing my state in any fashion. Isn’t that what Hitler did to justify murdering Jews? Is this really what Palin wants to do to move her national political career forward? There is a lot of discontent among Alaska’s First People because they feel this governor has ignored them and is no friend of theirs or their concerns. When she acts like this, she merely
Well, this is reassuring
The number of e-mails I’m getting from all over the country about my column this week concerning the three ring circus we call Alaska politics is scaring me. People are all reassuring me that they have politicians every bit as crazed and idiotic where they live. Well, that’s comforting for the future of our democracy.
A little less attention please
There are a lot of Alaskans thrilled at the national press we’ve gotten since our governor became McCain’s running mate. But I’m starting to long for the day when most Americans wondered if they needed a passport to get here and weren’t quite sure what continent we were on but thought it was somewhere in the Pacific close to California.
I actually found myself on a San Francisco talk radio show explaining that while we did have an aerial wolf hunt program in place, in actual fact Sarah Palin wasn’t the one who went up in the plane to shoot
Snow
No matter how weird the world of politics gets…and it gets pretty weird this close to an election…when snow falls and covers our world in white, everything seems so clean and peaceful…even the moose in my yard munching on some branches while snow softly builds on his back. Alaska – why you anyone ever want to live anywhere else?
Why?
If the majority of people in most countries claim they really don’t hate the majority of people in most other countries, why do we all keep electing people who do?
It’s like Alice Through the Looking Glass
The legislative inquiry report on Troopergate’s first finding is that Sarah Palin broke the law. She gives a brief press conference via phone to the media and says she is glad to be fully exonerated by the report. And I have to wonder, can she read? Understand words of more than one syllable? Take acid before campaign events?
Seeing Russia from Alaska
When Sarah says that she has foreign policy experience because we can see Russia from Alaska….well, wouldn’t that make everyone who lives in Brownsville, Texas qualified to be secretary of state because they can see Mexico from there?