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?
Sunday morning on the radio again
I’ll be back with Brian Copeland tomorrow on his radio show out of San Francisco discussing the latest turn of events up here in Alaska in the Troopergate scandal.
If you want to listen in, I’ll be with Brian at a little after 9 AM San Francisco time. You can figure out on your own when that is in your time zone…except for my family who, after my being in Alaska 36 years, still have trouble with whether it is earlier or later on the East Coast versus Alaska. So let me help them. If you are my family and
Only if it comes from the bird cages
If I put carrots or apples or snow peas in my dogs’ dishes for their meal, they would turn their nose up at it and probably turn me in to the ASPCA. But let that same food fall from the bird cages and they stand eagerly under the cages waiting for it to drop like manna from heaven. I’ll never understand.
My respect for her continues to diminish
I wish Sarah would find her backbone and say no to the hate campaign they’ve decided she should carry for McCain. We never saw her like this up here and it makes me wonder, when she loses, who will be coming back to run our state? Is the Sarah we elected anywhere still around?
Feeding the hungry
Let’s put politics aside this week and talk about some realities we will be facing this winter in Anchorage. A public service announcement used to air that pointed out that no one dreamed of growing up to be an addict, or homeless, or alcoholic. No one dreams of that, but a short jog down some of Anchorage’s meaner streets shows that it happens more often than we imagine.
Because there are organizations dedicated to helping these people, most of us spend our days without giving them a second thought. They are someone else’s problem; except they aren’t. They are our
Thursday morning
OK, I’m now booked to be on the radio in San Francisco on Thursday morning – that’s today or tomorrow depending on when you read this – at 10:06 San Francisco time. You can listen in, if you are so disposed, at http://www.kgoam810.com/listenlive.asp.
The topic is still Sarah.
My day in a fog
Today I go to the dentist and get a wisdom tooth removed. Yes, I’m extremely old and still have a wisdom tooth left in my mouth. I think it was left in my mouth in the hope that it would leech some intelligence into my brain. Since that didn’t work, they’re pulling it. And I get kickapoo joy juice to help me through it as well as pain medication after. So I will spend today in a smiling fog. Tomorrow I may not be so happy.
There was a time
There was a time when my friend Sandra and I would have stayed up all night celebrating the anniversary of my arrival in Barrow. Now we’re lucky if we can stay awake after dinner long enough to get a celebratory phone call in. Getting older is certainly one of the most interesting passages of my life to date.
I want me some of that
So the government gives Wall Street and various senate and house pork projects over $800 billion. Now California may want up to $7 billion. I’d like to know where the line is forming for these requests because I could sure use a billion or so to tide me over the next few years.