In honor of America and everything she has stood for up until the Current Occupiers took office, I think everyone should take a moment today to face towards Washington, DC and extend their middle finger. Now THAT’S American!
Drowning in phone books
I came home one day last week and found yet another plastic bag on my porch filled with the latest overload of telephone books. I took the package, put it in my car and off loaded it at the phone book recycling bins the first chance I got. As I did so, I wondered once again how companies could be so environmentally insensitive as to continue this practice despite the cries from consumers to stop it.
Let’s look at some basic facts. One, I only have so much room on my desk. I am not about to fill it with
What’s that bright yellow thing in the sky?
Why is must be that sun that everyone talks about. We haven’t seen it in Anchorage for so long that when it first appeared it scared me. I figured it was a giant spy satellite set up by DickieC to make sure I adhered to his definition of America.
Old person’s teeth?
So I’m bringing my trash cans out a few days ago when one of the little urchins from a house nearby peddles his trike over, looks at me intently and then asks if I have any teeth. So I open my mouth, point in and allow as how I do. To which he replies something about old people not having teeth. To which I respond that not only do I have teeth, but they are all mine (he’s too young to understand implants!). I then smile at him and give him a full view of my pearly yellowish whites. At
What did she think she saw
So we’re on our daily walk when Blondie suddenly goes into full alert status, staring straight ahead, straining to keep something in sight. Only she’s the only one who seems to see it. She continues on full alert as we approach the spot where the invisible seems to be. We get to the spot. She stands there a moment. Looks around. Then casually wanders off. And I have to wonder what she saw…what she thought she saw…whether she has finally lost her grip on that small portion of her mind that wasn’t addled already.
Air Show
I saw the annual Arctic Thunder air show yesterday here in Anchorage. Am I the only one who left there feeling VERY, VERY horny? And why is that?
Let me see if I have this right?
Conservative Republicans scream the loudest about any preferential programs based on racial or gender discrimination. Yet they have no problem with political discrimination being used to get people who mirror their political beliefs jobs in the Justice Department, especially when those people are not as qualified as liberal candidates. So it’s ok to exercise political discriminate against the best and the brightest if that’s what it takes to get your somewhat dumb people jobs at the Justice Department but it’s not ok to use race or gender for the same purpose. I’m just asking because I want to make sure
Why is it?
Why is it that my dogs will be sick all night if I accidentally drop a piece of cooked chicken skin on the floor and they eat it before I can pick it up but they can drink filthy water out of pools along the side of the road when we walk and be perfectly fine? What am I missing here?
The old Alaska Native Medical Center
I spent my first night in Alaska at the old Alaska Native Medical Center. I was so homesick I cried for most of it. I was so scared that every time I heard a sound in the bathroom I shared with another room, I leaped up to make sure the door was locked. The homesickness I came by honestly. But the fear came as a direct result of a comment made by the woman at the desk when I checked in.
As I stood there in the hospital lobby surrounded by Alaska Native faces that, at that point in my
When you wake up in the morning…
When you wake up in the morning and look out the window and this is what you see in your back yard, you remember all over again why you live in Alaska.
Photo courtesy of the mama moose and babes in the Landis backyard.