Mt. Redoubt Responds to the GOP in an Explosive Interview.
23 03 2009
In a surprise announcement today, Mt. Redoubt volcano in southcentral Alaska finally delivered an official response, to the Republicans’ official reponse, to President Obama’s speech to the nation last month.
Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (R) represented his party when he decried the Democrats for indulging in wasteful spending, like the proposed $140 million for what the governor described as “something called volcano monitoring.”
“Yeah, what about ’something called hurricane monitoring, Mr. Louisiana?’” Redoubt fumed. “It’s always fine to cut someone else’s funding, as long as it’s a good sound bite…” it continued. “I mean the next thing you know these people are going to be rejecting stimulus money so they can sound like ‘fiscal conservatives’…Give me a break.” Redoubt’s five explosions since last night have thrown ash more than 50,000 feet in the air, disrupting commercial airline traffic and threatening a Chevron tank farm sitting at the base of the volcano on the Drift River.
Asked why it took the volcano almost a month to respond, Redoubt explained, “I’ve been holding it all in, and that’s no good. I finally just had to let it out, you know? I mean what…does this guy live in a cave? As far as I’m concerned, he can come up here and kiss my glowing red ash,” the volcano quipped. “Oh, that’s right…he’ll have to wait until I’m finished responding so he can catch a flight. How do you like THAT, Jindal?”
Redoubt’s fiery rhetoric was not completely unexpected. Alaska residents were stunned by the GOP response to the president’s speech at the time. “We’ve actually been waiting for this,” an unnamed Democratic official in Alaska told Mudflats today. “We all knew it was coming. I’ve been carrying around a mask in my car for weeks now.”
Many Alaska residents were stunned, however, by the explosive force of these comments from a volcano that has kept to itself and been fairly reticent about talking to the press for almost 20 years. “I guess I just didn’t have anything to say until now,” explained Redoubt, “but this guy is just a putz.”
Just in case Redoubt has anything else to say, you can check in at
The Redoubt Webcam
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Just dropping by and catching up. Jackie Gardina’s post was very moving, and I was so glad to read it. As a person who has held many military people from my family in my heart, this meant a great deal to me. They might not have been progressive at the time but I believe that they were people of understanding. (Col. in Army, Airforce, Capt. in Army, purple hearts, Bronze star.) Great post.
Sizzle and snizzle and fo’ shizzle, AKM. You are a delight to read. Hope any sparks are no more than enlighening thoughts.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 PM
UK LadyNo Gravatar (14:50:15) :
OK, I got it. The full, original review of her speech is at:
http://www.redstate.com/aksteveb/2009/03/21/my-impression-of-the-alaska-republican-party-lincoln-day-dinner/
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Foregot to add that I got to know a representative out of my district, Frank LoBionco, who is very liberal, Thanks, AKM.
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Of my state (NJ,) and ‘forgot’.
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:07 PM
NEW POST!
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:16 PM
This is hilarious! Made me laugh out loud.
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Those of us who live anywhere near any volcano were astounded at the stupidity of Jindal’s remarks. And we all knew that, once a volcano is puffing away, it wasn’t going to be too long before his stupidity came back to bite him where it counts.
Hope you are all OK with all the ash – sounds like air travel is still on hold, but better safe than sorry. Airplane engines don’t like things like volcanic ash flying into them.
Take care, and thanks for the interesting links about Redoubt.
March 23rd, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Jindal must be sacrificed to Fire God Redoubt. Throw him in! Fire God Redoubt very angry!!!!
March 24th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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March 24th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
I showed this to Madam Pele and she exploded with laughter.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:07 AM
I just went to the Guv’s official site to verify that she actually posted that asinine reply. Indeed she did. It just looks really especially asinine on an official site, from an official. Oh, and bogus, too. As someone else mentioned, she doesn’t address the merits of the complaint, just blathers on showing how unprofessional she is.
A coworker has invented a word which we use quite often and is often really the only word that will do:
“BOGOSITY”
As in, that press release is total bogosity. GINO’s job performance shows what total bogosity it is that she was ever conferred a college degree. Claiming that Bristol Palin agreed to an interview with GVS all on her own and that GINO did not know about it until the day before is complete bogosity. Your water breaks in Texas and your labor “settles down” long enough to get you through two flights and an hour long car ride, to the hospital of your choice…..also such bogosity!
It’s actually quite a useful word.