Comments on: What We Have Here…is a Failure to Communicate.

By: Nan

Nan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:13:23 +0000

Why doesn’t he just say “emasculation” and be done with it? Sheesh

By: bonefish

bonefish — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:50:29 +0000

Just reread, for the fourth time, Murrow’s thoughts about the percieved “feminization” of the church and, IMO, whatever he is, he is no historian.

By: Blooper

Blooper — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:46:10 +0000

PS, let us hope that their visions of a Wasilliran and Tehranchorage do not come to pass.

By: InJuneau

InJuneau — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:42:56 +0000

sandra in oregon–some positions can be filled by Outsiders, esp. if it’s an appointed position (that one is). I think he’d have to move here to actually DO the job though, now that he’s got it. This is as opposed to Slope workers who actually often live Outside and get flown in every 2 weeks to do their “2 on” on the Slope.

By: Blooper

Blooper — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:41:32 +0000

There she goes again, courting the insecure ‘macho’ male who obviously is lacking for something in his life, and who definitely does not have her (or her sex’s) best interests in mind.

I keep telling myself it can’t get any worse, and I keep proving myself oh so wrong.

Sigh. Thank you AKM for helping exposing this charade for what it is.

By: sandra in oregon

sandra in oregon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:26:22 +0000

Just wondering if Alaska state employees have to be residents of the state. It sounds as if Murrow has a summer home there so he can say he is “living” in Alaska.

By: InJuneau

InJuneau — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:11:16 +0000

honestyinGov–(sorry to just be getting back to you on this; I wasn’t on here last night)

The only things I can find about Murrow in the ADN are from The Ear!

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/822070.html (June 6, 2009) and

http://www.adn.com/politics/story/830276.html (June 13, 2009)

By: Bear Woman

Bear Woman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:03:52 +0000

I think from the information on Murrow that we now know where Megamouth Stapletongue’s communique from last week calling GINO “iconic” and the Photoshopped photo a “desecrtaion” came from…..

Might be interesting to know what communications are occuring between Murrow and Stapletongue…..

By: the problem child

the problem child — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:53:30 +0000

I’m with woodshed, but let diversity of belief flourish! Just don’t ever, ever use the power of the state to impose one set of religious values and beliefs, and we’re okay.

By: CG

CG — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:00:42 +0000

#103 – Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights in Alaska were extinguished under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA), the same federal settlement that established the village and regional corporations and provided for the payment of money and the conveyance of land to these corporations.

To add to that – it boils down to a difference between state and federal management. My understanding and oversimplified, Federal management allows for some aboriginal sovereign usage “rights” under a ‘rural preference’, while state management does not. The state considers it discriminatory to give preference of any kind to one state citizen over another.
We have some kind of bizarre hybrid, which doesn’t satisfy any interests. Non-Natives and urban folk feel discriminated against and that someone gets something that they don’t. Natives do without priority and dependent on the same harvest regulations as everyone else, regardless of need.
Sea mammals (whale, walrus, seals) are protected federal species with special harvest under federal management, so therefore can be regulated by a definition of ‘traditional use’.
Bottom line – Alaska has no “Indian Country” so therefore no aboriginal rights.