Palin Throws Bus Under the Bus In a display of almost poetic metaphorical beauty, Sarah Palin has now thrown the bus…under the bus.  That’s right, she’s now given up (at least in part) the Rogue on Wheels; the bus of the people; the Palin Express, in favor of winging around the country on a $4000/hr. [...]

One of the very few duties of Alaska’s Lt. Governor, other than overseeing the Division of Elections, and sitting around while the governor runs the state from her Blackberry while campaigning for VP,  (Oh, I guess that one doesn’t apply any more)  is to decide whether to certify state ballot initiatives. A ballot initiative that [...]

(Looks at clock) OK, I’ve been waiting for days, and nothing.  Not a peep. We remember, of course, that when Newsweek recently published a cover with a picture that Palin posed for during a Runner’s World photo shoot, in a cheesecakey pose, leaning on the flag which is draped over a bar stool, she cried [...]

That’s right, none other than Carly “Ship Them Jobs Overseas” Fiorina is humbly grovelling for the endorsement of Sarah Palin.  She will be running for the U.S. Senate against the three term Democratic Senator from California, Barbara Boxer.  When asked if she thought Sarah Palin would endorse her bid for Senate or that of her [...]

The official Mudflats aviator “Mudflatter Don” is back!  I love when he does a “fly by” over my inbox and leaves pictures he’s taken on his Alaskan flying adventures.  Here’s a beautiful shot of Skilak (skee-lack) Lake on the Kenai Penninsula, south of Anchorage.  He and his flying companions stopped off last week at the [...]

Hellooo Mudflatters. I ended up taking an inadvertent mental health day today. Had intended on posting, but life happened, and…. there you go. I did want to mention a couple things, though. The month of December is always busy, but there are a few noteworthy events coming up I thought I’d mention. Also, I’ve been [...]

Another classic from the Mudflats Art Department! Flyinureye has outdone himself this time. The longer you look, the more you’ll laugh. And who needs “Where’s Waldo?” when you can have “Where’s Brian?” Bravo!

I have a nephew in Afghanistan. He left a couple weeks ago. He came over to the house and we chatted a little bit the day before he left. He’s a kid, not unlike many kids who aren’t quite sure what to do with their lives, who need direction, and who have decided to pursue [...]

You’re going to be called to test yourselves Mudflatters. Shannyn’s been bumped for … College football. Sigh.

It seems as though every time we turn around, somebody somewhere wants to mess with salmon fisheries in Alaska.  There’s Anglo-American and Northern Dynasty who are trying to put a huge open pit gold mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay, and now the Chuitna Coal project. Resource development is inevitable in the 49th state.  [...]

OK, ready?  Newsweek has the ultimate Sarah Palin quiz, based on three books – Going Rogue, The Persecution of Sarah Palin, and Going Rouge. Click if you dare. No, I did not get a perfect score.  I got a humbling 84%.  In my defense, I did not read The Persecution of Sarah Palin, nor is [...]

Have you voted for your favorite blog(s) of the year? Time is ticking down on 2009, so don’t forget to support the blogs that have brightened your year. There are categories for all types of blogs – hobbies, humor, parenting, food, corporate, marketing, education, sports, travel, and more! Mudflats has been nominated for the Best [...]

Republican lawmakers are whining up a storm about the length of the proposed health care bill. You’ll recall that Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah bloviated that HR3962 was “longer than War & Peace.” Not so. War and Peace has about 560,000 words and the Senate Health Care Bill has a mere 314,900, so there. Granted [...]

Here’s something that will make you all chuckle.  I remember back in the early days of Troopergate when it was first being reported that the governor had it in for a certain State Trooper named Mike Wooten who was formerly married to her sister Molly.  Rumors were beginning to percolate that the newly removed former [...]

Was she inspired by the intrepid runners of Ketchikan Alaska?  They ran the infamous “Road to Nowhere” this summer on the access road that got built anyway, despite the fact that the even more infamous “Bridge to Nowhere never” happened.  “Why waste a perfectly good road in the middle of nothing?” they thought  So they [...]