Archive for February, 2010
Frank Schaeffer on the Shannyn Moore Show Today
Today on 1080am KUDO, Shannyn Moore will be talking to special guest Frank Schaeffer. He was profiled extensively in Max Blumenthal’s book Republican Gomorrah, and is the author of Crazy for God. Schaeffer is a fascinating character, the son of Francis Scheaffer, an American Christian theologian who is widely considered to have been responsible [...]
Open Thread – Bad Plan
Note to self: If I ever steal a snowmachine and try to evade police in my truck with a tub of methamphetamines, do not…. I repeat, do NOT bury myself in snow up to my neck to hide. [click]
Thanks a LOT, Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin has called for President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel to be fired. My first thought was, “How can this be? Why do I actually agree with Sarah Palin?” And then I looked out the window to make sure there wasn’t some sort of giant asteroid hurtling toward Earth, or a plague of locusts on [...]
Sarah Palin – Tax Cheat? Contents of Mysterious Envelope Revealed. (UPDATED)
It was a few weeks ago, and it was a day like most days. I was having my first cup of coffee, settling in at my desk, and my eye landed on a stack of mail. On top of the stack was an envelope, and on the envelope was my name, hand written. I didn’t see a return [...]
Open Thread
And the sun slowly returns. We may be getting three more months of winter, but wer’e not going to have three more months of dark!
Starr and Sullivan Throw Anchorage Under the Bus
Well, it’s Tuesday Night at the Fights – aka Anchorage Assembly night. There’s a lot going on tonight in the Assembly chambers, but one subject has particular interest to me. In the ongoing accusations by Mayor Dan Sullivan and Assemblyman Bill Starr which have started to enter “witch hunt” territory, in trying to oust Mark Begich from [...]
Voices from the Flats – Spill Baby, Spill
Richard Fineberg has reported on Alaska petroleum development for more than three decades for newspapers, public agencies, environmental and other public interest groups and even occasional developers. He has served three governors – the first as a budget and policy analyst, the second as a senior advisor on oil and gas and the third [...]
Open Thread – Happy Marmot Day!
Yes, you heard me. It’s Marmot Day! Those of you in the other 49 states may know it as “Groundhog Day” but we up north have no such creatures, so we have gone Alaskan and named the day after the regionally appropriate rodent. This is the fourth Marmot Day after the bill, proposed by Sen. [...]
The Many Faces of Palin’s Facebook
Remember how I and my fellow bloggers Shannyn Moore and Linda Kellen-Biegel are taking money from George Soros on behalf of Barack Obama that’s funneled through secret off-shore accounts? Yeah, we’re on the payroll because Obama was terrified and couldn’t handle the brilliance and political acumen of Sarah Palin. They just know, if given a [...]
Open Thread – Sanders on Bernanke
This is the most fascinatingly split Senate vote I’ve seen in a long time. Vote Counts: YEAs 70 NAYs 30 Grouped By Vote Position YEAs —70 Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bennet (D-CO) Bennett (R-UT) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Brown (D-OH) Burr (R-NC) Burris (D-IL) Byrd (D-WV) Cardin (D-MD) Carper [...]









