Misinformation about Alaska abounds

I admit my irrelevant ramble. So long as a mil-spec infrastructure is in place, maintained and reasonably available to the citizens, I advocate spending one's own money and entertaining ladies.

I love women. Young (co-ed) women should be as well treated as any prospective mate, even if avuncularly; why not sponsor ladies/families visiting from Siberia to play in Alaska? Alaska like most places, could benefit from an influx of well educated, smart, pretty blond slavs.

I favor a woman who can tune small engines as well as small block Chevies in jet boats. I cook. If the only washing machine is gas powered, why not pull the crank after measuring the detergent? I like women who look like women whether in plaid, a business suit, in silk&lace or even an unencumbered Brazilian wax, are well read, intellectually curious, technically skilled, reasonably well traveled or want to be, and I think a Russian accent is charming - especially over smoked salmon and salad, vodka and VSOP cognac.

Russian women as a rule have been treated far more harshly than their American sisters; the ones I have met at university appreciate Southern Gentlemen (I am a Texan) and are not hung up on feminist PC carping. I personally would like a fertile, lusty, French-Italian-Polish-Russian speaker, PhD who likes to slow-mo tour, perhaps on a bike or CJ-eep - say a 4 month visit of Ireland/Scotland/Iceland/Norway. FWIW, a bachelor, I am also weak on Finns and always a fair Celtic lass.

On my first trip into Alaska 19 y.a., of the first four women I met, three were packing .357s. 35s are every bit as good as 38s. {;^)

I'm ready for a 2nd Pipeline. Too much info? Made ya read it! Goodnight from Texas!

That's the kind of thinking that has been keeping Alaska as a 3rd world nation.

You know, Alaska has not had the status of 3rd world until recently. It has had the status of 4th world. When GIS was getting started, I contacted all the digital mapping agencies and companies to get a map of Alaska suitable for GIS. Although they had digital maps for every 3rd world country, they didn't have that for Alaska. Alaska was 4th world. Since then, Alaska has brought itself up by the bootstraps to 3rd world status by creating its own digital map, especially in the Dept of Forestry.

I am familiar with the sordid history of Alaska and the general freeze of its resources from the day resources were discovered. There are Outside interests that don't want Alaska to be developed, of which a couple are posting on this thread. Except oil, of course. That resource is so hot they will develop it wherever it is found.

It was the history of Alaska that pointed out some of the problems with property rights in the US. The state is a mess in that respect, but so is the rest of the country west of the Mississippi, and so it was, as it turns out, in much of the Old West, that is, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, New York. Property rights are not widely understood by either the People, nor by most who work for the Gummint, nor by elected officials. I have talked with and can name some of the few in Gummint who do have a grasp of the idea of property rights, and they are all from Alaska.

It is a big problem that I would not even know about did I not live in Alaska AND I would probably not be so concerned without my interest in space development. Alaska is an oddball place where the people talk with a degree of knowledge about land law--on the street, in the shopping malls, in the bars, at city council meetings.

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