America deserves Sarah Palin.
The article was not what I expected. You are correct, it is a good article.
I feel really bad for anyone who has not lived in Alaska for at least a year. They haven’t lived.
yes......I needed to read that tonight......today’s has been a bad day for me emotionally.....this elections is driving me nuts....
This is priceless. Thanks for posting.
Wait. A friend in California worried about “freaks” in Alyeska ??? HA ha ha !
Do not read the comments, they find the article lacks enough Black Liberation Theology.
I am sick of Obamabots repeating the same bs.
Questions about her religion and total blind acceptance of a racist like Obama.
I like the line, “we all don’t have to agree about everything, but we do have to survive the winter.”
That is the way it is in Montana as well. We have to survive the winter.
Right now, we are experiencing an economic ‘winter’, and I want a leader who will work with everybody to accomplish that goal: survival!
I can not believe that people would take one issue: abortion, and ignore everything else Sarah stands for. Haw narrow minded is that? It is almost as if they are proving the sexist bias that women can not think through an issue but instead face things in an emotional manner! The women on the left, in large numbers are a walking advertisement for the arguments of sexist men!
Listen, when Roe V Wade was passed, first of all “Roe” says it was based on a lie....and we were so far behind scientifically. We didn’t even have ultrasound. Women didn’t know what they were doing! Now, with science moving ahead, I believe that it is prudent to re-examine an outdated principal.
It was a sparse but complete and happy life. And I'm very happy I had the chance to experience it.
Alaska is still like that in many ways. We have quite a few lesbians in Valdez, but nobody makes a big deal about them. We have a wide variety of different religions, and most of the time they get along just fine. Of course, there was the one incident where the female pastor’s (Lutheran) husband got involved with one of the local married women in the church, but...
I do remember one interesting incident back in the 90’s in terms of tolerance of ideas, however. We had one guy show up for some work in the summer who blatantly put a sign in his car window saying “Won’t work with niggers.”
Now there aren’t a lot of african-americans in Valdez, but those who do live here are valued members of the community. About 3 days after this sign went up, while the guy was sleeping in his car, someone shot up the car with about 30 rounds from a 22 rifle. The guy wasn’t hurt, but he got the message and left town the next day. A few months later he was shot and killed by a female security guard on the state ferry system because he was clawing for a gun out of his backpack for some reason.
But, Valdez is a lot bigger than Chickaloon. That place is barely a wide spot in the road. I doubt if there are more than 3-400 people in a thousand square miles around there.
Thanks for posting this. The writer loses a wee touch of credibility when he mentions four stroke snowmachines. (Four strokes are only recently around and he mentions them as if from a while back.) No matter, I’ll give him a pass... at least he got snowmachine correct.
I’m afraid that much, not all, but much of what the writer refers to no longer applies in the urban areas here. I’ve only been here 12 years, but I can see a difference.
The stupidity of the public school educated youth in Anchorage is breathtaking. The amount of liberal crap that one has to tolerate about town is a real pisser. Our open border has allowed CA, OR, WA and CO scum to flow in unabated.
Ted Stevens has allowed the notion that a government job, or a pork barrel job, is a good job to grow in the mindset here. It’s amazing how many people think they have good jobs, when all they are doing is pushing paper around for the attenuators and regulators and takers. Trying to tell someone they are earning 65k a year in a job that is actually a net economic negative and doesnt help the world is a real challenge. I get really angry about this. The feds and the state simply have too many people up here.
Still, I think the ratio of dumbass to decent fellow is pretty low in Anchorage and much better in real Alaska. Anchorage is not Alaska, but you can get there from here. Cliché yes, but based in truth.
In Anchorage the homeschooling community thrives. Most people get the notion that guns dont kill people, people do. The smiles from strangers are real and more frequent than in other cities this size. There are pockets of ghetto that are approaching ugly, but I know of no true no go zones like in so many cities. The Ill help you because some day you may help me attitude still lives. I live in Anchorage by choice and one of the many reasons is there are more Americans per capita here than any place I have been. The saying used to be, Alaska is what America was. Today it is, IMO, more accurate to say, Alaska is closer to what America was.