Hey great! Predator control-It’s still ok to shoot wolves and grizzlies from the air or by "land and shoot" even if there is inadequate data to prove the necessity for it. It’s ok to hand over these animals on a silver platter to please the ever increasing numbers of hunters. It’s still ok to shoot wolf pups in their dens. How sporting. Never mind finding them homes within Alaskan zoos or conservation centers.
Clean water, schlean water. It’s ok with everyone to leave Bristol Bay’s commercial, sport, and subsistence fisheries- and many other Alaskan waters- wide open for the inevitable toxic chemical contamination from mining. So what if the indigenous people who have subsisted off of the salmon in Bristol Bay for 10,000 years loose one of their main food sources? Salmon are disappearing everywhere else but let’s not bother to protect the Bay that produces Alaska’s largest salmon run. Get ‘em while you can folks! Order them up fresh from New Sagaya while they last.
It’s ok to keep our elections nice-n-dirty. Give those big money special interest groups all the power. Let’s not bother holding politicians accountable to their constituents. Let’ em continue to serve the Man. It's ok.
Even with the ongoing, humiliating, widespread investigation by The U.S. Department of Justice of Alaskan lawmakers' official actions in relation to the oil industry, fisheries, and private corrections industry, even though Senator Ted Stevens has been indicted for 7 corruption counts, EVEN with all that disgrace, Alaskans have voted him back in. It’s ok, Man, he gives us tons of pork!
And good ole’, friendly, older than dirt like Uncle Ted, Don Young who spent... billions now? of his campaign money on lawyers and won’t tell us why…
BACK IN the running!
And good on ya! to the 65.5ish % of voters who decided to sit this one out. Something better to do?
~Leaves to flush head down toilet…..
12 comments:
It's hard to understand what people are thinking sometimes. I get pretty mad about some of the things that go on in Washington as well.
WOW...well said!
sometimes i am in awe with our society and the choices they make! it is quite scary!
don't spend too much time at the toilet...you have beautiful hair!
I'm pretty sure they're both going to have to keel over before we can get rid of them. Or go to jail. But I'm not even sure they'd lose their jobs if they were sitting in a cell. No matter how bad they are, incumbents wield a lot of power over voters' minds.
Ugh! I don't blame you for being peed off. Shooting wolf cubs in their dens sent me through the roof!
Sounds like the same old story, leave the native people high and dry. Who cares?
I know the feeling. It is so hard living and voting in the backwards backwoods. We've had our share of wolf shoot this year too although I think it's back in the courts for now.
Yup. the BIG BAD WOLF.
The thing is, Alaskans voted the down the aerial wolf hunting 3 or 4 times in the last few years (the powers on high overrode it) but now, all of a sudden, we're ok with it. Why? Cuz there were some random wolf attacks on dogs being walked in the woods. Rare, but isolated incidents. Hell, we're encroaching on their territory-what do folks expect?
Now everyone is afraid of the BIG BAD WOLF and the pro hunting just RAN with it. This whole election was based on big power and big FEAR.
I'm sorry...
I think you would really like New Zealand, hehe. It's nice down here, and while the politics are a wee bit backwater, it's not terribly corrupt (yet). Feel free to call in any time!
And this morning, even more fuel to the fire, eh?
Denise- oy vey.
I really enjoy your blog and would like to send you updates on other important environmental issues. May I please have your contact information? Thanks!
TWS-please leave an e-mail and I will send you mine.
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