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A better Constitution, again.
In 1998, the State of Alaska made a horrible mistake. We adapted into our State Constitution an amendment that restricted the rights of others. Nothing else in the document singles out a group of people for inferior treatment, everything else makes it quite clear that Alaskans should be treated as equals.
Today, the courts have stuck down that ( Read more... ) -
Words
So, we’re going to war again. Congress is full of people who claim concern over which countries will have “boots on the ground.” It’s an interesting linguistic trick. I suppose it’s safer to talk about the equipment we send to war than it is the people.
The Goat Rope points out that human civilizations are evolving towards less war, not more. ( Read more... ) -
A new season
Nature generally acts on its own schedule. Season follows season, each in its own time. That’s why it is so completely starteling when the timing so closely follows what “should” happen. Yesterday was Labor Day, the traditional “end” to summer. This morning, there were fallen leaves on the ground.
Alaskan summers are short, and we tend to start ( Read more... ) -
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If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but I have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but I have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body to be abused ( Read more... ) -
Renual?
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Volcanos
For those of you who are not Alaskans, you will probably see in the news that a volcano "near" Anchorage erupted. By near, they mean 106 miles Southwest, on the other side of Cook Inlet from most of the habitation. Knik is about 50 miles away. The volcano poses secondary risk to people in Anchorage with respitory problems, and may make morning ( Read more... ) -
Obama to Palin: 'Don't Mock the Constitution'
By Peter SlevinFARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- Sen. Barack Obama delivered an impassioned defense of the Constitution and the rights of terrorism suspects tonight, striking back at one of the biggest applause lines in Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech to the GOP convention ( Read more... ) -
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Over the firewall, through the router, nothing but net.