Comments by Dirk
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Posted on September 2 at 10:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It isn't so much the gas stations, as much as it's the refineries, from what I understand.
I'm going to make a commitment to fill my truck up no more than once every two weeks, and I'm putting a rebuilt engine into a 4-wheel-drive stationwagon that almost doubles my trucks fuel-economy ratings.
I'd LOVE (especially now) to see this community scale back their fuel consumption to the point that these souless vampires BEG us to buy their low-efficiency fuels.
I have dreams of seeing the boards of Petro-Star and Flint Hills in a soup kitchen's bread line, asking for free soup, and digging long and hard to find a piece of meat in it. Ahhhh.. Almost like Christmas..
Posted on September 2 at 10:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Tommy Anderson, pre-conviction, stated it best when he said, "They're trying to criminalize being a legislator.."
In other words, buying influence in this State's political theater has gone on so long that some assume that it's simply the way that business in Juneau and D.C. is done.
So far, it looks as though Tommy was right. it HAS BEEN the way that business in D.C. and Juneau was done.
Worried about those tapes, Ted? Wishing that you hadn't supported all of Bush's USA PA wire-tapping laws so steadfastly??
Don't worry Ted. When you're doing 10-20 in a federal country club, complaining of hifgh-starch foods and tennis elbow, and knowing that you're likely to be buried in the prison plot, folks like Frank and others will be sure to write to you on a regular basis... even if just as token thanks for all of those Davis-Bacon wages you helped to bring home to Alaska as ear-marks, aimed at buying off -our- consciences too.
G'night Ted. BTW, how do -you- spell 'karma'?
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Posted on August 29 at 1:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Yep. Once we sack the old system of wigs and tories, or r's and d's, then perhaps we'll be just one step closer to actually viewing concerns for what they are, rather than seeing them as strategic opportunities for political parties to grasp at more and more control, playing into the mob rule phenomenon that has become our political system.
Send the lock-step partisans home for good this election. Government requires independent THINKING persons, not automatons.
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Posted on August 29 at 1:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Were the kittens Republican or Democrat? 'Librul' or conservative?? In favor of one-payer national health care, or against? Pro second amendment? Supportive of legalizing cannabis?? All of this must be answered before I can eat there...
...Unless, of course, the restaurant serves up an awesome spicy squid with bell peppers, carrot, and sweet onions, in a medium brown chili and garlic sauce, in which case I can get past what ever political leanings the kitties possess... just so long as they're not neo-con kitties..
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Posted on August 26 at 2:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The last that I looked (and a good friend has trapped wolves for many years, as a fairly successful trapper in this State), the nicer large and extra large wolf pelts are getting from $325.00 to $500.00. That's not chump change, especially for those who are good at it; they bring in more than a few.
Does anyone remember the 'unofficial study' (mostly anecdotal evidence) that was conducted in the Kenai Moose Refuge back in about 1974??
I studied arctic biology with Professor Doug Schammel (spelling?), now deceased, at UAF nearly 30 years ago. we discussed that bit of information back then. It seems that once an aggressive population control effort is unleashed, such as the aerial shooting of wolves, that if the program is eased back, the area incurs notably more wolves than it started with, if for no other reason than pack behavior in relationship to greater food supplies, opening up turf, etc. In other words, the proposed effort that's been underway in this State for the last several years is a blkack hole of effort toward wolf population control.
Don't take my word; ask those who are familiar with that bit of research.
It seems to me that some of the folks here with seriously strong opinions might wanna' study up a bit on the topic that they're so strongly opining about.. It otherwise appears more aptly like opportunists, rather than would-be wildlife managers.
Posted on August 25 at 6:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There had been an effort to boycott Sourdough; both the bulk plant and the stations, as well as the home heating oil deliveries. They wre some of the highest on home heating oil for quite a while, while Fairbanks Fuel was the lowest, or one of them.
I suspect that if several thousand persons were to surround the refineries in the area, refusing to let traffic come or go, that it wouldn't be long before proper attention would be focused on the issues at hand, and some sort of 'understanding' were underway.
But that would take some serious stamina and dedication... attributes that appear to be more scarce in the new corporatist America... where we ask the corporations if they'd like fries with what ever they choose to take from us..
Posted on August 25 at 12:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
$4.33/gallon at Gold Hill (with a better beer sellection than most places, too...)
Mr. Cook? Are you out there?? You know that fossil fuels amount to a 'life need' at this time, based on the way that we, as a society, have placed all of our proverbial eggs in one basket, more or less, where fuel is concerned.
Mr. Cook, may your and your corporation's greed bite you hard, when you meet your karma head-on.. And may I be coincidentally present, eating popcorn when it happens, offering you what ever assistance is needed, at what ever price the market will bear, of course.. ;^>)
Posted on August 24 at 11:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, my Ouija Board says that it'll be balmy and 56 degrees above zero, fahrenheit, for the bulk of the winter, with the exception of two days in January.
It also told me that all of those folks who built basements in the flood plain shouldn't be permitted to borrow any more money (especially those with forestry, geology, hydrology, & physics backgrounds), and that we'll be flooding again next year...
Oh yeah, it also said that I'll get another moose this year too..
Posted on August 24 at 10:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
At our home, we eat moose, cartibou, the salmon we net, the halibut we jig for, locally-raised domestic meat, and a small amount of chicken and pork from the store. (mostly because we haven't yet cleared the area where our pig pen and duck & turkey pens will be built, so, for those two items, we still rely on the marketeers.)
I've watched as the relatively unbridled 'antlerless hunt' in Unit 20A has decimated the moose population out there; not the population further back in, off the main corridor of the Rex Trail, but the corridor itself. I've watched the politics about 'game management' in that area. Like the wolves, people are opportunits, in that they tend to more often take the easiest target. I'm guilty of that as well. I'm a meat hunter, not a trophy hunter. If it eats better than it looks, I'm happy.
I know persons who trap for fur, not to eradicate the wolves. I suspect that they're wise enough to know that if they trap all of the wolves, rather than respecting their balance of population, that they'll lose a valuable resource. Yes, wolves are a resource too.
I don't kill wolves for the sake of killing wolves; never have and never will. They were a part of the eco-system for many years. When the game fell short of their pack's needs, they went hungry or moved (apparently they're more adept than some of us in some hard-wired sorts of ways).
My family has been fortunate over the years, and we've rarely gone without wild meat. When the time comes that we can't acquire wild game, then we'll have to save a bit more, and eat a bit more of that naturally grown (not hormone-infused) meat source until the populations come back up.
I've seen populations laid to waste by 'subsistence hunters' and I've seen carnage from wolf kills; do I find one more distasteful than another? It'd be a longer writing than this to share that personal distinguishment, but each has their own shock value.
Suffice it to say that I sometimes see both wolves in sheep's clothing, and opportunists in game managers' garb. At times there appears to be little difference.
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Posted on September 4 at 6:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Same as always; Washington, D.C., the military, BP, Exxon, Connoco-Phillips, and VECO.. Why??
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