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Posted on April 15 at 10:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Elder,
Minorities don't abuse women in general.
Then who is abusing Native women in the bush villages, who is writing the lyrics to so many rap songs, who slaps their women if their machismo is insulted? I could go on but you get the picture.
Racism is no more acceptable when it is YOU practicing it.

On Anchorage disc jockeys suspended over slur against Alaska Native women

Posted on March 31 at 7:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)

AKhusky
No compensation? 175 million to the state, 175 million to Native Corporations, 14 million to local government! This from 1 large and 3 smaller mines. How much does the fishing industry compensate the state for the wealth they extract? Or Tourism?

On Pebble Mine

Posted on March 31 at 7:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Dirk
Pneumonia a year ago does not say anything about Zoro's ability to run this year. I don't know why you say the Sweepstakes is much harder than the Iditarod. The first 400 miles of the Iditarod involve running on ice for a long distance, the steps at Happy River, the climb to and through Rainey Pass, Dalzell Gorge, and the run through the burn(very rough and often not much snow on the trail). I would think the trail and no drop rule would benefit the dogs because a competitive racer would not push the team to the point of injuring a dog. Safety is the last check point on the course and there are no facilities(other than the bar), Zoro would have still had to come to Nome by sled or snow machine. Unreliable breeder? How did you come upon this piece of information? Since some 40 dogs in Lance's kennel descend from Zoro I would conclude he does not do too badly when called into service.
BTW; No need to call you a Neanderthal, as there was no need for you to call the people of Nome such.

On Mackey's dog Zorro expected to recover, but unlikely to race again

Posted on March 31 at 4:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Greens Creek is operating near Juneau. The water below Fort Knox is better than before it began operation. Kennecott operated for decades at the headwaters of the Copper River. The Yukon River and Tanana River basins have a long history of mining. Cook Inlet has more than a dozen oil platforms. Where has the fishing industry been destroyed? In fact all these areas get higher prices for their fish than you do and yet you would deny thousands of people the benefit of higher living standards to protect your interests. Maybe when your livelihood is rationalized away you will know why good jobs are important to others.

On Pebble Mine

Posted on March 24 at 12:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Many responses on this thread show a lack of financial, economic and geopolitical knowledge. Some just show stupidity(i.e. "busholine"). We have a perfect storm of circumstances in action right now. The markets are driven by an ever increasing demand led by China and India. They are driven by fears of supply disruption from unstable suppliers, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria and others. Fear of US dollar declines, production and distribution bottlenecks and possible terrorist activity along with traders who are betting on further problems all drive up prices. Solve these problems and prices would plunge but I don't see this as happening anytime soon.
We also suffer from politicians grandstanding for gullible voters. Do you think ExxonMobile is making excessive profits? Personally I do not. The company was created by merging Exxon and Mobile, both huge companies by themselves, why would the combination not be even larger? There are something like 6 billion shares outstanding, each share earning $7.28 a year(Google earns $13.50). The price is about 12 times earnings(Google 35x). The average stock is selling for 16 times earnings so Exxon should have a price around $115 a share but it does not, it is about $86 a share(and only $72 within the last year). Why is it so cheap? Because it is not where investors think their money will grow into the future. The company has a profit margin of about 11%. If you put $200,000 into your new business and made $22,000 a year you would not feel like you were making a lot of money on your investment and you would NOT be making a lot. You also would not have Venezuela seizing your assets and American politicians saying you should pay extra taxes because your profits were so obscene.
Who is Exxon? All insiders combined own less than 1/10 of 1%, no one investor owns even 5%. 54% of the company is owned by mutual funds or institutional investors which means if you have a pension or 401k, YOU DO! If YOU think it is making so much money YOU should be buying the stock for yourself. You don't even have to go to a stock broker, you can buy directly from the company.
On a personal note, what can you do to cut your costs? We do not roar away from one stoplight just so we can brake hard at the next one. We do not keep our vehicle running in the parking lot while we spend 40 minutes inside the store. We plug in our vehicles an hour before we leave, not the night before. We set our thermostat at 60 degrees not 76. We don't live in a 1500-2500-3500 square foot house even though we could and we have used 120 gallons of fuel oil since filling in September. We spend less for fuel now than we did 2 years ago even with the price increases.
If costs are making you think of leaving you might want to do some research first. Family in PA and MD are paying $400+ a month to heat and friends in Vegas have $400+ a month air conditioning bills.

On Fuel prices