Blogs Nov 9, 2010 at 8:01 am

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So Alaska sponges of the lower 48 for its infrastructure, and uses its one revenue stream oil dollars to write a dividend check to its residents? Time to ask this welfare queen to grow up and pay its own way.
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I say the same thing about $25 bn Texas. Federal governments are easy scapegoats for the shitty managers at state governments.
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Democrats need to start showing some balls now! Not two months before the next election!
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It's an entertaining time when people who have obviously not spent any time in Alaska (or even read a book about it, it would seem) decide it's time to deliver their searing commentary on the state.
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@4 OK bc you tell me how I should see these welfare queens posing as rugged individualists.
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Vince: Democrats don't have balls. Haven't you figured that out yet?
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Way to take a stab at social services for Native Americans, jackass. Are these the same Native Americans we inflicted our pedo priests on? The same Native Americans who have suffered cultural genocide at the hands of the colonizers? Heaven forbid they get some paltry "programs"- which should rightly be the responsibility of the nation as a whole.
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lived in alaska in the late 70's without government dollars it wasn't shit then and i venture to say the same holds true now and as far as first nation people the whites/churches treated them like shit without government assistance i trust they would adapt/revive their cultures could'nt say that about the majority of "frontier folk" fuck 'em feed them to the mosquitoes
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@6 Well Feingold and Grayson did...
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Heh - I don't pay state income or sales tax either. Oh, and our highly social-esque state constitution provides a neat little conceptual framework for a yearly distribution of earned interest on an account fat with ages old over-collected oil revenue. Gimme (and thanks)
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@9 Ouch.
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I feel like Democrats, or at least Democrat/Left-leaning news commentators HAVE been pointing all of this out. It just doesn't matter to the hardcore Republican voters, as they don't use fact-based decision-making.

@7: He's not attacking the federal funding of social programs for First Nation/American Indians (I HATE the term "Native Americans": everyone born here is a native American; perhaps we could use "persons descended from peoples indigenous to the Americas before European colonization", though that's a bit long; or we could just use the name of the actual nation/tribe: Inuit in this case)., he's attacking the hypocrisy of politicians decrying federal expenditures and welfare programs while their states and they themselves receive massive amounts of federal money.
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Yes, Alaska is a welfare state. But then, so are all the rural areas of these United States. The same areas that harbor all the bring-down-the-gov'mint, fierce-independants, etc's and so-on's.
Just try explaining these realities to these folks, tho. Can't say how many arguments I've had trying to explain per-capita, tax bases, and how the Columbia Basin Federal Irrigation Project is welfare to friends and family over here in Bumfuckistan...sigh.
As for spineless Dems: they're as spineless, gutless and ball-less as the Rethugs are mean, bullying and heartless. Get used to it.
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Yeah. Give me a break.
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Frontiersmen were always sucking off the teat of the Federal Government. Or stealing from the Natives, depending on your point of view.
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If Alaska loves Sarah Palin so much why did her lil buddy Joe Miller lose to a write in candidate? A little research might be useful before lumping 600,000 people in with Sarah "Mama Grizzly" Palin.
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I feel rather strongly that we need a little amendment to the tax code that says that a state can only get back in federal funds what it pays in federal taxes. Then watch the square states go up in smoke while the cities have more money for their schools, cultural assets, public health, infrastructure/mass transit, etc. I can't wait to live in a city again, or at least a blue area. Dang you, school!
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So, this brings me to my main point which is... Sarah Palin does NOT hunt. Dissapointment all over your face. I really liked the idea of her all parka-ed out with a big ol' gun in her hand.

Those photoshoots of Sarah Palin with dead bears and elk...They literally asked her to step out of the van for a minute to take some pictures. Very vogue.

Needless to say, Sarah Palin may think it's her Alaska, but no true Alaskan claims My Team on Sarah Palin. In defense of Alaskans, who in addition to their checks from Big Daddy Mainland, also kick a sick nasty environment in the balls, they hunt, they fish, they live off the land like Charlton Heston in The Mountain Men--which is more than we do. How many of us ate out at that dim lit restaurant down the block from our apartment last night after spending all day inside at our job. We got outside for a bit--but outside in the city, what's that really mean? You're still inside.

So get out into the wild, live a little while in the wild, and you'll be asking for money from Big Daddy too.
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So, this brings me to my main point which is... Sarah Palin does NOT hunt. Dissapointment all over your face. I really liked the idea of her all parka-ed out with a big ol' gun in her hand.

Those photoshoots of Sarah Palin with dead bears and elk...They literally asked her to step out of the van for a minute to take some pictures. Very vogue.

Needless to say, Sarah Palin may think it's her Alaska, but no true Alaskan claims My Team on Sarah Palin. In defense of Alaskans, who in addition to their checks from Big Daddy Mainland, also kick a sick nasty environment in the balls, they hunt, they fish, they live off the land like Charlton Heston in The Mountain Men--which is more than we do. How many of us ate out at that dim lit restaurant down the block from our apartment last night after spending all day inside at our job. We got outside for a bit--but outside in the city, what's that really mean? You're still inside.

So get out into the wild, live a little while in the wild, and you'll be asking for money from Big Daddy too.
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I've wondered about the point Sullivan makes for some time now. I mean, there are so many things she lies about, so many shady deal-killing things in her past, that I can't see how she can possibly be a viable candidate even to the whacked out right. Maybe she's still useful because she serves as a distraction, or they figure at some point they'll control so much of the discourse that all objections can simply be quashed. And republicans also play the victim card on palin-criticisms in a faux-pro-feminist stance (which makes me utterly grit my teeth) & that also helps silence objections, I suppose.

But the matter of the *left* wing media leaving her alone (and there are even examples of the left *blogosphere* going hands off during the McCain-Palin campaign) has me utterly stumped. but *honestly* -- she is the gift that keeps on giving. She should have been run off the public arena years ago by now with all the crap she does.
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As has been said before:

"There are some good reasons for the federal government to spend money in Alaska anyway: it supports 21,000 troops there, it has obligations to indigenous Alaskans (19% of the population) and it owns (and must look after) some 60% of Alaska's land."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008…
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@12 There are way more groups in Alaska than just Inuit. The author went out of her way to criticize federal subsidy of the "myriad of programs" for Native Americans, and Dan seems to think this is legit.
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Attacking Sarah Palin probably helps her at this point. She's not a viable candidate, but she is definitely a highly visible pundit. As far as her fans are concerned, attempts to paint her in an unfavorable light just prove how much of a liberal bias the media has, and just serve to make them root that much harder for her. They see her as a scrappy underdog squaring off against the liberal establishment.
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Please understand... If we had known that she was going to end up being such a huge problem, we would have nipped her in the bud. She has her own thoughts now.
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You're really big on punishing citizenry for the failings of their politicians, aren't you, Dan? I mean, yeah, I know they elect them, but haven't you ever heard of 'tyranny of the majority'? Sheesh.
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Hope I'm not out of line here, but as a parent of 2 wonderful and normal boys, I could not imagine having time to be a public official and meeting all the needs of both roles. Nothing in this world is more important than good parenting.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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