I finally did it...

In the twilight of my (latest mid) life (crisis) I finally created a page on el Zucko's global communication and touchy-feelyness service, also known as the database for the global facial recognition system. Please, don't "tag" me, whatever that means.
I've been putting it off, but the wifey got tired of me using hers to look at a couple of Coast Guard veterans groups, so there I am.
Remember, what rhymes with "Zuck"? Yuck!

"Why doesn't everybody just shut the fuck up..."

Investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh has more than a few people in the Administration and Intelligence Community echoing the words of Robert Gates, quoted in our headline as he (Hersh) kinda blows the lid off the now possibly forgotten story of the killing (as in extra-judicial) of Osama Bin Laden in the latest issue of the London review of Books.

Obama v. Warren, et al.

Anyone who would care to take the position that President Obama is NOT a corporatist, take a number and get in line.
The Trans Pacific Partnership will do NOTHING for the "Middle Class," and everything for major traders. As someone pointed out above, it will provide a vehicle (most likely an MRAP, lol) for those respected "non-state actors" i.e. multi-national corporations to go dead on after national policies that cut into their bottom lines. No regard for the people of those nations, since in the brave new world which the President seems to embrace and Senators Warren and Sanders are in full cry over, the only P-word that counts is Profits.
The Clinton Global Initiative is just a way to sugar coat the fact that the corporate-government axis is tilting towards the corporate side of the ledger. The CGI offers an opportunity for anyone with big money to pretend they care about "people" while pursuing greater and greater control of scarcer and scarcer resources...makes you wonder what ol' Bill learned in Oxford.
Trade agreements should be limited to freedom of navigation and currency exchange. Something is SERIOUSLY amiss when it takes years of secret negotiations to produce a secret agreement between nations...to "promote commerce."
The Presidential prevarication in response to Senator Warren speaks volumes, and no friendly beer on the White House porch is going to change the President's commitment to the Trans Pacific Partnership in whatever form the economic masters of the universe decide is acceptable to them.

WTF is the NRA Scared of?

Yes, NRA, you are a bunch of cowards. Despite all your big talk about a good guy with a gun being all it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun (no citation required) you are a bunch of pussies. Nashville Tennessee, home of, um, country music I guess, will play host to your national convention (with a  special guest appearance by the ever-so- {insert verb or adjective of your choice here} Woman who was supposed to live in Juneau) and all the fucking guns have to be nonoperational.
Really?
Fucking pussies.

Here's an article Senator Dan Sullivan, Member of the US Senate Armed Services Committee should read, and comment on

Who (Specifically) is Behind the NSA Mass Surveillance Program?

Here's a Letter Dan Sullivan should sign on to

Finally, a little attention to the Stingray Cell Tower Emulator built by the venerated (at least by y'r humble editor) Harris Corporation.
Lets hope Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan will join in Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy's concern about Federal overreach!

How the fuck am I supposed to wake up Monday morning?

It is thoroughly depressing to even think about a different voice doing our morning Alaska news.
Bad job, Alaska Public Media. Bad job.

Bun E. Back in the Band

Well, HERE is some good news!
Robin Zander tells the Eddie Trunk Podcast that the lawsuit brought by Bun E. Carlos against his fellow Cheap Trick band mates is settled!

Republican Plank

I am more and more convinced that the super double secret (spoken only after a certain handshake and then only between party elders) GOP Plank is this:
       "Every act of heterosexual intercourse shall result in a live birth."

2014? Dude, where did the year go?

Well, another birthday and another Solstice gone by and all we have to look forward to is ANOTHER election...
It took me a while to figure THIS out, but hey, I am a little slow...The BIG winners in election years are (drum roll please) the owners of TV and Radio Stations. And it has been a consistent gripe of mine that a lucrative small business sector (local broadcasting) has been substantially taken over by the conglomerates. And here in Alaska is no different.
We have Clear Channel in command of most of the Anchorage radio market, GCI angling to own a large sector of television (the already own cable and internet), so guess where all those advertising dollars being pissed away in the Senate races are going. You guessed it, right back outside.

"Shively, blithely..."

Western Alaska's pride and joy, Callan J. Chythlook-Sitsoff writes an excellent New York Times OpEd Piece. Read it!

Last Day of Summer

As all REAL Alaskans know, today - June 21, Summer Solstice, is the last day of summer.
Days will slowly shorten and every time we see a darker cloud in the sky (even on July 4th) we think of snow.
Oh wait, its the clouds of mosquitoes that make us think of snow...
It really sucks being a natural born pessimist.

Charlie Huggins: Stand Your Ground allows Preemptive Killing

AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE THAT I APPARENTLY NEGLECTED TO PUSH "PUBLISH" ON.
STILL WORTH PUTTING OUT THERE.
Written 6/21/2013!


Alaska's Governor who, unlike his predecessor DOES live in Juneau signed a love letter to the National Rifle Association yesterday as penned by yet another of a long line of losers from the Mat-Su Valley.
The oil industry shill who DOES live in Juneau had this to say as he signed the latest "Stand Your Ground" law that allows law abiding - and not-so-law-abiding Alaskans carrying permit-less concealed weapons to fire at will with little fear of prosecution:
"I was asked a couple of questions earlier just before signing the bill about concerns raised about why, with all the people running around with guns doing bad things, why this legislation was important,” Parnell said. “And, frankly, I thought, that’s exactly why this legislation was important.”
“And we’re talking about a law-abiding citizen’s right to stand his or her ground.”
But the big winner is clearly Alaska Senate President and Oil Industry Shill, nay, Oil Industry Pocket Rocket (don't Conoco's fingers feel good, Charlie?) Charlie Huggins when he couldn't have been more clear about the Legislative Intent of allowing preemptive killings under the color of "Stand Your Ground"  -
Asked about the new law vis a vis the Treyvon Martin killing in Florida and the Alaska Department of Law concerns stated during legislative hearings, Huggins stood his own ground-
“Trayvon Martin was not a clean cut young man. He had a history. So I’m not so sure that there wasn’t some mischief that he had proved himself capable of and may have been gettin’ ready to take place. But I wasn’t there. But what happened with Trayvon Martin has no bearing, in my estimation, on what we’re doing in Alaska,” Huggins told reporters.

Hey - I report, You decide!

The Great Man is finally being Remembered in a suitable fashion

There should be no question that Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) ranks with Archimedes as one of humankind's most brilliant and fertile minds.
Inventing the rotating alternating current motor, radio, and what is now drone technology, Tesla proved once and for all time the value of immigrants to America.
The New York Times reports today that the Tesla Science Center has succeeded in purchasing a portion of Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory on Long Island.
This is wonderful news for all of us that have appreciated all Nikola Tesla did for the world!

Best. History. Lesson. Ever

And its all true!

Rat out a Facebook Friend TODAY!

Yes, kids, Big Brother is alive and well, and he doesn't have a Facebook page. He wants you to be his friend, though.

Your morning wake up call!

There IS no place I'd rather be (except of course for...)

Finally, something worth posting

This is an edited version of the exchange - you can hear it all here: http://media.newstalk.ie/extra/1602/popup

From May 2010, an exchange between Michael D Higgins (who was elected President of Ireland last year) and Tea Party-loving radio guy Michael Graham on Irish radio station Newstalk 106-108fm.

The worlds largest "Democracy" goes biometric

Things that make you want to go Hmmmmmm