Tag: alaska

#rsrh Belated advice for Lisa Murkowski.

She must be wondering right now where it all went wrong. I suggest that a goodly portion of it can be seen via this passage from the article on the looming upset in the GOP AK-SEN primary:

Even before the results poured in, Murkowski revealed her frustration with the impact that Palin had on the race in an interview with The Daily Beast’s Shushannah Walshe, who spoke to the incumbent senator at a last-minute Murkowski rally in Wasilla.

OK, stop right there.  The Daily Beast?  She’s a Republican, and she’s complaining to The Daily Beast?  No.

No, no, no.

They are the enemy.  They hate us, and by ‘us’ I mean the GOP.  Yes, they’re up on the sidebar – but I don’t bloody trust them, and neither should Murkowksi.  If this lapse of judgment is diagnostic… well.  No wonder it looks like she lost.

Moe Lane

Headless chicken massacre in Alaska!

(Via AoSHQ Headlines) How does one top a headline like this?

Police in Alaska puzzled by 26 headless chickens

Answer: through the careful dispersal of details.

  • “…the fly-infested carcasses found Monday were arranged in a 12- to 15-foot-long line pattern that ended in a circle.”
  • “Three chickens were left unharmed…”
  • “The birds were unsuitable for eating…”

OK, it’s that last one that actually gives the original crime a run for its money in the ‘creepy weird’ race.  There’s just something about the implication that if the police had only gotten there more quickly this investigation would have ended with an impromptu barbecue…

I suggest a radio collar.

It’s the only way to be sure.

Bolingbrook hiker rescued in Alaska — again — after journey into wild

[snip]

“If police see me (hiking) in the woods, they’re going to arrest me,” a rueful [Don] Carroll said during a cell phone interview Tuesday.

It was the second time this summer that Carroll had to be rescued. He got lost in June after climbing Mount Healy in Denali National Park.

“The chief ranger said he’s not going to come looking for me anymore,” Carroll said.

I don’t begrudge money to park rangers and/or rescue programs, but when you get lost in the woods for the second time through lack of planning you are, indeed, what @eddiebear said.  Hence the radio collar: because I don’t think that you can quite count on this kid to bring a GPS unit the next time he goes outside…

Moe Lane

And now the President is reminding Russians about Alaska.

This post written after I finished wiping coffee off of the monitor.


[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Check out the haunting of the bear’s papery eyes (original link here).

God, I miss the days of the Bush administration, when we didn’t do things like this.

Referring to the long history of Russia-U.S. trade stretching back more than two centuries, Obama told an audience of business people in Moscow:

“Along the way, you gave us a pretty good deal on Alaska. Thank you.”

Contra Reuters, this was not a “pointed quip” (as Ed Morrissey notes, it only works as one if you assume that the President wanted to insult his hosts): it was a “somebody didn’t read the briefing materials (particularly the bits about Vladimir Zhirinovsky) gaffe.”  What’s next?  Thanking the Chinese for their involuntary help with training up our Navy during the Boxer Rebellion?  That should go over well: they’re even touchier about their history than the Russians are.

And I actively dread thinking about what the current President is going to say, the next time that he visits Japan.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Still no eruption on the Alaskan volcano.

But it’s starting to look like it’ll be soon:

If Mt. Redoubt blows, Alaskans may get a light show

The volcano watch for Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt continues apace.

According to the Anchorage Daily News:

An observation flight by scientists this afternoon reported no sign of ash emission yet, but discovered significant steaming from a new melt depression at the mouth of the summit crater….

That flight took place Jan. 30.

Not much to add to this, except that: volcanoes are pretty cool, and if there’s an eruption where no-one gets hurt it’d be an interesting and educational thing to see.  So if you live near Mt. Redoubt, move well away from the area, please.  Let’s not have another Mount St. Helens.

Crossposted at RedState.