Permafrost Friday: Sinking the putts

Duck and Cover

When I was a kid at Lake otis Elementary School we used to do earthquake drills where we were taught to get under our desks and to stay away from windows. Today the world has changed. In Mexico, due to growing attacks by drug gangs, students are taught to "crouch with their chest down and stay away from the windows."

In State Gas

With the latest release of cost estimates for an in state gas line showing natural gas from the North Slope will not be cheap, why is it everyone is complaining? We don't get cheap gold, halibut or King Salmon and those are a lot closer to Alaskan communities than natural gas from Prudhoe Bay.

The week in numbers...

$680 billion is the amout the U.S. is now spending per year on defense-more than we did at the heighth of the cold war.

Ninety million is the amount of gallons of fuel used per month at military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Eleven dollars is the price for a pack of cigarettes in New York after the legislature raised the state tax on tobacco.

$5.7 billion was the total consumer credit in 1945.

$2.6 trillion was the total consumer credit in 2008.

The week in idiocrisy...

Sarah Palin telling President Brack Obama that "he asked for the job now buck up." Priceless coming from somebody who quit because she couldn't handle the pressure.

Joe Miller, candidate for the U.S. Senate, who served seven years as an attorney for the Fairbanks North Star Borough but failed to mention it on his bio because he left under questionable circumstances.

Reports that Denali and Transcanada were going to merge their pipeline efforts that everyone knew were false. Except those at Conservatives4Palin who touted the story under the headline "Palin's pipeline plan on track." 

With that said, four weeks until AGIA's open season closes.

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