Alaska Political Blogwire

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• Factory Floor

  —Alaska Chinook

  Stimulus and bailouts! Buzz words or reality? All designed to get the American economy out of the sinkhole. It is hard to say if the plan is working. Maybe a little bit here and there, but the formula for success is missing an important ingredient. It is called an infusion, [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:56am EST
  

• Today is a vital day for Health Care Reform.

  —The Immoral Minority

  President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
  
  Obama scheduled a late-morning visit with House Democrats convening a [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:28am EST
  by Gryphen

• Would You Give $50 to Restore Someone's Eyesight?

  —What Do I know?

  The Seva Foundation catalogue arrived the other day.  For a donation of $50 you  pay for
  "one cataract surgery with a vision-correcting lens implant, post-operative care and medications."
  You can buy another sweater or a ticket to the opera or a dinner out or you can buy someone [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:55am EST
  

• Anastasia Jamieson as Sister Angelica at the Anchorage Opera

  —Progressive Alaska

  Here's Maria Callas singing the pathetically touching pre-suicide song of a princess forced to become a nun after she had conceived a love child out of wedlock, in Puccini's short story, Sister Angelica.
  
  The Anchorage Opera is presenting this brief masterpiece, along [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

• Holy crap! She actually showed up!

  —The Immoral Minority

  Number of comments: 31
  Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told about 5,000 supporters in Wisconsin to continue to press lawmakers on abortion issues.
  
  Wisconsin Right to Life officials say Palin's low-profile stop in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis on Friday night was more than a year in the making. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:28pm EST
  by Gryphen

• Two-Feet High and Risin'

  —Kodiak Konfidential

  If you don't already, check out the Saltonstall's blog. They have great photos year-round (including one of those Gigapan super-high resolution images of town), but now that it's winter, the ski and snow reports will be coming fast and furious. Seriously, if it weren't for Patrick's entries, I wouldn't have' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  

• This Week in LGBT Alaska 11/6/09

  —Bent Alaska

  This week's events from the statewide newsletter Alaska GLBT News.

  Juneau

  SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.

  
  

  Fairbanks

  UAF Gay-Straight Alliance sponsoring The Laramie Project movie 11/7, 3-5 p.m, in Schaible Auditorium, free. Jessi. [...]

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

• There Needs to be a Watch List

  —Kodiak Konfidential

  And the author (I use that term loosely) of Wednesday's letter to the editor in the Mirror needs to be the first person on it. Here's a sample of his barely-lucid diatribe: There is plenty of cottonwood trees out by Bell’s Flats, maybe all the liberals in Congress and all you [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:04pm EST
  

• "I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan" - Asking the Basic Policy Questions

  —What Do I know?

  Policies, say like what the US should do in Afghanistan, can be looked at from many different perspectives. But it seems to me there are two basic questions we need to answer.
  
  
  What purposes can we serve by being there?
  There seem to be quite a few we [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:17am EST
  

• Real Estate Reunion

  —Own the Sidewalk

  I had one of those “Oh yeah, I’m a grown-up now” moments last night in the grocery store. As I was walking out with the ingredients for a compromise dinner (Side Note: Cooking reasonably nutritious meals that a reformed semi-vegan and a man who doesn’t eat vegetables can agree on [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:35am EST
  

• There is an audio version of "Going Rogue"? As read by Sarah Palin? Oh I have GOT to get THIS!

  —The Immoral Minority

  Number of comments: 38
  Can you just imagine the hours of entertainment this will provide?
  
  I mean sure I will have to stop every ten minutes and attempt to regain my sanity but still.....
  
  (H/T to Bree Palin. Excellent job as always.)
  
  Update: According to [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:57am EST
  by Gryphen