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Category Archives: Alaska politics
Palin adds a whole new definition of solipsism — CORRECTED
In writing this post, I made an error which distorted what Palin & her ghostwriter wrote in her book Going Rogue about Gov. Frank Murkowski’s appointment of someone to complete his U.S. Senate term. Rather than deleting the post, I added notes to explain my error. My apologies for the error. Continue reading
True Diversity Dinner video, part 5: Diane Benson
Janson Jones’ fifth video of the September 25 True Diversity Dinner in Anchorage features Diane Benson speaking about healing racism in Anchorage — & some of my additional commentary on Alaska’s high rate of sexual violence that especially victimizes Alaska Native women.
Posted in Alaska politics, True Diversity Dinner
Tagged Alaska Natives, André Rosay, Diane Benson, diversity, Elizabeth Peratrovich, Janson Jones, racism, sexual assault, True Diversity Dinner 2009, UAA Justice Center, video, violence against women
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Q & A: What happens when you click "Volunteer" at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website?
Q. What happens when you click “Volunteer” at the Alaskans for Parental Rights website? A. You get taken to the “Volunteer” page for the “Yes on 8” website. Yes on 8 is the campaign in California to deny the equal right to marry to same-sex couples. Here’s further evidence of linkages showing how Alaska’s Christianist right is dependent upon financial, organizational, and ideological support from outside the state.
Posted in Alaska politics, Marriage equality
Tagged abortion, Alaska Family Council, Christianism, Jim Minnery, same-sex marriage
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Palin's Hong Kong adventure…
The Business Insider says that Hong-Kong-based brokerage firm CLSA invited Sarah Palin as keynote speaker for an Asian investment conference as part of their standard effort to “sprinkle in some hilarity every now and then as a smart marketing gimmick.” Alaska bloggers’ analysis: Looks like Palin’s been punked.
"There's no sign of discrimination" — uh, yes there is
This is a slightly revised version of a page I just put up to give Identity Reports and One in Ten a permanent front page presence on my blog. In the 1980s, the nonprofit organization Identity, Inc. conducted two major … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, lgbtq, One in 10, willful ignorance
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Third time in 35 years: Anchorage's equal rights ordinance
An account of the meeting at which the Anchorage Assembly passed the S-2 version of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, AO 2009-64, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. It passed by a vote of 7–4.
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Debbie Ossiander, lgbtq
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About those death panels: The funny and the not-so-funny
These people kept me sane all the way through the presidential election season. Now as more & more insanity spreads by means of the nonsensical pronouncements of former (thank goodness!) Gov. Sarah Palin, and lots of other dishonest, unthinking, & … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics
Tagged crazies, deathers, health care reform, humor, Sarah Palin, tea, teabaggers
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Righty-tighty mobocracy
I’ve read two reports now of anti-health care reform protesters at Senator Mark Begich’s health care press conference heckling and shouting down a lung cancer patient on oxygen tanks who was attempting to testify. The first report came via a … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics
Tagged birthers, deathers, Eddie Burke, health care reform, Sarah Palin, teabaggers
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You're looking very quitty, too
Last night while enmired in the seemingly endless (yet it ended, yay!) & repetitively nonsensical “Truth is not Hate” untruthful hate speech testimony of equal rights ordinance opponents (happily broken up by a lot of really good ordinance supporter testimony), … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, humor, Sarah Palin, satire, video
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Governor's office admits errors on Palin spreadsheet
Sean Cockerham has posted a story in which Linda Perez of the Office of the Governor has admitted the spreadsheet they put together to prove Palin’s claim that ethics complaints against her have cost the State of Alaska $2 million — has errors. Really?