Comments by McGehee
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Posted on August 30 at 6:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)
You said it, Joe -- hate takes an investment of energy that would be put to better use on something productive.
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Posted on August 28 at 6:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Kornmonkie, I hope you were being ironic on purpose 'cause I didn't see anything in the letter about Limbaugh. Sounds more like Michael Savage's style to me.
Corinne, if you have Windows on your computer, there's a utility called Character Map that includes all the different characters not found on the keyboard. Start Menu => Run => "charmap."
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Posted on August 26 at 1:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
PahoaSean, I think the point isn't where the gas comes from, but where the profits go *to.*
As for driving to Alaska, it's worth bearing in mind that, even before gas prices went up and the U.S. dollar got weak against the Canadian, the question of crossing the U.S.-Canada border has been of some concern in the last few years.
I haven't crossed a border since 1999; are the crossing rules still a lot more strict these days, or have they been relaxed?
Posted on August 22 at 11:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The News-Miner has always been partial to the idea of effectively abolishing the city of Fairbanks anyway (unification/consolidation, anyone?), so while the suggestion is offered as a joke you can be sure DNM's editors wouldn't be laughing.
Salivating, more like.
Posted on August 22 at 11:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Fourth of July weekend, 1998 on the Elliott Highway. Anybody remember that one? There were quite a few of us who stayed overnight in the parking lot at Hilltop, or in campsites at Olnes Pond or the Lower Chatanika. The truck stop actually ran out of food.
My wife and I were in a car that wouldn't travel the snowmachine trail that was initially the only way out; we hitched a ride with a couple from Anchorage who had a Ford Explorer, and they dropped us off at Foodland where we ran into some friends who lived out our way, and that's how we got home -- not very long before the Troopers finally caught the crackpot with the rifle and reopened the highway.
Posted on August 19 at 2:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
This year's election campaign has already proven that people get the government they deserve.
I just wish I didn't have to suffer through it with everybody else.
Posted on August 19 at 4:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Uh-oh, looks like summer's almost over -- it's *dark* in Fairbanks after 4:30 a.m.!
That means here in Georgia we'll see cooler weather (relatively speaking) in about two months.
Posted on August 16 at 12:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow, BlueBear -- I didn't know the Associated Press was a "right-wing extremist."
Learn something new every day.
Posted on August 8 at 3:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Dipsticks are easy to come by -- every two years they come around asking for votes.
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Posted on August 30 at 6:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
As I recall, the first responsibility for helping people in New Orleans when parts of the city flooded after Katrina, belonged to the city and state -- whose elected leaders delayed in seeking help from the feds because they were afraid of Bush getting credit for helping.
Parts of Mississippi were much harder hit than New Orleans. They suffered far worse from the hurricane itself -- whereas New Orleans suffered because local authorities hadn't done their jobs in making sure the city had a well-designed and well-built levee system; that the failure came after Katrina hit, was coincidence.
The claim that National Guard troops "weren't available" to help out in New Orleans has about as much credibility as claims George W. Bush personally planned 9/11.
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