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Taco Bell hoax dashes hopes in Bethel, Alaska - latimes.com

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:55:30 +0000

In what has been described as an evil hoax, the town of Bethel, Alaska, has learned it is not getting a Taco Bell. Not now. Not ever.

Tags: #alaska #imported:pinboard #sad #tacobell #to:fb

Life in the Yurt - The New York Times Home & Garden Slide Show Slide 1 of 13

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:55:17 +0000

There is broadband internet, though. "It has no running water or working toilet, but this Mongolian-style tent, called a yurt, in the remote town of Seldovia, Alaska, is home to Erin McKittrick and Bretwood Higman, and their son, 11-month-old Katmai."

Tags: #alaska #wow #yurts

Like, Socialism: Comment: The New Yorker

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:34:43 +0000

For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”

Tags: #alaska #mccain #obama #palin #politics #socialism

msnbc.com video: Olbermann: Terrorists? It's Palin doing the pallin'

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:06:51 +0000

Tags: #alaska #awesome #election #hypocrisy #layingonofhands #mccain #olbermann #palin #politics #terrorists #video #witches

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Palin's Attack On Obama's Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About The Palins' Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:25:49 +0000

Tags: #aip #alaska #corruption #election #mccain #palin #politics #republicans

‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally is HUGE! « Mudflats

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:43:30 +0000

"Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage!"

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FactCheck.org: Energetically Wrong

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:03:21 +0000

"Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close."

Tags: #alaska #elections #energy #gas #mccain #oil #palin #politics