Well THAT was unexpected, though I can’t say I blame her. What better way to stop people from filing frivolous ethics complaints against the Governor than to step down as Governor. It’s pretty sad when a law YOU made gets used against you daily for stupid crap like name brand snowsuits. Bet you won't see frivolous ethics complaints on Parnell, not because he's clean as a preacher's sheets, but because the national media and every other Palin hater is going to say "Sean who?"

            I heard with my own ears people cracking retard jokes about Trig; that’s got to be hard to hack for any mom. I hope to all hell that you people (you KNOW who you are) end up having a child with a similar disability. It’s only just. And I hope people make fun of your ‘retard’ to your face instead of behind your back.

            If I had 60+ year old men making perverted comments about my daughter I’d probably re-think my place in the public eye too. And then people wonder why celebrities hide their children from the media; because if they didn’t it would be the equivalent of throwing them to the sharks or leaving them in the desert to be pecked apart by vultures.

I hate to say it Sarah, as much as we love you, you should have told McCain “no” and stuck to your post as Governor, made a run for a second term, and then made the run for 2016. The media would be bereft of ammo to fire in your direction. Now people will wonder if you’ll step down as President in the final year of your term. But I trust you. I trust your judgment. Some people say this is the perfect move made at the perfect time all things considered. Some people are pretty sure this is the last wave smashing over a capsizing ship. At any rate, you can use our boat anytime.

Leucistic Raven

Entry 2

4-10-2009

No one has seen much movement out of Lucy in a week or so now which tells me that she’s sitting eggs at this point. Her mate is often seen nearby on train tracks or road sides scavenging road kill and melting snow in his gullet to bring back to Lucy. The snow has not gone enough to allow me easier passage back to the nest yet, so we wait…

On another note, another pair of ravens is making repairs to a nest very close to my home. Presumably because of the high winds that run in the spring. Watching them work together has given me a little insight into the behavior of ravens you just can’t get from a book or online article, and it is behavior I didn’t get the chance to observe with Lucy.

Both birds share the nest building task, gingerly hopping from branch to branch in one of many cottonwood trees nearby, tugging forcefully on green limber branches until they find a nice dry dead one that snaps off easily. So far I have not seen them carry anything longer than their wingspan is wide.

Like Lucy’s mate, the male has chosen a roosting tree to look upon the nest site from, keeping watch for intruding juvenile ravens.

This nest is VERY high up in a spruce tree; Lucy’s nest is about 15 feet lower (at the least) and in a cottonwood tree, but both are made of cottonwood tree branches.

Stay tuned…

Leucistic Raven

Entry 3

4/12/09

Today I saw one of the home pair (I need to find a name for them) taking a large clump of moss, grass, and fluff of some sort, back to the nest for lining. The wind must have really screwed it up. I’m almost positive they have been nesting here for a while. Mid to late June there is usually a small group of juveniles who hang out for a week or two before going wherever they go. I always just thought a neighbor wasn’t taking care of his garbage or some such nonsense, but now I know. I wish their nest wasn’t so high up, I’m not sure how much of a chance I’m going to have to really observe them once the female starts sitting her eggs.

Stay tuned…

Leucistic Raven

Entry 4

4/17/09

She’s gone.

I mistook her lack of movement for sitting eggs, but in fact, she has vacated. I went back to the nest today and there was zero movement, I found a few small feathers, and that was all.

Later I watched and photographed another pair of ravens stealing the lining materials out of the nest and carrying them to a different site about a quarter to a half mile away. I must say, I am wholly disappointed.

Theory 1: Perhaps something happened to her mate and she had to abandon the nest. If he is not able to bring her food and water, that’s her only choice.

Theory 2: Perhaps someone nearby saw her and decided she was just so cool they had to shoot her to possess her.

Theory 3: Perhaps she is infertile? Maybe they come back every year to make an attempt at offspring, and then leave once they realize their efforts are fruitless.

Theory 4: Could this new pair have managed to push them out of their territory?

The only way I will know is if she returns next spring, until then, here is an abrupt and unpleasant end to the Leucistic Raven Journal. I will continue to observe the site, and the other nest near my home. May be that pair will have more luck.

Leucistic Raven

Entry 1

3-26-2009

            Lucy, I’m going to call her.

I first saw Lucy last February, 2008; aloof and flighty at the courtship presentations of her potential mate. We observed their aero-ballet for a week or more, and then she just disappeared.

            We should have known something was up right then.

            Lucy and her mate reappeared this year, in the first part of March. This time no courting seemed to be necessary (either that or we never noticed their display). He, with his glossy black plumage and impressive beard of throat feathers, seemed content to fly in huge circles above and secure his territory. While she…

            …Tended to their nest.

            Yup… a nest.

            This spurred me to do some research, not a whole lot turned up however. But then I found an ABO article about a Leucistic raven sighting in Fairbanks written back in 2002. Observers of the bird said they had seen it three years in a row at that point. The sightings describe a juvenile raven doing juvenile things, and the sightings always take place in the winter and since stopped since the bird would have hit adulthood and taken on different behaviors the year of the last sighting.

That’s right; I believe this to be the same bird given the rarity of such genetic flukes. If it is I would guess she’s about 6-7 years old.

I have a relatively clear line of sight to the nest and am considering documenting basically the rest of the pair’s life together. I’d like to count how many, if any, of their offspring Leucistic.

Stay tuned...

Pentagon to detail military to bolster securityPlan would dedicate 20,000 uniformed troops inside U.S. by 2011

I have decided…that watching the “wrong” channel…is perfectly okay. I realized…that if I only watched the channel most aligned with my thoughts…politically speaking…I would be completely unaware… I would be blissfully ignorant…ignorant in my bliss. I would have no idea what the left is up to. Well, I would…but it would still be sugar coated speculation. I’d much rather read between the lines myself…see through the veil of pretty words…myself.

The Bail Out:

It seems that everyone in Washington is in such a panic over this that they are not thinking clearly…It seems pretty simple to me…

            Don’t give the money to wall street OR ANY other humongous corporation…DON’T give the money to individual households…Give it…to small business owners…small business owners who are SUFFERING THE MOST from bigger business’ irresponsible practices. Let the giants fall so the small can grow… Like a lumberjack. Cut down the big trees…the big trees that produce more carbon dioxide than they do oxygen in the course of a day, doing more harm than good while blocking the little trees from receiving a surplus of precious sunlight… Let the little trees fill in the gaps; let the little trees become big trees.

This would suddenly enable small businesses across the country…to have more job openings…which all those laid-off GM workers could scoop on.

Balance it out…that’s another good analogy. Visualize our economy as a triple beam scale…the consumer on one side and big business on the other, while small businesses are the slider weights which move along the graduated scale on the beam which runs between them. The scale, on the consumer side, outweighs the big business side. How do you balance it out? Do you add more to the consumer side, or do you add more to the big business side? OR do you adjust the small businesses in between?

IT IS the ONLY LOGICAL answer. But I forgot…Logic does not exist in Washington DC.

Y’know… I just realized something…

I have been watching the wrong channel all these years!

All this time I have watched NBC without realizing exactly how biased and manipulative they were until this election cycle. Now, in retrospect, I know why I spend so much time writing angry rants. All this time I have felt as if the world has been misled, global warming, Obama, fuel prices, all of it. This is why it feels like no one is listening!

I mean hell, they go to the arctic in the SUMMER TIME to tell you about global warming, because everyone in the south still thinks Alaska is covered in ice year round and that we live in Igloo’s, hard to make a global warming case in the winter time. I watched Matt Lauer’s report from Greenland… where it was a good 32 degrees and snowing… and at that exact same time it was -20 here (in Fairbanks) on damn near the same latitude. That was about this time of year, late fall early winter. Of course they fail to mention that.

But they had a team of people stuck in the North West passage for a month DURING THE SUMMER, and this morning I wake up to this.

This morning they tried to tell me that sailors in the Northwest Passage, the last time it was open, would have seen ice on some island along the way.  Sounds like a riddle on an IQ test.

“If six Vikings are on a ship in the Northwest Passage, what do they see?”

Obviously, not ice, if the Northwest Passage is open.

On a seperate yet somehow related note....

Everyone was asking what the media had to gain by controlling the masses to vote for Obama.

NBC is owned by GE (yes the makers of all those CFL light bulbs that they just told you were necessary to save the world and save a buck on energy too) GM is part of GE…GM is looking for massive amounts of bailout money…. Hmm.

I’m beginning to really, really believe that this is all a scam, and in 20 years we will be teaching our children about “obamagate” in school, the biggest hank of wool ever to be pulled over our eyes.. It will all come out of the woodwork in due time. It’s all too fishy to ignore.

First off…Kath and Kim= everything that is wrong with this country! EVERYTHING! …Whoever green-lit that shit needs to be drawn and quartered.

 OPRAH- Before the election= “I would never have ‘that woman’ (Sarah Palin) on my show.”

                 After the election= “I want to interview ‘that woman’ now. Yes, yes I do.”

You two faced cunt. I don’t know HOW you get people to look past their own personal beliefs and bow to the almighty Oprah and obey your commands. What the hell? YOU woman, are the Anti-Christ. Evil. Just evil.

            Jay Leno- I thought you were some big tough biker jay, where are your balls? More like the faggy biker from YMCA. I change the channel when you come on these days. Your writers suck, they puppet you into saying rude shit about people that’s not even true or funny. Part of this shit being funny is that it’s supposed to be Ironic, there’s supposed to be some truth to it, not completely fabricated bullshit. Perhaps your writers just aren’t clever enough to pull that off… why again are they getting paid more these days? They are doing a worse job now than before it seems.

            President Bush’s dog bites a journalist- Well…terriers were bred to kill RATS…With the way journalism has been going I can see where the dog might have felt it was doing its job… Give that dog a ribeye.

            Madonna- “…an octogenarian dominatrix.” ~Lars Larson. Why should we listen to this professional pole dancer’s trashy venomous classless lip? Same with Sandra Bernhard. What an angry dyke. She’s just pissed that she a’int getting none of that (Palin) action EVER! They can both take their gap toothed, quarter slot on a vending machine lookin, shit spewing mouths and go host orgies at upscale retirement homes.  I’m sure Cher already knows the ropes, she can get them started.

            Have a super day…   

 Palin returns to Alaska to chants of '2012'

Do new, embarrassing reports overshadow her homecoming?

"Newsweek’s “Special Election Project” reported other accusations being lobbed by campaign staffers, including new claims about Palin’s wardrobe expenditures.

Calling her shopping spree “more extensive than previously reported,” one aide told Newsweek it was like “"Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.”"

You FICKLE bastards! I bet y'all (fickle McCain aides)voted for the Democratic ticket too. Turncoat fuckin' pussies. I think I have had about enough of you liberal morons. I am joining th AIP just to spite you. As far as I am concerned, we should keep our (Alaska's) oil, and sell it ALL to Japan, just to show you fuckers what's up! You guys can keep your high oil prices and shitty economy, I don't want em.

I am inexplicably happy… Not, mind you, because Barak Hussein Obama is the next president of the United States (YAY free abortions for everyone!), but, like I said, because we’ll have our governor back to defend us from his tyranny; because now (hopefully) things on a state level can get back on track. We can fade back into the woodwork and carry on with our lives… Return to blessed anonymity for another 4 years at least.

However, the rest of y’all  have just over 70 days to buy up all the guns and ammo you can, and stash that shit in some underground bunker somewhere, before your second amendment right is revoked.

The reason I say “the rest of y’all” is because I just cannot fathom that EVER happening in Alaska. Whatever anyone else says, THIS IS THE LAST FRONTEIR, you step out your front door here, YOU are ON the MENU. Pepper spray doesn’t work…After you have sprayed yourself in a flurry of panic, it really only amounts to seasoning salt for you, the bears next meal. EVERY Alaskan politician, republican or democrat, will fight tooth and nail to keep our gun rights.

That’s more than I can say for our first amendment rights though. I never fancied visiting China for that very reason. The way I see it, we ALL only have 70 days, to share our widely varying opinions. After that it’s all zombie media, saying what the government wants them to say, and federal prison for anyone caught going against the new socialist norm.

I recently read an article in the Anchorage Daily News about how Alaska is recession proof…That being so, perhaps we as a state can snub our noses at all the free socialist handouts and neglect to pay the increased taxes and take care of ourselves. I want no part of the new regime, and I am sure I’m not the only one.

At any rate, I’m ready to sit back and wait till I can begin dropping the “I told you so” bomb with relative frequency.

Y’know, I just don’t get it. Sarah Palin sounds like Hitler??? How are people coming to these conclusions?!? HOW? I mean where in her track record of being governor of Alaska does it show that she could even remotely be compared to such a person??? WHERE?!? Show me! C’mon I friggin’ DARE YOU. How in the name of all that is holy does “She has an 80% approval rating in Alaska” translate into “she’s a selfish dictator who is here to oppress you and take away your rights”? People come to Alaska to experience the freedom and independence it offers and people definitely aren’t leaving because of Sarah’s politics. Cripes.

Obama has been showing his dictatorship colors for the past two years and y’all appear blind to it. It’s his party that wants to take away my rights as an American, not McCain’s. It appears that no one cares about our rights anymore as long as they get free money. They are buying you out of your right to privacy, your right to bear arms, your right to educate your children how you see fit, and your right to eat deep fried foods if the DNC was any indicator! Good lord what is it going to take?

The other morning I heard some woman say “A McCain Palin presidency would lead to a police state.”

What??? LOL

She’s got it so backwards. If anything a McCain Palin presidency would lead to city militias and public oversight of law enforcement, a healthy system of checks and balances. If Obama has his way we will all be babysat by police officers with assault rifles posted at every crosswalk. You think it’s bad that you have to show ID to get cough syrup NOW? Just you wait. We’ll all have curfews like little kids.

Potential small business owner: “So, I hear you are going to take my hard earned money and give it to people who don’t deserve it.”

Barak Obama: “Yes, yes I am.”

Rich America: YAAY! Take away our money!

Middle Class America: “What?”

Poor America: YAAY! Give us all your money!

Potential small business owner: “Screw this; the welfare line at Barak Obama’s house is more lucrative.”

And so the collapse of society begins. Pretty soon every one will be sitting on their asses with their hands out.