I'd like to say, "Post something you like about Alaska," but

[Blue_In_AK]

our lame-ass idiot governor has EVERYBODY hating us. :(

[SallyMander]

1. I would LOVE to visit Alaska!

Idiot governor aside, the pics I've seen from Alaska are downright beautiful!

[bicentennial_baby]

2. One of my favorite persons lives there!

My friend Cheryl is a lawyer in Anchorage. She posts awesome Alaska pics on Facebook. :bounce:

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I worked in the legal biz here for years.

Well, I still do actually, although now I'm self-employed typing court transcripts. I was a legal secretary/paralegal from 1975 through 2000 and used to know many of the lawyers in Anchorage, but now, I'm out of the loop.

[tabbycat31]

3. I'd love to visit there

and I've been told Alaska is beautiful. I just hope that by the time I visit there, governor Moose does not destroy the environment (which she'd use in a campaign anyways)

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. You can see Russia from there

If it weren't for you guys, the commies would've invaded!
:P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Blue_In_AK!

Now, sweetie!

Your state has the corner on the most spectacular scenery anywhere, and that will always be true!

And that's way more important than your governor!

:hug:

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Thanks, Peggy.

Yes, thankfully, she's temporary -- hopefully, VERY temporary. I want to be done with her after 2010.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Portugal. The Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oiXciyAYJ4

[Blue_In_AK]

14. I think I just accidentally sent you a PM

when I meant to hit reply :crazy:

What I said was, that video would give Sarah nightmares, but I really liked the music.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. They're from the same town as Palin.

And yes, you did send me a PM, haha.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Thanks, I just checked their website.

My daughter and son-in-law, the musicians in the family, may know them. I'm surprised I've not heard of them before.

[no name no slogan]

8. I have family in AK

they're nuts, but they're still family.

[rcrush]

10. Northern Exposure?

That show is the only thing I know about Alaska!

[Blue_In_AK]

15. And that was Washington.

I've got photos posted at my website (my sig line) if you want to see what Alaska is REALLY all about.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

11. I want to visit the Tongass

if your idiot governor can restrain herself from hacking it away.

[TZ]

12. My best friend in HS worked at Denali National Park for a summer

I've had a real itch to visit your beautiful state ever since...:)

[old mark]

13. Blue, I know she lives there, but

can you get her to fucking STAY there!

mark

[Blue_In_AK]

16. We don't want her either. n/t

[Ellipsis]

19. Todd Palin held in contempt of Alaska state Senate.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Todd_Palin_held_in_contempt_of_0206.html


:evilgrin:

[Swede]

20. Anchorage by Michelle Shocked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hffcyJ1GAg

I took time out to write to my old friend
I walked across that burning bridge
Mailed my letter off to Dallas
But her reply came from Anchorage, Alaska

She said:
"Hey girl, it's about time you wrote
It's been over two years you know, my old friend
Take me back to the days of the foreign telegrams
And the all-night rock and rollin'... hey Shell
We was wild then

Hey Shell, you know it's kind of funny
Texas always seemed so big
But you know you're in the largest state in the union
When you're anchored down in Anchorage

Hey Girl, I think the last time I saw you
Was on me and Leroy's wedding day
What was the name of that love song they played?
I forgot how it goes
I don't recall how it goes

Anchorage
Anchored down in Anchorage

Leroy got a better job so we moved
Kevin lost a tooth now he's started school
I got a brand new eight month old baby girl
I sound like a housewife
Hey Shell, I think I'm a housewife

Hey Girl, what's it like to be in New York?
New York City - imagine that!
Tell me, what's it like to be a skateboard punk rocker?

Leroy says "Send a picture"
Leroy says "Hello"
Leroy says "Oh, keep on rocking, girl"
"yeah, keep on rocking"

Hey Shell, you know it's kind of funny
Texas always seemed so big
But you know you're in the largest state in the union
When you're anchored down in Anchorage
Oh, Anchorage
Anchored down in Anchorage
Oh, Anchorage

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. I liked Alaska

I wish I could have actually spent more time actually there, instead of on the cruise ship.

[rainbow4321]

22. Don't feel bad....least you are not in Texas

Chimp and his people have done worse things to our rep than Mooselips can ever do to AK.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Fresh salmon and halibut!

And lots of airplanes.

[driver8]

24. Adak, Alaska!!

I lived there for two years as a Navy brat -- absolutely loved living there!!

[Blue_In_AK]

30. I've never been out there.

Is Adak a barren island, or are there trees? I always imagine it being rocky and windy, with just low vegetation, but I could be completely off.

In-state airfares are so expensive up here, it's hard to travel around, but we are going out to Nome for the Iditarod finish in March. I'm really looking forward to seeing western Alaska for the first time. There's so much Alaska, it's impossible to see it all.

[driver8]

35. Very barren!

The only trees were in the "Adak National Forest" which was basically a bunch of Christmas trees that had been planted. I think the trees were about 5 feet tall.

It was very windy and rocky. Adak is known as "The Birthplace of the Winds."

It was a great place to be a kid, though. It was a blast living there.

[TK421]

25. Are you kidding? I would love to visit Alaska

I've heard it's beautiful...I just don't see myself getting out there in my lifetime

[FarLeftRage]

26. A most beautiful state!

I was there for a week in late June, 1979.

Stayed in a town called Homer on the Kenai peninsula and fished in the Katchemak Bay.
Ate king crab and Halibut almost every day.

Drove through Anchorage and loved it and the views of Mount Denali...

[Blue_In_AK]

28. My lucky brother lives in Homer,

and he even bought a fishing boat last fall, so we're going to have some fun this summer. :) It truly is a spectacular place. I love when you crest that hill just before dropping down into town, and you get that incredible view out across Kachemak Bay to the mountains and glaciers. It's just breathtaking.

[blue_roses_lib]

48. Beautiful pics!

A girlfriend of mine moved to Homer after college so one day my best friend and I took a spur of the moment road trip to visit her. It's gorgeous. I'd like to go back. We used to drive from the city to Beluga Point every night after work during the summer a few years back; watch the sunset over the water. It was a few minutes of zen like tranquility at the end of a long work day.



Each time I travel out of state and fly home, as the mountains and the water comes into view, it's like my soul recognizes I'm home. Alaska gets in your blood like that.


And you're right; we don't want her either. She makes me puke.
:mad:

[Blue_In_AK]

50. I know just what you mean.

I really have a hard time imagining living anywhere else at this point in my life. I moved all around when I was younger, but once I got here, I knew where I wanted to stay. :)

[FarLeftRage]

53. Yes! Damn!

I took dozens of beautiful pictures like that!
I'll have dig out the ol' photo album...

You will truly enjoy yourself if you get out into the bay.

[petronius]

27. You all send out the people who, when Putin rears his head in the

US airspace, it's the ones from there that go out to stop it from Alaska. That's a service that's more done than to be American compared to the places where they aren't as American as real Americans, like Virginia or Alaska.

And more than that, I was in Alaska for 3 days last year and I got to pet a musk ox - not too many states can offer that!

:)

[Blue_In_AK]

29. Love the Palinspeak.

It's like a completely new dialect. :rofl:

[Swede]

32. Like this.

[blue_roses_lib]

49. Nice.

:rofl:

Love your signature line.

[CC]

31. I met a really kick-ass

photographer from there once in DC before a march.:evilgrin: I also have one of her photos hanging on my wall. Really nice person with the cutest read headed grandson if you ask me. I hear rumors that the state's citizens aren't too happy with their air-headed governor either.

[Blue_In_AK]

40. I'm blushing, CC

:blush: By the way, did you ever get all your remodeling done?

[CC]

43. Not yet but it is slowly

getting there. The two broken feet put things off, finally start physical therapy this Monday. The Ter decided to try to have a heart attack and slow things down more. So it will be slow and steady once I have permission to climb ladders and stuff again.

No blushing allowed since I only spoke the truth. :)

[Left Is Write]

33. No, no. We just can't stand the governor.

I don't hold her against the state of Alaska any more than I hold Tim Pawlenty against Minnesota. I'm sure Alaska is beautiful - and the Alaskan salmon is fan-bloody-tastic.

[dana_b]

34. a good friend from high school loves there

she loves it.

[Kali]

36. I like the people.

Spent a winter in Anchorage in the 70's - it was a blast. Loved all the great people I met and hung out with (Mountain View Teen Center). Took the train up to Fairbanks for x-mas and went out to Homer on a overnight (is Homer Spit different than just Homer? I can't remember. Did an all day sucker on the train ferry to Valdez too. Ooops (just rode the train back and forth, we didn't have a car or anywhere to go)

I had a waitress job at Danny's Pepper Tree somewhere out near the base (on Seward I think???). That was fun. He got busted for heroin dealing. All the good 'ole boys that I thought were truckers and construction workers drinking coffee and calling me darlin' were narcs!

[Blue_In_AK]

41. Anchorage in the '70s was really something, wasn't it?

Like the wild west when the Pipeline money started flowing. Things have calmed down a lot now -- we're almost civilized.

[Robeson]

37. Easy. You've always been part of our community...

...that gives me hope that you are not alone in Alaska. Thus, I'm O.K. with Alaska because you and others are fighting the good fight.

[Chan790]

38. The wolves...

I have to have written Rodger Schlickeisen of Defenders of Wildlife a 1/2 dozen times offering/asking if there is any role I can volunteer on the ground in AK making Sarah Palin's life a hell and protecting the wolves.

Thus far, no dice. I would still love to though.

[Whoa_Nelly]

39. About Alaska...

Love the summertime!

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[Blue_In_AK]

42. That's a beautiful shot.

It looks like it's on the Denali Highway maybe.

[Whoa_Nelly]

44. It IS from Denali area

got it from the tubes, but have seen it just like that in late summer in all it's glory.

Alaska is breathtaking and then some!

Hey, Blue! :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

45. It's just so incredibly beautiful up there

After we went to Denali Park this fall, we drove across the Denali Highway over to Paxson. I would almost swear this photo was taken on that road somewhere. It's an amazing drive.

When are you coming back up? I'd love to meet you sometime.

[kentauros]

46. I don't hate Alaska, but

I'd probably have to wear a heavy jacket year-round and get laughed at because I'm used to human-melting temps as normal :P

[Blue_In_AK]

47. That's all right.

We get laughed at when we go down south because of our fish-belly white skin.

[blue_roses_lib]

51. Or glow in the dark

Have to wear shades to cut the glare, my relatives say. :silly:

[kentauros]

55. I'm not so "tan" myself

because I'm a night-owl ;)

[Submariner]

52. Halibut and Chips on the beach at Homer Spit

Beer at the Salty Dog.

The Hawaiian Pizza at the Husky Pizza Shop in Tok.

Playing softball at 2:00 AM in August in the middle of a snow squall at Prudhoe Bay.

Steelhead fishing in the Newhalen river pools near Lake Iliamna.

Driving around and enjoying the BIG view.

[Condem]

54. We love you, Blue

I think we're wise enough to know that your piece of shit Governor doesn't speak for all Alaskans. Hey, how much sun are you seeing these days?