Comments for The Mudflats http://www.themudflats.net Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CommentsForTheMudflatshttp://feedburner.google.com Comment on Open Thread – Dickensian Bicentennial by Pat, Washington state http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/EK6zYBm1GNo/ Pat, Washington state Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:20 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27216#comment-287119 If Cantor doesn't have something big to hide, then why is working so hard to make sure we don't find out what it is? Something smells rotten there, and I think it's Cantor. If Cantor doesn’t have something big to hide, then why is working so hard to make sure we don’t find out what it is? Something smells rotten there, and I think it’s Cantor.

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/07/open-thread-dickensian-bicentennial/#comment-287119 Comment on Open Thread – Dickensian Bicentennial by Pat, Washington state http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/kjdBM5KcChI/ Pat, Washington state Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:49:54 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27216#comment-287118 What I don't understand is how any one, especially a woman, can still say they want to be part of the republican party. Why stay in a party that clearly wants to take away your rights and send you back to the 19th century. I just don't get it. If she can't switch to the Democratic party, then she'd be better off as an independent. Staying in the republican party is not going to rescue it from itself. What I don’t understand is how any one, especially a woman, can still say they want to be part of the republican party. Why stay in a party that clearly wants to take away your rights and send you back to the 19th century. I just don’t get it. If she can’t switch to the Democratic party, then she’d be better off as an independent. Staying in the republican party is not going to rescue it from itself.

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/07/open-thread-dickensian-bicentennial/#comment-287118 Comment on Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin by Krubozumo Nyankoye http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/oOd-Hs5I0OA/ Krubozumo Nyankoye Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:47:58 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27252#comment-287117 Paula, I can understand your animus towards the the things you descirbe, but my advice is to curb it, contain it, use your outrage judiciously. In my limited experience that kind of approach actually works better than any other I know of. Unless you have clear and unambiguous evidence, you should avoid making positive claims with respect to the fracking industry, which I assume you are referring to. Instead you should be demanding knowledge and confirmation from them. The burden of proof is on the accuser. So the accused are then obligated to disclose everything such that it can be evaluated. Paula, I can understand your animus towards the the things you descirbe, but my advice is to curb it, contain it, use your outrage judiciously. In my limited experience that kind of approach actually works better than any other I know of. Unless you have clear and unambiguous evidence, you should avoid making positive claims with respect to the fracking industry, which I assume you are referring to. Instead you should be demanding knowledge and confirmation from them. The burden of proof is on the accuser. So the accused are then obligated to disclose everything such that it can be evaluated.

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/alaskas-mitt-romney-let-the-mental-gymnastics-begin/#comment-287117 Comment on Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin by beth. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/KWFlE1D2a2g/ beth. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:45:39 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27252#comment-287116 This was the question I was going to ask, too, mike from iowa... Since AKM has clarified how things 'work' with big oil in AK, I'm thinking the text in the article needs to be changed to reflect that utter lack of guarantee. Currently the text reads: "Even Halcro who comes down on the right side of 'school choice' is perfectly willing to throw billions to the oil companies, with guarantee of return on investment." I'm a'thinkin' the sentence needs a "no" in it -- as in "...with no guarantee of return on investment". AKM? beth. This was the question I was going to ask, too, mike from iowa… Since AKM has clarified how things ‘work’ with big oil in AK, I’m thinking the text in the article needs to be changed to reflect that utter lack of guarantee.

Currently the text reads: “Even Halcro who comes down on the right side of ‘school choice’ is perfectly willing to throw billions to the oil companies, with guarantee of return on investment.” I’m a’thinkin’ the sentence needs a “no” in it — as in “…with no guarantee of return on investment”. AKM? beth.

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/alaskas-mitt-romney-let-the-mental-gymnastics-begin/#comment-287116 Comment on Saving Sixth Grade Music in the Anchorage School District **UPDATED** by Linda Kellen Biegel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/YwmOOxrwOdQ/ Linda Kellen Biegel Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:41:01 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27219#comment-287115 Mmmmmmm...goulash... Mmmmmmm…goulash…

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/saving-sixth-grade-music-in-the-anchorage-school-district/#comment-287115 Comment on Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin by Linda Kellen Biegel http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/__J4u2vQ0AM/ Linda Kellen Biegel Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:39:23 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27252#comment-287114 Don't get me started... Don’t get me started…

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/alaskas-mitt-romney-let-the-mental-gymnastics-begin/#comment-287114 Comment on Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin by Thomas http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/2gFLtXhynSo/ Thomas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:56:55 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27252#comment-287113 From now on, put "PALIN!" into the post of any title, and instead of 8 comments you'll have 300 people debating whose baby the lopsided one "really" is. From now on, put “PALIN!” into the post of any title, and instead of 8 comments you’ll have 300 people debating whose baby the lopsided one “really” is.

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/alaskas-mitt-romney-let-the-mental-gymnastics-begin/#comment-287113 Comment on Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin by John http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/_YYIvyxdrfM/ John Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:51:18 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27252#comment-287112 Class warfar has existed for years. The wealthy class is winning. Class warfar has existed for years. The wealthy class is winning.

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/alaskas-mitt-romney-let-the-mental-gymnastics-begin/#comment-287112 Comment on Alaska’s Mitt Romney – Let the Mental Gymnastics Begin by Moose Pucky http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/bbIRzJBMReA/ Moose Pucky Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:11:39 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27252#comment-287111 :) :)

]]> http://www.themudflats.net/2012/02/08/alaskas-mitt-romney-let-the-mental-gymnastics-begin/#comment-287111 Comment on Open Thread – Dickensian Bicentennial by slipstream http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CommentsForTheMudflats/~3/oR60gfScE2k/ slipstream Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:56 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=27216#comment-287110 Hmmm . . . some ham, now that would be good with those green eggs. Hmmm . . . some ham, now that would be good with those green eggs.

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