Alaskans Are Retarded
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER STATE TO OFFEND
We’re sure this post will bring the same politically-correct reaction from certain presidential campaigns as our famous “Michigan is Retarded” headline, but let’s be honest - we’ve got a point on this one. Other than picking a smokin’ hot governor, there clearly aren’t a lot of marbles rolling around in Alaskans’ heads these days.
At least not Alaska Republicans, anyway …
Alaska Republicans gave U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens a primary victory despite being indicted by federal prosecutors.
Stevens won Tuesday’s primary with 63 percent of the vote.
Jeez … these people should be throwing Stevens in jail, not re-electing him. So what’s the deal? Perhaps this little bit of elucidation from Citizens Against Government Waste will help put things in perspective …
Sen. Stevens helped take home a total of 1,452 pork-barrel projects worth $3.4 billion between 1995 and 2008, and Alaska has been the number one state in pork per capita every year since 1999. Some of Sen. Stevens’ more infamous earmarks include $25 million for a supercomputer to study how to trap energy from the aurora borealis; $750,000 for grasshopper research; $500,000 for the Alaska Spruce Bark Beetle Task Force; $200,000 for the city of North Pole for recreation improvements; and $176,000 for the Reindeer Herder’s Association. Sen. Stevens also defended the $223 million earmark for Alaska’s notorious “Bridge to Nowhere” on the Senate floor in 2005, threatening to resign his seat if Congress removed funding for the bridge.
Grasshopper research? A bark beetle task force? Reindeer herders?
Obviously Alaska Republicans have the same definition of “less government” that Republicans have here in South Carolina …
Comments
By rick on August 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Better to have the lower 48 pay for improvements(pork) than Alaska residents. After all how much gets done without a state tax, low or no-existant property tax and an annual payout to every citizen in alaska from the petroleum trust. Lets face it guys, these Alaskans are smart as hell in getting us to support them and would be foolish to give up on their number 1 forager.
By FWFIV on August 28th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
He threstened to resign his seat if any funds for the bridge were diverted to Hurricane Katrina aid. We should have taken him up on the offer.
By rick on August 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Who’s we, the voters of Alaska pronounced their feeling on the subject, no-one else has a say in the matter.
By Not Only That on August 28th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
But seriously, who knew there was really a city of North Pole?
By Ms Claus on August 28th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
The City Council of Elves who determine how much $ gets spent on little stairs for the elves to reach the machines designed for “regular peoples” votes
By Earl Capps on August 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
North Pole is about as cheesy as South of the Border, but on a smaller scale. Really. I used to live in Fairbanks, right down the road from there.
By rick on August 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
See, only the Children believe…..no wonder we have trouble with politicians, we just don’t believe in their inate goodness. Well, off to see the wizard……
By Not Sayin', Just Sayin' on August 29th, 2008 at 8:56 am
The title of this entry is pretty vile and tasteless, considering that the Governor of Alaska’s baby has Down’s Syndrone.
By mary on August 29th, 2008 at 10:40 am
The title is a sad commentary of how clueless people are when it comes to the world of special needs. Alaskans are just like everyone else. To call them retarded because they re-elected Ted Stevens is just sad. It’s just not okay to take away someone’s dignity with a casual remark.
What’s even sadder is that it usually takes having a family member with special needs to fully understand how painful that word can be.
No one is trying to take away your right to use the word retarded anytime you want. Just asking for a little decency.
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