My father had friends who shot wolves from ski planes on open ice. I don't think it very sporting, in fact it appalls me, but certainly they landed and brought home the carcasses, and claimed the substantial bounty offered at the time. I believe wolf hunting is now banned.
Like Governor Palin I am opposed to gay marriage and very much in favor of equal employment rights. She vetoed a bill denying health insurance to same-sexed partners of Alyeskan employees.
Obviously her approval rating is Alyeskan. Half the people in the Lower 48 don't know who she is, but I have watched her career the last two years with considerable interest. I suggest that Spherians show a little deference to the people who elected her to govern a landmass one third the size of the continental US, where Little Diomede is 800 yards from Russia. How many of you pouring derision on this choice have been to The Great Land, have seen the Alaska Pipeline, have hiked in brown bear country? You people are SO provincial.
[This message has been edited by Tim Murphy (edited August 31, 2008).]
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