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• Palin: a "Dangerously Delusional Political Hack"

  —Kodiak Konfidential

  Thanks to a KoKon Operative for forwarding this from Mad Magazine. Click image to embiggen. [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

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• Was Alaska Worth It?

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  A KoKon Operative spotted this item in the ADN and passed it on. Kinda makes ya wonder.... The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million in gold for Alaska in 1867 -- less than 2 cents an acre. Screamin' deal, right? Wrong, says University of Iowa economist David Barker, who suggests the investment' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 10:58pm EST
  

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• Would You Give $50 to Restore Someone's Eyesight?

  —What Do I know?

  The Seva Foundation catalogue arrived the other day.  For a donation of $50 you  pay for
  "one cataract surgery with a vision-correcting lens implant, post-operative care and medications."
  You can buy another sweater or a ticket to the opera or a dinner out or you can buy someone [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:55am EST
  

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• Anastasia Jamieson as Sister Angelica at the Anchorage Opera

  —Progressive Alaska

  Here's Maria Callas singing the pathetically touching pre-suicide song of a princess forced to become a nun after she had conceived a love child out of wedlock, in Puccini's short story, Sister Angelica.
  
  The Anchorage Opera is presenting this brief masterpiece, along [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  

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• Musical Instruments of Peking Opera - Short Video Tour

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  I have way too much video from last night's Peking Opera presentation by National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts and sponsored by the University of Alaska Anchorage's Confucius Institute. So I'm going to offer more than one post of the evening. The performance was more' [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:39am EST
  

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• Sarah Palin: Rogue Republican or Democratic Operative?

  —SHANNYN MOORE: JUST A GIRL FROM HOMER

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  “Why do you still talk about Sarah Palin? Maybe if you shut up she’d go away.” Wrong. Sarah Palin isn’t going anywhere.  Look at her political history.  When Sarah ran for mayor of Wasilla, she had to destroy her Republican opponent, John Stein.  Once elected, she boasted she was “the first Christian [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:08pm EST
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• Chinese Opera Comes to Anchorage

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  The first time I saw Chinese Opera was sometime in 1967 or 1968. I was teaching English at the Boys High School in Kamphaengphet, Thailand and the Chinese community had hired a group from Singapore to perform for some special occasion. There was a trailer [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

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• Obama's Grim Reapers

  —Progressive Alaska

  
  [President Obama has expanded the role played by private contractors in both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. These companies operate above and beyond our laws, and the Obama administration is quietly opposing ongoing legislative efforts by people like Sen. Al Franken to call these [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2009, 8:07pm EDT
  

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