Friday in the Fog

We're stuck in the mid teens, temperature-wise, with yet another day of dense freezing fog. The frost on the trees and bushes is at least 1/2" thick now, and it looks like it snowed. Everything is now white or silver. Fortunately the streets aren't particularly slick - the city is spraying brine on the main roads, and the side streets have lower speed limits. I haven't seen too many accidents or rollovers, so it mustn't be too bad.

I've heard from friends in the Lower 48, urging us to keep the Alaskan weather to ourselves. All righty then: send it all back. We'll take it.

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A liberal-lefty professor at the University of Alaska has opined in today's paper that our Constitution is thriving, the federal government is behaving itself, the Supreme Court rules justly, and (I quote):

"...the shrill paranoia of the right notwithstanding, American schoolchildren have always left, and no one still today leaves school, without knowing the guiding aspiration that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." It is on the foundation of that principle that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" has not just survived but prospered. Hamilton would be surprised but doubtless appreciative." [emphasis added]

Whatever it is he's smoking, I doubt it allows him to see reality from his ivory tower. Even members of Congress have admitted that few of the laws they've created over the last 100 or so years have been constitutional. These days, the most powerful members (Pelosi et al) won't even answer the question.

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