Good morning!
It's 37 degrees with clear, sunny skies - another gorgeous, 64-degree day on tap. After four consecutive cool & rainy summers, it's about time .... we're all craving sunlight and we're getting it, this year!
Congress is once again demonstrating its collective stoopidity in that Claire McCaskill (Socialist-MO) is investigating 20 Alaska Native corporations for taking advantage of the programs set in place by Congress.
Three of four homeless men who have recently been found dead, around town, have been identified and autopsy results revealed. There is no indication of foul play, so far. It has the remaining homeless folks scrambling for local shelters, though.
This past weekend was a tough one for small aircraft, as four planes suffered, umm ... unscheduled landings in various lakes or groves of trees. There were no injuries, though, which is a good thing.
A recent survey listing Alaska as having the most gun deaths per capita is, shall we say, a bit skewed. No real surprise there, huh? Non-gun deaths outnumbered those from guns, and more than half of the "gun violence" deaths were suicides. Apparently, the rabidly anti-gun folks who composed the study consider a death by hanging to be less "violent" than a death by self-administered gunshot. Funny thing, that; where I come from, suicide is not generally considered "violence" at all.
On a more positive note, it seems that blue whales are beginning to return to Alaska waters, several decades after commercial whaling nearly killed them off. Several have been spotted here each summer since 2004, including two that swam for a distance up Cook Inlet in 2005. Yay!
That's about all I have this morning. Thanks for stopping by - and Brigid, thank you, too!
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
3 comments:
Yeah, cabin fever does seem to bring out the worst in people. There were several suicides on the base when I was stationed there...a couple of military men and several wives and even a couple of teenagers. The interior winters are hard on those who refuse to learn to deal with them
I'd love to be close to a big whale. Just not while in a small boat!
John
GuyK - you're right, especially about "those who refuse to learn to deal with" the winters. The long hours of darkness, and bitter cold, can play havoc with one's emotions.
John - the first whales we saw here were Mincke whales, about the same size as Belugas (15 feet or so), and we were on shore watching them swim from about 30 feet away. The bigger ones are farther out to sea, and a medium-sized ship is best.
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