Comments on: Everybody’s Nailin Palin: LA Times Exposes Cronyism

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:46:17 +0000

Drosophila melanogaster is a helpful genetic subject, common name fruit fly; check out the work Rutgers does with D.melanogaster. There is a lot in the post worth study. Because of a variety of pursuits each requiring seemingly many years additional postgrad studies, much of the agrarian content of the Alaska articles seems understandable to me. So far, given personal time constraints at the moment, it seems one reason for regarding Alaskan cows with wistful reaction might be their rarity in that climate. Our mixed beef dairy bovines certainly disliked the rare snows in our zone. In one Alaska town, the rodeo features goat roping, but there are indeed horses; and kids learn to raise cold climate livestock like the alpaca. I may have a moment to follow some of the investigative threads later.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:35:32 +0000

who needs to study the fookin fruit flies

agriculture only accounts for about half of the total revenuse in my county

we only import fruits and vegetables to FUCKING EVERYWHERE

well we ship fruit everywhere when it don’t got fruit flies in it

/repuglitardedness

By: glennmcgahee

glennmcgahee — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:03:34 +0000

Ah yea, once again we turn to the paper of record, The New York Times for our information. When its convenient for your talking points of course…..

By: klynn

klynn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:06:22 +0000

I’m with you bmaz. I do not think I can ever have a plumber come to my house ever again after getting blasted with THAT image. Now I am going to have nightmares about America’s crack problem WATERTIGER!

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:00:44 +0000

I think Mr. Havemeister is really a Ms. (Franci)

By: SebastianDangerfield

SebastianDangerfield — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:35:27 +0000

Havemeister was previously a part time real estate agent who stated a childhood love of cows as a qualification for the job.

To be fair to Mr. Havemeister, that was before Alaska outlawed that particular form of loving.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:30:22 +0000

But Watertigers are fierce creatures and I am going to hide behind this fine specimen.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:27:56 +0000

But watertiger’s a crack addict, she can’t help herself.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:19:54 +0000

RoTL, I appreciate the update, fishing is an international enterprise. I believe the newsgathering smother ploy described, as well. Working with regulatory guidelines is an interesting challenge in other occupations too. Consider, from the planning department perspective, the policy developed in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough coastal plan published last year, eg volume one. Harvesting timber is another rugged sport for which people are paid. I have had involvement of various sorts in cattle, timber, and hay production based far from AK. The laws which protect resources and even the personnel who extract the resources, continue to be a fascinating study, from my vantage, after discarding actual engagement as a producer, though often much of what I learned relates to a past economic matrix which is drastically altered in current times.

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:17:47 +0000

This morning Palin gave her first policy speech the aim of which was to show support for special needs children. She began by talking about earmarks including a bridge to nowhere and fruit fly research
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....al-speech/
she went one to talk about support for IDEA except
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/.....uit-flies/