Archive: December, 2009

Palin’s Pretentions

Hurricane force winds pummeled Alaska’s capitol city, shredding the American flag atop the almost vacant capitol building.  This kind of weather, in any other part of the country, would have been the lead story on every network  and cable newscast.   Here the weather barely made the front page.  No biggy.  We’re used to it.

The Alaska flag, flying proudly aside our national symbol, held its own during the gale and lost not a strand of cloth.

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