Serious Taku winds downtown last night with a number of broken car and house windows according to the morning news. Apparently KTOO, our local public radio station, also lost a satellite dish on top of their building. Gusts to 70 mph downtown...even higher gusts expected today. And getting colder. Temps tonight below zero in the Mendenhall Valley and windchill downtown to 35 below. Brrrrrrrr.
Personally, life goes on in its normal winter manner. Daily visits to mom. Run errands as needed. Today I will change the cap on mom's chimney. We're going through firewood at a good clip. Auntie's daughter, Sandra, is in Juneau for a week so it is light duty on that front at the moment. Mom roasted a chicken for all hands last evening - it was quite tasty.
In other news, I continue to follow the turmoil in Western Alabama, aka Arizona. The whack-job right is going on the verbal offensive after a number of days of being on the defensive. The approach of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh & Co. is to defend free speech. The gist of the argument apparently is that one may not yell "fire" in a crowded theater; but it is perfectly ok to yell "open fire" in the context of a political campaign. And this morning Palin accused the media of "blood libel" for discussing the possible link between right wing hate speech and violent imagery and actual violence. "Blood libel" was a particularly interesting choice of words insofar as Congresswoman Giffords is Jewish.
The Arizona massacre is going to enliven our politics for many months to come. Guns. Mental illness. Sarah Palin. Ain't life grand in these United States?
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