Paradise Lost

It appears that the Barney Pebble Partnership will be given the “green-light” to turn western Alaska into a bonafide member of the scorched earth society. May as well sign it up for a supper-fund sight bailout upfront, as in the end it will make Love Canal look like a baptismal fountain! Like a locomotive on steroids, we find an out of control Casey Jones at the helm, full throttle ahead in efforts to rape this land its virgin monopoly. The engineer is the state, high on Rogaine, as we have before us today a mindset bent on one and only one priority – money! We blew it, so now we are desperate. We blew it by allowing “Big Oil” to steal away this state's resources, or value of such, over the last 30-years. During the ”Black Gold Rush” days, there was so much money coming in where no such relief existed before “Oil In”, we ended up happy-go-lucky with only a pittance of this citizens' true resource ownership and worth delivered to the Juneau treasury. And now that the oil pay is played out, panic has ascended over Juneau like the “Black Gold Plague”. So with desperation on high, there comes crazy rage like efforts to destroy what is left. This state is about to commit Harry Carey and allow a world no-class mining company destroy a world class wilderness. And Begich wants to open up ANWR? It is time to lock up all remaining wilderness here in Alaska. Bottom-line, let the law-suits of the opposition descend down upon the justice system and swamp the hell out of reality, thereby stalling all efforts to manipulate nature's worth. As “reality” is the fact that fools rushing in ends up creating a nightmare. But just like Frank MurCowski's behind the scenes dealing with “Big Oil”, it may be too late, as a giant dredge is coming to a wilderness near you, courtesy behind the scenes dealings. I would have too say that Johnny Cash said it well, in his folklore tribute called Paradise:

So daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
They stripped all the timber and tortured the land
they dug for the coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down to the progress of man

Oh daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

When i die let my ashes float down the Green River
let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Five miles away from where ever I am

Oh daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

PS: Thanks and praise to the organization that screwed up the Pebble Partnership job vacancy site! In fact, concerned citizens should be nuking this “Jobs Posting” site with fictitious job seekers, all in efforts to crash this illegitimate outfit bent on destroying Alaska.