Sunday Poem

This Poem

This Poem, this Poem, This Poem.
It is not worthy of time.
But having already consumed such,
It has made its point.


This Poem, this Poem, This Poem.
Still not worthy of time,
It has squandered an existence.
But what point does it make?


This Poem, this Poem, This Poem.
Will never be worthy of time!
But by now, it has a past.
It has made that point.


This Poem, this Poem, This Poem.
May be worthy of a past,
But what about the present?
It now makes that point.


This Poem, this poem, This Poem.
I cannot deny its past.
I cannot deny its presence.
Can two birds kill one stone?


Ah, This Poem…

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Alaskan Fruitcake

My dear friends from the UK - Brits & Blokes - have this yearly festival to test how well fruitcakes can withstand the muster, by loading the dense concoctions dreaded by the free world into the holding chamber of prehistoric type catapult machines, to see how well grandma’s recipe can withstand the G-force of free flight. OK, it wasn’t a “fruitcake” slinging contest, but close. But in Manitou Springs, the actual “Fruitcake Toss” is a favorite way to get rid of those Christmas cake gifts that disregard, mold and mildew. Now I have always been a fan of the “Fruitcake”, a delicacy during the holiday season, thanks to the rum high, but here in Alaska we seem to have a very special recipe for the “Fruitcake”. And it appears that this recipe is alive and well and exciting the Bozo Bus mentality. Of course we should be used to this mentality by this stage in the Corrupt Bastards Club realty game. Now one of the main ingredients in the Alaskan style fruitcake, we have before us Harold Heinze along with his efforts at finding a gig for the M.V. Susitna. According to officials, the Susitna is stuck in Ketchikan because there exists no suitable landing at the Port of Anchorage. See, Bill’s billion dollar dock boondoggle is wasting away with every outgoing tide change. Instead of the port growing, it is losing ground. So Bill gets the blame for the overdue ferry to arrive and provide service, as to what that “service” is supposed to offer remains a “Big” mystery. But the real reason the high speed amphibious assault vessel is MIA comes by this fact: There are no customers willing to buy a ticket at an unknown price and no place to dock! It is a magical mystery tour. Imagine showing up to a ferry terminal and the purser tells you here’s your ticket just leave your credit cards, pets, kids and PFD. But Harold wants to trump the millions already spent by the Denali Commission, to change horses in midstream. For those Alaskans that have no notion to Harold’s history here in Alaska, here is a tidbit. Harold was at one time head of one of the “Big Oil” producers here in Alaska, one that no longer exists. Harold once spoke out about ANWR, that “it was a flat, crummy place”. And when Harold was the boss, he found early retirement - abruptly - when he made it a point around the Sheffield circle that he wanted to build a bridge at the “Top of the World”. He honestly thought a bridge – called World Route 1A – could be built from Prudhoe Bay to Norway, and that is how Alaska got into the business and is today known as the state wanting to build bridges to nowhere. Thanks Harold! In KABATA dollars, that road – or 4000 mile bridge – would cost about $3 trillion bucks. And we didn’t stop at bridges, no, no, no as we now have a ferry going nowhere. Anyway Harold went on the record recently that it is time to use the Susitna to carry propane from Prudhoe Bay to the Yukon River for redistribution along the river’s watershed. Wait just a minute, is the Susitna an amphibious type craft? I know it was a NAVY design with stealth like capabilities and not only did the Pt. McKenzie Port Authority get the useless vessel for free, the “Authority” also received ownership of the “Intellectual Property”? But maybe there is something to this “Intellectual Property” thing. How much extra did that transfer cost the U.S. Taxpayers? And remember, this future mothball was paid for by the taxpayers. And the Denali Commission – courtesy the U.S. Taxpayers – has spent billions over the years upgrading the heating oil tanks and loading facilities at many villages around Alaska. To change now to propane, it takes an entirely different set-up. And I have an idea that could calm this ridiculousness. Take the M.V. Susitna and gather up all the failed projects so far still receiving funding – including Heinze’s gas pipeline project going nowhere - and pack it all on the deck, then take the floating rust-bucket out to sea and call on the NAVY, to destroy this boat the brass laughed at and didn’t want, as about the only thing it is good for is a terrorist target for practice. It all boils down to a fruitcake mentality here in the “Last Frontier” and it appears that the Bozo Bus is not having a problem with vacant seats. In fact, the Bozo bus is over capacity, but with state regulators asleep at the wheel, “Keep on Truck’n”. We just keep going on record trumping the ridiculous. Some of the things being thought up today are 30-years too late. But the Bozo bus mentality, wherein fruitcakes seem to realize that these projects provide a job for a lifetime, and there is no accountability because it is all a big pipe dream, it is the perfect stay-at-home job. It is fantasy land politics at its best. And like fruitcake, it keeps on coming and can withstand just about anything. We despise it, but we accept it anyway and just throw it aside hoping it will rot, go away and never come back. But that doesn’t happen with fruitcakes, just like funding for these ridiculous projects keeps on showing up. So maybe Alaska should join in with the Brits, as we have plenty of fruitcakes deserving a free ride, to nowhere! And just think if the chief Bozo did get that bridge to Norway constructed, it would have taken about 35-years to build, and when Heinze made this ridiculous suggestion at the Global Infrastructure Projects Conference in 1986, which was held in Anchorage, the bridge would have had its ribbon cutting ceremony just about now – in 2011. The same year a bunch of Alaska’s legislators went on a junket, to see how Norway “manages its oil wealth”! Just think, had the bridge been built, the Bozo Bus would have been able to go on a ride of a lifetime, the entire cast of legislators with Harold at the wheel. So when in the “fruitcake” mode, just tune into Alaska style ridiculousness, as it is one hell of a laugh, still the best medicine around, even for “Fruitcake” indigestion or better yet, fruitcake insurrection!

Alaskan Comic Relief

Nothing like a good book? Better yet, how about a good comic book to trump that nostalgic sentiment over the novel approach. Now I have always been a believer and follower of Alfred E. Neuman, as his comic views are accurate and honest, providing a little humor where humor is due upon the important aspects of life, upon those everyday aggravating aspects of life that consumes us all and invites frustration. Next time road rage sets in, step back and take a read on Mad Magazine! And Alfred and his associates at Mad are very knowledgeable with the political scene of today, providing some seriousness upon the comedians trying to run this state. Like Alfred and Mad’s early on conclusion that Sarah Palin was not endorsable or electable. But here in Alaska we seem to have come across our very own comic relief in print available as a weekly publication, similar to Mad Magazine, competition maybe? It is called Petroleum News and for $98 a year, it is cheap entertainment. Now of course if you work in the oil patch up north or out on the inlet, you can most likely forgo the cost burden and find this comic book at many of the local latrines near a drill-rig camp or processing facilities. I guess it can be used in a TP emergency! But nowadays, this monthly publication reads just like a comic book upon the horror stories made so through Alaska’s oil patch politics. Sad, as at one time in history it appeared to be a pretty accurate survey of what was occurring in the oil patch. But things changed drastically and dramatically here in the “Last Frontier” when Palin was at the helm and changed the “playing field” with respect to oil, gas and other resource development. So during the early years that SOHIO and ARCO maintained the “Kingpin” positions and along with EXXON so monopolized the North Slope oil trade, there came very little comic relief from the oil patch and it was just serious business, and Petroleum News kept the interested public knowledgeable to the facts. Back then it was basically watching pipeline throughput records being shattered day after day, which was great for this state, as more oil meant more money to be wasted away on nothing – like ridiculous legislative side trips. Today, we see an entirely different cast of characters trying to win comedian of the year award with respect to the oil patch, and this publication is trying to get into the action, like a ways and means to judge the person or entity best suited for Alaska’s funniest of the year award. Since the major oil companies went pissed over Sarah Palin’s production tax increases, taxation that hurts “Big Oil” yet at the same time satisfies the mandate of the “Independent” -  a.k.a. crybabies - well the “majors” have taken a side-track position and that is why we have today a new age cast of comedians entering the scene and making fools of themselves. They are called the “Independents”, when they should be called “Dependents” because they seem to still be wearing diapers when it comes to understanding the right to explore and exploit the “Black Gold” here in Alaska. And their efforts so far reek in lousiness and lunacy, which means they aren’t making a whole lot of loot, but where they are lacking in that respect, the comedy keeps on coming. So with laughter still the best medicine, it has some worth and is worth laughing at, this happening on the oil scene here in Alaska, from Cook Inlet to the Beaufort Sea. So for the fun of it, let us revisit some of the funny things. Well, ENI blew crude oil out of a flare stack? That’s a laugh except the oil droplets blown into the atmosphere most likely fell upon the Beaufort Sea water currents just when the whale population was thinking about retreating south for the winter. Some outfit named Great Bear thought it could drill 500 wells a year into shale sands in Prudhoe Bay and was encouraged by the Juneau legislators to go for a 1000 wells instead, in efforts to fill the void in the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline. I guess the legislators were asleep - or on one of those ridiculous side trips -  during “Oil Exploration & Exploitation for Dummies”. Considering it takes on average 30 days to sink a new well, it means somebody would have to deliver a whole bunch of new drilling rigs which means the price of “Da Bear's” oil would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $5000 a barrel, just to break even.  Great Bear must be smoking something in that pipe-dream. And Escopeta thinks that when its rig was quarantined in Canada for violating the Jones’ Act, that Murphy – of Murphy’s Law fame – snuck onto the rig as a castaway and then when it was finally cleared through TSA for $15-million, that Murphy was at the joy stick control that got the rig’s drill bit stuck, for how long? Now they may be forced to shut-down for the winter. Then there’s Pioneer, the 1st “Independent” to lose its shirt here in Alaska and is now trying to place blame for its mismanaged project on Conoco, for not supplying enough seawater for enhanced oil recovery! Strange as Pioneer’s Oooguruk Island is IN SEAWATER! Damn, get a bucket brigade going if you need seawater. And then there is Savant, which has total ownership of the failed Badami field, which will remain a failed field forever, just ask BP. And Aurora Gas is still at it, a company that should have already been banned from any further business dealings here in Alaska, especially after they reneged on all their gas contracts through a “Force Majeure” move that has cost you and I a bunch. And what is with this Repsol outfit, sounds more like a suppository. And all the legislative body can say over this increased activity in the “patch” is the fact that it is “Promising”. So there comes all this excitement and efforts nearing ridiculousness with the Independents, bent on hitting it big here in Alaska. Will they be surprised! And a bunch of goons from Juneau decided to take a waste trip to Norway, to see how it’s done right. Look, this state is 30-years too late to build a respectable infrastructure that aligns resources development with a focus on a sustainable future, wherein it is a win-on-win situation for the lease holders and the resource owners – them and us!  And when one looks beyond the horizon, it isn’t because of the tax situation here in Alaska the reason we are losing it. Bottom-line we blew it, it’s over with, the golden goose has retired and we have nothing but failed project after failed project with the fallout delivering upon us now a desperate drive to wreak havoc upon a once good industry. Don’t believe me about how this state has failed? Then why in hell has the M.V. Susitna never showed up? It’s sitting down in Ketchikan, painted like the Alaska Ferry system ships, so maybe it can swindle some money from the legislators to keep this worthless piece of junk afloat. Yes we have had over 30-years to get it right and have failed miserably. And now a bunch of hypocrite legislators go on a pleasure trip to Norway, to see how they run the resources’ business. It’s a socialistic country, so whatever they may be doing right to sustain, it won’t work in the Miller Estate! And here it is in a nutshell for the nutcases that think this state will get back as a major producer of resources. The Trans-Alaska-Pipeline is being mothballed! The main reason behind the Strategic Reconfiguration Project, which occurred during Palin’s reign, it allowed for all but 4 pumping stations to shut-down. It means the owners are comfortable with an asset that is running almost on empty. In Valdez, the West Tank Farm has been mothballed, which could hold over 2-million barrels of oil. And two of the four loading berths have been shut-down and are up for sale! The “Big Oil” companies are smart. The infrastructure of the pipeline and processing facilities up North are paid for in full and with the downturn in production, they have voted on a comfortable position. For the majors, the lifting costs average about $2.50 a barrel, even though they will never admit to so. For an Independent new on the scene, multiply that by a factor of 20. It is a losing proposition for the Independents. Big Oil realizes that this frenzy with the Independents is a plan of attack running right into their control, as this oil the “Independents” produce cannot make it to market, without “Big Oil’s” pipeline. It is like the Troll under the bridge. So it is such a laugh this new age mentality to try and trump “Big Oil” here in Alaska. It will never work, but I hope these Independents keep on throwing away the shareholders investments, as it sure does provide for some good laughs. So if in need of some medicine, some laughter, just pick up a copy of Petroleum News and read on. And remember, he who laughs last, laughs best!

Dear Mr. McCain

Dear Mr. John McCain

What’s wrong with Canada? If you so believe that it is somehow or in someway anti-American for Barack Obama to use a bus made in Canada, then maybe you would be interested to find out that the largest U.S. military “Privatization” contract ever awarded under George Bush and here in Alaska, it is being funded by Canadian interests. Doyon Utilities, a joint venture between Doyon Limited – an Alaskan Native Corporation – and Fairbanks Sewer & Water – a private limited shareholder interest – through mergers and sales, 50% of this venture is now owned outright by a Canadian corporation that is using funding from Canada’s Toronto Dominion bank, to bankroll this 50-year $4-billion dollar contract. The “Privatization” allows Doyon Utilities to purchase the infrastructure, which costs a whole lot of loot, which is being supplied by the Canadian “Wall Street”. So huge interest payments are being supplied by the U.S. Treasury and taken from America and delivered to the Canadian interests, basically they are starting to own the military infrastructure here in America! So to make issues over a bus when there exists more valid concerns, why not take this matter to justice!

Rebel Against Pebble

So the residents of Bristol Bay have decided to rebel and vote in favor the anti-Pebble initiative, which restricts construction of world class sized resource development infrastructure when such is in close proximity to world class fisheries. Now we see the lawyers coming front and center to defend this and that, as the money being gobbled up upon this Pebble Partnership project isn't about to fade away. That could be expected, this litigation, as there is a whole lot of fighting money left in reserve. It will run its course and in the end... it will never end, it is called the appeal process. But with the anti-Pebble initiative getting the vote of approval, it is off towards a good start, as the people have spoken – maybe not an overwhelming victory this voice now heard, but in America the majority has the hammer. Now what irks me most this situation is the fact that Governor Parnell has decided to enter the race, as he and his attorney general believe they have the final say with respect to the state's resources and development opportunities, not the people! What a looser this guy is! And we thought Palin was the worse governor this state ever claimed or was it Frank? Anyway, I am sure the “Bush Rat” is on the side of those that voted down this controversial mine project. Be it known that resource development is essential for this state's survival, as without a sales tax or without a state income tax something has to provide for Ben Stedman's $900 dollar a night vacation palaces when not doing his job in Juneau, here in Alaska there has come the point in time wherein we need to slow down and go cautiously such endeavors. But the defense fostering development is stocking up its munitions, and the big gun worriers are aiming the sights against the voters' choice - to walk cautiously upon resource development. U.S. Congressmen Don Young has floated a bill in Congress, one that would strip back “All” regulations excited over the past 20-years. Here is what I say to Don, go ahead with this stupid bill but at the same time strip back the same amount of years away from the wage we pay you to supposedly “represent” - strip that back to $125k instead of what you receive today for nothing - like $175k. In fact, instead of scaling back regulations, why not pass some laws that would scale back corporate America CEOs' pay? In fact, why not go on the warpath to make sure my pay increases like your pay has increased over the past 20-years, benefits and all! Why is your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness better then mine? But I am serious when I say we must proceed with caution, any and all new resource development here in Alaska. Sure the state is running out of money due the fact that oil development is tanking, but that doesn't mean we need to take on and embrace Young's “Stupid” mentality, to strip it all away so they can then strip it all away, so we can get a few pennies on the dollar to support that yearly welfare giveaway – the PFD. Bottom-line, there is very little regulation left here in the “Last Frontier”. The sad fact of the matter is that regulation started finding a back seat when Frank Murkowski was the governor and gave Sarah and Randy a preferential seat on one of the most powerful regulatory committees this state relied upon, the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Committee. Does “conservation” in the title really mean anything these days? But we all realize that the sad fact this arrangement with Palin and Ruderick was as a convenient set-up as a secret GOP covert operation, a dereliction of duty and at the same time a ways and means to see regulation go down the toilet. It has happened, and then when Sarah took over the helm, it didn't stop , as regulation already in the back seat was shoved out the door. She cast a spell upon “Big Oil” with increased taxation and then put up an “Open for Business” sign to entice “Independent” oil companies – mom & pop type ventures – to venture North to fulfill a dream of making it rich invading the tundra through exploitation of the “Black Gold”. Like never seen before, with this new-age development craze we have given away the farm, with royalty relief and tax incentives that have provided very little in return, except the possibly that it is a devastation upon the ecosystem. Today we see all kinds of dereliction upon regulation designed to protect the environment - once known to be pristine and wild here in Alaska - along with little or no desire to protecting the citizens' health, like regulation is today only a suggestion. We see it with the EPA, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska and the AOGCC. The DNR, DOR, you name it as the list goes on and on. And herein are some true facts and figures. The EPA did not come front and center to fine one of Palin's “Independents”, for the largest illegal dumping ever recorded on the North Slope, over 49,000 gallons of contamination, first denied by the culprits until a “whistle-blower” decided to spill the beans, then when evidence surfaced that could not be questioned, Pioneer walked away with a measly $10,000 dollar fine. Had this been BP or Conoco, it would have been in the millions. With the RCA, they were tricked into providing “oversight” upon the privatization of the military “utility” infrastructure in Alaska, a ways and means to fool the taxpayers and in turn, this scam is costing you and I millions in lost revenue so a handful of individuals on the take can rake in millions to their off-shore tax shelters. The “privatization” even under regulation is now considered a “Monopoly” which will eventually hurt the consumers through precedence set. Dereliction upon the AOGCC finds itself in a recent decision to let an oil company, that same “Independent” talked about earlier, permission to drill into a cesspool to develop possibly “human crap” contaminated oil, out of desperation. And the DNR seems to not give a rat's ass too what is occurring on the slope, especially with this new-age wine & dine the “Independents” movement fostered by Juneau. Like polar bear dens being disrupted out at Oliktok Point, when the operator was supposed to perform a “heat” survey to make sure this type of animal harassment did not occur, as was there no follow up report performed when another “Independent” allowed crude oil to be blown out of a flare stack – 20 feet from the ocean. Most likely sending hydrocarbon constituents out on the Beaufort! The list of dereliction goes on and on, and this is stuff that was witnessed by a single individual! So when good research finds that it doesn’t fit the mold of development, like exploration for exploitation, and we see honest scientists being furloughed, that’s the point - for being honest their assessments. We have lost the Last Great State Race. Bottom line, Alaska has turned into a state that places resource development above all. It is desperation driven, as the younger generation wants more for less. Look, all good things come to an eventual end, and this is the case today. The fact that MoanaLisa MurCowski wants the EPA to evaporate and Don's “roll-back” the regulations mandate has become a possibility in Congress and with Begich's behind the scenes drive to open up ANWR, it is this pressure that allows dereliction of duty. it appears that if those in positions to regulate the industry want to stay employed, it means giving in on everything and allowing “malfeasance” like development. Has it come to that, that people are afraid to perform their jobs, due possible retaliation? Just ask Walt Monegan, as the trend setting is alarming. So it was good to see the citizens stand up to prevent development in Bristol Bay, at least delay it for awhile, hopefully forever. We must “Rebel with a Cause”, as we can no longer trust those in government to make sure what is happening on their watch will not show up one day as an Alaskan style “Love Canal”. Unfortunately, it is happening as of this writing. With the attitude today with respect to environmental responsibility, had this same attitude been present when it came time for Congress to approve building of the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline, it would have remained a dream. It wasn't perfect over the years, but there was some semblance of environmental accountability and responsibility. Over the years, that was refined and allowed for a win-on-win situation, that development could take place with the least amount of interference upon this wilderness. That all changed with a change of command at the helm. And what has transpired in short duration is a total disregard for any stewardship and when the governor tries to trump the citizens, we can see that this dereliction has invaded like a cancer and if not stopped through citizens’ intervention, then we may as well find a new motto for this state. Instead of the “Last Frontier”, a better fit may be the “Lost frontier”, here yesterday but gone today and tomorrow!

No Nooky McCain

It appears that John McCain is getting no nooky, once again! This guy has a habit of staying quiet for a period then when he gets frustrated, after consuming Viagra but missing an outlet because the Budweiser girl has gone missing playing spousal hooky, he takes it out on America – through representative rage from the podium on the Hill. Today that frustration boiled over with McCain taking shots at Obama, for using a bus “Made in Canada” to gallivant around the country trying to sell his “Jobs for American” program – a.k.a. Obama's 2012 campaign on wheels on the taxpayers' dime! Now if you thought Sarah had a fancy bedroom on wheels, take a gander at Obama's dream wheels! But wait just a minute, do you really think Obama has time to go “bus” shopping? In fact, the bus was indeed made in Canada and purchased by the Secret Service then outfitted as “Air Force One” on wheels here in America. So Mr. John “No Nooky” McCain, if you want to take shots at Americans taking advantage of Americans by using outside interference, then look no further then Alaska, as with the “Privatization” of the Alaskan military infrastructure, the hen-house has found a new owner – a foreigner called Canada. Now this preferential “Privatization” here in Alaska was something started by your late friend and colleague U.S. Senator Ted Stevens! And Ted made sure these lucrative contracts went to his buddies. Yes indeed, a $4-billion dollar contract awarded to a local Native Corporation, which is good for Alaska! Except the money to fund this venture, to purchase the infrastructure, it is being secured by funding from Canadian owned investment corporations using Canadian banks for the investment monies. And this is “Big Money”, so the interest payments are astronomical. It amounts to millions in yearly interest payments that is going from the U.S. Treasury to the ARMY to the “privatization” corporations then forwarded to a foreign entity, when it should be staying right here at home to help the economy that is almost at a stand-still. And we are talking contract durations lasting 50-years! So for that many years, a whole bunch of taxpayers' loot will be taken advantaged of by a non-American bank! What corporate taxation? And guess what, through the investing, this foreigner is buying ownership of “Our” military infrastructure! As we speak – and remember for an erection lasting longer then 4 hours please seek advice from Anthony Weiner – as we speak the military infrastructure critical to this country's national security finds ownership by a foreign entity! Imagine if we can't pay the rent what may happen? So if you are once again frustrated when the Viagra takes hold and you have no avenue to show off and need to take something out on something due your long and well-known fits of frustration, try taking shots at reality, like this “privatization” scam, as this country should not be selling such vital organs to a foreign entity – neither friend or foe. This Mr. No Nooky is just another indication that your focus is missing-in-action and missing out the real problems attacking America, because who gives a rat's ass about a bus made in Canada? With the money we pay you to represent, please do your job instead of getting hooked on pettily condemnations your fellow man, including the Commander-in-Chief. And maybe it is time for some tea, instead of the Viagra, to calm you down!