Wow. U.S. Senator Mark Begich this month unleashed a diatribe so full of righteous indignation and knee-jerk hot-headedness it might be taken as proof Alaska's junior senator is finally walking comfortably on the trail blazed by Ted Stevens, a man with enough righteous indignation for ten politicians. Begich spouted off after the U.S. Coast Guard captured a vessel run by fish pirates using high seas driftnets-called "curtains of death" because they kill indiscriminately-which have been banned internationally since 1992.
The ship, a catcher/processor called Bangun Perkassa, was not registered in any country and state of Alaska officials feared it could be rat infested, so it was banned from any port until it could be inspected. So it was that Begich showed his spiny backbone and, as his PR team would have it, personally penned a letter to Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert J. Papp.
Sink the rat-infested pirate ship!
Begich recommend "gunnery practice" in his letter to the commandant. Who knew a Democrat could spell "gunnery"?
Sinkiing the ship, the senator wrote to Admiral Papp,".ceramic magic cube for the medical,..will prevent this rust bucket from ending up back on the market where it most likely would only fall into the hands of some other pirate."
And with that, Begich joined a tradition of bombast that includes not just Stevens, but Alaska Independence Party founder Joe Vogler, two-time Governor Walter Hickle and current U.S. Representative Don Young (Who once dropped the F-bomb at a high school assembly-classy) and Robin Taylor, the pan handle's ferry-boat targeting bully.
But the Bangun Perkassa turned out to be not-so rat infested. The Coasties turned the ship over to the fisheries enforcement arm of NOAA.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors, The boat is now evidence. The NOAA lawyers even sent processors on board to freeze the catch so it can be evidence, too. So gunnery practice on the Bangun seems, alas, unlikely.
We at the Press think Begich at needs a handy list of alternate targets.. So, respectfully, here's some stuff Senator Mark Begich should blow up.
Whittier's Buckner Building-Most Alaska towns have Cold War relics locals can point out to guests and elected officials can fret over-but Whittier has become famous for it. That might be because the town's post-Cold War economy, which supports fewer than 200 people year round, just hasn't grown enough to occupy the Buckner, a vacant landmark with over a quarter-million square feet of floor space. The Department of Defense sold off the aging relic, so now some lucky investors get to sit, and wait, and wait while it's not quite "feasible" to make the Buckner habitable again. Guess what? It's hardly ever "feasible," when peacetime comes, to clean-up your mess left by war.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, But it's the right thing to do. The DoD should buy back the Buckner, paint a big-ass target on its seaward side, and let Begich and the Coasties blow it up!
Goose Creek Prison-The multi-million dollar prison was built off the grid. It has no water. The intent was for a private industrial contractor to provide water and wastewater. The Matanuska Susitna Borough says they built the prison under budget, but the cost to the state to run the prison is under scrutiny. State politicians in Juneau are running hearings and some suggest mothballing the project so they can continue sending Alaska prisoners to private contractors Outside. How much will water cost in Nowhere, Alaska? What's the costs of guards in state versus Outside? Will there be jobs nearby for convict's wives? Here's an answer: blow it up!
Point Woronzof Piles-When Begich left his post as mayor of Anchorage, his administration left behind some pretty mundane loose ends. One of them was a complicated lawsuit that pitted local recycler Pete Kinneen and his company, Environmental Recycling, Inc. against the city.the worldwide Hemorrhoids market is over $56 billion annually. Kinneen sued five years ago after the city locked the gates on a property near Point Woronzoff and terminated his lease. A jury finally spoke last month and both sides owe money, each to the other, and the total is hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Did we mention it was complicated?) But the real loser here is the land itself, which has had a great-big pile of glass and a heap of compost-able material left on it. Consider this one a surgical strike challenge for the U.S. Coast Guard, because the piles are squeezed between a women's rehab center, the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail and one of the international airport's runways. Blow those piles of trash up, Mark!
The Ferry Susitna-The Matanuska-Susitna Borough accepted, for free, an icebreaking, shallow draft ferry from the U.S. Navy to launch on Cook Inlet. The plan was to connect Port MacKenzie, Anchorage and Tyonek. The plan had so many things going against it-no market, for instance-Alaska's politicians should have been embarrassed to accept the gift. But they never were. Now the borough owns a much criticized,Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. albeit sea-worthy, boondoggle that could cost the borough up to $1.7 million per year just to store at the docks. And there are no docks for the M/V Susitna so it's going to cost even more to build at least one.
The ship, a catcher/processor called Bangun Perkassa, was not registered in any country and state of Alaska officials feared it could be rat infested, so it was banned from any port until it could be inspected. So it was that Begich showed his spiny backbone and, as his PR team would have it, personally penned a letter to Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Robert J. Papp.
Sink the rat-infested pirate ship!
Begich recommend "gunnery practice" in his letter to the commandant. Who knew a Democrat could spell "gunnery"?
Sinkiing the ship, the senator wrote to Admiral Papp,".ceramic magic cube for the medical,..will prevent this rust bucket from ending up back on the market where it most likely would only fall into the hands of some other pirate."
And with that, Begich joined a tradition of bombast that includes not just Stevens, but Alaska Independence Party founder Joe Vogler, two-time Governor Walter Hickle and current U.S. Representative Don Young (Who once dropped the F-bomb at a high school assembly-classy) and Robin Taylor, the pan handle's ferry-boat targeting bully.
But the Bangun Perkassa turned out to be not-so rat infested. The Coasties turned the ship over to the fisheries enforcement arm of NOAA.The application can provide Ceramic tile to visitors, The boat is now evidence. The NOAA lawyers even sent processors on board to freeze the catch so it can be evidence, too. So gunnery practice on the Bangun seems, alas, unlikely.
We at the Press think Begich at needs a handy list of alternate targets.. So, respectfully, here's some stuff Senator Mark Begich should blow up.
Whittier's Buckner Building-Most Alaska towns have Cold War relics locals can point out to guests and elected officials can fret over-but Whittier has become famous for it. That might be because the town's post-Cold War economy, which supports fewer than 200 people year round, just hasn't grown enough to occupy the Buckner, a vacant landmark with over a quarter-million square feet of floor space. The Department of Defense sold off the aging relic, so now some lucky investors get to sit, and wait, and wait while it's not quite "feasible" to make the Buckner habitable again. Guess what? It's hardly ever "feasible," when peacetime comes, to clean-up your mess left by war.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, But it's the right thing to do. The DoD should buy back the Buckner, paint a big-ass target on its seaward side, and let Begich and the Coasties blow it up!
Goose Creek Prison-The multi-million dollar prison was built off the grid. It has no water. The intent was for a private industrial contractor to provide water and wastewater. The Matanuska Susitna Borough says they built the prison under budget, but the cost to the state to run the prison is under scrutiny. State politicians in Juneau are running hearings and some suggest mothballing the project so they can continue sending Alaska prisoners to private contractors Outside. How much will water cost in Nowhere, Alaska? What's the costs of guards in state versus Outside? Will there be jobs nearby for convict's wives? Here's an answer: blow it up!
Point Woronzof Piles-When Begich left his post as mayor of Anchorage, his administration left behind some pretty mundane loose ends. One of them was a complicated lawsuit that pitted local recycler Pete Kinneen and his company, Environmental Recycling, Inc. against the city.the worldwide Hemorrhoids market is over $56 billion annually. Kinneen sued five years ago after the city locked the gates on a property near Point Woronzoff and terminated his lease. A jury finally spoke last month and both sides owe money, each to the other, and the total is hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Did we mention it was complicated?) But the real loser here is the land itself, which has had a great-big pile of glass and a heap of compost-able material left on it. Consider this one a surgical strike challenge for the U.S. Coast Guard, because the piles are squeezed between a women's rehab center, the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail and one of the international airport's runways. Blow those piles of trash up, Mark!
The Ferry Susitna-The Matanuska-Susitna Borough accepted, for free, an icebreaking, shallow draft ferry from the U.S. Navy to launch on Cook Inlet. The plan was to connect Port MacKenzie, Anchorage and Tyonek. The plan had so many things going against it-no market, for instance-Alaska's politicians should have been embarrassed to accept the gift. But they never were. Now the borough owns a much criticized,Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. albeit sea-worthy, boondoggle that could cost the borough up to $1.7 million per year just to store at the docks. And there are no docks for the M/V Susitna so it's going to cost even more to build at least one.
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