<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104</id><updated>2012-02-16T00:31:22.811-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Alaska Matters</title><subtitle type='html'>A place to discuss politics with Alaskans. Everyone is welcome.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-1934820459297332077</id><published>2008-06-18T10:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T10:47:04.030-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Uh, Uh, Uh</title><content type='html'>Barack Obama, the golden-tongued orator, is a totally different person when he cannot read a speech someone wrote for him from a teleprompter. &lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/16/video-obama-on-president-maliki/"&gt;Hot Air.com&lt;/a&gt; posted a link to a &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/06/16/sot.obama.iraq.trip.cnn"&gt;CNN video&lt;/a&gt; of Obama making a statement and answering questions. &lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/16/video-obama-on-president-maliki/comment-page-1/#comment-1188126"&gt;A sharp Hot Air.com commenter&lt;/a&gt; posted the following about the video:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the whole 11:09. I don’t remember a thing he said. All I heard was uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh.&lt;br /&gt;He talks for 4 minutes. I counted 55 uhs.Then he takes questions.&lt;br /&gt;First answer: 10 uhs&lt;br /&gt;Second answer: 27 uhs&lt;br /&gt;Third answer: 16 uhs&lt;br /&gt;Fourth answer: 7 uhs&lt;br /&gt;Final answer: 29 uhs&lt;br /&gt;144 uhs in 11 minutes. Articulate, Uh-bama!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-1934820459297332077?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/1934820459297332077/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=1934820459297332077' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/1934820459297332077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/1934820459297332077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/uh-uh-uh.html' title='Uh, Uh, Uh'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-347717191049987635</id><published>2008-06-18T10:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T10:37:11.676-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Century in Iraq, if it works right: Obama adviser.</title><content type='html'>Obama's military adviser Gen. Tony McPeak's response when asked:&lt;br /&gt;Is Iraq the last country we confront in the Middle East?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Response: Who wants to volunteer to get cross-ways with us? We’ll be there a century, hopefully. If it works right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more at the links below. More stuff the MSM doesn't cover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.poor-attitude.org/mt/archives/000074.html"&gt;http://www.poor-attitude.org/mt/archives/000074.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/22/a-century-in-iraq-if-it-works-right-obama-adviser/"&gt;http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/22/a-century-in-iraq-if-it-works-right-obama-adviser/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-347717191049987635?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/347717191049987635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=347717191049987635' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/347717191049987635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/347717191049987635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/century-in-iraq-if-it-works-right-obama.html' title='A Century in Iraq, if it works right: Obama adviser.'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-8976347399308301400</id><published>2008-06-07T10:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T11:05:22.365-07:00</updated><title type='text'>United NEVER!!</title><content type='html'>Now is the time for the Democratic party to realize that we are NOT lap dogs. We will not jump because "&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Hillary&lt;/span&gt; says so". We will NOT vote for &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Obama&lt;/span&gt;. We will NOT doom this country to be ran by an inexperienced thug.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democrats, Independents, Republicans and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Undeclareds&lt;/span&gt;..All parties. Now is the time to Unite behind John McCain!! The man that IS presidential material, the man with honor, courage to stand for right even if it does not benefit him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go John Go!! You HAVE to win. Our country's survival depends on it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-8976347399308301400?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/8976347399308301400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=8976347399308301400' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/8976347399308301400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/8976347399308301400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/united-never.html' title='United NEVER!!'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-8638835831321938129</id><published>2008-06-06T16:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T17:03:31.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Meet John McCain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_L2HIwMeuB90/SEnQPzY9xuI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ef9GQaYJG4w/s1600-h/180px-Vietcapturejm01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208923413942224610" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_L2HIwMeuB90/SEnQPzY9xuI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ef9GQaYJG4w/s320/180px-Vietcapturejm01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the type of person I want to see in the office of president. This is one of my many reason for dropping the Dems and joining McCain. He is proven, he will NOT let us down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to treat his injuries, instead beating and interrogating him to get information. Only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral did they give him medical care and announce his capture. His status as a &lt;a title="Prisoner of war" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war"&gt;prisoner of war&lt;/a&gt; (POW) made the front pages of &lt;a title="The New York Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times"&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="The Washington Post" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post"&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCain spent six weeks in the Hoa Loa hospital while receiving marginal care. Now having lost 50 pounds (23 kg), in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white, McCain was sent to a different camp on the outskirts of Hanoi in December 1967, into a cell with two other Americans who did not expect him to live a week. In March 1968, McCain was put into &lt;a title="Solitary confinement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement"&gt;solitary confinement&lt;/a&gt;, where he would remain for two years.&lt;br /&gt;In mid-1968, McCain's father was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and McCain was offered early release. The North Vietnamese wanted to appear merciful for propaganda purposes, and also wanted to show other POWs that elites like McCain were willing to be treated preferentially. McCain turned down the offer of repatriation; he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-8638835831321938129?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/8638835831321938129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=8638835831321938129' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/8638835831321938129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/8638835831321938129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/meet-john-mccain.html' title='Meet John McCain'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_L2HIwMeuB90/SEnQPzY9xuI/AAAAAAAAAAM/ef9GQaYJG4w/s72-c/180px-Vietcapturejm01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-4235935437405543840</id><published>2008-06-06T16:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T16:24:46.821-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MeetBarackObama</title><content type='html'>This new site will help introduce everyone to the REAL Obama. The one the MSM tries to keep hidden from us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://meetbarackobama.com/"&gt;http://meetbarackobama.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-4235935437405543840?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/4235935437405543840/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=4235935437405543840' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/4235935437405543840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/4235935437405543840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/meetbarackobama.html' title='MeetBarackObama'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-4871998046282689120</id><published>2008-06-05T17:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T16:05:10.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Obama's "Not Exactly's"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Obama's "Not Exactly's": This person is more dangerous than any candidate in recent years....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Not Exactly #15&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Full list at &lt;a href="http://tncwatch.com/2008/05/obamas-not-exactlys.html"&gt;http://tncwatch.com/2008/05/obamas-not-exactlys.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-4871998046282689120?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/4871998046282689120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=4871998046282689120' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/4871998046282689120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/4871998046282689120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/obamas-not-exactlys.html' title='Obama&apos;s &quot;Not Exactly&apos;s&quot;'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8855024174655441104.post-9001557739173049075</id><published>2008-06-05T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T17:41:10.159-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Switching Over</title><content type='html'>I just talked to my sister in Arkansas. Their family went to the clerks office this morning to change their party &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;affiliation&lt;/span&gt; from Democrat to Republican since Hillary is going to drop out. The clerk laughed and said she was the one hundred and seventy-fourth person to change affiliation since they opened this morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let the exodus begin!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8855024174655441104-9001557739173049075?l=alaskamatters.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/feeds/9001557739173049075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8855024174655441104&amp;postID=9001557739173049075' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/9001557739173049075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8855024174655441104/posts/default/9001557739173049075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://alaskamatters.blogspot.com/2008/06/switching-over.html' title='Switching Over'/><author><name>Alaska Matters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06365162669653662347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
