Americans just need a pick-me-up so I’m going to start planning the War Criminals Olympics; Waterboarding, the White Phosphor Relay, Grecko Roman Butchering and American Football. Cheney will win gold in every event despite suffering 17 heart attacks. As an added bonus the economy will also turn around as manufacturers will switch from making those awesome SUV ribbon magnets to giant foam fingers that proudly proclaim that the USA is, in fact, number one.

Chugach, in the past, has been run under the ideal of high-reliability and a robust preventative maintenance program making for the best, and most affordable, service possible for it’s members. Well, that’s all changed. The travesty that is the current board is working to end all of that. From their insistence on running Chugach as a lowest-possible-price for power provider to their public scapegoating of the IBEW, these anti-union right-wingnuts will stoop to any low to retain control of your power.

Their most recent round of shenanigans includes a plan to eviscerate the preventative maintenance program to save money and a plan to use MEA as a business model for Chugach in the future. Separately each of these moves would devastate the quality of service consumers have come to enjoy, but combined we’ll have rolling blackouts, 6-10 outages of two hours of more per year and likely countless outages of 15 minutes or less. If you don’t believe me, ask anyone with MEA as a provider.

For me the deciding factors have been the complete disregard for all forms of alternative energy and the fact that I don’t trust anyone who states unequivocally to not trust a union. Of course all unions have their issues, but I’m pro-union, the last hope of the American middle-class, so anyone who paints them as being evil and scapegoats them for their own ill deeds won’t ever get my vote.

We can’t let these bastards degrade the power grid we’ve worked this hard to make so robust. We can’t allow them to scapegoat our local union for the sad state they’ve put the co-op in. We can’t tolerate a board that refuses to explore clean, renewable and affordable energy sources. Most of all we can’t allow them to drag Chugach into the gutter where they can work to privatize it allowing them to use our money as their own personal bank accounts as we huddle together for warmth during another all too long winter blackout. Vote the sons of bitches out!

Oh, sorry, I misspoke.

“The Federal Reserve Dollar may be in for another big punch. Gulfnews banking editor Babu Das Augustine has raised the possibility that OPEC may switch from dollars to another currency, furthermore reducing the demand for the Dollar which gets shunned by more and more oil producing countries. Iran only accepts Euros or Yen and Venezuela dumped the greenback while countries in the gulf region move their funds away from it too.”

Basically, the US is up a certain river without a certain paddle. All the while the government refuses to investigate the $4 Trillion missing from the Pentagon. I think Rumsfeld took it. Most likely bought himself a plane to escape.

The problem is a lot of people out there think he’s a leftist bent on bringing down government corruption and exposing The Truth^TM . The real truth of the matter is that Alex Jones is a Right Wing racist Libertarian. He’s a psycho, he’s a nut and always has been. If you think he’s a Socialist then you really need to reexamine your understanding of what real Socialism is. This supposed ‘good guy’ is calling for just shy of the outright murder of Mexicans in Texas he’s deemed illegal. Potentially the worst part is the ignorant racist ideology he’s spreading in his listeners. The crowd that practically vomits genius, the “yeah!! fuck you, bitch!! go sports team!!” guys that have shotgun racks in their pickups and beat their wives because pizza isn’t their definition of ‘having dinner ready’. Even if it’s not his intention and maybe it’s just the fact that he lives in Texas, but he’s building quite the base of white racist Libertarian fans.

Alex Jones is a mind virus. If you’re not careful he’ll pound the podium like Hitler until you’re out there patrolling the border with a high-powered rifle like a loyal minuteman. He’s another powerful voice that could have been used to spread humanism, democracy and a call for some peace and sanity, but he just simply fails.

It’s OK if you’re inner AJ fan is confused with all of this. When I’m confused I just check my underwear. It holds the answers to all of life’s more important questions.