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CByrneIV wrote:On this day in 1959, Alaska officially became the 49th state.
Netpackrat wasn't even conceived yet, but his unborn soul was already pissed off.
That's a fact. And I'm still looking forward to the day the occupation ends.
ETA: By the way, the Anchorage paper has an article on how much better off we are for statehood, and how prior to getting it, Alaskans were second class citizens, and we even had to have passports to leave or enter AK. Guess what, we do again. Canada doesn't care, but "my" own government now requires me to have a passport if I want to get back in. Since I won't get one, that means that my only way in or out is by air.
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Dam don,t why in the hell we joined the united states we were just asking for trouble, now we have it, gang bangers on the streets and every other street is paved , pilgrims every where.
Buss loads of blue haired women wanting the park service to break up the fights between bears, good grief .
Pilgrims cant shoot em or hang em now , Dam
PS the Anchorage Times is another commie rag, the morons.
Netpackrat wrote:ETA: By the way, the Anchorage paper has an article on how much better off we are for statehood, and how prior to getting it, Alaskans were second class citizens, and we even had to have passports to leave or enter AK. Guess what, we do again. Canada doesn't care, but "my" own government now requires me to have a passport if I want to get back in. Since I won't get one, that means that my only way in or out is by air.
Get a MMD(Merchant Mariner's Document). It works for North America and the Caribbean, in lieu of a passport.
Or just finish the BearHawk.........
"Life is a bitch. Shit happens. Adapt, improvise, and overcome. Acknowledge it, and move on."
We are still second class citizens, with arrogant narrow minded clueless twits dictating from
DC, they create more environmental, social and economic strife than if we were independent
( or just autonomous states, using the Union as a collective for protection ). Yukon, NW territories, and the Kamchatka peninsula would also like to go along with us , by the way.
Sorry Chris , I am confident you have the best of intentions, but their are more of us every day that are growing more and more angry at the direction of these United States , and given our current direction we should renegotiate the various state hood acts.
It's not just Alaskans Tom. You've said a mouthful for any/all of us westerners. Federal power run amok. Jefferson's fears of monarchy creeping in incremently...
Lot's of grumbling in CA Norstate and Southern OR about reviving the state of Jefferson too. Alaskans are the canary in the cage. This is a case of "as goes AK, so goes the nation."
Hopefully we can keep from hijacking this into an "if the south had won" or " the south was right" thread.
Aslan does not answer "what if".
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You've said a mouthful for any/all of us westerners. Federal power run amok. Jefferson's fears of monarchy creeping in incremently...