Alaska Legislature has lost their minds, and now they are threatening President Obama

[J_J_]

They are so irate about ANWR (phony outrage for distraction) they are now threatening Obama and I don't think it is funny...

These are seriously the biggest idiots ever, passing legislation that now has alaska giving 100 million to oil companies instead of making profit this year (seriously) causing a 3.5 Billion deficit for the first time ever. Alaskan's are pissed so the legislature is creating this ridiculous distraction.

But now they have gone too far.

Alaska lawmaker hits Obama and the feds with nursery rhyme

Just one more thing before I go,
There’s something, Uncle, you should know.
The line’s been crossed, we’ve had enough.
You shouldn’t really call our bluff.

Cause we Alaskans might seem sweet.
But chances are we’re packing heat.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150130/alaska-lawmaker-hits-obama-and-feds-nursery-rhyme


Please help comment on this, and if possible forward the threat to the FBI. Thanks.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150130/alaska-lawmaker-hits-obama-and-feds-nursery-rhyme

[niyad]

1. sounds like a threat to me.

[Control-Z]

2. It sure is a threat.

I hope the right people see this.

OT - What is it with Republicans and Green Eggs and Ham?

[J_J_]

9. they are at the reading level of a 1st grader so it makes sense to them

Never graduated to the reading level of The Lorax though.

They are just like Homer Simpson "oooh Haaaammm"

[Control-Z]

55. They may be able to read the words

but they have absolutely no reading comprehension, do they?

[SeattleVet]

28. They love 'Green Eggs & Ham'

because of abysmal reading comprehension, even at this level.

Remember, the 'moral' of the story is that you don't know what you like until you try it, and at the end of the book everyone LOVES green eggs and ham!

[Control-Z]

56. Ha!

That is what I just wrote up thread. They can sound out the words but have no idea what they mean when strung together in a sentence. They miss the moral of the story every time.

[safeinOhio]

3. But how are you going to

Shoot straight when you are so drunk?

[J_J_]

14. they are drunk off their asses, granted, but they are empowering heavily armed morons to act

Check out this legislator who is currently leading the effort on the manipulate the marijuana legalization bill


McGuire blamed for ruckus on airplane
Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008

ANCHORAGE - State Sen. Lesil McGuire caused a disturbance on an Alaska Airlines flight, including throwing a glass of water when flight attendants refused to serve her alcohol, authorities said.

An Anchorage airport police report of the Sept. 4 incident says the Anchorage Republican also continued using her BlackBerry after being asked to turn it off in preparation of the flight from Juneau to Anchorage. According to the report, McGuire continued texting, prompting the pilot to stop the plane as it was taxiing.

Witnesses told police McGuire was rude, used profanity, bad-mouthed the pilots and caused further delay by getting out of her seat.

She was escorted through the airport by police for questioning. In the recorded police interview, McGuire repeatedly said she did nothing wrong. She said she was unfairly targeted by a flight attendant.

http://juneauempire.com/stories/091808/sta_333851394.shtml

[roguevalley]

36. she went to prison if I remember

[J_J_]

42. her husband did, then she divorced him and is with someone else, nice gal

she did threaten the lobbyist's wife that helped put him in prison, so she was trying to help

[J_J_]

44. Does this person seem qualified to write the state's marijuana legislation?

"State Rep. Lesil McGuire locked herself in a bedroom and called police after a squabble over bowling scores with boyfriend, Rep. Tom Anderson, escalated into a fight, according to a police report released Friday.

McGuire said she had drunk two or three glasses of wine and Anderson said he had consumed five or six drinks."



These people are so immature I can't stand it. Did they graduate from 6th grade?

[J_J_]

4. These are the same 'people' who brought you....

State-funded study of bar-bathroom pregnancy tests gets Senate hearing
http://www.adn.com/article/20150129/state-funded-study-bar-bathroom-pregnancy-tests-gets-senate-hearing

If you read the comments there you will see that all Alaskans are not idiots, and are demanding they do something about the budget.

Which is why they are creating this ANWR distraction.

But even if they think this poem is funny, there are a lot of gun nuts that are really stupid that might actually follow through on their threats.

Considering the climate of trigger happy idiots that we are already dealing with in this country, this is incredibly inappropriate.

They have a responsibility to not act like complete fucking morons in public.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Yeah, I can't believe the half million for the pregnancy tests.

Pete Kelley is such a smug, pompous asshole. I just want to slap his face.

[J_J_]

10. I know what you mean!!!

Their arrogance in the face of blatant corruption is making me crazy!!!!!

[J_J_]

5. I don't have facebook...could someone who does

please leave a comment about how he just threatened obama?

I'm sure you would say it nicer than me anyway because these people are making me suddenly remember every swear word I've ever heard...

[whathehell]

12. The Secret Service will hear about it, no doubt. n/t

[J_J_]

15. Do you really think so?

That would really make my day!!!

[whathehell]

19. Oh, sure..

They've checked out a number of less famous people who've been stupid

enough to do that.

I actually had a friend who called the Secret Service during the Bush Administration

and threatened Dubya and Barbara Bush. He denied doing so, but I don't think

he landed in jail for "Laying the Buddhist rap" on them, as he claimed when we

went to visit him.

He was a practicing Buddhist, but also, unfortunately, a bit of a mental case.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. It's been extremely amusing to watch.

I thought Lisa Murkowski's eyeballs were going to pop out of her head. LOL.

[J_J_]

11. I wish I could laugh

I just love this state so much, the lies, the looting, the whole ordeal makes me want to cry because they are getting away with it.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I love the state, too, JJ,

otherwise I wouldn't have stayed here for 40 years. But politics has always been goofy up here, so I just try to laugh at them. Even "heroes" like Wally Hickel had a few screws loose when it came to the "Feds." And who can forget old Joe Vogler?

Until the oilies leave, I fear we're just going to be stuck with crazy Republican rule. Frankly, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if they closed down their operations tomorrow. A lot of people would leave, but people who truly love this place would stay and find ways to create new revenue streams. As for energy, it's not like we don't have almost unlimited sources of renewables.

[roguevalley]

37. we get every idiot from every place else with an ax to

grind who believes we're still a frontier. Thanks lower 48

[Blue_In_AK]

38. That's right.

I wish about half the people here would leave. (And I bet you know which half. LOL.)

[J_J_]

8. This is the Alaska legislature in a nutshell

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ThisIsOurAlaska&src=hash&mode=photos


The FBI threw a bunch of ,well they actually called themselves "The Corrupt Bastards Club" (Ted Stevens included) in prison just a few years ago.

Now several of the same players not caught last time, and some newly hired..are at it again.

This is the perfect way to get the FBI again interested considering they are now physically threatening the president.

Anyone know someone in the FBI they could pass this on to?

[malaise]

13. WTF???

They are threatening the President's life?

[J_J_]

16. I can't see any other way to interpret that

It's unbelievable to me they think they can get away with that.

Imagine, if a Democratic legislator said that about Bush....it would have been all over the media....

[J_J_]

17. Rachel Maddow? Who knows how to really get this to her?

Who in the press has been covering the ANWR sitation?


(I know some people are mad at Obama for various things, but this is not okay on any level, so please help me expose these bastards)

[ChosenUnWisely]

18. 100 Mil to the oil companys yeah that will show President Obama who's boss!

BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Morons.

Hopefully people in Alaska wise up fast but they also gave us Sarah so I won't hold my breath.

[demwing]

22. Don't blame Alaska for Palin

she was contained there... Like a virus.

Blame Grampa McCain, but most of all, blame Palin.

[ChosenUnWisely]

23. The geniuses in Alaska promoted her from small town mayor to Governor the people own it.

[Blue_In_AK]

26. Sarah quite effectively stuck her finger in the eyes

of some very corrupt operatives here at the time the FBI was busting the Corrupt Bastards, which is how she gained her reputation as a maverick. I never voted for her, of course, but she was nowhere near as batshit crazy in the early 2000s as she is now. I don't know if she's on something or has had a mental break of some sort, but Alaskans can't really take the fall for pushing her out onto the national stage. I really do believe we could have "contained her" if McCain hadn't intervened. The oil companies and corporate Republicans hated her guts, and I've often wondered if McCain's decision wasn't influenced by certain sectors wanting to get her out of the state. Her successor, the truly abominable Sean Parnell, is the one responsible for SB21 which has resulted in the state paying the oil companies more in incentives than they're giving back in revenue.

[questionseverything]

43. i think u have hit the nail on the head

palin,s big thing was making sure that oil money went to alaskans, right?

mccain met with her once and then gave her the nod for vp...every1 knew she was out of her league but if the real mission was stopping those oil checks...it worked

[bvar22]

45. Didn't she raise taxes on the Oil Cos (a bunch),

and use the money to balance the budget and run a surplus?

I remember when she was campaigning, she bragged about balancing the budget,
but nobody asked her HOW she did it.

If she had promised to do the same in the lower 48.
(Raise taxes on Oil Cos, pay for all infrastructure and schools,
and mail a check to each American, the owners of the oil,
I might have voted for her.)

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Yes, she did,

in conjunction with our (then) bipartisan majority in the legislature. The law was called ACES, Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share. The law allowed Alaska to ride out the recession relatively unscathed. Sean Parnell appeared to support it as he finished up her term, but as soon as he won his first full term, he took steps to repeal the law and replace it with our current system which has resulted in the state paying more in incentives to Big Oil than it's taking in in revenue. Before he became lieutenant governor, he had been a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips and he was also an attorney with the law firm that represented EXXON during the spill litigation. He is a member of Club for Growth and ALEC. He was so bad as governor that a lot of people here said that they missed Sarah (at least OLD Sarah), as hard as that is to believe.

Sean lost his re-election bid in November, and we now have an Independent (formerly Republican) governor and Democratic Alaska Native lieutenant. They're still pro-development, but I imagine they'll be seeking some changes to the tax scheme.

[bvar22]

49. That is kinda funny.

The BIGGEST "Socialist" running for President in 2008 was Sarah Palin.


Almost nobody here knows that Palin Raised Taxes on the Oil Cos.
When I tell them, they are sure I'm FOS.
Of course, by the 2008 election, they had erased that part of her memory.

[Blue_In_AK]

52. If you want to see more heads explode

tell them that in early summer 2008 she did an interview with the New Yorker magazine in which she spoke highly of Barack Obama and said she would be perfectly happy if he won Alaska. Of course, that, too, was before they did a brain wipe on her.

[haele]

20. Well (apologies to Alaskan DU'ers), they can leave and see where that gets them.

These republicans who think they're all bootstrap-slinging frontiersmen ought to take stock of where they would be without their dear old Uncle Sam subsidizing much of their infrastructure and comfort. Do they really think the Oil Companies will continue to be their "good buddies" if they toss out the federal government because Washington wants them to "keep their room clean" and maybe not spend all their natural resources on drillers who will trash the place taking as many short-cuts as they can; and then run once the profit margin dips too low? Not to mention the potential additional damage to the environment and increase in climate instability once they start destroying the tundra in their greed for what's under it. Significant amounts of methane released into the atmosphere is not a good thing for the earth in general.

ANWR will still be there a hundred years from now if they don't spoil it now for a quick buck. And if the Alaska corporatists think that Oil is still the future for the state, then they really need to get their heads out of the 20th century.

Too many people who didn't read their bible very well believe this is the end times, and think that God gave them the right to, as Prince said "Party like it's 1999"...or they don't care about anything much beyond the next quarterly profit report.

Haele

[kelliekat44]

21. I believe they have the highest per capital crime and gun murder rate in the country.

Looking for the link now.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. You don't need to look up the link.

It's been pretty well publicized here. Anchorage has had quite a run of gun-related murders the last couple of weeks, presumably drug- and gang-related. Our cops have been fairly laid back, but they sounded pretty serious about enforcing warrants and so on on the news last night. I just hope they don't go nuts like cops in other cities have.

[onecaliberal]

27. Where is the secret service?

[Cleita]

29. Threatening the life of a sitting President is treason and someone, who can act on it, should.

It's time to put a stop to this.

[onenote]

47. possibly a crime, but not "treason"

As has been pointed out countless times on this board, "treason" is, under the US Constitution, a very narrowly defined crime that would not encompass threatening the President. However, threatening the President IS a crime (18 USC 871), albeit a much less serious one than treason under the law. (Treason is punishable by a minimum of five years in prison; threatening the President is punishable by a maximum of five years in prison).

I would expect (and hope) that the author of this little bit of tripe will get a call from the Secret Service. But I'm also pretty sure that there will be no prosecution. The courts (including the Supreme Court in the 1969 case of Watts v. US) have found that a distinction must be drawn between true threats and political hyperbole. (The majority in the 5-4 decision consisted of Warren, Marshall, Black, Douglas, and Brennan).

[Cleita]

48. I believe in the case of legislators who are under oath to uphold the Constitution it is treason or

should be. Maybe some Constitutional lawyer has the answer.

[onenote]

50. Member of the Supreme Court bar here

As I said, threatening the president is not and never has been prosecuted as an act of treason in the United States, nor could it be under the narrow definition of treason in the Constitution.

It is a federal crime (and has been been since 1917). However, drawing the line between what is and is not a true threat is often difficult. Thousands of potential threats are issued against the President every year. Most are investigated, but only a relative few are prosecuted as true threats. While the results are so varied as to make predictions somewhat difficult, this particular example probably would be treated as political hyperbole and not prosecuted. (In Watts v. US, the Supreme Court case I mentioned, the accused (who was 18 at the time) was participating in a public rally on the Washington Monument grounds. During a discussion amongst a group of participants in the rally, one member of the group suggested that the young people present should get more education before expressing their views. The accused responded by saying, "They always holler at us to get an education. And now I have already received my draft classification as 1-A and I have got to report for my physical this Monday coming. I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J."

The Supreme Court found that this was political hyperbole and not a true threat.

Again, there are other cases where a true threat has been found that are difficult to distinguish. But all things considered, I suspect the authorities will not seek to prosecute anyone in Alaska for their stupid poem.

[ck4829]

30. "You bow to greenies", yet he neglects to mention oil companies lease land and DON'T drill on them

If you think the environmentalists are more powerful and more connected than the energy companies, then you are an idiot. Anyone who votes for you is an idiot. Anyone who sends you money is an idiot. There are nine connections of idiocy connected to anyone who says that, I even feel like I lost a couple neurons myself even looking at that.

[davidn3600]

31. They will claim it wasn't a threat to Obama personally but a threat to the Union

[Cha]

32. "Packin heat", eh? Well don't shoot yourselves in

your collective stupid foot.

[Dustlawyer]

33. They should have to deal with the BP oil spill

because the Exxon Valdez wasn't enough!

[J_J_]

34. read comments here if you want to know how regular alaskans feel

Most people want to protect ANWR and want these fools to shut up

http://www.adn.com/article/20150128/alaska-legislators-ponder-pushback-after-white-house-move-anwr-0

[Blue_In_AK]

39. I'm loving those comments.

I got pretty tickled at the guy telling us all to go back to California. LOL.

Oh, wait, I thought that was a link to Click Bishop's poem. Good comments on that one, too.

[J_J_]

35. this is how they plan to cover their tracks

so they are a little bit worried about being caught.....

Bill would push back deadline for legislators to disclose finances
http://www.adn.com/article/20150127/bill-would-push-back-deadline-legislators-disclose-finances

[Trillo]

40. Is "packing heat" a metaphor?

The Free Dictionary says,

References in periodicals archive ?
June 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dickey's Barbecue Pit in Eau Claire is packing heat for their first anniversary celebration.
Dickey's is Throwing a Party With Lynn Dickey by PR Newswire

So, in that case it seems to mean spicy or spicy hot (how I interpret it). Most dictionaries online say it means carrying a gun. My question is what does "packing heat" mean as it was intended by the lawmaker?

Are you, the OP, saying Alaska is dumping oil on the market? Maybe that's what the lawmaker meant. Going to war against solar and renewables and clean energy, which President Obama has greatly supported.

[Fred Sanders]

51. I do not think the asshat bigot was inviting Obama for a spicy BBQ dinner....see "context".

[raven mad]

41. Big Oil Kochsuckers, every last Republican in Alaska politics.

They'll get theirs..........

[J_J_]

53. Now the governor is going on with this stupid distraction

If anyone is interested you can chime in here

Walker to Obama: ANWR wilderness call violates Statehood Compact and ANILCA
http://www.adn.com/article/20150131/walker-obama-anwr-wilderness-call-violates-statehood-compact-and-anilca

[J_J_]

54. look at this asshat blaming obama after he pushed the new tax bill

Because of Obama’s glaring disconnect with Alaska, it is no matter to him the state is poised at the edge of a steep fiscal cliff, no matter oil production is stagnant or that prices have plummeted. It is no matter Alaska depends on oil for 90 percent of its revenues, that half the state’s economy and a third of its jobs depend on oil, no matter it is facing a $3.5 billion deficit.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150131/obama-sells-out-alaskas-economic-future-mollify-his-green-base