Open Thread – Savor Bristol Bay!
Trout Unlimited Alaska invites the public to attend its first Savor Bristol Bay event of the summer on Saturday, June 19, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the South Anchorage Farmers’ Market.
Chefs from Bear Tooth Theatrepub & Grill, Sack’s Cafe, Jack Sprat and Bradley House will grill freshly caught Bristol Bay sockeye salmon, give away samples, and ask the public to decide which recipe is best. The name of the winning chef will be revealed at approximately 1 p.m. and he/she will take home new cooking utensils as a prize.
After savoring tasty samples from the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon fishery, stop by the Trout Unlimited Alaska booth to learn new salmon filleting techniques, pick up new salmon recipes and learn more about what you can do to help protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble mine. Bring the kids for fish art activities and T-shirt printing too.
Bristol Bay wild salmon contribute more than $400 million to Alaska’s economy each year. The fishery employs thousands of people and offers a healthy, sustainable food source. The salmon fishery faces unprecedented threats from what would be one of the world’s largest mines, located upstream from some of Alaska’s finest salmon spawning grounds.
Get involved, have fun and help Trout Unlimited Alaska to Savor Bristol Bay.
Fillet Demonstration: 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Salmon Cook-off and Tasting: 11 – 12:30 p.m.
Kids Fish Art/T-shirt Printing: 10 – 2 p.m.
South Anchorage Farmers’ Market is located outside the Subway/Cellular One Sports Centre at the southeast intersection of O’Malley and Old Seward Highway.
Learn more at www.savebristolbay.org. Find us on Facebook or on Twitter.
Finally, some good news from the Senate! We might actually see the end of the secret hold that Republicans have been abusing so outrageously since President Obama took office.
“McCaskill, a first term Democrat, apparently has persuaded enough of her colleagues to back her effort to take the “secret” out of the Senate’s practice of secret holds.
If her bill gets to the floor, which is appearing more likely since every Democrat supports it, plus enough Republicans to grease passage, no senator would be able to block on a nomination or a piece of legislation without leaving fingerprints.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/17/96107/bid-to-end-senators-secret-holds.html
Kisses to you!
go to bed
if only you people could see what the dublin nightlife has done to fawnskin…
you would not think of her in beautifying terms.
nope.
think raccoon eyes. think sore feet and swollen ankles. think dragging limbs and empty head.
this is not the fawnskin of lore.
But remember…a good pint of Guinness or Smithwick’s can fix anything!!! You’ll be up dancin’ a jig in no time!
I concur!!!!
Fawnskin. as wise as she is beautiful.
I just want to repeat something Fawnskin said to me.It is not the exact language….but basically everyone here on this site has a common purpose. We are for humanity. I for one like that.
Hmmm, maybe they are planning on duct-taping her mouth shut. The only way I know to keep her from giving her “opinions”.
Hard to host a show with duct tape over your mouth. But this is one of the big questions I had/have about this production – is it being written (scripted) or is it ‘reality’? Even if ‘somewhere in between’ how can anyone say it will not include her opinions? And if scripted, how do we know Sarah will deliver lines as written if she disagrees with them personally? And if she refuses and they rewrite, how is that not ‘her opinion’? So the eight segments must therefore stay away from any controversial subject which means the whole thing is going to be an enormous snoozefest full of undoubtedly beautiful cinematography but little else. They could have done the beautiful cinematography without her.
I’m betting, after production is over, they’ll wish they had – done it without her, that is.
…how are they gonna get her script all on her hands ??? It’s the only way she reads. isn’t it ???
My point exactly (about the duct tape). Slap it over her mouth. Those who want to see Alaska can watch. Those who want to look at Scarah can look. No one has to hear her. She has nothing of worth to say. Stop trying to sell our state Sarah. You suck at it.
Hey, I’ve got a better idea! She seems to have a plastic surgeon on call these days, so maybe her new best friend doctor can just suture her mouth shut. That would make life more enjoyable for everyone!
From the LA Times:
“The combative former Alaska governor is teaming with reality super-producer Mark Burnett to start production next month on a one-hour, eight-episode series in which Palin ‘will show, first-hand, what it means to be Alaskan,’ according to an internal summary developed by the channel’s ad department. ‘Each one-hour episode will feature taking on a different job, a new adventure.
‘She may be hauling nets with her husband, Todd, on his commercial salmon fishing boat on Bristol Bay, roughing it in a logging camp or spotting grizzly bears while camping on Kodiak Island,’ the summary continued. (Neither Palin nor Burnett was available to elaborate.)”
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“Depending on how it’s made, the Palin show could end up being an even bigger definer of TLC’s image than the Gosselins have been. O’Neill promised that the ex-governer [sic] has been intimately involved with the show’s development, even though ‘there won’t be her opinions in the show, politically or otherwise.’”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-tlc-palin-20100620,0,6905449.story
Alaskans, discuss it amongst yourselves, but really, “spotting grizzly bears while camping on Kodiak Island”? When have SP and Todd ever done that?
And “there won’t be her opinions in the show, politically or otherwise.”.
Does she know that?
well mudpups we tried. we really did. however murdock wants to give sarah money and he wants it to be legit so poor Alaska has to be pimped once again. it is a shame, that being said, i bet the show is going to be LOL funny. AKM is going to have a ball with it. i am going to put real butter over my popcorn.
I’m working on my signage just in case she decides to come to my neighborhood to do some pimping. Unfreakin’ believable. Is she going to wear her high dollar custom Cabela’s wear while “camping” to spot grizzlies? Is she going to go and poke the bear with a stick like Marty Stouffer used to do? we always wondered why he wasn’t full on attacked by those animals. And maybe we will get a first hand lesson on shootin’ wolves from airplanes…. I think she should be forced to do some minin’ and oilfield work like real alaaaaskans.
we will never get to see the real Sarah…unfortunately they will edit the show so she’ll be shown in the best light .
The only thing i’m looking forward to is AKM and Shannyns narrative
OMG, was chatting on skype, when son informed me that there were maggots all over the kitchen floor. On not so close inspection, it was evident that I had a problem. In my haste to meet fawnskin today, I left a plastic bag containing a chicken carcass in the kitchen. We have lovely hot weather here at the moment and unfortunately, Irish “Buf” tore apart the bag and scattered these little things everywhere.
You’re all welcome to my house for dinner!
er..um…thanks anyhow Dame. think i’ ll just eat chocolate cake today….and jelly beans.
Bubs … please do pass me some of that cake. I doubt I’ll be having the rice and barley tonight.
And Irish Dublin Dame Gal – Maybe when we’re in the treehouse chat you could be in charge of only getting the ice from now on, k ?
I think I have hoovered up the little feckers. And disposed of the hoover bag.
as in vacoom!
This not a normal thing. I don’t usually reside with maggots.
I’ll pass thanks, Dame. I think I’ll wander over to bubbles’s for some ribs- 🙂
not sure what to make of it but $P’s Facebook post of a few minutes ago is absolutely …. boring. It’s just a short , to the point backing a candidate. Her twitter post was equally bland.
***** I’m very proud to add my support to Tim Scott’s campaign to represent South Carolina’s 1st congressional district. Tim has a remarkable success story. He grew up in poverty and was raised by a single-mom who struggled to provide. With help from a mentor and his brave mom, Tim learned to appreciate the value of hard work and American opportunity. He went on to become a business owner and has served in public office with integrity on the county and state level.
Tim is a pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-development, Commonsense Conservative who’s been endorsed by the Club for Growth because of his solid commitment to the principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility.
He will represent the Palmetto State with distinction in DC, so I encourage you to vote for Tim in his run-off election next Tuesday, June 22nd****
Calm before the storm ? Or perhaps she finally had that meltdown and is ” resting comfortably” in the Wasilla compound turret while her handlers pretend everything is juuust fine. . “Look. See? Here’s a posting by Sarah. If she was wearing a straight jacket she wouldn’t be able to type now would she ? ”
Things that make you go , hmmmmmmm ….
Why-O-why can’t my silly comments pass the Big-Brother-comments, I’d like to know…
I need not tell youse, buddy, this existence is only so long – all other is superficial snoretime. How did I arrive at that difficult, TRI-gonometry conclusion, thou asketh? Read my blog and find out. God blessa youse -Fr. Sarducci, ol SNL
Oh dear. Brian cover your eyes. Saw this on Huffopo comments had to share.
$arah Palin / GOP Moosiah 2012
I wanted to post this for those who haven’t seen it. It is so sweet.
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“This just might be the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen … well, at least since Christian the Lion. The Aspinall Foundation is a charity that promotes wildlife conservation and reintroduces captive gorillas back into the wild in West Africa.”
http://njuice.com/qp65j-Damian-Aspinalls-Amazing-Gorilla-Reunion-VIDEO
another link to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ-bJFVJ2P0 –
Buffao Gal—-Hope to see the list of the sponsors. I will start making a list of people to send them to, so they too can protest. He is such an arrogant, egotistical bastard.
Here’s a list of Limbaugh sponsors , from Daily Kos . It was posted back in January so it may have changed since then. I’m looking for something more current.:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/15/825644/-Rush-Limbaughs-Sponsor-List
It’s a rather sad list of companies. It looks like they might be the last hanging on after others bailed. I’m going to write the letters but I just know there’s got to be a better way. The Daily Kos page has a link to FCC consumer complaint division. At least that’s an additional avenue.
This is great! Check it out: http://apologizetobp.com/
Love the comments.
Ok Mudpups – it’s time to do something about Limbaugh. He’s moved on from mocking Obama’s children to now mocking starving children in America. He’s a sick bast*rd and it’s time we get busy writing to his sponsors.
Here’s a bit of his latest hate : http://twurl.nl/s3wkqi
**** On the June 16 edition of his radio show, referencing a report that children “face a summer of hunger” because “[w]hile classes were in session, they relied on free or discount cafeteria meals … [b]ut they will not be reached by the patchwork summer food programs financed by” the federal government, Limbaugh stated that “a summer off from government eating might be just the ticket” to curbing childhood obesity. ****
He also suggests that the kids learn to dumpster dive if they’re hungry.
There’s a link in the blog piece above to a list of Limbaugh’s sponsors. I’m off to start sending some emails !
I wonder if his new wife ever wants to have children of her own? I wonder what she thinks of that cruel, heartless statement? Does she thinks it’s all an act and that he really is a lovable fuzzball?
Pretty sure she’s a gold digger who doesn’t care about how vile her new husband is, as long as she keeps getting luxury items.
Oh, please don’t let them procreate!
I heard about this comment. It made me sick. There is a millionare, on the radio, bloviating about family values and telling people that they are welcome to eat the garbage he throws in the dumptser if they are hungry. I cannot believe he has the nerve to call himself a christian.
Thanks for the link.
I have several students in my school who are in exactly the circumstances that he is describing. They sneak food into their pockets and backpacks to bring home for weekends and school vacations (we, of course, pretend not to notice). They eat astonishing quantities of food in school because they don’t know when their next meal will be and want to take full advantage of the food as long as it is available. When asked what they had for dinner the night before, they often say, “Nothing.”
I cannot imagine how anyone could look into the face of a hungry five-year-old and be so incredibly cruel to suggest that they eat from dumpsters. I understand that his fame and fortune come directly from being as controversial as possible, but he has gone way beyond that to truly despicable and repulsive.
Hey guys…here with fawnskin…missed you in the tree house. We have had a ball this afternoon.
Dang ! Missed you again.
Glad you’re having a good time. Hope to see you later !
good article:
On Father’s Day, hypocrites are all in the family
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/18/AR2010061804320.html?hpid%253Dopinionsbox1
Fun how those great family values people hold up when you look at THEIR record!!
As sad as I am to say this I think at least a portion of all this comes because the man is ‘of color’. They forget the white part of him so as to beat on him because he is living proof that America is place of possible success IF you work hard and make good choices.
It is also not a place that success is guaranteed just cuz yous white!!
One thing the reporter forgot to mention: $P was knocked up when she & Toad wed.
hey Fawnskin – where are ya ? We’re treehousing without you !
Well we missed you in chat , Fawnskin and Irish – Let us know if you’ll be there later. HAVE FUN!!
please go to the tree now….we’re here
There are many species of salmon that we enjoy in Western Alaska.
The King (Chinook), which spends 5-8 years in the ocean before returning to their natal waters to spawn grow to enormous proportions, 50-70 lbs. It’s so rich in oil, it doesn’t appeal to all palates. The Yukon River Eskimo prefer to smoke it in strips, a meal in itself as long as four feet of protein rich sticks. It doesn’t cook as well on the grill or in the oven because of its oil content.
Chum (Arctic Keta, Dogfish) is generally the most plentiful and hardy of the species. It comes twice a year, chasing the early summer Kings and arriving in another pulse in the Fall. These babies spend 4-5 years in the ocean before returning and get as large as 40 pounds. These cook and keep a lot easier than Kings. They are typically split at the bone and hung by their tail in smoke houses after soaking in salted water to keep geesiks (black flies) off. They are the staple of Eskimo households, feeding entire villages and dog teams.
Sockeye, called Reds because of their fire engine red flesh, are the smallest of the salmonid and spend about three years out at sea. They get as large as 15 pounds. They are very tasty in any prepared form. They typically swim above the stronger chum schools, which become bycatch in that concentrated fishery.
Silvers or Coho, are beautiful mid-sized salmon. They come after the early summer Chum, usually on the fourth of July on the Kuskokwim in Bethel. They average 50 lbs. and are enjoyed in filleted form, frozen and vacuum packed for grilling and baking as well as smoked.
Pinks or Humpy’s have a very pink flesh, are pretty ugly and not as common in the Western rivers.
It is extraordinarily hard work to catch, head, gut, cut, trim and smoke the fish for our winter staple. I think Mother Nature gives us such long summer days so that we can use those 18+ hours of daylight to keep up with curing the 700+ fish each fishcamp needs to pack for our families. This summer got so cold during the King run that a lot of us were wearing winter clothing to cut and hang the fish. It wasn’t much fun, but the rewards are so worth it. There is nothing like some dry fish for lunch with a cup of tea and a curr’alii (sailor boy cracker.)
We also use the whole fish often times to make soup, and the head is often fermented and eaten as a delicacy. Bones are also used for soup stock, and some folks enjoy the more unusual parts of the body for food other than just the flesh.
It may sound like a lot of fish per family, but it only constitutes under 5% of the salmon population, there is enough to meet escapement goals and feed and nourish other animal life.
I’m curious, with the huge minerals find in Afghanistan, would world mining companies give up their interest in the political and environmental battlefields on American lands in favor of a land grab and lax environmental and safety standards in a developing country?
This is not to encourage Pebble to stay viable, but it may throw some perspective into the mix for proponents of the mine and the economic diversity it provides in a jobs scarce region. Placer Dome / NovoGold / Donlin Creek at our Kuskokwim River headwaters isn’t as political a hot-button as our neighbor’s, our fishery struggles compared to the richness and return Bristol Bay experiences.
In any case, long live Bristol Bay’s envious and extraordinarily rich sockeye run.
Thanks so much for posting this. As a “city girl” who loves the wild, it’s hard to imagine many aspects of Alaska village life (I’m also vegan, which wouldn’t work so well in such a harsh climate).
Your last two paragraphs are intriguing. I’m a lifelong rockhound, and when our troops were using daisycutters to blow up caves near the Pakistan border, I cried. That’s where the finest kunzite, lapis lazuli, and aquamarine in the world are found (I have a little of each), and I told my roommate, “They’re simultaneously unearthing and destroying some of the finest minerals on the planet!”
Anyone with even a passing interest in geology was well aware of the mineral wealth of Afghanistan, and that this is suddenly a “news story” raises my suspicions beyond the usual level.
Think about the awful damage we did to Iraq and the cradle of civilization and the antiquities that have been obliterated. This was from a couple of months before we started bombing/destroying nearly everything there:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-world/usiraq/timeline/
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/cult-a19.shtml
US culture advisers resign in protest over looting of Iraqi museums
By Barry Grey
19 April 2003
Three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee have resigned in protest over US complicity in the looting of the Iraqi National Museum of Antiquities.
Martin E. Sullivan, Richard S. Lanier and Gary Vikan, each appointed by former president Bill Clinton, denounced the Bush administration for failing to protect Iraq’s artistic and cultural treasures. Sullivan, the chairman of the 11-member panel, told Reuters News Service, “It didn’t have to happen. In a preemptive war that’s the kind of thing you plan for.”
In his letter of resignation dated April 14, Sullivan, who chaired the advisory committee since 1995, wrote: “The reports in recent days about the looting of Iraq’s National Museum of Antiquities and the destruction of countless artifacts that document the cradle of Western civilization have troubled me deeply, a feeling that is shared by many other Americans.”
He continued: “The tragedy was not prevented, due to our nation’s inaction.” He added that the US president was “burdened by a compelling moral obligation to plan for and prevent indiscriminate looting and destruction.”
Gary Vikan said he resigned because the US military had advance warning of the danger to Iraqi museums and other cultural institutions. “We certainly know the value of oil, but we certainly don’t know the value of historical artifacts,” Vikan told Reuters on Thursday.
Richard S. Lanier criticized “the administration’s total lack of sensitivity and forethought regarding… the loss of cultural treasures.”
Sullivan is executive director of the Historic Saint Mary’s City Commission, dedicated to one of the first British colonies, in the state of Maryland. Vikan is director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland. Lanier is director of the Trust for Mutual Understanding in New York.
and also
http://mobile.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/20/iraq_roundtable/index.html
Don’t get me started on returning Iraq and Afghanistan vets with brain injuries….or the chickehawks that got us into this mess.
floozie and fawnskin are going to chat…wake up and come over to chat
OMG—–But wow—-wouldn’t she just LOVE to get a call from our president!
I wonder if he would inform her where the Netherlands is located. Also, that one doesn’t put a “big ship” on an airplane and “fly” it to America. The Ocean is very big, and ships don’t travel too fast, and that it takes a very long time to get here. But then, since she can see Russia from her house, maybe she thought the Netherlands was next door.OH—-but wait——I am going to England to see the Iron lady, and maybe I can stop by to see what I might find there to help our coast.
Actually the Dutch are already there and some others:
Dutch to Provide Assistance in Clean Up of Gulf Oil Spill Press release | 28 May 2010
http://dc.the-netherlands.org/News/Press_Releases/Dutch_to_Provide_Assistance_in_Clean_Up_of_Gulf_Oil_Spill
Another big fat lie to confuse us bites the dust.
Mind, they are not building dykes.
she’s consumed by envy of our president. once again he demonstrates the wisest approach regarding this fact, ignore her existence. I truly believe she’s headed for a complete mental breakdown. The fact that she acted like a defensive middle-schooler during the interview with billo shows she’s not capable of covering-up her anger any longer.
hello all…
i am waiting for mz dublin girl/lass/floozie here at the hotel.
after we’ve settle in, we’ll try to go over to chat if you want.
do you want?
I hadn’t thought about the fact that none of the Republican Governors from states affected by the oil spill have called Palin for her (fake) energy and oil clean-up expertise–but this Illinois resident had:
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=388714&src=
Unless you’re looking for ulcers, don’t read the comments. Decent article, but the anti-Obama bias of all the comments was corrosive.
Thanks for the warning, I will not read the comments.
that was a great point the writer made, but many of the comments were really offputting. i didn’t know chicago was a right wing haven?
There’s no shortage of racists.
There are idiots everywhere, even in the big cities.
Gail Collins (NY Times) brings yet another smile to my face:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/opinion/19collins.html?hp
That was great. It’s so nice to find something to laugh about when reading about the oil in the Gulf.
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He doesn’t speak often about it, but he struggled with dyslexia throughout his public school years. Although well spoken, his handwriting was difficult, time consuming and downright painful. He has been a role model in our county for talented students with different skills. Your votes are gratefully appreciated.
They simply have to have him again. We are all rooting and voting for him!
And all this talk about food is making me HUNGRY!
I voted. The best of luck to him.
also voted
Already voted. Best of luck to Ian. Health and peace to you & yours.
Done! Good luck to Ian.
Voted….good luck!