Happy Speed Hump Day! Hump of the Week!
I know what you’re thinking. Shannyn and Jeanne are in Las Vegas. They’re probably off somewhere being overwhelmed by all the Vegas-ness, and gearing up for Netroots Nation which officially starts soon. Maybe they’re at the M&M factory, or watching the fountains at the Bellagio, or having a chocolate martini by the pool.
Surely they have other things on their mind and won’t bother with the Hump of the Week. Well, guess what? You’d be wrong. We’re sitting here talking about how last night Mayor Dan Sullivan vetoed a resolution which would have allowed Anchorage firefighters to continue their “Fill the Boot” fundraiser to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Firefighters used to stand at the corner and collect donations in a big firefighter boot. It made up about a sixth of their donations for the year. And now, thanks to Mayor Dan Sullivan, they can’t do it any more. Way to go Mr. Compassion.
And of course, we also know that the state has allocated $700,000 in money for traffic calming in one district alone on the East side of Anchorage. The community council has requested speed humps to slow people down where children play, and at $3325 per hump… well… you can do the math. We could have humps from here to next Sunday.
But the Mayor says he’s abolished the traffic calming program and there will be no speed humps.
So we’ve invited you to send in photos of your favorite Speed Hump to be featured as our Hump of the Week so that people know that despite what’s going on in the rest of the world, this is important. A little girl was badly injured by someone driving through one of the neighborhoods where speed humps are being stonewalled. It’s only a matter of time before tragedy strikes.
Today’s Hump of the Week comes from Mudflatter AKCarpetbagger who snapped this shot over by LaMex on Spenard Road.
And remember, if you have a speed hump in your neighborhood, it WASN’T brought to you by this guy:
Send your photos for Speed Hump of the Week to akmuckraker@yahoo.com, and tell us how you’d like them to be attributed.
IS SLEAZY DAN A BROTHER TO $ARAH?
ALASKAN VOTERS, CLEAN UP THE CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT –
LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND STATE GOVERNMENT!!
IS SLEAZY DAN A BROTHER TO $ARAH?
ALASKAN VOTERS, CLEAN UP THE CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT –
LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND STATE GOVERNMENT!!
Isn’t Sullivan up for replacement in 2012? This is a capital appropriation that will remain active until June 30, 2014. Our new mayor will be able to get a lot of speed humps built in two years.
Isn’t Sullivan up for replacement in 2012? This is a capital appropriation that will remain active until June 30, 2014. Our new mayor will be able to get a lot of speed humps built in two years.
We have speed humps in our neighborhood, thanks to the diligence of my neighbor. And a traffic circle at the bottom of the hill where cars used to race through. I think it’s better, though there are still some speeders and at least two cars that managed to drive over the traffic circle. They severely scraped the bottom of their cars and I’m pretty sure they haven’t been back. Made me chuckle – serves them right for not paying attention and for driving too fast.
We have speed humps in our neighborhood, thanks to the diligence of my neighbor. And a traffic circle at the bottom of the hill where cars used to race through. I think it’s better, though there are still some speeders and at least two cars that managed to drive over the traffic circle. They severely scraped the bottom of their cars and I’m pretty sure they haven’t been back. Made me chuckle – serves them right for not paying attention and for driving too fast.
Oops, my bad….
Just realized that the speed hump in the photo is not of my neighborhood off of Austin. I’ll have to take a pic and resubmit.
Please forgive me! I hope this speed hump has brought greater safety to the neighborhood than ours has 🙂
OY, unintended consequences!
Oops, my bad….
Just realized that the speed hump in the photo is not of my neighborhood off of Austin. I’ll have to take a pic and resubmit.
Please forgive me! I hope this speed hump has brought greater safety to the neighborhood than ours has 🙂
OY, unintended consequences!
He looks like one of those over-the-top bad guys in a Batman movie and I imagine that he walked straight out of the screen and headed for Alaska. Sleezer Dan and his team of Hench Boobs.
I say the local folks install their own humps with multiple images of Sleezer painted on them. ( Of course that might make people want to speed up, eh ? )
Happy Vegas!
He looks like one of those over-the-top bad guys in a Batman movie and I imagine that he walked straight out of the screen and headed for Alaska. Sleezer Dan and his team of Hench Boobs.
I say the local folks install their own humps with multiple images of Sleezer painted on them. ( Of course that might make people want to speed up, eh ? )
Happy Vegas!
Apparently Dan has now come out and said he never refused to accept the money for speed humps. I guess he was for them before he was against them before he was for them.
Apparently Dan has now come out and said he never refused to accept the money for speed humps. I guess he was for them before he was against them before he was for them.
Sullivan is the perfect example of a “perspective-impaired” individual. He sees things in black and white. There is no ambiguity in his world, just very friendly party planners and family trust funds, which are okay because …… well, because they are his. Anyway, back to perspective. A couple days a year, some firefighters spend a couple hours clomping around intersections in firefighter regalia, asking people to drop contributions into an empty boot. The ones on duty have their rigs with them, so they can respond to emergency calls with no delay if need be. Is this TECHNICALLY a breach of the city ethics code…probably…but who flippin’ cares? Let’s say some employee other than an oh-so-cute party planner were to come into Dan Junior’s office and say, “Mayor, I’m concerned that our firefighters are breaching ethics by voluntarily gathering contributions for muscular dystrophy for a couple hours.” A mayor with any sense of perspective would look up and say, “Don’t you have something better to do?” Not Dan Junior. ….. Let’s try another one. What if you had a short stretch of park trail next to a stream where bears tend to come down early each summer to fish. In the interest of public safety, would you shut down that stretch of trail temporarily until the threat was past? Not Dan Junior. I mean, we can’t let bears push us around. This is an URBAN park. If we let them get away with this, pretty soon the bears will be taking up all the good parking spaces in front of my bar. We need to keep that trail open. If some kid has be attacked and slowly bleed to death in the mud, that’s the price we pay for freedom to use this short stretch of trail 24/7. What was it that our former quitter-governor said about governing with common sense?
We were on a bus in Guatemala once when some firemen got on the bus at a stop light and passed a can (instead of a boot) to collect money. It was one of those moments when I realized just how small our world has become. It was pretty cool. Legal? Who cares when it’s firemen doing something for a good cause.
Sullivan is the perfect example of a “perspective-impaired” individual. He sees things in black and white. There is no ambiguity in his world, just very friendly party planners and family trust funds, which are okay because …… well, because they are his. Anyway, back to perspective. A couple days a year, some firefighters spend a couple hours clomping around intersections in firefighter regalia, asking people to drop contributions into an empty boot. The ones on duty have their rigs with them, so they can respond to emergency calls with no delay if need be. Is this TECHNICALLY a breach of the city ethics code…probably…but who flippin’ cares? Let’s say some employee other than an oh-so-cute party planner were to come into Dan Junior’s office and say, “Mayor, I’m concerned that our firefighters are breaching ethics by voluntarily gathering contributions for muscular dystrophy for a couple hours.” A mayor with any sense of perspective would look up and say, “Don’t you have something better to do?” Not Dan Junior. ….. Let’s try another one. What if you had a short stretch of park trail next to a stream where bears tend to come down early each summer to fish. In the interest of public safety, would you shut down that stretch of trail temporarily until the threat was past? Not Dan Junior. I mean, we can’t let bears push us around. This is an URBAN park. If we let them get away with this, pretty soon the bears will be taking up all the good parking spaces in front of my bar. We need to keep that trail open. If some kid has be attacked and slowly bleed to death in the mud, that’s the price we pay for freedom to use this short stretch of trail 24/7. What was it that our former quitter-governor said about governing with common sense?
We were on a bus in Guatemala once when some firemen got on the bus at a stop light and passed a can (instead of a boot) to collect money. It was one of those moments when I realized just how small our world has become. It was pretty cool. Legal? Who cares when it’s firemen doing something for a good cause.
Residents of the Matanusk-Susitna Borough will soon be deciding whether to go to a “strong mayor” type of government, or to stay with having a Borough Manager. I hope they are watching the happenings in Anchorage, the place they don’t want to be like. A Borough Manager must have specific training and qualifications, works per contract, and can be terminated for cause or no cause. Qualifications for Mayor are that you get more votes than the other guys, and the voters are stuck with you until the next election.
That sums it up pretty well. If one needs an example of why to vote “no” on a strong mayor for the borough, one only needs look at a little mayoral history in Wasilla.
Residents of the Matanusk-Susitna Borough will soon be deciding whether to go to a “strong mayor” type of government, or to stay with having a Borough Manager. I hope they are watching the happenings in Anchorage, the place they don’t want to be like. A Borough Manager must have specific training and qualifications, works per contract, and can be terminated for cause or no cause. Qualifications for Mayor are that you get more votes than the other guys, and the voters are stuck with you until the next election.
That sums it up pretty well. If one needs an example of why to vote “no” on a strong mayor for the borough, one only needs look at a little mayoral history in Wasilla.
Maybe they could design the humps to look like the people SP threw under the bus – Meg the Mouth comes to mind – or a pack of wolves, turkeys, polar bears. A few years ago, the streets of Chicago displayed designer cows on the sidewalks – they were sponsored mostly by retail stores. Perhaps SP’s hairdresser could supply that thing – used to be called a “rat” – that she sticks under Sarah’s bun. Given the size of SP’s prom hair, that rat would be HUGE.
AKM & Shannyn – have a great time in Las Vegas
Maybe they could design the humps to look like the people SP threw under the bus – Meg the Mouth comes to mind – or a pack of wolves, turkeys, polar bears. A few years ago, the streets of Chicago displayed designer cows on the sidewalks – they were sponsored mostly by retail stores. Perhaps SP’s hairdresser could supply that thing – used to be called a “rat” – that she sticks under Sarah’s bun. Given the size of SP’s prom hair, that rat would be HUGE.
AKM & Shannyn – have a great time in Las Vegas
Apparently there is some very interesting Palin news about to be posted at palingates.
Think we should get ready to pop some corks.
I don’t think it’s THE BIG or should I say, baby, scandal, but…..
Popcorn may not be enough.
Apparently there is some very interesting Palin news about to be posted at palingates.
Think we should get ready to pop some corks.
I don’t think it’s THE BIG or should I say, baby, scandal, but…..
Popcorn may not be enough.
Which one of those women is his wife? Just kidding, perhaps they are just his “speed humping” partners.
Which one of those women is his wife? Just kidding, perhaps they are just his “speed humping” partners.
Jimmy Kimmel had a spot on about “Men too old to have Justin Bieber hair.” I think your Mr. Sullivan would fit that definition.
Why is this man always on the wrong side of every issue? He must be a friend and supporter of old what’s her name.He always picks the least compassionate, least responsible, most selfish side of every issue. Well, at least he’s consistent.
Jimmy Kimmel had a spot on about “Men too old to have Justin Bieber hair.” I think your Mr. Sullivan would fit that definition.
Why is this man always on the wrong side of every issue? He must be a friend and supporter of old what’s her name.He always picks the least compassionate, least responsible, most selfish side of every issue. Well, at least he’s consistent.
I’m pretty sure WE could speed hump a COUPLE OF THOSE…
I’m pretty sure WE could speed hump a COUPLE OF THOSE…
Rural Alaska has speed bumps.
Bartender Dan is on one of his power trips.
He is the party of NO.
So I guess I’ll have to drive on over to his ‘neiborhood’ and photograph the speed bumps.
Wasilla has speed bumps.
Dan is a bent up worthless dip stick.
Rural Alaska has speed bumps.
Bartender Dan is on one of his power trips.
He is the party of NO.
So I guess I’ll have to drive on over to his ‘neiborhood’ and photograph the speed bumps.
Wasilla has speed bumps.
Dan is a bent up worthless dip stick.
I think the people of Anchorage just got humped again by Sleazy Dan the Rip-off Man.
eeeeewwwwww! (like a pitbull with lipstick after our legs, eh?)
I think the people of Anchorage just got humped again by Sleazy Dan the Rip-off Man.
eeeeewwwwww! (like a pitbull with lipstick after our legs, eh?)
He’s a piece of something, all right, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t “work.” 🙂
Shame on him!
and yes, he looks sleazy in every picture I’ve ever seen of him, also, too *shudder*
Hey, Lynnrockets…These Boots Were Made for Walking?
You should go request that on the lynnrockets blog to make sure that gets a chance to be penned.
will do
He’s a piece of something, all right, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t “work.” 🙂
Shame on him!
and yes, he looks sleazy in every picture I’ve ever seen of him, also, too *shudder*
Hey, Lynnrockets…These Boots Were Made for Walking?
You should go request that on the lynnrockets blog to make sure that gets a chance to be penned.
will do
Dan’s quote in the ADN this morning was priceless. He says that tax payer money must be used for official city business. Like paying your family trust Dan?
He’ is a piece of work.
Dan’s quote in the ADN this morning was priceless. He says that tax payer money must be used for official city business. Like paying your family trust Dan?
He’ is a piece of work.