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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Where does Don Youngs money come from?

Don Young
R E P R E S E N T A T I V E (R - AK)
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Don Young (R-Alaska) - 2005

Net Worth: From $231,007 to $566,000

Assets:

8 totaling $231,007 to $566,000

Liabilities: 0

Transactions:

1 totaling $1 to $1,000

Agreements:

Compensation:

Gifts: 0
Honoraria: 0

Income:

1 totaling $4,812

Positions Held

Travel: 1

Assets

Organization	Value
Doyon Limited	$0
Gwitch Yazae Native	$0
H Pawa Corp	$1 to $1,000
New York Life Insurance	$50,001 to $100,000
Putnam Growth & Income Fund	$100,001 to $250,000
State Farm Insurance	$15,001 to $50,000
State of Ak Perm Fund	$0
Wright Patman Congressional FCU/IRA	$66,003 to $165,000

DON YOUNG (R-AK)
Top Contributors

1	Veco Corp	$25,250
2	Carnival Corp	$21,650
3	Jht Holdings	$18,500
4	Blank Rome LLP	$14,150
5	Wal-Mart Stores	$14,000
6	Ilitch Holdings	$12,000
7	Lockheed Martin	$11,500
8	American Council of Engineering Cos	$11,000
9	Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel	$10,481
10	Air Line Pilots Assn	$10,000
10	Carpenters & Joiners Union	$10,000
10	CC Distributors	$10,000
10	FedEx Corp	$10,000
10	Koch Industries	$10,000
10	Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn	$10,000
10	National Assn of Home Builders	$10,000
10	National Assn of Realtors	$10,000
10	National Beer Wholesalers Assn	$10,000
10	Operating Engineers Union	$10,000
10	Outback Steakhouse	$10,000
10	United Parcel Service	$10,000

2005-2006 Total Receipts: $1,919,782
2005-2006 Total Spent: $1,959,806
Cash on Hand: $1,858,542
Debts: $0
Date of last report: December 31, 2006
First elected: 1973
Next election: 2006

Source of Funds:
(How to read this chart / methodology)

Individual contributions	$1,049,009	(54.6%)
PAC contributions	$707,822	(36.9%)
Candidate self-financing	$0
Other	$162,951	(8.5%)

PAC Contribution Breakdown
(How to read this chart / methodology)

Business	$536,768	(78.0%)
Labor	$137,500	(20.0%)
Ideological/Single Issue	$13,852	(2.0%)

Quality of Disclosure:
(How to read this chart / methodology)

Full Disclosure	$966,524	(97.9%)
Incomplete	$900	(0.1%)
No Disclosure	$20,300	(2.1%)

YOUNG, DON E, Republican Party
Alaska

Total number of trips - 21
Total cost of trips - $83,705.13

Average cost per trip - $3,985.96
Total number of days spent traveling - 82 days
Rank of representative - 55 (Out of 638)

Individual trips

Sponsor(s) - At-Sea Processors Association
Dates - May 4, 2000 - May 8, 2000 (5 days)
Location(s) - Las Vegas, NV

Purpose - give a speech/annual convention
Notes -

Travel Cost - $2,342.51
Lodging Cost - $1,270.00
Meal Cost - $130.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $3,742.51

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Alaska Natural Gas to Liquids
Dates - May 26, 2000 - June 5, 2000 (11 days)
Location(s) - Cape Town, South Africa - George, South Africa

Purpose - fact finding
Notes - dates at personal expense-6/1/2000-6/3/2000

Travel Cost - $6,937.00
Lodging Cost - $520.00
Meal Cost - $200.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $7,657.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - American Maritime Officers
Dates - December 21, 2000 - December 23, 2000 (3 days)
Location(s) - Dania, FL

Purpose - speak and tour maritime training center
Notes - lodging and meal=450

Travel Cost - $1,200.00
Lodging Cost - $450.00
Meal Cost -
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $1,650.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - National Rifle Association
Dates - June 26, 2000 - June 27, 2000 (2 days)
Location(s) - Greensboro, NC

Purpose - speak to outdoor writers assoc. of amer
Notes -

Travel Cost - $1,200.00
Lodging Cost - $120.00
Meal Cost - $100.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $1,420.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Safari Club International
Dates - February 3, 2000 - February 6, 2000 (4 days)
Location(s) - Reno, NV

Purpose - speak at annual conv. And participate in legis. Workshop
Notes - under lodging - 3 nights

Travel Cost -
Lodging Cost - $319.20
Meal Cost - $275.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $594.20

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Cook Inlet Regional Corporation
Dates - March 9, 2001 - March 11, 2001 (3 days)
Location(s) - Las Vegas, NV

Purpose - speak to board members
Notes - Spouse Lu Young accompanied. Other costs are not specified.

Travel Cost - $4,550.00
Lodging Cost - $375.00
Meal Cost - $448.00
Other Cost - $30.00
Total Cost - $5,403.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation
Dates - April 27, 2001 - April 30, 2001 (4 days)
Location(s) - Napa Valley, CA

Purpose - attend meeting and seminar with California Wildlife Conservation organizations
Notes - Spouse Lu Young accompanied. Other costs are not specified.

Travel Cost - $5,212.00
Lodging Cost - $506.67
Meal Cost - $370.27
Other Cost - $78.00
Total Cost - $6,166.94

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust
Dates - February 23, 2001 - February 27, 2001 (5 days)
Location(s) - Orlando, FL

Purpose - speech - tri funds annual conference.
Notes - Spouse Lu Young accompanied. Other costs are not specified.

Travel Cost - $3,653.08
Lodging Cost - $1,246.93
Meal Cost - $260.00
Other Cost - $40.00
Total Cost - $5,200.01

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Not specified
Dates - September 22, 2001 - September 23, 2001 (2 days)
Location(s) - Ruidoso, NM

Purpose - fact finding - Museum of American West
Notes - The sponsor was not disclosed. No lodging costs were disclosed for an overnight trip.

Travel Cost - $1,483.00
Lodging Cost -
Meal Cost -
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $1,483.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - American Shortline and Regional Railroad Association
Dates - January 13, 2001 - January 15, 2001 (3 days)
Location(s) - San Diego, CA

Purpose - speak at annual convention
Notes - Other expenses not specified.

Travel Cost - $4,797.00
Lodging Cost - $1,427.00
Meal Cost - $1,425.00
Other Cost - $122.00
Total Cost - $7,771.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - American Maritime Officers
Dates - February 2, 2002 - February 6, 2002 (5 days)
Location(s) - Dania, FL

Purpose - speak at conference
Notes - spouse Lu Young accompanied.

Travel Cost - $1,240.00
Lodging Cost - $800.00
Meal Cost - $640.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $2,680.00

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - Associated General Contractors of America
Dates - March 16, 2002 - March 19, 2002 (4 days)
Location(s) - Las Vegas, NV

Purpose - speak to AGC convention and other industry groups
Notes - Spouse Lu Young accompanied. Other expenses not specified.

Travel Cost - $4,740.00
Lodging Cost - $1,962.00
Meal Cost - $400.00
Other Cost - $40.00
Total Cost - $7,142.00

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - Maritime Trades Department
Dates - February 19, 2003 - February 23, 2003 (5 days)
Location(s) - Miami, FL

Purpose - MTD Exec Board Convention and presentation
Notes - with spouse Lu Young - meal expenses included in lodging

Travel Cost - $4,400.10
Lodging Cost - $1,423.32
Meal Cost - $40.37
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $5,863.79

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - Association of American Railroads
Dates - January 17, 2003 - January 18, 2003 (2 days)
Location(s) - Miami, FL

Purpose - legislative conference
Notes - with spouse Lu Young

Travel Cost - $1,412.00
Lodging Cost - $832.00
Meal Cost - $832.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $3,076.00

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - Winn Dixie Stores Inc.
Dates - April 4, 2003 - April 6, 2003 (3 days)
Location(s) - Jacksonville, FL

Purpose - roundtable: country of origin labeling
Notes -

Travel Cost - $900.00
Lodging Cost - $60.00
Meal Cost - $90.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $1,050.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Winn Dixie Stores Inc.
Dates - November 7, 2003 - November 9, 2003 (3 days)
Location(s) - Jacksonville, FL

Purpose - roundtable country of origin labeling and WIC reauthorization
Notes -

Travel Cost - $1,392.00
Lodging Cost - $60.00
Meal Cost - $90.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $1,542.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Guardian Air Service
Dates - April 14, 2003 - April 14, 2003 (1 days)
Location(s) - Las Vegas, NV - Ontario, CA - Palm Springs, CA

Purpose - transportation briefings
Notes - with spouse Lu Young

Travel Cost - $1,500.00
Lodging Cost -
Meal Cost -
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $1,500.00

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - Totem Ocean Trailer Express
Dates - June 13, 2003 - June 15, 2003 (3 days)
Location(s) - San Diego, CA

Purpose - Christening of the MV Northstar
Notes - with spouse Lu Young

Travel Cost - $7,421.00
Lodging Cost - $993.60
Meal Cost - $536.35
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $8,950.95

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - West Start, Calstart, UTC, Irisbus, BP, Ballard, Daimler Chrysler
Dates - April 9, 2004 - April 18, 2004 (10 days)
Location(s) - Madrid, Spain - Barcelona, Spain - Heidleberg, Germany

Purpose - European Fuel Cell Development
Notes - 4/9-411 at personal expense

Travel Cost - $2,200.00
Lodging Cost - $1,400.00
Meal Cost - $875.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $4,475.00

Additional family members - No

Sponsor(s) - Association of General Contractors, Phoenix
Dates - January 9, 2004 - January 10, 2004 (2 days)
Location(s) - Phoenix, AZ

Purpose - address AGC Phoenix annual dinner
Notes - spouse - Lu Young

Travel Cost -
Lodging Cost - $1,897.91
Meal Cost - $350.00
Other Cost -
Total Cost - $2,247.91

Additional family members - Yes

Sponsor(s) - Warren Chisholm Benefit to Keep Texas Beautiful
Dates - March 3, 2005 - March 4, 2005 (2 days)
Location(s) - Austin, TX

Purpose - Honorary Host and Guest Speaker
Notes - DC - Austin - Little Rock

Travel Cost - $3,814.00
Lodging Cost -
Meal Cost - $209.88
Other Cost - $65.94
Total Cost - $4,089.82

Additional family members - Yes

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/congtravel/member_report.php?member=7384

Offender tracking

Ankle bracelets. Ankle bracelets for sex offenders that let out a screeching tone when they come to close to schools, playgrounds or the watches worn by anyone under 12. Ankle bracelets for Gang members that sound a siren and dial 911 when they get too close to another Gang Member. Ankle bracelets for drunk drivers or repeat alcohol offenders that inject anabuse if they enter a bar or liquor store. Ankle bracelets for politicians that would send an alert when they carry more than $5,000.00 in cash. Ankle bracelets for Republicans that would recite "back up idiot" when they enter a voting booth.

Feds Probe Don Young Deep!

First we see...

Alaska Rep. Young Faces Federal Probe FOX News

followed by...

Young recovering from surgery KTUU, AK
Alaska Congressman Don Young is recovering from minor surgery this week on his prostate gland.

Jeez, these Feds probe deep, don't they!

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Memorials

Memorials are supposed to be just that, memories of someone departed. John Wayne Airport, Kennedy Space Center, Bondsteel Bridge, these memorials were named after great Men to remember their names and the contributions they made to society. All of them were dedicated to those individuals AFTER they died.

There are good reasons for memorials to be postponed until an individual dies. It is supposed to be an honor, not an ego booster. It becomes bothersome when you name something like the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, Ted Stevens Airport or Don Young Bridge and then have to decide on new names when and if the still living (and still un-indited) persons of fame do something that moves them from famous to infamous, hero to heel. Aren't we lucky we don't have a Pete Kott Parkway or Ben Stevens High School to rename?

If we can't wait until people die to memorialize them I would hope that they would at least take it as a signal from society that it is time to vacate their public life, step down, bite the bullet, take the gold watch, hit the golden silk, or go sit on an ice flow and nobly drift out to sea, sparing us the burden of their senile shell of their former selves and the inevitable investigations, inditements and incarcerations that will follow when their foul deeds are eroded into view by the shifting sands of the political landscape.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

And the leg bones connected to the...

Friday, July 13, 2007

Mark Walberg in Shooter

I just finished watching Mark Walberg in Shooter and thought it was a very good look into the back rooms of power and corruption. They do everything but name names and point out the Skulls and Illuminati. "A loose affiliation" I think they called "it". They even made almost obligatory reference to the JFK Coup and how the grassy Knoll shooters were buried in the desert. I especially liked the old gunsmith that related that tale and others, but thought that the friendly FBI agent was miscast, a little to down homey, fresh off the res, borderline idiot for me to buy him as an FBI agent.

The action is fast, the shooting somewhat realistic (esp if you like watching for details like position and breathing, Mark did his homework and the director used it well. Now all we need is for a few good men like the Gunny to step up and do some housecleaning. One or two in each State should be a good start.

Sunday, July 01, 2007

And then FEMA lept into action...

Who ya gonna call when the next big earthquake/volcano/tsunami/fire etc. disrupts your life? We all know that FEMA will leap to action and promptly fall to their face in a near comatose state. The Red Cross will try and be there with food, water and blankets and there will hopefully be a few law dogs and fire fighters mobilized. The national guard will do what they can with the stripped down, over burdened and underfunded resources that they have, but when the crap really hits the turboprop you had better be ready to buckle up and weather the storm alone, because there is a good chance that for several hours to several months thats the only help that will be coming.
Be aware, be prepared and start deciding which neighbors you will eat first.

Monday, June 18, 2007

Enlightenment for the masses

Becoming enlightened has almost always been a laborious endeavor. Be it seclusion in a Monastic retreat fasting on bread and water until you see the inner light, devoting your life to penance and suffering and daily lashings until you strip away your ego and allow the eternal to become one with you, or dropping a hit of good acid and facing all your inner demons at once in a 12 hour crash course in Groking enlightenment has not been something for the timid.
Once I was a member of a group called the Rosicrucian Order, reputed to be the oldest secret society known to mankind. Of the teachings that they doled out Monthly, reputed to be handed down from Egyptian masters, most were simple mental tricks that could be replicated through any number of means. One Monthly exercise that I am sure the Order still attends to to this day (and may hunt me down and boil me alive in a bag of cats for divulging) is the focus group activity, where each and every member of the Order of the Rosy Cross sits in meditation at the same time where ever they are on the Planet(or other places) and focuses their energies on a preselected individual, sending him or her cosmic good vibrations. I always thought that was a neat idea, but never actually noted recordable results.
The concept of connecting the universal uber mind is certainly not novel to the Rosicrucian's, and even late night radio icon Art Bell has done experiments in focusing the collective consciousness to deal with a specific task, like redirecting a hurricane. He did have noticeable results and stopped performing such experiments, scared away by the effectiveness of his trial run.
A new group is going to attempt something that I have been contemplating since the mid 1970's, connecting the Oversouls and innerminds of the Planet, and hopefully dragging along the heathen unenlightened that would never consider meditating, much less Groking, into a swirling maelstrom of cosmic consciousness, and hopefully raising the overall quality of the Human mind and Spirit.
This might be the last and best hope for the Planet, and I would encourage all that understand the powers within to join on this day and radiate, and to those that don't understand or believe, please just sit quietly and allow the transformation to take seed and feel it grow as you begin to see the World around you in a diffrent light.

http://www.firethegrid.org/

will give you the information, and time, that this effort will commence.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Alaska Pipeline Plotter a Patriot?

The sound of spirit

It has been said that once you could hear the sound of the spheres in the sky resonating. That makes sense to me, and I wish I could hear that music today.

The Planets effect us gravitationally, each having a variable effect with their distance and speed. That Pythagoras could hear 10 major notes was later confirmed by the establishment of a 10th orbital body around the Sun.

As each Planets gentle touch stroked the Earths magnetic fields and pushed on her atmospheric shell someone finely attuned to the energy in the air could hear and feel the slight nuances. Today we hear the high voltage rectifier in the TV and the electric motor in the Fridge and the mum of the telephone lines and the 60hz fuzz from the electric grids surrounding us and the lower resonances of the radio waves that become part of our holographic reality as soon as we are born on this Planet.

I doubt that the sound of the Spheres will ever be heard again on Earth so long as we persist as a species. Our ability to create cogs and wheels and pumps and pulleys and pistons has both blessed and cursed us.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Don Young, come on down!

Monday, June 04, 2007

Tell it Bobby!

Sunday, June 03, 2007

JFK Revisited

Saint John Hunt is the oldest Son of E. Howard Hunt, the Super Spy of JFK and Watergate infamy. Listen to E. Howard Hunts recording made just before his death and given to his Son, to be released after E. Howard's Death.

E. Howard Hunt - Testament
Live audio recording in his own words

Monday, May 28, 2007

Alaskan Elephants in crisis

Friday, May 18, 2007

Where to hold a meeting?

I hear that Gov. Palin wants to hold court outside Juneau to bring the legislature closer to the people. I think it's a great Idea, and would like to recommend that Sarah consider holding meetings at Spring Creek Correctional Institution so she might be able to make the most of the experience and insight of former Alaskan Lawmakers and Lobbiests. A considerable portion of Alaska's population is already there, and a special legislative session can be convened in Arizona giving thise Alaskans incarcerated there a chance to take part in the process and giving Sarah a use for the Murky Jet. While I understand that she has elected never to use the jet she can fly the rest of the lawmakers down and back, or perhaps just down there.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Navigator to Pilot

If Jesus is your co-pilot you need to to move the hell over and let him fly the damn plane!

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Clinton's Heroin/Cocaine cash tops 24 Million

Clinton has over $24,000,000.00 to spend on becoming the next Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

As with most of the Clinton fortunes one has to wonder how much of it is a result of the Clinton's "Mena Mafia" drug cartel operations. While Govenor of Arkansas Bill Clinton headed up the operations in AR for the CIA bringing in tons of processed Cocaine and Heroin for distribution throughout the US.

Once the drugs were safely out of CIA/Skull and Bones hands and down to the street level distributors the rounding up pf the "drug dealers" and confiscation of their drugs (and homes and cars) would commence. The Skulls would profit from the initial sales to regional gangs, and profit again from the income of the "Drug War" and the incarceration in the Chaney Prisons of the sellers and users.

Elect Hillery "Skull and Bones" Clinton, the extremely wealthy need ALL your money!

Monday, April 09, 2007

Who killed the Dead Dog?

After 13 years of being the most notorious and most excellent party place in the MatSu the Dead Dog Saloon (AKA "Rainbow lake Lounge", AKA "Scatters", AKA Borealis Beach Club") will be closing their doors on Friday the 13th of April.

Jim and "Ms Lucky" Lisa will be hosting their last party this coming Friday and asked me to invite all their old friends to stop by for one last blow out.

As for who killed the Dead Dog, there are a few in the line up that I think a finger (I won't say which one) could be pointed at. George W. Bush and his Quest for Oil in the sand and sun of Iraq certainly played a part. Inflated gas prices made many choose between a night out dancing and drinking and filling the tank with gas, come to think of it the price of a full tank of gas in most rigs could pay for several nights drinking at the Dead Dog. Thanks Dubya, thats another one I owe ya.

The Alaska State Troopers certainly played a role in the demise of the Dog. For some reason they have maintained a close watch on the Dead Dog for many years. I used to watch them parking in the dark across the road when I drove a cab in the Valley, waiting like an old west highway man for a hapless victim to forget to signal or any other legally intercessionable infraction as they departed the Dead Dog. The death knell could be heard tolling it's sorrowful chime when the AST decided that the land directly behind the Dead Dog Saloon was a good place to put an Alaska State Trooper Sub Station, assuring that the patrons would feel their hot breath on them as they tried to forget the multitude of other oppressions heaped on them over a cold beer after work.

The irony (there always has to some irony, doesn't there?) is that Lisa sold the land where the AST put their lair in an attempt to breath new life into the old Dog and instead hastened its final demise.

The Dead Dog Saloon is for sale, (see http://alaskahome.info) perhaps it would make a good "Cop Bar" where the Boys in Blue could gather after a hard days crime fighting to toast their domination over the evildoers, potheads and small business persons. But more than likely some BushCo Oil company will buy the acreage and put another Gas Station Multimart on the corner, or it will just stand empty, a silent monument to an Alaska that once was where Men could smoke and drink and be merry and Women could entice them out of their massive, ah, paychecks with sly smiles and bared breasts.

The Right Wing Fundamentalists will no doubt have a rousing prayer meeting come Sunday, knowing that the Dead Dog Saloon is just one of many dominoes falling before the onslaught of puritanical viewpoints that lead them to believe they have the right and obligation to dictate how others should live. The Silver Fox, 4 Corners and other Valley watering holes are feeling the same tight vise around their balls that brought down the Dead Dog.

So lets make sure that when they are rising their sacramental wine in a toast to their victory over the free thinkers, dope smokers and bike riders they remember that we can still turn out in mass when one of our fellows falls, and make this Friday the 13th the good old fashioned Irish wake that will give the wine sippers nightmares for Months.

Let's make sure that while Jim and Lisa get a righteous send off and drain the taps, empty the wine racks and party till the law says we have to stop! (that's still 5 Am, for now) Soon they will be saying we can't even start.

This editorial contains the views of this writer, and if you don't like them reach around behind you and grasp that big stick and pull hard before someone else grabs it and pushes.