The People's Paper July 2014

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By Lee Henrickson

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The Language of Plants

Alaska Agriculture Appreciation Day at the Farm

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The Language of Plants

Alaska Agriculture Appreciation Day at the Farm

By Mary Hall SEVENTY YEARS AGO, 14-year old Jane Soeten learned to fly as a member of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), serving as a messenger. At 15, she helped train other pilots. She studied aerodynamics, meteorology and the Morse code (which she still remembers). At 16 she had earned her single engine certificate, soloing in a Piper Cub. She’d studied and enjoyed aerobatics. Her ambition was to become a WASP, ferrying planes from the U.S. to England, but at that time, the only military option for women was nursing. After earning a degree in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at S.E. Oklahoma State, she worked at organizing events for the Oklahoma YWCA. Now as a senior, she is enthusiastically urging seniors to participate in the annual international Senior Games to be held August 9-14 in Fairbanks. She has long since stopped counting the number of medals she has won over the years. In last year’s games, she won gold medals in shot, discus, javelin and Pickleball. This year, at 86, she has registered to compete in shot, discus, javelin, long jump, triple jump, standard high jump and Pickleball, a larger version of Pingpong. She’s currently training by competing in WASI’s annual MILES for MEALS 5K run on July 12. Meanwhile she continues her campaign to get seniors into the game. “It’s not about their winning” she says. “It’s about their competing!”

Wasilla Area Senior’s, Jane Soeten, awarded Congressional Gold Medal

For World War II Civil Air Patrol Service

After the war, she continued to fly, earning airtime by helping with logbooks and flying break-ins for rebuilt engines for the Harvey Young Airport. At that time gas

was 25 cents a gallon and plane rental $5 an hour.

Military Downsizing is HappeningWarriors’ Notebook

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The Little Town that DID.Big Lake Lions Open Phase II of the Big Lake Recreation and Community Center

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Throw Down Them Guns

Sustainability of the Mat-Su Economy - Think About It

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Public Sector Union Collective Bargaining Should be a Public Process

Open letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski

By Stuart Thompson

I read with interest the article “The Article 5 Con” by “the Federal Father” in last month’s The People’s Paper. The author was quite articulate about the sources of risk attendant on holding a constitutional convention concerning supreme law for these United States. His recounting of instances of hypocrisy within constitutional convention history is worthy, as is his condemnation of the varied moral laziness of human beings.

But he misses something that our real founding fathers were well aware of. And that is that any and all government would be unnecessary if the majority of citizens heeded God’s guidance (see multiple references in the book “The Five Thousand Year Leap”). A civilized anarchy would be possible if most everyone REALLY recognized God’s over-lordship. But history proves they don’t. And despite angel visitations, prophets, saints, and blatantly faithful humans, history proves they won’t. Where does that leave us? It leaves us with the necessity of having government: 1) for those who want to try to use God’s guidance uninhibited by savagery; and 2) for those abandoning any attempt to heed God and be civilized—either out uncaring evil or from the cowardice of lusting for Armageddon.

Naturally, the more moral and responsible most people are, the less government is needed. Consequently, all types of human government fall on a spectrum of intensity of required ruling proportional to the immorality and irresponsibility of those governed. On one side you have “government of the people” types: tyranny, despotism, absolute monarchies/emperors, and dictatorships (including theocracies—rule by church authorities). This gradiently softens into “government of and for the people” types: elected monarchies, elected aristocracies (elites), and other benevolent/ “enlightened” ruler systems. This in turn gradiently turns into “government of, for, and by the people” types: republics, representative democracies, parliamentary democracies, pure democracies, and civilized anarchies. As you can see, the more moral and responsible most people are, the more true self-government is made possible. Conversely, the more corrupt and irresponsible most people are, the more

despotic and dictatorial government has to be.

The author was quite right to decry idol worship on the part of too many Conservative Christians in their attitudes toward US founding fathers. The most blasphemous aspect of this idolatry is that it is implies that the founders intended to use the force of government to replace community encouraged self-motivation to practice the teachings of God and Jesus Christ. In other words, it’s blasphemous because it implies that God is a wimp for not using His supreme government Power to rule human beings, requiring “godly” government to force people to be moral. Some of these pro-theocracy Christians are thus out-and-out megalomaniacs that assert they know the mind of God.

The only real problem with calling a US constitutional convention — particularly on the balance the budget issue — is that many of the problems complained about arise in the first place from failures to enforce the existing Constitution. The unconstitutionality of paper currency, the Federal Reserve, unsupervised use of the military, and certain departments of the Federal Government just requires leaders with the balls to do something about them. But that requires a more moral people who create leaders who have sufficient morality to stand up to the horrid corruption now swamping the US government. Consequently, that makes the agitation for a constitutional convention worthwhile as an expression of increased morality.

Of course, if you believe that the majority of Americans have corrupted themselves too much to recover, let our current government of elected aristocracy (which our republic has already degraded into) further deteriorate into some form of dictatorship/police state. Ben Franklin actually predicated that this would eventually happen in his last speech to the US Constitutional Convention. Morality and responsibility is encouraged by family, friends, concerned citizens, neighbors, and religious leaders—without any recourse to the weaker power of government. How dedicated they are will determine our country’s fate.

Stuart ThompsonPO Box 870702, Wasilla AK [email protected]

Rebuttal to “The Article 5 Con”A response to an article written in last months The People’s Paper





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Will Globalism Play in US Senate Race?

Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing - A minister’s perspective on the US Senate Republican primary race in Alaska

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A Tragic Suicide

The Affordable Care Act and the Hobby Lobby Decision

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By Russ Millette Candidate for Governor of Alaska

The Alaska State Budget Is Like Sewage. It’s wonderful when a complicated situation is explained in such simple terms:

THE DEBT CEILING * Democrats don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING * Republicans don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING * Liberals or so-called conservatives don’t understand THE DEBT CEILING * ALMOST NO ONE understands THE DEBT CEILING

* So please allow me to explain... Let’s pretend for a moment that you are driving home on a beautiful summer afternoon, maybe 70 degrees and a slight breeze, with all your windows rolled down. As you get into your neighborhood you catch a whiff of sewage in the air. Then it goes away and you think how nice it will be to be in your home after a hard day of work and put your feet

up and have a nice cool drink. Then the closer you get to home the stronger the foul smell. As you pull into the driveway and stop the car you realize that the putrid smell is coming from YOUR home! You get out of your vehicle and walk to the front door, key in hand. Before entering, you stop and look into the entry window next to the door. You gag and suddenly you realize you have a major sewage problem; the sewage has risen above the ceiling! At that point you realize that you have a choice to make: Choice #1. Call a roofer named Sean Parnell to raise the ceiling with his crew from the State Legislature. Choice #2. Call a plumber named Russ to drain the sewage and get back to a sustainable home. You only have one chance to make the right choice on August 19th. Thank you,Russ MilletteRuss Millette For Governor 2014 www.russforgov.com

The Alaska State Budget Is Like Sewage

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What To Do If Your Pet Is Lost

Homeless Youth In Wasilla: ReasonsThe People’s Paper

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Privacy: A Right Or A Privilege?

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Musings on the Electronic Cigarette Industry

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