MOORE UP NORTH PANEL!

There will be NO taping tonight of Moore Up North. We will be back next week, Thursday, August 5, just in time for primary season.

See you then!

There is justice and common sense in the Anchorage Assembly!

Tonight, the Anchorage Assembly found 8 votes to over ride Mayor Sullivan’s misguided veto of the MDA Fill the Boot Fundraiser!  Mayor Sullivan has been working overtime to turn Anchorage into Pottersville-the fictional desolate town from Frank Capra’s classic family film, “It’s a Wonderful Life“.

The assembly chambers were full of Anchorage’s Uniformed Firefighters who put their lives on the line every single day.  The Fill the Boot campaign has been going on since 1954 and will continue once again this year!

Local and national charities can now continue fund raising without any fear of Mayor Sullivan challenging their ethics.

Tonight, Mayor Sullivan MET THE BOOT!  And a GOLD STAR to Bill STARR who did the right thing and was the key vote necessary to bring sanity back to insane bureaucracy!  Black Coal goes to Debbie Ossiander, Jennifer Johnston and Chris Birch who don’t care much for Jerry’s Kids.

Tuesday night at the fights should be lively at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. Click on links for background on the agenda.

Testimony will be heard on the speed hump program. I know, it sounds like a problem you should have that “little talk with your doctor” about. Not so. Speed humps on busy residential streets save lives. Over half a million dollars of state money is available through allocations made by Senator Bill Wielechowski. The mayor is typical Party-of-NO! for a Democrat trying to get the needs of his constituents met.

The once-a-year, 3-hour Fill The Boot MDA Fundraiser by the firefighters was vetoed by the mayor.  Tonight is the Anchorage Assembly’s opportunity to over ride it.  But this is about so much more then the decades-old Fill the Boot fundraiser. The United Way will no longer be able to raise money at municipal offices as they have for many years.  What about Fur Rondy and the Rondy Cops?  What about municipal employees involved in community activities like the Bear Paw Festival in Eagle River? Or the Municipality of Anchorage sponsoring that event?  What about city officials traveling on AK Air National Guard C-130s to rural Alaskan villages for Operation Santa Claus?  Or the Salvation Army‘s presence at the Anchorage Christmas tree-lighting ceremony?  The implications of NOT overriding this veto are far reaching!  This vote is very important.

If you want to show up and fight for the Campbell Creek Estuary, today is the day.

While the mayor is distracting the city by conducting city business in a way that doesn’t represent the values of the city, I wonder what we’re being distracted from. The port? The bridge? The Party Planner?  What?

We’ll keep figuring that out, but in the mean time, some rather eclectic backlash has made it’s way to my mail box.

The Shannyn Moore Show is back LIVE today,Tuesday, July 27th from 11am-2pm AST/3pm-6pm EST on KUDO 1080 Anchorage/KXLJ 1330 Juneau.  Stream the show here!

Mike Papantonio should be back on The Shannyn Moore show next week…

I’m at Netroots Nation in Las Vegas, Nevada this week…I’ll be back next week for my radio show and our next episode of Moore Up North will be Thursday, August 5, 2010 at Bernies Bungalow Lounge.

See you then!

Some folks are under the impression that just because there is no visible oil, bathing in the Gulf is OK! Let’s see…for 89 days, according to some estimates, the BP Maconda well spewed 4.2 million gallons of oil a day. That means 373.8 Million gallons of oil is circulation in the Gulf of Mexico-and God only knows how many millions of gallons of Corexit was dumped by BP. A local television station tested some water samples with some very disturbing results:

Water Tested – Toxic Levels of Oil – Sample Explodes!

July 17, 2010

Recently, a News 5 investigation collected samples from multiple beaches in and around the Gulf region. Samples were taken in areas where kids were playing and swimming. The results were absolutely terrifying. The Intel Hub has heavily documented the Gulf Disaster and this is just another startling revelation in a long line of horrors coming out of the Gulf. What British Petroleum has done is at the very least criminal neglect, if not premeditated chemical rape. Most of the people working for BP have vigorously worked to contain the spill, not knowing that their bosses have done just about everything backwards, with little to regard for human life.

The accepted toxic level for oil is anything over 5 parts per million. Water from orange beach tested at 25 parts per million. The sand around Gulf Shores beach tested at an astonishing 211 parts per million. Remember, these beaches have been left open by officials who continue to claim the, “The beach is safe to swim.” Near Orange Beach, in the very area where kids were happily playing, the water tested a whopping 221 parts per million. How can the EPA and local officials continue to lets citizens frequent these toxic beaches?

As if this wasn’t enough, a sample from the Dolphin Island Marina actually EXPLODED when mixed with an organic solvent intended to separate the oil and water! That’s right, we now have documented evidence of samples exploding upon testing.

The obvious reason for such an explosion is methane gas. As we know, methane is highly flammable and can explode upon contact with air. The other likely candidate is the neurotoxin known as Corexit9500, which has continued to be openly sprayed through aerial operations as well as directly at the source.

This should be a major wake up call for anyone that still believes this disaster is behind us.

It feels strange weighing in on a house of worship thousands of miles away, well, at least for me.  A proposed mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has Palin tweeting on a Sunday afternoon.

According to Politico:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s City Hall hit back at Palin, first tweeting “@SarahPalinUSA mind your business.”

The aide, policy hand Andrea Batista Schlesinger, followed that up with:

“@SarahPalinUSA whose hearts? Racist hearts?”

Bloomberg has defended the plan for the mosque, arguing that blocking it would impinge on religious freedom

This is a local issue for New Yorkers.  I’m weighing in on Sarah Palin. She’s local for Alaskans.

9/11 for NYC, was a day many Alaskans couldn’t fathom. I’d never been there. My father didn’t know about the terrorist attack for weeks because he was on the Koyukuk River hunting moose. Another hunter was informed after a military escort surrounded his small aircraft on his return to town. Last year I visited New York City and wept when I realized how terrifying it must have been. I had no context until I stood in the canyons of buildings.

Do you want to guess how many mosques are in Wasilla?

The “stab through the heart” of 9/11 was felt by many, including Muslims.  This article tells of some victims that day:

Imagine being the family of Salman Hamdani.  The 23-year-old New York City police cadet was a part-time ambulance driver, incoming medical student, and devout Muslim.  When he disappeared on September 11, law enforcement officials came to his family, seeking him for questioning in relation to the terrorist attacks.  They allegedly believed he was somehow involved.  His whereabouts were undetermined for over six months, until his remains were finally identified.  He was found near the North Tower, with his EMT medical bag beside him, presumably doing everything he could to help those in need.  His family could finally rest, knowing that he died the hero they always knew him to be.

Imagine being Baraheen Ashrafi, nine months pregnant with her second child.  Her husband, Mohammad Chowdhury, was a waiter at Windows of the World restaurant, on the top floors of Tower One.  The morning of September 11, they prayed salaat-l-fajr (the pre-dawn prayer) together, and he went off to work.  She never saw him again.  Their son, Farqad, was born 48 hours after the attacks — one of the first 9/11 orphans to be born.

I wonder why Palin can’t think bigger than 140 characters. She makes up words. “Refudiate“.

What about the thousands of Muslims who serve in our military? Does that yellow magnet on your car say “Support the Christian Troops”?

BREAKING from Truth-Out.org…

By Jason Leopold, Truthout

According to employees, Kevin Hostler, the chief executive officer of Alyeska Pipeline, informed staff of his resignation Wednesday morning – one day after Truthout published an extensive investigative report that was highly critical of his management of the company and revealed details of alleged mismanagement from insider sources and documents.

Alyeska employees told Truthout that Hostler announced his resignation, effective September 30, at a company-wide meeting that took place early this morning. One employee said the company will make an official announcement later today.

Over the past several months, Alyeska Pipeline and Hostler have been under intense scrutiny by a Congressional oversight committee and an independent investigator, who has been probing explosive allegations leveled by managers that severe cost-cutting efforts could put the integrity of the 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) at risk.

“Death is not the greatest loss in life.  The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”-Norman Cousins

Week before last, a fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico took his own life.  It was the first reported suicide in this unending and unfolding BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

William Allen Kruse, 55, a charter boat captain recently hired by BP as a vessel of opportunity out of Gulf Shores, Alabama, died Wednesday morning before 7:30 a.m. of a gunshot to the head, likely self-inflicted, authorities said.

There were dozens of suicides resulting from the stress of the Exxon Valdez.  The unseen depth and despair in the Gulf of Mexico is taking it’s toll.

We’ve received many requests to post the radio segment where I talked about this.

The entire first hour of that show can be downloaded here.

The entire show will be rebroadcast on Monday, July 5 on KUDO1080am Anchorage and KXLJ1330am Juneau from 11am-2pm Local Time/3pm-6pm EDT.  You can stream the show here.

Yesterday, CS Muncy, a free lance photographer who has done work for the NY Times and the New York Post appeared on The Shannyn Moore Show.   He said he spoke with four independent sources-including two local sheriffs-that said BP was dumping sand on the beach at Grand Isle, LA to cover up oil.

Yesterday, a Pensacola Councilman appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews.