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WHAT’S THAT SPLASHING/BARKING SOUND?

And another downside to Global warming… your dogsled team sinks when you try to race down a frozen river. At least that’s the fear of this year’s race organizers for Alaska’s famed Iditarod dogsled race.

This 1,000-mile test of physical endurance and mental toughness, which in the best of years pits man and dogs against weather, moose, wolves and exhaustion, has added another dangerous element. For the second time in recent history, global warming is making the standard course impossible to navigate due to thin ice on the rivers. The Iditarod is scheduled to kick off this week and organizers assure contestants and fans the race will go on. However, the course is being altered to run over roads instead of rivers. Nothing says wilderness adventure race like mushing your team past a bright yellow “slow children at play” sign.

The EPA says Alaskan winters have gotten 6.3 degrees warmer in the last 50 years. Might be time to start putting wheels on those sleds. If this keeps up, Alaskan dogsled races may become as contrived as Jamaican bobsledding.

ANTI-DEMOCRACY CLINTON STYLE 

Thank you Hillary for once again reminding us that if you are the Democratic nominee for president, the people of the United States will be forced, once again, to accept four more years of dishonest, manipulative, unproductive, anti-progressive politics no matter which major party wins the election.

Hillary, whose picture is next to the phrase “lack of transparency” in the big book of political jargon, firmly cemented her position this week as the politician least likely to play by the rules designed to create open government and democracy.

As it turns out, thanks to some fine reporting by The New York Times, Clinton failed to use a government issued email account, as the law requires, for the entire time she was Secretary of State. Instead, she used a personal email account.

So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that no matter what excuses and lies come out of her mouth in the coming days to justify her irresponsible actions, there is only one explanation for what she has done. By not using a government issued email account, Hillary Clinton has stolen all of the email messages sent by the United States Secretary of State during her tenure. Those hundreds of thousands of email messages by law belong to the people of the United States. The reason they are public record is so that we the people can monitor what the Secretary of State is doing and guarantee that, say for instance, she isn’t spending more time abroad working for Exxon Mobil than she is for the American people — which by the way according to Mother Jones reporting, she did.

Sadly, for reasons that can only be explained by deception and the desire for lack of transparency, Hillary Clinton removed her emails from the public record. Now she’ll turn over only the ones she wants to turn over. Observation: honest people who have done nothing wrong do not feel compelled to lie and cheat and steal to keep their actions hidden in the dark.

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