Month: October 2008

Flying with the super-rich

Many of you in Whitehorse will have seen the large private jet that sat at the airport for about 10 days as big-game hunting season began. EC-KJH was a Bombardier BD-700-1A10 Global Express owned by a charter company from Spain. Did you wonder what a bird like that would...
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It’s Not Working…

To all my friends who send me ‘best wishes’, chain letters, ‘angel’ letters or other promises of good luck if I forward something, NONE OF THAT SHIT IS WORKING! Could you please just send money, alcohol, chocolate or gasoline vouchers? (hint – I really like single-malt Scotch) 🙂 Actually,...
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Foreign relations, Sarah Palin style

Here’s a photo I took at the Trans Alaska Pipeline interpretive centre in Fairbanks in July 2006 when Palin was running for Governor. The slogan “Canada my ass, it’s Alaska’s Gas!” was used by the Alaskan Independence Party, which she supported. Doesn’t that give you a warm fuzzy feeling...
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