Augustine Errupts Again

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Augustine erupts a fourth time
ERUPTIONS: Light ash warning is issued for Kodiak Island.

By MEGAN HOLLAND
Anchorage Daily News
Published: January 28, 2006
Last Modified: January 28, 2006 at 08:58 AM

Augustine Volcano facts

Location: Cook Inlet, 180 miles southwest of Anchorage, 75 miles southwest of Homer
Type: Stratovolcano
Height: 4,134 feet
Last erupted: 1986

Past activity: Explosive eruptions have occured six times since the early 1800s: 1812, 1833, 1935, 1964-65, 1976 and 1986.

Augustine Volcano erupted four times since Friday night and Saturday morning, sending steam and ash 40,000 feet into the air and triggering an ash fall advisory for a wide area around Kodiak Island through 1 p.m. today.

The eruptions, the first in more than a week, began at 8:12 p.m. Friday and continued overnight. The most recent was at 7:42 a.m. today.

Winds, as they have following other eruptions in recent weeks, appeared to be sparing Anchorage and most of populated Alaska from ash fall. Winds are blowing to the south and southeast, according to the National Weather Service.

An ash fall advisory was initially issued for Kodiak Island through 9 a.m. It later amended to include a wide area between the volcano and Kodiak Island, including the Barren Islands, Shuyak Island and Shelikof Strait.

"Vessels in the vicinity of Kodiak Island coastal waters may experience light ash fall," the weather service said. "Vessels in this area should exercise extreme caution as volcanic ash fall is expected."

Friday's first blast began at 8:12 p.m., with "vigorous activity" recorded at 8:24 p.m. and lasting about nine minutes, according to the AVO Web site. Scientists equated it to a Jan. 13 eruption that dusted Kenai Peninsula communities with a coat of ash.

"This is about as strong as the strongest one we've had," said Janet Schaefer, geologist with Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.

A second eruption occurred at 11:37 p.m. and lasted about one minute. A third eruption was recorded at 2:04 a.m. and lasted several minutes. The fourth eruption occurred around 7:42 a.m.

Schaefer said scientists had not yet determined if any lava flowed. At first light today, scientists would use techniques including thermal imagery to gather more information about the eruption, she said.

Scientists have warned since the eruptions first began early this month that Southcentral Alaska could be in for a prolonged siege of intermittent activity from the region's most restless volcano.

Augustine Volcano, at 4,134 feet in elevation, is on an uninhabited island in lower Cook Inlet, approximately 180 miles southwest of Anchorage and 75 miles southwest of Homer.

Nine explosions occurred between Jan. 11-17, each sending volcanic ash to more than 30,000 feet above sea level, according to the AVO Web site. Before Friday night, the volcano was in a state of relative quiet, though earthquakes had picked up on the island the last few days, indicating some activity might be likely.

Strong southeast winds could carry the ash from Friday's eruptions over to Kodiak Island, the National Weather Service said.

Linda Freed, city manager for Kodiak, said Friday night that the city had been preparing for an eruption for two weeks with a public awareness campaign that included articles in the local newspaper, public service announcements, and educating students at school.

"We're going to wait and see if we actually get any ash," she said. "We'll get up tomorrow morning and we'll check."

"If there's going to be ash fall, there isn't anything you can do about it," she said. "I think a good segment of the community is prepared."

Volunteer disc jockey Ron Jackson at KMXT in Kodiak said he heard about the eruption when his shift began at 9 p.m. "from the automatic news feed that spits things out when they're important." He said he has been telling listeners between songs what he knows about the eruption.

Flights in and out of Kodiak had already been canceled Friday night due to 25 to 35 mph gusts of winds, half-mile visibility and blowing snow.

Meanwhile in Anchorage, airlines were still steadily checking in passengers for late flights out of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. But a number of disruptions in flights due to arrive and leave from Anchorage late Friday and early today were noted on the arrival/departure board.

Alaska Airlines listed flights from Portland, Seattle and Orange County, Calif., as canceled. Flights to Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle were also canceled.

Flights due to leave for Fairbanks were listed as still on schedule. Hawaiian Vacations' charter to Honolulu due to depart at 1:15 a.m. also was still on schedule.

Alaska Airlines' spokesmen could not be reached late Friday.



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Daily News reporter Megan Holland can be reached at mrholland@adn.com or 2574343. Reporters Rosemary Shinohara and Tom Kizzia contributed to this story.

Parliament of Whores

Lovely book I discovered by P.J. O'Rourke, just into the aknowledgments and already ran into a gem...(Hesus, my editor just left the room, thank gawd. He is giving me grief about my terrible sentence structure and poor word choice before I even finish the sentence. And looking over my shoulder asking questions about plagerism. Impossible working environment. He loaned me the book by the way.)

The author is advising how Andy Ferguson, former Assistant Managing Editor of the American Spectator was a great influence on him - when he could get a word in edgewise. This is the vii page quote that immediately charmed me:

Not long after Andy and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration. "How come," I asked Andy, "whenever something upsets the Left, you see immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a six-inch American flag?"

"We have jobs," said Andy

Robin Williams, Beautiful American

Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says "I love New York" in Arabic.

Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

Robin Williams's ! plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace, but I have not heard of a plan for
peace. So, here's one plan.

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys;' we will never 'interfere' again.

2) "We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) "All illegal aliens have 90 ! days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free t rip home. After 90 days, the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) "All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) "No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a D, and it's back home, baby.

6) "The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy, but will require tempora! ry drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) "Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) "If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah, or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them! is stolen or given
to the army. The people who need it most get v ery little, if anything.

9) "Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair-weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) "All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE."

"Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?"

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat, and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

Meme

I found a Meme at the blog linked above, you grab he nearest book, open to page 123, find the fifth sentence and post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.

The blog I found it in had a significantly more provocative post from Ghost Grizzlies. Unfortunately for you, the book on my desk was Managing Our Nation's Fisheries II Focus on the Future.

"Improvements are being made yet many issues remain."

Just occured to me that sentence could be placed in most any paragraph on most any subject and work. Who came up with that one?

Gold is the First Green of Spring

Watching the snow fall softly blanketing the earth for the first time this winter, my heart is already yearning for spring. I am wanting to experiment with some new varieties of flowers in my gardens.

Monks Cap is a two foot tall purple beauty that I want to place in front of the three foot purple columbine. Success with delphiniums and foxgloves has eluded me for years now, the plants never seem to grow no matter where I plant them - but I am ready to try again this year. Their graceful blooms are among my favorites.

The Sitka roses have been in their round growing strong roots for two years now, and are ready for transplanting in their new home around a white spruce tree in the front yard. We have been beefing up the soil 'round that tree all last year, with ashes, turkey droppings, hay and organic soil. Started out of gravel, and it is a difficult spot for the tree shelters out the rain by not the sun - making for a very dry spot for everything you plant underneath it. Last year we stuck in daisies and two roses, the roses survived but the daisies are still a close call.


My white poppies from two years ago self seeded and gave me some real beauties last year, so this year I am sticking in two blood-red feathery Orientals which hopefully will thrive and reproduce. Walks-on-me is the new groundcover I am trying. Periwinkle didn't do much, nor did turf, so I am still looking for that hearty evergreen to take over the forest pathways.

Spreading salt on the sea sand paths themselves certainly curtailed the weeds from overtaking them. A lesson from watching a documentary about the Romans on the history channel. No more taking out the machete to hack a path to the outhouse.

Hilarious Fishing Video

This is the blue ribbon winner, sent in by Misty Jo!!


http://home.comcast.net/~au4life_rz/IncredibleFishingVideo.wmv

Captain Dan Goes on A Wild Adventure

Dear Friends,

My wife is fond of saying that my last words on this earth will be something akin to, "hey y'all, hold my beer and watch this!" Well, I have outdone myself once again. No doubt you will see this true story chronicled in a Lifetime movie in the near future.

Here goes. Last weekend I spied something at the Pawn that tickled my fancy. (Note: Keep in mind that my "fancy" is easily tickled). I bought something really cool for my wife. The occasion was our 22th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my big girl.

What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer gun with a clip. For those of you who are not familiar with this product, it is a less-than-lethal stun gun with two metal prongs designed to incapacitate an assailant with a shock of high-voltage, low amperage electricity while you flee to safety. The effects are supposed
to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, but
allowing you adequate time to retreat to safety.

You simply jab the prongs into your 250 lb. Tattooed assailant, push the button, and it will render him a slobbering, goggle-eyed, muscle-twitching, whimpering, pencil-neck geek. If you've never seen one of these things in action, then you're truly missing out--way too cool!

Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two triple-a batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was so disappointed. Upon reading the directions (we don't need no stinkin' directions), I found much to my chagrin that this particular model would not create an arch between the prongs. How disappointing! I do love fire for effect.

I learned that if I pushed the button, however, and pressed it against a metal surface that I'd get the blue arch of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs that I was so looking forward to. I did so. Awesome!!! Sparks, a blue arch of electricity, and a loud pop!!! Yipeeeeee.. I'm easily amused, just for your information, but I have yet to explain to my wife what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple- a batteries, etc., etc. There I sat in my recliner, my dog Moe looking on intently (trusting soul), reading the directions (that would be me, not Moe) and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh and blood target.

I must admit I thought about zapping Moe for a fraction of a second and thought better of it. He is such a sweet dog, after all. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.

Am I wrong? Was I wrong to think that? Seemed reasonable to me at the time... So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with a cold one perched delicately between my legs, directions in one hand, Tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.

All the while I'm looking at this little device (measuring about 5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference, pretty cute really, and loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-a batteries) thinking to myself, "no friggin' way!" Friggin' way--trust me, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best. Those of you who know me well have got a pretty good idea of what followed. I'm sitting there alone, Moe looking on with his head cocked to one side as to say,"don't do it buddy," reasoning that a one-second burst from such a tiny lil' ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad (sound, rational thinking under the circumstances, wouldn't you agree?). I decided to give myself a one-second burst just for the hell of it. (Note: You know, a bad decision is like hindsight--always twenty-twenty. It is so obvious that it was a bad decision after the fact, even though it seemed so right at the time. Don't ya hate that?)

I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and HOLY **************! DAaaaauuuuuuMN!!! I'm pretty sure that Jessie Ventura ran in through the front door, picked me up out of that recliner, then body slammed me on the carpet over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, soaking wet with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position.

Moe was standing over me making winning sounds I had never heard before, licking my face, undoubtedly thinking to himself, "do it again, do it again!" (Note: If you ever feel compelled to mug yourself with a Tazer, one note of caution. There is no such thing as a one-second burst when you zap yourself. You're not going to let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor.

Then, if you're lucky, you won't dislodge one of the prongs 1/4" deep in your thigh like yours truly.) SON-OF-A-***** that hurt! A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at this point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape.

My cold drink was on the TV stand. How did they get there??? My triceps, right thigh and both titties were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, as my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. give or take an ounce or two, I'm pretty sure. By the way, has anyone seen my testicles? I think they ran away. I'm offering a reward.

They're round, rather large, kinda hairy, and handsome if I must say so myself. Miss 'em... sure would like to get 'em back.

Captain Dan

Magic Money

The man with a spin on everything, Capt. Dan, who I am supposed to be referring to as "smelly, crusty" Capt. Dan, has asked me to take this discussion out of the forum and make it a post.

He has issues he wants aired, but doesn't want to go through the hassle of setting up his own blog. So, to make up for referring to him previously in a manner that has had him publically referred to as a "goon" here we go.



Thu, 12 Jan 2006 4:02 PM
Re: Clarify statement about "disappearing money"

Hi Dorene:

I visited your blogspot entry about a fraud investigation of Mr. Rogers. I'd like to read the entry, but I don't have a password, which appears necessary. Could you provide that to me?

My concern is not with Mr. Rogers, whoever that is, but with this comment about the Mr. Rogers entry from Captain Dan:

Captain Dan said...
That is some pretty strong evidence. Mr. Rogers really stepped in it this time. I wonder if the Feds know about the non-profit link and the disappearing SOS pets money. I will forward you the information, it is very interesting when you piece it together with the other enviro-groups that he is part of that also have disappearing money. I didn't know that you could follow the phone calls on the internet, where did you get that software?

I've lived in Seward for 22 years and I'm the President of SOS Pets.

I would like to know:

What is the password so that I can read your blogspot entry.
Who is Captain Dan so that I might email him or speak to him directly. I'd like to know what he means when he says, "disappearing SOS pets money". I'm also part of a conservation group in town. I'd like to know what he means when he says, "environmental groups that he is a part of that also have disappearing money".

My desire is not to spark a conflict with "Captian Dan", but to discuss his information.

Would you be willing to help me get in touch with "Captain Dan"?

Or do you have any knowledge of what's behind his statement?

Mark Luttrell
prufrock@arctic.net



Fri, 13 Jan 13 2006 - 1:00 PM

Re: Clarify statement about "disappearing money"

Mark,

Will send you the info - am sidetracked at the moment. One of my close friends has passed away two days ago, looks like he may have been murdered. He has no family up here and resolving his personal/professional issues is taking up all my time and energy at the moment.

Dorene
DoreneMLorenz@aol.com




Sun, 15 Jan 15 2006 - 5:20 PM
Re: "disappearing money"

You don't need to bother replying to Mark, Dorene. He knows EXACTLY what is going on since he is in the middle of it all.

Yes, Mark, people do notice a scam.

Did I just hear a shredding machine start up? Mark, you may want to lick the end of your pencil to sharpen it for when you have to explain the magic math.

SOS Pets brings in a lot of money in donations, but if you go to the state of Alaska website and look up their filing - they suggest they have a big goose egg. So does the other non-profit that Mark is head of.

Both organizations recently filed ammendments allowing them to transfer their funds to other organizations, and thus the shell game beings.

SOS actively solicits funds to buy dog food, but if you go to the website of the place they get their dog food from you find that company graciously gives away its food for free to non-profits - they even pay for the shipping!

Amazing how right after the City Electric workers do a fundraising drive people are turned away who request assistance for shots and spaying. Lots of thanks given to the Electric Workers -naught!

It is a shame you have been hiding out in Seward for 22 years, we should have run you out of town a long time ago. Care to go crab fishing?

Captain Dan
akcrabkiller@yahoo.com
"I may be old but I'm not senile"

Revisionist History

Story Retold to President Harding Before his Alaskan tour Regarding Purchase Price of Territory interested the Chief Immensely

By Joe Mitchell Chapple in National Magazine
Reprinted in Prosperity Edition of The Alaska Trail Blazer December 5, 1925

When Mr. Charles C. Glover of the Riggs National Bank retold me a story that very much interested the late President Harding just before his Alaskan Trip, I was all eyes and ears.

It conveys a new light upon an incident in United States history concerning which there has been a great deal of comment, but nothing officially declared. When a young clerk n the Riggs National Bank, C.C. Glover was accosted by General Simpson who was then living in Philadelphia and kept his bank account in Washington and came to pay his life insurance. The latter told him an enlightening story concerning the purchase of Alaska, which now, for the first time, is available for publication.

"According to the story told me," said Mr. Glover, "the truth of which has been vouched for, the United States did not, as the historians tell us, pay $7,200,000 for Alaska. The actual purchase price was $1,400,000, although the warrant turned over to Russia, which was handled by me, called for $7,200,000."

General Simpson, from whom Glover, then a young bank clerk, got the tale, was later Governor of Montana. After his term of office he was sent to Alaska, and while on the train going West he met Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, who had something to do with the negotiations, and who told him the anecdote which tus bears the stamp of Senatorial authority.

Prior to the war, negotiations had been started by Russia to sell Alaska for $1,400,000. It was decided to conclude the sale before England annexed the territory in extending her northwest boundary, at the time a land of icebergs. The war interfered with the negotiations. In the darkest days of the struggle, when England was about to break the blockade and declare her sympathy for the Southern Confederacy, Secretary William Henry Seward was looking about for some way of checkmating the move which he was informed had been definitely decided upon.

Soon after he called in the Russian Minister, Stoehl, for a conference and arranged to have a Russian fleet come to New York and a small fleet was sent to San Francisco as a warning to England to keep off the American coast. This little demonstration had much to do with turning the tide and was an emphatic notice to Great Britain that Russia was friendly to the Union. The cost of this little demonstration was about five million dollars, which England had added to the costs of the war to the U.S.A.

After the war, the deficiency fund was exhausted and the treasury was so depleted that there was no possible way of passing a bill to pay Russia for its services without giving offense to England. It was decided, when the final arrangements were made, that the price paid for the territory purchased should be made to cover the full cost of obtaining Alaska, at $7,200,000.

This sum, of course, included the original purchase price of $1,400,000 and the cost of sending the Russian fleet to safeguard the Union. Five million dollars and more was the sum paid for the services of the Russian naval vessels. This in what purported to be only the price paid for Alaska was payment also, for Russia;s friendly demonstration at a most critical time.

Get Here from There

Jeffery suggested that I look at what people stick in the search engine to come up with my blog, just for shits and giggles. He is right, it was a funny exercise.

My name is the obvious thing, but there are others that make you wonder. "Dona", our family boat, is actually the number one referrer. "DC+talk," "samples of ethics," and "soldotna gym" round out "Ann+Coulter, and " tannerite," for the top ten.

It goes quickly into la la land from there. "What does a man do standing a dog on three legs," "bitch," "Alaskan natives eskimos igloos," "girls" and "plagiarism" run just ahead of "walrus, horses and whales penis size," "is it a good idea to recirculate landfill leach," and "sweet rene."

"New+Yorkers" is predictable, but "Hilmer Kiser Seward Alaska?" Who is looking for Hilmer?

"Alaska whores" is an odd choice, especially when sandwiched with "force recon," "creative realities," and "Nichole Kidman."

"Escort boy," "Bank girls," and "Alaska mayor Mark Begich" that makes for a sentence that could make headlines. Add in "nuns," "Benelly shotguns," "bitchegirls" and "don't fool with the mule" and we are ready for a Tracy Lorenz column.

I think Tracy would also like "boney pink," "ponderisms," lorenz turkey calls" and "are marshmellows hazardous to your health."

A "PC" Loren is a Scary Thing

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT(?):

1. She is not a "BABE" or a "CHICK" - She is a "BREASTED AMERICAN."

2. She is not a "SCREAMER" or a "MOANER" - She is "VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE."

3. She is not "EASY" - She is "HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE."

4. She is not a "DUMB BLONDE" - She is a "LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY."

5. She has not "BEEN AROUND" - She is A "PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION."

6. She is not an "AIRHEAD" - She is "REALITY IMPAIRED."

7. She does not get "DRUNK" or "TIPSY" - She gets "CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED."

8. She does not have "BREAST IMPLANTS" - She is "SURGICALLY ENHANCED."

9. She does not "NAG" you - She becomes "VERBALLY REPETITIVE."

10. She is not a "TRAMP" - She is "SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED."

11. She does not have "MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS" - She is "PECTORALLY SUPERIOR."

12. She is not a "TWO-BIT HOOKER" - She is a "LOW COST PROVIDER."

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HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:

1. He does not have a "BEER GUT" - He has developed a "LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY."

2. He is not a "BAD DANCER" - He is "OVERLY CAUCASIAN."

3. He does not "GET LOST ALL THE TIME" - He "CONSTANTLY INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS."

4. He is not "BALDING" - He is in "FOLLICLE REGRESSION."

5. He is not a "CRADLE ROBBER" - He prefers "GENERATIONAL DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS."

6. He does not get "FALLING-DOWN DRUNK" - He becomes "ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL."

7. He does not act like a "TOTAL ASS" - He develops a case of "RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION."

8. He is not a "MALE CHAUVINIST PIG" - He has "SWINE EMPATHY."

9. He is not afraid of "COMMITMENT" - He is "RELATIONSHIP CHALLENGED."

10. He is not "HORNY" - He is "SEXUALLY FOCUSED."

11. It's not his "CRACK" you see hanging out of his pants - It's "REAR CLEAVAGE."

D.E. Wood Has Dementia

It is the only reasonable explaination for the following letter that he sent to city hall. Keep in mind that I was out-of-town the week he is talking about, Pruitt has been in Balize for weeks, and Valdetta has not been moonlighting as a flagman. All I can say is, my last name is spelled L-O-R-E-N-Z. Common mistake, no offense taken.

Received Jan 03, 1005

Hon, Mayor, Members of the Council, Dorene Lorenze, City MANAGER, Clerks Office, etc.

D.E. Wood, one P'd OFF Individual
Seward, Ak 99664

Re. Highly Suspicious (Accident)??

To All The Above:

I'm going to assume that some of you will remember Lorenes's slanderous and threatening letter of a few weeks back, and my assurance that I would hold the Council and City responsible for her actions as long as you allowed her to sit on the Council, thereby showing your approval of her actions however anine, asine, and/or threatening. Here's what you have to look forward to.

On 12/29/'05 at about 0930, mile 74 1/2 of the Sterling Hi-way, I had a death threatening accident, (?), I lost the left rear wheel off of my vehicle. This is a vehicle that I have driven for 11/12 yrs. and have never had a problem with but once, and the same thing happened in almost the same way and cause. I was telling the truth about Lorenze's Patrone, Gimme P.

And one or more of his dirty, crusty, smelly, rotten goons took all the nuts off that same wheel, but left one tight, so that I would get a long way from Seward before it happened. LO & Behold Gimme P. came through the flagman on the hi-way shortly after I checked through, Councilman Valdata was flagman at the time and told me Gimme checked through, he had an appointment with the same person I was to see 2 hrs. after him. He was the only other person in town that knew that I was going to Anchorage and when. P.S. My phone was tapped.

A police officer spotted the missing nuts shortly before I left. I believe that officer would testify.

This time I left in the dark and didn't check, but I did check two days before and they were all tight. I have a device that checks my phone and it says it is tapped, I'm not sure of that because I dropped it a few yrs. ago and broke some of it, but I think it still works.

I note that I have never seen Lorenz's proof that I had/am having a long term homo-sexual affair with Pruitt, nor have I heard an apology. I am expectantly awaiting one or the other, and so it my attorney. Lorenz has probably heard that old saying around Seward that Gimme P. eventually screws everybody he comes in contact with, but thats the first time I have heard he was queer, damn peculiar, but I never heard he had gone that far. But I haven't even talked to him for 15 yrs. I wouldn't be surprised at whatever he has become. I am sure that the Pruitt/Lorenze Cartel, (COOL*CATS) that is, have a bunch of creeps around them that would do most anything for a little snort of this/that every once in a while. So I'm not surprised.

I have had more than ten people come to me or stop me on the street and offer to sign a Recall Petition on Lorenze if I started one. I don't want to have to go to all that trouble to rectify a wrong that the Council is now responsible for. You know without question that Lorenze is a liar, cheat, weird beyond measure, is an exibitionist, slanderer, and appears to be on something that she shouldn't be on. She has broken nearly every Code of Protocol for a Council member and is obviously in the pocket of Special Interest as was Kevin Clark, & that is the reason we voted him off the Counil by such a wide margin. I'm amazed he even has the guts to try to get back on, but Pruitt needs him there.

I don't want to have to fight the City in Court, but if they are unable to right their own wrongs internally, I would feel it my Civic Duty to assist, if it comes to a question of monetary recompense, I assure you that it will be enought to get your attention.

In closing I would like to ask that you be careful who choose as a Council Memer, you might get a response from Margret if you choose an obvious reject, as you have before. Clark doesn't cut it. He could have but he got so far out on a limb that it broke off behind him. The same has happened to Lorenz, who likes to believe she is parabalizing when she describes a bunch of goons and claims she was talking about fishermen, I have been a licensed Commercial Fisherman for 58 yrs. and I couldn't recognize them. I believe she could better be described as very devious obfuscator.

Everybody gets a little poop on them once in awhile, and some times they get it rubbed in, but when you start kickin' me for stinkin', I can get pretty cranky, sometimes. I don't like to, it just seems to happen.

As cranky as I am, as upset as I am and as financially destitute as I am, I would still like to wish the City of Seward its greatest, most prosperous, and happiest NEW YEAR ever, and as bad as I hate to admit it that also goes for nearly all the Council, and even some of the Administration.

That's it for now, more later.....

Sincerely,

D.E. Wood

Not: This accident was so coincidental it is highly unlikely that it was a coincident. Very lcever and hard to prove, but we all know why. I believe it was caused by intelligent design, just not to intelligent.

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