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From Mudflats Moderator Writing From Alaska:

Here is a shot of the Twin Brians. They are very excited that their picture was included in AKM’s recent post on the Anchorage Assembly meeting. Thank you AKM Spouse for making it all possible! Earlier in the evening, they were busy at the computers in the library upstairs from the Assembly Chambers, and they thought of you!

From Alaska Mudpuppy InJuneau:

This photo was taken at the future site of the Second Summer of 2009 Juneau-Pittsburgh Mudstock (my backyard).

I haven’t been sleeping much lately. After eight years of living in the same house, it was time to move. The process of buying a new house and the subsequent move was causing me a lot of stress, and my body just couldn’t rest. I had insomnia for about two weeks, right when Alaska goes through its longest days of the year.

One morning I just couldn’t sleep and decided to snap a picture of my backyard to show just how light it is up here in Anchorage in the summer. This picture was taken at 3:47 am on June 14th, one week before summer solstice. This is as dark as it gets.

We’ve all heard about Governor Sanford’s little “Argentina problem”, but have you been wondering just how many GOP’ers have been nabbed doing something that would shock their mothers? Over at TheoPalinism: The Face of Failed Extremism, author (and Mudpuppy) Leah Burton has posted a list of 123 of them.

Here’s an excerpt:

Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500.

John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist from Pensacola, Florida, convicted on five counts of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran. Burt began molesting her within weeks of her arrival at Our Father’s House, the ministery half-way house for unwed mothers established in 1978 by Burt and his wife. Burt was a known violent anti-abortionist and saw himself as a member of an army for God.

Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups,convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison. Investigators estimated that he spent up to $5,000,000 on prostitutes.

Brian J. Doyle, Deputy Press Secretary for U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On March 12, 2006, Doyle contacted a 14-year-old girl whose profile was posted on the Internet, and initiated a sexually explicit conversation with her. The girl was actually an undercover Polk County Sheriff s Computer Crimes detective. Doyle knew that the girl was 14 years old, and he told her who he was and that he worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During future onlinechats, Doyle gave the undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl his office phone number and his government-issued cell phone number, so that they could have telephone conversations, in addition to their online chatting. Doyle used the Internet to send hard-core pornographic movie clips to the girl and used the AOL Instant Messenger chat service to have explicit sexual conversations with her.

What a Grand Ol’ Party it is.