tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post4394907623005496155..comments2023-12-28T21:22:10.935-07:00Comments on Jill Outside: Breaking the silenceJill Homerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02983065990450931943noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-59084078870562630872008-11-07T06:33:00.000-07:002008-11-07T06:33:00.000-07:00Thanks, Jill, that was what I thought you might us...Thanks, Jill, that was what I thought you might use. I have been looking at a pair of the Neos Villagers. <BR/><BR/>Much appreciated!Joey Frenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060647537657405030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-14324790735320915802008-11-07T02:28:00.000-07:002008-11-07T02:28:00.000-07:00Welshcyclist - I use an Olympus Stylus 770SW. I've...Welshcyclist - I use an Olympus Stylus 770SW. I've talked about it a few times on my blog before if you want to do a search. <BR/><BR/>Joey - I wear neoprene when temps are above 40 and wet. Between 30 and 40 and wet, I often wear a pair of overboots called NEOS. They are completely waterproof and fit over almost any shoe. They may be a little close to what you refer to as galoshes, though. Below 30, things get quite a bit easier, because there isn't as much of a wet factor. I wear winter hiking boots with varying layers of wool and synthetic socks.<BR/><BR/>SD - thanks for mobilizing people on this important issue. I think if anyone objects to government withholding of rights, they should pay attention to what states are doing because the country is next.<BR/><BR/>D - Thanks for your insights. We've had quite a bit of dicussion tonight about the possibly of election fraud in Alaska - the low voter turnout, the fact that every single pre-election poll was so far off the mark. It just doesn't add up. Maybe I just really, really want to believe that we couldn't have possibly re-elected Stevens. But as more people start to ask these questions about the "fuzzy math," it will be interesting to see what comes up,Jill Homerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02983065990450931943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-90936317540225560812008-11-07T02:19:00.000-07:002008-11-07T02:19:00.000-07:00Hi, I found your blog a few weeks ago. I live in ...Hi, I found your blog a few weeks ago. I live in hawaii and while Hawaii is a blue state (with a republican governor), and one of Obama's homestate, voting dropped by 4 percent over 4 years ago. I wonder if republicans here felt the same as democrats in Alaska felt? I thought Hawaiian politics was screwy and corrupt, wow, Alaska sure has us beat this go around.Maggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05072890393018732362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-10851581663990208182008-11-06T14:27:00.000-07:002008-11-06T14:27:00.000-07:00Hey Jill, I have a question for you: What type of ...Hey Jill, <BR/>I have a question for you: What type of shoe covers do you use? I know you use "neoprene covers" as stated in your blog posts, but are they waterproof? How warm are they? I need something waterproof and warm as I commute year round, but I also use platforms exclusively- and don't want to carry around galoshes! Any help is appreciated, and love the blog!Joey Frenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060647537657405030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-6754050874027636622008-11-06T14:15:00.000-07:002008-11-06T14:15:00.000-07:00Jill, your camera shots are terrific, what type an...Jill, your camera shots are terrific, what type and make of camera do you use?we;shcyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521987816431156168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-39071142549787973682008-11-06T13:28:00.000-07:002008-11-06T13:28:00.000-07:00Let’s fight back on Proposition 8. Let’s boycott ...Let’s fight back on Proposition 8. Let’s boycott California wines, produce and travel. Let’s publicize it. Let’s embarrass them. It worked a few years ago in Colorado. What do say?suburban dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07417934731335771033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-25552217857966920492008-11-06T10:40:00.000-07:002008-11-06T10:40:00.000-07:00Jill the picture with the stunted trees in the for...Jill the picture with the stunted trees in the foreground is simply beautiful. The mountains are just so 'there'. Congrats on you and all of our southern neighbors that got out and voted. Canadians watch your election as close or closer than our own, yours probably has more to do with our future than ours anyway. Good luck to Mr. Obama, he will need it but it looks like he is the man for the joboneoldwriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00034145528380020394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-35853607810770484252008-11-06T04:45:00.000-07:002008-11-06T04:45:00.000-07:00By voting you became part of history instead of ju...By voting you became part of history instead of just watching history being made.<BR/><BR/>Good for you.<BR/><BR/>;) (Palin Wink)<BR/><BR/>-BBluenoserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03448920726947078281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-89512162242458874122008-11-06T03:46:00.000-07:002008-11-06T03:46:00.000-07:00I think it's awesome that you decided to vote. We...I think it's awesome that you decided to vote. Well done, and welcome back.<BR/><BR/>I suppose I'm not superlatively gung-ho about voting (ie I don't vote in every possible election, though I know I should) but I do vote at the 'major' elections, and usually every or every other fall.<BR/><BR/>I suppose most all of the votes I've ever cast were "wasted" because the people I really wanted to win didn't - at least where it counted, in the states I've voted in (Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Alaska). And the candidates/measures that I supported that won/passed usually did so by healthy margins. So I could say that my votes haven't had any effect.<BR/><BR/>But that I possess this magical power to vote, to put my chips in to what happens to my community and nation at all, is such a powerful thing...I truly can't imagine not doing it, no matter what.<BR/><BR/>223258 people voted in Alaska so far according to the AK Division of Elections. That's still less than 50% of approximately 460000 that are eligible to vote. (OK, I just read your figures, Jill, which are probably better - my total is from 2007 census - but they're similar.) How different could have the outcome been if more and more and more of those that are apathetic, undecided, uninformed, or otherwise disinclined had cast their ballot?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it still seems only to be an exercise in futility. Is my voice heard? Is it acknowledged? Yes and no...and yes! Regardless, I still have a voice! For me, to not vote would mean that I've given up on believing in the power of democracy and the nation in which I live...might as well move to Afghanistan, really. I just can't give up.<BR/><BR/>And, for the other commentors here, I don't think we need to worry about Palin running for prez...she was so unpopular (even among many conservatives!) this round that I don't see anyone seriously funding that effort. They'll dig up some new gem. Besides, if all goes well this term, hopefully Obama will serve a 2nd. Hillary 2016!<BR/><BR/>Several GOP members and even Palin called for Ted Stevens to step down if elected. The votes aren't all in, but the race has been called for him, by a narrow margin. If he is elected, I can't imagine the Senate not voting to dismiss him if he doesn't just resign...but who knows how long he'll drag it out.<BR/><BR/>Today I was insulted by having to listen to Rush Limbaugh (while at a doctor's office)...there are a lot of people that are working towards this administration failing. The rest of us are going to have to work quadruply hard to make sure it doesn't...to make the hateful eat their words...I hope, and I believe, that we will.<BR/><BR/>And I just can't resist: essentially none of us can see Russia from here - ridiculous!<BR/><BR/>*soap box dismount*<BR/><BR/>Cheers, Jill!Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12866053304972928398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-38315261949051149522008-11-06T01:52:00.000-07:002008-11-06T01:52:00.000-07:00Nice photo, Jill.Is that a deliberate Statue Of Li...Nice photo, Jill.<BR/>Is that a deliberate Statue Of Liberty shadow you're casting?<BR/>Good timing.<BR/><BR/>Can you see Russia from there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-56075623376047062792008-11-06T00:46:00.000-07:002008-11-06T00:46:00.000-07:00Thank you, Jill. Like you, I'm inclined not to vo...Thank you, Jill. Like you, I'm inclined not to vote, especially when confronted by some school board candidates. <BR/><BR/>Confounded as I was this year by the electronic voting, and completely unable to abstain (not make a choice) on any issue, I was compelled to vote (no) even on the most ridiculous of issues. <BR/><BR/>We the people ...shawnkieltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18414687355264886702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-75888011822097158202008-11-05T22:28:00.000-07:002008-11-05T22:28:00.000-07:00Alaska's voter turnout actually fell this year, to...Alaska's voter turnout actually fell this year, to 57 percent, down from 66 percent in 2004. My theory is a lot of disillusioned Republicans did not come out to vote because Sen. Stevens and Rep. Young are corrupt, and they just couldn't bring themselves to cast a vote for the Dems. And, either way, Palin and McCain were a shoo-in for this strong red state with three lousy electoral votes. I've only ever lived in Utah, Idaho and Alaska, three of the reddest states in the nation, so I've never viewed my possible presidential vote as very important, although, I have to admit, I did feel a tinge of emotion filling out the ballot this year. <BR/><BR/>I'm still in dull shock that Young was re-elected and Stevens is likely to return. I guess I'll just have to keep on voting.Jill Homerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02983065990450931943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-66652447160787558562008-11-05T20:32:00.000-07:002008-11-05T20:32:00.000-07:00I think a lot of native born Americans are unable ...I think a lot of native born Americans are unable to appreciate the intrinsic value of the right to vote because it isn't an instant gratification result ("My candidate didn't win! Waa!!) . I'm an immigrant and I always vote and will gladly sop up your indifference which makes my solitary vote go further...It was fun though being surrounded for a change, as it were, by a sea of fellow voters at the polls.Conchscooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08016331487463993200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-12085939919381871852008-11-05T20:11:00.000-07:002008-11-05T20:11:00.000-07:00By 7:00 A:M this morning I was in the company of p...By 7:00 A:M this morning I was in the company of people working tirelessly to fight child abuse and child trafficking in FL so respectfully to cynics who don't believe in CHANGE, get off your asses and get to work.<BR/><BR/>Bravo America! Bravo!Juanchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01283672346601878803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-21379860970953113812008-11-05T18:18:00.000-07:002008-11-05T18:18:00.000-07:00Thank God all the BS is over and we and the govern...Thank God all the BS is over and we and the government can get on with things.<BR/><BR/>Hopefully our new president will make a difference. However, it will take more than him alone.Vitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01277306434031774094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-85213278660673853362008-11-05T14:00:00.001-07:002008-11-05T14:00:00.001-07:00Jill, I also cried during Obama's acceptance speec...Jill, I also cried during Obama's acceptance speech. I cried because as a schoolchild when Martin Luther King was shot down, it wasn't proper to mourn him if you were white and middle class. But I did...because of him I learned about tolerance, non-violent demonstration and the need to stand up, stand up and be counted. I cried because he wasn't with us yesterday...and yet, he was. I was just 7 when Pres. Kennedy was shot, and then watched in horror when RFK and then MLK were shot, too. If the world seems baffling now, it was really baffling and hard then. Rioting in the streets, bombs over Vietnam and all the rest. Little girls like me getting napalmed in their homes in North Vietnam. Students shot at Kent State. They stood up. The interest you see around you is the interest in democracy and voting is not a phony thing. It is real, it came at a cost and our duty is to honor all of it. I always vote because my two dear grandmothers were born without the right to vote. One was over 30 before she could. Imagine, if you can, to have no say. Be grateful. We can vote. We can stand up and vote! It's a place to start.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-62659134277741056782008-11-05T14:00:00.000-07:002008-11-05T14:00:00.000-07:00Well done America, I think you made the right choi...Well done America, I think you made the right choice this time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-56879098255380691792008-11-05T13:36:00.000-07:002008-11-05T13:36:00.000-07:00All the photos of other people crying make me cry....All the photos of other people crying make me cry. I just can't imagine how African Americans must feel about this moment.Kristina P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16144488639100871226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-14296274989562696702008-11-05T12:52:00.000-07:002008-11-05T12:52:00.000-07:00I live in New Jersey, which I knew would go to my ...I live in New Jersey, which I knew would go to my candidate, but I voted anyway -- because voting makes me feel great. :)Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01073080246593042144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-65892068709194026262008-11-05T12:09:00.000-07:002008-11-05T12:09:00.000-07:00I understand your antipathy. I too live in Alaska,...I understand your antipathy. <BR/><BR/>I too live in Alaska, but am politically progressive. Thus, my vote seems to be just swallowed up by the sea of conservatism/libertarianism. <BR/><BR/>But I look at my vote more as my way of going on record with how I think the state and country should be run. <BR/><BR/>By going on record I am entitled to express my disagreement with how government actually gets conducted. <BR/><BR/>This is the same rationale that motivates me to write letters to our senators and congressman each time the federal government gets set to toss the coin on opening the arctic refuge to oil and gas drilling. <BR/><BR/>There is no way my letter is going to change Don Young's vote on the issue, but it puts me and my opinion (and reasoning) on record and shows that not all Alaskans feel the same way on the issue. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, just another way to look at elections when you are a member of the political minority in places like Alaska (or California for that matter).<BR/><BR/>Can you believe we re-elected Don Young!? and maybe even Ted Stevens!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-12728941256466921552008-11-05T11:00:00.000-07:002008-11-05T11:00:00.000-07:00Good for you for voting, Jill.I think that if you ...Good for you for voting, Jill.<BR/><BR/>I think that if you don't vote, you don't get to complain about the results, or the government or their actions for the length of their term of office. <BR/><BR/>Vote so you can complain! :) What a slogan! :)<BR/><BR/>Seriously, though. Voting is one of those civic duties one shouldn't shirk.KristenThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01187723351100391708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-45115944084268282992008-11-05T10:48:00.000-07:002008-11-05T10:48:00.000-07:00i didn't vote. but i did go to a post election ce...i didn't vote. but i did go to a post election celebration party. it's a big deal, my kid will grow up thinking that all presidents are african-american. <BR/><BR/>well, at least alaska gets palin back. ha hachump nerdmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00294377691221249223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-65250134733948415922008-11-05T10:17:00.000-07:002008-11-05T10:17:00.000-07:00I am glad you were inspired to vote. Welcome back ...I am glad you were inspired to vote. Welcome back to the voting world!Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05971829321577186599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-79594524654502818072008-11-05T09:40:00.000-07:002008-11-05T09:40:00.000-07:00I blame NPR for starting my Up in Alaska addiction...I blame NPR for starting my Up in Alaska addiction. I hold you blameless, Jill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18615538.post-74794152173524733232008-11-05T09:11:00.000-07:002008-11-05T09:11:00.000-07:00That photo is so moving. Thanks for showing it to...That photo is so moving. Thanks for showing it to me, Jill. And I am so glad you voted - didn't it feel good?Jennoithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03200703483030319387noreply@blogger.com